Hello!
Rain Wrote:Consider, too, the intensely personal nature of otherkin validation as a whole and how difficult it can potentially be for those not involved to come to an understanding.
I'm not sure what is meant here by the term "otherkin validation"? Do you mean validation of a person's otherkin identity by other people, or something else?
I've been out, though I've had a chance to look in a writing book a friend gave me...This is quickly developing. I wrote about three pages last night just trying to get out whatever it was that was bugging me. For one thing, I found it very difficult to avoid mentioning the terms "demon" and "demonkin" when writing about demonkin. It was a first draft, though, so I just let it flow without trying to edit it then.
One of the things I have realized is that I can write this as either fiction or creative nonfiction. Writing this in a fictive format will get my messages out while still letting me retain a bit of protection (so I won't necessarily get blamed for being literally demonic; that is, the narrator will not be "me", even if there are parts of us who are similar). I've also realized that I can split up the issues I've dealt with (e.g. fearing backlash, unstable identity, dealing with being both nonwhite and nonstraight, having spiritual issues interfering with identity, having to deal with real life while also wanting to explore spirituality) and which other people have dealt with, under several characters, so that I won't have to worry about people being critical because one character is both LGB or T and nonwhite and demonic. I can just as easily have hir be empathetic to and assistive to someone who is unstable in their gender identity, and have hir have a history of struggling with the same things, but not have hir claim a specific (LGBT) label.
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I also wrote last night a message that came, that I can effect change in the physical world and create things, and this is the rationale for my being physically embodied now. So I've rediscovered my reason for living? <!-- s

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Thanks for your support, Rain. I will see if I can think up a good response to your other post, but it might not come for a bit, just to let you know. <!-- s

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