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Favorite mythical creature? (hexbear.net)

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I'd have to pick gryphons, for a variety of reasons:

Lions are badass, eagles are badass, making gryphons badass squared
Historically associated with strength and protection
They're often portrayed as having human-level intelligence and how fucking cool would it be to talk to one
They would give the absolute best cuddles and you cannot convince me otherwise

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The number of times humans made furries completely independent of other cultures is really interesting to me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"What if a dude was also a wolf" is not that far-out of a concept

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Sure, but there aren't a lot of ideas that appear spontaneously on multiple continents. "What if a person had a snake body for legs" happened both in Greece and India, probably totally independently. That's really neat!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's the oldest fandom in existence, yeah.