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onlyhalfdemon:

guidelines for minors in the therian/otherkin community:

  • predators are everywhere, including within this subculture. block. report. tell an adult you trust if you feel unsafe.
  • p-shifters are individuals who claim they can physically transform into their kintype. they’re lying. they want attention. power. control. block them and spread the word.
  • it’s okay to change your kintype. we’re just glad you’re figuring yourself out. we don’t think you’re faking.
  • “kin” is a noun, not a verb. you are kin. you are not “kinning.”
  • it’s okay to have fun in this community. it’s okay to take yourself seriously, too. if someone doesn’t like your self-expression? block them.
  • don’t feed the trolls. they want to suck you in. laugh at you. hurt you. don’t take the bait and remember: the block button is your friend.
  • some people believe their identity to be spiritual. sometimes it’s psychological. respect both.
  • if your identity is causing serious distress, to the point that it’s affecting your daily life, seek professional help. and if you ever feel like hurting yourself, help is just a phone call away.

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‘past life memories’ anon: thank you!! that makes a lot of sense! I also don’t think of my own past ages as “me” and sometimes view them as contrary or intrusive to my current identity, so it actually makes total sense that my experience of otherkin would be similar, where my past lives don’t feel totally congruent with my current self. Thank you for that comparison! It made a lot of sense to me! (I do also get fictionflickers and they suck, but they’re different from my other kin experiences)

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Anon, I am so glad that was helpful to you! Thank you for sharing your experiences!

He I’m the otherkin anon! The original one, not the follow-up one.Can you have a kintype to the earth? Like…I have this deep need to be the earth. To be close to plants and rocks and soil. Like Mother Nature’s long lost child. For a long time I just associated it with gender but lately it’s gotten more…intense? Like suffering if I can’t be outside. I hate being cooped up inside all day, especially for several days at a time. I want to move out so I can have the room to set up a gardening corner, with succulents and flowers and other plants. I need their presence.

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Many otherkin would say that these type of feelings would mean you should explore/question if you have a kintype that is something like a dryad, alraune, dwarf, or other type of mythological creature or spirit associated with nature ans the earth.

Other otherkin would say that you might consider yourself to have a kintype that is the earth itself.

Almost all otherkin would say that you should take your time and explore the deepness of your feelings, question and search for your truth and want is meaningful to you.

Describe your experiences to yourself and put together a picture of what you feel and what you believe yourself to be, and come to an answer about what you feel your kintype to be.

This is a process called “questioning”, and its the way otherkin and fictionkin discover the trith about themselves. Sometimes it can take a long time to figure out what is meaningful and true to you, and that is always okay.

Follow up question to the other anon asking about otherkin: Because I’ve heard otherkin/fictionkin folks talking about their “previous lives” I kind of assumed that was what I was experiencing, but also people say that being kin with something means being it entirely. I get really vivid memory flashes of other experiences/universes and I’ve sorted that into kintypes but the characters/kintypes don’t often feel super close to me and who I am: I don’t identify as them, although they’re part of me, but not all of me, and I’m not all of them. Sometimes they even feel foreign or invasive, but not always? Like they want different things than I do. Is this an otherkin experience or does this sound, like, delusional? Should I mention this to a psychiatrist whenever my therapist next makes me go? I’ve heard people talking about delusional attachments and I’m not sure what that is or if it matches better

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Many otherkin and fictionkin experience their kintypes as previous lives, and generally also consider those previous lives to still be fully them without separation. Sort of how you’ve grown more than your 10 year old self, but your 10 year old self is still fully you, rather than a seperate person. That’s how past life kintypes are.

There are also otherkin and fictionkin who experience their kintypes in ways that aren’t past lives such as parallel lives, and embodiment.

And there are kin who have past lives that they don’t consider ‘relevant’ enough to them to personally consider a kintype.

What you’re describing sounds like something I might easily describe as a past life memory we’re it to happen to me. These can also be called noemata, of you prefer a more psychological term.

It also sounds to me like you could be experiencing something called ‘fictionflickers.

Fictionflickers are a type of experience where a person suddenly and temporarily experiences being a person from a fictional media, which may include receiving flashes of memory, or temporarily takingbon the personality of that character.

You might not be the right person to ask but What’s a therian/otherkin? Somebody (somebody I trust) told I might be “kinned” to a thing and while yes I have a very personal and very emotionally significant attachment to that thing, I don’t understand what they mean and I’m looking for answers.

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Hey anon. A kintype (what your friend meant when they said kinned) is a very personal thing that only you can tell for yourself. Nobody else can tell you or you’re an otherkin, or if you’re a therian.

Here are some pretty decent definitions of the terms for you.

otherkin

n., sing. or pl. A person who holds the belief that they are not entirely (or not at all) human. Usually a spiritual belief pertaining to one’s soul and the reincarnation thereof, but may also be a belief that one’s genetics are descended from, for example, the Irish fae. The word Otherkin was coined to describe people who felt a connection to mythological humanoids such as elves and faeries, but has expanded in recent years to include dragons, gryphons/griffins and other supposedly mythical beasts as well as animals, angelic/demonic beings (angelkin/demonkin) and in some cases extraterrestrials.

Therian

A therian is someone who identifies as a non human earthen animal either spiritually or psychologically.

Therian is short for therianthropy or therianthrope. Theri= animal, anthro=man. Therians can have “shifts” but not all do. All therians understand that they cannot physically shift and are not physically an animal, they know they are physically human.

Therians are a category that fall under otherkin. Otherkin is anyone who identifies as non human. This includes therians, mythkin, fictionkin, plankin, etc. Not all therians are spiritual, some are psychological and not all therians have a connection with their theriotype.

  • Her theriotype is a rabbit.
  • He psychologically identifies as a hawk.
  • She spiritually identifies as a fish.

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Exonostalgia:

Exonostalgia: The opposite of exotrauma. Events and experience that were experienced outside of this objective reality that give you a nostalgic or fond feeling.

People you knew, places you’ve been, and events you experienced, ect, that impacted you positively and give you a warm feeling to remember and think about.

I have been meaning to share this term for a little while, which I have been using personally. I hope it will be useful to others!

For historical purposes: exonostalgia was coined on 1/17/2023 by Jasmine of Sinister System and is meant as a term to be usable by all fictionkin, otherkin, plurals of all origin types and anyone else who finds it useful to describe their experiences.

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I’m not too informed on kinning, but what’s a kintype?

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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.