Obituary of Starblade, a dragon otherkin

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Trigger warnings for this article: death by violence. I avoid graphic description of this. However, the links do include some graphic description, as well as description of feelings of grief.

“Starblade Enaki” (Matthew F.) was fatally stabbed on September 22. Starblade considered himself to be a dragon, and was involved in the otherkin and furry communities. The furry news blog, Flayrah, tells the short version,¹ with links to the obituary, and the original news articles that tell what happened. As for who Starblade was in life, Baxil has written a eulogy² describing Starblade’s contributions and challenges.

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Otherkin in the Sydney Morning Herald

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Trigger warnings for this article: none that I can think of. Work-safe.

The Sydney Morning Herald (est. 1831) recently ran an article¹ about the vampire subculture’s presence on the Internet, mentioning otherkin as well. “Researcher Danielle Kirby used the ‘Otherkin’, who meet in an online forum and believe they are partially or entirely non-human, to examine the phenomenon. In her paper, she found about 800 members of the Otherkin network, including those who identified as dragons, elves, vampires, fairies and angels. The internet had helped concentrate their underlying broadly neo-pagan beliefs, she said.” This probably refers to Kirby’s essay “Alternative Worlds: Metaphysical Questing and Community amongst the Otherkin” in the anthology Through A Glass Darkly: Reflections on the Sacred.²

- O. Scribner

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