#mythoskin

[anti-endo-alterhumanity]

i just wanna say it can be disrespectful to cultures/relgions to be “mythoskin”. ^^; for example: someone who worships Aphrodite, and someone else “kins” her. that is incredibly disrespectful. being mythkin in the way of “im a harpy” or “im unicorn kin.” is fine because they aren’t deities /gen/info

hello!! i don't disagree, but i feel like there's a ton of nuance behind this, that i believe would be worth talking about!!

there are quite a few fictional characters based off of mythical deities and spirits, and i had assumed that the previous ask was specifically regarding that. percy jackson poseidon isn't the same as the deity himself, as an example. i myself, as someone who primarily practices shintoism, would be a bit uncomfortable seeing someone (namely not of my ethnicity or religion) call themself a kin of a yokai, but it would be unfair to bar someone from kinning a yokai watch, or pokemon like espeon, whose core inspiration originates from shintoism. BUT i also understand that beings who don't practice shintoism wouldn't usually view the yokai as "real", so i also don't care? if this makes sense? perhaps i'm too lenient, but the nekomata spirit is a part of the reason i'm a calico cat at heart, so i dunno

anyone's free to share their opinion on this!! please do, actually!! this is a topic that intrigues me quite a bit, but i know i could absolutely be super wrong about it!!!

[other-kin-positivity]

Mythoskin and legendkin are stronger than anyone gives them credit for. Even if your kintype isn’t well-known out of its origin country.

[trulyhellbent]

What a beautiful day to blot out the sun.

[anti-endo-alterhumanity]

Is there a term for kining a character from a religious mythos? I'm not of that religion so calling it factkin feels wrong but fictionkin feels wrong too. Mythoskin? Maybe?

-azreal

hello hello! i would personally call it mythkin/mythoskin, but we're not particularly experiences with this sort of alterhumanity. perhaps someone else would chime in with what they believe!

[the-lightest-shadow]

I am earthbound, yet the sky calls my name. Beckons for me, yearns for my return. And I wish to answer, but in my current body, I cannot.

I was a child of the mountain and forest. A creature with wings, feathers, and hair black as night. My claws were sharp, my nose protrudes. Every edge of that forest my home. I do not have the freedom to go home.

My language is now foreign to my tongue, and the other impossible for my throat. A longing cry for people and creatures long forgotten lumps in my chest, but I cannot make it leave.

I long for the days of flying through the air. I long for the days of perching on trees. I long for the days of freedom and bravery and strength.

But this body and mind I have now won’t let me have it. So I’ll just have to settle on reminiscing on these whispers of memories, and the hope to return when the time is right.

I must be this new me.

[squidmouth]

oh yeah the only way to relieve my stress, as a human who is kin with the daughter of cthulhu, is to release a message in ancient r’lyehian to my dad saying i miss him into the pacific ocean.

the colorado river is the closest feeder to the pacific.

[squidmouth]

I know I'm a Lovecraftian deity, who had a good relationship with Hastur, and... I'm pondering who I was before I stumbled into Laura's body.

[otherkin-help]

So I'm hoping you could give me directions, so to speak. I identify as a troll, like from the Scandinavian stories, but whenever I try to find other trolls I only run into homestuck-kin (which is fine but from what I've seen they're not exactly similar). I was hoping you could tell me what kind of tag I might be better off looking under for more kintypes like mine. If not trolls, maybe other myth-based kin?

oh man, that’s pretty rough. not only do you have to deal with homestuck trolls, but also people assuming you’re the “rude person on the internet” kind of troll. I’m not too familiar with kin tags on tumblr honestly, but a few terms I know of to refer to myth-based kintypes are mythoskin, mythkin, monsterkin…and that’s all I know. I’d make a post announcing your kintype and asking to talk to more people with similar kintypes, and tagging it with literally anything you can think of. that way it gets to as many people as possible. even if the tags aren’t that relevant.