Okay, so, fictionkin terminology has gotten pretty diluted outside the community in the past few years, due to a massive influx of casual interest in the community during a time while anti-kin were impersonating fictionkin as a form or trolling and harassment.

But I’m going to try not to go on a rant about that.

A “kintype” is the term for who you are as a fictionkin. For example, some of my kintypes are Vriska, Toko Fukawa, Sabretooth, Karl Heisenberg, and Revolver Ocelot.

Some people refer to the ‘characters’ they are as their “kins” but this was not even marginally accepted community terminology until very recently, and a lot of older community members including myself are more or less against it’s use entirely for reasons I won’t get into here.

The term “kinning” falls under this same umbrella of not being accepted terminology by serious fictionkin, and I explain why for this one.

“Kinning” is a verb which describes an action, but being fictionkin is not an action, it’s something that you are. You wouldn’t (in serious circumstances) describe yourself as ‘girling’ or ‘eightteening’, you’d say you’re a girl, or say you’re eighteen.