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#pinned #intro #flight rising

99fish

modern dragon stamps i made for funsies =3

#reblog

azurebolt-fr

girin scry bc i suddenly felt inspired

(spruce/orange blend/peach topscale)

#OBSESSED #reblog

cosmo-gecko

april fools' idea: all dragon images become size accurate. your fae is now like 4 pixels. the biggest breeds just get cut off either in the image box or by the ui

npc art is usually to scale with their surroundings but they could go all-in and change those too

#this would be SO FUNNY #i would eat that shit up #reblog

elvhen-arts

Tsybik- Owned by Fyralath on FR

#art #reblog

daily-fandragon

Day 518

Kaedehara Kazuha from Genshin Impact by jiniret

#this fandragon ROCKSSSSS oh my god #the colours the outfit the everything ... waow #reblog

roniikue-fr

Kassiopeia !

#gooooorgeous oml #reblog

flightrisingarchive

Hi all! A few years back, I worked with a few others to create a flight rising iceberg and today, I realized I have a lot more knowledge of Flight Rising history than the average user. And unless something's changed, I don't know of any place specifically dedicated to preserving both flight rising's site and community history, so I figured why not do it myself?

At this current moment, I'll be posting more stuff that requires less explanation (probably gene errors and some old assets at the moment), but after finals I'll get to the cool obscure stuff. Please feel free to send in anything you think should be archived. Hope you'll stick around while I archive all of this and hopefully, you'll learn something new!

his greed sickens me

Was taking a look at the World Map this afternoon and finally figured out how to extract the Luminax textures from it. Combined the right-facing idle and roar strips for the above, and the left-facing ditto for the below (Luminax is not symmetrically coloured, so there's left- and right-facing strips for every animation).

Haven't attempted the walking animations, since as well as right- and left-facing there's also facing-front and -back directions - so four different pose strips, and there'd need to be 4 different gifs made. Blargh.

Feel free to grab copies of these to host elsewhere for your own use, if you don't want to just link to them here. No attribution needed since they aren't my graphics.

#reblog

color-palettes

isn’t rot such a beautiful thing? - Submitted by youllstealannuduh

#2c0000 #4f2f22 #5b514a #796e2f #490505 #405a35

palushiemalis-fr

the reaction people have to the site layout rework is really eye opening to me. I have mixed feelings about it, but I know I'll get used to it and I like the dark mode a lot.

I grew up on the mid-2000s internet, and it was pretty common to just log in to a site like deviantart or neopets or youtube or whatever and see the layout completely reworked with no warning whatsoever. and you had absolutely no say or feedback about this shit, you just had to put up with it. and people would rage but then a month later no one would care.

six months later, everything gets rearranged and converted to a new system with no warning again. The site crashes or a function stops functioning, the team apologise, take the site down for a few hours and it comes back weird looking but functional again. and it happened so many times. If you use the wayback machine on some sites they would change their layout year-to-year. People would always complain but the staff weren't going to listen, feedback threads were rare.

So with the new layout we got plenty of fore-warning, asking for ideas, implementation of user's ideas, a feed back thread, and lots of communication. I think that's great. Nowadays its pretty rare for a site to completely rework it's layout, so even small changes like changing the colour of a button incites rage. *old man voice* you kids don't know how lucky you are! *shakes cane.*

There's a part of me which is frustrated that only now are people coming out of the woodwork to claim it's an act of tyranny and it looks horrendous, when they didn't really involve themselves in the discussion beforehand. But I also sympathise that we all have limited time and our priorities aren't always about paying attention to the future plans of the dragon jpeg website.

idk man I think we'll get used to it, though I know some people are reporting issues with eyestrain so hopefully that can get resolved.

missari-fr

i think a lot of the playerbase- or at least a large portion of the playerbase who is active on the forums, tumblr, and reddit- is incredibly disconnected from reality and what a reasonable expectation for their gaming experience even looks like

there are so many comments lamenting the style changes and how they miss the aesthetics of the old internet but it's like... babygirl this site launched in 2013, if this was the "old internet" you would not be informed of upcoming site changes and you certainly wouldn't have a say in them.

web 1.0 and early 2.0 looked the way they did because there was basically One Guy experimenting. there was zero precedent on web design, no tools to make the site look better, and even if you could make a site look good on your device there was no consistency on how it would look from browser to browser and no guarantee that other people would have the bandwidth to view it.

not to mention, user feedback wasn't really a thing. you might interface with other people on a site once forums and chats were implemented, but rarely with the ~*~webmaster~*~

people are yearning for aesthetics that are only possible when the developer has complete creative freedom and an extremely limited toolset. a hypothetical old internet FR would have the devs changing up the UI however they damn well pleased and as often as they wanted, because what the fuck are you going to do about it? they might leave the website to collect dust if they got busy, and there'd be a looming threat of shutting it down if server costs got too expensive. they could get bored of this whole dragons thing and go nah we're a football game now.

more on this later, but FR has been actively going in this direction stylistically since at least 2017 and telling us about it every single step of the way. and you still see various FR players on the daily screaming and gnashing their teeth and writhing on the floor about the devs not "communicating" with the playerbase, as if we don't have the most open and responsive team on planet earth