Outing Myself As The Anon Because This Is Absolute Genius And Thank You For The Tidbits!! Holy Crap The

Outing myself as the anon because this is absolute genius and thank you for the tidbits!! Holy crap the crocheted hand warmers are gorgeous (I looked them up) and absolutely I plan on looking into them when I have the money.

I'm not sure how old the post of yours I'm referencing is, so this either looks normal or DEFINITELY weird depending on how long I was scrolling through the dragonkin tag, buuut... I saw you post a shirt in which you made the sleeves look like they had dragon scales running down the sleeves.

first off, that is so ridiculously cool. Second, if I were to- someday in the probably distant future, in a world where I have the resources- make something similar, would that be okay? I'm a dragon, I sort of just figured it out, and I will absolutely never shut up about how I wish there was more casual clothing with draconic elements. (Even before I realized, I just... wanted clothes with draconic elements. not with dragons ON them, clothes that make me look like a dragon in a human suit.)

This is a ridiculously long ask for a VERY short question, but you get the idea. I typed this out at a very late hour, so forgive me XD

Yes, of course!! I certainly do not own putting dragon scales on things, please go right ahead :} I've also always wanted draconic clothes before I knew as well, it's so frustrating when the only things out there are (often very cheaply-made) costumes or, as you said, just things with images of dragons on them :/

if you make something I'd absolutely love to see it!!!! :}

A few other items of clothing I have that make me feel more draconic, and were definitely less effort for me, are two green jackets with an offset quilted pattern, so they look a bit like really small scales. I found these at a thrift store, but lots of stores have quilted shirts and jackets. You could also sew the sort of quilted diamond pattern on to any piece of clothing you like! I've been thinking about doing it to some pants. My other dearly beloved dragon piece is a set of crocheted dragon scale hand warmers, which I bought handmade from etsy since I don't know how to do that. But if you do know how to crochet, or want to learn, they are very awesome and I'm sad it's a little too warm to wear them now. You can do a lot with adding crocheted elements to clothing as well!

I was going to make an intro post first but I'm too excited-

I HAVE. A PROJECT. AND IT IS COMING TOGETHER.

So I've wanted to make a cloak/cape type thing for a while. A sort of Sky COTL type deal- preferably a wing looking cape. This has only become more relevant recently, because now I've realized that I just. Have wings. Even if I can't feel them without focusing, they're there anyway.

This has been completely off the table for YEARS because of money. Even now, I'm doing tarot readings but that takes being seen places- I have yet to reach that. I have hope, but it's still not happening YET.

HOWEVER I was talking to someone about this, and they brought up that they know how to sew. And run our art group. So they can buy me "art supplies," even for personal projects. They're outright offering to get me fabric and teach me to sew.

So I... Might be able to make my fucking wing cape, I might be able to just WEAR WINGS??? ALL THE TIME??? This also is a great starter to learn how to make things so I can do more in the future!!

What I know so far

This is just a basic information post about EVERYTHING I know so far about my draconic nature, past lives as a dragon, etc. etc.

My soul in its truest form, my "higher self," whatever word you want to use for it, is a dragon.

I spent multiple lifetimes as a dragon, it's probably the most common form I take when it comes to reincarnation.

My soul's truest form isn't even based in earth. The only information I have is that the earth is probably "too young" and that my soul is older. Cryptic fuckin' intuition -_-

The amphitere is probably the closest to my "truest" form, or at the very least it's the form I would find most useful to remember in this lifetime since it's based on earth. "No use in yearning for something not even on this planet." This way, I can at least find things close to what feels like home.

Multiple people in this lifetime have known me in other lifetimes. More specifically, my brother (I feel the need to specify that he doesn't live with me, we didn't both grow up in a household that encouraged spirituality and such or anything) knew me as a dragon. He was human, but we both get the sense that he had multiple human lifetimes within my one lifetime as a dragon.

My mom also at least met me during that lifetime.

Appearance traits I feel I had as an amphitere: (likely blue in my case) scales, feathered wings (not blue? not sure), antlers, swimmy/fluid in motion, long snake-like body, the ability to dissolve into the ocean from a solid form. I hesitate to write this last one, as I previously have viewed dragons solely as astral plane beings who do not and never had physical forms in this realm at any point in history, but it felt like I had a solid form- and the ability to dissolve it. The strong emotions that came with the thought, of how nice it would feel to become "one with the ocean" and how much it would feel like home, was impossible to ignore.

Things that resonate strongly with me but aren't appearance: Aquatic association, protectors of the ocean and its inhabitants, storytellers.

This is only sort of related, but the other day I was talking with my mom about being dragonkin and such.

And this woman, I love her with all my heart, had the AUDACITY to just go "Well you've been roleplaying nonhuman characters since you were in elementary school."

Cue the very long pause. Because while I'm aware that I've had a comically predictable pattern of DND characters being either "bird flavored" or aquatic (my dragon type has feathers and is aquatic) and I know I've been writing inhuman characters a lot since high school.... what was I doing THAT far back?

She just looked at me like it was obvious and went "Warrior Cats. You literally met your current partner roleplaying Warrior Cats."

IT MADE ME TRANS AND A DRAGON

reblog if reading Warrior Cat led you down the trans pipeline

Ayyy I can actually offer input here! Local pagan witch, and I was a witch WAY before I realized I just also happened to be a dragon. I've been actively practicing (admittedly in cycles/off and on) for about four years, and I've considered myself pagan since middle school.

My discovery or "awakening" or whatever word you'd like to use was because I started to work with my familiar, who is a dragon, and they basically.... gently implied that there might be a reason I loved dragons so much. And then left me to figure out the rest on my own. Love them, they're a bit of a cryptic bitch.

A little funny to me that I do follow a religion that suggests reincarnation is part of the afterlife (just part of it! it's complicated) but my inhumanity is 100% psychological in nature. It's interesting to me how a lot of spiritual alterhumans seem to intertwine their beliefs with their alterhumanity, I think it's so cool to connect different parts of your identity like that! It's just not me for some reason, they're pretty separate and I'm okay with it like that. I've also noticed a lot of spiritual alterhumans are pagans, which makes me curious if they were following their religion before or after discovering they were alterhuman

(I have also noticed unfortunately a lot of pagans in the community have very appropriative practices that stem from the modern wicca/witchy/neopagan movement that just cherrypicked several holidays from different cultures and then just made up whatever they wanted about them......but that is not really related to this post. maybe for another time lol)

A short introduction for those from my main blog who would be interested in this one

I spent hours writing this post. These feelings are hard to articulate, something soul-deep that I know I’ve barely stepped into. The length of this post doesn’t reflect that, but believe me; I edited and re-edited so many times. Then, I realized as I was writing this post that I was no longer writing about my feelings on being a dragon and working with them, I was writing a post trying to justify and explain it. So let’s start again.

Hi. Most people who see this will be seeing it on my main blog, @tadpoles-and-daydreams. This is a blog built more around UPG, personal identity, and dragon work than my main one. This is… sort of an intro post. Not to me, you already know me- but to this part of me.

On my main blog, I don’t talk about my familiar. Here, I’ll refer to them as… well, admittedly the only current name I have for them. “Friend.” I’ll make another post about them and how we met sometime. They showed up in my life, told me I need to value my inner child essentially, and then promptly stepped back. I didn’t talk to them for weeks. I felt bad. I was talking with my deities and doing other things, but Friend- and the other dragon who works with my family as a whole- just completely weren’t a part of my craft. For Friend this was new, but I’ve been intending and intending to work with the other dragon I know for most of my practice. I’d always wanted to work with dragons, but just… never had.

Now I know why; because it feels like home. I wasn’t ready to go home.

“Home,” in this case, is a part of my identity that I’ve kept hidden even from myself. Home looks like wings of fins and feathers, swimming through the water or air, being one with the sea and protecting every creature within it like your own kin because they are. Home, to me, is learning about what my soul truly is; a dragon. I’m in a human body, yes. Whatever your beliefs are around life, mine are that I’ve chosen to incarnate as a human in this lifetime for whatever reason. It doesn’t change what my soul is, in its truest form, and it hasn’t changed no matter how much I tried.

I have repressed this long and hard. I’m a high-masking autistic, and I learned very quickly in my childhood that there are right and wrong ways to be. I was never, ever, the right way to be. I never will be, either; not in the eyes of most people. The “right” way to be certainly doesn’t involve being a dragon.

So I’m going to be “wrong,” as enthusiastically and loudly as possible, on this little corner of the internet. I’m finally coming home; to myself, and to my dragons. We have one hell of a journey ahead.