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Re:Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits by cess11 on Friday May 02, 2025 @02:39AM (#43866830)
People who are into dragons are furries, it's not a literal term. Their furry subgroup is usually called scalies, which besides dragons and snakes include people who are into things like salamanders and other amphibians.

I'm under the impression that such taxonomies are less important to these in-groups than whether you're just into the aesthetic or get off on it sexually as well.

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Re:Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits by JCattheATM on Friday May 02, 2025 @08:48AM (#43869058)
Disney movies and 80s cartoons with talking animals really created a whole new subculture.
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Re:Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits by seabass-labrax on Friday May 02, 2025 @11:33AM (#43871144)
It certainly didn't start with 80s cartoons - anthropomorphized depictions of animals feature among the oldest written works. Aesop's Fables are 2500 years old, and the geographic dispersal of similar stories indicates that they originate even further back than that.
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Re:Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits by JCattheATM on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @06:35PM (#43921202)
Sure, but it was 80's kids who started tuning in every week, nay, day, and forming emotional attachments with cartoon animals.
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Re:Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits by cess11 on Friday May 02, 2025 @04:16PM (#43874170)
Austin Osman Spare did it earlier than that, as did some of the old greeks and others.
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