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devilworshippingscum:

shadowfae:

devilworshippingscum:

Anyone in the otherkin/therian community knows the terms ‘copinglinker’ and the less-known ‘copingkin’, right?

What if for those who do not have any legitimate kin/theriotypes, they are to use ‘copinglinker’, and for otherkin who happen to have certain ‘kintypes’ to cope, are called ‘copingkin’?

That’s… not what either of the terms mean.

Copingkin was created here on tumblr by those who had a vague idea what otherkinity was, and made nonhuman / fictional identites voluntarily to cope. However, because it was voluntary, it was pretty different than actual otherkinity. It gave off a lot of misconceptions by calling it copingkin, like it was just a different flavour of otherkin and not a completely different phenomenon.

@/who-is-page created ‘copinglinker’ as a term specifically to fix this, because like otherhearted, copinglinking isn’t quite otherkin (though similar), and deserves its own community.

Using an already discovered kintype to help cope is like using any other part of your identity to cope. That doesn’t need a new term. Copinglinking is the term for those who voluntarily make fictional / nonhuman identities to cope with something. It encompasses all that’s needed. 

You completely read this post wrong. I’m not saying that using kintypes to cope should be called ‘copingkin’, I’m saying that otherkin, who have legitimate kintypes, may want to take on a “”“”“kintype”“”“” to cope, but it is separate from their past lives or whatever they believe. I didn’t need a sassy little comment on this

Edit: and I mean it was just a suggestion? Maybe some people want a separate term?? Goddamn

Yeah, that’s a copinglink, regardless on if you have kintypes or not. Copingkin got dropped (it isn’t lesser-used, it’s just archaic) because copinglinking was coined. They’re the same thing.

Copinglinks are generally separate unless the person in question needs them to be related for whatever reason. You’re not exactly explaining why someone would need a separate term at all, and what you did manage to convey is that you don’t know the history of the terms, nor what they mean. 

I’m not being sassy, and if I come across that way, then I apologize. I don’t want misinformation anywhere, and if it’s not a complete lost cause, I’m going to correct people on it, as I would expect someone to do if I got something wrong.