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@daleeny about that picture you drew. The otherkin one. I have a few words to say about that.
Listen. That picture is negative propaganda. It’s not how people in the community actually act. I have never known an otherkin or fictionkin who thought they could fly in a human body. Just because you are mentally or spiritually nonhuman doesn’t mean your body is, yes. But people know this. And people trying to fly ? Jumping off balconies and dying trying to be a bird? Thats what we call ‘sensationalism’ .I have never seen the community push someone to such lengths, and if I did, I would do everything I could to dissuade and stop it.
I believe in reincarnation. And I believe one of my lives was a mermaid in the service of the winter fae. Back then, I could swim deep in the water, and I could breathe under the surface better than I could on land.
But you don’t see me fricking drowning myself, do you? When people recommend doing things relating to your kin, they often recommend small things . Like wear something that reminds you of it. Collect fucking seashells. Little things.
THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO TELL SOMEONE TO TRY TO FLY OR JUMP OFF A BALCONY IF THEY’RE BIRD KIN ARE TROLLS AND ASSHOLES. Rather like yourself, if you honestly believe people with a spiritual belief (or psychological even) are this negative stereotype you are presenting. Seriously. You are spreading lies about our community while at the same time TRIVIALIZING actual mental illness and suicidal tendencies . Suicide isn’t a joke. And it’s not something to sling around lightly.
And don’t say ‘oh no! she wasn’t suicidal! She just tried to act like a bird and fly!’ Because yes. There is one of two things going on here. Either one : she was suicidal, because generally kin know they can’t fly and know that jumping from a damned balcony is suicide. Or two: she had something else going on. A mental illness that isn’t related to her being kin.
Let me tell you a story. When I was younger, I tried to end my life . Why? Because of a little something called gender dysphoria. With the onset of hormonal changes, I wanted to stop them by any means necessary. So I decided to stop it. Only to become scared , and wind up crying in my family bathroom for three hours.
Why am I telling you this? Because I’m kin. And never once have I… EVER done anything dangerous relating to my past lives . My ACTUAL suicidal thoughts came from something much different. A thing that causes people to go the extremes you lightly throw around in this frankly tasteless picture.
I’m sorry, but I’m just so offended. I don’t even want to reblog it to give it attention or inflict it on my followers. I just wanted to let you have my two damn cents.
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