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elliotpidge:

Hi there. I’m questioning things a bit. I’m not sure what websites or blogs or anything to go to, so I’m just gonna hope someone in these tags sees this and can help me out a bit.

I’m around 80-90% sure I’m faekin, but going through that tag I see things about “seelie” and “unseelie” and different rules and courts and it’s all very confusing. I’m super new to this identity and I’m only just now starting to get into it, so if anyone could explain some things to me, that would be great! I would love to be a part of the community, but I don’t know where to begin or if there’s any certain rules to follow to call myself faekin.

Thanks for reading, hope ya have a good day!

[rubs hands together] Local faehearted person here to help, since I’ve been with faekin for ages now.

People use the Seelie / Unseelie courts to refer to certain types of Celtic fae. Seelie is the court of fae who are generally nice but do not share our morality. Unseelie is the court of fae who don’t like humanity and enjoy fucking it over and generally being tricksters.

The book you’d probably want to pick up is Faeries, the Myths, Legends and Lore by Skye Alexander. It’ll put you through a crash course of different types of fae from all over the world – Disney and the Tuatha dé

Danann are not the only types. You can be fae without a court, or an entirely different type of fae. ‘Fae’ doesn’t just refer to faeries, it refers to a whole lot of types of spirits and mystical creatures. One could probably argue that Abrahamic angels are a type of fae. Indian djinn count, too.

Take it slow, take it easy, and focus on yourself. Figure out who and what you are separate from what others think or name it. Easier to put yourself into a box that fits your identity the most than to try and guess which box you can make your identity around. 

And when in doubt, ask @glittered-goddess, resident elder godshard and Faerie Mom. You can also ask me too, if you’re not looking for answers on morality. :p

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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.

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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.