You probably get a lot of asks so I understand if you don’t get around to answer this one but first I’d like to tell you that I really love your blog! It’s informative and you’re always polite and yeah… and then I’d like to ask you for advice. There’s this game I know since I was a really small child and for all my life since I first saw it I felt like it was home, just even when I hadn’t played it myself yet I often found myself thinkin “I want to go back there, I want to meet them again” P.1

p.2 like… I just feel so strongly about the whole word and the characters/people in it, I still cry from the overwhelming feelings once I…

whats the definition for -hearted? some say it means choosing to identify as [x] but others use it like having a synpath where it means just a strong connection or relating to it. i think it would be more useful to have it mean choosing to id, since synpath works fine for the other definition

I agree with you, somewhat, but I’ll let others come forward and give their definitions of fiction-hearted vs synpath for you. I’m not the clearest…

Re: gender=/=kintypes, I realize this was directed largely at anti-kin, and so I don’t blame you for not mentioning it, but there are times when your kintypes can affect your gender. Especially if said kintype is a noncorporeal/alien one, or a fictotype with a gender different than yours. Just worth mentioning, no t that Im necessarily suggesting you add it to the post.

There absolutely are times when gender can be influenced by your kinself/kintypes. I would say part of the reason I’m a transman is probably my…

Hi um! I appreciate your kin ≠ gender post, but the line about gender being “visible at all times” really rubs me wrong. For example: a stranger would probably assume I’m a cis girl. I’m agender; it’s not visible. The statement just feels really exclusive of people who can’t (or don’t want to) present in a manner that ‘matches’ their gender. Am I misinterpreting it?? Thank you.

Sounds like I phrased it a little bit poorly! When I wrote ‘visible at all times’ what I meant was that people are evaluating and…

Hello, sorry if this is a bother, but could you talk about or direct me to anyone talking about “copinglink”? I think I understand what it means, but am not sure I quite get it. I did a Google search and a Tumblr search, but came up with 2 posts, which were both angry sounding posts and didn’t actually mention what copinglink was, just that it exists. :( I’m all for new terms to describe things, esp because “kin” has been twisted so much lately by others.

Copinglink is a very new term. I’m pretty sure it’s meant to replace copingkin? @inexplicablehanyou can probably explain better than I can.

Also I wanted to ask what your thoughts and opinions on psychological fictionkin are? What do you think are the similarities between metaphysical and psych kin? Do you think mental illness could affect this somehow? Sorry for sending two asks, but they are two different questions. UnU

Psychological kin are as legitimate as spiritual kin. They experience all the same phenomena as spiritual kin (memories, dysphoria, supernumerary phantom limbs, etc) but they…

This is probably gonna sound dumb, but is it a kin thing to get like really intense secondhand embarrassment from a character? I have a lot of strong feelings involving one character and I’m trying to analyze how I feel critically but have a hard time because of mental illness don’t know what normal thinking is like at all.

Secondhand embarrassment on behalf of your kinself is something that a lot of kin experience. My fiancee and I personally experience a lot of it.…

Hey, I am host to a walk-in fictive and soulbond, and I have wondered lately how often the host should talk with their bonds? They tend to come and go whenever they want, but I started wondering if I’m supposed to talk to them regularly? I love them both but I tend to like being alone, and I don’t want to ignore them or anything.

There’s absolutely no ‘rule’ for this, its entirely up to what you and your bonds feel comfortable with. As long as you and they are…

im not the original anon, but it literally says right in anti-anti-wincest’s description “Supportive of consensual adult incest.” they regularly hurl ableist slurs at people, told someone theyre not a pedophile for liking shota/loli (which is literal pedophilia), and otherwise most of the content on their blog is defending pedophilia and incest. i dont see how sources are needed when it takes about a minute of scrolling to see it clearly.

Its never okay to use ableist slurs on anyone. However not everyone will agree that shota/loli is equal to supporting pedophilia.

To comment on the “Otherkin Rapture” thing: I still kinda believe it in a weird sense. Not in the sense that people are gonna have some sort of physical thing happen, but when you think about it, it seems it’s really only in this day and age that otherkin can so easily find each other. The idea of a truly infinite multiverse and the past lives that might be associated is being refreshed and expanded. [1/2]

[2/2] People are becoming more spiritually open, so maybe it’s not the end of the world but the start of a new era in human…

hey, i need help. i’m fictionkin and otherkin, but lately i’ve been feeling really… empty. like i feel like i’m in a shift for a kin i haven’t even discovered yet. i feel sick and scared and lonely, and i’m really not sure what to do. i’ve even been getting foggy memories from whatever kintype this may be, and they’re completely unrelated to any kintype i’ve recognized. i’m fairly certain my hair was black and i had tan skin, and i was likely masc identifying and presenting (cont)

(cont) but i’m not completely sure. i honestly just feel like something is missing. what should i do? could this be a kintype, or am…

Ive seen a lot of antikin start using the agurement of their religion. It’s mostly used against Fickin and someone I used to follow used it as their arguement for being anti-Fickin but not anti-otherkin. But they were very aggressive, stating that “it’s not possible bc my religion says so!!!! You’re not fictional characters!!!!” like that’s literally what they were saying. I wanted to know if this is a new argument or not and how to deal with it bc anons have used it agianst me before.

I actually haven’t heard someone argue that the existence of fictionkin was somehow ‘against their religion’ yet. Its an…. interesting one.  I suppose if it were…