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Seeing all these people saying they’re afraid to be factkin makes me want to ask: is it okay to be uncomfortable about them? I wouldn’t go around harassing them, making blatant posts on why they should or shouldn’t exist, and besides being uncomfortable with them, I’m a bit indifferent to the entire thing. Is that okay?

Its okay to be uncomfortable with factkin, as long as you’re not harassing or badmouthing them. Remember too that some people are uncomfortable with fictionkin…

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I’m factkin but very very very very secretly (this is my first time admitting it at all anywhere to anyone) and i can completely understand why people uncomfortable with us, and those people being assholes isn’t helping at all. I don’t know of any places i could talk about my experiences without being judged, but tbh there’s a reason for that. Lots of reasons, which you already covered. I wish other factkin understood that too

Thank you for writing, anon. 🙂 I feel for you, I really do. Having to deal with being factkin must suck way more than being…

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I’m going to be so livid if that network blog deletes because of some bad seeds in the Personakin and Factkin community. They seem really nice and made something I haven’t seen before to help the community it really boils my blood that Factkin and Personakin with their already bad reputation would think harassing someone is the proper response to someone being uncomfortable with them.

I agree with you anon, it’ll be a shame if they delete, especially because a) a nework catalog is actually pretty useful b) its probably…

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idk if this is the right place to go to for something like this but I just started following this brand new blog that catalogs kin networks (networkcatalog). the problem is they’re getting harassed really hard by factkin and personakin right now and I’m scared because I think they’re low on spoons that they’ll do something bad to themself. could you and your followers send them some love maybe?

I don’t normally post these kinds of things, but harassment fucking pisses me off.  If there’s anybody who wants to send @networkcatalog their warmth and…

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This isn’t purely fictionkin-related, but I was thinking on the argument anti-kin make about how “all otherkin are always glorious animals, nobody’s ever a slug” and how “all fictionkin are always main characters, never somebody non-notable” and… it occurred to me that most people who ARE kin of, say, a slug, aren’t going to be vocal about it. It’s embarrassing to admit. People mock us for being “cool” stuff; imagine how much worse they’d treat us if we admitted being a chicken or something.

This is absolutely true, anon. Also, the people who say that always forget that there ARE people who are things like snails, goblins, unseen characters,…

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I’m a soulbond who is a prince back in my home world, and honestly, I use “royaltykin” as a blanket term like the other anon, but I’ve found that it really doesn’t help on tumblr because, like you said, most of the people on this site who use the term “royaltykin” aren’t actually kin with anyone who was or is royalty, you know? It’d be nice to connect with someone who shared similar responsibilities to mine, but it’s pretty hard to do on this site thanks to those spoiled kids.

I’m sorry to hear about that, anon. Maybe try creating a network for fictionkin, whose kintypes were also royalty, instead of stressing royalkin?

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Since realizing I’m kin with this one character, it feels kind of weird when I say I’m a fan of her and that I love her in canon. But I mean, regardless of the fact that I am her, she still exists in the television show she’s part of independent of me and I really enjoy seeing her in the show and I think she’s really cool, and thought that before I even knew what fictionkin was. Would you say this is a normal kin experience?

I’d say its pretty normal. Some kin are definitely able to enjoy their source material separately from their kinfeels.

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What’s your opinion on people who are kin of concepts, like “royalkin”? This was prompted by the person claiming to be “princesskin”… I don’t understand how someone can be “kin” of a social/economic class. Remembering a kin life where you, an individual, were a part of that social class, and highly identifying with the experience of being that class, sure. But claiming to be “royalkin”, to me, is no different than saying you’re “poorkin” and that’s kind of fucked up imho. What do you think?

The people who use terms like ‘royalkin’ or ‘princesskin’, or for sake of example, lawyerkin, janitorkin, stockanalystkin, zookeeperkin, blacksmithkin, etc etc…. fundamentally misunderstand what the term ‘kin’ denotes.…

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My kin is feral but I don’t relate much to being feral and I interpret myself more as an anthropomorphic version of my kin, like a fursona? It feels more like a combination of my kin and my physical self as I am now, and it feels more comforting, even though its not how my kin really was. My fursona is “literally me”, but not as I was then, and not as I am now. Is it odd to do that or feel that way?

Anon, I suggest you take a look at this post I reblogged the other day, because I think it sums up exactly what you’re feeling! http://fromfiction.tumblr.com/post/146149276362/lizardywizard-i-think-ive-finally-figured-out

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