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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/

Date: 2013-09-10 12:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.
Edited Date: 2013-09-10 12:23 am (UTC)

Date: 2013-09-10 12:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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/

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