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bullshit-incorporated:

sidneyia reblogged your link: Ear Pointing Article on Wikipedia

It is also done without anesthesia, which is probably why Tumblr “elfkin” have no interest in the procedure.

Fucking ow. Thanks for clearing that up, damn.

If that were the only reason elfkin as a group don’t go for it, wouldn’t you expect to see a whole lot of elfkin running around with rubber or plastic prosthetics that make them look like extras from Star Trek or Lord of the Rings?  Such items have been around long before the otherkin community came together.  Yet, in my experience, one doesn’t see that.  Take a look at photos from otherkin gatherings:  

• http://www.rialian.com/photos.htm
• http://rialian.com/wtt3/
• http://www.rialian.com/firefen.htm
• http://www.rialian.com/wtt4-scrapbook.htm
• http://www.rialian.com/wtt5/pictures/wtt5.htm
• http://www.elenari.net/Dancing/Dancing2001/2001pics.html

Hell, look at the people on this tag who talk about *needing* to wear items to express their nonhuman natures.  I see a lot of talk about tails, collars, and fursuiting.  Not so much with with the elven and fae types.  Frankly I’ve seen more fairy wings, satyr horns and such worn at pagan Beltane events and Renaissance Faires than at otherkin gathers over the years.