i’m an android. my body is mostly organic but my brain is akin to a computer chip. i don’t understand a lot of human things, and humans surprise me every day. that whole cliche of the robot girl not understand human love and emotions and whatnot- it’s completely true for me. i have a lot of mental abilities that humans consider odd. i suppose i had to have been built by someone or something, but i don’t know who or what. i have yet to ever meet anyone like me- but i’m sure they must exist.
A while back someone posted about being a toaster. I am new to Tumblr but wanted to say I am one of the less “cool” machinekin, too. I’m a, well, printer! It’s not the same but I do like eating vibrantly colored berries when I feel low. I pretend I am refilling my toner cartridges!
For instance, I have my own belief paradigm. There are some ideas I simply cannot embrace without compromising my own beliefs. We should not expect people to do that.
I don’t believe in machinekin. I won’t be rude to anyone who does, but I shouldn’t have to keep my opinion locked up when the subject comes up.
Just wondering what your collective thoughts on inanimate-kin are. Structures, vehicles, machines, and the like. I gather from forums that this is fairly controversial, but the crowd here seems rather different from the standard forum crowd.
It doesn’t make sense to me, but if someone honestly feels that way then who am I to say otherwise? I would probably pester them with questions, but if they feel like that then that’s okay.
Although I suppose it’s not far off from my feelings of being a stone. A river stone, to be exact. To do nothing but exist with the water wearing you smooth. You have no thoughts, no feelings, no cares. Perhaps the river will wear you away to dust. It is so appealing to me and if I cannot run or fly or breathe— then this is what I want. To be born as a stone.
Born as a stone. You describe that desire so beautifully.
(via mizmagpie)
I see no reason a person could not be machinekin or anything else. Even if it is a machine or object as it is, and not a sentient thing. Because otherkin are ‘kin to the other’, because we are human and nonhuman at once, our human parts provide the sentient ability to deconstruct our inanimate feelings, or feelings of being a machine.
If you feel you were built for a certain purpose, like the famous troll joke about being a toaster, well, then you feel like you were made for making toast. That’s just how it is for you, and how can someone say otherwise? How can they say, ‘No, this is too ridiculous.’? Because if you feel that way and it is real for you, all the world railing against that will not change the fact that an integral part of you is inanimate.
I remember reading about someone who was inanimate, and they experienced an intense sort of wrongness with the fluidness and ability to move their body. That must be hard.
And just… For some inanimate things, I personally cannot imagine how difficult that must be to admit to oneself (toasters aren’t exactly glamourous in most minds).
I hope if I ever come across someone who is machinekin, I would have the courage to stand by them, even if we would be ridiculed. I think they would need it more than me. I am just animal human, and as ridiculous as a lot of non-kin think that is, even the otherkin community sometimes rails against machinekin, or even people who identify as insects (which are of course still animate), and that is a shame.
(I think it helps with Kin Speak that because names are rarely attached to posts, we can’t get all ‘political’ or feel a context behind the user saying those words. So we can be more free with what we say, since there is no place where a person can judge an individual’s collective thoughts… because it is not clear who an individual is.)
Hi. Human headmate here who wants to have a deeper understanding about objectkin/structurekin/machinekin. I want to understand them more, but I can’t seem to find anyone who can explain this properly to me, so I end up skeptical and confused. Much guidance and advice will be appreciated.
hi! i’m really embarrassed to say this and i’m sure you’ll think it’s a troll but i’m a machinekin and not even like a sentient machine… i identify as a toaster. it’s so embarassing to say and i’ve never told anyone, i usually just lie and say i’m something else. can anyone else identify?
Admin’s note: Well, “toaster” is usually the identity used by trolls, but, that does not mean someone can’t be legitimate. It’s hard for us to know from an anon message, so, right now I don’t see a reason to not publish this.
If people identify as dragons then people identify as dragons. We as a community accept this. So then, if people identify as machines, why mock them? You cannot say that it is less or more strange, that’s a made up line that you draw. And, if we say, “even though you feel like a machine, that can’t be right, really”, then what do our own identities have to stand on? If we are going to challenge identities based on how we, outsiders who do not have those identities, feel is “normal” or “right”, then, any human who thinks we are “wrong”, also gets to define us out of existence.
To me, the otherkin community should not be about deciding who is in and who is out. It should be about providing a space for people who identify as other than human. Whether you are a fox or a dragon or a star or a toaster. If someone identifies that way, then they need a space to explore their self. This should be that space.
If it’s not us, then, who is it?
I don’t see why inanimate-kin are so controversial, myself.
Then again, I’m kinda-sorta an animist of sorts, so.
Just wondering what your collective thoughts on inanimate-kin are. Structures, vehicles, machines, and the like. I gather from forums that this is fairly controversial, but the crowd here seems rather different from the standard forum crowd.
