Editing Furry (section)

===Sparkledogs===
The original form of the [[Freakshit]] meme, "sparkledog" is a pejorative from the 90s/early 2000s against furries who try to make their furry characters more distinct and end up making them at best silly-looking and at worst uberspecial snowflakes. There are three distinct methods of making a sparkledog:

# Give the character an unnatural and often lurid color scheme; [[edgelord]]s favored black and red, whilst others favored brighter, more technicolor colors, often in combinations. This is the source of the term "sparkledog".
# Make the character a halfbreed or even a multigenerational mixture of different races. This can be as innocuous as something technically in the same family, like a lion/tiger or a fox/wolf, to something completely defying biology, like a literal bull(cow)/shark or tiger/shark, a wolf/raven, or a scorpion/cobra. Some of these hybrids even caught on enough to make their own niche fandoms within the furry fandom, such as cabbits (half cat, half rabbit) and laquines (rabbit/horse, usually depicted as hyper-horny bunny [[dickgirl]]s with big ol' horse weiners).
# Make the character a mythical creature crossbreed, which ironically is often regarded as worse than just straight up being a mythical creature. The [[Half-Dragon]] was a popular choice, but [[Half-Fiend]]s (especially [[succubus]]) and [[Dhampir]]s were also big.

Note that these methods can and often do overlap - method 2 is often an in-universe justification for giving a sparkledog character its unusual coat. A good example of this is ZigZag; an in-universe porn star and a major furry sex icon of the 90s who was half-skunk and half-Siberian tiger, basically resulting in a skunk with black-and-white tiger stripe pattern fur.