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!

Comments

[codyne]

That Firemage lineage is very pretty!

Just in time, I finally finished breeding a mate for a 6EG Holly I picked up a couple of years ago! They're going to look like this! Heh. Probably no one will want them, the lineage is ridiculously huge, but it was fun building a mate for it.

[krait]

Wow, that's huge and complicated! Too orange for me, :D but I absolutely love the pattern with the Crimsons woven in!

Thanks for the kind words on Firemage! Now if only those 3Gs would cooperate with an egg... :D

Aside from a couple of old-school spirals and stairs, I don't have any Holly lineages I'm working on at all. Maybe this will be the year I catch CB Hollies, and then I'll have all of 2019 to come up with a project. :D Maybe I'll do something with a breed that was around for the original Holly release, as a callout to their 'Original Christmas Dragon' thing.

[codyne]

It is very orange! Not my choice of colors, but it's hard enough to find EG Hollies with neat patterns, so I when I caught the father, I went for it.

I do have a 4EG Holly x White checker, which was kind of the main pairing back when Hollies were super rare. Now that there are more CB Hollies around, I might try to continue it. (I own the parents and one set of grandparents, and can breed 2, 3, or 4G Hollies in that lineage.) And a 4EG Holly x Rosebud - when I caught it, I despaired of ever finding a mate for it, but now it might be possible.

[hamsterwoman]

That's a really neat lineage for the Holly!

[codyne]

Thanks! It's hard to find EG Hollies with nice lineages, so when I come across one, I try to make a nice mate for it.

Those PB Blusangs are awesome! I like doing PB EG lineages, too. My biggest one is my 7EG Storm. I'm currently collecting CBs to take it out to 8G. I've done 6Gs from all my own CBs of White, Black, Red, Pink, Magi, and Mint, and I've got the CBs to do several others. I like to give the oldest commons some love, they don't get enough these days, I don't think.

[hamsterwoman]

Love the names on your epic Storms lineage!

And I know what you mean about the old commons not getting much love anymore. I loved the White and Black dragons when I started playing in 2008 and collected a bunch, and have always found the Mints adorable (my first ever egg was a mint, so I'm very fond of them for that reason), but that was before lineages were visible, so while I bred them, they're all awfully messy. So I like that you're breeding pretty old commons to give them some love!

[codyne]

I started playing at the end of 2008, and I also loved (and still love) the Blacks, Whites, and Storms. My very first dragon was a messy, inbred Black. I still have her but I don't breed her any more. My second was a Storm. A while ago, I decided to collect 32 CBs (enough to breed a 6EG PB) of all the commons that were available when I first started playing (which was only 16 dragons at that time). I have all but the Seasonals, I've been waiting for Winter to collect them, because that's the season I started in. I am still trying to decide whether to collect the Arias, or count the Pinks as the originals, or neither, since the Bright Pinks, to my mind, were a different breed than either the Arias or the Pinks.