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What exactly should kin memories be like? Im asking because I’ve recently discovered I might be fictionkin and I’m trying to see if I get memories. Today I was focusing on trying to remember something and things automatically popped into mind. My gut feeling told me how some of the characters might’ve felt during the memory. What struck me most was the fact that someone who kins as a character from the same series remembers something that just seems “right” to me. Are these memories I’m getting?

There is nothing that kin memories ‘should’ be like. Like normal memories, they are different for everyone who experiences them. Sometimes, like you said, it just…

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is it weird to keep my kins a “private” thing? like my friends who are kin tell everyone and talk abt it openly and idk i don’t want to tell anyone?? i want to keep it to myself becuase it’s a private thing for me and idk it just makes me feel weird to tell people and i feel almost invalidated because of that bc everyone else so open abt it and im just :/

I don’t think its weird at all. In my personal opinion, being kin IS a private thing. Its not something I need to share with…

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So I’m aware that you can’t choose your kintype, but I have a bit of a question. See, I’m still new to the community and terms, though I’ve been awakened for years. I am a Cybertronian who lived and died as a member of the Decepticons. But in the course of living this life, I’ve had a very different set of experiences, and don’t agree with those ideals or goals anymore. I know I used to be one, but I don’t consider myself a Decepticon any longer. Does that count as me “choosing” who I am?

That absolutely doesn’t count as ‘chosing your kintypes’, it counts as choosing to determine your own future and ideals. Maybe you can call yourself a cybertronian…

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while tagging as kin irks me, the thing that pisses me off is that some otherkin feel like they are entitled to crop/edit an artists work to use as reaction pics in their posts. an otherkin that seems pretty popular does it and i have sent her polite asks about it before and surprise, no response! way to show you know what you’re doing is wrong and that you don’t give a shit about artists.

People using other artists fanart as reaction images is definitely rude. If you display another artist’s work, give credit at least, and try to seek…

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About tagging art as me I don’t understand because I don’t do this as otherkin but because i identify with a character, same as other fandom people tagging as my son, my husband, my child, etc. I thought this was the same as tagging with your love for a character so I’m so confused, I was happy to see that in fandom you can tag your love and fascination for a character or show and I thought tagging me was another way to do this, not a kin thing. I see non kin doing that too with fanart.

Its good to see I’m not the only one with a confused perspective on the phenomenon. Before the outcry, I wouldn’t have known that people…

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Thank you for your reply, I understand and it’s a good point but I think that while classifications are good to make things clear dividing a small community with close experiences in two against the wishes of some of them is not ideal. I also think the otherkin community wants only people who believe it’s an spiritual thing lately, I mean between coping kin and people who believe being kin is psychological or anything not spiritual there isn’t such a big diference and both tend to be excluded.

I think its important to share space- but I also think its important to have dedicated spaces to both. We have similar experiences, and a…

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I believe healthy multiplicity is real and your anon is missing the point, psychology is supposed to explain the workings of the mind not own them and only allow for their worldview to exist, so please don’t assume I’m one of those anons, but I think that what people like the anon are doing to you reminds me of what otherkin like you do to other kin, you define who can be part of the community by your views, like being against coping kin, according to my worldview as kin that is possible.

Sorry this took me longer to get to! You have a point! The difference is that I absolutely believe that copingkin exist as a phenomenon…

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as someone whos fictionkin, i can sort of see why people dislike it when people tag their art as kin… i asked an artist who dislikes it and they way they described it was that they put their heart and soul into their art, and to see someone claim its *their* heart and soul feels like its being claimed as their own. to me it sort of sounded similar to when people who are kin arent comfortable seeing doubles of themselves. and i sympathize with that feeling… as long as its not because (1)

of a reason like ‘fuck otherkin i dont want them on my post’ it doesnt seem rude to me? sure, it sucks because i wanna…

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