old tumblr postsMay 9, 2017

Not sure if you’ve been asked this before, and if you have I apologize for any redundancy, but what’s your take on the whole “identifying as/being kin with a character outside your race” discourse as someone who’s been in the fictionkin community for so many years?

Its complete horseshit that was made up by a troll in order to harass people and its not even with discussing at this point. http://fromfiction.tumblr.com/tagged/racism/

old tumblr postsSeptember 25, 2016

Have you seen the blog racistkin? I like outside opinions as well, so what do you think about that? Not a single post I read on there actually said how being kin outside your race actually hurts poc. None of these posts seem to understand the concept of reincarnation either. I want these concepts covered by the blog because they are giant holes in their reasoning. I’m neither here not there on the issue yet, more information is needed.

I’m pretty sure i have the blog @racistkin blocked, and I advise everyone else do the same. They don’t understand what they’re talking about and…

old tumblr postsJuly 19, 2016

Sorry, I just want to rant briefly. It’s so annoying to see people who aren’t kin saying it’s racist to ID outside your race when like… that’s not even remotely how fictionkin works you don’t choose who you are. And then to see misguided kin defending their viewpoint and misrepresenting what kin means? Ugh, I tried to explain but they just wouldn’t hear it.

I feel you, anon.

old tumblr postsJune 29, 2016

Can we just declare “you can’t be kin outside of your race” (and all possible variations of it) trolling and summarily dismiss it as the nonsense it is? I have a hard time anybody seriously believes that anyway. They’re just saying it to stir shit

Agreed, anon. Either that or they’re from outside the community and have no idea what they’re talking about.

old tumblr postsJune 15, 2016

i had to drop a kintype due to the race issue that i didnt exactly know much about until now. i’m really upset but i dont want to piss anyone off

Why telling people to change/repress/drop kintypes is psychologically harmful and abusive you are putting the theoretical momentary ‘offense’ of a group of people over the…

old tumblr postsJune 2, 2016

I just saw a post saying I couldn’t have a certain kintype unless I had the exact same disability they had because I wouldn’t understand their experience. The thing is that the character is a CAT and I very obviously don’t experience being a cat right now either :/ the logic in those types of posts seems faulty

The logic in those posts is completely non-existent, anon, and you can feel free to ignore them. The very basis of being kin is about…

old tumblr postsApril 11, 2016

i am fictionkin with a japanese character and i am white. i cannot change that, i didnt choose it, and people are calling me racist. why. whyhwyhyw if i could change i could! this isnt fair!

I feel you, anon. Just remind yourself that the people saying this don’t understand what it means to be kin, and almost certainly aren’t actual…

old tumblr postsApril 3, 2016

What do you think of the people who use “coded as black, therefore it’s problematic” etc. argument for certain non-human characters, like gems from SU or trolls from HS? Me personally I just don’t get it, like they’re not even human, they don’t have a race?…

‘Coded black’ characters are super important for representation of diversity in media. Its important to hire actors from all races and backgrounds, and its super…

old tumblr postsMarch 28, 2016

Saying “you can’t be kin outside of your race” is actually stupidly racist. What about people of races that have no, or very little, fictional representation? They’re not allowed to be kin, or what? Only white/black/Asian people are permitted to be a part of the community, I guess. Everybody who isn’t white/Asian is forced to identify with a narrow scope of characters that are often one-note or badly written because racism fucking exists in the media. Yeah, that’s not marginalizing.

Totally agree with you, anon.

old tumblr postsMarch 26, 2016

royalls: “You can’t be kin with characters outside of your race” Translation: “All White characters are made for only White people, all Black characters are…