Thanks for sharing your experience!
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I wish that we could give you some better advice here, but agere is not something that we got into deliberately or with intention.
It’s just something that happens to some of us every now and then.
Some of us lean into it, some of us try to resist it sometimes.
I can’t deny that agere experiences can make you feel extremely vulnerable.
But I feel like in a safe space, and especially with a partner or other figure you can trust, exploring that space can be very rewarding.
As someone who also had some extremely negative childhood experiences (to put it lightly), agere lets me reclaim some of my childhood and build happier experiences now.
Though they are often similar, Cameoshifts and fiction flickers are different experiences. A cameo shift is a general term for a shift (mental, phantom, or otherwise) into something that is not a kintype. They can be a one-time deal, or be reoccurring, and can happen to therians, otherkin, fictionkin, and even non-kin.
Fictionflicker is a word to encompass a variety of experiences that people may experience that do not fit under the “fictionkin” umbrella. In general, they occur after the consumption of media (reading a book, watching a movie, ect.) and involve a temporary change in perception or shift to that of a fictional character. Experiences vary from flicker to flicker, and between people who experience them. It could feel similar to a kintype, or wildly different. A cameo shift could be one result, or just feeling strongly like a character from that world or connected to characters from that world. A temporary “taking on” or imprinting on a fictional character or world.
The term can also encompass other miscellaneous experiences regarding a blending of one’s perception with fiction in a way that other definitions do not describe accurately enough, or are so rare they have no specific term
The main similarity between Fictionflickers and cameoshifts is that they are both temporary experiences, involve something that is not actually a kintype, and can be experienced by anyone otherkin or not.
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Fancops like to have it both ways.
On the one hand they consider their bullying and abuse to have no affect on people because its “just online” and its “words on a screen”.
But at the same time they insist that everybody out in the real world agrees with them and thinks proshippers are disgusting.
They’re wrong about both things.
I’m sorry to hear that you’ve been going through this.
We’ve seen some of this anti’s behavior ourselves and it’s pretty truely awful. Another example of aggressive and hypocritical antis.
I hope anyone who will feel safer by blocking this user will do so.