The “Otherkin Rapture”
The “otherkin rapture” is a concept that appears to have fallen off the face of the universe. I can’t say its a bad thing, but its a bit stunning to me, because many years ago now, it seems like the concept was everywhere. Now as far as google is concerned my own essay is the only trace left of the whole thing. I suppose the original posts pertaining to it were all either behind a friendslock/passworded forum, or were deleted long ago out of embarrassment.
What was the so called “otherkin-rapture”/””””otakukin””” rapture”? It was a concept that appeared in the kin community and was briefly heavily discussed around 2007. The idea was that in some coming revelation/end of the world scenario all the kin on earth would either ‘return to their true home’, or be given their true spiritual body here on earth.
I don’t know who spread the idea of the ‘otherkin rapture’ and I don;t know if they, or anyone else really believed the idea beyond ‘well, that would be nice if it happened.’
Its interesting to remember the whole incident, relatively brief as it was, because I doubt such an idea would take hold now, especially on tumblr, even for a little while, with the shift away from spiritual discussion, and the shift toward the extreme end of ‘polykin hell’.
Included below is the entirety of my 2007 discussion of the ‘Otherkin Rapture’ taken directly from my old website, and unedited. The term “otakukin” appears repeatedly. That term is no longer in use, and appears as a historical usage only.
This was a reoccuring theory that showed up multiple times in various otherkin circles.
In some forums it was an accepted theory with a few dissenters picking it apart and pointing out all the problems with the theories which ranged from pointing out all the other end-of-world type predictions that had failed to come to pass to laying out the basic laws of physics and how “turning into your true self” is, at least according to everything we know about the nature of existence, a literal impossibility.
And yet, every few years, a variation of this would rear it’s head, using one name or another.
Is this still going on?
Every once and while I still see a few otherkin on tumblr-usually those that more resemble to kind of fluff bunnies that were common in the community pre 2011 and the creation of the otherkin tag on tumblr- bringing up the whole Veil Falling and otherkin ‘regaining their true form’ spiel and the occasional p shift claims
But yeah, largely as the otherkin community has centered more and more around tumblr the subject matter and general bs of the fluff has changed quite a bit, most notably the the taking up of rather extreme social justice views and tactics.
I’ve never heard it referred to as “the otherkin rapture,” but there have always been people waiting for the “veil” to fall and we’ll all revert to our “true forms” and kill all the hoomans. It’s always struck me as ridiculous.
