You Are Not You.

you are not you.

and yet i still see you.

i see the wings beneath your clothes, rustling and trying to get used to being so small.

i see the horns beneath your hair, threatening to grow and point towards the skies like they did before.

i see the claws beneath your nails, wanting to poke free and scratch at the bark of the nearest tree.

i see the pads on your hands, soft and invisible, waiting to touch the snow of tundras again.

you are not you.

and yet i still see you.

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YES I've talked to my mom about how, when I can't stim, I often stim in my head. I imagine doing the stimming motion, the image pops up in my head very literally.

Even though I don't get really strong shifts yet, because I don't feel like I've REALLY tapped into this part of me, I often still get the IMAGE. I shudder and get the image of my wings shuddering with me. I stretch and my wings stretch. I can stim with my wings a little bit, even though I honestly haven't learned how because my very literal mind is like "but do wings move like that though?"

I wish I could find a less infantilizing way to say this, but I feel like a fuckin' toddler who just discovered their hands. "HOLY SHIT WHAT DO THESE DO????"

i love tail and ear shifts so much cus even tho they aren’t ’actually there’ i still see them as another way to stim :3

“how did you get into writing” girl nobody gets into writing. writing shows up one day at your door and gets into you

I'm having a sort of time of really quick and intense discovery, right, and last night as I was going to bed a couple things just sort of popped into my head and they make so much sense now.

I've always slept on my stomach. I HATE laying any other way, I've never been able to articulate why it just bothers me. Now that I can borderline feel my wings, laying on my stomach goes from something I feel is important but can't articulate why to making perfect sense. I don't experience any phantom feeling or pain, but I sort of just "feel" them energetically like they're there, and I don't like when I have to have my back against something if I can feel them strongly.

The other thing I realized today; I've always felt, often, like there's something behind me. It never felt malicious or scary, I kept assuming it was one of my deities or entities that I work with because it just felt like some vague energy behind me- but I could never figure out who, or why. I eventually attributed it to the fear of something behind me, because typically that's what it's portrayed as, but I never actually felt afraid.

Well, now I know why past me couldn't figure out who it was. Surprise, it's you buddy, you've just sorta got wings. Have fun.

Hey!! Just came to this blog and I'm loving it. I'd have to ask though. Dragons huh. How do you work/worship them? And uhm, from which mythology are they? Bc like I don't understand that. I've been doing research but didn't know what to type in the search thingy lmao

Heyo! Yes, dragons! :D I personally ended up working with a dragon who my mom works with, and then my familiar sort of just popped in one day lol. I'll have to post more about how dragons have shown up in my life, and if more pop in I'll post about that too if they're comfortable. If you're talking about what the whole practice looks like... Well, I don't actually know yet. Part of how I avoided looking at my own draconic nature was, unintentionally, avoiding working with the dragons in my life. I haven't built that part of my practice up at all, but I'll be posting more about it as I do!

As for what mythology dragons are from- absolutely everywhere, to the point that it's debated where the first myth came from because different cultures came up with them independently. I haven't done research into the mythology of dragons myself, since I haven't had the time since I decided to really work with them, but after a quick google search, here's what Wikipedia has to say: "Draconic creatures appear in virtually all cultures around the globe and the earliest attested reports of draconic creatures resemble giant snakes. Draconic creatures are first described in the mythologies of the ancient Near East and appear in ancient Mesopotamian art and literature."

You might've already read that yourself, but I thought I'd post it anyway. Maybe if I manage to hyperfixate sometime and do a proper deep dive on dragon mythology when I have the time/energy I'll reblog this with more info. However personally, my work with dragons will rely so heavily on UPG and my own experiences- I feel like most people use their own experiences more than mythology from what I've seen.

Really, as far as I'm aware, the answer as to "how to work with dragons" is "however you feel works for you and the dragons you end up working with."