For those of you who've known me on this forum long enough, you know my dream snake is a Vietnamese blue beauty. Well, the past week I've noticed a number of, interesting coincidences.

First of which, for some time I've noticed the icon for rat snakes on Morph Market is a VBB (I like to browse on there a lot for fun); a friend of mine even remarked how it looks like it's laughing (it's clearly not but humans gonna anthropomorphize).

Then I did a little digging and discovered that a much-lauded breeder of beauty snakes, including blues (Zerkle Reptile Co.), is not only based around the closest major city I'm next to, but even is a vendor for the area's monthly reptile show. And to top it all off, I just now checked their Facebook and there's a 3 day old post of baby blues hatching.

I say I torture myself with all this because I'm not in a position to get one for a while for several reasons. But the fact that the uncommon species I seek is basically just, right there. Definition of so close yet so far.