anonrerising | Happy Valentine's!

Well the Red Version of this skin got denied:
https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/skin/3392440/1

Why? Because "...being red. Apparently the jaw flap looks like hanging skin..?“
Never mind that there are already 3 approved recolors of this skin...

This is really getting more and more ridiculous. Why even have a plague flight?

It seems like a pretty obvious attempt to skirt around the rules. It’s not red. It is clearly flesh colored, like muscles or blood. You cannot have blood or muscles exposed.

The dragon cannot appear or be interpreted to be in pain by the vocal minority that will whine about it.

You could do a very vibrant red, and that would’ve been approved.

I really don’t understand this trend of people complaining about the rules and then attempting to skirt around them. Time and time again they get caught every single time. Only a few that the mods play favorites with are allowed to get past the filters

you got me until the last sentence ngl. the staff doesn't play favorites

I don't know. Site apparel is obviously allowed to do more than UMAs, but the tendrils are almost exactly the color of the Fiendflesh apparel.

If it's somehow depicting open wounds or the dragon in pain, then so are the other ones.

“I don’t know. The official staff of this online business can do more than me, a guest.”

? yeah that's exactly what I was saying. sometimes I make my tone less committal on the internet

Fiendflesh is not only significantly browner, but also made to look like some kind of stretchy substance that's on TOP of the dragon's skin or clothes. This uma very much looks like the dragon has no skin on its mouth, regardless of what the tendrils are doing, so the fleshy color there is an obvious no go.

I have no horse in this race but I gotta say I disagree with this assessment of the fiendflesh apparel, and do in fact find it extraordinarily, well, fleshy.

that doesn't mean that this was an inconsistent application of the skin/accent rules specifically, necessarily; I just don't think you can point at the apparel and suggest a clear distinction such that it would fly as a skin/accent nowadays.

It's not really whether or not fiendflesh looks fleshy, but that it's a separate mass covering the dragon's limbs instead of being the dragon's actual flesh. Think something like the Bogwyrm accent from 2016 RoR, or the parts of Hellwell Snaps in 2023 that come down from the side of the skull cap. Similar stretchy, fleshy things that go around the dragon's body. In this UMA, with this particular color, the dragon's skin appears to be flying away from the mouth, exposing it's own jaw. That's the distinction, showing their own flesh vs wearing another's flesh.

It's dumb, but as others have said they just need to make it a more unnatural color like the other two and suddenly it doesn't count as a gaping wound!

Fiendflesh looks more like a symbiote or attachment than the particular dragon's own flesh. There is a disconnect.

11 years of plague aesthetic drama. at this point i almost wish fr WOULD delete the flight

It's not that it's red, it's not even 'red' per se; it very distinctly looks like nasty hanging flesh and cannot really be mistaken as anything else. Plenty of red skins have gotten through the queue just fine. I can see why this was denied. I'd say if they're that adamant about having a 'plague' colorway they could try to go more brown like the tendrils in the rest of plague's site art, like on the world map or plague fest items, and make the mechanical parts match the other colorways. Or just straight up make it match the other colorways with the black/dark mechanical bits and bright neon red accents where it's teal and green on the others?

The other colors don't really look like hanging flesh and aren't meat colored, hence probably why they passed. I'm not entirely sure what the artist was expecting tbh submitting it like that. Considering this isn't the first time they've had issues with flesh colors appearing like wounds/torn flesh they should probably ask some friends/others 'hey does this look too much like meat?' before submitting it, might save some headache beforehand.

If they went a bright unnatural red, it would probably have gotten through.

I for one think they should just delete plague off the site, mass extinction event or something /silly

In Scooby-Doo! Zombie Island, they didn't even show us any spine or blood when they were tossing that zombie head between the gang. Why even make a zombie movie?

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