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Channel 4 in the U.K. have announced an upcoming TV special currently in production: “Following the success of BAFTA-nominated, hand-drawn animated adaptation of Judith Kerr’s classic picture book Mog’s Christmas, Channel 4 has commissioned a seasonal special based on Kerr’s picture book Mog’s Bad Thing... Mog is the Thomas family tabby cat who always finds herself in big trouble. The family are hosting a cat show in their garden which should be Mog’s chance to shine, but in all the excitement she does a “bad thing” which means she hides in the attic feeling sorry for herself and misses the start of the show. Can Mog find a way to leave her hiding place, make her family proud and save the day?” Many of the folks working on this production also worked on The Tiger Who Came To Tea, which we’ve talked about before. Mog’s Bad Thing is scheduled for the holiday season in 2026, and then we’ll to find out if we get see it here in North America!

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TigerTails Radio Season 16 Episode 43 Join the Discord Chat: https://discord.gg/SQ5QuRf Join the Telegram Chat: https://t.me/+yold2C77m0I1MmM0 Visit the website at http://www.tigertailsradio.co.uk. See website for full breakdown of any song credits, which is usually updated shortly after the show. Credits: Opening music: Magic by Hedge Haiden (Double Hedge Studios) Character art: Fitzroy Fox - https://www.furaffinity.net/user/lunara-toons / https://bsky.app/profile/fitzroyfox.bsky.social Background art: Charleston Rat - https://www.furaffinity.net/user/charlestonrat / https://bsky.app/profile/charlestonrat.bsky.social If you like what we do and wish to throw some pennies our way to support us, please consider sending a little tip our way. https://streamlabs.com/tigertailsradio/tip * Please note, tips are made to support TigerTails Radio and are assumed as made with good faith, so are therefore non-refundable. Thank you for your support and understanding.

TigerTails Radio Season 16 Episode 44 Join the Discord Chat: https://discord.gg/SQ5QuRf Join the Telegram Chat: https://t.me/+yold2C77m0I1MmM0 Visit the website at http://www.tigertailsradio.co.uk. See website for full breakdown of any song credits, which is usually updated shortly after the show. Credits: Opening music: Magic by Hedge Haiden (Double Hedge Studios) Character art: Fitzroy Fox - https://www.furaffinity.net/user/lunara-toons / https://bsky.app/profile/fitzroyfox.bsky.social Background art: Charleston Rat - https://www.furaffinity.net/user/charlestonrat / https://bsky.app/profile/charlestonrat.bsky.social If you like what we do and wish to throw some pennies our way to support us, please consider sending a little tip our way. https://streamlabs.com/tigertailsradio/tip * Please note, tips are made to support TigerTails Radio and are assumed as made with good faith, so are therefore non-refundable. Thank you for your support and understanding.

Papabear,

​I found this site a few months ago and decided to write. After all, at worst nothing bad would happen, I guess. English is not my native language, so my English may not be perfect.

The thing is, I'm autistic, and my family infantilizes me; they always have done so. For example, my father has talked to me in baby speak regardless of how offensive it was to me and no matter how much I expressed that... Until I exploded in rage when I was 13 years old. That was the one thing that made him stop; the only thing that worked.

Even to this day, I see younger relatives having more freedoms, with them being younger than me because their parents simply allow it or at the very least don't put every effort in impeding it. They encourage them to have friends; they allow them to drive to do what they need; they allow them to... Well, basically have autonomy like any late teen or adult should have. However, every relative takes my family's side on the topic because, well... I' autistic, and in their minds, how is an autistic person independent in any way?

I would love to make friends IRL--maybe even get a romantic partner--but every time they refused to allow me to interact with anyone outside school in my younger years on the basis of them believing that "they wanted to take advantage of me." And, of course, being young and naive, I believed them. And by the time I realized the idea of literally everyone wanting to use me was stupid, it was too late. Friend groups were already formed and solidified, and I already had the reputation as "the weird guy who never gets out of home." I have missed so many milestones simply because my family refused to allow me to have them on the basis of "being worried about me."

I also have a driving license, but they do not allow me to drive because "they fear something will happen to me" and say that I need practice--practice that never comes beyond my taking them to places, but it's never enough to them. This has cost me many job opportunities, and to this day I'm unemployed because where I live there is no public transportation and no jobs. I have a lot of education, but it doesn't matter because they won't allow me to drive to any potential job I could get out of it. I still do free online courses that I'm able to get into because I can't just do nothing at all, but without being allowed to drive to any potential job it all feels worthless.

To this day I have been able to get minimal amounts of freedom and autonomy but only by exploding in rage multiple times, screaming, insulting them, and saying how much they are an obstacle in my life and that despite what they say, every chance they get they prove that they see me as a useless and fragile being that will break as soon I'm out of their view.

But that is ceasing to work.

To clarify, I have never physically harmed them, despite the many times they have done so to me (my brother even wanted to burn my face one time when I was a child, but changed his mind because he wouldn't been able to escape any consequences from that; when I told my parents this, they did ... nothing, like every other time my brother harmed me). They don't physically hurt me anymore because now I'm able to defend myself if necessary, but I genuinely do not know how to deal with this anymore because an honest conversation about the topic has never worked. They only see me as my autism and nothing else.

I have tried going to multiple psychologists, but they have all taken their side. In some cases, they decided that, above all else, I was the one who had to see their perspective and understand where they were coming from (I genuinely cannot conceive any possible perspective that justifies or makes understandable or even tolerable the idea of wanting to burn a child's face, and I am certain that I shouldn't in the first place). In other cases, they said I lied because, in their words, "Family doesn't do that," and they would not believe me when I say that, in fact, I do chores, I put effort in what I try to do, etc. To them, if whatever I said didn't support a false narrative of me being the problem, it was a lie.

One psychiatrist in particular tried to convince me that my autism diagnosis is not real because (in their words) "I dont look autistic" in the first and only session I had with him. To be honest, jumping from psychologist to psychologist and bleeding money without getting anywhere doesn't seem a viable option anymore to me. The idea of "the right one" existing seems like a mere fantasy.

I have online friends (including furries; I am one myself), but I also fear what they will do if they discover that. I don't know what to do anymore.

Do you think there is something I can do to finally have control of my own life?

With Regards,
Brian (age 27, Spain)

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Dear Brian,

Thank you for reaching out. Your English is quite good, no worries. And you are clearly an intelligent and sensitive young man who, based on your story, is basically being imprisoned by his own family.

To be clear, autism is not something that lowers your intelligence, so your father treating you like an infant is, indeed, insulting. I've known people with autism who have become doctors. You're not stupid. You are not violent. You are not a danger to yourself or others--at least, not from what I can see here. 

My difficulty is that I am in the USA, not Spain. Also, Spain is a large country with diverse regions, and I don't know where you are, exactly, that you don't have access to public transportation. Are you somewhere in the more sparsely populated Central part of Spain far from major cities like Madrid or Barcelona?

Psychologists are not helping you because you are not mentally or emotionally disturbed. Your condition is formally called "Austism Spectrum Disorder"; however, I do not see autism as a disorder. You are not broken; you are different. How are you different? People with autism have synapses in the brain that are wired differently. I've seen studies in which scientists said there were more synapses connecting in the brain, and I've seen them where they say there are fewer synapse connections. (This just shows that more research is needed and that you can't draw conclusions from one study). But recent studies are also suggesting that autism is related to human evolution and is related to Homo sapiens' rapid development in cognitive--especially language--skills. In other words, autism might be a byproduct of improvements to the human genome. Anyway, that just means you are different; not necessarily better or worse. In this bear's humble opinion, the fact that we are seeing so many people with autism is a sign that Mother Nature is experimenting with human evolution again (she does that, you know), seeing what works and what doesn't. 

According to the form you submitted to Papabear, you are 27, which is more than old enough to get out on your own and live your life without your oppressive and unsupportive family preventing you from having a life. I would say that you would be wasting your energy trying to turn your family around and make them help rather than hinder you. 

To do this, you need a lifeline, people to whom you can connect for help. I'm a bit too far away for that, and also you are outside the USA, which means giving you contact information for an American organization would be fruitless. Therefore, I looked online for any organization in Spain that might help. The one I found is called Confederacion Autismo Espana at https://autismo.org.es/. I would suggest you check out this website and try to contact them, explain your situation, and see if they can provide you with leads to help.

Now, as for the furry fandom, it can actually be helpful to you. Here is an entire article (ending in a video) about furries with autism, the challenges they face, and how being involved in the fandom can actually help you. Here is a documentary about furries with autism that might be of use to you.

So, to summarize, my recommendation is to reach out to Confederacion Autismo Espana and to the furry community. Since your family is not helpful and psychologists have proven ineffective, it is time for you to find other avenues for assistance and support. I hope the above information will be helpful to you.

Good Luck! Bear Hugs!

Papabear

The annual Furry Studies academic conference is a multi-field brain-food buffet. Their first event launched in October 2024 as part of a furry arts festival in the Netherlands. It featured scholarship, presentations, and celebration for international authors, researchers, and fans. The second Furry Studies conference happened on Halloween 2025 in Tacoma, WA, and was also virtual to join from wherever you are. They will soon start planning for the 2026 conference. To get future info about how to attend, participate or collaborate, follow them here: https://furrystudies.org/

Here’s an interview about what the conference offers. Many presenters give academic talks about a variety of furry-centric topics. For Dogpatch Press, Patch and Zeldstarro discussed the event with key organizers Spaxe and Jack Newhorse, as well as Hazel, who is the director of gender, sexuality, and race studies at the 2025 host venue, Pacific Lutheran University.

Zeld: What IS Furry Studies? Is this similar to what they do at https://furscience.com, using a scientific approach to collecting surveys from and about furry fandom and interpreting what the data means?

Jack: Furscience are pioneering (IMHO) furry studies researchers. They presented at the 2024 event and this year’s! Their topic was “Furry and Anthropomorphizing Animals as a Response to a Hostile World.”

Spaxe: FurScience is awesome. The biggest difference between Furry Studies and FurScience is that we are a conference organisation and a publication venue. FurScience is a research team, who also happens to have published with us. We are trying to open more doors for furry researchers, and researchers working with furries, to have a home to publish and talk about their work. This includes publishing in journals, like the Journal of Popular Communication that we are doing a special issue on from the 2024 conference.

Zeld: Why study furries in an academic lens? Are we studying the furries themselves, and does it have to involve furry art, or…

Spaxe: FurScience has made a lot of grounds in social psychology on furries. Nuka and his team is following intersectional demographic identities and orientations, attitudes, perceptions, and many trends including neurodivergence and autism spectrum and so on. Social psychology is interested in understanding who we are, and why we are, and conducting experiments to test hypotheses around why furry people are the way they are. They have one-decade-plus data from US furcons, and they started doing work in Eurofurence and Japan Meeting of Furries. It’s important research but not the only way to research furry.

Academic study can produce a lot of things, and one of them is words around describing a phenomenon like being, and feeling furry. I’ve been furry for 18 years and I’m sure most furs have the experience of trying to explain to normies, and having trouble finding words. Furry Studies aims to advance research and knowledge around furry art and community, and we hope that it will also produce language to describe what furry is and can be about. And if I may speak personally, I hope that people who study furries will produce findings that benefit the community in some way. It might not be providing jobs, but it will provide a new voice.

Patch: We announced the first conference in 2024, how did it go?

Jack: I think it went great! All the sessions went as planned and reviews were good. 15 people paid to attend in person with 31 online. Our 2024 page has links to the list of talks given (with their abstracts); and a six-hour video of the whole thing.

Spaxe: Here’s a gallery of photos from the 2024 event. I’m really thankful for Jack to give us the opportunity and space to run Furry Studies. It’s not everyday you’d have a furry conference followed by a furry arts event.

Patch: Does location affect what it does? It moved from the Netherlands to Tacoma for the second event. Is it meant to move each year or is it seeking a permanent venue? 

Jack: This was the idea from the beginning. Partly because that’s fairly standard for conferences of this sort; and partly to prevent it from being “owned” by any geography or population. I see that as one of Furry Studies’ big strengths: Like academia itself, it’s truly an international group. That’s reflected not only in the organizers — Spaxe in Australia, Vanguard in England, Hazel in the US, me in the Netherlands — but in the topics covered.

Of course the US is strongly represented, which makes sense given the US-centric history of the fandom. But at the 2024 conference there were talks about being furry in Japan and China; this year there were talks about furry in Europe and Iran. [*The speaker from Iran was unable to make it due to an emergency, so a stand-alone article about them is being planned.]

I think that we all, as individual furries, tend to see only a small slice of the furry world, both in terms of geography and interest. Through Furry Studies we get a much broader view.

Spaxe: For the first year, we invited historian Joe Strike (author of Furry Nation/Furry Planet) to be our keynote and open the day. The lineup was fully peer reviewed. It included furry scholars in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, Japan, China, and it was very global in terms of the voices that were at the conference. In 2025 we had a keynote from Rod O’Riley and heard from places like Portugal, and and it was incredible to be able to host them over zoom for their presentations.

Being an academic conference, moving it from place to place is pretty typical. This of course makes attending really hard, but at the same time you could say it gives people a chance to be in person. So there are benefits and tradeoffs. I think we’re doing something really special, being able to bridge academic conversations with community voices. That’s how research really shines.

Patch: Global fandom opens interesting access, but this has a different emphasis than general fandom events. What made you start it? Could it cross over outside fandom? 

Spaxe: I’d really love to know how to do that, and I think that will require growing the team and partnering up! I should mention, I’ve been a student volunteer at academic conferences since 2010, and I’ve run my fair share of academic conferences. This is like my 5th time running one. But I’ve never run a furmeet or fur con of course. For that I go to Jack for help

Jack: I don’t think of it like a con that does what most people go to cons for, like how only a small percentage of people who speak languages are linguists.

As for me, I like producing, and it was really an honor to be able to be a part of the first one. It was a fortuitous combination of circumstances that made the first one happen. Vanguard and I were in a chat group together about collecting and curating furry history. One of us started talking about a Furry Studies conference, and I was planning the Otterdam Furry Arts Festival at the time as a two-day event, but plans for the first day just weren’t gelling. So it seemed like a perfect match… and it was.

I’m not an academic, but as a furry producer I’m interested in doing things that aren’t already being done in the community — reaching new audiences, exploring new types of venues, seeing This Thing Of Ours from a different angle. Furry Studies scratches this itch in two different ways. First, because it hadn’t been done before; second, because it’s *about* seeing furry from new perspectives! A look through the abstracts for 2025 and last year shows how rich our culture is, and how much there still is to examine.

Spaxe: We know there is furry research out there. Juniper runs this Academic Animals telegram group for years now, and when I joined, there were ~24 critters in research (now there are 36), from PhD students to established professors. So I thought there was already an audience from an academic conference perspective, and we’ve been running it as such.

That doesn’t mean there aren’t opportunities to broaden our audience (we have been talking about social events and connecting with local communities), but we haven’t gotten to that stage yet. We’ve begun getting folks reaching out to us who are interested in running more events around Furry Studies, so that might help us reach to a broader audience, furries who aren’t already in research!

I know that sounds like we don’t really know how to market but we are a very very small team. We will need more people to help us to make things happen.

Patch: The 2025 programming had categories like, popular culture, counterculture, queer and gender identity politics. They look suitable for mainstream academic conferences, but the furry nature needs no introduction at this one. Could furry-centric talks fit at other conferences? Can those be competitive to get in, and how selective was this one?

Hazel: When it comes to academic conferences, many of these papers/presentations may be viable for various disciplinarily conferences (sociology, American studies, family studies, psychology, cultural studies, etc.). Therefore, a lot of the submissions we received were written by scholars (graduate students and those who hold PhDs), however, they are framed with the audience in mind which is, furries who are also studying furries from a scholarly background. Either way, furry scholars would see this conference as an academic affair, where they could put their presentation on their resume/CV, and have it be seen as professional scholarship/development.

Not everyone who submitted got in. We had a range of submissions, but a few could not make it in due to our schedule. As we are only a one day conference and quite new, we have a limited number of slots where the submission process is peer reviewed by our committee of furries, who are also scholars or are involved in academics in some way.

The theme for this year came from various areas of discourse within the furry community, along with the current public perceptions of furry not only in the United States, but globally.

Not only did we want to attend to the rise of conservative targeting of furry behaviors and expressions (as seen in the FURRIES Act – Texas House Bill 54), but also general attacks on furry expression in a time of queer and trans violence. We also wanted to gain larger perspectives from outside of a Western lens where often many studies on furry have neglected.

I think due to what is happening socially and politically, there has been more interest in this conference not only from furries themselves, but also (in my experience) from various health professional fields such as Social Work, MFT – Marriage and Family Therapy, Nursing, etc. I am an assistant professor of social work, and professional practitioners are more and more curious about furries, due to a desire to want to address their clients in healthy and supportive ways in the face of continued false narratives.

Overall, there seems to be an interest in broadly queer and trans healthcare/wellbeing, and attached to that is the art and expressions of queer and trans people where furry falls into. Various fields are also interested in what furries have to say, as furries have become more popular than ever before.

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Zeld: Would academic discussion of furries in this official of a capacity make the fandom more “mainstream”, and would you consider that a potential problem?

Spaxe: I remember a meme with a kid (labeled “the furry community”) being shielded from a rain of arrows by a soldier in a camouflage uniform (labeled “weird furry porn”). Furry has always been, and always will be, anti-capitalist and anti-fascism.

I look at where furry is now today that we have more than a dozen clothing brands, many breweries, and even dedicated logistics companies doing furry merchandise fulfilment and storage. We have fursuit makers who charge the same amount of money (or more) than commercial sports mascot makers. And we have many furry artists who are able to make a living thanks to all of the above. Somehow, furry is able to co-exist with mainstream commercial art and artmaking, and every step of the way we are balancing being seen and being “mainstream”. So I think we should all be thinking about that every time someone starts a furry venture or event. Furry Studies is no different.

Knowledge is like technology. The reason to create it may be noble, but it can be misused or abused. For us to be a research venue, peer review is our first line of defense from poorly conducted research or written work. The organising committee is made up of professors and lecturers from many universities and community organisations, and we are all furries ourselves. We want to make sure that each publication has merit, and will contribute new knowledge, and it’s on us if a publication ends up being misinterpreted for the wrong reasons. We know that we can’t account for everything, but we know we will have many good reasons to debunk misinformation and stop bad actors.

Jack: My own personal view on mainstreaming: If *any* community has something of value, people “outside” the community will want a piece of that value. That’s what mainstreaming is. I also believe the furry community has a lot that the larger world will find to be of value. Therefore, mainstreaming is inevitable — and, in fact, a sign that we have something *worth* mainstreaming.

Those who fear mainstreaming are mourning the loss of a clique, an “in-group”. Which is understandable, as unusually close bonds form in such groups. Cliques are small enough that individuals can influence how they develop communication shorthands, moral guidelines, enforcement practices, etc.. But trying to keep a growing group small and insular is bound for failure.

Celebrities show up at furry cons. Parents in Walmart ears and tails bring their kids to fursuit parades. As for mainstreaming, we’re well on our way.

Furry studies is one way to both record and influence that mainstreaming. It represents a kind of “community memory” so that whatever “furry” is tomorrow, it’ll be informed by furry up until today.

I was involved in “the bi community” in the late ’80s and somewhat in the ’90s. Very similar feeling. And I don’t take the disappearance of “the bi community” as a tragedy. Being bi has become less notable, IMHO to the benefit of society.

Patch: How can readers find out more, submit work, or attend in 2026?

Jack: This was the schedule of talks for the 2025 conference. There’s a video of the entirety of last year’s conference, or you can look up individual talks here. Check them out for what you might want to see or share. More information about furry studies generally can also be found on the website. Follow us for updates, and when 2026 event comes up, if you’re unable to travel, you can also attend online.

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Is AI a tool to help artists, or is it destroying the fandom? Is AI-generated content really “art”, or is it slop – or worse, outright theft? Let’s talk about what place there is for AI in the furry fandom – or if we’d be better off without it entirely, and the consequences for the furry fandom of living in an increasingly AI-focused world.

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Recently at Cartoon Brew we found out about a new CGI feature film currently in production. The Last Whale Singer is on its way from Telescope Animation in Germany. “Written and directed by Reza Memari, the film follows Vincent, an orphaned teenage humpback whale destined to become the next Whale Singer, a guardian whose mystical song can heal and protect the oceans. But Vincent’s journey to find his voice is both literal and spiritual, mirroring the struggles of anyone learning to overcome fear and self-doubt.” There’s no word yet on the when and where of a release for the film, but the first trailer is in English, so it’s definitely looking for distribution in North America.

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TigerTails Radio Season 16 Episode 42 Join the Discord Chat: https://discord.gg/SQ5QuRf Join the Telegram Chat: https://t.me/+yold2C77m0I1MmM0 Visit the website at http://www.tigertailsradio.co.uk. See website for full breakdown of any song credits, which is usually updated shortly after the show. Credits: Opening music: Magic by Hedge Haiden (Double Hedge Studios) Character art: Fitzroy Fox - https://www.furaffinity.net/user/lunara-toons / https://bsky.app/profile/fitzroyfox.bsky.social Background art: Charleston Rat - https://www.furaffinity.net/user/charlestonrat / https://bsky.app/profile/charlestonrat.bsky.social If you like what we do and wish to throw some pennies our way to support us, please consider sending a little tip our way. https://streamlabs.com/tigertailsradio/tip * Please note, tips are made to support TigerTails Radio and are assumed as made with good faith, so are therefore non-refundable. Thank you for your support and understanding.

Steam has just debuted the "Steam Animal Fest" for 2025, and it features over 2100 games, either already released or upcoming, that have animals of some sort in them. Of course, there are way too many games for us to list all of them here, and luckily Steam gathered them all together conveniently already. We're sure to cover many of these games in the coming months here on GF!

New Steam Points Shop Items for Animal Fest 2025 are also available!

As the narrator of the Pokémon anime famously says: “The adventure continues!”

Right off the heels of our recently published Legends Z-A review, Nintendo and Pokémon Company released new information to the anticipated(and divisive) upcoming Mega Dimension DLC along with a confirmed release date. And this DLC certainly promises to take things to a whole new dimension. Storywise, this DLC is intended to begin after the events of the Legends Z-A’s main story. The premise is that distortions have begun appearing around the city that lead to a strange place known as Hyperspace Luminose. Team MZ will have to team up with new allies including mysterious donut chef Ansha and her partner Hoopa as well as a returning character in the form of Korrina, Mega Evolution Successor and Gym Leader of Shalour City(also in Kalos).

Hyperspace is no joke. Not only does it look trippy, but there are also Pokémon there that can’t be found in normal Lumiose, such as Galarian Mr Mime, Corviknight, Alolan Marowak and more! Even stranger, these Pokémon have been hyper powered up to become over the normal cap of level 100 for the first time ever! It wouldn’t be a Mega Dimension without new Mega Evolutions, and those are a major point of Z-A. In addition to the versions of Mega Raichu that were recently announced, two new Megas have been revealed: Mega Chimecho and Mega Baxcalibur. Chimecho was the last Pokémon I ever thought to see get a Mega but I kinda like it. And I’m excited for Baxcalibur since I used one in my Scarlet playthrough a long time ago.

What secrets await in Hyperspace? We’ll have to find out when the DLC story drops on Dec 10, a month away. In the meantime, the DLC is available for purchase now if you so desire. You’ll get the new Holo-X and Holo-Y outfits as soon as you do and a gift of special Pokeballs(3 Level Balls, 3 Lure Balls, 3 Heavy Balls and 3 Fast Balls) is currently available as an early purchase bonus. 

Outside of the DLC, trainers can also get Diancite from Mystery Gift. Doing so unlocks a special side mission which can let players catch the mythical Diancie in-game. Additionally, as of November 6th, a new season of Ranked Battles is available in which trainers can obtain a Delphoxite as well as another opportunity to get the Greninjite for Mega Delphox and Mega Greninja respectively. Later seasons will add the mega stones for Chesnaught and the previously mentioned Baxcalibur. There’s still plenty to see and do in Lumiose city, DLC or no. Happy catching trainers! Don’t forget to check out the Mega Dimension trailer as well as our review of Legends Z-A!

We have the very exciting opportunity today to talk with Isak Wahl, the CEO of Snow Leaf Studios, developers of the newly released roguelite title, Brew! I spent time playing the demo of Brew over the Summer and absolutely adored the characters, gameplay loop, and unique story that their team is putting together. It’s clear that the direction and mission of the team is full of unique experiences and drive, as evidenced by the well-developed demo and intriguing taste of the world we now get to blast, brew, and dodge our way through. With that said, we couldn’t wait to get some additional insight into the development of this furry character-filled world.

The year is 2013. Pokémon X and Y released on Nintendo’s highly successful 3DS console and marks the first time a main series Pokémon game has been fully rendered in 3D. This is the best Pokémon has looked up to this point and it’s the start of an exciting new era. Beyond the pretty visuals however, X and Y also left a legacy of unfulfilled ideas and wasted potential. The rumored Pokémon Z never materialized and we inevitably left Kalos and Mega Evolution behind…that is, until recently. 

The time has finally come to talk about Pokémon Legends Z-A, the second entry under the Legends moniker following the success of Arceus back in 2022.  Unlike Arceus, which took place in the distant past, Z-A takes place in the future, at least as far as X and Y are concerned. This time the setting is the massive Lumiose City, crown jewel of the Kalos region.

TigerTails Radio Season 16 Episode 41 Join the Discord Chat: https://discord.gg/SQ5QuRf Join the Telegram Chat: https://t.me/+yold2C77m0I1MmM0 Visit the website at http://www.tigertailsradio.co.uk. See website for full breakdown of any song credits, which is usually updated shortly after the show. Credits: Opening music: Magic by Hedge Haiden (Double Hedge Studios) Character art: Fitzroy Fox - https://www.furaffinity.net/user/lunara-toons / https://bsky.app/profile/fitzroyfox.bsky.social Background art: Charleston Rat - https://www.furaffinity.net/user/charlestonrat / https://bsky.app/profile/charlestonrat.bsky.social If you like what we do and wish to throw some pennies our way to support us, please consider sending a little tip our way. https://streamlabs.com/tigertailsradio/tip * Please note, tips are made to support TigerTails Radio and are assumed as made with good faith, so are therefore non-refundable. Thank you for your support and understanding.

I hope everyone had a great Furry Book Month! It’s over for another year and now we’re heading into the holidays with frightening speed.

Thanks to everyone who picked up this year’s Furry Book Bundle. We had our best year of sales yet, which helps both the guild and all the authors involved. All the money will be divided evenly among the authors, with the guild getting a share too. Authors, we’ll try to get your payments sent before December.

If you’ve been writing a lot lately and finding your energy flagging, take a break and read a book or stories written by other authors. Reading is a great remedy for burnout and stress. It helps refill your creative well! *points at all the great new books available below* If you’ve been reading a lot instead of writing, maybe it’s time to open your work-in-progress file.

I’m the last person to discover anything new, so I only just saw K-Pop Demon Hunters yesterday. I’ve been dancing around all day to the soundtrack, another stress reliever. These days we have to take joy where we can.

Here are the current open markets for your short stories:
Indecent Exposure – Deadline December 22, 2025
CLAW Vol. 2 – Deadline April 30, 2026
This Is Halloween – Deadline When Full
Children Of The Night – Deadline When Full

Please also check out the latest book releases from our members:
Dragon’s Soul, by J.F.R. Coates, Released June 7, 2025.
Two Strikes and I’m Out, by Michael H. Payne (poetry), Released June 16, 2025.
Tales from the Guild: Blood and Water, Released June 30, 2025.
A Portrait for Tomorrow, by Raynarde, Released June 30, 2025.
Winterfall, by Lauren Rivers, Released July 15, 2025.
The Bones Behind the Glass, by Renard Avec-Histoire, Released August 18, 2025.
Gravitational Pull, by Ty Fox, Released August 19, 2025.
Tikadi’s Gift, by Moth Flutterby, Released October 17, 2025.
Legend of Ahya: A Divinity Decayed [Book 5], by Matthew Colvath, Releasing Nov. 30, 2025.

Happy writing!
Kate Shaw