show up in bamboo falls to get your ankles bit

user is finchzhallow# 528622. he/they. yes i took the idea of putting a hat on a familiar from heckling-hydrena. dren if u see this ur swag.

[tigerblood-foo]

hello i am here to scream abt fr

i decided to make an fr sideblog and proceeded to spend more time and effort customizing it then my main. anyway

hi, i’m finch i go by he/they and that’s all the personal stuff you get from me on here. avid enjoyer of obelisks. working on making my lair entirely httyd themed.

i can’t promise i’ll post here consistently. but ill try.

anyway look at him

[milfcastro-deactivated20251208]

Your dashboard at 3 am:

Mutual 1: actively going through a crisis

Mutual 2: fuuuuuck I work in the morning. Might kill myself

Mutuals 3-5: [several reblogs of beautiful scantily clad women]

Mutual 6: just had the best tiramisu of my life 🥰

Mutual 7: I love being unemployed

Mutual 8: I need to be railed rn

Mutuals 9-12: [impressive and well articulated marxist essays]

Mutual 13: I'm in the woods popping pills again.

Mutual 14: something about my laptop fans got me acting unwise

Mutual 15: [posting about the riddler again.]

Mutual 16: there's something wet and scary out there

[unfortunatelymerlin]

bbc merlin has a lot of faults but i do think the way they blithely ignored the existence of christianity was very funny of them

[knfwinthemorning-deactivated202]

[elysianholly]

Fanworks vs. Published Works

Okay, so, I was on Reddit and there was this discourse of fanfic v. published work, and how the lines are beginning to blur more and more, particularly among readers, and how dangerous this is for fandom spaces because fanfic is not designed for the same sort of engagement one has with a published work. They look similar and feel similar, but equating them can be devastating for fanfic writers, particularly if people start reviewing and critiquing fanworks the same way they do published works.

The comparison on that subreddit—which I had never encountered but might well have been around forever and new to no one but me because sometimes I do live in a cave—was that fanfic is like a potluck. And I love that because it's 100% accurate.

At a potluck, you make something for people to enjoy out of love. It’s really shitty to go to a potluck, then walk up to someone who made what you believe is a subpar casserole and start in like you’re a food critic. You’re missing the point of the potluck. And you’re kind of a dick.

In a restaurant, the rules are different, just like in the publishing industry. You select a restaurant, you pay for a meal, and if the meal isn’t to your liking, you can leave the restaurant a review on Google or Yelp or the platform of your choice (assuming you didn’t just throw a tantrum in the restaurant itself, but that’s another discussion). And sure, YMMV from other diners’ experiences, but even if everyone loves this restaurant and you don’t, it’s perfectly acceptable to leave a subpar review listing the reasons why it didn’t meet your standards. It’s fodder for future diners to consider at this point, less for the restaurant itself. The way book reviews are meant to be for readers, not the author. The author will see it, they might get annoyed, but unless they want their career to go up in smoke, they won’t respond. Just like restaurant owners who go nuclear on bad reviews, word spreads when someone can’t take criticism.

And no, it’s still not cool to critique someone’s potluck dish even if that person is a professional chef. They still elected to invest their time, talent, and creativity to bring that dish to the potluck and are getting nothing out of it but the satisfaction of their dish being enjoyed. The potluck should be a safe space for everyone—the chef knows to expect unsatisfied customers at work; when they’re at play, when they’re relaxed and enjoying something with a chosen community, it’s really shitty to start acting like a customer in the restaurant. You don’t have to love what they brought but keep it to yourself and go try something else.

As a published author, it bothers me a lot more when people invade my fanfic space to be critical than it does any of the 20+ works I have for sale on Amazon and other vendors, and this is why. Fanfic is more personal because it’s unpaid labor created out of love and a desire for community. It’s not a commodity, and treating it like that is how you murder joy and, for some creators, sometimes the drive to ever create again.

So don’t be a dick at the potluck, okay?

[elysianholly]

Just had an exchange that made me decide to share this again.

[secundus-cinaedus]

go ahead, buy a house

[tuxankhamun]

street road

[ubernegro]

Just a few things Charlie Kirk said about black people.

1) “Prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people — that’s a fact.”

2) “If I see a Black pilot, I’m gonna be like, ‘boy, I hope he is qualified.’”

3) “George Floyd was a ‘scumbag.’”

4) "[MLK was] just a man ... a very flawed one at that ... a mythological anti-racist creation of the 1960s."

5) "The 'Great Replacement' is not a theory, it's a reality."

6) "If I'm dealing with somebody in customer service who's a moronic Black woman... I wonder, is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because [of] affirmative action?"

7) Leaders "won't do what is necessary, which is arresting Black criminals."

8) "Black crime is a major issue in our country."

9) "What is the real problem exactly? The real problem is that Black fathers abandon the women that they impregnate."

10) "The problem is Blacks that kill themselves a lot — kill each other in inner cities."

11) "Black crime is a huge problem no one wants to talk about. It's not racism."

12) Black Lives Matter wants to "fan the flames of a race war in our country... This is an outright threat. A full frontal domestic terrorism in our country."

13) "A BLM-incorporated leader drove through the holiday parade" (re: Waukesha).

14) The alleged Waukesha attacker was a "Black supremacist terrorist."

15) Juneteenth "threatens the fabric of our country."

16) "Juneteenth should not be a federal holiday."

17) "We should not be like... "you're acting like a Trayvon'.... 'you're a Shaniqua.""

18) “Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”.

19) The 1964 Civil Rights Act was a "huge mistake"

20) MLK Jr was "an awful person"

21) Multiple black politicians "stole white people's spots"

[lohboh]

And now people are making terror threats against HBCUs because of him. These are the people he was an "inspiration" and a "leader" for.

[lunarskips-fr]

Has someone already made this? Probably, but it's all I can think

[tigerblood-foo]

(rises from the dirt) ayo anniversary update????

[bakugames-fr]

Wait what's up with them??

they made a ancient dragon with a headdress that lives in a remote part of the world and have such exotic existences they can barely communicate with other dragons beyond baby speak until the elements get fucked up and now their babies can talk like normal. and their entire story is just some random dragon being vaguely condescending to their real fear of losing the connection of language that they have with their children

[flightrising]

Healer...tree...healer...

Video description: A video in the style of the browser game Flight Rising. Video is of a feathered Wildclaw dragon wearing a satchel sitting in a large tree with the sounds of birdsong filling the air. The dragon is facing northwest of the viewer, leaving their back to the audience and their profile facing away. In front of the dragon's face, a vine slowly drops down from above. The sound of an echoing heartbeat is heard as the video fades to black.

[888-fr]

mass pinglists (& moral superiority for not using them)

There's been concern lately over the newest update announcement that at some point, far into the future or at least after New Year's 2024, mass-pinging as a concept will be retired from Flight Rising. On one hand, there's people worried about this.

There's people who are also, frankly, being wildly vitriolic about those who rely on mass pinglists, disbelieving that anybody could ever be affected by mass ping tools shutting down. They're also out here openly calling skinmakers/G1 collectors/dominance organizers delusional for thinking the things they do are in any way, shape, or form, an important part of the site.

Which like, if people don't use user-run tools like GASP or the G1 pinglist, that's fine! That's your playstyle. But I don't understand where the attitude is coming from that the concerned groups are only a 'loud minority', and that they somehow don't contribute massively to the game as a whole. (The same people, by the way, who call G1 collectors & UMA makers a plague upon dragon society for being an elitist rich boy's club, then turn around and say they're not at all a driving force in the site's economy.) Which one is it? You can't have it both ways. Do these people spend thousands whaling for their perfect XXY G1 wildclaws then hundreds buying gem genes for their fancy showoff dragons? Or are they at best a negligible population in the game, whose activity and monetary contributions to the site are far outweighed by the tens of thousands of 'nice, normal, sane' players who log on once a week to hatch a nest and post on forums once in a blue moon?

There's 825 pages of user-made skins on the site right now. At 50 items per database page, that's 41,250 skins. 41,250 skins that had to be submitted with blueprints that can only be bought with gems.

Let's give these numbers the benefit of the doubt and say each skin was only submitted once, using a 10-print blueprint at 5000 gems, and each accent was only submitted once as well, using a 10-print blueprint at 2500 gems. That's 136,875,000 gems sunk into blueprints - if each individual usermade skin on site has only an average of ten copies on site. (Which is categorically not true, I've had multiple skins print over 300 copies. And I am just one person, and far from the most successful skinmaker on site.)

This is 1,368,750 USD in skin blueprints alone, by the way, using the most barebones and least generous numbers possible. We're not accounting for skins that sell more than one run, or the fact that no skin artist sells their skins to the public at print price (you can add another 30-40% to that number if you want to estimate how much money is actually spent to circulate those skins). Even if none of these artists pay money to buy gems, these gems are coming from somewhere. Even if you, as someone who doesn't care for G1s or never even heard of GASP, never set foot into these places, these gems are still circulating and being sunk into the site. And it helps no one to scoff and say you doubt there's no real impact on anything if all of this goes away.

There's 51k items on the site, and over 80% of them are skins. There's 5k users actively signed up and using GASP - more than the average amount of users logged onto the site at any given point that's not a new breed release or anniversary update.

Are you getting the picture yet? It's not self-absorbed to say that the UMA market has a very real impact on the game economy. It's just numbers.

I need to get my thoughts out about the new mass-ping update somewhere. My thoughts on the actual tool are entirely positive, it's a great change for the site and not one I ever thought I'd see. But there's people worried about the future of tools like the GASP & G1 sales pinglists for very good reason.

I think game economy is a very real concern if you're a dominance participant, a skinmaker, an old dragon collector, a G1 hatcher, an ID hunter, or anyone else whose community relies on mass ping lists. You aren't wrong for feeling this way. I'm sorry people are dismissing very valid concerns about the state of your community out of some misguided 'i don't do this and neither do my friends, so everyone who does must be a loud overexaggerating nitwit' attitude.

[tigerblood-foo]

if i had a nickel. for everytime i accidentally rbed something here after months of inactivity. id have too many nickels

[888-fr]

people saying FR staff have terrible communication is kind of starting to piss me off 😭 we were told ON SITE that sandsurges would be gem breeds. if you didn't read that, that's on you, not with devs failing to communicate the way this breed release would pan out. they quite literally posted an essay the other day just to reflect on what the refactor meant for them and the site. it's like the people saying FR staff are ableist for expecting people to read their news posts have never played an actually bad petsite with in their lives

[888-fr]

the communication on this site is great and has been getting steadily better for the past few years. I think some of you need to experience the joys (?) of playing petsites where none of the staff have logged on for 6 years or where the admins actively cuss out and publicly embarrass people they don't like in the forums. there are actual games where it IS a corporate entity pumping out content just for money instead of a team of a handful of people running a petsite for a decade

[tigerblood-foo]

honestly kind of sad that they didnt continue the trend of giving a free egg or breed change but oh well. guess ill have to wait a bit for them to start cycling in the auction house and not being ridiculously expensive

[flightrising]

Do you think they get paid more than us?

(video description below)

Video Description: Video is of a desert scene with mountains and lightning in the background. In the center is a modest-sized silo shaped power station with a door. There is a toolbox to its right and coming out of its left side is a power cable running off screen. There are tools scattered about and the station appears to be made of a copper metal. The domed part of the station is transparent. Inside the dome is a metallic coil glowing and sparking with electricity. The power station and ground beneath it slowly begins to collapse and as the station disappears from view, three large spiny dorsal fins rise out of the sand and begin to circle the sinkhole.

[tigerblood-foo]

ALL THREE NIGHTLIGHT PERMABABIES ARE FINALLY DONE

ruffrunner was the least expensive only needing a breedchange (i think, he was finished before i made the doc) which totaled to 400kt and pouncer was the most expensive being 1,530 GEMS. ALL FOR GLOWTAIL

in total they all costed me 1,450,000 treasure and 1,880 gems. the things i do for autism.