Tag: Joe Strike

Ever buy a book knowing that you like it. That is Furry Planet to me. I read Furry Nation and found out so much about the fandom I have been apart of for more than a decade fascinating.

So what is Furry Planet? Okay I kind of assumed it was going to talk about fur cons outside the US. Which it does briefly, I love the section on John Oliver who made a name for himself in the fandom over Rat erotica by Alice The Rat. As well as other movies and TV series that feature Anthro characters.

I disagree with the chapter on both Flayrah and Dogpatch Press. Although they are the biggest, there are plenty of sites like mine. Small one furson operations for the most part reporting on the furry fandom.

The following is a list of furry news sites that I know about.

Furnews.eu

Furry News Network

Pink News

Digging Up Positivity by Thabo Meerkat

FenFen

Furry News Texas

Fox and Burger Podcast

Nightzy

As well as

Furry Times

GFTV

I would of rather seen an article more focused on any one of these. As we often post news worthy articles sometimes more than a month before either Dogpatch or Flayrah even mention what happened.

I like to remind everyone I did interview both Fred Patten and Joe Strike before they did

My Interview with Joe Strike part 1

My Interview with Joe Strike part 2

My Interview with Fred Patten

The section on the Military furs was really nice

The same for mentioning books and their authors. Frankly there is so many books out there it’s hard to know what to pickup. Some of these will be on my to buy list.

I think the section on Bronies in general was fair and unbiased. Which was the 1st of 3 uncomfortable topics. All were treated the same.

Speaking of uncomfortable what about the furry plays that pop up time to time. I am aware of 3, 2 because tickets were advertised on then Twitter and Facebook, and here. The other by Jay Naylor was by accident. None ever lasted that long, but it brings up a question.

Are Furries Mainstream? I swear will actually start a fight. It too was covered and frankly we are as mainstream to almost the same point as anime and scifi fandoms.

I am happy to see the new furries as well as the Greymuzzles we are all 1 fandom and surprisingly enough we all get along.

Like I said it’s a good book, with nice insight.

Although I do disagree about the causes of the MFF Gas Incident. Officially for the record it was an accident. Let me remind everyone that neither Dogpatch or Flayrah had anyone there, and they even mention this is THEIR original report. I was there and have the badge to prove it, as well as photos. I did conduct my own investigation, and am leaning towards accident. I did order a copy of the records of that incident under The Freedom of Information Act. To confirm some facts, but will let you know what I found.

Furry Planet is worth buying, I give it a very solid 10 out of 10. It’s a good over view of the fandom, and might help you discover something you did not know about.

For me it was on his list of music videos featuring anthros, that I discovered one that I missed.

It’s available through Amazon and other sellers

Thanks to Joe Strike’s own newsletter we know what is happening with his eagerly awaited sequel to Furry Nation. Which gave us an insight to a fandom most of us put our soul into.

It took quite a few months, but on Wednesday, June 29, 2022, the day before I left for Pittsburgh and Anthrocon, I completed the manuscript for my long overdue Furry Nation follow-up, Furry Planet!

The manuscript clocked in at 84,000 words–approximately 24,000 more than than my publisher Apollo asked for. (And believe me, I could’ve kept going & easily hit 100,000 words, plenty of subjects were left uncovered–thank God for deadlines!)

The cover on the looseleaf is a mock-up and will likely look quite a bit different when Apollo publishes Furry Planet early next year (either February or March).

Will review the book when it is released

Joe Strike mentioned in his own newsletter about the piece

The segment itself was titled “Do You Identify as a Furry.” (Earlier in the episode though it was teased as “Furry Fetish?”) Apart from asking that obligatory question – and my obligatory response (“there are furry-related fetishes, but Furry itself is simply a community of people fascinated by imaginary, anthropomorphic animals”) they totally let me speak my piece without turning the segment into a debate.

They incorporated stills of me as my scaly alter-ego Komos and a clip of a furry convention dance rave video. At the end the two hosts decided Furry is a Good Thing – and even compared notes on what animals they’d like to suit up as: one chose tiger while his co-host said his computer screen wallpaper is a lion, so he’d go that route. (They also plugged Furry Nation, even put its cover onscreen, which I did not mind one bit.