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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2016-04-07 06:49 pm

[ SECRET POST #3382 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3382 ⌋

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[personal profile] lady_dragoon 2016-04-08 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Charismatic sociopaths enabled by the fiction/otherkin mentality being dangerous.

(Anonymous) 2016-04-08 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah. They'd be dangerous anyway, they'd just latch on to something else. You see the same shit happening in pretty much every community that can make even the most tenuous claim to isolation or marginalization. Desperate or vulnerable people looking for an identity or a place to belong are ripe fodder for con artists and cult leaders; the stories they sell are just window dressing.

[personal profile] lady_dragoon 2016-04-08 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
And you'll find in all those communities that the common thread is a shared delusion. A denial of verified reality. In Tumblr SJW circles, it's the delusion is that "white cisscum" are waiting to jump you around every corner. In multi-level marketing scams, it's the delusion that you can make enough money to retire in the space of a year. In religious cults, it's the delusion that you'll be damned for eternity or the end of the world will come if you don't do as the leader says, and the world will tempt you away from the doctrine if you let it.

Otherkin/fictionkin/Tumblr-multiple cults operate on the delusion that they are special and persecuted and you can't trust anyone who isn't otherkin/fictionkin/multiple because the normies are waiting around every corner to jump you, and worse yet, make you doubt your identity.

It's the mentality of rejecting and escaping reality that enables these types of charismatic sociopaths to be so dangerous. Sure, otherkin/fictionkin isn't the only type of cult that makes use of this, but it's the same thing at its core: denial of reality with suspicion and mistrust of everyone outside the cult.