It’s Ursa Majors season again, and all the finalists have been announced. And just like how Entertainment Weekly pretends they know best, Weasel Wordsmith has its Editor’s Choice list of winners!

The Shorty Awards, an annual award ceremony honoring standouts in social media, announced the finalists lists for their categories on Tuesday, and a furry beat out a ton of actual celebrities.

I want to review Isolation Play, and give it a full in-depth analysis because it’s an interesting novel that deserves to be broken down. But I can’t write a review without giving away major spoilers. I just can’t do it. Trying to review it that way dances around the issues and doesn’t do the book justice. So here’s the deal. Follow these simple steps, and together we’re going to give Isolation Play a great review.

Like Kyell Gold needs another award. But shut up and vote for him, cause he could actually win.

There have been LEGO figurines of everything from culturally insensitive Native Americans, to culturally insensitive Samurais, to culturally insensitive Martians. But there’s never been a LEGO minifig that represented the fandom until now (well, it’s a good try).

You’re not really an icon of popular culture until someone uses you as a rhyme in a rap song. 2010 is the year that furries become mainstream enough to be used for phat beats and dope rhymes, yo.

The fact that the prerequisite for reading Heathen City Volume 3: Joker to the Thief is to read the previous to volumes is reason enough for me to hesitate in suggesting it. The fact that the author hasn’t seemed to learn from the mistakes of the past two years is more than reason enough for me to recommend avoiding it altogether.

Even by themselves, the terms “amateur,” “adult,” and “furry” can all give one pause when it comes to fiction; when all three apply to the same work, there can be even more reason for hesitation. Still, when it’s only a mere ten bucks to see whether someone’s debut novella is any good, it can be worth it to gamble from time to time, and in this case, for the most part, that gamble has paid off.

While hearing that Kyell Gold has been nominated for an award may seem old news by this point, hearing that he was nominated for an award by decades old, non-furry science fiction club adds a new level of legitimacy to the fandom.

The Cupcakes series are intended to be “short and sweet” novellas, and for better or worse, The Peculiar Quandary of Simon Artyle fits the bill.