Did you know?

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?