somethingorotherkin

[somethingorotherkin]

fictionkin culture is having the feeling of horns and pointed ears and being unsure if they’re actually there

Fictionkin culture is!

[somethingorotherkin]

I think the otherkind community could really benefit from taking more of an "actual lived experience and identity first, explanation for how the identity came to be second (or never! who cares)" approach to things instead of the other way around. I'm tired of reading endless iterations of the same old "well, according to my spiritual framework, X thing doesn't have a soul/mind/whatever so therefore no one can be that thing and they're all fake!" shit trying to justify excluding phytanthropes/mycanthropes, robots/AIs, object/conceptkin, etc. If someone genuinely feels that they are something, they shouldn't have to put together a detailed metaphysical explanation and write an essay on it for you. You should be able to respect them based on their identity and the lived experiences that led them to it.

[somethingorotherkin]

Fictionkin culture is having the memory of a goldfish so you have to keep whole documents and stuff for your kins, memories, friends, etc (my memory is so bad i will not remember half my memories uf they werent written down)

Fictionkin culture is!

[somethingorotherkin]

one of my friends was telling me about how they love the pokemon rayquaza, and ever since they were a child they felt a really strong connection to it and used to play pretend as rayquaza. they still love it to this day, say they identify with it and even their boyfriend calls them rayquaza as a joke. other than that, theyre a typical young adult who goes to the gym, is in business school and doesnt interact with "online culture".

that literally sounds like the story right before someone awakens as alterhuman but its not. i wonder how many people would recognize themselves as nonhuman/otherkin if they only knew what it means. i mean, i dont want to force any labels on anyone, but its not the first time i hear someone longingly talk about how they wish they were x, they really feel that somehow someway deep inside they are x and not a regular person.

[somethingorotherkin]

fictionkin culture is going about your day completely normally and then getting slammed into the wall by the horrors out of absolutely nowhere and now your day is ruined

Fictionkin culture is!

[somethingorotherkin]

Just putting this out here in case it might be of some use to folks: Many folk under the alterhuman umbrella do not experience species dysphoria, supernumerary limbs, or exomemories. You don’t HAVE to have had experienced these things in order to be alterhuman, even if they are common alterhuman experiences.

Please don’t discredit or doubt yourself based purely on lacking these experiences.

[somethingorotherkin]

Some friendly reminders for all of my beautiful wonderful otherkin out there!

• You don't have to have memories to be otherkin

• You don't need to have lived a past life as your kintype to be otherkin

• You don't need to have been nonhuman your entire life to be otherkin

• You don't need to be completely nonhuman to be otherkin (in fact, you don't need to be nonhuman at all! Human fictionkins are valid!)

• You don't need to have shifts/phantom sensations to be otherkin

• You don't need to have instincts from your kintype to be otherkin

All you need in order to be otherkin is to be you! Don't let humans get you down, babe!

[somethingorotherkin]

Just because I was an AI doesn't mean I'm good with computers now. Being integrated with the operating system is very different from interacting via GUI :(

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[somethingorotherkin]

fictionkin culture is reading fanfic of you and someone else and going "I WOULD NEVER SAY THAT!!!!!"

Fictionkin culture is!

[somethingorotherkin]

Canon divergent fictionkin culture is trying frantically to figure out what canon events actually happened and what were lost to time :)

Fictionkin culture is!

[somethingorotherkin]

Every now and then I see a post that reminds me that most non-kin have an idea of the otherkin community that's defined more by people who made fun of us than by our community itself

If you heard about otherkin through general tumblr osmosis but never made an effort to actually understand us, your mental image of otherkin is mostly likely informed by people who pretended to be otherkin to start drama with the express intent to get people to hate us. It was really common a while back for anti-kin to create blogs posing as otherkin and post absurd, ridiculous, and inflammatory things like "I'm plantkin and keeping houseplants is slavery" or "I'm dragonkin and I ate my mom's jewelry". If you actually knew anything about the community it was fairly easy to figure out that these blogs were trolls, but most of the people on tumblr at the time either didn't know enough to be able to tell, or didn't even consider that they might be fake

And the most upsetting part? It fucking worked. So many people still seem to think that those posts were genuine reflections of what being otherkin means and how we act or talk about our kin identities

[somethingorotherkin]

Virgil Sanders | Anxiety

Based off my memories, so the snake is there because I was close with Janus. Image has alt text

[somethingorotherkin]

Making a kin blog cause I haven't really connected with the community since figuring myself out. My name's Oli but you can also call me by my kin names

I have a lot of kintypes and I get fictionflickers a lot, so I'm just gonna list a few

- Dave Strider (Homestuck)

- Dick Grayson (DC)

- Virgil/Anxiety (Sanders Sides)

- Kurt Hummel (Glee)

- Jughead Jones (Riverdale)

I don't have time for discourse or judgement about my kins so if you have a problem just block me. I'm not gonna fight you, I'm just here to vibe

Icon made using this picrew