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Greetings! Welcome to Badger's Burrow.


It would be an understatement of exquisite delicacy to say that Badger is not an artist. But Badger enjoys furry art, and commenting on it in the furry newsgroups.
The response to these comments has been both surprising and gratifying, and (to Badger's pride and pleasure) resulted in drawings of Badger from the hands of various artists, displayed elsewhere in this site.
Badger writes, however. For his own amusement, hitherto, but it is his intention to post some of his handiwork in this site, starting with "Bitch-Boy", a coming-of-age story.
This story features two firsts: it's Badger's maiden effort at furry fiction; and it's the first story he's written that has been circulated (privately) for comment. One indirect result of that is this website, created for Badger by a wonderfully talented lad who is in serious contention for the most adorable and darling fur under the sun, known to the world as HiHo Roo. This wonderful artist (and wonderful person) was inspired enough by "Bitch-Boy" to embellish it with drawings and also take matters into his own paws to make the work publicly available here on the Internet.
Before HiHo there was Charon2. This young man's art has delighted Badger no end ever since his first glimpse of it, and continues to do so. Two of his youthful drawings inspired the germ of Bitch-Boy's plot: take one young Siberian Husky (cute but straight) and combine with a young wolf and a young fox (also cute, not so straight)....
So far from his being displeased with Badger's knock-off, the story inspired some further art from Charon2's hand, including a double portrait of Badger and Charon2 himself, which was actually the very first image of Badger by a furry artist. (Some of his other drawings relating to the story remain unfinished, which is a huge pity but no new thing among furry artists, alas.)
Whether the writing lives up to these artists' delightful work is a question you will have to decide for yourself.
Further furry: a fantasy, "Lop and Me", set on the third planet of Gamma Draconis. Beautifully presented, against all odds, by HiHo. It's based on nothing but the author's diseased imagination; the story "Everybody Loves Luther", with embellishments by HiHo, was inspired by a request from Paf for a story featuring a badger (guess who) and a Dalmatian (again, guess who ... though the author begs the reader to realize that ALL characters in the story are purely fictional)
For purposes of print fiction, Badger goes by the nom-de-plume (pomme-de-terre?) of André Blaireau.


Please note, furs and furless alike: All verbal and artistic creations in this site are protected by copyright. Verbum sap.

 

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