Sevenfold Silence

...in that it's a stray survey, not in that it's for stray otherkin...

Dunno how long it'll be up for, or what the data are being collected for, but it asks some good questions, and it's a brief survey so I don't mind taking it. You can find it here.

Most of my answers are pretty generic, but I do like this one that I wrote for it, in response to the question of "What is your opinion on the reason there are more of certain types of otherkin and few of other types?"

Otherkin is a self-identification that arises from certain characteristics (be they personality traits, ways of thinking, physical characteristics, et cetera) that can't be explained away readily by the human condition. Someone who resonates strongly with a non-majestic creature like, say, a bullfrog might explain these characteristics as being those of a quirky human.

Alternately, members of human society tend to think more about majestic, impressive creatures like elves and dragons than poor little bullfrogs, and therefore may be more likely to identify their otherworldly current, if they have one, as being of such a variety.

Of course, if you ask me on a skeptical day, I may just tell you that it's because we're full of it :P