You might be a Scaly if...

• You think people saying "bite me" is a open invitation for lunch.

• Dragonheart is your favorite movie. (for dragons) <check>

• The word "dragonslayer" makes you cringe. <check>

• You know that dragons really exist... because you ARE one! (Yep. I'm a dragon.) <check>

• You're sick and tired of not seeing anthro dragon pics on Yerf. (for male dragons; on last count there are only 12 pics under the heading "dragoness")

• You've ever bit someone's head off... literally. <almost...>

• A snackbar consists of: Deer, horses, cows, sheep, goats, wolves and hoomans

• You think that Arnold Schwarzenegger is too stringy

• You liked to picture Roseanne when she was fat... as lunch.

• You like only one type of TF (transformation) art... the type in which a dragon is involved. <check>

• You're pissed off at the extremely low number of yiffy dragon stories out there. <check>

• It's partly your fault for Fanfiction.net having a "Dragonheart" section.

• You listed Dragonheart as your favorite sci-fi movie... even though it's not sci-fi.

• You watched Power Rangers...for the Dinozords.

• You've complained about the lack of scaly pics on Vixen Controlled Library. <almost...>

• You eat humans, but not other furs.

• You're above the age of 10 and you like Pokemon. <uh, kinda>

• You think that hooman technology is too primitive

• You've tried to think of a scaly version of the word yiff.
  (yiss was then suggested by Colm...)

• You yiss instead of yiff.

• You've ever been corrected for saying yiss.

• Yissing is a way of life for you.

• The first three letters of your furry code are FDD. (Meaning you're a dragon.) <check>

• You wonder where the scaly code is.

• You decided to make up the scaly code.

• You've ever broken your wings.

• Lunch consists of no veggies or fruit whatsoever. <check>

• The only reason you read a book is because there's a dragon on the cover. <almost...>

• You're well known for saying yiff, and after reading this list, you accidently say yiss, because it's the version most scalies use.

• The word "cow" to you doesn't mean "milk". It means "lunch!".

• A horse isn't something you ride. It's something you eat. (also applicable to wolves)

• You're ticked at the lack of professional teams with a dragon as their mascot. <check>

• You get miffed at the multitude of mideval stories where the dragon is the bad guy. <check, check, check>

• The only reason you watched "Shrek" is because there's a dragon in it. (A dragoness, that is.)

• The only reason you still play Magic: The Gathering is because of the number of dragon cards.

• You're told to breathe deep and you refuse on account that if you did, you'd get arrested for arson. (Not to mention you'd get sued.) <kinda>

You might be a Dragon if...

• if you go by your Dragon name <kinda>

• if you get your name legally changed to your Dragon name

• if you have to explain that your name doesn't come from a specific nationality, it's Draconic

• if you can't explain what your name means, because it doesn't translate into a human language <check>

• if you are frequently addressed as "Dragon", "the Dragon Lady/Guy", "Dwagin" or a similar nickname <kinda>

• if you are called these nicknames by people you don't know

• if you are easily distracted by shiny pretty thingies <kinda>

• if you hoard shiny pretty thingies

• if you hoard Dragon-related objects <kinda>

• if you hoard anything you can get your claws on

• if you protect your hoard viciously, tooth and nail

• if you take care of your hoard as if it's alive

• if you move all your possessions into a pile in the center of the floor to sleep on it

• if you make your blankets into a nest <kinda>

• if you are tempted to try to incubate large round objects

• if you find yourself getting huffy when someone spouts a common dragon stereotype or prejudice <kinda>

• if you always root for the dragon <kinda>

• if you hate stories where the dragon loses or dies <kinda>

• if you can go for days without sleep or sleep for days

• if it takes a very long time for you to digest a meal

• if someone says your aura is "a funny shape... with weird protrusions... and a trailing... tail-thing"

• if you know all the Real Dragon hotspots in the world

• if you pouncehuggle your friends upon sight

• if you find mirrors confuzzling since they don't even depict the right species

• if you practice looking "intimidating" by baring your teeth

• if you're sure you should see scales and talons when you look down

• if you trip over your tail

• if you trip other people with your tail then laugh when they look confuzzled

• if you inquire at the salon about scale-buffing

• if you file all your nails to sharp points <check>

• if you consider getting your teeth sharpened

• if you want to get your tongue forked

• if you've drawn scales on your skin

• if you like long warm soaks in the bath <check>

• if you like to bask in the sun, especially on sun-warmed rocks <check>

• if you doot regularly

• if you know what doot means

• if people ask you what doot means and you just smile at them blankly

• if you know you can fly

• if you've convinced others you can fly

• if you write dragonish stories <kinda>

• if you write dragonish poetry

• if you draw dragons whether you're skilled at it or not <check>

• if you doodle dragons when you're supposed to be listening to a lecture or paying attention in a meeting

• if you buy everything you possibly can that involves a dragon <kinda>

• if you wear dragon-depicting clothing

• if you collect dragon art

• if you know your dragon statues by name

• if you've hissed, growled, snarled or roared at someone when they irked you <check>

• if you've purred when you were petted <check>

• if you look at reptiles and say "ohhhh, how kewt!"

• if you look at birds and feel a kinship <check>

• if you've watched the sky for Dragons <check>

• if you think UFO sightings are really dragons participating in a mating flight

• if you've ever been mistaken for a UFO

• if you name all your companion animals "Dragon" in different languages

• if you've had a crush on a dragon in a movie <kinda; Saphira in “Eragon”>

• if you refer to your significant other as your mate

• if you refer to your children as your hatchlings

• if you refer to humans as greggils, two-leggers, bipeds, georges, hew-mohns or "lunch"

• if you refer to your house as your lair

• if you refer to your food as your prey

• if you refer to birthdays as hatchdays

• if you refer to your nails as claws or talons <sometimes>

• if you use "fewmets" or "georging" as swear words

• if you peeped hungrily with your mouth agape at your parents when you were a hatchling... er, baby

• if you feel most comfortable around lava flows, caves and other geological phenomenon

• if you try to snort smoke in indignance <check>

• if you've tried to cook marshmellows by breathing on them

• if you lash your tail when you're angry

• if you've had to watch yourself around pies so you don't *splut* someone with them

• if you play with your food

• if you sneak-up-and-pounce your dinner

• if you invite faeries and gryphons to tea

• if you've spent entire days sleeping <check>

• if you've spent entire days watching butterflies or growing grass

• if you know how long a dragonlength is

• if you've had the urge to cavort, bound or prance gaily when happy

• if you subscribe to Alt.Fan.Dragons, chat, #afd, participate in Alfandria MUCK, another dragon-related MU*, Draconic or various other dragon communities across the net <check>

• if you belong to a Real Dragon group away from the computer

• if you've been mistakenly diagnosed as insane due to your draconity

• if you're a member of the Real Dragons list

• if you haveve IRC set to hightlight and "beep" whenever anyone says "dragon"

• if you have your claw prints rather than footprints on your hospital birth certificate

• if you're known to be a dragon by other people <check>

• if you know you are a dragon <check, check, check>