What the heck is an otherkin?

[Dr. Confoundo]

Just before the Problem Player thread got closed, I asked the innocent question "What the heck is an otherkin?"

Can anyone answer me in a non-offensive, non-thread-being-closed kinda way?

Doc

 

[GuardianLurker]

Second that

I'll second that. What the boof *is* an otherkin? Feel free to email the reply...

 

[rounser]

Sounds Dragonlancy. Gullykin, Kinslayer etc.

 

[RogueJK]

A quick internet search turned this up.

http://www.otherkin.net/otherkin/what.html

Basically, it's a term for a person who considers themselves "not entirely human"...

 

[JDeMobray]

Basically, it's a term for a person who considers themselves "not entirely human"...

As opposed to the rest of us, who consider them "not entirely sane."

 

[Corinth]

They're harmless.

 

[JDeMobray]

So are the other kind of Fruit Loops, but I wouldn't want either at my breakfast table.

 

[NiTessine]

As opposed to the rest of us, who consider them "not entirely sane."

Actually, I consider myself 'not entirely sane'. In my eyes, madness is a badge of honor, to be carried with dignity.

Now, where did I put that squirrel...

 

[JDeMobray]

Actually, I consider myself 'not entirely sane'. In my eyes, madness is a badge of honor, to be carried with dignity.

'They laughed at Coppernicus, They laughed at Darwin, They laughed at Einstein. . . '

'Yeah . . . but They also laughed at Bozo the Clown.'

 

[Dr. Confoundo]

After perusing that website, I am now offended for my Wiccan friends for them to have been put in the same sentence as these "special people".

I didn't realize that people who LARP and play too much "Changeling:The Dreaming" were their own species...

Doc

EDIT: I went back and did a more thorough read, and know realize that this is effectively a child molestation survival group dressed up in faerie wings and glitter. Still sad, just not quite as lame.