There is very little information available on the phenomenon known as “God Shards”. As a result, many have drawn some pretty malevolent conclusions about them. It also makes it difficult to provide an “informed” article given that there is so little information, so I am able to only draw from my own experiences. Please keep in mind that God Shards may work differently for other Godkin and that, if you have any questions, you are welcome to ask.
What They Are
God Shards are essentially what they sound like – shards that split away from or are formed separately from a central deity. While similar to the phenomenon of “median systems”, it is different.
Tag: reblogs
Reblog this post if you are Pokemon fictionkin
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Absol from Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia.
hey i have the url ‘fictionkin’, and ill trade it for another really good 1 word url, or like a canon url of some kind
u can send me a message if u have anything to offer!!! i just never use it, but i want another good url for it hahaha
Boost since I don’t have any good urls otherwise I’d have it.
Concept: we don’t shy away from talking about the final fantasy house and other cult environments because whether the ‘kin communities and soulbonding communities want to face it or not, this is a very real recurring issue in our spaces. I’m disgusted that we’d shy away from it. All that does is let abuse be brushed under the rug and enable it to happen more via ignorance.
As someone who was DIRECTLY TOLD NOT TO REFERENCE THE FF7 HOUSE when I used it as an example of what not to do when interacting with other physical members of the community, I second this. You cannot prevent abuse by ignoring a major incident just because the wrong parts were sensationalized.
If anybody would like to fill us in on what these two are talking about, that would be fab. Thanks in advance.
-Koschei
The FF7 House is a semi-famous example of abusive people luring victims by using soulbonding and past lives / the concept of fictionkin to manipulate them. @ranthimi probably has some good links.
The whole sad saga – http://www.demon-sushi.com/warning/index2.html
Think tumblrkin, but gone so wrong. Dangerously so.
I’m gonna reblog to archive, and I’ll read it later when I have the time. Community history’s important, even the nasty parts of it, so we don’t repeat any of that.
IT’S TIME TO RE-RE-RE-REBLOG!
It’s my birthday month, and I really want my patreon to meet it’s final goal so I can make some big moves with my life!
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Boost, since I’m already entered on my main.
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I AM HERE I AM QUEER
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HAPPY PRIDE TO MY GENDERFLUID FOLK
HAPPY PRIDE TO MY QUEER FOLK
HAPPY PRIDE TO MY QUESTIONING PEOPLE – MAY YOU FIND THE ANSWERS YOU SEEK
AND HAPPY PRIDE TO EVERY OTHER LGBT+ IDENTITY I MISSED
MAY YOU ALL BE BLESSED, RECOGNIZED, AND BELOVED FOR WHO YOU ARE! EVEN WHEN THOSE AROUND YOU MAY NOT RECOGNIZE YOU, OR YOU MAY BE AFRAID TO COME OUT, YOU ARE BELOVED! MAY YOU ALL BE SAFE FROM HARM THIS PRIDE MONTH!
(and, of course, a quick reminder because this is a ‘kin blog: being otherkin/therian/alterhuman does NOT make us LGBT+! Many of us are both alterhuman and LGBT+, however, and there’s nothing wrong with that either <3<3<3)
Been keeping all of my queer pride to my main, but this works too.
actual nonhuman culture is blacklisting phrases like “assigned kin” because the people you follow, while mostly good, don’t know how to be normal ever
A few days ago I came up with a rather peculiar idea when talking to a friend, “How would Satanick and Ivlis be like angels?”
Here’s the result, at first I thought of making them “Gods” but I love drawing wings so, I ended up draw them as two beautiful angels, this will leave you as an AU, where they maintain a stable and healthy relationship, it was time to give something good to poor Ivlis, these two deserve to be happy.I love them SO MUCH 💞✨ ; — ;
Satanick & Ivlis by ©Funamusea
playwrights: write plays about otherkin
radio dramatists: write radio plays about otherkin
psychologists: do studies about otherkin
religious studies experts: write papers about otherkin
conventions: have panels about otherkin
otherkin: extensively document their history
tumblr: but otherkin isn’t a thing
I have literally never heard of otherkin outside Tumblr, what the fuck are you going on about
Check those handy links. Then you will have literally heard of otherkin outside Tumblr.
Otherkin: existed before tumblr
Tumblr users: this is only a tumblr thing wtf
Link includes more history on otherkin (specifically the therian community and unicorn community, as well as a history of plantkin online) – http://houseofchimeras.weebly.com/informative-articles.html
Also…
Academic Articles
Gerbasi, Kathleen C. et al, “Furries A to Z: (Anthropomorphism to Zoomorphism).” Society and Animals, Vol.16 (2008): pp 197-222. (accessed January 28, 2013).Grivell, Timothy, Helen Clegg and Elizabeth C. Roxburgh. “An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Identity in the Therian Community.” Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research. Vol. 14, No. 2, (May 2014) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15283488.2014.891999?journalCode=hidn20#preview (accessed July 10 2014).
Keck et al, “Lycanthropy: Alive and Well In The Twentieth Century,” Psychological Medicine. Vol. 18, No. 1 (Feb., 1988): pp 113-20. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=4990600&fileId=S003329170000194X (accessed August 29 2014).
Kulick, Aaron, Pope HG Jr, & Keck PE Jr. “Lycanthropy and Self-Identification.” The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Vol. 2 ( Feb. 1990): pp 134-137 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2405100 (October 14 2014).
Laycock, Joseph P. “We Are Spirits of Another Sort: Ontological Rebellion and Religious Dimensions of the Otherkin Community.” Nova Religio. Vol. 15, No. 3 (Feb., 2012): pp. 65-90 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.2012.15.3.65 (accessed November 24 2013).
Probyn-Rapsey, Fiona. “Furries and Limits of Species Identity Disorder,” Society & Animals, Vol. 19 (2011): pp 294-301 https://www.academia.edu/2903078/Furries_and_limits_of_species_identity_disorder (accessed January 28, 2013).
Robertson, Venetia Laura Delano. “The Beast Within: Anthrozoomorphic Identity and Alternative Spirituality in the Online Therianthropy Movement.” Nova Religio, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Feb 2013): pp. 7-30 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.2013.16.3.7 (accessed November 24 2013).
Robertson, Venetia. “The Law of the Jungle: Self and Community in the Online Therianthropy Movement.”Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies, Vol 14, No 2 (Dec., 2012): Pp 256-280 http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/POM/article/view/17911 (accessed January 28, 2013).
Magazine Article
McNeil, Emma. “The Otherkin.” Fortean Times Magazine. January 2012, 44-46.News Articles
Clairouin, Olivier. “Pas complètement humains : la vie en ligne des thérians et otherkin.” Le Monde.fr. May 20 2014. http://www.lemonde.fr/cultures-web/article/2014/05/20/pas-completement-humains-la-vie-en-ligne-des-therians-et-otherkins_4410306_4409029.html (accessed June 10 2014).Lerner, Thomas. “Ibland får jag lust att yla som en varg,” Insidan, April 7 2010.
https://archive.today/ZX0Ti (accessed January 20 2013).Mamatas, Nick. “Elven Like Me,” The Village Voice News, February 13 2001. http://www.villagevoice.com/2001-02-13/news/elven-like-me/full/ (accessed February 1 2015).
Academic Lecture
Addie, Trevor. “Therianthropy: A State of Being,” ANTH-331 “Taboos,” American University, March 5th 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMEkuOW5pjs (accessed August 20 2014).News Clip
McDougall, Nick. “Otherkin: Heart of a Human, Spirit of a Wolf,” SBS World News, SBS, June 4th 2013, http://www.sbs.com.au/news/video/32187459989/Otherkin-Heart-of-a-human-spirit-of-a-wolf (accessed June 6th 2013).McDougall, Nick. “Otherkin: Heart of a Human, Spirit of a Wolf,” 4:21, Posted on “SBS2Austrailia.” June 4th 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU_E-oXxyQU (accessed June 5th 2013).
Documentary
Pemberton, Justin. Animal Imitators. TLC. August 2003.A few non-academic Books (referring otherkin and/or therians)
Cohen, Daniel. Werewolves. Cobblehill Books: New York, 1996.Konstantinos. Werewolves: The Occult Truth. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2010.
Lupa. A Field Guide To Otherkin. Megalithica Books: Stafford, 2007.
Lupa. Shifting, Shamanism and Therianthropy: Magical Techniques For Your Therioside. Self-published via Lulu.com, 2007.
Yeah… its such a tumblr thing and has only existed for a few years…
Otherkin: Post a small list of how otherkin as a phenomenon predates tumblr, exists outside of tumblr, and has been acknowledged as a thing that exists by academic sources.
Tumblr Users: "I have literally never heard of otherkin outside Tumblr, what the fuck are you going on about"
tumblr archive 