Fable's kin stuff !!

"they identify as animals" thats nice, sharon

"no but they actually think they are animals" theres a war going on, sharon

If you heard about otherkin through general tumblr osmosis but never made an effort to actually understand us, your mental image of otherkin is mostly likely informed by people who pretended to be otherkin to start drama with the express intent to get people to hate us. It was really common a while back for anti-kin to create blogs posing as otherkin and post absurd, ridiculous, and inflammatory things like "I'm plantkin and keeping houseplants is slavery" or "I'm dragonkin and I ate my mom's jewelry". If you actually knew anything about the community it was fairly easy to figure out that these blogs were trolls, but most of the people on tumblr at the time either didn't know enough to be able to tell, or didn't even consider that they might be fake

General info:

Kiera's Alterhuman Dictionary

Typical alterhuman experiences

The Otherkin Timeline

Chimeras' timelines

Therians:

Voice Against Value by Swiftfoxn

An Injured Bird Hides by Tsu

Birdtistic by Tsu

I am Not the Grace of Doe by Your Deer

Snake Eyes by SerpentineZebra

Choice, Instinct, and Therianthropy by Citrakayah

Triple Consciousness by Ilrak

Fictionkin:

I'm Ben, But Call Me Poppy by Poppy Hapalopus

I'm A Kamen Rider… Why, and How? by Clumpywoods

Fangs, Flesh, and Flight by Ebony

The Fire Burns Bright by Jasper

Being Blutpir by Sonne

Otherkin:

Why? - Pushing the Boundaries of Belief by The_Grimm_Judge

Dragons: What They Mean to Me and Why by Zelandeth

Elf is a Gender by Darkness

On Finding Myself by Verde

Just thinking how it's a shame how circular this problem is, in a way. Harrassment and anti-kin sentiments make people keep their experiences to themselves, or only talk about it with the community -only referencing our kin or nonhuman experiences in kin spaces because that's the only place it's acceptable to do so. So then people don't see what we're really like because they never see us, only the people mocking us.

It works out that a lot of people know nonhumans and otherkin, but just don't know that they are such because we don't talk about it. Even for me, I don't actively hide it but I don't talk about it unless the subject comes up.

In the end, despite there being so many of us and our experiences being so diverse, the fake ideas persist just because it's not safe, generally speaking, to be open about genuine experiences to people who aren't part of the community.

But if you make yourself a safe person to talk about it with, you'd be surprised how many otherkin and nonhumans there are and how damn eager we tend to be to share these parts of ourselves!

Makes me feel like I should make more of an effort to be fully candid about myself even outside of nonhuman spaces. :P

This guy writing this is a wolf, a eusmilus, and a weird nature spirit thing! Yeah, that's me!

And I'll slap some of my own writings on here for the curious.

Reflections on the violence of predation

On being "socially nonhuman"

Musings related to nonhuman identity and candid sense of self

I pick up glass on almost every trail I hike. I find pieces in the dirt from old bottles some on top of the soil some you have to pull up from the dirt.

Reindeer userboxes, for anyone to use.

My friend, have you considered that the lapses in your identity and the doubt you have surrounding your type is caused by you jumping to a label and deciding to examine it later? It's tempting to jump the gun and get all the questioning over with, but research is essential to further understanding yourself and your kin.