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* The first book to deal extensively with [[otherkin]], using that exact term, was [[The Veil’s Edge: Exploring the Boundaries of Magic]] by [[Willow Polson]], published on March 3, 2003? |
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- Did you know...
- The term otherkin was first coined on The Elfinkind Digest by Torin?
- The online therian community started out on alt.horror.werewolves on Usenet?
- An angel otherkin, MemoryandDream - owner and founder of Embracing Mystery and Drink Deeply and Dream - started the I Am Obamacare meme?
- There is a largely separate Draconity community for dragon otherkin, which started out on alt.fan.dragons on Usenet?
- The Elf Queen's Daughters were an elven group in 1973?
- Real vampires were once termed human living vampires?
- Walking the Thresholds is the longest continually-running gathering for otherkin?
- The Elfinkind Digest is the mailing list that started the online otherkin community?
- The otherkin, therian and real vampire communities evolved separately with some limited overlap in membership, and are still largely separate despite increasing overlap?
- The otherkin and multiplicity communities have historically had a great deal of overlap due to the frequency of multiple systems having nonhuman members?
- Starseeds and earth angels/elementals are two nonhuman communities which developed as part of the new age movement, independent of the otherkin community?
- The first howl in the therian community was held in the fall of 1994 in Ohio, and was organized by Smash Greywolf for members of the alt.horror.werewolves Usenet group?
- A windigo named James H. III suggested the term therianthropes for therians on alt.horror.werewolves in December 1994 as a more general term than lycanthropes?
- The first discussion group for real vampires online was the alt.culture.vampires Usenet group, a spin-off group from alt.vampyres, which was created on February 9, 1998?
- The Meowers were the first trolls to target a nonhuman community (alt.horror.werewolves) in an organized fashion, even though some of the Meowers were otherkin themselves?
- The first book to deal extensively with otherkin, using that exact term, was The Veil’s Edge: Exploring the Boundaries of Magic by Willow Polson, published on March 3, 2003?