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It’s that time again fellow trainers! A new Pokémon Presents premiered on July 22nd. While on the shorter side, it did showcase a few cool projects in the works and even revealed bits of new info for upcoming games. Let’s take a look at some highlights!

In 2019 The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy garnered numerous awards and nominations as an illustrated book — and it did so again in 2022 when it was made into a 2D animated short film. Now the author is bringing us a sequel — with the rather long title of Always Remember: The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, The Horse, and The Storm. “Charlie Mackesy’s four unlikely friends are wandering through the wilds again. They’re not sure what they are looking for. They do know that life can be difficult, but that they love each other, and cake is often the answer. When the dark clouds come, can the boy remember what he needs to get through the storm?” This new hardcover is due in October.

image c. 2025 Penguin Publishing Group

MoonSpice Games, the creators of the upcoming collectathon Dillo’s Dilemma, featuring an innovative and inventive armadillo, gave us the opportunity to ask some questions about the new game to their Project Lead, Zakhar Sheyko, and their team. We “rolled” our way through the areas presented in the demo, enjoying Dillo’s fun game design and creative puzzle solving challenges, and are excited to learn more about what went into designing this indie adventure!

Back in my high school years, me and my friends, whenever we were on the computers, always played whatever game we found on Shockwave or that someone had downloaded and passed around to us, with the biggest being the original Halo: Combat Evolved. But, one we sank the most hours in was a small title called Pocket Tanks, where the objective was to get more points by hitting the opponents tank with whatever weapon you have, be it explosives or other wild weaponry. Why do I bring up Pocket Tanks? Well, at the time, I had no idea it was inspired by an older game called Scorched Earth, which in turn inspired another game and the subject of today’s review: Worms, in particular Worms Armageddon: Anniversary Edition and, I’m not going to lie, if you were a fan of the original, then this game’s for you. But for newcomers, not so much.

TigerTails Radio Season 16 Episode 26 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.

[And now a special guest column by none other than the Ask Papabear guy himself, Grubbs Grizzly.] Mom’s Cat is an intense, yet quiet, short film by Hungarian writer/director Annabella Schnabel, who produced it for her diploma project at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest. It has already garnered several awards, including the Grand Jury Prize at the 29th Chicago Underground Film Festival, First Prize at the 19th Pannonfíling Film Festival, Best Short Film at the 8th Nefiltravane Kino Film Festival, and Best Young Director at the 13th Short to the Point International Film Festival. I had the opportunity to watch this 18-minute film, and I can say the plaudits are deserved. What impressed me most about this film is how Schnabel packs so much emotion into just a few minutes and with minimal dialog. Every word uttered, every movement the actors make bears weight. Without giving anything away, the story is basically this: 30-something Felix (Attila Fritz) lives in squalid conditions with his mother, who barely tolerates her son and clearly despises him for not being “normal.” One day, Felix gets exciting news that a company wants to hire him to be a kind of mascot-for-hire, which means he can get paid and wear his fursuit! Felix is immensely proud of his fursuit, which he made himself. So, off he goes to his new job, where he meets coworkers who seem shy but admire his fursuit, which is a kind of winged cat. What follows are some ups and downs in his job that adeptly capture the sensitivities of the kind and sweet Felix, who only wants to be happy, and a mother and society that despise him for being abnormal. The conclusion is tragic, sad, disturbing, and oddly sweet. If I could encapsulate all the worst experiences and angst I have encountered in my 13 years as a furry advice columnist into one character, Felix would be that character. Similarly, every scene, every word of dialog, every gesture, and every movement of the well-directed camera compresses a world of misunderstood love like a telegraphed message in which each dot and short dash has a significance. A rose, a hesitant touch, a half-eaten chicken foot, and many other images add to the painting like dots on a pointillist painter’s masterpiece. When Felix explains to his coworkers why his fursuit has wings and why there are stripe marks on the head, for example, Schnabel reveals in a few seconds how a fursuit can contain deep personal meaning for its wearer. It is just one of many poignant scenes here. To be clear, Mom’s Cat is not about the average furry experience, but it is about a side of the fandom that is very true indeed and to which many furries will relate. I would give it two thumbs up, but I’m a bear and don’t have thumbs, so I will give it a big Awoo! instead.

You can read an interview with Schnabel by going here and hitting Translate. There is a link to the movie at the bottom. It’s $5 to watch. [Thank you, Grubbs!]

image c. 2025 by Annabella Schnabel

Papabear,

I am someone who has been dealing with mental health for years. Something I have discovered since last year is I'm still hurting from trauma, narcissistic parents, and unresolved feelings from thing I thought I resolved. Yes, I am currently seeking help in those areas for therapy, but I have to wait till I can see doctors. Writing has been my escape when I just want to be alone and deal with these feelings. I have been working on stories as of recent to tackle some of these things, as well as a VRChat shorts series being scripted.

I set all this exposition up to ask this one major question: How do I just open the flood gates completely, face the demons, and battle them in writing and prose? Something in me is afraid to confront these demons, even when I truly think I am doing so. I know this is such a weird question, but it baffles me that I am ready to go to battle yet one foot is still on the porch telling me to stay where I am.... So, I guess, in my own way, I do while the demons sit there drinking lemonade with me like this is usual. I guess, too, I know the only way to battle these demons is to be able to talk freely and bluntly. Hence, my writing. I think part is the fear of others judging me.

Again, I know this seems like a strange letter, but I deal with things by talking or writing, and I need to stop being so hesitant to confront things. Any advice helps.

Thank you.

Otto Otsky

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Dear Otto,

Writing is an outstanding way of dealing with one's emotions, so kudos to you that you are doing so to help cope with your struggles.

There are two types of writing that are great for this: 1) journaling, and 2) fiction writing. Journaling should not be confused with writing a diary, although they do have some commonalities. Diary writing is basically keeping a record of your day-to-day experiences. Typically, you record events that happen to you, describe scenery perhaps, and you may also not your reactions and feelings about events. Diary writing is fairly structured, therefore. Journal writing includes traditional journaling, bullet journaling, and expressive writing, and it is much more free-form, stream-of-consciousness writing.

Traditional journaling is the type we are most familiar with in which you discuss what has happened to you and talk about your reactions to these events. This serves as a terrific emotional outlet. Bullet journaling is, as you might imagine, more clipped. You put down things in short lists, abbreviated sentences, even incomplete thoughts. Just bam bam bam, a bunch of bullet points or even symbols and drawings expressing yourself in a kind of shorthand way. Expressive writing, however, is rather the opposite of bullet journaling. You write down events and feelings in much more detail and with much more self-reflection.

Dr. James Pennebaker researched expressive writing in the 1980s, discovering that his patients who used this practice required fewer therapy sessions to achieve the same results as patients who did not journal. There are three types of expressive writing:
 

1. Standard Expressive Writing: Writing about your personal experiences
2. Exposure Writing: Writing down your thoughts and feelings
3. Cognitive Processing: Reasoning out the consequences of your experiences and feelings to derive insights about them.

A mix of all three is probably the best strategy. It is rather like having a therapy session in which you also take on the role of therapist. Granted, it's not a complete substitution for having a therapist, but as Pennebaker found out, it helps tremendously.

Fiction writing is also useful. Unlike journaling, which is more of a reaction to real-life events, with fiction writing you are in control of what happens and what the reactions to events are. Many great authors have confessed that their novels and short stories were their way of dealing with emotions of all sorts. Some of these notable names include Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Franz Kafka, C. S. Lewis, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Sinclair Lewis, Anne Sexton, Leo Tolstoy, and many more.

These authors and others would take their own emotional and mental struggles and transfer them onto a fictional character, then write about how they would cope (or not cope) with their problems. By putting a protective mask between you, the author, and the fictional character, it makes the pain easier to deal with because the author feels less exposed to outside criticism (i.e., e.g., "It's not me dealing with schizophrenia or the death of my wife or the pain of extreme poverty or unrequited love, it's my character doing it). In a way, there are parallels here between what authors do and what furries do. Furries can become more themselves and more open about their emotions through their fursonas just as authors can do so through fictional characters. 

In addition to forming this protective barrier of judgment that allows you to more honestly express your feelings, story writing has the advantage of being able to control situations that, in real life, you cannot command. You get to create the situations to be overcome; you get to add helpers (minor characters) to aid in the main protagonist's quest; and you get to write a conclusion and have closure to the story. So, you see, you can take the material from real life that feels chaotic and beyond your control and impose an order upon it in order to make it manageable and more comprehensible. Pennebaker also wrote about this, saying that writing brings coherence to your emotional crisis as well as perspective. You write the plot, and, as narrator outside the story, you gain a new perspective upon it.

(Quick dig at AI: Here is a great argument against AI writing stories. You don't benefit from writing something from the heart if a machine is doing all the work.)

Your question does not strike me as weird at all. In fact, I congratulate you on discovering for yourself a great way of managing your mental distress. As for others judging you, well, first of all, just because you write a story doesn't mean you have to publish it. Second of all, this isn't about having an audience; this is about you. You know, if everyone worried about people judging them for every action they performed, nobody would do anything in this world and life would be a waste.

Therefore, write your heart out. Write for yourself. And continue talking to other people. Bottling things up never helped anyone. And, once you let yourself go, you'll see that you are not different from anyone else. You'll see that many people have had experiences comparable to your own and have the same feelings you do. Sharing that with others is immensely therapeutic.

Good job!

Hugs,
Papabear

You don’t often expect the level of world-building and story-crafting woven into games like Back to the Dawn, a gritty, engrossing, and multi-layered RPG game by Metal Head Games that just released out of Early Access. But I found myself locked inside the prison escape narrative just like its protagonists. Featuring fantastic game design and narrative pacing with just the right amount of quirkiness, Back to the Dawn can go lots of ways in its main campaigns, and it's hard not to wonder if you’re making the right move as your fate becomes more and more unpredictable.

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As we get into our 6th season groove we try out a few new things. Let us know if you liked the new segments.  Taebyn takes a long look back at their notes from seasons gone by, TickTock brings us furry news, Cheetaro reviews another furryesque movie, and Bearly tries to keep the train on the rails!  We tell jokes and puns and generally confuse everyone. So tune in for another confusing episode of BFFT. Moobarkfluff everyfur!

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You were right all along. Rat and Mole are boyfriends. Welcome to the River Bank. It's cottagecore, but with internet. Let's look in on Toad Hall and the goings-on of the various waistcoated creatures of the modern day. A short story by Tempe O'Kun. Read by Khaki. Find more free furry audio short stories on The Voice of Dog website or a podcast service near you. https://thevoice.dog/episode/toad-toad-hall-by-tempo/ 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_

Once again, the publisher comes up with a far better quick title than we ever could. Thank you! What are we talking about? DC X Sonic the Hedgehog, a new limited series, that’s what. “It’s a crossover event unlike any other! The monstrous Darkseid crosses dimensions to invade the world of Sonic the Hedgehog, seeking the ultimate power. Sonic and his friends have faced everything from mad scientists to ancient spirits, but the forces of Apokolips may be too much for them. Thankfully, the full heroic might of the Justice League arrives to back them up!” Brought to you by writer Ian Flynn and artists Adam Bryce Thomas and Matt Herms. Issues are going fast! (Sorry, sorry…)

image c. 2025 DC Comics

Today we lost one of our own after a serious illness. Of The Wilds was a brilliant writer who especially liked to write about dragons, probably best known for his serialized novel The Dragon in the Dungeon.

The loss of anyone in our community is painful, especially someone as young as Wilds. I only met him once in passing, when he leaned over his partner Resolute’s chair and waved at me via Zoom. I remember his smile and the happy mischief in his expression. While he was a quiet person, he left a positive impression on everyone he met.

His work lives on, a permanent window into his personality, humor, imagination, and skill as a writer. We will all miss him and grieve his loss, but we can also celebrate him by reading his stories. Like the last note of music that never quite fades, Of The Wilds will remain forever in his words.

ArenaNet and NCsoft have announced that Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity launches on October 28, 2025, and, like the previous two expansions, will bring with it a year of story chapters and three major content updates. Read all about the new features below and on the expansion's official sites.

The Story:

"Tyria’s leaders are anxious about rumors of covert Inquest voyages launched in search of Castora, an island so remote that it’s long been thought to be inaccessible—or even nonexistent. The risks involved prevent all but the most tenacious (and perhaps foolhardy) of pursuers from investigating the Inquest’s plan." Your race to discover the Inquest’s plot will lead you across two new open-world regions at launch, each filled with magical energies and strange creatures. Two additional maps will open as the story continues over the course of a year.

Expansion Features

• New Elite Specializations
• Skimmer Mastery
• Raids and Strikes consolidation
• New Raid Encounters and challenges
• Six New Legendary Treasures
• New Homestead
• Seasonal Rewards
• Fashion Templates (Free)

ArenaNet's Official Announcement Press Release

Announcement Trailer (YouTube)

Every year, there seems to be a game that comes out and does something to really grab gamers attention, to where every developer wants to capitalize on it in their own way; From the many Half-Life style games to those aping Doom Eternal’s gameplay. This year, it seems the game to take inspiration from was Vampire Survivors. Now, we had Vampire Hunters which took the core concept but put it in first person (and, speaking personally, was one of my favorite games of 2024), so what happens when you take the concept of Survivors and, say, put it in space? That’s where Greedland comes in: A game, outside of accidentally calling it Greenland, is another fun ‘Vampire Survivor-like’ game, if not just slightly rough around the edges.

TigerTails Radio Season 16 Episode 25 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.

None other than J. Michael Straczynkski himself (yes, the Babylon 5 fella) brings his writing skills to the Marvel universe with a very specific assignment: Combine well-known characters in unusual team-ups. That’s certainly the case with Doctor Doom & Rocket Raccoon, illustrated by Will Robson. “Doctor Doom does the one thing he never wants to do: Ask for a favor! What awaits Rocket in Latveria? Mischief, miscommunication, and an emotional journey across space and time in the Mighty Marvel Way!” This full-color one-shot is available now.

image c. 2025 Marvel Comics

Welcome to "Fresh Fur!" Our bi-weekly installment going over the newest game releases, and which ones you can expect to find anthros/furries in!

Check the list below for all the games we could find with animal/anthro influences and characters.

Major New Releases for the Weeks of July 1 - July 11, 2025:

• Mecha Break (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S) - July 1
• Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley / Harvest Moon: Skytree Village (Switch) - July 3
• Missile Command Delta (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, PC) - July 8
• Islanders: New Shores (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, PC) - July 10
• Cats Away (PS5, Switch, PC) - July 10
• Mycopunk (PC) - July 10
• EA Sports College Football 26 (PS5, Xbox Series X|S) - July 10
• Everdeep Aurora (Switch, PC) - July 10
• Patapon 1 + 2 Replay (PS5, Switch, PC) - July 11
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Switch, Switch 2, PC) - July 11

*Bolded games have furry/animal influences/characters

Furry & Animal Steam Game Finds:

These games were found in the New Releases section of Steam this week and will be updated as more come out throughout the week!

Savrin and Ajax survived their 8-day adventure to Anthrocon and back, so Fuzz joins as they chat about their overall very lovely convention experience. 

<3

 

Episode 568 - Fox & Doggo Travelogue Time

Wouldn’t consider Harley Quinn to be a furry fan  at all (look at what she did to Captain Carrot!) — but she does have a couple of interesting pets! And now they’re starring in their own DC Comics graphic novel, written and illustrated by Ben Hed (Pixie and Brutus). “When Harley’s hyenas, Bud & Lou, are framed with stealing the lasso of truth they’re forced to team up with two members of the Super-pets, Ace & Jumpa, to find the culprits. The unlikely team sets off on an adventure that leads them from Oswald Cobblepot’s penguins to Mr. Freeze’s polar bears. At the chance of being reunited with their beloved Harley, will Bud and Lou save the day and be the good guys for a change? If they aren’t careful, the lasso of truth might reveal how they really feel about being heroes!” Harley Quinn’s Bud and Lou: Trouble Times Two is available now.

image c. 2025 DC Comics

I said it once and I'll say it again: I love Star Wars, but even I will admit that the series has had some missteps throughout the years. The recent shut down of Star Wars Hunters comes to mind, and I think, personally, would've had a better longevitiy if it made it to Steam and Xbox. But, I digress, as that's neither here nor there. Today, I want to focus on a title that came out last year that seems to have been ignored by many and passed off by others: Star Wars Outlaws. It's a pity it got such a weird reception from fans as this is actually a pretty fun Star Wars game, if not one of my favorites.