usually deals with nonhuman/otherkin, multiple and possibly gender and social issues.
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Post about them online and convince others that your fairy-tale world of make-believe is A-OK! You must not be very good at art or even Neopets, or you would at least have something real to be proud of.
puh-leese i am the master of neopets
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I can bore you all I want, but at the end of the day I’ve done nothing odd or strange. You have to honestly and affirmatively answer the question “Is it true that you don’t quite feel human, and that thoughts coming from places other than your brain are causing you to do things?” Good luck in any field involving people.
oh no the temptation to keep arguing is too great
yes it is true i don’t quite feel human, but i think that has root in a psychological cause, not because of anything coming from anywhere else
and dude all i do is art and occasionally blog and play neopets and make bad jokes, what are these mysterious “things” you think i do
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Part of being mentally ill involves poor communication skills. I’m sorry to hear about your problems. You should probably take your medication like your doctor prescribed.
part of being a butt involves having an anus. i’m sorry to hear about your problems. you should probably take your head out of your butt before you suffocate
“Word salad may describe a symptom of mental conditions in which a person attempts to communicate an idea, but random words come out instead. Often, the person is unaware that he or she did not make sense. It appears in people with dementia and schizophrenia, as well as after anoxic brain injury.”
congratulations, you can quote wikipedia, you are the master “doctor of psychology”
okay you’re getting boring though, have fun talking about things you have so little grasp of to a brick wall
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Part of being mentally ill involves poor communication skills. I’m sorry to hear about your problems. You should probably take your medication like your doctor prescribed.
part of being a butt involves having an anus. i’m sorry to hear about your problems. you should probably take your head out of your butt before you suffocate
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You could try not pretending to be an animal on the inside to begin with, and to work on your abysmal self-esteem and your fading grip on reality.
no i’m okay thanks but it’s nice to see the sweet denizens of the internet have so much concern for me. i’m not pretending to be an animal though and my self-esteem is actually pretty decent most of the time and my grip on reality is even better but feel free to take another shot i guess?
also that’s cute did you reblog onto your “not harassing people online like a huge dick” blog there for a second, i saw that
That’s good that you saw that. At least you’re only massively and criminally deluded and not blind. That would make me feel terrible, because at least there is such a thing as blindness.
help oh my god this is so great, look at this guy
please tell me about how i’m “”“”criminally deluded”“”” in being otherkin. please. outline this for me. write a list of my illegal actions pertaining to feeling not entirely human but write it on your ass and then sit on a photocopier and then send me the photocopy and sign it and i’ll put it up on ebay and call it “adrian’s dignity” and i’ll sell it for a thousand dollars to someone who will use it as toilet paper
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after the long rains: adrianzblack: suncalf: otherkin questionokay so if someone IDs as…
It looks like this Adrian character is an asshole who thinks it’s okay to use mental illness as a slur and insist being otherkin is the same as being mentally ill. Otherkin is not a mental illness. Some otherkin may also be mentally ill but it’s a separate issue and even then, they shouldn’t be shamed for being mentally ill. I am not otherkin, but I am mentally ill and I highly resent seeing people throw it at otherkin like a slur. It’s not okay. Stop it.
Mental illness is not a slur. Mental illness is my stock and trade. And if you honestly believe that you have the spirit of a whatever inside you that somehow affects your life, that’s a pretty strong delusion. The way you call it a “slur” indicates an even more ingrained delusion. Perhaps a stay in a neighborhood mental hospital would be best.
excuse you but you’re wrong
(also sugarpig isn’t even otherkin so you’re totally missing the mark there dude)
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otherkin question
okay so if someone IDs as something from, say, japanese culture - a kitsune or a different yōkai of some sort or something like that - but they have no roots in japanese culture and they’re not in any way japanese or anything
how do people work that out? like i dunno i’m about as white as you get without bursting into flames in the sunlight so i have no real personal perspective of what would fall under “appropriation” and what wouldn’t and how would other people view that, like japanese folk for instance, and how would a person make sure they weren’t being appropriative and?? hm
like if someone really feels that they’re something specific from the legends/folklore of an entirely unrelated culture then i’m not gonna say they’re not feeling that or anything because i’ve yet to master the power of reading minds
but at the same time it seems like it could fast go into being appropriative and shitty, like in how the person behaved regarding it and how much they actually looked into the other culture and how they saw it and hmm
specially regarding how like, japan is represented in the media (anime/manga/film etc) vs. the actual reality of japanese life, that sort of thing? what people from outside of a place/culture think of that can be drastically different to reality and that goes for interpretations of creatures and stuff too
also just using japanese folklore and stuff as an example here but that’d go for practically anything that like, native american stuff or whatever. i’m curious, how does it work out for people, how do you make sure you’re not doing something shitty or disrespecting the very thing you feel you are/the culture behind that or whatever. i guess a whole lot of research and stuff at the very least but i dunno. opinions
You could try not pretending to be an animal on the inside to begin with, and to work on your abysmal self-esteem and your fading grip on reality.
no i’m okay thanks but it’s nice to see the sweet denizens of the internet have so much concern for me. i’m not pretending to be an animal though and my self-esteem is actually pretty decent most of the time and my grip on reality is even better but feel free to take another shot i guess?
also that’s cute did you reblog onto your “not harassing people online like a huge dick” blog there for a second, i saw that
okay can we have a “don’t send threatening messages to people” rule
even if you really really don’t like them and you think they’re just being deliberately antagonistic or trolling or faking it or whatever, that still doesn’t make threatening messages an acceptable thing.
this goes to anyone in the tag, otherkin or otherwise
i’m all for being angry as all hell or whatever though but telling people they are awful or whatever is kinda shitty and if you’re doing that to anyone then maybe reconsider that behaviour because i dunno if it’s gonna do anyone any good in the long run and you might really upset someone? yeah mm just a suggestion, not actually trying to be the dark lord of the otherkin tag because wow that would be a shitty job
public service announcement before i sleep
i’m like 99% sure melted-snowflake is “”“”trolling”“”” or something similarly inane so it’s probably not worth your time picking a fight there okay guys
although go wild if you want a laugh i guess
okay here’s a picture of a baby seagull, have a good day i hope
Hello! My name is Melted Snowflake! I’m new to Tumblr, so please forgive my messy posting lol. I hope to make some new friends here :D I have a story to tell, and I hope you like it!
I always felt different as a kid, you know? I was a lonely nerd who would rather read up on zoology than make any…
but someone can be both otherkin and be a good person who helps others and doesn’t appropriate cultures/etc, remember
being otherkin doesn’t mean you can’t be self-aware and it doesn’t have the same roots or reasoning behind it for everyone, and therefore it isn’t something that always needs changing.
if someone wants to stop being otherkin or something and you can help them in that though, then that’s fine, all power to you and them both! but also remember that many people may not want to or need to change, for their own reasons, and in that case, it would do good to respect that.
just an fyi, from a nonhuman-identifying person who isn’t too inclined to change something that causes me no problems without a damn good reason
but guys i think okamp may have a point?
i mean just because furry porn is unnerving [which it is or can be to some extent, in my opinion] doesnt mean hes HATING ALL OF THE ART OH NO HOW DARE YOU ITS GOD AWFUL
he doesnt get off on animals and furries can be really obnoxious and just shove it all around, and i think thats what happens
and yeah
if youre putting it in the otherkin tag then… wow…. what the fuck? its a mockery and its pretty rude, otherkin arent just anthropomorphs in skimpy clothing with like 50 tits in a row ok, i still think okamp has a point and what they’re saying is valid
i mean
that person that posted furry art in the otherkin tag is a douche that abuses animals, who side are you going to be on here
i think he has a point in the “that’s not really otherkin why is that in the tag” yeah but
like the kinkshaming and the “ew this is so disgusting i’m going to proudly admit to bullying someone who i already knew was being bullied just because he drew furry art and anyone who likes furry art is gross and should be ashamed and should keep to their ~designated places~” thing is pretty shitty, cmon
i mean it’s totally okay to not like a thing or to not be attracted to a thing but most people can refrain from actually being outright nasty about it
also some otherkin are also furries/do furry art/etc so it’s not totally out of place and not always a mockery or whatever? while i don’t like the person who posted that particular picture, it could easily have been someone else who wasn’t a douche, so i’m arguing more because there are some furries/furry artists out there who are good people and not actually in defence of that one guy that no one likes
ok no i get what you mean
i guess i didnt notice where they were being rude about it? i mean i dont like furry porn so maybe im the rude one and also biased but
i understand where hes coming from to some extent? also like you said not everyones a d-bag about it idk id probably do some anthro art if i felt like it but nothing sexual thats kind of gross??
nah it’s okay to not like stuff or whatever jeez, everyone has stuff they just aren’t attracted to for whatever reason and if furries aren’t your thing then that’s cool
it’s just when people start going out and being assholes about it to people who actually might like that kind of stuff that it goes beyond like, you going “that’s not a thing i like or am comfortable with and i don’t want to see it” to mister big grumpy okamp going “that’s disgusting you ought to all be ashamed of yourselves” yknow? yes hm
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but guys i think okamp may have a point?
i mean just because furry porn is unnerving [which it is or can be to some extent, in my opinion] doesnt mean hes HATING ALL OF THE ART OH NO HOW DARE YOU ITS GOD AWFUL
he doesnt get off on animals and furries can be really obnoxious and just shove it all around, and i think thats what happens
and yeah
if youre putting it in the otherkin tag then… wow…. what the fuck? its a mockery and its pretty rude, otherkin arent just anthropomorphs in skimpy clothing with like 50 tits in a row ok, i still think okamp has a point and what they’re saying is valid
i mean
that person that posted furry art in the otherkin tag is a douche that abuses animals, who side are you going to be on here
i think he has a point in the “that’s not really otherkin why is that in the tag” yeah but
like the kinkshaming and the “ew this is so disgusting i’m going to proudly admit to bullying someone who i already knew was being bullied just because he drew furry art and anyone who likes furry art is gross and should be ashamed and should keep to their ~designated places~” thing is pretty shitty, cmon
i mean it’s totally okay to not like a thing or to not be attracted to a thing but most people can refrain from actually being outright nasty about it
also some otherkin are also furries/do furry art/etc so it’s not totally out of place and not always a mockery or whatever? while i don’t like the person who posted that particular picture, it could easily have been someone else who wasn’t a douche, so i’m arguing more because there are some furries/furry artists out there who are good people and not actually in defence of that one guy that no one likes
(Source: okamp, via kreatze-kitz)
Someone posted furry art in the otherkin tag. (Block ‘#furry art’ if you haven’t seen it yet and don’t want to, it’s not exactly explicit [said they cropped out the balls] but if you’re anything like me you’ll find it fucking disgusting.)
Great job, guys. I’m considering quitting now. I feel traumatized. </semi-joke>
<off-topic personal story>
I remember years ago when I was blissfully unaware of furries. There was a forum I used to go on a lot. At some point I started coming across one user, who had interesting signatures. I didn’t know anything about furries and I didn’t know that some people hated them. It came naturally, the disgust. He had a graphic of some sort of a canine, except with a human-like figure and one large pair of boobs (how many nipples to canines really have?), looking seductive and wearing some sort of a skimpy outfit, as if animals have anything to hide. At some point he changed the sig to something else that was equally disturbing. I kept having to see that stuff because he posted in the threads that I read. I think I was 14 or 15 at the time. I actually wondered to myself, ‘why do I find this so gross? it’s just an animal, and the internet is full of women in even skimpier outfits. what’s going on?’
Other users started to complain about the signatures, but the guy wouldn’t budge. Apparently his fetish was more important than other users’ sanity.
In my last year in school, there were two guys who liked to draw furry art. I had never in my life bullied anyone, but I came close with one of them. (Deliberately in his earshot, I was talking to a popular girl and called his drawings ‘perverse’. That alone may not seem much but he had already quickly been becoming the bullied kid of the class, and little things like that pile up at the end of the day. I didn’t regret it.)
I hate people who sexualize animals and aren’t even ashamed of it. I hate when I accidentally come across their shit online where I don’t expect it, exactly because they aren’t even ashamed (or just decent people) and won’t keep it in the designated places.
This post has nothing to do with otherkin. But seeing that thing under the public tag page made me want to get this story out of my system, so here it is. Sorry.
cool kink shaming there dude
if people want to draw animals in skimpy costumes with big tits i don’t think it’s anyone’s business but their own (unless they’re going out of their way to shove it in other people’s faces when it’s been stated it’s not wanted, which is a dick move for anyone to do)
but uh yeah i don’t think people should have to be ashamed of sexualizing animals as long as they’re not actually going out and hurting animals or anyone else. because who cares that’s their thing and they can do it if it makes them happy and i’m glad they have something they enjoy doing that makes them happy. a lot of furries and furry artists are really nice people, get off your high horse. and also don’t bully people and be proud of it, what the hell, that’s really shitty
I linked to a blog posting written by someone else.
I quoted the part of the blog that I felt to be the most respectful way of iterating the main point of the article. Furthermore, I believe that quote is the portion that I agree with the most.
The blog posting is not my opinion, you don’t know my opinion, so don’t tell me to shut up.
One final point I want to get across: I don’t give a shit one way or another about otherkin.
At all. Do whatever the hell you want, you’re not hurting anyone.
But you hurt and insult me when you compare being transgender to being otherkin. I feel insulted because of the spiritual connotations that otherkin attract to their identity. There is no physical proof that one can use to compare the brain of an otherkin to a transgender person.
So we don’t know if there’s a correlation or not.
If we don’t know if the two things are comparable physically, then you can’t just say your proof is that it compares because you feel as though it compares.
Doing so would in fact be comparable to me claiming that I know that there in fact exists a supernatural being who is omnipotent and all-knowing, simply because I feel as though he exists due to my experiences as a religious person. Without proof beyond that fact.
i think that people who are both trans* and otherkin have the right to compare their personal experiences in both matters - like similar feelings regarding their body, or whatever. they’re the only ones who can say whether they’re comparable on that level.
also, it has to be mentioned that since there have been no studies done on otherkin (such as the sort of brain/etc scan which has shown transgender brains to be different than cis brains), then it is hard to say that there could never be any proof in that regard. it would be interesting to see that sort of scan done, certainly, but as you can imagine there aren’t a lot of people qualified and willing to put time and money into it as of yet.
not to mention that re: brain scans in trans* folk helping to justify them as their correct gender, not birth gender - there have been very few/no? tests done on nonbinary folk in that that regard, and also, not all trans* folk may get the same results and this could be used to say that they’re not “really trans*” or something so
just putting it out there that science, as great as it is in many ways, isn’t to be totally relied on with that kinda stuff and it’s still got a way to go. also, otherkin isn’t always a spiritual thing for everyone.
okay here is a response in bullet-points: (i can elaborate/discuss things further if requested)
