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Cordwainer Smith: as everyone knows, there's nothing hotter than a woman who has both cat ears and a cat tail
Junji Ito: nyah! =^____^=
Frank Belknap Long: i can think of something hotter
Smith: oh?
Long: have you ever considered Long: going further?
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Smith: going further?
Smith: like how so?
Long: ok so say you've got your cat girl here
Smith: her name is c'mell
Long: right ok now say you gave her more cat-like attributes
Long: like make her boobs a lot bigger first
Edward Lee: yeah do that
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Long: ok give her fur all over her body
Long: and give her a muzzle
Long: and voila!
Barker: congrats, man
Barker: you invented furries
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Smith: wow! that's pretty cool!
Smith: there's just one problem
Long: what's that
Smith: i just wish there was a place where i could maybe dress up like an anthropomorphic cat and congregate with like-minded aficionados of anthropomorphic cats
Long: i have some good news for you, cordwainer
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Long: i have good news everyone
Long: cordwainer and i are going to be sharing a table at anthrocon this year
Barker:
Poe:
Koontz:
King:
Lovecraft:
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Long: i've got my finger on the pulse of the furry marketplace
Long: i know exactly what kind of merchandise today's modern furry wants!
Poe: what do they want
Long: glossy print-outs of red shetland in a chainmail bikini
Barker: HA HA HA
Barker: haha hope you didn't put a deposit on that table
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Barker: look frank, i like you so i'm gonna tell you
Barker: you're behind the times
Barker: you don't know shit about what furries are into now
Long: how would you know, clive? you're just a hyooman!
Long: a filthy mundane!
Long: a muggle!
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Barker: oh frank frank frank
Barker: my sweet summer child
Barker: do you think there exists any kink with which i am not intimately familiar?
Long: it's not a kink! it's a lifestyle!
Barker: not the way i do it
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Long: actually i have a secret weapon that will be sure to make money at the furry con!
Long: see, i have a secret binder full of adult prints under the table that you have to ask to see
Barker: and what's in this binder
Long: mostly red shetland with little stickers over her nipples
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Barker: look, man, i don't know how to tell you this
Barker: it ain't 2006 anymore
Bitter Karella: what
Barker: the world has changed
Barker: furries don't need to buy glossy prints of red shetland anymore
Long: what about sabrina skunk?
Barker: well ok that's fair, that never goes out of style
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Barker: what furries really want
Barker: is balaclavas with shark mouths on them
Poe: oh yeah they do like those
Barker: and also T-shirts with funny puns about doing HRT
Barker: in fact is there any way you could just sell HRT at your table?
Barker: you'd make bank
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Barker: the days of the 3 wolf moon shirt guy are over
Barker: now all the furries are trans punk goth zoomers
Barker: it's a whole new grid
Poe: you sure know a lot about furries, clive
Barker: i make it my business to know things
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Steve Boyett: ugh! i can't believe all the SKUNK FUCKING happening here
Boyett: yiff in hell
Barker: haha oh steve
Barker: it's 2026
Barker: everyone's furry
Barker: you lost
Boyett: what? no!
Barker: everyone's a raccoon now
Boyett: no! NO!
Junji Ito: =^__________________________^=
Boyett: NOOOOO!!
@bitterkarella I bet Jim Groat was so disappointed that the 2025 Red Sonja reboot flopped so there wasn't any chance of a Red Shetland Renaissance
@earthshaking @bitterkarella
If only he could have handed her off to someone else.
@bitterkarella Lovely, though I'm thinking Jack Chalker should be in here somehow (Cherryh is too cool to hang with these boys)
@bitterkarella TOO REAL
I read Norstrillia In 1982 and it gave me fEeLiNGs