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So I can get bored occasionally on SL, soo if you wanna talk feel free to add me.

TinkerBell Crystal

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I am a Reindeer(Caribou), and I find Cervine themselves to be rare not to mention Reindeer, I just was curious.

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Fun and frolics abound as Hedgie plants his rump between Xavier and Felis to aid in the noise-making and fun that goes in to a typical episode of TigerTails Radio.  This week goes without a hitch, which is nice and really quite rare!  Unless, of course, you count us starting late due to Felis having broken his headphones and TK trying to rig up something to help him replace them.  Starring TK, Xavier, Hedgie, and Felis.  Backing music by Sanxion7.

For Done and Dusted:
Xavier reviews Mark of the Ninja.
TK and Hedgie talk about the SuperBowl.
Felis gives his thoughts on CyberSix. 

Television Talk:
Top Gear

Question of the Week:
If you could make any sim game, what would you sim? (Nothing sexual) 

 

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Season 7 Episode 12 Podcast Uploaded

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Whos going? I am, just curious if there will be a meetup or anything.

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TigerTails Radio Season 7 Episode 12
Fun and frolics abound as Hedgie pants his rump between Xavier and Felis to aid in the noise-making and fun that goes in to a typical episode of TigerTails Radio. This week goes without a hitch, which is nice and really quite rare! Unless, of course, you count us starting late due to Felis having broken his headphones and TK trying to rig up something to help him replace them. Starring TK, Xavier, Hedgie, and Felis. Backing music by Sanxion7. From: TigerTails Radio Views: 0 1 ratings Time: 02:16:14 More in People & Blogs

submitted by Infinitedge
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So i've been a furry for about 6 months, my fursona started as a fox(original i know) now trying to come up with something thats more suited to me.

Im currently thinking some kind of cat/dog hybrid. But would rather be a real animal, are there any animals that have the loyalty characteristic as well as some cat like traits.

tl;dr what real life animal is closest to a cat/dog hybrid?

submitted by mimikitsune
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I'm trying to improve on my art, like antimony, facial expression etc. So here's an example of my work.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9160054/

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9159822/ I've improved a little since then on those works, also if you donate a dollar yes a dollar, I will ink the sketch and color it c:. Update all spots are taken, i'll be using joinme since livestream is being a dick lol. here is the address for joinme https://join.me/576-070-695

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submitted by Ceiling_Unlimited
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In which the author describes the meaning of life.

We furries are a creative bunch. A large majority of us regularly engage in some sort of creative activity.

Looking at data from the 2012 furry survey:

• 46% of us are visual artists;
• 39% of us are writers;
• 24% of us are musical artists, and;
• 17% of us are fursuiters.

Assuming that few of the responders are creating exclusively in non-furry spaces, this means that a large majority of furries are actively adding content to our community. (I’m doing my part right now, writing this article on a sunny winter’s morning for [adjective][species].) Very few of us are pure consumers.

There is nothing wrong with being a consumer. All furries are consumers of furry art, from illustration to performance, because it is art that defines our culture. Without this furry-created art—without furry-specific language, without drawn furry avatars, without fursuiters, without conventions—we wouldn’t be able to express our furriness. At risk of being a bit postmodern, the act of consumption gives meaning to the art.

This is what makes our community different from sci-fi fandoms and the like: fandoms are based around pre-existing art, whereas furry is not. If you’re a brony, then you like My Little Pony, and the social aspects of MLP fandom are a nice bonus. Furries have no such common element, which makes our culture dynamic and exciting, if difficult to pin down.

(Here at [adjective][species], with a handful of different writers and over one hundred articles, we’re mostly just exploring the question: what is furry? Or, maybe: what is a furry? Anyone with interesting ideas should visit our Contributing page and make their pitch to our fearless leader, Makyo.)

Furry creatives are collectively putting a lot of time and effort into the community. In the overwhelming majority of cases, that time and effort is donated with no expectation of monetary gain or even wide recognition.

To look at a few examples:

• Kyell Gold and Phil Geusz, who are probably furry’s two highest-profile and most successful writers (as well as being contributors to [adjective][species]). Both are doing well, but the time spent learning their craft and writing their first few books needed to be rewarding in its own right. They are the vanguard of an army of furry authors, most of whom are self-publishing in the morass of Sofurry, enjoying their time in front of the keyboard and appreciating the few readers they are able to find. Phil, who writes for [a][s] as Rabbit, has contributed many articles since joining us last year: he has done so for the same reasons as our anonymous Sofurry hordes, because he wants to contribute to the furry community.

• Potoroo, furry musician and friend of [a][s], runs a regular furry music podcast, Fuzzy Notes (fuzzynotes.podomatic.com). He collates and advocates music created by furries, for a furry audience. Music isn’t really furry in the way that a drawing can be furry, at least outside of the likes of Kurrel the Raven (stop reading and go listen to his Commission Song right now if you haven’t heard it). Yet Potoroo has an endless stream of quality music, by-furries for-furries. For our furry musicians, limiting their primary audience to furries comes at the benefit of contributing to the community as a whole.

• Oz Kangaroo is a fursuit performer, fursuit maker (www.crittercountry.com.au), and organiser of the Furry Down Under convention. Like Kyell and Phil, Oz didn’t start with the expectation of success. His skills have been learned over time, and his early contributions to the furry community were largely anonymous, motivated by the enjoyment of the process.

Furry’s creators—a group which, dear reader, probably includes you—are rarely motivated by personal gain. There is value in contributing to the greater whole, helping define the culture of the furry community. It’s not selfless (and therefore not an act of charity), but it is immensely generous.

Furry, with its cartoon animals and imaginary worlds, is easy to interpret as a childish pastime. But this is missing the point: furry is about internal exploration of identity, something which niftily translates into an external world of intimate human friendships. This external world is something which we create ourselves. Our apparently childish pastime enriches our culture and informs our tight-knit community.

And it’s the community aspects of furry that make it really special. A broad, interesting community isn’t an easy thing to find in the twenty-first century. Today, people tend to exist in urban environments or online, where it is easy to find people who share niche interests. We group ourselves with people who are similar, and often define ourselves based on these delineations: we spend time with people of similar age, or education, or obsession, or professions, or even something as fundamentally unreal (if important) as money. Once you tar yourself with such an brush, it can be difficult to grow as a person, and explore the world outside of your niche.

Furry is a group without such limited horizons. Our community is the product of the things we create. Our decentralized nature means that our creations grow informally, like a meme: ideas become widespread as they are adopted by the separate, overlapping subgroups within furry. And even unsuccessful ideas have value: they are consumed and appreciated by an immediate audience of friends and similarly-minded furries. The furry culture is one that respects the act of creation, regardless of perceived quality.

We creators are serving the community. Our acts of service help build our world, and being a part of this communal effort provides meaning to life. Time spent in the act of creation, the act of service, can be internally rewarding and be appreciated by those we share our lives with. We contribute to our own environment, we build a culture that we can enjoy, and this adds to the feeling of inclusion within our community.

We furries are lucky. Other communities are often not as tolerant or welcoming, a point which leads me to a final story:

D. Michael Quinn is a Mormon historian. His research and publications put him at odds with the Mormon church leadership, who didn’t accept his findings on past actions within the church that were at odds with the church’s current moral stance. (Further reading here.)

As a scholar with a belief in truth and evidence, Quinn continued to publish before his eventual exile and formal excommunication from the church. Stripped of his career, at age 63 he was reduced to sleeping on a sofabed in his mother’s one-bedroom condominium.

Just before his excommunication, Quinn was given an opportunity to testify before the church. He expressed his gratitude to the church for providing, throughout his life, a vehicle for service. The Mormon church, he said, drew him out of his largely monastic life and compelled him to help the men and women he saw every Sunday.

As far as I can tell, that’s a life with meaning.

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Dear Papa Bear,

I need your help. I used to be social and talkative but now nobody well talk to me. I try to be friendly and show interest in others but I don’t get it back. I feel like I’m being ignored in a community I’ve been apart of for years. Other furs seem so much more interested in my mate and I just don’t know how he does it. (Sorry for any spelling errors. I have APD [note: Papabear often corrects spelling and grammar to make letters easier for people to read]).

Thank you

-ignored fox

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Hi, Ignored,

A little more detail would be helpful to me before I reply. You say that you to be "social and talkative" but now you feel left out of the community. At what point did this happen? What happened between the time you were more sociable and the time when things changed and you were no longer part of the group as much? Did it happen when your mate came into the picture? Some other event?

Thanks for your help.

Papabear

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This started happing about 3 years ago when people started switching to Facebook from MySpace and I lost contacted from some of my best fur friends on it. I don’t know what happened but people just stopped replying to me and I try to talk to others and I just got ignored. I even tried talking to random furs to help me be more social but I just keep getting ignored. After each failed attempt at trying to talk to furs I start getting a little more depressed and discouraged from trying to talk to others. I’m natural super shy and it just makes things worse it takes a lot from me to try to talk to a stranger. I just feel like I’m back in school again because of the popular kids ignoring and making fun of me. 

Ignored

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Okay, just to be sure: this might not be happening because of some software program or browser error, could it? Could there be a technical reason why you aren't getting replies? Just as a thought....

Papabear

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Sadly no everything gets sent.

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Hi, Ignored,

This is indeed a puzzling situation. If you were being ignored by people who had been your friends currently, I would guess that some kind of clique had formed and that it didn’t include you, OR that when you switched from MySpace to Facebook, somehow, people thought you were snubbing them and decided to block you (such miscommunications and drama are common). The problem with these theories is that you are also being ignored by new people you just met, which makes no sense. Adding to the riddle is that you once had no problem talking with people online and now you do; also, as far as I know from your letter, nothing happened in between those times that might have caused drama.

Papabear is genuinely puzzled by this one. One disturbing possibility is that someone out there has put the word out online to ignore you, and that this message has somehow effectively been read by every single person you try to communicate with. Again, though, this seems very unlikely. Another possibility is that you aren’t telling me something, such as you have a tendency to be mean to everyone you talk to, but, again, that doesn’t seem the case and, also, at one point you had no issues with online chat.

On the other paw, your mate seems to be having no problems with socializing. At this frustrating point, if I were you, I would ask for his help in getting you back into the social scene, even if that means piggybacking on his popularity. If he’s a good mate, he should be happy to help.

For the first time since starting this column, Papabear is quite perplexed. I’m going to also put a call out to my readers for help. Anyone have any thoughts about Ignored’s problem? Maybe, you could even befriend this poor furry?

Papabear

Author: admin It’s Episode 75 of Fuzzy Logic, starring three Istanbuls and the gonch of the Yukon! Yeah, this episode is kinda like that. We even finish our music break with a game of Tetris this time, in ways only Fuzzy Logic could play! Before we get started on our e-mails, Halfwit shares her word [...] Episode 75 – Trashed

Can someone point me in the right direction?

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