Was browsing some placekin tags from around 2017-18 and found some disturbingly ignorant posts from other otherkin.
As far as I'm aware, the state of the community from around that time was heavily gatekeeped and so many otherkin and nonhumans were discriminated against based on their kintype from their very own community.
In a few posts I've seen, fictionkin and placekin were seen as disingenuine trolls who deserved no place in the otherkin community. People couldn't "wrap their heads around it", so they pushed them out and discriminated against them, which is reminiscent of today's society's view of otherkin as a whole.
I can't say this was true for the whole community back then, as I have seen supportive people and wasn't around at that time, but some were like that. My heart goes out to all the placekin who were (and still are) told their identities couldn't possibly be real or valid by their very own community. You will always be safe valid with me <3
(Also, I found out that I am not the only african country placekin out there. Shoutout to the Kenya countrykin I found! 🇨🇫❤🇰🇪 /platonic)
