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Well, I prefer to keep things locked and loaded, myself.

How very nice to see you (all of you) here. 

~Tenshidoom

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Jarandhel Dreamsinger said:

I would very much like to hear more of that story.  I know you had mentioned some linguistic stuff, and we've been aware of some apparent connections between Alorya and the Norse, but this is news to me.


 

I'll put it elsewhere so as not to hijack the introductions thread too much 🙂

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Oh what the hell, I need my own account. Hi there. I'm Claude's headmate, another walk-in, and I've been here for pretty much exactly 4 years now. (I'm bad with dates, but it was during the last football worldcup. *g*)

I'm primarily elf-identified, but not from Alorya or any of the places most people here seem to be from. Rather it's the Nordic type area Tenshi mentioned elsewhere, glamourously called “elf-place” by its ex-citizens. So far I don't have enough reason to think it has any connection to Alorya or anywhere else.

Thanks to a string of pastlives and to being a similarly 2-into-1 merged creature as Claude (we seem to have a theme of that here), my species-make-up includes a few other things, including a yet unexplained dragon-thing that's just always been there, something equally unexplained Bengal tigerish, and mostly, as Tenshi worded it, terrestrial and extraterrestrial hominids (aka plain humans).

I've dabbled in energy work, though not lately, and am one of the system administrators here; mostly things are rather mundane here though. And that has to do for intro. *g* Nice to meet you.

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Welcome aboard! 🙂

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Thanks! smile

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Liryen said:

My name is Liryen or Lirien, and I don't quite know what to say about myself either. For starters, I'm 17, I'm almost completely certain that I'm some kind of Elven or Fae thing, and I'm not a multiple…that's about all that comes to mind off the top of my head, since I'm about to go off to sleep for the better part of the morning and afternoon. snoreOther than that, I'm a student, addicted to music, and a caffeine junkie. And I read a lot.

Cool. 🙂  Welcome to the forums, Liryen!  If you don't mind me asking, how did you find us?

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Hi Liryen, nice to meet you. (Fellow caffeine junkies are always welcome.)

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Liryen said:

I stumbled across Dreamhart.org during a phase in my long, slow Awakening when I was reading about Reiki symbols (which is another story), and thought it had a sensible aura about it, which inspired me to join the forum here. It struck me as higher-quality than most others, and I'm always keeping an eye out for nice 'kin-related things. It makes all the searching worth it 😀

*grins* Thank you, that's exactly what I'm going for here: sensible & high quality.  Glad to hear I'm doing a halfway decent job of pulling it off. wink

I don't know exactly what I'm searching for, but I've been searching for something for the past 6 years…more mysteries. *shakes head*

*shrugs* I figure we may not know how to define what it is we're looking for, but we'll know it when we see it.  

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

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. sniper” 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…

 

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

 

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

 

Fly high and safe ~ Dulanth

 

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

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technobushi said:

Well, I prefer to keep things locked and loaded, myself.

How very nice to see you (all of you) here. 

Good to see all of you here, also.

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Dulanth said:

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

That's ok, neither am I. wink

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. sniper” 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.  smile  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. think

This or a trip to the emergency room. wink

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. alien

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?

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So, Hi..

 

I'm really bad at these introduction things! I'm Shen, a polymorph. I've been out of otherkin communities for probably about 9 years now, i'm only just coming back into them again. I got fed up of being jumped on because they assumed as i'm a polymorph I absolutely MUST be a roleplaying fake *eye roll*

 

As for the occult/pagan side of things. I'm ecclectic leaning towards chaos magicks. Chaos just makes a lot of sense of me, you find the root of things then find a way to make it work for you. It's very much about what works for you rather than strict ideas and methods.

 

I'm pretty chatty and love learning and understanding, i'm usually up for a good conversation especially if I think I can learn something from it!

 

Oh and I found this place after one of my random “I want to research something new” things on google and I found it mentioned in a few places so thought i'd drop by and say hi.

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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.
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Thanks for the welcome. I'm talking about a decade ago now, I hadn't found places like OKR I think I happened across some pretty closed places and left again!

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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!

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Hello all.

 

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

 

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 wink

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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

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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 wink

 

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? wink

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 wink

Hi again! smile

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Jarandhel Dreamsinger said:

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?

Well he doesn't like the term “shadow” and he has a different name anyway, if that helps 😛

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.

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 😛

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 😛

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Archer said:

Well he doesn't like the term “shadow” and he has a different name anyway, if that helps 😛

Oh yeah… you did tell me that already.  Sorry, guess you're not the only one with memory problems. wink  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 😛

The irrepressible cynic? wink

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 😛

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…

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Okay, here goes. I’m Rua and I’m Sidhe, so I guess that means I’m Fae. I’ve struggled with calling myself Otherkin in the past – sometimes I feel I don’t want to be lumped in with all the 15-year-olds who think that they’re vampires or the certifiable nutcases, and at other times I’m fiercely proud of being ‘Kin.

I had joined a few forums a few years back, but I’ve learned a lot since then and want to be a part of a level-headed discussion about our experiences, and this looks like a nice little forum. I’ve also recently begun taking energy work very seriously and it looks like there’s a few good ’kin orientated resources here. Not that I’m too serious mind you, I like a good laugh as much as the next person.

Anyway… hello!

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

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. wink

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Hi Rua! Glad to see another sidhe around. 🙂

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

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(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. wink

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

 

Unnecessary. I simply refer to us as “us” or to him as “my other half”, if I want to differentiate. It always seems clear from context in conversations re otherkinicity or multiplicity, and when communicating with the assorted related entities I know (my “astral family”, as it were) words aren't really an issue because information is transferred on a whole different level.

 

Of course, if he was also physical and here in the room with me, I can see that things could get confusing, heh.drama

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Jarandhel Dreamsinger said:

Hehehe… ok, just remember, you asked for this. https://dreamhart.org/wp-content/forum-smileys/wink.gif

SO ARE YOU SAYING I’M OLD????

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SO ARE YOU SAYING I'M OLD????

 Well, in kin years (how long people stick around in the otherkin community before getting sick of it all and heading for the hills) you might be somewhere around 500 or so… wink

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Take this as…a kind of re-introduction.

Since I took a hiatus from these forums (and most of the rest of my usual online hangouts), I've realized that it's time to return. The changes in myself that I had sensed wanted to happen are now complete. When I left, I felt incredibly restless. I still feel a bit that way. Please note that nothing that I did had anything to do with anyone or anything here. All I knew was that I had lost sight of myself, somehow, and needed to go within for answers. To the contrary, this place often feels like a favorite cafe, as I've said to a close friend on what could well be compared to our own private mailing list. 🙂

I'm coming up on my 1-year anniversary of joining the community. Since then, I feel that I've undergone a rather important personal metamorphosis. I feel that spending some time alone has been largely beneficial to me. I have a better handle on my path, on “des’tai” (though I rarely feel inclined to call it that). It has to do with connection and reconstruction, especially as these things pertain to the ‘kin community. Somebody I often respect once said that the community has changed a lot. Tell me, what was it like before?

I'm still Liryen, though I think that name may be closer to a true-name than I originally realized. As such, I've been going by “Lir” sometimes instead. Everyone here is still very welcome to call me Liryen, though. ^_^.

I have recently recognized a need to know more about my origins, to learn more about my culture instead of just being, as you once put it, “generic brand-name elf”. In my original introduction post here, I said that I thought I was some kind of “elvish or fae thing”. My understanding has broadened somewhat, and I no longer consider myself fae. I believe that I have had contact with faery in this lifetime, though. I don't think I'm remembering any past lives yet, but the memories that “eat” away at the farthest fringes of my mind are slowly, slowly becoming more accessible to me.

Finally, I have grown more tolerant of others' beliefs. I never want to receive someone else's beliefs with sarcasm or spite ever again. And for this, I deeply apologize, Jarin.

My efforts at self-improvement aren’t over yet. Nor do I expect this to be the last time I disappear, returning with a slightly different viewpoint and identity. I feel guilty for it, in a way. I hope I haven't caused any distress to anyone else, at any point on this journey. If I have, please be brutally honest with me.

That was all I wanted to say.

 

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Wow, introductions. I've been so quiet for so long I'm afraid I might have forgotten what all to do. Oh well, here goes. I am Threigia a winged centaur, mostly. There are other pasts rattling back in the closet of memories, but that life is the strongest. 

 

Sorry getting ahead of myself. I've mostly been involved with an all dragon community. I'm the odd non-dragon there and generally ignored. Prey species aren't given that much attention unless if someone is hungry. I'm rambling again, sorry. I'm sounding rather nuts, my apologies. I've returned to school after a near decade break to work and I find my mind wandering all too easily when not related to school.

I have lived in Tucson, Arizona all my life, and I am – painfully shy. Emphasis on the painful part. It hurts to be around others too often. I love science, fantasy, mathematics, mythology, foriegn cultures and religions, and hope my engineering and microbiology studies will lead me to a position in nanotechnology.

 

Yes, I believe and magic yet follow science. Either I'm completely mad, or I'm just having way too much fun.

 

I'm glad to be here.

Threigia

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Threigia said:

Wow, introductions. I've been so quiet for so long I'm afraid I might have forgotten what all to do. Oh well, here goes. I am Threigia a winged centaur, mostly. There are other pasts rattling back in the closet of memories, but that life is the strongest.

Hi, Threigia! And welcome. 🙂

 

I've mostly been involved with an all dragon community. I'm the odd non-dragon there and generally ignored. Prey species aren't given that much attention unless if someone is hungry.

*blinks*. There’s a part of me that’s thinking, “LOL”, and a part of me that’s thinking self-professed predators = fail. At any rate, you won’t be ignored here. 🙂

I'm rambling again, sorry. I'm sounding rather nuts, my apologies.

No need to apologize.

I've returned to school after a near decade break to work and I find my mind wandering all too easily when not related to school.

I have lived in Tucson, Arizona all my life, and I am – painfully shy. Emphasis on the painful part. It hurts to be around others too often. I love science, fantasy, mathematics, mythology, foriegn cultures and religions, and hope my engineering and microbiology studies will lead me to a position in nanotechnology.

Cool! You seem like a very interesting person – and it’s not a problem if you’re shy. I just wish they made medication for getting lost all the time. 😉

 

Yes, I believe and magic yet follow science. Either I'm completely mad, or I'm just having way too much fun.

*evil grin*. We’re all a little mad…some more so than others…

 

I'm glad to be here.

Threigia


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Liryen said:

Take this as…a kind of re-introduction.

Hi again Liryen. smile  It's good to see you back.  Hopefully we can get the board here a little more active again.

Since I took a hiatus from these forums (and most of the rest of my usual online hangouts), I've realized that it's time to return. The changes in myself that I had sensed wanted to happen are now complete. When I left, I felt incredibly restless. I still feel a bit that way. Please note that nothing that I did had anything to do with anyone or anything here. All I knew was that I had lost sight of myself, somehow, and needed to go within for answers. To the contrary, this place often feels like a favorite cafe, as I've said to a close friend on what could well be compared to our own private mailing list. 🙂

*grins* I'm glad to hear it.  I've been a little worried that we haven't gotten more traffic on this forum yet, but I think the people we do have on here are a good mix. wink

I'm coming up on my 1-year anniversary of joining the community. Since then, I feel that I've undergone a rather important personal metamorphosis. I feel that spending some time alone has been largely beneficial to me. I have a better handle on my path, on “des'tai” (though I rarely feel inclined to call it that). It has to do with connection and reconstruction, especially as these things pertain to the 'kin community. Somebody I often respect once said that the community has changed a lot. Tell me, what was it like before?

It's hard to really describe.  Some of it is obvious… there were a lot more mailing lists, for one, and they were a LOT more active.  Not as many boards and blogs and journals, definitely not as many facebook groups.  A bit more activity on IRC, but overall not a ton of chat.  RL events happened but were relatively few and far between, or else were VERY small local things.  Memories were talked about a lot more, and remembered languages.  It wasn't looked down on to have memories and discuss them publicly, even share them on websites, the way it seems to be now.  You can still see that in a lot of the older otherkin websites; take the old Elven Realities mailing list webpage from Rialian's site as an example, it contains a lot of things that people remembered in the early days of the community.  Stories of how people Awakened as otherkin were also more prevalent; I can't really remember the last time I saw someone post one of those.  I feel like all of this is just a description of symptoms, though.  Something is fundamentally different about the otherkin community now than it was then, the entire atmosphere has changed.  If you can, get on a few of the older mailing lists and take a look at their archives from around 1999 or so.  I think the difference is pretty visible, if you look.

Anyone else who's been around in the community for a while, feel free to comment on this as well.  This is just my perspective.   

I'm still Liryen, though I think that name may be closer to a true-name than I originally realized. As such, I've been going by “Lir” sometimes instead. Everyone here is still very welcome to call me Liryen, though. ^_^.

Thank you. 🙂

I have recently recognized a need to know more about my origins, to learn more about my culture instead of just being, as you once put it, “generic brand-name elf”. In my original introduction post here, I said that I thought I was some kind of “elvish or fae thing”. My understanding has broadened somewhat, and I no longer consider myself fae. I believe that I have had contact with faery in this lifetime, though. I don't think I'm remembering any past lives yet, but the memories that “eat” away at the farthest fringes of my mind are slowly, slowly becoming more accessible to me.

I'm glad to hear that.  I think most otherkin do need to try to learn more about their cultures and about themselves as individuals, rather than working with their otherness as some sort of archetype or totem.  I've been criticized in the past for not automagiically understanding how permaculture == elven, but I look at what we've actually remembered of the history of various elven races and I see cultures which have had battles that left permanent magical scars on the faces of their worlds, and in some cases may have destroyed worlds entirely.  To me, that doesn't sound like the actions of a race that are more instinctively in tune with nature than humans.  IF permaculture is a part of any elven society, and I don't really doubt that in some cases it is, I suspect it may have grown out of a reaction to such events in their histories rather than simply being part of the elven makeup.  So I'd want to work with and honor that aspect of their culture (and learn from anything they might know about the practice of permaculture that humans do not, and vice versa), rather than just chalking it up as “Well, I'm an Elf™, so I hug trees.”

Finally, I have grown more tolerant of others' beliefs. I never want to receive someone else's beliefs with sarcasm or spite ever again. And for this, I deeply apologize, Jarin.

It's ok, the Aristasians beliefs seem to have been too out there for most of the folks on here to take seriously.  It definitely wasn't just you, and I don't think you owe me any kind of apology for your reaction.  But thank you. 🙂

My efforts at self-improvement aren't over yet. Nor do I expect this to be the last time I disappear, returning with a slightly different viewpoint and identity. I feel guilty for it, in a way. I hope I haven't caused any distress to anyone else, at any point on this journey. If I have, please be brutally honest with me.

Not at all. 🙂

That was all I wanted to say.

Welcome back! 🙂 

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