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Wei_Dai comments on Transsexuals and otherkin - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: lucidfox 15 July 2011 07:10AM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 17 July 2011 06:29:31PM 3 points [-]

These pages seem to have the best explanations. And apparently it's spelled "soulbonders" not "soulbounders" (the misspelling causing some confusion when Google refused to serve up anything relevant).

Comment author: lucidfox 19 July 2011 06:41:13AM 2 points [-]

Sorry, my fault for misspelling it.

Comment author: handoflixue 29 July 2011 09:18:55PM 1 point [-]

http://www.astraeasweb.net/plural/glossary.html#soulbond For a source that doesn't consider the idea mock-worthy. It's a fairly obscure term that comes from the Plurality / Multiple community. Once you've accepted the idea that you can have multiple personalities inside your head, this extends it to the idea of having some fictional character from another source as one of those personalities.

(The otherkin link is Wikipedia, which seems neutral enough as sources go :))