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Other Topics / FC2013 Sudden Report
« on: January 21, 2013, 12:28:16 am »
San Jose Convention Center, January 17-21, 2013.  And now over.

A positive experience, it shows signs of improvement beyond last year's fairly minor fuckups, and tacked on some 200 additional attendees.  There were fursuiters.  How many?  Nobody but Larry cares, regardless the photoshoot was busier than years past.

Pre-registration was far improved from last year, cutting out the iMac bottleneck with (at last) pre-printed badges, though at-con registration remains unchanged: we're still forcing every registrant to sit down at one of four workstations to proceed.  Do picture furries fatfingering the little Mac keyboards, four at a time, while working out their addresses and credit info.  The line is short for a con this size, but it never moves.

Programming was solid, fewer rescheduling errors than the year previous.  (The printed guide was invalidated only an hour before registration opened.)  The spirituality track was gutted, as the experienced panelists had entirely moved away from giving them, leaving only the newbie who was still lost on his path of finding his inner mouse and was "just learning like the rest of you."  Pokefurs was a good fun trainwreck of a meet and greet, led by someone with no interest in guiding it and a sex offender in a fursuit who never spoke.  The Hypnotic Beast had deep complaints about getting shuffled into a smaller room for his infomercial, only $55 for a Skype call that'll make it all better.  The writing track had been largely taken over by a panel of bad furry porn writers, wherin Kyell Gold wants to tell you how to remember the most generic characters in print.  Matthew Ebel was back.  Matthew Ebel is in demand at conventions, because he plays music at conventions, because conventions want him, inexplicably.  Old white men were complaining about the number of fursuiters who'd dare take their heads off and break the ~magic~

The Hilton experience was improved with far lighter management than before, following a published announcement and sorta-apology after last year.  Meanwhile the Marriott had some issues getting people into their rooms anywhere near check-in.  Elevatorcon had a strong launch when the Marriott became horribly slammed with elevator problems, leading up to FLARE barricading the elevators.  (Unconfirmed rumors suggest that the fire truck calls were elevator-related.)  Mingle areas were still kinda hard to come by.  We're starting to miss the free wifi offered at the previous hotels: tethering quality drops when so many furries (and teenage girls) get thrown into the same place.  And yes, there was fake drama between the volleyball players and the furries.

The party floor was somewhat better, with more parties spreading the crowd around.  Improved weather opened up the balcony, though very few parties were on the correct side of the building to open onto it.  It's def. a party convention, the hashtag is flooded with intoxication and attendees were keeping the local EMTs busy.  City police had set up checkpoints within the convention to screen for alcohol.  Teenagers (in their mid and late 20s) came visibly loaded with cheap wine boxes, shit booze, and expensive ipod speakers.

The dances were abysmal.  The convention absolutely needs to stop hiring fuckwits from Second Life: with con attendance above 3200 for the first time ever, nightly peak dance floor attendance around 50 is just embarrassing.  The floor is definitely less crowded than it has been in years past, and Frolic (down the street, $10 cover charge, $5 for fursuiters) is drawing better crowds than the free inside dance event.  There's brostep every night, DJs are mixing Skrillex to Deadmau5 to Skrillex to Deadmau5.  DJs leave full minutes of slow to no-BPM drops between dancable segments, and don't actually mix beyond throwing airhorns into inappropriate places.  The floor regularly goes still.  The only people who seem to be really enjoying this are the DJs, his friends, and a small child in Renamon pajamas.  More attendees were having fun outside the main stage than inside.  The convention really needs to dump the @furtherecord morass, pick out the few good DJs from it and from the community, let them self-promote, and go back to having themed nights.  This shit peaked at the Fairmont, where floor numbers were 3-4 times better, despite having 500 fewer people at the con.

Prawst status: still not funny.

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News Media / Rape and Anthrocon 2012
« on: June 25, 2012, 02:10:49 pm »
This needs a thread.



And our great chiefs have come out to play.


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Other Topics / FC2012 TIMELY REPORT
« on: January 17, 2012, 10:02:07 pm »
For reference: January 12-16, roughly, at the San Jose Convention Center, making use of the Marriott and Hilton hotels.  Roughly in order of the experience.

The registration was a wreck.  Former and current staff of Anthrocon were actually arguing with FC staff over how bad it was; it's settled into a who knows why, but it's fucked situation.  Thursday pre-registration badge pickup started an hour late, after unspecified database issues, and the system forgot everybody's names.  This was fixed for Friday, when registration/badge pickup stalled for two hours, as every staffer went on break at the same time.

Scheduling was full of mistakes.  The con schedule has a long list of corrections in the front, and still wasn't up to date.  Dances started up to an hour and a half late.  Panels were getting moved and swapped within 5 minutes of their start times.  A writing panel got shoved into a room at the end of a hallway nobody was allowed to enter.  The 'How To Run A Kick Ass Panel' panel either moved, or nobody showed up in the first place, which was hilarious way to run a kick ass panel.  And they'd schedule two track events at the same time.  The official solution was to 'have a friend go to the one you can't attend' via Twitter.

The dances were an example of how not to have dances.  The ten or so guys running them, all from @furtherecord, could get a crowd excited.  They had good hype.  Fine, but none of them could mix.  Depending on the night and the DJ, you either had the 'shoes in a tumble dryer' effect, pre-recorded sets, or uncomfortable amounts of dead air between songs.  The DJ was shouting apologies a few times on the first night until they learned better.  And with two dance floors, they planned things like electro house on one and dirty house on another, dubstep on one and DnB on the other.  Previous conventions split the dance floors into techno/industrial/trance/house and psytrance/downtempo/chillout.  This one had the same genres on both stages, while other popular genres didn't get play until Monday night, after the majority of attendees had left.  You totally fucking suck, @furtherecord.

The party floor was bad.  The rooms were small, we had two parties on Friday, three on Saturday, and on Sunday the entire floor closed after just one hour.  Attendance is up, parties are down, so everybody was running out of booze early.  There was no place to hang out and BS with friends or meet people.  You walk into a party, get your drink, then squeeze back out into the hallway.  Not fun, not social.  The balconies were windy and freezing, which is the first thing not directly the fault of convention planning.

The hotel quality was markedly down.  There wasn't really any place to hang out.  Think about the lobbies at the Doubletree or the Fairmont, big open areas with plenty of seats and tables.  We had none of this, not in the Hilton or the Marriott.  The rooms were split between two hotels, and neither had as many elevators as the Doubletree.  The Hilton had the bulk of the complaints: some attendees paid more for an 'executive suite' with a rollaway bed, but got a normal room with no space for a rollaway.  Hilton staff was kicking people out for bringing booze into their rooms, in case they might have a party.  They had three elevators, and they broke frequently.  Internet and parking are no longer free for either hotel, like they were in years previous.

Here I'll point out that the Marriott room keys were drawn by Wan, featuring oversexed otters, and oh yeah the artist is basically a date rapist.  Stay classy.

But, whatever.  Between booze and friends and loud music that was usually playing correctly, it's hard to hate.  Good points: Pizza My Heart for pizza by the slice, Ben & Jerry's for being convenient, Psycho Donuts for beer/smoothies/donuts, Peggy Sue's for burgers and fries.  Single Barrel for a speakeasy, and Frolic for being a competent dance club.

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News Media / Howard Stern does a Howard Stern thing
« on: June 28, 2011, 07:28:58 pm »
The Howard Stern Show, Jun 6 2011, about two and a half hours into the broadcast, does finally cover Anthrocon.  The coverage is predictable!  Also part 2.

Interview highlights include the Eurotrash who prefers German shepherds, the beardo with a cat in him, and the cook who works in full furry regalia.  All in all, a good cross section of our finest men and transwomen.

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This rolled up at random.  The horror of roleplay infidelity is thrust upon the FA userbase, and we see that as soon as furries start commissioning artwork of their characters in love and pregnant, their situation deteriorates rapidly.  Sciggles' off and on adminship/registration won't be the last thing affected, considering Piche's habit of taking his depression and stress out on his fans.

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(22:36:12) Hyenafire: *prods*
(22:38:11) TheMightyPhallus: giggles
(22:40:01) Hyenafire: sup
(22:40:26) Hyenafire: Bet you missed me
(22:48:13) Hyenafire:
(23:04:12) TheMightyPhallus: you sexy beast : http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5753698
(23:05:05) Hyenafire: rawr
(23:05:07) TheMightyPhallus: lol
(23:05:16) TheMightyPhallus: Next will be better!
(23:05:26) Hyenafire: I just love it *licks*
(23:05:29) Hyenafire: =3
(23:06:29) TheMightyPhallus: Just would add more cawk
(23:07:03) Hyenafire: hee c:
(23:07:19) Hyenafire: huge murasadramon cock?
(23:07:22) Hyenafire: *hard-on*
(23:07:33) TheMightyPhallus: for me?
(23:07:46) TheMightyPhallus: *fingering your peehole*
(23:08:04) TheMightyPhallus: oh boy you so big
(23:08:31) TheMightyPhallus: i could almost fuck it
(23:09:25) Hyenafire: Oh
(23:09:35) Hyenafire: you wanna fuck my peehole?
(23:10:00) TheMightyPhallus: >:]
(23:10:21) Hyenafire: you silly dragon
(23:10:41) Hyenafire: *grins*
(23:12:05) TheMightyPhallus: Ill make you scream dragoneer
(23:12:11) TheMightyPhallus: then youll cum
(23:12:19) TheMightyPhallus: and bow for mercy
(23:12:28) TheMightyPhallus: lol
(23:12:29) Hyenafire: I dare you
(23:12:42) TheMightyPhallus: frottt
(23:13:04) Hyenafire: *gives it a lick*
(23:13:11) Hyenafire: tiny and delicious
(23:13:33) Hyenafire: young ones are the best
(23:18:26) Hyenafire: *holds your hips*
(23:18:44) TheMightyPhallus: pants
(23:19:01) TheMightyPhallus: Could I defeat the great Musadramon?
(23:19:19) TheMightyPhallus: caress
(23:19:27) TheMightyPhallus: *with
(23:19:30) Hyenafire: *thrusts*
(23:19:35) TheMightyPhallus: lick your earwig
(23:19:38) Hyenafire: Cum inside my cock
(23:19:40) Hyenafire: nao
(23:19:47) TheMightyPhallus: unf
(23:20:01) Hyenafire: Satisfying enough
(23:20:07) Hyenafire: I can feel your cum on my balls
(23:20:10) TheMightyPhallus: got radioactive cum
(23:20:13) Hyenafire: yesss
(23:20:19) Hyenafire: Now get your body ready
(23:20:23) Hyenafire: *humps*
(23:20:29) Hyenafire: *pulls you over*
(23:20:42) TheMightyPhallus: eeep
(23:20:58) TheMightyPhallus: !!
(23:21:03) Hyenafire: *squirts all over your tailhole*
(23:21:23) Hyenafire: How could I ignore
(23:21:47) Hyenafire: such a beautiful ass
(23:21:47) TheMightyPhallus: Dragoneer! wait!
(23:21:59) Hyenafire: *ignores*
(23:22:17) Hyenafire: Heeere's Neer!
(23:22:59) TheMightyPhallus: ooh
(23:23:02) TheMightyPhallus: pants
(23:23:19) Hyenafire: you dared dominate me!
(23:23:28) TheMightyPhallus: Ill get my revenge
(23:24:01) Hyenafire: *fills your body with my cock*
(23:24:16) Hyenafire: *thrust*
(23:45:33) TheMightyPhallus: wags tail
(23:45:48) Hyenafire: *prods your balls*
(23:45:53) TheMightyPhallus: Oh yess
(23:46:23) Hyenafire: You love it
(23:46:26) Hyenafire: so tight
(23:46:30) Hyenafire: *deeper*
(23:46:36) TheMightyPhallus: moans
(23:47:30) TheMightyPhallus: what are you doing?
(23:47:53) Hyenafire: haha
(23:50:47) TheMightyPhallus: im gonna die
(23:51:18) Hyenafire: *ignores your complaints*
(23:51:20) Hyenafire: it only
(23:51:26) Hyenafire: makes it better!!!!!
(23:52:18) TheMightyPhallus: grabs on anything
(23:52:33) TheMightyPhallus: Digimodify twink dick now!
(23:52:53) Hyenafire: Access...
(23:53:19) Hyenafire: *cums*
(23:53:25) Hyenafire: DENIED
(23:53:59) Hyenafire: !!!
(23:54:04) TheMightyPhallus: dies
(23:54:36) Hyenafire: (Haha!)
(23:54:42) TheMightyPhallus: Im being filled by your cum
(23:54:53) Hyenafire: *finishes you*
(23:54:59) TheMightyPhallus: cums
(23:55:11) Hyenafire: *licks the cum dripping from your cock*
(23:55:14) Hyenafire: You're a good servant cicero
(23:56:31) Hyenafire: And you conquered my body
(23:58:55) Hyenafire: *frots his dick against your belly*
(23:59:54) Hyenafire: It was enjoyable
(00:06:01) TheMightyPhallus: sure
(00:06:03) TheMightyPhallus: :D
(00:06:13) TheMightyPhallus: that was
(00:06:18) TheMightyPhallus: the best sex i ever had
(00:06:33) TheMightyPhallus: came irl 2
(00:06:41) Hyenafire: (same)
(00:06:55) TheMightyPhallus: pokes your crotch
(00:07:07) Hyenafire: =3
(00:07:27) TheMightyPhallus: you're fantastic
(00:07:42) Hyenafire: You too
(00:07:55) TheMightyPhallus: lays over your belly
(00:08:02) Hyenafire: *fingers your delicious ass*
(00:08:12) TheMightyPhallus: suprised a younger dragon
(00:08:30) TheMightyPhallus: could give u so much
(00:08:47) Hyenafire: (fadsjasf)
(00:08:55) Hyenafire: (Gotta clean all this mess bb)
(00:09:21) TheMightyPhallus: lol
(00:11:43) Hyenafire: Hey you, come here
(00:12:04) Hyenafire: You shall clean my den now!
(00:12:45) TheMightyPhallus: Yes sir :3
(00:12:56) TheMightyPhallus: licks
(00:13:00) TheMightyPhallus: hmmm
(00:13:09) Hyenafire: Good boy =D
(00:13:14) Hyenafire: I appreciate your presence
(00:13:31) Hyenafire: gotta go (srsly)
(00:13:32) TheMightyPhallus: its ok :3

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FA Obsession Collection / 2010 FA War on Headgear
« on: October 05, 2010, 11:16:46 pm »
Pornographic artwork.

Quote from: Princess Piche
Submission removal: daigo is a mystery
Sent By: Dragoneer On: October 5th, 2010 10:04

Due to recent threats made against Fur Affinity and Ferrox Art LLC. by one Mr. Allan Greenwald (aka Lupine Assassin), FA is being forced to remove images depicting Mr. Greenwald's character(s) from its website. We regret that we must take this action, but due to continued legal attacks by Mr. Greenwald, we are complying with his wishes that his intellectual content be removed from our website.

We apologize for having to take these actions. We do not agree with them, and feel that Mr. Greenwald is overstepping his legal bounds against the rights of artists. He has recently threatened action against Fur Affinity and its artists for displaying images of his character, or those which bear resemblances to his character.

In order to protect ourselves from costly (and time-consuming) legal trouble, we are forced to take proper measures, taking action to remove the pictures from our servers.

Once again, we apologize for having to take these actions.

This drawing of a wolf or something is so indistinguishable from the character of Allan (they both wear something on their heads) that FA administration had no choice but to delete it.  By one report, FA has deleted over 600 pieces of artwork for such striking similarities to Allan's character.  This is regrettably required, as Allan has otherwise threatened to destroy the site.

Quote from: Allan
Seems I asked for 4 pictures removed, and they remove all of them. Nice job, jackass.

Piche will most definitely be hailed a great hero when he corrects this terrible Allan-problem.  And unfortunately, that last line was not sarcastic.

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News Media / Dackstrus Back in Jail
« on: October 02, 2010, 09:45:59 pm »
Generic furry Dackstrus runs afoul of the law once again.  Sweetheart of the Furry Pound admins, there's been made a request to help donate to her cause.

Quote from: The Furry Pound
As many of you know, Dackstrus is currently incarcerated from what we understand and her family considers to be false information. It is also my unfortunate task to inform you that she has been injured, fairly extensively from an assault by multiple individuals. There has been little to no medical treatment for the injuries, regardless of her guilt for the initial charge the assault and lack of care given afterward is a travesty of justice. We are currently gathering what information we can to find out how we might assist. The bail is set exceptionally high due to the false information given to the police by an individual with the seeming intent of causing Dack harm. As far as we know it was only a word of mouth violation of probation and there is no physical proof of the violation. We will keep you posted as soon as we know more.

Quote from: mechrior
As it stands right now total bail is set at $205,000 she will need around $3000 for bail...... we are currently trying to get a paypal account set up and attached to a bank account of one of her family members so that people can help her out if they can!

If anyone can help out it would be amazing...... I would use my personal paypal but I dont wanna be accused of fraud or screwing with you guys!!!!! I just want her OUT!

Will keep you posted on updates.

....::::EDIT

OK the paypal to send her help is on this site...... just click the link!

http://www.angelfire.com/ego2/afavo.....te/TylerF.html

lets get her OUT!
....::::EDIT::::....

Now, the natural response is to ask for more information.  After all, someone we've only seen in TF2 wants three thousand dollars, and we've been given nothing else to believe.  Unfortunately, more information isn't readily available without contacting her family, and FA admin Witchiebunny has been diligent in deleting any comments from FA which do more than blindly support Dack.  Fortunately others have performed cursory research.

First, she is played by one Tyler Ferguson -- contrary to popular belief, Ferguson isn't female, nor transsexual.  (Claims that he was abused for being trans are baseless.)

Second, he is in fact in jail at the moment, and the request is not a scam.  Presuming the money in the paypal account makes it to his family, it will be used for his cause.

The rest of the details are more interesting.  First, we have Ferguson's inmate information.



The physical details are enough that friends can match the names, and we can confirm the bail amount here.  The particular crime isn't mentioned in this report, but we can see that without posting bail he'll be there until the 15th, for over a month total incarceration before a court date.  Court services provide a little more detail.



We can see a few details on his first arrest, in 2005.  This is why he's on probation, presumably.  The charge is listed as 289(A)(1), which under the California Penal Code means: Any person who commits an act of sexual penetration when the act is accomplished against the victim's will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.  What this means is that, five years ago, at the age of 18, Ferguson forcibly raped someone.  I'm not aware of any more readily available details.

His two recent charges follow.  12021(A)(1) states that Any person who has been convicted of a felony under the laws of the United States, the State of California, or any other state, government, or country or of an offense enumerated in subdivision (a), (b), or (d) of Section 12001.6, or who is addicted to the use of any narcotic drug, and who owns, purchases, receives, or has in his or her possession or under his or her custody or control any firearm is guilty of a felony.  12316(B)(1) states, No person prohibited from owning or possessing a firearm under Section 12021 or 12021.1 of this code or Section 8100 or 8103 of the Welfare and Institutions Code shall own, possess, or have under his or her custody or control, any ammunition or reloaded ammunition.  WeTip offers more information about the arrest itself: "Ferguson claimed the guns were part of an inheritance from his grandparents. They included a .308 bolt action rifle and a .32 caliber rifle and three pistols: a 9mm, .45 and .38 caliber handguns."  Many other weapons were found at locations "connected" to Ferguson.

We can't confirm that he was assaulted at any point, but considering the state of the California justice system, this isn't unbelievable.  It seems quite likely that he'll be returning to prison after his court date, but it may be understandable to post his bail simply to see that he has proper care.  Unfortunately, Ferguson is just one of thousands of inmates in similar situations across California.  And, California law being what it is, he has broken a severe law, and expects to face heavy penalties regardless of his present treatment.  California's private prison industry is a brutal profit machine, one that he appears to be familiar with.  I don't know of any reasonable way to help.

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Scandal! / Cuprohastes raging mad about... something?
« on: June 17, 2010, 11:44:21 pm »
First about pedophilia as it relates to UK law.  Then about cub art being on the server.  Then about Second Life screencaps.  Then just general anger.

In many European countries you can be tried and convicted of being a paedophile for possessing art of the subject,

FA's stance is "Dragoneer isn't in the EU sp he personally doesn't care, fuck the users who are affected, LOL."

I asked if FA could use tags to filter out this stuff and FA's response was "No that requires us to do something."

Inkbunny doesn't allow human or closely human-like art, photos or SL screen-caps. It also lets you filter content out by keyword - or if artists are too stupid to learn to tag, you can ban an artist.

From now on, Inkbunny will be my primary gallery for the following reasons:

Inkbunny does not expose me to liability. FA does
Inkbunny supports higher resolution art than FA
Inkbunny allows me to offer large, highly detailed images for direct download for reasonable amounts of money and/or offer prints. FA Does not.
Inkbunny lets people donate to me. FA Does not.
Inkbunny lets me search by artist or keyword/ FA does... assuming their keywords work.
Inkbunny allows me to have gallery pools instead of jsut throwing everything into one gallery. FA Does not.
Inknunny lets me bulk upload. FA Does not.
Inkbunny will send me a daily e-mail roundup of my account activity - comments, new favourites and watches etc. FA Does not.

Quote from: Dragoneer
That's not true. That's completely not true.

Loli and Shota (aka human porn involving minors) is banned from FA. That includes photos, art, screencaptures, SL, etc. We do not tolerate it, and removed it to support our EU users and due to various rules as well. As for filters, yes, you will see filtering and better tagging/keywording to block out any and all content you don't like on FA later this year.

In no way is this site fucking pro-pedophile at all.

Quote from: Cuprohastes
You allow photos and SL screen caps in general. Inkbunny doesn't. That was just clumsy writing, I meant "they don't allow human or closely human like art, [and additionally] they don't allow [...]" if you see what I mean.
The problem is that you do allow cub porn without any way to filter it out. How am I supposed to look at the front page or the "recent uploads" part if I'm going to end up with thumbnails of Jay Naylor's "It's not an 8 year old being fucked in the ass, honest" work or one of Sarusa's "Here's me pawing off in my diaper" drawings? Or how about the gore and violence stuff? Or just things I don't want to see scrolling past because I don't care about someone's sonic fan-fic.

Answer: I can't. You had the opportunity to do something about this and your response was that you didn't feel it was necessary because "hey half this stuff is illegal and nobody cares, except when the local police turn up and we hand over all the information to them, lol"

So y'know. Tough. The only thing FA has going for it is that there's a large number of people here. Other than that it's old and busted, half the features only "kinda" work and all the new stuff people ask for - like getting e-mail updates, twitter, tag filtering, you go "Eh well no". Well now there's a site that has those and I want to use it and I want people to move across because it needs the user base, and so I'm giving reasons why.

After all, jsut because people get a log in there doesn't mean they'll stop coming here. Especially if you actually implement any of this new UI you've been promising for the last year, assuming it's not just cosmetic, and it actually does something that can compete with Artpiles, Furocity and Inkbunny.

Otherwise you're IBM going "Computers in the home? Preposterous! And who the hell are these Apple guys?"

Quote from: Dragoneer
We don't allow Second Life screencaptures, no.

And honestly, being on a server/service that allows cub porn puts you at risk anyway. Just because you filter it off doesn't make it right. It's like going to a party with drugs, knowing there's drugs, watching people do the drugs, but going "I'll have none of that." You could still be held liable for not reporting it or not leaving.

Having a filter doesn't block illegal content from being illegal or affecting you.

And if you don't like FA, fine, but don't god damn lie about your reasons. Just be upfront. "I like Inkbunny better, here's why." That's all you had to post. But no, you just decided to lie about it, not post the truth...

Quote from: Dragoneer
Sorry I was off looking at Second life screen caps that people had uploaded.

And no, your party anology is invalid. There's paedophilia on the internet. If I don't go looking for it I'm fine. But unlike the internet in general, FA takes pride in saying "YEAH! BRING YOUR CUBFUCKERY AND PUT IT ON THE FRONT PAGE! HEY! WHY DON'T YOU CROP IT DOWN FOR THE THUMBNAIL SO NO ONE CAN TELL UNTIL THEY CLICK?"

I'm here for the art, but you provide no way to filter ANYTHING out apart from "Adult/not adult" and that's not good enough.

Quote from: Dragoneer
I'm sorry, and I know this isn't very admin-like of me, but... really, you're a dick.

I don't give a shit if you stay on FA, go or whatever. You're a dick.

You outright lie about FA, fess up to it... then when somebody calls you out for being a liar and saying nobody will defend you over your bullshit, your response is "Want to bet?".

Seriously.

You're a dick.

Quote from: Cuprohastes
So there is tag filtering and you did ban paedophile art? Because if you didn't, then you're pro-paedophile as a site.
Which is it?
Are you for, or against it? Because there's no neutral ground with this issue. If you allow it, you're approving of it by inaction.

Dude, when Princess Piche is handing you your shit, you should know you've fucked up. 

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News Media / Florida furries newest victims of the war on drugs
« on: February 11, 2010, 09:01:49 pm »
From Ajna's FA.

Quote from: Ajna
Jason and I have been put in jail. I am not going into detail on why.

I am currently on pre-trial release right now. Jason is still in jail. We're probably looking at a long time in jail. We have been put on no contact, though, so I can't talk to him. If I do, I get put right back in jail.

I am going to do everything in my power to finish the commissions I owe before I go to jail. If we had a magic card trade and you haven't sent the cards, just forget about it.

Please do not rush me on your commission. I am so messed up right now that I won't be able to take it but I assure you that I will be working as hard as I can for you. I'm moving to West Palm since I'm not allowed to see Jason, so art upload will be slow. I have my sidekick though so I can answer to comments.

This is NOT a joke or anything. And please don't pity me.

Email is srstudiosart[at]gmail.com
If you need me.

She did not explain the circumstances.  Friends local to her linked to a local newspaper article on the matter.

Quote from: TCPalm
PORT ST. LUCIE — Police investigating an incident involving a man and his girlfriend stumbled upon a marijuana growing operation with dozens of plants and more than a pound of packaged pot, according to arrest affidavits released Thursday and a sergeant.

Officers were dispatched to a suicide attempt about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday at the home of Virgil Jason Vinz, 31, and his 19-year-old girlfriend, Terrah Lake Tracy, in the 900 block of Southwest Jaslo Avenue. Both wound up being arrested, each on a domestic battery charge, following an apparent struggle over a knife. One affidavit indicates the suicide attempt was “unfounded.”

Meanwhile, officers followed a blood trail through the kitchen and down a hall while looking for a knife, which lead them to packaged marijuana and a marijuana grow room, Sgt. Robert Fonteyn said.

“The odor (of marijuana) got stronger as they went to the rear of the house,” he said.

Fonteyn said one room had been converted into a hydroponic pot farm while another was being used to dry and package the marijuana.

After the discovery, patrol officers contacted drug investigators, who obtained a search warrant. Fonteyn said the work of patrol officers was key in the bust.

“Without them, this guy wasn’t on our radar or anything,” Fonteyn said. “He just said that he’d fallen on hard times economically and it was another venture to generate some additional income.”

Police found 47 marijuana plants and about 21 ounces of marijuana packaged in gallon bags.

Fonteyn said Vinz, listed as self-employed, also was running a legitimate sign-making business from the home.

In addition to the battery charge, Vinz and Tracy each face charges of cultivation of cannabis, possession of more than 20 grams of cannabis, possession of cannabis with intent to sell and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Ajna/Tracy will likely escape with a minimal sentence, but authorities will certainly nail Vinz.  Neither suicide nor domestic abuse are funny.  The drug charges are completely unreasonable and serve only for local political gain and the provision of tax dollars to Florida's for-profit prison system.  Each share four felony charges for growing plants.

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FA Obsession Collection / FA admins easily manipulated (who knew)
« on: January 26, 2010, 05:28:44 pm »
Midday on the 19th, artist Nitro goes mysteriously banned from FA.  The Internet immediately blamed Pinkuh for the unexpected ban, but the truth is, there are admins more incompetent than that.  It seems it was Glaide who banned Nitro, and more astonishing, he kicked Nitro at the request of an anonymous channer. 

Somebody with a mind for social engineering registered the account -xaerun-.  That person then sent Glaide a message.  Roughly, it said, "Nitro has been starting trouble and needs a 48 hour ban, I have to leave so could you do it? Dragoneer has approved the ban." Glaide completely believed that this was his fellow admin Xaerun, and without any more concern in the matter, Glaide banned Nitro. -xaerun- was banned by the next day when an artist noticed the impersonation and reported the account, and another admin restored Nitro's access.

It really seems to be that easy: someone regged a fake admin account, and Glaide didn't check it when they told him to do something.  Glaide was actually de-adminned in 2007. He had done nothing for months and was difficult to reach for admin duties, and in response Dragoneer revoked his admin rights. However, Glaide has severe emotional problems, and he plays on these to get favors. Immediately after his rights were stripped, he cried to Dragoneer and claimed that that it was making him terribly depressed to not be admin, and so Dragoneer conceded and gave his admin status back. Over two years have passed, and since then it's hard to say if Glaide has really done anything at all on the site.  Few people know he's admin.  He never joins the admin IRC, he rarely checks the admin forums, and he's a clear security risk. Dragoneer has hired him twice so far. This does seem to be entirely the fault of the administration above Glaide.

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FA Obsession Collection / FA Network schematics
« on: December 08, 2009, 03:56:23 pm »
Quote from: yak
For simplicity's sake I'd like to keep even IPs for servers themselves (or for the use of the server's primary function), and the following odd ones for their RACs
Assuming we get /28, we have 14 IPs at our disposal.
+Trogdor, +Novastorm, +Tiamat, +Bahamut, +the new hosting server and +Sirkain are our hardware.
 
For exampe, using the typical 192.168.1.x net:
 
70.33.186.196  Trogdor
70.33.186.197  Trogdor RAC
70.33.186.198  Tiamat
70.33.186.199  [reserved] Tiamat RAC
70.33.186.200  Bahamut
70.33.186.201  [reserved] Bahamut RAC
70.33.186.202  Novastorm primary
70.33.186.203  Novastorm RAC
70.33.186.204  [reserved] Hosting server primary
70.33.186.205  [reserved] Hosting server RAC
----------------------------------------------------
70.33.186.206  |
70.33.186.207  |
70.33.186.208  | Novastorm VM dedicated IPs
70.33.186.209  | Hosting server additional
70.33.186.210  | etc.
70.33.186.211  |
70.33.186.212  |
70.33.186.213  |
70.33.186.214  |
70.33.186.215  |
70.33.186.216  |
70.33.186.217  |
70.33.186.218  |
70.33.186.219  |
70.33.186.220  |
70.33.186.221  | Trogdor second IP for facdn.net
------------------------------------
70.33.186.222  |   Sirkain
 
 
 
All servers have 2 NICs.
One of them should be plugged into the colo's switch, the other to our 1Gbps LAN hub. Sirkain server stays separated from our LAN.
Thus all servers should have both the 1Gbps LAN and the shared 100Mbps WAN connectivity.
 
I do not know how would we need to go around about assigning these IPs to our servers, but I imagine it will be something like:
Dragoneer and net-cat bring in the servers, install them and plug them in. Then net-cat is given a keyboard and a monitor to locally log in and assign the IPs/netmasks/gateways/dns servers to the interfaces.
Check that the links are up and accessible from the outside.
 
Case-by-case basis:
* RACs on Nova and Trogdor can be assigned an IP address from the BIOS, as far as I remember.
* Trogdor: local login and change, or postpone and do it later over the virtual KVM from within the RAC
* Tiamat: local login
* Bahamut: doesn't have an external IP. Either local login and assign, or postpone and do it later over LAN.
* Novastorm: Virtual KVM from within RAC.
* Sirkain: I do not know how it has been handled between Sirkain and Dragoneer.

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News Media / Something Awful Dislocates FOXmas Convention
« on: October 24, 2009, 12:17:33 pm »
Via Something Awful.

Quote from: Andrew Miller
Last week, ALotD warned you about the FOX-mas event in December. After three years as a house party, FOX-mas was set to make its hotel debut, as one of the organizers explains: "We decided to expand it and get a ballroom, but as we negotiated with the hotel, the concept grew into a mini-convention." Unfortunately, these "negotiations" with the hotel apparently didn't include disclosure of the fact that FOX-mas was being billed as an adults-only furry free-for-all.

"I am appalled and extremely embarrassed," wrote a manager from the besieged Rochester Holiday Inn in response to the Awful Link write-up. "This is NOT the reputation we want anywhere near our hotels. In no way, shape or form did the planner mention anything about Furries as they are called and what the group does for 'fun.' I asked him about the group during negotiations. He told me this was for a mini-convention of mascots." When reached to confirm by phone, the representative described how she expected the hotel lobby to be overrun with people dressed like "the Pillsbury Doughboy and the Geiko gecko," not, say, lascivious wolves creating fursuit friction with cheetahs.

So, FOX-mas will not be held at the Rochester Holiday Inn. Feel free to resume family-friendly booking there. However, the organizers will surely find a venue receptive to their costumed romp. Furries always land on their feet.

We at Vivisector are truly sorry for those who may have lost their chance to spend winter vacation in Rochester, New York.

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News Media / Penthouse Visits FC
« on: September 17, 2009, 06:25:57 pm »
Penthouse makes another "fursuit of happiness" joke.

Want some porno? Give you a boner?

Varka describes Bad Dragon's new toys, and the journalist discovers a scene as hostile and depressing as we've seen in just about every exposé to date.  The story ends as we're told the writer is shown the door, making us all question just why they'd bother hiding information that's been freely available since Vanity Fair first tripped over it.

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News Media / Furry4Life Member Had Parents Attempted Murdered
« on: July 21, 2009, 10:56:29 am »
Via Fark and other "weird fucking shit" websites.  A legal case has come to trial in the UK concerning Christopher Monks, aka Rox-Yin, and Shaun Skarnes, aka "Kira".  Court testimony claims that in Februrary, Monks and Skarnes conspired to kill Monks' adoptive parents.  Monks is age 24, lives with his parents, and is of Clayton-le-Woods in Lancashire, near Preston.  Skarnes is age 19 and of Ellesmere Port, in Cheshire.  Monks met Skarnes over a furry roleplaying site and asked Skarnes to enter his house and kill his parents.  Monks promised that Skarnes could bite his penis off as a reward.  However, Skarnes was subdued as he attempted to attack.  Welcome to furry.

Quote
[Prosecutor Dennis Watson QC] told the jury: "It may seem extreme that he wanted his penis bitten off, but there is ample evidence from websites he visited and conversations with Shaun Skarnes that this was a deeply held interest and one he found sexually stimulating."

"It seems that Skarnes was to receive no money for killing Mr and Mrs Monks but the prospect of biting off Monks' penis. This was the climactic act of the conspiracy.

Monks' DA profile states, "Unless you have nothing to loose... Think before you do anything you may regret."

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Richael "Kitteh" Michels of Fort Collins, Colorado, has been arrested and charged with seven counts of sexual assault and contact against a furry less than half her age.  Those at Fort Fur Friday in Fort Collins had apparently been aware of, and warned her about, her behavior.

Quote from: The Coloradoan
A Fort Collins mom is being charged with sexually assaulting a minor who police allege in an arrest affidavit she met at social gatherings for people who dress up like animals and call themselves “furries.”

Police say 45-year-old Richael Michels had a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old boy she met in March at a furry gathering. [...]

The husband also told police Michels had recently become involved with the furry lifestyle.

To build their case, police used an individual – whose identity and relationship to Michels is not clear because the document is heavily redacted – to send text and online messages to Michels, who had the nickname “Kitteh.” [...]

In another series of messages reported in the affidavit, Michels was told she could not continue to attend “furmeets” if she insisted on having a sexual relationship with the boy.

The following is the exchange reported in the affidavit: “This wasn’t any sort of punishment for him, it’s because you’ve been having sex with him that we can’t have that going on at the furmeet. If you were to promise to stop having sex with him – or at least not tell me about it, then things could change. I just don’t want you to get in trouble, which could get us involved.”

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News Media / Lewis County furry pleads guilty
« on: June 02, 2009, 02:07:52 pm »
A furry makes the news once again.

Quote
CHEHALIS, Wash. (AP) - A man accused of having sex with his two dogs admitted in Lewis County Superior Court he would be found guilty of cruelty to animals.

The 21-year-old from the town of Cinebar, Troy Whitson, was sentenced Monday to 30 days in jail and a deviancy evaluation. He's restricted from owning animals for two years.

His malamutes have been placed with new owners.

Prosecutor Michael Golden told KITI that Whitson is a member of a group known as the Furries who identify with an animal and dress the part in makeup, ears and tail.

Golden says Furries gather for social events but having sex with animals is not part of their normal behavior. He says two other Furries who met Whitson witnessed the animal sex and turned him in.

So gradually does the community learn to police itself.  Cinebar resident Scruffy R. Wolf, age 21 and animal lover, has been silent about the arrest.

Quote from: Scruffywolf
shouldent groop bestiality and zoophilia together.. because they are not, in any way related... sigh.. bestiality is using the animals for sex.. with or without consent.. zoophilia is the love of the animal.. not the sex.. yes.. there is sex involved.. but i am more then able to prove that animals can consent..

people need to get it threw their thick skulls that humans arent the only ones who have sex for pleasure

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Andrew Vongthongthip aka KazumaFox reports on his brother:

Quote from: KazumaFox
Well my Brother was arrested. you all know   wildwulf well if you dont he IS my brother and the best one i have. he was arrested yesterday afternoon because someone tipped the police AND news off that he was Abusing our dog rocky. a cute lil pit bull (Look in my gallery) well....he was...he will be held for 3 months for Evaluation. and then i dont know where it will go from there...im so lost right now. Hes a furry like me. he is into the things im into we have so much in common and now i fear for him. fear for what he might do once he gets Discharged...the day he was arested Albertsons called and said he got the job. not anymore T.T i wanna help him....if anyone can help please....please do. i want my dog back before he gets put down V.V

Brandon Vongthongthip aka WildWulf was arrested "after investigators found photographs on the Internet of him sexually abusing his dog."  A bit more detail might be found on Shadowscope.

Quote from: Shadowscope
Police were alerted to the abuse of the animal by an anonymous phone call to the Oregon Humane Society, who in turn called the Gresham police since Brandon lives there with his mother and her fiance.

During their investigation police found all kinds of photos on the Internet of Vongthongthip and his girlfriend Rocky, an eight-year-old red nose American Pit Bull, having sex.

The upward trend in the number of furries outed/arrested for animal abuse appears to continue.

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FA Obsession Collection / FA Retrospectacle
« on: April 17, 2009, 12:26:28 pm »
Via a thread on Lulz.net, under the topic "Am I the only guy who can't stand [Dragoneer]?"

Quote from: Little St. Hugh
I was an administrator on Furaffinity for a year (Sept 07 to 08).

~I do not wish to cast personal insults around, make ad hom attacks. I do not "hate" Preyfar/Dragoneer~

From my first hand experience; Dragoneer/Preyfar does not have adequate management skills to run the site properly or make sure the site has the right staff who can run it properly. This is very important, because the buck stops with him. As you can see from the recent journal drama, he doesn't learn from his mistakes.

He often acts without thinking and can be easily swayed if enough people make a fuss. He can be two-faced, saying one thing in private or to some people and another in public or to other people. He will "re-write history" or selectively remember things in order to present himself in the most favourable light.

Up till the $16,000 in donations, which more or less forced his hand, he kept the finances to himself, occasional revealing some information to other staff but mostly everyone was in the dark. There were occasions when FA entirely depended on the generosity of a single donor. That is not sustainable, but Preyfar made no real effort to change the situation, until absolutely forced to by circumstances. Things like the adverts had been floated for years before he bothered to get them implemented.

He made arbitrary changes to the rules based on his own personal preferences, without telling any staff in advance and then left other people to clear up his mess while he played computer games. He would sometimes spend several hours handling minor infractions, yet would ignore the big picture and leave the site and staff drifting without guidance for weeks at a time.

When I was taken on board, my position was unclear, I did not receive any real guidance or mentoring (as was supposed to) or help. Preyfar/Dragoneer is extremely reluctant to take new member of staff on board in general. I think this might be because he fears losing control of things and because by surrounding himself with incompetents he looks better by comparison and they are no risk to him and less risk of losing control. But as I said, he is lacking in leadership skills, so it almost ended up with Wolfblade in de facto charge of the day to day running of the site and Preyfar was extremely reluctant to deal with Wolfblade himself, tried to palm it of onto others and let him do a lot of damage.

Because he prefers to avoid dealing with things unless absolutely forced too, the staff can behave badly and/or not actually bother doing any work as long as it's lowkey. Preyfar recognized that the staff were lazy and at one point asked me to oversee them for a week or so, while he was away at a convention. I would assign trouble tickets and forum posts for them to deal with, and they would do them. They all promised to deal with the tasks and then they didn't do them. Only a tiny proportion of them were done. Preyfar ended up doing most of them in one of his maniac phases.

He was content to let the project to replace Furaffinity's buggy software, have nothing done on it for ever 12 months, and then after the person nominally in charge departed under mysterious circumstances, to let a teenage boy whose only previous experience of programming was an interactive list of pokemon take over.

He seemed more interested in trying to get a Furaffinity Team Fortress 2 server set up, and to offer web-hosting using the FA server than fixing the broken software.

Many people have offered their help to Furaffinity, including professional programmers etc etc, however to most of them, Preyfar simply says: "I'll get back to you" and then he never does.

The key to understanding FA & Dragoneer/Preyfar is that FA is his big ticket to attention, popularity and his chance to lord it over the community. He wants to keep it that way and enjoys being able to do the same wherever he goes (that's why he wanted an official FA TF2 server, because he could admin it). If he ever had any greater vision or ultimate purpose for FA, he never revealed or shared it.

He mentioned in the admin forums, in a post from about Dec 2005 IIRC, that every time he feels down or depressed, he commissions some art, I say that not as a personal attack or gossipmongering, but simply because I think it explains a lot about how he functions as the site owner.

FA keeps going because as long as the hardware and software is kept patched up, and very major outbreaks contained by the staff, and the submissions keep rolling in, people are Okay with it. But Furaffinity will never fulfil it's potential or be run as good as It could be.

In the end, I don't think most people really care or look beyond the superficialities with him and the staff there as long as the submissions keep on coming in. However those who do or are more perceptive know him for what he is, as you can see from the other posts here.

I tried my best to fix the problems; to work with some other people more competent than I for such a task, but at the end of the day, the biggest problem is Preyfar/Dragoneer and he can't be budged; He owns the domain and the servers.

I remember an occasion (in 07 I think), prompted by some big-fuck up, when Preyfar, mightily depressed and despondent threatened to just give up on FA and just withdraw from it. If only he had.

If only he had.

-

re cub porn, I don't want to argue whether it's right or wrong or whatever, but for the record, both Preyfar and his second-in-command Damaratus (You probably won't have heard of him due to his constant fence-sitting and lack of leadership skills) do like cub porn, preyfar also likes babyfurs as well. Pinkuh has done colouring work (IIRC) for Soft Paw magazine.

In summary, Dragoneer/Preyfar runs FA for self-aggrandizement; he is incompetent. Nearly all the staff are incompetents likewise.

But you knew that.

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News Media / Snowfox19 Passes Out
« on: April 08, 2009, 10:54:59 pm »
Via babyfur and WaYa:

Quote
RIP Snowfox
Tonight has been a sad night on Furnet. At about 11:00pm on April 7, i was informed by a regular of my channel (#wolftracks) that Snowfox was found an hour ago dead. He appeared to have hung himself.

I have known this person for several years: he's even had a crush on me for the longest time.


Now once more information about the scene was revealed, there's been a lot more speculation that his death may have been accidental:
1. All his chat clients were still connected
2. he just recieved over $1500 (canadian) for his tax refunds
3. He was nakid
4. He was doing something "strange" with the rope other than having a simple noose

These factors when added up and using speculation indicates the most likely cause of death is "autoerotic asfictiation" gone bad. For those who don't know what that is, it's an extream form of bondage where you use something like a rope to control a partner's breathing.

Snowfox was a very lonely person and it's very likely he has been practicing this form of bondage on his own and this time he lost conctiousness before he could loosen the knot to breath.

Now if this speculation is found wrong I will edit this post or remove it entirely otherwise i'll leave it as is.

Most people who were to do themselves in with suicide would want to be dressed, and would take the time to shut down their instant message clients, and since he has a livejournal he'd likely have wrote something there. I am in his main groups so if there was something written i'd of had viewing access, and there wasn't anything new pertaining to suicide.

If you know him and want to leave a final message, his LJ is at: http://snowfox19.livejournal.com/

Autoerotic asphyxiation is a silent killer.  Please, talk to your friends about this tragedy.  Our hearts go out to his family and friends.  He leaves behind several unpaid artists.

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News Media / Hau Rukus
« on: November 03, 2008, 03:36:52 pm »
Quote from: NeoV
R.I.P.
Stuart Brooks Johnson // Julian Rukus Kitsura;
2.22.85 - 11.1.08

On Saturday Rukus took his own life. Not sure if
many of you know him - but he was a dear
friend and detrimental part of my life. I loved
him dearly and his absence will be sourly missed.
I do hope, my dear, that the afterlife treats
you better than this life could. I always knew you
were destined for bigger and better things..
Go tear it up hun.

A boyfriend reports that our Rukus the fox passed on last Saturday.  May we all remember him as a detrimental part of all our lives.  I'm sure this may come as a shock to some of us, but this wouldn't be the first time a combination of furry, booze, and MJ took one of our own from us.  However, incongruities arise.  The names have been changed to protect the identity of those involved, but the story remains the same:

Code: [Select]
2:38:43 PM Timebomb: o.o
2:43:58 PM Timebomb: SOOOOOOOOOO
2:44:02 PM Whitevan: OMG
2:44:04 PM Whitevan: HAY
2:44:07 PM Timebomb: NeoV's post... >_>;
2:44:11 PM Timebomb: Guy isnt dead
2:44:16 PM Whitevan: Yes he is
2:44:19 PM Timebomb: He called me yesterday crying
2:44:25 PM Timebomb: No--
2:44:37 PM Timebomb: I know him personally
2:45:20 PM Timebomb: o___O;
2:45:40 PM Timebomb: I just think its weird that he is fake suicide.
2:45:47 PM Whitevan: oh really so you swears it... proof?
2:50:27 PM Timebomb: He called me last night
2:50:34 PM Timebomb: And who cares if he is dead?
2:50:41 PM Timebomb: Why does everyone suddenly care?
2:50:48 PM Timebomb: The guy was a douche bag
2:51:02 PM Timebomb: Who always was hitting me up for money
2:51:09 PM Timebomb: Breaking every single promise to me
2:51:23 PM Timebomb: Always coming in between me and my GOOD fur friends
2:51:36 PM Timebomb: Why should I care all of a sudden?
2:51:39 PM Timebomb: He died
2:51:42 PM Timebomb: "died"
2:51:45 PM Whitevan: omg
2:51:51 PM Timebomb: Then called me
2:51:54 PM Timebomb: Asking for money
2:52:11 PM Timebomb: If you died I'd care
2:52:48 PM Timebomb: If my dog died I'd kill everyone.
2:53:26 PM Timebomb: This is clearly a cry for attention
2:53:46 PM Timebomb: Trust me
2:53:59 PM Timebomb: Who was there when NeoV dumped him right before their wedding?
2:54:06 PM Timebomb: Not fucking her thats for god damn sure
2:54:08 PM Timebomb: e.e;
2:54:30 PM Timebomb: I gave up caring for Brooks years ago.

Brooks/Rukus leaves behind several spurned lovers and a grieving fandom that never heard his name until today.  Should he attempt to contact you from beyond the grave, please leave a message here.

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