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
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!
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Re: skin Rules....again
(Anonymous) 2025-02-11 06:36 am (UTC)(link)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
Re: skin Rules....again
(Anonymous) 2025-02-11 11:07 am (UTC)(link)Re: skin Rules....again
(Anonymous) 2025-02-11 11:46 am (UTC)(link)If it's somehow depicting open wounds or the dragon in pain, then so are the other ones.
Re: skin Rules....again
(Anonymous) 2025-02-11 12:37 pm (UTC)(link)Re: skin Rules....again
(Anonymous) 2025-02-11 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)Re: skin Rules....again
(Anonymous) 2025-02-11 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)da
(Anonymous) 2025-02-12 12:42 am (UTC)(link)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.
Re: da
(Anonymous) 2025-02-12 04:45 am (UTC)(link)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!
Re: da
(Anonymous) 2025-02-12 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)