It is now March of 2026, and a story over two decades old has now been given new life and a new perspective when it comes to the behavior of media organizations in the early 2000s. At this time furries faced a hostile media landscape which included many infamous titles, such as “that one episode of CSI” by the name of Fur and Loathing.

This story is in regards to another of these publications, which was an article published by Vanity Fair by the name of “Pleasures of the Fur” this article went into very adult aspects of the fandom in a particularly sensationalist way that many furries of the time felt was inappropriate. The article was released in March of 2001 by George Gurley. It is a very raw, gonzo style piece that talks with furries and locals around Midwest Furfest in the year 2000, back when as the article mentioned, only 400 were in attendance.

Two years following this article, another piece would be released by Vanity Fair that was far more reserved in its approach. In fact the article didn't make the cover unlike our own. This hushed article of praise would end up changing the trajectory of an entire country toward one of its darkest chapters. This article covered the billionaire by the name of Jeffery Epstein. Recently it has come to light that the original author for that piece had their story reshaped and partially redacted when she found a thread of abuse perpetrated by the billionaire. Now in 2026, these are allegations that we are all too familiar with in the modern day after Jeffery’s conviction and death in prison.

Like other things around this story, reader discretion is advised as this covers topics such as abuse.

Sometimes it really is best to just let the publisher describe something for us… “A John Doe slaying lures a journalist into a world of political intrigue, a wi-fi-enabled grotto, and a station locker full of secrets. For Bucky, an editor of the crime beat at “The Truth,” it’s all in a day’s work… but he also happens to be a deer. Will he chase down his last story in this antler noir series?” No way we can top that, honestly. Deer Editor is written by Ryan K. Lindsay, with art by Sami Kivela and Lauren Affe. It’s also available now from Mad Cave.

image c. 2024 Mad Cave

How do you review a movie?

Let’s take, as an example, the movie Migration. The purpose of a review is to give the reader an idea of what the movie is like, and whether or not they might want to spend the time and money to watch it. The basic facts of the movie should be listed; so, in this example, Migration is a computer animated movie from Illumination (The Secret Life of Pets, Sing), directed by Benjamin Renner (Ernest & Celestine, The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales). I included examples of the creator's previous work that might give my audience some idea of what to expect. However, this can easily be found on free sources like IMDB or Wikipedia, and a review is not just a recitation of facts.

A brief plot synopsis is usually a good idea. In Migration’s case, the story is about a family of ducks (Kumail Nanjiani as father Mack, Elizabeth Banks as mother Pam, Caspar Jennings as son Dax, Tresi Gazal as daughter Gwen and Danny Devito as uncle Dan) who decide to migrate from their tiny pond to Jamaica. It plays like a road trip comedy, but with ducks. Along the way, they have adventures with a decrepit heron (voiced by Carol Kane) and her mute husband, a one-legged pigeon (voiced by Awkwafina), a caged parrot (voiced by Keegan-Michael Key) and a cult-like group of farm ducks, while being chased by a chef who specializes in duck à l'orange.

Once we have details of what Migration the movie is, we can move on to the reviewer's opinion.

Furry information security blogger Soatek was banned from Twitter on Thursday, December 15th after posting on his account how easy it was to circumvent post restrictions that the platform had silently implemented to block links to the Mastodon version of ElonJet. In a blog post written by the security blogger, he demonstrates the differences in response from Twitter to public sharing of site flaws before Elon Musk had taken over in October versus now.

Yesterday, Flayrah published the first article tagged as opinion where the topic's relation to the furry fandom was particularly light. Many might even say non-existent. It was a topic of personal interest to the author, who happens to be the main editor at this site.

In the past, when other furry sites made major decisions or policy changes, Flayrah would report on them, and people would give their opinions. In this tradition, I feel it necessary to examine these articles and why they could have been so poorly received, and consider Flayrah's future.