Magazine interview with sithe elf otherkin (old)

[frameacloud]

Content warning: For this article, none. For the linked article: Adult content (description of body modification to genitals). Spiritual beliefs being equated with mental illness. Profanity. Clumsy analogy to transgender people.

Last May: A blog re-posted an interview with Luke, a Daonine-Sithe elf otherkin. This interview was supposedly originally published in “Dirty Bristow, a now dormant magazine,” but there’s no date or issue number given for when it was originally published.

Luke’s interview is mostly made of dubious claims. As Disinformation pointed out, “he worships Corellon, God of the Elves – a deity created for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.” I haven’t seen anyone else use his slang “Innate Species Persona (ISP),” and a search for that phrase only brings up his interview. I haven’t found evidence of people in the otherkin or therianthrope communities doing extreme body modifications at all, particularly not the one he describes. He claims there were groups of supposed otherkin back to the medieval ages, but there's no evidence of this. His description of the typical dragon otherkin doesn’t sound like he's been in the dragon community. His interview is the only Google result for the group Political Inclusiveness for Xenontic Individuals (PIXI). I don't know what "Xenontic" means, but a search for it mostly brings up role-playing resources.


Sources

Danny Smith (?), “Elf Reforms – an interview with an Otherkin.” 2013-05-28. Edge Trinkets (blog). http://edgetrinkets.com/2013/05/28/this-is-from-dirty-bristow-a-now-dormant/

Matt Staggs, “An Interview With An Otherkin.” 2013-05-28. Disinformation (online magazine). http://disinfo.com/2013/05/an-interview-with-an-otherkin/

Comments

[avianthrophile.livejournal.com]

I haven’t found evidence of people in the otherkin or therianthrope communities doing extreme body modifications at all, particularly not the one he describes.

I've definitely heard of people who got their teeth sharpened or ears pointed? You might want to see if you can find more research on that, I don't remember where I saw it but I know I have heard of it.

There's also Stalking Cat (RIP) who felt that he was close to the therian community even if he did not interact in it, I believe.

[frameacloud]

I have researched it, as documented in the body modification tag in this blog. I found no examples of extant body modification among anybody active in the otherkin or therianthrope communities, who label themselves as such, and are public about both those traits about themselves. (That's fairly strict criteria.) If you find any leads for me, I'd be interested.

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

From the name of the magazine and the names of the writer and the artist given by the blog, I'd guess that this is the magazine in question: http://dirtybristow.co.uk/ There are only two issues it could have been, and due to the stated themes of the issues I would guess it was issue two: "Beast", which was apparently published on August 13, 2011.

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

Yep, confirmed that it was: http://dirtybristow.co.uk/2011/08/five-reasons-you-should-get-a-copy-of-issue-two-beast/

[frameacloud]

Thanks, Jarandhel.