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Otherkin are pseudo intellectuals who believe they are reincarnations of non-humans. Similar to how all furries have their fursona as either foxes, wolves, or blobs of giant penises, most otherkin all believe they are either dragons or elves. This takes the idea behind Transsexualism to a whole new level of fail, because Otherkin believe themselves to be things that don't even exist. At least there really are such things as men and women.

Otherkin differ from furries (although not by much) in that furries like to dress up and pretend, while otherkin believe they really are non-human and don't usually dress up. Also furries generally pick real (usually furry) animals, while otherkin go for mythological creatures, almost always with wings.

Despite how there's thousands of creatures from folklore and cryptozoology in cultures around the world, like the humanoid Ebu Gogo of Indonesia (proven real), every single otherkin only gets their creatures from the European mythology, and only the most popular, and only from some modern retelling of a myth that has lost all semblance to the original mythology. For instance, Twilight.

At some point, otherkin lost track of what's from pop culture's bastardized version of ancient mythology and what's just made up and there became otherkins based on anime characters (Otakukin) and Hubbard or Lovecraftian science fiction. Some Otherkin are so desperate to be unique that they'll end up making up their own creature that no one else knows about and therefore is uber powerful.

1 I Am What I Amn't
2 Drama Bombing
3 Glamour Bombing
4 Nuclear Bombing
5 Intellectual Bombing
6 Infighting
- 6.1 The Na'viKin raepage
7 Trolling otherkin
8 Example of trolling otherkin
9 Gallery
10 See also
11 Links

I Am What I Amn't

If it looks even more like a crime against nature than a furry - it's an otherkin.

Otherkin on LiveJournal always have icons of whatever they're supposed to be. These are invariably physically attractive, if only to them. Their sex drives are usually warped by severe Asperger's Syndrome, which of course excuses all poor behavior and/or acts in bad faith ever, making you mean for noticing the obvious lulz.

Without exception, Otherkin are unhappy, depressed individuals who need to escape from reality for one reason or another. Many will attribute this and their inability to maintain jobs, spouses and successful lives to their mysterious condition of "otherness", meaning that their angelic/demonic/draconic/negronic/"fifth invader force" heritage effectively is preventing them from making an effort at anything other than chatting online with other "kin", reading Robert Jordan books, playing Everquest or any other number of activities that will not improve their quality of life. Most are not delusional to begin with, but the comfort of their imagined heritage eventually manifests itself as hallucinations, phantom limbs and "traits" concurrent with their chosen creature. It can be seen as the unhealthy progression of an initial interest in Wicca and fantasy literature. Otherkin are ~~usually~~ hopelessly lame, unless they are jazz artist Sun Ra. To try to change their image, otherkin like Jarin Dreamsinger are trying to rename themselves to 'Kin to the Other. Many will claim to have Multiple Personality Disorder, with all or most of their "alters" also being Otherkin. Many of them enjoy attacking innocent bystanders with big poles, or going equipped to kill people in the guise that they are teaching vampire hunters a lesson. Especially on the Otherkin.com site, which is definitely worth a read if you want to laugh. They are susceptible to hard core trolling on the basis that they send an approval e-mail the second you register your account.[1] The admin there believes he is a vampire in human form that will later be anally violated by a vampire in dead form, which will turn him into a mega vampire in anal form, which will cause him to shit blood and eat turd, or something equally dramatic.[2] Apparently being a vampire hunter is of particular concern to them, as it threatens their position as the most delusional retards at risk of anal violation on the planet. [3]

Drama Bombing

Illiterate, moronic criticism is a feared side-effect of talking to otherkin

Otherkin are frequently panned by the Portal of Evil, while largely unnoticed by Something Awful. LiveJournal's most famous otherkin is perhaps _starblade_, who always makes an ass of himself in LJ's debate community. From the ashes of a huge thread about Christianity and otherkin came the catchphrase, "fuck you, I'm a dragon!"

The song I want to be a dragon summarizes the Otherkin lifestyle.

Wikipedophiles have written a longass novel called Talk:Otherkin. There's also an ultra-condensed summary of Talk:Otherkin titled Otherkin, explaining that Otherkin are online losers who're retards according to all established science.

An easy way to create drama is to go through otherkins' accounts of past life memories and "astral plane adventures" and point out the parts stolen from Dungeons and Dragons. For instance, Kerowyn Silverdrake/J'Karrah EbonDragon says on her website that on the astral plane she "belongs to the Fire Mountain Clan of the Allaban Druegan species of dragon, and is nearing the end of her training to join the Clan Guard... a group of dragons from all clans whose responsibility is patrol the bounds of the Allaban Druegan's collective territory and maintain the sanctity of the Dragonlands." The most obvious one is Druegan, which not only are a species of dragon from AD&D, but the use is copyrighted by the company Wizards of the Coast and illegal to use in fiction outside of their franchise.

Glamour Bombing

Glamour Bombing is where fat, delusional "fairy-kin" run around downtown in your city nekkid except for a cowboy hat, a tutu and fairy wings, to, you know, freak the mundanes and stuff. Most people who "glamor bomb" are stupid Burner fucks and/or have probably never held on to even the simplest fast-food job for more than a week at best.

Nuclear Bombing

Recently, a bit of speculation was floated that elven magick (now with a "k" for EXTRA phear!) may have been responsible for the kreation of the atomic bomb.* People who think that they're RILLY HONESTLY AND FOR TRUE reincarnations of elves and dragons and shit subsequently called this idea "farfetched". Because, y'know, while there's nothing at all wrong with believing that your fat, ugly ass (or, alternately, your skinny, ugly ass) once belonged to a graceful, pointy-eared, tree-hugging Legolas clone, believing that elves invented the atomic bomb is just silly.

*(copy and paste link to make it work)

When it has been proven that atomic weapons are a product of jew magic

Intellectual Bombing

Even though they will admit to having dropped out of college after their first or second semester, to spend more time watching Adult Swim, almost all otherkin have multiple PhDs. Their doctorates are usually held in whatever field of study is most relevant to the current debate that they are engaged in. Therefore it is totally possible for an otherkin to announce today that they hold a PhD in psychology, astrophysics, and nuclear medicine only to inform you tomorrow that they also have advanced degrees in computer science, civil engineering, and ancient history.

He's getting his fangs next week.

You may also notice that many otherkin who have multiple doctorates are in their teens and early 20’s, which of course would make them far more intelligent than the average person. This may be difficult to believe considering that every argument with an otherkin will eventually just end up with those who disagree with him being repeatedly called "closed minded", no matter what the facts of the argument may be.

Amazingly enough, as if the 12 college degrees at the age of 21 isn’t impressive enough, it is mandatory that all otherkin have an intimate knowledge of the covert military operations and classified secrets of every government on earth. This way they can explain to all “non-believers” how it is that science has not discovered their existence. As it was explained by one “otherkin” by the name of “AccronsCrow” on the Lilith’s Lair EZ-Board, all of the world governments, every educational system and every media outlet in the world are participating in a global conspiracy to keep the “truth about otherkin” a hidden secret (which in itself raises an interesting question - if this is such a closely-guarded secret, why are "real otherkin" allowed to speak so freely about it? The smell of bullshit wafts).

Most otherkin do not believe indigo is a color.

Infighting

As with furry forums, otherkin forums are highly unstable and drama can easily erupt without any outside interference. Newcomers were frequently told to GTFO after being accused by forum regulars of roleplaying, although most forums stopped doing this after the admins realized that they needed all support that they could get.

Unfortunately, most otherkin boards won't let you view their contents without an account and thus will attempt to hide such problems from the "mundanes". Because, obviously, otherkin are perfect and are therefore above such squabbling.

The Na'viKin raepage

With the release of Avatar, of course, otherkin communities such as the batshit insanity that is otherkin.com (and the internet at large, actually) are expecting people claiming to be "Na'vi otherkin". The first Na'vikin was furiously denied. That is some pretty leet trolling, having pretty much raped otherkin.com into saying retarded things like "I'm a polyshifting dragon but you can't be a Na'vi" and "pff you are crazy fantasist" (pot kettle black much?) as well as causing a veritable shitstorm across the internets.

Now technically a Na'vikin is more of an Otakukin--thinking you're a reincarnation from something out of last thursday's saturday morning cartoon or sonichu comics. But fact is pretty much all otherkin are otakukin and they don't know it. For instance, every single otherkin elf is from the modern pop culture fantasy elf. This is all made up originally by Tolkien and have no resemblance to actual folklore elves right down to the pointed ears, which he also made up. So whenever you meet an otherkin elf, remind them if this fact every chance you get.

There is even moar potential drama in this, which brings us to...

Trolling otherkin

An easy way to troll otherkin is to claim to be Otherkin, but use a creature out of Hubbard mythology, such as the Arslychus, Coltice, Espinol, Helatrobus, Hoipolloi, Marcabians, Maw, and Targs. An even easier way is to pretend to be an otakukin.

Whichever you do, the result will be a massive flame war over whether you should be accepted into their forum or not.

“	fuck you all anyway, I'M a Native American otherkin. im half Cherokee and half Gryffon. yet despite all my kewl powers, i STILL have to work nightshifts replenishing shelves at Safeway for £5.25 per hour. you would think that being so cool i would have figured a way to use my unique ways to make some proper bucks, but hey, your wrong! otherkin AREN'T sad,lonely weirdos,and we cope with reality just fine, thank you.	„
— Hypnotekk, trolling teh youtube otherkins.

It also is a lot of fun to tell any otherkin who claims to be unsure of what kind of mythical critter they supposedly are that there's a good chance they are actually human. Be sure to change it up a little each time to avoid getting nailed for copypasta. Also always heap on loads of sympathy for the fucktard-in-training and talk about how wonderful human beings are and all of the amazing superhuman achievements they have made (like the A-bomb). Not only will it irk the otherkin who will, no doubt, be spewing random creatures pulled from their Monster Manuals at the newbie up until you post, there's a chance of getting amusing batshit insane replies from the newbie who has no idea what they could possibly be other than human yet is so damned sure they are not human. Only nonhumans can post on an Otherkin forum or they will be zapped by the fairies, right? Right?

You could also always start up a thread about assburgers and other similar disorders Otherkin are plagued by and see how many reply. Try to get the entire forum to reply.

Example of trolling otherkin

Otherkin, even with their over 9000 PhDs cannot discern between truth and fiction which results in major lulz: apparently Mario is real and haunts them in their sleep. Some guy actually figured it out and whined about it but got flamed. LOL WUT There was even a FYIAD! The original transcript is TL;DR so the following is a condensed version sanitized from all the smart people's comments, the trolls are Babby_kin and Bawb:

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On July 29, 2009, a truly epic group of four friends infiltrated otherkin.com for nothing but lulz. The result was that the one designated to be kind to the Otherkin was banned, and the guy who spammed their boards and broke every single rule in one post (EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.) continues to be registered to this day. This once and for all proved that Otherkin are nothing but truly confused bastards (a.k.a. You).

Gallery

Lol guy thinks there will be a war because of otherkin	What otherkin really look like	Typical otherkin art. Dragons art that looks more like horses with horns.	~~Typical otherkin art is below the standards of even Snapesnogger~~ Actually, it's perfect
Jarin Dreamsinger (jarandhel), a down syndrome otherkin	Logo of the Otherkin	The Unofficial Otherkin Logo	Furry + Otherkin = double fail
Bitches don't know	FUCK YOU I'M AN ELF!	Outside its natural habitat	ToT's very own vamp.