Y'know Sometimes I Listen To Music While I'm Writing, And Then Sometimes I Decide To Duel Wield My Special

Y'know sometimes I listen to music while I'm writing, and then sometimes I decide to duel wield my special interests and watch submarine expedition videos while I'm writing. It makes the ocean dragon in me happy, it teaches me things, AND I get to listen to the marine biologists get really excited about everything they're seeing.

Seriously I love these videos they bring so much joy.

I'm not foxkin but this is fucking GORGEOUS. I love the idea of having lil jewelry chains on a mask??? I've never worn a mask nor considered it, but UGH something about chain jewelry (like jewelry that goes from an ear lobe to the tip of a pointed ear, or ear lobe to a nose ring, etc.) makes dragon brain happy.

if i had to design a fox mask it'd probably look something like this. inspired by @roe-deer-link who made me realise hey, i can draw masks even if i dont wear them!

"If I get nightmares they better at least be cool nightmares I can write into horror stories."

-me, eating ice cream before bed

hi!! I wanted to ask about your work with dragons! if you're comfortable, could you sort of explain how you view them in context of your spirituality/how you work with them? like are they similar to historic dragons of folklore or are they something else? seeing dragons as spiritual beings is an entirely new thing to me (I'm a pagan, but I don't consider myself a witch) and I'd really love to hear more about it!!! :3

This is a cool question, ty anon! Apologies, this is a pretty long and rambly; I really like talking about dragons, hence the whole entire blog for it :D Feel free to send in another ask if something here isn't clear or I misinterpreted your questions^^

My belief in dragons, if I'm honest, is very UPG/personal experience. Something that, in my experience, anyone who's worked with dragons extensively* will probably tell you "Yeah it's a lot of just working with whatever you learn on your own, no one's beliefs will look the same. It's not something you can really research online or in books much." *I am not nor do I claim to be one of these people. I still feel new to dragon work, although I will acknowledge that if we're counting any time spent with them as "work" I've been doing that for years lol.

All that out of the way; I view them primarily as astral entities. Divinity in a sense, I suppose, although I feel- and I think they feel- like it's laughable to call them "above me." But that's more about my experience of divinity as an ally rather than an authority figure- I don't view any deity as above me, just bigger and different. (Sort of like a human to a small animal of sorts. We're not above them in my opinion, we're not better, but our experience of the world is fundamentally different and we can see things/understand things that they can't.)

WHOOPS philosophy aside; I view them as astral/nonphysical entities, and while the historical mythology is a huge part of my reason for believing in them* it only has so much sway in my practice. I have ADHD that makes research difficult, so most of it is just... what I've felt, seen, and done. I do believe the dragons I work with are the reason for historical mythology, but since they're idividuals, it wouldn't be all that much help anyway. Looking at the whole of America wouldn't tell you shit about me, as a weird comparison. *seeing as just about every culture has a "dragon" of sorts but we can't trace their origin point because they all came up with it independently.

Right now my work with them looks pretty similar to my deity work. I don't do spells or any such thing often, so it's mostly just chatting and enjoying each others presence. I ask for help when I need it, or for insight, but to be honest mostly right now my work with dragons looks like my familiar popping in like "Hey, you should value ur inner child and playfulness should have a place in your spirituality" and popping back out. Mostly I think they're leaving me to settle into my identity as a dragonkin (just in case you're from my main: my soul is that of a dragon/I have past lives as a dragon, it's a whole Thing) before forming a relationship with me. Something about figuring out what being a dragon means to me and what that looks like before seeing what it means to them so I don't assume that my identity has to look like theirs.

Okay wait, I know I don't have a lot of outreach on otherkin Tumblr but I am really curious SO.

To the fellow dragonkin, or anyone whose kintype results in collecting/hoarding things, or really anyone who wants to answer:

What are your hoards? I just love hearing what everyone hoards, especially since my own vary from unique-ish (noncorpeal hoards my beloved) to literally the stereotype (crystals are just gemstones in a different flavor.)

I'll put mine first; Plushies, weird little facts, crystals, and fidgets. My altar is also a hoard, just a hoard I share with my deities <3

Edit: DICE. I FORGOT DICE. I HOARD SO MANY DICE. (At least as many as my budget allows. Genuinely considering getting a pound of dice someday though.)

Update: I DID, in fact, have cool nightmares. More action thriller than horror but I'll take cool nightmares over shitty nightmares any day of the week. Also I was a shapeshifter which god damnit Loki WE GET IT. XD I really need to post about that bc we (my mom and I) keep finding new layers to it.

Loki; god of foreshadowing!

Plus, I'm awake the earliest I've woken up in MONTHS bc I went to bed early thank you Loki for helping with my sleep schedule <3

"If I get nightmares they better at least be cool nightmares I can write into horror stories."

-me, eating ice cream before bed