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Furry Bronies and Kitty Fans – Oh My II

For a while the media of various forms of atrocity tourisms shows Like my Strange Addiction have contacted furries for their sows. Recently they turned their eyes towards Bronies and now Hello Kitty Fans. I hope my warnings were heeded about TLC.

Not all media is bad, recently while warning about a new documentary on Hello Kitty fans, they contacted me. The person was part of the large Hello Kitty board and it seem s They got Sanrio’s blessing for the project and the company no dinky operation. Being comfortable this is legit, we traded email about the project and me. I had to clear up some misconception about furries we all do not have costumes are a fetish. The issue of furries came up because that how I became a Sanrio fan is Hello Kitty and her friends are anthropomorphic and 100% innocent. I filled out a questionnaire and will see how things progress.

Of course the sex question comes up, which raises question me how to discus this with friends and the media. All one has to do is go on FA without filters. The way I look at and wrote, one tweak doesn’t define a whole fandom. Bronies , Hello Kitty Fans and Furrsy are too big and diverse of a community to allow one tweak to define us all.
While we are on the subject, Finally about furries on Taboo. If anything this shows the Old Uncle Kage strategy of telling furries to avoid and the media trying to paternalisticly control the situation will not work. Even with Athrocon it has a limited power to control the media, the media moved somewhere else to get their story. Now with a huge fandom of hundreds of thousands of furs there no way Kage can be in all places. Then there the law of averages; with large population of furries, the media will find that one tweak. The best thing furries can do is lean how the media acts and how to get their side of the story out.

Ps. A lot of my views on the media has come form years of observation while I was a Fundaments Christian, Pro Life and sympathetic to Religious Conservative Causes from 1992 to 1998 and volunteering for Republican Candidates, petition drives and precinct person form 2004 to 2010. It was my study after CSI and other stories, noting the bias an similar treatment to conservatives that brought me into the fandom.

Orycon 33 Report

At last I present my long awaited Orycon 33 Report. My delay was due My disappointment with Orycon and Starting a new Job.

The Con: Orycon – (Writers) Science Fiction

The Place: Double Tree Lloyd’s Center

Date: 11 – 13 Nov 2011

This is my 5th Orycon. I looked d forward to this cone every year but this year I left disappointed. Dark cloud started to appeared a few week before when I check the web site when programming was posted; what  struck me there was not much I really wanted to attend and the large amount of professional writers panels but slim  picking for readers and fans.

Friday:

Because I started a new Job, I decide it would not be right to take Friday Off; after work I went down pick up my badge and attended the opening ceremonies. Next I went to Tiptoe Through the Tardis; it was part panel and part gathering of fans. I left after a while because it was a bit hokey for my taste. I did better at the fan participation of Who line is it. It was very fumy.  Afterwards I retired for the evening
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Me in 35 years

Often I cruise the net for news concerning items that fit my interest. On search concerning Men who keep stiffed animals, I found this comment:

“I sell stuffed toys for a charity, and the vast majority of buyers are people of (ahem) middle-age or older.

Last year I called a gentleman who was in his late eighties. He had been supporting the charity for many, many years and in fact had bought over thirty of our teddy bears. So I asked whether he had given the toys away to family and friends as gifts, and he laughed.

“Bugger off”, he said, “they’re MY teddies. You might think I’m a mad old codger, but nobody gets their hands on my bears until I’m six-foot under”.

So maybe you’re never too old.”

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-593612.html

That’s going to be me when I am eighty Lord willing. Nobody going get my Hello Kitty stash until I grave yard dead.  .

This is How I Roll

 On Furtopia there an old post abut how we furries live and decorate their rooms; why stop at my room when I have an aprtment. I took a few pictures when I had to clean up my aprtment.

 

First Furries Now Bronies

It looks like The media is turing their eyes on to Brony fandom; not all media attention has been good.  On Equestria Daily there new post about  Dealing with the Media PSA, a post about over our  “friends” at TLC’s Strage Adiction looking for Bronies for ther next epesode.

From our colective experiences as a Furry, trying to put the best, clean cut  well spoken repersentive will bea colossal failure.  Shock documaenty producers are not looking for the cleak cut fan but one that fits their profile. If a Brony looks too clean cut, the media will just look lower on the My Little Pony food cahin until they get the person  they want. The best thing Bronies can do is flee. Even if a clean looking Brony makes it to Strange Adiciton, the media wil twist what he or shes say to make the fandom looklike a buch of weirdos.

If any Brony is reading this post, here is a video series you may watn to watch, yes it dealling with furry fandom but the principals are the same about dealling with the media. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2DSc8GHl5g&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL276CE4104603C5ED

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPAARLt4iMo&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL1C8DF6A8036FEFBE