Oughhhhh

[heckling-hydrena]

playing flight rising for over 8 years has really warped my idea of what a dragon is. like a dragon is just a person to me. when I see non-fr posts talking about dragons I don't imagine a wild animal or a wise ancient being I don't imagine a metaphor for the power of nature or for human greed I don't imagine a big lizard sitting on a pile of gold I just imagine a guy. a Dragon guy. that comes home from their Dragon job to their Dragon wife and their three-headed cat and worries about things like Dragon taxes and Dragon politics. dragons exist in the same place in my mind as elves and dwarves and shit. they fit squarely in the 'human person but different' zone. I see a tumblr post about a dragon and I imagine someone's lesbian guardian knight oc

[888-fr]

Love the new crepe minigame. Started imagining what my own dragons would order. You think the NPCs sass off to you? Can you imagine what the average player's lair dragons would order, especially all the murderers, criminals, scammers, and demi-gods???

Anyway, I drew three of my own dragon's crepe orders. They'd be the worst customers ever.

Dragons: Tachyon, Unnamed, Mudpup.

[888-fr]

Wait, I forgot: here's the BG from a screenshot I took if you want to draw your own dragons ordering!

[rotboundbeast]

i have this curse where i draw my flight rising dragons then immediately after i get bored and change them. anyways here is george she is now a nocturne <3

[st0rmy-fr]

[pocketss]

terrible concept: tundra emperors

[pyramidrising-moved]

Ohhh I love this!

Imagine tundra emperor in winter coat: it heads have such a thick manes that it looks like it has just one giant head with multiple faces in it

[pocketss]

YES GOOD!!

[bakugames-fr]

the pride vistas are one continuous background... (courtesy of pixelspiral on fr for arranging this)

[peacevine]

images that convince you flight rising DESPERATELY needs site themes

[fishingminigameart]

why did they have that

[mothcrumbs]

[meesefr]

I'm running a colouring contest for BSJ! Come and join for a chance to win up to a 1000 gems and an assortment of goodies, together with some badges. Last time I did one of these was back in 2015, so I'm looking forward to everyone's spirals hehe ◝(ᵔᗜᵔ)◜

Link to Contest | Link to Template

[goannafr]

he's trying

[corvidus-fr]

when's Tidelord coming back, anyway? i can't wait for his new album to drop

[oddfamiliar]

St. Thomas, herald of the Obelisk, and patron saint of tax assistance for the citizens of Sornieth

Happy anniversary Flight Rising, and happy birthday Thomas :]

[lindwur-fr]

Oh Lightweaver in your house of glass,

I'll forgive it cuz your Ancients kick ass

[vierdz]

FR commission for T3CHN01R's dragon Mythanar! Yes this is a reference to the shaking pear gif.

[breathe2-fr]

Hey all! I'm starting a skin shop! Got a false emperor skin for bog F and a Mistral Jamboree reject for spiral H up for preorders!

Check out my shop here!

[oddfamiliar]

..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 💖

[flightrising]

How much sand could a Sandsurge surge in a sandstorm surging sand?

Darude. "Sandstorm." Before the Storm. JS16 (Finland), 1999. Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erb4n8PW2qw

(Video description under the cut)

The video opens on a desert in the middle of a sandstorm. The song "Sandstorm" by Darude slowly fades in. At 00:07 seconds, the first dun-na-na-na-na is heard and we see the blue glowing augments and silhouette of a dragon through the sandstorm before they fade out. With each dun-na-na-na-na the dragon's glow briefly shows through the storm. As the dun-na-na-na-nas increase in frequency at seconds 00:15, we see the green glow of a different dragon to the right of the screen, a yellow glowing dragon to the left, and the red glow of a different dragon further back and to the right. The glowing colors cycle through with each increasingly rapid dun-na-na-na-na until the beat drops at 00:21 and the sandstorm clears to reveal four Sandsurge dragons having a dance party in the sandy desert under a canopy of stars in the skies above. As they dance sparkling blue and white stars rain down over them before the video and music fade out.