silveth answered your question: Regional Otherkin Mailin

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silveth answered your question: Regional Otherkin Mailing Lists

I suggest creating a “multi-region lists” category and then on each group’s page, list the various “chapter lists.

Ooh, that’d work.  Hehe, and my next question was going to be if I create a new category for them what should I call it… that’s perfect. :)

Beltane at Four Quarters

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I spent the weekend, Friday through Sunday, at Four Quarters Interfaith Sanctuary in Artemas, PA.  I was attending their Beltaine festival with my friend Raven and her mother.  

It was a very nice weekend - we got up there on Friday afternoon and had our tents set up just in time for dinner, then attended the opening ritual and the dancing/drumming etc at the Fire Circle.  Then we headed to the coffee dragons and the small bardic circle for a bit, before building a small fire of our own back at our campsite where we hung out and cooked marshmallows.

Saturday, it was cold.  Bitterly, bitterly cold, though it was just overcast for most of the day.  We grabbed breakfast, then Raven and I headed over to the artisan alley and vended our jewelry for most of the day.  We watched, but did not participate, in the raising of the Maypole.  After dinner we attended the members meeting, then went to coffee dragons for a bit to warm up with hot beverages, then headed back to our camp where I built the biggest warmest fire I could manage - we were all quite chilled, and were glad we had elected not to join the main ritual which went on for roughly an hour and a half.  The fire soon had us back in better spirits, and we roasted some more marshmallows around it until it started to rain.  Eventually we decided to extinguish the fire (the rain couldn’t do it on its own, with how hot we’d gotten it) and head to bed.

Sunday, I went for a nice walk around the farm with Raven’s mom after breakfast, showing her everything from the Faerie Cairn to the swimming holes to the Fox Altar and having her show me the many varieties of local plants, then I vended for a bit more until it was time to pack up to leave.  Overall, it was a very pleasant weekend and a very much needed getaway.  And it was good to see folks again - though really weird to realize that Cat was born the same year I started going to Four Quarters. o.O

Anyway, If anyone is interested in the jewelry that didn’t get sold already at Four Quarters it’s up on my website here: http://dreamhart.org/store/  

I still have a few new pieces that I made at the farm to add to it as well, currently my camera is charging.

Sagehawk's Randomness: *grrrrr*

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sagesmetaphysicalexperiences:

“Who asked you to understand?” Seriously? This is what you come up with? Okay I am done then. I wanted to truly know and understand what fictionkin were about, but I guess they are all just a bunch of stuck up cowards. As far as I am concerned you all just gave yourself a bad name.

You have…

The various communities (otherkin, therian, fictionkin, multiples, etc) on tumblr are very different from the rest of their respective communities.  There’s a huge disconnect between the tumblr userbase and the older communities.

If you’re looking for websites that have info on fictionkin, here’s a sampling:

http://otakukin.otherkin.net (the one that started it all)

http://otakukin.atspace.com

http://childofmana.tripod.com/soulbonding.htm (soulbonding in this context overlaps significantly with fictionkin and the tumblr-coined “fictives”)

http://www.soulbonding.net/fictionkin/

http://otakukin.proboards.com/

http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=fictionkin

Don’t know if that’s quite what you’re looking for.  Let me know if there’s anything specific you’re looking for.

A glimpse at the old Werelist

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liminalbeast:

What questions help you soul-search?Meditation questionGuide, totem, Pheno how do you know?Colors of Dragons

Polymorph, Spirit Shifter, Shapeshifter definitions?Are we Mythical creatures?

How is the were and magick line drawn?Were-Invisibility?

Totem becoming Phenotype?

How much do you spiritual/mental shift?Astral ShiftingFox in past life?

Psi field/ Astral World

I love this post just because I’ve been seeing people lately making the dubious claim that the distinction between therians and otherkin is that therians rely on psychological explanations while otherkin rely on spiritual ones.  This, of course, ignores most of the history of the therian community stretching back to AHWW and the term “spiritual therianthropy”.  The topics above nicely illustrate that.