Greetings, fellow peeps an' furs.

Now, plenty of you may have noticed an awful lot of fave notifications from a certain Scandinavian reptile lately, and it's just me trying to empty my inbox from a mountain of submissions by quickly going through and faving 'em one by one.
It's a long story.

For those of you who don't know, or perhaps forgot; There was a point in time back in spring 2011 when I felt that the world started crumbling down upon me. It began with that my first laptop crashed, taking almost all of my hard work(both art, and home work!) with it. It lead to a shaky and awkward social life both at the Karlskoga High School I was studying at and at my home ground with my parents.
I fell in despair, into a deep depression that were to last almost an entire year, due to most of the other students either ignored me or treated me like trash. And it wasn't much better back home with my parents, with all of my brothers moved out and I was still left with the parents that didn't do much else but telling me to do this and that, which made it worse for my mentality for to feeling so pathetic, ignorant and not taken seriously.
Fast forward to the end of winter 2012, I finally learned to accept the situations and tried to work my way up again and move on, especially when the exams was coming around the corner of spring. And then the turning point in time came when I would be all the way down in Nässjö - 4-5 hour's car journey from my parent's home - to study animation. And thank goodness for that turning point in life; cuz I finally got to study and put effort into what I was burning for, I finally got into a group that treated me as one of their one like a new huge family, and I found myself a girl friend after the first year there, thus making me feel like on top of the world once more.

Now during that time, especially through the depression period, the mass of messages in my inbox both here and on DA was left to build up. Not because that I was too depressed to deal with it, but that I still wanted to keep in touch with you guys and help supporting y'all by giving feedback on yer fabulous content.
... At least that was the plan.
However, the amount of Submissions alone had practically gone through the roof, up to almost 20.000 pieces. x.x
I still clinged onto me plans of going through each individual piece and give proper feedback, but for how many that the inbox have gathered, I'm sorry to say to say that I would probably be stuck with it for the rest of my life(Yes, I'm a slow thinker, want to be thorough and always fearing that I would say/write something wrong or offensive by accident).
So I finally thought Sod it, is better to start over with my supporting/feedback-giving by giving me inbox proper Spring Cleaning(Almost the same situation with all of your journals).
But I haven't got the heart to just nuke the entire pile without a single interaction with any of them sweet, marvelous art pieces you've produced, thus all of the recent faving and running.

So I hope you guys won't mind this cheap fave-&-run marathon o'mine you got dragged into. 9.9;
... and if anything, that every fave-notification from me is at least some form of feedback, no matter how late it is.
And if not, I apologize for all of this(for some of you in particular that got the biggest tidal waves of fave-notifictations,  catmonkShiro,  CanineHybrid/ Tusaris,  Toughset &  RavenFire5 being a few, I sincerely apologize for all of that "spam". >~^; ).
I'm sorry once more for this mess and hope to do better. <~<;

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With all of that written out, I hereby thank you for taking your time to read this journal o'mine, and I wish you all a good, happy one.

Greetings, every peep n' fur here on FA. ... Long time no see, haven't it? o__o;

Firstly I'd like to give me apologies for me absence n' haven't been too active for these past 2-5+ years, there has been so much going on around me. Part of the time I could barely be active on DA for that matter. >.9;
And I also know that I've been too down in the blues last time, but I'm feeling a looot better now, mostly thanks to the support from ALL of you guys. I sure owe ye all a lot. *deep scaly, fluffy hugs* Just wish that I could've thanked ye sooner. >_<
(Plus, I'm also sorry about the journal last time that included immigration ponders, t'was just too depressing n' weird of me.. >_< Big shout out to  ThatWasUnfortunate,  Silkyfur,  Gernad, n'  Bryagh for 've put their thoughts n' opinions on the deal. Thanks for've awaken me up, mateys. XB)

For those who don't know/forgot: After I finished me basic studies at Karlskoga back in 2012, I then moved on to study traditional animation, which took place way down south, at Sörängen Folk High School in Nässjö, Småland. Originally planned to study there for 2 years, but after failing to flesh out my own original short film it turned out to 3 years. It got fleshed somewhat out, but I still failed to get it done from start to finish.
If ye're curious to see how they turned out, feel free to toss yer eye balls through these links:
1st year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85wXztbONeY (basically learning the principles)
2nd year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIymLJh3oyc (Film still needed a proper story, so the final result became just a lil' compilation XP)
3rd year; https://vimeo.com/130134950 (Like said, got a proper story, but time was still short for completing it, so all I could give was a sneak-peak. XP ... But I'm still working on it to this day!)
None other than that, I've had a pretty lively yet cheerful time there, And I'm pretty much still missing that place. X3 (Just wish I could share it to ye guys n' girls in time though...)

And how're things going for me lately?
Well, nowadays I haven't got nowhere else but being at home in Värmland n' look for different jobs. And during my spare time my short cartoon film still needs all focus to become animated throughout, and the messages here including 7 notes, 900+ journals and 10960+ art Submissions to go through. ... Boy do I have a lot to catch up with on that. ._.;
But nevertheless, would be a shame to complain when one's got the health n' spirit on top once more. (Again, Mostly - if not all - thanks to you guys who've supported n' motivated me to keep going through the years. Still can't thank y'all enough~ TT^TT *snivels*)

Even though there are still some of me dreams I'm wanting to follow through like getting out into the world n' possibly to see ye peeps n' furs out there... But is a different story to talk about a later day/night. XB

In conclusion, is a lil' heads-up of that I'll be properly coming back to FA n' try to be more active like on DA. Thank you all so much for your patience, I'll be replying to you all as soon as I can.

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With that written out, thanks for have taken yer time readin' it all through.
Until further notice; Stay awesome, hope y'all enjoy the goodies of life n' I'll catch ye m8s later, hopefully soon enough. ✌️️
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P.S. would like to mention also that my door for Commissions is closed till further notice, 'cause there already came 3+ notes on DA I'm hellbent on looking through. And for those here who won't get the first base; don't worry, I'll go through yers as well as soon as I got time hopefully you'll get to be included in the next round. Please be patient, I'll get to ye hopefully soon. >^<;


Hi, everyone.. I'm so sorry for haven't giving respond any respond yet for this long time. Stuff is constantly getting in my way and I'm having it somewhat troublesome to get to ye.. And the message box has a mega-huuuge load to clean out, both here and DA, so..
And you who've ordered me commissions: I have NOT forgotten them, my dear costumers, they're still in my "notes"-boxes, still unwrapped! I only hope you haven't given up on me, pleeease.. I AM to get to ye, asap! ^.^

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There has been a huge lot of thoughts I have lately, Y'know... Mostly about how to get out into the public, in the right way, Y'know, get a whole bunch of buds to live with, kinda.. To have a whole gang of buds to get out and have fun with, like fursuiting and... Oh, yeah, yes, fursuiting, my gosh! ... After seeing a whole lot of photos and films of guys n' gals are having their times wearing their fursuits, sometimes some where some of you are in! ... Wearing fursuits to release their inner playful baby animal/plushie and to have a lot of fun.. And I just keep thinking to myself; "Gee, I sure wish I could be along with them lads n' lassies... Being an animal or just being the plushie people so wanna hug n' cuddle and all that.."
It leaves me to ponder about if should actually immigrate.. Y'know, to where this kind of fun is common, to experience that "magic" with you fellas, it would be so great. Here in Sweden, it ain't no common at all, as far as I can see, so it leads me to this question to you people who go fursuiting; Let's say If I'm about to immigrate just for that, then which part of your country should I go do you think??? <XB

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That's all the news from me for now, Joe Draco - out.
Have a good friggin' night.

http://joel-swedish-dragon.devianta.....rnal/34678015/

Shopping after model rail-parts seem to be not many problems since I got an eBay- and a Paypal-account. The biggest might be though that there're some richer ones out there taking them from me with their damn loads of moolah, which of course makes me pissed, 'cause I can't bid high enough.
The solution of that problem is of course more cash, but I'm still in school studying and ain't capable of looking for any work yet.
So I figured that the only way for now is offering commissions so I can get some plenty of dough as well as any others.
But little "nooby-me" don't know how to do, so can you guys please...? ^^;
Can ye tell me some tips and how commissioning, AKA selling some art, works?

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I got some nice tips about model railing, which I appreciate very much, but I feel that I still need more tips and advices, like what kind of tracks I should use and more. ^.^ Ye feeling to lend some more help? `^.^;

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This is Joe Draco signing out.
Have a great frikking morning/day/evening/night, I´ll catch ya later.
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People who were so kind to do a pic of me:

 ravenfire5
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1867701/ http://kim3707m.deviantart.com/art/.....agon-108441234

 densjin
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1976643/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2772030/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3061569/
http://xahnos.deviantart.com/art/Ch.....Joel-147841536
http://xahnos.deviantart.com/art/Gr.....2010-152526171

 CanineHybrid
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4055300/ http://caninehybrid.deviantart.com/.....Joel-146196071

Thank you everybody for all your kind gifts and trades.

Message:

Boy, the summer went by so frikking fast, hasn´t it! And hurray, I´m off to college this Friday. Overjoy... Friends will be missed and I´m nervous about the new place. Felt like I was in the middle of a ship-load of geniuses that´s more smarter and mature than me. (Felt like an outsider, that´s to say)
And I guess that it´s gonna be hard to view and comment on all your stuff and inlogging, so...
Yeah, you know how the situation is, so let´s talk about other things, shall we?

Have you thought of how the environment has went? Yeah, downstairs to hell as hell and the weather is out of control with extreme heat and thunder n´ lightning that blows shit up. It´s very rare if a Tornado appears up here in Scandinavia, but guess what! Recently a Tornado has gone wild on the isle of Gotland! Luckily that Twister went through an uninhabited terrain and no one was hurt, but boy was the residents all startled of that sucker!
You see? CODE BLACK! We have to get our cabooses out of the yard and save the environment before it turns its monster on and starts kicking our asses!
I know the thing to blame; The jet planes! People always think that it´s the steam locomotives that shits down the nature, but I tell ya, THEY´RE WROOOOOOOONG!!! The steam machines and trains are not dirty! Not more dirtier than the f*cking jet planes up in the air, ´cause the trees can´t reach up to their feces!
Our oxygen comes from trees and the trees breathes carbon dioxide we humans/animals/environmentally-friendly-machines are panting out, a simple cycle. After all, steam engines just puffs out hot water, which is not bad, and the fire smoke can be fixed.
But the jet planes in other hand should be scrapped into something more useful, like a napkin holder, because they are basically at the O-zone hole all the time and dumps their diarrhea droppings in it!
So I´m telling you all this:
Screw the planes,
take the trains!
Trains are good!
Planes are bad!

But I can´t prevent or forbid you all from flying. Because, I do think flying is a entertaining experience, the propeller planes has their charm and I love the sea plane Sea Duck in TaleSpin. A few weeks ago I´ve been discussing this with one of my DA friends, and she proved that we still needs the planes. She told me that she easily gets move-sick of trains and car rides, but she´s doing well flying. And I know that the aircrafts are really useful of rescuing burning forests and when someone needs a special hospital far away quickly. I just wanna point out that the steam trains aren´t any dirtier than the planes up in the air.
I personally ask this; How many nuclear bombs are getting blown up recently?
And yes, there are the nuclear plants too, and why using them when we have the wind- and water power.
And it´s all George War Bush´s and other war dictators´s fault that there´s still a war going on.

In the middle of our "arguing" between proving steam is clean and planes are important, she mentions that there is a project going on (spotted on Discovery channel); a tunnel under the Atlantic ocean. My brain was about to explode, There we have the conclusion to save the environment! A rail tunnel between New Work, under Atlantic Ocean and London! It´s the cleanest transportation for the environment AND it goes quicker of delivering passengers and goods!
`Why fly AROUND the globe when you can take the shortcut through it underground?´
The human brought the Euro tunnel that goes under the English Channel between London and Paris, so I don´t see why a tunnel between New York and London shouldn´t get made.
We´ve got us under the mass of water between Britain and France, now it´s time for us to attack the big one! Under the floor of Atlantic!
That is a project that shouldn´t only be screened on TV and then just get forgotten about it,
That is a project that HAS to GET STARTED AND MOVING!!! That is the conclusion to save our future! It´s the only way how we can save the environment now! Building a tunnel between USA and Europe!
It will be helping environment to recover itself of our pollution, not to mention, it will save on money in the long run and be a much easier way for people to get cross the ocean from country to country.
And the flight can still be used be folks that can´t handle road/rail traveling. You see? it´s gonna balance out like that, but only if you support the project.
It would be a crime to not supporting this ground-breaking project.
I know that I´m gonna support that project, who´s with me?
I´m dead f*cking serious.
Are you gonna support this project with me with dignity or are you just gonna sit down and wait for Armageddon that comes for an early visit in tomorrow?
Do you wanna save our future by saving the environment, or are you just gonna slack around and don´t care/give-a-shit about anything but yourself?
To the others of the world: Don´t be a selfish asshole, get your asses out of the hay wagon and get started supporting this project!
Who wants to stick around and smoke pot and
Who wants to go support the building the tunnel with dignity
Who wants to Go Support The BUILDING OF THE TUNNEL BETWEEN NEW YORK AND LONDON WITH ME?!?!?!
RAISE A FIST IF YOU´RE WITH ME!!!

(Spread this journal around so everybody will get it)
(I don´t know how or where to support the project... yet, but I´m gonna find out.)
Now seriously, Who´s with me?! Are you on the Goodie/Dragon´s side or on the douchebag/asshole´s side?

That´s all for now, so...
...Have a great frikking morning/day/evening/night.
Bye-bye then!

Remember, Respect the dragons!

When you see a Spyro game, don´t doubt, just go ahead, buy it and have fun playing! ;)

... I will of course upload some good stuff here. It will first be some old shit to begin with, ok? Hope you´ll watch me as much as I watch you, guys n´ gals.

Adios.
Joel the Swedish Dragon