I might be a dragon if...

if you go by your Dragon name
(if hyoomons didn't think I was nuts, I'd totally do that. actually, a few people acutally have been instructed to use My dragon name as my "nickname" *winks*)

if you get your name legally changed to your Dragon name
(I'll think about it.)

if you have to explain that your name doesn't come from a specific nationality, it's Draconic
(it kinda is based on a human language.)

if you can't explain what your name means, because it doesn't translate into a human language (it vaguely means dragon god....roughly. I actually wanna change it.)

if you are frequently addressed as "Dragon", "the Dragon guy", "Dwagin" or a similar nickname (Online, very often. IRL only a few people me that sort of thing. But I suppose it counts)

if you are called these nicknames by people you don't know not often, my "nickname" hasn't spread wide yet.

if you are easily distracted by shiny pretty thingies (no, but I'm dangerous around string)

if you hoard shiny pretty thingies (no, I bank them.)

if you hoard Dragon-related objects
(do books involvoing dwaggins count? i have hundreds)

if you hoard anything you can get your claws on (my claws are one thing, but it's my wallet that prevents me)

if you protect your hoard viciously, tooth and nail (I lend my books but woe betide the ones who don't return my books. rar!)

if you take care of your hoard as if it's alive
(books don't live, but they are valuable...and have sentimental value. *fondles favorite book*)

if you move all your possessions into a pile in the center of the floor to sleep on it (I like my nest uncluttered thank you!)

if you make your blankets into a nest (no, i sleep under my blankets....it's too cold for proper nesting....)

if you are tempted to try to incubate large round objects (not this time of year)

if you find yourself getting huffy when someone spouts a common dragon stereotype or prejudice (of course! )

if you always root for the dragon
(well, as a rule, yes, but so many dwaggins do bad things. it's best to leave the hyoomons alone...they outnumber us)

if you hate stories where the dragon loses or dies (well, what did I say about them outnumbering us?)

if you can go for days without sleep or sleep for days (guilty...so very guilty)

if it takes a very long time for you to digest a meal (nah, fast digestion.)

if someone says your aura is "a funny shape... with weird protrusions... and a trailing... tail-thing" (nope)

if you know all the Real Dragon hotspots in the world
(we have hotspots?)

if you pouncehuggle your friends upon sight
(don't wanna hurt them...but the bigger ones, yeah, sometimes. and for the record, it's "flying tackle pounce")

if you find mirrors confuzzling since they don't even depict the right species
(oh, it depicts the alter ego i display so as not to scare the poor hyoomons of my true drakine heritage.)

if you practice looking "intimidating" by baring your teeth
(oh, I've gotten it down pat)

if you're sure you should see scales and talons when you look down
(I do.)

if you trip over your tail
(what, am i a dragonet again? I've not done that in centuries!)

if you trip other people with your tail then laugh when they look confuzzled
(if I think I can get away with it....)


if you inquire at the salon about scale-buffing
(Psh, like I go to salons... what he said)

if you file all your nails to sharp points
(they grow that way.)

if you consider getting your teeth sharpened
(same as above)

if you want to get your tongue forked
(I like my tongue the way it is)

if you've drawn scales on your skin
(they're there already)

if you like long warm soaks in the bath
(shouldn't I?)

if you like to bask in the sun, especially on sun-warmed rocks (I would, and I do. but can't find a good hot rock round here...that, and I get bored easily)

if you doot regularly
(Like i said, I doot but got none this time of year)

if you know what doot means
(sure I do, you just have bad typing skills, to make it more clear to all of us)

if people ask you what doot means and you just smile at them blankly
(no, I smirk at them for being dumb)

if you know you can fly
(of course I can, just not where hyoomons can see me)

if you've convinced others you can fly
(haven't I convinced you?)

if you write dragonish stories
(what else is there worth writing about?)

if you write dragonish poetry
(same as above)

if you draw dragons whether you're skilled at it or not
(I'm not so good at drawing them, but i would should that change)

if you doodle dragons when you're supposed to be listening to a lecture or paying attention in a meeting
(oh, did I ever! )

if you buy everything you possibly can that involves a dragon
(if my cave had the space for it, sure)

if you wear dragon-depicting clothing
(wore one this morning.)

if you collect dragon art
(aye.)

if you know your dragon statues by name
(no, I've better things to do.)

if you've hissed, growled, snarled or roared at someone when they irked you
(sometimes....)

if you've purred when you were petted
(I do purrr, sometimes.)

if you look at reptiles and say "ohhhh, how kewt!"
(all the time! I make out with my pet python, she's my sweety.)

if you look at birds and feel a kinship
(Mmmm... chicken...what he said.)

if you've watched the sky for Dragons
(a quick glance usually is enough to spot any that are up. usually, not very curious.)

if you think UFO sightings are really dragons participating in a mating flight
(it's occasionally me. or my friends. but then, we're more careful)

if you've ever been mistaken for a UFO
(a few times.)

if you name all your companion animals "Dragon" in different languages
(nah. I sometimes use character names from my books...)

if you've had a crush on a dragon in a movie
(ohhh, Saphira *fapfapfap*)

if you refer to your significant other as your mate
(all three of em.)

if you refer to your children as your hatchlings
(I do. and they so cyoot!)

if you refer to humans as greggils, two-leggers, bipeds, georges, hew-mohns or "lunch"
(mostly hyoomons. I'd feel stupid calling a female hyoomon a george.)

if you refer to your house as your lair
(it's a cave...but that does't mean it's not homely)

if you refer to your food as your prey
(I butcher my meals, thank you.)

if you refer to birthdays as hatchdays
(yes.)

if you refer to your nails as claws or talons
(should I otherwise?)

if you use "fewmets" or "georging" as swear words
(not really.)

if you peeped hungrily with your mouth agape at your parents when you were a hatchling... er, baby
(I don't remember, that was a long time ago.)

if you feel most comfortable around lava flows, caves and other geological phenomenon
(and singe my fur? fuck that, *goes to his nest*)

if you try to snort smoke in indignance
(what do you mean by try?)

if you've tried to cook marshmellows by breathing on them
(you eat those? huh.)

if you lash your tail when you're angry
(yeah, I do...)

if you've had to watch yourself around pies so you don't *splut* someone with them
(that's what you do with creme pies, but other pies, fruit, berry, custard...they're not safe around me no napkins required.)

if you play with your food
(does decorate, or enjoy the cooking process count?)

if you sneak-up-and-pounce your dinner
(are you saying I stalk and hunt my prey, yes.)

if you invite faeries and gryphons to tea
(oh, faeries hate me, and i don't know any gryphons. ah well)

if you've spent entire days sleeping
(far too readily)

if you've spent entire days watching butterflies or growing grass
(oh, the yellow and black ones are my favorite butterflies *paws at it*)

if you know how long a dragonlength is
(I know how long MY dragon lengh is....)

if you've had the urge to cavort, bound or prance gaily when happy
(don't you?)

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
(I've enough friends, don't need that stuff.)

if you belong to a Real Dragon group away from the computer
(no)

if you've been mistakenly diagnosed as insane due to your draconity
(oh some would say i'm insane, but they'd not say for that)

if you're a member of the Real Dragons list
(no)

if you haveve IRC set to hightlight and "beep" whenever anyone says "dragon"
(that's just being a nit)

if you have your claw prints rather than footprints on your hospital birth certificate
(heehee!)

if you're known to be a dragon by other people
(sure.)

if you know you are a dragon
(not unless i've got some identity crisis, and I think i"m a hyoomon.)


there you have it. i"m very drakine. with a fair mix of feline in there.