Technical difficulties
are freaking frustrating with Tumblr, and I have moved to prettyinpixiedust for a while.
Beware the autumn people.
For some, autumn comes early, stays late, through life, where October follows September and November touches October and then instead of December and Christ’s birth there is no Bethlehem Star, no rejoicing, but September comes again and old October and so on down the years, with no winter, spring or revivifying summer.
For these beings, fall is the only normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond.
Where do they come from? The dust.
Where do they go? The grave.
Does blood stir their veins? No, the night wind.
What ticks in their head? The worm.
What speaks through their mouth? The toad.
What sees from their eye? The snake.
What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars.
They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth. In gusts they beetle-scurry, creep, thread, filter, motion, make all moons sullen, and surely cloud all clear-run waters. The spider-web hears them, trembles—breaks.
Such are the autumn people.
Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)e (via amber-and-ice)
(via silveth)
I ache for my wings.
I came out last night. It was National Coming Out Day, so of course I came out as pansexual or bi or whatever you want to call loving people regardless of gender or genitals, but everyone knew that already. Then I came out as Otherkin. There’s no good place, no good way to say it. Some people don’t even know what I am saying. So I come out to a room full of queer people, queer friends. Allies.
Some of them leave, and I am told it isn’t me. It isn’t me.
But I am still the mediakin that crashed their party.
Everyone who stays is either super nice or ignores the resultant discussion entirely.
I still feel awkward. Out of place.
I don’t know what else to say.
I want to eat
Glitter by the fist-full and
Make you watch, make you
Understand that this is natural for me
This is soul food.
I want to show you
My antennae
Feathered, soft, exquisite and
Have you love them
As you love my eyes
The curve of my smile.
I want to gather
Dust from my wings and
Offer it to you saying
Here, this is me, this is
Proof.
I am magic.
I want to whisper
The language of trees
Of water and fire
Into your ear
I want you
To understand.
No mistake, no madness, no lie
Only magic
Only me.
I look at the discussions on other ‘kin blogs, and I just don’t know what to say.
I’m not a pillar of the community, I haven’t been on forums forever, and I’m not old. I am in no way an authority, and everything I want to say is usually better put by someone else first.
I just want to see more love. More support. More wonderful, beautiful things from deep inside, little tidbits to make all of our lives here more comfortable and special.
The dialogues about Otherkin awareness and rights and so on are important, don’t get me wrong - but tumblr isn’t the best vehicle for that, it seems. Beings just get in reblog fights.
I love the kin food, the kin homes, the kin music, the personal blogs about personal experiences, the pictures and poetry of the Tumblr ‘kin community.
Where can I find more of that?
We’re hanging out, trading stories, and you tell me
Tattoos and piercings are objectively sexy.
I mention my dream, to get my wings tattooed along my arms, my back. You say that would be awesome.
I don’t think you understand. My wings are already there. Always there.
Always.
![madeofpaper:
THE RISKS OF EYEBALL TATTOOING
As quoted from ModBlog in an entry written by Shannon Larratt:
“One of the risks of eyeball tattooing that I’ve been really averse to talking about — almost refusing to believe it in fact — is that in perhaps 10% of people the procedure results in a permanent black eye [EDIT: I am hearing from some practitioners that they believe the risk is MUCH higher than 10%, perhaps high enough to even be a majority of people — either way, take this seriously]. Or whatever color eye that matches the tattoo of course. I wish I could tell you exactly why this happens. No one has been able to come up with a satisfactory explanation. Is the ink somehow pulling into the tear or lymphomatic ducts? Being pulled into the tissue through some sort of capillary action? Is it happening because of over-injection? Is it happening because of too much ink being sprayed over the eye that’s not being injected? We’re just not sure yet — and that’s what’s so troubling about this risk. We have no idea how to definitively mitigate it.
Most people with this that I’ve seen have just some small lines of discoloration, but the results can be quite extreme, as you see here on the left eye of Mechanical Demon (tattoo artist at Harness in Helsinki, Finland). His theory on why he got so much discoloration under the eye was that there was some ink on top of the left eyeball after the operation that they couldn’t remove. He figures that while he was dreaming that night, that the combination of the eye’s natural movement and normal self-cleaning mechanisms could have moved the ink down under the lower lid at which point it penetrated the tissue rather than being excreted. He also adds that the discoloration is not close to the surface as with a normal tattoo — it’s much deeper, as if the subcutaneous tissue is black. He’s tried lightening the black patch by tattooing over it with skin tone tattoo ink, with some positive results but not completely covering it. He also wore makeup over it for the first year, but has learned to enjoy it.
It’s important for people to understand that even though eyeball tattooing is now five years old, it is not completely understood. It is likely that this risk can be greatly reduced by minimizing the amount of ink used, and by cleaning any residual ink of the eye — but I can’t promise that. You can see one possible result — I believe on the extreme end — in this photo by Matti Keski-Kohtamäki.”
tbh i think it would be kind of cool to have two permanent black eyes](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_manrquoKcI1qasq2no1_500.jpg)
THE RISKS OF EYEBALL TATTOOING
As quoted from ModBlog in an entry written by Shannon Larratt:“One of the risks of eyeball tattooing that I’ve been really averse to talking about — almost refusing to believe it in fact — is that in perhaps 10% of people the procedure results in a permanent black eye [EDIT: I am hearing from some practitioners that they believe the risk is MUCH higher than 10%, perhaps high enough to even be a majority of people — either way, take this seriously]. Or whatever color eye that matches the tattoo of course. I wish I could tell you exactly why this happens. No one has been able to come up with a satisfactory explanation. Is the ink somehow pulling into the tear or lymphomatic ducts? Being pulled into the tissue through some sort of capillary action? Is it happening because of over-injection? Is it happening because of too much ink being sprayed over the eye that’s not being injected? We’re just not sure yet — and that’s what’s so troubling about this risk. We have no idea how to definitively mitigate it.
Most people with this that I’ve seen have just some small lines of discoloration, but the results can be quite extreme, as you see here on the left eye of Mechanical Demon (tattoo artist at Harness in Helsinki, Finland). His theory on why he got so much discoloration under the eye was that there was some ink on top of the left eyeball after the operation that they couldn’t remove. He figures that while he was dreaming that night, that the combination of the eye’s natural movement and normal self-cleaning mechanisms could have moved the ink down under the lower lid at which point it penetrated the tissue rather than being excreted. He also adds that the discoloration is not close to the surface as with a normal tattoo — it’s much deeper, as if the subcutaneous tissue is black. He’s tried lightening the black patch by tattooing over it with skin tone tattoo ink, with some positive results but not completely covering it. He also wore makeup over it for the first year, but has learned to enjoy it.
It’s important for people to understand that even though eyeball tattooing is now five years old, it is not completely understood. It is likely that this risk can be greatly reduced by minimizing the amount of ink used, and by cleaning any residual ink of the eye — but I can’t promise that. You can see one possible result — I believe on the extreme end — in this photo by Matti Keski-Kohtamäki.”
tbh i think it would be kind of cool to have two permanent black eyes
(via cynicalfuture)
![chasingcaribou:
polymorphhugs:
apogeesystem:
darziel:
littleotherkinthings-andproblems:
[image text: “Otherkin problems: knowing you’ll never be able to transition and that no one even takes your need to do so seriously”]
First, I want to be clear that I have read this post, and am keeping that in mind: http://littleotherkinthings-andproblems.tumblr.com/post/31970929080/dear-people-who-keep-deliberately-missing-the-point
As a trans individual and a ‘kin, this makes me uncomfortable. It really does.
I know there are kin who want to make themselves look physically like their species. I’ve thought about it for myself. (horns. I need them. Very badly.)
But transition is a word that has a very clear link to the trans community, specifically when one talks about changing physical aspects of themselves. Saying “I want to transition” has pretty strong connotations and taking the word for species related issues feels…well I know the word isn’t well liked, but appropriative. There’s a set of issues related to transitioning, that’s already well established among groups, and I think the idea of wanting to physical change yourself to be more inline with your species is best trying to find a different word.
I think the desire to change one’s species is as real as anything else, and should be taken seriously, but it shouldn’t do so by borrowing language that already has a definitive meaning.
thank you darziel for saying it better than i ever could
agreeing with this. i mentioned it offhand but i was more concerned with how i was interpreting other things…
I would be interested in what words people would come up with that would be more appropriate and free from either appropriation or other possible baggage (like the word ‘shift’ has its own set of implications so as to be not useful, even though you’ll often see therians saying they would be happier if they could physically shift, even if the transformation was permanent). (:
Perhaps ‘modify’? I imagine the person who submitted the image chose transition because it has more implications than modify though. Modify feels a bit too superficial and simple?
The word that would be most effective would need to cover most of what the original implies. (We all understand what the original poster meant to communicate, I think.)
Does anyone have thoughts? What words would you be most comfortable with, tumblr?
(However a person leans to the use of word transition being right or wrong, I think it is better for otherkin/ therian people to save themselves problems and new misunderstandings short term, until we are either more well known, or better understood. Just my personal feelings there though.)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maofulZYVc1r6k9ddo1_500.png)
littleotherkinthings-andproblems:
[image text: “Otherkin problems: knowing you’ll never be able to transition and that no one even takes your need to do so seriously”]
First, I want to be clear that I have read this post, and am keeping that in mind: http://littleotherkinthings-andproblems.tumblr.com/post/31970929080/dear-people-who-keep-deliberately-missing-the-point
As a trans individual and a ‘kin, this makes me uncomfortable. It really does.
I know there are kin who want to make themselves look physically like their species. I’ve thought about it for myself. (horns. I need them. Very badly.)
But transition is a word that has a very clear link to the trans community, specifically when one talks about changing physical aspects of themselves. Saying “I want to transition” has pretty strong connotations and taking the word for species related issues feels…well I know the word isn’t well liked, but appropriative. There’s a set of issues related to transitioning, that’s already well established among groups, and I think the idea of wanting to physical change yourself to be more inline with your species is best trying to find a different word.
I think the desire to change one’s species is as real as anything else, and should be taken seriously, but it shouldn’t do so by borrowing language that already has a definitive meaning.
thank you darziel for saying it better than i ever could
agreeing with this. i mentioned it offhand but i was more concerned with how i was interpreting other things…
I would be interested in what words people would come up with that would be more appropriate and free from either appropriation or other possible baggage (like the word ‘shift’ has its own set of implications so as to be not useful, even though you’ll often see therians saying they would be happier if they could physically shift, even if the transformation was permanent). (:
Perhaps ‘modify’? I imagine the person who submitted the image chose transition because it has more implications than modify though. Modify feels a bit too superficial and simple?
The word that would be most effective would need to cover most of what the original implies. (We all understand what the original poster meant to communicate, I think.)
Does anyone have thoughts? What words would you be most comfortable with, tumblr?
(However a person leans to the use of word transition being right or wrong, I think it is better for otherkin/ therian people to save themselves problems and new misunderstandings short term, until we are either more well known, or better understood. Just my personal feelings there though.)
(via spooksee)
Live Moss Carpet is a soft grass carpet that thrives from the few drops of water you leave behind when stepping out of the shower or bath.
Oh, my goodness.
Want.
Considering this isn’t harmful to my health, I want one!
awesommmmmeeeeeee
(via kinhomes)
Cis-species for the otherkin jargon glossary
When was the term “cis-species” coined, and by whom? I’ll take a guess that it was in early 2012 by some Tumblr blogger, but that’s clear from context. If anyone knows the specifics of how this word originated, please let me know. A link to the earliest known post using it would be ideal. I’m still working on that glossary of jargon used in the otherkin community, and I’m citing all my sources. I try to find dates and primary sources for every term that I include.I think it was coined by a number of people at the same time, just following the pattern of “transspecies” (which is an old word used by otherkin of course, not common, but, you can see it even on old forum posts).
The earliest reference I can find is actually by me. Someone asked what should be the word for referring to non-otherkin, someone said “cishuman”, and I said that didn’t quite make sense so I suggested “cisspecies”. But I probably saw it somewhere before. http://swanblood.tumblr.com/post/19646799814/arudem-double-pistols-and-a-wink-does-the
It’s not usually used, though. About 95% of the time I have seen it used, it is by trolls, so I won’t say it’s a common word. People who feel that way are usually too afraid of how it looks “trollish”, and won’t use it. I also don’t use it for that reason.
It’s a shame, because I think it has a logical reason to exist… saying that cisspecies people exist isn’t the same as saying “die cisspecies scum!” or anything like that. It’s just a word that means “some people identify as the species they were born as”. But of course, anything that sounds “too social justice-like” is mocked when otherkin use it, because it’s like we are trying to sound ~serious~ or something, and of course that is worth to be mocked.
(Well, yes, I am trying to sound serious. I think my experiences are serious ones. I think I have a right to be taken seriously. ~so radical~)
Thank you for your reply, Tsu. Do I understand this correctly? You think that you might have coined the word “cis-species” yourself, in 2012-03-10, but you also think you may have seen the word in use by somebody else before then. Since then, the word has almost exclusively been used by people who harass otherkin, rather than by otherkin themselves. Right?
There have been a few attempts to come up with a satisfactory word for people who identify as humans rather than as otherkin. Several years ago, I recall seeing the word “human-kin” used a couple of times, for somebody who identifies as human. The term never became commonly used.
By the way, you say that “trans-species” is an old but uncommon word in the otherkin community. The earliest public and dated use of that word I’ve found is in 1999 in the therianthrope community.* I’m just clarifying what “old” means in this context.
* Jakkal, “Shifting FAQ.” Updated 1999-12-24. Downloaded 2001-06-18. http://www.were.net/~pinky/shifters.html (defunct, use archive.org to retrieve)
Yes, that’s correct (your first paragraph).
I’ve searched high and low for someone else with my kintype.
… It’s hard to accept that I’m on my own.
