They generally don't show true mean spirit, in my experience, unless they think the thing the person is doing is actively hurting someone. There's times when dudes are talking about spooging in random girls they don't know's slippers and shit like that, and that's the only time they're truly outraged from what I remember. it does take a bit of a thick skin for some episodes (I personally haven't listened to the asexuals ep at all, though i've heard it's fine from friends), but I'm very fine with laughing at my own ridiculousness so i've never had a problem I've also barely listened to episodes earlier than 30 because the sound quality contrast bites my ears a bit after hearing later episodes, but I should get to those edit: it's also worth noting that they will pick the very bottom of the barrel on communities that can be good, like their reddit episodes are all truly abhorrent people in the edges of reddit, not the center of the site normal maybe weird people
Just a warning for new people though, the episodes Snoot by the Foot and Why Crush a Bug When You Can Ruin It Emotionally both made me gag and feel queasy. Snoot by the Foot especially. tread carefully, they are the grossest fetish things i've ever seen
i've only listened to 7 episodes so far + outtakes, and what they're doing is just reading the worst-written stuff they can find. like, the fetish is okay on its own, or whatever, but the way this specific person wrote this specific thing is incomprehensible, full of typos, and generally awful. just listened to the PUA one, for example, and they are pretty much cracking the usual jokes about how no person would ever want to get talked to the way a PUA approaches talking to women
i'm listening sequentially from the beginning and i've just hit the otherkin episode i'm also at the point in my evening where i usually eat a dinner-like meal wish me luck in not spraying food everywhere from laughing too hard
I've only listened to half the old otherkin episode; I really should finish it i think the most amusing thing is how confused the therians are by the idea of fictionkin. bless like 4 years ago otherkin, they were a different breed
THE GIRL WHO WAS A TIGER A WOLF AND SOME OTHER PREDATOR IN THREE DIFFERENT PAST LIVES ATTACKED THE HELL OUT OF THE MORK-KIN AND THEN FUCKING SAID "LET HIM NEVER SAY THAT THE OTHERKIN COMMUNITY ISN'T TOLERANT" LIKE I LOVE THESE PEOPLE THEIR REALITY IS JUST
God bless the delusions of the otherkin except don't because they're so toxic and god i literally had to give up on warriors fans on tumblr because thEY'RE ALL KIN TO AT LEAST THREE CHARACTERS IN THE SERIES HOLY GOD. edit: also like. all the people who are kin to at least three characters?? literally one year ago they weren't. I followed so many people who didn't start out otherkin and now they're polykin and it's so frustrating and terrible because so many of them seemed cool and now it's just a giant messssss of the worst tumblr variety i have seen people get on long, involved converstations about whether or not it's ok to block someone just because they're kin with an abusive character. seriously. it's so crazy and it drives me up the wall
@amberbydreams i have to know: are there edgy scourgekin #he was my villain fave #altho tigerclaw wins points for Making Everything Awful Always #least favorite villain: bluestar's dementia
i was disappointed this wasn't a link to one of said conversations, then even more disappointed in myself for wanting to see said conversations.
I raise you: there are edgy ashfurkin. (if you even read far enough to know who ashfur is) prettyyy sure there are edgy scourgekin. if you just type scourgekin into tumblr i'm sure you'll find gold @Deresto : God. I could try to find stuff but the main person I saw who participated in those fights has Constant Changing Url Fever. I finally lost track of them again. I also lost track of which neopronouns they used. Faeself or bunself I think??? long story short, i've seen some shit
update: boy oh boy is it easy to find people on the internet when their primary distinguishing characteristic is I LITERALLY AM X CHARACTER. here's some posts on the main drama in the warriors fandom that involved giant discussions of people being abusive character kin : http://autisticheathertail.tumblr.com/wckin summary of how the drama started: that person, Vern (or Robin) yelled at an ashfurkin for reblogging their post, because Ashfur is an Abusive Character and Their Kin Was Abused and No Abusive Kin Are Allowed To Follow or Reblog Their Posts. Said ashfurkin was like 'lol that's ridiculous' and then they argued about it for a year sound familiar? @bluefox http://hawksinkin.tumblr.com/ please look at this ridiculous kin list with me. stupid kin lists are my favorite. also this : http://fictionkinfessions.tumblr.co...m-kin-with-scourge-from-warriors-and-honestly fuck i love/hate otherkin. they're so ridiculous
yeeeeee (I was reading the Warriors wiki. it's so in depth! I should reread the books.. but I DID get to Ashfur, and I remember being super outraged.) in theory I'm fine with otherkin! I just wish they wouldn't make "not believing you are literally (x)" out to be oppression.
Ashfur's arc is in the second and third series. He falls in love with Squirrelflight, but Spoiler: spoilers for the second and third series of warriors, just in case Squirrelflight chooses Brambleclaw instead. He sulks in jealousy for like five books, then attempts to kill Squirrelflight's kits in revenge during a fire, at which time Squirrelflight reveals they're not her kits. Ashfur threatens to reveal that to all the clans to get revenge on Squirrelflight rejecting him, but he gets ded before he can do that. Basically he is Cat Nice Guy
oh man the PUA episode was awful/great. I am so confused how anyone can see other people as so.... not-people. it's really fucking puzzling on the conservapedia episode rn I am dying with laughter
the last one i listened to was the MRA one and it was just so very very Nice listening to a bunch of guys call out other dudes on their terrible awful misogyny, and the running joke of having to teach Portaxx what a toilet was was A+ and Bunnybread's voice. dude. dude. (i listen to it w/ headphones and i got legitimate chills whenever he talked)
Bunnybread's voice is indeed amazing. and I totally agree with listening to the MRA one being strangely nice, hearing a bunch of guys be like 'wow this is such ridiculous bullshit'. God bless. And I adore Portax's sarcastic dumb girl voice. It comes back a lot.