#otherkin census
Hello, I’m still here even with my crazy disappearing acts! Just to let everyone know, there is one week until the 2014 Tumblr Otherkin Census is closed and a final count will be done!
All information on the census can be found here, but a TL;DR version would be as follows:
- Send me an ask with your URL and kintype(s), your URL will not be shared, therians are included.
- Ends on January 1st.
- I will be posting the results of the census a week(give or take a few days) after the census ends.
- This is Tumblr ONLY.
Let’s get a final push for the last week of this census! My ask box is located here as always, and please reblog to spread the word!
Hello everyone! This is your friendly neighborhood kin-spiration mod. How are you all doing today?
For a while, I’ve been wondering what kintypes are on Tumblr, who identifies as what, and how prominent are certain kintypes. Now that it’s the end of the year, I figured now is as good a time as any to do an end-of-the-year 2014 Otherkin Census.
How will this work?
Quite easily. All you need to do is send me an ask with your URL and saying what your kintype(s) are. If you are a polykin, I kindly ask for you to name all of them. I will not be sharing your URLs, so your information will be private and confidential. I will be using URLs to make sure I don’t count the same people more than once and to avoid trolling.
How long will this last?
It will start today(November 26) and end at the end of the year(January 1). At that point, I will count and group like kintypes and release it on this blog, probably within the week. This will also give time to those who will submit their kintypes last minute.
How will you release the census?
Everything will be released on this blog in the form of graphs. I will give the number of submissions as well as the percentages of each kintype.
How do I get started?
Just send me an ask with your URL and kintype(s). I also encourage you to reblog this post so the visibility of this census rises. Let’s get as many submissions as possible!
Signal boosting for the otherkin who read me. I hope the OP will stress that this is a Tumblr census (since it asks about URLs and all) and not necessarily representative of the wider community.
This census is 100% Tumblr. If no URLs are given, it will not count towards the census. I don’t want anyone to presume that this census will represent anything other than strictly Tumblr. This is completely unaffiliated with the wider community.
trigenby said: are you inclusive of fictionkin?
Yes, I am.
Hello everyone! This is your friendly neighborhood kin-spiration mod. How are you all doing today?
For a while, I’ve been wondering what kintypes are on Tumblr, who identifies as what, and how prominent are certain kintypes. Now that it’s the end of the year, I figured now is as good a time as any to do an end-of-the-year 2014 Otherkin Census.
How will this work?
Quite easily. All you need to do is send me an ask with your URL and saying what your kintype(s) are. If you are a polykin, I kindly ask for you to name all of them. I will not be sharing your URLs, so your information will be private and confidential. I will be using URLs to make sure I don’t count the same people more than once and to avoid trolling.
How long will this last?
It will start today(November 26) and end at the end of the year(January 1). At that point, I will count and group like kintypes and release it on this blog, probably within the week. This will also give time to those who will submit their kintypes last minute.
How will you release the census?
Everything will be released on this blog in the form of graphs. I will give the number of submissions as well as the percentages of each kintype.
How do I get started?
Just send me an ask with your URL and kintype(s). I also encourage you to reblog this post so the visibility of this census rises. Let’s get as many submissions as possible!
Note: This is a strictly-Tumblr census. The results of this census are a reflection only of the Tumblr otherkin community and not the wider community.
A problem that I am coming up with when writing down your kintypes is that I am ending up with a lot of kintypes. Within the polykin group, there are 79 different kintypes, and I’m not done counting yet! At the rate that this is going, this is what the pie graphs are going to look like(this is made from a partial count so far):
Except for the huge 55(can you guess what kintype that is?), all of the numbers and colors sort of blur together.
This is what I propose:
I will put similar kintypes together to form groups. For example, lionkin, leopardkin, and jaguarkin will be group together to become feral felinekin. Androidkin, cyborgkin, robotkin, and the like would be grouped together to form robotickin. Feral felinekin and robotickin would then become two separate groups rather than six or more groups divided.
Another reason I would want to do this is to keep anonymity. By singling out one person with a kintype no one else has, it could threaten the anonymity of it. This is why fictionkin are already grouped into a single category. If a person, for example, were a Hamletkin, it wouldn’t be hard for someone to simply search for a Hamletkin and then stumble across that one person who is Hamletkin and then the census no longer anonymous.
This is why also in the proposal, I would enact an “other” group for those kintypes that can’t be group with similar categories and only have one or two people in that group.
With this proposal, the graph from above would look more like this:
Does this seem alright to everyone?
Thank you to everyone who participated in the event! I will now be doing a final count on the kintypes. For those whose questions I answered late, or still want to be considered, you’re still welcomed to submit them as I will be counting these for a while. It’s only too late when I’ve made the graphs.
This is what you should expect from the census conclusion:
- The total amount of otherkin who participated.
- How many monokin there are verses how many polykin.
- The kintypes submitted between monokin and polykin individually, as well as combined.
The census should be published within a week, so look forward to it!
Questions, comments, last minute submissions? Be sure to send in an ask!
Once again, it’s time for another random chat! This is a very laid-back chat where discussions can be anything, which you can find here! Let’s keep each other company while I fill the queue and count the Tumblr Otherkin Census.
Speaking of the Tumblr Otherkin Census, if you haven’t already, be sure to submit your kintype(s) though my inbox!
