Your soul is a what?
Jun. 18th, 2004 02:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccastareyesCrossposted from Journalfen, in response to this thread (Note: Journalfen is 18+, but nothing unwholesome is happening in the thread. it is worksafe).
Disclaimer: I am not Otherkin or Otakukin. I have affinities towards certain animals, mythological beings, and fictional characters, and consider them personally signficiant. However, this is because I am me, not because I was one in a previous life, as far as I know.
Okay, I guess I see it like this. I have some friends who are... well, I don't really know how to describe their religion, but it involves a lot of mysticism, and one of the beliefs is reincarnation. I've listened to my friends describe some of the past lives they think they've had. Most of these past lives are pretty ordinary for the time. My friends describe them as matter of fact as they would the life of a friend I haven't met, and seem to see it as that life was a learning experience or had soemthing they needed to accomplish then -- small things, like being in the right place at the right time for someone else. They don't use it to lord it over another person. I also have friends who are Otherkin, and again we see this matter of fact attitude -- 'yes, I'm a dragon on the inside. That's the way I am, it doesn't make me better than those who are human on the inside, and I still have to deal with being human on the outside, at least in this life.'
But, there are people who claim to be the reincarnation of 'insert historical person here'. and will get snitty over the mundanes -- not just for getting mocked over their beliefs (understandable) but for not being anyone particular in a past life. There are Otherkin like this as well. Once, I was talking about my mythological obsessions (I'm nuts over anything to do with the ocean) and was joking about the fact with this and my Irish/Scottish ancestry, maybe I was part selkie. A friend of mine looked at me and told me I couldn't be because I was 'hopelesly mundane'.
Otakukin seem to be more prone to this, in my opnion, because, like our famous-past-life people, they are named entities. An Otakukin is never 'Random Extra from Excel Saga' but is Sailor Moon or Lina Inverse.
Believe what you want, just don't think less of me because I think I am a (pretty strange) human on the inside, and that who/what I was (if anyone) doesn't matter as much as who I am. But you probably shouldn't bring up Otakukin status in fandom to prove a point -- after all, if there are an infinite number of universes (some of which hold anime characters) there are an infinite number of near misses. ^_^
Disclaimer: I am not Otherkin or Otakukin. I have affinities towards certain animals, mythological beings, and fictional characters, and consider them personally signficiant. However, this is because I am me, not because I was one in a previous life, as far as I know.
Okay, I guess I see it like this. I have some friends who are... well, I don't really know how to describe their religion, but it involves a lot of mysticism, and one of the beliefs is reincarnation. I've listened to my friends describe some of the past lives they think they've had. Most of these past lives are pretty ordinary for the time. My friends describe them as matter of fact as they would the life of a friend I haven't met, and seem to see it as that life was a learning experience or had soemthing they needed to accomplish then -- small things, like being in the right place at the right time for someone else. They don't use it to lord it over another person. I also have friends who are Otherkin, and again we see this matter of fact attitude -- 'yes, I'm a dragon on the inside. That's the way I am, it doesn't make me better than those who are human on the inside, and I still have to deal with being human on the outside, at least in this life.'
But, there are people who claim to be the reincarnation of 'insert historical person here'. and will get snitty over the mundanes -- not just for getting mocked over their beliefs (understandable) but for not being anyone particular in a past life. There are Otherkin like this as well. Once, I was talking about my mythological obsessions (I'm nuts over anything to do with the ocean) and was joking about the fact with this and my Irish/Scottish ancestry, maybe I was part selkie. A friend of mine looked at me and told me I couldn't be because I was 'hopelesly mundane'.
Otakukin seem to be more prone to this, in my opnion, because, like our famous-past-life people, they are named entities. An Otakukin is never 'Random Extra from Excel Saga' but is Sailor Moon or Lina Inverse.
Believe what you want, just don't think less of me because I think I am a (pretty strange) human on the inside, and that who/what I was (if anyone) doesn't matter as much as who I am. But you probably shouldn't bring up Otakukin status in fandom to prove a point -- after all, if there are an infinite number of universes (some of which hold anime characters) there are an infinite number of near misses. ^_^
