Sorry everyone for the helluva delays in this, I emigrated and then couldn't get back onto the forum for some reason. Ended up having to go through a proxy just to access the site. Anyway, the dissertation has been done for a while, and can be read here: https://uir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/28550 Th...

Survey is now CLOSED. It'll be off to the statistician this week for analysis, and hopefully soon I can start wrapping up this dissertation. Thanks yet again to all who responded! Got 98 responses in the end, the trends I've seen so far are interesting, and I can't wait to see what else I learn abou...

CLOSING When I made my final call a... while ago (whoops), I still didn't have an end date, because university admin has been kinda a mess this year, but now I do. So, I'm closing this survey completely on September 28th, around 7am or so which is generally when I get up. After that, the stats are b...

LAST CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS So I'm just about ready to wrap up my data collection on South African furries, and I'm really blown away by the responses from everyone so far. What I can see so far has been fascinating, and I think a lot of you will be very interested in what the fandom looks like in thi...

So it's June 4th, which means that there's 1 month left on the original timeline I setup for my masters research data collection. Unfortunately I can now say for sure that I won't have anything to show this year, but I don't believe I have too much yet left to do, everything's just been delayed. Obv...

The YouTube video resolution is now good on my desktop (1366x768), so thanks! That's been bothering my OCD-ish tendencies a bit since I noticed it, haha.

I know this is still an issue from before the upgrade, but it is still kinda annoying: embedded YouTube videos are still coming up too large. Just a reminder, no rush on this old stuff if you still have other issues caused by the update.

Yeah, journal publishing is notoriously hellish. Friend of mine who has published in marine biology has told me stories. I can't speak for psychology specifically, but I can't see how it'd be any better. Not looking forward to all that, never mind that I'll be doing it more than once for this work. ...

Will we get specific details by the end of the year? Seems unlikely at this stage. The corona nonsense has been screwing around a lot of the admin side of this. Part of all this depends how long things take to sort out, but the roadmap is basically that the first academic article will be submitted ...

Just wanted to give a quick update on the survey, now that it's been about 2 weeks since I started it. Firstly, I realised I was a git and forgot to mention that this survey runs until July 4th . Secondly, within this time I've collected 62 responses. I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who h...

I answered you on Telegram (a bit badly, admittedly), but since this question might come up again, I'll answer in more depth: I'm not comparing to overseas at this point, that'd be getting ahead of myself a bit. The study being done is just what is called "exploratory" - when dealing with something ...

Hey everyone. As I've mentioned before, I am presently doing my masters in psychology through Unisa, and the dissertation I'm in the process of writing is on how furry fandom looks in South Africa, how being a furry helps mentally, and potential ways in which furry differs here from overseas. So wou...

One last trailer before one last batch of episodes.

Complicated question. On the one hand, a lot of them look pretty cool, but on the other, it seems a bit contrary to the "spirit" of furry, in a way. Furry, as I understand it, is this broadly creative enterprise about personal expression, so the thing that strikes me as most odd about all of this is...

New trailer-ish thing for the second half of season 6. Man this one hit emotionally hard for some reason.

Have a seasonally appropriate Fleisher cartoon from the 40s that you probably didn't know about. A lot less weird than that 60s Rankin/Bass stop-motion version that the Americans are obsessed with.

I have a theory myself for one part of the ending, depending on what thematics they're trying to go for exactly... As I read it, the Hollywood sign losing the D is the show's first significant indication that damage caused by BoJack is permanent and long-lasting, so, if they want to portray the idea...

Yeah the first half of the season was great, but that cliffhanger it ended on absolutely killed me... there might've been some yelling at the screen.

Oh well, not too long now until the last few. Gonna be sad to see it go.

Greetings! Wouldn't necessarily say I'm a "brony" but I have been watching the show consistently since it came out and a friend of mine wouldn't shut up about it haha. Feels a bit weird that the series finale is showing today(!?), bit like the end of an era. Seems to have kinda been the year for thi...

It must be said that they're not going to be everyone's cup of tea. They're fairly controversial works at times. Without spoiling too much, the overarching storyline is decidedly anti-theistic, and Pullman is especially unflattering about Catholicism (or a form thereof existing in the world of the s...

Anyone else here a fan of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust series? It's been more than a decade since I read the former, so my memory of the plot is a bit hazy, but they remain some of my absolute favourite books. Still want to have a dæmon of my own, haha. Anyway I did read ...

So I dunno about anyone else here, but BoJack Horseman is one of my absolute favourite shows, and they've finally announced the date for the next season and put out a trailer for it. Spoilers for season 5, obviously. ZOGxOQxXjdo Bit put out that it's the final season, but all good things have to end...

Awesome, thanks for those links! Into the stash they go. I'll have to look at them in a lot more depth later and see how they compare to the OpenFur stats.

Yeah it's definitely very far from "scientifically accurate" or anything, but it was the first such "study" of sorts that I'd ever heard of, trying to quantify trends in sub-interests and whatnot, so I thought it was cool. I hadn't ever heard of this one you've now shown, that's very cool, is there ...

Hoping this is okay because it's technically SFW, but talks (academically) about some NSFW subject matter without too much explicit detail or images or anything, just conceptually. Maybe a bit of a strong first non-introductory post to make haha, but considering I've seen other topics discussing NSF...

Thanks guys! Coming back is something I have considered a couple of times before now, life just has had a way of getting in the way a bit. Part of what pushed me into coming up was all the media coverage last year showing me that the community here has grown quite a bit while I wasn't looking at it,...

Hey everyone. So I actually registered an account on here in 2008(!) and was a little active back then as well. I was young at the time, still in high school, and quite isolated from everyone and with no real way to be in contact with people physically, so I drifted away from the forum a bit for var...

I hate you...

joking. Lucky bastard.

16.
Wish it was higher... high school sucks.

Furry Name: elysium
Species: Emperor Penguin
Region: KZN
City: Durban
Sexuality Preference: Straight