I've been a dom lead for 8 years and forgot to mention it

Tanadin #74536 on Flight Rising. My main blog is Tanadin. Lightning Dominance lead (I help run the VOLT teams program) This blog was theoretically for lore but now I just reblog cool art and yell about updates. Woops.

[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. (Hit like if you would take their crepe order.)

[clan-of-reaching-stars]

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

[peacevine]

a fun reminder that we’re closer to the point when kids born after the start of flight rising are allowed to join than we are to the actual start of flight rising

[peacevine]

remember when people were trying to get dragons whose id matched their birthday? well, in about three years’ time we’re going to see the sequel that is ‘people trying to find dragons born on the same exact day as them’

[peacevine]

so with the 13th anniversary coming up soon, here’s a fun reminder!

[tormentlime]

I like these critters

[yael-art-den]

When your adoptive daughter is almost the same size as you

[stories-in-the-wind]

Quick 1 hour lighting study to try and internalize some of the things from a talk I went to today. Can you tell I love drawing guardians when I'm just messing around lol

In case anyone's curious while I think it looks good, I don't think it is successful with what I was actually trying to work on, which was to be very specific about all the qualities of light that make for an good composition.

Ultimately the lava at the bottom is not balanced with the blue sky of the cave opening and that weights the image poorly. Your eye wants to be drawn to the dragon's head but I think the brightness of the bottom right corner gives that part of the image too much emphasis.

It's funny, if you turn this image black and white, the intensity difference between those two colors is only 3%, its SUPER minimal. I had to color pick them to figure that out because to my eye they looked balanced. So this gets into the funny way we see color, with warmer colors pulling more attention than cooler colors. If the warm was behind and the cool was in the foreground this proportion of lighting would likely be a lot more successful.

Anyway, as always there's lots to learn, and I'll just keep practicing in the meantime. Hopefully this ramble was interesting if you made it this far.

[dire-vulture]

hmm..would dragons even consider gargoyle/grotesques to be scary or weird looking. a dragon sees a gargoyle and walks up to it and starts talking to it thinking its just one of their obelisk friends

[st0rmy-fr]

every gargoyle has a chance to be either:

An Obelisk

A Vigil

A Mimic

A Rock-like Familiar

A Random Dragon with ground/fissure

An actual Gargoyle

statues can never be trusted in Sornieth

[tomswifty-fr]

one of my silly fr ideas is that there is no evidence for domesticated cattle (they get dairy from snakes) but there is evidence for the existence of a cowboy-adjacent culture (highnoon sets, some other stuff?) so. chicken farming works exactly like the mid 1800s american beef industry. chicken herders on the open range. lassooing them.

[tomswifty-fr]

#wait sorry can you elaborate on the snakes part#i'm all for this but Huh (via @azurebolt-fr)

These drop from buttersnakes in the coli, and are to my knowledge the only dairy-based food items on the site.

The only bovine familiars are the Tauruses (made of water) and Ophiotauruses (reptilian).

I can draw no other conclusion but that we're milking the snakes.

[noctiferous-fr]

he's right behind me, isn't he

[unfortunatelyfletch]

Listen, the birds sing, listen, the bells ring All the living are dead and the dead are all living The war is over and we are beginning 

- In Our Bedroom After the War : Stars

[seeliragh-fr]

when ya boy wants you to come down to the docks to meet his “new friend” who’s “some kind of weird dragon i’ve never seen before” and um He Is Not Lying

[oddfamiliar]

Can’t get over the fact that the canon reason for the discovery of a whole-ass new species was from the desire to compare salaries

[distium]

Okay. My whole Tumblr in these guys, so I decided to draw them too. They're so weird, but I think I like it... ESPECIALLY THEIR BOB TAILS!

Lil funny thing...

[888-fr]

FLIGHT RISING REFACTOR: No, you're not going back.

I am seeing a lot of people ask for a toggle or a way to go back to the old site design, in a way that implies such a thing should be easy to implement. It does sound easy to implement. We have three different colour modes we can switch between, right? We can go between mobile view and wide view? They have all the old code and assets, why can't they just let people pick in their settings to look at the old site again? It's not how it works. It doesn't really matter what your feelings about the refactor are, and I'm not going to give my opinion on it here. I just want to help people understand what exactly happened yesterday and why it's pointless to ask for it to go back.

i. HOUSE

Imagine a house.

It's an old house. It's been around for a while. It was built many years ago, and it's creaky and weird but it's our house, and we like it. There's leaks and the wood is a little aged and it stands out in the block of modern flathouses, but it's still our house.

As much as we love this house, there are issues with the house. Not everybody can get into the house, or navigate in there while they're around. There are things about this house that we can't change while it's made of the same materials that it is.

This is a structural flaw inherent to the house. The house is two-storied. Not everyone can get to the second story. In terms of the site, there were features that were unfriendly for people with visual impairment, people who could only play on their phones, etc.

ii. DARK MODE & INTERFACE

What did the old site look like? Why couldn't we have dark mode? The site was built out of layers and layers of PNGs made to look exactly like the light mode interface. All the NPC images, the old message and friend request icons, they all had white backgrounds or white fragments around the image because they were made assuming the site had a white background.

You couldn't just make the background of the site dark, because every single feature and image was created assuming the background was and would remain white.

This is why the logo was 'doubling' upon itself when the refactor first launched. The Flight Rising logo was a part of the banner image. Now the banner has been removed from the image and it's a floating element on the top of the page. This means it can react when the screen is made smaller. This is the equivalent of being able to move our lightswitch.

What did the site refactor do? Among other things, it decoupled all of these in-built images and features from each other. They added repaintable 'drywall' separate from the site's structure. This was necessary so the site could be reactive. For example, the iconic red sidebar of the page was actually a background PNG with a white part for the site content and a red sidebar, built into one single background image. Now these parts are defined with CSS, which you can think of as the 'wallpaper' of the site.

Every single surface of our house can be repainted now!

iii. Rollback or toggle to old site pls??

This is the refactored site. Among other things, it's been changed to improve accessibility for everyone. It now looks a little bit more like every other house on the block, but it is still the house that we live in. It no longer has two stories to climb. It has a ramp, so people can get in and out with ease. It even has some additional rooms, and renovation is still ongoing. (The contractors are still fixing up the washroom.)

Yes, the site is now designed to be mobile friendly. It no longer has a second floor. It's going to look 'designed for mobile' (people who can't access a second floor.) It's going to look more 'modern' (because the materials people use to build houses has changed.)

People are not used to the new site, of course. Can't they go back to the old house? Why has the door location changed? They keep walking into the walls of the new building. The light switch isn't there when they reach for it anymore. This is understandable. It takes some time to get used to living in a new house. It's a big change. You're going to be fumbling at where the light switch used to be for a long time.

You may even hate how the new house looks. You may not want to live in it anymore. But you can't go back to the old house. It isn't there anymore. You can't have a toggle, because the new site is the infrastructure uploaded to the site's servers, where it is built, and while you can change the colour of the wallpapers or even move the location of the light switch on your own, the house is rebuilt and you cannot 'toggle' it back to the old house.

The database calls, the HTML, the javascript on the front and backends of the site are completely different. The walls and shape of the house are different!

iv. Conclusion

There is a reason there are bug threads and feedback forums for the refactor. You still have time to request that the washroom is a different colour, or the ramp should actually be less steep because the people it's meant for can't actually use it as it was intended. But the ramp, and the accessibility features are here to stay. Don't ask for a toggle or for the site to go back the way it was. It will not be going back to the house built a decade ago. Instead, figure out why the old site worked for you while this one doesn't.

Maybe the ramp was intended for you, but you can't actually use it. Maybe the way the door is positioned now makes it actively harder for you to use the site, in ways other than 'I don't like where it is now and I want it to go back'. Ask for the site to be repainted and improved in ways that would help you.

[impaero]

we love Bickering in the Middle of Somewhere

Commission for WolfsbaneAvis (Pastelfishes)!

[echinoderma]

mr silly

[echinoderma]

o)

[r0ugarou-fr]

Are we not going to talk about how Shadowbinder made a dragon called the "looking at stuff real good" dragon who's lore says they love looking at stuff real good and she only gave them ONE eye

[r0ugarou-fr]