Today On "no One Could Have Prepared Me For Being A Witch And A Dragon"

Today on "no one could have prepared me for being a witch and a dragon"

for those seeing this somewhere other than the otherkin tag, I am a dragonkin witch and I work with Hades.

Me: "Idk I've always pictured Persephone as having [hair color]." (I get the DISTINCT vibe from Hades that I'm very wrong, to the point of it being comical)

My mom: "I.... I just got a very distinct 'Fucking dragons, colorblind' from him. Like dragons are weird about colors. Like.... maybe they don't see the same color spectrum or something?"

Me, gasping: "WAIT LIKE SHRIMP COLORS??????? Maybe dragons see shrimp colors!"

After some debate, it was essentially confirmed- although my mom burst into laughter after she asked why Hades was implying my face blindness was also dragon-related and got back "I DON'T KNOW I'M NOT A DRAGON."

Bonus tidbit-

Me, softly after getting really strong vibes of excitement after marshmallows are mentioned: "Do you.... want... a marshmallow, Hades????" (for context, his tastes are a lot more refined so this was WILDLY out of the blue. He is very salty that this has given us such a specific view of him, since "what, do you think I'm ABOVE a marshmallow??????")

who else is looking forward to laying in the sun all day when summer comes? reptile nonhumans come bask in the sun with me, we'll lay on the rocks together

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

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!

Intro post

Hello! My name is Frog. Don't ask me why I'm not frogkin, but my name is Frog, I don't know. /silly

If you're coming from my main blog:

Yup, this is the "super secret" otherkin account of @tadpoles-and-daydreams. I decided to make a separate account and blog for dragonkin and dragon work rambles, since... well, to be honest I just wanted to separate my blog for witchcraft writing, tarot, etc. from this. This is a more personal blog in which I mostly reblog and post random little memes and tidbits, heavy UPG, dragon work, and what the hell does it look/feel like finding out your soul is draconic anyway?

And just in case: if you're coming from my main blog and are unfamiliar with any of the shit I'm talking about here in terms of otherkinity, dragonkin, being a dragon- please feel free to send in asks. I plan on writing more in-depth in a bigger post about what it is, what it's like, how I found out about it, etc. etc. but that will take a lot of time and energy that I currently don't have. Further down, though, I give the best TL;DR I can!

If you have no clue what the fuck the main blog is:

I talk about my experiences as a witch and meme about the funny side of witchcraft over there. Go there and check out my tarot readings if you want a dragon to throw some cards at you, or if you want to hear more about my craft outside of dragon work! I write a lot as a witch over there so if you like my witchy posts here, it's worth checking out.

He/him pronouns

Trans, panromantic, polyamorous, just generally queer

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My special interests include: Writing, Genshin Impact (I don't associate with most of the fandom they scare me), music, anime, the ocean, and "weird miscellaneous facts."

Dragonkin, specifically an amphitere.

local funny little witch man, I work with primarily with my deities and dragons and get bullied by a deck of cards a lot.

My familiar- though I hesitate to use that word due to its connotations as an "assistant" rather than a partner in my practice- is the one who kickstarted this by implying my energies were draconic in nature.

For everyone, regardless of how you found me:

This is where I plan to blog about my experiences when it comes to working with dragons, and fucking being one apparently. I want a safe space to write about my experiences, no matter how much I change. I feel like I've only dipped my toes into a vast ocean, a whole new aspect of my identity and my craft. I decided that I wanted to be able to write completely transparently about it- fears, mistakes, flaws and all- without it reflecting majorly on my main blog/my professionalism as a tarot reader who's just starting out.

So expect it all; the funny, the cool as fuck, the ranty posts, everything. This is just as much a tumblr blog as it is a journal, for me. I heavily value transparency, and that's something I can't be in public as an otherkin.

So I'll do it here instead. ^-^

Important posts:

A post I plan to update continuously of everything I know about my kintype:

The current closest reference I have for what I look like as a dragon, although admittedly not fully accurate:

Tumblr

WAIT holy shit I never posted this

HEY YEAH BY THE WAY I used flight rising's predict morphology thing to try and make what I look like. I sort of just went through it intuiti

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)