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

thatmrgold:

shadowfae:

otherkin-shitposting:

shadowfae:

otherkin-shitposting:

shadowfae:

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.

I didn’t mean to come off as rude or start up drama or anything ^^;! I’m fictionkin myself and I have many friends who are fictionkin, too! My friend (who is fictionkin as well!) and I were merely talking about those we’d seen that were fictionkin and since all of them were psychological we just concluded that that was the reasoning behind it, subconscious or not :>

Of course there’s more reasoning to it than just, “it’s because of imprinting,” but like I said, we based it off of what we had experienced within the fictionkin community.

Again, I apologise if I came off as rude! 💕

I have seen incredibly few amounts of psychological fictionkin, and am very surprised you found enough to make such a generalizing statement.

Regardless of what you meant, you did say that all fictionkin were based off of imprinting. This is the exact argument some elitist therians use to say “oh you imprinted so you’re not really fictionkin and in fact you’re just a dumb human getting into our spaces”. Which is exactly how you sounded – an elitist trying to invalidate everyone’s incredibly varied experiences just so you don’t have to acknowledge us. You didn’t mean it, clearly, but the way you worded it put pretty much everyone on the defensive.

You can’t paint everyone with the same brush, that’s why the definition is always so vague. Some of us are spiritual. I have one kintype that I found out by dissociating hard enough I found out that my soul got ripped in two (which explained a lot) and the other half went and became a person who I now consider a fictotype, because while I right now am not him, I was him, and he’s still me. And honestly, that one bends the definition pretty far.

Next time, I’d either word that incredibly differently or point out that you’re talking about your specific friend group in particular, and not the greater community. If someone is trying to concern-troll me and insist it’s because of imprinting that I’m fictionkin regardless of what I say on the matter, they’re getting blocked and reported to the moderators of the space that I found them in. 

I’m not mad personally, and I’m not trying to be rude either. But I hope that clarifies things a little.

Ah, alright, I see the point you’re making and I understand. I should have made myself clearer, you are completely right about that, and I’ll make sure that in future arguments I narrow down the extremely vague statement I made; I’ll do my research :>

Thank you for letting me know your opinion! I’m not trying to shut anyone down. And I’ve never in my life heard of etilist therians, I’ll be sure to look them up.

Thanks again, and I’ll do my best to make things clearer in the future!

Good idea. Thank you for listening. But do me one last favour and don’t look them up. It isn’t really worth the irritation or the misery of having to deal with them. If you’re actively and vocally fictionkin, they’ll come to you.

How do you actively and vocally fiction kin ?

Oh, that was word salad, thank you for pointing that one out. I mean being blatant and unapologetic about it, like I tend to be on my main sometimes. Being obnoxious about being fictionkin to the point it’s impossible to be in the same room as you for five minutes without hearing about it. 

If you’re loud enough and in the tags enough and reblogged by others enough, the elitist therians will find you. I’ve got most of them blocked, but I’m sure they’ll crop up again.

otherkin-shitposting:

shadowfae:

otherkin-shitposting:

shadowfae:

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.

I didn’t mean to come off as rude or start up drama or anything ^^;! I’m fictionkin myself and I have many friends who are fictionkin, too! My friend (who is fictionkin as well!) and I were merely talking about those we’d seen that were fictionkin and since all of them were psychological we just concluded that that was the reasoning behind it, subconscious or not :>

Of course there’s more reasoning to it than just, “it’s because of imprinting,” but like I said, we based it off of what we had experienced within the fictionkin community.

Again, I apologise if I came off as rude! 💕

I have seen incredibly few amounts of psychological fictionkin, and am very surprised you found enough to make such a generalizing statement.

Regardless of what you meant, you did say that all fictionkin were based off of imprinting. This is the exact argument some elitist therians use to say “oh you imprinted so you’re not really fictionkin and in fact you’re just a dumb human getting into our spaces”. Which is exactly how you sounded – an elitist trying to invalidate everyone’s incredibly varied experiences just so you don’t have to acknowledge us. You didn’t mean it, clearly, but the way you worded it put pretty much everyone on the defensive.

You can’t paint everyone with the same brush, that’s why the definition is always so vague. Some of us are spiritual. I have one kintype that I found out by dissociating hard enough I found out that my soul got ripped in two (which explained a lot) and the other half went and became a person who I now consider a fictotype, because while I right now am not him, I was him, and he’s still me. And honestly, that one bends the definition pretty far.

Next time, I’d either word that incredibly differently or point out that you’re talking about your specific friend group in particular, and not the greater community. If someone is trying to concern-troll me and insist it’s because of imprinting that I’m fictionkin regardless of what I say on the matter, they’re getting blocked and reported to the moderators of the space that I found them in. 

I’m not mad personally, and I’m not trying to be rude either. But I hope that clarifies things a little.

Ah, alright, I see the point you’re making and I understand. I should have made myself clearer, you are completely right about that, and I’ll make sure that in future arguments I narrow down the extremely vague statement I made; I’ll do my research :>

Thank you for letting me know your opinion! I’m not trying to shut anyone down. And I’ve never in my life heard of etilist therians, I’ll be sure to look them up.

Thanks again, and I’ll do my best to make things clearer in the future!

Good idea. Thank you for listening. But do me one last favour and don’t look them up. It isn’t really worth the irritation or the misery of having to deal with them. If you’re actively and vocally fictionkin, they’ll come to you.

otherkin-shitposting:

shadowfae:

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.

I didn’t mean to come off as rude or start up drama or anything ^^;! I’m fictionkin myself and I have many friends who are fictionkin, too! My friend (who is fictionkin as well!) and I were merely talking about those we’d seen that were fictionkin and since all of them were psychological we just concluded that that was the reasoning behind it, subconscious or not :>

Of course there’s more reasoning to it than just, “it’s because of imprinting,” but like I said, we based it off of what we had experienced within the fictionkin community.

Again, I apologise if I came off as rude! 💕

I have seen incredibly few amounts of psychological fictionkin, and am very surprised you found enough to make such a generalizing statement.

Regardless of what you meant, you did say that all fictionkin were based off of imprinting. This is the exact argument some elitist therians use to say “oh you imprinted so you’re not really fictionkin and in fact you’re just a dumb human getting into our spaces”. Which is exactly how you sounded – an elitist trying to invalidate everyone’s incredibly varied experiences just so you don’t have to acknowledge us. You didn’t mean it, clearly, but the way you worded it put pretty much everyone on the defensive.

You can’t paint everyone with the same brush, that’s why the definition is always so vague. Some of us are spiritual. I have one kintype that I found out by dissociating hard enough I found out that my soul got ripped in two (which explained a lot) and the other half went and became a person who I now consider a fictotype, because while I right now am not him, I was him, and he’s still me. And honestly, that one bends the definition pretty far.

Next time, I’d either word that incredibly differently or point out that you’re talking about your specific friend group in particular, and not the greater community. If someone is trying to concern-troll me and insist it’s because of imprinting that I’m fictionkin regardless of what I say on the matter, they’re getting blocked and reported to the moderators of the space that I found them in. 

I’m not mad personally, and I’m not trying to be rude either. But I hope that clarifies things a little.

angelic-polar-fox:

shadowfae:

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.

Funny enough because one of my kintypes is from a show I’ve never watched.
I remembered some stuff before I even knew what the term fictionkin is and only know the exact character and source because a friend was watching it.

It happens more often than you think.

That is quite literally me with my newest-discovered fictotype. I still haven’t watched Saint Seiya and I should be, but until then, Fuck™. Had you pointed out the fictotype when I was eight, both me and my soulbond at the time would’ve known that it was just me if I dyed my hair blue.

Honestly, it’s only somewhat ironic when that happens.

zassciful:

everyone has that one song that reminds them of their kintype/situation,

i’d like to listen to some of them!

reblog with the song name in the tags please!

Currently, Nightwish’s Alpenglow is quite the chaotic jam. But Nightwish is always good stuff.