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HUG DUO..... PLEASE AND MY SOUL IS URS!!! c:
day 164!!!!! hug duo....
Nomatter how your day is going, we’re all wishing you the best!
-Grian
hello!
What's a kin? I've heard a lot of conflicting definitions over the years, from people neutral on the topic, hostile towards it and kinnies themselves. I know somehow people relate to a character so much they, according to the stuff here, get memories and feelings from them? I just. Have been kind of confused as to what kinning is for ages and I want to actually know, so I figured I'd ask.
Hi there! I get that, and I'm sorry if you've had any bad encounters with the community! As intimidating as some people can be, most of the community is fairly friendly. This got kind of long so bear with me haha - Mod Grian
‘Kin is short for Otherkin (or in this case, Fictionkin) and is defined as "Someone who identifies as partially or entirely nonhuman, typically non-physically, typically involuntary or integral to one’s being". In the case of Fictionkin, it’s “Someone who identifies as partially or entirely a fictional creature or character”. This can be spiritual (which is what you probably see a lot) or psychological! Spiritual kin do often have memories of these lives, whether it be a past life, a parallel life, etc. Psychological kin can have these memories, or "noemata" as well! Noemata are “Knowledge or information gleamed about one’s kintype, or the life of one’s kintype”, coined by Poppy. Their blog has some great resources along with @who-is-page. Poppy has a side of their desktop theme for recommended blogs as well, @a-dragons-journal is one that I see a lot of that sparks some good discussion in the community.
In the Glossary made by Page, a fairly old member of the community, it goes into more depth on all of the other words you may have seen thrown around over the years. What you describe however is a form of alterhumanity! I’m not quite sure which it would fall under, but I’d certainly say it does. Same with KFF (Kin for fun), it's still got a place in the community it's just a different experience. “Kin for fun” is instead of identifying as you identify heavily with your kintype. There's been some push lately to focus more on the "what" of your experience instead of the "why" as well which you may have seen. I'll link some good sources at the bottom of this post as well as my own blog I've set aside specifically for conversations like this!
You might have also seen the -kind or recently -folk suffix going around, these were mainly made to try distancing from KFF. As much as I have some wonderful friends who are KFF the community has had some heavy impacts on the community. This is mainly seen from my experience on the Tiktok side. Here's a good post from Strawberrybabydog discussing some of the rhetoric found on there though! there's also this post from a KFFer discussing the issue of the conflating language. Most KFF you’ll find don’t mean any harm!
My blog
otherkin 101 carrd
Otherkin Criteria
Types of Alterhumanity chart (personally a favorite!)
Kin origin theories
Exotrauma
Otherkin timeline (this is a lengthy read, if you decide to go through this it will likely take awhile!)
Paper done on Otherkin
FAQ from Fromfiction
Transcript for Poppy's Othercon panel about Choice vs. Involuntary
Can I call myself alterhuman?
I hope this helped at least a bit! Feel free to send another ask here if you have any more questions my friend! - Mod Grian
This is a bit silly, but... Any names for Scar's double life allay?
not silly at all! i hope these suit you :] /gen - grian
• soliel
• luna
• aster
• sprig
• pip/pippin
• francis
• amory/amoriel
aesthetic with karl for a mr. cicle
⏰ art credit ⏰
PRONOUNS FOR A SLIMECICLE!
hope it's fine there wasn't as much of a theme here, primarily focused on those being "non-gendered"!
sli/slime/slimeself goop/goops/goopself that/that thing/that things vae/vaer/vaerself py/phys/phyself ecto/ectos/ectoself jel/jello/jelloself boop/boops/boopself lim/lime/limeself cy/cys/cyself blop/blops/blopself mos/moss/mosself
I'm gonna go ahead and queue up stuff bit I'm on mobile so that's why there will be the "." On every call, if yall dont mind ill keep doing this so ⟟ can get them out faster - Mod Grian