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AUTHOR'S COMMENTS: So one may ask, why have I added a page that seems to have no connection with a Mythology site? Elementary my dear friends. There is indeed a very good reason for it. In countless threads I have come across various users claiming to be a form of Mythical creature and for their sake I have put this page up to honor them.

Otherkin are a subculture of people, primarily Internet-based, who identify in some way as other than human. Otherkin often believe themselves to be mythological or legendary creatures, explaining their beliefs through reincarnation, having a nonhuman soul, ancestry, or symbolic metaphor.
Common creatures otherkin identify as include angels, demons, dragons, elves, extra-terrestrials, fairies, kitsunes, lycanthropes, and vampires, among others.
Outside of their own subculture, otherkin beliefs are usually met with disbelief.

History of Otherkin

The oldest Internet resource for otherkin is the Elfinkind Digest; a mailing list started in 1990 by R'ykandar Korra'ti at the University of Kentucky for "elves and interested observers". Also in the early 1990s, newsgroups such as alt.horror.werewolves and alt.fan.dragons on Usenet, which were initially created for fans of these creatures in the context of fantasy and horror literature and films, also developed followings which identified as mythological beings.
On 6 February 1995, a document titled the "Elven Nation Manifesto" was posted to Usenet, including the groups alt.pagan and alt.magick. On Usenet itself, the document was universally panned and considered to be either a troll or an attempt to frame an innocent party. However, enough people contacted the original author of the Elven Nation post in good faith for a mailing list to spin off from it.
The modern otherkin subculture grew out of these elven online communities of the early-to-mid-1990s, with the earliest recorded use of the term otherkin appearing in July of 1990 and the variant otherkind being reported as early as April 1990. The therian, vampire, and draconic subcultures are related to the otherkin community somewhat, and are considered part of it by most otherkin, but are culturally distinct movements of their own despite some overlap in membership.


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Anonymous F YOU 5 Dec 13 2011, 3:08 PM EST by Logic_Chair
 
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I'm otherkin. You WISH we were fiction.
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Anonymous Riiiight 1 Oct 16 2011, 2:50 PM EDT by Logic_Chair
 
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"Honor them?" Is that why this is in the fictional section?
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Anonymous Ha! 4 Sep 17 2011, 11:49 PM EDT by Anonymous
 
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Mocking fantasy enthusiasts who have taken it too far on their own website? Clever...
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