Good news from Tiny Paws con, and a look at Spalding’s furry art.
by Patch O'Furr
Two furry things happened in Connecticut the other week. One was sad – a politician lost a job for being too open minded about furry stuff. And one was happy: Tiny Paws con happened, giving love to that very same politician and raising money for the Humane Society too. Whenever there’s a setback, look for how this cool fandom keeps moving forward.
Tiny Paws is made by former staffers of Furfright, and you’ll definitely hear more about it here. It’s very special to me, because oh my gosh, they invited me to be Guest of Honor in 2018!
I’ll have to work hard to earn that. Meanwhile, let me tell you about a hard working artist. When the con started talking to me, they asked if I wanted an ad in the con book. That’s why Spalding lent a paw to draw this fabulous cartoon ad:
Spalding is a practicing Bay Area furry artist who’s been at it for a few years now. He’s contributed art to conventions such as Further Confusion, Biggest Little FurCon, and Rainfurrest. He does badge work mostly in his spare time, but strives to do more and be a better anthro artist. You should check him out on FurAffinity and Twitter.
I have to keep this short or I’ll get distracted…
Woof! Where was I again? Oh yeah, Tiny Paws! I can’t wait – wish it was there already! Come hang out! Expect more when it gets closer to August 2018.
Guests of Honor at #TPC2018 @ShadraAvroArt, @BoozyBadger, and Patch O'furr of @DogpatchPress! So much excite! ❤️💛💚💙💜
— Tiny Paws (@TinyPaws_Con) September 10, 2017
GOH, welp. @BoozyBadger you're officially popufur now
— Dante The K9@FurTheMore (@DantePD) September 10, 2017
OMG can't wait to meet him in furson and buy him a drink!
— Dogpatch Press (@DogpatchPress) September 11, 2017
Super hype to be GOH at a con. Looking forward to it! https://t.co/2Z55bGGGWN
— Shadra @ CDF Homecon (@ShadraAvroArt) September 11, 2017
Want to collab on GOH stuff? Or maybe a GOH club with secret decoder rings? I'm gonna help publicize the con for starters.
— Dogpatch Press (@DogpatchPress) September 11, 2017
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Congratulations on your G-o-H-ship!
If you’re going to mention the matter about the politician, you should mention that the controversy was over the “rape” tag being listed as tolerable on the sofurry site. I don’t recall people upset over the fact that he was a furry.
Well, I said “too open minded about furry stuff.” Which is true I think. They first attacked him as a furry and the rape tag is a sub-issue to that – you can see it in the big collage of screenshots posted by the person who brought it to public attention, where fursuiting is actually the most prominent image. The person got the info in bad faith by making a profile on Sofurry to access private stuff the politician didn’t even realize was on display, due to a UI design flaw. He wasn’t intentionally advertising his likes, and they were taken highly out of context. He wasn’t tolerant about rape unless we’re comparing watching Game of Thrones to tolerating rape. As others commented, you don’t know what that tag implies if you don’t get furry fiction. This was the piece I did about that matter.
That advertisement is phenomenal 😛