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I’ve been fictionkin, though not always using that word, for a long ass time, but I tend to feel like I fail at the social rules of it. Of course that’s not surprising because I fail at the social rules of most things, but it’s still something I wanted to discuss.
It seems like the approved way to “be” fictionkin on Tumblr in 2015 is to reblog pictures of yourself and your canon, search for canonmates, and generally talk in a very specific way about your experiences–a way I often don’t relate to at all.
I’m hesistant to say it’s an age thing because I can’t magically tell the age of everyone on Tumblr, but the fact I’m over thirty does make me a bit of an outlier in fictionkin circles I’m sure.
And there are parts of it, parts of that way of being, that I sort of envy? Maybe it’s just that people seem so excited about it sometimes, maybe it’s because they have a social group of people who all sort of talk in similar ways and seem to understand themselves in similar ways. I don’t know.
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