Lineage Projects, Holidays, Welcome

[krait]

Welcome, any and all new Dreamwidth users!

How's breeding going for everyone on your various lineage projects? I just had a 'no egg' attempt on my latest effort, but at least it wasn't a refusal. As soon as they do produce an egg, I'll be done with my Firemage lineage project!

What are your breeding plans for the upcoming holiday? Is anyone looking for holiday mates, or planning to try out a new cross this year? Post your ideas or wishes! Anyone want to guess what the new holiday breed will look like? :D If the pattern holds true, it'll be female this year; I'm hoping for something silvery or green, but wondering if maybe we'll go back to red at last? So far all of our red holiday breeds have been male, so a female would be nice!

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[hamsterwoman]

Hi! :D

Ooh, the Firemage lineage is really pretty -- what a great combination of colors!

I've recently bred my 7g PB blusang from a lineage where I own all the CBs (and am continuing to slowly work towards building a mate for my 10g PB blusang. Only a couple hundred more eggs to go XP

For the holidays, I need to figure out what I want to do with the Garlands. They're actually the first holiday dragon I've liked since the Solstices, so I might actually have to do some holiday breeding this year. I saw someone breeding them with striped rivers, which is lovely, but almost TOO similar. And this is also my first year with a CB Holly, so I should probably decide what to do with him, too... And I need to snag another CB Yulebuck so I can breed a checker with golds for that mate I've had languishing for a while.

but wondering if maybe we'll go back to red at last? So far all of our red holiday breeds have been male, so a female would be nice!

I hadn't thought of that -- that would be nice!

I also wonder if we'll get another non-Western breed (Aegis was Wingless and Garlands Amphipter, I guess, so maybe a Wyrm? Pumpkins notwithstanding, hopefully something that can breed with the main dragon types, anyway.

[krait]

Thank you!

Sometimes I start to plan a lineage, then realise that there are zero blue dragons with orange accents in this game! I waited years to start this lineage - blue Firegems had to happen before I had a blue option to pair with Mageias.

Wow, 10G PB! That is crazy dedication. I don't think I've taken any EG lineage further than 6G, thus far, though I have a feeling that my 'Starlurker' lineage might get there eventually. (Purple Neb x CavernLurker)

"What to do with Garlands" is definitely on my mind, too! So far I know that I really like them paired with gold Heralds, and with Golds. They look great with Gaia Xenos, too, as I found out when someone requested this cross. :D I really like how that combo brings out the green in the Garland, so I might have to come up with a good green mate before Christmas breeding rolls around!

A Wyvern for the next holiday would be cool! I don't think we've had a holiday Wyvern yet...

You've also reminded me that I need to snag a CB Holly this year! Meant to do it last year and got distracted by shiny AP finds that made me run out of egg slots. :D Need to name my CB Yulebuck, too, as well as grab him a buddy!

[hamsterwoman]

Wow, holiday AND nebula checker -- that's hard mode! XD (I have two lineages with nebulas I'm attempting -- green neb x gaia and red neb x gold -- and they are both so pretty, but I make so little progress on them, because every time I have a free egg slot, I'd rather breed something I know I will be able to use, rather than something that is likely to take up 4 days, an influence, and an incubate, and still color wrong....) (I hope we do get that suggested color-influence BSA for nebulas at some point. Maybe I'll work on those lineages then...)

Wow, 10G PB! That is crazy dedication.

I just really like blusangs at all stages, so am always happy to see the eggs and hatchlings on my scroll, and so keep breeding them.

I actually find PB even-gens much easier to breed than checkers because as long as you get an egg, it's the right egg :), so I can sort of chip away at them at my leisure, with minimal frustration. The blusangs -- and I also have PB gold wyvern lineages that are at 7g fully self-bred / 10g and building a mate -- are my background project where, honestly, the hardest thing is keeping track in a giant spreadsheet to make sure I don't introduce any inbreeding.

Thanks for the Garland suggestions! They do look lovely with the golds and gold lunars, but I especially love the gaia combination -- I think I'm going to do that! (the terra mate lineage you linked below is also lovely, but gaias are some of my very favorite sprites, so that's going to be hard to beat for me).

And, ooh, a holiday Wyvern! that would be cool! -- and I guess we already got a holiday Wyrm with Omens and a holiday Eastern with Heartstealers, but I also can't think of a holiday Wyvern anywhere across the holidays...

[krait]

Wow, holiday AND nebula checker -- that's hard mode! XD

It.... kiiiind of is? It's, like, medium-hard to me, though, because it could be so much worse. (Neb x Valentine would be easier, as you don't have to manipulate the Valentines' genders. Neb x Lunar Herald, or a Neb x holiday with alternating colours, would be harder.)

Although I once saw somebody with a Nebula x Gemshard checker project called something like "this is why I cry at night" or something, and laughed so hard. THAT is true dedication to hard mode there!

PB even-gens much easier to breed than checkers because as long as you get an egg, it's the right egg :)

This is true! It's kinda how I feel about holiday checkers, too; they're nice because for the most part (barring things like Nebs/Lunars/Florets/Firegems) you either get no egg, or the right egg.

I'm trying not to talk myself into a Garland/Gaia lineage on top of all the others I like, but if I pick one up in the AP let's face it, I'm going to give in. :D


If you want to see the Starlurkers, here's the highest gen thus far, and here's the complete list of everybody involved! It was going to stop at 5G, and then at 6G, but I keep ending up with spare lower-gens and then I feel bad about not using them, so the goal goes higher. :D So I'm always looking for new blood - and for miscolored purple Nebs to freeze as group dividers.

Wyvern holiday would be a nice, since TJ seems to be branching out on holiday body types - as you noted, we've had a wyrm and an Eastern, and Garlands are amphipteres, so why not a wyvern? Though a sea serpent would also be fun and original! I would name them all after the 'I Saw Three Ships' Christmas Carol, naturally.

[hamsterwoman]

I once saw somebody with a Nebula x Gemshard checker project called something like "this is why I cry at night" or something, and laughed so hard.

Ahaha XD Yeah, after I made that comment, I was thinking of what the most frustrating checker to breed would be, and gemshard x nebula would be it, short of throwing black/vine alts in there. At least for me personally, because I'd rather get the wrong egg 10 times but at least know it's the wrong egg right away. Lunars and holidays and those lineages where people are trying to get specific other-breed xenos would certainly take longer, but it's so much less frustrating not having to wait for an egg to hatch, let alone mature.

but if I pick one up in the AP let's face it, I'm going to give in. :D

Ha, well, good luck! It is a pretty lineage!

And I like the Starklurker combination as well -- the purple accents on the Lurkers is what makes them one of my favorite Halloween breeds, and the purple nebs really bring it out.)

I would name them all after the 'I Saw Three Ships' Christmas Carol, naturally.

Oooh! Now I really hope it is a sea serpent!