I'm just a young borrower, staring up in awe at the size of the world.

Any other size-shifters around here want to be mutuals?

- J

Mrrow ^w^ *rubs head against you you*

Ooh cool question I just thought of, what's everyone's weirdest shift feelings? Like for one of my kins the character is a puppet so all my joints feel like they're ball jointed and it's Such a weird feeling. -✨

Well last night I'm pretty sure I shifted into Raphael (TMNT 2012) which, while not a physically weird experience, was absolutely wild as someone who didn't think he was fictionkin.

What about all y'all?

hi hello otherkin community i have a quastion

what exactly are kinshifts? and what are they like for you?

i dont think i experience shifts & i cant find much info on them so im curious to know about other's experiences !

Kin Terminology Question!

Hiya and good timezones everypony! We’ve got a question that we’re going to throw out here - it’s something we’re having trouble finding out online and it’s for a positivity post!

For all y’all who are kin out there! >w<

What’s the difference between kin, otherkin, kinform, kintype, and kinshift? Are those first 4 the same thing and kinshift means your kintype causes you to experience shifts, like a werewolf?

Many members in our system have kintypes, but we’re woefully uneducated about the kin community and kinning terminology! But we’re writing a positivity post for kinplural systems, and we want to be as accurate as we can in the words we use to celebrate these folks! :3

Thanks so very much in advance! So sorry if this comes off as ignorant or offensive… we want to be thoughtful and respectful when writing our posts, and Google hasn’t been much help for answering these kin questions! >_<

Edit: Thanks a bunch to @whatever-you-can-give-me and @fruityenderman for your responses! Y’all made sense of this for us and answered our questions! Pluralpedia has our back for the kinform definition! Again, thanks a lot! Now we can confidently write our post :33

I remember this moment feeling so happy to give my big sister her dream of meating the president but mostly just being so happy that we weren't gonna lose Brian

I'm Piko

Hello! Here is the new and improved version of the Kin-Census! Made with feedback given to us based on the original one. We hope this one can serve as a better survey. This survey is for both Otherkin and those who kin for fun!

one of the wildest things about being fictionkin is that people around you have no idea that you're a character from that tv show/that book.

There are seven people that were in a dance class with Henry Creel dancing to 'dream a dream of me' several years before Stranger Things 4 came out. I think about this a lot, because it's multiple levels of mind-boggling.

Is it wrong if I feel like I need a Sonic to help me through things?

Any tips on how to feel more like Jack Manifold? Already have all the gear such as the glasses and clothes and such and cannot think of any foods. Maybe if you have any Minecraft potion inspired drinks recipes that could help, and maybe something to do with Prime but idk what

Hello, Sorry this ask took me so long to get to.

Kin Tips For Jack Manifold

Any food that resemble Minecraft ones can be helpful. Things like steak, soups, cake can be helpful and familiar. Cakes can also be decorated to resemble the Minecraft ones more accurately.

For a Minecraft potion inspired drink a basic mocktail recipe can be adapted to most drinks. The colour and the bubbles is what's able to be adjusted most easily. Pop rocks can be used at the end to add some fizz, and lemonade or sparkling water with another soft drink, juice or some other drink can be used for the base, with the other drink as the colour and flavour. Ratio is up to personal preference.

For a cocktail here's a recipes I found. https://experience-bar.com/potion-of-healing-minecraft/

Sorry I couldn't find anything related to prime, but depending on how it taste it can likely be used in a mocktail.

One thing that made me feel more connected to source is decorating items in my life like the Minecraft version. I painted a small box I used for storage as a Minecraft chest, you can add Minecraft glass stickers to windows so it looks like Minecraft ones etc. I can list more ideas if you want.

I hope this was helpful, good luck Jack!

Any other polykin feel phantom limbs/kinshifts for multiple kintypes at once? I feel my phantom limbs on and off throughout the day. Yesterday i only felt my wings but today i feel my wings, ears, and tail and i'm just like woah ok that's a thing now

“I would not fucking say that” What I say when reading something from my source where I would not fucking say that.

i made a post in these tags a while back, but i was semi-verbal at the time and wanted to remake it at a better time, and that time is now.

basically, i'm an alter in a system and i've been considering that one of the following are possible for me: -i have undiagnosed bpd minus the jealousy but especially with identity disturbances and it is mostly localized to me as an alter -i have very intense kinshifts that make me feel like i am becoming or have become a different person when i shift into that kintype, and that these kintypes include both an au version i made of my source character (i'm a fictive) and a self-insert also of my own creation. -i am a median and/or have a subsystem

i've talked to some system friends about it and gotten their input on what being a median or a subsystem in a system is like, and after comparing that to my experience, i think it's less likely that i have bpd (as all of my symptoms but the identity disturbance can be explained by other disorders i'm already diagnosed with) and more likely that this is either a kin thing or a subsystem thing.

if anyone reading this has ever been in the situation of needing to determine if they were experiencing bpd identity disturbances, intense kinshifts that caused your sense of self and goals to completely change, or a median and/or subsystem, what is some advice you would give to someone in that situation?

thank you for reading.

𝙷𝚒𝚒𝚒𝚒𝚒!! 𝙸𝚖 𝚊𝚗 𝙰𝚕𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝙰𝚕𝚏𝚎𝚛 𝚔𝚒𝚗, 𝙸𝚍𝚛𝚌 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚜 ?? 𝙸 𝚠𝚘𝚗𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝 𝚒𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚜𝚊𝚢 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚘𝚘 𝚘𝚔 𝚋𝚢𝚎𝚎𝚎 <𝟹

hey, were a system whos been dealing with an unfamiliar experience lately where we periodically feel like someone previously unknown for a while, look around and go "this place is weird" then leave, it usually happens where well feel like a fictional character but the people dont really repeat so we cant tell if its like unknown sysmates or fragments or smth or if were just dealing with a different dissociation/dpdr than we usually do

also, as im writing this, i dont know who i am or if i could be new- do you have any advice on questions to ask myself to figure that out or any insight with the first thing? thanks!

Hiya! So for figuring yourself out in general and like having questions to ask yourself, you might get some use out of this template we made for getting to know system members! No pressure with answering all the questions or even answering each question accurately! It’s just for you and your system to help y’all learn more about yourselves and each other! :3

It certainly sounds like this could be some good old fashioned depersonalization! Our own system experiences moments where we can’t recognize ourself or our surroundings or we feel like someone or something we’re not… here’s a lil infographic Kip and Parker made about our experience with DPDR! Maybe it could help you determine if that’s part of what you’re experiencing :3

We’re not too educated about kinning experience and terminology, but maybe you’re experiencing kin shifts or something like that when you notice these differences? We’re not sure if it’s possible to have a kin shift that doesn’t come back… but if so, maybe this could be kin related!! Maybe you have fluctuating kintypes, or multiple kintypes which affect you in different ways at different times! :3

If these experiences are headmates or fragments, it might just take some time and patience trying to get to know them before you can get a clear idea of who they are. That’s okay and normal! It’s just fine to take some time trying to get a feel for new headmates - they’re not always vocal and clear-cut straight away! Hopefully a little patience could help y’all figure this out if that’s the case >w<

No matter what’s going on with y’all, we’re wishing you peace and comfort and we hope it doesn’t impede y’all too much in your lives! Good luck with everything, and thanks for reaching out!! :33

💚 Ralsei and 🌸 Margo