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May 2025

Newsbytes archive for April 2025

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Contributors this month include dronon, earthfurst, and Rakuen Growlithe.

Graphic Novel Review Banquet

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On the menu today is: Cult Of (The) Lamb with a side of Science Dog.

Sound good? Well then, let's partake of a somewhat kosher dinner of allegory. Notice that these works have firm connections to other media. As is only right, we'll open with the appetizer.

Digging up Positivity April 2025

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Welcome to the April edition of Digging Up Positivity, this month we are interviewing two amazing beans from the virtual world, however their friendship influenced their lives much more than anyone expected!

We also feature a new furry game, some lovely animation news and of course, our charities, because my dear friend, we sure had a lot of those in April, so lets gooo!

Furry Weekend Atlanta slows in growth but still becomes most attended in-person Furry Convention

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FWA.jpgFurry Weekend Atlanta finished its gathering in the first weekend in May and announced a total of 17,736. This currently makes FWA 2025 the largest in person furry convention on record by a narrow margin overcoming Anthrocon 2024’s attendance count of 17,639.

Overall growth had slowed by half from 4,693 attendees between FWA 2023 and 2024 to only having 2,715 more in 2025 than 2024. Factors at play are economic slowdown due to instability from government policies revolving around tariffs, along with a slow down of overseas visitation to the United States given concerns of more aggressive border control policies have caused concerns and issues for travelers.

Winners of the 2024 Ursa Major Awards

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The winners of the 2024 Ursa Major Awards have been announced! (The full statistics are also available.)

If you've got any ideas or suggestions for the Awards, they're interested in hearing from you! You can fill out their online feedback form until Saturday, May 31.

The winners (in bold) and runners-up, arranged from most to least votes, are...