Prompt, or food for thought

[dragonwolf]

ysabetwordsmith mentioned in a previous post that she's doing a poetry fishbowl. The current one is about "DNA, genetic engineering, and evolution."

In that line of thinking, I thought I'd throw this out as sort of discussion fodder:

How do you think Otherkin came about? Don't be afraid to go into detail (I don't think DreamWidth has a word count limit to their comments, so go for it).

Comments

[arethinn]

I like ysabetwordsmith's use of "polygenetic", at least if the question is meant to be "how is it that someone is, or becomes, otherkin?"

If you are referring to it as a general phenomenon - "why should this be happening at all?" - well now, that's a big one, and I don't have a good answer to it. Like many people I went through a "magic is increasing, the Veil is thinning" kind of phase, but, well, it might just be my perspectives on time, but it's been a long time comin' with little result, if that's what's going on (although I suppose there still could be some critical mass not yet reached).