#angelkind

i remember many things about my time in heaven, and frankly it does me no good to dwell on it. i used to try to remember all i could about my time up there, but it unironically made my mental state worse and worse. i eventually decided to distance myself from my time up there, as clearly its not something that i gain any benefit from remembering other than the pleasure of having knowledge. its traumatic, to say the least, and has very little impact on the life i lead now. hell, i can't even remember my old name, but i really don't care. i was given a new name 18 years ago and im quite fond of it.

is a meteorite crash

is a freeway collapsed,

Is what's left of the nuclear aftermath:

a radioactive half-life,

a mutation of never-ending forms that shift and change what they are to survive.

It is the question and the answer,

Angels, I am curious about what you believe in, and how that relates to your angel identity.

Let me explain some of the terms here.

Abrahamic means that you consider yourself to be a part of an abrahamic religion.

Abrahamic-adjacent means that you don't consider yourself to be a follower of the religion, but you still believe in the mythology (to some extent). For example, if you are Christian-adjacent, you would believe in God and Satan/Lucifer, heaven, hell, etc.

Alternate universe means that you believe that your experiences as an angel happened in an alternate universe, and the beings/places that existed there may not exist here.

Non-abrahamic means that you do not consider your angelness to be rooted in any abrahamic religion, but it still has a spiritual cause.

Psychological only means that you view your angelness as a strictly psychological thing.

@angelic-keeper

I will be mostly reblogging things, making posts abt missing my wings, maybe a lil poetry, who knows.

May also have a few nsft/nsfw mentions, on posts i reblog

If I’m approaching this the wrong way, do you have any tips for engaging with this community in a respectful way?

Obviously I can't speak for everyone, but as long as you make an effort to be respectful about others' experiences and boundaries (which it sounds like you're making that effort), I don't think it's offensive to engage with the angelkin community.

The "otherkin" label in general covers a fairly broad range of experiences, with the common thread being identification as non-human. And like the saying goes, if the shoe fits...

Narrowing down a bit, the angelkin community has a lot of links to other, vaguely adjacent subsets of the otherkin community, including demonkin and deitykin. It's not unusual to find spaces that are theoretically for angelkin, but are also welcoming to those adjacent groups as well. On top of that, I've seen a range of experiences be summarized as "angelic", including experiences that directly contradict common beliefs about angels, and the people having those experiences are still welcomed. I'm sure you'll have no problem meshing with this.