#but before pearlcatchers

[moons-rising]

also glad they didn't retcon imperials being the very first light breed, their fucked up lore is important to me

[dragonjadearts]

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[seafaremarketplace]

I am once again asking to see some pearlies for adopt examples.

No apparel or skins at this time. Their ID numbers would be helpful tho

[goannafr]

you guys know that anytime i hatch a faceted eyed kid i have to draw them as a twinkle eyed pony dragon

this kid is Gioia and YOU can have him as soon as i figure out how much t to list him for lol

[thegreatyin]

i once made a flight rising scry for caeru but it was forever ago and i wanna redo it just to see if my mental image of him has changed over the years. however. i Do Not Know which breed he would be.

[blukitty-fr]

Sun Hunter - 2661553

Loosely based on the Skoll familiar

[mawsmauls]

Day three for the @dragonaday-fr challenge! Serva is certainly warm and fluffy, just don't ask who's turning up the heat.

[thirsty-4-ghouls]

I have three thoughts that pop up every time I see a dusthide. Not all of them each time, but at least one

Most common thought: he have no ears 😭

Second most common: armadillo (armadillos have ears though, so I guess more pangolin? But the way they are segmented… the pangolin thing reminds me of their claws more though. Hmm, overthinks what species of real animals one can compare them to)

And the final one: so, remember those toys from the 2000s that you put on a magnet and they went from a ball to a little guy?

Update, I have gotten sleep and am now confused about why I was so sad every time I saw that they had no ears

[flippedorbit]

all grown up..

[canisalbus]

I saw that you have a Flight Rising account! What kind of FR breeds do you think Vasco and Machete would be?

I can see machete being a skydancer or a really scrawny pearlcatcher

I think I was asked this once before, and people were strongly in favor of skydancer for Machete. I could also imagine him as a spiral though. Vasco is kind of tricky because none of the breeds have his rounded curves in my eyes, but nocturnes could work.

These are the "realistic" designs I made for them back then:

But if you wanted to go for a more colorful/conceptual/vibes route, you might get something along these lines or so?

[bubbledragum]

cool lore implication that might be coming from everlux dragons existing is their role: archivists. people wanting emperor hunters in direct response to emperors existing weren't right, but they weren't far off. the encyclopedia entry could be guiding us towards this understanding that they are a means of defense in a different way until the emperors could be understood and dealt with.

we know imperials are the first dragons lightweaver made, so everlux must come between them and pearlcatchers. it's possible that they were created specifically to save as much knowledge as possible before emperors potentially destroyed ages of recorded study.

they're protecting light's entire life work - the remaining memory of generations of lifespans dedicated to the research of the world - so when luminax started to get too close to their homes, their natural instinct wasn't just to save themselves but also the recorded knowledge of their flight's entire purpose.

i'm tired, though. iunno.

[fenneckitsune]

Oh!! I have a whole clan im working on thats a little fucked up and weird like that

The residents of Gloaming grove are all some form of supernatural/mythical entity outside of being a dragon.

Mardava here is a hag who is a sort of weaver of fate. She reccords the happenings of every resident everyday in their own book in her library. Everyone in town knows its best to stay on her good side. You dont want your book to become a short read. You can bargain with her to make your story longer, but what are you willing to exchange for a few years more? Is it truly worth it?

Chryseis is one of the best guards for the town. She’s some sort swamp monster according to others in town. Truly no one really knows exactly what she is. They just know she stalks the waters beneath the boardwalks of gloaming grove and intruders who have the misfortune of invoking her ire have fled screaming with the rantings of madmen. She also likes making wooden carvings out of driftwood. She’s given several to others in the community as a token of friendship.

This handsome fellow is still a little underway. His current name on site is Yaakovit but im searching for something to better fit the vibe. He’s the clan’s leader who sees to the improvement and approval of just about anything and everything. More housing for weary travellers finding their way here? Of course! More space for permanent residence? Why wouldnt we have such a thing? A disagreement between two clanmates? He’ll go and sort it out himself. Strange how he has to be invited in anywhere but most chalk it up to a specific brand of politeness he has. Has anyone ever seen him eat? Dont be silly he only eats in the privacy of his own home to not impose on others! How come he’s never around during the day? He’s a busy man who’s for sure tending to everything he needs to do and is in no way a vampire what are you talking about.

Hello I am doing not great. Can people show me their favorite dragons who are just a little fucked up and weird. Eldritch terrors. ghosts. evil clowns. you know the vibe. The kind of stuff the SCP foundation or Umbrella Corp would look at and be like "well that's a bit much isn't it"

please thank you love you bye <3

[bonefall]

How do you feel about the Everluxes?

Well, I'm actually someone who generally dislikes Ancients. I usually find that they're kind of a "waste" of an otherwise interesting breed concept, and the fact they can't wear apparel means I find them difficult to work with even when the colors are all aligned. They're usually just "discount moderns," to me.

So Everluxes are everything I want, actually!

They're something that could never exist as a modern breed because they break the 4-legs 2-wings mold, they're SUPER unique in terms of their grublike proportions and big chunky upper legs, and they released with a ton of amazing line-breaking genes that are fun to play with. This is exactly what I feel like Ancients have been missing since their release!

I actually strongly disagree that these guys are "unfitting" in the Light Flight-- I think everyone who's saying that just doesn't like that Light has a fat dragon. I'm losing patience with the way they'll say, "It's not because they're fat, it's because they're inelegant, ungraceful, gross, tubular, long, round, etc" and just expect people to not realize those are being used as alternate words for "fat." The only person they're fooling is themselves.

They have a lot in common with the other breeds, actually. The wings resemble the Imperial's. The rhino-like horn reminds me of the pearlcatchers. They have the same prehensile "feeler" whiskers. Even the way that they're really long makes me think of a sort of "beta" imperial.

I have a headcanon that the Lightweaver made Everluxes and was suuuuper proud of them, her little "bookwyrms..." and then her bully of a sister, Shadowbinder, got REALLY mean about them. Took jabs at every chance, and ultimately made Veilspuns as "LOOK, IT'S YOURS BUT BETTER LOL. MAYBE YOU COULD LEARN SOMETHING. YOU LOVE DOING THAT, DON'T YOU?"

Long hair, sleek features, strong and tricky... Lightweaver loved her design, but when she looked at what her sister could do, she felt ashamed. She'd just wanted people to help her archive and preserve knowledge, but now that she was being pressured to compare her creations to someone else's, suddenly the joy was gone.

And, of course, FlightRising lore enjoyers know what comes next.

Spurred on by that fierce feeling of inadequacy, her next set of creations would be larger, more beautiful, more powerful than anything that had ever come before. She forced every tear, every sob, every moment of anguish she'd ever felt into her next creation. No dragon that walked the soil of Sornieth would be able to hold a candle to the light of the masterpiece within her claws.

Imperials came after the Everlux-- and Emperors in their wake. The Lightweaver swore to never create a breed out of anguish ever again.

[888-fr]

What are some of your favorite skins you've made?

I thought about the answer to this question for a very long time. I want to tell you a story about a skin that broke the site.

(I think this has been fixed now, which is the only reason I'm posting about it.)

Up until around March of this year, skin names weren't sanitized. I wasn't aware of this and continued to be unaware of this until the day I asked for my Valentine's pearlcatcher skins (named <3 and </3 respectively) to be renamed. Special characters often break when you submit them through the queue, so you have to go and ask the mods in the skroblems thread to fix apostophes for you so they display properly. I went and asked them to fix my pearlcatcher skin's names for me, since they weren't displaying correctly either. This lead, by accident, to the most interesting way I've gotten the site to break in a while.

My friend noticed first when they got a subscribed notification to my skin shop thread. They realized there were two pages that were completely gone.

Then they realized that the front page didn't look right either. My catalogue posts had completely vanished. Only to find... when you hovered over the thumbnail of the </3 skin's icon, my posts had hopped into the item description.

We experimented a little more before realizing this thing was... very, very powerful! You could put the skin into a den tab description, and it would put every single dragon in that tab into the space of the description box. You could break your userpage for ANYBODY on site. Your entire dragon could get swallowed up if you put it into their bio. And because the skin deleted the edit button, you couldn't get it back out.

Little did I know, the </ part of the skin name - when posted using [skin=skinid] or [item=skin: </3] - would act as an HTML tag anywhere it was posted, and completely mess up how the site displayed! I compiled everything I found and sent it into the bug forums and the contact team box for review. The thread got deleted almost immediately, confirming what I suspected: skin names aren't sanitized, and this could very easily be exploited with malicious intentions or SQL injects.

Luckily, they fixed it pretty quickly! I hope the way the site handles skin names has been updated now too. This sort of thing wouldn't have happened even if I had named the skin </3 or, god forbid, dropTable(); in the first place. I do think it was because I had the mods go in and edit the skin name that allowed the unclosed </ to display in the skin's item icon and then break the site.

So that's the story of one of my favorite skins I've made! <3 and </3 are now LOVE and LOVE(LESS) respectively. The designs themselves didn't sell too well, but for a glorious 16 hours, they contained all the power of little nuclear bombs detonating on various HTML-dependent sitepages.

[goannafr]

stupid icewarden IDIOT to make ""prison"" for dragons reasons it WONT work FOOL:

tundra: digs out mirror: runs up and over the wall guardian: smashes it spiral: slips thru the bars veilspun: gets sucked down through the drain pearlcatcher: throws its pearl at a guard knocking them tf out allowing them to escape snapper: too conniving to ever get caught/arrested gaoler: ACAB im retconning them as jailers and renaming them gaolbreakers skydancer: the shock of being arrested means it would have a heart attack and die before being sent to prison banescale: too badass,, arrest a banescale and all its cool friends will break it out within a week fae: can teleport nocturne: can mimic a guard and get out

[fishofthewoods]

abolusely wild how much every Light species in FR kicks ass. I mean i'm extremely biased but imho most other flights (especially those with three species, the two-species flights avoid this for the most part) have at least one species that's like. a solid 6/10 on the interest scale. But every light species is just banger after banger. Everlux are so fun (little librarians!) & being newer have a ton of lore in the encyclopedia compared to most species & have one of the most creative and out-there visual designs on the site. Pearlcatchers have such a fun gimmick that lends so much room for character development and worldbuilding both on a physiological and social level--before i got into FR i saw a post about pearlless pearlcatchers that i've been trying to find since because it was so interesting. and Imperials.... ough.... doj't get me STARTED on Imperials. now this is a species with flavor. now THIS is a species with SPICE. they were created with necromancy. they're unstable necromantic constructs that can live only a decade or into their hundreds because of the volatile nature of their creation. they turn into giant fucked up shambling amalgamations of multiple dragons when they die. their entire culture is based around the fear of turning into an Emperor upon death and they refuse to live in large groups or stay near their dead. Their own creator deity forced them out of their original home because she was scared of what she'd done. They resent pearlcatchers because they think the Lightweaver's replaced them. IMPERIAL DRAGONS NUMERO UNO BABY