Sorry if this is unrelated but can I ask your opinion on the term kinrad? In my opinion it feels so invalidating as an otherpaw tbh
Sure thing!
Thank you for asking, Anon. (I already wanted to make a rant about it, but I don't really have a blog for ranting, so now I have an excuse to post it here).
Short answer: I'm against that movement or whatever it is.
Long answer:
TW: Rant/Rant-ish, mentions of harassment
Note: I'm writing from my memory what the post was about, because I've blocked the coiner of this term on my main, I don't know what was the coiner's username to find them and I've blocked already many other accounts since seeing the coining post, so I'm not gonna find the post. Feel free to correct me on anything.
If I remember correctly, Kin Radical is pro-misanthropy, pro-kinning, anti-otherpaw, anti-fictionpaw (I've learnt about that term a while before I saw coining post of Kin Radical. It's apparently a term for these who roleplay as fictional characters. But I might be wrong) and anti-funlink.
I've seen already other alterhuman bloggers complaining about misanthropy in the alterhuman community. I haven't seen it much (probably because Tumblr algorithm prefers to recommend me some stupid discourses), but it's still annoying annoying to be aware that misanthropy is a problem in our community. Not every human is bad and hating whole humanity will not help with anything. I don't know what more I can really say. If anyone has more thoughts on this subject: feel free to add them.
When it comes to "kinning", I've seen that Kin Radical's coiner said that "kinning should be normalised", which is so fucking annoying to see, because KFFs stole the 'kin language and has been harassing fictionfolk.
Here's a fragment from The Dragonheart Collective’s Testimony on the KFF Phenomenon [link]:
KFF, or ‘Kin for fun’ is a term for those who claim that ‘kin is only for fun and a choice and means identify with/relate to instead of ‘identify AS’ and the culture the people who said this built on their stolen word.
Ie- The group of people above and the ensuing culture they created built on top of misinformation, a stolen word, and the harassment of fictionfolk.
The term is one that the KFF chose for themselves after a fashion, as they claimed they ‘kinned for fun’ rather than like all us ‘serious otherkin freaks’.
It was not the otherkind community who came up with the term in the first place, we just started abbreviating it because it was clunky to type otherwise.
KFF is a word for people who are being revisionist about our history and our words, who are trying to push those who have always been in the community out, and in the face of evidence will often double down and attack those who use fictionkin by its actual definition- usually in ableist, anti-spiritual, or saneist ways.
The word ‘delusional attachment’ was in recent years aggressively pushed on actual otherkin and fictionkin to further their attempts at stealing our word- doing damage to both psychosis communities (as it spreads misinformation about what a delusion is) and ‘kin communities alike.
People started using the phrase/term KFF because they needed to talk about the people who suddenly came in and started asserting a definition contrary to years and years of history, who started trying to push out the people who built the community to make a pale mockery of the community in its place.
They needed a word and well, the KFF chose the label themselves after a fashion.
Its a word that people who are not fictionkin and who were there back then often do not understand the full gravity of- what these people did to our spaces and the aggressive bullying and trolling people who claimed they ‘kinned for fun’ meted out to us.
People who weren't there often don't quite comprehend the damage they did to our spaces and the damage they continue to do. The aggressive gatekeeping and bullying they do to us freaks because they want to continue to steal and ‘normie-fy’ our word.
KFF reached critical mass and breached Tumblr containment to wider fandom culture, and now many people who count as KFF (as they think kin means the above and has always done so) are simply not aware of the history of the term and that it originally had a different meaning.
When it comes to otherpaws and fictionpaws, Kin Radical's coiner claimed that they're "mocking" therians and fictionkins. This is very stupid, because saying such a thing implies that masks, quads, roleplay = alterhuman.
I'll just quote a fragment of @d0gbite's post on the matter of otherpaw (but similar things would apply to fictionpaws) [link], because she explained it pretty well in their post:
no, someone wearing a mask or doing quads is not inherently copying or mocking therians, because masks and quads aren’t exclusive to therians, and they never have been. wearing a mask does not a therian make. wearing a mask does not necessarily have anything to do with therians. claiming that anyone who wears masks or does quads is copying therians is trying to claim exclusive rights of therians over masks and quads. it’s gatekeeping, yes, but worse than gatekeeping, it’s trying to cement masks and quads as inherently ‘therian’. which they aren’t. which we have tried all this time to teach folks that no, not all therians wear masks/do quads, and just because someone does those things doesn’t make them alterhuman.
but now these anti-otherpaw folks are regressing again to “mask = therian, therefore they must be copying and mocking therians”. which is factually inaccurate and damaging to what being alterhuman and being therian truly means. it’s what leads to the misinformation about the true depth of alterhuman identity on places like tiktok. and i’m so sick of it.
I don't exactly remember what the coiner said on funlinking, but it's annoying to see anti-funlink folk. Like, why are they so angry about someone choosing to become an otherlinker, because they thought it be fun thing to do?? Also, funlink isn't the same as KFFs. Funlinkers still identify as their linktypes, KFFs don't identify as their "kinnies" (I think that's what they call characters they relate to) and KFFs misuse 'kin language what I've already said before.
The thing that baffles me the most from all of that is the fact that the coiner of Kin Radical supports stealers of 'kin language who harassed members of our community (KFF), but they're against roleplayers who created their *own terms* (otherpaws & fictionpaws) to separate themselves from the alterhuman community. WHAT IS THIS LOGIC???
If anyone has any thoughts, feel free to share them.
