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Maelstrom
@maelstromwrites.bsky.social
Married to @radiancethedragon.bsky.social
NB Snow Dragon Mother - Writer - Pensive Sort
Spirit Witch - Wielder of Any Pronouns
(@maelstromroars.bsky.social for Politics)
(🎨 - @cookiehalo.bsky.social)
if you see this, post your Sona NOT smiling

(Thanks @derggie.bsky.social , I've had a lot of mileage with this one)
November 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
To many people, tonight is a time for candy and scary things.

To me and many other practitioners of modern witchcraft, it's Samhain (pronounced "SOW-ehn")

I could explain a lot, but it's our New Year's celebration, in short.

To everyone, I wish you healthy changes and a peaceful new year.
November 1, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I'm... 30 today..?
(Greymuzzle??)

🎨 - @derggie.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
P.S.

Vowels are pure throughout Draconic

A makes ah as in FATHER
E makes e as in GAME
I makes ee as in TREAT
O makes o as in HOPE
U makes oo as in FOOD

(Homework)
A good way to learn the sounds and how words are written are through short words, like pronouns! See if you can sound these out!
August 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Maelstrom Teaches Draconic: Day 1
(Yazuzu Mersheg Emegir: Yud Dish)

The Alphabet! - (Va Alepbet!)

Here's a picture of the Draconic alphabet. Keen observers will mark the similarities between the names of these letters and an existing language!

Vowels are written below consonants and sound after
August 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I should just post in the Draconic spoken in the book I'm writing from now on!

For instance:

Yam mu ngeba Mersheg! Yam mu zeba 'ana?

(My name is Maelstrom! What's your name?)
August 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Ok, bio updated!

As I told my Discord server, I've discovered EVEN more things about my gender.

Still Mama to Starlight, but I know now that I identify clearly as genderqueer. As I said, we are all customizable, in every detail, and yet we are inextricably who we are. Nothing can ever change that.
August 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Reviving my old Duolingo account to learn Spanish. Working with a kitchen that really only speaks Spanish that well, I figured there was no excuse not to learn.

Anyone else here do Duolingo?
August 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I'm ready for work tomorrow
August 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Tunic!

(Be Brave, Little Fox)
July 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Keeping this train going along, here's my lock screen.

Simple, colorful, musical?

No one would ever suspect how many dragons live in my phone at first glance. Furries, too.
July 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Here's what we sing to Starlight when she's doing something she shouldn't (to a Twisted Sister tune):

We're not gonna do that!
No! We're not gonna do that!
We're not gonna do that... anymore!

🎨 - @cookiehalo.bsky.social
July 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Having a good day with the hatchling. Such a good little dragon she is, as depicted by @cookiehalo.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Do you mean to tell me...

Chow Mein...

is pronounced...

You know...
July 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The aftermath of Starlight biting a pen as hard as her little dragon teeth can muster. Note the marks on the grip.
July 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Feeling rather Zen after making this. Tomorrow morning I'll give mantras a try.

A mala for your viewing pleasure.
June 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
She took a tiny nap in my arms earlier, but I'm not sure 15 minutes tops was enough.

P.S. Any nap she takes is a tiny nap, because, well, look at her.
June 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Join me in 30 Questions for Pride (By yours truly 💅)

Influential Media for You

#1 has to be Spyro, which is not queer, but the community is to some degree. Without it, I would not have discovered the furry scene.

Also, egg cracking sounds at Big Mouth was totally unexpected.
#PrideMonth
June 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Join me in 30 Questions for Pride! (By yours truly 💅)

2) First Realization

It was at work in my factory job many years ago.

They kept using male pronouns to refer to me, but it seemed like they were referring to a total stranger. That's when I first knew something was up.
#PrideMonth
June 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Join me in 30 Questions for Pride! (By yours truly 💅)

1) Coming Out?

I've only been out since 2021, but I've been slow to express it broadly. Fortunately, my folks are very accepting, and they embraced the true me. It was (and will probably be forever for everyone) an awkward process.
#PrideMonth
June 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
It doesn't show the cover image I made in the thumbnail. You have to see it.
May 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Happy Mothers Day!

From this mama to you, especially if your own mom isn't accepting of who you are. Choose family that appreciates the real you.

@radiancethedragon.bsky.social is an amazing mom with me through it all. I love them with all my heart. Happy Mothers Day!

🎨 - @5ushiroll.bsky.social
May 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Call me curious
May 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Chapter 1: Greetings!

Because all foreign language textbooks start with this topic.

I'll write out some suggestions and credit you (in draconic, of course!)

So if you'd like to see your dragon's name, or any OC's name, written in draconic, hit me up in the replies.
March 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Let's learn Draconic together!

A language I created for my creative writing project, it is the language of dragons and of magic.

It's a blend of several ancient languages, including Hebrew and Phoenician.

Still taking suggestions for sentences to write in draconic, btw.
March 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM