Attendees at opening ceremonies for Furgeddaboutit in its second year, whose theme was centered around the 1980s. (Eberra Wolf/Flayrah)

Co-reported with Kamen The Lycanroc

In the last weekend of April, Furgeddaboutit’s second year hosted over a thousand attendees and raised $11,828.31 for charity. For the New Jersey convention, this year’s theme was “Don’t You FURGeddabout Me: All About the 80s!”. From Friday to Sunday, songs from the decade emanated from the ballroom, a few furs dressed in their best 80s fashion, and several took photos with small sets in the hallway, themed on the decade.

Furgeddaboutit was originally established to spite another furry convention, Garden State Fur The Weekend, or GSFTW, for its unscrupulous ties with an infamous furry group that was responsible for ending Rocky Mountain Fur Con in 2017. In turn Furgeddaboutit drew prospective attendees away from it by overlapping on the same days. GSFTW suffered a large blow from what became a drain of defectors, and as of writing is seemingly defunct. There has been no official talk of a 2026 convention for Garden State beside what appears to be in the last public communication, on Twitter in mid-June of last year, fielding suggestions on a theme. GSFTW did not respond to a request for comment.

It's been about a decade since Nintendo released its last remake of Star Fox, originally a space shooter featuring furry characters for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System back in 1993, so Nintendo is finally moving forward with another version, to be released next month, June 25.

Contributors this month include dronon, earthfurst, EberraWolf, and Rakuen Growlithe.

Yay! Time for another episode of digging up positivity! April sure has been a big month for the furry fandom, and we have some lovely animation news as well. Plus an interview with a really awesome furry from Wales, who often does amazing things for not just the local community but for charity as well! But first, the charities!

Right when the first cherry blossoms were beginning to bloom, just over 300 furries came down to Washington, D.C., last month. Touring the Tidal Basin and the National Mall, they walked around to take in the majestic sight of bright pink cherry petals. While 13 days too soon from what is deemed “peak bloom”, some other trees were budding or blooming entirely.

Furs from all over came as part of an evolved and growing field trip in the fandom to visit the annual spectacle on March 14th. Furs local to D.C., including in the neighboring states of Maryland and Virginia—known locally as the DMV—came, of course, but so did people from further afar. It’s been for decades a trip that furries’ friend groups would go down to the Tidal Basin, I’m told, to take in the sight of hundreds of thousands of beautiful petals in fursuit. These excursions were previously ad-hoc, small, private outings amongst friends for years by different groups of people. How did it become so large and organized?

Many furries had left the platform formerly known as Twitter, and I myself had moved onto bluer skies. While not as active as I once was, I have hung around to keep an eye on things. Streamers typically use it as a simple content regurgitator, but it’s mostly very simple content. It’s rare that any content stirs conversation these days, probably bebcause the bot army with the blue checkmarks will come around and "um, actually" followed by a talking point for the site's owner. But sometimes the steamer stars align to create an unintentional talking point.

One day apart the stream recap clips of Gebbous and Wolfffff posted content when they were discussing with chat their expectations for decorum, which ended up in such a way on my timeline where these two people were almost having a debate they didn’t even know they were involved in. However, in the more active internet where fans engage with the creators in real time it shows how diverse the expectations are even within the furry fandom when it comes from the behaviors of those beyond the fourth wall.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is Illumination's latest release from their vast catalog of animated filmography. The film is the inevitable sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie from 2023, which was one of the most successful films of that year. While there are improvements from that original film, the film still does possess major flaws that the original has that are made even more apparent in this sequel.
 
While the animation quality is not a huge step up from the first film, the dynamic camera work is very exciting and made action scenes a lot more engaging than in the first film. In regard to character design, the characters transitioned from their video game iterations to cinema very well.
 
One of the major criticisms that the first film received was the lack of original compositions in the soundtrack in favor of licensed music. This film contains a lot more compositions from the Super Mario franchise in its soundtrack that helps elevate this film above the standard Illumination film.
 

Yay! Time for another episode of digging up positivity! The first quarter of this year is almost over, and furries around the world are supporting charities to make this world a little bit better. Besides that, we have furries in Spain Got Talent, some animation news, but first— the charities!

The winners of the 2025 Ursa Major Awards are in! The announcements were made at Las Vegas Fur Con on Friday April 3, 2026.

The Streamer category is a new addition, and for 2025 a temporary Classic Anthro Videogame was created to acknowledge games made before 2001, before the Ursas existed.

Winners below the cut!

Contributors this month include 2cross2affliction, dronon, and EberraWolf.

Fur the ‘More 2026: Homecoming drew furs from the Mid-Atlantic back to its birthplace of Baltimore, Maryland, last weekend. Overlapping with Texas Furry Fiesta, the convention was held from March 27 to 29 for a short, three-day convention. 1,917—nearly two thousand people—showed up, according to the convention.

Founded in 2012 with its inaugural event in taking place in 2013, Fur the ‘More began in the Hunt Valley suburb of Baltimore, and moved to venues in northern Virginia from 2015 to 2025. (A virtual convention was held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, like nearly every furry convention that year.) "As attendance grew, the convention quickly became too large for its original hotel, while still being too new to attract bids from other Baltimore-area venues," Kitra told Flayrah in an email.

This is an incomplete list of titles that will be removed from Netflix during March 2026 (with a handful in early April), mostly in Canada and/or in the United States. Unless otherwise noted, end dates are based on the Netflix Canada service.

(Started putting this list together around March 12, so it mostly skips any content that was removed before that day. It was slow work; some USA exit dates are elusive to verify. My writing was hampered by a respiratory infection. I'm now non-infectious, but am still healing).

The most notable losses (in my opinion) are Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) and African Folktales Reimagined; details below. Also, I want to mention two things being removed after March:

April 5:

• Sirius the Jaeger (12 episodes; anime): vampire hunters including a "werewolf". NOT a traditional werewolf; small amount of body transformation plus glowing eyes.

June 25:

• Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (seasons 1-3): with varies species of interest to furries. (Included this ahead of time, to increase the chances that before June, Flayrah readers have time to watch all 30 episodes.)

Because She-Ra and the Princesses of Power series (AWESOME show) was removed from Netflix, I was concerned that The Dragon Prince series would also be removed. I've now watched the entire series and recommend it. A sequel series, The Dragon King, has been funded by a Kickstarter that was "fully funded in under 5 hours" (source: Kickstarter), and raised more than a MILLION dollars ($1,098,489) from fans in 29 days. Because the sequel was not funded by Netflix, it seems unclear where it become available.

Pixar's track record with animated anthropomorphic animals is kind of odd. Early on, it seemed to avoid the concept, or almost consciously steer towards animal characters not normally featured in animated movies. Its first two movies to fully feature animal characters were the insect-featuring A Bug's Life and the fish-focused Finding Nemo, the two types of animals the recent fully furry world sequel Zootopia 2 went out of its way to show were "okay to eat". The only other animal stars from the first decade of the twenty-first century from Pixar were the rats from Ratatouille, also an odd choice for an animal star. The goal seemed to be, if they were going to do something as "conventional" as a talking animal picture, they'd at least go for an "un-conventional" animal to do the talking.

More recently, however, Pixar has seemingly preferred variations on human-to-animal transformation. Brave, with magical human to bear transformations, was an early example, though the trend didn't really start until this decade, with Soul featuring a man stuck in a cat's body for most of the back half of the movie, Turning Red basically a straightforward furry transformation fantasy, and now Hoppers, which takes a more "science fiction" approach to the human intelligence in an animal's body. Directed by Daniel Chong, it tells the story of nature-lover Mabel (voiced by Piper Curda), who hijacks a local university's science project involving transferring human minds into animal robots in order to stop a highway project, becoming a beaver in disguise. I'm not entirely sure why Pixar has suddenly gotten really into "tf me into a ..." type stories, but it is a trend I've noticed.

(I also don't get how trendy beavers have gotten all the sudden. Is it dirty, or what?)

Dog Man (trailer) is an 89-minute 3D action-comedy animated film released by DreamWorks in 2025. It was written and directed by Peter Hastings, based on the Dog Man series of children's graphic novels by Dav Pilkey, which are a spin-off from his Captain Underpants books. And because this film is up for a 2025 Ursa Major Award, this seemed like a good opportunity to watch and review it, while the voting period is still open!

Dog Man is an anthro-dog cop, created in a hospital emergency room after an accident critically injures a human cop and his pet dog, saving their lives by fusing them together. Don't think about it too much. He has no tail and communicates entirely by canine sounds. His arch-enemy is an anthro-cat criminal named Petey, who's very fond of creating diabolical machines. The whole thing is happily silly, and remarkably, the trailer doesn't spoil anything!

(Though it does lie. Dog Man can, in fact, play the piano quite well.)

Welcome to another episode of Digging Up Positivity! The year is well on its way and boy was it packed! During SloFluffCon, I interviewed Uncle Kage, and we had Nordic FuzzCon, where I will give you a sneak peak behind the curtains of the circus together with the leader of the charity! This and more, but first, the charities!