I feel like discrimination against otherkin (and, letâs be fair, any non-therian alterhumans) is WAY too fucking normalised in alterhuman communities.
I just mentionned in an alterhuman serv that I was questionning a songkin/fictionkin identity and people reacted like "Is that possible ?" That one is okay, itâs okay not to know, just annoying people in alterhuman communities for months or years donât know anything except therian.
Other people were like "Oh thatâs too complicated⊠in my time we only had therians and mythical creatures" or even "It doesnât feel right to me that people identify as something thatâs not real". Thanks ya pals now I donât even feel safe in my own goddamn communities. Sure yâall liked us better when the host was just a fox therian. I wonât miraculously stop identifying as something because itâs not is the teeny tiny window of what you consider palatable.
Hey therians. Unfriendly reminder that your communities were built by otherkins. Werewolves and fairies and elves and aliens. Seems like some of you forgot that. Now these people feel as alienated with you as they are with humans.
Non-therians have it hard. Iâve been fakeclaimed by folks because "You canât be something that doesnât exist". I canât find safe spaces, have to explain what I am half the time (honestly that one is not a problem since Iâm a yapper), feeling constantly left on the side. People use animal-centric language because sure if youâre not human youâre an animal. A living animal- a mammal - a carnivore - letâs say it, a dog. Just Iâm not a homo sapiens doesnât mean I have paws and a snout. We canât find euphoria tips, gears, weâre constantly forgotten. These are the same for therians with rare theriotypes, monkeys, herbivores, invertebrates, birds.
Otherkins and fictionkins and therians with rare theriotypes have it hard, but donât get me started on factkin, conceptkin, otherhearted, songkin, plantkin, objectkin. CONSTANTLY FUCKING EXCLUDED. Itâs therian this and therian that and sometimes otherkin and the rest is forgotten.
Ok donât get me wrong. I love my therian brothers and sisters and sibling and friends and elders.
But if yâall therians really care for your non-therian pals youâd better show it right now.
We donât feel safe or understood in the spaces ya built.
