YES I've Talked To My Mom About How, When I Can't Stim, I Often Stim In My Head. I Imagine Doing The

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

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!

"You make more sense as a dragon, actually."

-my mother, who reacted the same to me "coming out" (I never really was in the closet, I updated her as I learned more about it) as otherkin as she did when I came out as trans. The same words and everything.

Finally posting my altar/hoard of trinkets and crystals.

Obligatory disclaimer: You don't need trinkets to be valid as a witch or otherkin. These are just things that bring ME joy. I am gushing about them because I enjoy it, and I don't promote the idea that any of this is necessary. It's just a fun bonus. Consider this a little show and tell post.

In order:

- Recent sea flavored stuff, my personal section of my altar dedicated to self-love. (Angled it so the octopus isn't visible bc... I don't want to jumpscare people + not sure if Tumblr would appreciate it.)

- My tarot/Oracle decks (the boxes in the back are just boxes. Cards are one of the things I work with most as a witch! Also don't ask me why Loki's has a bottle cap on it instead of a crystal. They wanted it there, idk man.)

- Black tourmaline, my beloved

- Crystal hoard + Aphrodite's altar in the background lol

- Aphrodite's shell heart because it's so fucking pretty

- My familiar's blue apatite! It looks like dragon scales :D I got one for myself and then they nudged me towards that one so I got two.

- Hades' and Persephone's section of my altar. (and the centerpieces of my altar, a crystal tree + black kyanite which is intensely grounding and I fucking love it + a tree agate sphere to represent the earth)

- Loki's and Apollo's section (Yes, that is Dr. pepper in a condiment container. It's my most regular offering for Loki XD they like the Mt. Dew better tho. Also Apollo's section is just vaguely cute, idk why he just likes it like that. Ignore the leftover spellwork he wanted to help so it's sitting there.)

- The Snake BoxTM is an offering box. It usually has candy in it for Loki. Also the snake box is one of my favorite things I own.

- Vivianite! This deserved its own picture because it's one of my prized possessions. DEATH MENTION TW HERE. It can grow on corpses- human included- in the right conditions! It's not common and I highly doubt that my piece did, lol, BUT I still associate it with death-y energies and wanted it for future work with Hades and Persephone.

Literally, I remember when I had a nonbinary phase (/pos it was a very important phase!!) before I realized I was just fully a guy, and the "My gender is a void," "my gender is just a lil creature," "my gender is simply a cryptid from the ocean," etc. etc. type of humor became such a staple in my own sense of humor.

Looking back, it definitely would've clued me in if I'd known about otherkin. I don't feel like it would've gone over well had I figured it out sooner, so it's okay for me personally, but it's outright comical how Very Not Subtle I was.

I believe i said this before on another account but imma say it again

If it was normalized to question your species then there would be so much more alterhumans 🙏

The amount of comments and posts i see of people saying they "miss having wings" or want fangs or are "just a floating orb" but never stating they're alterhuman, LIKE it's so many i can't even talk about them all here. I just got reminded because i saw a post of a so obviously Fictionkin person. But i didn't say anything bc they have to figure out what they identify as ofc.

But you get my point

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