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badass_tiger) wrote2025-07-06 12:15 pm
badass_tiger) wrote2025-07-06 12:15 pm
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Sunshine Revival Challenge - Love
Fun fact, my real life name means love! That's why this dragon here is my self dragon.
Her name is Ai which means love in Japanese. My name means love in a different language but Ai definitely Aidentify with this name too. Besides, dragons with 2-letter names are coveted on Flight Rising as it's no longer possible to give 2-letter names to dragons (unless it's your progenitor which can't be sold) so she's pretty special.
This dragon's name also means love in Irish which is technically closer to me as I'm Irish (this is not my name either lol)
She is also a special dragon due to her ID being 7 digits long and the fact that she's an Earth element Imperial. When I noticed that we share the same birthday, I had to buy her right away, and named her similarly to my name.
As soon as the genes Love and Affection came out, I knew they had to go on the dragons that represent me so I slapped them on these guys right away. You can't see it that well on Gra since she has a full body skin but it's the symbolism that counts! (tbh you can't see it that well on Ai either but see my previous sentence lol)
(Warning for small mention about mental health)
My birthday is tomorrow but we're all working tomorrow so I'm going out with my friends today instead. I used to hate my birthday, celebrating it or even talking about it or anything like that. To be perfectly honest (and I may as well be honest on my own journal), this was because such celebrations were, in my experience, largely transactional. For example, if someone got me a birthday present, I felt that it was because they were expecting a birthday present in return. That's fair enough but then I would get blamed or the other person would get upset if I got them something that was deemed unequal to what they gave me. I'm not a mind reader so it's hard for me to judge something like that. So in the end, I just hated my birthday and wouldn't even put it out there in any way, like if a website lets you display your birthday on your profile I would remove it.
I've realised I don't mind so much this year though. I suppose that's because I'm in a much better place this year. Definitely not financially nor even in terms of physical health but just mentally. Inner peace is something I haven't had in, well, who knows? It used to seem so impossible that I could ever not dread the next day, let alone look forward to it, that I believed that if I ever had the thought 'I can't wait for tomorrow', something terrible would surely happen during the night. Well alhamdulillah (thank God) I know that's not true for I have had many days I've anticipated which I was able to enjoy safely and peacefully.
Hope that counts for the challenge, talking about love (which is me) and being sentimental about my current life situation. And if it doesn't, read this one instead where I talk about my love for Kai and how angry that makes me. I will have more to say about Kai very soon. I am not even remotely done being furious about how much I adore him.
Her name is Ai which means love in Japanese. My name means love in a different language but Ai definitely Aidentify with this name too. Besides, dragons with 2-letter names are coveted on Flight Rising as it's no longer possible to give 2-letter names to dragons (unless it's your progenitor which can't be sold) so she's pretty special.
This dragon's name also means love in Irish which is technically closer to me as I'm Irish (this is not my name either lol)
She is also a special dragon due to her ID being 7 digits long and the fact that she's an Earth element Imperial. When I noticed that we share the same birthday, I had to buy her right away, and named her similarly to my name.
As soon as the genes Love and Affection came out, I knew they had to go on the dragons that represent me so I slapped them on these guys right away. You can't see it that well on Gra since she has a full body skin but it's the symbolism that counts! (tbh you can't see it that well on Ai either but see my previous sentence lol)
(Warning for small mention about mental health)
My birthday is tomorrow but we're all working tomorrow so I'm going out with my friends today instead. I used to hate my birthday, celebrating it or even talking about it or anything like that. To be perfectly honest (and I may as well be honest on my own journal), this was because such celebrations were, in my experience, largely transactional. For example, if someone got me a birthday present, I felt that it was because they were expecting a birthday present in return. That's fair enough but then I would get blamed or the other person would get upset if I got them something that was deemed unequal to what they gave me. I'm not a mind reader so it's hard for me to judge something like that. So in the end, I just hated my birthday and wouldn't even put it out there in any way, like if a website lets you display your birthday on your profile I would remove it.
I've realised I don't mind so much this year though. I suppose that's because I'm in a much better place this year. Definitely not financially nor even in terms of physical health but just mentally. Inner peace is something I haven't had in, well, who knows? It used to seem so impossible that I could ever not dread the next day, let alone look forward to it, that I believed that if I ever had the thought 'I can't wait for tomorrow', something terrible would surely happen during the night. Well alhamdulillah (thank God) I know that's not true for I have had many days I've anticipated which I was able to enjoy safely and peacefully.
Hope that counts for the challenge, talking about love (which is me) and being sentimental about my current life situation. And if it doesn't, read this one instead where I talk about my love for Kai and how angry that makes me. I will have more to say about Kai very soon. I am not even remotely done being furious about how much I adore him.