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wow happy fat dragon friday the 13th

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the worlds pointiest and sharpest dragon in the world has never been hugged in his life never ever. wouldnt you be so kind as to give him a hug because he is so so sad

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What's this? A new Boneyard? Wait! Did you hear tha—

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stragglers from May. Yeah…

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Commission for @pequene-ninho of their absolutely gorgeous girl Ivesce! She was such a blast to draw, thank you so much :)

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Dragons for sale!~

Fluffy Vampires ~ 50kt XYY Orca/Ruby Banescales ~ 40kt Plague Punks ~ 17kt

Can find them here in the Sales tab!~

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flight rising can we have new terts. pls flight rising we r being so good please let us have new terts

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Fish Meat 🐟🥩

Strawberry/Vermilion/Maize Coral/Carmine/Berry Berry/Coral/Cream

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currently have a google forms running about which of my breeding pairs change to Fathom if you wanna join in on the fun, find the survey in the replies/reblogs.

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Fat people can be elegant and gothic and scary in a hot way and mysterious and tragically beautiful. These aesthetics aren't locked to a particular body type.

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After the search for the Tidelord dredges up a bubble of dire portent, many Fathoms return from their oceanic journeys to assist the efforts of the dragon clans of the continent.

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one of the weirdest (and worst) takes ive seen on the discussion about needing more shape/body variety in new dragon breeds is the whole ''oh well people prefer elegant looking dragons, not goofy ones"". not only is that not true (aethers and spirals are very goofy and also very very popular), it implies skinny = elegant and fat = goofy which is also.. not true. and very weird to imply.

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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" anatomy my 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:

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Slippery Fish (oops all fishbone) on the AH now!

@fr-boosts

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in my heart i know that tundra dragons are fat

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hot fucking take, snappers aren't unpopular because they're fat, it's because their design is bad

is just makes no sense to me? like here:

it's like they tried to add snapper turtles + elephant inspo but like didn't lean into it enough

also I hate how they are posed, they look so lifeless to me

anyway here's a snapper redesign

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Flight Rising's eleventh year in operation kicks off with a splash of adventure! The Fathom dragons have returned from their decades-long circuit around the oceans, only to learn of the Tidelord's mysterious disappearance. Working in conjunction with the Water flight, they have launched an expedition to search for clues.