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Game & Forum Discussion => Game Discussion => Topic started by: IceDarki on August 23, 2011, 11:03:06 am
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Title says all.
I've heard from people that sparkledogs tend to be characters with more than 4 drastically different colors, but sometimes I see people being accused of being sparkledogs from having up to 2~3 drastically different colors. I've also heard about being considered sparkle if you have a large number of unnatural growths and accessories, such as talons, horns, bows, poofy mohawks and rainbow-colored junk.
So, what do YOU guys think a sparkledog is?
Personally, I go for the 4+ Color rule. I think also having more than 3 unnatural growths or accessories is too much.
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You're thinking a LITTLE too technically. xD
It's not the amount of colors, it's how bright and unnatural they are. They often wear accessories and piercings and such. Like a blue or green wolf. Nothing you would even CONCEIVE as calling a wolf in real life.
Most of the time, they also have horrible, marysue/garystu like stories or history.
Sparkles are not like a brown wolf with bright colored markings, in my opinion. Some people consider them to be.
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Wolf Link is green and has earrings. Does that make him a sparkle dog? |D No.
Bright, unnatural colors + too many accessories = Sparkle dog for me.
I like to think things a bit technically because there are some characters that have a couple of off colors and don't have accessories at all; colors that are actually BALANCED, and look cool, but are considered to be a sparkle dog. And in my opinion, it's just not fair to some people, because it's actually an original character, but it's viewed negatively, LOL.
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my character sukira has bright red markings, but she's a pure black lioness, so i don't really think it would be blinding people or causing her to be a sparkle cat because of one flaw of colors. i see sparkle dogs/cats two or more neon colors in a most frequently seen place.
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For me, this is the general definition:
Sparkledog or any sparkleanimal = A dog or another animal which has unnatural colours. Some are excessive and some are minor, some are disgusting because their creator knows nothing about colour theory, others look amazing.
All sparkle animals are different.
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My definition is pretty much the same as Teal's
Any animal with bright, unnatural colours. Some worse than others. Ranging from something that might have a few bright coloured markings or a glowing spot/stripe to full on rainbow barfed on, scene haired, tattooed, enough piercings to make them look like a pincushion, checkerboard markings...and so on |D
It's not the amount of colors, it's how bright and unnatural they are.
And this pretty much.
I think it also depends on the critter too, considering you wouldn't call a Scarlet Macaw sparkly. Whereas you put bright red, yellow and blue on a wolf and I'd consider it partly sparkly. (Actually it'd be more "oh god what" than sparkly |D )
The critters that are truely 100% sparkle thingies are the ones that are MSPaint neon coloured Scene things.
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Huh.....I guess it depends on the intensity, eh?
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My opinion of sparkledogs is very broad. I figure anything bright or rainbow, in the sense of being rather outstanding, counts as a sparkledog. A wolf running around with a hot pink pelt and electric blue markings? Sparkledog. But someone else has an orange mane and dark blue markings and red around the eyes... not a sparkledog. It's the really bright colours that count to me, especially on a bright under/pelt that makes someone a sparkledog.
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In sense of the word sparkledog I take it as an unnaturally coloured canine. Is is a bad thing to have such a thing on FH? Noway! Honestly most of my charries have unnatural colours and I like that. And actually Rendezvous you just described one of my charries, pink pelt, with cyan markings, she also has a dark purple mane and tail tip. Yes I think she is a bit of a sparkledog but really pretty anyway.
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For me a sparkledog is any canine with unnatural colouring, I don't really count accessories unless they're excessive however. I don't see anything particularly wrong with sparkledogs, they're interesting to make. Most of my charas aren't sparkledogs though.
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To me a sparkle animal are people who use neon colors and act like they rule the world because of it. I don't call wolves who don't look like wolves irl sparkledogs i just call the wolves but not realistic wolves. I have loads of wolves/lions that have red and green and stuff but its not ALL neon and bright.
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I'd say anything with noticably unnatural colors can be considered a sparkledog (including the legions of red and black wolves), but even more so with neon, scene hair, and two tons of accessories. That said, I also think not all sparkledogs are bad; I've seen some that are really pretty and/or cool. My only pet peeve is when people combine colors willy-nilly with absolutely no concept of which combinations might induce vomiting. I swear, magenta-and-chartreuse anything should be banned...
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Sparkledogs...
I always find it has a negative connotation. I don't think just any character with unnatural colors is a sparkledog.
"Scene" dogs are usually (but not always) sparkledogs in my book. I don't mind them, I don't have problems with them, people can make whatever characters they want. :3 Though I wish they would be more educated on color choices sometimes, it's not really my business to tell people to change their characters because I know my color wheel and they don't. X3
This, to me is a sparkledog (art by the creators, etc):
http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&global=1&q=scene+dog+wolf#/d2y0643 (http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&global=1&q=scene+dog+wolf#/d2y0643)
http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&global=1&q=scene+dog+wolf#/d2ub82z (http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&global=1&q=scene+dog+wolf#/d2ub82z)
This is not:
http://grihm.deviantart.com/gallery/5098029#/d3kea71 (http://grihm.deviantart.com/gallery/5098029#/d3kea71)
Unnatural MARKINGS but not colors does not make a sparkleanimal for me.
Tons of accessories does, however, might. x3
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^ Yeah.
Although that last one, gughughrghr the piercings in the ears. But yeah I wouldn't consider it a sparkle thing. Now the ones linked before it most definately.
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Sparkledogs refer to canines that have unnatural colors, either bright red or dark red any color you wouldn't find in a dog or wolf or any canine for that matter is considered a Sparkledog. Say you have a red Husky for a character in FH and in real life they're like this brown-ish somewhat orange color, but in game you make the red Husky literally RED. >Like this text.<
Most Sparkledogs have really unrealistic markings and they're colors are unnatural, as said above. While their fur/hair/tail can be colossal, their legs would be super tiny. And even their anatomy can be screwed up. Not to mention ridiculous accessories.
What I think about sparkledogs most of them are horrifying. (Not to be mean, just my opinion) But rarely do they have decent designs. But I don't hate them. Few actually look nice and decent.
On dA they have a group of them. Check it out: http://sparkledogs.deviantart.com/ (http://sparkledogs.deviantart.com/)
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most sparkle dogs have hardly any decent markings, and actually, some sparkle dog said i looked like one because of my wolf had RUST colored dalmatian marking being half dalmatian, the rust color from being a wolf and they can be that color, and the color of white being half dalmatian *facepaw* and this one was neon yellow, neon blue and neon green
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Huh....so, what should I do to have my character not shunned by anyone? I don't want my character to be too boring or too sprakly.....Geez, it's hard to please everyone! >:
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eehhh...=,= i hate to admit it, but take a hallow-yena for an example :s --> http://iammyla.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4758ta (http://iammyla.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4758ta)
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hallow-yenas ftw!! ;D...*sneaks back out of the sparkle dog rant* O__o....
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Yeeeeeeep those are some sparkle critters right there.
Huh....so, what should I do to have my character not shunned by anyone? I don't want my character to be too boring or too sprakly.....Geez, it's hard to please everyone! >:
Characters aren't just about looks, it's about personality too. Characters don't have to look like a unicorn barfed on them to be interesting.
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I really don't mind sparkle dogs... It's your character, so if you want it to look like a rainbow then go ahead and do it xD
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For me, a sparkle dog/cat are chars that have 3/4+ colours that are significantly different such as brown pelt, green body markings, red tail markings, blue head markings etc.
Some may say my main char (Pure white pelt, Dark blue markings all over and a Cyan blue tail tip) is a sparkle dog but is it really? 2 main colours that go well together plus an extra as a bit of an in joke with some friends/
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I don't think that your main character is a full blown sparkle dog, it's not normal yeah, but it doesn't look like rainbow barf XD
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I'd say anything with noticably unnatural colors can be considered a sparkledog (including the legions of red and black wolves), but even more so with neon, scene hair, and two tons of accessories. That said, I also think not all sparkledogs are bad; I've seen some that are really pretty and/or cool. My only pet peeve is when people combine colors willy-nilly with absolutely no concept of which combinations might induce vomiting. I swear, magenta-and-chartreuse anything should be banned...
^ Bahaha. I agree xD They hurt the eyeballs.
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Here's MY definition of sparkle dogs.
A sparkledog that has unnatural colors maybe?
I really don't know ^^''
I really don't have a problem with them..
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@ Draak, I know my ex-main char (he died heroically while trying to save a friend, he left behind 7 pups, a mate and multiple friends, R.I.P Sarkardo) could have been perceived as a sparkle dog but my new main is complimenting shades of brown (dark pelt, lighter brown underpelt) with a bright blue mohawk (signify the powers that he has) with black markings.
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Yeaaaah that's borderline sparkledog, I say borderline because it's mostly normal and then BAM bright blue mohawk XD;
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lol good example of a sparkle dog is at http://emerald-glaceon.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d46br3n (http://emerald-glaceon.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d46br3n) though i think she's balanced look at her mustache. i was rly bored XD
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To me... Sparkle dogs are anything that has eye-murdering colors lumped onto one character and/or can't be a convincing character to save their lives. Hallow-yenas are a good example of eye-murdering.
Unnaturally bright colors don't really make a Sparkledog or Glittercat - though it's hard to draw the line between fantasy and, as Draak put it, unicorn barf. Again, that's where the character comes into play.
If your character has a background with a reasonably developed past, somewhat formulated appearance, and a believable personality, you're Fantasy. (Or SciFi, whatever genre you prefer.)
But since formulated appearances can be lost on other people, most Sparkledogs and Glittercats have the following:
A background where they:
- murdered everyone in their pack for no reason
- their parents were murdered for no reason
- they have random demon/angel powers
- they're the last of their bloodline for no reason
- no reason for having no reason (aka the "I feel like it" scenario)
A personality (or lack of one) like:
- Angry/dangerous all the time, without probable cause
- "OMG I CULDNT LIVE WIT OUT MY MATE!!!1"
- Need to be the center of attention all the time
- Often throws their character off cliffs (or injures them in any other way) to get said attention
- Injuries Heal Immediately and they Never Die (aka "Infinite Phoenix Down" disorder)
- Don't want to follow rules set by RP they join
- Want/Need to be Alpha animal/be in control
- "*Rips your head off for stepping in my territory*"
- They flip out when you tell them you don't want them in your semi/realistic rp
My, I think I've rambled a little.
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I think there's also a difference between Scene and Sparkle things. Because sometimes you find totally unnaturally coloured things/eyeburners without accessories and iPods, arm band things and stuff and then there's the Scene things which are coated in hideous bright colours and every kind of piercing and stuff under the sun.
But sometimes they seem to mix and you get bits of both.
Here's an example I pulled from the front page of DA that I think is a mix of both...maybe leaning towards Scene because of the bandaid/patches, bleeding and piercings: http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/249/c/9/commission_by_soliloquy_dragon-d494e08.png (http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/249/c/9/commission_by_soliloquy_dragon-d494e08.png)
Unnaturally bright colors don't really make a Sparkledog or Glittercat - though it's hard to draw the line between fantasy and, as Draak put it, unicorn barf. Again, that's where the character comes into play.
I agree here, considering with Dragons and Gryphons and any other fantasy creature, no one will ever know their true colour pallettes because they don't exist. So pretty much anything is a possibility.
>_> although if I see rainbow barf'd stuff I still call them Sparkly or Scene |D...and if they're turned into a gauge infested pierced pincusion.
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Eh. I personally don't like ALL-THE-COLOURS-OF-THE-RAINNNBBOOOWWWWW 'sparklecreatures', but, even with that; if there is a character that is somewhat of a sparkle-creature; who am I to judge? It's /their/ character, not /mine/; if I don't like it? I'll keep my mouth shut and move on ~
I really don't see the problem with it. Unless it's eye-strain; but blocking/not looking seems to be the cure for that! O:
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Kerrigan how about when you leave a pack cuz they left you out then try to offend u by banning u. lol this happened to my friend it doesn't bother me but that sounds like a sparkle dog thing from ur description XD
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I dunno, I like sparkledogs as long as they're well designed and have a color scheme that makes sense~
I'm not a big fan of the ones that have random, highly saturated colors...
But yeah, I've had someone call Rika a sparklecat, which I dunno, I never considered her one. What do you guys think?
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Well, if it's species is supposed to be something like an ordinary housecat then it's definately sparkly, no offense XD;
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Are sparkle dogs bad?
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Well, if it's species is supposed to be something like an ordinary housecat then it's definately sparkly, no offense XD;
She's a big cat actually XD And honestly I had no particular species in mind when making her~
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Are sparkle dogs bad?
Depends who you're talking to. As with everything there are people who like something and people who don't. People who like them won't find them bad, people who don't will find them bad.
I personally find them bad because they're so horribly coloured and unnatural. HOWEVER, the ones that aren't so extreme and eyeburny are tolerable and I don't mind them.
Scenecritters I just flat out dislike.
She's a big cat actually XD And honestly I had no particular species in mind when making her~
Oh ok XD
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I could say gabrielle is a sparkledog but she's not, her colors are dulled down and pretty, + her only accessory is a pink scarf, she was originally a beauceron. she's literally
http://parasiteeve.wikia.com/wiki/Gabrielle_Monsigny (http://parasiteeve.wikia.com/wiki/Gabrielle_Monsigny)
as a feral canine, because i adore gabby, but her colors are the closest to sparkledog as any of my characters get.
I consider sparkledogs any eyeblinding feral canine character with a color scheme that doesn't work/contrasts too much. such as pink/green/yellow.
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As somebody whose feral characters are pretty much all unnatural colors and markings, I have a line between what constitutes as just a fantasy critter and a full-blown sparkledog.
I don't mind oddly-colored characters, nor do I mind ones with elaborate patterns on their fur, or even the odd accessory or two as long as it doesn't look like it came from Hot Topic and has a logical explanation to go along with it. It can be very pretty and interesting when colors that don't occur on existing mammals get put onto fictional mammal characters, along with differentiating features such as uniquely shaped tails and ears or extra tufts of fur. Realism bores me, and I like to see all the neat and exciting things people do to break it.
What I do mind is when somebody's characters look like the 70s somehow condensed itself into a fuzzy animal, or like a blacklight poster climbed off of a stoner's wall and walked away, or make me feel like I drank an entire lava lamp before looking at them. I also don't understand how or why it became a thing to put human clothing and hairstyles on a four-legged clearly not-human character. Basically, if my eyes take on minds of their own and desperately try to escape their own sockets, I'm looking at what I consider a sparklebeast.
I'd lump tired and overdone color schemes like red on black in with it as well, but I'm a lot more tolerable of that than I am of critters made entirely out of sidewalk chalk.
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I think the entire sparkle dog rule is redonculous! The people who make are just creative and are getting bored of all the realistic colors. Some ppl use sparkle dogs as an excuse to swear and do rape on FH which i don't support. And ppl (most of the time) will most of the time persecute them, chase them out when they aren't supposed to and troll them! The sparkle dog motto is: REALISTIC SUCKS
Which sometimes it tends to
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A sparkledog in my opinion, or sparklecat/fox/whatever. Has very unrealistic colors and usually has a ridiculous bio about how they're so emo and slit their wrists but they're also happy and have lots of friends but hate people and break up with their boyfriend 38 times a week but their relationship is so amazing. Somehow they manage to wear piercings, gloves, legwarmers, necklaces, and the like without thumbs, as shown here.
Here's an example of a Sparkledog in my opinion.
http://sonicgurl12.deviantart.com/art/Fursona-187537566 (http://sonicgurl12.deviantart.com/art/Fursona-187537566)
And a joking picture talking about the lack of thumbs.
http://nightmarehound.deviantart.com/art/Opposable-thumbs-would-be-nice-99895836 (http://nightmarehound.deviantart.com/art/Opposable-thumbs-would-be-nice-99895836)
Usually their "fursona" as called and has very insane color choices that do not match or just look awful to a majority of people but still have a "cool factor" to certain people".
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As somebody whose feral characters are pretty much all unnatural colors and markings, I have a line between what constitutes as just a fantasy critter and a full-blown sparkledog.
Ah, I just tought about my characters and wether I would call them Sparkledogs or not (Viri is one, though).
I don't mind these neon coloured, bigly beaming, colour screaming animals, although I don't think I would make them without a reason. But I enjoy interesting unnatural colours as long as they match and don't burn the eyes of the beholder.
Even so I think everyone should create a character he/she likes, so I wouldn't horn in their decisions.
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Yeah, in the end people can make what they want because it's their character and stuff. Even though people might oppose it, no one can really do anything about it except the creator.
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So, would you guys consider this a sparkle/scenedog?:
http://icestarblah.deviantart.com/art/AMAKUSA-212918605 (http://icestarblah.deviantart.com/art/AMAKUSA-212918605)
I dunno, I thought her colors might blind everyone else and that her story would be too sue-ish. >.<
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Her colours are no problem, I think. Mechanical and futuristic in a nice way. I don't know, whether others would consider her to be a sparkledog (probably yes), but I like her anyway.
Only the tail (or exactly: the injection) looks a little... false. I don't know how to say it in English, but it doesn't look "smooth" to the tail. Hasn't to do with the subject and is only a drawing advice, but you could make it less look like an injection and more like a sting or small tube with poison. (The holder for the fingers isn't necessary at this tail-weapon, so...) But this is only my view and it doesn't matter anyway. ^^"
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It...is kind of. Mainly the markings and the hairstyle. But it's not too eyeblindy and stuff so it's tolerable on my end XD
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Sparkledogs and rape where the whole reason I left Feralheart a long time ago.
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(http://i52BannedImageSite/24nky6t.jpg)
This is a sparkledog.
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Sorta like that Kacey. Sparkle dogs can also be know as a Scene. But that depends :/ .
A picture sorta like a sparkle dog.
(http://i53BannedImageSite/otdd79.png)
I may even admit my avatar is a small bit like a Scene. But I'm not crazy-like by putting on a ton of colors and such. ^_^
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What i think is a sparkle dog,is a canine that has unantural colors
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a dog that is black with neon colors that drives me crazy!
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That...sounds like my fursona. D:
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^^' Well my fursona is biased on my favorite colors, but at least I placed one semi-natural color in...which is pale peach. I thought they complement well with each other. Now, some of the ones I see is like "Rainbow barf in my eyes".
Eh, I think a sparkle-anything is any bright colors that is more than 3. Most in visible areas too, not minor like mane or nose. More of the body, tail and face. Black and red isn't bad in my opinion, but yellow red and green? Beh.
(Why am I lazy to check boards!? XD Eh well, laptop battery going to die anyways unless I steal my sis. My charger died.)
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i think sparcle dogs are creative people so wat is they have to much accseceries or colors let them have fun.its like the shoes at zummies or hot topic there color full and fun if u agree put"@@I@@" in the start of there post
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...They are creative...in a way. Just...eh....in an eyesore-y way.
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what i notice but im not saying there all like this but everytime im just browsing stuff on feral (lucky i figured how to do maps so im safe from creepers now hehe) but when im just wandering in bonfire or ficho or fluorite or something the people that USUALLY just come up to me and start annoying, cussing, creeping me out and etc.. are sparkledogs it ticks me off now i cant even look at them and think there normal because most of them are just abusing there privalege on feral heart and using odd colors to make themselves stand out. To me i think they just want attention. DONT GIVE IT TO THEM im not pointing out some sparkledogs in general cause alot of them tend to be creeps (sorry if your one and your not a creep im not refering to you ^^)
but seriously what kind of messed up jerks think having a really stupid kind of name and annoying people and cussing and saying and/or doing sexual innapropriate things shouldnt be on feral
but sparkledogs tend to annoy me alot
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Here is a video slide show of sparkledogs. Yes, I'm putting us up for an example since I'm nice, but probably gotta get an arse kicking later XD but yeah, THESE are sparkles, but a different kind of sparkles <.< (were not trolls) --> The Hollow-yenas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmHpJ6-rjjk#)
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PA sparklie for me is a really blinding char, e.g. electric blue with yellow markings or stuff like that, Mon amie.
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PA sparklie for me is a really blinding char, e.g. electric blue with yellow markings or stuff like that, Mon amie.
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