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.
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A beautiful commission I got from RoamingThrough of Lewis and Valeri having a tender moment <3
Roam's links:
twitter.com/Roamingthrough1
Userpage of Roamingthrough -- Fur Affinity [dot] net
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you can fallow me on furaffinity
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People who comment on your userpage and tell you your dragon was on the front page are the backbone of this society and Flight Rising as a whole
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A user comments on my userpage "(dragon name) is so cool!!"
Me: (doesn't know my own dragons' names) who 👁️👄👁️
It's so sweet but I'm so clueless. I'm like ah yes...that name...seems familiar yes...
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Wow okay. In the wake of the revelation that Tumblr’s staff is being stripped to the bare bones to let the site die naturally, here is where you can find me going forward. I’ll still be posting stuff on tumblr, but the loose plan is to gradually shift away.
I’ll be shifting to posting my artwork on Fur Affinity. I like how it’s full of freaks over there. Plenty of art there will be sfw stuff. But I’ll post nsfw works as well. FA has a very solid filtering system, so if you choose to follow me there, it should be easy to filter anything you’d rather not see.
And here’s my discord username if you feel inclined to reach out to me there. No guarantee on response since we’re both busy and very socially anxious. But! Here it is anyway: mayhemmachines
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so, a little while ago, someone left this absolute stinker of a comment on my userpage
rude as hell given the star of david in my bio but like whatever, theyre a kid. perhaps it would behoove me to explain, in dressed down terms, that this sort of thing is part of a 2000 year old tradition of christians denying that judaism is a seperate faith from theirs, and thus implying that we should be christian
it did not behoove.
i forgot about this until today, nearly a month later, when i got this lovely gift on my userpage:
it could almost be a textbook example of supersessionist antisemitism if it werent so fucking stupid
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Artist:https://www.mihuashi.com/profiles/863188?role=painter&utm_source=direct&utm_campaign=userpage&utm_medium=share&utm_content=ordinary
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAH I, L O V E , I T
thank very much😭😭😭😇😇
❗commissioned art from↓
artist:https://www.mihuashi.com/profiles/569897?role=painter&utm_source=direct&utm_campaign=userpage&utm_medium=share&utm_content=ordinary
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Celine's dad is a 100% wholesome guy who managed to raise a daughter who is 900% an engine of chaos.
Kanara belongs to:
Sam belongs to: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/tailsteak
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"Bea and Jackie"
Just because you fight fascists hard doesn't mean you can't love sweetly.
Honestly I was really proud of this one, but unfortunately had to edit and crop most of it to post it here. Full version will be in other places I can definitely give you.
Userpage of Dazed_and_Wandering -- Fur Affinity [dot] net
Dazed and Wandering... Nights. (@Dazedlostnsfw) / X (twitter.com)
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