otherkin-shitposting:

shadowfae:

otherkin-shitposting:

Ok, so, FICTIONKIN:

My friend and I were talking about this over the course of the week and came to this conclusion:

No matter what, if you identify as a character (and not a species necessarily although that, too, might be the case) it is because of imprinting. You don’t see a single soul saying, “urgh I wish I wasn’t Griselda from Winx Club” because 90% of the ‘kin’ here pick their own damn kintypes anyways. If you pick your own kintype that’s enough to confirm that you have looked at a selection of characters and chosen those who have impacted them the most (thus create the sense of “I am this, this is me”).

It’s okay to do that, because everyone’s case is like this. You don’t feel you’re a character until you know they exist or until they’re created, right? A bunch of people have ‘kinfirmed’ Connorkin or something after watching playthroughs of or playing Detroit: Become Human. I knew two or three before this, and not once did I ever hear them say “I feel like I might be a sort of futuristic creature,” or, “Maybe I’m a robot of some sort,” nothing. And then as soon as, just coincidentally the most popular character, is shown in the game, they kin with it? It’s obvious imprinting, nothing more and nothing less.

My conclusion is that although the cause is imprinting and that might disprove a few beliefs people have, there are quite possibly infinite possibilities as to why such reactions happen as we are all different human beings with very different mind sets and even more different backgrounds. I’ll be happy to discuss this with anyone who wishes to talk further about this topic, I only beg of you to stay respectful :>

Nope, that’s not at all correct. Firstly, noncanon folks. Secondly, people DO ask that they weren’t fictionkin when they are – I used to be one of them for several years. Thirdly, it is quite common to know your fictotype before you see it in media, if you ever do.
I think you should do us fictionkin a favour and not try to dictate our identities. All you’re doing is being rude. Listen to us, learn from us, and if you’re not one of us, don’t try to tell us about our own identities. I guarantee you, we know more about it than you do.

I didn’t mean to come off as rude or start up drama or anything ^^;! I’m fictionkin myself and I have many friends who are fictionkin, too! My friend (who is fictionkin as well!) and I were merely talking about those we’d seen that were fictionkin and since all of them were psychological we just concluded that that was the reasoning behind it, subconscious or not :>

Of course there’s more reasoning to it than just, “it’s because of imprinting,” but like I said, we based it off of what we had experienced within the fictionkin community.

Again, I apologise if I came off as rude! 💕

I have seen incredibly few amounts of psychological fictionkin, and am very surprised you found enough to make such a generalizing statement.

Regardless of what you meant, you did say that all fictionkin were based off of imprinting. This is the exact argument some elitist therians use to say “oh you imprinted so you’re not really fictionkin and in fact you’re just a dumb human getting into our spaces”. Which is exactly how you sounded – an elitist trying to invalidate everyone’s incredibly varied experiences just so you don’t have to acknowledge us. You didn’t mean it, clearly, but the way you worded it put pretty much everyone on the defensive.

You can’t paint everyone with the same brush, that’s why the definition is always so vague. Some of us are spiritual. I have one kintype that I found out by dissociating hard enough I found out that my soul got ripped in two (which explained a lot) and the other half went and became a person who I now consider a fictotype, because while I right now am not him, I was him, and he’s still me. And honestly, that one bends the definition pretty far.

Next time, I’d either word that incredibly differently or point out that you’re talking about your specific friend group in particular, and not the greater community. If someone is trying to concern-troll me and insist it’s because of imprinting that I’m fictionkin regardless of what I say on the matter, they’re getting blocked and reported to the moderators of the space that I found them in. 

I’m not mad personally, and I’m not trying to be rude either. But I hope that clarifies things a little.