#AWU

[chocodile]

✨The Last Unicorn✨

Brand new print premiering at Furlandia 2024! Will also be at AWU 2024 and maybe Denfur 2024 if I get a table. :)

[nattikay]

AWU was awesome as always this year!! Big thanks to everyone who got pics of me and kindly sent them my way so I could steal them lol. I got the cute cookie prop in the dealer’s den, FenneCraft was the maker iirc.

Wholesome fursuit story under cut!

So I was out suiting one morning (and for context I should probably add that I’m a performative suiter heavily inspired by Telephone; I try not to talk while in suit and just stick to my silly owlcat noises, and try to interact with people who show interest), and there was this little kid walking around in a suit she’d presumably made herself (the little ice-blue husky in front of the big group photos there). Her mom asked to get a picture with me and the kid, I nodded, she took the picture, and I waved and we parted ways…so far, a pretty normal con interaction.

Maybe half an hour later I run into them again, and this time the kid comes up to me with this little blue cat plushie that I assume she got in the dealer’s den. She tells me, “I got this plushie because it looks like you and I love your costume” 😭😭😭 MY HEART!! It was for sure the sweetest thing anyone’s ever said to me in suit and made my day. Little husky and her mom, if you’re out there, I hope you had a great con experience, keep being awesome! 😸

[peekychu]

My first ever fursuit parade!!!!!!! I had so much fun, this made me so happy 🥺🌈🐾

Watch the full video!!

[happyfoxx-art]

Anyone here happen to be going? :O See yall soon :D

[drrav3nb]

Tonight, don't come in!

[timepiececats]

Excitement! 🐱🙀 Dress Toasty is excited for AWU today! We can hardly wait 😊😎✨

[kassylin]

I'm still here.

The way he was: you're mine princess now, you're not allowed to be weak. And the second later: come to daddy, sweet baby, all is in the past *screams* Engulfing her in the safest gentlest bear hug. It's not even a hug. He's just cradling her like a child.

T__________________T

[hornkneebee]

Just learnt the sad news that not only does Awu / Ling Yang has been defurrified, but I also saw an old Mortefi's design that he used to have a tail 😔

Why must the world be so cruel?

[sh4rkh4ts-art]

Hooray for AWU time :)

[kandi-is-here]

AWU 2024!!!!! This was AWU This past summer. SUPER FUN!!! Those are my two besties bee tee dubs!!!

[raimentei]

i hate art and i hate drawing but i love creating more awu ^w^

i hope his dynamic with jiyan is fond and this little guy has a big sense of protection over those he cares about ;u;

[chocodile]

Gonna place another order for SHIRTS this week! If there's an out of stock shirt you've had your eye on, now's your chance to grab it! See the first reblog for my Storenvy link.

In addition to orders available through Storenvy, these were available at Furlandia 2024 earlier this summer and will be available and Anthro Weekend Utah 2024 Dealer's Dens! But at-con stock is always a little limited so there's no guarantee I'll have your size.

[zaneclodon]

i recorded the 2024 awu fursuit parade, check it out!

[peekychu]

See you soon at Anthro Weekend Utah!!! 🌈

[dailyanarchistposts]

Crimean Tatars today are the only politically organized community capable of opposing Russian dictatorship in the Crimean peninsula.

For the past two years the pro-Russian government, established in Crimea by military means, has established feudal-like governance and police state, restricting the people’s political rights, suppressing any dissent, and demanding unconditional loyalty from every group of the civil society.

Consequently, the political life in Crimea has been shifting towards a deeply reactionary dictatorship. Independent politics, social and human rights activism, and even basic cultural and entertainment activities have become impossible for Crimean people without the approval of the authorities. Since the first few months of Russian domination in Crimea, a massive stream of refugees to mainland Ukraine has established, composed of those who had been assaulted by pro-Russian collaborators, persecuted by secret services or simply driven away by the new political climate.

One of the targets for repressions are the indigenous people of Crimea are Crimean Tatars. They have organized a strong community after their repatriation from Central Asia, to which they were forcibly deported by Stalin’s regime in 1944. As the new Russian government failed to secure the loyalty of almost 300,000-strong people (which has not regained its rights in the historic homeland) it employed the means of terror. The political leaders of Crimean Tatars, as well as activists and their families, are repressed; the people that blemish the picture of civil uniformity are discriminated against on religious and ethnic grounds.

In the last two years regular police searches, detentions, abductions, tortures, cultural and religious restrictions have become commonplace for the Crimean Tatars. Their national representative institution — the Mejlis of Crimean Tatars did not bow in loyalty before the occupation authorities; for that the organization was officially designated as “extremist” and banned in the entire Russian Federation. Members of the Mejlis in Crimea are falsely accused of many crimes; the accusations ranging from staging mass riots to starting a war on behalf of ISIS. It should be said that every protest organized by the Crimean Tatars is exceptionally non-violent and there haven’t been an aggressive statement in their public discourse.

Apparently, the Russian regime is trying to designate Crimean Tatars, the indigenous people who disagree with the occupation of Crimea, a scarecrow, a public enemy. Extremism, terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism and collaboration with Nazis during the German occupation — these are the labels, put on Crimean Tatars in order to imprint racist prejudices upon the loyalist part of the Crimean society and extinguish any sympathy for the oppressed. That is why Crimean Tatars deserve the widest international support more than anyone in the Russian-occupied Crimea.

As anarchists, we do not cherish any false hopes for honesty or decency of the Crimean Tatar’s political representatives. We can hardly believe that members of the Ukrainian Parliament, government officials or President’s advisers can truly be honest and accountable spokespeople of their voters’ interests, just as it is the case with any other elected official in any other system based on representative democracy. At the same time, we have no moral right to sit on the fence, ignoring the discrimination against Crimean Tatars, or to criticize their political organization in the circumstances of state terror directed against them.

We urge anarchists all over the world to express solidarity and support indigenous people of Crimea, which does not cease to resist the Russian dictatorship despite the restrictions, arrests, violence, and intimidation. We cannot foresee the political fate of Crimea, but in any case Crimean Tatars should be free from discrimination and repressions, their national representation (no matter how far removed from the anarchist ideals they might be) should not be a subject of a government ban.

Down with the dictatorship of Russia! Freedom for indigenous peoples of Crimea! Freedom for the Crimean Tatars!

Autonomous Workers’ Union – Kiev January 19th anarchist committee

[drrav3nb]

It's all in the past now. Everything is in the past now. You will have to face what you must eventually. You cannot always hide under the wings of your family.