ranthimi:

I really hope people are aware that the point of questioning is not to disprove or eliminate your first hunch or idea about yourself and your Otherness. It can absolutely be correct, it could just as easily be incorrect or partially true. You can suspect yourself to be one thing and have that be the case, or be mistaken about the origins, or your ideas on your origin may be somewhat correct but the specifics of what you are don’t match what you initially thought.

The point of questioning is to go through other options and, by doing so, you learn more about yourself and your preconceived notions about your identity. Questioning is not the process of “proving” you’re otherkind/adjacent, it’s not a means of eliminating thoughts of the spiritual or more “unusual” origins. It’s the process of looking at yourself and your thoughts and analyzing them and their effect on you.

It’s why I try to put emphasis on it being okay to be wrong about what you are, or your origins, or the nature of your feelings and connections. A realization is a realization and we often learn more about ourselves through our failures and mistakes. It doesn’t make you a “poser” or a “wannabe” to discover that you were wrong about your identity, it means you took the time to think about yourself and your experiences and their impact on your life.

It also doesn’t necessarily mean that if you confirm your initial hunches after a process of questioning that you’re just faking or are ensuring confirmation bias. If you’ve actually put in the work and the thought and gone through other options, you’re just as legitimate as someone who found out what they are through one of the other options they considered during the process. And if this repeats itself? That’s fine. It’s better than lying to yourself and everyone else just to keep up appearances. Identity is complex and often requires rethinking with new context.

species-dysphoria-help:

therianomalocaris:

lycanvas:

⚠️⚠️❌ATTENTION WEREWOLF KIN, WOLF KIN, THERIANS, ETC, ❌⚠️⚠️

THIS IS NOT AN OTHERKIN HATE POST, I IN FACT AM OTHERKIN. THIS IS A WARNING.

“P-shifting” is when someone claims that you are able to physically transform into your kintype. “Physical shift”, “p-shift”, same thing. Not to be confused with “ph-shift”, ‘phantom shifting’ used to cope with discomfort.

Theres a website a p-shifter is making called

“Thefirstfamilypack”

AVOID THIS WEBSITE AT ALL COSTS. P-SHIFTING IS NOT REAL AND BELIVING IN IT, COPING OR NOT, CAN SERIOUSLY EFFECT YOUR VIEW ON REALITY AND YOUR MENTAL STATE.

NOT ONLY IS THIS BAD FOR OTHERKIN, IT IS BAD FOR TRAUMAGENIC SYSTEMS; THIS USER STATES A THEORY THAT CLAIMS: A HUMAN MAY HAVE “2 PERSONALITIES” A BEAST AND A HUMAN. THIS IS HORRIBLE MISINFORMATION AND COULD SERIOUSLY CAUSE SOMEONE TO GET HURT.

TLDR; STAY OFF OF THE WEBSITE “Thefirstfamilypack”, it is dangerous to your mental state.

Edit: here is a second member of this:

Boosting this !

Remember that, as tempting as it is to believe in, physical shifting isn’t real ! If someone claims to be able to do it, RUN AWAY AS FAST AS YOU CAN !

Stuff like this breeds cult-like behaviors and no good can come out of it, stay safe fam !

FULL BOOST

Yeah, if you see p-shifters, block and ignore and do not interact. It’s not a death sentence if you do that like once accidentally, but it’s not good.

tiarasnteakettles:

tiarasntea-shop:

Just finished this challenging commission!

It’s an elegant and simple take on the madonna crown or halo, made of polished brass! 

I’m very proud of this ridiculous engineering magic trick~

[LINK TO BUY]

elevengrackles:

otherlinks:

link-for-link:

I’m mod Chacha~ here to take on the burden of trying to build up more of a community for ‘linkers of all types here on Tumblr dot com.

I’m doing so in a way that is mostly anonymous, in other words I won’t be linking a main blog or joining any discords or the like. One day I hope to not be so anxious to do that sort of thing. But I hope this blog will be enough to kickstart something! 

The copinglink and otherlink community is small from what I see, and there is little to no discussions about ‘linking stuff. It may be hard for me, but I have a few topics I want to write about already, so I hope you’ll stick around!

I’m very open to discussion, so if you like my post and want to add to it, go for it! Or if you really hated it and you have a lot of problems with what I said, also feel free to tell me that somehow! My asks are open too!

I accept asks about really anything. Please, other ‘linkers come send something in, anon or not. ^u^

Above all, I hope you have a great day and can love yourself~

Boosting!!

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