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sup, i’m omi, and i really like dragons. i do some writing sometimes
lets see how long i can keep a tagging system coherent
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new idea - bone bees. they're a mutated species of carpenter bees that have evolved to bore in to the plagueland's great abundance of scattered bones. what they actually feed on varies by location and species, and can be anything from landboil fluid to the blood of unwary passerby, and for those that produce any kind of "honey" it is often either toxic or produces other extreme and unwanted effects, but that is far from enough to stop the hardy people of the plaguelands from finding their own uses for it and making sure not to waste a single damn drop.
some species take a more actively parasitic role, and seek to roost within living bone and flesh....
I have arcane as one of my only blocked tags (because of the show) and so when I was first scrolling the flight rising tag and I see a post tagged arcane I thought oh whoops tumblr is preventing me from seeing flight rising posts because of my blocked tag when in fact it’s just the flight they must be talking about. It was a Viktor fan dragon.
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whenever I see someone making fun of the tidelords disappearance I get SO angry. Its just so insensitive to water dragons, and it ALWAYS comes from a wind, earth, or ice dragon. Like I don’t think you have any ground to stand on guys, your deities are still more neglectful than the tidelord and he’s not even here
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Dude your god has been gone for so long his long lost children came back before him
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Aren’t you the one who carved your fanart of femboy Icewarden into the side of the pillar.
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???? You’re literally a shade apologist
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HOW ARE THERE SHADE APOLOGISTS ON DRUMBLR IN THIS DAY AND AGE I THOUGHT THEY WERE ONLY ON DRITTER
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are we gonna just brush over the femboy icewarden thing
🦅 talonafan2477 Follow
@ see-the-stars the Arcanist is the ORIGINAL shade apologist what are you talking about
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btw “ice ice baby” is apart of from clan froststep that has a history of supporting the gaolers during the freezeflash war and thus the destruction of the banescales
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Yeah but what about the femboy icewarden thing
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you can excuse genocide but draw the line at femboy icewarden?
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im not drawing the line i just wanna see it myself
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thats fair
Happy Wavecrest! ^^
the more things change, the more things stay the same
also in case you forgot, this is what people wanted dragon profiles to revert to:
Look I have been playing this game for 11 years the new layout is going to take a lot of getting used to, my dislike of it may change after the weekend when I've had time to look at it more
That said, as someone who has decent knowledge of HTML/CSS and who went to school for graphic design, it DOES need some work
The devs need a lot of CONSTRUCTIVE feedback from the community rn
Rant about it if you want to on Tumblr but if you're going into the forums to tell them how much you hate the new layout at least give them some reasons why, maybe even some potential ideas on how to fix it, they can't do anything with "I hate it, it sucks"
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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.
i know site's getting old but still
greying?
do you think senior dragons call their grandkids "grandchildren" or do they call them "grandlings" like grand hatchlings
Hatchlings have two types....
In light of recent news,
amazing how they made arlo the most annoying and also kinda useless thing to do ever. like great i have to check back every 15 minutes to make 2 pixels of progress for about ten thousand years to get items that are on the auction house for about 5 gems
I don’t really know how to solve the issue of arlo item deflation without an item exchange system like baldwin or sophie so really the only thing I could imagine fixing anything about arlo is just like. I dunno. Let me use every single pickaxe at once ? Let me queue up like 27 of them ? Not have it be 5 clicks to even get to digging ? Really every single thing about the digsites seems to be designed to be as annoying as possible to use while being impossible to make it worth it to even use as a site function
Well I guess I have a new breeding project now - a dragon in paralympic colours to put all these new medals on
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Mistral Jamboree Cuisine
While Wind does have many traditional cooking styles and techniques, it not uncommon for Wind chefs to be a polyglot of the culinary world. Traveling frequently, always on the search for new foods and cuisine, these chefs know no bounds. Eating is often interactive between chef and customer or even between customers. It is the art of sharing in the chaos of the kitchen, it is a story, a painting, a feast for the eyes and stomach.
(also Wind has rice, despite the fact that FR does not have rice...nor tomatoes or garlic- but they do have Edamame so at least soy sauce could be a thing)
Noodle Racing- popularized in the Reedcleft Ascent, a racing game in which slides made of halved bamboo shoots are filled with running spring water and thin noodles (made of Quinoa) are dropped down them to the customers to catch. The customers can then dip them into a broth made of Dried Anchovies and Fairy Ears. There is a great debate about how to catch the noodles, whether one should use horn, tail, or claws… or the chopsticks offered by the host.
Bamboo Steamed Medley (or Melody)- another interactive effort in which a green bamboo is cut open to make a vessel for whatever ingredients are brought by the guests. The bamboo is then closed back up and then placed over a charcoal grill to slowly steam its contents. Common ingredients for this dish are Zephyr Sparrows or Cottontail Rabbit, Wild Onion, Bean Beetles, and Fairy Ears along with soy sauce and Fragrant Orchid wine.
Windsinger’s Treasure Wraps- Treasure plants are considered great gifts of luck and are often given during the Mistral Jamboree. Their leaves are also edible, and are used as wraps for thinly sliced vegetables like Wild Onion, pickled Green Shoots, Sour Spinach, and Cliff Lion stalks. Served with a sauce made of Wild Mustard and soy sauce.
Springswarm Stir-fry- having the Springswarm during a festival month is a fortuitous event for a Flight filled with insect eaters. The insects are caught by the millions for festival, and are salted, dried, and preserved. But the most favored variation is freshly caught and stir-fried in a hot wok along with Green Shoots and Fairy Ears in a Royal Oyster sauce. (thanks to @tinygryphon-58570 for the idea!)
Last Song Adobo- Reedhopper Frogs are a common delicacy of Singer’s Brook, and every home cook has their own variation of this adobo. Essentially it is frog legs braised in a stew made of Granny Smith Apple vinegar, sugar, dried Golden Pepper, Royal Oyster sauce, garlic, and Chikweed till reduced into a sweet sticky glaze. Served over Quinoa or rice.
Tigersblood Soup- high up in the clouds, the taste of food is dulled so dishes that are extremely spicy, sour, or sweet are favored. Tigersblood soup is a such a dish and the broth base is made of spicy Blacktongue peppers, Wild Onion, ginger, and dried Fireflies. Greater Plantain leaves are placed in the bottom of the bowl, then the boiling broth, and then thin slices of Armored Catfish are quickly poached in the broth. Served with a large bowl of rice and a gourd filled with Minty Jadevine juice to cool the tongue.
Sweet Grass Dumplings- a favorite of Cirrus dragons, a steamed dough made of Sweet Grass that can be filled with anything and everything. Some popular favorites are Lunar Lacewing and Sunbeam Fig (drizzled with Bumble honey), Green Plantains and Jumbo Shrimp, Sour Green Apple and roasted Woodland Acorns (dusted with Cinnamon Sugar), and Greenworms and Sour Spinach (with a Bumble Honey and Wild Mustard sauce).
Blueberry Pinwheels- the root of Pinwheel Paddy’s stuffed with glutinous rice and Blue Rose jam (tastes like blueberries!), then simmered in a sweet Blood Acorn syrup. Once removed from the syrup it is cooled, sliced into rounds, and Blue Honeycomb is drizzled over the top.
Strawberry Clouds- this dessert starts with a Sweetpuff egg meringue which is piped into a nest shape and then baked. It is then filled with a sweet custard mixed with Pale Pink Rose syrup, before being topped with fresh cut Strawberries. Harvesting eggs from Sweetpuffs may turn them into Ragepuffs, but it is worth it for this sweet treat!
Eleven’s Tisane- a mark of a true Wind adventurer is this brew made from plants from all of the Eleven Flights. The most common mix is made of Pelagas Feathers (Light), Cindermint (Fire), Dandelion Seeds (Shadow), Winterbelle (Ice), Speckled Petunia (Water), Peace Lily (Wind), Starfall Blossom (Arcane), Stonecorn (Earth), Engineered Superberry (Lightning), Jungle Lilies (Nature), and Bonebark Mold (Plague). Some dragons spend years trying to collect every plant needed for this tisane, and the brewing of even a small batch is considered the greatest honor.
Painted Sunrise Cocktail- this cocktail starts by adding Golden Camellia tea, Sunbeam Fig syrup, Clover Wine, and fresh cut Strawberries. Using a muddler, the strawberries are squished so they release their juices and tinge the drink pink. Ice and sparkling water are added to top off the drink, and then the drink is stirred. Garnished with more strawberries and Cliff Lion petals.
