#tfkin

kinda hurts when the mech ya might kinda sorta love is already infatuated with someone else. i might need a drink heheh

hi I know I never use this blog every anymore but TF1 was SO good I hope every other TFkin sees it and adores it as much as I did

I dared to look at the Cybertroniankin/Transformerskin tag on social media and was met with a wall of ex-otherkin(and I lightly use the term ex-otherkin, there's no such thing) talking about how it was a “phase” and making fun of the idea. Ridiculous.  Its ridiculous how when at the time you tell these brats that when they are pretending or playing Otherkin for fun that it isn’t how this works, they throw up a stink, creature drama, the whole works.. but then you end up right years later when they are no longer “kin” and you’re still here stuck with the damage they caused your community. Funny how that works. And you know by ‘funny’, I mean in a way that's not funny at all.  Being Otherkin isn’t a phase. You either are or you are not. I didn’t choose this, none of us did. But you outsiders come charging into our spaces, turning definitions upside down, making a mockery and internet meme out of something that is serious to us and leave with no mark on yourselves. You don’t care because it doesn’t effect you. You never gave a shit because it’s not your problem. You were never Otherkin, so why would it be? People like me, those of us who are stuck with the aftermath of Otherkin socially combusting on popular media left picking up the pieces, can’t even distinguish each other from one another now. It was difficult enough to trust before, to try and be open and feel safe talking about these experiences with people who at the time convinced you, and themselves, really hard that they were that thing.. but then tore away from it when they got bored. They didn't just have a “harmless phase”, they hurt all of us.  Whats done is done though, and there's nothing that can set back the way things used to be. It was never perfect, but it was never this bad either. I realize I’m ranting, there's just nowhere else to let this out. I always hated being fictionkin because inadvertently you know that this is how it will always be in the end. There will always be people who want to have this experience when its convenient to them. They “want to be their faves” or “oh kin, this character is just like me” until they move onto the next hot topic.  I’ve been on the Otherkin side of Tumblr since 2012, been Otherkin since 2007, and it’s just been incredibly sad to watch everything go.