/r/otherkin

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Otherkin is community of individuals that identify as nonhuman in some distinct manner. We are NOT a community for works of fiction, roleplaying, or the furry fandom.


Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to /r/Otherkin. What is an otherkin? It's pretty simple, it's a human who identifies as something other than human. If all you know you learned on tumblr, do know, you're probably pretty far off base on what otherkin really are. Search around, simple questions have been answered multiple times.


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  1. Be respectful to all users here.
  2. No personal or confidential information. This includes real names, addresses, phone numbers, and photographs that can identify a user. Sharing such information can be damaging to a user. This risks a subreddit ban as well as a reddit-wide ban.
  3. Otherkin is not fiction or roleplaying.
  4. Please search before posting. Repeat posts ask the same questions and only need to be answered once.
  5. Posts must be relevant to Otherkin. Anything only loosely related may be allowed, but you should consider other subreddits.

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/r/otherkin

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Kinsidering

I recently heard a recap of the original The Fox and the Hound book and one thing I specifically remember hearing is Todd's kits dying (I can't remember the females name) and it is exactly how I died in my past life. My question is, would this be a theriotype or Fictionkintype? Because I'm pretty sure I'm one of THOSE kits that died by being gassed in our burrow.

2 Comments
2024/12/02
12:27 UTC

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Voidkin and Elfkin, what ways do you connect more with your kintype?

I'm questioning (I've been doing a lot lately) and feel really connected to elves and just a void. I believe I may have once been both.

I want to know the different ways you connect so I can do those along with my research. Being in the dark or out in nature, ways to dress, anything. Or share your discovery experience. Either one.

Also have a wonderful day/night.

2 Comments
2024/12/02
05:48 UTC

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What are (non-gear) ways to feel more connected to your kintype?

I'm a psychological Snow leopardkin. My connection to my kintype is always there but, it shifts quite a lot depending on my mental health. I've been going through a rough time recently. This normally causes me to feel even MORE connected to my kintype, but, this time is different. I feel very distant from my kintype, and it's honestly making me feel depressed. My sense of self is nowhere to be found, and I feel like I've been separated from my family.

What are things I can do to feel more connected to my kintype???

1 Comment
2024/12/01
13:16 UTC

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Community?

I don't understand how others manage to find solace in our community.

Those i have seen are either warmbloods or children.

Do you believe it is worth the effort to find community or is it better to continue in alone through this lifetime?

35 Comments
2024/12/02
01:08 UTC

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Do I have to be a Satanist to be a demonkin?

So I’ve kinda questioned this back and forth, I get euphoria from seeing the imps/succubi in Helluva Boss, and this has made me question if I’m demonkin. A few months back that lead me down a rabbit hole of religious research. If I’m a demonkin, the does that mean god is real? If god is real should I pretend I’m not demonkin and worship god? So that’s what I did (it was horrible, now I’m atheist). Now I’m revisiting the show and getting that same euphoria again. Seeing myself in these characters. I’ve had phantom horns, hooves, and bat wings in the past but I tended to ignore it cause it was a box I wasn’t ready to open. Now I’m questioning again: am I demonkin? If so, does that mean I should become a Satanist? While I do agree with the rules of non theistic satanism proposed from The Satanic Temple, I’ve struggled to actually believe in anything religious or spiritual outside of therianthropy and otherkinity. How can I embrace my demonkinity without the existential crisis of my lack of spirituality? I’d love to hear stories from other imp/succubi/demonkin and satanists!

TLDR; if I’m demonkin, what does that mean for my spirituality?

14 Comments
2024/12/01
21:01 UTC

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How do I remeber mypast lives if they exist?

So, I am an angelkin and as such, want to find ways to connect with my angelic self. However, that is rather difficult to do when I am unable to remember anything about myself during that life. As a result, I am asking for help and methods in which I could try and recall memories from then if such a thing is possible (and ideally a legal solution that does not require any form of substances)

So basically, it is what it says on the tin.

3 Comments
2024/12/01
18:38 UTC

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Can anyone help me deepen my connection/find my identity

Recently I've found out about otherkin and I think I'm demonkin. I've always felt this way since I was younger but I never knew about otherkin. I want to know how to connect with myself. Any tips?

9 Comments
2024/12/01
11:07 UTC

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Any fallen angel kin here?

(sorry if this is too personal)

what happened to make you fall?

Do you align with either side?

do you think it’s possible to repent as humans do?

10 Comments
2024/12/01
02:16 UTC

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looking for other kokuko/black kitsune/black kumihos!

Like the title says, I'm looking for other black kitsunekin/kumihokin, but any type of kumiho/kitsune will do!

3 Comments
2024/11/30
18:37 UTC

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Me and another member of my kind

This is my voidkin form!

4 Comments
2024/11/29
08:14 UTC

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Question!

I'm not a furry or otherkin myself, but I am trying to act in solidarity with Otherkin and Furries because many of my loved ones are either one or the other or identify as both, allyship isn't something I can label myself it's something that people of said community designate not me. I read over the group rules and I can leave the subreddit if this is for exclusively otherkin and it's an otherkin only space and I understand regardless, but is it okay if I stay joined or would I be invading a space by otherkin for otherkin? I'm open polyamorous and neurodivergent and LGBT (nonbinary who experiences anti female sexisn allied against transmisogyny because I'm tired of my transfemme nobinary folk experiencing exclusion and transwomen dealing with hostility, in terms of gender I float between various other nonbinary genders both conventional ones, microlabels, woman, xenogirl, ambigirl, demigirl, genderfluid and genderqueer, demiboy ambiboy, xenoboy, and man, panromantic, pansexual/bisexual/demisexual/aceflux who goes between being hypersexual and attracted to people I just ment and not being attracted to people and experiencing sex repulsion) even with all of the issues I still carry an immense amount of privilege compared to otherkin or furries and I don't believe in intruding in places exclusively for various groups and I won't make this groups boundaries about me. If I am here I intend to learn and not start discourse.

3 Comments
2024/11/29
22:20 UTC

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Trying to find a term for this.

Is there a term or thing already associated with feeling both like spacey and like nature at the same time. ( Sorry I can't put this into words better and sorry if this has already been asked:( ) I know I am a otherkin, and am a vampirekin but I just need this cleared up.

0 Comments
2024/11/29
19:26 UTC

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In search of a winged people can known!

Good morning !

I'm looking for a winged people that someone had shown in one of their live shows. I think this might be my kintype, so I'm looking.

Are they humans? With large wings of multiple colors, deer horns or antlers, a lion's tail, feet/paws like those of cats?

My description is very bad, but that's all I have left as a memory. And I apologize in advance for the fact that I cannot properly explain what I saw.

Here's a drawing that looks approximately like what I'm looking for, but it's missing the horns, the tail and the right legs.

0 Comments
2024/11/29
09:22 UTC

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Can talking/thinking about a character/creature you’re kin to trigger an astral shift?

Title speaks for itself, I’ve just been talking about this one character a lot recently and now I’m feeling an astral shift from them, just wondering if there’s a correlation or something or if it’s just a coincidence

0 Comments
2024/11/29
20:21 UTC

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Why do you think wolf therians are so common?

In curious to know any theories as to why most kin/therians are wolves and or some form of k-9 equivalent.

15 Comments
2024/11/29
12:09 UTC

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Outfit ideas

Does anyone have any outfits ideas for a 14 year old black boy who elfkin is a purple skin winged elf boy that can shape shift.into any animal or person

3 Comments
2024/11/29
07:00 UTC

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Cellkin?

Is it possible to be kin of a cell, not kinsidering my friend just asked during a science lesson and now I actually need to know… there probably is because you can be spiritual or psychological kin of basically anything. Also if anyone is pls tell me about it :D

9 Comments
2024/11/29
00:50 UTC

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Remember anything? Nah, just kitty apparently

0 Comments
2024/11/28
00:10 UTC

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Questioning what I am

When I think of myself, I don’t see my physical body, I see this being (I say being because I don’t know the species but I really want to find out what it is). If I were to close my eyes and think about how I truly view myself, I see myself as a very pale being with black horns and black and white eyes. I get times where I feel horns on my head and I feel a lot more like this being. I often feel this energy around me, it’s a physical feeling, and when it happens I get flashes of images of myself in this form. This is only some of my experience. I’ve felt this way since I was little and I want to know if this is Otherkin, and if it is, how can I figure out what species?

I decided to edit this to tell you more

Facts I know about the species: Doesn’t like to be seen very much, doesn’t like eye contact with people, has existed before having a form but just lived as nothing before getting a form (sorry if this isn’t a good explanation), can shapeshift but only has a couple forms that it can shapeshift into, feels most happy at night

1 Comment
2024/11/28
21:42 UTC

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Advice wanted: I desperate need for euphoria

Ok, so I'm a (fallen) angelkin and I've genuienly been feeling somewhat dysphoric lately. Far from the "Oh woe for I shall never again be myself" but rather a ceaseless, unending ache that feels as if something is always wrong, always off. Frankly, it has infuriated me for the past few days and I want no more of it.

So, with this context, I wish to ask for advice; what things would anyone reading this reccomend to quell this feeling or dysphoria or even induce euphoria (because, well, I have nothing that grants me euphoria at the moment)?

Any help would be greatly appreciated and I extend my gratitude and any possible blessings to you.

1 Comment
2024/11/28
16:15 UTC

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I can't figure out who I am...

Hello again!

So, I'm an alter-human Main Coon and I'm sure I'm otherkin too. But I can't find it.

For a few months I thought I was a Demon, then some sort of enchanter, but after a while, I realize that it's not me.

And I can't figure out what it is.

I already have shifter with deer wings, horns, antlers and tail, big teeth, sort of claw fingers, with black skin color (really black, please, no misunderstanding )

Brief. I shift with anything and everything. But no feeling really stays for long. Any advice? What can I do to find myself? I know it's going to last a long time, and I'm willing to wait. But I want to find myself. I no longer have an idea in which to delve...

6 Comments
2024/11/28
10:53 UTC

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Need info on voidkins!

Good morning !

I am an alterhuman currently being researched. And I heard about voidkins.

Voidkins have a sort of black mass with glowing eyes that can take any shape?

My explanations really suck but I would like to have ideas. How do voidkins feel when they shift? Do you have any “tips” with which you shift more?

10 Comments
2024/11/28
10:43 UTC

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Otherhearted or therian

Since december, 2023, ive called myself a therian. But nowadays, therian feels like a strong term. Like yeah, i feel like an animal in ways. But identify is too strong of a word. Connection fits me more. I definitely feel like i identify with an animal more than as it. Im otherkin for aliens, and yes, i identify as an alien on a nonphysical level. But the feeling between my otherkinity and my therianthropy are different. I dont identify as a dog. Do yall think this could be otherhearted? cuz i think it is but i could also be confusing myself.

1 Comment
2024/11/28
07:35 UTC

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Help

Ever just listening to Spotify recommended and a song comes on and the singer sounds EXACTLY like your kintype Like sub urbans part in Inferno, NOT IN ANY OTHER SONG DOES HE SOUND EXACTLY LIKE I DID this isn’t the only one, just the only song I remember the name of. DO I NEED TO COPYRIGHT THE VOICES OF MY PAST LIVES NOW WTF?!

0 Comments
2024/11/28
05:58 UTC

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has this happend to anyone?

im pretty sure im a raccoon therian, but i wasn't like. always a therian. i feel like i just started as a kith or otherhearted, but i eventually sorta like... got more connected w them and now i almost constantly feel like. phantom ears and tails and that i am a raccoon in the same way im a vampire and a zombie and its weird because it wasn't always like this.
i was just wondering if anyone else has gone through something similar to this. like slowly getting more and more connected to a kintype :P

0 Comments
2024/11/28
04:29 UTC

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Hello fellow otherkin !

Hi everyone , I'm new to this subreddit ! My name is Alaster , I'm a demonkin . I'm a bit socially awkward so bear with me . I'm 25 , I have had a strong connection with Demons since I was a young kid , I found out I was a demonkin a few years back and have fully embraced it , any of you demonkin who are here , hello ! And as of the otherkin who are on this subreddit it is very nice to meet u guys and I hope u all have a wonderful and beautiful day ! Happy Holidays !

10 Comments
2024/11/28
04:11 UTC

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I just had my first teeth phantom shift

I'm in the car and it's dark at 6:30 it's crazy but i was just like wait and I open my mouth a little and I'm just surprised because I feel my teeth I'm a dragonkin btw and I'm just happy cause I don't get phantom shifts very often or ones that lasted as long as this

9 Comments
2024/11/28
00:37 UTC

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I just came to terms with my identity

TW: Sexual harassment, SA within the definition of unwanted sexual advances

So I just found out about the term copingkin and it fits me perfectly. In 7th grade, a boy in my class would grope me and make me feel scared and helpless, like a baby fox. I was alway fox-hearted, so I subconsciously clung to that part of me and became a fox. When I found the term therian the summer after 8th grade, I was completely convinced that my theriotype was a fox. As it turns out, it was a trauma response, but it's still involuntary. I AM still a therian (dhole, beagle, black cat, and crow), just not a fox based on the definition of involuntary animal instincts.

0 Comments
2024/11/28
00:13 UTC

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I'M NOT A FREAKING DEER

Alright, a few months ago, I had awakened as a NOT deer, a cryptid found in Tennessee. And I am sick of of people calling me a freaking deer when I state this and trying to correct me about my kintype's anatomy then getting angry at me when I correct them, politely saying that I'm NOT A DEER, I'm a cryptid that looks like one but has some rather noticeable differences in anatomy and appearance.

I'M NOT A FREAKING DEER, I AM A CRYPTID THAT'S NAMED FOR IT'S RESEMBLANCE TO ONE, I HUNT FOOD, I HAVE MORE JOINTS IN MY LIMBS, I HAVE MULTIPLE PAIRS OF EYES, STOP TRYING ARGUE WITH ME ABOUT MY KIN'S APPEARANCE WHEN YOU CLEARLY DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

16 Comments
2024/11/27
22:12 UTC

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I have so many kintypes, it's stressful

Hi, I'm a therian, otherkin, and fictionkin. I have a lot of kintypes, and it's stressing me out because I get really long mental shifts (for days) where I feel both human and as my kintype, but like mentally I start acting like my kintype. It's really hard to explain- it's kind of like fictionkin shifts where I feel like that character and act like them; like I disassociate into their personality for a few days, usually along with phantom shifts.

How do you guys deal with feeling like you're invalid for having a lot of kintypes? I KNOW they're my kintypes; most of them I get reoccuring shifts (dream, mental, phantom). I don't think I'm one shapeshifting entity, but I do know one or two of my kintypes can shapeshift.

I'm kinda afraid to tell people about my experience because I have a LOT of kintypes and I swear on my life I'm not pretending but I think people are going to call me fake...

I mean I get the whole "its YOUR identity that's all that matters" but it makes it hard to connect to people or talk about myself, especially when I seem like a different person every day due to mental shifts (I don't have DID but people assume I do).

I'm not sure any of you can give me actual advice but I'm just ranting fr

0 Comments
2024/11/27
15:47 UTC

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