'Kin Speak

This is the second incarnation of 'Kin Speak, an anonymous medium for nonhuman and otherkin people to share their thoughts, feelings, experiences, and ideas.

[kin-speak]

Im so proud of myself. I heard someone mention Iron Man and I didnt start feeling uncomfortable/disgusted with myself, question my identity, or become hyper aware of reality I guess is the best way of saying it.

[kin-speak]

*gives my sona more nonhuman features* *starts identifying more with my sona than my actual appearance* *gives my sona more nonhuman features* *starts identifying more with my sona than my actual appearance* *gives my sona more nonhuman featu-*

-_- hmmmm.

[kin-speak]

It just kinda bothers me how 99% of the werewolf kin moodboards and aesthetics feature normal four legged wolves. I’m super sure I’m not a feral werewolf and it makes me think I’m doing the whole ‘werewolf’ thing wrong and ‘bipedal werewolfkin’/lycan has another term or something.

[kin-speak]

Knowing that I'm Sephiroth makes sense to me now... I used to think I was angelkin. I'm starting to wonder how many other people who were first class from SOLDIER have made the mistake of being angelkin. We all had wings...

[kin-speak]

I really dislike this new push to not embrace being in a physically human body now in the community. And the "human essentialism" stuff is dumb honestly. I've seen people referring to wild animals as "cisspecies animals" and it's really fucking weird.

[kin-speak]

I finally decided to figure out more about myself and talk to other people who feel similarly, so I started looking through tags and blogs and stuff. To be completely honest, I feel disheartened, invalidated, and really anxious about the community. I was excited to share my experiences with people that understand, but now I realize I’d just get made fun of here too.

[kin-speak]

Therian sites are absolute hell to try and exist within as fictherian. I've been vagued (which I thought certain places were too mature to do, but oh well), blamed for the idea that my presence makes a space unrelatable to the "real" therians. I crave places to discuss my animality, but seeking them out backfires.

[kin-speak]

I sometimes feel like I'm "wrong" about being elfkin. Other elfkin seem to really resonate with LotR elves and I really don't. I feel like the elvish things that resonate with me aren't elvish and I'm "doing" elfkin wrong.

[kin-speak]

Humans need more fun courtship rituals! I wanna see cool dances or random silly gifts! I know some people do those anyway, but my kintype has elaborate courtship rituals, and I kind of yearn for them...

[kin-speak]

It took me so long to figure out I'm a Hobbitkin. I mean, how could it not? With the popularity of cottagecore now running wild, I just thought I had picked it up. But I was rewatching the hobbit/lotr trilogies a few months ago and just... it was borderline overwhelming.

I'd forgetten just how familiar the other hobbits were, just how much I missed the Shire. And when the movies were over, I cried. There were just so many "new" emotions and soul-deep aches- I couldn't handle it.

As someone who didn't know what being 'kin was, I was so confused as to why I felt so connected to a bunch of fictional creatures: why I felt that we were a kind that was one and the same.

And so I did my research. So, so much research. I learned so many new things, and I've never been so sure of my identity. I mean, sure- I tried to push my kintype away, tried to abandon the notion of even being kin, but here I am.

And it is so rewarding.

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[kin-speak]

I want chewlery and kin gear so bad just wanna monch and be euphoric

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[kin-speak]

I put on a certain outfit that send me spinning into a new and fun shift, but I know as soon as I take it off and go to sleep I'll stop being shifted and I'll be sad to see it go :( the problems of being an otherflicker

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[kin-speak]

Am I an angelkin or winged-humanoidkin? who knows.

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[kin-speak]

“I wonder what those defunct troll anti-kin blogs are up to these days” never trolled per se but as it turns out I made an “ironic” kin blog to express alterhumanity in a space I could excuse as for a joke if my friends found out. Genuinely joined the community in 2013 and haven’t looked back.

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[kin-speak]

I miss,,, having claws so bad,,,,,

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[clovencraft]

him...

[kin-speak]

Created a page for the collaborative efforts to put together a tag list of what we of the tumblr community commonly use (rather than something Kin Speak uses). It can be found in the side bar or right here! I hope it is of use to some fellow wanderers.