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any other fictionfolk kinda tired of using source-centric language for themselves all the time? like, for me personally as someone with past lives and a parallel life its like, yeah, i certainly do have a fictional counterpart that made me remember my kintype but i feel like saying all the time "yeah my kintype is [character] from [source]" is like. exhausting.
the fact my parallel life appeared as a fictional story (and has some different details) in this life is like. not my business sometimes. the universe works in mysterious ways. just because a version of me appears in that story shouldn't mean i gotta center my entire discussion of myself by saying "yeah im [blank] from [blank] but different in these ways" sometimes i just wanna be like "yeah in my parallel life im a [species] from [planet]" y'know?
i dunno. my "source" is fictional but that life sure isn't. with my kintypes who maybe be more psychological in origins, sure i find the language far more useful there. but centering my past & parallel lives on pieces of fiction that exist in this life for 6 years just feels weird for me.
(this post isn't meant to invalidate anybody else, i'm talking about my personal feelings for myself and asking if others relate. please dont take this post personally or think you have to change. do whatever makes you happy :) this is what i found has made *me* happier recently. )
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being fictionkin from kid's media includes constantly seeing you and your friends depicted as children and being like ? oh yeah lol that's how most people think of us just eternally
being fictionkin from kid's media includes constantly seeing you and your friends depicted as children and being like ? oh yeah lol that's how most people think of us just eternally
being fictionkin from kid's media includes constantly seeing you and your friends depicted as children and being like ? oh yeah lol that's how most people think of us just eternally
*gripping the sink and staring into the mirror* it’s a pointless endeavor to correct every person in fandom joking about a character being a “kin”. You don’t need to do it. No one will like you.
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I am a fictionkin and fictive, a person for whom in my own daily life there IS a blurred line between fiction and reality, between what I know about characters from what's written about them in their source and what I know as my own truth because I know them as people.
So why, tell me why, that 19 years later, since 2006!, why I am STILL the one here reminding people that you have to maintain a separation between those two things when discussing a piece of fiction in its context as fiction?
Your "headcanons" the things you "just know" about a character aren't TRUE in any meaningful way in terms of discussing the piece of fiction as a piece of fiction. They're not relevant facts to anyone else, they're personal.
Why am I still the one who has to be here saying this almost 20 years later?
If you're just talking about your personal experiences its fine not to acknowledge any kind of separation, but when you're dialoging with other fans or talking about the source material as a piece of fiction you have GOT to acknowledge that there's a separation.
This is why I don’t get offended when I read fanfiction, or see fan art that “mischaracterizes” me, because they aren’t really thinking of “me”. The person making fan media is thinking of what they’ve seen in canon, as well as their own interpretation. I don’t wanna be the buzz kill coming in saying “um, actually I wouldn’t say/do that.” Fiction is a place for creative expression, not historical documentation.
I run a fandom blog for one of my sources. It is a source which prides itself on the characters having no strict canon appearances. It's also rife with fans who just...hate me, to use the words they do.
It hurts to hear that and see that and some of their interpretations are so not what I know I look like that it's jarring. Some of their headcanons are way off base.
Have I engaged in fandom discussions before? Sure! But only using the information presented in this world's canon. Unfortunately, swallowing down my own facts and feelings is necessary for discussing what is only fiction here and not even wholly accurate to me anyway.
I've actually learned to enjoy my source as a story that is only somewhat about me and those I knew/know. Even still the feelings are there.
It is hard. It does take time. It's so weird, I know. But it's absolutely necessary for you to do it not just for the fiction's sake but for your own sake because you are never going to be able to control canon or fanon and it's always going to hurt if you can't make the separation. If it hurts too much and you don't want to act like that's not you but done or treated wrong, leave fandom behind. You'll be so much happier just talking to other fictionfolk.
Oh, I know there's only 28 votes on this, but the results of this one so far hurt me. Below the cut so as not to affect the results:, if you don't know about the Silver Elves, here's some community history in brief:
In short, the Silver Elves, together with the Elf Queen's Daughters, are the origin of the modern otherkin community. The Elf Queen's Daughters are actually the older group, but only by a few years; the two were/are (the Silver Elves are still extant; I don't think the EQD are, but I may be wrong) groups of elf-identifying people, very spiritual in nature, who first came together in the late 60s to early 70s (EQD) and around 1975 (Silver Elves) respectively.
The Silver Elves, or at least someone who was in communication with them (I'm unclear on whether Ry'kandar Korra'ti was/is part of that group or not), would eventually create the Elfinkind Digest, a mailing list originally intended for elves which quickly came to include other species - orcs, hobbits, dragons, and the like. From someone's reluctance to continue writing elf-/orc-/dragon-/etc.-kind came the word otherkind, which quickly took off and was equally quickly shortened to otherkin (no one seems clear on why this happened exactly - possibly it was just a typo that eventually became the dominant spelling). And thus, from the Elfinkind Digest came the origins of the modern otherkin community.
And the Silver Elves are still around! They've got a Tumblr blog and everything, @/thesilverelves. They put out books on elfinkind periodically as well.
So yeah, there's the short version. For more details and quotes directly from them, I recommend checking out the Otherkin Timeline by Orion Scribner here.
I think I have an interesting disconnect between being otherkin and being otherhearted. I see people who feel as though the two terms are nearly indistinguishable, and for some reason it's not like that for me! There's a clear line between them in my brain, and I wanna journal about my personal experience with that.
I'm a velociraptor, velociraptor therian, raptorkin, raptorkind, a prehistoric bird, a wereraptor. I use those words interchangeably, since they all convey the proper information: I'm a raptor. I also strongly identify as human. I have two species, equal in value, and they fluctuate in intensity - in my daily life, I'm content to see myself as human, and my raptor side is almost a separate creature entirely, but not quite. It's a median headmate, an important part of me, and also different from me. We are the same until we are not.
And I'm not raptorhearted, even when I'm only partly identifying as a raptor, when I'm feeling more human. I don't identify with raptors, with the traits humans have given them or with their reconstructed biology - I don't feel a sense of belonging, or home, or love for their species in a way that's beyond what I feel for other animals. Raptors are, for some strange reason, not very special to me. I just happen to be one.
Even when I'm not a raptor, when I'm a human with a raptor side and raptor instincts, I don't relate to my raptor brain - that's why I separate it from me! I don't feel a sense of familiarity with it, beyond the familiarity of being it and knowing how it works from being it.
Other raptors aren't inherently family to me. I'll call them cousins, as an affectionate shorthand, because they're like me and not quite the same, but I don't feel a sense of caring for them simply because they're raptors. I feel familiar with them because they're like me - I enjoy seeing how much we're alike, what ways we might differ! But I don't deeply care about them, in the same way someone who's raptorhearted might.
Here, for contrast, let me tell you about how I experience being fictionhearted with a particular canon, and why I'm confident in calling that a hearttype.
My heartcanon, the fictional canon which I'm connected with, is a personally-created alternate universe of the video game Detroit: Become Human, which I've named Detroit, Machina. I've named it, given it a different title, because it's so fundamentally important to me and feels so different from the original source from which it was derived that calling DBH in general my heartcanon feels painfully wrong.
I don't identify as any character from Machina. I identify with the beats of the story, with the characters and their struggles, with the joys and failures and everything about creating it. I say I have a heartcanon because I could tell someone about it as a story, as a fanfic, and it would not convey the depth of how this story is embedded into my psyche. I would not be the same person if I hadn't written about it for years of my life, put pieces of myself into it. I'm not fictionkind, I'm not anyone in this story, but the story is an integral part of me anyway. I have such strong feelings about it that I don't know how to put it to words, and I don't feel comfortable trying in a public post. It's important to me. If you told me I could never talk about Machina again, I would crumble to ash.
Contrast that with being a raptor. If you were to tell me I could never have any piece of dinosaur paraphernalia ever again, I would shrug. They're cute, sure, but I don't care about raptors that intensely. I would be just as disappointed if you said I couldn't ever have any cat paraphernalia, and I'm not a cat in any alterhuman sense.
Basically - I don't care about raptors in such a strong, personally intense way that they've changed who I am. I am a raptor, and that's changed who I am, and that doesn't mean I necessarily love them. And that's perfectly okay.
Bell Hooks, 'All About Love: New Visions' // @/thoughtcascades // Christa Wolf, 'Cassandra' // @/avainblue // Jodi Picoult, 'My Sister's Keeper' // Simone de Beauvoir, 'Letters to Sartre' // Czeslaw Milosz, 'New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001' // Ocean Vuong, 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous' // Margaret Atwood, 'Corpse Song' // @/stuckinapril // Devin Kelly, 'My Mother, the Day She Knows the Ones Who Died in the Shooting' // Twitter post by @/cuckcat
The problem with being fictionkin who started out and still participates in their respective fandom is that it becomes extremely awkward to discuss headcanons about yourself with the fandom friends who don't know it's much deeper for you than that, but it's ALSO extremely awkward discussing headcanons about yourself with your fellow fictionfolk friends who know you're talking about yourself as if you're a blorbo.
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being fictionkin is really strange cos it's like yeah hi that fictional guy you like. that's me. yes i do seriously 100% believe this and even 'believe' is a strange way to phrase it for me. yes i do carry a little trauma about it that keeps me up at night and will make me phyically recoil if i think about it too hard. yes my entire internal way of thinking and sometimes physical demeanour changes when i experience a shift a little too hard. why are you looking at me like that
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