Honestly This Has To Be One Of My Favorite Kinds Of Humor I've Seen Coming Into The Otherkin Community.

Honestly this has to be one of my favorite kinds of humor I've seen coming into the otherkin community. Me with my friend right now, except there's a bonus of it being SO thinly veiled. I talked about dragons, about how much I love amphitere's, about how I'm going to make a blue wing cape for myself, about how "lol I hoard trinkets like a dragon" and how I want to dress with dragon scales and look like a fucking ocean cryptid.

Actually, typing this all out, hOW HAVE THEY NOT FIGURED IT OUT-

i love how none of my friends know that they eat lunch with a dog everyday

like- bro im literally wagging my tail while munching this pizza

me munching :D

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.

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

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.

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)

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.