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==History==

The following is a history of [[Fur Affinity]] and its properties.

[http://Furaffinity.net Furaffinity.net] was launched on January 16, 2005, as an alternative to [[SheezyArt]] with the forum going live on that date and the main site being transferred a few days later from [[FurPaws]].<ref>''[http://www.sheezyart.com/journal/view/51100/ Furaffinity.org information]'' — launch of forum on Furaffinity.net. Posted on SheezyArt, 16 January 2005.</ref><ref>''[http://www.sheezyart.com/journal/view/54575/ FurAffinity - note re. Transfer of mainsite and 400+ users]''. Posted on SheezyArt, 21 January 2005.</ref> During that time period, Sheezy abruptly changed policies to both remove [[adult]] [[art]] and take a stronger stance against users and their uploads. Warnings were supposedly issued from the site's service provider, advising SheezyArt that they were not permitted to host adult content on their site.

Much of Sheezy's community was abandoned after the rules change took effect. This migration left many with few alternatives. Many of those who abandoned SheezyArt went on to sites such as Fur Affinity and [[y!Gallery]]; when the latter decided to ban [[anthro art]] in May 2006 to refocus on its core topic, Fur Affinity gained further traffic.

=== Server problems (2005) ===

Fur Affinity suffered from major security holes and [[W:hacking|hacking]] during the summer of 2005. The site was shut down on 1 August due to a disagreement between lead coder [[Jheryn]] and host provider [[Arcturus]], the primary administrators of the site. At that time Fur Affinity had 12,174 user accounts and nearly 100,000 submissions. Arcturus and his supporters went on to create [[ArtPlz]].

Thanks to the community, Fur Affinity was able to build a stronger, faster server than the site originally used for the operation. Over the course of 2005, Fur Affinity raised $1,500 in donations towards the purchase of a new primary server, though it did not go online until the middle of 2006.

Fur Affinity returned to operation in December 2005 with a solid backbone and more efficient coding, though full operational status was not reached until December 10 due to a defect in the motherboard which powered the server. Over 10,000 submissions were made in the first 12 hours subsequent to Fur Affinity's official re-opening, including both arts from returning users and pieces not previously posted.

=== April Fools Day (2007) ===

On [[wikipedia:April Fools Day|April Fools' Day]] 2007, the FA banner depicted site [[mascot]] [[Fender]] as a busty [[female]] [[dragon]], with similar coloration's to the original ferrox form and wearing his signature blue tie. [[Fender]]'s account avatar displayed the dragoness as well. Fender's appearance returned to normal after about a week. In May 2007, it was announced that the female dragon form would become a separate [[character]] from Fender, and a second mascot for Fur Affinity, named '''Rednef''' ("Fender" backward). Since then, Rednef has appeared on many of the monthly and holiday-based banners, either alone or with Fender.

=== Fur Affinity: United! ===
{{main|FA: United}}
In August 2007, Fur Affinity held its own [[furry convention]] titled '''Fur Affinity: United!''' (commonly abbreviated as FA:U), at the Ramada Newark Airport International (now Wyndham Garden Hotel Newark Airport), in [[Wikipedia:Newark, New Jersey|Newark, New Jersey]]. The convention drew 310 attendees, with 25 [[fursuit]]ers participating in the fursuit parade. The convention was a success and a hit among con-goers, so much so that another one followed the next year in August 2008, meeting an equal amount of success.

=== Dragoneer account breach (2007) ===

On 11 August 2007, [[Dragoneer]]'s administrator account was compromised at [[FA: United‎]] when he used the hotel's unsecure, public [[Wikipedia:Wi-fi|Wi-Fi]] connection to access it.{{fact}}
The first sign of trouble was a note left on the front page that announced the following:
{{q|''Administrator notice: We're sorry, our vaginas are currently full of sand. We're makin' pearls here, folks! :D! FA:U rocks. We all got handjobs from [[Glaide]] and [[Damaratus]]. -- hacked by [[jheryn]]''}}
Assurances were made that the password database had not been compromised, and the main site came back online 48 hours later. The FA forums were not affected.

=== Server problems (2008; '''Augustgate''') ===

On 1 July 2008, Fur Affinity was taken offline again due to a "server hardware fault",<ref>[http://forums.furaffinity.net/showthread.php?t=22182 "Server Hardware Fault"] (2008, July 1). Dragoneer, Fur Affinity Forum.</ref> to be replaced by an image of Fender angrily stomping his computer followed by a notice about the failure and a link to that forum thread. By 7 July, Fur Affinity's members had donated $16,000-$18,000 to solve the issue,<ref>FA Forums: [http://forums.furaffinity.net/showthread.php?t=22182&page=120 ''Server Hardware Fault''], page 120, post #1786 by [[Artie]] reads ''"$10,477.15 via Amazon, plus over $6,000 via PayPal. So, '''over $16,477.15 total''' so far."'' on July 6, 2008, 5:35PM EST</ref><ref>FA Forums: [http://forums.furaffinity.net/showthread.php?t=22411 ''Public Donation and Expenditures Log, Please.''], page 1, post #15 by [[Seppel]] (based on an official file published by Dragoneer [http://forums.furaffinity.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=3481&d=0 here]) reads ''"I checked the budget Dragoneer posted. $18,000 is more than twice FA has ever had. ''[...]'' $18,000 will go far. Very far. "''(7 July 2008, 9:03 AM EST)</ref> and Dragoneer posted on the FA forums that a new server, an HP ProLiant quad-core Opteron code-named ''Trogdor'' had been ordered.

On July 14, the order for ''Trogdor'' was canceled due to confirmed issues with the vendor. The final hardware order was:

*'''Data Server''' - Dell Poweredge 2970 2U Server, 32GB RAM
*'''Storage Array''' - 14 1TB hard drives
*'''DB Server Upgrades''' — 24GB additional RAM
*'''Web Server''' - Sun Fire x4150 1U Server, 4GB RAM

Fur Affinity resumed operation on August 5, 2008, at 11:30 pm (EST), in read-only mode. The site was stable again with all options and features prior to the outage by 9:20 am EST the next day. Since the prolonged outage, admins have gone out of their way to assure users that subsequent outages wouldn't be as bad or as lengthy as it, it came to be known, "the August incident". <ref>[http://twitter.com/furaffinity/status/6280557497 ''Augustgate''] (Retrieved ?)</ref>

=== April Fools Day (2009) ===

For April Fools' Day 2009, the homepage of Fur Affinity was snowing [[wikipedia:llama|llamas]]. In addition to this, two spoof additions joined the randomly displayed mini-advertisements, which featured [[wikipedia:Rick Astley|Rick Astley]] and [[wikipedia:Barack Obama|Barack Obama]]. They linked to a [[wikipedia:Rickrolling|Rickroll]] and the [[wikipedia:Rickrolling#Barack_Roll|Barack Roll]] respectively. The banners were made by [[Hiro Judgement]] and [[Alexander Grey]], although they were not credited for the work.

=== Server problems and IRC bans (July 2009) ===

On 29 July 2009, Fur Affinity suffered a temporary service outage (later found to be due to a power failure caused by lightning<ref>http://forums.furaffinity.net/showpost.php?p=1105765&postcount=3</ref>). During the confusion, FA forum moderator [[Carenath]] accused members of the [[FurNet (IRC)|FurNet]] [[IRC]] channel [[#hackfurs]] of causing the outage, resulting in multiple people residing in both #furaffinity and #hackfurs being banned.<ref><pre>(Chat logs truncated to remove noise. More bans than shown were handed out, but not all shown to maintain readability.)
00:40:24 <Carenath> *points a finger at #hackfurs*
00:41:14 <Carenath> Well, put two and two together... people in that channel,
have axes to grind against FA and if it was an outside cause..
I'd blame them first.
00:41:39 <Carenath> Meredith: they did it before.
00:42:37 * Pi (~pi@fur-9F1E9EA1.tcct.nmt.edu) has joined #furaffinity
00:42:38 * ChanServ sets ban on *!*pi@fur-9F1E9EA1.tcct.nmt.edu
00:42:38 * ChanServ has kicked Pi from #furaffinity (User has been banned from the channel)
00:44:26 <Carenath> Meredith: Im not an FA Admin.
00:44:58 <Carenath> FAF forum mod.
00:46:00 * ChanServ has kicked Meredith from #furaffinity (Requested (Pinkatron))
00:46:02 * Meredith (~arcturus@fur-71797932.hsd1.pa.comcast.net) has joined #furaffinity
00:46:02 * ChanServ sets ban on *!*arcturus@fur-71797932.hsd1.pa.comcast.net
00:46:02 * ChanServ has kicked Meredith from #furaffinity (User has been banned from the channel)</pre></ref> FA admin [[Pinkuh]] is believed to have performed the bans, due to the request notice on Meredith's kick message. Despite an admission that the accusation was mere speculation, Pinkuh did not revoke the bans until the following day. Carenath reported apologized for his remarks later.

Some who questioned the decision were temporarily banned from FurNet by network administrator [[Snowpony]],<ref><pre>23:52 -!- Snowpony [admin@alicorn.furnet.org] has joined #furaffinity
23:54 -!- Pi_ [~pi@u15354709.onlinehome-server.com] has quit [User has been banned from FurNet (Ban Evasion)]
23:56 -!- GHDA [~GHDA@pool-173-79-208-221.washdc.fios.verizon.net] has quit [User has been banned from FurNet (Trolling is bad m'kay?)]</pre></ref> who cited "trolling and previous conduct." These bans were initially made without a reason, a violation of the FurNet code of conduct; those questioning them also received threats of being banned.<ref><pre>01:38 < Snowpony> omiiko: for trolling and previous conduct. That enough for you?
01:39 <+AFKobura> Snowpony apparently someone tried private message with the
specific admin and they were turned away with a threat of being klined themselves
01:39 < Snowpony> AFKobura: and?
01:39 <+omiiko> Snowpony: I'd prefer if the Admins followed their own CoC and
placed the ban reason in the actual *line
01:40 < Snowpony> omiiko: Sure - I'll go update the ban then.
01:44 < Snowpony> Bobbluejay: I've answered your questions - they can log back in 24 hours.</pre></ref>

=== Server problems (November/December 2009) ===

Fur Affinity experienced an outage starting on 30 November 2009, when the site's ISP experienced technical difficulties due to broken fiber optic cables.<ref>''[http://community.livejournal.com/furaffinity/211143.html Oh, and you thought your cable outages were annoying?]'' - [[Net-Cat]], {{lj-comm|furaffinity}} (30 November 2009)</ref> By 2 December, the ISP still hadn't responded to FA staff email. The site's Twitter channel noted that staff was to visit the co-location facility later that day to investigate the issue.

They also announced tentative plans to switch to a new facility, maybe even in Canada,<ref>''[http://community.livejournal.com/furaffinity/211348.html 02/Dec]'' - [[The Dragoneer]], {{lj-comm|furaffinity}} (2 December 2009)</ref> but eventually settled on a new host offering 25% more bandwidth that is still in Virginia.<ref>''[http://community.livejournal.com/furaffinity/211725.html It looks like we're planning to bring the site up Monday night]'' - [[The Dragoneer]], {{lj-comm|furaffinity}} (4 December 2009)</ref>

Fur Affinity came back online with the forums first on Tuesday, December 8 <ref>''[http://community.livejournal.com/furaffinity/212707.html 08/Dec]'' - [[thevirtualcat]], {{lj-comm|furaffinity}} (8 December 2009)</ref> and the rest of the site returned to full use at around 12:30 AM EST, Wednesday, December 9. <ref>''[http://community.livejournal.com/furaffinity/212707.html 09/Dec]'' - [[The Dragoneer]], {{lj-comm|furaffinity}} (9 December 2009)</ref><ref>''[http://twitter.com/furaffinity/status/6489402972 Furaffinity Tweet Announcing the Site is Back]'' - [[The Dragoneer]] - [http://twitter.com/furaffinity Furaffinity Twitter Page] (9 December 2009)</ref>

=== Server enhancements (2010) ===

In March 2010, [[deviantART]]-like profile ID [[image]]s, in which one could post an image as a persistent identification badge (often containing basic information such as a name, date of birth, and likes/dislikes), were enabled for Fur Affinity user profile pages.

On April 17, the embedding of [[YouTube]] and other external [[wikipedia:Adobe Flash|Adobe Flash]]-based videos within journal posts was enabled. Embeds of videos are visible within post pages but are rendered as their respective [[W:URL|URL]] text links when one sees the most recent journal post in the profile page.

In October 2010, a feature was introduced, which allows the owner of a submission or journal to hide a comment given in that submission, which is also possible for the owner of the comment. In addition, administrators could hide and unhide every comment posted to any submission sitewide.

=== Server hack (2010) ===

On December 17, a hacker was able to use a cross-site scripting (XSS) exploit<ref>''http://community.livejournal.com/furaffinity/213163.html'' FA Livejournal</ref> that existed in the trouble ticket system to take control of an administrator account. The site was taken offline while this was fixed, and resumed normal operations a few hours later.

The next day, an administrator's personal email account was compromised, allowing the hacker to request a password reset on Fur Affinity. This time, the site was not taken offline, instead, the administrators all had their admin permissions pulled, but not before the hacker was able to wipe a number of user's galleries and download the private notes of several high-profile users.
[[File:Simple Warren Bust.png|right|thumb|''Simple Warren Bust'' by Warren Duster]]
The forums were also accessed during this time and had the private Admin boards exposed to the public. FurAffinity has reported a total of 41 accounts were accessed. Dragoneer has since then apologized to those whose accounts were accessed and has offered them a free sponsorship-level membership to [[FA: United]].

It should be noted that former FA developer, Eevee, had mentioned<ref>[http://eevee.livejournal.com/329817.html Eevee] (Retrieved ?)</ref> the possibility that a XSS exploit existed in the trouble ticket system a few months earlier, after Eevee had demonstrated that the hide comment feature was insecure and would allow anyone to hide any comment. Critics{{who}} said that FurAffinity was well aware that the site code was vulnerable to attacks like the initial XSS exploits for years, but have been slow to fix it.{{fact}}

=== Furocity staff merge ===

In July 2011 Dragoneer announced that [[Furocity]] and FurAffinity would be "Joining forces"<ref>http://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/103573-Fur-Affinity-Furocity-Merger-Announcement?p=2618095#post2618095</ref>, with many members of Furocity's staff joining FurAffinity.

Over a month later, 7 members of Furocity's staff were officially brought on board without warning the existing staff<ref>http://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/105754-New-Staff-Structure-and-Admins?p=2656512&viewfull=1#post2656512</ref>, some of whom were removed from their administrator positions.{{fact}} New "departments" were created to better serve the users.

=== 10.000.000 user posts ===

In February 24, 2013, Fur Affinity reached the milestone of 10,000,000 submitted media.<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/4376076 ''10,000,000'' post] by Fender on his Fur Affinity account (Retrieved February 26, 2013)</ref> The file that made this possible was '''''Simple Warren Bust''''', by artist [[Warren Duster]].<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10000000 "Simple Warren Bust" submission] by Warren Duster on his Fur Affinity account (Retrieved February 26, 2013)</ref>

=== Zaush ===

On December 2013, [[furry artist]] [[Zaush]] joins the Fur Affinity staff as a volunteer developer/designer to help on the site's further development,<ref>[https://twitter.com/Zaush/status/415375416405151744 Zaush announcement about joining Fur Affinity] post on [[Twitter]]. Posted December 23, 2013. Retrieved January 17, 2014.</ref> codenamed '''Project Phoenix'''.<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5417252 ''Banner Update + Project Phoenix''] post by [[Fender]] on Fur Affinity. Posted January 15, 2014. Retrieved January 17, 2014.</ref>

===Ursa Major Awards===
Fur Affinity won the [[2012 Ursa Major Awards|2012]] and [[2012 Ursa Major Awards|2013]] [[Ursa Major Awards]] for Best Anthropomorphic Website.<ref>[http://www.ursamajorawards.org/UMA_2012.htm Ursa Major Awards - 2012] on the UMA website. Retrieved June 2, 2014.</ref><ref>[http://www.ursamajorawards.org/UMA_2013.htm Ursa Major Awards - 2013] on the UMA website. Retrieved June 2, 2014.</ref>

=== DDoS Attack (2014) ===

On Tuesday, October 14th Fur Affinity suffered a major [[Wikipedia:Denial-of-service attack|Distributed Denial of Service attack]], which led to apparent copycat attacks on other furry sites.<ref>[http://www.reddit.com/r/furry/comments/2jikj4/lets_talk_ddos/ "Let's Talk DDOS"] - posting by Dragoneer on Reddit. Dated October 17, 2014. Retrieved October 19, 2014.</ref><ref>''[https://www.flayrah.com/5888/furry-websites-face-broad-denial-service-attacks Furry websites face broad denial-of-service attacks]'' - [[GreenReaper]], [[Flayrah]] (16 October 2014)</ref>

=== IMVU Acquisition ===

In March of 2015, it was revealed that Fur Affinity (along with Ferrox LLC) had been sold in its entirety to [[IMVU]] for an undisclosed sum. The sale had taken place in January but was only revealed two months later. This move has proven to be extremely controversial, with many users expressing their dissatisfaction with the acquisition via submissions and icons. [[Dragoneer]] has publicly stated that IMVU does not plan to change the purpose or contents of Fur Affinity, but in April 2015 it was revealed that IMVU had ordered the admins to place large ads in a sidebar with submission information. This change was universally panned and subsequently reverted in under 24 hours.

=== Server Hack/Source Code Leak (2016) ===

On May 17th, 2016 at approximately 11:44 AM Eastern Time, [[Fur Affinity]] went offline, displaying the temporarily offline message.<ref>[http://i.imgur.com/VuJTzNV.png] - Image of FA offline message.</ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/furaffinity/status/732600847729889281 Fur Affinity on Twitter] - posting by Fur Affinity on Twitter. Posted May 17, 2016. Retrieved May 17, 2016.</ref> Using an exploit in FA's image processing software (ImageMagick), an unknown attacker gained a copy of [[Fur Affinity]]'s source code. The exploit was patched earlier in May. This unknown attacker then distributed USB drives containing the source code at [[Biggest Little Fur Con 2016]].<ref>[https://i.imgur.com/o0gwbetl.jpg] - Photo of one of the USB drives distributed with FA's source code. Posted May 17, 2016. Retrieved May 17, 2016.</ref> At least two of these USBs have been found at [[Biggest Little Fur Con]] Con Ops.<ref>[https://twitter.com/NVCannon/status/732696987624046592 BLFCannon on Twitter] - Posted by BLFCannon on Twitter. Posted May 17, 2016. Retrieved May 17, 2016.</ref> Anyone with information regarding the USBs has been asked to contact [[Dragoneer]]. While a USB that [[Dragoneer]] was given was being analyzed, someone launched a second attack against the site using the information from the source code. The attack targeted the site database, deleting user information, submissions and watches. The attack was stopped before any other damage could be done. <ref>[http://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/05-17-2016.1530505/ 5/17 Site Attack] - posted by [[Dragoneer]] on [[Fur Affinity Forums]]</ref> Journals, notes, passwords and personal information were not affected. Backups have been restored to the FA servers.<ref>[http://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/05-17-2016.1530505/#post-5471300 5/17 Site Attack Update] - posted by [[Dragoneer]] on [[Fur Affinity Forums]]</ref> All submissions, favorites, watches, and profile updates made between the 11th of May and the time of the breach have been lost.<ref>[https://twitter.com/Sciggles/status/732979538821550081 Sciggles on Twitter] - posted by Sciggles on Twitter. Posted May 18, 2016. Retrieved May 18, 2016.</ref>

Whilst Dragoneer initially posted that "we have no hard evidence to believe that user account data has been compromised",<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/furry/comments/4k04oz/fur_affinity_back_online/ Fur Affinity Back Online] - posted by [[Dragoneer]] on Reddit.</ref> on May 20 he admitted that "the attackers have access to personal user data, such as encrypted passwords and email addresses".<ref>[https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7586466 Announcement] on Fur Affinity. Dated May 20, 2016. Retrieved May 21, 2016.</ref> As a result, all users were forced to reset their passwords.

In late September, the hackers released the contents of Fur Affinity's trouble ticket and suspensions databases.<ref>[https://forums.vivisector.org/index.php?topic=888.msg9837#msg9837 "Re: Oops, FA Got Hacked (Again)"] - message by [[Conan]] on [[Vivisector]]. Dated October 1, 2016. Retrieved October 1, 2016.</ref>

=== Shock troll pictures (2017) ===

On December the 9th, 2017, a massive 600 account bot troll started uploading gore artwork to the front of Fur Affinity, flooding the artwork page. The accounts were created from October the 16th to November the 2nd as a pre-planned attack on Fur Affinity. In response, Fur Affinity shut down the Accounts responsible and the individual who made them. They shut down uploads for a short period. They had 5 minutes of server downtime and conducted maintenance on the server the next day

=== UI update (January 2020) ===

At the start of the new year in January, 2020. '''Fur Affinity''' received its first complete overhaul of the websites UI (User-Interface) since 2007. The update included; a major color change, extra template choices, modern styled graphics, the revival of the top-of-page banner, and many other aspects.

=== DDoS (February 2020) ===

On February the 20th, 2020, Fur Affinity's host [[Cloudflare]] was hit by a massive [[W:Denial-of-service attack|Distributed Denial of Service attack]] (DDoS) that left the site offline for 2 days<ref>[https://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/feb-20-2020-outage.1665996/]. Retrieve ?.</ref>. This attack spread throughout 100+ websites that were attached to Fur Affinity's host. The website came back online on February the 22nd, 2020.

=== Re-acquisition by Dragoneer ===

On Monday, January 25, 2021, Parent company IMVU announced that it had completed a round of funding bringing in $35 million and that it would re-organize under the name ''Together Labs''<ref>[https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/25/imvu-35-million-funding/ ''Virtual social network IMVU raises $35M from China's NetEase and others''] - article on [[TechCrunch]]. Dated 25 January 25, 2021. Retrieved February 5, 2021.</ref>. That Friday, Dragoneer tweeted that he had something to announce on Monday<ref>''[https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/1355013971179417602 Today marks a big change in my life, and a return to my roots. I can't wait to share it with you all on Monday.]'' - Post by Dragoneer on Twitter, Dated January 28, 2021. Retrieved February 5, 2021.</ref>.

On Monday, February 1, 2021, Dragoneer announced that he had regained sole ownership of the site<ref>[https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/1356436300166004739 ''In today's news: I bought back Fur Affinity. It's mine once again. *plops the "site owner" placard back on his desk* I missed you.''] - Post by Dragoneer on Twitter, Dated February 1, 2021. Retrieved February 5, 2021.</ref> which was being divested by IMVU as a result of the reorganization announced a week prior. As a result of the reacquisition, Dragoneer's employment with IMVU was terminated, which caused him to lose his health insurance. Dragoneer tweeted that due to the loss of his insurance, he "had to drop [his] anti-depressants and bipolar medication cold turkey"<ref>''[https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/1356473257428463616 My only regret is I no longer have health insurance and had to drop my anti-depressants and bipolar medication cold turkey. Trying to spin up my art game so I can afford them again, as it's gonna be rough without 'em.]'' - @Dragoneer (1 February 2021)</ref> and that the purchase of the site put him in considerable financial distress, saying he "took out loans and spent every dime [he] had on FA"<ref>''[https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/1356443047635148800 I have zero freakin' money. I literally took out loans and spent every dime I had on FA. XD]'' - @Dragoneer (1 February 2021)</ref> and that it cost him more to buy it back than he sold it for<ref>''[https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/1356439416114405378 I wish, but... no.]'' - @Dragoneer (1 February 2021)</ref>. Dragoneer offered no explanation for how he planned to repay the loans, only replying to a Twitter user that "FA's fundings and my own are completely separate entities."<ref>[https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/1356748754607603713] - @Dragoneer (1 February 2021)</ref> and later claimed that he still had "some money", contradicting his earlier statements that he "spent every dime" on FA<ref>''[https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/1357401154091692032 I've got money. Not a ton, but I do have some cash.]'' - @Dragoneer (4 February 2021)</ref>. Dragoneer has made references to another party that was also interested in acquiring the site, though has not mentioned their identity, and that he did what he did because he felt the other option "wasn't as good"<ref>[https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/1356468538618376198 ''Because the other choice wasn't as good.''] - Post by Dragoneer on Twitter. Dated February 1, 2021. Retrieved February 5, 2021.</ref>

==== Community Response ====

The response to the news by the furry community was mixed. While many users of FurAffinity saw this as positive news, others expressed concern and alarm that Dragoneer was willing to take on debt and go off of important medications just to re-acquire the site<ref>''[https://twitter.com/orinoxide/status/1356622513015554048 Genuinely alarming foreshadowing going on here.]'' - @orinoxide (2 February 2021)</ref>. Some compared his actions to those made by investors from [[W:Reddit|Reddit]] participating in the [[W:GameStop_Short_Squeeze|GameStop Short Squeeze]] that was ongoing at the time<ref>''[https://twitter.com/fawksnews/status/1356451742984982529 People are saying investing in the Reddit stocks is a bad investment strategy, but let me tell you, throwing all your money into FurAffinity in 2021 is certainly up there in "bad investment strategies"] - @Fawksnews (1 February 2021)</ref>. Others suggested this is nothing more than a continuation of what critics like [[Vivisector_(website)|Vivisector]] have called a "death grip" on the site, in an attempt to remain a figurehead in the community<ref>''[https://twitter.com/technicolorpie/status/1357341109052006401 His agreement with IMVU happened because he could keep being head of the site even though they owned it. A new owner might not want to make him that deal. If his position goes, so does any real relevance he has in the community.] - @TechnicolorPie (4 February 2021)</ref> and that this is the latest link in a chain of events that stems from [http://archive.md/K7lg8 "The Olive Garden Incident"] that took place in 2003.

== Controversy ==

=== Pornographic cub art ===

* August 2006 saw the restart of an internal administrative debate over the presence of [[pornographic]] [[W:Underage|underage]] [[furry artwork]] (or "[[cub]] art").{{fact}} Such art was forbidden by the site's [[W:TOS|Terms of Service]], which specified that "depictions of [[sex|sexually]] immature characters in any sexual situation are not permitted on Fur Affinity", but bans for this rule were not uniformly enforced. As with previous discussions, administrators could not come to an agreement on whether or not to modify site policy.{{fact}} Over the following months, the issue developed into a public debate, with forum polls and discussion suggesting that the site's members were divided on the topic.

*On November 5, 2006, it was announced that such work would be allowed, with the requirement of mandatory tagging. The main reasons given for this decision were that no actual minors were harmed during the artwork's creation, and that depictions of many other illegal activities, such as [[W:Rape|rape]], [[W:Murder|murder]], and [[W:Drug use|drug use]], were not permitted. Conversely, work that depicted [[human]] children, including [[anime characters]], in [[sexual]] situations was also forbidden.<ref>''"[http://forums.furaffinity.net/showthread.php?t=3965 ''FA Policy Notice - "Cub" Art'']"''. Posted by The Dragoneer on November 5, 2006, [http://web.archive.org/web/20120229055619/http://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/3965-FA-Policy-Notice-Cub-Art archived] February 29, 2012.</ref> Non-photorealistic art depicting minors is no longer forbidden (current policy on this point is mere that submissions "shall not violate the law of the United States of America, be it State or Federal.") Some artists{{who}} had threatened to leave the site if it was not forbidden, and some of these did so.{{fact}}

*On November 24, 2010, [[Dragoneer]] officially changed site policy to:
{{q|FA does not permit content containing minors involved in sexual situations. This applies to humans ([[W:Loli|Loli]], [[W:Shota|Shota]]) or otherwise human-like characters (i.e. Cub) who are, without question, under the general legal age (18)}}
This was due to [[W:AlerPay|AlertPay]] (their funding) dropping them, citing mature cub art as the reason. Artists were given 21 days to clean their galleries, and cub artists were given protection from harassment.

This caused an uproar within the cub community, with several artists{{who}} clearing their galleries, and migrating to [[Sofurry]] or [[Inkbunny]] (although several users and artists{{who}} alike saw the cub porn removal as a positive aspect for FA, some of whom even praised Dragoneer for the decision).{{fact}}

It escalated to the point where Dragoneer and other admins received death threats from disgruntled artists.{{fact}} The ban also led furry musical comedy act [[Drama Armada]] to record the song "''Where Has All The Cub Porn Gone?''"<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5541107 "Where Has All The Cub Porn Gone?"] (Retrieved ?)</ref> (a parody of [[w:Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?|"Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?"]] by [[w:Paula Cole|Paula Cole]]).

=== Thanksgiving banner (2008) ===
[[File:ThanksgivingFA.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Rednef and Fender's Thanksgiving banner]]
The November 2008 Thanksgiving banner featured pictures of community mascots [[Rednef]] and [[Fender]] depicted as immensely [[W:Obese|obese]] after a [[W:Turkey meal|turkey meal]], to the point of resembling [[inflation]] art. Some FA users{{who}} complained about the nature of the image as being "tasteless", "disgusting", a "fucking fetish", "shit", etc...,{{fact}} often referencing the fact that the artist's gallery was full of fat fetish pictures.

Counter-arguments against this initial argument, such as "there are fat people in real life", "fat isn't necessarily a fetish", "eating lots is kinda connected with this time of year", "it's just up for a day anyway," had no effect in dissuading the initial users, so after almost a dozen threads with neither the "for" nor "against" sides of the disagreement demonstrating any ability to come to an acceptable decision over the image, FA administrators replaced the image with the initial November Fall themed banner to stem the bad blood running though the archives and forum.<ref>[http://forums.furaffinity.net/showthread.php?t=31532&highlight=removed Thread discussing the banner removal]</ref>

By late Thanksgiving Day, The banner was replaced with plain text reading "FurAffinity.net"; however new threads appeared complaining about the ''removal'' of the banner{{fact}} and, a few hours afterward, it was reinstated and went on to serve its term the rest of the day.{{fact}} After which the November banner was put back in use.

=== Thanksgiving banner (2009) ===

The Thanksgiving 2009 banner was a relatively harmless image of a turkey made to look like Fender being placed into an oven. This banner was still complained about, with users going so far as to claim it depicted the cooking or [[vore]] [[fetish]]es, though it is unclear how many of them were genuine complaints and how many were simply jokingly referring to the massive amount of complaints resulting from the 2008 banner.

=== Chewfox's appearance on The Tyra Banks Show ===

:''Main article'': ''[[The Tyra Banks Show]]'' and [[Chew Fox]]

=== Former Furocity staff departure (2011) ===

In late October 2011, several{{clarify}} of the Furocity administrators brought over after the merge abruptly resigned, citing gross negligence by the original Fur Affinity staff and owner, and the apparent disregard of such by Dragoneer.<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/user/photografuhrer [[Photografuhrer]] (former FA photography administrator) and leaving FA.] Posted on Fur Affinity. Retrieved April 26, 2013.</ref><ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2855774/ ''good-bye'' post] by [[WritenWren]] on Fur Affinity. Posted October 27, 2011. Retrieved April 26, 2013.</ref>

Within a few weeks, [[Daemonshyai|Gavin Daemonshyai]] was the only Furocity staff member left on staff, and the original "department" system was abandoned. He was eventually removed from the administrative staff.{{clarify}}{{fact}}

Dragoneer countered that the real reason the former admins left was due to [[W:Dox|doxing]] (exposing of one's personally identifiable information) online.<ref>[http://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/109202-FA-Furocity-4-months-on.?p=2728631&viewfull=1#post2728631 ''Re: FA + Furocity: 4 months on.''] post on the Fur Affinity Forums. Posted . Retrieved April 26, 2013.</ref>

=== "Aged up" guideline (2012) ===
[[File:NewSonicAgeRules.png|right|thumb|Sonic "age up" guideline diagram|300px]]
On February 8, 2012, it was announced by Sciggles that a new "age up" guideline was now in effect regarding [[Sonic]] characters' "[[cub]] art".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150822223113/https://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/114609-Sonic-Guidelines-for-Mature-Adult-Images ''Guidelines for Mature/Adult Sonic Images''] (Archive of August 22, 2015)</ref> Sexual artwork of the characters canon image would not be allowed, as they were considered, by FA staff, as cub characters.

No restrictions would be imposed on Sonic sexual material as long as the characters were "aged up" (with a diagram provided).

It was later clarified that ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]'' would not be covered by this rule, except for [[Baby Spike]] and the [[Cutie Mark Crusaders]], while ''[[Tiny Toons]]'' would be. No other animated shows were mentioned further in the post.

Pinkuh reiterated on the FA forums that this announcement was a reconfirmation of a "Sonic age up" policy posted on 2010 on the FA's forum.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150822222734/https://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/88335-A-clarification-on-sonic-underage ''A clarification on sonic/underage''] (Archive of August 22, 2015)</ref>

On September 7, 2012, administrators began banning artists of "aged-up" Sonic adult art.{{fact}}

=== "''Exodus''" ===

On February 16, 2013, user [[Qarrezel]] posted an opinion piece ("''Exodus''"),<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/4343379/ ''Exodus''] post on Qarrezel's FA account (Retrieved February 15, 2013)</ref> on her Fur affinity account, where she expressed her frustration towards the apparent non-response of the Fur Affinity staff to deal with user [http://www.furaffinity.net/user/fredriksam/ Fredriksam's] inferred stalking behavior towards her friend and client, [http://www.furaffinity.net/user/tarangryph/ Tarangryph].

On it, Qarrezel presented the case that not only had Fredriksam posted Tarangryph's personal information online, contacted her to try to gain more of it, and wrote disturbing sexual material involving her persona,{{fact}} but that the FA staff actually went out of the way to "punish" her by not banning the user, but by also removing all information Tarangryph had posted about her apparent stalker.<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/4337035/ ''Leaving FA.''] post by Tarangryph on her FA account (Retrieved February 16, 2013)</ref>

The FA staff responded to the issue in several ways:

* Admin [[Qoph]] replied on the thread<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/4343379/#cid:31837225 Qoph response on the ''Exodus''] journal entry on Fur Affinity (Retrieved February 16, 2013)</ref> that immediate action was not taken regarding Fredriksam because the original ticket was issued by a third party person (user [[Svedge]]) with no evidence, and that they did exchange information about it with Tarangryph, but wanted to discuss the situation with Dragoneer because of the serious nature of the possible offense. On the removal of Tarangryph's journal containing all the "evidence" against Fredriksam, Qoph responded that that was a "''normal action''", in compliance by FA TOS' rules.
* Admin [[Cerberusnl]] inquired Tarangryph further about the subject on her "''Leaving FA.''" journal, and reaffirming that her journal, classified as a "callout journal", was a proper subject for deletion because of the TOS rules.<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/4337035/#cid:31835764 Cerberusnl response on the ''Leaving FA.''] journal entry on Fur Affinity (Retrieved February 16, 2013)</ref>
* Dragoneer responded initially to the issue via ticket response saying that:
{{q|The admin took the right course of action in this case. I don't feel it's something to leave FA over, as if it happened on FA, it will happen on /any/ site. It's unfortunate, but a choice they have made. I'll respect that.}}
And that there was not enough solid evidence to ban the user "at that time."<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/4344605/#cid:31841971 Dragoneer response on the ''VERY Important! This could Affect ALL FA Users''] journal entry on Fur Affinity. Retrieved February 16, 2013.</ref>

The post generated more than 1900+ responses, most of them critical to the FA staff's response (or lack of it) to the issue. A number of FA users, including Qarrezel and Tarangryph, announced that they would be leaving Fur affinity because of it. Fredriksam was eventually suspended and had his IP address blocked when some evidence of stalking behavior (creating a [[W:Sock puppet|sock puppet]] account, [[Fredriksam|Garageman]], to continue harassing Tarangryph) was posted on FA.<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/4337035/#cid:31843461 [[Synwolf]] response on the ''Leaving FA.''] journal entry on Fur Affinity (Retrieved February 16, 2013)</ref>

Dragoneer further expanded on the controversy on two later FA posts: [http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/4356040/ ''TaranGryph, Stalking, Drama and FA.''] and [http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/4358019 ''Clarification on Off Site Content''].

=== Exodus II (mid-January 2014) ===

Due to to Zaush's perceived actions,{{fact}} and/or the unnecessary drama some people felt it generated,{{fact}} a large group of user's moved their accounts to [[Weasyl]],{{fact}} either emptying out their archives, leaving them as is but abandoned, or keeping accounts in both FA and Weasyl. Activity on Weasyl spiked at 16,000 daily users (four times the levels at the start of the year), but had slowly descended to 8,000 users by October 2014.<ref>[https://status.weasyl.com/munin/weasyl.com/davaux.i.weasyl.com/weasyl_active_sessions_1d.html Weasyl active sessions over 1d]. Accessed 12 December 2014.</ref>

=== Exodus III, Porn ads (June 2015) ===
[[File:FA Adporn Exodus.jpg|right|thumb|Adult ads examples on [[Chip n'Death]]'s FA page]]
[[File:Furaffinity ads3.png|right|thumb|Samples of adult ads rotated on FA pages]]
[[File:FA Aporn SFWmode.png|right|thumb|Normal ads displayed on the (fixed) SFW mode]]
On June 22, 2015, a new admin post ('''''Banner Update, Ad & Server Updates''''') announced various changes to the banner and advertisement display news and rules.<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6831187 06/22/2015 - Banner Update, Ad & Server Updates] post on Fur Affinity. Dated June 22, 2015, Retrieve June 25, 2015.</ref>

The biggest change was on the section '''''Advertising Changes''''':
{{q|We've enabled mature third-party ads on submissions which contain adult content. These ads will also show up on any page where adult content is visible (such as in a thumbnail). The system was recently updated to detect whether a page has General-rated content or contains adult material, and displays ads accordingly.}}
The ads, which ranged from adult to extremely explicit, were only to be displayed in the NSFW section of FA, where "mature" and above tag, media was displayed. The first issues were the amount, and content of the ads, even their appearance on FA's SFW mode.{{cn}}

This caused a number of artists to move, once more, to various hosting solutions (Weasyl, deviantART, Tumblr, Twitter and others), either cleaning their account or moving them to the "scraps" section.{{cn}}

An updated '''''06/22/2015 - Banner Update, Ad & Server Updates [EDITED]''''' announced that:
{{q|The mature ads have been scaled back while we remove campaigns which violated the limitations we implemented. Users should only see a limited amount per 24 hour period while we evaluate them on our side.}}

Some users pointed out that the ads ran afoul of their own site content rules:<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6831187#cid:46280669 ''Banner Update, Ad & Server Updates [EDITED]''] thread comment by [[Tato]]. Dated June 22, 2015, Retrieve June 25, 2015.</ref>
{{q|1.10 - Do not post links to content that is prohibited by any of Fur Affinity’s rules. This includes links to real life pornography, malware, malicious scripts, websites featuring the illegal streaming of copyrighted content, or content in public (journals, profiles) or General Rated (AUP 1.1) areas that lead to Mature/Adult Rated material that is not behind a warning splash page.{{cn}}}}

By June 25, adult ads are still displayed, but the SFW was fixed.

=== Silver Eagle, the "ClusterFur" and FurryDigital ===
{{main|Silver Eagle}}

In the fall of 2015 and spring of 2016, developer [[Silver Eagle]] worked with FA to build a new version of the site, using open-source software based on his previous [http://ponyvillelive.com/ Ponyville Live] project. This rewrite was code-named "Daedalus", and Silver Eagle would become one of FA's first independent contractors, receiving payment for his time spent working on the project.

In late January 2016, a dispute involving payment for Silver Eagle's services arose, prompting him to release a YouTube video titled "The ClusterFur" describing his experiences, and to publish the unfinished project as a public GitHub repository named "FAOpen". FA's parent company, IMVU, acted quickly to process his payment (which was received less than a week later) and avoid further issues.

Fearing FA would refuse to use his code and his project would become abandonware, Silver Eagle finished the website as a personal hobby project and rebranded it completely, launching it as a new site named "FurryDigital". While the site did not bear FA's name or branding, as it had been based on the FAOpen codebase, many elements of the UI and rules/terms were very similar. IMVU almost immediately took issue with this, contacting Silver Eagle less than a week after the new site's launch and threatening possible legal action if he did not shut the site down. He promptly complied the next day, shutting down FurryDigital after 5 days of operation.

IMVU has not indicated whether shutting down FurryDigital will be sufficient to avoid legal action. The organization's silence on the issue was only interrupted on February 27, 2016, when FurAffinity [https://forums.vivisector.org/index.php?topic=871.20 permabanned] Silver Eagle for "plagiarism and theft of Fur Affinity assets". This response prompted Silver Eagle to panic and fear further legal action, causing his brief hospitalization for [http://silvereaglepvl.tumblr.com/post/140141735522/suicidal-ideation-and-the-er-my-experience suicidal ideation]. He was released the following day, and has not heard further updates from IMVU regarding their plans.

Perhaps ironically, on March 3, 2016, FurAffinity published updates to their beta UI that moved their header navigation below the site-wide banner, added icons next to header items and renamed "Submit" to "Upload". All of these items [http://i.imgur.com/7L0yYP4.png had been previously included] in the FurryDigital alpha prior to its shutdown.

=== Paddington Bear DMCA ===

In December of 2016, a company representing [[wikipedia:StudioCanal|StudioCanal]] contacted Dragoneer and requested the removal of all images relating to their intellectual property, the [[Paddington Bear]] brand. This included all artwork of the character, [[pornography|adult]] or otherwise, drawings of characters wearing clothing similar to the character, drawings in which the word "Paddington" was used but was otherwise unrelated to the character, and photographs of real people standing in front of promotional posters for the ''[[wikipedia:Paddington (film)|Paddington]]'' film.<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7957878/ "DMCA Overreach"] - Fur Affinity journal by Dragoneer dated December 5th, 2016. Retrieved December 6th, 2016.</ref> The same company also sent a similar request to [[e621]].<ref>[https://e621.net/takedown/show/5246 "Takedown #5246"] - Takedown notice on e621. Retrieved December 7th, 2016.</ref>

Dragoneer later published in a journal a message from Paddington and Company that explained that because a portion of the Paddington-related images on the site was pornographic in nature, which they believed violated [[wikipedia:Fair dealing in United Kingdom law|fair dealing]], they sent DMCA notices regarding ''all'' Paddington images on the site, stating:

{{quote|You have a lot of Paddington images on the site including many pornographic ones and to go through your site image by image to determine which is acceptable and which is offensive is impractical, especially as they change constantly. If you remove the pornographic images then you will find that this problem is easily resolved and you will not hear further from us or Surelock.<ref name="Paddington response">[https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7964514/ "Paddington Company Response"], Fur Affinity journal entry by Dragoneer. Retrieved December 8, 2016.</ref>}}

In the same journal, Dragoneer stated plans for the userbase "work with [Paddington and Company] to properly come up with a solution".<ref name="Paddington response" />

=== Staffing issues ===

* (Date unknown) - [[Wolfblade]], sponsored by [[DragonMyr]], was made FA Admin, despite a 1 in favour, 13 against vote against him,{{clarify}}{{fact}} prompting calls of [[wikipedia:Cronyism|cronyism]]. .<ref>[https://forums.vivisector.org/index.php?topic=193.msg1523#msg1523 ''FA Retrospectacle (Read 10122 times)''] commeny by former FA admin [[DaveHyena]] ('''A Pigeon''') on Vivisector.org. Posted April 17, 2009. Retrieved April 26, 2013.</ref>

* 2012/2013 - Dragoneer's fiance (and later wife) [[Sciggles]] was appointed to an administrator position - despite having no prior administration or moderation experience - this time prompting calls of [[wikipedia:Nepotism|nepotism]]. Dragoneer had previously stated that Sciggles would not be made an administrator due to their relationship<ref>[http://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/113499-Why-is-Sciggles-an-admin-now-despite-Dragoneer-saying-she-would-not-be-one FA forum's thread "Why is Sciggles an admin now, despite Dragoneer saying she would not be one"] echoes these statements</ref>. After a brief absence, she was re-instated as administrator in 2013<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/user/shivadramon ''Shivadramon''] account created January 23, 2013. </ref> as "Team Lead", a position in which she trains new administrators.

* 2013 - [[Chase]], an FA administrator who resigned from the staff in early 2011 following a fight<ref name="dragoneerlog">[http://furaffinityleaks.blogspot.com/2013/04/furaffinity-truth.html ''FurAffinity Leaks''] Posted by former administrator [[SimbaTheLion]].<pre>[04:55] <~Dragoneer> Chase may have had a rocky past previously, but he was a good admin. We're still on great terms.
He's basically going to be coming in to help with harassment tickets (and only harassment).
[04:55] <~Dragoneer> Kitashi: He and I got into a fight.
[04:55] <&Kitashi> Ah :x
06[04:55] * @Hendikins twitches
[04:56] <~Dragoneer> Hendikins: ?
[04:56] <@Hendikins> I'm just thinking PR.
[04:56] <~Dragoneer> Again, hence with all admin accounts, why he's on an alt and it's on the downlow. If it comes out, we'll announce it.
</pre></ref> with Dragoneer<ref>[https://forums.vivisector.org/index.php?topic=448.msg5555#msg5555 ''Chase resigns from FA staff''] Pastebin chatlog transposed to Vivisector Forums.</ref>, was re-appointed in 2013, although Dragoneer required him to use a alternate account ('''Carmen''') to hide his identity<ref name="dragoneerlog" />. This particular appointment resulted in the resignation of at least one FA staff member.<ref>[https://www.weasyl.com/journal/12396 ''So, about that other site...''] post by [[Hendikins]] on Weasyl. Posted April 3, 2013. Retrieved April 26, 2013.</ref>

* January 2014 - A month after Zaush joined the Fur Affinity team, users complaints (which had been building up slowly since December 2013){{fact}} for FA's decision to accept his helps reaches a boiling point by January 16, 2014.

:The [[furries|fan based]] and [[non-fur]]s' backlash was based on Zaush's allegations of [[W:Sexual misconduct|sexual misconduct]] and [[W:Sexual bullying|bullying]],{{fact}} and even outright [[W:Rape|rape]]{{fact}} of fellow female furs. These past{{fact}} allegations had been brought up for years, intensifying after Zaush's FA involvement. The result was a tremendous amount online discussion topics, pro/against Zaush,{{fact}} rational and/or [[drama]] (Lulz) based.{{fact}}

:This debate spread to [[W:Social media|social media]], [[critic]], personal, and [[forum]] sites{{fact}}, the focal point being Fur Affinity itself. Regarding the situation and allegations, Dragonner and his staff put their support behind Zaush,{{fact}} with Dragoneer declaring the charges "baseless", "without merit", or "not serious enough"{{fact}} to pursue the idea of relieving or removing Zaush from his position.{{fact}} This decision continued to incise people opposed to the hire, upping the ante, specially on FA, which resulted on the suspension or banning of several individuals, and the removal or hiding of their posts in any topic the FA team feel was detrimental to Zaush or the site.

:This lead to the further creation of discussion posts and entries, especially in social media, the creation of sites dedicated to the subject.{{fact}}, and vandalism, especially of Zaush and Fur Affinity's articles on WikiFur.{{fact}}

* November 2014 - New user [[Zidonuke#Fur Affinity|Starrykitten]] is said to be "joining the Dev/Ops team" and is installed as "Tech Team Lead".<ref>''[http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6265766 11/13/2014 Site Status, New Coder, Stats]'' - [[Fur Affinity]] (November 13, 2014)</ref> Initial mood is positive, but after pressure reveal himself to be [[Zidonuke]],<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6265766#cid:43154957 Comment to ''Site Status, New Coder, Stats''] - Starrykitten (November 17, 2014). Retrieved Dec 03, 2014.</ref> a former hacker of furry site [[F-list]], and that he's had secret "admin" access for a year; he subsequently resigns.<ref>''[http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6311970 12/01/2014 Site Status and Community Updates]'' - [[Chase]] and [[Dragoneer]], [[Fur Affinity]] (December 1, 2014)</ref>

=== Hate group bans ===
Fur Affinity's Code of Conduct was updated September 4, 2017.<ref>[https://www.flayrah.com/7081/fur-affinity-updates-code-conduct-disallow-hate-groups "Fur Affinity updates code of conduct to disallow hate groups"] - [[Sonious]] for ''[[Flayrah]]''. Dated September 6, 2017. Retrieved August 30, 2018.</ref> The rule, 2.7, read as follows:

{{quote|Do not identify with or promote hate groups and their ideologies
A hate group is one that advocates and practices hatred, hostility, or violence towards members of a designated sector of society (e.g. Nazism, KKK, ISIS). Symbols specifically associated with these groups will not be permitted in user avatars, non-fictional content, or content intended solely to disrupt the community.

Users who identify with or promote hate groups and their ideologies may be permanently banned from Fur Affinity without warning.}}

Or, in short, "Do not promote hate while on the site."<ref>[https://www.furaffinity.net/coc Code of Conduct] - Fur Affinity. Relevant portion under section "Other Users and You". Retrieved August 30, 2018.</ref>

On May 15, 2018, several dozen{{fact}} FA accounts were banned from the site for presumed violations of this updated policy.<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8733053 Fur Affinity COC 2.7 Updated]. Post by [[Fender]] on [[FurAffinity]]. Dated May 15, 2018. Retrieved May 17, 2018.</ref> This included personal and group accounts related to [[AltFurry]] ('''FurRight'''), [[Furry Raiders]] and other perceived [[W:Alt-Right|Alt-Right]] connected accounts.

Complaints came in swiftly, from dishonest denials of association by proven members of hate groups,<ref>[http://archive.today/2018.05.17-015328/https://twitter.com/SmartWhitefang/status/996494826324529152 "This its how @furaffinity treat the users."] post on Twitter. Retrieved May 17, 2018.</ref><ref>[http://archive.today/2018.05.15-170408/https://twitter.com/fesothe/status/996424757997441025 "So I got banned from FA for doing nothing."] post on Twitter. Retrieved May 17, 2018.</ref> to banned and not banned users acting in unison with hate groups to argue that biased staff had failed to also strike down [[Wikipedia:Left-wing politics|leftist]] "hate/terrorist" individuals and groups (e.g. [[Deo Tas Devil]], [[W:Antifa|Antifa]], "Far-Left"/"Alt-left" accounts and [[Communist Furs]]).<ref>[http://archive.today/2018.05.18-022449/https://twitter.com/KudaKeileon/status/996592138774286337 "FurAffinity Bans Right Leaning Furries,..."] post on Twitter. Retrieved May 17, 2018.</ref><ref>[http://archive.today/2018.05.18-023026/https://twitter.com/JohnVanStry/status/996794654619156480 "The communists have taken over FurAffinity."] post on Twitter. Retrieved May 17, 2018.</ref> Instructions were passed among the affected and sympathizers to vacate to other sites, specifically, Inkbunny,<ref>[http://archive.today/2018.05.18-024919/https://twitter.com/MajoTiggie2/status/996473977760550912 "Just logged into FA to find this."] post on Twitter. Retrieved May 17, 2018.</ref><ref>[http://archive.today/2018.05.18-025122/https://twitter.com/citrinewarrior/status/996588580670668800 "After seeing what's happened..."] post on Twitter. Retrieved May 17, 2018.</ref><ref>[http://archive.today/2018.05.18-025332/https://twitter.com/legofreak446/status/996439276198944768 "Well, looks like @furaffinity is..."] post on Twitter. Retrieved May 17, 2018.</ref> and baseless accusations were made to pin blame (from Antifa-cowered FA staff to outright ban demands/orders from the online news site [[Dogpatch Press]] that did not occur).<ref>[http://archive.today/2018.05.17-015013/https://twitter.com/lordvictor/status/996861977438892032 "It's because Dogshit Press told them to,..."] post on Twitter. Retrieved May 17, 2018.</ref><ref>[http://archive.today/2018.05.17-231744/https://twitter.com/FurRightDiscord/status/996903527782993920 "Sources say...."] post on Twitter. Retrieved May 17, 2018.</ref> The sources of the accusations were then exposed as working for and tied to alt-right leaders outside the furry fandom. Evidence of these ties included FBI press releases, leaks from media group Unicorn Riot, a call inside the Furry Raiders by Milo Yiannopoulos to destroy furry conventions and instigate street fights with the Proud Boys at Midwest Furfest, and the actions and words of banned users admitting their intentions.<ref>[https://dogpatch.press/2020/04/14/terror-teens-furaffinity/ "Terror, Teens, and Furaffinity — How a chain of violent hate incidents links to furry fandom."] post on Dogpatch Press. Retrieved December 17, 2020.</ref> <ref>[https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/09/milos-trolling-reveals-furry-communitys-far-right-problem/ "The furry community is very LGBTQ-inclusive & doesn't tolerate haters like Milo."] post on LGBTQNation. Retrieved December 17, 2020.</ref> <ref>[https://youtu.be/hk2prPP3OMI "Altfurry Origins"] Youtube video. Retrieved December 17, 2020.</ref>

It would be three days after the bans (May 18), when frivolous legal proceedings initiated by [[Roy Calbeck]] were to take the form of a lawsuit against FA's parent company, IMVU, for:
{{q|[[W:Defamation|Defamation]]/[[W:Breach of Contract|Breach of Contract]] against IMVU for actions taken by their wholly-owned subsidiary, @FurAffinity.<ref>[https://archive.fo/WxcGc ''Torpedos Away.''] post on Twitter. Dated May 18, 2018. Retrieved May 21, 2018.</ref><ref>[https://archive.fo/m6l8r ''Getting a lot of offers for help with the lawsuit...''] post on Twitter. Dated May 18, 2018. Retrieved May 21, 2018.</ref>}}
IMVU filed a [[W:Motion (legal)#To dismiss|motion to dismiss]] the complaint on June 22, 2018,<ref name="Docket">[http://www.superiorcourt.maricopa.gov/docket/CivilCourtCases/caseInfo.asp?caseNumber=CV2018-092198 Case number CV2018-092198] docket on the Maricopa County court's website. Retrieved August 30, 2018.</ref><ref name="Dismissal">[http://www.courtminutes.maricopa.gov/docs/Civil/082018/m8426782.pdf "Minute Entry"]. Retrieved August 30, 2018.</ref> and on August 27, 2018, the court granted the [[W:Prejudice (legal term)|motion without prejudice]], finding that Arizona did not have [[W:Jurisdiction|jurisdiction]] in the case.<ref name="Dismissal"/> The case was held up for ridicule by fandom lawyer Boozy Badger and Roy Calbeck was subsequently suspended from Twitter for abuse of service. <ref>[https://twitter.com/BoozyBadger/status/1136751851725053954 "It was filed in the entirely incorrect jurisdiction..."] Post on Twitter. Retrieved December 17, 2020.</ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/BoozyBadger/status/1034910991518257168 "Want to know how many of my cases are dismissed for improper forum?"] Post on Twitter. Retrieved December 17, 2020.</ref>

Days later after the ban, Dragoneer would be [[W:doxxed|doxxed]] on AltFurry's '''Xanadu''' [[W:social media|social media]] chat channel in retaliation for the bans.<ref>[http://archive.today/OK2RF ''I fully expected I might be doxed...''] post on Twitter. Dated May 19, 2018. Retrieved May 21, 2018.</ref><ref>[http://archive.today/0Nx9L ''""We deleted that shit immediately.""''] post on Twitter. Dated May 19, 2018. Retrieved May 21, 2018.</ref>

=== Russia ban ===

On February 2023, the FA staff posted some information<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/furry/comments/10z6538/fur_affinity_blocked_by_russian_government/ ''Fur Affinity blocked by Russian Government''] post on [[r/furry]] on [[Redditt]]. Retrieved February 13, 2023.</ref> indicating that the Russian government had banned the totality of Fur Affinity due to the site hosting "prohibited content".<ref>[https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/1623771454268489731 ''Recieved an email from the Russian government requesting we add FA with their registry of websites because we host "prohibited content."''] post by [[Dragoneer]] on Twitter.. Retrieved February 13, 2023.</ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/1624106669448781824 ''Got verification Fur Affinity is officially blocked by the Russian government. If they didn't like gay content maybe they shouldn't have had all 'em big, thick bears.''] post by [[Dragoneer]] on Twitter. Retrieved February 13, 2023.</ref> Staff suggested using [[W:VPN|VPNs]] to access Fur Affinity.<ref>[https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/1624107789235650576 ''They can still use VPNs.''] post by [[Dragoneer]] on Twitter. Retrieved February 13, 2023.</ref>

==References==
<references />

==External links==
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20151030074530/http://help.furaffinity.net/article/AA-00226/0/History-of-the-Site-the-Universe-and-Everything.html History of the Site, the Universe and Everything] - [[Dragoneer]] (10 February 2011), archived using the [[wikipedia:Wayback Machine|Wayback Machine]]
* [http://stuff.veekun.com/fa-timeline.html A brief history of Fur Affinity] - critical timeline by [[Eevee]] focusing on site problems, staff promises, rewrite efforts, and disabled features

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[[File:Lavalavavixyvix.jpg|thumb|200px|Example of a Postfurry character -- a lavalamp vixen, created by [[Postvixen]] and illustrated by [[Egypt Urnash]].]]
'''Postfurry''' is a micro-movement within the [[furry community|furry subculture]]<ref>Kristina Tracer, "Postfurry 101", http://orrery.prismaticmedia.com/2016/12/24/postfurry-101-the-pledge/</ref> that uses the intellectual toolkit of [[W:Postmodernism|postmodernism]] to challenge, expand, and play with the definition of [[furry]]. It is strongly influenced by ideas from the [[Wikipedia:Biopunk|biopunk]], [[Wikipedia:Cyberpunk|cyberpunk]] or postcyberpunk approach, [[Wikipedia:Magic realism|magical realism]], [[Wikipedia:Postgenderism|postgenderism]] and [[Wikipedia:Post-structuralism|post-structuralism]]<ref>Kristina Tracer, "Postfurry 102", http://orrery.prismaticmedia.com/2016/12/28/postfurry-102-the-turn/</ref> movements, as well as "other things that draw those with an interest in a biopunk, cyberpunk or postcyberpunk aesthetics to postfurry beyond just the transhumanist leanings, and ditto with magical realism and postmodernism."<ref>Drab Makyo, "On Postfurry", http://adjectivespecies.com/2015/06/17/on-postfurry/</ref> Postfurry incorporates "the queering of furry, transliminality, absurdism, empathy, and conscious identity management"<ref>Kristina Tracer, "Postfurry 103", http://orrery.prismaticmedia.com/2017/01/07/postfurry-103-the-prestige</ref> into a tendency within furry, rather than into a doctrinaire movement.

== History ==

Postfurry coalesced in the early 2000s around [[Postvixen]], [[Egypt Urnash]], and [[Postrodent]]. It primarily expanded through their social circle via [[LiveJournal]], [[Fur Affinity]], and [[MUCK]]s. By 2010 it had settled into being a loose group of creators, [[W:Tropes|tropes]], and themes all producing work that could be identified as postfurry, without identifying ''itself'' as such. The postfurry tendency formed an accretion disc around several furry households in the Pacific Northwest.

The tropes in question tend to blend [[animal]], [[human]], and mechanical forms: [[science-fiction]] tropes of mechanical personhood are often used, as well as visual puns (for example, a "phonogriff" character with strategically placed woofers and tweeters). Sexual content in postfurry is strongly influenced by latex [[fetish]]ism, [[hypnosis]], [[transformation]], [[W:Robot fetishism|robot fetishism]], and [[xenophilia]]. Postfurry content in general is preoccupied with questions of personhood, [[gender]], the future, and the mind, and it tends to approach these questions in optimistic, sex-positive, and self-consciously experimental ways.

Postfurry is commonly associated with biopunk/cyberpunk/postcyberpunk and [[Wikipedia:Transhuman|transhumanist]] science fiction, but it is also influenced by psychedelia, rave aesthetics, anarchist philosophy, [[Wikipedia:Retro-futurism|retro-futurism]], and [[Wikipedia:Post-structuralism|post-structuralism]].

Postfurry [[role-play]] and [[fiction]] often takes a postmodernist view on culture and reality, especially in testing the boundaries of what constitutes a "real furry." Postfurry characters are usually linked to their supposed [[species]] only in a symbolic way that may have nothing at all to do with real-world zoology.

== Artists with postfurry-themed work ==

Not all of these artists self-identify as postfurry: rather, these are artists that postfurries themselves draw inspiration from or whose work often displays postfurry themes.

* [[Egypt Urnash]]
* [[Talynn]]
* [[Tanraak]]
* [[Strype_(person)|Strype]]
* [[Turbine Divinity]]
* [[W:Michael Manning|Michael Manning]]
* [[W:Jean Giraud|Jean Giraud (Mœbius)]]
* [[W:Shirow Masamune|Shirow Masamune]]

== See also ==

* [[Anthroid]]
* [[Body modification]]
* [[Postfurry MUCK]]
* [[PuzzleboxMUCK]]

== References ==
<references/>

== External links ==

* [https://t.me/joinchat/BifdgFk1gxvNzB5GWNRC8g Postfurry Embassy] on [[Telegram]]
* [http://discord.postfurry.net Postfurry Embassy] on [[Discord]]
* [http://postfurry.net/about About Postfurry page]
* [http://wiki.postfurry.net/wiki/Main_Page Postfurry Wiki]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0qcknDuGCM Culturally F'd episode about postfurry]

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'''Tapestries MUCK''' (known as '''Tapestries''' or '''Taps''' for short) is an adults-only [[MUCK]] popular within the [[furry fandom]]. The overall [[roleplaying]] theme is a world of [[anthropomorphic]] [[character]]s, with significant [[BDSM]] undertones. Characters may have consensual [[TinySex]] freely in the public areas of the game world; non-consensual acts are usually restricted to designated areas or private rooms.

In 2012, Tapestries became the largest and most populated [[MU*]] dedicated to the fandom, surpassing [[FurryMUCK]] with a peak of 961 simultaneously connected users.

In March 2007, the MUCK's website was converted into a [[Wikipedia:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] [[Wikipedia:wiki|wiki]].

== The world of the MUCK ==

Tapestries is based around a [[:Category:Culture|culture]] [[Wikipedia:Nexus|nexus]], where furry characters from different backgrounds may interact with each other. This definition includes [[humanoid]] beings such as [[Wikipedia:Elves|elves]], [[Wikipedia:Ogres|ogres]], or [[Wikipedia:Centuars|centaurs]] -- [[human]]s used to be against the game's policies to enforce theming and avoid furry-bashing, but have been permitted as of September 2014.<ref>''[http://www.flayrah.com/5836/tapestries-muck-revokes-no-human-policy Tapestries MUCK revokes no-human policy]'' - [[GreenReaper]], [[Flayrah]] (4 September 2014)</ref> An unlimited variety of character origins are permitted by the game's administrators.

The game world itself is based around the town of [[Layleaux]], the center of most social interaction. Because of the overall adult theme, many of the MUCK's peripheral areas are themed around certain BDSM-based fetishes or interests.

Originally, Tapestries was a multi-world muck, of which the furry region was only one of many that could be reached through a tapestry room (hence the name). This room still exists, in the old [[Cloud Castle|Castle]] section of the MUCK (''t castle; s''), and the [[Furry Valley]] is still accessible through it.

== Mission Statement ==
[[Image:Tapestries_Furry_Leather_Pridex135x135.png|right|Tapestries MUCK]]
Tapestries MUCK is a cross between a real life [[BDSM play party]], a free form roleplaying environment, and a social gathering place all within a [[furry]] theme. It strives to provide a place for safe and free exploration of dominance and submission roleplay, as well as other forms of sexual expression in public and in private. Tapestries facilitates this by providing an environment that is populated exclusively by adult players and furry characters, as well as by setting guidelines that encourage tolerance and respect of other's fantasies and beliefs. In more detail:

=== BDSM ===

A portmanteau word: [[wikipedia:Bondage (BDSM)|Bondage & Discipline]] + [[wikipedia:Domination_and_submission|Dominance & Submission]] + [[wikipedia:Sadism|Sadism]] & [[wikipedia:Masochism|Masochism]]. This is a general breakdown of the acronym, and in this case it is meant to explain that Tapestries MUCK is a place for people who are generally interested in ways to have sex that are outside the mainstream.

=== Social Gathering ===

To find new people, interests, and generally to have fun, it is important to have social gatherings along side the play.

=== Adults ===

The Muck requires that you be 18 years of age or older to create a character. This is important to free people from legal and moral concerns in an environment that caters to sexuality.

=== Tolerance ===

Tolerance of other people's play, fantasies, beliefs, sexuality and other such things is absolutely critical for people to be comfortable sharing the very personal things that they do on Tapestries. Thus a certain level of tolerance and respect that goes beyond mainstream society is required of people that play here.

=== Furry ===

This MUCK is for members of the furry fandom to explore their sexuality and is especially aimed at interests in the type of fantasy creatures that they enjoy. As such people are required to be respectful of the species others wish to play.

== Age policy ==
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Though it is almost impossible to verify, attempts ''are'' made to ensure that no players under the age of 18 join Tapestries. Anyone found to be under this age is typically banned from the game server (until they reach 18 years of age), for the safety of the MUCK.

== Administration ==

Tapestries is administered by a staff of [[wizard]]s who are kept anonymous for their own protection and discretion, with the exception of WhiteWizard, who is publically known to be [[WhiteFire]], the owner and creator of the MUCK. The wizards are code-named after different colours.<ref>[http://www.fur.com/tapestries/wiki/Wizards Wizards - Tapestries MUCK]. Retrieved April 10, 2012.</ref> Tapestries has two active wizards as of August 2014:
* WhiteWizard: Building, head-wizard, policy
* TealWizard: Roleplay encouragement

The administrators meet in the Official Wizard Conference Room, located at the top of one of the towers of [[Cloud Castle]], which contains a semicircular table with appropriately coloured chairs for each wizard.

=== Past wizards ===

Retired or temporarily absent wizards include:

* JadeWizard - '''ON VACATION''': Policy enforcement, conflict management, minors, password request, MUCK information
* GreyWizard - '''ON VACATION''': Policy enforcement, forum management
* CreamWizard - '''RETIRED''': Policy and handling harrassment.
* VioletWizard - '''RETIRED''': Policy and handling harrasmsent
* BlackWizard - '''RETIRED''': Player relations, policy enforcement.
* StyxWizard - '''RETIRED''': Building management wizard.
* BlueWizard - '''RETIRED''': MUF Programmer.
* RedWizard - '''RETIRED''': MUF Programmer.
* Shaterri - '''RETIRED''': General player relations wizard.

=== Others ===

(Mistress) [[Taisia]], mentioned in the MUCK's [[Castle's Keep Inn]], wrote some of the early [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.mud.tiny/browse_frm/thread/8483279494a2b445 promotion] of Tapestries on rec.games.muck.tiny.

== Media coverage ==

Tapestries was highlighted in a 2005 ''[[Wikipedia:Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' news article about cybersex. The registration system was flooded, and WhiteFire was forced to turn away new users for a while.<ref>''[http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66423,00.html Cybersex: Seek and Ye Shall Find]'', Wired magazine (28 January 2005)</ref>

== References ==
<references />

== See also ==

*[[:Category:Tapestries locations|Locations in Tapestries]]
*[[:Category:Tapestries characters|Residents of Tapestries]]
*[http://www.fur.com/tapestries/wiki/History In-Character] and [http://www.fur.com/tapestries/wiki/History_%28Tapestries_MUCK%29 Out-Of-Character history] on Tapestries MUCK Wiki

==External links==
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20090502191202/http://maps.reddra.com/taps/ Map by Reddra Designs] (archived)

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PuzzleboxMUCK

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|name = PuzzleboxMUCK
|logo =
|subject = postfurry, [[shapeshifting]], genre-mixing, and surrealism
|url = http://www.puzzleboxmuck.org/
* http://www.puzzleboxmuck.org/wiki/
* {{lj-comm|puzzleboxmuck}}
* Email: functionxor AT gmail DOT com
|status = Ongoing
|duration = 2002 - present
|server = [telnet://puzzleboxmuck.org:8890 puzzleboxmuck.org, port 8890]

|operator = Function OR ([[PostVixen]]), Function XOR ([[Postrodent]]), Function AND (Inaki), Function NOT (Schizzy), Kasuri
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'''PuzzleboxMUCK''' (or just '''Puzzlebox''') was a [[MUCK]] based on [[postfurry]] themes such as [[shapeshifting]], genre-mixing, and surrealism. It ceased operations some time between 2005 and 2010.

==History==

As of late October/early November 2005, the Functions and their duties are in the process of being updated. OR and XOR, being titles rather than regular characters, now have new players.

== The Rules ==

The "Puzzlebox" referred to in the title is a psychedelic space habitat of unknown and possibly multi-galactic-cluster size that appears to bend the laws of reality. It essentially codifies the common rules of a MUCK into a New Reality:

* Food and other physical concerns are unimportant unless you want them to be.
* Space and capability are conceptual: play with people's internal concepts.
* Be what you want! Anything you can think of, you can be.
* Injury and even death are mostly just inconvenient; you'll always come back if you want to.

== The Locations ==

Most of the MUCK's action takes place in a city called "the Mess," which is divided into six themed districts named for varieties of quarks:

* '''Upwarp''': rationalist, utopian social order
* '''Downwarp''': mystical, individualistic urban decay
* '''Topwarp''': aristocracy, elegance and self-discipline
* '''Bottomwarp''': revelry and self-indulgence
* '''Charmwarp''': childlike joy and bright psychedelia
* '''Strangewarp''': psychological horror and dark psychedelia

Puzzlebox was a closed-registration MUCK, with membership applications approved by a council of player volunteers, until early 2007. From then on, anyone could freely make a character that's restricted to only certain areas of the MUCK for one month. After that month is up, the wizards of the MUCK review player-given comments on the trial character to judge whether or not to make them full-fledged members or not.

The MUCK is administered under a philosophy of community participation, with an emphasis on finding solutions and serving player needs rather than making "by the book" legalistic rulings. ''Note: As of March 2006, work is underway to adjust admittance methods and requirements.''

PuzzleboxMUCK may be considered a spinoff of the [[Dionysian Scream]] from [[Tapestries MUCK]], which, while no longer supported by its original creators, still has a number of regular visitors.

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Sometimes a creative work becomes so popular that it cannot be contained within just one form of media. Many modern properties today get turned into '''media franchises''' that allows a work's fictional universe to grow and expand, as well as to grow and expand the profits of the companies holding the rights to such franchises.

These are media franchises that have furry characters or elements, or are considerably popular within the furry fandom.

Note that to qualify for this category, a work has to have a ''major'' presence in ''more than one'' form of media, such as [[:Category:Movies|movies]] and [[:Category:Television|television]] or [[:Category:Comics|comics]] and [[:Category:Video games|video games]].

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The Animals of Farthing Wood (television series)

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[[File:Animals-of-Farthing-Wood-animals-of-farthing-wood-characters.jpg|right|thumb|Farthing Wood's characters]]
'''The Animals of Farthing Wood''' is an [[W:European Broadcasting Union|European Broadcasting Union]] [[W:Cult classic|cult classic]]{{cn}} [[cartoon]] based loosely off the [[fiction|book]]s by Bristish [[writer]] [[W:Colin Dann|Colin Dann]] about a group of woodland [[animal|animals]]. The books were written between 1979 and 1994 while the first tv episode of the cartoon aired in 1993 and went on for three series.

The cartoon was imported to America in the form of a movie, ''[[Journey Home: The Animals of Farthing Wood]]''. However, the story was that of the first television series, redubbed and edited. The fans of the series generally disliked the film.{{fact}}

== See also ==

* [[W:The_Animals_of_Farthing_Wood|The Animals of Farthing Wood]] on [[Wikipedia]]

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The Animals of Farthing Wood (book series)

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'''The Animals of Farthing Wood''' is a book series by [[Colin Dann]], and began with a novel of the same name.

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# ''[[The Animals of Farthing Wood (novel)|The Animals of Farthing Wood]]'' (first published 1979)
# ''[[In the Grip of Winter]]'' (1981)
# ''[[Fox's Feud]]'' (1982)
# ''[[The Fox Cub Bold]]'' (1983)
# ''[[The Siege of White Deer Park]]'' (1985)
# ''[[In the Path of the Storm]]'' (1989)
# ''[[Battle for the Park]]'' (1992)
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Colin Dann

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'''Colin Dann''' is the author of [[The Animals of Farthing Wood (book series)|''The Animals of Farthing Wood'' book series]], beginning with ''[[The Animals of Farthing Wood (novel)|The Animals of Farthing Wood]]'', a novel first published in 1979.

He has written many other books with animal characters. These books include:
* ''[[The Beach Dogs]]''
* ''[[A Great Escape]]'' (first published 1990)
* ''[[King of the Vagabonds]]'' and its sequel ''[[The City Cats]]''
* ''[[The Ram of Sweetriver]]''

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FurWanted

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'''FurWanted''' is a (mostly) Western themed [[furry]] [[convention]]. Held in Pullman City, a [[w:American frontier|wild west]] [[w:Living history|historical reconstruction]] in [[w:Eging am See|Eging am See]], Bavaria, Germany, the event sees furries and experienced fursuiters meet people in authentic wild west outfits.

The leader of the FurWanted is [[Darcus]].

==History==
===2010===
The first precursor to FurWanted was a meeting in Pullman City in 2010, with only two attendees.

===2011===
In June 2011,<ref name="FurWantedHistory">[http://www.repage.de/member/furwanted/history.html History page] on the FurWanted website. Retrieved September 13, 2014.</ref> another meeting was held, with six attendees (none of them [[fursuiter]]s).

===2012===
Darcus organized a further furry meeting in July, 2012.<ref name="FurWantedHistory"/>There were 10 attendees, including the event's first fursuiter.

===2013===
In 2014, Darcus and his girlfriend Shade (as second organizer) gave the convention the official name "FurWanted", and created a website for it.

FurWanted I was held over July 12-14, 2014,<ref name="FurWantedHistory"/> and had 30 registered attendees, with a lot of fursuiters.

===2014===
FurWanted II was held over July 10-13, 2014.<ref name="FurWantedHistory"/> There were 45 attendees, with many fursuiters among them.

===2015===
FurWanted 3 took place over July 8-12, 2015.<ref>[http://www.repage.de/member/furwanted/index.html FurWanted] website. Retrieved September 13, 2014.</ref> The convention theme was "Pirates of the Caribbean",<ref>[http://www.repage.de/member/furwanted/thepirates.html Theme] on the FurWanted website. Retrieved September 13, 2014.</ref> and the [[Guest of Honour]] was [[TheKarelia]].<ref>[http://www.repage.de/member/furwanted/guestsofhonor.html Guest of Honour] on the FurWanted 3 website. Retrieved June 24, 2015.</ref>

===2016===
FurWanted IV is scheduled for July 13-17, 2016,<ref name="2016website">[http://www.repage.de/member/furwanted/index.html FurWanted website]. Retrieved July 14, 2015.</ref> in Pullman City. The theme will be "Music Country Festival".<ref name="2016website"/>

By November 2017, the FurWanted website at http://www.repage.de/member/furwanted/index.html was deactivated,<ref>http://www.repage.de/member/furwanted/index.html Retrieved November 5, 2017.</ref> and the Twitter account FurWanted no longer existed.<ref>"Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!" https://twitter.com/FurWanted Retrieved November 5, 2017.</ref>

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
* [http://www.repage.de/member/furwanted/index.html FurWanted homepage]
* [https://twitter.com/FurWanted FurWanted] on [[Twitter]]
* [https://www.pullmancity.de/en_US/home/ Pullman City homepage]

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Albedo Anthropomorphics

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[[File:Albedo_0_Vol_0.png|right|thumb|''Albedo'', number 0, volume 0 (blue prototype issue)]]
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'''''Albedo Anthropomorphics''''' or its short name, '''''Albedo''''', is the name of a [[furry]] [[wikipedia:comic book|comic book]] [[wikipedia:anthology|anthology]] which is often credited with starting the furry comic book subgenre that featured sophisticated stories with [[funny animal]]s primarily intended for an adult audience.

It was started by [[Steve Gallacci]] who produced the main feature of the series, ''[[Erma Felna: EDF]]''. It is a sophisticated [[science fiction]] military series set in a sector of space populated by [[sentient]] and predominately humanoid versions of several [[mammal]] and [[avian]] species.

The main focus of the series is Erma Felna, a young [[feline]] officer who eventually plays a central role of the complex political conflicts that consume her universe.

Other series have included:
*''[[High Orbit]]''
*''[[Konny and Czu]]''
*''[[Space Wolf]]''
*The first episodes of ''[[Usagi Yojimbo]]''
*''[[Watchrats]]''

The title was originally self published by Gallacci in his own company called [[Thoughts & Images]]. When the company folded, [[Antarctic Press]] resumed the title for several years, both in a black and white series and a short lived color one. The the title was also published by [[Shanda Fantasy Arts]].

There are also three different [[Albedo RPG|RPGs of the same name]], based on the Erma Felna storyline. The first two were published by Chessex, while the newest one is being published by [[Sanguine]]. In addition, a short lived (three issue) companion magazine called '''Refractions''' carried stories and discussions of various parts of the cultures shown in the ''Erma Felna, EDF'' universe. Each issue included new canon material by Steve Gallacci, as well as speculative material from many other contributors, and was published by R'ykandar Korra'ti in the early 1990's.

'''Did you know?''' The title is a play on the scientific term [[Wikipedia:Albedo|albedo]], a measure of reflectivity of a surface or body, in that the stories are intended to reflect real-world social and political issues.

==External links==
* [http://comicbookdb.com/search.php?form_search=albedo&form_searchtype=Title Albedo listings] at ComicBookDB.com
*[http://www.comics.org/search.lasso?query=albedo&type=title&sort=chrono&Submit=Search Albedo listings at comics.org (Grand Comic-Book Database)]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110302031411/http://www.shandafantasyarts.org/albedo.htm Shanda Fantasy Arts: Albedo], archived 2011 March 2 by Internet Archived Wayback Machine (cybersquatted at some point after that)
*[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/albedoanthropomorphics/ Albedo Anthropomorphics yahoogroup]

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Funny animal

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[[File:Oswaldthe Rabbit.jpeg|right|thumb|Oswald the Rabbit, a 1927 funny animal ([[Walt Disney]])]]
[[File:Angry Beavers.png|right|thumb|Angry Beavers, 1997 funny animals ([[Nickelodeon]])]]
[[File:SabrinaCurrent.png|right|thumb|Sabrina Skunk, a furry character]]
'''Funny animal''' is a term in traditional or digital [[comics]] and [[Cartoon|animated cartoon]]s in which the main [[character]]s are [[animal]]s who emulate/recreate almost all aspects of [[W:Human society|Human society]]: culture, work, [[W:Consumerism|consumerism]], humanoid garments, and relationships, among others.

== Appearance ==

A funny animal is typically an [[anthropomorphic]] [[bipedal]] being with such characteristics such as [[Talking animal|speaking in human language]]s or displaying facial expressions. Others may display a more [[feral]] look closer to their real life counterpart, but still displaying some [[humanoid]] mannerisms (human grasping via [[hand]]s with thumbs or [[W:Prehensility|prehensility]]), or be completely animal looking, but with all possessing [[W:Sapient|human sapience]].

== Use in mainstream media ==

While most funny animal stories are light-hearted and humorous, the genre is not exclusively [[W:comedic|comedic]]. Dark or serious stories featuring anthropomorphic animals are also sometimes grouped under the "funny animals" category (e.g. ''[[Blacksad]]''). These stories may intersect with any other genre or group of genre, including historical stories, [[science fiction]], Westerns, slapstick comedy, children's entertainment and satire.

==Funny animal and furry ==

The use of the word [[furry]] as a description of an anthropomorphic animal character in the [[furry fandom]] in began in the 1980s,{{cn}} and was becoming common on the Internet by the 1990s, when the newsgroup [[alt.fan.furry]] was created for fans of funny animals.{{clarify}}{{cn}}

Some [[cartoonist]]s and other artists prefer the original term, either because they feel a strong connection to the earlier artists, but mostly because they disliked being associated with [[furry]].{{clarify}}{{cn}}

== See also ==

* [[W:Funny animal|Funny animal]] on [[Wikipedia]]
* [[Funny animal fandom]]
* [[Funny animal artist]]

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Blotch

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'''Blotch''', aka '''screwbald''' (derived from "skewbald" and "screwball"), is the alias of the collaborative works between the artists [[Kenket]] and [[BlackTeagan]], one sketching and the other painting.<ref>[http://www.coyote-tangent.com/screwbald/artist.htm untitled document (webpage about Blotch)]. Retrieved 2007 May 23.</ref> The character "Blotch" is personified as a male [[leopard]].

Blotch have attended many conventions, including [[Further Confusion]], [[Anthrocon]], [[EuroFurence]] and [[Midwest Furfest]], where they sell prints and original sketches, and has been [[Guest of Honor]] at [[FA: United]] 2007, [[Oklacon 2007]], [[Rocky Mountain Fur Con 2008]], [[Further Confusion 2011]], [[ConFurgence]] 2014, and [[Furry Fiesta 2014]].

Blotch won the 2007 [[Ursa Major Award]] for ''Best Published Illustration'', for [http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Blotch/FAunited.jpg the cover of FA:United's] [[con book]]. In the 2008 Ursa awards, Blotch won two awards: one for ''Best Published Illustration'' for [http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Blotch/Suhl.jpg the cover of EuroFurence 14's conbook cover], and another for ''Best Other Literary Work'' for the [[Dog's Days of Summer]] graphic novel. Blotch again won ''Best Published Illustration'' in 2009 (for the cover of [[Kyell Gold]]'s novel ''[[Out of Position]]'') and 2013 (for the cover of Kyell Gold's ''[[Divisions]]'').

==Works==

The Blotch team officially started working together since August 2006. Together they contributed artwork to the multi-artist calendar [[Wish You Were Here]], as well as the [[Werewolf Calendar]] for 2012, many [[Sofawolf Press]] publications, such as ''[[Heat (magazine)|Heat]]'', ''[[New Fables]]'', cover and interior illustrations for [[Kyell Gold]]'s novels ''[[Out of Position]]'' and ''[[Isolation Play]]'', and several cards for the [[Wild Cat Card Deck]] and the [[Endangered Ark]], among other projects.

Blotch also created ''[[Dog's Days of Summer]]'', an interactive webcomic that ran through summer 2007, and was printed by [[Sofawolf Press]] in summer 2008.<ref>[http://community.livejournal.com/dogsdays/4897.html Dog's Days Publication Announcement. Retrieved 2007 December 22.]</ref> In April 2008 and during [[Anthrocon 2008|Anthrocon 2008]] it was announced that a prequel would be released called ''[[First Time for Everything]]''.<ref>[http://www.dogsdaysofsummer.com/2008/04/13/first-time-for-everything/ First Time for Everything!] - Diego (13 April 2008)</reF>

In Spring 2009, Blotch announced working on a new graphic novel, ''[[Nordguard]]''. The first part of what has been envisaged as a three part series is called ''Across Thin Ice''. The first book is 75 pages printed in full color, and was released at [[Anthrocon 2011]]. The comic has received positive reviews both within the furry fandom,<ref>[http://www.furrynewsnetwork.com/2011/07/book-review-nordguard-thin-ice/ Book Review: ''Nordguard: Across Thin Ice''] - [[Earl Z. Madness]], [[Furry News Network]] (18 July 2011)</ref><ref>[http://www.flayrah.com/3624/review-nordguard-across-thin-ice-tess-garman-teagan-gavet Review: ''Nordguard: Across Thin Ice'', by Tess Garman & Teagan Gavet] - [[Fred Patten]], [[Flayrah]] (28 July 2011)</ref> and without. IGN rated "Across Thin Ice" an 8/10 in a review from July 2011.<ref>[http://www.ign.com/articles/2011/07/27/nordguard-book-one-across-thin-ice-review ''Nordguard Book One: Across Thin Ice'' Review] - Jack DeVries, [[Wikipedia:IGN|IGN]] (27 July 2011)</ref> The graphic novel is available in comic book stores across the USA, Canada and Europe.

As of January 2012, the Blotch duo were working on the second installment of [[Nordguard]], to be tentatively released in summer 2013.<ref>[http://www.nordguard.com/about-the-comic/f-a-q/ Nordguard FAQ]</ref> In June 2013, Blotch announced that this date would be missed.<ref>[http://www.nordguard.com/under-dark-skies-2/ Under Dark Skies], Nordguard website (20 June 2013)</ref> On February 3, 2014 it was announced that Blotch would be on a bit of a hiatus while Kenket pursued a job opportunity and BlackTeagan worked on a couple of solo projects.<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5478293/ Room Party Preorders! & Hiatus] - Blotch, Fur Affinity (3 February 2014)</ref> two weeks later Blotch was GOH at [[Furry Fiesta 2014]] where they were panelists at Story Improv event<ref>[https://twitter.com/screwbald/status/436966622129950720 Blotch twitter - Join us ... for the story+improv show!] dated Feb 21, 2014.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20141127002405/http://furryfiesta2014.sched.org/event/e0376fa1456ed9599e66e2f4f1e75301#.VHZxTYevz-k Story Improv With Blotch / Kyell Gold / Fox Amoore event page] at sched.org, archived by Internet Archive on 2014 November 27. Retrieved 2014 November 27.</ref>, ''Making Graphic Novels With Blotch'' event<ref>https://twitter.com/screwbald/status/437322991995609088</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20141127002944/http://furryfiesta2014.sched.org/event/396a1dddea67dee6942f4146d4ffbc25 Making Graphic Novels With Blotch event page] at sched.org, archived by Internet Archive on 2014 November 27. Retrieved 2014 November 27.</ref> and ''Storytelling Through Illustration: Taking Your Art Further With Blotch'' event<ref>[https://twitter.com/screwbald/status/437391238447132672 Blotch twitter - Check out our panel Storytelling through Illustration tonight] dated 22 Feb 2014. Retrieved 2014 November 27.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20141127003935/http://furryfiesta2014.sched.org/event/127738a14cf0251a74b82154302e154e#.VHZza4evz-k Storytelling Through Illustration: Taking Your Art Further With Blotch event page] at sched.org, archived by Internet Archive on 2014 November 27. Retrieved 2014 November 27.</ref>. The hiatus seems to have been for much of 2014, with no posts to Blotch website in 2014 and no journal post to Fur Affinity since the hiatus announcement, although there has been 29 tweets on Twitter (during 2014 Feb 4-Dec 31).

== References ==
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== External links ==
* http://www.screwbald.com/
* ''[http://screwbald.livejournal.com/ Blotch, Screwbald Spotcat]'' - Blotch's [[LiveJournal]]
* [http://www.furaffinity.net/user/blotch/ Blotch] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [http://screwbald.deviantart.com Blotch (Screwbald)] on [[deviantART]]
* [http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Blotch/ Blotch] on [[VCL]] {{Rating-nc17-button}}
* ''[http://www.nordguard.com/ Nordguard]'' ({{lj-user|nordguard}}) - a comic by Blotch
* [http://furros.dasoluciones.com/portal/content.php?258-Red-Furros-interviews-Blotch Interview of Blotch] by [[Red Furros]] at [[Further Confusion 2011]]

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Tales from Dimwood Forest

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'''''Tales from Dimwood Forest''''' is a series of novels by [[Avi]]. It includes:
* ''[[Poppy]]'' (1995)
* ''[[Poppy and Rye]]'' (1998)
* ''[[Ragweed]]'' (1999)
* ''[[Ereth's Birthday]]'' (2000)
* ''Poppy's Return'' (2005)
* ''Poppy and Ereth'' (2009)

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The Fox of Richmond Park

2018-02-04T18:39:03Z

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'''''The Fox of Richmond Park''''' is a 2017 novel by Kate Dreyer. The author describes it as a "story of one Londoner who just happens to have fur and four legs"<ref>https://www.katedreyer.co.uk/ Retrieved December 16, 2017.</ref> and "If the Animals of Farthing Wood had lived in London and hated each other a little bit more, their story may have been a lot like this one."<ref>https://unbound.com/books/the-fox-of-richmond-park/ Retrieved December 16, 2017.</ref>

==References==
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==See also==
* [[The Animals of Farthing Wood (novel)]]

==External links ==
* https://www.katedreyer.co.uk/

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Cartoon

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Derived from the Italian word for cardboard, or a stiff paper, a '''cartoon''' is any drawing or sequence of drawings intended to stand alone as an expression of an idea, usually humorous or satirical in nature. Cartoons have been seminal and instrumental in the development of [[furry fandom]].

== Still cartoons ==
One of the oldest uses of the medium was satire of public figures and current events, now known as the ''political cartoon''. The format of the political cartoon includes some of the earliest instances of [[anthropomorphic]] or [[funny animal]] art as it is known today. A cartoon which consists of a sequence of still drawings all connected as part of the same idea is usually referred to as a ''comic''. Short sequences, such as appear in newspapers, are called comic strips, while longer sequences are contained in comic books. The term ''comic'' is sometimes ill-applied as the subject matter may be intended not to be funny. A relative of the comic book, the ''graphic novel'', resembles a [[comic book]] but its purpose is to tell a story in a manner more consistent with the literary novel. The historical fiction ''[[Maus]]'' is a well-known example.

== Animated cartoons ==
A sequence of cartoon images on film intended to tell its story by mimicking the motion of live cinematographic footage is also called a cartoon. A cartoon designed for consumption through television is called a cartoon show or program, whereas one designed for the movie screen is generally called an animated film. One of the first known animated cartoons, Windsor McKay's [[Wikipedia:Gertie the Dinosaur|''Gertie the Dinosaur'']] (1914), featured a Brontosaurus.

== Cartoon characters ==
A character which appears in a cartoon, typically one from an animated cartoon, is called a cartoon character, or toon. It can be anything from [[Mickey Mouse]] to Popeye the Sailor. As diverse as they are, the unifying aspect of cartoon characters is that they are not intended to look entirely lifelike. Most toons are, in fact, not intended to look at all lifelike, but only reminiscent of a [[human]] or [[animal]] form. [[Anthropomorphism]] is used extensively in the designs of toons which are not technically human, whether they be animals or any of a wide range of inanimate objects or fanciful constructions.

== Other terms ==
As adapted into the Japanese media, the term ''[[manga]]'' is used for a comic book, and ''[[anime]]'' (French for "animated") is used for a cartoon show or animated film. In visual art, especially [[furry art]], the term ''toony'' is used to describe a purposely unrealistic style inspired by cartoons.

== Cartoons In furry ==
[[Furry fans]] have always enjoyed cartoons featuring funny animals, but very few animated cartoons have been attempted outside of large commercial studios such as [[Hanna-Barbera]]/Cartoon Network and [[Disney]]. Most attempts have come by way of digital media, such as Macromedia Shockwave Flash, or, in a spectacular show of determination, Timothy Albee's [[Kaze: Ghost Warrior]]. Otherwise, the digital offspring of the comic strip, the [[webcomic]], represents the majority of cartoons created and enjoyed by furry fans today. Some furries consider themselves to be 'Cartoon' or 'Toon' as a species in its own right.

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Amateur press association

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An '''amateur press association (APA)''' is a form of self-publishing in which all of the members of the association submit multiple copies of printed material to a central person. That person collates the individual submissions and sends the collated copies back out to the contributors. This issues are common throughout mainstream, including all the [[fandom]]s, such as the [[furry fandom]]

== APA vs Fanzine ==

APAs differ importantly from [[fanzine]]s in that APAs are not intended to be sold by producers to consumers. Their memberships are closed groups in which almost all of the small number of issues produced go back only to the members. The only way to obtain copies is to maintain membership with the APA, generally requiring a minimum quota of submitted pages rather than simple payment.

"Minac" (short for "minimum activity") is the rate of submitted work which an APA requires of its members. Failure to meet minac results in loss of membership and no further collations being received. In effect, the difficulty of meeting minac is a barrier to entry which guaranteeing to each member that the collated work they receive comes from similarly dedicated creators.

This social dimension of APAs was very much in tune with the mood of the [[funny animal fandom]] which preceded the furry fandom.{{clarify}} The attitude at that time was that if you weren't sufficiently dedicated to funny animals to create them yourself, you weren't a real fan.{{cn}}

== Collating parties ==

A '''collating party''' is a combination of social gathering and working bee undertaken by APA or fanzine groups. The tedious job of hand-assembling books is eased by inviting a large number of friends to help, and it's an opportunity for people sharing the publication's special interest to meet.

APAs tend to have a fixed number of memberships, with new places only becoming available as existing members drop out. There is typically a waitlist of queued individuals who have been accepted for eventual entry and are awaiting a vacancy. Popular APAs occasionally see their waitlist become large enough to form their own second-tier APA. A furry example of this happening is ''[[The Dallas Brawl]]''.

With the advent of the Internet, the popularity of APAs has faded significantly. Notable examples of APAs in [[furry fandom]] have included ''[[Vootie]]'' and ''[[Gallery]]'', both of which have ceased publishing, as well as the ongoing ''[[Rowrbrazzle]]''.

== See also ==

* [[Wikipedia:Amateur press association|Amateur press association]] on [[Wikipedia]]
* [[:Category:Amateur press associations]]

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Alt.fan.furry

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'''alt.fan.furry''', also known as '''a.f.f.''' or '''AFF''', is a [[:Category:Newsgroups|newsgroup]] for [[furry|furries]] to gather and discuss various topics revolving around the politics of the [[fandom]]. Once the number one [[furry]] news source, as time passed it became infamous for its collection of massive [[Wikipedia:flamewar|flamewars]], political and otherwise. By 2010, its use had dwindled to a handful of monthly posts, now overrun mostly by [[W:Spam (electronic)|spam]] posts in open [[Usenet]] servers.

It still remains the most accurate place for historical information resources regarding the [[history]] of [[furry fandom]].

== History ==

alt.fan.furry has had a long and convoluted Usenet history. Originally created after [[Albedo]] fans gathered in [[alt.birthright]], only to discover it was not a group for fans of the [[Birthright]] series by [[Steve Gallacci]].

Several suggestions were made for a separate [[funny animal]] [[comic]] group, and [[Peter da Silva]] created one in November of 1990 under the name alt.fan.albedo. The initial message<ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.furry/browse_thread/thread/8da5256d39f30311/9760c60384824144#9760c60384824144 ''creation of alt.fan.furry''] post on alt.fan.furry (retrieved ?)</ref> on a.f.a. reads:
{{q|This group is for discussion of funny animal comic books, such as Albedo, Critters, and Quack!. This group was created after a funny-animal discussion started in alt.birthright. Hopefully someone will let the furry mailing list know}}
At that time, [[Albedo]] was suffering from extremely infrequent publication and [[Critters]] was already defunct, and several people suggested that alt.fan.furry would be a better group name. The term [[furry]] was already beginning to supersede ''funny animal'' in various fandom [[mailing list]]s.

alt.fan.furry had been suggested before the creation of a.f.a but was not preferred by Mr. de Silva. [[Tzoq]] created alt.fan.furry proper about a month later, partially due to low postings in a.f.a.

Some of the posters on alt.fan.albedo in that one month interim were [[greymuzzle]]s such as [[Jimmy Chin]], [[mejeep]], and [[Uncle Kage]].

alt.fan.furry later spun off other furry newsgroups, the most notable of which being [[alt.lifestyle.furry]].

== References ==
<references />

== See also ==

* [[Rec.arts.furry]]
* [[Furrynet]]

== External links ==

* [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.fan.furry alt.fan.furry] on [http://groups-beta.google.com/ Google Groups]
* [http://www.faqs.org/faqs/furry/faq/ alt.fan.furry] FAQ on [http://www.faqs.org/ Faqs.org]

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'''[[Wikipedia:Newsgroup|Newsgroups]]''' are a system of many-to-many communication that have often been used as a method of communication between furries, although they are arguably less important nowadays due to the rise of furry [[:Category:Websites|websites]], [[:Category:Mailing lists|mailing lists]] and [[:Category:Forums|forums]].

Most newsgroups are in the alt.* hierachy, although there is a separate fur.* hierachy, part of the [[Furrynet]] project.

== External links ==

* [http://www.furcen.org/fgc/furnews.html A partial list of furry newsgroups]

== Newsgroups to add ==

* [[alt.fan.furry.adult]] - [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.furry.adult '''alt.fan.furry.adult''' on Google]
* [[alt.fan.furry.moderated]] - [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.furry.moderated '''alt.fan.furry.moderated''' on Google]
* [[alt.furry]] - [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.furry '''alt.furry''' on Google]
* [[alt.personals.furry]] - [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.personals.furry '''alt.personals.furry''' on Google]

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Animal stories

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'''Animal stories''' refer to any fiction that features animals as main characters.

== Naturalistic stories ==

There are a number of realistic stories about animals living in natural environments; these usually follow one individual animal from birth to adulthood, or to death. Within this category there are stories told without dialogue and often without names (such as ''[[Chia, The Wildcat]]''). The interaction between animal characters is usually confined to the business of establishing territory, [[mate|mating]], raising young, and (between different species) [[predator|predation]].

In other naturalistic stories, such as ''[[Tarka the Otter]]'', the characters are named (sometimes simply by species name or an identifying feature), and there may be more interaction or some evidence of animal culture.

A number of these stories are children's books or short novels, such as ''[[Kit: The Adventures of a Raccoon]]''.

== Animals with culture ==

Other stories are about animals in a natural environment (or in a realistic one of domestic life or captivity) shown with their own culture, and their own language, histories and fables. Deities may be referred to or, in more fantastical novels such as ''[[Tailchaser's Song]]'', be encountered. The characters still display essentially natural behaviour, although they are often more social and inclined to travel.

''[[Watership Down]]'' is a well-known example, and other stories are often compared to it in reviews or descriptions.

== Clothing and culture ==

In some stories, although the animal characters may not be described as being physically [[anthropomorphic]], they do wear clothes and show other aspects of a defined culture, while remaining in a natural environment and dealing with natural dangers such as that of predators.

An example of this "[[Rabbits in waistcoats]]" genre is found in the characters of ''[[Owlglass]]'' by Will Nickless, where the [[Badger]], [[Weasel]], and similar characters live in burrows, albeit elaborately furnished ones, and strive to escape the talons of an [[Owl]] with whom they also socialize with. In ''Owlglass'', the animals can clearly communicate with humans; this is not the case in all such stories.

Finally, there are stories such as Brian Jacques' [[Redwall (series)|Redwall series]], where the animal's environment and habits show little or no relation to natural or wild life; some of these stories could be considered equivalent to (modern) fables.

== Fables ==
Fables about animal characters are likely the oldest form of animal stories. These may be a way of describing desirable or undesirable behaviour, as in [[Aesop's fables]].
Animal fables also commonly deal with how animals came to look and act the way they do; the [[Old Mother West Wind]] stories provide an example.

== Satire ==
Some animal stories are essentially satire, and although the characters have the physical form of animals, their behaviour can hardly considered animalistic at all, and are without the same significance as fables.

Among these stories lies the novel ''[[Mink!]]'' with its "Worms lib" movement and endless meetings among the [[rabbit]]s.

== Categories ==

The [[Furry Novel List]] is divided into three categories: Animals behaving intelligently, "animals in their natural forms showing innate intelligence"; Intelligent Animals "Animals in their natural forms who, through methods scientific, magical or other, are able to express their intelligence in interactions with [[human]]s and/or other "intelligent" species."; and Intelligent Animalmorphs, or "anthropomorphic species".<ref>[http://anvil.webhop.org/furry/furry-novels.txt Furry Novel List Version 2.0. June 20, 2001]. Retrieved October 26, 2007.</ref>

== References ==
<references/>

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Template talk:Merge

2017-07-20T15:42:53Z

EvilCat: /* Interwiki */ new section

I'm thinking of using this template as a base for a tempalte to suggest rename, retool, refocus (not sure how best to express the concept) an article, ''e.g'' from about a species to about a person and fursona. Essentially, merge when the article for the information to be merged into does not yet exist. -- [[User:Sine|Sine]] 16:14, 12 July 2011 (EDT)

== Template needs centered ==

This template needs to be centered. I cant do it myself as it has been locked to prevent editing. [[User:Equivamp|Equivamp]]<sup>[[User talk:Equivamp|talk]]</sup> 14:14, 6 February 2013 (EST)
:If you are not seeing it centered, it's because the skin you're using doesn't have centering on the 'ambox' class. That's where it should be applied. --[[User:GreenReaper|GreenReaper]]<sup>([[User talk:GreenReaper|talk]])</sup> 13:27, 26 September 2014 (EDT)

== Interwiki ==

Please add an interwiki link [[ru:Шаблон:К объединению]]. [[User:EvilCat|EvilCat]] ([[User talk:EvilCat|talk]]) 11:42, 20 July 2017 (EDT)

Civet

2017-07-12T21:13:12Z

EvilCat: ru interwiki

'''Civets''' are a number of [[viverrid]]s of the Old World (excluding the [[mongoose]]). Their name refers to their thick [[musk]], which at one time was used for a hand lotion among wealthy Europeans and is still used in perfumes.

Civets's appearances are somewhat [[weasel]]-like with a long bushy [[tail]] and a striking [[fur]] pattern of gray or yellowish-gray with black stripes and spots. Civets are sometimes referred to as "civet cats" but that term may also be applied more generally to [[ringtail|ringtails]] and spotted [[Skunk (species)|skunks]].

One of the specific kinds of civets is the [[African Civet]].

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The Endless Forest

2017-07-11T19:56:41Z

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'''The Endless Forest''' is "The Endless Forest is a multiplayer online game and social screensaver" where players are represented as deer.<ref>http://tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest/index.html Retrieved December 20, 2013.</ref>

Debra Ferreday included ''The Endless Forest'' in a 2011 article "Becoming deer: Nonhuman drag and online utopias".<ref>[http://fty.sagepub.com/content/12/2/219.extract Becoming deer: Nonhuman drag and online utopias] (Article in ''Feminist Theory'', 2011) on sagepub.com. Retrieved July 18, 2016.</ref>

In "Affect, Fantasy and Digital Cultures" in ''Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion: Feelings, Affect, and Technological Change'' (edited by Athina Karatzogianni and Adi Kuntsman) Ferredy writes: "There appears to be a considerable intersection between ''The Endless Forest'' fandom and the 'furry fandom' or 'furry genre'".<ref>Debra Ferreday. "Affect, Fantasy and Digital Cultures" in ''Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion: Feelings, Affect, and Technological Change'' edited by Athina Karatzogianni and Adi Kuntsman. [https://books.google.ca/books?id=QcFsUcJeMAIC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=furry&f=false p. 83. on Google Books] Published 2012. Retrieved July 18, 2016.</ref>

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
*[http://theendlessforest.deviantart.com/ "The Endless Forest" Fan Group] on [[deviantART]]
*[http://tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest/index.html

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University of California, Davis

2017-06-22T07:08:26Z

EvilCat: ru interwiki

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The '''University of California, Davis''', also known as '''UC Davis''', is a public, coeducational university established as the University Farm in 1905, and located in the city of [[Wikipedia:Davis|Davis]], California, about fifteen miles west of [[Wikipedia:Sacramento, California|Sacramento]].

It is one of the ten campuses of the [[Wikipedia:University of California|University of California]], and is the largest campus in the UC system, spanning over 5,500 acres (22.2 square km.)

== UC Davis and furry ==
{{WikiFurNews|UC Davis posts furry survey results}}
People at the university conducted an online study on [[furries]]. In February 2007 they closed up the online survey. Over 600 furries took part. While the data is still being analysed and the report being written, some results have been released on their [[LiveJournal]].

== See also ==
* [[Forum:NEW furry survey!|"''NEW furry survey!''"]] - Survey announcement on the Wikifur message boards

== External Links ==

* [http://studyf3.livejournal.com/ UCD Furry Study] on LiveJournal

[[Category:Sociology]]
[[Category:Schools]]
[[ru:Опрос (2007)]]

The Sociology of Furry Fandom

2017-06-22T07:04:01Z

EvilCat: ru interwiki

{{cleanup}}
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'''The Sociology of Furry Fandom''' is a document{{clarify}} by [[David J. Rust]], using data he collected at conventions in 1998 to 2000, and from paper and online surveys.

==Results==

325 people were surveyed in-person, and 35 people were surveyed over the internet.

It showed that 26% of furries were aged between 18-22, 26% were aged between 23-28, and 26% were aged between 29-35.

70% of furries came from the USA, mainly on the West and East Coast. 27% came from Canada, 20% coming from Eastern Canada. 3% came from Europe.

Most furries came from large cities (34% came from cities with populations between 100,000-250,000 people).

94% of furries were of a caucasian background.

42% of furries are single, whereas 30% were married. 51% were in a [[Wikipedia:Monogamous|monogamous]] relationship, whilst 47% were in or wanted a [[Wikipedia:Polyamorous|polyamorous]] relationship.

Perhaps most interestingly, 48% of furries were bisexual, 25% were hetrosexual, and 19% were homosexual. 2% were [[Zoophile|zoophiles]], and less than 1% were [[Plushophile|plushophiles]].

In terms of faith, 33% of furries were [[Wikipedia:Agnostic|agnostic]], 20% were [[Wikipedia:NeoPagan|NeoPagan]], whilst only 18% were [[Wikipedia:Christianity|Christian]].

42% of furries have had some sort of college education, and 31% of furries are students.

35% of furries earn less than $10,000.

== External links ==

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120303084029/http://www.visi.com/%7Ephantos/furrysoc.html The Sociology of Furry Fandom] official website

[[Category:Surveys|Sociology of Furry Fandom, The]]
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Night in the Woods

2017-05-16T07:05:13Z

EvilCat: ru interwiki

{{Italic title}}
'''''Night in the Woods''''' is a 2017 [[wikipedia:Adventure game|adventure game]] "heavily focused on story, characters and exploration, with some platforming to get around town".<ref name="NITW">[http://www.nightinthewoods.com/ Night in the Woods website]. Retrieved August 9, 2015.</ref> Players control Mae, an [[anthropomorphic]] [[cat]] who, upon returning to her hometown after dropping out of college, finds that everything has changed, including herself.<ref name="NITW" />

== See also ==
* ''[[wikipedia:Night in the Woods|Night in the Woods]]'' at [[Wikipedia]]

== References ==
<references/>

== External links ==
* [http://www.nightinthewoods.com/ Nightinthewoods.com] - main website
* [https://twitter.com/nightinthewoods @nightinthewoods] - official [[Twitter]]
* ''[http://nightinthewoodsgame.tumblr.com/ Night in the Woods Game]'' - official [[wikipedia:Tumblr|Tumblr]]

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EvilCat

2017-04-22T07:09:34Z

EvilCat: that's not relevant, significant or true anymore.

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'''EvilCat''', also known as '''Katemare''', is a Russian [[pokemon|Pokémon]] and [[furry fan]]. She is an administrator of Russian Pokemon League and the [[Russian WikiFur]].

== Characters ==

The [[pokesona]] that represents EvilCat in the pokecommunity is [[non-anthro]] dark blue ("black") Persian, a [[puma]]-like pokemon. This character first appeared in a [[role-playing]] event in year 2000. As a fan of Monster-training RPG subgenre, EvilCat likes all sorts of creatures and animals. Her favorite creatures include, but not limited to, [[Felidae]], [[raptor]]s, [[hyena]]s, [[bat]]s, [[shark]]s, [[were]]s, [[unicorn]]s and [[dragon]]s.

== Real life ==

EvilCat is a game-designer by profession, freelancing since 2006. She was the lead game-designer of several projects, the most successful of which is "Zveriki" (rus. for ''cute animals''), a mix of social network and pet simulator. It received "Best Online Videogame 2009" award at the annual [[Wikipedia:Russian Game Developers Conference|Russian Game Developer's Conference]].<ref>[http://kriconf.ru/2009/index.php?type=info&doc=news KRI 2009 news] (rus.)</ref>

Her other hobbies include reading, watching movies, writing, drawing and travelling. She also likes toys, [[plush]]ies, figurines and action figures.

== Conflicts ==

EvilCat has been criticized for her controversial decisions, low community involvement and stubbornness. For example, her decision to move the PokeLeague's semi-erotic artworks to a hidden subdirectory, one click away from the main [[fanart]]. Rules allowed only the mildest, work-safe erotica, but didn't prohibit [[homosexual]] themes (such as male characters kissing). This decision was criticized by both erotica fans ("too much restraints"), and erotica haters ("pictures should've been deleted").

== Refereces ==
<references/>

== External links ==
{{Contributor|EvilCat}}
* [http://pokeliga.com Pokeliga.com,] Russian Pokemon League (Russian only)
* [http://katemare.deviantart.com/ katemare] at [[DeviantART]]
* [http://katemare.livejournal.com/ katemare] at [[LiveJournal]] (mostly Russian)

[[Category:People]]
[[Category:Feline characters]]
[[Category:Pokémon characters]]
[[Category:Moscow]]
[[Category:Rostov Oblast]]
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Raptor Red

2017-04-02T19:16:42Z

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:'''''Raptor Red''' is also the name of a [[Raptor Red (fursuiter)|fursuiter]] from Alberta, Canada, and of an [[Vincent Chiantelli|artist/fursuiter]] in California.''
'''''Raptor Red''''' is a novel, first published in 1995, by American [[Wikipedia:Paleontologist|paleontologist]] [[Wikipedia:Robert T. Bakker|Robert T. Bakker]] about a year in the life of a female [[Wikipedia:Utahraptor|Utahraptor]] in the early [[Wikipedia:Cretaceous Period|Cretaceous]].

Raptor Red loses her mate in the first chapter, and over the following year she survives a flood, famine, [[Wikipedia:Acrocanthosaur|Acrocanthosaur]] attacks, and handles courtship and sisterhood.

Along the way the story also glimpses into the lives of other creatures, including crocodiles, turtles and mammals. All of which create a complete sense of what the Cretaceous period might have been like.

The characters are not [[anthropomorphic]]. There is no English dialogue (except occasional "subtitles"). They act, live and think like animals. It is of interest to furries because the [[dinosaur]]’s world is told entirely from the dinosaur’s point of view. The book puts the stream of consciousness of dinosaurs into human perspective, but there are no humans in the story.

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Drama

2017-03-25T14:14:24Z

EvilCat: ru interwiki

:{{redirect|Lulz/For the lulz|the image board|Lulz.net}}
:{{redirect|furry drama|LiveJournal community|furrydrama 2}}
"'''Drama'''" is a slang term used within various fandoms, referring to unnecessary and often immature emotional turmoil, such as that created through negative social interactions or gossip.

Another slang definition of drama refers to an ongoing conflict between two or more people, such as a continuing exchange of insults or slanderous activity against the person(s).

== Drama Llama ==

Describes a person who causes or propagates drama, often towards an user or an artwork style. Here the usage of [[llama]] is only for the rhyming nature of the phrase, not for any [[furry]] related angle.

Another term, perhaps far more common, for one that intentionally causes drama is known as a [[troll]]. Trolls usually are enhancers of drama, pointing out mistakes from an user, or more usually for a troll taking their defense with obviously intentional logical fallacies.

== Drama and furry ==

Drama is often delineated within the furry fandom as "'''furry drama'''", normally caused by [[Anti-furry|anti-furs]] such as trolls, [[Goon|goons]], [[Anonymous|anonymous]] and/or griefers, although members of the fandom proper have more than often helped with it.<ref>[http://artists-beware.livejournal.com/542999.html?page=8&cut_expand=1#cutid1 Example of "furry drama" started by a furry person ([[Dr. West]]). Post at "[[Artists Beware]]".] Retrieved December 2, 2011</ref>

==See also==

* [[Wiktionary:drama|Drama]] on Wiktionary
* [[Fursecution]]

Sites:

* [[CYD]] (offline)
* [[Vivisector (website)|Vivisector]]
* [[LOLfurries]]
* [[Furfags.com]]

==References==
<references />

== External links ==

* [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=furry%20drama "Furry Drama" definition] at the [http://www.urbandictionary.com/ Urban Dictionary]
* [http://www.drinkiwiki.com/Furry_Fandom_Drama_Drinking_Game The "Furry Fandom Drama Drinking Game"] at [http://www.drinkiwiki.com/ Drinkiwiki.com]
* [http://ruhemaus.deviantart.com/art/Teh-Furie-Drama-Drinking-Game-10129971?qo=5&q=by%3Aruhemaus&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps The original "Teh Furie Drama Drinking Game"] by [[RuheMaus]]
* [http://tgfb.net/drama/ ''Furry Drama Central''] [[forum]] and [[imageboard]]
* [http://furrydrama-2.livejournal.com/ "Furry Drama 2"/"FD_2"] Livejournal community
* [http://furrydrama-3.livejournal.com/ "Furry Drama 3"] Livejournal community
* [http://drama-fur.livejournal.com/ ''These flames never die.'' (Drama Fur)] Livejournal community
* [http://artists-beware.livejournal.com/ "Artist Beware"] Livejournal community (some furry drama, moderated)

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[[Category:Terms]]

[[hu:Dráma]]
[[ru:Драма]]

Category:Ireland

2017-02-04T16:27:09Z

EvilCat: ru interwiki

Everything that is based in (or relates to) '''Ireland'''.

[[Category:Europe]]
[[ru:Категория:Ирландия]]

Theriotype

2017-02-02T05:44:18Z

EvilCat: ru interwiki

{{wikify}}
{{unref}}
A '''theriotype''' is the animal or animals that a [[therian]] believes they are inside or identifies as. The most common theriotype is a [[wolf]]<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20080616123915/http://www.otherkin.net/community/directory/species.html Otherkin directory by species], web archive copy from June 2008. Wolf is the top animal theriotype.</ref>, accounting for approximately half of the online therian community{{fact}} ([[mammal]]s in general are most frequently seen).{{fact}} The word was developed as a replacement for the word "[[phenotype]]", which held the same meaning but was felt to be a misnomer, as 'pheno' refers to the observable attributes of an organism. Some therians believe they have more than one theriotype, and are called "Poly-Weres" or [[Polymorph]]s. [[Mythical animal]]s are usually considered to be [[otherkin]]-types (refered to as a '''kintype''' or '''kin-type'''), but this has been disputed, especially in the case of [[dragon]]s and [[gryphon]]s, who are mythical beasts.{{fact}}

==References==
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Forum:Forum:"OC", "original character", "character", "fan-character"

2017-01-28T14:04:50Z

EvilCat: Don't worry about interwiki parity with Russian WikiFur

<div class="forumheader">'''Forums:''' [[Forum:Index|Index]] > [[Forum:Help desk|Help desk]] > {{PAGENAME}}</div><br />

[[Category:Help desk]]



Forgive me if I'm speaking a bit awkwardly, It's 10pm where I am, I'm tired, and I'm not sure what to do.

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Before today: [[OC]] redirects to [[Original character]]. A previous version of this page was deleted for "Mainstream, little/non-furry related".

Among other meanings, [[OC]] also stands for [[w:openCanvas]], although I'm not sure if it's still popular in the fandom.

[[Original character]] redirects to [[character]] ''(thus creating a double redirect)''. It originally redirected to [[fan character]].

[[fan character]] was a stub article that was changed into an redirect to [[character]].

[[character]] does ''not'' have any mention of "OC", "original character", or "fan character" (in the sense of a character created by a fan based on an established fictional universe).

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I chose to fix the [[OC]] double redirect by treating it as a dictionary entry, like [[TLKIAWOL]]. I did this because I think there's likely enough people who wish to look this up.

Later, [[User:Dokatamaru|Dokatamaru]] expanded [[OC]] with information about [[fan character]]s and standalone original characters.

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I'm not sure if any of the options here make sense:

* remove contents of [[OC]], redirect to [[character]]. This is the "standard" way of dealing with a double redirect, although removing usable content seems... rude.
* leave contents of [[OC]] in place, redirect [[original character]] back to [[OC]]. Abbreviations should point to their full form, not the other way around, right?
* manually move contents of [[OC]] to [[original character]].
* merge [[OC]] into [[character]], expanding with information about [[fan character]]. This seems the best right now, as it has the potential to create a high-quality article; but we lose interwiki parity with Russian WikiFur, which has separate articles for [[character]], [[fan character]], "author character" and a disambiguation for "original character" that includes the two and also a sense of (established fictional character behaving) "out of character".

----[[User:Kakurady|Kakurady]] ([[User talk:Kakurady|talk]]) 22:45, 27 January 2017 (EST)
: Don't worry about interwiki parity with Russian WikiFur, we'll adapt our links. In Russian, these terms are borrowed, after all. We also have [[:ru:Шаблон:Интервики|a template for disparate interwiki cases]]. [[User:EvilCat|EvilCat]] ([[User talk:EvilCat|talk]]) 09:04, 28 January 2017 (EST)

Category:Venezuela

2016-12-25T11:26:43Z

EvilCat: ru interwiki

This category contains everything that is based in (or relates to) [[Wikipedia:Venezuela|Venezuela]].

[[Category:South America]]
[[ru:Категория:Венесуэла]]

Category:Fictional organizations

2016-12-04T07:33:39Z

EvilCat: ru interwiki

Organizations mentioned in [[:Category:Fiction|stories]], or located on [[:Category:Multiplayer worlds|multiplayer worlds]], as well other fictional organizations that don't actually exist.

== See also ==
* [[:Category:Fictional locations|Fictional locations]]

[[Category:Organizations]]
[[Category:Fiction]]
[[ru:Категория:Вымышленные организации]]

Cream the Rabbit

2016-11-24T14:11:38Z

EvilCat: ru interwiki

{| class="infobox" style="width: 20em;"
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|colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | [[Image:CreamRabbit2D.png|200px|Cream the Rabbit]]
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!colspan="2" style="font-size: larger;" | '''Cream the Rabbit'''
|-
|'''Gender''' || Female
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|'''Age''' || 8
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|'''Place of birth''' || Unknown
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|'''Fur color''' || Buff
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|'''Eye color''' || Brown
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'''Cream the Rabbit''' is a peach-colored [[Rabbit (species)|rabbit]] from the [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] universe. She was introduced in ''Sonic Advance 2''. Cream has the ability to fly by flapping her ears and she is rarely seen without her lifelong companion, [[wikipedia:List of minor characters in Sonic the Hedgehog#Cheese the Chao|Cheese]] the [[wikipedia:Chao (video game)|Chao]], whom she uses as a method of attack.

Her mother is [[Vanilla the Rabbit]].

== Appearances ==
Premièring in ''Sonic Advance 2'', Cream continued with Cheese as a recurring character in ''Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut'', ''Sonic Heroes'', ''Sonic Battle'', ''Sonic Advance 3'', ''Sonic Rush'', “Sonic Chronicles The Dark Brotherhood”, “Sonic Riders” and the-fictional T.V program, ''Sonic X''.

In furry fandom, she is featured in fan art, including the popular adult flash game [[Babysitting Cream]].

== External links ==
*[[Wikipedia:Cream the Rabbit|Cream the Rabbit]] on Wikipedia
*[http://www.absoluteanime.com/sonic_x/cream.htm Absolute Anime] - contains info about Cream's profile from Sonic X

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Shadow the Hedgehog

2016-11-24T14:10:44Z

EvilCat: ru interwiki

{| class="infobox" style="width: 20em;"
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|colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | [[Image:480px-Shadow_rivals.png|200px|Shadow the Hedgehog]]
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!colspan="2" style="font-size: larger;" | '''Shadow the Hedgehog'''
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|'''Gender''' || Male
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|'''Age''' || Looks Sonic's age; is technically in his late fifties and also considered immortal.
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|'''Place of birth''' || Space Colony ARK
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|'''Fur color''' || Black, red and white
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|'''Eye color''' || Red
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'''Shadow the Hedgehog''' is known as Sonic's rival in the [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] video games, first appearing in ''Sonic Adventure 2''. He is the "Ultimate Life Form", having near-unlimited power such as manipulating space via "Chaos Control". Initially he and Sonic were enemies upon their first meeting, at the time Shadow was not fully recognized by the public so when Shadow stole a Chaos Emerald, said public believed Sonic to be the criminal. Only by saving the earth together (Super Sonic and Super Shadow) did everyone finally get used to Shadow's image and Shadow became a sort of friendly (if very intense) rival to Sonic.

Shadow's closest friends are Rouge the Bat and E-123 Omega. Rouge often lends Shadow a hand during his missions of infiltration, and Omega was often used for heavy firepower. Despite this, Shadow often worried about Omega's safety, like in ''Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood'', when he found that the Marauders kidnapped Omega and took him apart.

Shadow once had a close friend, Maria Robotnik, who was later killed by members of G.U.N. As a result, briefly Shadow held a grudge against humans, which was ironic considering Maria was human herself. It was until after the Black Arms' defeat in ''Shadow the Hedgehog'' did he decide to stop worrying about Maria and look into the present.

Unlike Sonic, who simply runs to achieve high speed, Shadow's shoes are fitted with a sort of air skates that allow him to glide on the ground once he started moving at a certain speed.

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== Trivia ==
* In an official character poll regarding the Sonic characters, Shadow came second to Sonic in popularity. Love him or hate him, he's not leaving the franchise any time soon...

== See also ==

* [[Wikipedia:Shadow the Hedgehog|Shadow the Hedgehog]] at Wikipedia

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Template:Net-stub

2016-11-08T09:44:11Z

EvilCat: the mark-up was broken

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Category:Philippines

2016-11-04T11:26:44Z

EvilCat: ru interwiki

{{Country|name=Philippines}}
[[Category:Asia]]
[[es:Categoría:Filipinas]]
[[ru:Категория:Филиппины]]

Barbary Lion

2016-11-01T06:06:57Z

EvilCat: ru interwiki, removed broken external links

The '''Barbary Lion''', also called the Atlas Lion, is an extinct (sub)species of [[lion]]. It was the largest of lions, and heavily-built. Compared to familiar modern lions, Barbary Lions had longer fur, particularly along the underside. Adult [[male]]s had a profuse dark mane extending from neck and shoulders and along the belly towards the hind legs.

== Barbary Lion characters ==

Barbary Lion characters have existed on a number of [[:Category:The Lion King multiplayer worlds|multiplayer worlds based on ''The Lion King'']]. Barbary Lion was an available species on [[Sunrise MUCK]] and [[Endless Round MUCK]], although not explicitly recognised on [[The Lion King MUCK]]. Individual characters are often described as unusually large and shaggy-furred.

== See also ==
* [[:Category:Barbary Lion characters]]
* [[Wikipedia:Barbary Lion|Barbary Lion]] at Wikipedia

[[Category:Feline species]]
[[ru:Берберийские львы]]

Category:Poland

2016-10-04T04:27:55Z

EvilCat: ru interwiki

This category contains everything that is based in (or relates to) '''[[WikiPedia:Poland|Poland]]'''.

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Titus (character)

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'''Titus''' is a fictional character appearing in American [[comic book]]s published by [[Marvel Comics]].

==Publication history==
Titus first appeared in ''Nova'' Vol. 5 #1 and was created by Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness.

==Fictional character biography==
Titus is a [[white tiger]] [[alien]] who was a member of the [[Wikipedia:Supernova (Marvel Comics)#Supernovas|Supernovas]], a black ops branch of the [[Nova Corps]]. He served with Jesse Alexander (the father of [[W:Nova (Sam Alexander)|Sam Alexander]]), Mister Z'zz, The Phlish, and a few other Supernovas.<ref>''Nova'' Vol. 5 #1</ref>

Following the desertion of Jesse Alexander, Titus was attacked by the [[W:Chitauri|Chitauri]] which lead to the loss of Titus' right eye and arm causing him to replace his missing parts with cybernetics. After serving the Chitauri for several years, Titus came to Earth in search of Jesse Alexander's Nova helmet.<ref>''Nova'' Vol. 5 #3</ref>

Titus lies to Sam Alexander telling him that he had killed his father. This is not true because Jesse Alexander is being held captive by the Chitauri. When Titus finds Sam, he threatens not only him, but everything he holds dearly to him in exchange for the Ultimate Nullifier he stole from their ship. Sam then gets back his helmet from Titus and takes them both to outer space, expecting the lack of oxygen to kill Titus. When that plan fails. Sam takes out the Ultimate Nullifier and tells Titus to take his forces and leave. Titus and Sam then struggle for the gun and Sam accidentally triggers it killing Titus and an entire fleet of Chitauri.<ref>''Nova'' Vol. 5 #5</ref>

==Powers and abilities==
As part of the Nova Corps, Titus wields a Nova Gun and can breathe in outer space.

==In other media==
===Television===
* Titus appears in the ''[[W:Ultimate Spider-Man (TV series)|Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' episode "Return of the Guardians of the Galaxy," voiced by J.B. Blanc. He was a member of the Nova Corps until he betrayed it at some point and formed an alliance with the Chitauri. When Titus discovered that there was a remaining Nova Helmet on Earth wielded by Sam Alexander, he sent his forces to retrieve it. Titus fought against Spider-Man when he was helping Nova and other [[Guardians of the Galaxy (2008 team)|Guardians of the Galaxy]]. Titus was defeated by Nova and was taken away by the Guardians of the Galaxy while the remaining Chitauri escaped. In "Contest of Champions" Pt. 4, Grandmaster used Titus, Doctor Octopus, Absorbing Man, and Executioner into attacking [[Captain America]] and Hawkeye. Titus was subdued by Spider-Man.

* Titus appears in ''[[Guardians of the Galaxy (TV series)|Guardians of the Galaxy]]'' voiced again by J.B. Blanc. In the episode "Origins," Titus was present with Rhomann Dey when Drax the Destroyer turned himself over to the Nova Corps. In the episode "Take the Milano and Run," the Guardians of the Galaxy encountered Titus on the space station Cojunction after they crashed the Milano. Grandmaster managed to convince Titus to not arrest them. Titus later catches Star-Lord and Gamora ended up in a fight within Lunatik's nightclub as Lunatik talks Titus out of taking action since the fight occurred in his club. When [[Rocket Raccoon]] disabled the forcefield around the stadium, Titus and the Nova Corps members with him converged. Upon Grandmaster's defeat, he is thrown near Titus who comments "This won't stay in Conjunction." The Guardians of the Galaxy then leave Conjunction as Star-Lord tells Titus "neither will we." In the episode "Can't Fight This Seedling," Titus pursues the Guardians of the Galaxy to another planet and is tricked into crashing into an asteroid. While on the planet, Titus gets his ship repaired as he witnesses [[Groot]] infected by the parasitic fungus. During the Guardians of the Galaxy's fight with a possessed Groot, Titus contacted Nova Corps HQ for approval of the use for an anti-matter missile. Even though he was denied, Titus still wanted to use it which led to Drax the Destroyer redirecting the anti-matter missile to the meteor that carried the parasitic fungus. While in his ship, Titus confronted the Guardians of the Galaxy to arrest them and was forced to leave when the locals threatened to take a stand. In the episode "Undercover Angle," Titus catches the Guardians of the Galaxy while they are infiltrating the Nova Corp HQ on Xandar. He decides to spare from being imprisoned on Kyln in exchange that the Guardians of the Galaxy infiltrate the Black Order in order to keep them from finding a dangerous weapon. During the Guardians of the Galaxy's fight with the Black Order on another planet over the Universal Weapon that was previously used by Ronan the Accuser, Titus showed up and attacked both groups so that he can give the Universal Weapon to [[W:Collector (comics)|The Collector]]. This prompted a temporary truce between the Guardians of the Galaxy and the Black Order to keep the Universal Weapon from being claimed by Titus. Star-Lord was able to record Titus' confession of joining the Nova Corps to get involved with the black market and forwards it to the Nova Corps HQ. Titus is defeated by the Guardians of the Galaxy and later arrested by the Nova Corps as he vows to have his revenge on Star-Lord.

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://comicbookdb.com/character.php?ID=70733 Titus (Marvel)] at ComicBookDB.com
* [http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Titus_%28Earth-616%29 Titus] at Marvel Wiki
* [http://www.comicvine.com/titus/4005-87738/ Titus] at Comic Vine

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Tanabi

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'''Tanabi''' is a popular character in ''The Lion King'' fandom, but who was not [[Wikipedia:Canon (fiction)|canon]] to ''[[The Lion King]]'' or its sequels. Tanabi was the name given to the lion cub, assumed to be male, who is seen at the end of ''The Lion King''. The name "Tanabi" is originally attributed to [[Melissa Martin]] and is a character in numerous works of [[fan fiction]], including ''[[The Tales of Tanabi]]'' by [[Joshua C. Templin]], one of the earliest works of ''Lion King'' fan fiction, and ''[[Chronicles of the Pride Lands]]'' by [[John Burkitt]], [[David Morris]], among others.

Like many fan stories and works that predate ''Simba's Pride'', the existence of a male cub of [[Simba]] and [[Nala]] (by whatever name) ultimately did not prove to be canonical with Disney's sequels, though there have been explanations offered that would allow for this possibility.

== See also ==
* [[The Lion King/Who was the cub?]]
*[[Kopa]]

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