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April 2026

Fur the 'More returned home to Baltimore, Maryland for 2026

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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.

Newsbytes archive for March 2026

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

Winners of the 2025 Ursa Major Awards

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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!

Digging Up Positivity March 2026

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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!

A Trip To Nintendo Land: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) Review

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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.
 

Chat of Dignified Respect or Unapologitic Cringe? Depends on your furry streamer

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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.

Can You Take My Picture?

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Furries gathered at the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., for a group photo. In the past, small furry friend groups would see the cherry blossoms bloom in the spring. How did it become so large? (Photo by Hypercat, via Furtrack)

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?