Hey there, I’ve been wondering how certain people on the kin communities feel about “concept” kin, ie windkin, spacekin, ghostkin, plantkin etc. I know you deal mainly with fictionkin, but you also seem pretty level headed and not immediately saying every little thing is valid, and also give some respectable views on kinstuff. I’d love to hear what you have to say about these things. Thank you.

Thanks for the compliment, anon. Let’s see. I obviously don’t speak for everyone, but the general consensus that I have seen among more serious and…

hi felix! i just wanted to say: thank you so much. seriously. i was questioning kin for a while, and in that time this blog was a HUGE help to me, both in first understanding kin, and finding references for my own experiences. you were really helpful and reassuring in all the (usually nervous and psuedo-panicked) asks i sent you, and even now it still means a lot to me? i’ve since affirmed my own kin identity and i just wanted to say thanks for all your help. so thank you!!

Thanks for this message anon. 🙂 I’m really happy I could help in my won small way as you move through your journey as kin,…

hi- just a question about being fictionkin.. I think I might be kin with ichimatsu from osomatsu-san, but I’m really not sure. I can relate to him 100%, I feel attached to him, and just generally feel like he’s apart of him, but I do know that I’m my own person.. but the character himself feels like he’s apart of me- am I kin or am I just too attached to a fictional character ??

Could be either one. Only you can tell. Make sure to take time to examine the identity– it can take months or years to really…

In 2004, a boy became obsessed with WoW. He wrote an 80,000 word “in-character” journal from the perspective of his character. He soon became overwhelmed with grief that he couldn’t be with the characters in the game, then committed suicide to “be with them”. Do you think he was fictionkin? Or that if the fictionkin community had existed back then, he might’ve had an outlet for his feelings and avoided suicide?

Hi there anon. First of all, the boy in question,  Zhang Xiaoyi was a 13 year old Chinese native, and the game he was addicted…

Er, hi, i’m the anon with 16 kintypes and I… -sigh- If you don’t mind, can I ask your opinion on something? So about a week ago, I saw an older pale blue car parked under a streetlight in the middle of the night and I felt intense fear, despite being in a car as well, and a couple days after that I suddenly got the extreme urge to look online for leather jackets, and I was extremely distressed that I couldn’t find any that fit me. My partner thinks I might be Ponyboy. I had a shift, but… 16.

Well anon, lets see. Personally, I’m, of the opinion that one ‘shift’ and some weird unexplained feelings don’t make something a kintype. For me to call…

I always thought I was a reincarnation kin but I’m more and more worried it’s just a mental coping thing, which totally invalidates its worth and existence for me, and also because I have a soulbond and if I’m just ‘making it up’, then he isn’t real and none of this matters. I’m so unhappy. Why can’t I just believe? I have the same issues with religion. Logically, it’s all comforting rubbish, isn’t it? It’s just a pretty lie. I can hardly bear that. Why bother with a pointless, empty, dry life?

Anon, we all go through periods of disbelief, and they can be crushing. I know how you feel, because I’ve been in that position before,…

Do you think there’s some fundamental difference between copinglinks and being fiction-hearted? The way I’ve heard them described by people who identify that way, they sound exactly the same, but the way I see copinglinks being described by the spiritual kin community makes it sound like people are sitting down and making a conscious decision to identify as a certain character.

I think there’s a lot of crossover between the two, but I’d listen mostly to the people who use those labels as to what they…

@the anon with third person memories: I literally have no memories that are NOT in the third person, so I don’t think it’s too much of an issue; even when I dream or imagine something, usually it’s in 3rd person if I’m in it. I think I’ve had one meditation session where I was looking out my own eyes, but that’s it. I wouldn’t worry about it if I were you, or anyone else in the same situation~

Thanks for the input anon! I’m still planning a more full post on this phenomenon. ^^

/kind of a vent I’m sorry/ I’m so goddamn upset, I have 16 fucking kintypes and I feel so fucking AWFUL for it, like i’m making a mockery of fictionkin as a whole but no matter how many times i go back to each and every kintype and scrutinize it, they’re all still confirmed and i hate it! I never wanted to be kin, I don’t want these kintypes and maybe i should just go back to pretending i’m not kin at all! I don’t want this!

Its never good to pretend you’re not kin when you are, anon, and I think you know that. Trying to shut out feelings like that…

Hi, thank you for running this blog, first of all! Um, I would like your opinion on something! I know I’m some kind of robotkin, SCP-079 is confirmed and I’ve been questioning Lil Hal from hs for a while. Last night, I heard a male robotic voice saying the number sequence 1-0-1-0-5 and I woke up from a dead sleep very suddenly. I googled the number sequence and nothing came up, but when I looked up Hal (from Space Odyssey) the voice was extremely similar. Do you think it had to do with Lil Hal?

Huh, that’s an interesting situation, anon! Have you seen 2001: A Space Odyssey? watching it might help you figure some stuff out.