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Join Roo, Charlie, and Klik as they explore VRChat with special guests, Boots and Reyess.

Just what are furries are doing with VRChat? How does VRChat work? How can one join in? What tech or other items are needed to hop into VR?

This episode was originally livestreamed on YouTube. Light editing has been done for our podcast listeners. You can watch the original here: Livestream

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To our guests: Boots and Reyess!

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A Cookie Factory – OwO

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A Pallet of Cookies

 

Barnaby Panda, Nuka, Lou Duck (Pic Pending)

A Case of Cookies

Basel the Dragon, Black Baldrik, Ichigo Ookami (Pic Pending), Lufis the Raccoon

A Jar of Cookies

 

MephistophEli, Plug, Tenax

A Box of Cookies

• Lygris

A Delicious Cookie

• Ausi K
• Christian
• Citrus Fox
• Icy Solid
• Ralley
• Sage Lightfang
• TyR
• Victor Mutt

MUSIC

• Intro: Cloud Fields (Radio Mix), USA: Unpublished, 2018. ©2011-2018 Fur What It’s Worth. Based on Fredrik Miller – Cloud Fields (Chill Out Mix). USA: Bandcamp, 2011. ©2011 Fur What It’s Worth
• Patreon: Inflammatus – The Tudor Consort, Creative Commons 2019
• Closing: Cloud Fields (RetroSpecterChill Remix), USA: Unpublished, 2018. ©2011-2018 Fur What It’s Worth. Based on Fredrik Miller – Cloud Fields (Chill Out Mix). USA: Bandcamp, 2011. ©2011 Fur What It’s Worth

S11E18 – Furries and VRChat - Join Roo, Charlie, and Klik as they explore VRChat with special guests, Boots and Reyess. - Just what are furries are doing with VRChat? How does VRChat work? How can one join in? What tech or other items are needed to hop in

Furgeddaboutit is coming to New Jersey on May 2-4, 2025. Info: Furgeddaboutit.org. There’s also The Big One furmeet. More about this shortly…

Many New Jersey furries have been demanding more honest events while protesting Garden State Fur the Weekend, the corrupt convention with a history of favoring nazi-furries. This has new developments.

• How often does a community create not one, but two alternative events to make up for a toxic one?
• Ever seen a con struggle to deny a toxic reputation — while officially operating on a pro-nazi site?

How Garden State Fur the Weekend disgraced itself

The problems with Garden State Fur the Weekend go back to its founding in 2020. Their May 2024 launch could have been a chance to set things right. Instead, if you attended, you were exposed to the management escorting Fox News cameras while they filmed nazifurs praising Trump on national TV. This was a surprise to innocent attendees and performers on stage who were NOT happy to find themselves in the crosshairs of hate. GSFTW issued excuses while critics were banned from con groups for complaining. Nazifurs are still welcome at the con today after boasting about this on Kiwifarms.

It was part of a parade of mismanagement, with ongoing reporting:

• January 2024: First article before the con. GSFTW was engaged and had a fair chance to answer, but broke their promises.
• October 2024: During and after the con, there was more deception, like switching a Chair who “stepped down” to be the owner.
• December-now: Monitoring thread where the con will not stop lying. (LONG!)

Con staff tried in vain to hold management accountable and avoid endangering attendees. It led to repeated staff revolts, losing guests of honor and artists, resignation of two chairs, and condemnation by other cons, but nothing could bring honesty. Now GSFTW will always be Nazi Con to those who saw it happen.

I’m so beyond disappointed by GSFTW I was so hyped for an NJ con and now it’s overrun by Nazis and Nazi sympathizers. It’s a shame because I had fun (besides being ’d but that’s a separate issue) and had high hopes. But I refuse to support a con that allows hateful people

— Ghøstwere (@ghostwere.bsky.social) December 4, 2024 at 7:51 AM

Curious Florida and Indiana connections

After Garden State Fur the Weekend lost many staff, many of their key people come from Florida, for some reason. (Like their third Chair in a year.) They are still appealing to the community as if they are a typical local con that deserves support.

Cons raise funds for charity, and Furgeddaboutit picked Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge. The New Jersey-based charity displays a commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion on its home page.

Garden State Fur the Weekend picked a charity based in Indiana, for some reason. It has a mascot, @cryptogroundhog, who predicts cryptocurrency prices and solicits crypto payments.

Charity from Furgeddaboutit helps baby skunks in New Jersey — GSFTW would support a place in Indiana.

[Editor note: updated to omit a detail about websites that is calculated for drama that doesn’t deserve to be fed.]

Guest of (dis)honor

Garden State Fur the Weekend had to get replacement guests for ones who quit. NIIC the Singing Dog stepped up, bringing the same kind of baggage as GSFTW’s owner… NIIC had gone on the Furry Raiders podcast. That’s for nazis to reach other nazis, and nobody else; a very dubious move to excuse, especially when moving on to support a disgraced convention now.

If you might wonder if this nazifur stuff was mistakes or accidents — and if you feel like excusing people for not knowing what they were doing over and over, check out what GSFTW did next…

ah I see that the jersey fash con found some entertainer for their venue after most jumped ship. NIIC, yeah I’m aware of that name. One would think given optics alone, why involve yourself. but then again hmm, yeah that tracks. Tell me GSFTW, how’s that whole “removing of nazi furs” going for ya?

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— Kojak (@kojakcoyote.bsky.social) January 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM

Official alt-right channel on Rumble

Garden State Fur the Weekend just opened a channel on Rumble, weeks before their next scheduled con. It’s definitely them. It uploaded videos before or at the same time as their other official channels.

Rumble is alt-tech; a would-be YouTube competitor listed by Media Matters this way:

Rumble — Extreme, right-wing video-sharing and web services company

Founded by Canadian tech entrepreneur Chris Pavlovski in 2013 and backed by various high-profile right-wing figures, Rumble plays an important role in the alternative digital infrastructure that caters to the extreme right, including far-right figures that have been banned on mainstream platforms for misinformation and hate speech. The platform is rife with QAnon content and other dangerous conspiracy theories, harmful medical misinformation, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQ hate speech, and white nationalist and antisemitic rhetoric.

A pro-nazi platform. After a year of controversy about supporting nazis and denying it… what were they thinking?

As deliberate as a Hitler salute

Searches of Rumble found zero other furry conventions using it. Results for “furries” are full of hateful attacks labeled “freaks”, transphobia, etc. Most channels titled Furry are for scammy, clout-chasing reuploads. There is no sign of any legitimate fan presence on Rumble. GSFTW has 2 followers there.

Making the channel accomplishes nothing but aligning with outsider malice, and giving a Fuck You to people who oppose nazis. Instead of pretending to care about fixing the reputation, GSFTW embraces it as surely as going on stage and throwing a Sieg Heil.

Remember that they recently welcomed back the nazifur who praised Trump on Fox News and boasted about it on Kiwifarms.

You don’t need to be exposed to bad management when you can pick events that leave no doubt that nazis are not welcome.

CHOOSE BETTER: Furgeddaboutit.

Furgeddaboutit has unique bona fides named on their site. It may be one of the only cons created by multiple pre-established groups, joining together with a common cause for the community.

Two of their Guests of Honor are Gadget and Gizmo, New Jersey fursuiters who met through their jobs as character mascots, designed and built their fursuits, and use professional mascot experience to entertain.

Their charity, Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge, has long history. It was started in the 1950’s by Betty and Jim Woodford, dedicated conservationists. Generations later, the family legacy lives on in a team and network who don’t just nurse injured/orphaned wildlife back to health for release, they also provide educational opportunities. They worked with the furry fandom in 2016 by teaming up with fursuit makers to build a mascot, Scout the Red Fox, who will be at the con.

Learn more and register at Furgeddaboutit.org.

The Big One furmeet

A two day event where there will be panels, fursuiting, dances and more.

The Big One is a furmeet rather than a full-fledged con, and they aren’t in competition with Furgeddaboutit, the con supports them. The Big One is supported by the former staff artist of GSFTW and many New Jersey furs. It comes from Pawsouls, the former PR lead for GSFTW, who joined the second wave staff revolt and went on to make a new event as proof of commitment to community.

Learn more about The Big One here.

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Have you ever started playing a game as a gremlin and looked at almost every interactable and wished you could eat it? WELL, do I have good news for you. If you can pick it up in Mother Machine, you can eat it, and that may be my favorite part of the game, trying to dodge small enemies attacks and grab them to gobble them up, or finding a glow slug on the ceiling and farting my way up to grab it, so I too can glow. Mother Machine is good fun with friends, and I definitely recommend trying to get a full party (up to 4). The more the better!

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Bearly’s away having a birthday dinner, but fear not (or fear a lot) the pup is back after being lost for almost a month. We chat about things Taebyn doesn’t understand, get Zen with some Furmations, discuss where the fluff Taebyn has been, talk about our Media, get some Furry News, a Movie Review from Cheetaro, and finally in lieu of a story Taebyn graces us with some limericks! It’s a fun action packed episode.  

Links for this episode: 

The Varcross Key: 

www.theliteratebeast.com 

www.patreon.com/TheLiterateBeast 

Furry Wedding News Story: 

https://www.reddit.com/r/furry/comments/1jlu1f1/we_just_got_married_in_full_fursuit/

https://bsky.app/profile/teryxc.bsky.social/post/3llgt7lvqtc2t

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 S5E22 - Birthday Bear Jamboree

At last, voting begins! We had a lot of nominations this year and as a result, our ballot is a bit larger than usual to make room for those 2024 works with the most nominations.

Guild members can vote using this form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScRdFoobt62L0gSbJBECYDtIcakUTF9lT1qH1_98mBcuf4nmA/viewform?usp=header

Please remember to include the name and email address that we have on file for you in the guild records! Only guild members may vote.

Voting will continue through April 22, 2025. We’ll announce the winners sometime in early May, details to be announced.

Rattles the vulture has had a taste for frogs ever since "Frogtown" but thankfully, there's a sequel "Return to Frogtown". 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_

Is there anything more whimsical than watching squirrels run around in the park, finding little treasures and chirping at birds that get too close? Maybe becoming squirrels and running around the gardens yourself? Squirreled Away is a sleeper find that almost slipped by. It has plenty to praise on too, multiplayer co-op, exploration as a squirrel, adventure, and a nice little story with quests. As a player I also enjoyed achievement hunting to 100% the game, which my friends could help with while they played alongside me. We especially liked unlocking the different colors of the squirrels, and there were plenty to unlock.

Nintendo finally showed off the long speculated Nintendo Switch 2 in a highly anticipated Nintendo Direct on April 2nd, 2025. What they had to offer surprised a lot of people, with several new game announcements, features and other info specifically relating to the Switch 2 and the future of Nintendo. There’s plenty to get excited about for gamers, both furry and non-furry!

TigerTails Radio Season 16 Episode 11. 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.

探秘马来西亚最大兽展：FurUM 幕后故事 - CT 狼专访

And speaking of dogs who have a different take on things, let’s join some gamer-dogs as DnDoggos — Get The Party Started. “Magnus is tail-waggingly excited to share his favorite role-playing game with his friends! They’ve picked their characters and favorite dice, and are ready to set off on the adventure Magnus has created for them. Pickles, a rough-and-tumble fighter; Tonka, a playful and fun-loving bard; and Zoey, a wise and caring cleric, are given a quest to fetch a magical dog collar from a nearby swamp. But when they triumphantly return, they soon find that the collar isn’t the only thing that has gone missing from Tail’s Bend. All the squeaky toys in town have disappeared and Squish, the mayor’s young son, has set off on his own to find them. It’s up to the Doggos to rescue Squish, track down the missing toys, and save the day!” This graphic novel by Scout Underhill is illustrated by Liana Sposto, and it’s available now all over.

image c. 2025 Feiwel & Friends

Note: Most of this review has been written during the initial 1.000.02.00 launch

I am very new to the Monster Hunter series. I know it has been going on since the original Playstation 2 back in 2004 and I have only played Monster Hunter 4 as a demo on my 3DS. I enjoyed my time with it but was not in a good financial situation to buy the full game. I skipped over Worlds for the same reason. However Wilds came in at a time when I had some spare cash to spend and turns out I was assigned to review it! So let's boot it up and see if the series can get a hold of a newbie to the series.

Here’s a short graphic novel we just stumbled across: Life Is An Open Door, a full-color one-shot by Mason Mendoza, with art by Alonso Molina-Gonzales. “Have you ever worked in a cramped office, looked at the exit door, and felt that urge to get up from your desk and make a break for it? Al, the working class Dalmatian, channels his animal impulses in this fun comic book short story about giving into instinct and going remote.” Check out the preview pages.

image c. 2025 Critical Entertainment

Welcome to Borgo Marina, a beautiful port town off the coast of Italy. They have everything here: shops, food, and mysteries to be solved. I’ll be your guide as we explore the scenic vistas and get to know the locals. Get ready for a very memorable vacation!

Welcome to "Fresh Fur!" Our 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 March 14-28, 2025:

• MLB The Show 25 (Switch, PS5, XSX/S) - March 18
• 33 Immortals (PC, XSX/S) - March 18
• RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Complete Edition (PS5, PS4, Xbox One, XSX/S) - March 20
• Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition (Switch) - March 20
• Wreckfest 2 (PC- early access) - March 20
• Assassin's Creed Shadows (PC, PS5, XSX/S) - March 20
• Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories and the Envisioned Land (PS4, PS5, Switch, PC, Xbox One, XSX/S) - March 21
• Bleach: Rebirth of Souls (PC, PS4, PS5, XSX/S) - March 21
• AI Limit (PC, PS5) - March 27
• Atomfall (PC, PS4/5, Xbox One, XSX/S) - March 27
• Hitman: World of Assassination (PSVR2) - March 27
• Rift of the NecroDancer (Switch) - March 27
• The First Berserker: Khazan (PC, PS5, XSX/S) - March 27
• Disney Villains: Cursed Cafe (Switch) - March 27
• Saga Frontier 2 Remastered (PC, Mobile, PS, Switch) - March 27
• Rain World DLC 'The Watcher' (PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, XSX/S, Xbox One) - March 28
• inZOI (PC) - March 28

*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!

Welcome to April! I’m a bit late, but that’s because I’m ridiculously busy and forgot I needed to post.

The most important news right now is a reminder for guild members to nominate their favorite works of 2024 for the Cóyotl Awards! You only have five more days, until April 7, 2025. Feel free to refer to the 2024 Cóyotl Awards reading list to help jog your memory about your favorite reads from last year. It’s a hard decision for sure, since so many amazing books, stories, and other works were published in 2024!

Please use this form to nominate a work published in 2024:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCX_ImDPbzBmdieS5NuZnaaQ9TkBEdMKeuDVFDwQCaUmaY7g/viewform?usp=sf_link

Voting for the Cóyotl Awards will start on April 8 and continue through April 22.

Our other big news this month is guild officer elections. We’re very short-handed at the moment, so if you’ve ever considered running for an officer position, this is the time. Ordinarily I would direct you to the forums to post if you want to stand for a position, but at the moment the forums are down. Since they don’t see much use these days, we are considering closing the forums instead of trying to bring them back online. This might be something we’ll bring to a vote during elections, but if you have an opinion about the forums one way or another, please weigh in–in the comments here, or on the Discord or Telegram chats.

In any case, if you’d like to stand for an officer position, you can declare your intentions and give a little stump speech on the Discord server. There should be a channel up by tomorrow dedicated to guild elections. If more than one person stands for the same position, we’ll have a guild-wide vote.

This is your guilt trip friendly reminder that the Furry Writers’ Guild can only continue as an institution with the help of its members. We especially need someone with a vision and ideas for the guild’s future, and that someone will not be me. I will not be running for guild president, since I don’t feel I’m the right person for the job. But maybe you are!

Here are the current open markets for your short stories:
The Second Hayven Celestia Anthology – Deadline July 15, 2025
Indecent Exposure – Deadline When Full
This Is Halloween – Deadline When Full
Children Of The Night – Deadline When Full
Furry/Lovecraftian/Erotic/University Themed Anthology – Deadline When Full

Please also check out the latest book releases from our members:

Space Dragons: Luxorian’s Crew, by Veo Corva. Released November 12th 2024.
Catfish and Other Stories, by K.C. Shaw. Released November 30th 2024.
Wolf Tech 3: The Alphas, by Adam Webster. Released December 10th 2024.

Happy writing!

Kate Shaw

After the evil Baron Dante arrives at their valley home and captures the tiny Gobbos, it’s up to Croc to venture forth and free the Gobbos from the evil baron and reclaim their land. Now, I never grew up playing Croc, let alone heard of the reptile growing up outside of one small Nintendo Power ad for the Game Boy game, so I was going into this game with no nostalgia in any way and, I have to say, right off the bat? This is a fun game and one I’m surprised I never got around to playing until now.

We’re learning more about Hoppers, the upcoming Pixar Studios feature for 2026. It’s written and directed by Daniel Chong, the creator of We Bare Bears. The official Pixar press release goes like this: “What if you could talk to animals and understand what they’re saying? In Disney and Pixar’s all-new feature film Hoppers, scientists have discovered how to ‘hop’ human consciousness into lifelike robotic animals, allowing people to communicate with animals as animals! The adventure introduces Mabel, an animal lover who seizes an opportunity to use the technology, uncovering mysteries within the animal world that are beyond anything she could have imagined.” Hoppers is set to hit theaters in March of 2026. Want to see some early footage? Check out the report from last year’s D23 Expo (and look for the Zootopia cosplay!)

image c. 2025 Pixar Studios

TigerTails Radio Season 16 Episode 10. 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.

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Bearly, Rayne, TickTock and Cheetaro are here. Taebyn is out in the woods somewhere, so he won’t with us today. Bearly found some pop sonnets. Cheetaro gives a movie review of the Netflix movie Seal Team. and we tell some jokes.  All our usual regular bits make a visit too.  So tune in for another confusing episode of BFFT. Moobarkfluff everyfur!

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

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Bearly Furcasting S5E21 - Furry Furry Everywhere