~Big Beefy~

i am Gainstrive (#33774) on Flight Rising, and this is my FR blog! i post and reblog art that is FR related to this blog. 36 - they/them.

[discoelysium-fr]

CUSTOMS BEAM

[milkinawineglass]

First thing I thought of when faced with this order.

[ixiwings]

Making myself a signature for FR forums, feat. Plume /o/

[redbreasted-hainu]

[vorrijaard-fr]

Reaper does as his name says. Basically recreating my reaper/necromancer khajiit/charr characters from other universes! I started this many months ago and abandoned it, until a few days ago when I decided to finally finish it. I'm happy with how this turned out. It's gone through so many re-sketches that it doesn't look like the original sketch anymore...

[dreamweave-rising]

I Can't Believe It's Not Blue!

(No really, that there is Taupe/Clay/Beige, no blues involved) Shorebreak - pair pinglist Unbreaking and Unyielding

[clouds-of-wings]

Every other website: Here's our useless AI integration that nobody needs, you can't turn it off.

Flight Rising: You can make crêpes for dragons now 😌👍

[augite-protector]

The existence of a lawyer dragon in the new minigame implies the existence of standardized law across flights and a bar association

[mobian-fr]

The speed at which I got up and opened Clip Studio

[firebirds-roost]

[inperialis-fr]

Twinkling’s Zephyr

[afreakingnature]

lux! my (current) favorite first gen

[stillhunt-fr]

various vas happenings .... hes so cutes to me

you too can visit my special son here

[elodieunderglass]

Can you re-describe your flight rising lying story? I’m afraid I don’t know it and I can’t find it on your blog anywhere

Ah sorry you can’t find anything on this blog! But when I tricked Flight Rising, it was about birthday dragons.

At some point before the 2millionth dragon was born, I noticed that dragons were being hatched with IDs like 19890902. That’s a birthday!

So naturally I went and submitted a post on the anonymous tumblr confession blog DramaRising, where unhappy people complained about dragons. This was my only post on this blog, which I did not even follow or read. I simply went in to a random dive bar, dropped an explosive, and left.

The post was something like, “I’ve just found my birthday dragon. Be sure to get yours quick!” I believe there was no further explanation of what a birthday dragon even was? I was just momentarily possessed of a spirit of mischief.

Carnage ensued.

Everyone assumed that it was an established new trend, and they were FRANTIC to secure theirs. They posted their birthdays online, threads sprang up, and there was a surge in activity. Cheeky people were exalting birthday dragons to the great woe of the dozens of players sharing these birthdays.

Eventually one of the mods posted that it was now dragon-illegal to post a dragon ID with reference to it being a birthday.

Many of the threads have been deleted, but for example in 2018 people were still talking about it.

Here’s a Reddit thread in which a better historian than myself recalled them selling for 20 million coins.

Nobody could figure out how the trend had started … but by the time they were chasing their birthday dragon, it was already well under way. The trend was a trend! It was trending! It made sense! You only had one chance (or two, if you used USA/UK style dates) to get it, you were competing with others, it was unique and random and could never be repeated… the conditions were perfect for a wild frenzy. It was very funny and good.

There is another punchline: I do not own my own birthday dragon. Someone else has it. It would have been SMART to secure my own birthday dragon before setting off an illegal stock market surge in birthday dragons, but i did not, because…

… i have never cared very much about dragon IDs.

lmao

[elodieunderglass]

Ahahah why is this still so funny to me

[naamahdarling]

Because it's hilarious!

[aomu-fr]

You will tell FR artists they can simplify aspects of your character and then they will look you in the eye and draw your dragon png in crisp high res down to every miniscule detail. They'll draw aspects of your dragon you didn't even know were there. And they'll ask for the equivalent of 2 dollars for it. Do you people just have a thing about masochism? Question borne of love

EDIT: Since this post is gaining traction I'm going to add: TIP! YOUR! ARTISTS! Good big tips! If you see a person underpricing themselves PAY THEM THEIR DUE! People deserve to have their work compensated properly!

I understand as a fellow artist why artists lowball themselves, and that is why you the customer hold a duty to help offset this !! Pay your artists for their beautiful labour !!

[aberration-abbey]

last night i dreamed that flight rising released a new breed called "wish dragons." they were microscopic pathogens, and were created by the shadowbinder to spread some kind of disease among the dragons of light flight that would "prevent them from giving in to despair" over the situation with luminax, because she was worried that if the light dragons gave up on fighting back luminax they would be destroyed and it would come for her territory next. and also, they looked like this:

it was very controversial that they had nowhere to display secondary genes.

[clan-of-reaching-stars]

It's that time of year! Hype responsibly! 🐁🎇