I found this very interesting sex blog the other day via Warren Ellis's blog. It's this little sex blog called debauchette:
"As I learned this, my respect for him expanded. There’s something fantastic about a stealthy slut, someone who secretly lays an entire university of women without bragging or broadcasting this fact. A sex ninja."Worth sharing to be sure. I'm in love with reading it.
The other item for today is Otherkin. Otherkin as defined by wiki are:
"A term for a group of people who consider themselves non-human or having a connection to a mythical archetype in some way, usually believing to be mythological or legendary creatures. Common creatures to which Otherkin claim some connection include angels, demons, dragons, elves, fairies, lycanthropes, and extra-terrestrials.[1] The otherkin community grew out of the elven online community of the early-to-mid-1990s, with the earliest recorded use of the term otherkin appearing in early 1996.[2] Outside of their own subculture, otherkin beliefs are often met with disbelief.[3]"
What I like about Otherkin is that they are the perfect litmus test for just how malleable people really are in terms of identity. While for some people the whole notion of a man having a baby completely splits in two their reality. For other's they can say they accept or tolerate gender blurring or crossing. Some even can understand it. But when you get to the topic of Otherkin, you pretty much lose everybody. The notion that people could identify as being of non-human ancestry, or being of some sort of cross mythological beast ancestry is usually just a step to far.
But it shouldn't be. There is a healthy cultural history of human-animal shape changing. We have the Native American Skin-Walkers which were Shamans who were believed to be able to change into animals. We also have the vârcolac in Romanian folklore which were also shape-shifting shamans. We have Norse Berzerker warriors who used bear and wolf skins to help in their trances to become nearly invincible crazed warriors.So what I'm saying is that we have a culture of this throughout our world history. We have an extremely large history of people identifying with or as Otherkin. And yet here in 2008, we have the gall, while printing our dollar bills dripping in "In God We Trust", to just invalidate the vast bulk of human history, just so we can be bigoted arseholes.
What a lot of the skeptical idiorati don't fully grasp is that if you're confronted with an otherkin, it doesn't really matter whether you think they are actually part animal, or if you think they are full crap, because they are still going to be in tap with some level of psychology that puts them outside of your experience, and if you're not prepared for that you LOSE....THE...GAME.
Plus it's a mind hack that's worth learning. You never know when you're going to need to be werewolf strong. Perhaps when Homeland Security beats down the door to you love-in commune and you don't have any hi-tech iPod guns to make them go away with. Maybe then you'll appreciate a good berserker rage from a few of your house mates. I know I would.
Or at the very least you could just touch a few places in your brain that haven't been touched in a few hundred years probably. Might be fun. Why not?
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1 comment:
I forgot the name, but Hawaiian folklore says that when you die, before you pass on to the next "world" you become an owl and watch over your family and your land. So, seeing an owl is good luck, like you're on the right path.
I'd like to think I would be part horse. They're pretty magnificent, large, and still graceful and intuitive.
Plus, have you seen their sniffers?!
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