Dagnirauko

...of a mid-afternoon nap!

Ugh! You lose a couple of valuable hours, become late for your evening plans, and to top it all off, you wake up sweaty, uber-dehydrated, totally groggy and feeling MUCH worse than before you accidentally fell asleep! (I always read lying down in bed, so accidentally falling asleep can happen easily enough.)

This happened to me yesterday. Very unfun. I didn't even have time to rant about it right afterwards as I was suddenly late getting ready to go to this beach party get-together thing. Not that it was actually all that big a deal, I'm totally over it now... but, still, it's worth saying (or blogging, or journaling, or something) that mid-afternoon naps, at least on warm days, are absolutely horrible occurrences, and ought to be banned.

One would think that extreme hubris and success beyond one's wildest expectations just really couldn't mix. I mean, they shouldn't be able to go together, right?!??

Apparently, though, they can. See, I actually kinda set out to build the best Dragon collection in all of DA. Or at least the best compared with any other reasonably popular one - it wouldn't surprise me at all if somewhere on DA, there's this absolutely fabulous personal dragon collection that no one's ever heard of or seen. And while best is so extremely relative, I wanted to be extremely happy with it myself, and as for objective standards, I did want it to become the most popular as tracked by -s. 'Best' not equal 'most popular', but there's a strong correlation, oftentimes. Seems like an awfully hard goal to overshoot, right?

Apparently not impossible, however! Aside: not to say my personal hubrified goal is complete and successful, but certainly it's on track and maybe then some - 139 in little over a week! Anyways, the crazy unexpected is that people seem to LOVE my Fantasy collection! I set out to have the most popular long-term Dragon collection, and I GET the TWO most popular (short-term) out of ALL collections, period!?! (This instant they are first (Fantasy) and third (Dragons) in the last 24hr - but they've been 1 and 2 at times)

Wow.

So yeah, I set out with a goal I wasn't too sure if it was realistic, and that felt like it was impossible to overacheive... and, at least so far, have already exceeded it...

Also, the pageview tracker must count more than just visits to the profile page - maybe it's counting not only every time someone visits one of my popular collections, but also for every artwork they look at while IN the collection?! That would help explain the crazy near 30,000 hits I've gotten in little over a week.

Now if only my suddenly popular profile were a bit more interesting... oh well, stick to the favourites section, I guess, everyone! ...Although I might yet make a few changes to (well, this) and to my Devious Info, etc. Ma-aybe even submit a deviation or two - but don't expect ye standard artworks from me - no camera and I don't draw.

Um... cue audience participation hook-type thing: If you have a story where you or someone you know aimed for a ridiculously unattainable or prideful goal... and then totally overachieved past even that goal, feel free to share it.

I'm so excited about my new Dragons collection!

So, to rewind: first I organized my favorites - putting each into exactly one category. Then I worked specifically on my Dragons collection - writing a blurb, and organizing them in order of just how much I love them, with occasional aesthetic considerations thrown in (for instance, #3 is actually more like my 5th favorite, but in the sidebar view of my various collections that shows the top 3 deviations stacked on top of each other, #3 looks awesome and really catches the eye, even from behind the other two.) Anyways, point being...

Dragons!
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Please check out this great collection, and help me make it even better! I'm actually already ridiculously happy with it, and I feel like I've only scratched the surface as far as finding the best dragon deviations in all of DA. There's 43, er, 66, er, 75 dragons so far, and I'm especially ecstatic about the entire first page plus... they ALL just blow me away!

A big huge thank you to all of the amazingly talented Dragon Deviants whose work fills this collection!

I felt like I was in a fine mood until I went to pick a mood, lol. Actually, though, I picked Annoyed because I was getting just slightly tired of figuring out DA stuff for the first time... but wasn't really in much of a bad mood... then when I tried to start music going my computer decided that DA wanted ALL my processing power - actually, memory is the trouble, I think - and I'm well past Annoyed and onto Frustrated at the slowness right now.

Anyways, first Journal Entry, blah blah blah. Oh wait, must practice emoticons! Grr! stupid computer let me type! [After Previewing: oh, c'mon, I can understand if 'blah' isn't an emote, but no 'grr'?! ]

Now I get to see what the emotes look like... ? ?

Oh, and anyone reading this will probably already know, but in case a Real Life friend is like, "wait, who is this Dagnirauko who posted a comment?" and checks like every page to see who I am... yes, I am Robert.

I feel like Deviously Shouting at aelthwyn and quettandil... but I will restrain myself... for now...

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