When people say “Not a kintype, literally me” it pains me so hard like a kintype is literally you, it is your identity in whole or in part, it’s not just like “akin to”. Fuck.
Like, my sole kintype is Nightmaren. I am a Nightmaren. I identify as a Nightmaren. I am literally, on a non-physical level, a Nightmaren.
Kintypes are literally you.Sometimes I wonder why it didn’t stick as “otherkind”? I feel like people see “kin” and think “akin to”… ugh. Save us.
The connotations the word “kin” has are way I gravitate away from it. I only ever use it here, for clarity. Everywhere else including irl I just say what I am. I’m not “kin” to anything, I’m just me. And that’s okay to personally say, but devaluing anyone who uses that word the way the “literally me” crowd does is unnecessary and disrespectful.
Absolutely!
Heh, so I suppose I’m not the only one who thinks that “otherkind” is a better term than “otherkin”? 😛
I remember when people didn’t have “Kintypes in Tier One, Tier Two, Tier Three, and Literally Me”. I remember when theriotype and kintype meant two different things, such as “corgi therian”, instead of “corgi kin”, and so I do believe that “fictotype” should be used for most human fictionkin. It’s an argument of semantics that I’m getting into now, but I digress…
This site (Tumblr) seems to be all about fads and following fads, and there’s very little information about true discovery processes, so I think a lot of people on Tumblr are misinformed. It has to do with the lack of guidelines in comparison to a forum environment. Everything just gets lost in the chaos. I can’t even imagine how some people here would fare in the early 2000′s therian community, where they would be mercilessly grilled. (To clarify, I definitely don’t advocate for the practice of grilling, sinceI found it to be emotionally damaging, but some good prodding may sometimes be necessary.)
…I’m tired and rambling. Sorry. 😛
