This is something I originally wrote for my personal website. Since it covers an important part of my journey in the community, I wanted to have it here as well.
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Hello again!!
Hello everyone! My name is Dreki, and I'm a 26 winters old dragon currently residing in Germany.
I've been part of the otherkin community for several years now and identify specifically as a wind dragon. My draconity is a big part of who I am, although I'll save the story of how I came to understand and identify as a dragon for a separate post.
Outside of my otherkin identity, I'm a nurse. Caring for others is something that's always been very important to me. I'm generally a rather quiet and shy dragon at first, but I love getting to know others once I get comfortable with them.
Over the past few years, I've become involved in building communities for alterhumans. I'm one of the beings behind Eurokin, a European alterhuman community I created some time ago, and I've helped create and manage several other online spaces where alterhumans can share and talk about their experiences. I've also had the opportunity to meet fellow dragons in person dragon through Gathers hosted by Dragonkin.EU, which has been one of the most rewarding parts of being involved in the community.
If you would like to find me elsewhere, I'm mostly active on Discord on the servers mentioned above. I also have a personal website and a blog on Tumblr.
I'm looking forward to reading all the writings posted here and seeing what this little community is like, as I've never been active on a forum before ^^'
See you around! Aru!
Little side thing away from questioning for something more formally written--
Finally back in a more nature-y area, and I feel so much better. I think being disconnected from any forest areas really makes me prone to lower moods.
If your source material continued, changed significantly, or was rebooted — has that happened? And if so, what did it mean for your identity?
Just a simple discussion question—what experiences/instincts/feelings made you discover that you're alterhuman? That you're your species in particular?
howdy! I go by a few names, mainly Ricky but also Alucard or Boothill. My current body is 25, female (although this means little to me) and I’m taken by my soulmate with whom I’ve lived all my past lives with. My soul is deeply intertwined with hers.
Yo does anyone have any ideas to cure my boredom on here especially after my anxiety spiked? (not talking about it just fam stuff)
Day 2 prompt:
Hello hello!!! First time poster here :D
Hello! I'm Hazel, 24 (he/they). For awhile I identified with xenomorphs / aliens, but lately it's evolved into a much more complicated identity that I'd like to explore further. I'm autistic and struggle with a lot of self shaming, which I'm hoping that connecting with this side of myself will help boost my own self confidence. I'm still getting used to talking (typing) about my identity, but it's a mixture of psychological and physical (?), and was most likely brought on by my autism + physical ailments that left me feeling disconnected from humans.
I saw a post with the prompt thing, so I wanted to try it, too. My first prompt is:
I don't know how this works. I'm trying to connect with people like me and make friends. If y'all got any ideas for me to find my people, I'd like to hear them.
Does anyone remember "grilling"? It seemed to be popular in my Amino days back in 2019, but I haven't found any resources as of recently to use to grill myself with new 'types I am questioning... If anyone is familiar with the concept, could you leave some of those questions for me to read over and think about?
If it is called something different now (or even previously), could you let me know what as well? So I can dig up more questions to sit on..
Achedunoi. It's a word that I've been carrying with me for years. It's one of the few words from my own world, my own language, that have survived the translation of my experience through Jarin's consciousness. It's also a word that is very special to me.
Achedunoi. In it's simplest form, it is a greeting to one who has been loved and missed, upon their returning. But it's not something that you would use to greet your partner with at the end of a workday. It is used for partings which have weight to them. That last decades, centuries, even lifetimes. Partings that leave a wound behind.
Achedunoi. I have found the part of myself that has been missing, and I am made whole again.
I live on a world called Yyl'Nector. Not in the past, not in another life. I am there right now. I can see the sun there, taste the breeze, feel the grass under my feet. My home is there, my family is there, my friends are there.
Is the character you identify as the same entity as the character in the source material, or a version, an echo, or something related but distinct?
First time trying out the writing prompt feature, and realizing I may need to add a button to automatically quote it in the post text. The one I selected today was:
This song was based on original lyrics, written by me in April 2011: https://www.otherkin.net/posts/whats-changed/
This version was performed acapella by me, to the melody that I originally imagined when writing it. Yes, that's my actual voice, and sorry for the background noise of the air conditioner and the mechanical keyboard.
I don't love this version, I prefer the previously posted version set to music and performed by an AI, Suno. However, I will admit that part of my reaction there is feeling something along the lines of dysphoria when I hear my own voice recorded. I have a fairly decent singing voice, but I much prefer to share it in live in-person contexts. Bardic circle around a campfire, for example. Maybe sometime I'll see you there.