Rogan: I AM SO GLAD I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS TROUBLE WITH THOSE! I THOUGHT I WAS JUST UNCOOL. Especially since I can't figure out the relation of the terms to the experience? Like, pario seems to be based on giving birth or bringing forth, but walk-ins and soulbonds I'm accustomed to thinking as coming from outside, not being brought forth from within? (Though I realize different people have different ways of thinking of it and ugh, this is exactly why I hate these terms.) And para according to my dictionary means "going beyond" but I don't see how MADD plurals go beyond genic terminology?
I feel like some scabby old person complaining how things were "so much better back in my day," which isn't so, fictionkin > otakukin by far, and I like fictive over soulbond even though fictive has been narrowly defined to exclude insourced folks which I think is a lacking, but that's not the TERM's fault, that's the PEOPLE what did that, far as I can tell. (And it's also why I've been stuck using "fictioneer" for pluralstories, just to avoid that issue.)
its just sickening that these often really young teens feel the need to give that kind of personal info to the world just to be 'allowed' to access resources the community has.
YES! It's maddening! Especially when it's minors being pressured to do it, since they're the ones who are likely to STILL be in a really dangerous situation that they can't escape! What a horrible thing to do, to put a kid in the position of, "you can either hork up all these horrific things being done to you and we'll mmmmaybe give you resources to survive, OR you get nothing but scorn." That seems to me to just be heaping abuse upon abuse, complete with the, "if you question us, you're A BAD PERSON WHO DESERVES THIS," victim-blaming. It makes me really sad! Both the folks who asked me if I was endogenic seemed to be really young, so I can only assume they were steeped in that and don't realize that people outside that cloister find it super-offputting.
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I feel like some scabby old person complaining how things were "so much better back in my day," which isn't so, fictionkin > otakukin by far, and I like fictive over soulbond even though fictive has been narrowly defined to exclude insourced folks which I think is a lacking, but that's not the TERM's fault, that's the PEOPLE what did that, far as I can tell. (And it's also why I've been stuck using "fictioneer" for
its just sickening that these often really young teens feel the need to give that kind of personal info to the world just to be 'allowed' to access resources the community has.
YES! It's maddening! Especially when it's minors being pressured to do it, since they're the ones who are likely to STILL be in a really dangerous situation that they can't escape! What a horrible thing to do, to put a kid in the position of, "you can either hork up all these horrific things being done to you and we'll mmmmaybe give you resources to survive, OR you get nothing but scorn." That seems to me to just be heaping abuse upon abuse, complete with the, "if you question us, you're A BAD PERSON WHO DESERVES THIS," victim-blaming. It makes me really sad! Both the folks who asked me if I was endogenic seemed to be really young, so I can only assume they were steeped in that and don't realize that people outside that cloister find it super-offputting.