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#my art #<- on a technicality because it's an edit #jatpm #jimmy and the pulsating mass

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twice now i have a had a dragon stolen from me while looking at it before i went to buy it i'm so fucking MAD

#both were dirt cheap for what they were i'm genuinely so pissed #whoever took my <30g caramel/aqua/robin and 7g latte/abyss/peach g1s i'm coming TO YOUR HOUSE

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I love them your honor

#fr #mr clean lookin asses

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a comm for Fellefan on FR!

#fr

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dusthide / new breed quick speedpaint~

timelapse / process under cut!

#fr

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Auraboa :] Based her crest off a cockatoo

#omg hi this is so cute?? #fr

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in b4 95% of all websites in june 2024 announce that "for security" they will only work with browsers that use manifest v3

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Saturn Devouring His Son if it were a Draw The Squad meme from 2014

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#jjba

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@ FR we aren't asking for the entire Silmarillion of the site/world bro. I genuinely don't believe 10 years would be that hard to have an overarching idea / general story points of the things you wanna write. ya gonna actually prove to me that fanfic writers can do more research and develop an entire world on their own from scratch in like 3 months full dedication, as compared to however long y'all have run the site for...

#the constant waiting doesn't even phase me at this point #it's been 6 years and the narrative has barely progressed even an inch #adventure mode is still in limbo #but like what gets me is that the recent short stories were genuinely garbage and squandered multiple opportunities #to give us new information about the narrative and the worldbuilding #because they were so obviously rushed and nobody had any clear direction or ideas for them #so i'm curious what new stories will be like now that they don't feel obligated to drop them to coincide with new releases #fr lore isn't revolutionary but i would like A Narrative

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i left this in tags but actually outlining why people do this just illuminates how unintentionally broken the uma skin pipeline is.

it costs money to make money, so as a skin artist you need to make sure that your prints are going to not just break even, but sell to make you any profit because that is your business; that's your primary source of income on the site. if your prints aren't selling then there's no use in doing more runs than initial interest will support, so most people shelve their skins instead and only do reruns based on interest and many more still retire their skins so that not only do you feel more pressured to buy (you can't just decide down the line that you want a copy and request a reprint), but the artist is assured that they're never going to lose money on a skin with dwindling interest.

because printing skins is very costly and availability from the artist will inevitably run low, they can't contest if someone else resells their work for a higher price, so if you as the seller bought a skin from someone that is now retired and the artist does not do individual reprints, literally nothing is stopping you from selling at a massive markup because you've determined the benchmark for that skin's worth that everyone else has to now follow unless someone else decides that it's not worth that much and undercuts your listing. because buyers have no other option but to purchase secondhand, then either they wait for potentially months, maybe even years for old skins for the chance of finding a cheaper listing, or they suck it up and pay an inflated price for a skin they know they could have gotten for far, far cheaper if they'd only been in the right place at the right time.

it puts into full perspective why resale culture is the way it is because there is literally no possible way for any user to regulate it themselves but i still don't think it's acceptable to like. resell a retired 850g skin for over 5kg. at that point i do genuinely think you're only seeking to profit from someone else's work more than they would ever have been able to

this may be controversial but i think maybe there are people on flight rising who should be banned from purchasing skins ever again until they can learn to stop reselling them at 5-10 times the original price

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this may be controversial but i think maybe there are people on flight rising who should be banned from purchasing skins ever again until they can learn to stop reselling them at 5-10 times the original price

#i've been here for 9 years and i don't care if it's like the culture or whatever it's a culture that sucks #i get kinda tired of skins that sold for like 850g or whatever being flipped for 3-5 times the price and sometimes even higher #i've blocked people for this in the past because i'll check listings often and see the same people consistently flipping skins #that i know for an absolute fact they JUST bought within the week #i've even seen my own--unlimited--skins being resold for 3 times the price #and i think the fact that getting new stock to shift is part of the issue here #you need to spend money to make money and if your prints aren't selling then they're not worth reprinting #so everyone takes advantage of this by reselling low availability skins for a huge markup because the original artist can't contest #it's beyond frustrating and i have to wonder if other artists or shoppers feel this way

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so like do people in this day and age still viciously hate big the cat's stages in sonic adventure with a comically exaggerated passion or am i somehow the only person on earth who knows how to play them

#the story missions are so incredibly easy #even the 2000g fish aren't too hard because it's mostly just wrangling the analog stick #and mashing the reel buttons to keep a consistent pull

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I should post my art here

#mh

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new vegas's bitch was too bad it was too heat its swag hit too different. bethesda couldn't have this carpet in their house

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#my mother to me in 1999 before kindergarten #sth