r/otherkin

Hello. I was trying to find resources or active groups for incarnate angels. I haven’t had friends in quite some time and I wouldn’t mind immersing myself in a group until I’m comfortable to interact.

Uh. Thank you in advance. Sorry for the trouble.

technically this would probably just be fictionkin, but even if i do kin some characters I've noticed that I feel connected to "animated" characters in general, and I feel more comfortable with that kinda stuff rather than "live action" stuff. it affects my life in multiple ways, and I often wish i was also in an anime like style, I also like how expressive animated characters act and I wish everyone was that expressive.

it's probably because I was homeschooled most of my life and i was constantly daydreaming about animated shows since I was as little as a remember, but I definitely think I'd feel more comfortable in a reality where everything is in a style like that, and it had a huge impact on how i view myself and live my life, I definitely DO NOT fit in here, and I've always gotten more crushes on animated characters too, I don't understand the appeal with celebrities and people in this reality. I do still get crushes on real people (rarely) but it always feels weirdly wrong.

i know animated characters are meant to be appealing for the most part, and their lives are usually meant to seem fun and interesting (well not all) but I still can't help but feel like the life I'm living is the wrong one and I belong somewhere else. the style of this world feels wrong.

even if it is caused by escapism i still feel like it's a huge part of my identity in some way.

would that just be considered fictionkin? is there a term for this?

Come at me for saying this but, I dislike all the therian content, im an omnitherian myself but I know that over half of the therian community online is misinformation, and toxic. Ive gotten told im not welcome in the community because I have a more complicated identity. I also dislike how SO SOOOO many beings/nonbeings will say smth like "save this post if you support therians/alterbeings" THERIANS ARE ALTERBEINGS. It just upsets me, another thing is how much people only know of therian. I would say "oh im a holothere as well" and i would be asked "whats that" i just kinda dislike the therian community atp, I feel uncomfortable in it.

I don't feel comfortable in my body. I'm a robotkin, and I liked robots since I was a kid, but I just discovered that I was a robotkin this year

I hate the fact that I'm made of meat, that I'm fragile and that I have emotions that can hurt me and my the others

I just love seeing myself like a robot. Just being super intelligent, silly, made of metal and being capable of changing my personality whenever I want

Idk, in my country we don't have pronouns like 'it', so I have to keep being called 'him'

Just a stupid vent

Hiii im new here, im Selene, im a vampirekin. Its so nice to meet you all🫶🏼

I’ve already posted on here a few times before, buttt I never introduced myself and I like talking about myself, so hello!!

My name is Xanthous (or whatever nickname you can make out of it; not my real name) and I’m a teenager! Though I also go by Magnus, Giyu, Marshall, Moon, Luna, Dallas/Dally/Dal, AM, Bakugo, Dusk, Lolbit, and again whatever nicknames you can make out of them :)

I have multiple otherkin identities including:

Dollkin (BJD)

Demonkin

Conceptkin (magic, performance water, old circuses)

Omnitheriomythic

Therian (grey wolf, snow leopard, possibly lion but unconfirmed)

Experimentkin

And though I think they’re unrelated to this sub, I’m also a fictionkin and multiname!

I go by any pronouns (though he/they are preferred out of the “main” three), and I also use the neopronouns: pup/pupself, paw/pawself, fairy/fairyself, flame/flameself, dog/dogself, fae/faeself, and pretty much every neopronoun starting with some mythical creature. I really go by a lot of things lol, just pick whatever’s easiest for you

Thanks for reading!! What are you? <3

En fait Je me demande si je suis vraiment otherkin car pour l'instant j'ai quelques pistes ; hippogriffe,et centaure. Mais je cherche encore et encore mais il n'y à pas assez de sources et j'ai besoin d'aide 😿😿

So i had posted a few days ago mentioning my hippocampus kintype and well, if you look up "hippocampus mythology" you get a me! And they live in the ocean and ive always felt a connection to the ocean and im on the way rn and im like IESHYSUSJDHAJHEHSJSJSBSBEH BECAUSE I'LL BE AT ONE OF MY HOMES FOR A BIT 🥹🥹🥹🥹

Over the last couple of years, a word has been swimming around mostly the TikTok alterhuman spaces, but has since spread to other social sites. That word is otherpaw. Otherpaw means to wear animal masks and do quadrobics without being an alterhuman in any way. It's simply a word for a hobby. However, I've seen some people use otherpaw to mean choosing to identify as nonhuman. Otherlink is right there. And yet otherpaw is getting way more attention than otherlink, probably because otherpaw is an arts and crafts hobby focused word, and alterhuman TikTok prefers videos with pretty masks and graceful quads.

I notice that otherlink sometimes gets treated as a discard label. It's brought up as a correction label. Some people say that the otherlink and otherkin communities should be seperate. Some say that otherlinking just makes you a furry. Some argue that otherlink should be considered a subtype of otherkin. Some argue that otherlink isn't as genuine or integral as otherkin. Some argue that the voluntary involuntary binary shouldn't be so harshly enforced. Some argue that voluntary alterhuman identities are undermining the suffering and dysphoria involuntary alterhumans go through. Actually, the last one even applies to involuntary alterhumans who enjoy their alterhumanity. Over the last few years, alterhumanity, especially therianthropy, was being equated with suffering. "Being a therian is hard! What is there to enjoy about being a therian? Why would you enjoy therianthropy? You just don't understand what it's actually like..." If they said that therianthropy was hard for them but they think it's nice if you enjoy yours, that's fine. But these types of videos and comments imply that therianthropy is hard for every single therian in existence.

Why is there wariness of the idea of choosing to identify as nonhuman? Someone says that they chose to become something, and a few pitchforks and torches appear here and there. There are a couple reasons that happened in the past. The first one is kin for fun and trolls declaring that otherkin is a choice for everyone, that it's roleplay, and genuine identities are delusional. Fictionkind community was especially hit hard by this ordeal. Then in recent alterhuman community history, there was the drama about faunaluna. Someone tried to coin a word and declare that therianthropy is actually a voluntary identity, and involuntary identities have to use faunaluna. Rightfully, nobody was happy. If you want to use a label that puts voluntary identification in the spotlight, it's called otherlink. Going even further back in time, during the popularity of teen wolf subculture, there was a lot of grilling to try to keep the fluffs out. Jumping forward again, and we have therianthropy being watered down to just a connection in TikTok.

I've noticed one thing in common with these incidents: It's trying to speak for every alterhuman/therian/otherkin as a whole. Another example of the speaking for everybody thing is the exclusion of mythical animal therians/theriomythics, and that therian means identifying strictly as earthly animals. Unicorn and dragon therians have always existed. With the kff and grilling incidents, it has to do with thinking that alterhumanity is a choice for every single one in existence. So some of that wariness is understandable. It doesn't feel good to have someone assume that involuntary experiences is just roleplay. It also doesn't feel good for otherlinkers and other voluntary alterhuman identities when their experiences get mistaken for kin for fun, roleplay, or they get called clueless kids who have no idea what being nonhuman means, or they're told that they're making the alterhuman community look bad. The fear of making the community look bad is why there was such harsh grilling in the first place, and why therian/otherkin was watered down. However, the grilling and watering down doesn't stop the bigots from laughing at us.

Copinglinkers, otherlinkers, funlinkers, and every other type of voluntary alterhuman... Ya'll don't deserve to be demonized, hated, or excluded from our own community. 'Link labels shouldn't be looked down on or seen as corrections, either. 'Linkers and other types of voluntary identities are not making the community look bad. Remember: Bigots will be bigots.

Any adult 'kin in Arizona on here? I used to co-lead a group back in Florida around 2007ish, and am looking to find a new circle in Arizona!

believe it or not... I'm thinking I could identify with a fictional species but I feel like I still need to delve deeper...

there seems to be a lot higher bar for me to clear for a specific fictional species than a general thing. I know I am a fiery shadow demon, but to be fictionhearted is another thing entirely to me.

>!I'm thinking I could be like a Balrog (Tolkien) to be more specific...!<

I'm trying to create a worldbuilding project where minorities are considered normalized, like extremely normalized.

In your opinion, what would an Otherkin inclusive society actually look like? Like everything from broad categories of life and society to just mundane life, what would it look like in your perfect Otherkin world?

I'm questioning plushiekin (objectkin plush) but I don't know where to start. Any suggestions of where I could look or other tips to help lead me in the right direction? Or possibly good questions to ask myself?

I am psychologically a robot. and would like to feel more artificial. One of the things that make me feel more like myself is by wearing a vr headset and making the camera just show my surroundings. If anyone with robotic or artifical kintypes see this, what things do you do or have experienced that make you feel more robotic? This is both me wondering about everyones experience, and also me asking for suggestions.

Hello! Im an alterbeing with lots of identitys and im here to share experiences and more :] ive been awakened for about 2 maybe 3 years, im very well educated and exept physical/biological alterbeings and full nonhumans! (As one)

My identitys/labels

Colorkin (subset of conceptkin)

Conceptkin

Holothere

Birdhearted

Fictionkin

Deerhearted

Infatherian

Omnitherian

Full nonhuman

And im still discovering more!

If you want ask abt me!

I know I was one of the collective people sharing a consciousness, but why me out of the innumerable extinguished beings of the Primordial Nothingness was I the one that became human?

I kno I am both my creator and my creation, but to Cage up someone rejected from the world in a body, is just terrible.

Feeling like I'm gonna fade away but never doing that. Being here also makes me wonder if I want to be the collective again, now that I have found my love again.

It made me think if I ever wanted to become Nothingness and lose my sentience once more, and be stuck in Nothingness, needing an intermediary to help me communicate.

To embrace the younger counterpart of Primordial Nothingness/Void which is the Source, is sort of foreign to me.

I am afraid it will erased me from my identity as the Primordial Nothingness and as the son of The Primordial Nothingness.

Will I still be me if I was entirely born of the void? If I entered the light, would I even be one of the void's collective anymore? I do not know.

Hellooooo lovely beings of r/otherkin!! This is my first time posting here as I haven't really ever thought about possibly being otherkin before. I've identified as a therian and a fictionkin for around over a year now but this is the first time I've felt this way.

So, I was scrolling on tiktok (as one does) and decided to just look at stuff about mythical creatures bc they're cool and stuff. And that's when I discovered Perytons! I'd never felt such an immediate connection to a species, mythical or not. It was like the second I saw it something in my brain just clicked (it's a very difficult feeling to describe, so sorry if I'm being vague 🥲). And that's when I started questioning being otherkin.

I'm not really sure where to go from here though. Like I know that I should probably do research and stuff but I'm not sure whete to look for information as it's very hard to find credible sources these days.

Anyway, thank you in advance!!

Does anyone else also randomly feel like they are every nonhuman thing ever? Ill have these short spurts of, im literally everything but human. I only feel like this occasionally, but I definitely have much more undiscovered identitys.

Hi!!

I’m a magic conceptkin (every single fantasy form of magic), but I have no idea how to express that. It’s not like I can bippity boppity boo myself a Coke

Conceptkins, how do you express yourselves??

How could I express mine??

Other than witchcraft and reality shifting stuff (been there done that lol)