Thank Quis, Lilu, Cricket, Rae-chan and our random chats for all of these. Yes, we came up with these all out of randomness.
...you IM her /just/ to tell her that she's too good at doodling pretty things and she ought to stop.
...you're more amused than scared that she was plotting to give your dragon a croissant for a magical object
...you stare at her art -- even if it's not Bishen art -- for hours on end
...you adopt angecurs ... /because Indy made them/ ... and are very grateful that she provided them as /gifts/ to you. @__@ (oi, thanks again, Indy!)
...you realize Indy's a Gaia member and go to stalk her there
...your passion for Gaia is renewed when Indy says she joined
...you know which of the twins Indy prefers
...you make Indy fan-art.
... you stare at said art five days in succession
...you ask her time and again just how a dragon /you wrote/ has a personality like gods knows what
(i.e.: Quis and Carcassi)
...you've provided almost /all/ of the addicted-to-Indy bits to this point.
...you read and reread and read some more of Indy's stories at the Refuge.
...you're still in shock that Indy is approachable.
...you wonder if you're the only one openly addicted to Indy.
... you save said conversations
... you read through them for future reference and just general Indyness because she's asleep
...you adopted Bishen because you originally wanted a dragon of the Glenn, but she closed that agency.
...you have Indy's away messages memorized.
...your handle is Jules and you go to Indy's college.
...your Bishen and Indy are very close friends.
...so much so, that even though you have no plans to ever mate said dragon, Indy tells you that he is 'like Gratira's favorite nephew'
...other tell-tale signs I'm addicted to Indy: I actually give verbal updates on when my dragons hatch and/or grow
... you glomp her when she pops in /just/ to say 'lol'
...you worship Indy, and all those in Indy's inner circle.
...Your dream is to be in Indy's inner circle.
...you wonder why Indy has a circle and not a dodecagon, because they're way cooler
...you know which of the ronin warriors Indy fancied.
...you feel bad that you can't think of more things to say about her....
...you're signing on to chat to catch Indy before you've drunk your
breakfast tea. (Thank Ryn for the following)
...you realise Indy wakes you up faster than said breakfast tea
...your thoughts are flying around since you're typing the add-ons,
but you don't care.You have to keep up w/ what Indy says, even if you
loose the thread of everything else.
...you're still adding onto the Indy list w/o your breakfast tea
...you realise you're typing Indy's name rather than your own.XD
...you've gone back to your breakfast tea to find it stone cold, and
time for elevenses rather than breakfast, but you don't care.
...you actually drink the cold tea one-handed to keep on typing.
... your number one excuse for your personality is 'what can I say? I test black.'
...you role-play your dragons based on how they are feeling in your story at the current moment.
...you take personal offence when someone /dares/ insinuate that they are /just/ graphics.
... when you spend over an hour thinking up weird mutations to email suggest
...when you're sad that Indy won't suggest making fruit-flavored portals, even if it was just a creepy spontaneous thought.
...you spend weeks agonizing over the name of a dragon you may or may not get.
...your dragons fight with you over said names.
... when you beg her to curse your dragon's bloodline
.... just because
...you wonder what a black will do to a bloodline.
... when you wake up in the morning full of happiness because Indy approved your two gay dragons.
...when you scare Indy herself away with your issues
...you create a shrine in one of your school folders, or even in your bedroom.
... you check the BR website at least twice a day, though often five or six times.
...you show your dragons to your teachers!
...you print out shrape stages to show to friends who can't get online and summarize the stories behind them on bus-rides to school.
...you spend hours coming up with 'you know you're addicted to Bishen when...' lists in the very early morning because that's your idea of fun
... you get the crazy idea of Bishen mac&cheese
...you used said friends to brainstorm ideas for your next evil plot
...you stare out the window in classes and imagine your dragon in the nearest tree
...actually, your idea of fun is RPing your Bishen against yourself in situations that could never happen in-plot.
...you know the favorite food of a dragon that isn't yours.
...you judge fellow RPers by the severity of mutations their dragons they manage to swing from Indy.
...you're mildly frightened when your dragons give running commentary throughout your day in /their voices/ but /your head/.
...actually, you're not frightened at all.
...you've taken the 'what Bishel are you?' quiz at /least/ ten times
....you have to stop yourself from chasing pigeons at nine-thirty in the morning because, as much as you'd want kerdu to run and play, you have to get to class.
...you've gotten the same color and type all ten times of taking said quiz.
...you take the quiz as your dragon and get his color and type
...you take the quiz on behalf of your dragons, despite already knowing their colors and types
...your dragon is RP'd as 'surprised'
...because it's Alu.
...you /don't/ take the quiz on behalf of your dragons, because you /are/ their color and type.
...your dragon is Alu
...your dragon is kip
...you commission Bishel blasphemy just because you like to see Indy shudder, as much as you love her.
...you find the fact that you named your /black/ dragon after a pastry to be incredibly amusing
...you did such a thing because you thought it would be cute.
...you know what color trait the rice question is
...your dragons and story characters all say bits of jokes that only you and very few others will understand.
...you've read the Shantel stories at least three times each.
....you use comments at Shantels for vague references at a later point in time in one of your stories.
...you debated with friends on how to say the words before Indy posted how they're pronounced.
...you have a certain, unalienable fear of Indy that she'll take away your dragons for whatever reason at all.
...you put off sleep to stay up talking to other Bishen addicts
...you don't actually 'sleep.' you nap to make sure that you talk to all of them.
...you're so used to reading hugelong stories to get pretty dragons that when you see click-and-take or similar nondescript pages of adopted critters, you feel insulted/unclean/pissed off/etc.
...Bishen and bondmates invade your dreams regularly
...said dreams have /NOTHING/ to do with their stories.
...you get absolutely scared when Indy tells you 'your clutch is next' even though you /just/ had your Bishen pass his Shantel.
...you're scared because you want to write a lot in order to get a spifftastic one.
...you refuse to write a short story.
...it takes you eleven pages to /introduce/ your dragon's /egg/. webpages, not wimpy MSW pages.
...you've addicted other people to Bishen.
...you see some symptoms that don't relate to you, and go 'Oooh! I should try that sometime!'
...you're /STILL/ personally offended when someone suggests that Bishen are /just/ graphics.
...you get high off Bishen.
...you curse your computer for not having true color because you /want/ to be blinded by Kazimir and other divines.
...you save rocks you find because you want to paint them because they're shaped like Bishen eggs.
...you have a serious dilemma to paint it Machesri, Hirgyae, or portal.
...you've written Bishen dogma.
...you've read Bishen dogma and thus gave up on your insane desire to write a myth.
...You wonder why people who aren't addicted to Bishen stare at you when you confess said symptoms, because you see /absolutely/ nothing odd about any of them.
...you curse Jules because she somehow managed to get TWO speakers, even if she came up with the idea for them.
...you can see your antisocial black dragon dancing.
...you worry that he has exactly your taste in music.
...you stay out of contests because you don't want to make other entrants think they're going up against you.
...you get all upset because you're having trouble coming up with more 'you know you're addicted to Bishen when...'
...you want your hypothetical dragons to mutate to strange colors.
...you wonder how you managed to hatch three bricks and a bastard.
...You debate which dragons has the strangest names.
...you easily decide that Kari's dragons do.
...you glare at Lilu for typing faster than you.
...your brain sings nicknames for Bishen when you see them in text
...you have an awful time convincing Ira that he should let kip name his daughter after a slut if he wants to.
...you have the same fight at least three times daily.
...you wind up RPing your dragons against one another for at least fifteen minutes.
...seriously, though... Bishel are the /best/ dragon adoption... no, adoption of all time, on the internet.
...you contribute most heavily to the list
...infact, you started the list.
...your name is Lilu. Your name is Quis. your name is Ty Kay. Your name is Jules. Your name is Muffing (Kari). Your name is Rae-chan. Your name is Cricket.
...you get all excited when something you said/did is on the list XD
...you're having /waaaay/ too much fun coming up with suggestions for the list. So much so, you almost woke your parents up from giggling too hard.
...You seriously feel insulted when you read pages for agencies that are below Bishen standards.
...you give your dragon a few of your habits that will only ever express themselves through RP (i.e.: alu's vamp-fighting)
...you've talked to Indy about why she made a fuzzy Bishen dragon.
...you won the said dragon.
...you come up with chat names such as 'strawberry Bishel block party' or 'strawberries Bishel and more'
...you put a lot of references in your story to things that only people from chats will get. (i.e.: kip calling an arboreal 'flyboy')
...you're obsessed over the fruit dragons Indy won't let us make.
...You almost cried because Indy wouldn't let us make said fruit dragons.
...you invite people into said chats that have never seen a Bishen in hopes of swaying them to the ... err... Bishen side.
...one of your dragons actively tries to mess with you through your own head
...you blame your paranoia on a Bishen.
...you demand that this Bishen may or may not be your own.
...you find yourself screaming "OW! MY BRAINS!" when you tick said Bishen off.
...you are obviously Quis referencing Carcassi
...you find the idea of a sunshine Hirgyae to be 'fun' and not 'incredibly scary'.
...you came up with idea of said Hirgyae despite the fact that certain people pleaded you not too, for they were aware of the insanity it would cause.
...you spent a week after Indy finished the Bishen blasphemy trying to convince people to 'see the light' as it were and admit the damned thing's cute and Gratira has a wicked sense of humor against Aritarg
...you were also well aware of the insanity
...you try to convince other dragon owners to have insane matings /just/ to screw with genes.
...you try to set two dragons up that aren't even yours.
...and try to rp convince the dragons themselves
...you spent a month or two trying to hook up Alu and Decertare and gave up when qui told you to write it as fanfic
...you've written bishenfluff.
...you've found it irritatingly difficult.
...you enjoyed the written Bishen fluff a /lot/.
...you've considered Bishen tattoos *giggle*
...you got a headache at how bad you wrote the fluff.
...you beta-read the bishenfluff.
...you start misreading words as Bishen-related things
...you see 'bishounen' and go 'Bishen!? where?'
...you find real-life etymology for the 'leuk' part of the Kailan's name and go 'O_O OOOHHH!'
...You consider going into marketing just to make Bishen band aids.
...you support Indy in making a cartoon
...you have an antisocial dragon who has a deranged sufan who - in RP - makes him color things
...you wonder if your own Bishen can be made into the syndicated cartoon series
...you would feel incredibly privileged to be a voice for said cartoon.
...you name your sufan ridiculous things, because 'that's what kip would do.'
...you find yourself doing a /LOT/ of ridiculous things, because 'that's what kip would do.'
...you feel genuinely attached to both your own dragons and those of others XD
...you think that kip is sexy.
...you worry that a het!chick thinks your gay!dragon is hot.
...you secretly agree.
...you have assigned 'seme' and 'uke' roles to your gay dragons.
...you imagine what it would be like to put chopsticks on a dragon with a mane
...you're frightened of that thought.
...you wonder what maned dragons would look like if they were terran -- would they have a horse's tail?
...you're madly trying to copy down /all/ the suggested signs of Bishen addictions.
...you don't name your sufan what you want to name it because Indy sorta knows latin and wouldn't approve.
...you check the Bishen website before you check your e-mail
...you also check your e-mail multiple times a day after sending in an application of some sort.
...you check the Bishen website more often than you check your e-mail.
...when you receive an e-mail from Indy, you have feel compelled to start dancing.
...you re-re-re-re-re-re-re-REread everything on the site.
...when you receive e-mail from Indy, your throat seizes up in fear of being rejected.
...you're willing to run around in a shirt that has Alu on it and says swooshy!
...when you save the mating applications from femmes for your gay dragons.
...you never took the time to wonder how exactly it was that two gay dragons were actually able to clutch. You were too busy preparing pages.
...you actually /did/ wonder about that.
...you wondered and figured eh, they're mythical/magical
...you started wondering how terrans and marines mate and got scared thinking of serpentine reproduction.
...you blocked off all thoughts of actual /mating/ of dragons in a vault in your head.
...you use the same vault to contain Bishen blasphemy, so you often voice the things when Kerdu comes out.
...you blatantly disregard your previously voiced 'nap time' because you're enjoying writing lists too much.
...your black terran becomes more your private guardian than your evil stuffed rabbit ever would.
...you memorized the pickup URLs and open them at least three times a week to stare and melt at the prettiness.
...you can figure out the pickup URLs when it's not a clutch you adopted from.
...you wonder why a black dragon would need a light and dark background, but have a copy for both.
...you wonder why your Bishen has an addiction to raw livers.
...you wonder why you want to torture your own dragon
...you /don't/ wonder why -- you test black.
...you have an obvious preference for black terran dragons because that's what you tested.
...you have an obvious preference for whatever color/type you tested
...you get confused when you test other colors than you started.
...you get upset because they don't have divine/mountain haze/various portals available to test on the quiz
...you're more upset that Indy didn't provide possibilities for hybrids as a result.
...you start comparing your Bishen and the Bishen of others to your other obsessions -- like Carcassi to Rae of Arborwin.
...you don't give up on your pipe-dream of strawberry Bishel; you decide to write a myth in hopes of Indy making it dogma and making a fruit Bishen for you
...when you cant sleep the night before adopters are named because you keep dreaming Indy emails you saying you don't get one >_>
...you use ASCII to draw Bishen.
...and also use ASCII to describe Devgan's eyes. (Thank You Bunni for the ASCII additions.)
... Example:
__//
___/o \A
|-__ \A
(@_@ Bunni does get so bored doesn't she?)
...you give up your pipe-dream of strawberry bishel and replace it for something much "worse." A dragon dressed as Willy Wonka that tastes like snoz berries.
...you've signed up to take typing and webdesign courses simply to
keep the stories you've for a Bishel you may or may not get from
invading your entire NRBC time. ( O_o and the following are Ryn's)
...you're spending more time plotting a story about Bishel you do not
own when your plot bunnies re PotO, Nightworld, Vampire Diaries are
still rattling around trying to get your attention.
...you spent hours debating the difference between "Bishen" and
"Bishel", lose the copy to a crash, and can actually retype the copy
in its entirety from memory
...you work on your BANSA application over more than an hour, but are
having too much fun doing the entire "You're addicted when..." add-ons
to actually send it off.Even if you know Kari may or may not actually
add them.
...you loose the entire thread of the NRBC chat and miss AIM to Lilu
simply because you're working on your "You're addicted when..."
add-ons
...you've submerged yourself in the !hated! water, simply to attempt
to print a dry copy of a hawt Bishen.
...you're admiring the Bishen more than listening to Michael
Crawford/Sarah Brightman sing the Phantom of the Opera, when you're a
!total! PotO fan.
...you've been keeping Kari waiting a long while and still haven't
sent off the application
...you've actually listened to La Charlotta simply because you refuse
to lift your fingers from the keyboard long enough to mute her.
...your BANSA "You're addicted when..." add-ons exceed your "You know
you're addicted to PotO when..." add-ons.
...your add-ons to the "You know you're addicted to PotO when..."
consists of a tragic 7 points simply 'cos you're busy with the BANSA
"You're addicted when..." list
...you realized that you're typing is faster and more accurate than
when you started typing.
...you're surprised to find that two hours has been devoted to the
BANSA application, and Kari's still waiting.
...you only stop the list because you want to start work on your entry
to the Halloween Bishen Contest.
...not long after sending off the list, you realize typing the list
gave you a high.
...you're so thrilled your dragons had a mushy, romantic conversation and are now mates that you're dancing around in your seat.
...when you suggest a tribute layout to the gay dragons of the realm
...when you MAKE the actual layout that tributes the gay dragons
...when you draw the extended Bishel family photo
...when you realize that photo is missing half of the dragons you don't give up
...you finally give up on the family photo when you realize you'd have to draw over half the realm
...you were one of the people who broke the realm in the first place
...when you can take Aritarg shopping... and live