officially at the point where we're starting to see where it's all headed and I am just going NYEEHEEHEE in delight at it all. ahhh...next week can't come soon enough...
tumblr is a really unique experience because the website is inherently fundamentally broken but depending on if you're on desktop or on your phone its broken in completely different ways
the party might be fighting a dragon in the next few hours and he pours himself a cup anyways; chilchuck isn't practical, he's just the most normal middle-aged man to ever exist in anime
even if you staunchly stood by emily/fig's suspicion of porter from the beginning, the reveal of porter being a multiclass paladin makes sense when you realize charisma is a paladin's spellcasting ability
this season, porter got both fig and gorgug to eventually warm up to him, and even though fig wrote on his teacher evaluation that she wasn't sure if he was evil or not, both of them gave him all 5's
porter has some very funny bits in this campaign and brennan really had me letting my guard down around him!! i laughed so much when he went into a rage to avoid having adaine detect thoughts; we thought it was to avoid her seeing his thoughts about zara
and all along it could be because if she pushed deeper, his plan would be revealed
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.
I know the instinct when faced with change, especially on our beloved hellsite, is to respond with anger and yell at staff and complain about what's different
but honestly, guys? I'm grateful this site is still going. it's deeply unprofitable, and I'm shocked it's been around for as long as it has. it's running with a skeleton crew, and anything staff wants to do to try to make it work better or stick around longer is fine with me.
do I like that the icons don't float anymore? no. I think that's a bad decision, and it would have been better to add icon frames/hats/etc, because I would have totally bought a little hat and a cool frame for my icon, to support tumblr.
but now, it seems like that option is off the table, because the icons are tiny and no longer float. and that makes me sad :(
but am I going to yell at staff about it, or complain? nope. sure, maybe I'll send in a (polite!) feedback message, but beyond that, I'm not going to sweat it.
instead, I'm going to keep the Old Tumblr Dashboard style installed, and mind my own business. because if this is what staff needs to do to convince the people who own the site to keep it chugging along, who am I to complain?
I want this site to survive. I want it to keep going for years to come! and for now, the various mods and extensions are enough to keep it looking like a site that I want to use, even if the site itself looks different now.
maybe someday, it'll be too much, and the mods will break, and I won't be able to stand it anymore. but hey, maybe someday the people in charge will decide that they don't want to shove money at this hellsite anymore, and the whole thing will come crashing down, and the best online fandom space will be lost.
the way I see it, the first of those options is infinitely better than the second.
so hey, be nice to staff today please! just. they have bigger things to worry about than floating icons. they're trying to keep this place standing, and I'm gonna support them, even when they have to do things I don't like.
Why in the hell would you change mobile notifications so that when you select them you only go to one post instead of the whole blog starting from the latest post?
Who would want this?
I hope this is just a mistake/glitch/bug, because if intentional it's really stupid
Literally step up, Malleus. This is embarrassing. How is Rollo of all people the first one to offer beating everyone’s ass at NRC? He even offered to be that one friend who’s like a therapist who listens to your every word.