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Tser's Lair
You might be a Dragon... |
- if you go by your Dragon name
- if you get your name legally changed to your Dragon name
- if you have to explain that your name doesn't come from a specific nationality, it's Draconic
- if you can't explain what your name means, because it doesn't translate into a human language
- if you are frequently addressed as "Dragon", "the Dragon Lady [Guy]", "Dwagin" or a similar nickname
- if you are called these nicknames by people you don't know
- if you are easily distracted by shiny pretty thingies
- if you hoard shiny pretty thingies
- if you hoard Dragon-related objects
- if you hoard anything you can get your claws on
- if you protect your hoard viciously, tooth and nail
- if you take care of your hoard as if it's alive
- if you move all your possessions into a pile in the center of the floor to sleep on it
- if you make your blankets into a nest
- if you are tempted to try to incubate large round objects
- if you find yourself getting huffy when someone spouts a common dragon stereotype or prejudice
- if you always root for the dragon
- if you hate stories where the dragon loses or dies
- if you can go for days without sleep or sleep for days
- if it takes a very long time for you to digest a meal
- if someone says your aura is "a funny shape... with weird protrusions... and a trailing... tail-thing"
- if you know all the Real Dragon hotspots in the world
- if you pouncehuggle your friends upon sight
- if you find mirrors confuzzling since they don't even depict the right species
- if you practice looking "intimidating" by baring your teeth
- if you're sure you should see scales and talons when you look down
- if you trip over your tail
- if you trip other people with your tail then laugh when they look confuzzled
- if you inquire at the salon about scale-buffing
- if you file all your nails to sharp points
- if you consider getting your teeth sharpened
- if you want to get your tongue forked
- if you've drawn scales on your skin
- if you like long warm soaks in the bath
- if you like to bask in the sun, especially on sun-warmed rocks
- if you doot regularly
- if you know what doot means
- if people ask you what doot means and you just smile at them blankly
- if you know you can fly
- if you've convinced others you can fly
- if you write dragonish stories
- if you write dragonish poetry
- if you draw dragons whether you're skilled at it or not
- if you doodle dragons when you're supposed to be listening to a lecture or paying attention in a meeting
- if you buy everything you possibly can that involves a dragon
- if you wear dragon-depicting clothing
- if you collect dragon art
- if you know your dragon statues by name
- if you've hissed, growled, snarled or roared at someone when they irked you
- if you've purred when you were petted
- if you look at reptiles and say "ohhhh, how kewt!"
- if you look at birds and feel a kinship
- if you've watched the sky for Dragons
- if you think UFO sightings are really dragons participating in a mating flight
- if you've ever been mistaken for a UFO
- if you name all your companion animals "Dragon" in different languages
- if you've had a crush on a dragon in a movie
- if you refer to your significant other as your mate
- if you refer to your children as your hatchlings
- if you refer to humans as greggils, two-leggers, bipeds, georges, hew-mohns or "lunch"
- if you refer to your house as your lair
- if you refer to your food as your prey
- if you refer to birthdays as hatchdays
- if you refer to your nails as claws or talons
- if you use "fewmets" or "georging" as swear words
- if you peeped hungrily with your mouth agape at your parents when you were a hatchling... er, baby
- if you feel most comfortable around lava flows, caves and other geological phenomenon
- if you try to snort smoke in indignance
- if you've tried to cook marshmellows by breathing on them
- if you lash your tail when you're angry
- if you've had to watch yourself around pies so you don't *splut* someone with them
- if you play with your food
- if you sneak-up-and-pounce your dinner
- if you invite faeries and gryphons to tea
- if you've spent entire days sleeping
- if you've spent entire days watching butterflies or growing grass
- if you know how long a dragonlength is
- if you've had the urge to cavort, bound or prance gaily when happy
- if you subscribe to Alt.Fan.Dragons, chat, #afd, participate in Alfandria MUCK, another dragon-related MU*, Draconic or various other dragon communities across the net
- if you belong to a Real Dragon group away from the computer
- if you've been mistakenly diagnosed as insane due to your draconity
- if you're a member of the Real Dragons list
- if you haveve IRC set to hightlight and "beep" whenever anyone says "dragon"
- if you have your claw prints rather than footprints on your hospital birth certificate
- if you're known to be a dragon by other people
- if you know you are a dragon
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