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Looks like I'm eating my shoes lmao I love the lore behind these guys! And we stan a short king 😌 Thanks for sharing!

If Slag-tails aren't inspired by Glavenus I'll eat my shoes 👀 These are *so cool* I'm absolutely in love with both of them. Great job, y'all!

Yooooo let's go!

Here we gooooooo!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

Happy holidays everyone!!!

Get spooky and stay safe everyone!

Waves can reach staggering heights by wind alone (watch Deadliest Catch if you don't believe me). Wind is one of the most destructive forces in nature. It's quite possible that a large dragon like the Tsunami Wyverns (don't let the scale of the sprite fool you) could create high enough winds to create large, deadly waves.

Actually, if you look, it's a crest and not her wing. Her far wing's not at the angle to really hide the head.

Yeah, her near leg is a little exaggerated. I missed that while looking through (I'm terribly tired x-x). But this is neither the time nor the place.

I dunno, the post where you said "At least the back legs are better than the front" (paraphrasing) was pretty harsh and unnecessarily snarky to me. The structure of the front legs is fine on all of her in cave sprites. It's fine to dislike someone's style, but leave it at that, I guess? -shrug- but that's just me.

I don't know which JOTB you're talking about, but if I could do back legs like her I'd be set Also, on the Tsunamis, Angz and co. were the spriters. The concept creator wanted those patterns (oh my god that thread was active so, so long ago). It's also hard to have a dynamic pose and to get all features crystal clear. It's either nice wings, small body, or crumpled wings, visible body. /experience Edit: Manticore, it's a shame TJ hasn't released her better dragons. she has some really stunning works. /stalks her DA like a dork

That's a little harsh (or I might be completely misunderstanding you, because tone + text = fail). JOTB usually does wings wonderfully. It's a shame her in-cave dragons don't have well defined wing fingers, if any, because she does know how to do wings. I think it might just be best to leave her a critique and see if she's willing to/has the time to fix it.

Don't autoload images, for starters, and make sure JavaScript is enabled (or is it disabled?). I caught my two, influenced them, and then I'll just breed to get some frozen babies~

I'm a bit disappointed that I wasn't able to get an egg done due to my wrist and incredibly odd class hours D: But I'm loving the eggs I've managed to collect so far! Everyone always does such a fantastic job <3

Asked for an invite anyways ;D Maybe I'll get a badge or something.

I forgot how much I loved the Gold Wyverns *o*

One could also argue that it's just based off a caribou. Or a reindeer, because they are used to pull sleds. If you look deep enough for something, you're bound to find it. It's like searching for Marxism in Mary Poppins. Santa's flying reindeer was the first to come to mind because I'm admittedly not running on a lot of sleep. I'm not arguing as effectively as I could, or should be.

Most of the colors associate with Christmas are red, gold, green, white, and occasionally blue and silver (I'm a little disappointed we don't have a blue and silver Christmas dragon). Hollies are based on traditional Christmas colors, which do span a few holidays other than Christmas. Holly berries also grow around this time of year. Yulebuck...santa's flying reindeer. There's absolutely no religious connotations there. They're colored like candy canes (which for the candy cane's origin I'll give you credit, but today it's just seen as a sweet, minty confection) and it has wings of holly leaves. See above. The Snow Angels are well known for their singing. Yes, singing, as in carols. Several December holidays have carols. Snow Angels isn't really an accurate name for them, but it was the only ones the spriters really liked that the users came up with. Ribbons is a stretch. Hanukkah has eight days of presents. Where are ribbons found? On presents. Again, the Christmas dragons take colors and themes of the holidays without actually being related to any particular religion. They represent the blanket holiday moniker that Christmas has come to represent. The commercial side. I wouldn't speculate too much. It's already been stated that this is just a regular release that happens to fall on the beginning of the year of the dragon.

China is a country -shot- I don't know if it's considered a subcontinent like India or not... I finally snagged a gold, though thank the powers that be! Again, guys, TJ released dragons that have been ready for release for months. Maybe even almost a year. That's how it works. Don't get your undies in a bunch over a release that happens to fall on the lunar new year (Chinese new year).

Those are significantly more recent completions. The dragons in this release have been completed well before those other two were even finished. When dragons are worked on in the public eye, they have to be removed from the list so that the members can forget about them so as not to spoil the release. That's how it always goes. The only spur of the moment releases (to my knowledge) have been Valentine 09's and Leetle Trees. Everything else has been planned, with sprites removed well before the fact. Thiefofhearts: Christmas has become a blanket term for the December holiday season. The dragons aren't celebrating the birth of Christ. I mean, plenty of non religious people celebrate Christmas. Christmas has become more than just celebrating the birth of Christ.

The dragon in question was literally named Chinese. The sprite itself also had multiple issues, once of which included size. I also know that these two sprites have been marked for release for months. TJ had plans to use them, and he finally put them in. As I explained before, that sprite had multiple issues, one of which was being a blatant cultural reference that goes against the section rules. There was also size, color, and the project was never finished. I was around during its creation. That dragon was not waiting for release. Any dragon on the completed list simply sits there, ready for use. that does not mean it has been marked for use and actually coded into the site.

It's to avoid making a dragon that screams the stereotypes of one culture. It's an attempt to be PC. It's not because of "Americanized" dragons (there's really no such thing), but because some things do lend the risk of seriously offending someone, like an Angel dragon, for instance. There have been dragons suggested that have been blatant countries, and I denied those. Taking elements from a culture, like the Tinsel dragon's laurel leaves, and applying them to a prize concept (because Olympic winners wore crowns of laurel leaves) works better than making a Greek dragon that contains stereotypical ancient Greek properties. Does that make sense?

Red and yellow are colors of luck, power, and strength. That's why they're on the Chinese flag.

Maybe because that old sprite has several issues and, let's not forget, is a direct cultural influence. The Egyptian dragon was scratched for the cultural reason (as was the Djin, and the Persian dragon had to get a rename, etc), and so was that old Chinese concept.