#We need this in flight rising

[hey-its-quill]

THAT'S SUCH A GOOD OPTION TO PUT IN OMGGG

#We need this in flight rising #Clan gen #Warrior cats #Transgender #Trans cats #non binary #Nb cats

[dire-vulture]

ok im gonna get on this fr poll action..

#i. i dont even know what im gonna pick dfgsdf i want them all. obviously #but if i had to pick one..new fat breed i think. i need it fdgsfd #i think plushies might win in a landslide. i was gonna put searchable cr system too but we def are getting that eventually. right. #polls #pheel talk #flight rising #fr poll #fr polls

[pestilentbrood]

VERY long Ramble incoming

honestly now that I'm looking at the auraboa lore situation, I'm just disappointed. There was such POTENTIAL in the idea of the Loop and the horror of a new generation inexplicably being disconnected from it, forcing the newly hatched children into a world totally separate from that perceived by their parents (I mean, hell, they perceive TIME differently!).... but then the writer(s?) just fell ass backwards into Icky Tropes.

I feel like I can see what the idea was, especially with the recent alterations to the Encyclopedia entry... It seems like staff fundamentally understands the true Horror potential here, but... Instead, through the short story, they proposed it through the lens of a condescending outsider character, turning the fears of the older generation into something trivial. And also weirdly demeaning the Auroboa's situation by portraying them as overreacting.

Why... why would you do that? Like, from a storytelling perspective? What's gained from that? Why not embrace the true horror and even Emotional significance of that disruption? Why instead go for "ohh we NEED outsider help we NEED to be saved because we are so helpless and it is so Silly that we, creatures who have never experienced such things, do not know what sleep is"????

And if they WANTED to have a condescending outsider, I feel like they COULD have done that, but it would have to have that character realize the horror at some point. And make it obvious that their attitude towards distressed parents and children facing Eldritch Shit and the Sudden Deconstruction of it was not cool!

(or at the very least be a bit more...idk. Consistent with said outsider character? Juniper just goes from "omg I am so honored that the fascinating creatures of the behemoth have chosen me to speak to" to "oh their wasting my time because they don't know what sleep is. I'd rather be sleeping!! 🙄" like girl... c'mon now. Why are we trivializing it like this. Do you want me as the reader to be invested in their plight or not.)

I mean come on. They're beings connected through one networked hivemind-like system, yet each still maintains a silver of individuality that allows them to move freely throughout the Behemoth that they care for. And they've got an eldritch understanding of time that no other dragon could understand. They're seeing the future, past, and present unfold simultaneously. They're witnessing the birth and death of the world at the same time, and have no way to communicate it to other dragons. The best they can do is maintain their home, and even then, they see its roots spread and decay all at once.

And then the newest generation is suddenly disconnected. An inherent link between parent and child and all dragons in-between, that has existed since the creation of their species, is just suddenly GONE for the newest births. With NO explanation for it. The children have no easy way of communicating with their parents. The children are experiencing time in a way that was not meant for their species. They've forcefully been shoved into a circadian rhythm that they are Not! Built for!

The only way a parent could communicate properly with their child would be when the latter is sleeping, something that is also completely foreign to this species. It would be terrifying for all involved!!!

They are literally experiencing eldritch horror from the perspective of the eldritch being forced into the mortal.

Like why WOULDN'T there be panic!!! And why would that panic be trivialized! Why are we only shown the perspective of an outsider who looks at this situation and goes "Oh the silly tree beasts are being so silly over nothing, it's no big deal!"

That and the way the auraboas talk to outsiders. Like. There was such potential there. Real opportunity to explore how ancient, time-bending beings would communicate to someone who couldn't even BEGIN to understand the intricacies of it.

Instead we got what feels more like baby talk (even described as though they were hatchlings enunciating their first words, which... I dunno man, maybe we don't want to compare them to children like That) and less like... Beings that experience all of time at once. I mean, the hatchlings and the adults speak the exact same way, and that doesn't make any sense given the literal time barrier going on.

I totally get why people thought there was just a language barrier and that auraboas had their own language, thus causing the disjointed speak, and not that it was because They Do Not Experience Time Like We Do. And I feel it would've been far easier to get it across by just... I dunno. Do anything else?? I saw someone on here suggest they speak in the "wrong" tenses, or using multiple tenses in the same sentence, which I think would've been far more clear.

Like, as opposed to "saplings wilt! saplings silent!" just "the saplings will wilt in silence, they've wilted in silence, they are wilting silently." Said all at once like all things are true simultaneously. And if we're going for hivemind, have each auraboa speak in a different tense, all at the same time, and have them switch it up every time. Have our outsider get confused and be like "which is it? are they wilting now, or have they already wilted?" and the cluster of auraboas respond in a cacophony of yes's, no's, and maybe's all at once.

Would've probably gotten across the "alien" vibe they were supposedly going for far better than wide-eyed desperation for an outsider's guidance conveyed through disjointed, in-world described as baby speech.

And also maybe would've had less accidental connotations. Because as it stands, I completely see why people have made the connections to the real world where they have. This doesn't read like eldritch timey-wimey intrigue, or even a respectful look at how younger generations can become detached from their families' cultures over time and the struggles that come with it. It reads like a culture being perceived by an ignorant outsider who (despite supposedly respecting these dragons) scoffs and rolls their eyes because the tree beasts with their funny words are being silly again, and that Hey, isn't it actually a great thing that the children are fundamentally different in all manners now? Because now they can join the rest of us in the "real world."

Yknow. Ick.

(I Personally think it would've been better to have the perspective be one of the Auraboas themselves, especially one of the children, to really understand what was going on here. Give us the full brunt of the mind of a creature experiencing all of time interwoven as one shape. The waters fall and the oceans crash with waves. They've now fallen to drought. The ocean has yet to be born. Caves have been carved out through the waters' currents. And when I break from this timeline, I open my eyes to see a child, the child not yet born, the child born now, the child born yesterday. Why can't I hear it? Why couldn't I hear it? Why won't I ever hear it?)

I dunno. People more qualified than me to speak on this matter have already torn the lore apart, I'm just... dropping my own two cents. Potential got weirdly squandered and we ended up instead with unfortunate implications and tropes that could be connected a liiiittle too awkwardly to irl situations.

*Also, before anyone points out: Yes, I know the hatchlings aren't COMPLETELY detached from the Loop and can join it when they sleep. But the fact is, these thangs never had to sleep before. That wasn't in their species' nature. So that's still weird and foreign for them on both sides. And since the hatchlings now have a circadian rhythm, they can't stay connected to the loop permanently. And also Also, seeing as the previous generations aren't experiencing time linearly, who's to say they even recognize when their child joins the loop? They'll speak with an echo of their child when that child was last asleep ages ago, not knowing that it's not them presently, because there is no 'present' for the older generations.

#i also really really do not understand the ''word count'' explanation given by staff. #I'm honestly rather lenient with ignorance happenings like this so long as they're remedied but. #cutting out important details of lore Fundamental to the understanding of it? For? ''Word count''? #Like firstly. Surely someone on the team is skilled enough to pull that off right? To get all that needs to be said in a short story? #but secondly. w. why is there a word count limit to begin with. This is Your House. Why are you limiting yourself unless this is like #a paid-by-word situation and they don't have the money to afford something longer #but like it feels like shooting yourself in the foot if you're going to write something that leaves a ton of information vague instead of #properly explaining your lore so there's no unfortunate misunderstandings. But I dunno. I'm just rambling #flight rising #fr auraboa #I'll probably be incorporating my Own version of the lore regardless of what the staff decides to do with this presentation of it #or just ignoring it outright hskdgjhskjh we shall See #Also if anything I've said here is Wrong in some way or comes across ignorant in and of itself. Let me know

[mekha-draws]

"Ah yes, that can work too"

Sen and Joule, my beloved buggos <3

#flight rising #my art #aether dragon #I just love their dynamics your highness #Also dont mind Sen she wont maim the fish....unless 😳 #light source? where we are going we dont need light source

[qkrthor]

my submission for the greenkeepers gathering skin submission contest. i dont think this will win but i wanted to do one anyways lol

#flight rising #frfanart #fr skins and accents #art #my art #not a reblog #we NEED more silly accents on the site

[elfsyellowflowerzart]

hey this is a long shot but ill draw a one character fullbody flat colored cleaned up sketch like the things above for anyone who wants to give me 15,000 treasure in flight rising i need to expand my lair, i can finish the art today 👍

#laika's comet #bg3 tav #(for the white dragonborn her name is asphodel) #anthro #fursona #sfw furry #(for the pink cat who is one of my sonas) #original characters #oc #flight rising #flightrising #commission opening #for furries i draw mostly planti humanoids but i can Try digi and ferals im just warning that i dont do that often #and thus dont have good examples and im not super good at it lmao #i consider myself good at fat characters bc im fat myself and have fat friends and usually use myself and my friends as ref for studies #i draw a LOT of fat characters #plus size art #plus size artist #i can draw thin characters too tho as you can see #i also love drawing characters sleeping as you can see from my blog. more examples on my blog btw but theyre mostly not colored #wtf else do i tag this #yew art #also if you want to give me More treasure on flight rising in order to get more art or art of characters interacting we can work something #out #(ran out of space in that tag lmao) #this is probably gonna stay open bc im pretty much always in need of treasure in that game lmao im trying to upgrade all my stuff #but only this one can be done same day. probably. #just reply and ill dm you but ill also open my dms for people to dm me first if i can figure out how to do it on mobile im bad with tech lol

[fairyoctopus]

can we pleaaaase get new eye types already. im going 2 lose my mind

#it has been Years. #even if we only get 1 new type a year i'd be fine with that #but come on. #i feel like of all things eye types cant be too hard to make #especially like. on skydancers #we need more eyes like innocent that change the size of them #flight rising

[ciphers-fr]

intrigued by new ancient but also confused in light of ✨literally everything else✨

#like ‘we have realized we need to restructure how we approach lore/gene errors/etc. but we will nevertheless release one anyways’ #i mean uh well— okay sure if that’s what your gonna do I guess? #at this point please just take more time instead of giving us something clearly half-baked #flight rising #ciphertext

[nabesima]

Me: has a bunch of G1s that would look fantastic when gened up Also me, picking up a random gen nocturne: this one

Need a name for him now.

#also currently deciding on a partner because we need more denim/orange dragons #flight rising

[xeneric-shrooms]

Mmmmm trimmings

#best gene #can we get another scalie ancient i need trimmings on more dragons pLEASE #flight rising #xen.speaks.fr

[paradakshn]

YIPPEE

#paradakshn #dragon #flight rising #dragon share #fr nocturne #HE IS FINISHED #bf got the cards that i needed for so long #im so happy right now #Twili #oc #original character #why we don't have blue cards #those green ones are not the ones #now i don't want anything at fr lol #this guy was the only goal i wanted #those tags man

[risinglikeaflight]

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[seeliragh-fr]

figuring out the character designs of some of my oldest fr characters... cal and broom have been around since . 2015 . they are bestfriendsforever now but this image would be from back when they Did Not Get Along

#flight rising #seeliragh art #there will be real art of them later but i needed to figure out what they actually look like beforehand #what if we started living at the big crazy temple at the same time and we each despised the reflection of ourselves in the other... #and we were both boys <3 #making long hair look good on a ridgeback was kind of tough but we made it

[amplexadversary]

I should make a Dr. Temperance Brennan fandragon on Flight Rising.

#I'm not going to really have the lair space to do that until I successfully breed the Ashton or Kamina dragon I'm trying for #Plus I still need to re-make my Dr. Maria Torres dragon since we have a lot more genes and apparel since I first got her. #And I need to buy like 12 gem genes for current projects #ignore Morg #Flight Rising #I really wish I could get a narrower color range for Ashton's parents because I'd like to get him dressed with FCG as a familiar #due to... reasons. in CR's development.

[corvarrow]

Just noticed my FR achievement counter hit 666...I guess I can never claim another achievement again 😔

Okay though to be fair, I really do have a giant glut of achievement tokens. I wish they would introduce some sort of fabulous, very high priced item in the achievement shop. It would be nice to be able to use them up on something, plus I would be super interested to see what the effects would be on the achievement item economy (just for fun, I am no good at market games but I like to observe, lol)

#flight rising #random stuff #fr achievements #Just goofing around #Seriously though once you run out of regular achievements to do your ability to acquire tokens greatly decreases #since you're stuck having to get them from the capped daily/weekly/monthly pursuit mechanic #so if everyone burned their points on VERY pricy items then it would be a while before we could get more #so then when they release new cheap items after that I wonder how THOSE prices would go since people would need to #really decide between short term/easy buys or long term saving for more pricy stuff

[alumthedragon]

Not to be annoyed about a comparatively minor issue for a second but I think it's kind of lame that the Scarred Wastelands don't really have any civilization or culture-based landmarks like cities/markets/ruins/etc. I get the idea is that the Plague flight tends to be nomadic but Wind is somewhat associated with that as well and they still have those kinds of landmarks. Why not add stuff like traveling cities or common migration routes or maybe even seasonal gathering places? I think having the arena area be in the Scarred Wastelands could 100% work lore-wise!

Honestly I just want to have something more interesting than "this is where they make the diseases that kill" and "this is where they talk about their kills". Yes we know that they like to battle but what do they do outside of that?

#plague is kind of a mess lore-wise tbh. this is just one thing that bugs me specifically #idk where to put my lair because there's nothing that really interest me as a setting #honestly i think in general we need a revamp or at least an expansion on flight culture outside of their archetypes #flight rising