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Information for breeding from my Alt. Arsani:
At the moment, I am not accepting requests for offspring (whether it be gifting or trading). Please do not approach me asking for such; if I wish to, I'll post in a gifting or trading thread.
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It is a fact that, to the other, nothing ever happens. I, a mortal woman, move through my life with the excited interest of a swimmer in uncharted waters -- my predilections are few, but intense -- while she, the other, is a mere shadow, a blur, a figure glimpsed in the corner of the eye. Rumors of "JCO" come to me thirdhand and usually unrecognizable, arguing, absurdly, for her historical existence. But while writing exists, writers do not, as all writers know. It's true, I see her photograph "my 'likeness'" yet it is rarely the same "likeness" from photograph to photograph, and the expression is usually one of faint bewilderment. "I acknowledge that I share a name and face with "JCO," this expression suggests, but this is a mere convenience. Please don't be deceived!"
"JCO" is not a person, nor even a personality, but a process that has resulted in a sequence of texts. Some of the texts are retained in my (our) memory, but some have bleached out, like pages of print left too long in the sun. Many of the texts have been translated into foreign languages, which is to say into texts at another remove from the primary, sometimes even the author's name, on the dust jacket of one of these texts, is unrecognizable by the author. I, on the contrary, am fated to be "real," "physical," "corporeal," to "exist in Time." I continue to age year by year, if not hour by hour, while "JCO," the other, remains no fixed age -- in spiritual essence, perhaps, forever poised between the fever of idealism and the chill of cynicism, a precocious eighteen years old. Yet, can a process be said to have an age? An impulse, a strategy, an obsessive tracery, like planetary orbits to which planets, "real" planets, must conform?
No one wants to believe the obvious truth: the "artist" can inhabit any individual, for the individual is irrelevant to "art." (And what is "art"? A firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or casuality.) "JCO" occasionally mines, and distorts, my personal history; but only because the history is close at hand, and only then when some idiosyncrasy about it suits her design, or some curious element of the symbolic. If you, a dear friend of mine, should appear in her work, have no fear: you won't recognize yourself, any more than I would recognize you.
It would be misleading to describe our relationship as hostile in any emotional sense, for she, being bodiless, having no existence, has no emotions; we are more helpfully defined as diamagnetic, the one repulsing the other as magnetic poles repulse each other, so that "JCO" eclipses me, or, and this is less frequent, I eclipse "JCO," depending upon the strength of my will.
If one or the other of us must be sacrificed, it has always been me.
And so my life continues through the decades, not connected in the slightest with that conspicuous other with whom, by accident, I share a name and a likeness. The fact seems self-evident that I was but the door through which she entered, "it"entered, but any door would have done as well. Does it matter which entrance you use to enter a walled garden? Once you're inside and have closed the door?
For once, not she but I am writing these pages. Or so I believe.
- "Joyce Carol Oates"
Needed Hatchlings:
Ungendered, male, and female two-head
Male or female albino
Male or female balloon
Male or female curled alt black
Male or female bluna
Ungendered, male, and female blusang
Male bright-breasted
Ungendered, male or female brimstone
Ungendered, male or female canopy
Ungendered cheese
Female chicken
Ungendered, male or female coastal waverunner
Ungendered, male or female alt vine
Ungendered daydream
Ungendered, male or female purple dorsal
Ungendered, male or female red dorsal
Ungendered electric
Ungendered, male, and female flamingo
Ungendered, male, and female geode
Ungendered, male or female dayglory
Ungendered, male or female nightglory
Ungendered, male, and female shallow water
Ungendered, male or female gray
Ungendered, male or female green
Ungendered, male or female greenwing
Ungendered, male or female guardian
Ungendered, male or female gold wyvern
Ungendered, male, and female harvest
Male hellfire
Ungendered, male or female ice
Ungendered, male, and female water
Ungendered, male or female lumina
Ungendered, male or female magi
Ungendered, male or female magma
Ungendered, male or female mint
Ungendered and female moonstone
Ungendered, male, and female nebula (including alt colors)
Ungendered, male or female neotropical
Ungendered nocturne
Ungendered, male or female orchedrakes
Male or female olive
Ungendered and unknown paper
Male and female pillow
Ungendered and female purple
Ungendered, male, and female pygmy
Ungendered, male or female crimson flare
Ungendered, male, and female dark myst
Ungendered, male or female misfit
Ungendered nilia
Ungendered, male or female seawyrm
Ungendered, male, and female tan ridgewing
Ungendered and female purple ridgewing
Ungendered and female royal blue
Ungendered, male or female royal crimson
Ungendered, male, and female of all seasonal alts
Male silver
Male or female skywing
Ungendered and female soulpeace
Ungendered speckle-throat
Ungendered spitfire
Ungendered, male or female stone
Ungendered, male or female stripe (of all color variations)
Ungendered, male or female sunrise
Ungendered, male or female sunset
Ungendered, male, and female sunsong
Ungendered, male, and female swallowtail
Ungendered, male, and female tangar
Ungendered, male, and female terrae
Ungendered, male or female electric
Ungendered, male or female tri-horn
Ungendered, male, and female tsunami
Ungendered, male or female turpentine
Ungendered, male, and female ultraviolet
Ungendered and female water horse
Ungendered, male or female water walker
Ungendered, male or female whiptail
Ungendered, male or female white
Ungendered and unknown of all dino colors