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@vulpinelamp @gloryrising FIGHT

Flight Rising Mimic Melee! Round 3

The Winner will advance to the Semi-Finals!

I feel like you’re the devil’s advocate of flight rising eggs tumblr user wrathful-reptile

I signal you closer. No, closer still.

Once you are close, I lean in.

Big FlightRising doesn't want you to know this, but the way to get a gen1 you love, is to sell all eggs you find, and buy off the Auction House with the money.

…Okay I’ll admit I’m turning around on this guy haha

Hatch an egg.

Go ahead. It's a good day for it.

…one man’s trash is another man’s treasure? I suppose?

I already HAVE a green dragon saved by steel flair scry and a questionable tert and at least they had matchy eyes.

Hatch an egg.

Go ahead. It's a good day for it.

tip to anyone about to experience their first NotN: be patient. the site may be unusable for a hot second after it starts, chests will plummet in price very quickly, and chest exclusives and familiars will become dirt cheap. you just gotta wait a bit

Preface: I am native.

I've seen posts asking for the connections to native mythology to be changed, to be erased. I saw one saying coatls should have their name changed because of its connection to quetzalcoatl. I think the belief that staff can't pull from indigenous mythology is unfair both to staff and to natives, when fantasy itself as a genre exists almost entirely based off of cultural mythologies. Dragons themselves are mythology. Yetis are mythology. Quetzalcoatl is mythology. There's wisps, there's dryads, there's kelpie. A game about dragons is going to have connections to mythology around the world, it is the nature of fantasy.

I love how much the FR community supports one another, but please don't ask native mythology to be removed. We exist and our mythology is the same as any other, and I think it's lovely when it gets explored and inspires creativity. Ask for it to be done tastefully, yes! But don't ask for it to be removed entirely, please.

The thread got locked. Yikes. (And without any particular comment on its content, really.)

I’m not native myself, but I definitely thought there was something… Off-putting about their lore. But I couldn’t put it into words. Thank you for this.

Wait what's up with them??

they made a ancient dragon with a headdress that lives in a remote part of the world and have such exotic existences they can barely communicate with other dragons beyond baby speak until the elements get fucked up and now their babies can talk like normal. and their entire story is just some random dragon being vaguely condescending to their real fear of losing the connection of language that they have with their children

love the entire community 🤨 whenever a maintenance isn’t tagged as boring

HELP DJDJIDJSIAJS

very confusing description to read as someone who's dutch

Her name is Charm! She’s my little autumn tundra who really likes hot cocoa < 3

Pep dragons?

Yesterday my cat Saya suddenly passed away and I'm feeling so empty. She was almost glued to me all the time, for twelve years. So I'm kinda wishing for some cute distractions? Permababies, cat dragons or just your favourite cuddly dragon?

Here are my favorite dragons always ready to cuddle!

Pep dragons?

Yesterday my cat Saya suddenly passed away and I'm feeling so empty. She was almost glued to me all the time, for twelve years. So I'm kinda wishing for some cute distractions? Permababies, cat dragons or just your favourite cuddly dragon?

I’ll be honest. That does not surprise me at all lol

There was already a lot of unrest about the MS and pebbles when I left so that getting worse was. Practically expected

Didn’t know about the dev update thing though. That sucks. I really hope the place finds new wings. I really enjoyed the CA part of the community but that seemed to be the only part of the economy that. Worked. As far as I could tell. And it’ll be awhile before I even consider rejoining it, if lorwolf hasn’t dropped off by then

Wish ya’ll lorwolf players luck, for real. Amen.

To people who are still playing Lorwolf: how’s it going over there? I cut ties with it a long time ago, for personal reasons, but I’m wondering.

To people who are still playing Lorwolf: how’s it going over there? I cut ties with it a long time ago, for personal reasons, but I’m wondering.

Ow.

Ah. Shit.

If anyone who got a DTDAY from me or art otherwise, please grab it! I’ve been using discord (largely due to lack of knowledge of other options and convenience), and while I will likely be able to recover some stuff, I CANNOT GUARANTEE THAT because my file organization is a black hole and a lot of stuff is stored on devices I no longer have access to.

This is a PSA to the flight rising community: CHECK ALL YOUR BIOS FOR THIS

discord as a filehost will no longer be possible by the end of the year

EDIT: AS IN LINKING TO STUFF ISN'T GOING TO WORK. YOU CAN'T USE IT TO PERMANENTLY EMBED IMAGES IN AO3 OR TOYHOUSE OR WHAT HAVE YOU. THE LINKS THEMSELVES WILL EXPIRE AFTER 24 HOURS, BUT YOUR FILES AREN'T GOING TO BE DELETED FROM YOUR SERVERS

if you haven't noticed, copying a link for a file now appends special parameters to the end. these are a request signature, which indicates a specific request for that file. this request will expires after a few hours, so files will no longer be permanently available through a specific url.

while they are not currently necessary to view the file, they will be by the end of the year, assuming nothing changes.

please check that any websites you rely on are not hosting files through cdn.discordapp.com, and if they are, please archive those files through the IA using web.archive.org/save

thank you for your time

I feel like you should really specify somewhere in the post this is about a dragon game

Is there anyone who could take breeding card commissions?