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[eredien]

This post is full of spiritual stuff. If you don't like metaphysics, there's the exit. It also contains an annoucement about a novel and terms that denote draconic social concepts. Thank you.

If you know me, you know I like to write.

If you write, or if you know me well, or both, you've probably gotten the speech/conversation about "how I write," complete with images of mental barriers between me and my characters of various strengths and porosities.

And you've maybe asked me, or I've told you, how Eredien fits into this system. And watched in vague bemusement (I watch myself in vague bemusement in those moments) completely tounge-tied trying to explain the situation there, because there aren't words to explain how there's no barrier, or why there's no barrier, and why it would be bad for there to be a barrier. And no words to describe how I am so much more myself when I'm being...myself...who happens to be a six foot tall green dragon calienshan. Who isn't a character: I think of that novel* as an autobiography more than anything else.

I found this link through Laurel's livejournal friends page. (Hi, Laurel. Thank you so.)

An introduction to something called "soulbonding". Or: A Story in which Fictional Characters Aren't.

Please read this, karimislan; it is important to read this if you want to understand what most of my daily life involves. *Unfurls wings and bows low* I suspect that many of you will also find it eerily and wonderfully applicable.

Essay on Otherkin, Walk-ins, and Soulbonding

I have a name for my life now.

*I have decided that I am writing this novel first.

Comments

What they call soulbonding

[(Anonymous)]

Never happened to have heard that term before (and I don't think that I personally would use it), but my reaction to what it describes is, "But doesn't everyone do that?"

Huh. Guess not. Sometimes I forget that I'm weird. :-)

Oh, and the people in my head say hi. *cheerful smile*

-Astarloa

[kaypendragon.livejournal.com]

ROCK ON! Isn't it nice to have a name for it? I've had my soulbond for absolutely ever and only discovered the term and the community this fall when I joined LJ. You should join the community and add a not-quite-human perspective.
Anyway, welcome to the group of people who finally found a name for the stuff inside their heads!
~Laurel

[thespooniest.livejournal.com]

This sounds as though you're "coming out", as it were, as otherkin/soulbonding. If that's the case, congratulations.

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[eredien]

Oh, I thought you already knew I was, but I guess you hadn't. Sorry! Yes, I am Otherkin (dragon specifically), and have known that for years. If you'd like to talk about that more let me know, I can ramble on for hours. :) I've got to read more about this soulbonding thing, but it sounds like me too.

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[thespooniest.livejournal.com]

Oh; I knew you'd considered yourself Otherkin for a long time, but as far as I recall your previous posts about it had been Friends-only. Unless I'm mistaken this is your first public post about it; that's what I was referring to when I said "coming out".

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[eredien]

Oh, had they been? I don't think that's intentional, otherwise I wouldn't have linked to my webpage here. But I'll have to go back and look at it.

I tried to do this yesterday, but it didn't post

[weirdquark]

"If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats."
—Richard Bach, "Illusions"

Ariel says he knew this already.

You have a name for your life now. That is very cool.