ah, okay! apologies for my accusations. i guess it is pretty easy to get defensive about this sort of thing.

Apology accepted and nothing to worry about, anon. Tone comes through poorly on the internet, and tumblr in particular is *terrible* about retaining context for discussion.

Just to make it doubly clear I absolutely don’t think people who rank their kintypes are ‘less valid’ (or less legitimate) than any other kin, its just when I see someone who ranks them I wonder about their personal logic behind their ranking.