Some PSA About Kin

From your resident "I have a special interest in this and am about to strangle someone"

So I've seen this a couple times now and gonna just say it that saying kin is just relating to a character isn't okay. That changing of the definition came form people very explicitly against us because they thought that identifying as a fictional character was too weird and wanted to try to police who can be kin to what.

While I'm on my soapbox too, the word kinnie came from anti-kin on an extremely ableist and transphobic blog, and might have an... unfortunate base word. It's not a slur before anyone puts words in my mouth. Though it did pick up by those in the "kin is relating/for fun" community because they claimed it's a slur, so y'all are on the wrong side with that one too.

Please for the love of god just do research into this or talk to people who are actually kin. Just because TikTok tells you the definition is that doesn't make it correct especially when this involves a real harm to our community.

Here's some history:

And some decent sites for information on fictionkin:

I could go more in-depth if anyone needs but man take off your clown boots and stop stooping to the low of robbing a community of their terms because you think we're freaks.

Before anyone asks why it matters, I'm fictionkin myself, I just want to be able to use the only damn term that smoothly means being something from fiction and because people who think this shit is okay piss me off.

Edit: I also forgot there was an otherkin convention this weekend so if anyone wants videos/lecture-style type things explaining otherkin, they should be started to get uploaded to YouTube