ISSUE 298
Hey you all! Welcome to another edition of Furry Weekly, your one stop for anything and everything about the furry fandom! Thanks for joining us!
Before we get started, we have our usual announcements to get through, most notably our ‘Recruitment’ section, so please take a look below, or feel free to skip ahead to the Content Lineup for the week!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
RECRUITING
We’re still looking for people to join our team, so we hope you’ll take a look at our open positions and consider working with us!
Here are the roles we currently have open at Furry Weekly:
- Art Corner Host
- Furry of the Week Host
- Radical Raffles Host
- Species Spotlight Host
- Fursuit Designing Tips Co-Host
- Available Artists Host
- Cover Artist
- Content Artist
- Content Migrator
- Editor
If you’d like to help out or if you want more info, please contact Yeshua, or Carkas. If you want a description of the roles above, visit this document! If you have any suggestions for other roles or things we could bring into Furry Weekly, please reach out as well. We’d love to hear your ideas! We still need lots of help in general, so please do consider joining us or sharing with other friends in the fandom if you can! We’d really appreciate it!
SEND US YOUR STUFF
Our goal here at Furry Weekly is to showcase the creativity the fandom has to offer, and if you haven’t noticed, most of our segments center around featuring folks in the community! So we want to remind you that you can submit your content to us! We actually have two new ways for you to send us your stuff:
Email us: Email us at furryweeklysubmissions@gmail.com! You can submit your work (e.g. artwork, writing, quote, original species), tell us you are interested in appearing in a segment like Furry of the Week, Fursuit Focus, or Character Interview, or suggest someone to be featured in one of these segments.
Fill out our form: Check out this Google Forms link and fill it out based on the content you want to submit!
Remember that if you either email us or fill out our Submissions Form, you’re giving us permission to feature you or your work here on the magazine! We will always link back to you if you or your work appears on Furry Weekly!
READER SURVEY
In addition to recruiting, we want to listen to what you, our readers, have to say about Furry Weekly! Our goal is to showcase a little bit of everything in the fandom, especially giving a small spotlight to all kinds of creators and folks in the community. So we want to know what you think about what we’re doing now as well as what you might want to see from a furry magazine. So whether you’re an avid follower of Furry Weekly, or maybe you just found us, we want to hear what you like, what you don’t like, and what you would like us to do in the future! That’s why we have a short survey on this topic. We would seriously appreciate it if you took just a few minutes to take it and give us your feedback! You can do this multiple times as well! The link is below!
Click here to take our reader survey!
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That’s all our usual announcements done! Now let’s get into today’s issue! Be sure to tell us on our social media what you liked the most or if you’d like to see something or someone in a future issue. We’re @FurryWeekly on both Twitter and Instagram!
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SEGMENT LINEUP
[❌] Furry of the Week
[❌] Art Corner
[❌] Writing Showcase
[❌] Fursuit Focus
[✔] Species Spotlight
[✔] Animal of the Week
[✔] Art 101
[✔] Writing 101
[✔] Fursuit Designing Tips
[✔] Photography 101
[❌] Available Artists
[✔] Radical Raffles
[❌] Character Interview
[✔] Convention Calendar
[✔] Furry Quote
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SPECIES SPOTLIGHT
Hello readers, and welcome back to an exciting week of Species Spotlight! This is Danielle making a return as a guest host.
Before we put the spotlight on this week’s original species, I wish to let all of you know that we’re still looking to recruit more hosts for this segment. If you enjoy diving into species lore and/or find original species fascinating, then this might be for you! Feel free to message our boss, Yeshua, or our HR, Carkas, if you’re interested in hosting Species Spotlight.
This week we’ll be getting electrified with a species called Screenets by KATTEG4T!
Screenets are simple yet very tall electrical creatures with long necks and tails. They can be both anthro and feral.
Screenets can grow up to eight feet tall depending on the amount of electricity they get. They have paw pads that can come in various shapes such as a heart, circle, triangle, and star. Screenets always need to have at least one part of their body where electricity is shown since their body is made up of 70 percent electricity. The electricity enables their digital body parts to glow in the dark. They get their power or life from any source of electricity such as electrical wires, allowing for a diverse range of color in electricity. However, the common electricity color is mainly blue.
Screenets communicate by sending out signals that can go up to 200 meters far. They are capable of eating, but they can survive just fine as long as there’s electricity in their body. When angered and/or being attacked, Screenets will give a tiny electrical shot where the electricity is shown on their body.
Screenets are an open species, which means you’re welcome to get creative with them; there are no limits. When making your own, please be sure to give credit to KATTEG4T for the species and to follow the simple guidelines on the species information post. Feel free to share your Screenet creations with KATTEG4T; they’d be more than happy to see them.
Looking for more of the Screenet species? Feel free to check out the Screenet group on DeviantArt to immerse yourself in the open species. You can find free to use bases there like this newest one here to help you get started with your own.
If you have any questions about the species, feel free to reach out to KATTEG4T on any of their socials as specified on their Carrd. They aren’t as active on DeviantArt anymore, but they’ll be around to answer any questions you may have about the species.
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Thank you for tuning in to this week of Species Spotlight! I hope you enjoyed learning about the Screenets today. There are plenty of creative original species out there, and we’ll be sure to hunt them down.
Ready for us to explore your original species? Feel free to fill out this form if interested. You can also submit content by emailing furryweeklysubmissions@gmail.com, or you can directly message me on any of my platforms.
As Coyote Peterson from Brave Wilderness says, stay wild, and we’ll see you on the next species adventure!
Disclaimer
All information and art pertaining to the species belongs to KATTEG4T.
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ANIMAL OF THE WEEK
Hello everyone! It’s Zed Shirogane and it’s another animal of the week segment!
Animal of the week is a segment where we highlight an animal that is really cool, cute, creepy, or just plain fascinating. There will be a coloring-page illustration for you all to print out and color in at home, as well as an adoptable character inspired by the animal of that week. The best part? All proceeds made by said adopt will be donated to conservation charities!
Whenever possible, we do symbolically adopt the animal, but only some animals have the privilege to have that as an option unfortunately; thus we collect extra funds to donate to many different species conservation charities, donate towards wildlife rehabilitation programs, or send funds to scientists so that they can research underappreciated animal species. Join us on this fun adventure, and I hope that you, too, will fall in love with these amazing animals!
Today we have the second part of our Geckos series!
Geckos are small, mostly carnivorous lizards that have a wide distribution, found on every continent except Antarctica. Geckos are unique among lizards for their vocalizations, which differ from species to species. Unlike most lizards, geckos are usually nocturnal and have excellent night vision; their color vision in low light is 350 times more sensitive than human eyes. Many species are well known for their specialized toe pads, which enable them to grab and climb onto smooth and vertical surfaces, and even cross indoor ceilings with ease. Geckos are well known to people who live in warm regions of the world, where several species make their home inside human habitations. The Neo-Latin gekko and English 'gecko' stem from Indonesian-Malaysian gēkoq, it is a Malay word borrowed from Javanese, from tokek, which imitates the sounds that some species like Tokay gecko make.
This Week’s Species: Three-lined Knob-tail gecko (Nephrurus levis)
Characteristics
A robust, medium-sized gecko, with a large, triangular head. It has a short, flattened, carrot shaped like tail that ends in a knob. It has long slender limbs with non-retractile claws on digits.
Fun Facts
A common, alternative, name for this family is barking geckos due loud barks they make during threat displays, which includes swaying their bodies, winding their tail and attacking with an open mouth.
Habitat
Three-lined knob-tailed geckos are distributed throughout the arid interior of Australia, occurring in all mainland states and territories other than Victoria and the ACT. They are prevalent throughout the state of South Australia, including as far south as Adelaide. They can be commonly found as far north as Tennant Creek, Northern Territory; as far east as Bourke, New South Wales and as far west as Western Australia's coastline. The three-lined knob-tailed gecko is found in a wide range of habitats, including arid, semiarid, open woodland, arid scrubs, spinifex covered deserts, sand-plains and dune-fields.
Diet
The three-lined knob-tailed gecko is considered to be an insectivore, preying on spiders, grasshoppers, beetles, cockroaches, scorpions, centipedes and even on other smaller geckos.
Life Cycle
The breeding season occurs between October and March (warmer months), with females able to have 6 or 7 clutches of eggs. When females are ready to breed they will show receptive behaviors, allowing the males to mate with them. Non-receptive females will stand their ground, either attacking or running from the male. After mating, deposition takes around 4 to 6 weeks, then the eggs take around 6 to 8 weeks to hatch. Each clutch predominantly has 2 eggs.
Conservation
N. levis are listed as ‘Least Concern’ by the IUCN's Species Red List due to its large range of distribution and lack of any major threats, at the current time. Localized threats for this species are grazing of livestock and land clearing, however unless there is large-scale decline in their abundance there is no need for a higher threat category.
Here are some links to articles about the conservation of the three-lined Knob-tail gecko:
Adopt
All funds from this adopt will go to animal conservation. The goal for this month is to save up to help fund the care of Jasmine the leopard gecko from Barn Nature Center and symbolically adopt an ornate day gecko from Mauritian Wildlife. These two adoptions require a total of $120 and this adopt will be one of 4 total created to achieve this goal. It will be available for $30 at Shirogane Studios.
Coloring Page
Enjoy this coloring page made by yours truly, for you! Feel free to print it out at home to color in. If you enjoy the design you can also purchase it on a multitude of products like shirts and stickers: links to these options can be found at Shirogane Studios.
Animal Ambassadors
Thank you to our Animal Ambassadors–our AOTW supporters–who have helped make the world a little bit better for animals. If you wish to support this project, or maybe just really like these character designs and want to get access to some exclusive adopts and bases, you can find our patreon for this passion project HERE.
References
Most of my information was derived from Wikipedia.
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ART 101
Artists! Gather up those pencils, pens, stylists, brushes, needles, and thread, for the great Artfight has now begun! Hi all, Shroom here! It's time to talk about the annual, artistic throwdown that is Artfight.
If you've been paying attention to the past week or so, you've likely noticed a few artists drum up support for either something called "Team Stardust" or "Team Seafoam." Pay no mind to the smack talk, for this is all in good fun. In truth, these are the teams and theme for this year's Artfight.
For those uninitiated, Artfight is an art trading game hosted annually in the month of July where artists get to duke it out amongst each other. New and existing users select what team they wish to join based on that year's theme. For 2024, the theme was revealed to be "Seafoam vs. Stardust."
The competition is hosted on Artfight's main website and encourages artists of all mediums and skills to participate in the competition via "attacks" and "revenges".
Attacks act as the main mechanic of the game and involve artists creating art of any variety for other users' original characters. Or countering an attack with art of their own in the form of a revenge.
Participants are free to choose which characters they create art for and the main home page continually showcases recent attacks logged and new characters added to users' rosters. So, if you're not sure who your first attack should be directed to, you can take a look around until something catches your eye!
But wait, how does any of this truly work?
Well, as mentioned before, there are those two main teams: Seafoam & Stardust. Attacks are intended to be directed towards users of the opposing team, but can also be instigated towards teammates. This is just good ol' friendly fire. But regardless, every attack generates points.
Artfight works by using a general grading system that calculates the amount of points any one attack creates. There's five main categories covered under the official Attack Rating Guide: Size, Drawn/Painted, 3D Model, Crafts, & Animation.
Each category allows for a more indepth grading system tailored to each medium. All of which helps inform users when it comes time to submit their attacks. Details like how much of a character is shown, if color was added, whether or not there is a background, or if there was some added polish; all of it works towards the total tally displayed on the homepage.
When the month finally comes to a close, whichever team has the most points wins!
Mainly, bragging rights. But therein lies the key component to Artfight and why, personally, it has become as successful and celebrated as it is.
The spirit of Artfight is the joy of artistic creation and the inherent desire to share that amongst creators. It is an event that celebrates art and characters and relishes in the unfettered joy that comes with simply creating.
Take a look around and you can see the vast variety of attacks: from 3D models, to paintings, to comics, to animations and animatics, to themed DND dice sets, to plushies, and even mass attacks featuring tens upon hundreds of characters.
Everywhere you look, you can see the unabashed celebration of art.
So, can you still join?
ABSOLUTELY!
The competition runs throughout the entire month of July and you can join at any time. Simply set up an account, pick your team, and get creating!
You can even fill out your own team intro cards to help showcase your allegiances and your featured characters.
So what are you waiting for?
Become one with the sea and conquer the stars! Or harness the galaxy and take on the ocean! For the great Artfight has commenced, dear readers, and the time has come to raise your swords.
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If you have any suggestions for future segments or simply have some questions regarding anything I’ve discussed feel free to reach out to me! Regardless, I hope to catch you all next week as we further our art journeys together! (Or on the battlefield) >:)
Most additional information came directly from the Artfight website itself or their socials.
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WRITING 101
Over the course of several weeks, the Camera served as quite a spectacle. Its previous mundane chirps, whirrs, and levitation transformed into wondrous technological marvels, all thanks to the Writing 101 host’s completely fresh perspective. The snake had never seen anything so fascinating in today’s technology. Every time they spent time together, he couldn’t help but remark on the Camera’s abilities.
“I still don’t understand how you’re able to float…” mutters Phoenix, clearly in awe. He sits on the couch in his apartment with the Camera in his thin hands. “Gravity inhibitors…? Or some sort of propulsion? Something with the Earth’s magnetic field?”
The Camera is powered on but holds quite still. Phoenix couldn’t help but take it out once more—perhaps turning it on a few seconds ago was like waking it from a nap. It offers a low and drowsy whirr in response.
“Sorry.... Here, I’ll stop.”
The snake sets the Camera on the cushion. He could coil his long, thick tail around the machine like a nest. He did so out of curiosity of how the machine might react. The Camera snuggles in a bit, kind of like a cat, as its lights slowly glow to life.
“Heh. You’re an interesting one, that’s for sure.”
Phoenix picks up his laptop from the other cushion, opens it, and checks his documents folder. He hadn’t written for the magazine in quite some time; in fact, he felt he may need to shake off some rust to get back into the writing groove. He stretches out his fingers, cracks his knuckles, and begins typing, claws clicking and clacking against the keys.
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Hello friends, and welcome to Furry Weekly’s Writing 101! I’m Bryce Griffin, here to get all you writers out there the inside scoop on literature tips and tricks. Let’s get started!
The Foil
We all know that a protagonist and an antagonist drive conflict in practically any story. They are central characters able to demonstrate how one reacts based on the other’s words or actions. However, they are not the only types of characters that can exert considerable influence. Supplemental characters may play small parts from time to time, but there is one type of character who works to draw out the best (or worst) qualities of another.
This term originates from an old jewelry practice of selling gems on reflective foil. Such a trick would help enhance a jewel’s shine by reflecting light where it wouldn’t typically reach (notice how modern jewel displays use a lot of bright lights from various directions, creating a similar effect). A foil in a story serves a similar purpose—they shine light on specific aspects of another character to better highlight certain qualities, whether good or bad.
Foils can range from a protagonist’s ally, showcasing certain qualities suited for the quest at hand, to the main antagonist, whose qualities may sharply contrast against the protagonist’s. Is the protagonist a hot-headed, trigger-happy gunslinger? His enemy can be a patient sharpshooter, always waiting for the right time to strike. Or maybe his partner fumbles his words when talking to others, therefore drawing attention to the protagonist’s silver tongue and skill at smoothing over any situation.
The foil is not limited to a differing physique or personality. It can involve something as abstract as choices throughout the story. If two recovering alcoholics cross paths at their local AA meeting, the story could use these two characters as foil to the other. One member may be down on his luck and struggling to get a foothold in society, but they’re able to successfully remain sober in the face of these hardships. The other member may be fairly well-off, yet constant returning to alcohol could seriously disrupt, and ultimately ruin, his life.
Poorly-conceived foils may come across as a heavy-handed effort to “shine up” or “dress up” the protagonist. Remember that everyone has their flaws, including the hero of the story. How you design a character’s foil is entirely up to you, but keep in mind that the foil’s purpose is to draw a contrast against another character, not make them look perfect. Even the most beautiful gems are not perfect.
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Want me to take a look at your work? Got a general question for Writing 101? Just shoot me a message on Discord! I’ll be happy to answer any writing questions or even critique your work.
Thanks for joining me in Furry Weekly’s Writing 101. I hope you enjoy the rest of the magazine!
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Phoenix slumps into the cushions and sighs. Indeed, he needed to shake off quite a bit of rust. It felt great to write again, but exercising his brain like this again left it feeling a little tired and strained. It didn’t help that his day job typically made his brain feel similarly. A walk would do him quite a bit of good—Phoenix excitedly checks the conditions outside, expecting to see some heat that would otherwise be negotiable, but the report deflates his enthusiasm as quickly as it swelled.
“One hundred degrees? With a seventy-degree dew point? Oh, hell naw,” he scoffs.
But after a few moments, Phoenix heaves a huge sigh. He wouldn’t risk damaging his delicate scales and skin if he could help it—this was certainly more of a safety issue over personal preference. Still, for these scalding summer days or those frigid winter nights, he always envisioned something a little different and more interactive than his beloved video games. Anything to get him standing and engaged....
The snake glances towards the empty corner of his apartment. It’s a leftover nook created by the finished bathroom in this basement space, no larger than six feet deep by about four feet wide. He could never think of a way to use this corner, except for perhaps storage. Yet storage would be quite an eyesore. If only something could be as much of a display as it was a functional piece of furniture… or a machine, or something.
Phoenix glances back at his laptop, biting his forked tongue. His eyes shift towards the camera, still snuggled up in his curled tail. Whatever he decides to do, he needs not answer to anybody. Especially if it involves his own money he works hard for.
He always did have an incredibly soft spot for pinball....
Phoenix opens up a new web page and begins browsing, heart beating excitedly once more.
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FURSUIT DESIGNING TIPS
Hi, everyone! Olivier the space goat here with the segment on fursuit making and fursuiting in general.
For this week we are focussing on:
Starting
All beginnings are hard. Trust me on that, but know that you will never gain the skills you need for making a suit without… actually making a suit! I tried my best to have these segments in an logical order of execution, and by following this, I hope the skills grow as you go. So, by all means, do reach out if you are stuck. Look up YouTube videos and tutorials and ask other makers (like in my Discord server). You are able to do much more than you can imagine right now.
And know it's okay to fail too! In my opinion nothing is more fun than failing… With my personal suits, I always roll with the punches and see where the flaws get me. So, take a breather if you mess up, assess the damage, and see how to grow from there. If you got glue on fur, let it cool and calmly brush it out. If you cut down the fibers, see how it is if it's shaved. If your fur is cut upside down, maybe see how it looks all put together; it might be extra fluffy!
It's already not as planned, so learn from your mistakes before you recut the part and go the safe route. Also, never feel bad about commissioning certain parts of the things you make. I am not skilled enough (yet) to 3D print my own headbases or work with silicone (yet), so buy those parts. I am learning, but it goes slow and that's okay too. Also, see how I added the ‘’yet’’ in what I said.
A big part of the mind set of starting is being open about the path you are taking. If you narrow your view down to ‘’I can't do this,’’ you will never be able to do it. Once you add a ‘’yet’’ behind it, it's more open, and you are giving yourself the space to learn and grow. So, just go at your own pace. You got this!
If you want to look back on past segments where we discuss about other topics in fursuiting to gain more info, click on any of the issues below:
-258: Storing fursuits
-259: Fursuit styles
-260: Fursuit supplies
-261: Designing fursuits
-262: Quick topic: Con repair kit
-264: Design tips
-265: Hand sewing techniques
-266: Fur quality and shaving
-267: Handlers and handling
-268: Making four-fingered paws
-269: Making five-fingered paws
-286: Making arm sleeves
-287: Base layers
-288: Making tails
-289: Cleaning fursuit parts
-291: Suit making with disabilities
-292: Suiting with disabilities
-293: Making feet paws
-296: Cleaning feet paws
-297: Head bases
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Next time I will be talking about jaw sets and will try to actually have a video tutorial for this one, as jaw sets are a little more tough to do with photos alone! If not, I will continue on talking about fursuit eyes until I have the time to shoot the video on jawsets.
Until then, and if you have any questions, do not hesitate to reach out to me through Instagram or join my Discord server.
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PHOTOGRAPHY 101
Hello, friends and photografurs! Welcome back to this week's Photography 101! I'm your co-host, Jaden and I'm super excited to bring you my first segment after our long break! It's been three months since my last segment but I'm back and super excited to share what I've been up to in those three months!
If you've been an avid reader of Furry Weekly and photography 101 for a while you might already know how much of a fan I am for polaroid cameras. Recently I got my hands on my dream camera, a polaroid SX-70! I had an amazing time learning the ins and outs of this camera and all its little quirks and I'm going to share what I learned with you!
The first thing I noticed with this camera is how user friendly it is. This was by far the easier polaroid I've ever used and was the fastest to learn. I think what made this camera so easy to use was its focus dial. You see, most polaroid cameras have a fixed focus which means the focus is not adjustable; to focus the camera you have to physically move the camera forwards and backwards and hope what you’re seeing in the viewfinder is just a cloudy lens from the age of the camera and not your photo being completely out of focus. This fixed focus is still something I struggle with when it comes to polaroid cameras that have this, partially because as a DSLR user it's so distant to what I'm used to and have been used to for over a decade. But with the SX-70, the camera uses a dial to control the focus of the lens which offers an experience that is very familiar to what I'm used to and overall stream lined the experience.
Despite the focus dial making it easier to focus, one of the things I struggled with was the exposure dial. None of my photos were turning out properly which was a major disappointment with the price of polaroid film. That was, until I found out that for this specific polaroid camera model, the standard setting on the exposure dial that is meant for standard outdoor lighting conditions doesn't work with the film meant for the camera! You actually have to set the camera's exposure dial about 1/3rd towards darken. After I figured out that small little hitch (and wasted a $20 film pack in the process) I was amazed and the quality of photos this camera takes after 50 years had me shocked!
I do believe I still need to fine tune my exposure a little better, but even with that into consideration this is still an amazing photo for such an old camera!
The SX-70 was by far the easiest polaroid to learn and get the hang of and takes some of the best photos of any polaroid camera i've used so far! Now, will this camera replace my DSLR? I wouldn't go that far!
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That concludes this week's segment! If you have any questions or would like to share your photos, don't be afraid to shoot me a message (now available on Bluesky)!
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RADICAL RAFFLES
Hello, everyone! Danielle here once again, and I’m here to bring you some fun raffles to potentially participate in.
Before we get into the raffles, I wish to remind all of you that we’re looking to recruit more hosts for this segment. If you enjoy coming across raffles, then this might be for you! Feel free to message our boss, Yeshua, or our HR, Carkas, if you’re interested in hosting Radical Raffles.
Feel free to stick around because we have seven raffles for you this week! Let’s take a look at them.
First, we have an art raffle by Wees!
How to Enter:
★ Follow and repost.
★ Optional: Share safe for work (SFW) references in the comments.
Prize:
★ Experimental portrait
Deadline:
★ This raffle will end on July 25th. There’s lots of time left to enter!
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Next up, we have an art raffle by Ferwildir!
How to Enter:
★ Follow and repost.
★ Optional: Share your SFW reference(s) in the comments.
Prize:
★ Flat-colored headshot
Deadline:
★ This raffle will end on July 20th. There’s lots of time left to enter!
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Become animated with an animated icon raffle by Senswii!
How to Enter:
★ Like the raffle post + three other posts on Senswii’s Instagram.
★ Share to your story.
★ Comment when done.
Prize:
★ Symmetrical animated icon
Deadline:
★ This raffle will end on August 15th. There’s plenty of time to enter!
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Capture your character or fursona with a headshot raffle by Pin’s Good Boy Era!
How to Enter:
★ Follow and repost. New followers are appreciated!
Prize:
★ Headshot (two winners)
Deadline:
★ This raffle will end on August 5th. There’s plenty of time to enter!
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Celebrate with a 4k follower celebration raffle by Denali!
How to Enter:
★ Follow, like, and repost. New followers are welcome!
★ Comment a reference showing your character or fursona’s mouth.
★ Comment what your favorite snack is.
Prize:
★ Mawshot
Deadline:
★ This raffle will end on July 12th. There’s about a week left to enter!
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Up next, we have an art raffle by Phari!
How to Enter:
★ Follow and repost.
★ Optional: Reply with a reference.
Prize:
★ Icon with background of choice (two winners)
Deadline:
★ This raffle will end on July 16th. There’s still a bit of time to enter!
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Last but certainly not least, we have a road to 2k raffle by Kaida!
How to Enter:
★ Follow, like, and repost. New followers are welcome!
★ Post up to two moodboards and up to three animals (real or fantasy).
★ Comment what your favorite summer treat is.
Prize:
★ Artistic liberty custom
Deadline:
★ This raffle will end once Kaida reaches 2k followers or on July 20th. As of July 4th, Kaida has 1,833 followers. There’s still lots of time left to enter!
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Those are all the raffles I have for you this week. There's always more out there, and we'll make sure to find them and bring them to you every week.
Would you like us to showcase your own raffle? Feel free to fill out this form if interested. You can also submit content by emailing furryweeklysubmissions@gmail.com, or you can directly message me on any of my platforms.
Thank you for taking a look at this week’s raffles. Stay tuned because more radical raffles are coming your way!
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CONVENTION CALENDAR
Welcome back, everyone! It’s Shetani, your Convention Calendar segment host for this issue. I’ve been keeping plenty busy during Furry Weekly’s summer break, and I hope you have, too! July is always one of the busiest months for furry conventions, and this year proves to be no exception. Who’s ready to learn about all the furry conventions and events happening online, around the world, and in your neck of the woods? Let’s go!
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It’s time to dive into the aptly-named Lakeside Furs gathering – boasting an Atlantis theme for its 16th edition! It’s happening at the Chalet Bergerblick hostel in Wald im Pinzgau in the Salzburg region from June 29 to July 6; that’s a full week of fun with fellow furs! As you might imagine, the event has plenty of outdoor options to enjoy, including a reservoir with spring-fresh water, hikes, and even rafting, canoeing, and other similar activities. You’ll also have the chance to use a sauna at the hostel! Indoor activities are also planned, including a Dealers Den, a chill out evening featuring drinks, music, and a great atmosphere to socialize and get to know your fellow furs, as well as board games, a space to hook up a Nintendo Switch, and special interest groups! The event is underway as of publishing this issue, so if you couldn’t make it this time, be sure to keep an eye on it for next year!
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The Skalský Dvůr Hotel in the Czech Republic is preparing for ČeSFuR’s next edition happening Sunday, June 30 to Thursday, July 5. This year’s theme is Adventurers and Explorers, and the con has prepared a cast of five colorful characters to help you blaze a trail towards a fun-filled week. Guest of Honor UmbreoNoctie, streamer, fursuiter, and paleoartist, will be available to meet and greet attendees on Monday. 2024’s charity partner is Jaro Jaroměř, an organization running a wildlife rescue station and multiple projects focused on protection of biologically important areas. ČeSFuR veterans will be happy to know that traditional activities and events like the art show, fursuit game show, dance competition, dealer’s den, and bonfire barbecue are on the docket once again. Special events this year include various meet and greets, NERF gun battle, dinosaur drawing, and an airship race. Though the language of live panels and events will depend on each host, all printed materials are available in both Czech and English versions. You must be 18 years of age to attend ČeSFuR.
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Keep your paws, claws, and tails inside the vehicle and buckle up for a rip-roaring time at Anthrocon, themed “AnthroCoaster” this year! The action happens Thursday, July 4, to Sunday, July 7 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The beneficiary of Anthrocon’s charity auction, raffle, and poker tournament will be Gray Paws Sanctuary, a local non-profit dedicated to rescuing senior dogs. In addition to classic con staples like a Dealer’s Den and Artist Alley, masquerade, games room, fursuit parade, nighttime dances with DJs, and photobooth, Anthrocon will feature multiple fursuit friendly sightseeing cruises, and more panels, meetups, and events than you can shake a stick at. Even that doesn’t fully encompass the fun-filled schedule that awaits attendees, so be sure to check out Anthrocon’s website to get the full scope of events.
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Also happening Thursday, July 4 to Sunday, July 7 is FurryEST at the Barge House near Kabala, Estonia. Attendees staying overnight can choose to bring a tent and camp out on the grounds, or sleep in a bedroom on the barges themselves. Free transport is available from the nearby Rapla train station to FurryEST and back. The 2024 theme is “Furocious Covenants,” encouraging con attendees to choose a team helmed by one of three mystical leaders and rack up points for their cult! The schedule is already up on FurryEST’s website, so take a look and start planning which events you want to attend! Highlights include DIY plush making, sticker and trinket exchange, head patting olympics, plus games and dancing aplenty. If you hope to attend FurryEST, bring a photo ID and make sure you’re at least 18 years old on the first day of the con.
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Little Island Furcon’s 2024 edition blossoms Saturday, July 6 and Sunday, July 7. This year, LIFC has a fresh new venue, the One Farrer Hotel in Singapore. Thrill in the enchantment of life or revel in dark decay – the choice is in your paws with the con’s theme, Bloom and Gloom! Vietnamese furry artist Sherbet is the Guest of Honor for this iteration, and as such, will host a meet and greet as well as vending in the Dealer’s Den at the con. Whether bouncing around at the inflatables meetup, tasting floral fusions at the Botanical Brews Tea Bar, or learning how to stay cool in fursuit, the schedule of events holds many opportunities for all. Don’t forget about the Dealer’s Den, fursuit parade, and nightly dances! If you can’t make it to the physical iteration of LIFC, there will be a separate online convention in a few months. More on that later, though! Attendees must be at least 13 years old to register for LIFC.
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Furtastic fills a whole five days with merriment from Monday, July 8 to Friday, July 12. Make your way to Fjeldholmlejren in Grenå, Denmark to convene with friends new and old! The con has chosen Gears and Growls, a steampunk flair, as their theme this year. Part of Furtastic’s mission statement is to keep with the tradition of hygge, defined as a mood of coziness and comfortable conviviality. Attendees can expect board gaming, fursuiting, an art auction on the last day of the con, and plenty of inexpensive drinks. The minimum age requirement to attend Furtastic is 18. Online pre-reg is all full up this year - hope you were able to get tickets! If not, there’s always next time.
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Indonesia Weekend Anthro Gathering, or IWAG, is scheduled for Saturday, July 13 to Sunday, July 14 at Ibis Styles Jakarta Sunter in Indonesia. We hope you’re ready for a great “Summer Furcation!” The con’s Guest of Honor is Bryan Leon aka Oatmegaplus, known for his furry and mecha inspired art. Unique schedule offerings include a mechanical keyboard panel, car buying discussion, and public performance workshop, along with furry con staples such as a Dealer’s Den and nighttime DJ dances.
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Head on over to the Edmonton Inn & Conference Center in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada between Thursday, July 18 to Sunday, July 21 for Fur-Eh! If you’re a fan of global sporting competitions, you’re in for a real treat this year, as their theme is World Anthro Games. Fur-Eh! 2024’s two Guests of Honor are celebrated fursuit maker Beetlecat and 2D animator and artist Anyare. Fur-Eh! continues their partnership with GEARS (Greater Edmonton Animal Rescue Society), helping injured, abandoned, unwanted, and homeless animals in the Edmonton area. Classic events like the dance competition, fursuit parade, floor wars, nightly dances with DJs, and more add to the exciting programming. Fur-Eh’s jam-packed schedule really must be seen to be believed, so hurry over to their website and begin planning your weekend of furry fun.
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Furway takes place Friday, July 19 to Sunday, July 21 at Åstjern hyttetun in Brandbu, Norway. This furry event bills itself as a hybrid event combining a camping con with indoor sleeping and modern conveniences. Inside and outside tickets are available, depending on whether you choose to sleep rough or avail yourself of traditional comforts. Furway provides staff-cooked meals each day and caters to dietary needs. If you’re intrigued by the sound of programming like a Bootleg Dealer’s Den, button making workshop, speed-friending, and flower pressing, make your way over to Furway’s website to read about these events and more. Attendees of all ages are allowed, though minors cannot stay the night at Furway.
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After a successful first year, Eufuria is back on the scene from Friday, July 19 to Saturday, July 20! Check out their new two-story home at the Albany Capital Center in Albany, NY, USA. Planned programming includes a kandi bracelet workshop, petplay romp, disability furs panel, and character design 101. While at Eufuria, be sure to visit the vendor table of their Guest of Honor, Royalty, and toss a few bucks to their charity partner, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. They’ll also have a games room stocked with all kinds of fun stuff, including Road to Eufuria, a TF game made just for the convention! For even more entertainment, visit the vendor hall, fursuit parade, dance cypher, and Buck Moon Wild DJ dances each night. Eufuria attendees must be over the age of 18, provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination and wear a face mask while in con space.
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Prepare for a scary good time at Brasil FurFest, which is Haunted Hotel themed this year! Hopefully, there won’t be too many ghouls and ghosties pestering people at the Hotel Sheraton Santos in Santos, Brazil from Friday, July 19 to Sunday, July 21. BrFF happily welcomes iconic furry artist and fursuiter Telephone as their Guest of Honor, and Social Project SOS Vida Pet Litoral as their charity partner. BrFF’s full schedule is online right now, so wander over to their website to see what awaits you. How about a Dealer’s Den, fursuit games, dance competition, and nightly dances for a tantalizing taste?
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Do you doubt the veracity of the cake? Perhaps you should prepare for testing at Anthro Weekend Utah 2024: YAPerture Science! The Davis Conference Center in Layton, Utah, USA is preparing to welcome back the furries for Anthro Weekend Utah, from Friday, July 19 to Sunday, July 21. Guests of Honor include Ciderbun and Savestate Comics. AWU’s charity is Nuzzles & Co, a no-kill animal rescue non-profit. A special night of casino games is being held to benefit the charity, and every single person who signs up has a chance to win a prize. All the furry con programming you’ve come to know and love, from fursuit dancing to panels to the Dealer’s Den, awaits you at AWU. AWU’s premiere music festival, LollawpAWUza, is not to be missed either! Don’t forget a photo ID, as you’ll need that to pick up your registration.
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The first ever Awoostria will take place at the Arcotel Wimberger Hotel in Austria on Thursday, July 25 to Sunday, July 28, 2024. Coming out the gates hot with the theme Mystery of the Blue Danube, Awoostria seeks to enrapture attendees in a thrilling whodunit. The Guests of Honor are freelance artist EmilyCreative and documentarians ChipFox and Ash Coyote. The con also highlights musician WHSPRS as part of their Voices of Austria program to uplift local talent. The schedule was still being worked on at press time, so don’t forget to check their website before you attend for up-to-date info! Awoostria attendees must be 18 years old.
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Last but certainly not least, Aurawra returns to the Novotel Sydney Olympic Park Hotel in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. This year’s con will be themed Mountains of Mayhem and take place from Friday, July 26 to Sunday, July 28. Aurawra’s 2024 charity is Sydney Wildlife Rescue, which rescues and cares for sick, injured, and orphaned native wildlife to safely release them back into the wild. The Guests of Honor are Gaia Meroaw and DavidToons. Attendees to Aurawra must be at least 18 years of age.
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This month’s calendar graphic features me spending some time outdoors as summer is in full swing! That calendar is pretty packed, especially the weekend starting with July 19!
We have so many Furry Weekly staff members making the convention circuit in July, including yours truly at Eufuria. Please come say hi if you see any of us at a con near you! Remember to keep up-to-date on vaxx boosters and wear your face mask when meeting up with any furs in person.
Got questions or suggestions for Convention Calendar? Feel free to drop me a line on Twitter and the Fediverse, or hit me up at any of the other platforms linked on my website. If there’s an upcoming con you want to ensure we cover here on Furry Weekly, don’t hesitate to let me know. Have fun and stay safe out there!
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FURRY QUOTE
Hello, everyone! This is Danielle coming back to enlighten your day with an inspiring video game quote.
“If the world chooses to become my enemy, I will fight like I always have!”
Unfortunately, the Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 video game didn’t have the best reputation due to its common glitches and controls. Thus, Sonic the Hedgehog: Project ‘06 was born! Sonic Project ‘06 was developed by a programmer named ChaosX for Microsoft Windows as an unofficial remake of the game in order to improve and fix the issues the original Sonic ‘06 game had, as well as to restore content scrapped during development. As of April 2023, the project has had five demos released. For more information about project ‘06, feel free to check out this Wikipedia page.
In the original Sonic ‘06 game, you get to play as three hedgehogs: Sonic, Shadow, and Silver. To keep it mostly spoiler-free, you battle against a new enemy with Shadow when he says this memorable quote at the end of his story. The quote very much resonates with what came about in Shadow’s story and what leads up to it after he says this quote to the enemy. I chose this quote to share with all of you because of how much this can also resonate with many of you in your everyday lives.
Sadly, we can unintentionally create enemies and sometimes even intentionally create them out of toxicity, hatred, and the like. Fighting your enemies like how Shadow did in Sonic ‘06 isn’t the moral of this message, but rather as a metaphor to keep living your life while being present in the moment despite the obstacles. You’ll develop setbacks along the way, but those don’t have to stop you. No one knows you better than yourself; you are meant for something greater. Live the life you desire, become the best version of yourself, and happiness shall prevail.
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This concludes this week’s Furry Quote. I hope it brought some encouragement to your day.
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