Texas House Bill number 4814—better known as the Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education (or F.U.R.R.I.E.S.)¹ Act—was proposed by Stan Gerdes, and would attempt to suppress the expression of furries in schools. It does this by editing the Texas education code to:

"prohibit any non-human behavior by a student, including presenting himself or herself, on days other than exempt days, as anything other than a human being"

It defines exempt days as things as any days within a week of halloween, and no more than 5 other (school designated) days per year.² Something else it does is expand the definition of abuse to inculde "in an education setting, allowing or encouraging the child to develop a dependence on or a belief that non-human behaviors are societally acceptable". 

Some specific examples of furry expression it prohibits include:

• Making

King-Sized Annual! All New! The Thing and The Man Called Nova!

"When Strike The Monitors!"

Marvel Two-in-One was the Marvel series in the 1970s and 1980s that featured The Thing teaming up with a random hero to fight what were usually simple and lighthearted stories. This annual, published in 1978, featured The Thing teaming up with Nova, a Marvel character that has been around for decades without ever finding his niche, either in universe or out. The story features an

“Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.(In search of Lost Time V.1, p.5) “

**For a very long time, I had hard time to understand that sentence. Not that I didn’t understand the meaning of words, sentence but couldn’t digest the essence of its purpose. And, after a while I made peace with it thinking as: my conception and perception are making