@Fuego @literorrery At some point I'd love to pick your brains as far as deep otherkin history as manifested on AHWW and how it relates to other media and fandom streams.

@literorrery @Fuego For example, I note that both AHWW and WtA originated in 1992 and now I'm very curious, y'know, what the general feeling was about... all that.

@indi @literorrery That was def the first place I really encountered otherkin - I think just about everyone there considered themselves otherkin but the name didnt exist yet - also I could be misremembering - I was really young. Sis?

@indi @Fuego I wouldn't say everyone did. There was a pretty broad stretch between Lion Templin's "conterianthropy" (one spirit, one phase, integrated nature) to the shifters (one spirit in different phases, discrete natures) to the totemics (self plus big-a Animal-in-the-abstract) to the weres (self plus little-a animal-in-the-specific) to the animists (spirit is where you find or make it) and further versions I don't recall.

@literorrery @Fuego Huh, that's an interesting definition of 'animist' unless I'm just reading it weird. Was that their term?

@indi @Fuego No, that was me closing my eyes and reaching into the ether for a word to attach to a concept fighting a distinct lack of sleep and two project fires at work. :)

@literorrery It's also interesting; I've heard more than one furry-leaning therian conceptualize their situation as 'contherianthropy' because it implied a fusion of the two, which seemed to go with an anthro form. But my reading of that had always been that contherianthropy implied 'no shifting', and I (for one) definitely feel that sort of phase-change sometime, it's just not to a 'natural animal form'. As always, there seems to be difference and nuance WITHIN terms too.