One thing my partner and I often talk about is how this lifetime likely isn't any different than the lifetimes of our kintypes - which is to say, this lifetime is probably *also* represented as a piece of media in other worlds.

Lately we have been half-joking that it's a web comic or a light novel with the isekai gimmick "reincarnated in the human world with 30 souls!" or something like that.

You can't fake something unintentionally or unconsciously.

Faking an experience is done with full knowledge and conscious intent on your part of what you are doing.

If something is happening to you unintentionally, if you are doing something and unconsciously, you are having a legitimate experience of some kind.

If you're faking something, you're doing it deliberately. Faking something isn't something that just happens to you. An experience is something that just happens to you.

It's absolutely common and normal to be uncomfortable with it, and it's totally okay to block and filter the tags, and to block specific people who make you uncomfortable.

When it becomes a problem is if your discomfort makes you say unkind things to people, tell other people what to do, shame them, or try to dissuade them from self-shipping.

But it's always okay to take steps to protect yourself mentally and emotionally from what other people are doing.

Unfortunately, I don't use tiktok and I'm not interested in changing that.

However, if you or anyone else wants to help combat misinformation on the platform, please feel free to link, repost, or paraphrase information from any of my posts or my website.

Just referred to the possibility of a new kintype as "another chain around ol' Marley's neck."

Absolutely not something to worry about.

The multiverse already exists. Worlds don't come into existence when we make up stories about them. The things that we write about have simply coincidentally already happened, because every possibility is accounted for by the multiverse.

If you make up a story where a man named Fred is murdered, you haven't created a universe where Fred is murdered. There was already a universe where that happened, and you coincidentally happened to write a story that matched the details of what happened in that universe.

You refraining from writing a story where Fred is murdered won't stop Fred from being murdered. There are already infinite universes where he is murdered, and infinite universes where he is not murdered.

This is the nature of an infinite multiverse.

Oh this is always such a great question to answer.

I think it depends on the author.

I think in many cases, since the multiverse is so infinitely vast and contains literally every possible universe and every possible story that can be told, MOST authors are simply inventing a story and writing down something the coincidentally resembles the events in another universe.

However, in some cases I definitely think authors are inspired by memories of lives in previous universe they've lived through without knowing it, or being inspired by characters visiting them through soulbonds or other forms of attachment.

These questions HAVE been asked before, but I'm always happy to answer them for someone who hasn't seen it discussed! Thank you so much for the ask

My personal belief, dating back to the time I entered the fictionkin community in 2006, is in the multiverse theory. I believe that there are an infinite number of coexisting realities, and that souls/spirits can move between them and be reborn from one into another. I believe that my soul (and the other souls in my 'soul cluster' that I'm connected to) have been reborn repeatedly in various universes at different times, and now have been reborn into this one.

Frankly, there's nothing that's impossible. I used to think that multiple kintypes from one timeline was unlikely, but lately it seems more and more commonplace.

Multiple kintypes from the same timeline is very possible, the question you always have to ask is *why* would it happen?

One thing with this is to always make sure you're looking at more than one kintype, vs more than one person sharing a body each of whom can have their own kintypes.

For instance if you're a plural system, you might have several system members who each have a kintype from the same timeline, but each individual system member only has one kintype from that timeline. The *system* has multiple kintypes, but each individual has their own.

OR an individual might legitimately have more than one kintype from the same timeline. The question to ask yourself is "how did these people who were two people in that timeline come to be one person in this timeline?"

You might have multiple kintypes from one timeline if all of those characters fused into one person at some later date.

You might have multiple kintypes from one timeline if your soul was repeatedly reborn into the same timeline but as different people.

You might have multiple kintypes from one timeline if your soul split into multiple bodies for that lifetime, and then re-fused into this.

The important part when questioning something as a kintype isn't to ask "is this possible" (anything is possible), the important question to ask is "do I have an intuitive answer for why this would have happened."

April 5th will be the 20th anniversary of From Fiction

Believe it or not, the original website still exists at the linked URL! (and has a link to the fictionkin.org website now. ^^)

As we're headed into my 20th year as a member of the fictionkin community, and maintainer of the From Fiction site/blog, I'm going to be trying to be more active here again.

Hey pal, great question!

Being a member of a plural system who is also fictionkin is definitely a thing that happens. (It's an experience I'm personally familiar with.)

It is very much possible for some members of a system to be fictionkin, and some to not be.

Individual system members can have multiple kintypes like everyone else.

As to whether or not several members of a plural system can share one kintype, that depends on your personal metaphysical or psychological experience as to why that would be the case.

For example, two system members might share the same kintype if they were sharing a body/if they were system members during that kintype's lifetime.

Or two system members might share the same kintype if they were different incarnations of the same character, who have now ended up sharing one body together.

Or two system members might share the same kintype if they were one person as that character, and due to some other circumstance have split into two separate people.

It's definitely possible in some systems but how and why it would happen is down to your individual system's experiences.

The moment a kin realization that you've been trying to figure out for a long time finally clicks into place and just stops you in your tracks.

Being from an ongoing manga is a hell I would not wish on anybody.

Time truly is a flat circle as they say.

The people who level the "you're stealing" accusation at fictionfolk really don't understand what they're talking about on a single level.

These arguments come up again and again, simply because people are stupid in the same ways over and over.

Thinking today about the way I confirmed as Crocodile (One Piece) last year.

I had been passingly familiar with One Piece in that I knew that it existed since it was airing as a 4kids dub.

And I had been avoiding it for 20+ years. I had been avoiding looking at it.

Even though I love pirate media. Something about it pushed me far away, made me not want to look at it. Not want to acknowledge its existence. This, in hindsight, has been the case with a lot of kintypes I was avoiding.

Last year one of my partners pushed the issue. Every time we'd walk past a piece of One Piece merch or a manga (which was everywhere) she'd say "its us!"

It started as a joke.

Months later it was not a joke, and we were having actual arguments about whether to look at it and question it or not.

I was very firmly on the side of "not".

We had just walked out of the mall on a day in May of 2024, where the "it's us!" tease had come up again, pointing to the manga.

We talked about it on the drive home.

The shayfer James song "Prologue" from the Ninth Hour came on the playlist.

I just kind of went quiet and stared out the window for a minute as i was overtaken by a vision of a fleet of ships surrounding an island with a tall building where a battle was about to happen.

Something about it shook me. I agreed to question One Piece.

Later, I'd find out that my vision matched Marineford.

Later, when we were piecing things together, I had a dream.

I had a dream about Crocodile - a character I barely knew of and hadn't met yet in our reading, but my partner kept insisting had to be me - i had a dream about Crocodile laying on a stone floor, staring up at the sky and telling someone who had come for him to leave him to die.

I didn't even know that happened in the canon. It was quite the shock to find out it did.

So that... made continuing to deny things very hard, and eventually I had to confirm.

How to distinguish between fictionkin and plurality or plurality adjacent experiences

Your kintype is YOU - another part of yourself. Just like the person you were when you were 5 years old is another part of your self.

If a character exists internally with you and alongside you but is NOT you, that's some form of plurality or soulbonding (some people consider soulbonding a form of plurality, some do not.)

Here's an even more important distinction.

Plural system members can be fictionkin and have their own kintypes! For instance you can have a system member named Fred who is also fictionkin and has kintypes as both Goku from Dragon Ball, and Clark Kent from Superman (as an example.)

YOU can be fictionkin, and also be plural, and your plural system members might or might not also additionally be fictionkin.

Well damn! I just discovered that the original From Fiction website from 2006 is actually still online and accessible! I updated it to point to the new website. (I also do have a backup that's linked on the current website.)

As of next April I'll have been running some version or another of From Fiction for 20 years!