The Otherkin Cafe

The official blog for the kin cafe, a friendly, social website for otherkin to communicate.

[kincafe]

Retired Blog!

I'm over at @dinocanid now.

[moved-to-ithil]

New Merfolk Discord

⭒❃⭒ Oceanic Sanctuary ⭒❃⭒

Hello and Welcome to the Oceanic Sanctuary. We are a server dedicated to merfolk kin and to systems who have merfolk headmates. We also welcome all other types of ocean related kins and headmates. It is designed to be a laid back community to make like-minded friends and a place to share all your merfolk thoughts! You must be 18+ to join. All system types are welcome.

What we have to offer: 1. friendly and relaxing atmosphere 2. experienced staff 3. a place with no judgement 4. cute ocean theme 5. pluralkit for systems 6. self assignable and color roles 7. merfolk facts, headcanons, etc. 8. channels to share kin experiences and memories 9. channels for merfolk headmates to converse 10. an art gallery to share all types of works 11. Occasional events to celebrate the merfolk world And more!!!

⭒❃⭒|⭒❃⭒ Join us today!!! ⭒❃⭒|⭒❃⭒ link: https://discord.gg/thTTn22Jkh

[dinocanid]

Artist and panelist applications for Othercon 2021 are open!

Artist: https://t.co/JaDeAyQl3S

Panelist: https://t.co/EaEJWehZoe

These will remain open until May 1st, so you have plenty of time to plan!

[kincafe]

Hey yall, I've decided to retire this blog and will be continuing from my kin blog from now on. I won't be deactivating kincafe ofc because it has a lot of good resources! It'll just be dormant.

[kincafe]

hello! I was told by @shadowfae I could get a link for a discord server here I think? I’m a new ‘linker and would like to have a non-tumblr space to exist in that would accept me being there 💛 (“key anon”, will verify myself on discord/on tumblr if you need me to)

Otherconnect? I'm just a mod for that server and I don't know if I can post an invite link publicly yet. Owner says it'll be public eventually, but idk when, so it's just individual invites for now

I can send you one if you DM me on discord (Dinocanid#6171) or here. Verification is only needed if you want to access the server's 18+ section

[kincafe]

So you know about that POC percentage survey I conducted a while ago? I forgot I never released the results lol, so here they are!

Good to see that I'm not the only POC in the community! Still a minority, but important nonetheless

[kincafe]

@shadowfae

Yeah the amount of participants isn't high enough for it to the definitive percentage of POC. It only got 163 (usable) participants, so it's safe to say a huge chunk didn't even see it. I don't have a very large footprint in the community, so it only gets as far as it's shared, but I plan to do it again at some point this year.

Still though it is a look into the amount of POC. My guess is that the percentage will be somewhat similar with more participants. Maybe 30% max, 35% with a generous guess

[kincafe]

So you know about that POC percentage survey I conducted a while ago? I forgot I never released the results lol, so here they are!

Good to see that I'm not the only POC in the community! Still a minority, but important nonetheless

[kincafe]

Forgot to post about it here, but volunteer staff applications for Othercon 2021 are now open! They will close after January 31st, 2021.

Volunteer

Volunteer Staff Applications Open

[kincafe]

The donation amount breakdown (which charities got how much) can be found on Othercon's homepage:

Home

Othercon - A virtual Otherkin and Therian Convention

[archivekin]

grapic design is my passion

anyways othercon was brilliant :,)

[kincafe]

Is it too late to attend Othercon? I meant to register but the date slipped past me, and all forms have closed.

Sorry for the delay in answering this, been busy. You can DM me (Dinocanid#6171) and I can add you to the attendee list

[kincafe]

Invite emails for Othercon have been sent out! Be sure to check your spam folder of you can't find the email. If you can't find it anywhere, let me know!

[arethinn]

I did not receive anything either on the email I provided in the form (which is where the reg confirmation went) nor the Google account I was logged into when I filled it out. What is the best way to contact you? (I thought of replying to the confirmation but I wasn’t sure whether its return address was actually checked.)

[kincafe]

Send me a DM on discord (Dinocanid#6171) and I can invite you directly. Something borked with Otherbot (what I used to send the mass emails) and some people didn't receive it for some reason

[kincafe]

Invite emails for Othercon have been sent out! Be sure to check your spam folder of you can't find the email. If you can't find it anywhere, let me know!

[kincafe]

how can I register to attend? I almost forgot about it and now I'm freaking out cause I'm almost late and I'm really interested in it!

On the official website (othercon.org). There's a link in the top menu and at the bottom of the homepage

[kincafe]

Are the things listed as "Netflix Party" going to be just screen shares from Discord, or do they require the actual Netflix Party extension + a Netflix account?

Netflix party needs the actual extension + a netflix account. In my experience, screensharing movies through Discord has resulted in audio and quality issues. If I can manage to Discord screenshare to run smoothly with movies than I can probably do both, but I can't guarentee it at the moment

[kincafe]

If you have registered as an artist or panelist for Othercon and haven't gotten a server invite yet, let me know! It means I wasn't able to reach you when I was sending them out

[kincafe]

i just realised a panel i wanted to attend is 18+ and i didn't share ID, is it too late to change that? i got an email saying my application has been processed so idk

You can just send proof of age to the admin email ([email protected]), or edit your form entry and send an email saying you updated it

[kincafe]

Othercon starts this Friday, I hope y'all are excited! Attendance for this year has far exceeded my expectations, we're currently at around 300 attendees!

Due to the sheer volume, invite emails will start going out on Thursday so everyone gets their codes before the events start on Friday.

Remember that attendee registration closes on the 12th!

[arethinn]

Curious, will there be a “con suite”? Like a general lounge open to all, all the time (or most of the time)? And/or any kintype-themed channels, not for specific presentations but on a similar “just drop by and hang out” kind of line?

[kincafe]

Yeah, there are channels for that which will be open the whole weekend. Currently there two for general topics and two for general kin talk

[kincafe]

 @dfislayer​ Othercon is on Discord. You can check out the FAQ for more details: https://www.othercon.org/faq.html