So, the Alberta furry convention Fur-Eh was supposed to be this weekend, but had to be put off until next year due to the ongoing pandemic.

In honour of that weekend, I'm posting here the story I submitted to the Fur-Eh conbook last year, when the theme was 'Unifursal Studios', where I decided to do an epilogue of sorts to the more adult-rated Romancing the Temple. (I've done this sort of thing a few times for conbook stories; they have to be short, so it's easier to start with a world I already have in my head and expand a scene from there.)

The story sadly didn't make it into the conbook last year.

I did a little bit of research into Republic Pictures while working on this, and while I'd known they were a creation of the Great Depression in the 1930s, I hadn't realized just how literal that was: the original company was actually a film processing laboratory that suddenly wasn't getting business because all the big studios like Columbia had pulled their processing in-house for financial reasons, and so in order to keep going the film processing company bought out a few near-bankrupt independent studios and their production staff with experience in low-budget films so that they would have steady orders for films to make. So they kind of did the opposite of what the big studios were doing.

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