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[Seraphwolf]

Hi Pearla! I'm Lottie, the daemon is Quikfen the rex rabbit. Nice to meet you!

You know sometimes when you have to do some homework and skive off, you say to yourself "I really should do some work..." or when you have to get out of bed you try and force yourself by going "come on come on come on!"

What daemianism is is taking the voice you have in your head and splitting it into too parts. So instead of telling yourself to do work, you take those words and put them into the voice of an imaginary friend. This imaginary friend could take any form you like, and is just like every other imaginary friend, apart from it "speaks" with half of your internal monologue, turning that monologue into a dialogue. Like I said, what it looks like is up to you, whatever you feel comfortable with or as whacky as you like - afterall it's your imagination!

When people on this thread say "my daemon is a rex rabbit" what they're actually talking about is a form of personality typing, like in your sig where it says your colour is blue. This is the second and important part for daemonism ("seeing" and "hearing"your daemon is optional) What we do is we look at real animals and their characteristics and think of those as metaphors for human traits. Rabbits are prey and so have to be alert and wary, so someone with a rabbit daemon would be cautious, plan for every eventuality and could, if unhealthy, be prone to anxiety. You find this form by thinking about yourself a lot and people help you find one that matches - it's a community thing. You are settled (or very stable) as an animal when your personality has cemented itself in, usually late teenage to early adult years, but this isn't a fixed thing. What form you see your daemon isn't the form that describes your personality per se, but some daemians prefer their daemon to take that form because it's easier for them.

PEOPLE SHOULD STOP TYPING FAST I AM A SLOW FAT BUN BUN AND BACKSPACE A LOT SHEESH GUYS
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ALSO TDP FAQ IS A LITTLE OUT OF DATE BUT I MIGHT HAVE A CUNNING PLAN ONCE MY EXAMS ARE OVER NEXT WEEK AND I LIKE CAPS A LOT THANK YOU

[Andrea Bo-Chelly]

I know Kris is busy with RL and all, but what if we did all the work of changing TDP for her, and she just copy/pasta'd it to the site? I really am not happy with TDP. It's misrepresenting our community as something it used to be like years ago. I don't like showing it to people for an example. It's not up to date.

[Seraphwolf]

Gotta remember it's Kris's own page though :3

[~Kaleidoscope~]

Listen to Seraph, she is wise. So is most everyone else here. xD
Anyway, I guess I must officially introduce myself. Hi, Pearla. You know me. Lynx here. The daemon's Chirayu, stable European wildcat (look them up ;D). I've known my daemon for... 8 months or something like that.
Andrea: Really? ;o What's bad about it? I must be missing something here. x3
EDIT: Gaaah why do you guise post so fast?

[Yamanaka Shin]

Once again, I'm Meisu, the eccentric Tayra soul.

And I'm Kousei, the awesome Manectric. Yeah...I'm actually a Tayra, but Meisu projects me as a smexy Manectric.

[Cinereus]

Com and Marius, stable NGSD, at your service. 8D

Maybe we could set up a separate site with a more up to date FAQ? Just a thought, but then we could keep it up to date more easily and add things that we thought needed to be added without going though someone else. It'd probably only be used to link to around here, though.

[Slinkypants]

I agree with you Andrea and I think the issue has come up on-forum before; those Sound-Off topics were something to do with it. It was all about trying to collect up-to-date views together in one place or something. But the topics weren't stickied or used for anything and I don't think Kris wanted to change her site. I could be making that up but I thought that's what she said.

EDIT: Just went on to TDP and was reminded why I never look at it any more. xD;;

[Scarf]

I don't remember anything like that...I just think we had the one Shout Out (or was it two?) thread and it kind of got buried under other bits :/ I'll have to dig the one on settling up tomorrow...I don't think it's even linked in the Compendium, and that's no good.

Also, Beeeeeeth come to both meetups? I can assure you, I am extremely awkward (and far too loud when I'm excited, though that only happens when I've settled down and stopped being nervous, which is likely to take a while with lots of people I've never met in real life :P). Though I think I'm just as awkward online :P And I can't really understand why people get the idea that I'm a cool person to be around, but I appreciate it anyway :B

[~Kaleidoscope~]

I don't remember anything like that...I just think we had the one Shout Out (or was it two?) thread and it kind of got buried under other bits :/ I'll have to dig the one on settling up tomorrow...I don't think it's even linked in the Compendium, and that's no good.

Do you mean this one? It's the really good essay on settling by Steve. It's got some of that leftover gibberish from the big glitch in it, thoughs.

[Slinkypants]

It was called Sound-Off: Settling, or something similar. There was definitely a discussion abut the out-of-dateness of TDP because someone, Kallisti maybe, started sending PMs to everyone to collect views on the 'Schools of Daemonism' (I think) which were basic descriptions of the different versions of daemonism, spiritual, HDM, there was a 'neo-daemonism' I think xD etc etc, to be put on TDP or stickied on the forum. I should dig the PM up. Nothing ever came of it though.