hi felix! i just wanted to say: thank you so much. seriously. i was questioning kin for a while, and in that time this blog was a HUGE help to me, both in first understanding kin, and finding references for my own experiences. you were really helpful and reassuring in all the (usually nervous and psuedo-panicked) asks i sent you, and even now it still means a lot to me? i’ve since affirmed my own kin identity and i just wanted to say thanks for all your help. so thank you!!

Thanks for this message anon. 🙂 I’m really happy I could help in my won small way as you move through your journey as kin,…

hi- just a question about being fictionkin.. I think I might be kin with ichimatsu from osomatsu-san, but I’m really not sure. I can relate to him 100%, I feel attached to him, and just generally feel like he’s apart of him, but I do know that I’m my own person.. but the character himself feels like he’s apart of me- am I kin or am I just too attached to a fictional character ??

Could be either one. Only you can tell. Make sure to take time to examine the identity– it can take months or years to really…

In 2004, a boy became obsessed with WoW. He wrote an 80,000 word “in-character” journal from the perspective of his character. He soon became overwhelmed with grief that he couldn’t be with the characters in the game, then committed suicide to “be with them”. Do you think he was fictionkin? Or that if the fictionkin community had existed back then, he might’ve had an outlet for his feelings and avoided suicide?

Hi there anon. First of all, the boy in question,  Zhang Xiaoyi was a 13 year old Chinese native, and the game he was addicted…

beaconsystem: common-human: being otherkin is being factkin of people in alternate realities 1. Otherkin is a non-human identity. 2. Factkin identify as humans from this…