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Enjoy hearing Potoroo struggle with the names of artists? Then this is your episode! From pretty acoustic to slammin metal to ear-wobbling dubstep and everything in between, Fuzzy Notes features the music made by furries (and...this week...bronies!) in all its multi-genre glory! This week we hear from Tirith, Diego Dalmation, Hail The Red, Korein, Ferahgo Delonge, DezNatasMoody, Slendermane, and a special new track from Fuzzy Notes alumni The Dead Pixel! THE MUSIC: Tirith - here tonight Track: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7861242/ FurAffinity: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/tirith Diego Dalmation - Trains (originally by Porcupine Tree) Hail The Red - Barely There Track: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9602607/ FurAffinity: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/juno-king/ Korein - Breathless Track: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9725847/ FurAffinity: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/killfire4 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user2545462 Ferahgo Delonge - Terrene Thaumaturge Track: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9496206/ FurAffinity: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/ferahgodelonge/ DezNatasMoody - The Dragon's Temple Track: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7792005/ FurAffinity: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/deznatasmoody/ Slendermane - Smiles (remix of Flux Pavilion) Track: https://eqbeats.org/track/2842 EqBeats:https://eqbeats.org/user/316 The Dead Pixel - Rage Quit Track: https://soundcloud.com/deadpixelmusic/rage-quit FurAffinity: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/x-volt FIND FUZZY NOTES ONLINE: Twitter: http://twitter.com/Potoroo Facebook: http://facebook.com/FuzzyNotes iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/fuzzy-notes!/id581600769?mt=2 Podomatic: http://fuzzynotes.podomatic.com Email: fuzzynotespodcast@gmail.com Episode 6 - Unpronounceable - Enjoy hearing Potoroo struggle with the names of artists? Then this is your episode! From prett...

Xiath: yo yo yo you freaky yo-yos!!!

I hope you’ve missed us after this half of a month! I know I missed you! In a non creeper way… Anyways! Here’s the podcast for February! This is literally hot off the press because I just now got done editing it and we only recorded the topic half of the podcast this morning! Which is why Rain sounds a little different in the second half. I’m also experimenting with recording to Garageband directly instead of recording on my PC using call burner then exporting to Garageband. Which is why my mic sounds like crap in the first half. Turns out the microphones in MacBook pros kinda, really, suck…. oh well!

So, anyways. This episode is actually a short one! Mainly because of our recording situation in the second half. I still think it’s a good topic though. We decided to go with a topic that a previous listener and mail writer gave us on the last cast. That topic is originality. We meant to keep it strictly pertaining to the fandom, but, like always, we kinda made it a topic that pertains to the world as a whole more than just the fandom. But it applies to the fandom very well. I hope you enjoy it!

Don’t forget, you have only one more month to send us in questions for our listener/ listenermail special episode next month! It is imperative that you, yes YOU, write in and give us questions! Just try to keep them pertaining to the fandom if you can. I will say you are allowed to write in personal questions to Rain or myself but if you do that make sure you also write in a question pertaining to the fandom. Also, write in multiple questions! We NEED as many questions as possible to make this episode work!!

Remember to send us listenermail!

listenermail@fursonapod.com

~Xiath FursonaPod 3.0 Ep. 4 – Originality in the Fandom - Xiath: yo yo yo you freaky yo-yos!!! - I hope you've missed us after this half of a month! I know I missed you! In a non creeper way... Anyways! Here's the podcast for February! This is literally hot off the press because I just now got done editing i...

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In 1990 Tatsunoko Studios of Japan released the “science-fiction historical gag battle anime” known as Kyattou Ninden Teyandee. It was fan-subbed in the U.S. as Ninja Pizza Cats, and eventually Saban Entertainment released it to television in a dubbed version called Samurai Pizza Cats. For many years, the rights to the show have been up in the air, but now Discotek Media have announced they will soon be releasing the entire series to DVD. According the review at Anime News Network, the series “revolves arouund Nyankii, a secret ninja team that protects the robotic animal inhabitants of Edoropolis (Little Tokyo) from the evil ninja organization Karakara.” That hardly begins to describe just how crazy this thing is. Discotek will be releasing two different DVD box sets: A 52-episode dubbed version and a 54-episode subtitled version.

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Dear Papa Bear,

I just discovered this website and I thought it was an amazing place to come and get a few things off my chest. You mention limiting to one question at a time, so hopefully this letter will do that. I have to ask a bit about my mateship with Anakar.

Anakar and I have been mated for going on 4 years (this May) and we were together up until July of last year. Financially speaking, things had stopped working out. With my health problems I've had in the past I had worried about getting a job and then suffering more health problems that would keep me out of work or worse, fired. I never really tried looking for a job and the only one I had while living with him ended with termination after three months on a bullshit claim that I was more than surprised even came about (nobody misses an Andrew Jackson when they take in change, so you can't be over twenty dollars over in the register). At any rate, the health problem is intermittent but recurring inevitably, as Crohn's Disease does. But my mate was always supportive of me. He always told me to do what I thought I should do, to be happy, and to not worry about everything as long as he had things under control.

Well, he didn't expect his job would execute his hours until we were looking at having to evict ourselves from our house. We hadn't expected that and when it came to the wire, our families refused to help us for the obvious relationship issue (both families believe our significant other "teases" and "demeans" us, and both think we could do better). After a couple of months in the same town, but apart, as he was living with friends and I with my dad, I decided to move out of state to live with my other side of the family to hopefully get a job. I got a job, and my mate moved in with his family in a different state, putting us almost 8 hours apart in travelling distance. Our love is strong, and we're confident that we'll make it through, or so my mate says.

However, I have doubts. My mate is a hard worker, and he is pulling all his weight to get us back together as soon as possible, which he hopes will be the end of this year, possibly sooner if I work hard on my end too (which I have tried and will probably submit a second letter later on about). But my problem is the fact that we are so far apart, and that with money so tight it may be impossible for us to meet up. He says that we'll pull through it, that everything will work out in the end, and as much as I want to believe him, I still have doubts. I still worry that we won't. And it's all because I worry I won't be able to succeed. I have so many questions about life, so many problems with how things have to go, and yet he deals with it like he always has, and it mystifies me how he can go through it and not crack under the pressures I feel.

I guess my question is this: If Anakar is so confident we'll be together, so industriously trying to make it so that we can be, why do I doubt myself so much? That is to say, why do I feel like I can't meet him halfway and just bear with the pain of not being with him for more than a year just so that we can be together again? I feel so lost without him, he's the reason I wake up every day, and the hope in my heart, but every day without him feels so empty and it feels like without him there isn't anything good in my life.

Please write back,
Wolfie Braxton

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Dear Wolfie,

First of all, you are to be congratulated for finding such a loving and loyal mate as you have in Anakar. From what you have written here, he sounds like a wonderful person and you should thank your lucky stars each and every day that he is in your life.

You might have seen in some of my other letters to readers how I am not very fond of the long-distant, virtual relationship. Your case is different, however. You have lived together and enjoy living together, and you have plans to live together again in the future. What is happening now is simply a temporary setback until you get back on your footie paws again. Anakar knows this and is working hard to be with you again in the near future.

So, why is he doing so well with it and you are not? First of all, I’m sure he is suffering inside as much as you; I’m sure he misses you desperately. The difference is, frankly, that he is made of stronger stuff than you are. Why might this be? It could be—though you don’t say anything about this in your letter—that you have had some bad relationship experiences before Anakar and worry this might happen again. It could be that you simply lack some self-confidence compared to Anakar, that you doubt that you are good enough for Anakar and wonder if your being apart might not tempt him to find someone else. It could be that you feel guilty how your health problems may have exacerbated the financial struggles that eventually forced the two of you to move. It could be that you listen too much to your negative family and how they criticize your mate. But that is all sheer speculation on my part.

There is no worse enemy in our lives than the trolls that whisper inside our minds. They are full of lies and fear and self-deprecations. What you need to do is learn to shut them off and look at the reality of your world. Has Anakar ever let you down? Has he ever gone back on his word? Has he ever lied to you or done something deliberately mean to you? Has he ever hurt your feelings? Has he ever given you the slightest hint that he would rather not be with you?

My guess is that the answer to all of these questions is a big fat “NO!”

Now, what I want you to do is a little mental exercise: each night, as you lay your head down on your pillow, I want you to picture in your mind a shooting gallery. In this gallery are a bunch of ugly, green, warty, smelly, flatulent trolls. Each troll has a sign on his chest. Signs like “Loser,” “Fear,” “Doubt,” “Guilt,” “Blame” and so on. I want you to create in your mind some massive weaponry that you can grip in your paws and load with high-caliber bullets. Then I want you to picture these greasy, slimy, insulting trolls jumping around, trying to get away. But they can’t. You aim your gun and blast away. Each one you hit explodes in a cloud of cow farts and pickle juice, making you laugh. Shoot away. Blast those little trolls until they are just green puddles on the ground. Keep at it they are all gone, then relax and go to sleep. Do that every night until they are gone for good.

It sounds silly, but it is a mental exercise that can actually help you. These trolls are just illusions, not reality, and just as fictional are all your fears and doubts. Eliminate them. Hold on to your love of Anakar. He sounds like the catch of a lifetime. Even though he is far away, he is very much in your life and a part of you. And he will return to your loving arms just as soon as he can.

Hugs,

Papabear

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I was just wondering if your fursona can be a girl even if you're a guy. I might be missing the whole point of a fursona here (if I am, please tell me) but I've been drawing my own kind of furry character things for a long time and I based one on myself but it's a girl. Is that normal or is it considered bad or something like that?

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San Jose is once again ground zero for the wild and weird as Further Confusion, or FurCon, takes place this weekend at the convention center. Corey Strom, vice chairman of this year’s event, was nice enough to take a moment out of his busy schedule and break down exactly what FurCon is and isn’t.

Josh Koehn: In a nutshell, what is FurCon?
Corey Strom: Further Confusion is a celebration of the anthropomorphic arts. Anthropomorphism being the blending of human and pretty much anything else. In our case it’s animals and fantasy creatures. While the costumes bring the most visual impact to the convention, traditional artists, sculptors, performers, singers, musicians, gamers, dancers, and general fans make up a much greater chunk of the attendee population.

What was the most creative “fursuit” you saw at last year’s event? So far this year?
The quad suits were quite awesome. I particularly liked the Woolly Mammoth running about. I have seen her this year as well.

Last year, I joked that FurCon is “the city’s annual hot mess” and a celebration of fetishism. You disagreed with my description. How come?
Further Confusion pictures itself in quite a different way. First and foremost, FurCon is a 501c3 charitable organization. Our charter revolves around charity, art, and education. We have given over $150,000 to local charities to day and bring in around $4 million dollars in residual income from out attendees extended visits. We are an all ages event where families can come and enjoy any one of the 170 panels about the art, community, and the social life around it. Most of our guests are here for those reasons. Some of our guests use this opportunity to express themselves—it is a creative art related convention after all. A few of our guests enjoy the freedom of expression beyond that of most and will likely draw more attention, which may confuse people new to the concept of a furry con.

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How has FurCon changed over the years?
The most amazing thing about FurCon is how its managed to thrive for 15 years. Keeping on top of trends, culture and changes in tech and business have been key in keeping the doors open. We have grown from a 691-person convention in 1999 to well over 3,000 right now. Our move to downtown San Jose has been the biggest change for us in recent years, having been at the DoubleTree up the road for so many before. We continue to grow, and as long as we deliver a fun, exciting, educational atmosphere I am sure we will be around for many years to come. We absolutely love working with the great people and businesses of San Jose.

How does San Jose rank when it comes to furry conventions?
As of last year we were the second largest furry convention in the world. Our registration has not finished yet for this year to tell.

Your “fandom” name is Chairo, and your “fursuit” was an auburn-colored Raccoon last time we met. Is that still the case?
It is. I was nick named by a friend when I showed them my first fursuit of a raccoon before I had named it. It became both my nickname and a name for a costume. Chairo is Japanese for “tea colored.”

Is there a process to changing one’s fursona? Does this happen often?
People do change their fursonas. Some never do. There is no real process if someone wants to change, they will generally just refer to themselves with their new name. They will change avatars and references to their online presences as well. People deeply rooted into the concept may have custom license plates and other things, which makes such a change a bit more complex; in some cases, more costly.

How much time and money have you invested into your fursuits?
I make my own, so it’s difficult to quantify. I can spend a few hundred dollars on materials, which could produce a costume which can net $2,000-3,000 if it were sold. I have had a number of commissions, but I am far from making costumes as a self-supporting business.

What’s the most extravagant fursuit you’ve seen?
Depends on the definition. Some incorporate mad sewing skills with patterns to dazzle and behold. Some focus on electronics, lights, moving ears and muzzles that snarl. Even others focus on hyper-realism. I am partial to both realism and light effects. With lights though, I prefer to see them used in conjunction with a more tony styled costume. Anyone who comes can expect to see well over a thousand costumes over the course of the weekend. Where I am sure any fancier of such will be truly amazed by the selection and quality.

What is the best part about FurCon that no one seems to talk about?
The amount of community and friendship that is fostered here carrying on long after the event is over.

What exactly goes on at the notorious Klingon party?
Joyful consumption of grog and ales with song and traditions from homeland Klingon. Be sure to bring stories of battle and wounds to show your worth! In 1998 we began advertising our convention in the form of room parties at other Science Fiction conventions, one of which was BayCon, where we shared party space with the Klingons. Once they got a fursuiter on a roasting spit—after a lively chase, of course. They couldn’t couldn’t get enough and have been with us ever since.

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All good things must someday end. This is our 100th consecutive daily show, and the last one for a while. But do not fret! We will be continuing our weekend podcasts as always, and you can expect a midweek show as well.

In today’s episode we bring on board several past participants and talk about our favorite or most memorable moments. So how about you? What is your favorite daily show? Tell us in the comments below.

Hosts: Cynewulf, Ice_Fire, Levi, Silent, Spenser, Wolfin

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Alright so I was wondering how many of you make these suits yourselves or do you go and buy them? I was wondering this mainly because I like the way that they look and I would like to cosplay some characters for Halloween (I wanna get a head start). If you do make your own would you mind making a how to? It would be very helpful. Thanks :) submitted by Rylet
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Author: Higgs Raccoon The producers of Wastelander Panda, the tale of Arcayus (an anthropomorphic panda wandering a post-apocalyptic wasteland) have made a last-minute call for voice actors. With the project now in post-production, the producers are looking for three actors to voice the three animal characters in the story. In particular, they are looking to [...]