JK Rowling has used her billionaire legal team to silence a Jewish woman for telling the truth about her contempt for trans victims of the Holocaust.

Scotland’s network of “freedom of speech” organisations, as per usual, have nothing to say about the use of wealth to gag critics of the wealthy.

However fast they race to condemn the LGBT+ community for saying the names of those who harm us. Statements at the ready to insist that transphobes no one wants to work with anymore must be given every possible opportunity to gain from their bigotry.

But it's not the billionaires who are being silenced, as our media breathlessly echo their every hateful proclamation.

It's journalists and activists forced to publicly humiliate themselves under the weight and the threat of billionaire legal teams or be driven into destitution.

We deserve better. Freedom of speech needs to mean something

The Streisand Effect strikes

This will swiftly become one of the primary things JK Rowling is remembered for. Trying to erase crimes of the Holocaust against trans people and then silencing Jewish journalists for calling her out.

With your help we can make sure JK Rowling is known as a Holocaust denier first, author of mediocre children's books second

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as a fairy fox I am glad this won the poll <3

I love that otherkin came out of elfkin forums and now noone talks about the elves anymore. they've gone extinct. maybe one day therians will be replaced entirely with machinery and computer girls. in the endless march of time towards the convergent goal: dog who is a robot. like those robo-dog toys.

I guarantee the elves still exist, but many of them are from another generation, so you just don't tend to see them on younger social media. The elves largely stick to their facebook groups, websites, emails, and irl meet-ups. The Silver Elves awakened in 1975 and still post regular updates on their blog :)

If I remember correctly, the cooking panel I watched at Othercon last year was run by an elf! Who I'm not sure the age of, but didn't appear to be from another generation, bodily...

And I knew someone in high school who was convinced she was part elf. I'm not sure if she still is, or if she identifies as otherkin, but it seemed to bring her a lot of validation and delight, so it wouldn't surprise me. They are absolutely still around. :}

There's even an online annual gathering specifically for "Elves, Fae, Sidhe, Tuatha De Danann, and similar folk," to quote directly from the event's website: It's Shining Hearth, held on the fourth week of March. See the link below for more information!

Wow I wish I wasn't just learning about this now...

What we call "ponies" are actually 3 different species that have managed to intertwine with each other through centuries of love and friendship.

Earth ponies are unique in their strength and solid, powerful hooves built for running and moving heavy objects. Ancient ponies only displayed earth tones in their fur and hair, but even one pegasus ancestor many generations ago can imbue colorful hues to all their descendents.

Pegasus are completely covered in feathers, with long feathers forming crests much like horses' mane and tails. They are usually the smallest species, but some exceptions do appear. Hooves are usually small and cloven, with prehensile dewclaws for gripping branches and perching in trees.

Unicorns are much closer to deer than horses, and their horns are actually a set of two antlers that wind around each other from a single base. The coiled structure pulls magic from the world around them and concentrates it at the tip, allowing the unicorn to cast whatever spells it wishes, while the other species can only use magic for flight and affecting the environment.

That is, until new alicorns began to ascend and through their power, grant magical properties to intangible concepts like friendship and love

Alicorns are mysterious, ethereal giants who fill the entire sky as they pass by. They are not a mix of unicorns, pegasus, and earth ponies, but a creature beyond any of the species; an ascended form that could supposedly happen to anyone... But but that's just an old foals' tale. Right?

As usual the flutterponies get ignored. No matter Queen Rosedust told you all to get stuffed.

lmao there are still harry potter fans in my notes lemme give a rq psa about what to do if you are still in the harry potter fandom:

@the-seelie-court-official

also @moon-lightfaerie I am also a fae witch.

Please do not quote otherlycreatures as a source. That is highly problematic, please read my blog for more info. I don't know about the rest of them.

i think one of the biggest bde (big dyke energy) things i’ve ever done in my life was when i was in the 8th grade and my whole class had gone away on a three-day trip, and so we were staying in this hotel and someone had brought a wii and super smash bros. for us to play during down time. 

and on our first night at the hotel, all the boys wanted to play (whether they were nerds or jocks or whatever, everyone just wanted to play the wii lmao) and i was the only girl who was enthusiastic and willing and they patronizingly allowed me to play cause they figured i’d be an easy loser and they made fun of me for picking peach (because the typical femme lesbian i am, of course i main as peach) 

and the rules were that you had to pass the controller to someone else if you lost and the only person who was allowed to keep playing was whoever was in 1st in the last round 

and each and every single round that we went, i picked peach and played as only peach, and beat out every single one of them and i never had to relinquish my controller because i was in 1st place every. single. time.

hell yea bitch!

I can pretty much guarantee those boys are questioning their masculinity to this day due to this.

Or maybe, you might be Thanos...

I am taking the opportunity to call out blog @otherlycreatures for being extremely disrespectful towards other cultures that don’t fit the narrative of their blog.

Reincarnation is not just an Eastern Buddhism thing. As they brought up really narrow-minded views on the topic.

The fact of the matter is Reincarnation is also a big thing to other cultures. LIKE Native Americans

Native Americans whose remaining traditions that weren’t completely destroyed by colonialism and planned forced Christianity and destruction of culture are all spoken either A. ORALLY or B. Written by white people who claim to be the expert in their fields of a culture they inherently destroyed.

I sent them a message explaining the concepts of reincarnation that many Native American tribes over North America believe. Starting with the fact that a spirit not confined to one body. A spirit can be reincarnated and living in other bodies at the same time in multiple bodies. It’s not uncommon to share the same spirit with another being. You can still be alive in your current ethereal body and be living in another body in another place.

I explained that animals are viewed for their more altruistic qualities and humans aren’t often reborn as animals because they are very pure spirits. And while this definitely differentiates with other tribes across the continent. My grandmother beat into my head that animals were guardians and guides for a reason.

How this ties in. Otherlycreatures focuses on the Fae aspect and how it is different from humanity. Because fae do not die.

Respectfully i found this a little inconsiderate and sent then a variety of messages explaining what I was raised to believe and how this goes against what I was raised to believe. Native American tribes have always given the highest respect to fae. They are not called fae in our culture though. I’ve heard a variety of names most commonly my grandmother would call them mound men or the little people. And in history tribes very often would leave marked off areas to keep safe and not tread on. They were respectful places belonging to the mound men and little people.

In the end the relationship I grew up on with the fae is entirely different from the very Eurocentric concept. We have rules to thank and always pay respect and compensate mound men with gifts if they help us. My grandmother particularly taught me to always give a gift as a sign of respect if we were blessed and helped by the little people.

They completely ignored my efforts to explain not only to them, but their following as well- how this is different in my culture. To which is never responded or posted and instead said they were done with the topic.

How this ties in to reincarnation. Otherlycreatures has gone out of their way to consistently disregard the idea of fae being reincarnated as humans because it’s just not possible. But my culture has always raised me to believe that one does not have to die to be reincarnated as our spirits can be spread into multiple bodies.

I have my own relationship with the fae. I’ve had them around me my whole lives. And I respect the writer of otherlycreatures because they do have very insightful wisdom and I genuinely believe that they channel their friend Atri. But I cannot absolutely stand seeing them bastardize the concept of reincarnation as something impossible.

Fae, mound men, little people and all their other monikers are extremely temperamental beings but they are spirits just as we are. Our bodies that connect us to the earth will one day rot and our spirit will choose new vessels by its own accordance. I do not have control of how I was born as and who I will be born again or even how many bodies my spirit will settle into.

Just like the writer asks for respect as the mound men are a separate entity and culture to us they need to respect and understand that the white colonizer version they know as truth is not the same in other cultures.

Do not ignore when someone is educating you just because it does not fit your opinion.

And let me be the first to say. I am white passing. My brother and me look almost nothing alike. Genetics are funny like that. While I cannot contend to know every struggle or every lesson of culture behind the indigenous people of the Americas I can tell mine.

Every summer for my childhood, I was sent to stay at my grandmothers as a child. I spent that time with my extended family on the res. I did not get to learn the language or every day cultures because 1. I was a child there for 1 to 1 ½ months but I got to experience that culture and that side of my family. It shaped me. The stories shaped me. Eventually my grandmother moved out of state to live with my family when I was much older and to this day I still ask her for advice.

I love my culture. I regret not knowing more of it and I am aware that I have the privilege of being white so I don’t claim to know the struggle my cousins and great uncle and other family members faced. I experienced the culture and world.

But I cannot absolutely stand someone using their following to shut down and perpetuate the very whitewashed version of how the fae interact.

I do not want to drive traffic to their rag of a blog but they are also shitting on my own Celtic culture as well as misrepresenting fae in general across the world.   There are some points on the blog that are decent, like the idea that across the world, fae have many different names but they are all really the same kind of creature.   However certain parts of their narrative are just so wrong as to be an absurdity and an offensive one at that, and make the blog (and book) un-usuable as a resource.

As fae (and I am going to have no shame in saying so) I am going to submit the following facts to a candid world.

1) Fae have a great range of lifetimes across the spectrum of types of fae.  Fae are not just one species.   A few kinds of fae are immortal, a few kinds live lifespans less than a human, but on the average it is the “tens of thousands” to “millions of years” range, not billions.  

2) Fae are not indigenous to Earth or in general, any planet.  They are part of Nature, but part of Nature in every part of the multiverse, and indigenous to the multiverse itself.  

3) Fae do not see ‘life’ and ‘death’ as the absolute boundary that humans see it as.   In fact the idea of life and death as being absolute is an anthro-centric principle, surrounding certain belief systems (primarily Elohimic) that promote a “One life and then judgement” view of the existence of a spirit.  In reality, Nature is an everlasting procession of cycles.  Even ‘the writer’ should be able to see this in her own practice.  Life and death do not exist outside this cycle.

4) I will affirm that fae do indeed exist in our world as real, sometimes physical (and sometimes not) beings.   But to assert they *always* take this form is to invalidate her own experiences.  She says to be “channeling” Atri, but if Atri had a physical presence on the world, he could take to the keyboard itself outside of such channeling.  TL;DR of this paragraph?  We take both forms.  Please do not constrain us to the physical, kthx.

5) The spirit of Fae persists across lifetimes.  We tend to remember, or be able to remember, many if not all of the lives that came before this one.  This goes back to (3).  Life and death are a changing of form, it is only a beginning and end of a physical form, not of ourselves.

6) The idea that Fae cannot stand life as a human and it would kill one to become one is absolutely preposterous. This presumes that humans are not part of nature, and this anthro-centric proposition is a driving reason why humans think they can treat nature however the heck they want.  We see where her thinking lies.  

6a) It also presumes we do not have the mental nor spiritual constitution to handle being human.  It presumes that we have never have experienced sorrow, or anguish, or loss, in thousands to millions of years of existence and have no coping skills for it.  Really?

7) Incarnation as a human is rare, but it happens.   Even if 1 in a million humans out there are of Fae nature, that’s still 7 thousand (this is not a declaration of how many there are, but an example).  Neither humans nor fae are outside the Natural Cycle.  Their narrative presumes to disconnect us from it, which isn’t really the case.

8) Fae have no concept of ‘changeling’ as humans define it, and it really is a human defined word.  If they want to call “Fae that are currently incarnated as humans”, changelings, then so be it, or “Humans with fae ancestry”, the same.   To us, we just are what we are.   I would also affirm the assertion in the aforementioned blog that most words given to refer to us are human derived.  We have no desire to make your language, and humans have no capacity to make ours…

9) Fae-kin exist.  Full stop.  Whether it is through previous ancestry or through incarnation, those with Fae nature exist in our world.  Do not let any mortal tell you otherwise, and do not look to them to tell you who and what you are.   You know who you should ask?  The Fae.  Go out into Nature, your backyard, or wherever you feel our presence, and just ask the question.  Why are you asking such a personal, identity defining question on tumblr anyway?  Please, go to the source.  If you are asking yourself if you are fae-kin, Stop, Drop, and go to the Source with your question.   Don’t even ask me (I mean you could but I am not going to answer a question you should be going to Nature to answer).  Go to the damn source.

10) I have been talking with the Fae for the majority of my life.  The earliest distinct memory I have of them is when I was 7.   That is a story for another post.  Learning about, and even accepting, my fae nature was a process that took another 8 years.  Discovering what kind, specifically, took another 4.  Not in any of the last 35+ years have they ever indicated that I not fae (quite the opposite, they not only told me but showed me I was and to stop doubting what I already know to be true) nor that it was disrespectful to say so.

10a) That being said, it IS actually disrespectful to say you are Fae if you are not, quite so, and They Will get on your Case about it if you are, and you will KNOW it.  I can understand Atri being so adamant about this, and can understand his offense, but no-one on the Internet can tell you what you are.  That only comes with searching and asking.  See (8) again.  If you can’t ask the Fae, then do not call yourself one.  If you have Fae nature, you will be able to ask.  Full stop.

I do not understand why the Writer of the Otherlycreatures blog believes these things.   If she is truly talking to a Fae called Atri, then she must be mis-interpreting something.   Elsewise, she is just making stuff up.   I don’t want to believe someone would misrepresent us like this, but we do take offense.  No matter what she is hearing over there, we do take offense.  I also believe that the Writer over there may have some kind of agenda with invalidating the possibility of fae-kin as a whole.   Maybe it makes her book less monetizable?  I can’t be sure.  She never deserved to sell one of her books, let alone 27.   If the Writer sees this, give us a single reason to feel differently.

The narrative of her blog is harmful.  Harmful to every Fae in the here and now of this world who should be remembering who they were, are and who they will ever be, and learning and living their life accordingly.

P.S. Don’t buy her book, it monetizes harmful mistruths.

somewhat old . and have trouble read some things here . but yes .

always seem like author can not admit . people with different view and experience with faeries . can all be right . 

place in world , court if even in any , type of faery , and how that faery themself see things . all can change , even in small way , that view and experience .

our rules more fluid than other creatures , in personal view . even something like iron hurts … likely at least one faery out there say otherwise . 

hard fully understand someone else culture and view . but can still respect and treat well .

you are a nice fae

An Open Apology

As many are aware, my history within the otherkin and therianthropy community is a long one. I’ve been in the community for about fourteen years now, as I arrived about a year after discovering my identity as a wolf. In 2011, I created the otherkin community Wulf Howl (which later became Kinmunity) and by 2012, I was considered a friend and a source of information to many. However, this image was soon shattered by my own pride, arrogance, paranoia, anxiety, self-hatred, and self-righteous behavior. Things began with the Facebook therianthropy group I used to manage. When I founded Wulf Howl, I wanted group members to move there. Instead of handling things gracefully, I switched the group settings to secret and posted announcements saying the group was closed and that I wanted everyone to migrate to Wulf Howl. This did a disservice to the community and further fragmented it (some FB users had no interest in joining a standalone site, some site users hated FB). I was eventually convinced to give ownership of the group to somebody else, who then banned me as a result. This was my first instance of major drama. I would like to apologize to everyone who helped build that group over time, and at one time it was the largest therianthropy group on Facebook, and I failed everybody as its admin. The next major incident occurred in 2012. As a respected person within the community, I sounded the alarm about a company known as Zig Zag Productions soliciting people for their documentary, and then advised people not to participate. I was then contacted by them, under the guise of me acting as a fact checker / adviser for the documentary. They slowly gained my confidence, and I eventually agreed to participate. This led to the horrible documentary that was produced (and the meme “On All Levels Except Physical, I Am A Wolf.”) Because I ignored my own advice, I looked like a major hypocrite and made a mockery out of the community I am a part of. When people warned me about the documentary, I ignored them. When people criticized me for indeed participating, I lashed out and assured them that I knew what I was doing. Yet again, I failed the community at large. After this, there was the drama with Therian Guide and its members, which was ongoing until recently when I agreed with DustWolf to share information between our two sites for the purpose of community safety. In between this, there were many unjust bans on Kinmunity and Wulf Howl, and my mentality of “attack the attacker” caused me to go on the offensive towards people I felt wanted to harm me or the site. This resulted in legal threats, Facebook accounts being closed, and other such immaturity that you could probably imagine or already know about. While all of this was going on, I still tried to maintain my image as a community elder – when in reality, I was a community mockery and people use Kinmunity because of the site functionality, definitely not because of its admin. To the community at large, I am deeply sorry. I know that my words mean nothing after so many transgressions, including many I didn’t think of to list here, but my current and future actions will hopefully prove my resolve while we all work together for the future.

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huh..

Otherlycreatures trying to claim that the fae have low opinions of faekin is FALSE. They know one fae and have made him the mouthpiece to his entire people.

Honestly with how different their Atri is from the fair folk I know, I wonder if he exists at all.

•Hello there!! I have formally finished my essay which is for the purpose of dispelling the myth that otherkin identities, are being appropriative of Native American spirit animals. This myth is not properly dispelled due to the startling lack of indigenous otherkin within the nonhuman community. All information and wordings organized in the essay, were written by an indigenous woman who has done the proper research on both of the subjects described. Truly, it is best to gather your knowledge about a subject like this, from someone in the right to speak about cultural subjects. Please feel free to share this essay around with your friends, and link it, whenever a debate or argument about the fore mentioned myth transpires.. This will be the very first essay, that this draconic being, writes about otherkin and draconic experiences. There will be others in the near future! Essay may be slightly edited in the future for the purpose of refining information, or getting rid of spelling or grammar errors

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•https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-9QjENVSr3U-_Pa4ugz90j7xQ6_T93SLxEYqZ4Ll6TU/edit

Finally, an article about spirit animals I can reblog...