November 2018 – Page 4

Vice.com takes another look at the chlorine at MFF 2014 that put 19 people in the hospital.

Without copying and pasting the entire article. I find that did a really great job of investigating the details of this mystery, within a mystery that caused the Hyatt Regency O’Hare to more than 4X the number of security cameras.

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Being a Furry in 2018 vs 2003

11/03/2018 Ahmar Wolf

The New Furry’s Dictionary by Simo

11/02/2018 Ahmar Wolf

LINK To quote the site

This document is an attempt to catalog the slang and terminology used within the Furry fandom. The Furry community is a particularly loose association and informally organized collection of adherents sharing an interest in anthropomorphic characters in art, literature, cinema, theatre, and TV shows. There is no “Furry, Inc.” to collect references and resumes from applicants to whom it issues memberships, and to which dues are paid. There is no “Central Committee” that sits in judgement of what “is-Furry” and what is “not-Furry”; who’s “in” and who’s “out”. Nor would such a thing even be possible. Even pinning down an exact definition would be difficult. Ask twelve different Furries what “Furry” means to them, and you’re likely to get a dozen definitions. Being more a meta-genre than a distinct genre, there is considerable overlap between genres and fandoms. The story that features characters exhibiting human/animal combinations or animal heroes may easily also be classed as sci-fi, sword-and-sorcerer fantasy, a who-done-it — anything other than a biography or history, since such characters are, as of now, purely fictional. We also see this in the form of Anime “cat-girls”. Indeed, this is the stuff of recriminations, inter-fandom rivalries, on-line flame wars, and some quite nasty name-calling.

But it does have some interesting words some I never heard of before and it’s worth checking out