#factkith

So. Cheers to every villain, antagonist, aggressor, rival, mastermind, instigator, and perpetrator.

Whether you're

repentant or unremorseful

peaceful or violent

I can only speak to the online factkin community because I am not part of any otherkin circles irl at the moment but in my experience it has only grown and become more vibrant! When I first learned about the factkin community online it seemed very small. This would be circa 2017.

When I started this blog there were only a handful of factkin or factkin-friendly accounts here. Every kin blog I wanted to follow, I had to scour for a DNI that included factkin and more often than not I found one. The factkin tag was about 10% actual factkin and 90% factkin hate.

It wasn't just here, so many otherkin discords, aminos, and groups on other sites seemed perfect for me but in the very last lines of their descriptions they said "no factkin" so that was that.

I even made a second kinlist to put in discords that I wasn't sure were factkin-friendly. It included all my kintypes, minus my facttypes and fictotypes I deemed to "problematic" (Among them were Sterling Archer from Archer and The Monarch from Venture Bros) so I could be mostly myself and test the waters. Testing the waters often turned to hiding my "undesirable" kintypes indefinitely.

I made attempts to talk about factkinity with people on forums and in servers with designated AMA and debate chats but was often shut down by moderators or by people piling into the chat to tell me off.

In about 2018 I discovered a couple of otherkin Amino groups that advertised themselves as accepting of all and they absolutely were! I was with other factkin there, people with unorthodox kintypes, people who didn't care that I had fictotypes from Adult Swim shows, and it was PERFECT. These groups were full and celebratory of every otherkin identity. I am still a part of one of them although as the years went on it slowly became less active. For a few years, this was the place that I had to be factkin visibly.

Then in about 2019-2020 I saw a major shift. I saw more factkin and pro-factkin accounts popping up on every social media I frequented and I thought "hey I should be doing that" so I started this blog. At first, a lot of hate asks rolled in but nowadays I am SURPRISED when I open my inbox and find an ask that is anything short of genuine.

In 2021 the term Diaunthro was coined and that just makes me so happy because I know that if it had been coined in 2016 it would have been shoved into DNI lists right next to factkin. People now seem to try to understand the nuance of the two terms and people in the otherkin community seem more interested in understanding us better. The growing community support for factual identities like facttkin, factkith, and diaunthros warms my heart.

Fact-Fiction-(Folks) Solidarity #1: because I think we should be friends.

~ Mod Silhouette

Sure! I also did kin flags and factive flags!

Frank Sinatra:

Anne Bonny:

This post and this blog are inclusive of ALL systems, including non-traumagenic, non-disordered, non-diagnosed, and self-diagnosed systems.

People are NOT bad for being fact-types. (Including but not limited to: factlinks, factkin, factives, factual introjects, facthearted, fogtives, fucktives/faitives, partial factives, etc.).

Abusive fact-types are abusers for their behavior, NOT their being/identifying as a person who exists in this world.

Hey! I'd like to preface by saying I'm not trying to police your identity, but "kin" generally means identifying AS something and "kith" is the word for relating to/identifying with something! A kintype does not have to be a spiritual thing by any means, and I'm not here to tell you that you can't choose kintypes because that's a complicate subject, but "kin" doesn't really mean relating to something. You might want to look into otherkith and constelic as terms!

As for whether or not you can kin/kith/constel/whatever Ranboo, yes absolutely you can. Factkin, Factkith, and Factconstels have always been around and it isn't identity theft.

That said, if you publicly identify as factkin there will probably be some backlash. If your friend is against factkin they may have a hard time understanding your pov. That's why this blog exists, to try to help non-factkin understand the community and be more respectful towards the identity.

However you end up identifying, just know that whatever your friends say, whatever strangers online say, the only person who can tell you who you are is yourself.

!Please don't do otherkin discourse as a whole in the notes!

I know this is a blog where we post a lot of positivity, but it's okay not to be positive all the time.

It's okay to be bitter after experiencing harassment in communities that are supposed to welcome and respect you, or even be a jaded person from your past life, your present life, or both.

It's okay to be angry at your abusers and at exclusionists.

It's okay to be sad that people only befriend you for your source and don't want to get to know you as your own person.

It's okay if you lost your capacity for optimism and trust for others after being dehumanized as a "problematic" celebrity or a huge special interest or any other reason.

It's okay to be scared of making connections, there are so many spaces that don't welcome us. It's good to stay on the safe side. Block tags. Block people. Blacklist words. Take care of yourself/ves.

It's okay to be traumatized and show symptoms of it, even the "ugly" ones like angry outbursts, splitting, avoiding, or idolizing. As long as you're responsible for your own behavior, apologizing and making it up to people you may have hurt. You're not a bad person for having trauma.

It's okay to be distrustful and "edgy" as long as you're not cruel to others.

You're just fine the way you are. No matter what stage of healing you're in, or no matter if you're pursuing it now or later (and "healing" does NOT mean "behaving like a neurotypical and having 0 symptoms forever"). You deserve to have connections again, to feel safe again, but there's no pressure. You shouldn't have to force yourself/ves to be happy and sociable.

A number of people reached out and said they were interested! I’ll send out individual links but for now here’s a temporary invite!

https://discord.gg/HgZa8bvp

The server has a verification system, lots of roles, plenty of bots, and tons of fun channels!

It’s for anyone with a fact-based alterhuman identity, as well as anyone wanting to learn more about them!