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alynnafoxie:

Is it just me or am I the only otherkin who doesn’t need a moodboard for myself..

Hmmm… I’ve definitely never made one or sent in a request to one of those blogs that make them.  I suppose it’s possible I may have reblogged a fae moodboard at some point, but I don’t remember doing it, and didn’t tag it as such if I did. I reblogged this celestial one but I just thought it was a pretty aesthetic, didn’t really have kintype in mind. Same with this unicorn one (which isn’t something I regard as really one of my kintypes), although the person who created it did it as an otherkin moodboard, but seems to have done so with at least a little irony if you look at her tags.

(And observe my comment on this Zork moodboard, which is rather a different animal, implying that most don’t do it for me.)

In all honesty, I really don’t need moodboards for myself. 

I mostly just keep asking for them for two reasons: a) because the blog I’m asking for an aesthetic from is run by a friend who groks me well enough to make an aesthetic that fits me rather than the concept of me, and b) because eventually, like monkeys on typewriters, one of these kids will eventually come to the realization that no, not every Gallifreyan aesthetic needs to feature a goddamn police box. 

I don’t care for em either. I block blogs that make them, harsh as it sounds, because they just fill the tags and my dashboard otherwise. 

When someone is obsessed with showing off an aesthetic, their personalities behind that end up being pretty insubstantial for my taste. Moodboards and the like came riding on the wave of tumblrkinnies and there’s a reason for that.

I like them, preferably more when they’re sourced. Partly “oooh pretty!!”, but when done right, sometimes they bring an angle to all the images that bring me resonance that I haven’t considered, and if it’s a good day, I introspect a bit and know a little bit more about myself. (For example, when I first saw the Japanese Shinto archways in a forest, I couldn’t place why it resonated as much as it did until I figured out how similar the aesthetic is between the design of them and my homeworld’s, and from there I started remembering how the spirituality worked, so it was almost entirely because I stumbled upon the photography that I remember as much as I do about those areas.)

But tbh mostly I just hunt down all the variation for the resonance because I am prone to dissociation and the more I’ve got that I haven’t already seen five times, the easier it is to handle.