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Sexy, or Scary? Why not both!
General | Posted 12 years agoAnd yes, indeedy, that's what you'll find in the new "Trick or Treat" anthology, available now from Rabbit Valley!
Join your hosts, Trick - who wants to scare the pants off you (or the panties - he's not particular, that way) - and Treat, the lovely and lustful witch who wants to help you scratch that..."itch" that has nothing to do with STD's or calamine lotion, they'll take you on a guided tour of tales sure to make you shiver in both fear and desire.
Six spicy tales. Five scary tales. Lush cover art. Over three hundred pages of Halloween-themed goodness for twenty bucks! Editor
ianusjwolf has really busted his tail to bring you what he hopes will become a longstanding Halloween tradition, and he and the other authors included therein would be thrilled if you'd join us! Please click here if you're interested for more information.
UPDATE: Great news! Ianus said that the sales results for "Trick or Treat" were good enough to warrant a second edition for next Halloween, and apparently, it was the top seller for Rabbit Valley Comics for the last week of October. Many, many thanks to everyone who bought a copy, and if anyone else is interested, there's still time. See the link above if you're curious, and if you have a good scary or erotic Halloween-themed story idea of your own, start working on it now so you can submit it for consideration for next year's version. Next Halloween will be here before we know it!
I hope you all had a great Halloween, and that you have a safe and happy Thanksgiving.
Join your hosts, Trick - who wants to scare the pants off you (or the panties - he's not particular, that way) - and Treat, the lovely and lustful witch who wants to help you scratch that..."itch" that has nothing to do with STD's or calamine lotion, they'll take you on a guided tour of tales sure to make you shiver in both fear and desire.
Six spicy tales. Five scary tales. Lush cover art. Over three hundred pages of Halloween-themed goodness for twenty bucks! Editor
ianusjwolf has really busted his tail to bring you what he hopes will become a longstanding Halloween tradition, and he and the other authors included therein would be thrilled if you'd join us! Please click here if you're interested for more information.UPDATE: Great news! Ianus said that the sales results for "Trick or Treat" were good enough to warrant a second edition for next Halloween, and apparently, it was the top seller for Rabbit Valley Comics for the last week of October. Many, many thanks to everyone who bought a copy, and if anyone else is interested, there's still time. See the link above if you're curious, and if you have a good scary or erotic Halloween-themed story idea of your own, start working on it now so you can submit it for consideration for next year's version. Next Halloween will be here before we know it!
I hope you all had a great Halloween, and that you have a safe and happy Thanksgiving.
Artists Beware
General | Posted 14 years agoEverybody else in the furry universe probably knows about this already, but I just found out about it a few weeks ago. Sure would have been nice to have known about it sooner.
On the off-chance that you don't, it's a LiveJournal community where you can go to report bad experiences with art commissions - whether you're an artist dealing with a troublesome or non-paying commissioner, or a fan trying to buy artwork from an artist who is being troublesome or non-responsive. I've just made a post about my incomplete statue commission from GlassjawBoxer there. Granted, he hasn't made a journal post in over a year, so he might legitimately be in dire straits of some kind - but still, I do believe that six years is more than long enough.
The downside: you do have to have a LiveJournal account to make entries, and LJ isn't as popular as it used to be - but it's still good to check out if you want to get an idea of who's working to make things right, and who isn't. They also have some useful links for their sister communities, including a comm for reporting art theft, one for working the business side of furry art, and a comm for positive reports on good commission experiences.
I'd toss up a link, but if you Google the comm name, it's the first one that comes up. Which brings me to another point: how sad is it that this fandom not only has such a heavy need for such a community to exist, but that it's so heavily utilized?
On the off-chance that you don't, it's a LiveJournal community where you can go to report bad experiences with art commissions - whether you're an artist dealing with a troublesome or non-paying commissioner, or a fan trying to buy artwork from an artist who is being troublesome or non-responsive. I've just made a post about my incomplete statue commission from GlassjawBoxer there. Granted, he hasn't made a journal post in over a year, so he might legitimately be in dire straits of some kind - but still, I do believe that six years is more than long enough.
The downside: you do have to have a LiveJournal account to make entries, and LJ isn't as popular as it used to be - but it's still good to check out if you want to get an idea of who's working to make things right, and who isn't. They also have some useful links for their sister communities, including a comm for reporting art theft, one for working the business side of furry art, and a comm for positive reports on good commission experiences.
I'd toss up a link, but if you Google the comm name, it's the first one that comes up. Which brings me to another point: how sad is it that this fandom not only has such a heavy need for such a community to exist, but that it's so heavily utilized?
Holy freaking CRAP, the busy...
General | Posted 14 years agoStill around, just busy as all hell at work. Hope you all had a great Halloween and Thanksgiving, if you observe such, and are all set for the holidays.
A big thanks to you kind folks who've watched me as of late. I haven't had time to thank each of you on your pages individually since I haven't been around here as much as I'd like lately, but I appreciate you!
A big thanks to you kind folks who've watched me as of late. I haven't had time to thank each of you on your pages individually since I haven't been around here as much as I'd like lately, but I appreciate you!
Con review for cons OTHER than AC - post 'em if you got 'em
General | Posted 14 years agoAnthroCon. Yeah, yeah, we know it, we love it, we wanna marry it and hunch-fuck it in every orifice it's got till they're all leaking our bodily fluids and it's marked as our permanent sex toy. We get it, already.
(Man, aren't you folks glad I can't draw? 'Cause that would be one disgusting-assed visual image.)
HOWEVER - here's the thing: not all of us live in the continental U.S. And for those of us that do, we can't all necessarily pony up the dough for a flight or drive out to Philly, not to mention the funds to get a hotel room. Don't get me wrong, I'd LOVE to go someday, and I fully intend to - I hear that Kage and crew do a bang-up job. But there are several other, smaller, cheaper cons, both furry-oriented and non-furry oriented, that could use my cash - and some of them, believe it or not, don't mind having some furries around. And these are conventions we want to support, because if we ever want the mainstream to ditch the stereotype that we're all a bunch of undesirable freaks, we need to PROVE to them that we're not a bunch of undesirable freaks - by showing up, playing nice, and having a great time.
So, here's what I'd like you to do, if you feel so inclined: add a reply to this post stating what one of your favorite local conventions is, and why. It doesn't have to be a furry con, but if it is, that's awesome, too. Focus on some of the smaller cons if you can, because they often can't afford to advertise on the web. And if you've had some negative experiences at some non-furry cons, let's hear about those, too. No sense in giving the haters our funds.
My review is for CONVergence, a general sci-fi fantasy con that takes place in Minneapolis every Fourth of July weekend (which means...yes, it collides with AC). A local friend of mine introduced me to the con two years ago, and every summer, I have an absolute blast there. Some highlights:
--Sixteen rooms on the ground floor reserved every year for themed after-hours parties, many of them with free food and booze. (Granted, you'll want to make sure you don't have an alcoholic with you, like I did last year - but still, some of those drinks can get pretty creative).
--A full con suite featuring free rice, soup, PB&J sandwiches, fruit, candy, and chips.
--Guests of honor from various industries, from sci-fi and fantasy authors, to webcomic artists, to comic book writers and artists.
--An anime' film room that shows anime' all weekend long, along with a sampling of weird but fun asian snack foods.
--Cinema Rex, an in-house movie theater with couches in it instead of the usual individual seats (man, are they comfortable). Sci-fi and fantasy movies all weekend long, along with free candies, cookies, and popcorn. (You cannot go wrong with a cinema whose mascot and namesake is a T-Rex.)
--Ridiculous amounts of panel-style programming with both the guests of honor, local fandom and industry experts, and volunteer panelists. The amount of content is crazy-ridiculous, in a good way. These folks know their shit.
--A dealer room, masquerade/costume contest, art show (some furry content, and a lot more affordable than a commission from one of those twelve or so talented but way overexposed furry artists we all know), and a create-space for kids who are into arts and crafts where they can play between panels (because - you know, not everyone in the furry fandom is a gay man, and some of us actually have kids that we'd like to bring to the convention with us).
Furry content: admittedly, not a lot. The SofaWolf folks had a table in the dealer room with a great selection of comics, books, and art compilations, but I'm sure they'd welcome a few more furry fans to check out their stuff. I didn't see anyone in fursuits, but I saw quite a few folks wearing tails (although they might just as easily have been anime' characters). Bottom line, no one batted an eyelash. The MN Furs had some flyers out on tables, and I didn't hear anything negative mentioned about the furry fandom all weekend long.
I could go into a lot more detail, but their website covers it all way better than I could. 5,980 people can't be wrong. Plus, I really like how this con seems to encourage representation for other conventions and local fandom interest groups. If there's any drama, it's behind the scenes and not visible or audible to the members, and that's a very, very good thing.
(Man, aren't you folks glad I can't draw? 'Cause that would be one disgusting-assed visual image.)
HOWEVER - here's the thing: not all of us live in the continental U.S. And for those of us that do, we can't all necessarily pony up the dough for a flight or drive out to Philly, not to mention the funds to get a hotel room. Don't get me wrong, I'd LOVE to go someday, and I fully intend to - I hear that Kage and crew do a bang-up job. But there are several other, smaller, cheaper cons, both furry-oriented and non-furry oriented, that could use my cash - and some of them, believe it or not, don't mind having some furries around. And these are conventions we want to support, because if we ever want the mainstream to ditch the stereotype that we're all a bunch of undesirable freaks, we need to PROVE to them that we're not a bunch of undesirable freaks - by showing up, playing nice, and having a great time.
So, here's what I'd like you to do, if you feel so inclined: add a reply to this post stating what one of your favorite local conventions is, and why. It doesn't have to be a furry con, but if it is, that's awesome, too. Focus on some of the smaller cons if you can, because they often can't afford to advertise on the web. And if you've had some negative experiences at some non-furry cons, let's hear about those, too. No sense in giving the haters our funds.
My review is for CONVergence, a general sci-fi fantasy con that takes place in Minneapolis every Fourth of July weekend (which means...yes, it collides with AC). A local friend of mine introduced me to the con two years ago, and every summer, I have an absolute blast there. Some highlights:
--Sixteen rooms on the ground floor reserved every year for themed after-hours parties, many of them with free food and booze. (Granted, you'll want to make sure you don't have an alcoholic with you, like I did last year - but still, some of those drinks can get pretty creative).
--A full con suite featuring free rice, soup, PB&J sandwiches, fruit, candy, and chips.
--Guests of honor from various industries, from sci-fi and fantasy authors, to webcomic artists, to comic book writers and artists.
--An anime' film room that shows anime' all weekend long, along with a sampling of weird but fun asian snack foods.
--Cinema Rex, an in-house movie theater with couches in it instead of the usual individual seats (man, are they comfortable). Sci-fi and fantasy movies all weekend long, along with free candies, cookies, and popcorn. (You cannot go wrong with a cinema whose mascot and namesake is a T-Rex.)
--Ridiculous amounts of panel-style programming with both the guests of honor, local fandom and industry experts, and volunteer panelists. The amount of content is crazy-ridiculous, in a good way. These folks know their shit.
--A dealer room, masquerade/costume contest, art show (some furry content, and a lot more affordable than a commission from one of those twelve or so talented but way overexposed furry artists we all know), and a create-space for kids who are into arts and crafts where they can play between panels (because - you know, not everyone in the furry fandom is a gay man, and some of us actually have kids that we'd like to bring to the convention with us).
Furry content: admittedly, not a lot. The SofaWolf folks had a table in the dealer room with a great selection of comics, books, and art compilations, but I'm sure they'd welcome a few more furry fans to check out their stuff. I didn't see anyone in fursuits, but I saw quite a few folks wearing tails (although they might just as easily have been anime' characters). Bottom line, no one batted an eyelash. The MN Furs had some flyers out on tables, and I didn't hear anything negative mentioned about the furry fandom all weekend long.
I could go into a lot more detail, but their website covers it all way better than I could. 5,980 people can't be wrong. Plus, I really like how this con seems to encourage representation for other conventions and local fandom interest groups. If there's any drama, it's behind the scenes and not visible or audible to the members, and that's a very, very good thing.
