No no no. Fictive is specific character. Fictionkin is fictional species. Omg.
I have never heard these terms used this way before. Is there anyone who also uses them this way?
When we on livejournal started to use the term ‘fictionkin’ as a replacement for ‘otakukin’ it was to mean anyone from a fictional universe, specific character or not. I acknowledge the meaning may have drifted a bit, but I have never heard it used in such a way as to disinclude people who were specific characters.
Some people started using fictive to mean character and kin to mean species. I first spotted it on some otherkin forums, I think, but I have noticed it here and there on Tumblr. It’s not as common as the people who use it seem to think it is. Especially not with how hard I and others come down on it when we spot it 😛
Got to love when people go “omg no” to people who were around sometimes before the words were even coined. Like omg yes, actually.
(@Anon) The otakukin -> otakin -> from-fiction (fictionkin) Livejournal community has always been character friendly, indeed character-heavy. People can argue that words change until they’re blue in the face, but you don’t get to snap your fingers and say that people who have always been called fictionkin are tada no longer called fictionkin. That’s not how it works, sorry.
