Archives for: August 2008

Furry Art Pile is officially as dead as a dodo. It was not taken down by the sort of avoidable hardware failure that killed Yerf and routinely renders FurAffinity inoperative. FAP site owner Dylan explains:

FAP started two years ago to satisfy an itch, to be a better art website. For furries.
In this time, FAP grew into a very fun project. I developed solutions to very difficult technical problems, created new user interfaces, and learned a lot about maintaining a social website.
Two years later, this isn’t fun for me anymore. I spend too much time everyday developing new features and optimizing the code to perfection; I never have time for my other projects. (Trust me, they’re awesome projects).
So, I’m closing FAP.
Thank you for using FAP,
Dylan

Ten years on from SqueeRat’s “This Sordid Little Business” (aka “The Furry Manifesto")^link, Calbeck exhumes this once-popular dead horse to produce a reading of it.

So, what the hell. Since most of the fandom knows nothing but legends about how much a bunch of jerks Burned Fur was for supporting Charla’s vision, I decided to go ahead and do a reading of the original screed and see what happens.

A followup to our earlier “Dragons walk among us” Drakhonis got in touch to tell us about RLDs (Real Life Dragons)…

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