1. Franz Ferdinand is assassinated. This is widely considered the final straw that kickstarted WWI.
2. J. R. R. Tolkien is drafted. He survives the war but returns home with a lot of trauma.
3. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is lent a strong degree of emotional realism because Tolkien is able to write from his own experiences. As a result, LotR becomes a cult hit, especially with the youth.
4. As the LotR trilogy reaches ever-higher peaks of popularity, certain people become so deeply enamored with the world of hobbits and elves and orcs that they have a sort of awakening - they begin recognizing themselves as elves (and other nonhuman creatures).
5. In the early 1970s, the Elf Queen's Daughters is formed. This is the earliest known nonhuman group (which does not mean it's the foundation of the nonhuman community - several groups later appear independently of the EQD, including AHWw, Alfandra, and Always Believe).
6. As the EQD grows, offshoots and overlapping groups are formed, one of which is the Silver Elves. After talking to the Silver Elves, a person named R'ykandar Korra'ti starts a mailing list in 1990 called the Elfinkind Digest.
7. The Elfinkind Digest attracts nonhumans of all kinds. Soon it becomes hard to talk about the community as a whole, and, instead of saying "elvenkind, orckind, dragonkind, etc.," a person named Elezar begins using the word "otherkind."
8. For unknown reasons - perhaps a typo, perhaps for ease of pronunciation, perhaps due to a misunderstanding -, some people begin using the variant spelling 'otherkin' and by 1998 it has overtaken the original spelling. Years go by and misconceptions appear. Rather than understanding the word as "a kind other than humankind" people begin to understand it as "kin as in family."
9. The nonhuman communities remain small and spread out during the era of forums and personal websites, but with the rise of popular social media, and your posts being broadcast to hundreds or thousands or millions of other users, the communities see a sudden and rapid growth.
10. With this rapid growth, there's no way to teach every newcomer the history of the community. A lot of people are completely unaware that the community even has history. Soon, discussions show up about how "you can't have kintypes outside your race/ability/sexuality/gender" and "kin just means relating. You know, like family."
11. At the same time, SJWs and anti-SJWs are waging a war. A subset of anti-SJWs decide to target otherkind and use every tactic to harass, mock, and belittle us. One of these tactics was "making up a slur," vaguely inspired by the t-slur, according to some. And thus the word 'kinnie' was born.
12. TikTok becomes the new hot platform. Kids and childish souls flock to it and bring their discourse along for the ride. The words continue to mutate and newcomers continue to be unaware of the history and baggage of certain words. Not knowing it as a rightwing term, they refer to themselves as kinnies. Not knowing the 'other kind than humankind' origin, they consider 'kin' to be something you just relate to.
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