the legend of dreki

dreki ~ dragonkin ~ 26 ~ she/her

[wyndscale]

hi! i'm dreki

art by mx.dream

i’m a dragonkin, specifically a female wind dragon living in germany. i’m an adult (hatched in 2000), and i speak both german and russian.

i’m a kind-hearted dragoness who loves taking care of others. i work as a nurse, and at home i live with my two spoiled cats, millie and freya <3

spirit & identity

i’ve known something dragon-like was in me since my teens, but i fully awakened in 2021. phantom wings, tail, horns... the whole deal. through meditation, dreams, and astral experiences, i’ve gotten to know my true self more and more. i don’t have past-life memories, but i see my dragon form clearly in the otherworld, and that’s enough for me.

i follow a spiritual path that’s separate from human religions; i work with dragon spirits, which is really important to me.

things i enjoy

video games, drawing, being in nature, hanging out with my loved ones and divination/spiritual work (air-aligned dragon perks!)

want to find me elsewhere?

you can check out my personal website

and you might spot me in some dragonkin or otherkin discord servers (my DMs are closed though).

the tags

#drekiblog: mostly nonhuman-related, longer posts made by me

#tlos: "the legend of spyro"; posts and reblogs about the videogames that are similar to my homeworld

#drekiart: digital artwork pieces made by me are marked with this tag

#dreki de: german posts made by me

#windward: travel posts where I visit somewhere new or old

#reblog: i will use this tag for reblogs of posts by others/not made by me

[wyndscale]

I have once again changed up the way my website looks. I like the new style now, feels more like.. me

It still looks better on desktop tho

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I have removed the spiked collar from my profile picture. I felt like it doesn't fit me anymore, and I haven't seen myself wearing it in the astral for some time now

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On another note, changes in my private life!

My human partner and I are engaged bonded now!

He chose the same ring for himself and me, what I didn't expect at first. But not only did he get matching rings, but they are also dragon rings! And he's not even a dragon himself! He said "so it will remind me of you when I'm wearing it" So sweet ;w;

Closeup of the ring under the cut

It looks like a sleeping dragon, sooo cute!

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Forgot to show the unicorn artwork on someone else's garage wall! Idk who the artist is, probably the people living in this house, but I'm not sure

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I have been at the castle "Greifenstein" in Hessen, Germany today! The translation would be "griffin rock". There was a medieval festival going on, there have been countless humans in medieval clothing everywhere. They were roleplaying as if they were from those times too. Fantasy was also allowed, so many many elves and fae-adjacent beings. The castle itself was beautiful as well! There was a dragon on top of the tower!

There have also been a few booths with dragons! A human has been selling products of his craft, something to do with clay. I love crafty people!

I got this fella for my garden! I will put it right into the soil where my shrine for the ancestors is

I also got two anklets with bells attached to them, so I'll always make a sound when I'm walking~

I'm very happy with this day, had a lot of fun!

[crittersincostume]

let’s start a…

AWAKENING DAY

reblog thread!! Everyone who wants to partecipate will share the date of their awakening (as specific or as generic as they feel comfortable) by reblogging to this post!

Here’s mine!

16th March 2022

[wyndscale]

I am not sure which day (or in my case, night) it was exactly. Somewhere around January 2021. I suspect it was the 11th of January. It was the day that I celebrated my five year anniversary this year, at least

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You know how many otherkin and therians use nest or den to describe the place they are sleeping on? I use to describe my bed as a nest too, but I thought about switching to "cloud" instead, as I'm a kind of dragon who spends most of the time in the sky. Plus, my lair is up between the clouds anyway, on floating islands

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I recently learned through a meditation that I do not need to eat crystals to get to the energy. I can absorb them as well, letting parts of the crystal infuse with my dragon body. So maybe I'm a sort of energy vampire after all? I can still eat them just fine, but I suspect I did that in the beginning of my journeys to the otherworld because this human body needs to actively eat food to get the nutrients and it just felt natural as I'm so used to using my mouth for that

[frameacloud]

Word otherkin will be 22 years old

An upcoming anniversary in the otherkin community: On July 9, 2012, the word “otherkin” will have been coined 22 years ago. It was coined in the Elfinkind Digest, a mailing list which is active to this day. On that date in 1990, one participant, Torin, used the word “otherkin” as a variation on the earlier word “otherkind.” Both phrases were casually improvised as an abbreviated way of referring to people who identify as other kinds of creatures.  

(Source: Elfinkind Digest #71. The archive of this document is still extant, and I have read it. Thanks to the mailing list moderator R’ykandar Korra’ti for making this primary source available to me while I was researching our community’s history book, the Otherkin Timeline. Thanks to Torin for permission to share this information.) 

Right now, the word “otherkin” is nearly 22 years old. That means that any otherkin who are currently in their teens weren’t even born until after the word had been coined. There are lots of otherkin who have considered themselves to be otherkin, of a kind, even years before the word had been coined. Detractors sometimes claim that otherkin is merely a passing fad popular among youth, but this is evidently not the case. 

Any thoughts on the significance of this passage of time? Where were you at, as an otherkin, 22 years ago? Anybody want to make plans for the 9th, to set it aside as a day for thinking about otherkin things? Maybe a party for reminiscing, maybe even with costumes and artistic “glamour-bombs”? 

[frameacloud]

Here’s the anniversary again. Tomorrow, on July 9, 2015, the word “otherkin” will turn 25 years old.

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This year, the word “otherkin” recently turned 32 years old on July 9, 2022.

The top post in this thread from 2012 is where I first proposed observing it as Otherkin Day, unless if anyone can find earlier references to that. The original post is gone, so I was grateful to find this particular post had been archived on someone else’s blog.

[arethinn]

And so did the word otherkind, being otherkin’s elder sibling by a a few months.

I’ve now got a page on my website titled A Brief(ish) History of the Word “Otherkind” based on my reading of the contemporary Elfinkind Digest, which talks a bit about the coining, trends in usage, whether it included elves at first, and whether it included animal folk (today’s therians).

[frameacloud]

Thanks! Folks, Arethinn’s essay is excellent, I highly recommend reading it.

Happy Otherkin Day once again! Now in 2024, the words “otherkin” and “otherkind” turn 34 years old.

[wyndscale]

Happy Otherkin Day!

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I would like to explain how I understand my own identity. I identify as dragonkin, and within my beliefs and experiences, my soul is draconic. However, unlike many otherkin who believe they have lived multiple past lives, I don't believe I have.

This is my first life.

At the same time, I have access to memories that don't belong to this lifetime, yet they don't feel like my memories. Instead, they belong to someone else: A dragon spirit, an ancestor named Aeris.

But with her, this is all a paradox.

Aeris is.. technically me, but also not.

Artwork by Libertades

I can access her memories from when she lived as a dragon. They don't feel like my own memories though, because this is my first life. She truly lived before me, experienced an entire lifetime as a dragon, and eventually died. After her death, she became an ancestor, a spirit watching over the living dragons.

Then something changed.

At some point, Syrinax, my mate, tried to prevent her death. Instead of saving her, whatever he did unraveled her entire existence. Rather than bringing her back, it was as if her life as a dragon had never happened at all.

Her soul was rewritten. It was reshaped into a completely new beginning. And that new beginning is.. me.

From my perspective, this is my first life because it genuinely is. Aeris isn't my past life in the traditional sense. Her existence was erased from history, and my soul is what remained after it was remade. In a way, I inherited fragments of who she was, which is why I can still experience her memories, even though they don't truly belong to me. No one remembers Aeris anymore, except Syr

The closest comparison I can think of is "Back to the Future". Imagine someone traveling into the past to save another person's life, but instead accidentally changing events so drastically that the person was never born in the first place. Everyone else's memories adjust to the new timeline as if that person never existed. Except the time traveler still remembers.

That's essentially Syrinax's situation. He remembers Aeris because he was the one who altered the timeline. To everyone else (including history itself) she never existed. My existence is the result of that paradox.

But there's still one thing that remains unanswered: If Aeris was truly erased from existence, then why does her spirit still exist at all? And why can I interact with her?

Aeris's existence was taken from history, and yet traces of her still remain. Those traces are what connect us today, creating a paradox where I exist as someone entirely new while still carrying echoes of someone who, by all accounts, should never have existed.

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I'm currently sitting outside and I've just noticed that I've forgotten something.. so normal from my childhood. With all this trouble that is going on during the human life, I've totally forgotten that it's summer now, and summer evenings mean that the insects in the tall grass are singing their songs. I have forgotten their songs...

I've been so focused on a "life" that is not even real and made up by human society that I couldn't remember the real life. All the things that are happening in nature, with the cycle of the seasons. With the animals and their rituals.

Hopefully this human life can tone down soon, so I can be part of nature again

[wyndscale]

*Idling on your dash*

Made by @sognodrago

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With each passing day I turn more into a dragon, and it becomes more difficult to identify with the humans. Even with my human friends it gets tougher with the passing of time. I wonder if there will be a day when I'm fully dragon and see myself even more detached from the society, when I will also reject to perceive this body as a human one

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Man, the announcement of Spyro 4 made me so shifty! I was struggling with my draconity the past days, thought I was faking it for years and that I'm a human after all. But Spyro brought me back! It feels like 2017 when Reignited was announced, when my shifts started to appear for the first time and I was realizing that I'm a dragon. It's the exact same feeling now! I'm happy to be back as a dragon, and very excited for the new game!

[aeritus]

I ran as fast as I could