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holy shit i thought it was a combination of mis-remembering and screen calibrations / f.lux when the colorwheel update came out

Spinning Fathom is going right beside Upsidedown Skydancer on my personal list of favourite Flight Rising NPCs

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this event got me thinking about my water ancient idea

I still just want a big ole whale dude 😔

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i thought maybe that going a couple months with no egg-hatching would help curb the habit, but i really got down to those last five familiars and was like "okay, back to spending all my gems on that again".

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flight rising community on tumblr!

i put in a request to create a flight rising community through the new communities feature on tumblr, and it was finally approved! the feature is currently invites on main blogs only; if you're interested in joining, send me a quick dm from your main blog and i'll send you an invite! ♥

EDIT: alternatively you can just reply with the name of your main blog as well! ♫

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not a moot, but if nobody else comes along and I can make room, i'm happy to host

Folks that are possibly also mutuals. Do any of you have an arcane nest I could borrow for solstice (the 20th). I can boon but I just had a nest idea.

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oh, hmm, the fiona fams cost less than I would have guessed, part of me wants to "cheat" and just buy them before I unlock them for real

i can probably save up those gems faster than the 80-something days it'll be before i hit awakened

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tag urself

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Old ornery Motte, a retired plague general.

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oh my goddd a bababy a bay baby baby

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direct from the horse's mouth..

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all g1s - all unbred

pls come grab them here

want to haggle?? DM me!

no price? let me know! I wont make you play guessing games!

pls help me free up space so i can impulse more things ❤

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THOMAS EEL

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what's the flight rising art direction post?? I used to play that game

for everyone who doesn’t know flight rising is a virtual pet site ala neopets, but with dragons. On its forums I made a thread pointing out that the dragon designs were becoming relatively more “same face” over time, with similar face shapes and often with a similar “noodly” anatomymy point being that they were both losing some of the charm of a lot of the animals they were based on (with bug, bird, and eel inspired dragons all looking somewhat similar and mammalian), and even more pertinently, not allowing for a wide variety of body types for user characters in the game - with most of the gameplay being a dressup/character creator, you see why having very few buff, chubby, stocky, etc character designs is a pretty big downside.These are the dragons released in the first half of the website’s history, with the shapes outlined:

(these pairs are the same species but have somewhat different body shapes, so they were both outlined)And these are the dragons released recently. The stockier guy on the bottom left is the very oldest of these:

I also pointed out several of these designs have very similar faces, relative to the facial variety you could have with dragon designs (other two recent guys are outlined above):

In comparison, here’s some of the head shapes from earlier dragon designs:

and yeah I think you can see what I mean about the shape language getting a bit more homogeneous. I expressed that I felt like the art team may have observed the popularity of the thinner, doglike dragons in comparison to the chubby reptilian ones and decided to err towards the former.

I also drew some dragons to better get across my point about shape language when people suggested I was failing to account for the fact that the “sameface” dragons weren’t entirely identical:

(obviously I’m exaggerating shapes for clarity of point; clarifying here as some people believed I was knocking the art style and wanted it to be more cartoonish…)I also pointed out that you could easily draw very identifiable fanart of two breeds which people were saying looked different:

(someone told me these didn’t read as fanart of either dragon. you be the judge, I guess) I did get a lot of very nice comments, both in agreement and disagreement, but also some comments that I was being disingenuous, arrogant, or (much more dishearteningly) suggesting that fat designs are simply too unappealing and that the artists can’t waste their time on it because the website is a business.

yesterday they released a sneak peak at their newest dragons, which people believe are cetacean inspired. I tuned in as the initial preview (which only featured an arm) made it look pretty stocky:

but, shocker:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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REALLY love the nighttime banner for when we're between dives

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OKay, that comment about unbred 6-digit g1s was a joke, but does anybody know how much either a Skycat or a Bone Fiend have gone for these days?

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I wonder how many unbred g1 6-digits it would take to trade for a skycat or bone fiend lol.

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okay i decided that if i was gonna clear my gems to do anniversary eggs, i should buy the last fam in treasure

soooo

Dreadtooth should be at the end of this event.

Rainbowbeast and Rogue Excavator will be mine in a couple months.

I know more familiars will likely be released before I unlock the two fiona ones.

BUT