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Interview With Shadow Conner

Recently I sat down with a local Californian, 21 year old web comic creator, artist, and author named Zachary Scott White. To many, he is known as Connor Lupindo Hemming, or more simply Shadow Connor. His fursona is a folux – a mixture of folf (fox and wolf) and crux (an imaginary genderless mixture of rabbit, dragon, and wolf – created for Second Life). This man’s claims to fame are being banned repeatedly from FurAffinity and being, “a fur, but not a furry.”

 Rainstar: It says on your Wikifur page that you are listed as a Writer/Musician?

 Conner: Yes, I used to write short stories a while back, although I’ve been having brain farts lately and I haven’t been able to get many ideas. My Sheezyart has a few of the stories on it. I usually write fan fictions about Connor, like a favorite game or movie scenario and I will add him in there.

 What kind of genres do you write?

 Mainly Kingdom Hearts themes, typically suspense and comedy mixed together.

 Mixed? How so?

 Well since Connor is kind of a coward and a klutz, it makes it pretty funny. Slapstick is more like it. [Laughs] The suspense comes in when he faces off against the antagonist, his grandfather Kane Smith. Usually I use the same antagonist for most of the stories. Lots of battles ensue, both physical and metaphorical in some senses. The only physical battle that has ever occurred ended up with the death of Connor. Did I mention he has phoenix abilities and is over 3000 years old? [Laughs]

 You seem to have this whole plot figured out. Have you ever considered writing a novel?

 Yes, but you see I get impatient far too fast. Most of my chapters end in cliffhangers; thus they are usually only two or three pages long.

 I see. Now, tell me about your web comic, “Sanity Not Included.”

 It is a comic series that I created with a good friend of mine, Kyo Panda. She was a very good artist; I supplied the funny picture ideas for her to draw. As of now, there is no real plot line to the comic other than the main characters are living together and random shenanigans occur. The comic isn’t supposed to be 100% comedy, mind you. It will get serious at some points, while at other times getting to the plain ol’ what the f*** moments. [Laughs] The comic is an ongoing project. In addition to Kyo, my mate is also an artist.

 I noticed on your Wikifur page that it said you were banned from FurAffinity several, if not a dozen times. Care to explain what happened?

 Well, back when I was using Second Life, I was living with a girl named Luna. I went on vacation for a few days and when I came back to Second Life, I found c*** waffles all over my house. Back then, I wasn’t Pan-Sexual. I was straight and it really ticked me off. So, basically I said things like, “Why would you do this? It wasn’t f***ing funny you f***ing b****.” And so on and so forth. Eventually I moved out of her house on Second Life and ignored her. Shortly thereafter, she started to harass me and troll me on FA. I ignored her for a couple months, reporting her every so often. Clearly, however, Dragoneer was ignoring it and I decided to fight back. Apparently that is against the rules of FurAffinity and I was banned. I was confused as to why I had been banned, so I created another account to talk to Dragoneer. He banned that account too and, well it continued until after roughly 10 accounts were banned and I gave up. Some people began creating accounts and posing as me, getting me into more trouble. Dragoneer said that I would be allowed to return to FurAffinity after two years or so, but I’m not sure if it’s really worth it.

 Bad luck there, I’m sure. Now, I noticed that someone mentioned to me that you consider yourself a fur, but not a furry. Care to explain?

 A friend of mine started a journal on DA. We basically discussed how we believe the term; “Furry” refers to generally a person who is the main reason behind the media frenzy. I.E. the porn addicts, the artwork thieves, the fursuit sex addicts, immature 13-16 year old kids, and/or the reclusive homosexual males living in their mothers basements. On the other hand, the term “Fur” refers to the intelligent side of the fandom that actually has fun and actively participates in the betterment of the fandom. As it says on the journal, “Furs are the icing on the cake whilst furries are the burnt part on the bottom.”

 I see. Well do you believe that is true of the entire fandom?

 From what I’ve been seeing lately, yes. The My Little Pony spamgasm is clear evidence of the rising immaturity levels.

 What would you say is the ratio of “Furries” to “Furs?”

 I would have to say, at least in my opinion, 30:1. It used to be 10:1 but it has dramatically increased in modern times. Shows like Tosh.O and 1000 Ways to Die have made things so much more difficult for us. People are starting to notice the fandom, sometimes in positive ways – mostly in negative though. All of the attention, however, is drawing in a massive amount of younger children who are, in a sense, infecting the fandom with their immaturity. It isn’t there fault necessarily, but still it is quite annoying for those of us who take this seriously and try to make the most of it.

You mean the “Furs” like you and me?

 [Laughs] Exactly.

You can find Shadow Conner on Deviantart. You can also find his web comic Sanity Not Included.

—Editor’s Note: The views expressed in this interview do not directly reflect the views of the Furry News Network or any of its affiliates.

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Rainstar is a fun-loving cheetah from the East coast of the United States. He has been a furry for nearly 4 years and has no intentions of ever stopping. His primary focuses are in theatre and the fine arts. Rainstar's articles generally revolve around book reviews, news about animals, and happenings in the fandom. He is currently working as an admin on FNN. If you have any questions of concerns, please contact him at: E-Mail Hidden

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39 comments on “Interview With Shadow Conner”

  1. Anonymous on said:

    LOL I’m 20, not 21 Rain lol

  2. Fayroe on said:

    Personally, I see it as kind of immature in itself to try to
    branch off of furry and create a sub-elite group in the mass of the larger
    one.  To call oneself a “Fur” seems a bit pompous and arrogant
    in my eyes when you look down on other furries, or put on a charade that you
    are better than others.  I don’t really see younger individuals bringing
    immaturity to the fandom, for the reason that anyone of age 15-18 usually are
    immature, however they find growth through the community of furries. 
    Point being, you can’t look down at the youth and say “Well that’s the
    problem”. 

    In my opinion, there isn’t enough media ON FURRIES, which causes the
    stereotypes, of the classic Fur and Loathing, or 1000 Ways to Die.  When
    you create something secretive, then say “Oh no no, don’t film we’re
    afraid of the media.”  The media is just going to go off what’s
    already out there.  Again, the summery of what I’m saying, if there was
    more positive media on furries, then single bad entry wouldn’t seem as bad. 

    Lastly, in my eyes we are all furs apart of the ever expanding furry
    culture.  Without youth, there is no growth to the fandom.  Furry
    isn’t some secretive cult, it’s not some buy in frat; It’s a community of
    people who share the same interests. You aren’t always going to have a perfect
    society when we humans are imperfect in so many ways.  So in the end, you
    cherish the culture, both good and bad and try to make it better by creating an
    image for the entire fandom and not just yourself. 

  3. Stephen T. Stone on said:

    This isn’t news; this isn’t even good reading.

    • Anonymous on said:

      I apologise if this interview is not to your liking. I was instructed to conduct the interview and post it. Personally, I thought his viewpoints, if nothing else, were interesting.

  4. RTDragon on said:

    Well considering from reading this article multiple times closely, the comments from the user himself as well as listening to the Furcast podcast about this. I have to say one thing about this perosn who thinks he’s a fur but yet is completely immature by making excuses especially considering one main part of the article namely mentioning younger children infecting the fandom with their immaturity.

    Though considering by saying that you clearly must have never been to an actual furry convention before in your lifetime. considering i’ve actually been to a few conventions and seen younger folks there who may act immature but eventually they will mature if you actually cared about the younger generation and gave them some helpful advice.

    Though this whole article sounds more to me that you are a hypocrite that doesn’t know any better with a huge ego to boot. considering your taking the furry fandom a bit way too seriously. consdiering from what you are saying in this interview.

  5. scourge on said:

    Am I the only one who sees this as incredibly…off putting? The whole thing. The interview-ee or so to speak is a whiny impetuous man-child and has no real constructive impact on the fandom. He picks fights, resorts to name calling instead of logical debates and defaults to calling those of a differing opinion a troll. The webcomic itself has very few issues out to be even considered off the ground as well.

    In my humble opinion, this whole interview was a waste of peoples’ time.

    • Paradox on said:

      Agree.

    • Tango on said:

      I’ve had a few run-ins with Mr. Hemming. He likes to go into a rage and throw a fit even when you are trying to make peace with him. He tried to get me banned from MyFur.net because I ‘trolled’ him. He found out that I used to be an EncyclopediaDramatica contributor, requesting that I blank the article on there of him (which if you know anything about ED will just get you a ban and the article put right back up.)

      Thankfully, it seems things have settle since I haven’t heard anything from him (directed at me). I’m not surprised to see him being his ‘Classic Conner’ self.

      Tango

      • RTDragon on said:

        Not very surprising considering from what i have notice from this post as well as on his DA page he seems to throw a temper tandrum over very trivial stuff. And this person calls himself a fur.

  7. ½ Sane on said:

    I know this is old but I’d like to clarify one part in particular, in which he explains why he was banned from Furaffinity.

    I am the girl he lived with called Luna on Secondlife. And he didn’t live with just me, he also lived with our other friends DJOmnifusion, Athenna, and her bf Blaze, and our other friend Lakota. I was not the one who posted the lewd pictures in his room in the house, it was actually Blaze, who thought it’d be an innocent prank.

    Conner did not simply ask “Why was this posted in my room?”, he totally flew off the handle, cussed EVERYONE out, even though we told him Blaze was the one who did it and it was only a joke. He called everyone in the house names even I do not want to repeat, until he was KICKED out and refunded his rent. He did not voluntarily leave, he was forced to.

    Afterwards, he kept harassing US via Furaffinity because he was still not done complaining about the incident. Until all of us were forced to report him because his notes and comments kept flooding in. So Dragoneer banned his current three accounts permanently.

    After that he continued making account to keep harassing us, and after those were banned, he made more. Not to harass us, but simply because he was so obsessed with the site, he couldn’t stand to be unable to use it.

    To this day, he has nearly 100 banned accounts. So apparently FA must be worth something to him.

    Just so everyone can get an insight as to how ill this person really is.