“Sketched-out concept for a possibly-useful new term:

Othervague

Defined as an other- (-kin, -link, -kith, -hearted, etc.) identity that either:

1) features confusion between which derivation of identity it is (I, personally, plan on using it because I am unsure whether my -types are voluntarily or not)

2) whose user has a disdain for the boundaries between each term (a sentiment expressed as early as Tirl & Flip Windtree’s 2002 article Just Be on otherkin.net)

It’s my hope that othervague can be used as both an umbrella term and an identity, like a more narrowly-focused version of alterhuman. One’s vaguetypes can be voluntary- if you’re gonna try and call someone a faker, you don’t get to say “well the definition says xyz and you don’t fit it to a t”.”

Coined by federatio-angelorum on January 12, 2021.