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commissions of my darling circe <3 reuploading FR art now that discord broke image hosting- artists are as follows, tagged with their FR usernames! Hutt SlumberParty ghostingskies

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double hatch? well that is a surprise! double hatch with surprisingly matchy eyes and on that is making me adore thistle for the first time in forever? well fuck now I kinda really want to keep this guy huh

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My piece for @sornieth-zines !! This was my first time participating in a zine, it was so fun getting to see everyone else's pieces before they were finished! Thank you to the mods for organising everything :D link to zine >:)

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Storm Upon the Sea

Midnight/Peacock/Eldritch

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Storm Upon the Sea

Midnight/Peacock/Eldritch

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perfect and flawless and exquisite animal

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My full pieces for @sornieth-zines! These were such a blast to work on, huge thank you to the zine organisers for doing such a fantastic job! View the full zine here :)

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Volume 3 is finally OUT! The theme this volume was focused on the Trading Post. You can view and download it with this link here!

Special shoutout to having one of the applicants creating the cover for this volume as well! Thank you @tigercomplexes!

With this release, we will also sadly announce that this will be the final volume we will be working on. The two mods on this now have full time jobs and we couldn't give our full focus on this fun project. So we would like to thank our applicants and the FR fandom for giving us the opportunity to do THREE volumes of FR focused pages! <3

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

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Don't forget to hatch your 4/20/24 (420 palindrome date) egg!

It's like that if you use the mm/dd/yy date format

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some Ancient designs for if ancients were more like what i thought they would be like when gaolers first came out (prototype modern breeds)

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actually this new breed is perfect for making Little Freaks, turns out.

they can smell your trash and they want it

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Dusthide Headcanon

I shall admit I was more than a little disappointed that the new breed doesn’t have lore, and it stifled my anticipation for them. But then, the new breed arrived and I realized, horribly, dreadfully, happily realized, that I can make my own headcanons. So my headcanon for the new breed is:

DUSTHIDES ARE ENEMIES/RIVALS/COMPETITION TO SNAPPERS.

When Earthshaker made Snappers he gave them powerful jaws which have a “crushing force of their beak is enough to shatter the scales and armored plating of most species”. Now then, which breeds have armored plating? Guardians yes and maybe other Snappers, Gaolers can have Scorpion and Undertides have Plating, but that is pretty much it. As to beast enemies? Forgotten Cave’s Corpse Cleaners and Reef/Dragon Snails come to mind, but most of the others are squishy (though the Burrow Bears can be a bit…prickly).

So then we have the Dusthides and they are just covered in plating. They are a competitive breed, an aggressive scrap loving breed. They are territorial, preferring to stay in their tunnel networks.  Snappers “do not seek confrontation”, they travel the majority of their lives and have difficulty with living in closed spaces. Snappers live above the Earth, Dusthides below. Yet there must have been conflict.

Snapper battle tactics are “trampling smaller foes beneath their bulk or using their powerful jaws to snap them out of the air”. Dusthides are smaller than Snappers, they “roll up until only their armored plates are exposed”, and use their wings to make short explosive jumps of movement. Perfect targets for those snapping jaws and stomping claws. However, Snappers have a weakness. “When confronted with overwhelming odds, Snappers will lower themselves to the ground, protecting their underbellies.” A soft underbelly is a perfect target for a burrowing dragon, or worse yet, the Dusthide’s like to modify the terrain with “pitfalls to surprise opponents”. These battle tactics suggest a competitive evolution between the two.

Snappers have an encyclopedic memory in order to remember which Dusthide territories to avoid. They rarely stop moving because Dusthide tunnels may lie below. I headcanon that Snappers have the ability to “listen” with their drum like feet (like elephants) and can speak long distances to their brethren with low-frequency sounds. But what if they are listening for other sounds? Like the sounds of digging beneath their toes?

The Dusthides have arisen from their tunnels due to “recent spikes in tectonic activity”, but the Earth Snappers have always known of them and the Dusthides have known of them. Stories and information play a big part in both breeds, there must have been whispered tales of these hidden dragons beneath the soil, fierce, proud, and territorial. Tales warning telling dragons to not dig so deep, to watch where one steps, to be loyal to one another, and never fight with the dragons beneath the Earth.

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just a small, quick edit that makes them just a little different

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I Have a Need.

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I love them your honor

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Spruce/Sanddollar/Copper