- Canon doesn’t matter as much as your individual identity does. You don’t have to be completely canon-adherent for your experience to be legitimate.
- Reality almost never plays out like fiction. It’s okay if your memories don’t play out as carbon-copies of a fictional work.
- Canon divergence is a thing. The infinite possibilities of the multiverse means it likes to test out every little difference it can find from the weather to what shirt you wore, and more.
- It’s fine to not find 100% matching canonmates. It’s okay to just be “close enough”.
- It’s fine to be uncomfortable with doubles. Know that you are the only you, you’re the only one here with these exact experiences in this life and reality. If you believe in reincarnation, you are the only one here with your exact spiritual history. There are no true “doubles” or “copies”, just people who played similar roles in different universes.
- Sometimes even two seemingly identical lives have small differences. What did you have for lunch that day? It’s the tiny differences that count.
- Just because someone has the same memories doesn’t mean they were “the real you” nor does it really invalidate you. The universe usually doesn’t end when your time there does. Maybe any divergences started later on.
- It’s better to be honest with yourself then to fit your identity to match someone else’s. In that same vein, no one can really tell you who you are but you.
- Bad things done in a past life don’t mean that’s all you are. For one, nobody does bad things for no reason.
You’re away from the cause of it now. Reflect on what happened if you can. Take the opportunity to learn from who you were then, just like you’d learn from your past experiences this life.
Tag: reblogs
I spontaneously decided to do a little compilation of anti-kin arguments that I don’t like very much :
“We just want to help you !” – No you don’t. You literally want us to stop existing, how is that helping ?
“But otherkin is my trigger !” – I don’t know if you know this, but you can blacklist tags. We’re not responsible for your unwillingness to use one of the site’s features.
“Otherkin is ableist/transphobic.” – Not much to say on this one, except that no it’s not. Where did you even get that idea ?
“Well this otherkin person did something bad so you must all be bad !” – We’re individuals, you know ? Just because one of us does shady things doesn’t mean we’re all like that.
“You’re all edgy 13 years old kids.” – I may be edgy (hell, it’s in my bio), but you may want to add 5 to 30 years to that number. Most of us are adults with jobs and responsibilities.
“I understand [X kin belief] but [Y kin belief] is fucking stupid.” – Buddy, I don’t know if you know this but you can’t pick and chose what beliefs you can respect.
“You just hate yourselves so much you don’t even want to be human.” – I’ve seen this going around, and it disgusts me. Who are you to tell us what we think of ourselves ? And what if some of us do hate themselves, do you think it’ll help them to say that ?
“Otherkin is just another one of those Tumblr trends.” – Oh wow, you didn’t even do your research before talking about something you don’t know ! Way to show how little you actually care about what we do.
“No research has been done on [X kin thing], so it’s not true” – Well, maybe research has been done. I invite you to use this little thing called Google scholar to do your own research.
And, that’s all I’ve got ! You can add more if you want to.
As an FYI, the original Elfinkind Digest mailing list – the one where the term “otherkin” was coined, and all that – has sent out a “last call” message. It’s shutting down and telling its membership to send in any final notes for one last compilation/digest to be sent out at the end of the month, and then that’s it. 1990-2018 and… done.
i can’t find a source on this, but i assume that’s because the message was sent to the mailing list itself, and not outside of it. nevertheless [the homepage] has been updated in a fashion that corroborates what you’re saying – as of the 20th of January, 2018, the first header reads ‘what was it?’ instead of the previous ‘what is it?’
though i was never subscribed, the digest was still a pretty big cornerstone of the internet otherkin community when i first stepped into it over ten years ago, and if you call yourself otherkin, you’ve got this list to thank. so to say it’s been important to the history of the alterhuman communities is a pretty big understatement.
thanks for bringing this to our attention, anon, so that we can give it the sending off it deserves.
~ vagabond sun
Not-so friendly reminder
Do not follow me / unfollow me if you are a physical shifter or believe your physical body to be nonhuman.
If you claim to be growing wings, are a vampire, or able to turn into an animal, then I WILL block you on sight.
• Feel free to reblog •
Eh, never know if a cultist’s following me. Spring cleaning, out you get if you’re gonna try and pshift directly through the laws of physics.
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All of these styles are available right now in my shop!
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I hate how kin has just become this big meme nowadays, at least from what I’ve seen. Like if you’re kin it’s fine to make jokes or call out bad things in the community, like “kin drama” and shit like that, but people who aren’t kin that are reblogging those posts, I know that they’re just making fun of us.
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