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mangymapache

Hello please look at these pillows. They’re very neat and there’s a big variety in shapes and colors as well as realism. You can go super real or super cartoony. These might be fun for kin that live in the woods!

elk-hound

I'm curious what you all think of animal-like creatures being able included in therian. Like can people who id as werewolves or unicorns or dragons call themselves therians?

psittacoul-deactivated20210206

A lot of otherkin who identify as more “animalistic” mythical creatures use the term “Theriomythic.”

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eggs-benedict-afton

Golden/Purple Glitter/Gear/Withered Springtrap Stimboard for Anon!

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Feel free to request more if you want!

candypink08

Ballora <3

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(it do have some mistakes but like it anyway)

(I use a reference for the pose)

springtrapcpu

i’m in there michael. your father. it’s your father. i want to talk to you. i want to see my boy.

cussword69

made a list of viruses i would/would not survive and they are:

WOULD:

the walking dead

dead rising

dead island

WOULD NOT:

the last of us

dying light’s harran virus

train to busan

dead space’s necromorphs

resident evil’s tryant virus.

thank you

howling-suggestions

I'm turning back into a wild thing, a bloody thing, a lonely thing howling at the cloudy sky wondering for what reason the moon stopped shining.

thereturnofastrosrevenge

I used to sing

theelven-forest

I NEED HELP UNDERSTANDING

I’m still incredibly confused with the whole fictionkin thing I get the basic part of it like identifying with a character but it’s just really confusing? Someone please try and explain this to me better!!!

shadowfae

[raises hand] Fuckin’ dibs, before the misinfo gets to you.

Otherkinity, and so thus fictionkind, is an ontological phenomenon in which someone identifies partially or entirely as a nonhuman and/or fictional entity on a nonphysical, involuntary, and profound level. All of those words are important.

Being fictionkind, also known shorthand as fictionkin or fickin, is not identifying with a character. That’s just relatability, and to a far more profound level, other/fictionhearted. It’s identifying as them, in a way. You are them, and they are you. Sort of.

See, people put way too much emphasis on canon. Canon’s just like… Someone told someone who told someone who told someone about you, and that final person wrote down what they heard, and you only have bits and pieces of what you are, and then you find the story of the person who wrote down what they know. It’s not the real story. It may not even be close. But there’s truth to it, and it’s still you, in its own warped sort of way.

Everyone tends to think fictionkin is just… cutting a character out of a scrapbook, gluing them to this world, and calling it a day. (That’s a closer analogy to fictives and fictional introjects, which are parts of being a multiple system.) It’s not.

It’s drawing your own picture from the start, and losing the picture, and finding out that someone else drew a very similar picture, and not wanting to let that go, because of how close it is. It may not be the exact same thing, but it’s so similar that it’s a fundamental part of you and yours.

I have four fictotypes. I am four fictional characters, building off in one straight line of who I am, all huge parts of me. I’m not four people stuffed in one body, I’m one person who once was, and still is, four different people.

Being ‘kin, and so thus fickin, is a lot like having been five. The part of you that was five is still you. On some level, you’re the person you were when you were five, and you’ve built off of that, and it’s still a part of you, and always will be. You never quite let go of the person you were when you were five, and it plays a huge role in your life since, by being the first turns and choices you made, and everything branches out from that.

I am a person who once was another person, who once was another, and so forth. I am still who I am. I am still who I was, even if I’ve grown.

That’s a little what it’s like. I was a Pokemon, then I was a demon made from ivy who broke several worlds in her own insanity, then I was a mass murderer because I guess that’s just Magic Russia for you, and then I was a notorious skypirate captain, and now I’m here, just a friendly IT student who’s irked he can’t ride a motorcycle right now.

Being fictionkin is one hell of a trip. This ain’t a conclusion you come to for fun. I mean, people on tumblr like pretending to be like us for fun, because roleplaying to the extreme, I guess. But this is pretty serious. Our community has probably 70 years now of documented history. The concept of us goes back millennia.

If this sounds like you - possible, especially since you’re asking about it - then I wrote a guide and crash course which you can find here. It might help. At the very least, part #1 will give you a crash course to terminology.

You can also look through my blog, I’ve got a ton of tags and archiving of folks’ experiences. As far as people will post them, that is. I also will answer any questions you have, people genuinely curious is such a rarity that I’ll drop stuff to answer questions, so feel free. Hope that helps a bit!

a-dragons-explanations

@shadowfae This is an excellent explanation - do you mind if I save this post and give the link to people asking about this in the future?

shadowfae

Absolutely save it and point folks my way if you think I know the answers. It’s very flattering of you to say so! <3

kinspeak

Theories of Causes of Otherkin

Because people have been asking about non-metaphysical theories behind otherkin, and I’m additionally seeing lots of people with the misconception that “otherkin” means “caused by past lives”…

I’ve spent several years collecting theories about the causes of an otherkin identity/nature from the community. This is by no means a complete list, but it’s what I’ve managed to gather. (I would love to hear any theories that aren’t on this list!) You can find an earlier, more formatted version (though a therianthropy-centric version, because that’s where I spent the first several years of my time in the community) of this list at Project Shift.

Archetypal: Otherkin are connecting on a deep personal level to archetypes and mythic symbols, and embodying those archetypes.

Biological: Being otherkin is a biological phenomenon, rooted in the hindbrain and showing up in physical characteristics and changes, like elongated eyeteeth and shifting eye color. Or there’s an abnormality of the brain, a genetic mutation. (Can be said to go along with the “genetic” theory.)

Dissociation: Being otherkin is related to or due to a dissociative disorder, whether it be full dissociative identity disorder or a lesser form of dissociation. Shifting is dissociation from higher thought processes and emotion, the “human side”.

Dual Souls/Walk-In: Two souls occupy the otherkin’s body, one human and one non-human, or his soul is part non-human and part human.

Energetic Resonance: The otherkin’s energy resonates at the same frequency or on the same wavelength as that of their kintype, leading to some similarities and identification.

Everyone’s Otherkin: Everyone’s an otherkin, everyone has a non-human aspect. But very few people become aware of or accepting of this fact, and so there aren’t a lot of awakened otherkin. Anyone can awaken, though, and become otherkin.

Genetic: Otherness is passed from generation to generation, like body type or some mental disorders.

Imprinting (from Winged Wolf’s site): When young, the human imprinted on an animal of a different species, and thus grew to believe (at some level) that she was that animal, imitating the behavior and mannerisms of that animal.

Links to Gaia: Therians are links to nature and the primal side of humanity, an attempt by nature or deities or some other power to return balance to the world. Therians are to fight for this and protect the environment.

Links to Magic: Otherkin are links to magic and the otherworlds, an attempt by deities or Faerie or some other power to return magic to the world. The duty of otherkin is to bring magic into mundane life and introduce wonder into the world around them; this was one of the original purposes behind glamourbombing. (This theory is most often seen with fae-kin.)

Mental: Otherkin identity is a mental fabrication, where the person desires so much to be something other that sie tricks hir mind into experiencing shifts of perception, phantom limbs, etc. It’s an elaborate game of ‘let’s pretend” taken to a new, more vibrant, more serious level. (Similar to the “dissociation” theory.)

Neurological: Otherkin identity and the experience of being other-than-human results from atypical neurology. An article by Liesk explores this at greater length.

Primal Association (from Winged Wolf’s site): “Everyone has a primal side–this is the part of the brain and personality which is instinct-driven. It may be that in some persons, the primal side is very well-developed. On top of that, the person may identify their primal nature with an animal or animals, similar to the way a dissociative has separated different personalities in their mind.”

Psychic Connection (from Winged Wolf’s site): “If a person, when very young, developed a very deep psychic link with a certain animal, then they may take on–or take in–the mind of that animal to such a degree that it becomes a part of them, and remains so even after the link is severed.”

Reincarnation: The otherkin was hir kintype in a past life, and shifts are past life memories. Or hir soul is non-human, but instead of being reincarnated into the corresponded body, something happened to reincarnate hir as a human. Or sie spent enough lifetimes as a certain species (or had a lifetime as that species that heavily impacted her soul) that the energetic nature of hir soul (or something of the like) is that of a certain non-human species.

Shamanic/Totemic: Therianthropes are people with a natural affinity for shamanic practices, astral shape-shifting, etc, and their theriotype is their power animal, not who they are. Or the totem animal of the therianthrope has more influence over the therianthrope’s behavior and mannerisms, or they’re more in touch with their totem.

Soul Parts: The soul has many parts (such as with the Egyptian concept of the soul or the Norse concept of the self) and one or more of those parts resonates with, has the nature/shape of, or in some other way is non-human. This can also explain people with multiple kintypes, if each part is, in some way, a different “species”.

Soul Splitting/Shattering: Souls can split, break, fission, or shatter into more than one piece, and often do. Soul-pieces sometimes/often fuse onto other soul-pieces, and sometimes a nonhuman soul-piece fuses to a human soul, resulting in an otherkin.

Spiritual Link: The otherkin is linked to an animal or non-human spirit (similar to the concept of daemon in the His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman). This link provides hir with some non-human behaviors and instincts.

fedora-dragon-deactivated202101

This is very interesting and thorough! I think it might be worthwhile to create a distinction between how one views and experiences their own otherkinity/animality and how they believe it was caused – e.g. a rabbit therian might believe that their therianthropy was caused by neurological means, but could still have their experiences fall under the archetypical category or experience past-life memories.