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Draconity isn’t solely from ages past, but something that still burns bright in the modern age. This zine will be a collection of pieces created by nonhumans and alterhumans about what it means to be draconic in the present day (or even future). Also, this zine imposes no set definition on what is or isn’t “dragon enough.” If you feel like the label applies, we want to hear from you!
What Can I Submit?
Both fiction and nonfiction pieces are accepted. As long as what you have in mind fits the theme, it’ll probably be a-ok.
Off the top of our head, we’re thinking of:
Essays of your personal experiences
Short stories
Poetry
Mock advice columns
Alternative covers
Fictional advertisements
Comics
Recipes
We welcome you to think outside the box and dig into what it really means to be draconic in the modern era!
“What is jam? What makes something authentically jam? Can bacon really be made into jam?
It was all very Existentialist.
The answer to those questions is a bit complicated and non-definitive. The U.S. FDA has defined jam and jelly in very specific and mathematical terms (such-and-such percentage of juice to fruit to water to sugar = jam/jelly); it also uses jam and preserve interchangeably, for the most part. While interesting, the FDA’s definitions did not matter much to me because the FDA wasn’t really using the terms in the way that we usually use the terms. Also, the FDA wasn’t comprehensive in its definitions. It didn’t tackle other fruit spreads like marmalades or curds, for instance.
The more I looked into, the more I thought, dude, this information would make a good infographic.”
While looking up myths and folklore about dragons with fur and/or feathered wings, I came across these texts. I happen to be fluent in both scripts of the Chinese language and was able to pull information up to share these with.
DISCLAIMER: I’m just looking up old Chinese writings and translating them, in no way, shape, or form do I believe they are the gospel. I will eat anyone that tells anyone they are not dragons for being different than their ideal concept of dragons.
Translation available with my edits/addons in brackets
The dragon is the king of reptiles, Wangfu say it is similar to the nine animals: Head like a camel, the horns of a deer, the eyes of a rabbit, ears like cattle, [snake like neck], belly like clam, the scales of a carp, the claws of a hawk, the palm of a tiger. There are 81 scales on the back[, which is a positive number of 9x9(2)]. Sound is like beating gongs. A beard near the mouth, a pearl on chin, [inverted scale] under the neck. [On the dragon’s forehead there is a shape like Mount Bo(3), also called chǐ mù(4), without chǐ mù, a dragon cannot fly. It’s breath becomes clouds], It can produce water, and it also generates fire.
As documented in “Tales of strange matters” (shuyiji) “horned dragon in 500 years, a thousand, and they become yonglong” it is a pinnacle of “(shape)shift dragon”, therefore it grew wings.
It served under the yellow emperor, and during the event of The Great Yu Subdue the Flood, the yinglong, with one great sweep of its tail, redirect and created a new river. This divine dragon is also named yellow dragon, yellow dragon is yinglong. Yinglong has feature of born with a pair of wings, scaled body spiked spine, large and long head, lip, nose, eyes, ears are all small, large eye frame, high eyebrow, sharp teeth, protrude forehead, thin neck large belly, long tail, four strong limbs, as if a winged alligator.
You can often see depictions of yinglong on Warring State era jade sculptures, Han dynasty’s stone sculptures, tapestry, and painted utensils. “Dragon has nine hatchlings, every one of them unique.” In ancient times, nine is an extremely high number, in here, it is not the exact number. It is a representation that the divine dragon has many children. And in the early era, the divine dragon also includes zhulong (candle dragon), goulong (hook dragon), kuilong, and there are also the four spirits.
<Zhang Guo Star Sutra> spoke of “with the attachment of wings, it is a true dragon”. It sees that a dragon with wings is a true dragon. The Western Zhou dynasty have a great number of utensils and containers that have depictions ofloong with feathered wings painted on them. There is a saying that the blue loong is the ancestor dragon. In the ancient Chinese feudal era, the dragon is a symbol for imperial power. Within the palace, utensils and containers are decorated with dragons
Ben Cao Gang Mu (《本草纲目》 (Compendium of Materia Medica)) is the most complete and comprehensive medical book ever written in the history of traditional Chinese medicine. Compiled and written by LI Shi-zhen (1518~1593), a medical expert of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) over a period of 27 years. The first draft was completed in 1578 when Ming China was at its imperial heyday https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/silk-road-themes/documentary-heritage/ben-cao-gang-mu-bencaogangmu-compendium-materia-medica
9 is a lucky number for the Chinese, due to its sharing tone with “long-lasting”, and being the biggest number before it is reset (from 9 to 10).
Mount Bo, boshan. I believe it is specifically talking about this mountain in China and its unique protrusion shape.
chǐ mù, literal translation “ruler wood”. I could not find a actual translation of the word
Another translation/review of the text sample is available here
If you’re a real human person still using the default tumblr avatar, consider changing it.
why should you change it?
When you guys pop up in our notifications, most seasoned tumblr users will suspect you’re a bot and block on sight.
why do we block immediately?
tumblr has a history of bots trying to infiltrate and establish a connection to a valid, existing blog in order to populate google searches. Simply liking or reblogging a post, not just adding a scam link to it, establishes this connection. Tumblr users don’t want this to happen, especially if it’s a scammy p*rn bot. So, we often block on sight.
So now I have to reblog stuff AND change my pfp?
Well, of course that’s up to you! I just want to explain why you may have been already blocked by an artist/blogger you may have discovered recently, and how you can avoid it in the future.
Reblogging does help creators more than likes because your reblogs will show up on the dash of those that may follow you. Plus, reblogging puts that post on your own blog, and in case the original gets deleted or edited by the OP, it’ll be on your blog like that–forever (or until you delete your blog). Nice.
Here are some free icons created by catalyststuff on freepik. Highly recommend their art for a simple replacement!
see, this is how you inform without guilt-tripping
Furthermore, many artists will allow you to use their art with credit! ex: if you ask *me*, i will almost always say yes, and I see this to be the case with many other fanartists as well!
