#accidentally affirming

[dillomancy]

While at work we got a return of a salad bc there was a hair in it (rip, it happens, always okay to get a new one) and I mentioned "ugh it's probably me, I'm shedding really bad" and my chef jokes "Did you forget your flee and tick meds?" *gasp* how did you know??? /silly

[funlovingfuzzball]

Our dad, knowing nothing about our plurality *or* alterhumanity as far as we know: “Have you ever considered that you’re a dragon?”

Raie, a dragon fictive who identifies as a dragon therian, stuck alone in front and unable to lie: “I mean, I am, but how does this come up?”

Dad: “Well, if you sneeze and it knocks the paint off the wall, y’know…”

Raie, heart having started beating again: “Fair enough, I guess that would be true. I wasn’t going to disagree with you, I just needed context for how this came up”

Dad: “True, you always need your dragon to be in on the joke, don’t you?”

…

I mean, very affirming in an accidental fashion, but how on earth??? That was so weird. Neither I nor Miriam if I was able to front-trigger her can intentionally tell lies, so it’s not like I could say no, but also he wasn’t aware of any of the things that make me actually identify as a dragon, soooooo… glad we were able to play that one off as just playing along. Mom knows *about* therianthropy, though not our experience as such, and Dad’s certainly never heard of it in his life. Definitely very weirdly affirming though, lmao. 🐉🐉🐉

- Raie

[marnanel]

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