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Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2023 4:10 pm
by NHWestoN
Happy Birthday to ZombieRaptor, to Twilightdragom, to SilentPrincess828, to NightFox, to Reima, to shwabadi, to Feral Frenzy, to LoorTheDarkElf, and to FurryzFurst. Enjoy!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2023 11:49 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
Happy birthday to FancySkunk, Private Elliot and Blaze Burnside!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2023 6:24 pm
by NHWestoN
Yeah, Happy Birthday, Private Elliot, and much the enjoys. Happy Birthday, too, to Fancy Skunk and to Blaze Burnside. Enjoy!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2023 9:39 pm
by NHWestoN
Happy Birthday to aBritishfox and to shradieck. Enjoy!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2023 11:27 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
Happy birthday to BillTheSetite, Toaster Lord, Blue Braixen and Niftyness!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2023 3:34 pm
by NHWestoN
Happy Birthday to Niftyness, to Toaster Lord, to BillTheSetite, and to Blue Braixen. Enjoy!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2023 11:21 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
Happy birthday to AlyxVixen, finch, shel, sonic id furreh!!! and EKJC!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2023 9:54 am
by NHWestoN
Happy Birthday to AlyxVixen! Enjoy! Happy Birthday also to EKJC, to sonic id furreh, and to shel and/or finch. Also enjoy!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2023 1:27 pm
by NHWestoN
FOXX and Fallout Otter, Happy Birthday to yers. Enjoy!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2023 8:49 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
Happy birthday to Fallout otter and FOXX!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2023 9:17 am
by NHWestoN
Happy Birthday to Strings, to KizirZin anf to LucidDarkness. Enjoy!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2023 9:18 am
by NHWestoN
Happy Birthday to Strings, to KizirZin and to LucidDarkness. Enjoy!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2023 2:16 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
Happy birthday to LucidDarkness, KizerZin and Strings!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2023 11:36 pm
by Obbl
Happy Birthday, Amazee Dayzee! :D

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2023 6:37 am
by Harry Johnathan
Happy Birthday, Dayzee.

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2023 6:55 am
by NHWestoN
HAAAAAAAAppppy Birthday, Amazee Dayzee!! Many more of `em, love. Enjoy!! :D ;)

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2023 2:07 pm
by Cesco
Happy Birthday to Amazee Dayzee! :)

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2023 3:19 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
Happy birthday to ME!! and ManaWolf!

Re: Birthdays~!

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

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2023 5:13 pm
by Saturn381
Happy Birthday, Amazee!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2023 5:14 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
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

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2023 5:51 pm
by CunningFox
Happy Birthday, Dayzee!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2023 11:50 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
My birthday is over. I am sad. :(

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

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2023 10:12 am
by NHWestoN
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 !! :D :lol: :oops:

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!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2023 10:54 am
by Harry Johnathan
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!)

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2023 2:18 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
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.

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 8:05 am
by TyVulpintaur
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

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 10:19 am
by NHWestoN
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 ...

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 10:20 am
by NHWestoN
Oh. less we forget the established purpose of this thread ..... Happy Birthday, Naro Rivers. Enjoy!!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 1:09 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
Happy birthday to Naro Rivers!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2023 9:47 am
by NHWestoN
Happy Birthday, Harry Yuan. Enjoy!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2023 1:01 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
Happy birthday to Aldon92, Sami, Harry Yuan and CreamMouse!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 6:18 pm
by NHWestoN
Happy Birthday, Seanfsena and rmaster454. Enjoy!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 11:48 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
Happy birthday to zero, sinister101 and Kylecan81!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2023 7:05 am
by NHWestoN
Indeed. Happy Birthday to Kylecan81, to zero, and to sinister101. Enjoy!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 9:25 am
by NHWestoN
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.

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 4:35 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
Happy birthday to The Swimmer, Mctwisp, karowolf, Regular Bird and gforce!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2023 9:09 am
by NHWestoN
Zaahl and Zandario, Happy Birthday there! Enjoy!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2023 10:14 am
by MischaTheWolf
Happy birthday to Zaahl and Zandario!

Re: Birthdays~!

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2023 12:58 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
Happy birthday to Zaahl and Zandario!