About a year and a half back I posted the tale of a mooch named Allan. He's a guy best known now in the furry community for being hopelessly addicted to buying commissions of his character, seemingly having nearly every artist on FA On his AIM/MSN lists as countless folks have reported him contacting them for art. This all wouldn't be so bad if he didn't owe thousands of dollars to people for past work, and if he wasn't unemployed. The post was about him seemingly hitting rock bottom, being kicked out of the hotel he'd been staying at for two months in New York City and begging on the internet for help. How about an update?

Well, plenty has happened since that post. He's still very much banned from FurAffinity in spite of manys attempts to both circumvent the ban with new accounts or harrassing the head admin of the site to unban him. In journals (now deleted) on his Deviantart account he has claimed that said head admin, Dragoneer, has 'ruined his life' by banning him. Some journals with him complaining about the ban and trolls still exist, however.

Shortly after the hotel incident, Allan attempted to join the army, but was discharged for health reasons. He now lives with his mother and hasn't had any form of job since. He lives on unemployment and food stamps, but still reguarly buys and contacts many artists to buy commissions.

Fast forward to a month ago, Dragoneer himself posts a journal about a recent incident where Allan offered to donate $500 to FA in hopes of getting back in his good graces. It is also of interest to note that Dragoneer has coded the site so that attempts to see Allan's FA page results in a picture of a llama.

Shortly after Allan makes two DA journal entries where he admits to having a problem with buying commissions. In the second journal he reveals that a friend who is more eloquent wrote the entries for him, but that he honestly wants to change. Something he's claimed fairly often over the months.

This week it has been revealed that he's going to Anthrocon, the biggest furry convention in the US. Saying many people aren't happy with this would be an understatement. There have (ETA: WARNING for some mostly unrelated but very unfunny racewank in the comments) been multiple journals made
calling for him to be banned from the convention, people claiming he's going to get beat up, and people thinking everyone is being totally unfair to him.

In the interest of full disclosure: I am one of the many artists he has tried to talk to on AIM. I am not in any of the posts linked to, but I do have personal experience with the guy.

ETA: Er... sorry for the unfunny, guys. Looking it over now I have no idea what I was thinking. I'm really sorry.

Previously on FandomWank.

Jesskitt, fursuit 'maker' offers trades, wanks about her own username and calls prospective customers 'stupid' and 'retarded'.

Now: Moorekat, Jesskitt's alleged boss, a wonderful paragon of furry fandom who looks down on others for being younger than him speaks out.

( Warning: Wall o' Text )

ETA: Very Image Heavy
Jesskitt08's TL;DR take on things. Including pictures of the horrendous state of the apartment.
Part II.

I suppose the best way to preface this entry is to explain about the fursuiting aspect of the furry fandom for those unfamiliar. To put it simply, it's cosplaying. Only instead of pre-existing anime characters, one usually wears an animal costume based on an original character of their creation. Unlike cosplayers, the vast majority of fursuiters commission their suits from fursuit makers. As one would imagine, there is quite a bit of money to be made from this, as full suits of decent quality often cost over $1,000. As a result, there are bound to be some commissioners that try and get things done the cheapest they can so as to reap a large profit.

This brings us to the subject of this post, a fursuit maker known as Jesskitt. Now, while the inspiration for this post was new wank from this week, the fact is that Jesskitt's dramatic and sloppy ways have been making her the subject of furry drama communities for a couple years now. Some of the things she's infamous for include demanding someone return a suit she made them (with no refund) because it was reported the person did not wear it at Anthrocon. Said suit had pawpads made out of construction paper rather than felt or another fabric and was all around shoddy. This sets the tone for the quality of her work in general. There is also her habit of getting puppies, getting tired of them when they're grown up and giving them away only to obtain new puppies, but our focus today is on the fursuit making aspect.

This week, she appeared twice in the fursuitauctions community. The first was a post on the 6th to sell some suit parts. The interesting part here is her disclaimer:

"Warning this may affect your focus on this post, please do not let it mentally disrupt your train of thought:
For the record my name is Jess. My nickname is Kitt. It would be fabulously awesome if you people (aka everyone/anyone) could call me one or the other. JessKitt-08 (Jess Kitt Oh Eight) is a screen/pen-name, but is not something I should be called if you're addressing me personally. If you're looking to address me as an artist then it's JessKitt-08. Your silly and retarded sounding "JessKitt" craze is by far grammatically incorrect and makes you sound like you can't even call a person by their own name. Jess is a totally different character than Kitt. There has never been a combination of the two and will never be. (Jess- my husky/wolf hybrid *and also draft horse- I let them both have the same name* Kitt- my liger). You wanna know what my biggest pet-peeve in the world is? You keep hitting it right on the spot. Get it right! I don't call any of you by something I 'think' you should be called. Thank you."

When people respond to comment that the note is unprofessional, she replies to them with varying degrees of irritation:

"Then we didn't need you as a buyer and or customer. It is quite obvious that you let little things like someone correcting a group of people affect you. Your focus shifted from the products themselves to 'omg drama'. You should buy the product because you like IT- key word IT meaning the product itself. You should not let myself nor my 'boss' affect that in any way. We want people to buy our products based on the product itself- not the person who made it. I guess you are one of the many who buy products based on OMG I LOVE YOU MAN."

The second post was for something she calls 'The Fursuit Challenge', which basically boils down to her trading her own creations for those of others and then her selling what she's sent:

" Since 'so many' furries sit here and baww about our stuff when they haven't even seen it in person, nor held onto it, inspected it, and so on, we all thought that it would be a great idea to share a little challenge with you...."

As you might imagine, the responders find a few flaws in this plan. There's also the minor detail that the person who is listed as the 'neutral' party in judging which suit is better, mursa_artdragon, apparently never agreed this contest:

"Thats how I got all those page views! Take my fucking name off there god damn it I did not sign off on you posting my shit up. I said I'd take a look at some peoples stuff for you."

ETA: Also of interest, a post on her DA journal about the debt she's racked up. She explains she can't get a part-time job to make more money because she has too many fursuits to make. Think about that for a second.

and it is JUST LIKE THE HOLOCAUST, Y'ALL! http://community.livejournal.com/tothehometree/4785.html?thread=105393#t105393 !

So they made an Anti Na'vi Defamation Community http://nadl-org.livejournal.com/

and much wank ensued! http://community.livejournal.com/tothehometree/4785.html

I know my write up is lacking, but I think the wank found inside is not!

ETA: it looks like nadl_org is set up as a personal journal. FYI.

ETA Part 2: and the troll is out of the cave http://nadl-org.livejournal.com/1667.html

Meet Lironess, a person of such stunning perfection that she feels confident, nay obliged, to point out the shortcomings of others. Constantly.

When she's not diagnosing diseases over the internet, she's apparently advocating approaching strangers at cons with skin diseases to ask them:

"OMG What the hell is wrong with your skin?"

Yeah, not even kidding*.

Unfortunately no one told betnoir that icky diseased people exist solely as teaching moments for the beautiful people, and that she better learn to live with it or else spend the rest of her life in misery. Luckily for her then, that lironess is here to explain it to her.

The spat lands in sf_drama, where lironess baleeted her most offensive comments (though considering what's left - just WOW) and apparently whole threads if bizarro goodness like handing out condoms to furries, and horse sex, and her inability to spell freak. she then demonstrates her utter lack of getting teh internets, as well as proving that there really isn't a maximum fail quota per post.

After calling like, everyone, a coward or accusing them of hiding (for commenting in an unlocked post in a very public community? huh?) lironess prepares her flounce by calling betnoir (and everyone else) out. As in, *cue scareh music* she can FIND people:

"It has been fun to watch you all hide on a community and make your statements thinking I would not see and reply. However, I can find all of you, any where."

betnoir names a place and time.

but yanno, it's waaaay to far, plus it'd be a hassle and betnoir's fucking parents would sue and it would be a big mess and lironess doesn't care enough to bother. Or something.



*I debated if this should be in UNF because disability!fail = so fucking unfunny, plus there's bonus!fail on both sides, but for sheer overwhelming WTF wankiness I think it belongs here.

Sorry, turns out this involved a minor. Party's over.

ETA: Turns out Chinookblue is not a minor, he forgot to change his listed age after his 18th birthday in November. Anyway I got permission from Sepiamagpie to re-post the wank. His Deviantart journal where he talks about his birthday http://zethelius.deviantart.com/journal/28565122/#comments for further proof.

So as you've heard already Chinookblue is one of those all to rare clean furry artists. One day he decides to turn off the mature filter on FA. And he is shocked and appalled by what he finds Many furries do not take well to his anti-porn sentiment.

A few days ago, FurAffinity went offline due to Co-Location issues. And the furries became restless.

Suddenly, There was a post on the front page of FurNation, a 'rival site' accusing FurAffinity admin Dragoneer of reporting FN to Paypal, thereby getting Paypal to suspend the account.

Well, looks like the staff at FA decided to pull a fast one and contacted Paypal to tell them that we were violating Paypal's Acceptable Use Policy with our donation system. Paypal shut down our account. No way to re-open it. No more donations for our server fees.

Now, I know that Dragoneer (Preyfar), the guy who runs FA has said some pretty nasty things about FurNation and myself in the past, but I have never bothered to respond to them before. But to stoop as low as to do this is really something I can no longer tolerate. How do I know that it was someone from FA's staff who did this? This I will not say, as I am not going to implicate my source and loose a good friend.

And checking with our ISP, seems that a complaint was also sent to them the same day. Hmm. Pretty interesting timing.

Sorry that you are offline FA, and sorry that you seem not to be able to keep your service online for more than a few months, but to try to have another furry service shut down while your systems are offline to keep the fandom from fleeing to a better community is, well, really below anything I have ever seen in my life. FA somehow conned a lot of good furs into forking over their cash to sponser FA, and with over 50K in donations (according to Dragoneer (Preyfar)) it still can't seem to stablize. Hell, it cost us less than 50K to run FurNation for the entire 12 years we have been online! I remember when Dragoneer was ranting about FurNation having server issues. Well, karma is great isn't it!

As far as the future of FurNation goes, well, no funds to pay for the service then no FurNation. January 1st will be the offline day unless I can figure out something this month, and I am VERY busy with the holiday season.

To the FurNation community, my deapest thanks for all those who helped us over the years. If we go offline at the end of the month, then it was meant to be. Flayrah is also going offline next month. When all that is left is FA, then the entire fandom will loose.

'Neer replies "The fuck?" via Twitter. He then asks for people not to point fingers. Again and again (Screencap).

And then the FA forums become a-tither with excitement!

The FurNation forums get some action too. Behold a screencap. Oh, but what's this? Seems the FN mods are deleting posts in their forums? Screencap

Wondering why there are so many screencaps? Because FurNation is leaving the internet forever. No really you guys!(EDIT: Link now redirects to furisdead.com, a PETA site.)

And a fun time was had by all.

This is one of those wanks that kind of speaks for itself, so that makes my job easy!

On the FurAffinity forums, Enoki posts a list of rules all furries should live by originally composed by a guy known as Sammyfox:

1) By joining this fandom, you agree that you will get ridiculed someday.

1a) You agree that you will act responsibly and maturely. This means that you won't, for example, try to blank that Encyclopedia Dramatica article you don't like. Not only this doesn't work, but it'll get you ridiculed even more.

2) Three words: Orthography, grammar, and punctuation. This fandom doesn't need idiots who can't greet someone without replacing entire words with abbreviations.

2a) I'm dead. Fucking. Serious. Writing like a mongoloid pisses off EVERYONE, especially those whose native language isn't English and who learnt it - be it entirely by themselves or with help. See, I learnt English ENTIRELY by myself, and while it's still not perfect, I'm doing my best to be comprehensible.

3) You will NEVER bother an artist with requests unless said artist SPECIFICALLY states he takes requests.

3a) In an art site which allows you to comment on an artist's work, you will NEVER ever type shit like "murr I'd fuck her/him/it/whatever" and the thousands of derivatives which are just as stupid and retarded. There are better ways to praise art.

3b) You are allowed to diss shitty art without restraint. Wannabe artists have the duty to use their judgment to assess the quality of their own art and to decide whether or not they should upload it. This is even more important when said art is drawn porn. If you can't draw anything correctly, DON'T UPLOAD IT. Do this fandom a favor and do not pollute the internet with your sub-par excuse of a drawing.

4) You will not take photos of yourself in a fursuit, no matter the costume's quality, where you are engaging in sexual acts, be it with another person, a sexual toy, or your hands. It's people like these who give this fandom a bad name.

4a) Diaper fetishists, stay the fuck away from this fandom. "Diaperfurs", get the fuck out. You are not liked in here. We hate you. You guys are awful even by furry standards.

4b) You are responsible for what you say in there. If you say that you diddled a kid or that you fucked a dog, you must accept the consequences.

4c) You will not take the defense of people convicted of serious crimes, and you will not complain if they get banned from a website even though their crime has nothing to do with it. (I'm looking at you, Frank Gembeck fans.)

5) Upon achieving fame, you will not act like a snob at others. You may be famous, but you are only known in the furry fandom. There's far better people out there, so don't let your ego take over.

5a) You will not rip off people. Your customers are most likely what helps you pay the rent. If you commit a fraud, and people gets word of it, you're pretty much dead in this fandom.

5b) You will accept responsibility for giving the fandom a bad name if you end up saying that you fuck your mate in a fursuit and proceed to parade with it on national TV.

5c) You will accept that we are entitled to hate you just as much as you hate us. You will not use substitutes to names (the usual idiots instead of liberals) to make your rhetoric sound more manly. It does not. All it does is make you sound like a pompous asshole.

6) You will not threaten to sue a website for failing to live up to your personal expectations. This means that you won't threaten to sue just because a site will not force your set of beliefs down the throats of others.

7) If you fail to follow these rules, we have the right to insult and humiliate you until you leave this fandom.

Guess how well this goes over?

( Quotes over this-a way. Including good 'oil Godwin's Law! )

Over on FurAffinity Kitara makes a journal about the theft of her tablet (the original journal is on the bottom half and the update is on the top half). She says she lent it to Recca_se_li and it was then either stolen by Razr or Recca lent it to Razr. Either way Razr refuses to answer any of Kitara's emails or text messages on the subject. Kitara then updates same journal (top half) when she manages to contact Razrs roomate/master/girlfriend/sockpuppet knowstobite. Knowstobite insists that the tablet was given to Razrs by Recca as a parting gift and that he will only return it once Kitara gives him another tablet of same or better quality.

Recca says Razrs has also stolen from him and owes him money

ICEman goes on Heidi patrol and internet lawyers

Kitara posts another journal where she shares a conversation she had with Knowstobite The conversation is tl;dr but the gist of it is Knowstobite thinks Razr has done nothing wrong by willfully accepting and keeping property he knows is stolen and again insists Kitara sends a new tablet to Razrs before she receives the original back.

Knowstobite shows up to share her two cents

Knowstobite also posted a journal on the subject of the tablet
The edited version
Screen caps thanks to Nightfurson of the original version in which knowstobite tries to raise money to buy Razr a new tablet.

Screen capt comments from Knowstobite's first journal where we find out Razr just made over $200 dollars on a commission and can easily buy himself a new tablet with that money.
the furbuy auction (half a NSFW picture)

At some point Recca also started taking donation money to buy Kitara a new tablet even though Kitara explicitly said she doesn't want a new one, she wants her old one back for sentimental value. Questions are raised as to what happens to the donation money after Kitara receives her old tablet back. Unfortunately I can't find the original post where Recca says this, just a comment referring to it.

There is much internet lawyering throughout. 

ETA: There appears to be a happy ending after all Kitara posts a new journal saying she got the tablet back.

On the FurAffinity forums Techiewolf makes a post asking if they could help with the coding of the site. For years now, the site has been promising the arrival of a brand new version of the site's coding called 'Ferrox'. 'Ferrox' could be considered sort of a Duke Nukem Forever thing, as very little progress seems to have been made (if any) and there's no definite release date. The user is informed that any coding help needed would be towards 'Ferrox' rather than the site's current code. All goes fairly uneventfully until Vitae (a former mod) comments: "I wouldn't bother trying to help, every time someone does try they're just shunned and tossed into the garbage at the end."

Mod Tsawolf, who also is a coder for the site, doesn't like this sentiment one bit. So he decides to make a post allowing users to decide what Vitae's punishment should be via poll:

Hello, everyone! It's tsawolf, your (second) favorite mainsite ops nerd! You're probably wondering exactly what the hell this thread is all about - and for good reason! A user posted a thread asking how they could help out with the mainsite coding. Several people were helpful, some were... not so much.

(quotes Vitae's post here)

When I read this, I became a sad techie. FurAffinity loves when people help out! Rather than have the administration punish Vitae unilaterally, like we normally would, I decided to do something a little more... fitting. Since Vitae was complaining about how useless helping out is, I decided to put their punishment in your hands. Directly above me, there are several poll options. Whichever poll option has the most votes at the end of tomorrow (that is, 00:43 Wednesday, EDT) will be Vitae's punishment. Feel free to suggest your own in the thread as well!

Some folks jump right on the bandwagon and start suggesting punishments. Others, however, aren't too thrilled at the idea of someone being called out and punished for having an opinion.

LadyMissie: "Someone stated an opinion? Holy mother of FUCK. You have some serious butthurt. God damn."
blackfuredfox: "welcome to life. this is how things function in life with EVERYTHING. after awhile you stop giving a shit and join in.

And some people are just there for the laughs:

Brazen: "Permanently change his username/title to Lord Sillynipples, and his avatar to a pair of cartoon boobs wearing tophats and monocles."

Takumi_L:"Man I failed a test today but I told my professor that there was some SRS furry drama on the internet so he passed me."

And finally, mod Carenath expresses their opinion of people upset by the post:"Okay, so we have established, that you guys have absolutely nothing better to do, you all win 9000 internets *roll eyes*"

It's interesting to note that for a brief period the thread was closed, and then reopened, the reason for which was never mentioned.

ETA: On Tsawolf's user page, LeoMidori asks: "Excuse me, I know I'm not a moderator or anything, but is this really the appropriate way to act? This is public humiliation."

Tsawolf replies: "As I explained in the thread you linked, the punishment (or rather, the decision thereof) fits the crime. It can hardly be considered public humiliation when the user chose to make the post in the first place! :)"

Taken from the pages of wank_report...

Num8 (now KurwaSuka) was a wolf furry who spent his days happily living in France, running the IRC channel #FursuitTV, making appearances on furry puppet shows, and just generally being known far and wide as an all-around nice guy. Until one day, when he was tragically diagnosed with brain cancer. Metastatic brain cancer.

Because he wanted to spend his last days with the friends he held so dear, a collection was taken up in his name to send him on a weeklong trip to the States, during which he would pay a visit to various furry gathering hubs (and also Disney World). Reports of the exact amount that was raised vary somewhat, but according to Pawpet, the community that was collecting on his behalf, around $2000 was donated to the cause.
( This will not end well. )

Disclaimer: I'm peripheral in this, Everything I know I know from watching. I've never had contact with the parties involved. This might belong in Unfunnybusiness, but, y'know, His Wife? A Horse...

If you're a fan of Furry Artwork, then you've probably heard of Seux, AKA Zeriara. If you haven't, you're lucky. But your luck is about to run out because I am going to educate you!

Zer has been known to 'lose' her commissions in the mail, and behave rudely to people with whom she is doing business. She's a regular staple of furry drama, art drama and even has her very own Dramachan board. But recently, Zer had been behaving and appeared to have cleaned up her act.
( cut because girl makes out with a hot dog. ). We'll see how far this goes.

One of these days I'll have a wank that's not from FurAffinity. Today is not that day.

Allan (NOT WORK SAFE), unlike many of the users on FurAffinity, isn't an artist. Rather, he's someone who is best known for commissioning artists often and posting what he buys to his account. This is one thing that Allan is known for. Another thing that Allan is known for is being 37 and constantly begging for money or a place to live, as he seems to have a rather nasty habit of being kicked out of whatever home he crashes in. He's been accused of stealing, not even trying to find a job, and still buying commissions from artists at a fairly steady rate. Often very expensive commissions. Involving his black wolf DJ character shirtless and with his penis hanging out.

Today, Allan posts a journal with a very urgent message:

I AM SITTING IN FRONT OF http://www.comfortinn.com/hotel-brooklyn-new_york-NY275

I AM RELYING ON THEIR WIFI SIGNAL

I AM HOMELESS AND JOBLESS AND I NEED A TEMPORARY PLACE TO STAY

I AM FREEZING OUT HERE

SOMEONE, ANYONE PLEASE SEND HELP

At first, there are a lot of people expressing their concern over Allan's well-being. After awhile though, doubters start to trickle in.

rupertfox "WARNING! Allan is a well known sponger who begs for money and spends it on commissions and who moves from place to place taking advantage of peoples good nature to live in their place and eat their food without working. When they kick him out after getting fed up with his sponging, like here, he just tries to take advantage. WARNING!"

These doubters are promptly dogpiled by Allan's friends, but soon there are many more people expressing skepticism at the situation. For one thing, Allan had posted a commission he'd purchased just a few hours before making the journal. Some people suggest a local homeless shelter and are also scorned. Allan himself replies to a few people with a 'GO FUCK YOURSELF!' and letting them know they're blocked from his page. Which some people point out is an odd thing for him to have time to do.

SubmissiveTrout: "Why do people defend this guy? I don't understand it."
jeffkage:"BECAUSE WE'RE HIS FRIENDS Thats why we defend him. Maybe if you weren't such a dick you'd understand that"

It has gotten to the point that even the head admin of the site, Dragoneer, has come in to lecture Allan: "This is going to be the most un-admin like thing I'll ever write, but... Stop commissioning people. Pay your rent. Stop getting kicked the fuck out of where you live."

And so it goes.

ETA: On lulz.net (think /b/ for furries -- meaning VERY NOT WORK SAFE. Or brain safe. Don't browse there.) the topic is also being discussed. Among the comments is a supposed claim from someone who called to try and help Allan: "What angers me the most, is that I offered to help this person. As I was calling people I knew in New York, he began asking me, out of NOWHERE, "So, how do you want to draw my character?" Worthless."

ETA the Second: Dragoneer has banned Allan and posted a journal about why.

OK, first thing is first: If you're eating while browsing F_W right now, you may not want to read this post. Things are going to get a little gross.

A handwriting meme has been going around FurAffinity. It's pretty simple: Answer the given questions in your own handwriting. A fun and overall innocent little time waster.

That is, until thedarkwolfzearoth decided to pee on his filled out meme and scan it. Since he's marked it mature, one must be over 18 and have a FA account (which anyone can sign up for) to view it. So for the brave of stomach the scanned meme is here.

"Someone asked me on the original why I didn't mark the paper. I thought it through and realized I should have since my scent marks are as much as part of my signature as my name written with a pen."

As one would hope, this results in many disgusted comments. The situation is far from one-sided however, as deathclub is there to white knight all over for thedarkwolfzearoth's right to urinate! Some choice quotes:

"im pretty sure he hurt you so much with peeing on a paper... wow your eyes must bleed now or something or your arms just fell of or something o.o It must be one of such things, since you make so much drama about it... srsly... its just a peed paper... its not blood or scat or something, its just a wet piece of paper... (in fact it dried before he scanned it) its not a part of his body he choped of ... srsly let him do what he want as long as nobody gets hurt when he does it..."

"ok i replied to all you flamers an be sure, i will not answer to any reply you will give, if you have problems, send me a note. or look into my profile, there are my messenger names, IM me, if you can take a serious discussion under 4 eyes"

"yeah he did... why dont you make more photos of your granny and post it on FUR affinity and let him pee his papers?"

This is by FAR the classiest wank I've ever posted, I think.

ETA: For those who don't want to make an FA account to view the comments (and who could blame you?), here are some screencaps: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16.

thedarkwolfzearoth is now emphasizing how this was all supposed to be a joke! I mean, yes it's really his urine and all, but he did it for the lulz! So it's OK!

FURRY WANK!

Ranquickfox Posts to WTF_FA:
How else are these people meant to find each other, if not through being open about their fetishes?

WTF_FA: LOL NO!
Also, facepalm.
Also, You are not your fucking khakis fetish!

A little Thanksgiving-themed wank for those celebrating the holiday! And heck, I guess those who don't can enjoy it too. I'd like to think of myself as a fair gal.

So Furaffinity, a website for furry-themed art, changed its top banner for the holiday. Rather than the usual theme for these sorts of things like some character chasing a turkey/a bunch of people sitting down to a meal/a disappointed dude watching the Lions lose game number 5 million, they decide to instead go a different route.

Namely by having their two mascot characters laying on a couch looking morbidly obese. On the original artist's upload there are both positive and negative comments along with much proclaiming that their fetish is NOT OK.

Within minutes there are many journals on the subject. Some displaying total disgust about the subject manner while others tell everyone to (pun intended) lighten up.

In one journal the head of the site, Dragoneer, mocks the people who are complaining about the banner: "Thousands of angry furries who can not take a joke are lining up!" He also edits the news post announcing the banner change to have what is supposed to be a link to a forum post discussing the subject, but is instead our old friend the Rickroll. There IS an actual discussion thread in the forums however, with the title "New Banner is tastless and disgusting". The poster of this thread, Rilvor, wants to start a petition to have the banner removed.

Rilvor: "I would like to start a petition to have it removed. That banner makes me physically ill every time I see it. I do not appreciate having such content in this fandom, which I make a point to avoid, thrust into my face."

The thread so far contains five pages of arguing over whether the banner is disgusting or not and people reminding others that it's only going to be up for 24 hours.

ETA: Thanksgiving is over, and as expected, the banner is gone. However journals about it continue to appear!

"All this pissing and moaning about the banner. I like the banner. I don't like the banner. Journals and forums and fucking petitions.

You know what? People in DR Congo and Somalia are being attacked by rape gangs and war lords, their families are being murdered. People in North Korea are starving to death on the street. Massive terrorist attack in India. Etc."

An incredibly popular furry artist named Adam Wan (aka Zaush) decides to put a sculpture of his character up (VERY NOT WORK SAFE) for auction to try and raise some money. It is, for those not able to click, an anthropomorphic wolf with a removable loincloth containing a TOY SURPRISE (and by that I mean a penis). He sets the reserve at $500.

The highest bid by auction's end is $490. He stands firm and refuses to sell it, making a post about his disappointment. Also deleted! Comments come in, at first at how unbelievable it is that the fine piece of art didn't sell. Soon, however...

neil137: "i'm sorry to hear that you couldn't get what you wanted for it, but the best bid was 490$...how is that unacceptable? >-> guess im amoung the chuckling crowd v.v"
Zaush: "Ok, so let's assume I spent 60 hours on it, which is only about a week and half of, and I know I spent more time on it than that... at 500$ that is $8.33 an hour. So I'd be selling a labor of love for minimum wage? I make more than that in a few days at my work, so what is my incentive to sell this for that little?"

Shigoto:"The stigma in this situation is FURRIES period. The fandom is natorious with the phrase "i would but i dont have money" If i didnt know better the fandom was comprised almost entirely of hobos and beggers....."
Zaush:"Or kids living with their parents, not really making an effort to better themselves, because they think they live on the internet."

If you can believe it, this subject has spawned over two hundred comments.

( More amusing quotes about the high quality/lack thereof of endowed canine sculptures go here! )

ETA: Today, Zaush makes another journal post in response to the replies to his previous post. Deleted! But I saved the OP. Emphasis mine.

"Going through the comments on my previous journal, it seems like a lot of people have titanic amounts of shit-talking to get out of their system. If the high reserve amount I set on a personal item is their new excuse for telling me I'm an arrogant piece of shit, then they probably need REAL issues in their life to be upset about.

Those that think I was selling that sculpture to "make money" are pretty much missing the point. I wanted to generate some cash to get me by until the first paycheck went through at my new job. I set the reserve to a high enough amount that I wouldn't be disappointed to see it go, because I really didn't want to see it go, but I didn't need the money so badly that I'd settle for less. If I showed the sculpture off, and said it wasn't for sale, people would lambaste me for being so egotistical that I wouldn't sell it. The way I see it is, I set the reserve as my own proxy bid, and won my own auction. I'm pretty happy I did.

I admit I can be a little full of myself at times, and need people to put me in my place, but some of the things you people say are obscenely hurtful. Do some of you think I'm not a person, that I'm just a symbol of everything you want to hate in life? It's probably liberating to spout such textual diarrhea at me, either in my submissions, journals, or behind my back in LOL forums. After all, I can't even defend myself or get mad at you without "tarnishing" my image like some kind of politician, so I have no way of winning, right?

This experience has taught me several important things:

Furry fans...
1) are pretty fucking mean when they want to be
2) love free stuff
3) usually don't have any money
4) love you one minute, hate you the next
5) for one reason or another, prefer to be anonymous

To put things into perspective, I don't do furry art for a living. I really shouldn't care much what other people say about me in this fandom, but what I hear doesn't inspire me to keep giving. The primary motivation I have to draw furry art is the enjoyment and enthusiasm others show for what I publicly share, so when I constantly have to roll with the punches, what's the point?"

ETA the Second: HEY. Bet you thought this was over. Well, not quite.

Sonderjen decided to make a little statue of his own in honor of the Zaush debacle!

Zaush's SO is not pleased.

If you've been following F_W for a bit you're probably aware of the existence of FurAffinity, the furry-themed art website. Recently, the website had been down for about a month due to a supposed hardware failure. During that time many users, unable to function without their hot hot hermaphrodite liontaur porn, flocked to a lesser known site called Furry Art Pile. Yes, it's lovingly called FAP most of the time. Many users decided that they liked FAP better, and made this known in their various journals on FurAffinity when it returned. They found it more user friendly, and there was also much suspicion that the 20k raised for new hardware by FurAffinity was not all going back into the site.

Which brings us to yesterday. The head admin of FAP (Dylan) made an entry in his personal journal that he just wasn't having fun with the project anymore and was shutting it down. As in, right then and there. There was no warning period. Even more troubling -- he had recently been accepting donations on the website for upgrades.

Needless to say, this doesn't go over very well. Most replies being fairly blunt. Then a few of the admin's friends come in to make fun of the complainers:

losdelroro: "Major props to you for taking a pet project so far and enjoying it. When it starts to be work and people start demanding stuff of you and all their "contributions" is the extra $2 they got as a tip from working at Starbucks, you dont owe them a damn thing. I hope you enjoy your next project as much as you enjoyed this one and I know you'll do amazing things!"

And later: "I dont really care what things he admitted to screwing up or not, what matters to me is a person's personal opinion and right to do what they want with a website they created from scratch. Especially if it eats up huge amounts of time to maintain and upgrade when the total amount "donated" doesnt even cover server costs. I didnt' say he only got $2, I was insinuating that the donations were meager collections and scraps that people had left over when they weren't buying comics, porn or fursuits. I think you just need to accept that its going away, deal with it somehow and move on and stop being so petty. Its not exactly crushing your world is it? Didn't think so."

After the uproar from people not even able to grab what they needed off the site before it was shut down, the site itself was reopened with an announcement that it would be closing on September 1st. Still, the only advice Dylan gives to those who donated? Take it up with Amazon.

So, FurAffinity had a major hardware failure earlier in the week. So what do furries do when they don't have instant porn gratification?

Bitch. For 88 pages.

Highlights include whether "Ensure" and "Ensue" are interchangeable words, if FA should have subscriber accounts, and if the mods can be trusted with the $13,000 dollars raised in donations.

Pogoroo is a furry artist. This afternoon, there was an entry posted to his FurAffinity journal proclaiming his death on the 19th of June by a drunk driver. It was posted by his long distance girlfriend GhostlyDingo, who says that Pogoroo's mother called her shortly after the incident to advise her of what had happened. Due to grief, GhostlyDingo says she's been staying off the internet and this is why she did not make an announcement until now. (ETA: Original entry had been BAHLEETED, but someone posted a copy on their website which I've inserted.)

At first, there is much grieving. As expected people give their condolences. Then along comes the first shred of doubt by thefurwithoutaname, asking for proof. This irritates folks some, and admittedly thefurwithoutaname is not exactly the most polite person with his replies. It's pointed out that nobody seems to be able to locate any obituary online for Pogoroo, in spite of the death being almost two weeks ago.

The plot thickens further when it's pointed out that just a week ago, a post was made in Pogoroo's journal by another friend claiming he is without a computer for awhile. The most interesting part of the post was the mention that everyone that had purchased a commission from him will be fully refunded upon his return. After this journal is pointed out, it and all the previous journals (save for the death notice) are mysteriously deleted.

Some of the choicest comments in the thread are from Straitfox, a fellow with a 'fursona' of a criminally insane fox in a straight jacket known for doing his share of wanking:

"Oh i'm a nice person but I thin kyou have that backwards....I do not want to talk to you, YOu do not seem to be a person I can trust and ge along with so fuck that on your conscience you stupid TROLL!

OWNED! BOOYAH!"

Saving caps of the journal now, because I don't think it's long for this world either.

ETA: Also, something I just noted on my own. GhostlyDingo made a journal post about a week back complaining about people who beg her for free art. Kind of an odd thing to focus on when your boyfriend just died.

ETA II: Oh hey, and she also posted a week ago about commissioning her for fursuits, and to contact she or Pogoroo for concept art! Sheeesh. This has been a pretty messily faked death.

ETA III: Comment just recently left by Rhari (bolding mine): "Yeah I'm in now. Pogo, this is low. I hope wherever you move to, you can find new friends.

Also, Ghostlydingo's Husband contcted me today askin why she's so sad. Apparently he didn't know her internet boyfriend is le dead."

After this comment, GhostlyDingo is now starting to claim she's possibly been duped as well: "Remember when I said If anything was wrong with this it was that he got some other lady to call me and say that? Do you think maybe thats it?" Also she is claiming that the aforementioned husband is on his way to being her EX and that they still live in the same house.

ETA the last (?): All journals have been deleted, and the PogoRoo account has been banned by the mods while they investigate the situation. They did mention they found it linked to five other accounts, but they aren't mentioning which.

There was a second journal posted on PogoRoo's account after the first was deleted (and it was archived before it was also deleted), but since it supposedly contains the undead's phone number I won't be linking to it. I will however, give a summary: GhostlyDingo proclaims she has clearly also been duped, and that PogoRoo must have gotten some lady to call her pretending to be his mother. A couple folks buy it, but soon it's pointed out that it still doesn't explain the journal GhostlyDingo had written a few days after she would have thought he was dead advising people to contact EITHER of them for concept art for fursuits. At this time, the commentors notice that GhostlyDingo's account was only just created on the 12th of the month. It's suggested that GhostlyDingo IS PogoRoo, and he is attempting to escape his debts. To make his story more credible, he likely pretended to be GhostlyDingo's husband as well, asking Rhari why she was upset so that once folks got suspicious she could act as if she were duped as well. After this proclamation, there is no more commentary from GhostlyDingo.

NO WAIT MOAR ETA: The mods at FA have spoken to PogoRoo's former roomate. He confirmed PogoRoo moved out on the 22nd and that he's never heard of GhostlyDingo before.

WheelieMachine sums up the whole thing quite well: "What a shitty deal... first you die, then you're kicked out of your own parents' house.

Talk about insult to injury!"