hello! this may seem like a silly question but i was wondering if its okay to have really strong emotional reactions to your canon and memories and such? like i tell myself to “get over it, that life is over” but i sometimes think of something that happened in canon or one of my memories. or think about people i loved. and occasionally i’ll just break down crying because of canonsickness. i guess i’m just looking for validation that its ok to feel that way at times? do you ever experience this?

Anon, my friend, this is completely normal and okay. I, and a lot of people, get upset about things that happen in canon, and memories,…

What should I do if I find out someone in the kin community is faking? I have evidence that a rather popular fictionkin in the Homestuck community is lying about being kin, but I don’t know if I should expose them or not. It seems kind of like a dick move to start that kind of drama… but isn’t it also a dick move to not inform the people they’re screwing with? They’re not SERIOUSLY hurting anyone, but still.

I have mixed feelings about this, anon. I suppose my question is this. How do you know they’re faking? If you have proof/screenshots of them…

Hi! A kinype I had might actually be a fiction-hearted connection after questioning a little bit. But there are still things that kinda support it being a past life? Like, why I was always scared of this or that, I predicted a few big events in the book, the universe feels “real” to me, etc. But I feel my actual connection to the character might be leaning more towards hearted?

Only you can decide how to define your internal experience, anon. If you think it feels more fiction-hearted than fictionkin, that’s up to you. Nothing…

What are fictionkin? Fictionkin; (noun): A person who discovers that they have in some way inherited the soul/spirit/complete mentality of a fictional character, and the…

For those anti-kin who like to say that fictionkin are somehow ‘stealing’ from authors or engaging in copyright infringement (????) here is some stuff for you…

I not sure about whether or not I’m otherkin anymore. I truly feel I’m not human and I don’t belong here, but I can’t help but question my faith in this. Like what I experience isn’t enough and my beliefs are just made up and I’m delusional, maybe it makes more sense if I’m delusional. I don’t know whether I’m right or wrong and it’s just frustrating. Maybe it would’ve been better if I never discovered otherkin at all, and my feelings of being out of place never had an explanation.

These feelings are really understandable. Sometimes its better not to focus on labels, and focus more on how you feel. Whether your experiences are ‘real’ or…

Is it still kin if it’s a more slow process? I didn’t realize I was kin of a character until it got more screen time. At first it was just generalized feeling of being them and shifts. Then later into the episodes it got stronger. Nostalgia, feelings of worry. Then only recently I started experiencing homesickness.

Its totally possible for it to happen much slower. In fact this is often the case. Sometimes everything comes all at once, but not at…

Barrier anon again. I’m assuming what you mean by “something in my canon creating a barrier” is if something really bad happened that would cause such a thing. I guess that could relate to an experience of mine. After watching a painful episode my kin feelings kinda “shut off” for a week or two. (they came back afterwards) I kinda shut off in general. Since then I hadn’t had any clear memories, but I tried to figure it out and pick things apart, but that has not been helpful in many ways.

Yeah, that sounds like the sort of thing that could shut off memories for a while. I think you’re probably mentally protecting yourself, and you’ll…

It feels like there’s a barrier in my mind separating this life from my kin memories. While I remembered a few, it’s so darn hard to reach out to deeper memories. I have found myself feeling bad because i don’t have a lot to hold on to of my old friends, kind of like I’m losing them. Meditation isn’t really helpful either. What should I do?

Depending on what you believe, there may be an *actual* barrier between you and these deeper memories, put there for any number of reasons. Is…