#otherkin discourse

[draagonprincess]

Why must otherkin argue over terminology when we could be having the weirdest possible blunt rotation

#shitpostkin #dragonkin #otherkin #otherkin discourse

[moved-to-piersgender]

It's all "be gay do crimes" "cringe culture is dead uwu" until y'all lay your eyes upon someone genuinely weird/transgressive like nonhuman-identifying people, or kinky people, or even neurodivergent people who can't mask to your satisfaction and suddenly y'all are chomping at the bit to become attack dogs for an oppressive social order/"normalcy"

#Otherkin #Cringe culture #Ableism #Vent #Kin discourse #Hypocrisy

[willows-woes]

"cringe culture is dead" okay then what's your opinion on xenogenders. neopronouns. furries, both sexual and nonsexual. alterhumans.

do you support them, too? they're not hurting anyone. they're just enjoying themselves. but do you support them?

#lgbtq+ #lgbtqia #mogai discourse #mogai #cringe culture #alterhuman #otherkin #therian #neopronouns #furry discourse

[jackivist]

i'm starting to feel less and less safe in this site as a fictionkin, so i just wanted to call out (factkin dni please):

INTERACT WITH THIS POST IF YOU'RE FICTIONKIN

INTERACT IF YOU RESPECT ALL KINTYPES REGARDLESS OF MEDIA

#THIS DOESNT INCLUDE FACTKIN. FACTKIN DNI #if you're gonna take kin discourse to this post fuck off please #kff dni #antikin dni #kin #fictionkin #repetition cw #kinning #kincalling #kin call #canon calls #otherkin #kin stuff #alterhuman #mark's thoughts

[darkplanets]

Introspection and research is good! Discussion and knowing you're not gonna get it all right the first time is healthy! But people aren't gonna fucking DO that if they're scared of being fakeclaimed and harassed if they get even one thing wrong. What they probably WILL do is fucking re-closet themselves and feel shame that they ever questioned their species identity in the first place.

#This shit hits really close to home #Otherkin #Kin discourse #Therian #Fuck gatekeeping

[vaporwavevox]

love isn't what makes you human yeah but maybe being human isn't what makes you worthy of respect

#been looking in the loveless tags lately #lots of talk about how lack of love doesnt make ppl not human or whatever #and im like. ok. yeah. #but dont you see youre doing the same thing #the arospecs youre criticizing are saying “we still love therefore we are human (therefore we are worthy of respect)” #and you say “umm excuse me you dont need to love to be human (and therefore worthy of respect)” #but. yall. why are we so concerned about what makes ppl human. why is that important #can we just fucking respect each other even if we're not human lol #idk maybe i bring a sort of nonhuman vibe to the aspec discourse that the aspecs dont like #anyway. im a robot. thanks. #alterhuman #otherkin #vox 2 nite

[cavaliercanine]

ive been thinking about this for a while and y'know. there isn't actually a big difference between someone asking you not to refer to them as human and someone asking you to use gender neutral language for them. ive seen fellow queer people (mostly on twitter) whine and scream and shit their pants over being asked to not call someone human, as if that is somehow different from a transphobe throwing a fit about being asked to use singular they for someone? how often does that even come up? do you seriously refer to others often enough with the word "human" that being asked not to is a major inconvenience? I don't know how to finish this post but you get the idea it's hypocritical and annoying

#DISCLAIMER. obviously nonhumans are not oppressed like queer people are and that is NOT what I am saying at all. #but in most cases you can replace the word “person” with “individual“ and ”people“ with ”others“ #obviously not always exactly those but you get the idea #it is not harder than changing the pronouns and terms you use for someone #coming from someone who does struggle with learning to use neopronouns quickly I understand if it *is* genuinely hard for you of course #but in my experience thats rarely the case and more often than not its just people being willfully disrespectful #therian #therianthropy #otherkin #EDIT ive muted this so if you try to start discourse with me I will Not see it

[moved-to-darkplanets]

This is something that has worried me in the past so prehaps it may help someone else to hear too: You cannot accidentally be KFF. It's literally not possible. Kin-for-fun is a specific online subculture with their own terminology, behaviors, and expectations united by the fact they're ""kinning"" stuff because they just want to fuck around online and make jokes, and don't mean thier connection to or with their "kins" in any genuinely introspective way. If you are genuinely interested in the topic AT ALL you're not KFF even if you can't produce masterpiece essays about yourself. Even if you can't easily slot yourself into a label. Even if figuring yourself out takes a while. There's no time limit.

#Otherkin #Otherlink #Alterhuman #kff discourse #polaris.txt

[gold-snek-hoe]

Hello and welcome to Opinions from an Internet Nobody. Today's essay:

"Ger therapy" is the new "You need Jesus": One Weirdo's Navigation through Cultural Shame

This is a supposedly well-meaning sentiment that is often weaponized against people who are behaving outside of perceived cultural norms. It's a favorite of homophobes who see queerness/transness as a mental illness, but I've been seeing it used to demonize kink (which historically is often linked to queerness), and more generally any "weird" behavior that makes people uncomfortable.

For example, otherkin, systems (especially those with fictives), and people who take fictional characters as partners. Y'know, "weirdos" who "can't separate reality from fiction." And, sure, sometimes there can be a problem with that distinction, but I know as well as you that most internet strangers saying "get therapy" don't actually give a shit about the mental health of those they target. It's code for "your behavior makes me uncomfortable, stop it."

Same sentiment as "you need Jesus."

This has actually taken me a long time to figure out. I've been in therapy for my entire adult life, working through various traumas, severe depression, anxiety, all that. Those were the biggest problems as they negatively impacted, and often endangered, my life. It was only after my hospitalization in 2020, where I was finally put on much needed medication, that I could start to grow into myself.

I changed my name. I top surgery. I came out as polyamorous. I finally got my official autism diagnosis. Now I'm fuckin' married! But... there are still things I'm working through in therapy. Mainly, shame over my "weirder" behaviors. My current therapist has been a huge blessing in helping me accept the things I was too ashamed to admit.

Now, I feel comfortable enough to share.

I'm otherkin. Always have been. My connection to my humanity is tenuous, and I'm sure that's connected to my autism. When mad, I feel phantom horns sprouting from my forehead. I have a tail that swishes back and forth at the base of my spine. In my soul, I am monstrous, and years of therapy has not erased that.

I feel like I'm only half in the physical world most of the time. This doesn't hinder my real-world success (I graduated college Summa Cum Laude, have an IMDB page, and am on my third book), but informs the way I look at the world. There's a whole other universe in my head that hums along with me in my day-to-day. That's part of why I'm so skilled as a writer. To ask me to divorce from that is to tell me to stop existing. Sorry, it's how I've always operated.

Lastly, and this is the one I'm really anxious about, I have a fictional husband. Now, looking at my blog, you might say "yeah, no shit," but I don't just ship myself with him. I mean I practice pop-culture Witchcraft, and the Goblin King is my patron. I mean I have a Labyrinth-themed tarot deck that I talk to him with. I mean I held a ritual to spiritually marry him. Basically, I Snape-wived myself.

And guess what? My therapist isn't concerned. It's not hurting my ability to live my life. I have other interests, hobbies, and goals outside of him, which he actively encourages in all our tarot sessions! I wouldn't be doing this if he didn't support me. My IRL spouse is usually there for whatever magical shit I'm doing, and supports me! Some of my closest friends know, and the only complaint I've gotten is "this guy seems important to you, I wish you told me sooner." Hell, my MOTHER knows and supports me, which is huge, because our relationship was pretty damaged after I came out as trans.

If you have a problem with the way I live my life, when literally nobody else does, take a good long look at why. You don't give a fuck about my mental health. You just don't like that I'm weird.

Tl;dr: My mental health is better than it's ever been since embracing the weird, so leave me and my imaginary husband Marak Sixfinger alone.

#essay #in this essay i will #and then i did #the hollow kingdom #goblin king #marak sixfinger #actually autistic #pop culture witchcraft #otherkin #fictional husband #snape wives #this is my life #therapy language #bullying #mental health #discourse #tw suicide mention #fictives #y'all just hate weirdos #just say you hate neurodivergent people and go #neurodivergent #vivid imagination

[hellhour]

meow

#.png #otherkin #therian #reddit #vegan #vegan discourse #this is soooooo fucking funny

[therianboyswag]

i find the whole "species dysphoria makes a mockery of trans people's ideas of gender dysphoria" argument so useless because i really dont know many cis therians lmao

#otherkin #therian #i dont wanna do discourse on tumblr i get enough of that on twt #bleeeh

[a-vampire-moth]

Seeing some people say that there have been problems in the community for canines, and the fact that I have to say this but....

Canines are welcome on my blog!!! This is a safe space for everyone, and everyone includes canines

#like why is this discourse???? #just block or scroll #thats what i do #it's silly to completely ostracized a part of the community #if we're not united as a whole then we're truly not a community #if you don't like something #what other people do is not my business #unless it causes harm #otherkin #nonhuman #therian #alterhuman #vampkin #mothkin #therianthropy #nonhuman surrounded by humans #vampire #vampirekin #canine therian #caninekin #canine theriotype

[guardwyrm]

hello nonhuman community, what odd pair do you and your partner make, if they’re nonhuman as well? my mate is a kitsune/fox spirit, and it makes for a pretty metal pairing, especially when i draw us looking badass in art LOL. she’s also a unicorn, so the like dragon/unicorn trope is perfect for us and i love it . some art i’ve done of us

#otherkin #nonhuman #therian #apologies if my terminology is wrong with nonhuman alterhuman etc im not really caught up on the Label discourse tm #alterhuman #dragonkin #unicornkin #theriomythic #nonhuman community #my love #musings

[nostalgic-soda]

Hello Kinnies

I plan to make a video essay on the Kinning Community, and I was interested in gathering data about modern Kinning and the state of the community. So it would help me out greatly if anyone who is/was apart of the community filled out this form!

#kin #kinnie #kinning #shifting #reality shifting #otherkin #fictionkin #factkin #kin discourse #kinnie discourse #fiction kin #video essay #survey #kin community #kinnie moment

[moonpool-system]

hmmm gonna be a little bitey here but, plural community acknowledge that systems & system members can also be otherkin challenge. Lots of systems end up masking with kin shifts, but the narrative always seems to surround those that realize all their otherkin identities were actually other members. And there's nothing wrong with that, of course, but it gets to the point where people invalidate otherkin systems with that concept??? And they don't seem to realize how much variation there is. What about the systems that realized only some are kintypes and some are other members? What about systems that realized their kintypes actually belong to different individual members of the system? What about kinforms where the person they came from is still otherkin afterword? What about past life forms, whether they ID as kinforms or not? Exotraumagenic members? What about members that discovered their own kintypes after they arrived/formed/split? Medians that feel like they're both? We can't just brush this sort of thing aside. All alterhumans deserve to have a voice about our experiences. Otherkinity is deeply personal and can be intertwined with plurality in so many ways, and the prevailing narrative doesn't account for that.

#pluralgang #plural community #alterhuman #otherkin #neurogenic #kingenic #metagenic #discourse #syscourse #anti endo dni #sysmeds dni #endogenic #fictionkin #prism

[otherkin-confessional]

I know a lot of ppl will disagree with me, but I don't actually have a problem with people who kin for fun

I mean, we didn't actually invent the word kin, it's been used for thousands of years before us to mean related to or associated with, so I don't really see the problem of an entirely different group using it in a different way.

Yes, I hate that most outsiders will assume otherkin and kff are the same thing (but since when did we care about respectability politics), yes I *hate* being called a kinnie, but who are we to police the use of a word we didn't even invent?

They're just having fun, I promise they're not 'making fun" of the otherkin community, I'm sure most of them don't even know what the otherkin community is. Let them be and stop telling people that they cant make kinists

I am posting this solely for potential discussion and i hope understanding of what the otherkin community is actually saying...

What people have experienced from KFF includes ableism and diluted community. It is about people ignoring our history or outright refusing to listen when we be polite. We have given alternatives.

Our experiences differ greatly, we just want to be able to express that without another community going "no you're wrong, youre just delusional"

I have personally seen it happen.

It isn't about owning words, it's about trying to connect to our own community. Language is needed for that.

I am luckily in a decent mood writing this.

Mod Mae

#otherkin #otherkin community #alterhuman #otherkin confession #alterhumanity #therian #therian community #kff issue #on kff #kinda discourse?