You Have No Idea How Hard This Startled Me (/POS) Because "clunky" Is The EXACT Word I've Been Using

You have no idea how hard this startled me (/POS) because "clunky" is the EXACT word I've been using since elementary school. When I told my brother my soul is draconic and I just happened to get plonked in a human body this lifetime, his first response was "yeah you always were complaining that your body was clunky."

this human body is clunky and heavy, can i have my old body back?

Loki: god of foreshadowing

Bold can be skipped if you know me from my main since you likely already know this: My mom and I are both witches. We work with Loki, amongst other deities, and most of our deities prefer what I call "direct communication." AKA we get thoughts that aren't our own, words, images, that sort of thing, and we know it's them. This is important context.

So, Loki has been emphasizing a theme of shapeshifting in my + my mother's life lately. Like, we'll be talking about something, and whenever they can one of us will get this quiet "shapeshiftiiiiiiiing" stage whisper in our heads. Sometimes we'll both pick it up, but usually it's whoever it's relevant to most at the moment.

The thing about this is... uh... we figured out why.

Long story short, turns out my mom is otherkin too. She's a polymorph, but specifically a gryphon. (Not sure if she's more of a gryphon who shapeshifts, or a polymorph who's got a few favorite forms and one of them is a gryphon. I keep forgetting to clarify.)

But wait, there's more! /ref I don't have a single draconic form. In fact, whereas I thought I had one and then maybe two (one for land and one for the ocean) I... probably basically had a bunch of traits to pick and choose from as I so pleased. Mix and match. Also, mimicry. Like a cuddlefish or octopus. The reason that I have (privately, I haven't posted about it) been struggling to figure out what my draconic form looked like is because... well, there's no one answer. It looked like whatever the fuck I wanted it to look like.

So yeah. UPG, Loki is now the god of foreshadowing to me.

me @ the one dragonkin Neuvilette oneshot I have brewing in the background of my brain

posting niche fic on ao3 is like releasing a small creature into the wild and hoping it survives and finds sustenance

you are a huge as fuck dragon don't worry ever You can just crush shit

this is the best and most right anon ever. you ARE right i AM a huge as fuck dragon *kicks down an entire house

Hey guys remember this? Remember how I said "I don't think my draconic identity is going to be effecting my pronouns at all" and I said it with my full chest and I meant it and believed it?

I sure do! And then I called myself "it" and woah would ya lookit that, new pronoun fucking acquired!

Would you want to use Dranonic pronouns as neos?

I fully respect neopronouns, and think they're cool as hell- but I could never use them myself. Not because there's some underlying dislike of them, but primarily because... idk man that's just so much work. I can barely get the guts up to correct someone when they don't use he/him for me, and those are pronouns that are already normalized.

But, of course, that's not the only reason- otherwise I would recognize it as a thing I wanted to do but couldn't. But as is I just don't feel like any I've seen would fit right, and frankly all the dragon-y ones I've seen just don't flow right in a sentence in my brain. Like if I had to use neopronouns I'd want them to be pretty and flowy sounding. Ultimately I do think that there are ways I'd like to express being draconic more, but I don't think pronouns are quite where it fits.

i'm ok with being human shaped if I can do it eerily. with an unsettling air about it.