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Pixies with Helicopter Rotors
I bring you love!
And
otherkin wank.
gerbilsage posts a ranty beef about Otherkin, specifically, his/her perception that Otherkin cry oppression when they alter their definitions from the familiar. (Note: I think it was funny, but I'm trying to be fair and balanced so I'm not oppressing anybody.) In her hypothetical example, pixies fly via helicopter rotors, and if you're thinking of the traditional wee winged pixie, you're committing oppression. Which makes "normal" Otherkin who aren't trying to create spiders with six legs and helicopter rotors much more attractive to non-Otherkin who don't want to have to identify their mates using conceptual art.
I am of the opinion that this is
gerbilsage trolling, but s/he is very good at it, so of course several members of
otherkin take the bait. Highlights:
Everyone has their interpretation (a.k.a. the "OMG don't judge" suite in C minor), and vampires that shoot fire from their eyes as a matter of routine, and it's unreasonable to assume that "vampire" means blood-sucking bat-dude;
Something of the same species is still a different species;
The conceptual art I mentioned earlier;
And
gaelfling, who brings up his heritage as an Irish mythical turtlecat (or whatever that thing was, which it wasn't, it was some kind of pixie who may have had helicopter rotors, but "turtlecat" is fun to type and I'll pay $50 for one!) in a bid to win the argument, naturally gets offended that his was the post linked to.
Best line, I think, goes to
gerbilsage, here: Which D&D character did you have to play as to get tenth level Non Sequitur?