#im telling you they are similar and are my type

[cybergothvox]

With all due respect, you cannot actually tell if a space is clear of kff and safe based on the language that they use. You have to actually investigate further regardless and not assume its safe or not just from those things. I do think a high instance as kin as a verb is a red flag, but you shouldnt think its the only indicator you need. And its fine to tell people the connotations, but its not fair to write people off just because they personally find it useful or to continually insist they change.

The origional post wasnt really meant to speak on if it should be done, but more on the controling behaviour i saw where people aggressively tried to force people out of it by bullying them, which is not okay.

However, let me speak on its use case for a moment.

Several people have said it is bad to use because it implies kin is a action rather than an identity. And i want to remind those people that kin can be an action.

Take for a moment the word introject. I am a fictive, and therefore i am an introject. However, also when my brain decided to adopt vox into my mind, it introjected him. I introjected vox. As a verb. It is an event that happened. I also am an introject. Its a verb and a noun and it is my identity. I am really vox, even if i wasnt always vox and its something I did.

Not all otherkin are spiritual otherkin who beleive they always were their type. To me, as a psychological otherkin, becoming a kintype is the exact same process as introjecting something, its just we say introject when an alter is forming, and kin for kintypes that are picked after an alter is already formed. For psychological kin who are singlets, who also do not beleive that they were kin until they saw the thing they are kin of and formed a relationship, being kin can be an occurance, an action being taken voluntarily or involuntarily (remember people Can become otherkin on purpose. I know there was a whole community discourse on it but the conclusion of the community at large that i saw was as long as you seriously identify as your types at the end, it counts.)

In these cases, kin makes sense as a verb. I personally use the word the same as the word introject. I will normally introduce myself as JDkin for example, since Being it is what is important during an introduction. But when talking about new kintypes forming, i will go 'i think i might kin that' and other similar things. Its not even a choice im making really, but its what natrually comes out because to me it is the same thing as introjecting so i natrually use the word the same was as introject.

I think that its important to convey to people that being otherkin is a serious identity where we identify as the things, but policing language isnt really going to do that the way spreading correct information and sharing our experiences is. And again, by trying to force people to conform to certain language (explaining your reasons for certain language is fine, my post was about the genuine harassment new members are facing) you make the community a hostile place for new comers and makes it feel full of rules that make people uninterested in learning from us.

'I kin x' is less clunky linguistically and we need to stop assuming people are kff just because they use kin as a verb. Its a very natural way to say it and I struggle to phrase it in other ways. In general people need to stop assuming that red flags for kff (such as kin as a verb, and ranking how much they feel their kintypes, saying kinnie) and assuming they definitely are kff. Languages and practices started by kff have been picked up by genuine otherkin especially younger ones who come into the community and dont know how to tell otherkin from kff. They still identify as their kintypes even if they copy kff practices.

People dont come into the community with a community history degree.

[amourcherie606]

i have a type and i dont know quite how to explain it but I swear they are similar in their owns ways!! savior complex babygirls that take it too far or something...

[caramelmochacrow]

"Beating so fast, seems like it'll burst..."

[unproduciblesmackdown]

come get your levitous sidekick / vicious bastard / funny little guys

[galacticlamps]

I just wanted to apologize to my classic whotuals for all the dead boy detectives spamming, but it's also important to me that you guys know two things:

a) I've become aware that a lot of what appeals to me about dead boy detectives is, on a kind of conceptual/thematic level, the same stuff that I love about my favorite eras of dr who, and 6b in particular

And I tell you this not as an advertising tactic but as a genuine PSA for anyone following me because:

b) Being me & having realized this, I know I'm definitely gonna wind up posting some unnecessarily long-winded analysis/comparison, pop it in the main tags for the sake of organization on my own blog, and subsequently confuse a hell of a lot of people there who either have no idea what I'm talking about or simply don't view either piece of media in the same light as I do to begin with

So I just wanted to reassure everyone that at least you're not suffering alone, as I will soon be inflicting the reverse bait-and-switch upon others!

That's all! continue w ur scrolling <3

[sentientcitysmackdown]

[ID: A 32-person single elimination bracket showing all the cities competing in this tournament. End ID.]

Alright!! Here, as promised, is the bracket!!! Polls will go up tomorrow at...some point! Ideally not as late in the day as this!! (Is there some kinda site you can use to make matchup images?? I've been making them by hand and it SUCKS.)

Full list of competitors/round 1 brackets under cut!!

Revachol (Disco Elysium) v. the City of Frank (Osmosis Jones)

New Mobotropolis (Sonic the Hedgehog) v. Gotham (Batman)

New York City (Great Cities) v. Mechanicsburg (Girl Genius)

Gravity Falls (Gravity Falls) v. The City (Ulysses Dies At Dawn)

Atlantis (Blaseball) v. Battery City (Danger Days)

Atlantis (Stargate: Atlantis) v. Crystal Palace (Friends At The Table)

The City (Archive 81) v. Death City (Soul Eater)

Hlithvida Upon the Western Sea (Glitch RPG) v. Night Vale (Welcome To Night Vale)

Eskew (I Am In Eskew) v. the City of Angles (City of Angles)

Gunnerkrigg Court (Gunnerkrigg Court) v. Kennett Ontario (Pale)

Beszel/UI Quoma (The City and The City) v. Paris (Paris Burning)

Nagspeake (The Greenglass House) v. Ankh-Morpork (Discworld)

London (Fallen London) v. London (Kraken)

Port Cecil (Sunless Seas) v. London (Great Cities)

Ancient Cities (Minecraft) v. The Self Aware Colony (Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri)

Chicago (Blaseball) v. Polythreme (Fallen London)

[vanweezer]

one year ago yesterday i was cussing out a customer for wasting my time at 7 am at self checkout because he decided that was the day he would come into the store follow me around making odd requests while im very actively Doing Stuff and then give the one cashier we had on duty a hard time because he didn't wanna pay for some raspberries. i told him to get out of the store and he was like "what are you the manager?" and i told him to get out before i called someone (never done that in my life) and i took his stuff to the produce room in the back and when i came back he was still selling out and someone managed to sell him some wretched thing

[saturnniidae]

Jlaire (or just Claire as a character, tbh) wouldn't be any be anywhere near as popular as it is if Claire was chubby like she is in the book.

Anyways, I love both book and show Claire with my entire heart, but I'm still kinda salty with how much they slimmed her down in the show

[dewgongs]

-_______-

[strawberryrhubarbs]

why oh why did i open my hinge preferences to men again

[our-lady-of-mcr]

everytime i think im done ranting i remember something else LMFAO this one is extra long i hit tag limit god mf damn

[officialgleamstar]

YOU ARE MY LOVELY FRIEND TRAVIS and you are so cool and your fashion is epic and i love ur posts :3c

reblog if you want an anonymous opinion of you

staring and sweating and pacing because i know i should know who this is, alarm bells are ringing in the back of my head, i KNOW YOU. I KNOW YOU. but i cant place it BUT LIKE I KNOW I SHOULD KNOW WHO YOU ARE

anyways thank you anon i love you so much im kissing your forehead so so sweetly <333

[ottitty]

Less of like. Pressure to move in and make plans and fuck and have lots of romance and have all things joint decisions and more like. I'd like to live my separate life w you in it but also kiss n cuddle n be there emotionally when needed sometimes.

[senxitive]

Does anyone want to explain to me why I can't feel anything

[trans-leek-cookie]

post. Post-posting clarity where you're like "wtf was I talking about". But also post-posting confusion where you're also like "wtf was I talking about" but it's less about your mental state While Posting and more about "okay. I've written many words. I remember. Approximately 20% of them. What the fuck are the rest of these?"

[gnc-tits]

hate tht all the “support” for ppl who have loved ones w bpd is like just a bunch of nasty nasty self centered bpd is abuser disorder shit. like where are the bitches who can keep it real