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I'm a monkey that works for the Outer Church...Mordant has a head like a squid and strange mental powers...is this gonna be a problem? is the ACLU going to need to be called in? Squid-headed workers of the world unite!
otherkin.net is just kind of sad. and bland.
"I'm a dragon!" *snore*...how about we come up with something that wasn't grafted from a D&D monster manual or Changeling: The Dreaming? For fuck's sake, I feel like finding a group of these people and throwing d10 at them.
So my theory is all the Otherkin affiliate themselves as beings that are:
1) more enlightened, or privy to moral or spiritual information we ain't.
2) kinda sexy in that ethereal-being-of-great-power way
3) give them a high horse from which to look down on the non-special.
4) an excuse to refer to oneself as a "shaman," at least until me and the spirit of Wokova beat them to death with putrifying corpse of their totem spirit-animal.
5) are easily locatable in that type of fantasy novel that have big-breasted elf-women of the front
6) Wearing shit likes capes and doublets and thinking it profound and possibly spooky
But because membership in Otherkin allows one to simultaneuously fill the drive to be different, yet the same, without changing anything about yourself except social display, there will reach a point where, after reaching a population glut of dragons (there are only so many colors that sound cool; "monkey-shit brown dragon just doesn't sell) and elves, there will evolve a pressure to locate new, more novel forms of "other-ness," and a subsequent race to scour the works of Mircea Eliade for such anthropomythological figments as bunyip, kurupira, and vodanyoi, resulting in:
1) getting to pretend you are "wise" and profound...you know, like American Indians in TV shows...and lord it over people. Because all ethnic people are, like, you know, wise and in tune to the earth and stuff
2) attempted sexiness of the Orientalist fantasy, "exotic" type
3) further excuses to claim to be a shaman [grumble, grumble]
4) wear overpriced clunky jewelry assembled by 3rd-world children and consider it significant and profound
Maybe a bit later we'll run into the people who try the new tack of being "kin" to evil nasty things...ripening opportunities for:
1) Spawn-type angst
2) Wearing black and pretending it's very significant and spooky (as opposed to subjectively enjoyable)
3) claiming to be a eeevvviiilll shaman-witch-alchemist-antipaladin
4) Using "eeevvvilll" as an excuse to be a dick
5) being a dick
6) attempted sexiness in that eeevvviilll bad-girl/bad-boy |
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