Orangina has always been weirdly horny for furries.

This is the source of the text, for those who asked: www.typebarmagazine.com/2024/05/29/n...

The string of horrible furry media coverage in the early 2000s didn't exist in a vacuum. It was part of a massive post-9/11 push for jingoism and "normalcy" on TV. So everybody "different" or "marginal" would be portrayed as a villain or be made the target of mockery. Hence furry marginalization.

Peteena Fashion Doll (1966) from Hasbro View the original commercials over on my Twitter

It is pretty interesting to look at the kind of information people in the fandom (and everywhere else, really) used to be comfortable with putting out there for everybody else to see. Very different from today.

archive.org/details/shaw... "Shawn Keller's Horrifying look at the furries" was a pretty disgusting and , quite frankly, libelous piece of crap comic book where Keller would attack real members of the fandom by depicting them en masse as sex predators, perverts, and deranged manchildren.

I built an entirely custom, furry as fuck pinball machine. It was a nightmare project and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, but I will slowly document some of the build here TierFest, because the animals want to get drunk too

The Löwenmensch figurine, discovered in 1939 in Hohlenstein-Stadel, a German cave, part of the Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is currently, the oldest known piece of anthropomorphic art in the world, carbon-dated to be approximately 35-41,000 years old.

The Orlando Furry Archives provided hosting for furry art and artists media This archive started in 1996 as a programing project by Simtra to place Harik's art collection on the web The original name of the archive was furry.ao.net which led to the name F.A.N. Archive It has been down since 2008

Ideal Dog Food (1952)

Compilation of TERRIBLE fursuits seen on TV during the early-2000s media obsession with furries.

"The fursuit of happiness" was an article that appeared in the April 12, 2001 issue of the Montreal Mirror. It TRIED ("tried" being the key word here) to give a more balanced view of furries as a fandom. But inevitably circled back to obsessing over how we strange freaky people had sex.

I'm not going to post this kind of thing often, but... Pro tip : It's generally seen as horribly insensitive and trashy by polite society to name drop a recently deceased person to win points in a petty internet argument.

The Freezing Furs were a (now defunct) group that was founded in response to the Burned Furs. They believed (rightly so) that Burned Furs were a hate group seeking to rally support for a "cleansing" of the furry fandom by dehumanizing and discounting folks that had been part of it from the start.

The Pride Lands Online was a web-based fanzine created by and for fans of Disney's The Lion King. The webzine had 7 released issues between 1996 and 1999. An archive of the webzine can be found at : www.thumper.net/tlkmag/

Extremely sad news this morning. It appears that Mark Merlino has passed away during the night. We want to give his surviving family and friends our sincerest condolences.

Update on this situation. Apparently, Mark is NOT doing well and is being transitioned into end-of-life care. Which, as you know, can be VERY costly. So any help is more important now than ever.

Not vintage furry stuff, but likely relevant to people here: Oklahoma republicans are passing a bill that would make it illegal for children to "attend school as furries". Not only that, but a child could potentially be removed from school by ANIMAL CONTROL. All that because of LibsOfTiktok lies.

In the mid 2010s, Jagermeister ran a series of adverts using bizarrely horny-on-main furry imagery. (Don't ask me why the stag guy has a very visible and detailed bulge on an officially alcoholic beverage advert, I have no idea either)

Ken Sample's essay from Yarf #0 "Why?" In which Ken Sample writes about why he likes anthropomorphic characters as much as he does.

In 2022, Dick Tracy had a storyline taking place at a furry convention taking place in Chicago called Fanfur (alternate universe MFF, clearly). He meets with a staff member called "Eric Greymuzzle" about a dastardly fake animation cell ring.

I thought this would be relevant to people following this account: Mark Merlino suffered two small strokes and had to be hospitalized over new year's eve weekend. You can send your good words and positive vibes in the post below.

The Tonygate™ An event where so many furries flirted with and drew NSFW fan art of Tony the Tiger that Kellogg's started mass blocking furries on Twitter, and Tony porn started appearing on Google's feature card about the character.

Usagi Yojimbo is a comic book series created by Stan Sakai. Set in the beginning of Edo period Japan, with anthropomorphic animals replacing humans, it features a rabbit ronin, Miyamoto Usagi, who wanders the land on a shogyusha occasionally selling his services as a bodyguard.

Crush! Yiff! Destroy! was a website with an associated forum which was frequented by ex-furs, nonfurs, and anti-furries alike. Its goals was the "uninhibited" discussion and mocking of what its members see as "excesses" and/or "vices of the furry fandom". The website was taken offline on March 2010

The 12 Cards of Christmas, Day 6. For 1985 I painted on illustration board myself (belly sledding) Sy, Raani holding my tail (Vinson Mink), Kawauso with snow on his head (Andre Johnson) and Tari, in the tree (Ken Sample).

Biker Mice from Mars or "How to make a whole generation of male millennials question their sexuality"

My husband, Sy Sable, did that first group picture cover. That's his fursona and mine in the middle.

It's really kind of crazy to think that furries' addresses and personal information was just being published so openly in those days: (Page censored for obvious reasons)

"FurVersion" was one of the earliest furry-specific fanzines, published by Karl Maurer from May 1987 to November 1990. It began as a simple list of names and addresses to enable Furry fans to contact each other. By issue #3 it began including art and fiction.

YARF! was a fanzine started by Jeff Ferris in January 1990. Other people involved editorially during its early years were Lance Rund, Dave Bryant and Kris Kreutzman. It published comics, book reviews, text stories and pin-ups from dozens of artists. The last issue was published in 2003.

Did you know? The original hotel for Furpocalypse was featured in an urbex video by The Proper People after it was closed and abandoned The amount of decay that happened after its closure is kind of impressive in such a short time (even if you consider how damaged it already was prior to closing)

The Advocate's glossary of "gay animals" AKA animal nicknames given to certain tropes of gay men.

New in the mail: finally tracked down a physical copy of the July 26, 1979 issue of The Advocate, which contains George Mazzei's and Donelan's "Who's Who in the Zoo? A Glossary of Gay Animals," where the gay slang term "bear" was first invented.

That time Steven Universe basically did a not-so-subtle fanservicey furry episode :

"Fear of Commitment" is the 20th episode of season 7 of "ER". The episode featured fursuiters who landed in the ER. As typical for late 90s-early 2000s media representation, the two suiters are portrayed as socially-inept nerds and they go through pretty much ANY furry slang the writers came across

Animalympics is an animated TV special that was created for the 1980 Olympic Games. The show had two parts: the Winter Games, a ½ hour special which was aired February 1st, 1980, and the Summer Games, an hour special that was never broadcast due to the US boycott of the Summer Olympic Games.

The Löwenmensch figurine, also called the Lion-man of Hohlenstein-Stadel, is a prehistoric ivory sculpture discovered in Hohlenstein-Stadel, a German cave, in 1939. Determined by carbon dating to be 35,000-41,000 years old, it is one of (if not *the*) oldest anthropomorphic art pieces.

Remember that time some people tried to launch a brand of "luxury" fursuits that actually looked rather mediocre. They were excessively overpriced and all of them featured a gaudy logo on the cheek of the suit's head.

The old podcast Worst Year Ever did a two part episode talking about that and more that they found diving into it. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Shall I scan? :3

Camp Feral (stylised as "Feral!") is a furry convention held every year in the wilderness of Ontario, Canada. It is the first outdoor furry convention, and currently the fourth-oldest still-running furry convention. Camp Feral has been running since 1998. The current location is Algonquin Park.

The 2014 Chlorine Gas Attack incident at MFF was a terrorist attack perpetrated against the attendees of Midwest Furfest on December 7th 2014 at 12:45 AM, when still-unidentified individuals purposefully shattered a jar of powdered chlorine in the emergency stairwell near the corner suites.

Christian Parents Against Furries was an anti-furry group created by "Mrs. White", a "concerned Christian mom," whose son "had fallen prey to the sinful ways of the furry fandom", but "through God was able to come back from the brink of perdition." It was, of course, a hoax created by 4channers.

Did you know that PeTA once wrote to Anthrocon demanding to know for sure that fursuits were not made out of real fur? (Can you imagine how much a suit would cost if it was made with genuine fur?!)

Still frames from a video of a 1982 meeting of the Cartoon/Fantasy organisation, followed by a visit to "Cell-a-bration", a fundraising event organized by the International animated film association. Source: Prancing Skiltaire

Photographs of 4chan forum members "protesting" Anthrocon 2007.

I want to apologize for the long period without any new posts. Life has been hectic. Hopefully, posts should come more regularly in the future.

Bill Holbrook's Kevin & Kell is a comic about a rabbit's and wolf's controversial predator-prey mixed marriage. It has been running since 1995, making it one of the (if not THE) longest running furry webcomics in existence.