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Seminole Area Furry Arrested for Plotting Columbine Style Massacre
Nathaniel Zeno, a 16 year old attending Seminole High School in Florida, has been arrested and charged with plotting a massacre at his school.
Pinellas deputies had Zeno committed to a mental hospital on March 4th. Florida’s Baker act allows for an individual to be involuntarily hospitalized if it is deemed they are a threat to themselves or to others. This occoured a few weeks after Zeno had taken out a book on the Columbine massacre from his school library, and had later been seen wandering the school with a map, making notes and marking locations.
He was released Wednesday, March 9th, and was arrested and charged with solicitation to commit murder, He is currently being held at the Pinellas Juvenile Assesment Center.
Family and friends had no idea he was in trouble until his arrest when his mother, Amber Zeno, called them to tell them. His family indicated he had emotional problems starting at a young age.
Zeno had been public about being a furry. He was also open about his views on animal rights. Detectives say the teen suspect was studying the book on the Columbine massacre and was in the process of obtaining a list of preferred firearms, and he told the student he was trying to get help from that he was targeting people that had a history of being cruel to animals.
His mother enrolled him at Seminole, but acceptance came hard. And Zeno, a loner, was hard to get to know. He would wear all-black clothing and had a problem with personal hygiene. As for being a furry, he was especially interested in cats and had a fox costume he wore to the Renaissance Festival. His mother noted he had a rich fantasy life.
“I think he felt very rejected and isolated (at Seminole),” his grandmother, Claudia McGrath said. “He wasn’t into drugs. He wasn’t violent. … He was messy. He was on the gloomy side.”
His entries on the deviantart.com website show Zeno’s level of distress over the past months: He uploaded two pictures of himself. Under one, he wrote, “I know I’m ugly.” Under the other, “I’m hideous.” He listed his personal quote in German, which translated to, “Would die in order to be a real furry.” His tagline on messages: “I’d rather die on paws than live on feet … FFL — Furry for Life (Keepin’ it furry since 1998).”
On March 4th, he wrote:
To anyone who cares or anyone who is reading this, but especially my friends; I might be going to jail.
I planned to shoot up my school and was caught while marking a map. I might be going to jail and I’m terrified. This isn’t a joke.
If I don’t send another journal within a week, I’m in jail.
Goodbye and good luck, especially you, Smookie, Brighty, and Silvermist.
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Link to this post! NakamaCon cancelled amid setbacks, staff shortages
Author: GreenReaper
Second-year Wisconsin convention NakamaCon has been cancelled less than three months before launch, according to con chair Chessie Sutherland. [tip: pmart and SkippyFox]
The replacement website outlines a tale of woe – misprinted flyers, car acccidents, illness, financial shortages and other real life complications:
I realize it is three months from the convention. I know we could make it happen but we’d sacrifice a lot of our own lives to make it work. If any one of these things hadn’t happened we might still have a Nakamacon. Collectively, they’ve led to us being so far behind that recovery is unlikely.
However, the cancellation was followed by allegations by webmaster and payment system maintainer S-Config that Chessie made the decision alone, while local artist Jim Groat claimed the chair “never showed up to any of the meetings.”
Find the full article here: flayrah – furry food for thought
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Link to this post! Andrew Rabbitt reads “One Week” by Whyte Yoté
Author: alexfvance
There’s a certain thrill in the development and polarization of power roles. Yeah, you don’t want to let Foucault infect everything you think, but when one guy’s seated in a throne and another’s on his knees, it makes things easy to understand. Especially when you start to dress that dynamic in intriguing imagery- a torn suit, dark hardwood floors, looks that are centered in the whiskers rather than on his lips- and it’s no surprise why so many people get a special twitch in their nerves from a good dom/sub story.
Whyte Yote breaks open a treasure trove of glittering images in his story “One Week,” which you may have already read.
But we don’t want to leave the commuters out, either- so here is an audiobook version, as read by the one and only Andrew Rabbitt. Gas up the crude generator you use to recharge your Zune in a dystopian future, world’s last remaining furry!
Find the full article here: The Bad Dog Book Club » Podcast
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Link to this post! Japan Fundraiser – 15+ Artists!
03/14/2011
By: Temrin
Auction to raise funds for Japan.
15+ Artists, more are welcome!
There are artists from many genre’s: Anthro, Anime, Quadruped, Traditional, Digital, Human, etc.
Auction and all information: http://www.furbid.ws/cgi-bin/auction/item.pl?item=232358404
~Temrin
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Link to this post! R2-Central Droid Builders vs Furries
First, it was the Klingons and Trekkies bowling against furries – Video here: G4 Coverage. Now, its the craftmen behind some pretty cutting edge Astromech Droids.
Last night 5 members of R2-Central went to play with the Furries in a bowling game. R2-Central got their butts kicked but we all had a great time. Here is the after game group shot.
Credit: R2-CM.com
View more photos at R2-CM.com
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Link to this post! Dragon*Con Fandom Music Video Contest seeking Furry Music Videos
Alice and Furries at Dragon*Con 2008
Dragon*Con is the largest pop-culture, sci-fi and fantasy convention of it’s kind. The event hosts between 60 to 65 thousand attendees and spans 4 days over the labor day weekend, completely selling out all hotels in a two mile radius of down town Atlanta. Over the past three years, the convention has showed an interest in getting more furries to participate in the convention and its related programming. It is estimated that aprox. 2000 furries actually attend the event, however, only a few hundred ever really make there presence known. (Estimates based on actual registration data)
For the past 7 years, Dragon*Con has hosted a music video contest. With the contest growing to 100 entries in 2010, and attendance of the awards ceremony topping 400 attendees, the music video staff opted to split the competition into 2 segments – anime – the more traditional music video seen at conventions, and now a new “live action” category which can be made with film footage from any live action tv show or movie, or acted out by amateurs and filmed.
The organizers have been soliciting submissions from all fandoms – Star Trek, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Doctor Who and even Twilight. Now they are reaching out and asking Furries to submit their muisic video creations.
Anyone interested in participating can read the rules at www.fmvawards.com. There are 2 submission deadlines left for the 2011 contest. The next deadline is April 15.
The categories and explanations are as follows:
- Romance – Videos that focus on a love story between characters.
- Drama – Videos that evoke an emotional response from the audience through a medley of music, video, and editing which usually involves dramatic subject matter or dramatic elements from the anime.
- Comedy – Videos that contain parody or wacky content. As long as someone thinks it is funny you will probably be okay.
- Action – Videos that focus on action whether it be fighting sequences, fast-paced imagery or motions of characters. Think ACTION!!
- Fun – Videos that make you feel good. They get your body moving, feeling the groove, or just bring a smile to your face. Dance, Trance, Techno, Happy slice of life pieces and other types of the sort.
- Other – This category is for videos that don’t fit into the rest of the categories. Movie Trailers, Horror, Experimental Videos, WTF’ers, etc., they all go here.
There is a hope that at least a few submissions will be furry or furry relates, and it is hoped that there will be some fursuit videos included.
Below are the two videos that did best in the live action category last year:
1st place: Live Action
Fan Favorite Overall Winner
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Link to this post! 2010 Ursa Major Awards voting underway
Author: PeterCat
Voting for the Ursa Major Awards for the Best Anthropomorphic Literature and Art of 2010 is now open, and takes place until April 17. Anyone may vote, and you are encouraged to ask your friends to vote also — please help spread the word!
There are five nominees in each of ten categories, except where there was a tie for fifth place.
To be eligible, a work must have been released during the calendar year 2010; must include a non-human being given human attributes (anthropomorphic), which can be mental and/or physical; and must receive more than one nomination.
Find the full article here: flayrah – furry food for thought
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Link to this post! Review: ‘Pokémon’ evolves a real story with ‘Black’ and ‘White’
Author: crossaffliction
The fifth generation of Pokémon began by announcing a semi-anthro fox over a year ago. Now, Black and White have hit your local video game outlet.
After four generations, Pokémon is a household name. Like the Nintendo DS – hosting five versions of the game, not counting side-trips like the Pokémon Ranger and Mystery Dungeon series – the Pokémon franchise is all but a license to print money.
Add a few critters and upgrades, slap on Pikachu’s friendly face and shove it out the door, right?
Wrong. This generation of Pokémon has evolved.
Find the full article here: flayrah – furry food for thought
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Link to this post! Embrace Your Inner Furry: Microsoft Patents ‘Fringe Interests’ Dating Service
via Switched
An ingenious idea: Let those with “incongruous” dating appetites admit their kinks and quirks quietly, and, when no one is looking, have a match service pair them with potentially like-minded weirdos mates. Microsoft filed a patent in 2009 — but made public last week — for its own online dating service, with an algorithm into which users can secretly enter “private affinities,” thus matching up with people of similar “fringe interests” (especially those conflicting with the user’s public persona). The example of “interests” Microsoft refers to is, of course, people who dig comic books. Yeah, COMIC BOOKS. Wink-nudge.
While there’s no news as to whether or not this service will ever become a reality, it’d be interesting to see an online dating system that lets singles be more honest and forthright. The patent reads: “Most users of such conventional systems understand that any affinity (or other information) included in an associated profile or space can be viewed by any third party who accesses that profile. This situation can substantially serve as a chilling effect on self expression or at least result in a profile that is a less accurate or less comprehensive representation of the associated user.”
Basically, if you are worried about how prospective dates might take your taste for cosplaying as a Victorian-era spy, you can discreetly let Microsoft know that period dramas and espionage are kind of your thing, and hope the system will find you another person who digs monocles (and maybe manacles?) as much as you. So, let loose — and hope Microsoft doesn’t tell.
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Link to this post! Artist Alley III (MFF 2010)
03/10/2011
By: CraftyAndy
Music “Dragonfly” by Mr Meeble http://www.youtube.com/user/mrmeeble
Featured artist
Bix707
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/bix707/
http://inkbunny.net/bix707
Morning Grey
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/morning-grey
Hobbes Maxwell
http://hobbes-maxwell.deviantart.com/
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/hobbesmaxwell/
FurryJadeFox
http://www.furryjadefox.com/Main.html
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Link to this post! Owners of Fur Affinity, FurBuy clash over auctions
Author: Sonious
The furry marketplace heated up today as FurBuy owner Jurann was “permanently banned” from Fur Affinity for “false threats against users holding auctions on FA instead of furbuy” and “disruption of the community, drama starting and interference with user transactions.”
FA’s Dragoneer gave his opinion of Jurann’s attempts to pressure artists into using FurBuy:
Frankly, I’m sick of Jurann constantly threatening users, encouraging them to “Go to Furbuy…or else!”
In response, Jurann said Dragoneer “[took his] legal advice as a threat,” while maintaining that FTC auction guidelines apply to Fur Affinity:
It’s a simple fact that there ARE rules and guidelines, and they are quite clearly not being followed on FA at present.
Find the full article here: flayrah – furry food for thought
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Link to this post! Artist Alley II (MFF 2010)
03/10/2011
By: CraftyAndy
Music “Fine” by Mr Meeble www.youtube.com/user/mrmeeble mrmeeble.com
Featured Artists
Cureineko
www.furaffinity.net/user/cureineko/
Grave Walker
www.furaffinity.net/user/gravewalker/
cheshiresphynx.deviantart.com/
Bloodhound
www.furaffinity.net/user/bloodhound/
Music used with permission.
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Link to this post! Goldy goes down after weekend fan assault
An irritated fan punched Goldy Gopher in the face during a men’s gymnastics meet Saturday night at the Sports Pavilion.
During the meet, the University of Minnesota mascot sat behind Douglas Dokken, 60, and started “messing with him,” witness Barry Colthorpe said. Goldy tapped Dokken on the shoulder and ruffled his hair.
Colthorpe said Dokken was ignoring Goldy’s antics, but within a couple of minutes, he snapped, turned around and punched Goldy in the face.
Goldy froze, but within moments of the first punch, Dokken wailed another, forcing Goldy to leave the area.
“I think it was clearly amusing — it’s not something you see every day,” Colthrope, 27, said. “It was just two people fighting, but if one of them is dressed up as a 7-foot gopher, then it’s pretty amusing.”
Read more at mndaily.com
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Link to this post! New Web Comic ‘The Tail’ strives to push Furry mainstream
Hyrax Productions new web comic “The Tail” is about a young Chirran named Ayan, born with no tail, living in a society where your tail is your status symbol. Marked with shame, he and his family are servants and surfs to a noble house within the land. Ayan decides to break with this life and tries to become a knight. When this fails, it leads him to meet Mieu Notra, the Blue Maiden. The girl awakens something within Ayan, and from then on, for better of for worse, their fates are intertwined in a web of love, betrayal, and redemption.
It is with this story line that Al Romero and Hyrax Productions hopes you will become engrossed with Ayan’s story, and that it will become a mainstream hit.
“Furry” is a genre, sub-genre (whatever) that is often looked upon as being on the fringe. Content that is furry tends to hover around two extremes; extremely cute and neuter, or extremely sexualized and containing strong themes of sexual identity, particularly of an off-beat nature. Both extremes are trivialized by the mainstream. “The Tail” is a web comic that attempts to bridge the gap between the off-beat appeal of furry culture, and solid, entertaining story telling that is crucial for mainstream acceptance. — By Hyrax Productions
It will be interesting to see how the mainstream audiance accepts this comic. Ayan, we wish you good luck.
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Link to this post! Eva Braun and the Furries
Eva Braun and friends in the Bavarian Alps, Germany, 1935.
Via Boing Boing
By: Xeni Jardin
Ben Cosgrove at LIFE Magazine writes, “Recently released photographs — all of them rare, some of them unseen for decades — from Eva Braun’s personal photo albums provide a window into an era and a culture that feels light years away, and creepily, even intimately familiar.”
The one where she’s doing Urdhva Dhanurasana nazi yoga by the lake near Hitler’s mountaintop hideaway freaks me out. And the one where she’s in blackface as Al Jolson. And then there’s this one with a dude in a bear wolf suit, 1935.
Here’s the complete photo gallery (in Flash, alas).
(Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images, courtesy LIFE)
Eva Anna Paula Hitler née Braun (6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945) was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and for less than 40 hours, his wife.
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Link to this post! Georgia Furs Stone Summit Meet
On a cold Saturday night, a group of intrepid furries set out on an adventure. They stepped into their harnesses, secured their ropes and chalked their paws and set out to climb. The goal; conquer Stone Summit!
Twenty five came to the event, including a few of the board members from Furry Weekend Atlanta. Fursuiting was welcomed. The event space was shared with Stone Summit’s youth program who were having a shut in for the evening.
Georgia Furs has had a long standing Tuesday night furmeet. Starting with the Stone Summit event, they are moving from that format to one large Furmeet event a month, along with a “dinner club” on Tuesday nights that will move from restaurant to restaurant.
Local furs are encouraged to get involved. Visitors from out of town are always welcomed! If you are planning on showing for either the monthly event or the Tuesday dinner club events, you are encouraged to RSVP so they can let the facility that will be hosting the event know how many to expect. There are times when the Georgia Furs meet has had over 50 in attendance and overwhelmed the restaurant that they were meeting at.
If you are interested in finding out more, or want to see what event is coming up next, you can go to the Georgia Furs website.
The following video and photos are highlights from the event.
Images by Furshoot.com
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Link to this post! The Fantastic Mr. Star Fox
If you are a fan of “The Fantastic Mr. Fox”, and a lover of the video game Star Fox, you’ll never hear “Do a barrel roll” the same ever again…
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
Artist Alley I (MFF 2010)
03/10/2011
By: CraftyAndy
Be sure to let them know who sent you their way.Music by Mr Meeble http://www.youtube.com/user/mrmeeble ;www.meeble.com
Featured Artists
Danale
www.Danale.com
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/iowncharles/
Fable
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/fable
http://esda06.deviantart.com/
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Link to this post! A drug that could make you grow sensory whiskers (and penis spines)
Only a few molecules separate you from having sensory whiskers and a penis spine. That’s right – evolution has cheated you out of those whiskers that make your cat a super-sensor and the spines that, well, make your penis super-sensitive. A study published today in Nature reveals that human DNA still bears traces of genes that could, if tinkered with slightly, cause the next generation of Homo sapiens to have new sensory organs. And penis spines. How would that work?
Read more at io9: Mad Science
Thanks to @chipfoxx for the tip
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Link to this post! Video: OMG! with Peaches Geldof ‘Furries’
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