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A while back I saw my dream dragon. Such a beauty but I couldn't afford her when she came up at auction. I happened to find her again a few days later after the auction, and she was still for sale. I was gone for a week and came back curious if I might find her again after finally securing some funds. She was gone... but to my surprise there was another young girl there that was identical and from the same line. Even though this isn't physically the same dragon, it is still the dream dragon I was hoping to someday make. Someone made it before me and I'm thankful because honestly I'm a collector more than a breeder... especially trying to make a designer work out.

Thank you to this breeder, and all of the breeders who are out there working to make beautiful difficult combinations available.

Also, I named her Selene.

Apparently I have a new favorite pass time of sim hopping and admiring all of the combinations that breeders have achieved with their Dragons. And then I end up coming home with a new Dragon every time. Oops.

Coming to terms with the fact my pod will never drop an enkindler. I'm fine.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I hope everyone had a lucky day!

That random drop eye surprise. Wow. That was awesome. Congrats to all who got it!

Luck wasn't really on my side today, in a lot of ways. Not a single Egg of mine today produced the eye to start... but every single egg today was in no way helpful to progressing my projects. Usually an egg has traits I am working on from parents. Today's eggs just seemed to pull as many odd ball or starter traits from the background as possible for all of my dragons. That was a bit of a damper... but that's part of the breeding game. I've had a lot of GREAT luck previously.

And then I had my MRI to find out what is going on with my knee. I got some of the worst situational news I could have from it. The Meniscus was expected to be torn, but now it is expected to be WORN. It's Degenerative. What was a work place injury that was covered and getting me partial wage reimbursement while I recovered, just became due to an underlying pre-existing condition. I very likely just lost my workman's comp/temp disability payments, AND I have an injury that science hasn't come far enough to solve. There are ways to manage the pain and try to keep as much function as possible for as long as possible throughout my life, but it will never be "okay" again. I'm a mess of emotions tonight, and just wanted to share that here so that people who have gotten to know me and/or follow me, understand why my presence may change a bit in the coming days. I need to wrap my head around this, see what the medical professionals tell me next week, and well... see if I can return to work soon or not. I'd have a very hard filing for disability because I can do work sitting... but getting a desk job was something I really wanted for more than 10 years and every attempt resulted in letters rejecting even an interview.

Anyways... The very big life change has directly affected the amount of Dragon Breeding I can maintain. I just had to retire out of Commercial Breeding tonight and decide what projects I can maintain on a smaller personal scale. I'll still be following dragons and collecting, but no longer really funding breeding more than one or two pods. I don't feel very lucky this year.

Again, I really hope everyone else had a good lucky day, and got lucky drops!

Have you ever gotten crazy excited that you found what you were hunting for for your price range, and then you go to buy it while cammed at the wrong angle and you accidentally bought the wrong dragon? No? Just Me? Ah well. At least it was a pretty gal. If I can't turn her around, luckily I'm still glad to have her. Maybe it was just meant to be. (PS I still did get the one I was after).

The breeding game begins. Before I was buying Dragons for pets and breeding them out just because (until they were ancient). Now, I'm taking on the challenge of trying to breed out LE traits to help preserve them on the grid (and maybe build a beauty for next x-mas season, but we'll see). Oooooh Boy. Wish me luck.

Here's an update on my crazy little Dragon Family and Current Projects

Hey all! What did your Dragons get you for Valentines Day?

How many of us have lived this story?

You go to the dragon markets. You tell yourself you know exactly what you are looking for, and that's all you need. You came to find one specific looking dragon... but oh look! Look at that designer! It's perfect! And suddenly you're taking home even more dragons just because. And then you still find what you're looking for on top of it and now you need to shuffle your dragons on your land. Again. haha

I am in love with the new Blaze Baby. I sort of wish it had feather horns, but it's so good as is. I still want to get the Enkindler some day before I cut down on breeding, but these babies were worth grabbing. Thank you again to the artists!

I found a lovely drake with DOS of both Peppermint Horn from one parent, and Peppermint Claw from the other. Wish me luck that it's hidden! I'd really like to finally land on this trait (especially horn).

My Datentuds have laid another baby, and it was a 5x Dat with Smolder Ruby. Pretty girl. I have a future couple of 5x male with char and 5x female with ruby. I love these two, and hope they make people happy in the future. I'm still working on getting a zaetus eye on them because I personally love that eye.

What combinations are people working on that they love?

I haven't posted in a few days. Oops. 

I have a good line of Selene (fruzy ripple sky) starting to come out reliably but it's not perfect every time yet on ornament type. Still, it's my favorite dragon so that's exciting!

My Datentuds are really set but I couldn't get the zaetus eye like I hoped. The line is consistent to try in the future when some space frees up.

I'm still trying to get adored to pass any ruby trait to my tolrae. Nothing yet.

I have a pod of Xmas traits I put together from a very good day at auctions this week. Thank you breeders. They'll be of age in another couple of days.

I missed out on a set of iakus with lots of briarthorn but I'll have more chances when I have money again. Such a stunning combo little miss made.

I did track down ceondet with orchid finally. I don't know why but this is the only ceondet combo at all to really really fancy me.

Working on a full xemmy with ripple and my 4x tolrae. No idea what I want out of that. Ill know when I see it.

Should I put ripple sky on ceondet? I haven't seen it yet... Maybe with the right touch of another pastel or white air type I could make a sunset...

I took my lovely adoptee Spooks out for a ride and dig today. This ol' man is gonna be 100 in just about a week, but I think I'm not planning to breed him anymore between now and then. I'm looking forward to gifting him an eternal feather

I went to my first class today (class 3 - Dragon Breeding). Even though I've had dragons laying eggs this past week and had a general idea of what can happen breeding, the class really opened my eyes to the possibilities... and for me at least, the importance as a breeder of starting from starters, or a very trusted line... but you can never fully guarantee the line. Knowing that there is a set of the Visible Traits, and one set of Hidden Traits... and that only those go in to the mix of the offspring, really cleared things up. It's still a very involved effort though to get that nice fairly clean line going where you feel confidence in the traits being passed. I have a new high appreciation for the breeders who have taken the time, money, and mental focus to help achieve some reliable lines.

Thank you for today's class!

I went to see how my pet dragons were doing (these guys are not being used to breed at all, they are personal babies), and I found them naturally like this. I think this is the cutest thing I have seen.

I've decided to go ahead and name my favorite dragon combination (assuming it hasn't been given a name prior to this... I haven't seen one).

5x Fruzy with Stone Ornament and either Fin or Feather horns (preferably), and ripple sky marking, shall be known as Diamond Dust. Well... by me at least. The coat reminds me of spells used in Final Fantasy by Shiva, and Meru in Legend of Dragoon. Shattered Ice Crystals. It's fine if others don't want to call it that. I just think I want to from now on.

If you happen to see this post, would you mind taking a moment to reply?

I'd love to hear what people's favorite combinations are. Personal combinations that they found beautiful, eye catching, or unable to ignore (keep it positive!).

I've found a black dragon with sky blue ripples and light blue eyes. She was impossible to resist after seeing her a couple of times. I named her Aurora.
I've also found that I love the Purple with a dark Blue Ripple. I have a couple of them I couldn't ignore, though I haven't found one with the pink/purple eye yet. I think that would be a favorite.

And then sometimes you find the combinations you never expected, like the dragon I named Scald. Water Cyan color with the Peach Fire Markings. I could NOT take my eyes off her, even though I never dreamed I would go for those colors.

Aren't the possibilities beautiful?

(Please forgive me for not using their official color/type names, I'm still new to the dragons, and am appreciating the colors/patterns more than the deep specifics).

Just built my first targeted pod. Ultimately, I wish to build a Fruzayl Skin/Pigment(horns and ornament) on Spike Horns or Fin Horns, with Stone Ornament. Then the Ripple Sky Marking. Dad is in the back, all Mom's in rotation are in the front.

Aiming for a white or blue eye. Dad has white, two of the moms have blue. Some of them have supportive backgrounds, some I have to go by the non-hidden traits to start. I'll be able to build one of my dream dragons from this lot, and maybe even start to work on what may one day be a strong line. Who knows. But here's the messy start. Wish me luck! (I also have a new momma that I love her colors... the one on the far right. Aurora is the black one and already one of my favorites).

Last night I finally got my Ascension Dragon! I will admit I obtained it in the market, but I am so happy to have this girl!

I've named her partly after "The Chariot". My first Tarot Deck (and only one) was themed after Dragons, and I dreamed about it the night before. I wasn't even looking for it. I didn't even know it existed. I was seeking an entirely different deck. I had dreamed about a golden dragon the night before as well. My Mother told me that the dream was a sign, and that I should definitely be getting the Dragon Tarot (she was helping me shop for it). Later, in the deck, I discovered that there was a Golden Dragon on one, and ONLY ONE of the cards in the entire deck; The Chariot. This was also already deemed as my representing card. Whenever I was overusing my deck and asking the same thing over and over it would throw me a reversed Chariot to tell me to stop going in circles, one of the times that I could feel the deck actually speaking to me (even if it was to tell me I was being a dumb child).

The Ascension Dragon is very important to me due to these memories. I thought I'd share this. Say Hello to Hoshiko | The Chariot.

My beautiful girl Aurora, one of my first Dragons and one of the reasons I became a breeder, has reached her point of Ancient Wisdom. Rest well my baby girl. Today marks the start of your forever journey with me as an Ancient

Oh boy... My Peppermint project just doesn't want to behave. I'm getting great eggs from them, but not the right combination I need. At least I have more dragons to work with if these ones don't pass. I have all Summer to figure them out.

OMG finally some good news. After failing to auction off some of my adored dragoness, one of the girls had 90% ardor so I figured "alright. I'll give her another try with the pink Tolrae". Welp. They dropped their egg. 3x tolrae xaytud eye, ruby horns (feather). Ornament is stone. This is a dream combo for me. Thank God she didn't move at auction. I've been dying for ruby traits on pink and she just delivered

Pics tomorrow. I'm on mobile and haven't even logged in to incubate the baby.

Once again I have completely rotated my pods. A lot of it has been subbing in better offspring with traits, but I just had to make room to rotate in an entire ruby project. Now let's see if the  Nessies and the Drake will behave and combine their traits.

My Peppermints are still being very stubborn as well. Everything is there, but they just don't wanna give up that perfect egg quite yet.

This morning I saw another Ascension Zenith Prism Nessie for sale... My wallet is weeping. I'm breeding her out and then she is my SL Daughter's when it comes time to retire. She already loves her. I'm still curious if I might see a trait pass.

THAT NEW ENKINDLER! I would post the image that's circulating but I don't think it's right of me to since I don't own it or the image. But wow. That Zuldred Surprise is a true Show Stopper, Heart Skipping, Stunner! So of course I just cleared out one of my pod projects in hopes that a new starter pod might give me one. I love it. I want to name it Fafnir after the dragon from the Gaia Online lore. Please oh Please, Dragon Lords above, bless me with a single Fafnir!

One more post. Meet my baby girl Talia. She isn't being bred, just living her best life with me in my Mermaid Nest.

When she reaches maturity she will have Zaetus Spikes (deep purple). She inherited most of her traits from her father's visible traits, and the sky ripples are from her mom Aurora (one of my favorites) as well as her eyes. Her claws were a bit more of a surprise. Such a pretty girl.

One of the first girls I adopted when I learned about the dragons... this is "Ripple". I don't know her background or if she's from a reputable breeder. I just know that she is the reason I fell in love with the Ripple on the Zaetus. There isn't anything crazy special about her compared to what breeders are building as designers, but she was the first combination I loved. I later met the dragon I named Aura that perfected the combo for me. Still, Ripple is important to my dragon journey.

Selene caught me off guard in the middle of a photoshoot. She wanted a hug!