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Prismatic Baldwin Mats be upon ye

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society of once staff updates skin/accent approval they take the opportunity to add skins/accents for permababies

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Selling this lovely lady.

Unbred G1, Silhouette Scroll applied, LVL 25 with proper stats/stones (including Eliminate), XXY (Goldenrod/Goldenrod/Pink), comes w/ art from before she was regened.

Looking to get around 6,000 gems/6,000,000 treasure as that is what I initially paid for her. I will also accept mixed currency/eggs. I will haggle.

Link to dragon below. She is on the AH for a price of 6,000 gems - message me on FR to haggle/ask about mixed currency or offering eggs.

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Dragon Tournament Round 51

Purble context and origins:

Such a rant was posted on drama rising, a blog where people could complain to their hearts content or discuss topics not allowed on flight rising. (or complain about wasting a perfectly good dragon ig)

He purble

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I feel like when it comes to the Dusthide debate, a lot of people seem to misinterpret the main point of Ancients as both a game element and a product.

A big part of Flight Rising is dress-up. While users can argue on what the sole draw of FR is (dragons themselves, breeding, the Dominance system, etc), it's generally agreed that the dress-up aspect is one with a lot of care and resources put into it, and is therefore very important to site gameplay. Dress-up keeps getting updated with new apparel, and if there is to be a new dragon breed, it needs every piece of apparel re-drawn on it. This takes time. A lot of time. Gaps between dragons (now known as Moderns) stretch for years at a time.

Ancients were initially created as a way to fill in these time gaps between Moderns, and the easiest way to do that was to release dragons without apparel. However, this is a game that puts a lot of emphasis on dragon dress-up. Imagine if Obelisks were released without any coded apparel. You'd just have a naked dragon missing a huge element of the game, and for most players, there's no fun in that.

This is where the second point of Ancients comes in: because the appeal of clothing is gone, there has to be some kind of compromise. So... if Ancients can't wear apparel, then they are no longer restrained by the requirements for apparel (1 head/4 legs/2 wings)...

which means that they can break the modern mold freely! You can have a dragon with no legs, or six. Or with two heads, or no head. And now that you don't have to worry about apparel clipping, the tertiary genes can go wild! There is room for customization that apparel can't fulfill - you could give it extra wings, or a jellyfish head, or giant tree horns, or you could give it nothing at all as tertiary genes are optional, and it wouldn't matter because there's no apparel to be drawn around it!

Ancients are supposed to be a trade-off. There's no selling point to a dragon without clothing on the Dragons With Clothing Game, but there is a selling point to a dragon with, say, 13 legs, no wings and no tail. It doesn't wear apparel, because it physically can't, and it makes use of this function in creative ways. The inability to wear apparel is justified by the Ancient's unique proportions.

And this is where the criticisms for Dusthides and other 'basic' Ancients stems from: if your Ancient dragon is just the 1 head/4 legs/2 wings setup, then is it really an Ancient or a Modern you can't dress up? You could have the wildest, gaudiest, 15-limb tertiary gene on a Dusthide and it wouldn't matter, because tertiaries are optional and aren't a permanent part of the dragon that would inhibit the usage of apparel.

If a dragon doesn't have a justifiable reason to not wear apparel, then there's no reason for it being an Ancient.

No amount of linebreaking tertiaries will be able to hide the fact that some dragons seem to be created only for the first, initial purpose: just to tide people over until a better, 'real' dragon is created.

And that's just disappointing.

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yeah :)

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Neopets Users: Half of the website is bungled and sitting on top of 90's spaghetti code that is circumvented by having about 50% of the pages to load in the old website format, we can't change our Usernames since they act as our User IDs that are inexorably tied to our accounts, and the only way we can get some apparel is through a loot box that costs real money, sometimes upwards of 10 bucks for a 25% chance of getting what we want. That's ok tho, my favorite neopet has a custom outfit that looks really nice :] Sucks when the clothing that costs realass money doesn't show up on my pet though. I hope they fix that soon

Flight Rising Users: If the staff releases one more dragon breed with 4 legs and 2 wings we're going to file a class action lawsuit and scream forever

#FAVE

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Dragon Portrait Drawing

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a friend to the frogs, fungi, and foliage!

finished sketch for a patron! ♥

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My entry to the third volume of @sornieth-zines!!! I was so happy to be able to contribute to such an awesome project. I wanted to write a comic of some kind and remembered the bizarre update to Baldwin's recipes back in October of last year. So I thought: what if in Tomo's pursuit of knowledge she encountered too much knowledge?

I learned a lot about my process and how much I value working on a project alongside other people, it's incredibly motivating. Looking forward to more opportunities like that in the future!

Will post WIPs and process pics in another post.

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Sketching the new guys. They're like pangolin + squirrel + gecko with a touch of mole

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okay hang on. wasp/chess/augment is a REALLY cool combo

the squares in chess remind me of like. voxel/glitch kinda aesthetics. i like these scries a lot

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can you imagine if the next person to get the gilded crown also gets banned? It's going to become a cursed artifact, killing all who touch it, roundsey becoming an emissary of death and misery. The next roulette with the crown would have record low ticket purchases.

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#sapphire is honestly peak

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#fr #flight rising #WE FUCKING MADE IT. DELICIOUS. FINALLY SOME GOOD FUCKIN NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #chimechatter

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Shorks :)