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everyone say congratulations faes on the bottom surgery

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@fuurais​ The answer is a complicated personal distaste so reblogging to explain it fully

The main thing is that toyhouse is a site where characters, and the art attached to them, has real monetary value and can be sold for Real Money. The specific scenario I don’t want to happen is that someone uses my art to boost up the sale value of a character and sells it off with me not even knowing about it.

The real question is a question of ownership. If I made art of what was at the time my own dragon, with a high level of effort and care, and for no reward or payment; and then gave the dragon to you, do you own the art? Can you sell it or trade it? My answer is that I still own the art; I know there’s no legal standpoint, but just as a feeling, I feel like since I never sold the art it shouldn’t be taken and sold. It’s a matter of politeness to me - just like it’s polite not to turn around & sell the shoes your aunt gave you for christmas.

During my time on FR I made a lot of free art, and I made a lot of art trades, and I sold a lot of art for very low amounts of virtual currency (compared to real money). I knew all the time that I was “underselling” myself, but the reason why I was OK with it was because I reasoned that my art would not leave flight rising. It only had a value in site currency (treasure/gems), the rules and changes of which I understood and agreed upon when posting it. You can’t post it to neopets and be like “hey look at my cool neopet [obviously a dragon]”. You can’t put it in an art portfolio and be like hey look at my cool design [copyrighted flight rising art]”.

Furthermore, most of my works are signed “zif 176969″. This signature is completely worthless off of FR and wouldn’t ever enable anyone to source the art to me.

Honestly, I don’t mind just displaying the art w/credit, but it’s easier to make a blanket statement & say keep it in a folder or in the dragons description and gaze lovingly at it instead of posting it on deviantart plskthx.

Just to be clear, I would prefer for my art to not be reposted/used outside of flight rising and tumblr (for example on toyhouse) - or at least link back to this tumblr blog everywhere it’s used.

I also strongly prefer for my credit to remain the only visible watermark/credit on the pictures!

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anyway. tundra if you even care

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Just to be clear, I would prefer for my art to not be reposted/used outside of flight rising and tumblr (for example on toyhouse) - or at least link back to this tumblr blog everywhere it’s used.

I also strongly prefer for my credit to remain the only visible watermark/credit on the pictures!

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also I'm selling all my rare and art dragons <3

https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/baz/3075013/1#post_49517853

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Lair clearance time

I'm giving away absolutely everything I own! BOOYAH

Link to giveaway thread in reblog. Post literally anything in it to enter.

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Lair clearance time

I'm giving away absolutely everything I own! BOOYAH

Link to giveaway thread in reblog. Post literally anything in it to enter.

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im quitting fr btw. i just dont have time for the site anymore w/school and my true passion was always the community; my interest in the actual dragons and new additions to the site has been waning for a long time.

the people here, some that i spoke to and some that i just reblogged eagerly from really made it all worth it for me. Even just getting to see the raw or refined artistic talent and enthusiasm that pours out from the FR community was always great, and I tried my best to encourage people to keep posting.

it was so great to be able to start noticing other people and recognizing them by their art style. I loved joking around w/ other people in the tag as well. I love that the community on tumblr only grew stronger over time, with note counts rising wayyy above what was realistic when i first started blogging!

Im not sad about it though, because me having less time for FR is a direct result of my IRL life actually starting to move forward again. I have things I need to do with my time. I'm able to spend more time with friends since I moved closer. I don't need to stay on FR to fill a hole.

i strongly prefer quitting wholesale rather than going on endless hiatus. i want a concrete ending to this blog/my acct and closure.

also i cant stand the idea of unique festival items/g1s/money being frozen my acct so i have to have a big giveaway !! keep an eye out for that in the following weeks <33

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message to my past self:

the BEST thing you can ever do for yourself as the person who has to maintain your own bios/wishlist/other shit is

1) save every piece of art you get in a folder w/ the artist's username as the filename

2) save every badge you get in a folder w/ the event name as the filename

you are not immune to data loss and you are certainly not immune to memory loss

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iris/iris/leaf wisteria/wisteria/caribbean raspberry/raspberry/grape sunshine/sunshine/fuchsia cantaloupe/cantaloupe/bubblegum cyan/cyan/lemon hunter/hunter/sapphire murk/murk/azure lapis/lapis/fuchsia

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@qhazomb 's dragon AU with Flight Rising.

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this is actually an unintentional redux a style of drawing i used to do:

(2017)

its interesting how once you learn to do something as an artist, it doesnt leave you. you can call it back anytime.

for DtDAY - just a little guy!

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for DtDAY - just a little guy!

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A commission I drew earlier this year for Sumatra of their dragon, Shikhandi #63478192~

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Faye after getting one of the Brightshine skins, Herald of Dawn. 😍

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spotted faun // 1649648

Unusually playful, a faun’s interest can result in unintended mischief and mayhem.

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worst effect on my life that flight rising has had: because my art has been 80% dragons since 2017, everyone who’s seen it IRL thinks im OBSESSED with dragons. my parents were considering getting a dragon tattoo. because it reminded them of me.