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Original post written by Ahmar Wolf

Original post written by Ahmar Wolf

Original post written by Ahmar Wolf

Guest Kamen the Lycanroc covers a NYFurs event that follows the one in his previous story, Phoenix Bark. It illustrates the potential of a future furry con in New York City.

NYFurs hosted the first ever Fuwa Furry Fest in Industry City in November

NYC’s furry community got together on November 15th in Japan Village in Brooklyn to celebrate the first ever Fuwa Furry Fest.

Located in Industry City, Fuwa Furry Fest was hosted by NYFurs with a mission to celebrate the growing furry community in the Big Apple. According to the website, Fuwa Furry Fest was “a day to celebrate fans, creators and furry enthusiasts for a playful, community-first experience. The culture of the furry fandom will blend with Japanese pop culture for the night!”

Fuwa Furry Fest was hosted by NYFurs’ founder Gamboiuwu, who has been running the group since 2021. The event follows other smaller events around the city meant to bring NYC’s furry community together such as Round 1 furs and Phoenix Bark. The event was conceived by Gam’s desire to bring the NYC furry community to light, as well as wanting to commemorate Japanese culture.

“We saw that Japan Village was offering to do events, and I had always adored Japan Village. I decided to see if they would respond, and to my surprise, they wanted to move forward with our plans,” remarked the founder, who admired how Japan Village brought Japanese culture to New York City. “With some back-and-forth emails and extensive planning, we decided Fuwa Furry Fest could be our first shot at making a sophisticated event in New York City.”

Despite the rainy weather, Fuwa Furry Festival started at 3 PM EST with 203 people registered, with an estimated 250 people in attendance throughout Japan Village. The festival took place across two floors, with the first floor hosting several Japanese restaurants and the Japanese supermarket Sunrise Mart. The Second floor had a seating area with a Torii (Japanese shrine gate) and Guzei (Japanese red bridge), and other shops specializing in Japanese goods such as Book-Off, Daiso, and Bandai Namco Store. Attendees also gathered outside in the courtyard to take photos and enjoy the view of the evening sky of New York City.

Alongside socializing among peers, Fuwa Furry Fest also hosted official board game meetups. While not easily spotted by attendees, that did not stop some from partaking in such. For example Alcor, an occasional attendee for Round 1 meets, played the trading card game Cardfight!! Vanguard with his friend Dreel during the event. Alcor also noted that while the event was fun, it needed more signage to mark where certain meets were. “I didn’t realize there was a board game meetup, I just play Vanguard with my friend Dreel because we do that when we hang out,” remarked Alcor, “It mostly felt like another R1 meetup, so it was chill, but also I feel next time this happens they should have a proper ticketed event and set things up properly so that we can have our own dedicated space.”

Around a few hours into the event, fursuiters lined up in the courtyard for a fursuit parade and a group photo. There, Gam gave a speech about what the event meant to him, and expressed his gratitude for everyone showing up to Fuwa Furry Fest. Afterwards, Phoenix Bark was hosted again at Phoenix Bar in Greenwich Village to end the night.

Feedback was given about the venue, as attendees noted the small size and the fact that it was a public space. Gam not only took note of the feedback, but wanted to expand the idea into a full fledged convention.

“When I went to Phoenix Bark, I had the biggest smile on my face. Just seeing all those furries come together in this one moment,” reflected the NYFurs owner, “felt like I achieved my dream of seeing all these furries together. Life is boring. I see fluffs, it’s a lot more awesome.”

Gam’s accomplishment was a sentiment shared by the staff members as well, including the head event director of NYFurs Gilden Harlowe. Also known as Vinegar, he worked as check-in for the majority of the event.

“The day consisted of plenty of socializing, shopping, and exploration around the vibrant Japan Village, while the staff team ensured we were adhering to the schedule to make things run as smoothly as possible,” remarked the director, “The parade, especially, required coordination unlike any we’ve had in prior NYFurs events, and the end result was an absolutely beautiful display of culture and community.”

After Fuwa Furry Fest, NYFurs continue to host events across NYC, as Phoenix Bark is set to return to Greenwich Village on January 31, with more plans being made by the staff.

– Kamen

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This state-of-the-art adult fursuit technology will get you kicked out of Disneyland – but into the horniest places on earth!

Want to get your paws on the ultimate fursuit accessory that redefines heavy petting? If you want to bare it all, Cider Collie has you covered. Her faux-fur-crafted SPH (Strategically Placed Hole) makes cartoon animal crotches more anatomically-correct than the average person on the street could ever imagine. It can come off to stay SFW, or zip on at will, letting anthropomorphic dogs, kitties and bunnies be as bold as fantasy characters can possibly be. It’s stretchy and penetrable for full contact by collaborators in furry performance art, so their partners can please them in ways that real life isn’t known to provide. Sounds too hot to bother about rug burns.

Reporting the adult side of furry follows a mission to cover the hole truth; the good, the bad, and the sexy, with no sacred cows left unturned. Think of how this was made with hands, fabric, and a naughty dream. Compared to some uses of human bodies in adult media, sewing is wholesome, isn’t it?  The uncensored art is NSFW — kids and prudes go away — but tasteful, mature readers can see it and smile. So feast your eyes on this invention of utmost necessity, and learn how Cider Collie’s crazy job brought it to life in her Q&A with Dogpatch Press.

Your Bluesky bio says “artist drawing weird intimate furry sex”. Is that just your NSFW account and how do you want to be found?

I go by a couple of online usernames haha! My family knows about my SFW art and online presences, so I try to keep my NSFW work pretty separate to avoid them coming across it. You can find it at @cidercollie.bsky.social.

[Cider Collie doesn’t just do adult art, but it’s sensible to separate occupations, so we’ll leave some of her other talents private. There’s a lot more than you see here.]

How did you get into being a furry artist, and what are some of your inspirations? 

I got into being a furry artist pretty early. I had always liked drawing and animals. At about age 11, I got my first phone and therefore social media. One day, a photo of a fursuit popped up on my Instagram feed. I showed my mom, thinking it was cool, and she FREAKED out… her only context of furries having been that CSI episode. From there, my curiosity got the best of me and I fell straight down the internet rabbit hole. Telephone was by far my biggest furry inspiration and fascination. The Lion King and a lot of the early hand-animated Disney movies, as well as my upbringing in a coastal beach town in south Florida, both really inspire my art to this day.

What do you most like to make, and want to share any of your favorite works?

I most enjoy making things that are kind of outside the usual and that challenge me to learn new skills! For example, right now I’m working on developing a really fun new sex toy: a fuckable anthro furry butt. I wanted to explore the overlap between plush toy kinks and fursuit kinks. I’ve learned a ton about toy-smithing, 3D printing, mold-making, working with silicone and foam, and designing a product with basically no blueprint. I’m really excited to show off the proof-of-concept with fabric genitals and progress photos.

Do you have any observations about who follows or commissions you, and what they want?

Honestly, I find it a little hard to tell who exactly my audience is or what they like from me. I try to vary the kinks and themes in my adult art so there’s a lil something for everyone. Though I do draw a lot of outdoorsy adult art, so hopefully I attract people who enjoy the same!

Do you have any thoughts about the furry community, or experiences that made you feel strongly about what it does or doesn’t do? 

Oh yes, absolutely. I feel the furry community can be a double-edged sword. A few years ago, a person launched a slanderous hate campaign against me because of a piece of adult art I made. The art was in a Chibi style, depicting an anthro furry girl, with human breasts and genitals… but these teenagers decided that her pose and wrist angle somehow meant the character was feral/quadruped, and therefore they decided to accuse me of zoophilia. I had recently attained a decent following on social media, so of course “popular furry is a zoophile” became the hot gossip and big headline at the time. Seeing part of the community I had loved with all my heart turn on me in the blink of an eye due to a random person’s completely proofless accusation based on a very tame and acceptable furry porn drawing… it deeply and permanently changed me, and opened my eyes to a very big problem the community has.

On the good side though, I have everything because of this community. When I was a kid, the furry community donated money to help my mother and I escape domestic abuse. By taking commissions, I was able to save up and move to Orlando at age 18, which kickstarted my career and life. So many kind comments and wholesome exchanges from furries online and at conventions encourage me to keep going, and I can’t be more grateful for that.

So all that to say, I have wildly varied feeling

Fursuiting has grown impressively since the early days. It’s driven by passion and fandom, but it’s also part of an industry, so it’s both collaborative and entrepreneurial. Adult work has been part of the craft development since the beginning. Your fursuit accessory, the plush vulva, looks uniquely designed and not just impressively crafted, but exciting for a commissioner to wear and use. It’s so personalized and oddly wholesome, with a plush toy aesthetic and undertones of gender subversion … We might expect mainstream heteronormativity to present sex toys as generic plastic dong things, and this flips that around and goes beyond many peoples imagination. I wanted to point this out as a unique hand made object and ask you how you feel about making it?

The first fursuiter at the first furry convention.

Thank you! I really love how you described that- you have an amazing way with words. I think that flipping of expectations is exactly why this specific type of fursuit accessory tickles me.

Sex and kink are so often culturally assigned as HARDCORE and NAUGHTY and so on – so something about portraying eroticism through soft cuddly fabrics lovingly handsewn together… it kind of wraps a blanket of coziness, intimacy, and tenderness around the whole idea. Plus, I just love making things that are underrepresented or not commonly seen.

You comment on the photos was “damn my job is crazy” which says so much. Can you talk about having this for a job, and do you have any thoughts about adult art as an industry?

It really is! It’s such a weird experience and it takes up so much of my life, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. I actually tried to work a part-time job a few years back and that lasted about a week, haha. Doing furry art for a living is so incredibly freeing, but like anything under the self-employment category, figuring out how to manage it all is pretty stressful. How to keep up with growth, how to handle loss, artistic burnout, learning to switch gears, finding work-life balance, self-regulating, not falling down the corporate black hole, staying human while maintaining professionalism, social media skills, taxes… it’s a lot. But the freedom to make the art I want to make is worth all the stress.

Adult art is something that’s always been around, from the earliest charcoal cave drawings of cavemen porking to the modern digitally painted werewolf wieners, it’s so deeply and beautifully human. It’s something I believe is incredibly valuable, not only as a form of self expression, but also because it has incredible value as data for historians and scientists. Erotic art provides deeply insightful information about the human psyche and the mysteries of sexuality.

And of course that goes for all art, but I think that considering how widely shunned erotic art tends to be across many cultures, AND the recent restrictions and attempts at erasure happening in the US, it is especially important to emphasize the importance of recording, preserving, and protecting erotic art.

Have you noticed recent problems with payment processors targeting adult services, and do you have any observations about it or info about what to do?

Absolutely, it’s been jarring to suddenly see payment processors silently change their terms of service overnight. Of course it’s largely a censorship issue, but I think it’s also a capitalism issue – every large company ultimately being controlled by a small handful of powerful people means those companies will bend to the ideas of those few powerful people, no matter how it affects the rest of the population.

To my understanding, the best thing we can do is inconvenience those companies, the payment processors. Call, email, text, mail physical letters, protest in-person or online, boycott, tell your friends – whatever you can do to contribute to being loud about the problem and inconveniencing those companies, do it. Customer support numbers for large companies are very often outsourced to a third party, which often charge the companies per call. If you take up their time, you cost them money. By telling your friends, you drive away their potential or existing customers. By making them lose money, time, customers, and reputation: You contribute to the notion that their policy change was a BAD BUSINESS MOVE.

Thanks so much for sharing about your work, and let’s let people know they can get a book of your NSFW art.

Original post written by Patch O’Furr

Furry literature features no shortage of smaller folk standing up for their own existence. Watership Down, Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, or some of you may even recall The Roquefort Gang from its animated appearance on CBS Storybreak. It’s a safe bet that these works, and so many like these, inspired David Petersen in the creation of Mouse Guard, which heads into its 20th Anniversary this year.

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Well, MonsterQuest is back after a hiatus so long that most fans assumed the show was gone forever, so never say never, right? In the first episode of Season 5 Cops vs. Cryptids airing Jan. 2nd, 2026, we were treated to treatments of essentially four different cryptids, the episodes united by the theme that all had police investigation or involvement with them. The Beast of the Land Between the Lakes in Kentucky was first considered, with people missing or having been found dead in the area by 1980. The Beast was described as walking on two legs, and having glowing eyes. In a wooded area, one hunter, a fireman, paused to tell another turkey hunter, a cop, that he had experienced something circling his camp. The second hunter later heard growling and saw something massive 6′ to 8′ tall at his camp perimeter. He discharged his firearm at it, and heard a scream before the creature withdrew. The camp of the fireman was later found with his body in it. AI technology was used to generate scenes in this and other segments of the show...

The second installment rather stretched the definition of what a cryptid is, which is usually considered to represent an animal whose existence or survival is disputed or unsubstantiated. Centering on a “Shadow Person” manifestation seen in Monmouth County, New Jersey, these manifestations are mysterious, dark, humanoid figures reported in paranormal experiences, often seen as fleeting silhouettes described as featureless, black solid shapes, possibly being spirits. An officer was investigating a breaking and entering or home invasion call made by an old man, but didn’t see anything. An identical call came through the following night, and the same officer investigated it, this time finding a 7′-8′ black shadow looming over the resident. The entity disappeared at the end of a hallway. The officer called the sister of the man, who related that she had also experienced the shadow person, and that its presence constituted the reason for her moving from the premises. Spooky, yes…but an unknown animal, no…

Then we came to reports on the Goatman, a massive half-human, half-goat creature that walks on its hind legs. In 2006 a Colorado policeman collided with one on the road, but apparently didn’t damage it or his vehicle, although he could hear it moving around in the brush after the collision. Sturdy beast, that Goatman!

The last police encounters with cryptids were reported from the state of Washington, where numerous “Bigfoot” type creatures have been seen, also known as the “Forest Giant” or the “Wildman.” An 8′ tall Bigfoot supposedly dashed in fromt of a police cruiser in 2010, and 14″ and 17″ footprints were later found in the area…

All in all, it’s great to have MonsterQuest back on the air again, and the second episode will reportedly cover military encounters with cryptids. We may at Foxsylvania report on episodes as they continue to roll out from The History Channel, because inquiring minds want to know…

(Please, gentlemen, I can only listen to one of you at a time! And no, Goatman, you may not play Candy Crush on my tablet!)

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Don’t let time get away from you; if you want to join our dance competition, you’ll want to sign up sooner rather than later! Once all spots are full, they’re full and that’s that! Get ready to get on stage and shake your tail for prestige and prizes!

Waltz over to https://lonestarfurcon.com/attend/performer-applications/ and get that dance comp application filled out today!

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Original post written by Ahmar Wolf

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