Well-spoken ambassador of magic and reason. I'm afraid dragon is it.

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I keep coming back to this, shaking my head and grinning, and trying to figure out how you got that stated so eloquently in a mere dozen words. Thank you.

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A very interesting question, not sure if I have had enough contact with you to determine the answer but I am willing to try.

I think upon reflection that I would have guessed a Gryphon.

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Oh and feel free to throw a guess at me. ;)

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Your name alone is dragony to me, and you struck me as such before I even know it was you at FC. The 'tude you expressed was somewhat dragony too, if that makes any sense. I can't even really describe what it is, but there it is...!

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Lion. Long, lazy, sleek, definately an apex predator but not the active hunter. Male lions do the sleep/play thang and seem to be very social and you've got this very active but mellow energy to you.

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To be honest, I'd probably just stare in blank incomprehension. I'd have believed dragon or owl if you told me, though, I think – you're very thinky, as Elf would put it.

(Whoa, comment editing! Rock!)

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Based off of your frequency of posts with content, the cheap joke would be anything that hibernates. ;)

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I don't look for dragons anymore. I've maintained for some time that knowing you're a dragon is morally equivalent to knowing you're left-handed. Worth knowing, but not worth a giant song and dance. I guess that these days, I don't really care about who is left handed draconic or not. So I had to look at your posts and study them a bit to answer the question.

Going by the stuff in public view, I'd call you just as human as any mammal. Going by recently flocked posts, I'd call you a dragon. The attitudes expressed and the mode of expression are both very draconic, IMO. (Perhaps the processes underlying the attitudes more than the attitudes themselves.)

How do I look?

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Probably whatever animal you used most in your icons! :D

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That is really, really tough. I don't read clues a hundredth as well as I should. Stuff gets past me all the time.

Since you seem like you've found some answers and are basicaly satisfied with your life, I might be surprised to feel you felt other kinships at all. Then I'd probably nod; so THOSE are some of the greater depths I felt in you.

I do hang around with dragons, so that might occur to me. I might say wolf, there's a sharpness to you, but it would need a poise and elegance that wolves don't usually display. Mountain lion-- no, that has the elegance but also a secretiveness, stealthiness, I don't feel in you.

Probably my knowing you is blinding me to any other possibility, but I do think I might go directly to dragon. I think I'd say Chinese dragon, though.

Feel free to tell me what you'd think of me. But if it's a liver fluke, I don't want to know. :D

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Well, I think of 'dragon' as a meta-category as broad as 'human' and just as vague, but definitely discernable.

I'd go with cetacean, a toothed whale or a dolphin. Something about migratory flows, tides, and all that diving.

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Something flowy but *sharp* (as in intelligent) - shark- purposeful.

How about me? :)

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I would have guessed avian (I do declare, I came in via an RSS feed, so I didn't see the entry/post icon 'till I went to reply and already had an idea in my head)--or at least something with wings--because you seem to think about the world before you say anything about it, and things with wings look at the world as a whole (as if from above). A mark of wisdom or just maturity? Both come with age. Dragon is not far off, either, as they come across as being wise in that selfsame way.

I don't pretend to be good at guessing phenotypes, though.

And moi? if you would kindly hazard a guess (which might be interesting, as I haven't made a point of overtly stating it and mention it to few people).

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I don't know you all that well I admit but I would go with either dragon or gryphon. I say this only because you are whiplash smart, amusingly tolerant (at times) of creatures who are not at learned as you are, willing to teach those who ask. You are approachable but not overly fluffy cuddly like a cat. There is a strength to you that I can not even begin to place my mental finger on how I know this but I do.

Feel free to comment on me if you like.

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"...
You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
..."
- Max Ehrmann "Desiderata"

The notion of 'true inner species' doesn't really make sense to me, and I'm reluctant to apply lables that I don't comprehend. So, naturally, I'm curious what you'd expecy my inner species to be.

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A crane.

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The first other dragon that I met was in college (sans either of us being in the online community at that point), and he is a master of pun and storytelling. For that reason I'm kind of stuck on dragon when thinking about you. Maybe an intelligent bird if I had to pick something else.

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This is interesting in that I've been paying a visit or two back to AFD in recent days, and it being ten years since I discovered my own.

I keep wanting to say dragon, but I can't be sure whether that answer is relatively free of bias. Still, since nothing else seems to be making itself known at this time, that's the answer I'll go with. Dragon you are. How about that?

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"Not an Elf or otherwise Celtic- or Norse-described creature of Faery". I would still believe you as I think I'd still get the impression you're not even a fully-empowered, stand-up kind of Capital H Human. Over the years, I have developed a fairly strong intuitive sense for certain familiar types, but beyond those, I can only make guesses based on lists of personality traits, and you don't fit the ones I can sometimes guess in that manner (cats, kitsune, wolf). "Dragon" would make a lot of sense once I was told, but you're like half my data set for dragon-identified people these days, which skews the results just a bit.

Mind you, I know more people who approach this from the "Otherkin" mindset than furry, and there is a very subtle difference in how people, even with a more animal self-identification, view the species identification thing, even if I can't quite put my finger on it.

How would you type me? Could you?

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Something in the canine group, I think. Social, intelligent, capable of play, capable of large amounts of travel.

So what would you associate with me? :)

--
"Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there."

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I knew you by reputation and your dryer essays as a dragon before I found any of your more personal writings or started following your journals, so I'm going to have to say that trying to think of you as anything else feels unnatural.

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Something winged and purposeful - if not necessarily predatory. Maybe one of the migratory birds, a crane or seabird.

That said, I'd still also lean dragon, because you've always felt like a kincousin to me.

If you didn't know what I am, what would you have guessed?

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Sure. Please do ask away. I'm always curious what people do think of me.

I would think avian or possibly, oddly, cougar or jaguarundi. I associate birds and the two cat species as animals which can wind up miles and miles away from where they started out, and one of the most salient things about you is the huge travelling deal.

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