Writing Prompt

Jarin of The Dreaming Tree edited 🌐

First time trying out the writing prompt feature, and realizing I may need to add a button to automatically quote it in the post text.  The one I selected today was: 

If you could leave one message for your newly-awakened self regarding your otherkin, therian, or nonhuman identity, what would it say?

Keep better records, right from the start. Develop a real habit of journaling everything and don't let it slide. Emails and chat logs are not sufficient. Better yet, keep multiple copies and back up everything.  These records are the most fundamental tools you will ever find for really exploring the question of nonhuman identity.

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Akir'Ischa

"Be(lieve) yourself."

I spend way too long trying to hide, trying to adapt, to mask and to be anything but myself. Not just in the sense of my Draconity, but also in gender and general self-expression. I took so long to please those around me, to hide and care about what others would think of me, that I didn't take care of myself and in the end all it gave me was lost time.

Life here on Earth is short, make the best of it every day!

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Kaziel

I'm trying to make a more concerted effort to keep records. Hence the USB I recently purchased.

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Jarin of The Dreaming Tree

Same here, I actually recently downloaded new personal wiki software (SilverBullet) to help me compile older records of memories spread across emails, IRC and Discord logs, older instant messaging logs, livejournal and dreamwidth entries, wordpress articles, wordpress drafts, offline journals etc.  

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elinox

"If you could leave one message for your newly-awakened self regarding your otherkin, therian, or nonhuman identity, what would it say?"

Take your time. Introspect and research, and in doing those, keep track of your experiences for future reference.

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Krin edited

"If you could leave one message for your newly-awakened self regarding your otherkin, therian, or nonhuman identity, what would it say?"

Nothing is more important than how you feel about yourself. You do not need to have a "fancy" identity, or "the most popular" or "most drawn" label out there. Figure out who you are in your core and focus on the feelings you have about yourself. No matter what the people around you are doing, your friends or the people you look up to, whatever. Make sure at the end of the day you aren't driving yourself insane trying to find your absolute perfect match that day. Even if you find a label you're comfortable with, know that it's okay if that is fluid too. Nothing is linear. You will be okay and you will figure out your identity even if it's awkward and messy.

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Dreki

Don't hide your true self

In the beginning when I found this community, there was a huge disregard of fictionkin as a whole. Don't get me wrong, I don't consider myself to be fictionkin at all, but some may see me as a knockoff of a fictional character due to how I look. There would have definitely been otherkin who would say I'm fake due to my appearance, or what I tell about my adventures in the astral. I therefore had to hide my true identity within the very same community that promised me to be myself. I had to spend a few years being a dragon I never was, a dragon I myself have created out of fear for being not accepted by my kin. But things changed, otherkin as a whole became calmer and less strict about who is or isn't "valid", and I could show my true scales. But now I wonder: Did I really have to hide? Or could I just have shown who I am, and live with the few haters? I probably could have

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