Frankly, this document exists because I am generally dissatisfied with the other otherkin FAQs currently in existence. Many have not been updated in any meaningful sense for years, others strike me as woefully incomplete. Worst, most seem to have a penchant for addressing the wrong questions. And I’m not too fond of many of the answers given either. This FAQ is my attempt to address these problems.
Continue reading ‘A Revised Otherkin FAQ’
A working definition of the term Otherkin, and the beginnings of a framework for further work with the idea. This is not, as some have thought, an attempt to replace the word Otherkin with another term. Rather, it is an attempt to define the word Otherkin in a meaningful way by looking at the root words that form it. Originally posted on September 26, 2005 on http://wanderingpaths.heliwood.org
Continue reading ‘Kin to the Other’
This is a rewritten version of an essay that I posted to the Otherkin Resource Center in 1999. It has been updated to reflect my current understanding and interpretations of the experience of Awakening, from a more mature perspective, and with the benefit of hindsight. The original article is archived at the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. This version of the article was originally posted on January 13, 2005 on http://wanderingpaths.heliwood.org
Continue reading ‘Awakening’
Originally posted to operation_stormwatch@yahoogroups.com on 12/25/2003.
The world is not a safe place. That’s a given. Guns, violence, robbery, murder… these are the things we live with each day. It is part of our reality, and we must cope with it as best we can. So we develop strategies, rules of thumb that keep us safe. Many of them we don’t even think about anymore. Don’t walk down a dark alley alone late at night in a bad neighborhood. Don’t take candy from strangers. Don’t trust anyone who reminds you of your cousin Larry the used car salesman. Simplistic rules… but they keep us safe.
Originally published on March 18, 2004 on http://wanderingpaths.bravepages.com
“They Were Elves Once”
- Saruman, in Lord of the Rings
“I want to help.”
“I want to contribute something to the community.”
“I want to give back to the community.”
Noble goals, right? And ones that are said quite frequently in otherkin circles. Continue reading ‘Organizational Des’tai’
Originally published on September 26, 2003 on http://wanderingpaths.bravepages.com/
Abuse. It is a powerful word, which evokes an immediate reaction when it is used. It carries with it images of battered women, molested children, people who have forever been scarred by the things which were done to them. Few people would acknowledge it as a word which is unfamiliar to them. But do people really understand the full extent of what abusive situations entail? For the purposes of this article, an abusive situation is defined rather simply as any situation which is destructive to one or more of the people affected by it. This destructiveness can take place on many different levels, ranging from something as concrete as physical harm, to something as subjective as emotional harm, or even to such things as mental or financial harm.
Continue reading ‘Abusive Situations’
Lastest Forum PostsDreamhart.org is using WP-Gravatar
Dimension Bomb
Technobushi’s Blog
Latest Comments