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Light Lair scene for Flight Rising. Happy Brightshine!

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one could ASSUME that the theme is going to be a unicorn for every flight!! but we won't know until next month for sure! it COULD be something else! it could be an elemental version of any sornieth wildlife, like there could be a Crackling Noggle next time. A Flaming Toridae. uhhh a Petrified Ophiotaurus. do i think that is likely not really!! i think it's probably unicorns and that is very exciting. will they look like different type of deer and/or antelopes we just don't know! will they all have little bird friends?? anyway i like the unicorn i think its NICE. it IS funny that if it's cerdae the whole year then 11 new cerdaes (probably 22 including recolors) will be added to an already very crowded clade. sornieth is absolutely swarming with unicorns. on earth the majority of mammals are bats but on sornieth it's unicorns. i've gotten distracted. anyway it might not be unicorns. looking forward to the Static-charged Ferberus next month

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Tiny the traveling dog meets the king of new yawk city

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updated the soot sprite #mythis

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i'm going on a trip on saturday and i'm having the problem where it's like, "my appointment is at 4pm so i cant do anything else the rest of the day" but for the entire week. simply dont have time for that, got airplane later

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WOW!!! do YOU love piebald but hate the basic look?? Well good NEWS you can get COOL ACCENTS to SPECKLE your HROSIES!!* Vitiligo accents for Cirrus F, Cirrus M, Cirrus F Coral Edition™, Fae M and Obelisk F are now up on the AH! Check out the Forum post for preview and AH Links here! *all dragons can be horsies if they desire

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so the fact that sophie's splendid stitches is just baldwin 2 is Whatever but what I'm really losing my mind about is the improved item selection popup??? I'd attach a screenshot but an item is being processed atm 😔 like holy shit they have the popups ready they just need to port them over to other site features (baldwin's, crossroads, messages, etc)

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extremely unpopular opinion i know, but i actually have trouble with the new paginated version. my typical baldwin strat is to just scroll to a random spot and then pick something it looks like i have a lot of and won't miss. especially for apparel and familiars, the pages make this a bit difficult to find "junk" stuff. maybe if it had a page jump at least, or a random page button or something idk.

HOWEVER, the ability to just search stuff is such basic QOL and needs to be added to everything else everywhere. and i realize that not having to load every single image at once is probably better. i just like waggling the scrollbar around until i find something i want to sacrifice lol.

this is my opinion SPECIFICALLY for baldwin/sophie btw. they need to implement the new one in messages and the AH immediately

so the fact that sophie's splendid stitches is just baldwin 2 is Whatever but what I'm really losing my mind about is the improved item selection popup??? I'd attach a screenshot but an item is being processed atm 😔 like holy shit they have the popups ready they just need to port them over to other site features (baldwin's, crossroads, messages, etc)

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Day 50 - Manticore Screamer

While one of these tiny manticore may appear helpless, its friends, family, and former roommates are but a scream away...

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Owleic's post of Thomas's Terrific Taxes:

..what's thomas?

Oh boy, I get to chaotically stumble in trying to explain PNG dragon game meme history, bear with me.

So back in 2021, Flight Rising had a site event called Dustcarve Dig which eventually led to the reveal of a new modern dragon breed, the Obelisk (modern dragon releases are bigger events than ancient dragon releases which drop every 6 months or so but we don't have time for that ‐). In the meantime, a joke started that we would instead find humans, which led to this historic post/image

One mockup of a stock model in a suit led to an icon

Anyways, the joke popped off and eventually led to the main site forums, and before the irony could turn into actual sincere desire for humans to be added to the site, the mods had to make it clear

(I think this is also where the common use of Thomas Real started)

Lore-wise and site-wise, humans will never exist in Sornieth, with the closest things we'll get are the beastclans that have human characteristics (centaurs, maren, harpies, etc).

But we still live in hope

So it's become tradition at this point to say that every anniversary or site event, they'll finally drop Thomas and make him canon

Pretty sure I mucked up some info, so other FR users feel free to correct me or mention stuff I forgot

Anyways, Thomas 💖

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When your adoptive daughter is almost the same size as you

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Tiny visitor.

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Pictured above: an illustration of a soldier and a priest of the Light flight, wearing typical garb.

The soldier is a young but promising cadet, shown here with an impressive amount of battle plates for her age. Battle plates, often referred to simply as "plates", are plates of metal forged with a single symbol, each given to represent a certain act of valor in combat. As an individual rises through the ranks, their number of plates increases, visually signaling their place in the hierarchy. Many high-ranking individuals become so burdened with these plates that they cannot take flight, though dragons with such a high number of plates generally stay behind the front lines as strategists.

The priest is shown wearing a typical plain white robe, ornamented with gold jewelry. Among Light dragons and priests in particular, gold is considered sacred, as its yellow color and distinctive shine in the sunlight is said to glorify the Lightweaver, and priests are often gifted gold jewelry forged by nearby clans for their service. Light priests also ornament themselves with parchment inscribed with sentences and phrases favored by the individual priest, often taken from holy texts. Though this priest has chosen short phrases, some wear parchments with longer sentences or even entire passages written on them. Wearing these parchments is believed to spread knowledge and thus honor the Lightweaver, who values knowledge above all else.

(Transparent version under the cut.)

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my uncle who works at flight rising let me log into the top secret test server to see the upcoming anniversary update!!!!!! yeehaw!!

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you have to capture those guys

sudden desire to doodle some pokemon if anyone wants to request some

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A swim with a lady

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gotta catch 'em all

sudden desire to doodle some pokemon if anyone wants to request some