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Texas Furry Fiesta 2018 Anthrocon 2017: Take Me Out to the Ball Game Guest of Honor ..................................................................................................................................2 Swing Ratter Ratter by Beagle.in.red ...............................................................................................4 New Ball Game by Lynn Brooke .......................................................................................................8 Assumptions by Avin Telfer .............................................................................................................11 The Payoff Pitch by Kijani ...............................................................................................................14 Anthrocon 2017 Staff .......................................................................................................................19 Wovstah .......................................................... ................. 3 Paco Panda .....................................................4 The Gneech ..................................................... 7 Cyan Glaciertooth ...........................................8 Sabra Gaddis ...................................................9 Julian Bynoe ..................................................11 PinkiePosh .................................................... 12 GoldenTigerDragon .................................13, 17 Tigburrchubz ................................................ 14 Kurra Dragon ................................................ 15 LAURALIEN ............................................17, 27 DJKyota ........................................................20 AiluruCanis ...................................................22 Gorilla Jack ...................................................23 Natalie Eckman ................................24, 34, 36 Sketchy Mouse ..............................................25 Samhot-Lion .................................................26 Jolteonkitty ...................................................28 MidnightDraven ........................................... 31 Foxy ...............................................................33 Lightning Tiger .............................................36 Cover by Gamutfeathers. Layout by Sage Firefox. Page 1 Anthrocon 2017: Take Me Out to the Ball Game Charlie Adler A native of New York and Massachusetts, California based award-winning voice actor and voice director Charlie Adler boasts an amazing career spanning over four decades! Named one of the “Top 13 All Time Voice-Over Artists” by Animation Magazine and “Voice of the Decade” by Anima- tion World News, he has given voices to hundreds of different characters. He is known as the voice of Buster Bunny from Ste- ven Spielberg’s Tiny Toon Adventure, Mr. and Mrs. Bighead from Nickelodeon’s Rocko’s Modern Life, Chance “T-Bone” Furlong from Hanna-Barbera’s SWAT Kats and many more prolific animated characters from the 80s and 90s. Charlie also shares his skills through teaching acting for animation. Anthrocon is thrilled to welcome such a talented star player to our Guest of Honor team! FEBRUARY 9 - 11, 2018 • HYATT REGENCY DALLAS TEXAS FURRY FIESTA 2018 FURRYFIESTA.ORG @FurryFiesta TexasFurryFiesta FurryFiesta ~furryfiesta Page 2 Anthrocon 2017: Take Me Out to the Ball Game Page 3 Anthrocon 2017: Take Me Out to the Ball Game The dust on my cleats, ful of sand. two, so long as Cameron gets the roar of the stands—it’s ev- I survey the playing clear. And that all comes down erything that I had imagined field. Cameron’s on second to me. and more. From those warm base. The raccoon is hunched I take my spot in the summer nights listening to the over with his paws on his batter’s box. The catcher for car radio to our after-church knees, prepared to run. I meet Rosemont is a lion, twice my games in the overgrown sand- his anxious gaze and I wonder height even on his haunches. lot, everything came down to what he sees. The batter who His orange mane bursts out this very instant. Here I am, will take him one step closer from beneath his mask and I Lucas Reed, the first rodent to home? Or the team’s to- can almost hear the rumble of player to ever bat for the Pitts- ken mouse, destined to make his breath behind me. It’s just burgh Comets. Stepping into history by striking out in the the breeze, I tell myself. I tap the field, I hoist my bat over first inning? On first, Vang the my bat in the dirt and raise my shoulder, the weight of puma stands with his arms it to position. The mangy fox wood surpassed only by the crossed over his puffed chest. that’s pitching eyes me, then pressure of a hundred thou- I can only hope he has as much the lion. He nods. Vang and sand eyes bearing down upon confidence in me as I do in Cameron poise themselves to me. I take a deep, shuddering him. The cat’s one of our best run, but I put my focus on the breath. The enormity of this runners and I have no doubt pitcher. He throws. I swing. moment is well worth a lung- he’d be able to take a base or “Strike!” My father’s Page 4 Anthrocon 2017: Take Me Out to the Ball Game voice echoed through the yard by being on this field today, I made me look more of an id- with as much authority as an have made it for every mouse iot, like I was oblivious to the umpire on the field. that carries a bat to their af- fact that the pitch had flown I cast my bat down to terschool game. We can only straight into the glove of the the grass. “That’s not fair! I go higher from here. I flex my catcher. Disappointed hollers can’t reach that far.” jaw, chewing imaginary dip rose from the bleachers as I “It’s in the strike zone.” like they used to in old days. returned to the bench. I kept He shrugged, a gesture that I I’ve never been one for tobac- my helmet on because I knew interpreted as callous at the co, but the motion is part of the I might start crying, and time. “The big league doesn’t game—part of the culture that that would only make things care what species you are. If I grew up watching and fanta- worse. Our school won the it’s within the box, you gotta sizing about. As long as I’m in game, but the jeers lingered hit it.” the box, I’m living the dream. into dinner. “But I can’t!” My frus- The pitcher smirks at “Congratulations,” my tration peaked. “Mice can’t me with his uneven fangs. I father said. bat. They never do.” I grabbed narrow my eyes, challenging I looked up from my my cap and threw that down him to do his worst as I give it plate. “For what?” too. my best. Just you and me, bud- “You won the game.” “Lucas!” I flinched, dy. He draws his paw back and He raised his glass in a toast. cowering as my father came I can see the fur on his wrist Did we? Then why did towards me with wide strides. matte with tar. I could cry foul I feel so defeated. “They called He took my cap and slapped right about now, but I didn’t me a rat.” I blurted out. it over my ears, dust and all. fight my way out here to claim My parents stopped “Just because they never have victory by circumstance. If he chewing. My mother looked doesn’t mean they never will.” can get away with that, then I to my father who sighed. “So He lifted my bat, rubbing his feel like I can do anything. what? Mouse, rat, what’s the finger over its surface. “The “Swing, ratter, rat- difference?” only way we never will is if we ter, swing!” someone shouted “Rats are,” I hesitated, give up now. Are you going to from the stands. but spoke my mind anyways, give up, or are you going to “Aw, he didn’t even “garbage pickers.” make it?” try!” My father furrowed his I’ve already made it. A I stood petrified, bat brow and I felt him bat my strike? That’s nothing. Just at the ready, but that only ankle under the table with his Page 5 Anthrocon 2017: Take Me Out to the Ball Game Page 6 Anthrocon 2017: Take Me Out to the Ball Game tail. “And they persist. Even in the bat falls. My teammates head in acknowledgement. the toughest times, they don’t take off, and suddenly it’s a Cameron and Vang have both give up. We should be proud if race. I lose sight of the ball for advanced, and the bases are we have a little bit of rat blood a moment, but there’s move- loaded. The cheers of the audi- in us.” ment in the outfield. One of ence reach my ears. It may not I looked down, picking the fielders is turning towards have been a spectacular hit, a at the vegetables on my plate. first. I dive, slamming my mediocre play among many, “They didn’t mean it that paws down on the base a split but I imagine the strength of way.” second before I hear the slap of my father’s pride from out “Doesn’t matter what the ball in the baseman’s glove. there in the stands, and in that they mean,” my father said Safe. moment, I know I’ve hit home. through a mouthful of food. I look up timidly at the He kept his eyes on his plate baseman. The wolf looks una- as he talked. “What matters is mused, but then he dips his what you take from it. If they call you a pig, show them your smarts. If they call you a cow, show them your strength.” “And if they call me a mouse?” “Then you give it your all and show them what a mouse can do.” My fingers feel tight around the bat. I adjust my grip. Two strikes, but I can’t give up, not in front of the cameras, not in front of my family. The pitcher licks his lips, as though savoring an easy win. I have to swing this time. Whether I hit or strike out, there will be another in- ning, another game. But in this moment, all I have to do is swing. The crowd is louder than ever as the fox pitches. I lock my gaze on the ball. It flies wide, out of my reach, but I keep my bat steady. The ball curves in. Swing, ratter, ratter, swing! The impact nearly knocks the bat out of my grip, but I follow through. A satis- fying crack rings through my ears, and I start running, my paws hitting the ground before Page 7 Anthrocon 2017: Take Me Out to the Ball Game It was all over the news.
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