#i know theyre not the same but i occasionally see misuse of terms so please hold me accountable there

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hi there! i hope it's okay to send this to this blog. im still relatively new to the concept of kinning and was wondering if you could give me a little insight into how people figure out their kins? especially if theyre characters and such. totally okay if not, though!

hello hello! i have no idea how long this has been in my inbox, i'm so sorry :'D /lh i just thought i got a buggy ask on a more popular sideblog of mine, but yeah it's ok to send it here!!

i feel like this carrd (alterhuman-hub.carrd.co) by @/custom-emojis is a good resource for a bunch of terms and whatnot relating to kinning, but the focus is mainly on alterhumanity/stuff like creatures rather than fictional characters instead. there are some bits about it, but i can do my best to clear things up if you'd like. i've been following the creator of that carrd for a bit, but i don't know if any other random carrds about fictionkin from twitter users i find on google are actually reliable lol

for my finding out my fictionkin stuff, i guess i sort of.. started kinning before i knew what kinning was lol (particularly about jevil stuff) and was introduced to the kin community through fandom friends online, then realized that those terms described me better. i sorta flipped back and forth between terms in the beginning because i was kinda confused, but yeah!

for me it did start out as "just knowing", then took actions to embrace it, like surrounding myself with things that reminded me of a certain character's past, relationships, or just self in general. after i had been introduced to the community i was hesitant to validate myself because Discourse Sucks, but i got more comfortable after a while :]

i could also try my best to describe more specific stuff you're curious about! if you'd prefer to stay anonymous, that's no problem, but my dms are open, and if you'd rather move to discord just lmk ^^