By way of lupine52 - marko_the_rat, one of my earliest acquaintances in the furry fandom, passed away recently after a battle with cancer.

This is terrible news; Marko was a very nice, compassionate and kind person. He'll be missed.

My thoughts are with ristin, and all of Marko's family and friends.

I don't usually post random things of interest anymore, but this is just too cool to pass up - a siberian husky make-up how-to by Ilana, an Israeli make-up artist:


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The following is from Marcus Baynes-Rock's Among the Bone-Eaters: Encounters with Hyenas in Harar, pp. 27-29. The author describes how he observes (for the second time) a butcher feeding hyenas, and speaks to the man about this:

Waking up in the middle of the night, I left the hotel and went to the playing field where I'd seen the food being ( Read more... )

Wow, Doug Winger died. More info here and hereDoug was a one of the first wave of furry artists whose works I came across when I first got into the furry fandom, back in the 90s; hyper-endowed herms were never really my thing, but I appreciated his artistic skills, his wit, and the cheerfulness that always characterized his pictures ( Read more... )

The end of an era - porsupah notes that the Fursuit mailing list has finally closed down for good:

Fursuit Mail List is now deceased

After many many years, the original fursuit mail list started by Robert King has finally seen itself dissolve into being obsolete. The actual traffic had dwindled to only one post in all of 2014, and hundreds of spam ( Read more... )

So, apparently IMVU has bought FurAffinity. Here's their announcement (h/t to porsupah):

We are proud to announce [...] that earlier this year we made FurAffinity.net community a part of our family.

This started with IMVU advertising its services to the FA community, which led to further discussions about the obvious overlap among our members. Both ( Read more... )

The Anthropomorphic Research Project's results for their survey at Furry Fiesta 2013 were recently posted (and updated to actually include all the findings), and there's a very interesting section on intergroup interaction, specifically the relationship of bronies and furries:

Q10: How do furries and bronies view one another?

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Many years back, I heard about an interesting convention used at Mensa events - hugging preferences indicated on your badge, in the form of colored dots. There's three of these:

• Red: "I don't want to be hugged."
• Yellow: "Please ask before hugging me."
• Green: "Hug away!"

I've noticed that the willingness to engage in hugging - both giving and ( Read more... )

The Anthropomorphic Research Project has a new furry survey out. You can either take this one as a single survey, or you can participate in an ongoing study that'll feature about three surveys per year for a period of three years:

Spring 2013 Survey / Furry Longitudinal Study Wave 1 Recruitment

It's here at last, the 2013 Furry Survey / Wave ( Read more... )

The Furry Survey - that's the one Klisoura has been doing since 2007 - is open for 2013, BTW! It's being run with the help of another site now, [adjective][species]. Take it here:


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