There is a difference between a fictive and fictionkin. (Lee)
Fictive: A person from fictional sources, who is adopted into the mindspace of another person… Having fictive persons in the group is a form of hosting. (Astraea’s Web Glossary)
FictionKin: Someone who believes they have the soul or identity of a fictional character. (Soulbonding.net Glossary)
Lee: I’ve seen a lot of hate spew happening the last couple of days via the fictive and fictives tags here on Tumblr, mostly coming from the Otherkin community.
Everyone is, of course, entitled to their own opinion. What baffles me is that some people don’t seem to understand that a fictive and a fictionkin are two different things, as shown above. And really, if you’re going to vehmently hate on something, at least you should have the decency to know exactly what it is you’re hating on instead of assuming and generalizing that things with similar terminology are actually the same thing.
^^^^^^THIS.
The issue is that people decided the words were interchangeable (this is a Tumblr thing; on the lj communities it was pretty cut and dry, back when this terminology first came into widespread use, afaik). And then people like me get called “fictionkin” and get pissed off about it because I do not even believe in reincarnation, personally, so the implication that I’m someone’s past life or something really bothers the crap out of me.
(NOTE: I do not believe that fictionkin are less valid. I totally respect that identity, I just have a hard time with the concept of reincarnation and don’t want it applied to me. I hope that makes sense.)
I wish people treated the terminology as more cut and dried, because it’s so hard to figure out what I’m supposed to say (aside from “hi, I’m Peeta, kind of”). 🙁
