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Full series out July 17. The first 12 minutes of the first episode:

The Furry Detectives docuseries — The story they don’t want told, emerging against 7 years of backlash and interference.

Coming on AMC+: this 4-episode series introduces furries who investigated the 2018 zoosadist leaks. (More summary of the leaks.)

The leaks exposed evidence of deep-rooted, ongoing animal abuse networks in the community. They use furry as a cover, for organizing that isn’t easily dismissed with “anyone can be a furry, we can’t gatekeep it” disclaimers. Half of the truth is that abuse happens in any community — and internet tech and platforms are big factors not fully in our power — but the whole truth is that this behavior is uniquely among us in real-life organized ways seen nowhere else. It’s nobody else’s problem when our groups are run by and for us.

Making our own destiny is how fandom works at its best. However before the show releases, it’s catching some backlash for airing problems that the community didn’t properly deal with for 7 years. It’s like some people want things brushed under the rug so ignoring it can make it worse. That behavior was always holding back investigation over 7 years while publishing tens of thousands of words of reporting at Dogpatch Press.

There was a lot of generous team work as well, but some of the most counterproductive behavior was not just from incuriosity and denialism, putting optics over solutions, or random bad actors… Most alarmingly, there’s also corruption from influence at the top.

Bad leadership and suppression

Not everyone gives permission to abusers, and a lot of the extent was hidden before, but some complicit members did and still do. This community has a faction of long-time members, who tacitly or even openly treat zoophilia as a harmless sexual identity, instead of a vector for abuse where there is no safe place for it. This situation existed since the 1990’s, before furry was in mainstream media at all.

Some names are named at bottom. Example: the fandom’s longest sitting con chair since the 1990’s is a zoophile sympathizer who repeats their talking points, lies about it, drives attacks at people who dare criticize it, and has done it as a group co-runner with a zoosadist from the leaks.

Sympathizers with influence may use it insidiously in private channels. That’s hidden from the superficial level of social media, that can distort any info you learn about anything. This behavior from closed crony spaces is the shadow side of online bewares, that often get dismissed in those same spaces. Even organizers with good intentions want to dismiss these stories for being hard to handle. Ignorance is exploitable: some of the worst abusers use trust and privilege to access victims and protect what they do, and get dark social credit over others that keeps them from talking. The result is underreporting and only superficial public awareness, even when a few high profile individuals get notice (like Kero the Wolf, who is investigated in the docuseries.)

Backlash started before a word was reported here, from the day the leaks tagged the site without warning in 2018. Later in the show, you can see how Dogpatch Press was a target of suspicious, coordinated and pre-emptive messages to throw off looking at the leaks. There was also furry con organizer pressure to cover up, discredit reporting, or gain silence with threats. It didn’t succeed. Dogpatch Press stands by reporting all the way to winning lawsuits, and will face down threats all the way to exposing what they hide on TV.

Secret work and the tip of an iceberg

The backlash, and untrustworthiness of groups with guilty people inside, forced an initial year of investigation by Dogpatch Press to happen in secret. A 5-part series published by surprise in 2019 on the 1-year anniversary of the leaks. This reporting reached the producers of The Furry Detectives and made the show happen. Nothing was pitched to them to get deals, they were brought here by pro-bono public service reporting.

As a rule, documentary doesn’t pay sources for interviews.

Secret investigation, done for free, is very time consuming and thankless. A lot of it in 2018-2019 went into an exhaustively researched evidence channel with multi-source analysis of chat logs, like no other investigation did.

The Furry Detectives is coming out against the same old interference. People with influence want to keep the lid on. They often do it with rhetoric against “cancel culture”, even while they know what they’re hiding. Many zoosadists outed 7 years ago got away, and are still here under new names that only their friends know.

This story isn’t old or fully told. You can see the tip of an iceberg by number of arrests vs. number of ring members in the leaks who had no consequences. The total of people in abuse networks may be a small fraction of the community, but proportion doesn’t measure influence and impact on victims while they persist.

Propaganda and chaos holding back solutions

Zoosadists are here now, and aided by organized zoophile groups on the level of thousands of members. They feel safe to use furry as cover with podcasts and magazines for propaganda. They tend to claim “trust me, we’re against abuse” while using deceptive hairsplitting to re-define abuse as some animals can consent, and coercing our victims isn’t real abuse. They only belatedly throw token “real abusers” under the bus to shed liability, after making opportunity and access for them. Now think, do you see pedophiles organizing on this level? Changing this isn’t asking for a lot.

Private tips to this site say that some furry organizers who covered for zoophiles are finally catching heat for it now, 7 years late. It’s catching up to people who hid things, like uncovering church or school abusers who got moved around to keep their influence. They’re worried about what’s going to be in this show, after they made it everyone’s problem and are desperate to point fingers elsewhere about what they let go for so long.

On top of that, there has been long time interference from the Kiwifarms website. It complicates investigation by spoiling evidence and adding outside backlash to the kind inside. Kiwifarms was created for smear tactics, not justice. Boiled down to simple structure, such websites can shield anonymous whistleblowing when furry and corporate sites don’t, but the upside of identifying zoosadists is a side effect, and often driven by bigotry towards LGBT people who did nothing wrong. The result is lack of rigor and vision from many directions, that holds back organized solutions about organized abuse.

Cutting through the noise

The show producers came to this mess, read reporting against interference, picked committed sources to work with, and applied good intentioned and well resourced production. They got sensitivity advice from furries over several years of making it, all before the most recent election.

Positive image is actively created, not selected from only the parts you want told. If we forget the root of a problem and only worry about how it looks, it will never go away. Either this gets told, or it gets brushed under and guilty people continue using your spaces. Then it gets worse, and next time, outsiders will tell the story for you with even less agency in how you are seen.

When the show trailer released, notice how optics-based suppression was some people’s priority before even seeing much of anything. Now the more notice it’s getting, the more comments there are about “actually it looks good”.

From seeing the theater premiere at the Tribeca Festival in New York on June 10, it is good and there’s nothing to regret. The question is, can it do enough? It does what a TV show is for and tells a watchable story with a beginning and end, but it’s really just a start. Let’s see what happens for Season 2.

Sources for informed viewing

• Soatok’s blog – Furries Need To Learn That Sunlight Is The Best Disinfectant
• Coverup from con staff in 2018 – Investigation blocked: Safety concerns meet a wall of silence at furry conventions.
• A con chair’s grievance – “Banning known actual zoophiles was a step too far for some members of exec and the board and people threatened to walk out.”
• Naming names at the top – Cheetah, the chair of Eurofurence, the fandom’s longest sitting con chair since the 1990’s, has been a zoophile apologist for decades, who lies about it and uses influence to backlash. (Scroll down half way to Corruption.)
• Naming names of influence – Furry party house runner Quentin “Coyote” Mohos, a zeta-tattoo zoophile, approached Dogpatch Press to try manipulating reporting with pro-zoophile propaganda.
• Abusive organizer was reported for years – Bad leadership surrounds sex crime case with Party Animals West (PAW) owner in San Francisco
• Analysis of online community – How to love the freedom of leaderless fandom, and fight the flipside of organized abuse
• How to identify and handle bad actors – Community Organizing Notes

Even more info behind the scenes

There was no pitching or pay for being a documentary interview subject, after 7 years of hard reporting work. Extra, personal non-news stories (such as a trip report and a show review) may post here: https://www.patreon.com/c/dogpatchpress

Like the article? These take hard work. For more free furry news, follow on Twitter or support not-for-profit Dogpatch Press on Patreon. Want to get involved? Try these subreddits: r/furrydiscuss for news or r/waginheaven for the best of the community. Or send guest writing here. (Content Policy.)

TigerTails Radio Season 16 Episode 24 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’d like to know if there are any fursuit makers you know who are below the price range of $500. If not, would you happen to know any good fursuit makers? I’m really excited to commission my suit, but I can’t find a good suit maker!

Bitey the Shark Dog (age 19)

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Dear Bitey,

As the saying goes (a little modified), "Do you want it good, or do you want it cheap?" Papabear can find you cheap fursuits online for under $500, but they are crap (go to Etsy, find some BS company in Asia, and get something that looks like a Halloween costume from Walmart). I can also find you a good fursuit maker, but you will easily spend $3,000 or more (and, these days, more like $4,000 to $5,000 on average) to get good quality.

You can't have both.

However, there are alternatives:

1. The most ambitious would be learning to sew and craft one for yourself; then you're paying just for time and materials. There are many YouTube videos that offer free lessons for making suits. I'm guessing you don't want to learn to sew and learn other building skills (although there is so much help these days, including head bases, premade parts and patterns, etc. Rather than doing everything from scratch, you can go a route these days that is almost like assembling a Mr. Potato Head).
2. If you are not overly concerned about having a fursuit that expresses your personal fursona, you can get a used one on a site like The Dealers Den or check out social media groups for fursuiters.
3. If you still want a personalized suit, go with a partial, starting with the head. If you shop around, you might be able to find a maker who will construct a personalized head based on your fursona for under $500 but take your time looking. Don't leap at the first maker who says they will make you a head for $250 without checking their work first. And ask your friends and furry acquaintances if they know of good makers who can do this for a more modest price. The head is usually the toughest part of the suit to make (unless you're making something really complex like a quadsuit or a suit with, say, animatronic wing movement), so start with that. Then, work to save up money to buy additional parts, starting with the forepaws, tail, and hindpaws. Also, instead of getting a fullsuit torso, you can invest in a lycra suit or get costume clothes appropriate to your character and just wear those with your head and paws.

Good luck with the fursuit! And, if you feel like it, give me an update later and let me know how it went!

Bear Hugs,
Papabear

Hoo boy: The things we forgot to ask for for Christmas! Petpool: Pool Party is a very strange one-shot that Marvel Comics brought us last holiday season. “How many PetPools does it take to collect a comic? Find out in this oversized, fan-favorite, once-in-a-lifetime, Tony Award-winning, DOGgone, CATastrophic, MOUSE… somethingorother comic book, collecting EVERY SINGLE INSTALLMENT EVER of the Dogpool, Catpool, Mousepool and Dogpool Team-Up infinity comics. What’s that? You want more?! Well, it’s your lucky day, because we’ve also thrown in a brand-new, never-before-seen PetPool holiday instant classic that we created just for this printing. Why? Because you $@&%ing deserve it.” Why, thank you. This strangeness comes to us from the mind of writer MacKenzie Cadenhead (Marvel Mutts) and artist Enid Balam. And, it’s still on the loose.

image c. 2025 Marvel Comics

Every so often, a game comes along that grabs my attention to where I can’t stop thinking about it. It’s not often but it does happen and today’s game is one such game. Not just for how many times I called it BAD Bunny Nemesis (don’t ask me why I did) and not Bunny Battle Nemesis, but for some fun, if basic, gameplay and a neat artstyle that I instantly fell in love with.

Happening now: Anthrocon and Room Party show at Bunker Projects, 5106 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh

Anthrocon has competitors for the world’s biggest furry convention, but is unsurpassed in other ways. Their street parade is a wonder of the furry world, uniquely partnered with Pittsburgh and swarmed by cheering residents on a blocked off city street.

Fursuiters make public image by flaunting millions in art at such events, but it’s also about the artists. They’re enjoying how Pittsburgh welcomes furries like nowhere else, with their own art show at a gallery apart from the con.

SEE ROOM PARTY: http://room-party.com. The show has a 6-week run with film screenings, workshops, and informal art-making gatherings. Curators include Brett Hanover (previously in furry news with his movie Rukus.) Brett sent info:

Room Party is the first-ever large-scale group exhibition of contemporary and experimental furry art, featuring over 50 artists working in drawing and painting, comics, photography, installation, video, and new media. Curated by furry artists Lane Lincecum, Brett Hanover, Cass Dickenson, and Paul Peng, Room Party takes its name from the unofficial hotel room parties held during conventions—embodied virtual realities where furries try on unimagined identities, invent new sexualities and artistic expressions, and discover alternative ways of being known. Room Party brings the love and creativity of these events to Pittsburgh’s Bunker Projects, putting furry artists in conversation with the fine art world, the broader queer community, and the contemporary moment.

Mainstream media is cranking out Anthrocon headlines. You can find those on nonfurry channels, but they probably won’t show you all the unique meetings with characters on the scene, like the time Patch O’Furr met a drag queen film maker on a Pittsburgh street corner who was looking for a furry boyfriend.

Furries are on NPR, no matter what the White House wants: new Close All Tabs podcast

Close All Tabs goes “inside the world of furry funerals” for their podcast about internet culture, on KQED, the San Francisco Bay Area’s NPR channel. Host Morgan Sung interviewed Changa Husky and Patch O’Furr about how furries memorialize members who have passed: How the Furry Fandom Says Goodbye.

The show was originally going to feature a certain furry project, until they learned it was corrupt from evidence at Dogpatch Press. Setting it aside and reading the site led them to 2024’s Your fursona has an afterlife: Online community has unique ways to memorialize. That became the new show – proof that hiding bad things doesn’t make good things, and reporting everything can do more good.

Furries are on the Republicans list of “woke” things to attack. A 2025 White House press release put a furry story on a list of media from NPR and PBS as a reason to strip their funding. Hiding from hate won’t stop it; putting this on NPR looks like being an ally to defy bad government.

we did it guys we got furries on the npr app

one.npr.org/i/fis-126707…

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— morgan sung is on Close All Tabs (@morgansung.bsky.social) July 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM

Public image and The Furry Detectives docuseries trailer from AMC+ 

The Furry Detectives 4-episode true crime docuseries goes public on July 17. Since it was announced in April, Dogpatch Press attended the June theater premiere in New York and saw the show. (Review: all furry viewers agreed it was great and handled a loaded story with skill.)

The show features community members who report abusers, and the exposure of an abuse ring in 2018. The story is current because in 2025, most of the same abusers are still active without consequences. It’s the tip of an iceberg; there are corrupt people involved who hold community influence today, who held it in the 1990’s before the media said anything. This timeline shows the futility of blaming the media for causing bad image, when exposure is how to get to the root of it.

• Soatok’s blog: Furries Need To Learn That Sunlight Is The Best Disinfectant

Being part of society includes the full spectrum of human behavior, and showing it all doesn’t remove the good parts. Remember, The Fandom is a very positive documentary that just turned 5 years old.

NEW VIDEO IS OUT!

The “furry detectives” series on Kero the Wolf and the whole story might not be exactly a bad thing. In fact, I understand it could be a sort of “justice” and a side B to a whole untold story; the one from the heroes who unmasked the nightmare.

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— Zyly! BFF (@zylythefox.bsky.social) June 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM

More politics and crime news, for a good reason

One complication of putting sunlight on problems is when right-wing bad actors scapegoat furries to throw shade on them for political gain. It’s like two ships passing in the night: REAL problems need attention within, while FAKE ones are invented without.

Furries are on the “woke” attack list of some Republicans in Colorado, who sued a journalist and news outlet for reporting about those attacks. Good news: a Colorado court just dismissed the Republican’s libel lawsuit.

• Colorado’s appeals court dismisses defamation lawsuit over article about ‘furries’ discussion

Here’s a big story that such interference does nothing to help, but never the less is getting progress.

In 2020, an extreme abuser emerged out of furry fandom to target its members. Krystal Scott tortured and killed animals on video to shock them, earning the label “Omegle Cat Killer”, until she was caught and convicted in Indiana. Scott was in federal prison for a few years, then released. Rehabilitation failed and in June 2025, Scott was caught doing the same crimes again.

• Original 2021 story (Updated) The Omegle Cat Killer: A true crime tale of stopping online animal abuse
• June 2025: Woman on federal probation for ‘animal crushing’ found with dogs, cats in Fountain Square
• July 3: Gruesome details of what she was doing.
• July 4: New Animal Cruelty Charges for Woman with Violent History

As long ago as 2019, furry Bewares had first raised alarm about Scott, a year before she got wider notice. She was doing serious crimes that the police didn’t take seriously at first. After Scott went back to the same behavior in 2025, an alert citizen made incredible effort to get her caught and save a lot of animals. The value of reporting it is to help stop the next such incident with the power of community.

Like the article? These take hard work. For more free furry news, follow on Twitter or support not-for-profit Dogpatch Press on Patreon. Want to get involved? Try these subreddits: r/furrydiscuss for news or r/waginheaven for the best of the community. Or send guest writing here. (Content Policy.)

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Welcome to Season 6 of BFFT.  This is a another long episode chock full of fun, excitement and so many puns.  We are joined by Sp00kee, a fur with a very interesting job.  WE spend time talking with Sp00kee about their employment and all the fun they have. Cheetaro gives us a movie review and TickTock reports on some furry news. Taebyn tells us about the most uncommon number, we plug our other shows, and generally have a really fun visit. So tune in for another confusing episode of BFFT. Moobarkfluff everyfur!

Links: 

For the Furry map - https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/furry-con-map_1203329#3/16.72/21.45

For the most uncommon number - https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-uncommon-number-between-1-and-100

This podcast contains adult language and adult topics. It is rated M for Mature. Listener discretion is advised.

Support the show

Thanks to all our listeners and to our staff: Bearly Normal, Rayne Raccoon, Taebyn, Cheetaro, TickTock, and Ziggy the Meme Weasel.

You can send us a message on Telegram at BFFT Chat, or via email at: bearlyfurcasting@gmail.com

Bearly Furcasting S6E1 - A Tired Bear Walks In

Sooner even than we’d hoped, Tales from the Guild: Blood and Water is available from Fenris Publishing! The anthology is available in paperback, ebook, or a bundle of both!

The new guidelines for guild membership are now in place, reflecting the recent guild vote. We decided to keep things simple, and changed “novel, short story, or poetry” to “fiction.” All other requirements remain the same.

It’s hard to believe we’re more than halfway through the year (and halfway through the decade). Pretty soon it’ll be time to look ahead to Furry Book Month in October, but until then those of us in the northern hemisphere can enjoy the lazy days of summer, relaxing in the sun and considering plot twists and character interactions. Or, of course, we can do the same inside in the air conditioning. Those writers in the southern hemisphere can sip cocoa and outline the next furry masterpiece.

Here are the current open markets for your short stories:
Digital Villainy Summit Con Book – Deadline July 9, 2025
The Second Hayven Celestia Anthology – Deadline July 15, 2025
Monsterf*ck – Deadline July 15, 2025
Furvana 2025 Conbook – Deadline July 21st, 2025
Indecent Exposure – Deadline December 22, 2025
This Is Halloween – Deadline When Full
Children Of The Night – Deadline When Full

Please also check out the latest book releases from our members:
My Remise, by Koda Copeland, Released March 25, 2025
Tales of Scales, by Michael Miele, Released April 2, 2025.
Wind Singer: An Imbrium Novella, by Frances Pauli, Released April 19, 2025
Meeting Dominique, by Royce Day, Released May 1, 2025.
Dragon’s Soul, by J.F.R. Coates, Released June 7, 2025.

Happy writing!

Kate Shaw

I need to make a confession: I have never played an Atlus game before. I’ve certainly heard of them and am familiar with their reputation. It’s hard to exist in the video game space without the name Persona 5 coming up at least once. Metaphor ReFantazio, one of their most recent projects, released less than a year ago to critical acclaim. Garnering numerous accolades and being praised for its story and well designed characters. Even the most successful companies start somewhere though, and it’s interesting to take a look back at that history. Either out of curiosity due to the recent hits, or because a remaster of a lesser known title makes its way into the spotlight. Enter Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army.

Godzilla: Monster Island Summer Camp. Now isn’t that a title that’s gonna catch your eye? Okay, true, it slipped by us, but we’re glad to let you know about now while it’s still available. “As an aspiring cartoonist, Zelda has always dreamed of attending an art summer camp, and this year she finally gets to go! But when she arrives to Make It Summer Camp, she’s horrified to see the easels and sketchboards have been replaced with dodgeball and calisthenics. The camp is under new, suspicious management that’s turned it into an extreme sports nightmare. Determined to salvage her summer, Zelda escapes to a secluded corner of the island. Here she can finally draw in peace. At least until she stumbles into a portal to a fantastic world: Welcome to Monster Island, Zelda! There she makes a connection with baby kaiju Minilla and discovers the beauty of these legendary creatures. However, all is not well on Monster Island. Great evils are stirring and if Zelda can’t protect their home, the kaiju will unleash their wrath on the world.” This graphic novel (available in hardcover and softcover) is written by Rosie Knight, with illustration by Oliver Ono.

image c. 2025 IDW Publishing

[Papabear note: Over the course of the last week, I have received mail protesting a nominee for the Good Furry Awards. Below is my response.]

[From a person who describes themself as a "greymuzzle investigator"]:

I would like to speak as a person who has observed the behavior of Sotalo. With evidence from Dogpatch Press (Screenshots of Sotalo's penchant for drama), I've also personally experienced him. He's a hostile person who tries to destabilize anyone who disagrees with him or exposes his behaviors. He's childish and attacks people quickly. I discovered him through my own connections, a furry I've been tracking for years who is a well-known pedophile. By proxy, said furry (Tuskyn) had come in contact with people that Sotalo has been in contact with, and features in his museum if I recall (I have not personally visited it). Sotalo has gone on record multiple times saying he wishes the age of consent was lower than 18.

Furthermore, I have to ask... Why do you allow people to nominate themselves in such a way for such rewards? This just reeks of self ego inflating. That should disqualify, these awards should be nominations by their communities, by those they've touched, not themselves. I saw where his draft of his self nomination was.

His museum is not unique. It also does not cover 'the fandom', but people -he- personally finds interesting or 'worthy of being historical'. This includes many people who have a foot fetish who perk his interest, as well as those who are associated with the Furry Raiders or other pedophile furries.

In recent drama, Sotalo was part of a PR representation of a convention that wasn't even in his own state, and he frequently got verbally violent with anyone who questioned him. The PR was brought because the convention welcomed the Furry Raiders, well known Nazi furs (complete with red armbands) who allow pedophiles into their groups (This is part of ANOTHER Tuskyn connection, since he is part of the raiders now as well.) He claimed Dogpatch Press was spreading misinformation by linking literal screenshots of Sotalo's own messages in an open group. He claimed that the convention failed because of him, and not the fact that they welcomed the Furry Raiders, a group that the fandom has long sense rejected for their hate, as well as one of them that brought Fox News into the convention the year prior against con-goers' consent being welcomed back. He was forced to defend the convention's image, and defend literal nazis by doing so. I do not use the term 'nazi' as an insult or lightly.

This man still attacks dogpatch, as well as anyone who dares speak up against him or offer a means of him to act more mature. He also attacks anyone who questions his comments on wanting to marry/have sex with teenagers under 18.

You will have a lot of people losing faith in your awards you select this man.

And I will say once more... Why do you allow people to nominate themselves? It feels like it is done in bad faith.

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Dear X:

​First of all, Sotalo did not nominate himself. I personally know the furry who nominated them. Sotalo did not know he was nominated until I told him. (Also, I never "allow" people to nominate themselves; it specifically says in the rules you cannot do that.)

Another accusation I got from someone else was that the nomination was written by AI. It was not. If the grammar looks too good, it is because I clean up the text. I'm a professional editor.

Thirdly, I have investigated the claims I have heard. I have also spoken with people I respect (including Rod O'Riley) who have defended Sotalo. I also know that the late great Mark Merlino believed that the museum was well done and just needed some additions.

I have also spoken with Sotalo at length. I am satisfied by our long discussions that he in no way supports the FR or Nazis. How do I know? Because if you support the FR, you don't say, "Why would anyone support Nazis?"

By the way, it is highly interesting to me that you yourself say you have not visited the VR Furry Museum, yet you are disparaging the contents of a museum you haven't even seen. Also, you assign guilt to Sotalo for apparently coming into contact with people who have come into contact with Tuskyn. By such logic, I'm guilty too, because I probably know someone in the fandom who knows someone who knows someone who knows Tuskyn.

Also, you might not be aware, but the age of consent in 15 states in the USA is under 18. Many people feel it should be 16. So, if it is indeed Sotalo's position that the age of consent should be, say, 16, he is not alone and that doesn't make him a pedophile.
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What we have here in Sotalo is someone who is not adept at social situations. As Rod explained to me, Sotalo can has been known to behave in inappropriate and even aggressive ways that turn people off. But he is not a Nazi lover. I believe he is on the spectrum. People on the spectrum can have outbursts and be difficult to deal with (I have a grandson who is, so I know from personal experience.) People on the spectrum can also react frightfully bad to OTHER people on the spectrum for perceived bad behavior.

For the last several years, I have also observed furries having knee-jerk reactions to what they believe to be a person associating with bad actors (either fascist or communist) and then proceeding to try and trash their reputations out of some ill-conceived, egotistical belief that it is their job to gatekeep the fandom. It is not. This is the same attitude that has made our society malignant with the likes of the Tea Baggers, MAGAts, and TERFs.

You and others who have threatened to trash the reputation of the Good Furry Awards are behaving like gatekeepers. (Yes, you did. It was an implied threat.) The nominees are chosen by people in the fandom, not me. If you don't like the museum or have a personal beef with Sotalo, then don't vote for him. If nobody but one or two furries likes Sotalo, then that certainly means he will not win an award.

I sincerely doubt you actually care about the reputation of the GFAs (or the fandom in general). I believe you and others are trying to weaponise the awards to alienate and disenfranchise people you personally do not like.

I fully suspect that leaving Sotalo's nomination up will result in his haters launching a campaign against the GFAs. That's okay. I've dealt with behavior like this before in the fandom, and I am sure I will again. I've seen other people who are my friends get trashed too. Oh, and someone threatened to dox me once! LOL that is not a threat. Literally everyone knows I am a sexually open gay furry bear. They know my address, phone number, email etc. etc., too.

It might profit you to spend a little less time hating others and a little more time trying to find the good in your fellow furries.

Blessed Be,
Grubbs Grizzly, Admin, the GFAs

P.S. Just for the record: Of course, if someone has a criminal record or other documented illegal activity, they will not be given a space in these awards. 

TigerTails Radio Season 16 Episode 23 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.

Twenty years ago writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely knocked it outta the park (again) with a limited comic book series called WE3: “Deep inside a top-secret U.S. Air Force research facility, a revolution in cybernetics is taking shape. Using ordinary domestic animals for their test subjects, the scientists of Project AWE have created a new class of cyborgs — flesh-and-metal creatures designed to rule the battlefields of tomorrow. The project’s crowning achievement is a trio of prototypes code-named WE3 — each one custom-built and trained to work as specialists within a team. With their nervous systems enhanced and supplemented by cutting-edge military hardware, WE3 are the ultimate smart weapons — programmable yet autonomous, loyal yet utterly ruthless. But successful as they are, WE3 are still only prototypes, to be dismantled when their testing is complete. Inside their fearsome mechanical shells, however, are three lost pets whose amplified traits include the will to survive— an instinct which proves to be even stronger than their makers knew. Faced with destruction, WE3 runs —out into a frightening and confusing world, where they are now as much of a threat as those who hunt them. Relentlessly pursued, WE3 fights with the combined firepower of a battalion — and a faint, warm memory of somewhere called Home.” Now, two decades later, DC Comics brings us WE3: The 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, including the original graphic novel compilation plus some extensive behind-the-scenes material. It also features a new forward by director James Gunn — who has admitted that aspects of Batch 89 from Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 were directly inspired by this comic.

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Ready for a kooky one? Ruffy and the Riverside is one of the quirkiest games I’ve played in quite a while, and though it took me a bit to warm up to it, once I started to get comfortable in the world, I found myself really appreciating the vision the developers set out to bring to life. Ruffy is an adventurous open world puzzle extravaganza with a kaleidoscope of retro and hand drawn graphical treats to enjoy whilst figuring out its wealth of brain teasing tests sprinkled judiciously around the town of Riverside and its many outlying regions. It’s weird, it’s wildly inventive, and it’s worthy of your time!

Before this gets away from us! Two comic book power-houses, Disney and Marvel, combined last year for a very special one-shot: Uncle Scrooge and the Infinity Dime, written by Jason Aaron and featuring some of the most talented artists in Italy. “One of the greatest characters in the history of comics leaps into his most epic adventure yet, in the manner only Marvel can deliver! When Uncle Scrooge’s fabled money bin gets stolen by a shocking culprit, the world’s toughest duck must undertake a quest unlike any other, alongside a surprising array of allies: Other versions of himself!” Hurry! It’s still available at comic book stores.

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Roguelikes are meant to be tough. The best ones are designed in a way that the gameplay loop encourages you to learn as you fail. That is, until your learning becomes so good that you succeed. Then maybe they’ll add on an additional challenge, or another stepping stone. Some even reward you as you progress, making it easier to succeed, eventually. Not all of them do though, and that’s not inherently a fault. Sometimes it’s rewarding to try, try, and try again…as long as things feel fair in the end. Unfortunately, as much as I loved the preview demo I played of Shuffle Tactics, the full experience of the newly released game ratchets up the difficulty with unforgiving randomness when it comes to succeeding in this roguelike genre it firmly sits within.

Kiseff has made an amazing adventure with fast action, impactful class fantasy, relentless enemies, a strong emphasis on defense and positioning, a healthy amount of customization options, and the ability to host a small server of friends! Atlyss races come in 5 forms, mischievous imps, rabbit/fox like poons, the cheng rodents, corvid like byrdles, the scaley goobers the kobolds. You can play with face characteristics, tails, species-defining characteristics like ears or beaks, body size (we all know about this), color, and body patterns. It’s satisfying playing with these tools, making your character. You’re a reincarnated creature, summoned by the Guardian, Angela, to prevent the world from succumbing to corrupt energies. You get acquainted with the hub, accept your starting quest, and begin a deceptively simple task of killing slimes. 

TigerTails Radio Season 16 Episode 22 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.

Check this out before it goes away! Based on  a popular video game, DC Comics’ Multiversus: Collision Detected is a new series that combines famous superheroes with famous cartoon stars in a multi-universal mash-up. “Bruce Wayne, Diana Prince, and Clark Kent each wake in a cold sweat, troubled by strange dreams they’ve had about ‘the rabbit’, ‘the star child’, and ‘the witch’. Their investigation into these enigmatic visions brings them to unexpected locales and unusual characters, but none more unusual than the mysterious ‘rabbit’ from their dreams as they find themselves face-to-face with the one and only Bugs Bunny. What the heck is going on here? And who in the name of the Multiverse are ‘the star child’ and ‘the witch’?” The cover might just give you a clue. Issues are on the shelves right now, written by Bryan Q. Miller and illustrated by Jon Sommariva.

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After they gave us Marvel Meow, the folks at Marvel Comics decided to even the score with Marvel Mutts, a new limited series. “Join the Marvel Mutts in their very first comic book adventure! Collecting issues #1-12 of the Friday Funnies series, these heartwarming tales – and wagging tails – are sure to elicit a round of a-paws. Featuring Lockjaw, Lucky, Cosmo, Bats and Ms. Marvel’s dearest doggie, Mittens, this pack is packing the cute.” Hmm, we should find out more about the Friday Funnies. Anyway, this new comic is written by Mackenzie Cadenhead and illustrated by Takeshi Miyazawa. Check it out for yourself.

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