I am factkin. My kintypes are Edgar Allan Poe, Peter III of Aragon, René Descartes, David Bowie, Caesarion, and Eminem. You can call me by any kin names! My pronouns are they/them.
I made this blog to try to ease some of the misunderstandings that lead people to dislike factkin. I am NOT the voice of the factkin community and most of what I say comes from PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. It is important to remember that I am just one person and factkin are a community of many. I have also had this blog for a number of years so if you see a very old post of mine keep in mind that I may have a new perspective now.
All I ask is that you be respectful, and I'll respect you too. There are no stupid questions, and you can ask them as bluntly as you need to! I will debate with you in DMs and not publicly (because this is Tumblr and I don't want randos in the notes sending either of us death threats) as long as it remains respectful.
Anti-factkin, I encourage you to interact! I'd love to hear your opinions. You can send me a dm to express your thoughts! If you’re not comfortable with that, I have a poll you can take! https://www.quotev.com/quiz/13196117/ANTI-Factkin-Poll
This is not a kinfession blog, vent blog, or moodboard blog. Please don't send me moodboard requests or heavy vents in asks.
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Some userboxes:
[Image description: Six grey userboxes. In order, they say "This user is factkin. This user is facthearted. This user has fact-DAs. This system has factives. This system has fucktives! This user has fact-copinglinks. End description.]
I was originally pretty anti factkin but now I think I might be facthearted or even factkin (if there's something in between -hearted and -kin I'm probably that) but I'm panicking cause my identity is directly contradicting my beliefs do you have any advice please
It would be helpful to me to know what beliefs this identity contradicts directly but in general anon I can tell you that it is normal for beliefs to change over time.
I study philosophy and a large part of that is challenging beliefs and assumptions I have held all my life. Getting down to the bottom of why you believe something helps you evaluate the belief itself. My advice to you would be to do the following:
Question why you think you might be factkin/hearted. What feelings/evidence has led you to this point?
Question the belief that you hold that factkinity contradicts. How long have you held that belief? What is the reason for the belief? Who/where/what did you learn it from?
Do what you think is going to make you happiest.
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Hey anon! I've been sitting with this ask for a while because it's a tough question to answer.
When questioning whether or not one is otherkin, fictionkin, factkin, etc. there is no surefire way to know 100%. Everyone comes to their conclusions in different ways in my experience.
I would say, from my own experience, that if you have a nagging persistent feeling that you may be factkin then it is worth exploring those feelings by experimenting with labels and talking to other alterhumans. At the end of the day, only you can tell yourself who you are.
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Hi, do you still have that Discord server and is it still active? I was in it a while ago, I left out of social anxiety but I want to see if it's still going
Hey! The server is still up and I still mod it but activity is kiiiinda dwindling. Most days there are no new posts.
feel like i'm problematic cuz i might be faitkin w an aspect of a rap artist even tho i've never gone thru physical violence like him. but the way he archetypes himself in one album really resonates w me and the impact of the violence i did go thru. is this alright to send here? i figure you might understand as Eminem
Hey anon!
Feeling "problematic" (feeling guilty, feeling invalid, feeling isolated) is unfortunately a pretty common factkin experience for a number of reasons. Feeling invalid because you have not had the same experiences in your present life as your kintype is something other fact and fictionkin experience too. You are not alone.
I don't think you're doing anything wrong. Don't feel guilty for feeling emotional impacts from an artist just because you don't share their exact experiences. He made artistic choices on that album to try and make you feel something. That's the point of art, whether it is music, paintings, theatre, etc. It's all to reach the audience and make them feel.
You can't control what resonates with you. You are not doing anything wrong for feeling emotional responses in relation to your kintype or to their artwork.
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i think every medieval timesey ren fair type attraction should have a booth of pedantry where if you wanna know if something happening is Authentic or you wanna ask questions about real medieval times or whatever you can stop by and there's just a historian sitting on a throne of books eager to show you all their research
thank you for your response. it made sense. i have more questions surrounding the relationship between someone who is factkin and their kintype specfically (especially if you are 100% your kintype and not adjacent)
firstly, do you think that it would be rude/fakeclaiming/etc. if you or someone else's kintype did not agree with your claims to be them? as i mentioned in my other ask, it might contradict someone's religion or spiritual beliefs, or just be kind of triggering emotionally (which, tbf, i did learn that a lot of factkin don't kin someone else's consciousness rather than their persona, which i guess would make this question irrelevant to those folk). i'm asking this one specifically so i can navigate complex situations on factkin without disrespecting anyone as best i can; sorry if it's worded weirdly. you don't need to answer this if it's too like personal/triggering.
is it common in the community to view yourself as an alternate version of your type (similarly to how fictionkin and fictives do)? or is it more likely for it to be a twin flame kind of situation (basically a spiritual thing where one soul is cut in half and the two sides are destined to influence each others lives; i'm not too cool with the community however because they sometimes encourage staying with abusers), or just something else? this is just more of a curiosity question, which i would go find out myself, but i don't have enough time to do that.
This is a really good set of questions!! Thank you for your patience while I thought about how to answer it.
firstly, do you think that it would be rude/fakeclaiming/etc. if you or someone else's kintype did not agree with your claims to be them?
This is a situation I have never once been faced with before so I cannot say with 100% certainty how I would react. I think it would depend on the actual event itself how I would react. Do I think it would be rude? No. I think it's a perfectly reasonable knee-jerk reaction. I could try to explain my point of view but at the end of the day I am not going to get mad at someone for something like that. My spirituality is not "more right" objectively than someone else's. It is more right to me, sure, but I acknowledge that their beliefs are more right to them. I am entitled to my spirituality and they are entitled to disagree with it.
That said, my kintypes are not voluntary. They are involuntary spiritual identities. If tomorrow Eminem (using his as my example because the others are all 150+ years old and deceased) made a Tumblr account, messaged me, and said that I was causing him problems, I couldn't just decide to stop being factkin. I could stop being as vocal about that specific identity. It would remain a private and personal identity.
is it common in the community to view yourself as an alternate version of your type
I would say so. There is a lot of "canon-divergence" for lack of a better term in the factkin community just as their is in the fictionkin community, for example. Lots of factkin do see themselves as "alternate versions" or have memories that don't align 100% with what happened in our world.
You mention the "twin flame" situations and I am not well-versed enough in twin flames to comment on that but I appreciate your explanation.
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do you know places I can find more in-depth factkin and faitkin writings? I wanna understand factkin better as someone realizing they got a faitkin aspect to their identity
Hi anon! I unfortunately don't know of many factkin-specific writings outside of Tumblr and such. The only prominent alterhuman writer I know is Michelle Belanger, who wrote about the Vampyre community.
Searching websites like Google Scholar, JSTOR, and other academic sites with terms like "alterhuman" or "otherkin" miiiiiight get you some results but I think it'll be slim pickings.
Your best bet to understanding factkin/faitkin stuff better, in my opinion, is to talk to members of the alterhuman community directly through the social media(s) and/or forum of your choice! Good luck in your search!
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hello i have a question. originally I was very anti-factkin because of various reasons (mostly because of how important and personal my identity and i don't want anyone else to have it/i have a weak sense of self and this can make me spiral into depressive episides/this can contradict my spiritual beliefs about my identity). i kind of loosened up a bit cause i realized not everyone feels that protective of their identity.
but like, i see a lot of contradicting information about factkin, particularly from antis vs pros. i've seen some people (pros) say that factkin don't actually believe they have the same identity but more so feel cut from the cloth or something? but that kind of sounds more like facthearted to me? and antis say that factkin do feel like they own someone's else's identity and this is invasive? generally i've learned that antis of any community based on identity almost never know what they're talking about (aside from anti radqueers, maybe).
overall i think you seem nice enough, and i'd like to hear how you feel about this. that might help me decide how i feel about factkin since i've been so on and off about it.
Hey!! This question is very thoughtful and I'm going to tackle it in stages! A disclaimer I often have to make is that most of what I say comes from my own personal experience (because otherkinity is such a personal experience to begin with and I feel like everyone's experience is a little bit different.) That holds here too!
This got really long so I put it under a cut!
For starters: thank you for saying I seem nice enough skdfdssldkfs you seem nice enough too. You have phrased this in a really respectful way. I can totally see your point of view. How you feel about your own personal identity is, well, very personal.
Now, the contradicting information you've seen is due to the fact that there has been something of an explosion of factkin in recent years. I remember when I started this blog and I could probably count on one hand how many active, good-faith, factkin blogs existed on this site. As more of us have appeared/awakened, the community as a whole has gotten more attention. I think more people want to theorize about where we (factkin) come from now than ever before.
The contradiction also exists in part because otherkinity is a very diverse experience. As with any primarily spiritual/psychological identity, there is a lot of diversity as to how it is expressed. Everyone has a different brain. Everyone has a different soul.
"i've seen some people (pros) say that factkin don't actually believe they have the same identity but more so feel cut from the cloth or something" I would say this is not entirely correct but it's getting there. Yes, some factkin would consider themselves more adjacent to their kintypes than being them. Why they identify as factkin rather than facthearted, I cannot say for sure. It's a case-by-case thing. But some factkin who identify this way do so because their facttype is an alternate persona of a real person. (Think Darkiplier) Some do it because they identify as diaunthros.
Most of us, however, don't identify as adjacent to our kintypes in this way. Most of us identify as our kintypes the same way other otherkin (say that 5 times fast) do. I am Edgar Allan Poe the same way I am a wolf and an angel. Which leads me to my next point:
"antis say that factkin do feel like they own someone's else's identity and this is invasive" I don't feel like I own anything. I moreso feel that I share it and even then I hardly do. I'll use Eminem in this example because he is my one kintype that has not been dead for (minimum) 100 years and I feel he might be the example that speaks most to this point.
I take no credit for Eminem's music. I feel I am owed exactly 0% of his money. My kintypes are spiritual. I believe that if things had gone a little differently (and that in some parallel universes they did go differently) I would have been born as my kintypes and not as the self that I am right now and this is why I feel a sense of identity and singularity when I think about my kintypes. I recognize that this belief is very difficult to prove or even justify. I am simply at the 'believing' stage and working towards the 'justifying' stage. But I do get kinshifts and kin memories like other otherkin.
I do not claim ownership over another's identity because I know physically who I am and spiritually who I am does not line up 100%. I know my spiritual identity is not grounds for claiming any credit for the actions of another. Aside from on this blog I do not make a habit of introducing myself with this identity. Some people might still find my identity invasive but I know for a fact I do not engage in identity theft or anything that can honestly, in good faith, be called impersonation. I do not mislead others about my identity. I always qualify my kintypes as being identities held on a very spiritual level.
In short, some factkin identify as more adjacent and some (like me) identify truly as their facttypes because otherkinity is a diverse experience. You are completely correct when you say those who are unfavourable of niche communities generally don't know what they're talking about. Factkinity and otherkinity in general are communities full of nuance and a lot of stauchly-anti-factkin do not grasp that.
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Btw I do see your follow up question and I'm drafting a response but I'm trying to be thoughtful about it so it's taking a minute!! I will answer soon I prommy <3
im a k-pop factive and watned to post more about myself on both our tiktok and tumblr but im afraid that people will leave weird/sexual comments on it or that people will leave hate comments and fakeclaim me because of my source and i have no idea on how to prevent this from happening so do you have any tips on how to deal with this
Unfortunately, anon, I do not have any idea how to prevent it from happening.
If I were you I would NOT post about it on TikTok. That is a platform that has your face directly tied to it and if you're worried about negative attention it will certainly be harder to deal with there.
Here on Tumblr, you can protect yourself a little. The only thing I can think of is to go through the factkin tag and block blogs posting negatively preemptively so they can't find your blog/posts! This will prevent them from having discussions with you but it will also prevent them from bombarding you and if you just want a space to be yourself I'd say that's a fair trade off.
The only way I would advise you to deal with it is to use the block button at your discretion and to log off when you need to.
Good luck, anon! You're valid <3
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I'm closer to being faitkin than factkin but I'm currently questioning two faittypes and I wanted to know how you go about confirming/questioning facttypes. Any kind of process you go through or anything?
This is a good question! I'll preface this with a disclaimer: what works well for me might not work for you! That's okay, don't feel any pressure. This is a highly personal process!
There are two ways I usually confirm an identity after questioning.
The first one happens when I have a specific kintype in mind. If I think I might be a specific kintype I often meditate on it for a while and try to figure out my actual connection to the identity. After some time has passed, if I feel the connection is still strong and I feel confident enough about it, and especially if I believe I've gotten some kin memories from past-life regression meditations, I confirm it!
The second happens when I have an archetype in mind. This happened when I kinfirmed Peter III. I thought I might be medieval royalty of some kind so I did some research. I narrowed it down to European royalty, an approximate time-frame, and I browsed Wikipedia and Brittanica originally for information on kings from that time. After doing research and narrowing it down to a person, I followed the steps from method 1!
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hello i have a question. originally I was very anti-factkin because of various reasons (mostly because of how important and personal my identity and i don't want anyone else to have it/i have a weak sense of self and this can make me spiral into depressive episides/this can contradict my spiritual beliefs about my identity). i kind of loosened up a bit cause i realized not everyone feels that protective of their identity.
but like, i see a lot of contradicting information about factkin, particularly from antis vs pros. i've seen some people (pros) say that factkin don't actually believe they have the same identity but more so feel cut from the cloth or something? but that kind of sounds more like facthearted to me? and antis say that factkin do feel like they own someone's else's identity and this is invasive? generally i've learned that antis of any community based on identity almost never know what they're talking about (aside from anti radqueers, maybe).
overall i think you seem nice enough, and i'd like to hear how you feel about this. that might help me decide how i feel about factkin since i've been so on and off about it.
Hey!! This question is very thoughtful and I'm going to tackle it in stages! A disclaimer I often have to make is that most of what I say comes from my own personal experience (because otherkinity is such a personal experience to begin with and I feel like everyone's experience is a little bit different.) That holds here too!
This got really long so I put it under a cut!
For starters: thank you for saying I seem nice enough skdfdssldkfs you seem nice enough too. You have phrased this in a really respectful way. I can totally see your point of view. How you feel about your own personal identity is, well, very personal.
Now, the contradicting information you've seen is due to the fact that there has been something of an explosion of factkin in recent years. I remember when I started this blog and I could probably count on one hand how many active, good-faith, factkin blogs existed on this site. As more of us have appeared/awakened, the community as a whole has gotten more attention. I think more people want to theorize about where we (factkin) come from now than ever before.
The contradiction also exists in part because otherkinity is a very diverse experience. As with any primarily spiritual/psychological identity, there is a lot of diversity as to how it is expressed. Everyone has a different brain. Everyone has a different soul.
"i've seen some people (pros) say that factkin don't actually believe they have the same identity but more so feel cut from the cloth or something" I would say this is not entirely correct but it's getting there. Yes, some factkin would consider themselves more adjacent to their kintypes than being them. Why they identify as factkin rather than facthearted, I cannot say for sure. It's a case-by-case thing. But some factkin who identify this way do so because their facttype is an alternate persona of a real person. (Think Darkiplier) Some do it because they identify as diaunthros.
Most of us, however, don't identify as adjacent to our kintypes in this way. Most of us identify as our kintypes the same way other otherkin (say that 5 times fast) do. I am Edgar Allan Poe the same way I am a wolf and an angel. Which leads me to my next point:
"antis say that factkin do feel like they own someone's else's identity and this is invasive" I don't feel like I own anything. I moreso feel that I share it and even then I hardly do. I'll use Eminem in this example because he is my one kintype that has not been dead for (minimum) 100 years and I feel he might be the example that speaks most to this point.
I take no credit for Eminem's music. I feel I am owed exactly 0% of his money. My kintypes are spiritual. I believe that if things had gone a little differently (and that in some parallel universes they did go differently) I would have been born as my kintypes and not as the self that I am right now and this is why I feel a sense of identity and singularity when I think about my kintypes. I recognize that this belief is very difficult to prove or even justify. I am simply at the 'believing' stage and working towards the 'justifying' stage. But I do get kinshifts and kin memories like other otherkin.
I do not claim ownership over another's identity because I know physically who I am and spiritually who I am does not line up 100%. I know my spiritual identity is not grounds for claiming any credit for the actions of another. Aside from on this blog I do not make a habit of introducing myself with this identity. Some people might still find my identity invasive but I know for a fact I do not engage in identity theft or anything that can honestly, in good faith, be called impersonation. I do not mislead others about my identity. I always qualify my kintypes as being identities held on a very spiritual level.
In short, some factkin identify as more adjacent and some (like me) identify truly as their facttypes because otherkinity is a diverse experience. You are completely correct when you say those who are unfavourable of niche communities generally don't know what they're talking about. Factkinity and otherkinity in general are communities full of nuance and a lot of stauchly-anti-factkin do not grasp that.
I hope my answer was helpful to you! If it opens up a whole other slew of questions then 1) I'm sorry and 2) feel free to ask them!
And if you like my blog consider doing a daily click for Palestine!
