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Absolutely predictably, two weeks did indeed pass since I last said I would update. And now I'm going to talk about dragons.
☆ For the past month or so I've gotten really into Flight Rising again thanks to a friend. I don't know if anyone remembers that site, it was really popular back in like, 2013-2014, but it's a virtual pet site involving dragons! You can breed them, dress them up, battle with them, there's games and a forum, etc. I played it a lot back in the early years, took a long break, and now apparently I'm back at it lmao. There's SO many cool new breeds and genes since I last played, I've been burning through all the money I thankfully had hoarded from before buying new stuff. There's been some really nice QoL updates to the site too that makes things easier. I mainly like to collect fun-looking dragons and breed them, but some people get really into writing lore for their dragons or planning breeding projects to get dragons with really specific colors/genes. And the community is great, it's so nice getting random comments from people complimenting your dragons or thanking you for buying one of their babies and stuff.
My lair is here if anyone else plays/wants to add me, or just wants to look at my pretty dragons. Everything in the first two tabs are new buys, the second two tabs are my older dragons from when I played 10 years ago. A few older dragons I've sold off but I've kept most of them for sentimental purposes even if I'm not bothering to breed most of them anymore haha.
Some sample dragons below:
The left image are the new breeds, unfortunately most of them don't allow clothing customization except for the breed in the bottom left. But the image on the right are some of my older dragons I did dress up! You can get clothing and skins/accents to decorate them and there's a ton of really cool stuff. But even without decoration, the variety of colors and genes you can mix and match still leads to super cute dragons!!
☆ Also in the gaming realm, I've gotten really into Hades again too! I'd gotten through one successful escape attempt before I stopped playing, but now I've got several more under my belt and I'm finally getting the plot rolling lmao. It's suuuch a fun game and I love the characters so much, I'm super excited for the sequel too. Hopefully I'll have actually finished this game by the time it comes out lol. I haven't gotten Thanatos or Megaera to love me yet so I've gotta keep playing and win over my beloveds...
I'm so into Hades that I redid the layout for my TCG site to make it a Hades one! It was a stylesheet so I didn't make it from scratch, but I did all the images, colors, fonts, and some other minor adjustments. Originally I tried to pick the colors from Zagreus's palette but it just wasn't looking good to me so I swapped to a Megaera-based color palette and now it's very bright haha. My favorite bit is that the boons on the main page are also randomized on refresh like the sidebar images, and whenever it happens to end up with the matching boon at the same time as the correct Olympian I'm like >:3c
☆ For the past month or so I've gotten really into Flight Rising again thanks to a friend. I don't know if anyone remembers that site, it was really popular back in like, 2013-2014, but it's a virtual pet site involving dragons! You can breed them, dress them up, battle with them, there's games and a forum, etc. I played it a lot back in the early years, took a long break, and now apparently I'm back at it lmao. There's SO many cool new breeds and genes since I last played, I've been burning through all the money I thankfully had hoarded from before buying new stuff. There's been some really nice QoL updates to the site too that makes things easier. I mainly like to collect fun-looking dragons and breed them, but some people get really into writing lore for their dragons or planning breeding projects to get dragons with really specific colors/genes. And the community is great, it's so nice getting random comments from people complimenting your dragons or thanking you for buying one of their babies and stuff.
My lair is here if anyone else plays/wants to add me, or just wants to look at my pretty dragons. Everything in the first two tabs are new buys, the second two tabs are my older dragons from when I played 10 years ago. A few older dragons I've sold off but I've kept most of them for sentimental purposes even if I'm not bothering to breed most of them anymore haha.
Some sample dragons below:
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The left image are the new breeds, unfortunately most of them don't allow clothing customization except for the breed in the bottom left. But the image on the right are some of my older dragons I did dress up! You can get clothing and skins/accents to decorate them and there's a ton of really cool stuff. But even without decoration, the variety of colors and genes you can mix and match still leads to super cute dragons!!
☆ Also in the gaming realm, I've gotten really into Hades again too! I'd gotten through one successful escape attempt before I stopped playing, but now I've got several more under my belt and I'm finally getting the plot rolling lmao. It's suuuch a fun game and I love the characters so much, I'm super excited for the sequel too. Hopefully I'll have actually finished this game by the time it comes out lol. I haven't gotten Thanatos or Megaera to love me yet so I've gotta keep playing and win over my beloveds...
I'm so into Hades that I redid the layout for my TCG site to make it a Hades one! It was a stylesheet so I didn't make it from scratch, but I did all the images, colors, fonts, and some other minor adjustments. Originally I tried to pick the colors from Zagreus's palette but it just wasn't looking good to me so I swapped to a Megaera-based color palette and now it's very bright haha. My favorite bit is that the boons on the main page are also randomized on refresh like the sidebar images, and whenever it happens to end up with the matching boon at the same time as the correct Olympian I'm like >:3c
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Hades is one of my absolute favourite-ist games ever, so I totally get the "Just One More Run" impulse, haha! But the romances are sooooo cute—as is, bizarrely, the whole game.
Your TCG site looks so cute, too! That's so cool; I didn't realise TCG sites like that even existed. :o
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Thank you! Those kids of online TCGs have been around for a while though it's a pretty small community these days. But I very much enjoy collecting little pixel cards lmao so I've stuck around.
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It's a little sad that the newer designs don't allow for costumes because I adore them. That fluffy one with the flowers is my new favorite thing. What is that?! Also, it feels a little lazy like they don't want to work on the old accessories for new designs and reminds me of how like Final Fantasy XIV keeps releasing new cosmetic items that two of their races can't equip most of the time.
Your TCG site looks nice!
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Yeah I wish you could dress up the Ancient breeds they've released, but I understand why they probably don't want to do that since there's soooo much apparel they'd have to go through, and there's already a bunch of breeds they have to draw for. I've gotta assume they're not a huge company so who knows how many people work on that stuff.
Thank you! ♥