Re: European Dragonkin Meetups

On 2025-02-11, Bluefire <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good day everyone!
>
> I'm excited to share that we have created a group for organizing 
> dragonkin meetups in Europe. To facilitate this, we have created a 
> Discord server. We'd love to see more dragons around, so you're hereby 
> invited! If you would like to learn more, feel free to send me an e-mail 
> or reach out to me using the username bluefire_dragon on Telegram / Discord.
>
> We've already had one meet so far, which took place in Hannover, Germany 
> a few months ago. The atmosphere was amazing and it was great to meet my 
> fellow 'kin. It felt incredible to share experiences, feelings, 
> familiarity, knowledge, interests and, of course, a healthy dose of 
> silliness. Not just my own, but everybody's experience was really 
> positive. As such, we've now got two more future meets scheduled.
>
> Currently, our physical meetups are mostly organized in the Netherlands 
> and Germany. We hope, however, to organize meetups in other places as 
> well, especially if we can get other organizers on board. Something we 
> are also looking into is organizing online events (with European time 
> zones in mind). As such, as a dragon in Europe, we'd still love to have 
> you, even if you are not interested (yet) in meeting up physically.
>
> I only awakened a few years ago, at which point things had already 
> quieted down here. Nonetheless, it still holds a special place in my 
> heart as the very first dragon(kin) community I ever came across. It 
> served as a stepping stone, and only because of it did I meet so many 
> wonderful people I now hold near and dear to my heart. I'm hoping that 
> alt.fan.dragons will continue being that stepping stone for many, and I 
> like to think this is one of the ways in which I'm helping.
>
> Treasure you all!
> - Bluefire

Aww, that's sweet! Happy to see your organizing dragonkin meets.