Tag: kin drama //

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.

azaphaer:

irritatedandroid:

ranthimi:

necrophagist:

shadowfae:

elevengrackles:

one-kin-to-rule-them-all:

hey past-life otherkin, what was the worst way you died in a previous life? as a bat I was killed when I was struck by lightning while flying back to the roost.

that is really horrific, my fellow bat friend. If I have a past life, I can’t remember, but top five horrible ways to die right there. o.o

[counts on fingers]

Smoke inhalation while trying to save small children. Got stabbed to death in the middle of a battlefield. Got mercy-stabbed by a servant and then framed as a suicide because of my own insanity. Was annihilated so badly there wasn’t anything left of me while trying to convince my possessed brother to stop being possessed.

I’m leading the angst train, anyone want on board?

It’s a tie between being burned to death and being bisected.

Oh boy, time to talk about that one time someone figured out my time manipulation abilities, turned them against me, and monologued about how ~inferior~ I was as time kept slowing down… then stopped… then at some point during all that I was murdered. This left some pretty bad exotrauma, too, took me a long-ass time to realize none of what that loser said was true.

Oh jesus these are all brutal.

I uh. I spent about three days walking and slowly overheating after my cooling system was cut, and burning myself to death from the inside out. The synth-skin-melting part was the worst part of it tbh.

Okay I need to explain some physics here to our OP, the bat who claims to have died being struck by lightning. Thats not possible. Period. 

It is literally not physically possible to be struck by lighting when not grounded. Its the same reason birds can rest on power lines. Electricity doesn’t work that way. SMH. 

Maybe not in this world, but I see no reason that says the world / dimension they were in has to have the exact same rules.
I know in at least two of my worlds, you could have a six pack without flexing (impossible here w/o plastic surgery) and reality itself could collapse.
No need to quote physics when we’re talking reincarnation. And besides, if you’re willing to accept me being vaporized and leaving behind my armor (which really shouldn’t have survived either), you can probably accept disobedient lightning.

elevengrackles:

minomakesart:

elevengrackles:

minomakesart:

elevengrackles:

minomakesart:

Hey

Can we at least appreciate that furries don’t piss on trees to mark their territory, and we just try to have fun

citation needed.

You know exactly what I’m talking about

… citation needed. 😀

So I’ve met a group of people ( I thought they were furries too they were wolfkin and one was catkin I think) and they were cool up until a dog walked by and they all collectively growled/hissed at this poor guy with his dog and then one of the guys proceeded to say “damn I should have marked” and let’s just say that I won’t be hanging out with them

So that’s my Ted talk I hope you enjoyed

Tag yourself, everyone.

I was the guy with the dog.

I was the cat therian, isn’t it obvious? :O

owls-and-violets:

OKAY, I just saw a post about a more ‘inclusive’ lgbt acronym thing, but it included things like otherkin, furries, and stuff like that. I can tolerate otherkin. I can tolerate furries. HOWEVER, if you think I am going to accept ‘transage’, ‘transrace’, necrophiles and pedophiles into the lgbt community, you are dead wrong. Please do not go looking for the post so that it does not get more attention than it already has. If you want a full-on explanation as to why I will not accept these ‘identities’ into the lgbt community, message me. I’m tired rn, but I will deliver if called upon.

That was a troll. Otherkin and furries aren’t LGBTQIAP+. No need to yell in the otherkin tag about it, everyone’s either going to fall for the troll (like you did) or just block. Nobody honestly believes otherkin and furries and the other stuff are queer, that would be ridiculous. 

pop-step-fink:

aight so funfact of the day

most people who kin don’t do it to cope!! there are those who do, but not everyone does!!! so those antikin who’re out there to find a better coping mech, shut ur heck because 1) not everyone does and 2) it’s not unhealthy unless u fuckin go deep into it and warp ur personality around it!!! ya’ll don know jack!!!

Otherkinity isn’t a voluntary coping mechanism. That’s copinglinking. I’m sure you tried, though. It is also neither healthy nor unhealthy – your identity is yours, and you’re the one who decides, not the community or the identity.

the-glass-spider:

One thing that makes me gag a little is otherkin of any kind – though fictionkin are the ones I’ve seen doing it most – who say that when they’re in an insert-character-here shift, their eyes change to the color of their kintype’s. Three things bother me about that:

  1. If your eyes are light enough in pigment – blue, green, light hazel, grey (holy fuck, especially grey) then they will reflect more light. Changes in clothing and make up effect the color others will perceive them as. If I wear a green sweater and a warm toned eyeshadow, my eyes will look green under everything but direct sunlight. If I put on cool toned eyeshadow and dark colors, then most people will tell you they are blue except under fluorescent lighting, which washes them out somewhat. Your eyes haven’t changed color, they’re reflecting light and color differently, and that’s not related to your kintype, that’s just science.
  2. Nobody is ever willing to provide proof. Pictures of this alleged phenomena would be easy to fake, but even lying is above and beyond the level of effort people are willing to put in for this. No one resists harder than people claiming their eyes have shifted to a color outside the human spectrum – who are the ones I would most demand proof from because if you want to claim you’re breaking the laws of human biology, I will at least need you to commit to this shitty idea.
  3. P-shifting is not real. You cannot physically manifest your kintype traits. That’s not a thing. And when everyone says it’s not a thing, that includes eyes. You may get more teenagers to believe your eyes are changing than you’ll get to believe you sprouted wings, but it’s still based in a concept that the community as a whole, which rarely agrees on anything, agrees is bullshit. And if you would like to fight me on that, see point 2 and send me a shred of evidence.

Congrats. You fell for a ton of trolls. 

Nobody otherkin and fictionkin who actually knows what the words mean is going to let pshifters into the community. They’re effing dangerous half the time and need therapy the other half. 

your-overlord-kurou:

hewwo, it is i, the one who rules over u all

pwease show ur gratitude by following me, thank u

2/10. Original, I’ll give you that, it’s not often we see crow-deity trolls. But still a traditional godkin troll of ‘hurr durr I’m all powerful feed my ego by following / grovelling over me’. -3 points for also using ‘uwu’ culture.

caristars:

Can someone plz explain ‘kin’ to me?

Back in my day (I say as a 20 yr old who’s been online since age 10), kin/otherkin specifically referred to people who felt a disconnect with their status as human and identified with an animal/element of nature which they felt best embodied their truest self and the most accurate version of who they are inside.

But now people don’t seem to use kin that way? I’m very confused what did I miss, why is it a meme to jokingly refer to yourself as (character)kin, and how did the shift happen from people genuinely identifying as other species to people listing characters they relate to? I’m so confused? Please help?

(This post is entirely genuine by the way, like I don’t mean any harm to anyone who is an example of either of the above examples, I’m just very confused because the definition changed and I want to understand the distinction and how to best be nice to anyone who identifies as/does the above.)

Your definition is pretty close to correct. 

The “meme” (which is really just being disrespectful) is a lot of wishkin and what we’ve come to call ‘tumblrkin’, which is just a worse variety. They seem to think it’s a coping mechanism (copinglinking) / a roleplay / something fun; and refuse to acknowledge that they’re destroying parts of our actual community while they’re at it. When told off, they either “why do adults hate kids having fun” or “why are you so ableist??” and create echo chambers and cult-like environments so they don’t have to stop being rude and disrespectful.

You aren’t going to run into this outside of tumblr. The definition didn’t change. There’s just more awful people around who don’t seem interested on not being wrong.