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I’m kind of obsessed with my new everlux

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direct from the horse's mouth..

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wow new, fat breed i hope people are being normal about it.

i think one of the main criticisms i’ve seen with everlux is that their design is anatomically/biologically implausible in some way, largely related to how they’re really fat with really thin legs. the main thing being fat distribution. going to say right off the bat that YES i know these things are dragons, and thus vertebrates. so you wouldn’t expect them to have the proportions of something like a grub

counterpoint to this: i dont think staff cares

so many of the other breeds have absolutely wild anatomy that would not work in the real world without magic. so many of these breeds should not be able to fly at all. staff does not care about the anatomical plausibility of their dragons; they just want to make a design they’re satisfied with

besides, criticizing the design because it’s “implausible” or has wonky anatomy doesn’t really work when there are REAL-WORLD EXAMPLES of small animals with large bodies and legs as thin as twigs, just like the everlux have (lots of them being insects, which is convenient considering the everlux are Based On Insects)

out of the 3 insect breeds we’ve gotten, veilspuns are some sort of. weird little dragon fairy thing? aethers are moths. and everlux are grubs. go look at a grub and tell me how big its legs are compared to its body

(traced-over picture of a grub, for the insect phobia havers :3 phobia havers who are not really rude about bugs like that person in the announcement thread was: u guys are the real ones. thanks for being normal)

they are really fuckin’ chunky, with really thin legs. which is exactly what everlux are shaped like

and a thing i think not enough people are keeping in mind is the size of these dragons. the longest everlux i was able to find was .9 meters (just under 3 feet), which includes the tail. so the head and body are like. half of that. these things are SMALL

there is something called the square-cube law, which, when applied to biology, explains why something like a mouse does just fine with its thin, spindly legs when it’s at the size it’s already at. but if you make that mouse the size of an elephant, then those thin legs are no longer enough to support its weight; it’d need thicker legs to be able to stand up and walk, like an elephant. an elephant, in turn, would not need legs that thick if you made it the size of a mouse

everlux dragons are on the smaller side, which puts them closer to mice with their thin legs. thin legs like that are perfectly fine to support a smaller creature, especially considering how many they have. if anything, I’d say the main issue with them is leg length. those things Barely reach past the body, they’d probably need something longer if they didn’t want to be smacking their belly on every single rock or exposed root or whatever that's in their path

TL;DR the anatomy of everlux dragons is perfectly reasonable you’re just fatphobic

(i know not everyone who has critiqued or complained about the body size vs leg size is doing it because fatphobia/internalized fatphobia. this isn't directed at those people; it's directed at the people who are. though if anything its just me using this as an excuse to complain lmao) (also this is the result of Years of watching shit like this happen so its less the reaction to everlux in particular and more it being the latest in a long string of fatphobic discourse) (aren’t you tired of being nice. don’t you just want to go ape shit.)

anyway. the ideal everlux dragon would look like this:

thanks for coming to my ted talk

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Day 34

N from Pokemon by Viraventi

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I always forget that Artifracture is like. an atrociously bad match 3 game

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if you buy an item for 100g and then months later sell it for 50g that actually counts as a profit because enough time has passed for you to completely forget about the original cost so it doesn't count anymore. follow me for more economy tips 👍

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Back in the Snappy mood! If interested in your own, check out my adopt thread! :D

https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/adopt/3377932

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More FR gijinkas - today, introducing Edsall! Formerly a pirate and a known troublemaker on the seas, she could not run from fate forever and eventually ended up in prison. After her sentence was over, she returned to the sea - this time in the merchant navy, to hopefully 'redeem herself'. She eventually found herself aboard the steamer Protocetus and she's like an older sister to most of the crew.

(Yes I am still doing the december ship challenge. I shall come back for the italia line special)

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Nothing much for today, decided that I'm gonna doodle up some gijinkas of my FR dragons! First up we have Fuso, the young captain of the steamer Protocetus! Her family has a history with jobs at sea and she wanted to follow her parents' steps - and look where she's gotten!

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papa tundra and his tundlets

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Bust commission for Elynari Flight rising!

★FR Store★

signature process video HERE

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Guess who remembered ublock exsists and that it could get rid of that annoying alert.

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2 - Gaoler

WHY DOESN'T THIS THING HAVE TUSKS. FUCKGING WOOLY MAMMOTHS? Anyways I based the design off polar bears and... well mammoths (a tiny bit). Shorter neck, a bit of a humped back, big wide paws, all that stuff. The horns were kinda hell to draw. I hope I never have to do that again

Love their wings and tail though tbh

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EVERY DAY IS FAT FUCK FRIDAY

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pumpkin pt 2 or something like that

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Possible dragon ych bases in progress. Practice tundra bc they’re my favorite to draw

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it's tundra wednesday...