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I'm a yarn tail maker and have been making them for just shy of a year now. Along with making them I have a bunch of other things to do including going to college, seeing my boyfriend, tending to my animals, drawing and whatever else pops up. I enjoy everything I do and was wondering if anyone had any ideas or tips on making yarn tails and how to make it less time consuming but still the same quality? Thanks furs ^^

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I remember enjoying the animated series and passionately reading one particular story about the adventures of Moominpappa. Never before have I known much about the author behind these wonderful characters, so this article is a great introduction.

The final passage of Mark Bosworth’s piece is an observation by the British film director Frank Boyce which neatly sums up the spirit of the Moomins:

"They are just fantastically enriching books. One of the things I really took from them was the importance of small pleasures, that life is really worth living if we're just nice to each other and make really good coffee, and the pancakes are just right - then nothing else really matters in any substantial way.

These days I know Moomins are in fact Finnish troll creatures with large snouts, but I will always think of them as adorable hippos.

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BLFC 2014 (Episode: 69)
Bandit is back at BLFC for another adventure, this time it's through a revamp of the '80s! THANKS FOR SUBSCRIBING!!! FACEBOOK: http://www.Facebook.com/TheRac... From: TheRaccoonsDen Views: 856 58 ratings Time: 14:01 More in Entertainment

Just wanted to say i see why the fandom drinks. A person saw my tail and just started to cal me a animal fucker. Confucius say " one bottle of wine equals happy two bottle now your good" xD

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What makes someone want be a furry? Now, I'm sure this topic has come up before, but I'm hoping to approach it a a slightly different angle. Do you guys think that some people are more prone to become interested in the furry fandom? Perhaps even a genetic or very early developmental cause that leads to, for lack a better term, "furry tendencies"?

Personally, I cannot even remember when I began being interested in "furry" things. It was long before I knew a furry fandom even existed. From a young age, I preferred movies and TV shows with anthro characters. And if a video game gave me the option, I would always play as an anthro or animalistic character. When I got a bit older, maybe 10 or 11, I began self identifying as a wolf. Furry felt like an important part of who i was and am now, long before I knew there was a name for it.

So, I want know what you guys think. What makes someone a furry? Did you do "furry" stuff before you knew there was a fandom, and if so, what did you do? Do you think someone can choose to be a furry or is it a part of who they are?

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Here is an article, dated April 3, in The Muse, a student newspaper in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada:

http://themuse.ca/2014/04/03/investigating-the-oft-misunderstood-furry-fandom/

The article looks at the furry activities on the campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland, and features an interview with local furry Will "Chu Ward" Marshall.


Investigating the oft-misunderstood furry fandom
By Laura Howells

Furry: for some people, the term may be foreign. For others, it may conjure up a range of connotations, from the positive to the downright disturbing. In recent weeks, furry fandom has been a topic of discussion for MUN students, as posters calling for the convergence of furries in the university have been plastered around campus.

The posters are the work of MUN student and furry, Will Marshall, who also goes by the furry name, Chu Ward. Ward sat down with the Muse to discuss what being a furry means, the misconceptions surrounding the fandom, and the furry community in St. John’s.

At its core, the furry fandom consists of people who are interested in fictional anthropomorphic animal characters. According to Ward, there is no specific way to be a furry; people express their furry identity in a wire range of ways.

For some people, being a furry means dressing up in an animal costume, known as a “fur suit,” and role playing or attending public furry events. Many “fur suiters” handcraft their suit, while others spend anywhere from a few hundred to a thousand dollars having a suit custom-made. However, donning a fur suit is hardly something such furries do everyday.

“As any fur suiter will tell you, it’s actually very physically exhausting to wear one of those things because it doesn’t breathe at all and you’re in there sweating all day. It’s something that they plan in advance,” said Ward. “It’s usually in a very social context. It’s not just something they wear around the house whenever they feel like it.”

Ward says that for fur suiters, dressing up as an animal is a way to let loose and express themselves freely.

“It’s kind of like the anonymity of the internet. You’re behind a mask,” said Ward. “When people see you out in public they see a character, they don’t see you. So you can act how you would want to have your character act, instead of you just being in plain clothes like me, barking. In fur suits it’s more a performance than just a weird way of behaving.”

However, the majority of furries are not fur suiters. Many furries enjoy role-playing as an animal online, while other furries simply like to draw human-like animals or animals shaped like humans. For Ward, being a furry means role-playing online and looking at anthropomorphic art.

Ward says one of the biggest misconceptions people have about furries is that they are simply people who like to ‘dress up in an animal costume and have sex.’

“I’m not going to lie and say there isn’t sexuality in the fandom, but there’s sexuality in every single fandom out there because we’re human beings,” said Ward. “But it’s not what we’re about.” He adds that most of the hatred surrounding furries is based on ignorance and insecurity.

Just as there is a variety of ways one can be a furry, the level of connectivity people feel with their furry-identity also varies.

“Some people genuinely feel like maybe they were a mouse in a past life,” said Ward, explaining that some equate their furry identity to a form of shamanism. “Other people are just like no, it’s just a character I play as on the Internet.”

Ward says that for most people, being a furry does not mean feeling their expressed human identity is incongruous with their actual identity.

“The majority of the furries I talk to, if I were to ask them, hey are you really a wolf? They would say, uh no. There’s often a very large disconnect between what people do in the context of being a furry and how they actually feel about themselves as a person.”

When furries are figuring out what animal they should be, Ward says many are influenced by cartoons or anime they enjoyed as children; Ward’s furry animal, for example, is a Pikachu.

“There are lots of dragons, dragons is a big one. It doesn’t have to be anything real. Trying to role-play as a furry you have to presuppose some level of non-reality.”

When Ward was realizing he was a furry at age 14, he felt extremely alone, figuring he was just the “one weirdo in Newfoundland.” Through the posters he is putting up around campus, he hopes to connect similarly thinking furries to the broader Newfoundland furry community.

“With all the stigma that you get on the Internet you’re convinced that there’s something wrong with you. Finding other people, tangible people, not just on the other side of the screen, but people that relate to you and have likely felt the exact same experiences you have, really feels good.”

The furry community in Newfoundland currently consists of around 50 active members and is always looking to expand. Furries sometimes gather for picnics in the park, participate in social events like bowling, or meet up at conferences like Sci-Fi on the Rock. Ward enjoys the open-mindedness of the furry community and the sense of belonging it fosters. He says that although his posters have only received a dozen serious responses so far, no one who contacted him had any idea there was a furry community in St. John’s.

“I’m convinced that if I keep at it, there’s going to be more furries out there that will know they’ve got a group of people who feel the same way as they do and they can feel welcome in that community.”

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Comic series about a lawyer who is also a tiger. The interesting aspect is changing genres and art styles between each story.

In their words

He's a tiger... he's a lawyer. He's Tiger Lawyer! The titular legal practitioner brings his own brand of justice to the courtroom and the concrete jungle. Each issue of Tiger Lawyer features two original stories, each in their own genre and presented by different art teams.

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This site contains slightly offensive material.  Chance of mild swearing and mildly disturbing imagery.

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The title gives you all you need to know as it's pretty much a bear simulator. You play in FPB (First Person Bear) and do bear things which include exploring, eating fish and plants, striking down anything that dare stand before your might, increasing your stats, sleeping and discovering mysteries of your forest home.

Difficult to tell if this is an oncoming trend of slapstick animal simulators or just coincidence.

I am left wondering what fish simulator is like. Dodging fishermen’s hooks, jumping up stream, avoiding bigger fish…

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Dear Papabear,

I'm having a problem which is leaving me feeling pretty down and depressed and I'm not sure what to do about it. Also just a warning this letter might be somewhat jumbled as I’m bad with words.

Basically, I’m lonely, not just for a relationship but for any form of social interaction in general. After high school I pretty much lost contact with all of my friends; my only one left is my best friend but with her job and her going to college we barely get to hang out. Honestly, most of my friends are online, but I've also been losing them as well. Over half the people on my Skype I barely see anymore.

I want to meet new people and make new friends and even maybe one day find that special someone, but I’m just not sure how to go about it. I am in every sense of the word .... a shut in. I don't like leaving my home that often. Usually, I only leave if its a necessity or if a friend invites me over, and with the latter barely being an option I don't go out and do things. I have only left my house once for a job interview in the past two months.

I've read some similar letters you've answered and I recall you recommending to go out and get hobbies etc., but I don't have any hobbies or interests that could get me out of my house. The only thing I could think of is a small fur meet that goes on in my town once a month, but I've been too nervous to go because 1) I have severe social anxiety; 2) I don't know how to approach anyone there since I wouldn't know anyone and I would be kinda embarrassed to just pop up out of nowhere.

Sorry if this letter was kind of unorganized and I hope answering this wont be too much trouble or a bother to you, and thank you for taking the time to read my letter.

From Ati

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Hi, Ati,

The solution to your problem is to overcome your social anxiety. No social anxiety, no blockade against meeting people, and once you are able to meet people you will make friends, and once you make friends, your loneliness will be gone.

There’s a difference between just being shy and having social anxiety—it’s a difference of degree, really. People who are merely shy can generally function in society, though timidly, while those with debilitating social anxiety find that it profoundly affects their ability to have a normal life. If you are spending most of your life “shut in” your home it will make it hard, if not impossible, to hold down a job, go to school, or have friends and loved ones in your life. And it sounds like a problem that is growing worse for you, given your statement that you had friends in high school but now are becoming more and more disconnected.

Some people believe that the advent of the Internet and social networks can be the solution for social anxiety because you can interact safely through a keyboard or webcam. But, as you are discovering, this notion is fallacious. As you become more disengaged from life (you have no hobbies or interests because you are not interacting with the real world around you and, thus, become remote from it, intellectually and spiritually) you have less and less to talk about. People, quite frankly, will find you boring and uninteresting to interact with. This explains why you are losing friends and contacts.

Papabear is finding this an increasing problem in the furry world, and, likely, the rest of American society as well. I’ve lost count of how many text conversations I’ve had like this:

Furry: hi

Papabear: hello

Furry: how are you?

Papabear: I’m fine, thanks.

Furry: what are you doing?

Papabear: I’m working, how about you?

Furry: chillin

Papabear: Great. Did you want something?

Furry: just to chat

Papabear: Okay, what do you want to chat about?

Furry: I dunno

Papabear: Well, I better get back to work then

Furry: Don’t go I want to talk

Papabear: Sure, what about?

Furry: dunno

Papabear: (making an excuse) Oh, gtg, my boss is calling me. Bye!

If this sounds like you, then maybe you can see the problem. It’s not fun to talk to someone with nothing going on in his head. The way to do that is to get involved with your life, so here are some things you can do to overcome your anxiety:

• Start by getting yourself the self-help book Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness by Gillian Butler.  You can buy a used or Kindle copy for under ten bucks.
• If you can, find a therapist to help you.
• Social anxiety is based on your fears of what might happen should you interact with others, rather than what is actually happening. People suffering from this get freaked out because they believe people are constantly judging them. This is because you’re filling your head with negative thoughts of how people will see you. You therefore need to be aware of when you have these negative thoughts and, when you do, stop yourself and force your outlook into positive mode. For example, say you’re going to that interview, and the thought enters your head, “They won’t want me; I haven’t worked in a while and don’t have many skills....” Stop yourself right there and tell yourself, “I don’t know that. I can be a hard worker, and I’m willing to learn or do anything for this job, I’ll promise to do my best and look forward to working my way up the ladder!” Going to an interview with this outlook will give you a confident appearance which, I can tell you, is very appealing to a potential employer.
• Start working on slowly, very slowly, getting out of the house and meeting people. Try a one-on-one before you go to a furmeet, for example. Try inviting a local furry to your home to do something innocuous like play a video game. After a little of this, try a small gathering of 2-4 friends, and work your way up to things like meets and cons.
• Don’t get freaked out if you have a setback of some kind. Take a deep breath and get back on the horse and keep trying.

There is nothing more dull and isolating than being a hermit. Interacting with people is how you learn things, and when you learn stuff you gain an interest in this incredible world around you that is filled with fascinating, wondrous things to get excited about, and when that happens, you will have begun to live again, and part of living is finding friends and falling in love.

It’s all interconnected, Ati, but you have to take the first step.

Hugs,

Papabear

The piece does not give much away in terms of what is going on, but it does leave to your imagination world building where there are criminal gangs denoted by their chosen mask. In many respects I like how the story goes nowhere, because I am left to my own thoughts on what the backstory and context is between these groups. I would be stoked for a Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels style caper.

Directed by Adam Hashemi DP(s): Mandy Walker / Max Malkin Editor: Adam Pertofsky Music: House of Hayduk Producer: Julien Lemaitre Prod. company: Furlined Agency: Wieden + Kennedy

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