This has been getting a tiny bit of backplay in the fandom but I didn't see it make its way here. Anthrocon announced they will be partnering up with a mobility scooter company to provide free powerchairs presumably for fat furs.
This has been getting a tiny bit of backplay in the fandom but I didn't see it make its way here. Anthrocon announced they will be partnering up with a mobility scooter company to provide free powerchairs presumably for fat furs.
As if you needed any proof America needs better reproductive education in schools. And also discussion. He does an excellent job of setting up strawmen.
Jesus, this is next level exceptionalism. And of course he's the kind of person that knee jerks and screams SJWS REEEEEEEEEE
This has been getting a tiny bit of backplay in the fandom but I didn't see it make its way here. Anthrocon announced they will be partnering up with a mobility scooter company to provide free powerchairs presumably for fat furs.
"My fursona is the proud, noble wolf, who uses cunning and strategy to hunt, just like I do when I roll into the candy aisle at Walmart on my rascal and the twinkies are on the lowest shelf and the doritos are on the top."
I think this will be by far the hardest statement I will have written for CaliFur. There is no real way to softening these situations out or stating them in a way that dismisses the amount of stress this last convention placed on a lot of the staff.
24 hours before the convention took place is when things started to boil over. The venue had been receiving massive amounts of calls by users making use of VOIP. It was a mix of PETA as well as unknown users posing as media, law enforcement and various sources. (We wouldn’t know that PETA was also making contact until we were on site for the convention as that information was not given to us at this point. ) Because of the high volume of calls, the type of people contacting, their word use and their use of VOIP to slam the venue with calls, law enforcement had been contacted.
We were swatted.
The venue saw the convention as a possible risk, and removed without authorization from the convention bank account 4,000 dollars on top of 4,600 that had already removed prior to this 24 hour period. The Chairwoman, noticing this unauthorized withdrawals and contacted the venue. She was given the following choice:
Either provide an additional 24,000 dollars AND cancel the panel that a majority of the calls were about… or the convention would be canceled due to safety concerns. (Law enforcement was going to be on site regardless if the convention happened or not since the level of threat and sheer volume of calls had concerned the venue. With us footing the bill.)
This was a very hard consideration. CaliFur is a convention that likes to embrace all types of furs. We try out various ideas that our attendees wish to see at the convention and that is exactly what the BDSM panels were: Experimental panels to see how this type of topic and conversation would be received.
That being said the safety and well being of the convention attendees, staff and the venue are the top priority over everything else. We did not want to see furs displaced because of a cancelled convention and knew that we could work with the venue to provide them with any information they needed to allow us to move forward in a safe manner.
We would have to cancel the panel and pay the money to prevent convention shut down due to safety concerns. (We ended up footing the bill for the extra law enforcement on site as well as the EMTS, something not included in the amounts listed above. We were happy to do this, if it meant that the venue felt more secure in us being there. In the end, they were unneeded but were good to have on site.)
So we did.
Looking back at how smoothly the convention went operations wise, we knew that our faith in having a good convention and working with law enforcement would pay off.
The reason we are writing this out is to help other conventions. What happened to us is not something that needs to happen to other fur cons at other venues. It’s important that we learn from things that happen to our community and try to prevent them in the future. Our concern is that smaller conventions might not have the funds to be able to fend off swatting like this. Which is why were are releasing this statement. We hope that this information helps our attendees better understand what took place and other conventions in preparing their venues for this type of behavior from unknowns.
I can think of absolutely zero reasons why PETA would be protesting a "BDSM Panel" focusing on adults who like to wear diapers. Feels more like Califur is trying to dance around the issue while not angering their new overlords over in the AltFurry Discord.
I can think of absolutely zero reasons why PETA would be protesting a "BDSM Panel" focusing on adults who like to wear diapers. Feels more like Califur is trying to dance around the issue while not angering their new overlords over in the AltFurry Discord.
That's why they hide in their big ass fursuits. A lot of these people are agoraphobic shut-ins that are hideous to look at, and they know it. :powerlevel:I know a furry who does full suits because its the only time she can "get out of her shell" (by putting on another one?) and be fun. She also hates cameras and photos unless she's in a fursuit.
So, there's been a resurgence of the Califur/AltFurry saga recently. Lots of furry drama to study and report on this week!
Califur's Woes and Dysfunction
Califur put out a statement which was already submitted (Original | Archive.is | Wayback). I found it very intriguing and worthy of derision for a few reasons.
1.) I have never heard of a hotel having access to a convention's bank account, let alone just wordlessly taking money out of it and then explaining themselves after the convention confronts them. Why would Califur have agreed to the hotel having control over THEIR bank account? This is a decisive piece of evidence that Califur is on par with RMFC in terms of incompetence and dysfunction. This also reminds me of that Las Pegasus brony con that failed epically.
2.) They seem to be conflating PETA and AltFurry (Califur called them "unknown", but I'm comfortable with accusing AltFurry and Casey Hoerth of this now), almost as if they're trying to diminish the role furries had in this debacle. PETA perhaps was making calls and even threats, but from what I've gathered there was a co-occurring event they were focused on. The babyfur/cub panel (which they yet again categorized as BDSM for whatever reason), PETA almost certainly wasn't even aware of.
3.) Califur asserts the con operations went smoothly and were done well. I doubt the truthfulness of this for
That's way too much effort for what amounts to a pile of geeks in a room buying overpriced bullshit.
Oh no, my favorite losers can't talk to us on a panel about cartoon animals! Let me find my best swastika for my avatar on twitter. That'll scare off those faggot snowflakes!
So, there's been a resurgence of the Califur/AltFurry saga recently. Lots of furry drama to study and report on this week!
Califur's Woes and Dysfunction
Califur put out a statement which was already submitted (Original | Archive.is | Wayback). I found it very intriguing and worthy of derision for a few reasons.
1.) I have never heard of a hotel having access to a convention's bank account, let alone just wordlessly taking money out of it and then explaining themselves after the convention confronts them. Why would Califur have agreed to the hotel having control over THEIR bank account? This is a decisive piece of evidence that Califur is on par with RMFC in terms of incompetence and dysfunction. This also reminds me of that Las Pegasus brony con that failed epically.
2.) They seem to be conflating PETA and AltFurry (Califur called them "unknown", but I'm comfortable with accusing AltFurry and Casey Hoerth of this now), almost as if they're trying to diminish the role furries had in this debacle. PETA perhaps was making calls and even threats, but from what I've gathered there was a co-occurring event they were focused on. The babyfur/cub panel (which they yet again categorized as BDSM for whatever reason), PETA almost certainly wasn't even aware of.
3.) Califur asserts the con operations went smoothly and were done well. I doubt the truthfulness of this for
You're an unapologetic pedophile who pisses in cat litter containers and looks like a meth addict. Why are you posting about boring furry twitter garbage when you are literally the most oddball thing on this whole thread?
You're an unapologetic pedophile who pisses in cat litter containers and looks like a meth addict. Why are you posting about boring furry twitter garbage when you are literally the most oddball thing on this whole thread?
On furry drama shit, he's a fireball of pure weaponised autism. I'm ambiguous about the guy's..uh..proclivities, but he knows the furry community pretty well.
I once had an internet
acquaintance, who's still a furry and had a tranny phase or still has. Let's just say they are a tumblr mess who jacks off to anthropomorphic animals.
