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Fionacat (also known as Feefers and Fiona. Born September 15, 1979) is a UK furry currently residesing in Aberdeen, Scotland, and whose fursona is a black-furred cat.

He is also the author of several written stories, including Pokémon fanfiction. Regarding fandom politics, he was a former member of the Burned Fur movement.

He participated in the Brutal:_Paws_of_Fury Remix as the voice of Chung Poe.

Open Directory Project

Fionacat was extensively involved in the Open Directory Project with, at one point, direct responsibility over the entirety of Society/Subcultures and everything within it.

After a long standing discussion on the boards to keep Furry located within the Subcultures folder Fionacat resigned when it was moved to Society: People: Furry instead, however a great deal of the "ground work" Fionacat laid down can still be seen in the Open Directory Project and those databases which bought data from the Open Directory Project.

Controversy

In December 1999, Fionacat was contacted by BBC producer Vincent Beasley for a fair and balanced TV special involving the furry fandom. The venue for the interview portion was to be carried out either on the Burned Fur IRC channel, or a channel entitled Vincechat on Yiffnet. The BF channel was finally chosen has the venue for the event.

The night of the event, a minor storm erupted on channel about Fionacat's decision to host this channel, especially since that the fandom was still reeling from the (back then) recent backlash from the Eurotrash furry fiasco, plus the fact that it had not being cleared with Yiffnet's admins. Tempers flared to the point that Yiffnet admin Kandra warned Fionacat that the event would not come to pass, with Fionacat responding with:

If you try, we'll sue you so fast you can't blink, wanna try?

As the seconds drew closer to the start of the interview, net searches by several members on the channel discovered that Vincent Beasley was really an executive producer for the Ruby's American Pie show, which essentially involved comedienne Ruby Wax journeying across the USA in search of some of the more bizarre and outlandish aspects of American culture. The show Mr. Beaseley was working on at the time was to be shown on Channel 4 though, not BBC.

The "event" was finally canceled after a two hour semantic battle about "rules," as well as problems with Vincent connecting to IRC.

During this time (that the log in discussion doesn't show) Fionacat was able to easily avoid the ban as he was on a dial up modem and kept coming back until Kandra stopped banning him.

Fionacat was able to contact Vincent and advised it probably wasn't worth going ahead with a section on Furry in the show, something he maintains he had set out to do from the beginning, inviting Vincent along to show that furries weren't that inresting.

External links

This person is a WikiFur user: Fionacat's user page Fionacat's talk page

• Fionacat's Freeserve Webpage
• Fionacat on LiveJournal
• Fionacat's profile on FanFiction.net
• Thread on alt.fan.furry about the "Ruby's American Pie"/BF IRC debacle
• Ruby's American Pie at the IMDb