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.
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