I collaborated with over a dozen artists and creatives looking to grow our social media impact through each creating a coloring or activity page to contribute into a collective freebie product! This is the brain child of the Very Social Animal which I highly recommend joining if you are interested in learning how to sell and grow your social media presence (and if you love kawaii things!). Go here to download the FREE coloring book collab! Each contribution has their socials after it - and the best part is.... THERES MORE THAN ONE DRAGON! 🥰 See if you can find mine for the Dragon Village! https://jaceandjudy.com/products/free-coloring-book-color-our-world If you would like to rock your socials and participate in challenges, come join us in the Very Social Animal. I would love to see how you colored them once you've finished one!

I am so grateful to all of you who have joined me inside this Dragon Village. I am grateful for you taking a chance on a unique group idea, and contributing so well to the heartbeat of this village. I love seeing your beautiful designs, reading your fantastic stories, and falling in love with your characters and world that you are helping create and shape. I am grateful that even when I went silent for a while, you stayed. Thank you 🫂 To be honest, I was not doing well. I did a dumb thing and at a peak of positive feeling and success I stopped depression medication I had been taking. Then, as life does, things changed and I was back in the middle of many harsh mental triggers attacking my self worth, and I didn't have the medication to block the negative demons who attacked. Depression medication takes about a month to see any effects, both ways. So when I stopped, it seemed like it was okay because I was still okay. Now that I am restarting, it's taking time to readjust the dose to combat the new triggers. It's been rough. My negative voice is really mean, lol, and it led to some...dangerous...thoughts. And it also makes me want to hide from people - yet being around other people is what helps keep it at bay. Isolation is dangerous - yet I felt so ashamed of disappearing and being overwhelmed with the notifications that have been flooding my skool account - I only now have gained the courage to come back. So, thank you again for being here and for not burning the village down while I was gone ^_^ I know with so many dragons around, that is quite a feat ;)

I stumbled on this story on facebook, and I feel it resonates with the same reasons why I created this space to raise your own dragon and to be as creative as you desire with them. Stories empower the mind and soul, and offer opportunity when physical limitations hold us down. Friends are made when we create things together. Putting ourselves into the shoes of someone else helps us to explore our own core beliefs and desires. While this community is not built on a strict game structure yet where dice are required, dice can help simulate decisions made by others and the environment that you personally cannot control. So if your story is feeling a little stuck, use some die to help guide your next step. Have the high roll be a good result, and a low roll be a bad result of the task, and let that inspire your story as needed. It can be a good way of needing to come up with creative solutions that add an extra layer of fun to the tale. Here is one person's story with how collaborative storytelling changed their life: "My grandson begged me to play Dungeons & Dragons. "It's just one session, Grandma. Please. We need a fourth player or the campaign falls apart." I'm Vivian. Seventy years old. I read romance novels. Watch Jeopardy. Play bridge on Thursdays. I don't do dragons. "What even is Dungeons & Dragons?" I asked. "It's like..... cooperative storytelling with dice. You create a character and go on adventures." "I'm seventy, Marcus. I don't go on adventures." "Exactly why you should try." I only agreed because his friends were coming over anyway. Might as well supervise. Make sure they weren't doing drugs or whatever kids do. Saturday night. Three kids showed up. Marcus handed me papers. "Character sheet. You're playing a wizard named..... you can name her." "This is ridiculous." "Just try for an hour." I named her Elara. Don't ask me why. It just felt right. The game master-a kid named Devon with purple hair-described a tavern. "You're all sitting there when a mysterious hooded figure approaches......."

I want to have a quick montage, like in a movie, of my dragon and I moving quickly from the mountain to the town. I would like to bump into several characters, individually, along the way. Is there a good spot in any of your stories where I could bump into you in the wilderness? It could be in your past, I suppose. These should be quick, funny encounters.

Merry Christmas to Hatchmere Dragon Village from Aliva and the Haunted Fen Trolls