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hello!!!! you can call me M!! he/him, adult

this is my Mythical Sausage fictionkin blog — im pretty sure just Vampires SMP at this point but i dont like to limit myself <3

other VSMP kin feel free to interact!! im not out looking for anyone but im not avoiding anyone either!!

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so tired head empty yet internally so restless ???

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alternating "status report: scared" and "status report: not sausage" a lot lately

#m talking tag #this was gonna be slightly silly but then i realized just how intense this is rn #im. literally no one #i think they call that 'depersonalization'#i cant even come up with something to pass the time #as though i have no preferences or interests or anytghing #im really only posting to this blog because. it's the only place i actualy talk about identity stuff #i dont feel. good #m venting tag

i love the black parade b-sides and so does my accomplice which wouldn’t be an issue if he didn’t also hate being in charge of being alive

#m talking tag #i say that but he’s actually generally glad to be here #he just stresses over masking #and to be fair i dont like being in charge of being alive either #but that’s what happens when youre an inextricable part of the core self that cannot operate independently

it seems like every time i think im ready to start being social again i get hit with fatigue or some illness or am otherwise unavailable

#m talking tag #in this case it’s been fatigue for ages #and right now in this moment i have to leave at 8am #heavy sad dog sigh

theres something wrong with me

#m talking tag #lost fledgling time again #or something.

cant shut up disease

#m talking tag #thousandth post was about craving blood #nice

blood craving?

#m talking tag #dont usually get that #i was gonna get something to eat anyway #so that solves the hunger part #but no matter what i eat ill be disappointed lol

cant sleep with wet hair. cant blow dry at 2am. dont wanna be awake. what the hell

#m talking tag #i have a headache :(#annnnnd im fixating/overthinking againnnn #simultaneously reeeeally wanna go bother people #or play games #minceraft maybe. hmmmmm #but then i dont want to talk to anyone either #cause im tired

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i need to stop reading the DSM-V

#m talking tag #it's a little upsetting to realize that everything ive been (very insistently) told about certain conditions is either a half truth #or is directly contradicted by the diagnostic criteria.#'you cant have [condition] because you dont have [overt symptom]' and it's something thats been recognized as not necessary to the diagnosi #'everyone with [condition] experiences [symptom] in [way] or else they dont really have it'#........but it literally specifies thats *one* form #and that people who experience the other form most commonly DONT experience [symptom] in [way]#i am kinda thinking mostly about uh #a friend of mine who basically told me that because i dont have super overt/outwardly visible possession form dissociative identity disorde #featuring clearly defined alters who clearly announce themselves and have unique tastes and aesthetics #they dont think im plural.#specifically they said since ive been 'consistently the same personality' in the years theyve known me #the people doing the truthing must 'have the wrong information'#really i only mentioned the pluraltruthing to them as a joke #but they felt the need to respond. like that.#anyway im sure ive read the diagnostic criteria for various dissociative disorders before #but apparently i forgot #m venting tag #<- i guess #sorry im fixating a little bit #i fixate for a while and then i forget about it til something makes me think of it #then i fixate for a while again #then forget.#so im still just calling it kin and kinshifts because apparently if you say plural the assumption is possession form DID #and if you then dont have an overt presentation of it you get accused of faking #to the point that if i say plural and im not experiencing an overt possession form of DID i assume im tricking myself and lying to everyone #and actually ive had people effectively tell me that i must be wrong and it actually IS possession form. meanwhile it's. it's not.#i dont fit the criteria for DID and ESPECIALLY not the possession form of it #okay im. i need to be done now #risky post that will almost certainly knock me out of being almost sausage again

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I’m one of those people who likes being educated on practically everything, so can someone explain to me the difference between a Therian and an Otherkin?

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Denotatively (ie, in terms of strictly the definitions):

Therian = someone who identifies as an animal (sometimes you'll see this defined as earthen animals only, but this is historically not necessarily part of the label - if it's animalistic, it qualifies)

Otherkin = someone who identifies as nonhuman (be that animal, plant, sapient nonhuman people, object, concept, etc.)

Connotatively (ie, in terms of associations and cultural nuances), there are some cultural distinctions as well. The therian and otherkin communities actually arose completely independently, and only later started interacting so closely that in many ways they've nearly merged.

The otherkin community originates from a few separate groups of elves, namely the Silver Elves and the Elf Queen's Daughters, both of whom originate somewhere in the 1970s (exact dates often difficult to pin down) and which then led to the Elfinkind Digest, a mailing list originally intended for elves but which quickly expanded to other nonhuman beings, within which the term otherkind (which would rapidly become otherkin, as far as I can tell due to typographical errors that accidentally got preserved in the lexicon) was coined to avoid the inconvenience of having to write elfin-/dragon-/orc-/hobbit-/etc-kind constantly within the Digest. The influence of these groups and communities has meant the otherkin community has always had heavy influence from New Age and neo-pagan philosophies, and has always leaned toward spiritual explanations - though certainly never exclusively.

The therian community, on the other hand, originates from a messaging board called alt.horror.werewolves, often abbreviated to AHWW within the therian community these days, in the early 1990s. While this messaging board was originally a fansite for werewolves, at a certain point people started turning up who felt themselves to be (were)wolves under the skin, and gradually that kind of discussion took over much of the board. (Not just wolves, either - some of the earliest weres I remember seeing in logs include a bat and, of course, the now-famous werePontiac.) If you've ever seen animal-people, particularly older ones, calling themselves weres instead of/in addition to therians, this is why - that was the original word we used for the concept. Culturally speaking, the therian community has always been very focused on the concept of shifts because of these origins - it is, if I'm not mistaken, where the otherkin community adopted that terminology from. The therian community also tends to be more focused on the animality of being non-human - which is why these days that's usually used as the primary distinction between otherkinity and therianthropy.

Ultimately, there's a lot of overlap, but there are also a lot of reasons why someone might want to use one word or the other even if both could theoretically apply to them denotatively.