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    Furries Take Hollywood: The Year of Yiff

    Would You Have Sex With James Cameron's Blue Aliens?

    When the Alien Furries Dance In Spring

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    Image of ae86takumi ae86takumi
    10/09/09

    In reply to Furries Take Hollywood: The Year of Yiff
    For a moment I thought.. Star Fox: Movie???
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    Image of squidink squidink
    10/09/09

    In reply to Furries Take Hollywood: The Year of Yiff
    Wait 'till CAT SHIT ONE: APOCALYPSE MEOW comes out next year.
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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    10/09/09

    @squidink: ARGH i totally forgot about G Force aaah
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    Image of Demosthenes7898 Demosthenes7898
    10/09/09

    In reply to Furries Take Hollywood: The Year of Yiff
    I blame Disney.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/09/09

    In reply to Furries Take Hollywood: The Year of Yiff
    I love how everyone's worked up over the definition of a "furry". I don't care what you guys think, if it's got fur, it's subject to a furry costume. Good on you, people. Good on you.
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    Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
    10/09/09

    In reply to Furries Take Hollywood: The Year of Yiff
    Kill it with fire. :(
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    Meredith Woerner promoted this comment Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of Bruce Dykes Bruce Dykes
    10/09/09

    In reply to Furries Take Hollywood: The Year of Yiff
    Trigger Happy TV remains, for me, the best treatment of furries ever.

    Of course, I haven't seen Hank & Mike yet:
    [www.imdb.com]
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    Image of PetePovey PetePovey
    10/09/09

    In reply to Furries Take Hollywood: The Year of Yiff
    Anyone else thing starfox from the snes when they see that picture?
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    lightninglouie promoted this comment PetePovey was starred PetePovey was unstarred
    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    10/09/09

    @PetePovey: Yep. As always, poor Slippy didn't survive.
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    Image of acrobatic rabbit acrobatic rabbit
    10/09/09

    @PetePovey: yep, totally there.
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    Image of phoenix phoenix
    10/09/09

    @PetePovey: Do a barrel roll!
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    10/09/09

    @phoenix: Use bombs wisely!
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    Image of Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.
    10/08/09

    In reply to Furries Take Hollywood: The Year of Yiff
    Cheetara ruined me for these wannabes.
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    Image of Shadowdagger Shadowdagger
    10/09/09

    @Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.: Yeah - Cheetara is way cooler than those blue smurfs called Na'Vis
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    Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. promoted this comment Edited by Shadowdagger at 10/09/09 8:10 AM Shadowdagger was starred Shadowdagger was unstarred
    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    10/08/09

    In reply to Furries Take Hollywood: The Year of Yiff
    To be fair Where the "Wild Things Are" and "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" are based on classic children's books. Anthropomorphic animals have been staples of children's literature for hundreds...no thousands of years. Didn't you ever read Aesop's f'ing Fables? The aliens from Avatar aren't "furries" either. Furries are anthropomorphic animals. The Na'Vi or whatever Cameron called them are humanoid aliens who evolved as arboreal beings. Wolverine and Sabertooth aren't furries, either. They are human mutants who give in to their bestial natures when they fight. Most of us do. It's the fight or flight instinct.
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    10/08/09

    @Bill-Lee: I am really sorry that you were so offended by the lack of true furry-ness that you had to respond with that.

    Seriously. This is a post meant to be funny, not turn you on.
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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    10/08/09

    @Bill-Lee: well it's clearly a trend right now, which is why we are talking about it. We're having fun with it, you remember fun, right? Should we just not say anything cause it's always been there? And we addressed the Na'vi issue and the sabey issues in the post. I'm not really sure where this hate is coming from. We furries are all about the love.
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    Image of Strakus Strakus
    10/08/09

    @Bill-Lee: Easy tiger. I'll give you Aesop and the Wild Things, but the Cameron SpaceCatElves? Come now. And much as I love Liev, Sabertooth was the biggest chunk of furry Ho Yay I've seen in a bit.
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    Image of bookwench bookwench
    10/08/09

    @Strakus: Oh, my, until you said it I didn't think it, but now I can't get it out of my head. That's not cool, man, not cool. Now I'm wondering how much Sabertooth/Wolverine Ho Yaoi fanfic there is out there...
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    Image of veeerules veeerules
    10/09/09

    @Bill-Lee: Are you our resident crotchety old guy or what?
    That makes me a sad panda...
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment veeerules was starred veeerules was unstarred
    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    10/09/09

    @veeerules: Yes, I am the resident crotchety old guy. Go to Wikipedia and look up Bill Lee.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    10/09/09

    @Meredith Woerner: So when someone disagrees with you, Ms. Woerner that's automatically "hate"? You're claiming things for this list that shouldn't be on the list because they don't fit the definition. You're stretching the definition of furry in the same way SyFy Channel stretches the definition of science fiction. Aliens are not furries. Mutants are not furries. That's like claiming Spock is an elf because both elves and Vulcans are depicted with pointy ears. Is Pan a furry too? He is an anthropomorphic animal.
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    Image of Torley Torley
    10/08/09

    In reply to Furries Take Hollywood: The Year of Yiff
    What's the opposite of "furry"?

    I almost thought the teaser image was for a forthcoming StarFox movie.
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    Image of Qev Qev
    10/08/09

    @Torley: Smoothy? We once joked about furries dressing up in pink latex costumes and going to "Smoothy-cons". :D
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment Qev was starred Qev was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    10/08/09

    @Torley: "Shavey"?
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    Image of The Ultimate Tea Cup The Ultimate Tea Cup
    10/08/09

    @Qev:
    XKCD did a strip along similar lines:
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    Image of bookwench bookwench
    10/08/09

    @The Ultimate Tea Cup: I'd think the fetish for body paint or latex would qualify.
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    Image of J_Frank_Parnell J_Frank_Parnell
    10/09/09

    @Torley: This.
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    Image of kasviel kasviel
    10/08/09

    In reply to Furries Take Hollywood: The Year of Yiff
    Ugh, I hate the idea of furries. Stop it, io9. Bad enough I have to stomach furry porn when I search any kind of fan art, but now it goes mainstream? I'm sorry, but the whole furry genre is just disgusting, period.And Avatar's stupid creatures count. They look like anorexic versions of X-Men's Beast.
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    Image of Qev Qev
    10/08/09

    @kasviel: We're also out to convert your children!
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    Meredith Woerner promoted this comment Qev was starred Qev was unstarred
    Image of Watts Martin Watts Martin
    10/09/09

    @kasviel: Get over it. Furry-bashing was hip a few years ago, until people realized that maybe Something Awful's obsession with finding people to mock said more about how sad SA was than how sad furries were.

    Seriously, the idea that stories with anthropomorphic animal people in them are automatically trashy and terrible is kinda like, well, the idea that stories with rockets and space aliens are automatically trashy and terrible. A lot of people still believe that, but it always wryly amuses me to see sci-fi fans trot that out with no apparent sense of irony.

    And yes, I'll note for the record that I'm a furry -- in fact, I was a guest of honor at Eurofurence 2008. As shocking as you may find this, I'm not interested in "Avatar" because it's got sexy blue cat people in it, but because it's a James Friggin' Cameron movie. That it's a James Friggin' Cameron movie that does have sexy blue cat people is a good thing -- but put them in a Michael Bay movie, not so much interest.
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    10/08/09

    In reply to Furries Take Hollywood: The Year of Yiff
    This may be one of the most disturbing posts I've ever read on io9.

    But I did read it.
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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    10/08/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: WHAT no way. Shenanigans on that.
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    Image of bookwench bookwench
    10/08/09

    @Meredith Woerner: I agree, the post of the fish parasite was way, WAY more disturbing. And now I've remembered it.... *shuddeR*
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    Image of Soupytwist Soupytwist
    10/09/09

    @bookwench: Totally. If that post wasn't tagged "Burn It With Fire" then nothing deserves to be.
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    10/08/09

    In reply to Furries Take Hollywood: The Year of Yiff
    Wake me up when they do a movie of Omaha The Cat Dancer.
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    Image of Evdor Evdor
    10/08/09

    In reply to Furries Take Hollywood: The Year of Yiff
    My faith in humanity!

    You RUINED IT!
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    Image of Mischif Mischif
    10/08/09

    @Evdor: Really? They've been around for a while, and your faith in humanity is being ruined now? Welcome to the internet.
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    Image of RomanNation RomanNation
    10/08/09

    In reply to Furries Take Hollywood: The Year of Yiff
    i can't wait to see fantastic mr.fox!
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    Meredith Woerner promoted this comment RomanNation was starred RomanNation was unstarred
    Image of Jdelgadillo23 Jdelgadillo23
    10/08/09

    @RomanNation: That's what that image is from? awesome!! Hopefully this will be a good adaptation
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment Jdelgadillo23 was starred Jdelgadillo23 was unstarred
    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    10/08/09

    @Jdelgadillo23: Everything I've seen of it looks good, and the voice talent is big-time, so yeah.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    10/09/09

    @RomanNation: I saw the preview for the first time before 9 and laughed my head off. I love Roald Dahl's work and this looks like a promising adaption. I'm very excited. Plus it comes out around Christmas time and I love seeing kids movies at Christmas (getting old sucks).
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    Image of gus gus
    10/09/09

    @RomanNation: Are you kidding? The animation is painful to look at. Especially when the trailers are run alongside the Wild Things movie trailers. My take on the flick is it's *only* going to appeal to furries, who will love the suave fox as a main character. Everyone else expects seamless special effects by now, and won't put up with it. I'm genuinely baffled that someone greenlit a movie with bad-B-movie-quality stop-motion in this day and age. Aardman's one thing -- they have a distinct look and an animation quality which stands up to anything else -- but this looks like someone's junior-high film class experiment with thrift-store taxidermy finds.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    10/09/09

    @gus: Umm . . . you do know it's based on a kids book, right?
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