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Looking for something else, we stumbled upon this: The Green Ember series of fantasy novels (with a light Christian theme), written by S.D. Smith. “Heather and Picket are extraordinary rabbits with ordinary lives until calamitous events overtake them, spilling them into a cauldron of misadventures. They discover that their own story is bound up in the tumult threatening to overwhelm the wider world. Kings fall and kingdoms totter. Tyrants ascend and terrors threaten. Betrayal beckons, and loyalty is a broken road with peril around every bend. Where will Heather and Picket land? How will they make their stand?” Several books have followed in the series, but here is where you get started.

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It’s time for FWG members to vote for guild officers! The ballot is live and can be found here:

2025 FWG Elections

You must be a current guild member to vote, so make sure that you provide the correct name and email address so we can match your response against guild membership records. Feel free to email if your contact information has changed and you want to make sure guild records are up-to-date.

In addition to the one contested seat, Markets Manager, the ballot asks for your opinion about broadening the type of works accepted for membership in the guild. There’s also a comment section if you’d like to share your thoughts on this topic.

The ballot will remain open for one week, until May 23, 2025, so don’t put off your decision for too long.

GUEST POST: Eberra Wolf (sounds like “a-BEAR-uh”) is an independent reporter from New York City, and focuses on the northeastern United States. He has been a furry since December 2022. Eberra is using community access to submit news as an on-the-scene correspondent – you can submit news here.

Furries playing outside in the courtyard of the Mount Laurel, N.J., DoubleTree on Saturday. (Eberra Wolf for Dogpatch Press.)

Furgeddaboutit had its inaugural convention over the weekend of May 2-4 in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Created in reaction to Garden State Fur the Weekend, another New Jersey convention, it was held on the same weekend 47 miles southwest, about 50 minutes away by car.

By the end of both cons, comparison of the respective results would make an example for the global fandom to remember.

Furgeddaboutit was hosted by Furrydelphia, with staffing assistance from community groups Anthro Outdoor Adventures, Furgen County, The Furst State, and Pinefurs — though the plan is to eventually spin Furgeddaboutit off into an independent organization run by people in New Jersey. “The intention is that once this is over, we’ll be electing an actual board,” said Bangaroo, one of the people who spearheaded the convention. “Most of the people from outside of New Jersey are probably going to step down or step back,” including himself.

Opening ceremonies on Friday morning. (Eberra Wolf for Dogpatch Press.)

It was decided that it would be easier and faster to use Furrydelphia’s corporation to put cash upfront and sign contracts. Furrydelphia Inc., based in Philadelphia, PA, took money out of its cash reserves—likely a five digit sum—to put into running Furgeddaboutit, which it plans to recoup in its entirety. Cash left over is to be given to the entity that will host Furgeddaboutit, when it is established. Bangaroo added that “we’re trying to leave as much over for the future event to set something that’s bigger and more sustainable.”

The convention began planning back in December of last year—a lead time of six months, which is a very short amount of time to organize a furry convention. “The time between us realizing that we needed to do [this] and us announcing it was less than two weeks,” said Bangaroo.

A wedding event on Saturday, one among a few weddings who crossed paths with the furry convention. (Eberra Wolf for Dogpatch Press.)

Not only was there Garden State that was being held alongside Furgeddaboutit, there was also The Big One, a large, two-day furmeet hosted by Pawsouls nearer to Garden State. Even in the DoubleTree Mount Laurel where Furgeddaboutit took place at, there were several weddings happening alongside the convention, which it had to coordinate with. (Wedding season made it more challenging to find a hotel at an acceptable price on short notice.)

A bridesmaid posted on TikTok a short clip of them walking in the courtyard with furries cheering them on, which was widely-shared. Susan, the mother of one of the grooms this weekend was surprised at our presence but thought the convention was “wonderful.” The vendor hall had been booked by Furgeddaboutit until Saturday afternoon, where it was then used for wedding banquets for the remainder of the weekend.

Officially, Furgeddaboutit took a we-pretend-not-to-see-it stance towards Garden State. The website describes it as a “safe, friendly, furry place to spend May 2nd-4th, 2025,” distinguishing itself from Garden State if you read between the lines. Garden State was not mentioned by name by Furgeddaboutit staff, but it was clear what they were referring to when the con was brought up in conversation.

The con’s primary reason for starting up was to actively attract attendees and vendors from Garden State, and it worked. Garden State’s inaugural convention the year prior had 957 attendees. Their second year had only 348, less than half. By comparison, Furgeddaboutit had surpassed that in pre-registrations and check-ins by Friday morning, and 638 attendees by the end.

Several dozen sources were consulted for this story, including five who went to both conventions.

Experiences at Garden State: “Something’s not quite right here”

Attendees and vendors who went to Garden State on Friday or Saturday described empty halls, sparsely-attended raves, a barren atmosphere, and not much to do. Several jumped ship during the weekend to go to Furgeddaboutit instead, many unaware of the controversy surrounding Garden State until they learned at the convention itself.

“It was dead,” a Garden State attendee who later went to Furgeddabout it said. “There was barely anybody.” Another said that, on Friday, “the main lobby only had a couple of people.” “Opening ceremony probably had between 30 to 50 people,” a third Garden State attendee said.

One attendee told me there were about a half dozen fursuiters participating in the fursuit games (though the attendee still enjoyed it). A sticker panel had no panelists, according to another attendee, who also said that events were being canceled during the convention. The sticker board itself had a deceptively-inflated amount of stickers, including one sticker that had not been made for years by a furry who was in New York during the convention. A third attendee said that the bug photography panel had only 30 minutes worth of material, despite being scheduled for 90 minutes.

Con ops, the control center of the convention, was not set up by Friday evening, according to a pair of attendees who needed assistance from that department. (They were reached out to by Furgeddaboutit and offered a discount on their registration.)

Rose Pup Supreme, who went to Garden State Fur The Weekend in 2024, found out about the event from flyers at Anthro New England. “As I went into Garden State Fur The Weekend, I didn’t really know what I was stepping into. And my experiences at Garden State Fur The Weekend were sort of bad overall” because of the staff, and specific “problematic” attendees, who staff were associating with. “I was just sort of like, Oh something’s not quite right here.”

She described to me how she reported a negative interaction with another attendee to the staff, who took down an incident report, but two times when she followed-up after the convention, she did not get a response. It was “[un]deniably uncomfortable that they didn’t respond.” That soured her experience. She wanted to vet new conventions more thoroughly after that.

Others did have empathy for the staff who committed to working there. “I don’t want to knock any individual staff members,” an attendee of both told me. “The ones we interacted with were objectively doing their best.”

Some people noticed that there were a lot of children at Garden State. “This very well might be their weird hobby that they had to beg their parents to let them go to a convention for,” one of them said. “And they arrive and it’s a room of 30 adults” who are not in their age range. “Nothing’s going on” for them, they added. “Nothing’s going on.” Those kids appeared to have moved to Furgeddaboutit, as on Saturday and Sunday, there were many playing around outside.

A dismaying experience came from a new congoer at Garden State, who posted on Bluesky: “first con i go to its fyre fest”, a video of first-time fursuiting at a sparse dance captioned “a whole rave just for me!!” and the unpleasant surprise of looking up con pics afterwards, and discovering a person he played games with was the con owner going incognito because of “very publically caught being a nazi but still wanna profit…”

Attendees and vendors were actively attracted to alternatives, consumer choice favored Furgeddaboutit 

Vendors last year at Garden State said they had a good time then. Those who attended this year’s Garden State purchased booths on recommendation. Many found things were not as they expected.

At Garden State 2025, several vendors planned to or had already set up shop, but bailed and came to Furgeddaboutit. Vendors began packing up as soon as Friday afternoon, either to go home or to Furgeddaboutit. This continued throughout Saturday. Garden State had posted a dealer map of 27 vendors; but two vendors both estimated that they started out with 16, which dwindled to single-digits.

Twisted Tails Escape, a company who goes to furry conventions across the country to set up escape rooms, closed up shop Saturday morning “due to some unforseen [sic] circumstances and what appears to be some kind of stomach bug”.

Twisted Tails Escape heard criticism for going and said more to resolve it: “We were under the impression that GSFTW cut ties with Nazi furs and sympathizers. So we decided to give them the benefit of the doubt. We have not and never will associate ourselves with Nazi Furs. Additionally, due to recent information that has come to light regarding certain group members being seen on the premises at the convention, we made the decision to leave the convention early.”

Yvonne, a vendor, said she lost $475 on two booths at Garden State Fur The Weekend. (Eberra Wolf for Dogpatch Press.)

Furgeddaboutit had done a push back in February to invite vendors, much closer to the convention weekend than is typical for organizing vendors, due to Furgeddaboutit being set up on relatively short notice. Invitations continued during the event.

Some vendors who were at Garden State Friday told me that Furgeddaboutit offered them a free booth, effectively encouraging them to cut losses and migrate. “It sounds like they’ve been creative and made more room as people needed to come in,” one vendor said.

Vendors who switched conventions mid-weekend worried that they would not recoup the cost of attending Garden State. One vendor told me that they wouldn’t have broken even on the cost of their booth if they had stayed the whole weekend. Several vendors said they paid $242 for their tables. One said they stayed because of not wanting to lose $242, when Garden State was “being ridiculous when it comes to refunding dealers who have opted to cancel their spot. They will only issue refunds if they get another vendor to take their place.”

Of the vendors who backed out months in advance, only some got refunds, and only one directly from Garden State. Others were refunded by filing disputes with their bank, if Garden State refused. Yvonne, a vendor recovering from cancer treatment, said she paid $475 for a two-table booth, and was not refunded despite pulling out a month prior to the convention.

The vendors who switched mid-convention contrasted their experience with Furgeddaboutit, which they said was more lively. At Garden State, vendors played music to entertain themselves and entice customers. “Night and day,” an attendee of both conventions said. “Genuinely night and day.”

Charity for wildlife

Erin Rounds holds up a turtle while Jim Hansen talks about the animals. (Eberra Wolf for Dogpatch Press.)

Furg’s charity was Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge, based out of Medford, New Jersey. “In our wildlife hospital, we take in over 7,000 animals a year with the goal of [rehabilitating] and releasing them back into the wild,” said Ashley Krusen, who is the nature center and membership manager at Cedar Run. Cedar Run representatives go to schools, retirement homes, and festivals to do community outreach and education.

Cedar Run was “excited” to be invited to Furgeddaboutit. “Obviously we love animals,” Krusen said. On Saturday morning, director of education Erin Rounds and after-school coordinator Jim Hansen hosted a panel showing off animal parts and live animals. Rounds and Hansen brought two snakes and a turtle for attendees to look at. (The snakes were put in pillowcases so that they weren’t overstimulated during travel.) They also brought animal pelts and turtle shells for attendees to touch.

The wildlife refuge services pretty much all of New Jersey, and its outreach extends further north, out of state. “We’re the busiest wildlife refuge in all of South Jersey, and we can only service within New Jersey for wildlife rehabilitation services,” Krusen said.

The campus, in Medford, has a lake between its two buildings: the nature center and the hospital and rehabilitation center. The wildlife hospital and rehabilitation building can have almost 500 animals at a given time. There are also outdoor enclosures on the property. “We are primarily volunteer-based,” Krusen said. “We have almost 200 volunteers that help us out.”

Animals have stays for as short as two weeks; babies in the spring may be held for three months. Some animals brought to the hospital in the fall have to stay through the winter until conditions are suitable for their continued survival.

When releasing the animals back into native habitats, they’ll put the animal in a safe area near where the animal was found. Cedar Run doesn’t conduct follow-up work on the animals, though occasionally they will partner with the state to band birds.

Some animals are ‘habituated’ or ‘imprinted,’ animals that were raised by people before realizing that they’re wild, not pets. These are kept permanently because they’ll “never be able to live on their own in the wild,” Krusen says.

Lisa Franko (right) in front of a big pile of cash that attendees gave in the last-minute collection during closing ceremonies. (Eberra Wolf for Dogpatch Press.)

In all, $8,260 was raised for Cedar Run. Lisa Franko, director of development at the nonprofit, was on stage to represent it during closing ceremonies. She was ecstatic at the more than $1,000 donations that streamed in at the last minute from attendees cleaning out their wallets. Franko told the audience that by contrast, even at large fundraising events, Cedar Run only fundraises one or two thousand dollars.

An attendee plays with the fire billboard in the hotel hallway. Attendees could adjust where the needle pointed, from ‘low’ risk to ‘extreme’. (Eberra Wolf for Dogpatch Press.)

‘Controlled burn’

Furgeddaboutit’s theme was “Controlled burn,” and the convention’s mascot is an orange phoenix named Ashley. Nocturne designed Ashley, along with the logo and the badge. Ashley, like Nocturne, is non-binary. “It was a big move to make sort of a more fem mascot for a convention,” said Percey, another member of the art team. “A lot of the convention mascots always end up very masculine-presenting.”

Percey assisted Nocturne and drew the dealer’s den map. That drawing was quickly outdated as new vendors showed up, though some modifications were made onto the print, which was then auctioned off for charity.

Osiris Adustus created the fire danger risk billboard, which hung out in the event hallway outside the dealer’s den. Nocturne and Percey say it will likely be used again next year.

Keeping with that theme, early Monday morning the fire alarm at the DoubleTree went off around 1:39 AM. Two fire trucks came, and a Furgeddaboutit attendee was hastily packing up their luggage into their car from their first-floor room. According to the front desk, it was a guest who had tripped the smoke alarm. A fitting end to the convention.

– Eberra Wolf

Editor afterword

Dogpatch Press has been covering controversy about Garden State Fur The Weekend for over a year. The first report in 2024 said: “It’s not enough to dig out problems. You also have to fill in the hole.”

Furgeddaboutit is the fruit of such positive effort. These factors make it unprecedented:

• Openly eschewing a pre-established con that draws support and attendance from the same region. Usually, cons aren’t meant to compete, but Garden State was already under investigation for unusual behavior that the community wouldn’t support.
• Foundation by coalition with active but informal local groups. They cooperated to make an alternative to a formal event with first-start advantage, raising challenges for the plan to succeed. There were even multiple alternatives made.
• Very short timing to successfully carry out the plan. Healthy attendance made a base to grow without being defined by other events going forward.

There’s also the way that Garden State struggled for control with deception, false advertising, mass purging of critics, and duress on vendors to unsuccessfully stave off controversy and people’s free choices to leave. When Garden State couldn’t grab goodwill by force, they tried blaming narratives of outsider takeover. Furrydelphia is close and staffed by New Jersey furries — compare to how chronic staff turnover left Garden State reliant on core organizers from Florida. Aggression by the Garden State head of PR led a critic to say: “Thank goodness he doesn’t live here”.

For many furries in New Jersey, Furgeddaboutit stood for what the community wanted and had collective power to organize, especially when they felt misrepresented until they acted. From this spark, the con represented how to adapt and thrive against adversity, and make a beacon to others who feel the same.

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Looking for something new in the roguelite scene, my attention was caught by a handsome tiger warrior in the trailer for Yasha: Legends of the Demon Blade, an action RPG with roguelite elements by 7QUARK. Beyond that, the game oozed style and fast-paced action that begged to be experienced. Thankfully, that game has finally arrived on Steam. Yasha: Legends of the Demon Blade is full of character, captivating gameplay, and just as intriguing storytelling. If you’re a fan of Asian art styles and lore, this game will be a must-play for you.

The winners for the 2024 were presented at Furry Weekend Atlanta 2025 by Rowedahelicon, one of the newest members of the Anthropomorphic Literature and Arts Association (ALAA). This year’s recipients, as chosen by furry fans like you from around the world, included:

Best Anthropomorphic Music: Monarch of Monsters, by Vylet Pony

Best Anthropomorphic Web Site: FurAffinity.net

Best Anthropomorphic Game: Webfishing, developed and published by Lame Developer

Best Anthropomorphic Published Illustration: Adventurers and Explorers, by Royz

Best Anthropomorphic Magazine: Dogpatch Press, edited by Patch Packrat (We came in 3rd!)

Best Anthropomorphic Comic Strip: Foxes in Love, by Toivo Kaartinen

Best Anthropomorphic Graphic Story: Swords and Sausages, by Jan

Best Anthropomorphic Non-Fiction Work: Celebrating 85 Years of Conventions, by Con History

Best Anthropomorphic General Literary Work: Swords and Sausages — Volume 2, by Jan

Best Anthropomorphic Short Fiction: Monarch  of Monsters, by Vylet Pony

Best Anthropomorphic Novel: The Varcross Key, by Aeron Dusk

Best Anthropomorphic Dramatic Short Work: Bun Hunting — Overture, directed by Piti Yindee

Best Anthropomorphic Dramatic Series: Beastars — Season 3, directed by Shinichi Matsumi

Best Anthropomorphic Motion Picture: The Wild Robot

The ALAA congratulate all the winners, all the nominees, and all of you who took the time to nominate and vote! Makes sure to do so again in early 2026! Visit www.ursamajorawards.org to find out more about the awards.

image c. 2025 ALAA

TigerTails Radio Season 16 - Eurovision Song Contest Special Join the Discord Chat: https://discord.gg/SQ5QuRf Join the Telegram Chat: https://t.me/+yold2C77m0I1MmM0 Visit MattLovesEurovision online at: https://mattloveseurovision.com/ https://twitter.com/mattalexoz https://www.youtube.com/@mattloveseurovision3907 For a full preview of events and for previous episodes, please visit http://www.tigertailsradio.co.uk. See website for full breakdown of 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 16. 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.

Voting is closed for the Cóyotl Awards. The counting machine has been cleared of shed fur and we have tabulated the totals. Thanks to the Furry Film Burrow for hosting the announcement of winners this year–a venue that we may use for future awards announcements too!

The winners of the 2024 Cóyotl Awards are:

Winner for Best Novel
Far Flung – Utunu

Winner for Best Novella
You Look Lost, Pup – Rob MacWolf

Winner for Best Short Story
“Houses of Stone” – Utunu (in The Heavens Within Our Grasp)

Winner for Best Anthology
The Heavens Within Our Grasp – Furry Historical Fiction Society

Winner for Best Other Work
Voice of Dog – Rob MacWolf

Congratulations to the winners! A big thanks to everyone who worked to bring their work to publication this year. We as a fandom are so lucky to have writers, editors, publishers, and readers who are so generous with their time and talent. Truly, we couldn’t do this without you.

Sincerely, 

• The staff of the Furry Writers Guild

Note: It came to our attention after voting started that Kyell Gold’s novel Squeak Thief is over 70,000 words. While this word count qualifies it as a novel by the Cóyotl Awards, we chose not to change it while the process was ongoing. Our main concern was to not invalidate the votes already cast. Based on the votes, the change in category would not have changed the winner in either category. While this might seem like a minor issue, we felt that being transparent in this process was the right way to go. Thank you to everyone who nominated and voted.

TigerTails Radio Season 16 Episode 17. 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 made it no secret that while I love the first person genre, I’m always on the lookout for games outside of my comfort zone to check out, so when I stumbled across Clash: Artifacts Of Chaos, it did tick those boxes but I didn’t pay much attention to it at first. That is, until I saw that the developers, ACE Team, also made Zeno Clash; a game I really enjoyed and felt it deserved a bigger audience then it had. So, seeing them return with a new title in the same universe, I was excited and, outside of some shortcomings, I don’t think I will ever play any game that is quite like Clash: Artifacts Of Chaos and I mean that in the most positive way possible. 

Each year, the Furry Writers Guild members vote on the fandom's best works. They have partnered with Furry Film Burrow for the first time to upload a video of their very official awards ceremony. The Furry Writers Guild is a professional organization that helps Furry authors connect, coordinates with publishers and platforms in the fandom, and advocates for the development of the Furry literary scene. For more info on the the Cóyotl Awards, visit their website. https://furrywritersguild.com/the-coyotl-awards/ Merch, Sweet Tees and stuff: https://culturally-fd-merchandise.creator-spring.com/ Support Culturally F'd: https://www.patreon.com/culturallyfd Listen in on TEMPO TALKS with Tempe O'Kun https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIPk-itLl1jPyIK2c7mK-LpbvfDNqfcSW Check out Tempe O'Kun's books "Sixes Wild" and "Windfall" here: http://furplanet.com/shop/?affillink=YOUTU2907 Here's a playlist of his other Culturally F'd videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIPk-itLl1jPS7tnT4hdJwBI-CeLF8Kb_

Dear Furiends,

Since Papabear's mailbox has been sitting empty for nearly two months now, I thought I would write a short editorial.

Yesterday, I received a letter from a young person who is part of a company that specializes in creating AI furry images (adult and SFW). They asked me if I would promote their service on my website and, in exchange, they would place an ad for "Ask Papabear" on their site.

I will not provide a name of the writer or of the company or its website (because I do not wish to give them free advertising), but here is their letter:

​"Hello,
We are a small team offering an AI tool to make fursona for the furry community. We're looking for blogs to add a link to them in exchange for an article on AI or furry fandom content that we write ourselves. I came across your site, which looks pretty good! Would you be interested in a one-off article for your blog? In exchange, we'll add a link for our tool in this one."

My reply:

Dear XXXX,

It is my personal belief that AI technology should not be used to supplant the creativity of the furry arts. My position is that what makes us human is our ability to create music, art, literature, and other such endeavors as a way of connecting to other people, expressing our souls, sharing our hearts, and bringing beauty and thought to our universe. AI can be very useful in such things as statistics, medicine, computer modeling, and the like, but when it comes to art, it contradicts everything that art is about.

Computers cannot feel pain. They cannot experience joy or love or hate or irony. They cannot create originality. They can only mimic and steal what other artists have done.

As Hayao Miyazaki said, "Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is whatsoever. I am utterly disgusted… I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”

The joy I find in the furry fandom is not in creating some shortcut to making some furporn to paw off to or to deny a hard-working artist a chance to make a living because I had AI draw me my fursona. The joy of the fandom is in creativity and sharing our hearts and souls through writing, drawing, crafting, filmmaking, music, and the sartorial arts. Many young furs like yourself [the writer is 24]--enamored as always by the latest tech--try to portray AI as "just a tool." No, this is not a paintbrush or even Photoshop software. AI learns how to paint (poorly, rigidly) by stealing from artists and learning from their works.

The furry fandom was founded in the late 1970s as a celebration of the creativity in anthropomorphic arts. Your furry AI generator is an abomination and an insult to the fandom, and I will not be a part of it or help you promote it in any way.

Sincerely,
Grubbs Grizzly

“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” 
– Stephen Hawking

“The misuse of AI could turn out to be the biggest risk we have ever faced.”
– Max Tegmark

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Bearly, Taebyn, Rayne, TickTock and Cheetaro are here. We have a full episode that you won’t want to miss. Taebyn zens out with some TheraPet affirmations, he graces us with some information about prime numbers, finally recaps Vancoufur for us, and reads the first part of a story.  Cheetaro reviews another wonderful movie, and TickTock fills us in on all the latest news. We tell you all about upcoming furry cons, and generally have a great time! So tune in for another confusing episode of BFFT. Moobarkfluff everyfur!

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