I went back and did some tidying up of my old blog soulbonding blog, @soulbonder to make it easier to read, and to fix the broken link problem.
I’m hoping to refresh and edit some of the information on it coming up, and host the info on fictionkin.org.
Kintypes vs Soulbonds
Okay, so here’s my take, and I recognize that people have different experiences and expectations and that’s okay, but, in general:
A kintype is someone you are. Its your identity/part of your identity. If I’m for example, Mickey Mouse kin/have a Mickey Mouse kintype that means that I experience being/having been Mickey Mouse in the same way I experience being/having been an art major or being/having been 10 years old.
A soulbond is someone apart from you that you have a personal relationship with. If I have a Mickey Mouse soulbond it means that Mickey Mouse is someone separate from me who shares mental/emotional space with me. I do not experience being Mickey Mouse, even if he shares my body and exists in my mental space, we’re separate people.
If I have a kin shift that is still me experiencing and acting as myself, even if I’m experiencing and acting more closely to one of my kintypes at the time.
If I switch out with a soulbond, that’s not me acting and experiencing any more, that’s my soulbond experiencing and acting through using my body.
Someone could theoretically have a kintype and ALSO a soulbond of the same character, but they, the soulbonder and the soulbond, would still be different people who were iterations of the same character. Like alternate universe versions for instance.
I dont know if the blog is atill active or not but I wanted to ask, does anyone have experiences with soulbonds but like, a lot of them like a fuckton? I have been soulbonding since I've had memory and atleast like a day I can interact with a range that changes from 5 to 50 or even more because I have a lot
I personally never seem to have less than 3 soulbonds active and around at a time, with more who are just doing their own thing in inner-space and will pop up again later. I don’t think its unusual to have a lot of soulbonds. I also don’t think its unusual to have very few. Like, for soulbonders, obviously. From baseline its *unusual* to have any soulbonds at all.
Unfortunately the soulbonding community is pretty quiet over all. I don;t know of any tags that are consistently active. However, if you’re over 18, please consider joining us at the othersouls discord which has a pretty consistent soulbonding dialogue.
Also, never be worried about asking me anything, even if it seems irrelevant! At worst I don’t answer (probably because I forgot or fell asleep).
A Collection of Early 2000s SoulBonding links
From around 2001-2006ish
http://soulbonding.tripod.com/soulbonding_faq.htm The final version of what was one of the most complete soulbonding resources
http://web.archive.org/web/20060524101317/http://childofmana.tripod.com:80/soulbonding_puppetry.htm The only essay missing from the above version
http://web.archive.org/web/20020220015136/http://kurai.com:80/sb/main.html another good old page
http://web.archive.org/web/20041223160039/http://www.illvision.net:80/sbdata/data.html A 2004 directory of soulbonders and their thoughts and feelings
http://www.karitas.net/pavilion/library/library_sb.html another good resource dating back a long time
These links even include the origin of the term SoulBonding, which I had completely forgotten until now. Coined by a person called Amanda Flowers in the JFW Just For Writers mailing list. Yes it was coined back in the time of *mailing lists*