Lupine Spirit

I'm not religious, but I'm open to the ideas of like, putting out energies into the world and recieving them? I've been into the idea of souls and past lives and stuff like that lately.

Yeah I just dunno. I tend to rely on science, but maybe there are things science can't explain.

if you’re doubting yourself, you’re likely real/doing it right/valid, as goes for just about everything. People who are insecure about their art seem to do the best, people who worry about whether they’re the sexuality they identify as usually are that sexuality, otherkin who doubt their validity usually are otherkin

but I believe others explain the rest very well :))

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I have a few pics of oceany theme tho ! hope you like these and get a chance to go down to the ocean soon!!

Holy COWS aBOVE THAT’S LIKE A 1000 IQ thing right there, like, who thought that, hey! let’s turn ur ankle into a functional knee so a prosthetic can be put in place to work pretty incredibly!

hm... okay this may be long but will hopefully be educational. (also the wikipedia page on otherkin is pretty good for history and such, though not without some flaws)

the term otherkin actually originated in 1990! and it didn't come from tumblr. its a really legitimate thing that tumblr has sort of... made less serious i feel? but that's just an opinion. people should totally be able to have fun with it of course ^^

also note that it can be experienced/defined differently by different people. but baisically it means identifying as something other than human or as a fictional character.

fictionkin (which i feel like is most seen on tumblr lately) is when you identify as a fictional character. a lot of people say it's when you were that character in a past life, but it could be different for other people.

otherkin is when you identify as something other than human. it could be a past life, but it could also be more like having the soul of a wolf or being meant to be a wolf but born into a human body by mistake. (wolf is just an example, it could be anything from an elf, to a dragon, to a tree, to a bumblebee)

therian is usually like otherkin but is just used for identifying as an animal specifically.

otherkin may also be an umbrella term used for all of the above.

K no but adding more onto this beautiful post

There’s 

spiritual reasons like split souls, reincarnation/past life, and misplaced souls. etc.

and psychological that no one talks about for some reason, like imprinting where some uncopable and or, repeated stress, anxiety, trauma, etc caused your brain to take an imprint of something on your identity. there’s also brain wiring, and neurodivergent reasons.

Phytanthropes, those who identify involuntarily with plants, so roses or an apple tree for example 

Theriomythic, a choice label for mythical creatures but ones that are more animalistic than human. for example, maybe a completely Animalistic dragon or unicorn

Copinglinks, someone who chooses to identify nonhuman in order to cope.

otherlinks, someone who chooses to identify nonhuman for an other reason than coping. (this is what ‘kinning’ culture is mainly. Tumblr has twisted the terms and turned it into some fun game. everyone who uses ‘I kin this’ or ‘lol I’m kinning (anime character)’ is usually a linker or misinformed.)

kin was originally kind! it came from the original word where, iirc, was used to refer to those who identified as elvenkind, and, the otherkind. it makes much more sense to call yourself dragonkinD but ehh, that was changed and rarely anyone uses it anymore, dunno why it got shortened

otherhearted/kith! (there’s also synpath bbut pathway apparently made by someone who didn’t know this term existed, a term for someone who feels strongly connected and identifies WITH something rather than AS something. kin means you are, kith means you aren’t but you heavily associate yourself with them if that’s a good explanation?? 

I would love linking to become something trendy/popular because it would make otherkin more familiar to lots of people and linking is something everyone could do. it’s the same as putting on a different identity when giving a school presentation or getting ‘in character’ for a play. the issue is when it gets mixed with kin/kith which aren’t a choice and harms otherkin so people think “those people are just weird for fun lololol” or “thinking ur an animal isn’t and good coping method”