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your-pal-nebula · 11 days
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Being a psychological alterhuman is like "It's not that I was a dragon/any of my other kintypes in the past and yearn to be one again, it's that I am all of them right this minute and yearn to be in the correct body"
(I mean absolutely no disrespect to spiritual alterhumans with this post, yall are totally cool)
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I’ve noticed a correlation between NPD and nonhumanity on this site, especially while interacting with NPD spaces, and I’ve seen a slight correlation with other PDs as well. I wanted to make a poll just to see if I can get a little more data on this. (I know Tumblr polls are inherently very biased, but I’m still going to make the poll)
CLARIFICATIONS: If you have NPD and a different PD as well, choose the NPD option. PD stands for Personality Disorder, and NPD stands for Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
This is my first time doing a poll, so it may not be the most polished or whatever (it’s also 4AM when I’m posting this)
Also, the option that applies to me is that I have NPD and am nonhuman
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luunaathh · 27 days
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•Therian and Otherkind Powwow... I love the idea, though I only know very few indigenous peoples and people of color in the community as a whole ;;W;;
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frameacloud · 6 months
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The dragon community
"The dragon community started in the 1990s in an online group called alt.fan.dragons. They identify as dragons for spiritual or psychological reasons. They are draconic, and they refer to this part of themselves as their draconity. In the 2000s, the dragon community started to mingle with the other communities: with dragon otherkin (dragonkin) and dragon therians."
- Excerpt from "A list of some alterhuman identities and groups," by Orion Scribner, House of Chimeras, Page Shepard, Dinocanid, Ryuu Yumemoto, Draconic Wizard Workshop, and others, 2023.
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beast-named-cyzul · 2 months
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I’ve been more open about my otherkin/dragonkin identity recently, at first it was just like "I’m a furry and otherkin and I’m aware of how cringe that is”. but now I actually have someone who not only accepts it, but finds the trilling noises I make when i’m comfortable cute.
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lizardywizard · 7 months
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A lot of people talk about Hoards, when they talk about draconic traits or impulses. Lairs are less talked about, but to me they're just as important if not moreso.
A Lair can actually be a superset of the Hoard. The idea of a dragon just sitting on a loose pile of treasure feels like the equivalent of the one-stick pigeon nest: sure, bruh, I guess you can sleep like that, but wouldn't all that fine armour look better on the walls? Wouldn't the gold coins be nicer in a case, with identifying labels? Even a bowerbird arranges their leaves and feathers artfully. Either way, the decoration of the Lair (or lack thereof) can become part of the Hoard, since the latter is usually stored in the former!
For best comfort, a Lair should reflect the owner's personality. It can be anything, from a cave to a camper van to, for a massive dragon, curled around a place you protect. It can be a forest where every step you take is golden, plants blooming in the wake of your touch. It can be your bedroom, but it should be inviolable.
The Lair, regardless of decoration, is a territory first and foremost. The Lair is the boundary of where I expect absolute domain: even if it's a tent on the street, I'm not gonna be happy if someone crosses into my space without warning. (Nor is anyone, in a tent. Oppose cop raids.) I have a fondness for fancy doorknockers, but the means doesn't matter: just Announce Thyself, and wait on the threshold to be invited in.
(These are only my experiences. No generality should be assumed of others. Except for the cop raids, they suck universally.)
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mossfvcker · 3 months
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bardkin · 1 year
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being a ridden dragon & not yet knowing what that entails
inspired by @who-is-page's post here! i decided fuck it !! i wanna write (more) about the draconic aspects of myself, timidness be damned.
as a quick preface, i am a psychological 'kin! i hold loose beliefs in multiverse & a form of reincarnation, but i don't know for sure if / don't think those things apply to me specifically.
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i've known i'm a dragon for a while, now. i go somewhat in-depth about it here in this entry about adopting/trying out the term folcintera for myself, but i didn't really touch on one of the newer revelations i had about it:
i'm the dragon in a rider-dragon pair.
as for how i know this, it just feels Correct. (far as i'm aware,) i don't have any past or concurrent life memories, or know who/what my rider is or was. this is a noema that i cannot explain further, as of yet. I Just Know this aspect is fact.
i mentioned [in my linked entry] that my first up close exposure to dragons was the Eragon series, which is what cemented my idea of what "dragon" was to me. ever since that series, i've been aggressively hyperfixated on dragon-rider stories; the kind of hyperfixation that waxes and wanes, but when it hits, it Hits like a Truck.
i don't think i'm from any one specific source, such as How to Train Your Dragon, Dragonriders of Pern, or Eragon. none of those really feel like places i've lived or belonged in. my specific brand of dragonity is wildly different from any dragons you'd see in the listed settings/stories, so i am not any dragon you'll see in those stories — but i also am.
moreso, i feel a connection to the dynamic between rider and dragon; the trappings don't truly matter, in the end. i am the archetypal dragon-with-a-rider, and see myself in almost any dragon-rider setting. i am a Ridden Dragon, and that will mean something different to everyone who interacts with dragon-rider lore — including myself. i am both folcinteric and an archetrope, in this regard.
before i awakened, and thought about dragon-rider stories, i thought i was simply wanting to live in a world where i could share a bond like that & go on adventures... and while that's still true, since i'm an escapist storyteller, there's a key difference between then and now.
i thought i had to relate to and imagine myself as the rider — and that never felt completely right.
now that i'm aware of and better exploring my draconic side, this aspect has come to light. and i have No idea what it could mean for me.
as stated, i don't know who my rider was/is or could be. i don't know what our dynamic was like, if our bond is of magical origin or through mutual trust. though, that might have something to do with me being archetypal, here. my rider could be anyone; our bond origin could be of any type, so long as it serves the purpose of the archetype.
dragon riding means different things to different people. sometimes it's about taming a wild beast, akin to horseback riding. other times it's a magical bond. and other times still, it's about trust and friendship.
i still don't know what my personal mythos is, or if i have one at all. maybe it is just that dynamic, nebulous and without a tether. or maybe it's just not uncovered quite yet.
i don't know how common being a ridden dragon is, be it in fictherian/fictionkin dragon spaces, or more general dragonkind spaces, because i haven't seen it talked about much. possibly because i'm just not looking in the right places, but, *shrug*!
i have no idea if this post will inspire any other dragons with riders (or maybe even dragon riders!) to write about their experiences. but, never know unless i post, so ;]
thanks for reading!
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serpentclaws · 22 days
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Poll Results
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Here are the poll results from this poll!
In order:
"Sapient" - I can make friends (slowly) but I'm still wild - 31.3%
"Sapient" - I socialize within my culture (local species, biome) not outside - 10.4%
Feral - I accept my close family, but strangers fuck off - 9%
Societal - I am part of a cultural network, behaving feral is bad - 8.6%
Feral - I would lash out at anyone encroaching on my territory unwanted - 6.7%
Societal - Behaving feral in my species is an illness or loss of basic control - 5.2%
Domestic - My species is celebrated despite lacking sapience (like snakes) - 2.2%
As you may note, these don't add up to 100%. One category was omitted for not having any responses, as well as the "Show Results" being removed.
The "Other Option" votes (4.5%) were removed because largely those who voted for that option seemed to misunderstand the purpose of the poll by combining multiple (or all?) of the options together.
Notes
Although it was purposefully not noted in the original poll text, this poll was intended to gauge 1) how many dragons identify within a sliding scale of Very Feral to Not Feral At All (aka Societal), with 2) a secondary intent to see how many Sapient or higher dragons identified ferality as bad.
Why did you do this, Rook? Because although I noted that Tumblr's dragon ecosystem has a lot of bite bite claw howl sentiments, I'd witnessed elsewhere... not push back but cringing? almost when the suggestion that other dragons were feral. (Elsewhere being other social media, including forums and discord.)
If multiple people had complained that there were no societal rank options where ferality was framed as neutral or good, I would have accepted that the poll was too skewed. But one person noted it, and they didn't like my verbiage as a whole, so I don't know how to weigh that information against the results.
Interpretation
The total number of votes was 268 and the poll lasted a week.
It seems Tumblr's dragon ecosystem leans heavily toward "sapient but wild," which I interpret as capable of self-identification with personhood but with a tendency to weigh instinctual reactions higher than logical ones. They don't snap at every intrusion but they aren't always going to listen to social reasoning when prompted to respond.
What are your thoughts?
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soporine · 1 year
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くコ:彡 ; DRAGONKIN ; a flag for otherkin / alterhumans who are dragons or dragon-like in any way shape or form !
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i wanted to propose a new look to the dragonkin flag that was more inclusive of all types of dragons ! i tried to make it pretty while still including all kinds of colors - reds and oranges for fire dragons , yellows maybe for more deserty ones , greens for nature, blues for the sea , purple for cosmic , etc ! im an aquatic dragon myself and i felt this was nice so i hope you all do too ! im not very good at typing up IDs so if anyone wants to do so in a reblog it would be very appreciated ! :3
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“How do you express your draconity?”
“Red wolf shirt”
is still the funniest joke I have with other dragons in regards to me. You see, I have a red belly, and I’m all furred, with feathered wings. You can imagine the struggles I have with finding “dragon related wears”—it’s mostly going to be scaled, webbed wings, and fire breathing.
Yes I don’t breath fire, or have any breath weapon.
Friend once shared me a crochet that has a dragon that looks remarkably like me—all orange fur with my cheek scruff and back mane and the belly looks kinda red with the shadow and white, I kid you not, actual feather wings!—except it’s breathing fire. And hey, awkward as it may be, scales and fire breathing on me gives me species dysphoria. Because it isn’t me.
And so I oftentimes have to look for other things if I want to work with materialistic items to help with my own kinfeel. Not that it’s much of a issue since furred creatures and feathered ones are all around, sometimes much easier to find in terms of media and products.
Anyways I went on a ramble, as I won’t to do.
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your-pal-nebula · 25 days
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For a whole year, I had this habit where I'd be doing something normal in society and then randomly think something along the lines of "If we lived in nature like the animals we as humans technically are we would not be doing this" and then whatever I was doing would feel terribly unnatural for the rest of the time I spent doing it
I dismissed this as random intrusive thoughts but- uh yeah maybe there was a deeper a reason I was regularly thinking these kinds of things
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sundragon · 29 days
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I woke up 2 hours before my alarm, checked my email for some reason, and-
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commission by Ozanthium!
I don't even know how to explain these two anymore. "They live in my head rent-free and sometimes I'm Yong Soo (the blue one, aka South)".
That's the collar we have irl and I wanted a reference/scene with it. x)
So damn cute.
Nate is hot.
What more to say, really.
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luunaathh · 3 months
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kleeradragon · 8 months
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There's an experience I have that I don't think I've ever seen talked about anywhere, and I'd like to go through it and see if there isn't anyone else who has experienced similar.
See, when I first discovered myself to be a dragon/otherkin/therian/nonhuman, I was of the spiritual sort because that's what felt expected. I didn't even know a psychological side to it existed until later. I got my share of memories and info about my supposed past life and whatnot as a result of this imposed expectation, and some of those memories were pretty unpleasant. Traumatic, even. But eventually I found out about the psychological side of things, and I wanted to take a more psychological approach to my nonhumanity. I didn't feel attached to that existence/past anymore, I suppose I never totally did, I took it all as it came. Cause y'know, expectations, perhaps looking for things that wouldn't otherwise be there.
Not long after that I moved away from a nonhuman identity due to community issues and a general lack of feeling for it, only to return to it a couple years later when feelings for it came back in full force. And in digging around for those feelings, I had to ponder my old kin memories that I no longer necessarily believe in. Through that I realized that they still affect me like any trauma would, even after years of not believing those memories to be real. Now, sure, one can say that coping with trauma in a not-so-great way isn't gonna make the hurt go away. I totally get that. But these memories, false or not, did not happen to me directly, even if they may feel as such. There's a degree of separation. Couple that with the amount of time it's been since I gave much thought to them… I just thought and hoped that maybe that would be enough.
Either because those false memories still affect me, or because it's just what I was so used to thinking back in the day, sometimes I still slip back into thinking of my dragon self as a past life. All of this together makes it so hard to really tell whether my draconity is psychological or spiritual, even if it is a choice of belief in the end. I prefer the psychological approach -- that's just the sort of person I am. But the expectations from the past, and their resulting feelings and potentially-false memories complete with exotrauma, make it hard to let go of the notion of having been a dragon in a past life. It feels like those things really happened because that's what the memories were unintentionally crafted to do, because that was the expectation. These things make it so complicated and blurry what exactly the nature of my nonhumanity is.
My point of saying all this is to ask: has anyone else had a similar experience? Of having past life memories they don't necessarily still believe are true but can't shake? And if anyone has figured out a way to shake them… would you be willing to share how you did so? Definitely definitely would love to hear!
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beast-named-cyzul · 21 days
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I am a temple dragon, I perch on the roof or in the rafters so that I can watch from above. I am a temple dragon, it is my duty to guard this temple, and if you leave so much as a hair of a scratch on any of the stone you will be leaving with some scratches of your own. I am a temple dragon, I put bright coloured chalk onto myself, and wear jewelry and other adornments, especially for holidays. I am a temple dragon, I take pride in seeing all the visitors and protecting them and their worship. I am a temple dragon, I’m not immune to taking a nap in one of the shallow pools.
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