Your blog is awesome and I’m enjoying reading what you post, but I’m curious – why do you offer rebuttals to comments like ‘Otherkin is a mental illness’ and so on so often? It seems like tiring and thankless work, and kinda like trying to mop up an ocean with a tissue. Wouldn’t it be wiser to just let them be wrong elsewhere?

youredoingkinwrong: Thank you!  Those comments are just what I see most often. I just kind of respond to what I think I can work with.…

victiim-of-changes: babybleat: Is there a otherkin tag safe from antikin? There are no “safe tags” on Tumblr no matter how many attempts at making one…

maddiviner: Hello, everyone. I’m writing this during the United States’s final presidential debate. I realize I really should be watching, but I find it far…

maddiviner: Hello, everyone. I’m writing this during the United States’s final presidential debate. I realize I really should be watching, but I find it far…

theangrylionshark: roguesareth: who-is-page: Regarding the MTV “‘Otherkins’ Special” posted on Youtube within the last week, with Shiro Ulv as the main (and only) otherkin speaking…

Regarding “xenomnesia”: It’s possible you have a mental connection with a character. Or empathic. Some kind of connection that let you share thoughts or memories. Or maybe even: Is there any kind of otherkin “vessel” concept in use? Channeling someone? Or having them give you thoughts/memories somehow? (I’m an empath, and I know a lot of my synpath [non-kin, but very deeply understanding] connections have this effect on me, especially my primary “soulbond”.)

Absolutely. There’s lots of reasons that this phenomenon could occur. Fictionflickers come to mind too as a possible source for xenomnesia.

I think it’s cool how you treat people with weird kintypes with the same respect you’d treat anyone else. I’ve seen “elders” in the kin community talk about how they’d reject people whose kintypes were too “out there”, and I think that’s incredibly unfair. I mean, nobody HAS to accept anyone else, but… it’s just really hypocritical, you know? Even those “good” and “allowable” kintypes are batshit to people outside of the community.

Even those “good” and “allowable” kintypes are batshit to people outside of the community. Exactly, anon.  In my worldview, thanks to multiverse theory, there’s just…

Is there a word for identifying as a fictional species, or fictional race of beings? Not one that was in canon, but someone from their same world. Is that still fictionkin? Is there a word for “I identify as that kind, but not that individual”? Also, is there a word for identifying as a fictional animal species? Is that fictionkin or therian?

Is there a word for identifying as a fictional species, or fictional race of beings? Not one that was in canon, but someone from their…

This isn’t exactly fictionkin related but uh. How would one “channel” a character and mentally swap with them, for example to harness their strengths or something? To take on their identity for a while? What would that be called or like, do you know where I could start searching for information?

That’s called copinglink if you want to draw strength from and ‘become’ the character.  Check tumblr #copinglink for more information  Or if you want the character…

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lillies-and-bones: Just because something gives you kinfeels or whatever doesn’t automatically mean it’s a kintype. Cameo shifts and fictionflickers exist and can be very misleading.…

who-is-page: imrandomanduseless: who-is-page: imrandomanduseless: Actually How is otherkin not “cultural appropriation” If me not believing in “Two Spirit” because it’s bullshit is “racist” Then how…