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🌿 an elf, fairy, forest spirit, or any other creature/being of the nature? Do you:

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#otherkin #elfkin #faekin #alterhuman #goblinkin #spiritkin

only-tiktoks

#sustainability #nature #forest #trees

stevnnhall

WAKE No.1 / 42x42 / Canada

mixed media with photography, acrylic paint, pastel and ink by Stev’nn Hall

#art

90377

Rothirsch - red deer - Cervus elaphus by Olaf Kerber Website | Instagram | Facebook

#nature #animals

Hazel, Patron Saint of Elves

#jk it's my chandelier #elvenkind #otherkin #I got new ears and wanted to show them off

feather-bone

Cave nectar bat 🦇

[ID: an illustration of a small brown bat clutching a branch. It is surrounded by white flowers and is turned toward the viewer with its tongue sticking out. The background is mustard yellow. End.]

#bats #art

asmeesh

Made from bits and bobs from around the property. Put together for my Halloween getup.

#tis the season

elluendifad

i want elf religion content but i don't want to make elf religion content harrumph

hazel-the-elf

I was searching the tags for elf religion content and this is what I found! Well, *someone's* got to create the content but apparently it's not going to be us!

#tie eldalieva

cy-lindric

House of Finwë family tree, based on the later version from HoME. I chose to stop at Elrond & Elros' generation, but later added Arwen as a side note, which is why her brothers are not included.

#Tolkien #Silmarillion #art

t3nderbeasts-deactivated2025120

I don't want to be human anymore! Why can't the old forest gods turn me into a beast?! One with twisted antlers, sharp teeth, and looming wings? No longer held back by human standards and now only looked at as a creature far more knowing of what lurks out of unseen eyes!

🦇🦷🦴🦌

#kin stuff

arcopluris

fun fact: the reason otherkin are called otherkin is bc when these communities were first forming in the 90s, there were a bunch of elfkin people who made up the community. and so they derisively called anyone who WASN’T elfkin “otherkin”.

Elf supremacism transcends universes, timelines, and every other possible obstacle.

via Zylphia Sepiida

jarandhel

You aren’t the first person to make that observation. Link to full thread: https://jarandhel.tumblr.com/post/152081547230/iyazo-jemthecrystalgem-phoneus

arethinn

As far as I have seen from reading the archives, it certainly wasn’t derisive, and it wasn’t elves who coined the term, either.

A dwarf named Elezar was the first to say “otherkind” (my guess is it was simply formed off the name of the list, substituting “other” for “elfin”), in Digest #16, April 18, 1990, some months before Torin said “otherkin”. Torin also described himself as non-elven in two separate posts (first citing centaur and wolf, then saying he doesn’t use the label “elf”). So whichever way you slice that, it wasn’t elves bestowing it on non-elves.

As to whether it meant “non-elves”, though not everyone used it in identical fashion, “otherkind” seems to have been quickly understood to include or at least potentially include elves. Elezar explicitly included “elves and others of faeriekind” as well as dwarves in the category right off the bat. Torin’s “otherkin” was in the context of a post about functioning in human society and that it would be nice “if we could have our own otherkin community”, which sounds inclusive of all types to me. There are some instances of lists like “elvenkind/dwarvenkind/otherkind” and “elf/dragon/orc/whatever names” (both of those uses were by dragons, for what that’s worth, so again, not elves), but these seem to me similar to what Torin is quoted about in the Otherkin Timeline, that people got tired of typing such things; “other” is being used as “et cetera” and is not really trying to draw some particular distinction between elves and non-elves.

So far, I’ve only directly read (as opposed to doing text searches on) the first 60 or so digests plus #71, and need to start over with a more careful reading, but the impression I’m getting is that where “other” isn’t “et cetera”, it’s usually being used in contrast to humans, similar to how it’s meant now.

(Aside: Elfinkind Digest is possibly/probably unusual in this respect, but “otherkind” remained the more frequent form over the whole history of the list – 2617 uses versus 1616 – and “otherkin” didn’t become more popular until around Digest #1300 in April of 1997. In fact, after Torin said “otherkin” in July 1990, no one, including him, used that form again for 8 months. His description in the Timeline makes it sounds like “otherkin” was an ad hoc creation when he wrote it, but people were already using “otherkind” and I can’t see how he wouldn’t have been aware of it. In that context “otherkin” almost just looks like a typo.)

#otherkin #otherkin digest #elvenkind

turnipot

i love ducks 🦆

crispcritter

[image I.D. A stylized illustration of two white ducks with yellow beaks resting close together in dense, green foliage. The duck on the left is standing, while the duck on the right is laying down. End I.D.]

#ducks #animals

sartorialadventure

Zareena

#clothes

wirsindkrieg

“Kinnie” wasn’t based on a slur.

I guess I get to keep posting about this. We know the origin of the term “kinnie”, and it was never based on any slurs. I have a firsthand source on the matter, because my partner is partially responsible for the term getting out there in the first place.

Let me explain.

Those of you who have been in the Tumblr otherkin community for at least a few years will likely remember the blog only-on-tomblr. For those who weren’t there, it was a notorious antikin blog (probably the most visible of them), though it finally shut down this year. The evidence we have regarding the spread of the term “kinnie” does trace back to it being popularized by only-on-tomblr, who used it as a way of infantilizing otherkin. That blog is not the origin of the term, however.

The admin of only-on-tomblr also ran an accompanying Discord server, and somewhere around 2017, my partner (who is serious otherkin) and a few of their ‘kin friends decided to join said Discord server, partially to troll, partially to try educating them about what “otherkin” actually is. (Said attempts at educating never stuck, but that’s not surprising.) That friend group referred to each other as “kinnies” as a bit of an in-joke, one of those “we’re (affectionately) poking fun at ourselves among friends” kinds of things. At some point, the term wound up getting said by someone in that group in only-on-tomblr’s Discord server, and it was then picked up by only-on-tomblr in the form we saw it used on the blog. From there it spread through antikin circles, and seems to have cycled around to the KFF community.

So while the common use of “kinnie” has been at least somewhat derogatory towards otherkin, it has absolutely no basis in any kind of slurs, and I’m getting pretty tired of seeing that claim still going around. It started as a friendly in-joke among a small group of friends (who, again, are all serious otherkin), and then get picked up and turned against the community by people who take issue with our existence.

Because of the term’s connections to antikin, and the way the term has been used against the otherkin community, it’s entirely understandable to dislike the term and prefer to not see it used. But, again, it’s not related to any kind of slurs. Can we please stop spreading that bit of misinformation already?

#otherkin

thebeautifulbook

THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien. THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE TWO TOWERS, THE RETURN OF THE KING. Chinese edition illustrated by Jian Guo. Click to enlarge images.