Dulanth said:

I'm not really good at introductions, but here goes…

That's ok, neither am I.

I'm Dulanth, and I'm human, and just downright weird. I find an interest in otherkin, for some odd reason. I guess it's just because I like weird things. I look for things that aren't considered "Normal". I love dragons, and no it's not because "dragonz can pwnz anyting, man. " It's complicated why I like them, even for me. I don't understand why, but I go with it anyways. My favorite color is black. And for the last time, people, I'M NOT EMO…

Cool, welcome to the forums.    I take it you've run into a lot of folks who thought dragons can pwnz anything?  

How did I find this? This is what being bored and curious gets you.

This or a trip to the emergency room.

I hope you don't mind my presence here, and I hope I make friends!

Not at all… anyone's welcome here, really, as long as they're not out to cause trouble.   

Fly high and safe ~ Dulanth

 You too.

P.S. I'm on chat alot, so, if you want…I mean…Ah forget it. I chat alot. xD

Cool, what kind?  AIM, GoogleTalk, IRC?

I don't know why that would make them think you were faking… Time was, being a polymorph was fairly accepted by the community. It was even on the Otherkin Resource Center as a kintype, and that was probably the closest to a directory of known kintypes that we ever had.
Anyway, welcome!

That's too bad… even a decade ago, there were places that would have accepted polymorphs in the otherkin community. (That's when the ORC was active.)  Glad you've ventured back!

Post edited 6:50 pm – Saturday, 7th August, 2010 by Jarandhel Dreamsinger

Archer said:

Hello all.

 

My name's Archer. I've been in various otherkin groups for about 7 and a half years now.

I just realized I didn't actually reply to your intro post yet.  Welcome! :)

 

It was a funny story – I was sitting in an airport in London writing in a journal to pass the time, and I made a resolution to put the full time effort in to explore that "other" aspect of myself. I had no idea how but toyed with finding some handy shaman or some such to investigate things.

 

A couple of hours after I got home, I was watching TV when one of my brothers told me he'd just discovered something hilarious online – a bunch of crazy people who apparently think they're werewolves in RL and call themselves otherkin. I acted uninterested and bolted for my computer the first chance I got, and the rest is history

 

Heh… it's funny, I was just telling Liryen on Candle Light a little while ago that when you do something that's "des'tai", that puts you on a path that's in harmony with who you really are, synchronicity tends to kick in.  For me, I was doing magical research and I came across a document that offhandedly mentioned otherkin.  I'd seen this same document a few times before, but on that particular day it stirred something in me… I just NEEDED to figure out what the word otherkin meant.  Spent the rest of the day researching it, and in the process found some writing by my elven sister, Arhuaine, that felt very familiar.  We ended up talking and comparing notes, and as you said the rest is history.

Personally, I'm a 29 year old female Brit who devotes an unnatural amount of time and energy to hockey. I'm also otherkin, and a slightly unusual kind of muliple system. I'm a shadow, as is my "other half" who shares consciousness/mindspace/existence with me.

I still say it's no fair that you have two people, of two different genders, who go by both the same name and the same species in your head.  How are the rest of us supposed to keep track?

In other news, a couple of years ago I was unfortunate enough to contract a very rare form of encephalitis. I managed not to die and managed to get some truly awesome medication (which I will likely take long term, but hey, it's fun!) . . . but my physical health got wrecked, I had a substantial amount of memory loss of this life, and I have a somewhat different perspective on things than I used to. As for how it affected my memories of "elsewhere" . . . sadly, there's no way for me to know.

I know about the rest already from our earlier discussions, but how'd it change your perspective on things?

Like others, I'm interested in this forum because the lack of depth on even the more serious minded otherkin sites depresses me somewhat.

Glad to have you here, and I hope we satisfy your desire for more depth.  Please, feel free to add topics of your own if we don't… I'm adding new ones as I think of them, but it's a challenge to constantly come up with new stuff that's actually substantive.

Hello to everyone I know and don't know, and apologies to everyone I knew but the brain fever deleted

Hi again!

Archer said:

Well he doesn't like the term "shadow" and he has a different name anyway, if that helps :P

Oh yeah… you did tell me that already.  Sorry, guess you're not the only one with memory problems.  Gods, I've been trying to do to many projects all at once lately…

Actually my usual online name used to be Say, which is also a shortened form of the name on my birth certificate. When I signed up for otherkin forums I didn't want to use Say because I wanted to indicate that I was typing for two, as it were. I went with Archer because that was an old shill name from a whole different corner of the internet, roughly to mean "me + him" – but as it happens it's all just "me" anyway and while my other half wouldn't answer to Say, he wouldn't answer to Archer either.

Heh… so do you guys have another name that covers the whole system, as it were?

I know about the rest already from our earlier discussions, but how'd it change your perspective on things?

Hmm. This is somewhat difficult to verbalise.

Essentially I am now constantly and acutely aware that physically, mentally, and emotionally I am lacking in ways that I didn't used to be. I am not as physically fit as I used to be and almost certainly never will be again; I am not as intelligent or quick witted and I doubt I ever will be again; I am not as steady-minded or for want of a better word as reslient as I used to be. And, unlike when I was acutely ill, I am acutely aware of this.

On the one hand it's profoundly depressing to me, but on the other hand it's profoundly joyful to me that I live. On the one hand it's deeply upsetting to me that certain possibilities for my future here in this life are gone, but on the other hand it is profoundly inspiring that any possibilities still exist.

And hilariously, I find I resemble Garak from Deep Space 9 more and more :P

The irrepressible cynic?

Glad to have you here, and I hope we satisfy your desire for more depth.  Please, feel free to add topics of your own if we don't… I'm adding new ones as I think of them, but it's a challenge to constantly come up with new stuff that's actually substantive.

Tee hee, that's always the tricky bit, isn't it? Going from "I want more depth!" to actually going deeper :P

Yeah, especially when you're the one who has to come up with the material for a whole community of folks to go deeper.  *coughhinthintcoughcough*  So far, things seem to be working out fairly well, though.  A surprising amount of depth can come from a fairly shallow prompt that provides folks with an opportunity to go deeper and discuss things.  I just have to keep chumming the water…

Hi Rua!  Welcome to the forum, I hope you like it here.

Personally, I choose to continue to call myself otherkin because I'm not ready to turn ownership of the word over to the 15-year-old twilight fans or the nutcases.

Arethinn said:

(I've just noticed that my title under my icon is "Normal member". Jarin, I beg to differ. ;))

Hehehe… ok, just remember, you asked for this.