Draconic Summit Autumn 2022

Welcome all! Feel free to use any of the channels here to talk about whatever! There is a slowmode on all of the channels so the chats don't move too quickly!

rawr

Cmon we don't need slowmode in here, let the party get started!

Okay, I'll remove the slowmode in this channel for a little bit then!

3:27 am

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I think after a bit once everyone trickles in we might need it but a moving chat is great to start the event with. like chatter in a con hall i guess :)

That's fair! ^^

walks up to a microphone for a loudspeaker clears throat Attention con-goers... Rawr. That is all.

so true

3:31 am

rawrs back

does a mlem

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in like 4 years we'll be able to host this in the metaverse or vrchat or something and we can see everyone's actual dragonforms lmao

that would be super awesome

just need a sporelike creator to fit everyones forms i guess

vrchat would be nice but wed all have to get models

3:39 am

oh!

3:39 am

hm...

hi all c:

not sure how well that would work for like, weirder dragons

3:39 am

like im a latias

gods I wish, there's so little in the way of availability hen when it comes to dragon stuff like avatars

3:39 am

and yeah. but also pokemon avatars are available. I'll have to see if I ever find a latias and I'll tell you, Digs

the current latias models in vrchat are model rips with the camera above the actual body

and hey Khena!

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at least the ones ive seen

3:40 am

yeah if you find a good one tell me

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So excited!!! rat_fast_spin

me too aaa

3:50 am

(ง •`⎽´•)ง am gon fight time so it goes by faster

lol valid I dun have to, I gots bus training tomorrow and time tends to zip along by when I'm doing that

oh nice! I have art group tomorrow but it starts at 5pm so i'll be bored for a while xD

I have college tomorrow starting at 11:00 AM where I'm at, so I may be a little less active than usual during that time!

I still got work

so gonna join yall super late my time

Time for draconbic summbitt

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3:53 am

Doing the mispelling thing Luunaathh'sstrreiii does, lol

dracombi sumbit

Anyways, welcome all! I'm geniunely excited for this! madarahi

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there is a costume channel

Indeed!

starts eyeing my Dishonored costume I think I've found an excuse to dress up Saturday lol

any excuse is a good excuse cx

Indeed! Oooohhhh now I'm torn. Do I wanna do my Corvo costume or my OC villager costume... Thinkingderg

~~combine them~~

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omg

Why not one costume for each day or the summit?

3:56 am

That too

Okay that settles it, Corvo on Saturday, OC on Sunday.

yeees

3:57 am

looking forward to seeing it! I don't have a costume unfortunately but I might try to do something slightly costumy! ~~if i can find my elf ears~~

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I'm going to try and convince Luunaathh'sstrreiii to go to the spirit store and get a caterpillar costume this year.

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haha i love that

Ooohhh and then she will truly be a lean bean!

She needs to dress up as a lean bean, that's just how the law of the universe is.

3:59 am

~~great, I sound like Auuthhiiviirrokk now~~

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Oh hey, we have PK

Quail bongo birdbongo

Nest

Quail

quail nest

Quail and nest is the holy combination... it is perfection.

ball

roumd

Quail is round and round is quail

Here we go again...

wait... if quail is round and the earth is round... does that make quail earth?

I'm almost afraid to ask, what is with the quail and nest? Is this a meme?

You cannot have a draconic summit without holy nest of the quail

Khéna (ze/zim/zir)

wait... if quail is round and the earth is round... does that make quail earth?

Correct.

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Jean-Luc

I'm almost afraid to ask, what is with the quail and nest? Is this a meme?

It's an inside joke essentially, I like to express my love of quail in goofy and grandiose ways to be silly. :)

Ah. So... it is a meme?

It can be referred to as that, yes :)

A heavily localized meme.

nest.

Quail

Hello! (Please read my book.)

4:49 am

I'd love to trade. I finished my to-read queue recently and I haven't known what to read next.

us draconic folk just like writing books apparently

If you don't mind it being a second draft (or as I call them: slightly-less-rough drafts) I have a finished manuscript you're welcome to read. Just leme know and I can send it to you (edited)

i'm only about six chapters in to mine and some of the chapters are pretty short lol. i write very slow

My DMs are open for book drafts! (edited)

Unfortunately for everyone else, I have arrived

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run for your lives

5:41 am

/j

Welcome new peeps!! ^.=.^

Hello! Thank you swind_melt

7:15 am

Glad to be here swind_heart

We’re happy to have you here!

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I forgot this was happening XD

Can’t wait!

~~12h time difference who~~ /lh /hj

~~not me joining, going to sleep, and then waking up and making an intro for the both of us lol~~ (edited)

Good Morning fellow dergs and kin.

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Good morning, Doppel! swind_melt

Well, already afternoon here, but still as tired as I've just woken up >..> GM btw!

Good morning!

Morning. :3 Going to get my Flu Shot in a few though, so I'll head out x3

Good morning all!

Good morning

-waves-

Good morning! I've just gotten up to go to my bus driving lessons so I won't really be on much. Plus probably gonna nap after lol

Hello dragons and draconics! tail_wag

3:36 pm

Oh you want to get a bus license? How cool is that!

Drakmanka ↩️

Reply to: Good morning! I've just gotten up to go to my bus driving lessons so I won't really be on much. Plus…

Whoop, yep! This is a summit designed primarily for dragons, but anyone is welcome :3

Wow how did I miss that there was artist signups

I really wanted to join those, but bandwidth super low atm

Obsydian

Wow how did I miss that there was artist signups

There was an announcement that signups for artist were extended if you want to join!

I don't know where said annoucements are happening ^^;

Obsydian

I don't know where said annoucements are happening ^^;

No worries! This is the one we saw https://discord.com/channels/920780319068680274/920912033292124160/1035037548591988786

Dff I am so blind and just read the top part earlier 6358_dogekek

thank you so much!

What time do the opening ceremonies start?

Tomorrow at 10:00 AM CST

4:47 pm

We're updating the event schedule as folks finish up their panels (a.k.a. I finish up my panel

), but you can find the schedule at #event-schedule

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12pm CST, Thursday the 27th, so opening ceremonies is in 22 hours

mlems

5:42 pm

How's everyone doing today?

working, wish I was sleeping

chillin but keepin busy

Working is no fun, hopefully the work day goes by fast.

5:53 pm

Drawing is fun at least

5:53 pm

Also, right on!

hoping so too!

hrf existing lol

Hello. ^^ how are you all

Today's a "i'm just gonna do my thing in bed all day" day

Ah, I definitely know what those kind of days feel like :<

I'm excited for the weekend & preparing for the con!

I'm excited as well! voidcatblep

I'm looking forward to just sitting around in my own energy after today haha V busy atm

Roarar ↩️

Reply to: Today's a "i'm just gonna do my thing in bed all day" day

Just finished a big-ass lab report so I'm pretty proud of myself

Very good :)

6:54 pm

Always good to engage in gathering knowledge about the sciences.

Yeah, it was interesting enough but no one really likes writing lab reports

Understandable.

@ Raikami - not sure if you may see this, or are OK with pings, but hey fellow Okami fan! I see you're also in one of the servers with Dadang

Hey, we are okay with pings. It is always nice to see another Okami fan. BlakeHeart

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Oh, same here ^^

Rai (He/It) ↩️

Reply to: Hey, we are okay with pings. It is always nice to see another Okami fan. :BlakeHeart:

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Rai/Leon

Hey, we are okay with pings. It is always nice to see another Okami fan. BlakeHeart

I've actually been considering playing Okami! Is it good?!

It is our favorite game. Very good.

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Do you like it more on PC or would it be better for a console in your opinion?

We've played it on basically everything it's been released on, and PC is good. We have a soft spot for the PS2 version since that's what we grew up with.

It depends but in general I would highly recommend Switch version, if you have a switch. PC has been known to have some issues

9:55 pm

but if you prefer PC games you should be fine, if you need a fix there are steam forums/reddit posts that could help

9:56 pm

I too am partial to PS but I never play it on this format anymore, just because switch is a lot more convenient for how I play

I actually have a switch so I'll try that, thanks for letting me know! I also have a PS5 though so maybe I'll use that since it's more true to the format (so to speak).

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Henlo! ^.=.^

hewwo

Hallo.

I've actually only played the original PS2 version of Okami, haven't tried the HD remasters, but, yes, it is a very good game

Hiya

OML I love that gif

^.-.^ blep

does a mlem

Aeáro, your hagfish fact in your introduction made me think hard about it then I found that 99.996% of the slime is seawater

Blepping and mlemming is actually something I do a lot as my draconic self, so it’s part of why I express myself like that in social situations XD

10:11 pm

Hagfish are… something

Gin

Aeáro, your hagfish fact in your introduction made me think hard about it then I found that 99.996% of the slime is seawater

Yeah, and the rest is... strands? Basically.

Imagine being a hagfish therian

10:12 pm

The slime shifts would be immaculate

It would suck having the urge to fold one's body into the shape of a pretzel to get the slime off. Human spines are generally not so good at that...

I grew up with the Wii version so I like that alot but I don't recommend it unless you REALLY like the wii (edited)

Shimi ↩️

Reply to: I've actually been considering playing Okami! Is it good?!

Man wii Okami takes me BACK

We got it as an extra when getting a backwards compatible Wii for SA2B

My parents bought it for me when I was... 10, I believe? Way too young to be playing that but I was obsessed with it

We were around the same age Allot of it flew over our head but we were in it for the wolf goddess Bc it It gave us what I now know of as kinfeels(I still don't have that sorted out...)

Kira [Night-Sky-Collective🌌]

I grew up with the Wii version so I like that alot but I don't recommend it unless you REALLY like the wii (edited)

Okami is a great game. It’s on ps4 so you don’t need motion controls. I don’t know if it’s on other systems aside from the wii and original PS2

10:26 pm

Ope already talked about above. ^^;

Oooohhh Okami has been on my to-play list for ages. I wanted to play it back when it first came out for the PS2 but it had just enough mysticism and magic in it that my mom wigged out and banned it when I asked to buy it. It's out for PC now?

10:32 pm

Ooohhh and it's on Steam...

10:33 pm

Damn I hadn't realized how long ago that was. I was 13 when it first came out... I do remember my best friend at the time had a copy for her Wii and I watched her play it. Loved the art style.

lots of dergs here who frequent neither basin nor spire huh :0 nice to see

Ye! It’s always good to meet new beans!

I'm not a derg, just a mud gecko in disguise that wanted to see dergs in their natural habitat <<

12:45 am

You're all so friendly though so I'm enjoying myself here meeting folks :D

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I’m glad that you’re enjoying yourself! I’m happy to hear that ^.=.^

Welcome new peeps!! ^.=.^

Is that Lilith/Lilly from TOH in your pfp? It's a nice picture : )

Shimi ↩️

Reply to: You're all so friendly though so I'm enjoying myself here meeting folks :D

Gonna get some sleep now . Goodnight everyone see you during the events.

Sleep well :)

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~~Not me waking up super early so I can be here when the opening ceremony starts lmao~~

11:30 am

I have been given a last minute volunteer thing annoyingly enough but i really wanted to help so i'll still be going. it just means I might not be home when everything juuust starts but I have Data and discord on my phone so I will be listening in at least while I get home lol

still like 5 hours till opening no?

ye though my volunteer thing starts 1 hour before opening. tried to have it as early as possible, that was all i got qwq

Oh neat what do you volunteer for?

I'm helping stuff some envelopes for the charity group that hosts the art group I go to for free every week. they're getting ready for the holidays early since it's the time of the year where they get the most donations heheh

12:14 pm

I don't help them often but i did promise to this month

,yoooo good morning.

Khéna (ze/zim/zir)

I'm helping stuff some envelopes for the charity group that hosts the art group I go to for free every week. they're getting ready for the holidays early since it's the time of the year where they get the most donations heheh

Oh neat!

1:29 pm

T - 90min !

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woo hoo^^

1:32 pm

Wrong pk lol

1:32 pm

Wait no its fine oops

KinDD

T - 90min !

really?

Keksdrache

really?

If I'm not totally off with time conversion from CST to CEST, it should be in 1.5 hrs! Either this, or the concept of time is more off to this dragon here then I imagined it to be.

https://time.is/CST

Central Standard Time - exact time now

Exact time now, time zone, time difference, sunrise/sunset time and key facts for Central Standard Time (CST).

1:40 pm

haha is it 6pm ?

1:42 pm

ruffles What I wanted to say is that time is a complex entity.

1:42 pm

^..^"

1:42 pm

Dang I thought its in 90 min already

bah, and daylight savings ends here this weekend so that'll deeefinitely make things easier on my end

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"Fall Back" is my actual favorite holiday smh

1:46 pm

we gain the hour that was so unceremoniously ripped from us earlier in the year

1:46 pm

and everything feels right again for a few months until spring

i never quite recovered from mountain time lmao

aha... Same

Keksdrache ↩️

Reply to: i never quite recovered from mountain time lmao

traveling there was easy though, arrived at midnight local time and went straight to bed

Yeees I finished early so I most likely will get home on timeee

We still have school :/ lol (edited)

I have work until 5:00 rip

2:41 pm

Wasnt expecting that today

Oh in how many hours from now?

12:00 my time - its 9:49 for me right now

thankies

Oh man, hope I can stay awake at least for the whole opening ceremony, it’s very late at night where I am

Yeah.. I'm a bit lost too since I wanted to use the time between opening and first panel for something else.. now I'll be 1 hour short..

22.00 here

Bell🐉 [she/they] 🐉🌊 ↩️

Reply to: Oh man, hope I can stay awake at least for the whole opening ceremony, it’s very late at night where…

OK.. guess it's best to attend the opening during my training session then.

3:04 pm

Oh, 65 participants in total! Cool!

I got home on time but then the announcement came out xD i guess i have enough time to rest c:

I finished what I was doing a bit early, so I’m setting up the stage now

oooh yeeees cxxx

3:11 pm

so excited aaa

3:12 pm

I would flap my wings in excitement but I don't have any xD

Opening should be in 45 min from now, right? (Hope I'll get it right this time)

3:13 pm

CST Timezone seems to be my endboss

Draconic summit: START!

I just got to work, hah. Production meeting in 15 minutes, I will likely be missing opening ceremonies

3:46 pm

Oh wait I already missed em RIP

Apologies ;;W;;

3:46 pm

I wish I didn’t have that thing to do before the opening ceremonies, ugh

We’ll probably put something together to make up for the bad timing during the opening ceremonies.

Urf I missed opening ceremonies lol

I had a lot of fun sharing at the panel but now I feel exhausted xD Social anxiety is an oof but I'm really glad I was able to in the end cx

Social anxiety is a big oof for sure! gives big wing hugs

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Good Evening. Really miffed to have missed the panel but will do my best to catch the next one!

Apologies, I wish everyone could have made it to the panel honestly

No worries! Online conventions and time zones and life does that!

I'm finally home from work! Hopefully once I get settled in I can join in more stuff dragontail

I'm sorry I had to miss the panel. I was at physical therapy

No worries! Life things come first!

Same

Doppel ↩️

Reply to: Good Evening. Really miffed to have missed the panel but will do my best to catch the next one!

-pokes head out of box- I am free from the confines of capitalism!

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Yay!! ^.=.^

I do not have Draconia >< (re: #announcements )

Ah, that’s fair

Yeah, time zones especially, I just couldn’t stay awake too long past midnight to join the first few panels (12h time difference, but that’s just because I’m on the other side of the globe from the US) x_x But I do plan on joining the other panels when possible!

Doppel ↩️

Reply to: No worries! Online conventions and time zones and life does that!

I would LOVE a Draconia meetup

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Yessss that would be so good!

Henlo Sunny! ^.=.^

Hi!!!

5:27 am

I finally made time to make my intro! Now to see what I missed!

We’ve had quite a few conversations during the summit! Now that it’s actually the weekend though the channels might see more activity than they already have!

Good to hear!

5:30 am

I thought there would be more emojis here actually.. did you forget to add some?

Well, I actually tried to add all those little yellow dragon blob emojis to the server, though I wasn’t able to since the files I found weren’t compatible with discord for some reason….

Oh, that’s too bad

Yeah ;;;

Is it looking for an SVG file?

5:32 am

https://github.com/chr-1x/dragn-emoji

GitHub - chr-1x/dragn-emoji: A small collection of old-Noto blob-es...

A small collection of old-Noto blob-esque dragon emoji - GitHub - chr-1x/dragn-emoji: A small collection of old-Noto blob-esque dragon emoji

you need png file

I was trying to save the ones from github onto my computer and add them into discord, though it never worked out ;;W;;

I have about less than half saved up as png. Let me grab the rest and convert them and I can send the png package to you

Then I tried looking for other websites that had them, though I couldn’t find any

5:34 am

Ah, thank you for doing that!

5:35 am

Is much appreciated voidcatblep

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We should have khr here at this summit anyway. Where are they? blepdragon

khr?

The creator of those dragon blob emoji.

Ah, I see!

Also dragonkin!

Oh nice!

6:34 am

If someone wants to invite them, they can!

I’m going to try and get some sleep, good night all! ^.=.^

Gnight! We are also heading to bed dragontail

Open the SVGs with Inkscape and export as PNG.

We snagged png versions of all of them ourselves using this bad boy: https://svgtopng.com/

Convert SVG files to PNG Online

This free online SVG to PNG converter allows you to convert SVG files to PNG images, quickly and easily.

So it'll be just before the WOF panel? (re: #announcements )

Correct

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i dont think ill be able to attend any today augh ;;

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Xylanth

So it'll be just before the WOF panel? (re: #announcements )

WOF panel? Why do you call it... omg I just see this now. This is my panel, but the title is not "wings of fire". It's "wings and fire". And it doesn't have anything to do with WOF. OMG I hope people don't expect me to do a WOF panel now. I don't know a thing about it

Amber

WOF panel? Why do you call it... omg I just see this now. This is my panel, but the title is not "wings of fire". It's "wings and fire". And it doesn't have anything to do with WOF. OMG I hope people don't expect me to do a WOF panel now. I don't know a thing about it

it says "Wings of fire" in the schedule

"Wings and fire" makes more sense, though, I was wondering why a WOF panel would be 18+

glory fictionkin discussing her noemata about deathbringer

This is not the original title. I've requested to correct it.

5:10 pm

The 18+ is because I'll be talking about mind-altering substances, too..

Working on getting the title changed! Sorry for the confusion flustered

5:18 pm

Been working on putting together my panel for tomorrow, and I'm quite excited to share

The draconic dishes panel, I guess? Cool.. I'll be there even if food doesn't do anything much draconic to me..

Yup, the food one!

We have no idea how to do this, but it'd be sick if we could arrange a Halloween movie watch party for the last night of the con

5:52 pm

~~unless ppl want to watch scary godmother with us on YT, we found the whole movie there~~

Ooooh, I'd be down! I haven't organized anything like that before either, so I'm not sure how that'd work. I know there's definitely a way to do it though

Xylanth

it says "Wings of fire" in the schedule

"Wings and fire" makes more sense, though, I was wondering why a WOF panel would be 18+

I see a Zana! Will the book club get new members from this summit?

I’m not wanting to post it publicly here

book club ?

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I just had to tout it a bit, it's so cool.

Also I’m like tired this weekend and haven’t participated at all

Dragon books! Plus a few gryphons.

Book

6:34 pm

Birba

Specifically, dragon POV books. Books that merely contain dragons aren't that rare, but books from a dragon's POV are special. I particularly liked Axtara: Banking and Finance.

I really liked the WOF Series. Discovered them actually this summer and it is really frightning somehow, how this triggers me emotionally

WoF is great! I have all of them, and as many of the visual novels as have been released so far.

Looks like the next panel is about to start

I just woke up, probably not going to make this one. Slept too long

Age of Fire is forever my favorite dragon POV series!

I hope more people read Royal Red: A Cozy Fantasy Adventure

I have a box set of the first six books of WOF but I haven't started reading them yet. (edited)

Leviathan

Age of Fire is forever my favorite dragon POV series!

Omg yes Age of Fire is my favorite too! Have you read the sequel series "Dragoneer Academy"? It's still being written, and it's not a dragon POV story anymore, but it tells basically the events that were laid in motion in the last three books of AoF

Drakmanka

Omg yes Age of Fire is my favorite too! Have you read the sequel series "Dragoneer Academy"? It's still being written, and it's not a dragon POV story anymore, but it tells basically the events that were laid in motion in the last three books of AoF

Not yet! And I don’t even think I finished the last two AoF books hahah, I need to catch up!

I'll admit the first three are my favorites in AoF but the whole arc is a really interesting story!

Leviathan

Age of Fire is forever my favorite dragon POV series!

Age of Fire is amazing

7:32 pm

(at least the first 3 books)

7:32 pm

Dragon Champion is my all time favorite book

7:32 pm

I read Dragoneer Academy but never really got into it tbh

7:33 pm

I don't hear this mentioned much but Remembered War is a great dragon pov series, I would say second to AoF

7:33 pm

(one day I will make the flowchart)

Dragon Champion was amazing, Dragon Avenger was okay, Dragon Outcast was bad... I have the fourth book just in case it gets better, but I've heard it doesn't.

It doesn’t

I’m considering doing a dragon pov book panel at a con (edited)

7:59 pm

Honestly I could probably whip something up for tomorrow if there was interest

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That'd be really cool

I personally enjoyed Dragon Outcast but I can see why some wouldn't.

Zana

Honestly I could probably whip something up for tomorrow if there was interest

You can if you want to! If you want to do something we could add it to the schedule!

Dragon POV book panel! I'd be excited to attend that.

(•Luunaathh’sstrreiii•)

You can if you want to! If you want to do something we could add it to the schedule!

What times are open still? It’ll be a pretty impromptu panel that’ll probably consist of me talking about my favorite books and then just open discussion, pff

After the dream discussion panel here in about 40 minutes, the rest of the evening is open, as well as tomorrow morning and afternoon!

hhhhhhh I wish I wasn't so busy this weekend. I missed Amber's panel and I was really looking forward to it...

next year I am so going to block the weekend of the summit out and just let everyone know I'll be in my room doing nerd things...

Zana

Honestly I could probably whip something up for tomorrow if there was interest

i would love this! i have a running list of dragon books and im always looking for more! its helped me so much to get put into a draconic headspace and just decompress from the human world

9:17 pm

are the panels being recorded? if so will there be link to where they can be watched after the summit? ive missed all of them actually :// i lost my headphones and ive been busy with work

all the panels will be uploaded somewhere right?

Drakmanka

hhhhhhh I wish I wasn't so busy this weekend. I missed Amber's panel and I was really looking forward to it...

next year I am so going to block the weekend of the summit out and just let everyone know I'll be in my room doing nerd things...

Don't mind, I think it was recorded. If not, I'll just do it again

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We recorded it!

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Yep, they’re being recorded!

woo awesome!

I’ll be placing the recordings on a YouTube channel for the draconic summit

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i'm certainly interested in the one about dreams, but my dreams haven't exactly been comfortable lately, so i'd prefer to skip that one and catch up on it later on my own terms

What's the dream one gonna be about? Interpreting people's dreams, or just tips for general dream interpretation?

Yay!!

(•Luunaathh’sstrreiii•) ↩️

Reply to: Yep, they’re being recorded!

So it will be a mix of both. My goal is to present what dream interpretation is about and how you can use it for your own. I want to give something to everyone's claws that they can use in everdays (or nights) life

9:21 pm

So it will be interactive ^..^

(•Luunaathh’sstrreiii•)

After the dream discussion panel here in about 40 minutes, the rest of the evening is open, as well as tomorrow morning and afternoon!

Oh ok! Is something like 1-2pm pacific time tomorrow a decent opening

9:22 pm

I like would actually need to set up a PowerPoint but i figure that’s just gonna be posting a bunch of book covers

Yep! Those times are open!

Dream analysis is a topic very dear to me, as it is deeply connected to my draconity as well as it is a great tool for me in my psychological work (edited)

yeah, i actually love that topic, but i'm currently unwilling to acknowledge a sliver of meaning in my dreams

fair!

(•Luunaathh’sstrreiii•)

Yep! Those times are open!

Great, that sounds good!

Keksdrache

yeah, i actually love that topic, but i'm currently unwilling to acknowledge a sliver of meaning in my dreams

I have the occasional dream where I feel it’s Important but most of mine are pretty nonsense

9:28 pm

And the ones I get meaning out of is just…. Yes I have trauma surrounding family and psychologist control

9:29 pm

Nightmares are obvious, pff

I've noticed my dreams tend to be the least coherent when my brain is processing a ton of new information. Like recently: I've been training to become a school bus driver. Lots of new things coming in every day. And you would think I'd dream about maintenance and driving of a bus. But no. The one I remember the most vividly was that I somehow accidentally "stole" Boba Fett's helmet and he was after me to get it back...

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i have very clearly trauma related dreams most of the time nowadays :( its one of the things that changed a lot as ive gotten older. i used to have dreams that were fantastical and clearly about my special interests at the time and brought me a lot of joy but in the last few years they have mostly been stressful :/

Dreams are one of the most purest ways of connecting with our selfs. The Panel itself is therefor not really called "Dream analysis" , but I rather like to name it "the art of understanding dream language"

I can have Alaph rename the panel if you want!

Naaa!

9:33 pm

Its ok

9:33 pm

We'll see it anyways on the Sheets

Oki!

i wanted to mention one of my favorite sites on the internet. its calles world dream bank and the author has been collecting his dreams and others for over 20 years now. reading his dreams have been really enlightening to me as a lot of them are about non human experiences.

9:34 pm

http://www.worlddreambank.org/

9:34 pm

im really inspired by the author chris wayan and have been wanting to get into recording my dreams again and analyzing them.

9:35 pm

very excited about the panel!

I hope to not dissapoint!

I'm now inspired to write down the most intense dragon dream I ever had. Happened very early in my awakening process...

Had one of those, too @Drakmanka

I am natural lucid dreamer, and have kept my dream journal going, nearly every day. But I'm very lacking in any sort of dream interpretation/analysis skill. This is the one panel that I'm very excited about

the pressure!

9:42 pm

^..^"

9:42 pm

I'll give my best

no pressure!! just follow your flow!

I still remember, when I had my first lucid dream and I was aware I was dreaming, I tried to summon the largest bowl of Icecream you could imagine. After waking up I though lol wtf

XD imagine, to enjoy all that ice cream before you even start your day!

It was a very steady process for me to controll the dream environment, it is not that easy (at least for me it wasn't). Walking through doors? No go at first. Through the ground? No chance. Flying however was possible from the start

a fellow dream flyer!

And then I've noticed, that the resistances were inside me. It was not the dream itself

9:45 pm

It was my view of the world, that kept me from going through the walls

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I also hunted during a lucid dream, which was .... indescribable to say at least. That feeling of freedom, diving from the sky to catch a rabbit

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9:47 pm

And it was so ultimately real, there was no difference to reality

Any tips for getting lucid dreams to happen? I've never managed to teach myself how to do it, and I'm really mad about that. angrydragon

these are personal tip and may or may not work for everyone

try to keep recognizing a few things that are constant in the waking world. The written text, the ticking clock (preferably analogue), and get used to do reality check via small thing like pen dropping, egg standing. Once you are inside a dream, try to check your surroundings for sign out of place. This heavily depends from person to person, as it is different for everyone. While some may be able to read text within a dream, some cannot. As an example. The moment you notice the discrepancy, your brain would realize you are not in the waking world. From here, it is classified as Lucid Dreaming. While some would say gaining a level of control is lucid dreaming, but it is not a requirement for one to be considered aware/lucid.

when waking up, don’t immediately jump start your consciousness. Try to ease yourself into waking to retain as much as the dream memories into your conscious memories

utilize dream journal, keep a habit and train your brain to remember dreams

try with certain video that helps promote certain state of sleep. I once tried a thing for astral projection, accidentally fell asleep, and had a very intense lucid dreaming about astral projection

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Some of it also is just kinda telling yourself you’re gonna try and lucid dream as you’re going to bed (edited)

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9:56 pm

Reminds you do to it and if you can remember during the night makes it more likely

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Or willing yourself to have a specific dream

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I used to do it very often, but ended up kinda trying to distance myself from dreaming because it was stressful from nightmares/sleep paralysis and was consuming my waking life a little bit

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9:58 pm

Certain medications can also increase dreaming and thus lucid dreams

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9:58 pm

Lamictal and Seroquel both had major effects for me

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…to be clear though, don’t try and go on psychiatric meds to increase dreams xp

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yeah practicing lucid dreaming can be tricky. my brain knows the tricks to become lucid, but in my dreams it tries so hard to convince me i'm not dreaming even when i check lol

It’s funny how much is it is intention and mindset though, I stopped trying to remember and record my dreams as religiously, and it’s caused that to decrease - but it has the upside of less nightmares, paralysis, and a lot less waking up during the night after dreams which has been nice

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Since I’d kinda trained myself to wake up after each dream in order to write it down

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So… there are ups and downs to going intensely into dream work, I’d say, though it’s something you can always stop or take a step back on

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Mostly I just record my dreams casually, usually record two a night even if I have more, since I don’t try that hard to remember them

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But if I really will myself I can still have lucid dreams - I had a dream a few nights ago that got interrupted, and I was really annoyed and managed to go back to sleep to finish it

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(The go back to sleep method dies work well, but it’s not consistent - lucid dreaming isn’t in general)

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KinDD

It was a very steady process for me to controll the dream environment, it is not that easy (at least for me it wasn't). Walking through doors? No go at first. Through the ground? No chance. Flying however was possible from the start

Flying is very interesting - my limbs often don’t match quite right because 4 to 6, but sometimes I’ve gotten all 6 in control and felt it and that just feels really euphoric

The dream analysis panel was interesting but I had to leave because I had been up for a really long time and I was falling asleep during the presentation xD I've been trying to fight it off this whole time but I can't anymore so it's off to bed at 8:30pm for me sleepydergy

No worries friend! Sleep well! voidcatblep

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@(•Luunaathh’sstrreiii•) actually if it's not too much of a difficulty i might not want to do a book panel after all if that's okay

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i have too much anxiety

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and not enough energy to try and deal with it

That’s okay! I totally understand!

1:51 am

Anxiety is a big oof, I feel you

yeah :(

2:03 am

sucks recently

I'm thinking for the next Summit, I might like to do a dramatic reading! Not yet sure what I wanna read tho...

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omg

5:01 am

Henlo!

5:02 am

Also yes! We have a purple dragon emoji! ^.=.^

5:03 am

green derg

5:03 am

gerg

Zana

Some of it also is just kinda telling yourself you’re gonna try and lucid dream as you’re going to bed (edited)

if i'm lucky enough, i could just drift right into a lucid dream from the moment i close my eyes

5:11 am

that's only happened like twice

purple dragon

5:37 am

are there recordings of the panels from today ?

Yep!

Where do i post pictures of kintypes?

Probably the draconic memories channels!

6:33 am

If they’re not draconic, you can post them in the otherkind experiences channels!

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Good Morning fellow dragons :3

3:40 pm

(and kin/therians too)

Morning everyone! Oof, I seem to be quite a bit tired today. But I'll survive until the upcoming 18+ panel!

i got myself a bunch of coffee qwq

Oh where can I find the recordings of the panels I sadly missed?

Khéna (ze/zim/zir)

i got myself a bunch of coffee qwq

Same here, I just placed an energy drink in the fridge, haha

/ of the ones I will miss because of still work :/

I think a link was posted yesterday, lemme see if I can find it..

Thank you

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I think there's going to be a youtube channel made at some point? (if not already)

Norwaro

Oh where can I find the recordings of the panels I sadly missed?

I think Luunaa said they're gonna be on YouTube

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The 18+ too?

Presumably the 18+ ones would be put behind an age barrier; it's just the topics being discussed that are, or occasionally brush up against, 18+ material, they don't have any, like, pornographic images, or anything (edited)

Yush I know ^ ^ Thank you

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Oops, the link I mentioned was posted in the panelists-only channel, so I think I shouldn't share it here. Let's give the staff some time to prepare the recordings.

good thing the next panel is about food cause this last one made me really hungry xD

I'm thinking of grabbing some ham today lookbean

i will now proceed to stuff myself with chocolate-covered gingerbread

i am really craving pork now weirdly enough

i got myself some jerky just in case my cravings came in. it was a good call lol

We got some blueberry muffins to bake ourselves

I misread that so bad ~~i thought you said you were going to bake yourselves into blueberry muffins~~

haha I thought the same!

.... I'm hungry

oh no

Muffins standing outside the oven baking some dergs

blueberry and derg muffins

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let them out of there!!

f r e e t h e m

N O

idk why but this is really funny to me

the immoral imprisonment of dergs

oof I kept missing out on earlier panels. I need better sleeping habit lol

mood

@Ryuu 夢化竜 Night active Derg as well ?

Different time zones probably don't help either

KinDD

@Ryuu 夢化竜 Night active Derg as well ?

nah, I’m in US west derg but I have terrible sleep schedule

Hello everyderg! I slept until now but that was because I was up late getting the rats' cage all set up so they can come into the house today!

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Hello!

so when we were talking about shrimp in the food panel, I'm.. just thinking of the dragon from Sky: Children of the Light they are called krill, they look like shrimp dragon so all I can think of is. dragon eating shrimp dragon

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the good is morning

Just wanted to express that I'm really, really enjoying this con! Together, we've really recreated that "Othercon-feeling" even if we are much less attendees. Tbh I was totally unsure if it would work out this way, but boy it did. It's been a fantastic weekend! Although it's not over just yet, thanks so much to the staff for making this possible, and for everybody attending who filled it with life! You're brilliant!

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Agreed, this has been an absolute blast!

10:33 pm

I've been impressed with the breadth of topics the panels have covered

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I feel like we've all gotten really creative in a way that hasn't been necessarily expressed quite as much at Othercon, perhaps because it's a smaller venue here

i should've joined asap,,

There's always the one coming up in the spring!

2 weeks after i turn 18

10:36 pm

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Also, sounds like the panels were recorded, so if you want, you can go back and watch them

Is falling asleep, won't be at the last panel, sorry everyone qwq

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I myself don’t believe it can be compared like that, between the summit and othercon. As that is for a wider audience and deals with different topic than here that focuses on draconity. There are overlap in theme, but slight differences in the consideration of topics, the struggles, and well, tolerance for topics.

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Khéna (ze/zim/zir)

Is falling asleep, won't be at the last panel, sorry everyone qwq

No worries! I understand friend!

Which channel is the last panel in?

Stage presentations!

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I have an appointment in 4 minutes, gonna miss it

not to mention that it feels like a lot of people are scared of getting up in front of a MUCH larger audience, so it takes a certain type of person to present at othercon. plus, when it comes to othercon we sort of have to have a larger focus to feel inclusive. (just from my observation as a regular presenter at OC)

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mlems last panel is over! Thank you all for making this weekend such a great one!

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I didn't catch all of them but I loved how this gather went. <3

I was actually nervous at first, since this was my first time speaking to others through voice so much and hosting an event like this. Though I still did enjoy everything!

11:16 pm

This server will be placed into read only mode Tuesday late at night, so we still have Halloween to chat here and hang out!

11:16 pm

I’m definitely tired after this weekend, though it’s a good kind of tired really!

well, we always have the basin and the spire to hang out afterwards

Ye!

You have surpassed yourself, you can be very proud of that! It was really a great con!

I’m glad that you enjoyed it! voidcatblep

it was super fun!! this was my first nonhuman related con and im glad it was, im excited for the spring summit

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I’m happy to hear that! ^.=.^

I hope I’ll be more free during the spring summit—I (almost) didn’t get to attend any of the panels this time because I was away and constantly busy this weekend.

I had lots of fun ^.=.^

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I didn’t get a chance to look at the artists! YET.

I couldn’t attend most of the panels because of the 12h time zone difference but the ones I did check was fun! Great con, ~~would wreck my sleep schedule again~~

12:52 am

Looking forward to the recordings too!

(•Luunaathh’sstrreiii•)

I was actually nervous at first, since this was my first time speaking to others through voice so much and hosting an event like this. Though I still did enjoy everything!

Take some good rest, it's well deserved! You did a fantastic job, personal milestone achieved! Thanks again for a terrific time!

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I’m stoked for the recordings, so happy that I’ll get to hear the panels.

Amber

Take some good rest, it's well deserved! You did a fantastic job, personal milestone achieved! Thanks again for a terrific time!

Thankie, I appreciate it! I'm just glad everyone had a good time!

Do we need to request permission to advertise a server in #discord-servers ?

Nope!

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Added an ad for a server I mod on

Oki!

I just wanna say I loved this so much! I feel very inspired by all this and haven't been in such a draconic shift in a while Multiple of us in the collective , even. Not just me. It's gotten us thinking about doing a panel one day too.

Very much the same here! I spent the whole time building up to the Summit excited, but brain empty for ideas for stuff I might wanna do for it. Now I have some ideas and I have all y'all to thank for it, between the discourses here and the excellent panels

If I can ever get over my bad habit of jumping out of front when I get nervous, I might want to do a panel about my experiences as a shapeshifter learning to appreciate dragons after never having given them much more than a passing thought before, to the point of creating a dragon form for myself.

Ah I understand the feeling of jumping out as well At times I may get pushed out instead though, (protectively) . If I may say...-I believe in you!

Thank you!

Already counting down the days until the next summit shakylizard

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Saaaaame! I'm really glad it's going to be a biannual event!

waves

I am doing some of that late-night keyboard soldering.

Happy Halloween everyone reddragon

Amber

Happy Halloween everyone reddragon

happy ween

I have to say I feel fantastic this morning! It's maybe best described as "feeling closer to myself".. which is endlessly comforting, joyful, euphoric. It's also incredibly comforting to realize that this feeling can be repeatedly invoked through events like this. It feels just like when I joined the community. It seems interacting with y'all at a place where we all can be ourselves has enabled this.

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once again, g'nighty

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looks at picture Aaaaw.. waits OMG it moves! hearteyes

Dergpile :3

are you the emotional support human /j

Derg snuggs

morninh

Morning.

OK I just want to take a moment to say thank you all to everyone here for the amazing weekend. You beasts were great.

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11:50 pm

agh, wish i joined sooner tho

If only I had a personal website put together, I'd have something to post in #forums-and-websites

once again it's so good to be apart of these kind of events tsym

12:13 am

i'm gonna be 18 when the next summit happens derpydragon

I'm sad the Summit is almost over but that's only because it was so great! I'm so glad we all could come together and all you awesome folks brought this place to life!

I had fun. My only regret: I didn't snare a new reader this weekend.

1:11 am

I did however find my way to several new servers. I learned a ton about what the otherkin community has become in the years since I was last really involved.

I’m just happy everyone had a good time! That’s what this event is about really voidcatblep

1:12 am

I was definitely a bit disorganized with planning and the execution of my discussion panels, though I hope to change that next summit so it’s an even better experience. Thank you all for being patient with my being

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i'm very sleepy tonight so going to get a word in before the server is read only! thanks y'all for a great summit and all the effort put into making it happen ^^ i had a lot of fun

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My last word here will be

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Thank you everyone for this great experience! See you all somewhere else!!