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I thought this might be of interest here because it features a fur who's way too much into being his fursona

So I really want to get a commission of my dragon character done, but my problem is I am not old enough to get a credit card so I am not old enough to get a paypal account, thus making it basically impossible to get a commision done! Is there any way I can get one done?

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Author: Hello Papabear, This question has been on my mind for quite a while. Like you, I’m trying to help others by listening when an ear is needed, and giving advice if that might give the other a better life. This probably stems from my past, which I won’t elaborate too much on; it might […]

Here is an article from April 2, in the Central Florida Future, the student newspaper of the University of Central Florida:
http://www.centralfloridafuture.com/variety/furries-find-acceptance-friendship-among-active-community-1.2862872#.Uz1AEDk1yBs

The article describes the regular furmeets in Orlando, Florida, and interviews local furries Diedrich Wolff (unofficial leader and "popufur" cough-cough), Jonathon Ray (costume design assistant), Austin "Isaac" Beard, and Tyler "Dante" Smith.


Furries find acceptance, friendship among active community
Underground world of roleplay brings students together

By Bernard Wilchusky
Contributing Writer

Published: Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Updated: Thursday, April 3, 2014 00:04

A dog, a bear and a fox walk into a bar, but that isn’t the beginning of a joke.

It is, however, a little slice of what one might expect to see at the Oblivion Taproom on Tuesday evenings, when an average of 30 to 60 members of Orlando’s “furry” community meet at the bar for their weekly gatherings.

But what, pray tell, is a furry?

A furry is a person who dresses in a head-to-toe animal costume.

“A furry is anyone with an open mind,” said Diedrich Wolff, the unofficial leader of the Oblivion Taproom gatherings and a student at Valencia. “It’s a very diverse community. A lot of people are attracted, initially, to the art, but people come for all sorts of reasons.”

Wolff is known as a “popufur,” an informal title given to members of the furry community who are well-liked or renowned. He noted how the community has blossomed over the years, going from small get-togethers featuring around 10 of his friends to the large gatherings at Oblivion today. He estimated that Orlando alone boasts a community of more than 100 furs, with dozens more scattered throughout groups in Tampa, Miami and elsewhere.

“It used to be just a few of us,” Wolff said. “We’d get together at Steak ’n Shake and catch a movie at the dollar theater. Last year, the community exploded. One time, we had almost 90 people here at once.”

Indeed, on Tuesday nights the bar is replete with cat ears and bushy tails. And sometimes, a pair of furries in full-body costumes — known as “fur suits” — can be seen hugging and prancing about.

The fur suit is perhaps the most recognizable icon of the furry fandom. The suits, which each take about a week to make, can cost close to $1,000. Some have modifications that allow their jaws to articulate, their eyes to light up and even integrated speaker systems to project the wearer’s voice into the outside world.

“You know how brides go crazy over their wedding dress?” said Jonathan Ray, a costume design assistant. “The same thing goes for a suit. People want measurements, they want cloth choices, fiber choices, the works.”

Ray said that donning a fur suit comes with its own unique set of challenges. The headpieces restrict the wearer’s peripheral vision, and the fur on the suit’s outer layer causes its interior to become hot. Suiters often travel with a spotter who helps guide them through crowds and watches for signs of heatstroke or exhaustion.

“We always emphasize that fursuiters should have a spotter, especially if there are kids around,” Ray said. “No one is going to be happy if a suiter knocks over a little kid that they couldn’t see. Spotters are the ones who drag you away if you need to cool down and take a break.”

But furry art comes in many forms, and websites such as Fur Affinity, Inkbunny and DeviantArt provide portals for members of the community to connect and share their passion. In fact, the art provides the one common substrate among this community composed of performers, engineers and people from virtually all walks of life. All furry art features, in some form or another, the image of an anthropomorphized animal.

This animal character, personified with human characteristics, serves as the alias through which people operate in the fandom. And when furries aren’t donning their fur suits, they can often be spotted with their furry badges, emblazoned with the names and images of their animal aliases or fursonas.

For Austin Beard, a health sciences sophomore, his fursona, Isaac, is a character whose extensive background he developed through online roleplaying. Before he moved to Orlando, there just weren’t any real-world outlets for him to participate in the community, he said.

“Most of the people I’ve met, I’ve met on Twitter or online,” Beard said. “Getting to meet them in real life is great — you get to see them in person, and it’s like [your relationship] doesn’t even skip a beat.”

Still, he admits that he was hesitant to become a more active participant because of the historical stigma surrounding the furry fandom. Television shows such as “Dr. Phil,” “The Tyra Banks Show” and “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” portray furries as mentally unstable or sexually deviant people who wear costumes as a means to fulfill their perverse fantasies. Beard, in his six years participating in the community, has yet to see a single act of “yiffing” — costumed sexual intercourse — that the fandom was made notorious for.

“Everyone thinks we’re weird; they think we do weird stuff,” Beard said. “That’s not what it’s about. Furries are just different people with a different sort of hobby — it’s no different than collecting stamps or RC cars.”

So what is it that has people participating in the furry fandom?

Without exception, the word on everyone’s lips was friendship.

“This is such an open and loving community,” said Tyler Smith, a sophomore marketing major who goes by the fursona Dante. “No matter what race, religion, sexual orientation or political views you have, no matter who you are, you’re going to find friends.

“If you have a fur suit, you’re loved.”

Who let the hyena run the con? This week we’ve brought Path Hyena onto the show to talk about how he stumbled onto being the con chair for Furry Fiesta the past couple years, and he also shares a few stories about what it’s like to experience a con from the inside.

No animals were harmed in the recording of this episode.

Metadata and Credits WagzTail Season 3 Episode 13

Runtime: 30m

Cast: Levi, Path Hyena, Wolfin

Editor: Levi

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Podcast image belongs to  Mairieke IJsendoorn-Kuijpers, CC BY 2.0, used with permission. Path Hyena - Who let the hyena run the con? This week we've brought Path Hyena onto the show to talk about how he stumbled onto being the con chair for Furry Fiesta the past couple years, and he also shares a few stories about what it's like to experience a con fro...

Animator Mike Kunkel returns to comics in a big way with the first new Herobear & The Kid series in over ten years. Young boy Tyler and his large flying friend are back in Herobear & The Kid: Saving Time, a new full-color 5-issue mini-series coming this month from Boom! Studios’ Kaboom! imprint. “Henry, the family’s magical butler, is missing!! It’s up to Tyler and Herobear to figure out what happened to their friend…only they might learn a lot more  about Henry than they initially thought…and be forced to get help from an unsuspected  source.” Check out the interview with creator Mike over at Comic Book Resources.

Image c. 2014 Kaboom!

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Author: studio@xanacreations.com (..::XANA::.. Creations) http://furcast.fm/logos/furcast-2013.png The British are cumming! Well, came, really. One of the best episodes in a while, thanks to our long time British correspondent who joins us in the US FurCast studio. Talk of FWA production, crazy news, some great emails. Enjoy! Download MP3 (Right-click, Save) Video below was recorded from our […] FC-161 Bacon Felony

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Hey guys :3 havnt posted much recently and I'm starting to get back in the creative vibe.

So yeah I'm gonna do 3 free sketches, or a little more with color and lineart depending on how lazy I am XD

I'm gonna make 3 of them and I'll randomly pick the 3 people with a random selector at ...... Lets say 8:00- 8:30

Just leave a description or reference in the comments, along with a pose you would like and facial expression.

If you want clothes then describe them for me please ~^

I will number you guys in the random selector by first to last time wise (1- whatever last is)

EDIT: I chose the winners in the comments :3 I may do more but my computer litterally just crapped on me and my power supply failed....... So I'll get to these freebies when I get my computer squared away!

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I want to implement some features which some users may find useful.

• Delete-on-request.
  OP can reply with 'DELETE' and the mirror gets deleted.
• Blacklist-on-request.
  OP can reply with 'BLACKLIST', post gets deleted, user gets blacklisted.
• Blacklist revoke.
  OP can reply with 'UNBLACKLIST', blacklisting gets revoked.
• More targets
  soFurry, deviantart
• Public statistics!
  For your number crunching pleasure.

Remember that feedback is always welcome and reporting a bug grants you naming rights (and even add some text) over the next version.

Edit:
The on-request features may need some live feedback, anyone want to voluteer some time during feature testing?
Basically ~30min with skype and answering the bot. I work on the bot during early night (Central Euro Time (GMT+1)).

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