Birthdays~!

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 4:10 pm

Happy Birthday to ZombieRaptor, to Twilightdragom, to SilentPrincess828, to NightFox, to Reima, to shwabadi, to Feral Frenzy, to LoorTheDarkElf, and to FurryzFurst. Enjoy!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 11:49 pm

Happy birthday to FancySkunk, Private Elliot and Blaze Burnside!

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Tue Aug 29, 2023 6:24 pm

Yeah, Happy Birthday, Private Elliot, and much the enjoys. Happy Birthday, too, to Fancy Skunk and to Blaze Burnside. Enjoy!

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Wed Aug 30, 2023 9:39 pm

Happy Birthday to aBritishfox and to shradieck. Enjoy!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Wed Aug 30, 2023 11:27 pm

Happy birthday to BillTheSetite, Toaster Lord, Blue Braixen and Niftyness!

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Thu Aug 31, 2023 3:34 pm

Happy Birthday to Niftyness, to Toaster Lord, to BillTheSetite, and to Blue Braixen. Enjoy!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Aug 31, 2023 11:21 pm

Happy birthday to AlyxVixen, finch, shel, sonic id furreh!!! and EKJC!

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Fri Sep 01, 2023 9:54 am

Happy Birthday to AlyxVixen! Enjoy! Happy Birthday also to EKJC, to sonic id furreh, and to shel and/or finch. Also enjoy!

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Sat Sep 02, 2023 1:27 pm

FOXX and Fallout Otter, Happy Birthday to yers. Enjoy!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Sep 02, 2023 8:49 pm

Happy birthday to Fallout otter and FOXX!

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Mon Sep 04, 2023 9:17 am

Happy Birthday to Strings, to KizirZin anf to LucidDarkness. Enjoy!

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Mon Sep 04, 2023 9:18 am

Happy Birthday to Strings, to KizirZin and to LucidDarkness. Enjoy!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon Sep 04, 2023 2:16 pm

Happy birthday to LucidDarkness, KizerZin and Strings!

Post by **Obbl** » Mon Sep 04, 2023 11:36 pm

Happy Birthday, Amazee Dayzee!

Harry Johnathan · Post by **Harry Johnathan** » Tue Sep 05, 2023 6:37 am

Happy Birthday, Dayzee.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Tue Sep 05, 2023 6:55 am

HAAAAAAAAppppy Birthday, Amazee Dayzee!! Many more of `em, love. Enjoy!!

Cesco · Post by **Cesco** » Tue Sep 05, 2023 2:07 pm

Happy Birthday to Amazee Dayzee!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Sep 05, 2023 3:19 pm

Happy birthday to ME!! and ManaWolf!

Welsh Halfwit · Post by **Welsh Halfwit** » Tue Sep 05, 2023 4:55 pm

Splats a bakkaberry pie into Amazee's face. (He knows...)

Saturn381 · Post by **Saturn381** » Tue Sep 05, 2023 5:13 pm

Happy Birthday, Amazee!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Sep 05, 2023 5:14 pm

Welsh Halfwit wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 4:55 pm Splats a bakkaberry pie into Amazee's face. (He knows...)

Sorry but I am immune to that schtick.

XD

CunningFox · Post by **CunningFox** » Tue Sep 05, 2023 5:51 pm

Happy Birthday, Dayzee!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Sep 05, 2023 11:50 pm

My birthday is over. I am sad.

Anyway happy birthday to WolfNoise, hyperfox, LucaVarlaro, drebin896 and JSuc418!

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Wed Sep 06, 2023 10:12 am

Well, fudge! I know I composed a birthday wish for you, Amazz, but the microchips must have engulfed it. So, then, in hopes of making you feel less sad, an attempt at redemption - Happy Birthday to Amazee Dayzee and lots, lots more of `em !!! Remember and enjoy !!

Alright, Happy birthday to WolfNoise (107? really??), to JSuc418, to hyperfox, to dribin896, and to LucaVarlaro. Enjoy!

Today is the Birthday of Felix Salten, author of Bambi, Bambi's Children, and many other dog, deer, cat, and horse stories (very many of which became Disney films). You're not forgotten in furryland, Felix ... enjoy!

Harry Johnathan · Post by **Harry Johnathan** » Wed Sep 06, 2023 10:54 am

I remember loving the original Bambi novel when I was in fourth grade because of how dark it was, lol. When you're that age, you tend to love macabre and morbid things (I, for one, still do!)

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Wed Sep 06, 2023 2:18 pm

I could never really get into Bambi unfortunately because they killed his mother. I thought that was just mean even if it happens in real life. I don't like stories that are THAT dark and involve parental deaht. But that is just me.

TyVulpintaur · Post by **TyVulpintaur** » Thu Sep 07, 2023 8:05 am

Amazee Dayzee wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 2:18 pm I could never really get into Bambi unfortunately because they killed his mother. I thought that was just mean even if it happens in real life. I don't like stories that are THAT dark and involve parental death. But that is just me.

Disney is like that...
Cinderella
Bambi
Fox & The Hound
Frozen
Lilo & Stitch

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Thu Sep 07, 2023 10:19 am

I grew up among people who were deer hunters and knew that people killed deer. It bothered me because I often encountered these animals in the forests around me and, frequently, would find them coming out to graze in our yard very early in the morning. To me, they were these mystical, beautiful creatures, like messangers from God who came and went like ethereal beings. Dad was a dedicated but incompetant hunter who finally "got his deer" pretty late in life ... not with his Remington but with the Subaru. I went hunting with him several times - "father-son" thing, you know. I saw lots of deer but, as i used to say, I was a hunter, not a shooter.

I read Bambi and loved it because, despite its often grim depictions of predation and death (including human-animal relations), the prose was almost lyrical and had a thread of deep compassion that arose from Salten's interest in Kabbalah. (Salten was a non-practicing Jewish Austrian and nostalgic for the old Hapsburg Empire).

So, when I went to see the Disney movie, I was braced for the abrupt shock of his mother's death. The movie, frankly, handled it just as the book did - brutal, sharp, unsentimental, a punishing amputation of the mother-fawn bond. That said, the movie itself is beautiful, the background music and (some of) the song enchanting, and the art lavish, lush, and amazing even today. What disturbed me - greatly - was the "disneyfication" of the story, especially the replacement of most of Salten's poweful supporting characters (Karus, Nettla, Marena, Gobo, and many others) with Disney "cutie-patooties" like Thumper, Flower, and the Wise Old Owl. Important threads are cut out - Ronno, for eaxample, has a much more complex and moving relationship with Bambi than the violent walk-on that occurs unheralded at the end of the movie. I resented then - and still do - how the studio rewrote the story - and will go on to do this to other Salten works.

As you point out, Ty, emotional relation terminations are frequent motif in Disney stories. Such is life. At my age and my stage (76+), I frequently run into old friends and renew old acquaintences, but only briefly. What I come away with is a blend of pleasure (if their lives are good), sadness (if they have tragedies), and a wistful realization that this encounter is not a serious reconnection. Rather, whatever this relationship, it has largely evapoarted and cannot be renewed, either as it was when we parted company or seriously revived now because of what life has made of us. "Letting go" is a part of life ...

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Thu Sep 07, 2023 10:20 am

Oh. less we forget the established purpose of this thread ..... Happy Birthday, Naro Rivers. Enjoy!!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Sep 07, 2023 1:09 pm

Happy birthday to Naro Rivers!

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Fri Sep 08, 2023 9:47 am

Happy Birthday, Harry Yuan. Enjoy!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri Sep 08, 2023 1:01 pm

Happy birthday to Aldon92, Sami, Harry Yuan and CreamMouse!

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Sun Sep 10, 2023 6:18 pm

Happy Birthday, Seanfsena and rmaster454. Enjoy!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sun Sep 10, 2023 11:48 pm

Happy birthday to zero, sinister101 and Kylecan81!

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Mon Sep 11, 2023 7:05 am

Indeed. Happy Birthday to Kylecan81, to zero, and to sinister101. Enjoy!

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Tue Sep 12, 2023 9:25 am

Happy Birthday to gforce and many more of `em. Enjoy! Happy Birthday, too, to karowulf, to Mctwisp, to Regular Bird, and to The Swimmer. More enjoys.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Sep 12, 2023 4:35 pm

Happy birthday to The Swimmer, Mctwisp, karowolf, Regular Bird and gforce!

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Thu Sep 14, 2023 9:09 am

Zaahl and Zandario, Happy Birthday there! Enjoy!

MischaTheWolf · Post by **MischaTheWolf** » Thu Sep 14, 2023 10:14 am

Happy birthday to Zaahl and Zandario!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Sep 14, 2023 12:58 pm

Happy birthday to Zaahl and Zandario!