poll: naming that thing that means family without all the gross blood stuff

[belenen]

icon: "interconnectedness (two bald purple-skinned people in the ocean: from Joan Slonczewski's "Door Into Ocean")"
Poll that thing that means family without all the gross blood stuff

Comments

[kmiotutsie]

you don't like "chosen family?" I like the distinction of it. Also feel a mild annoyance when non-native people use "tribe," though I haven't researched whether or not it's culturally appropriative-- kind of a knee-jerk twinge

[belenen]

In looking it up, I get the impression that it's too broad to be appropriation but it gives me the same ick feel, so I'd rather have a different word.

I hate the word family, at all, it has only negative connotations for me.

[antuvschle]

foundkin makes me think of adoption. nest takes me back to family of origin, maybe, or starting one - specifically an arrangement intended to raise/launch a young'un or n young'uns.

tribe makes a lot of sense to me. people who are in your camp but not necessarily in your tent.

loved ones?
chosen kin?

Maybe all the elided words with kin endings look too cutesy to me. I think of Munchkin games.

[kehlen]

I like chosen kin.

[raidingparty]

I tried to pull something together with the word "Guild" a zillion years ago, but never really followed through with it. "Hearth" is another possibility. Or (my) "People".
... as if you didn't have enough choices already...

[belenen]

kin on it's own is not enough context for me, because I use kin as a way of delineating different kinds of connection. For instance I see you as mind-kin.

I'm thinking about something entirely different now, from Door Into Ocean. heh. *eyeroll at self*

[meri_sielu]

I like 'tribe' because it has a very family like feel and meaning to it anyway.... like I consider my Druid grove my "people and spiritual family" and I know some groves refer to themselves as tribes so that feels natural.

I also like anything with kin in it, mostly because I identify as Otherkin anyway. Lifekin just seems to fit :)

[mac_arthur_park]

I fell in love with the word tribe today in the most unexpected way.

I went out to buy concert tickets for the best Beatles cover band EVER. Kent's sister bought his as a belated birthday gift, so I only had to buy one for me and Santa Pete.

The guy at the cd store looked puzzled. "Only two? What about the rest of the tribe?"

I always buy at least three, either for Santa Pete or Fiona or Mark. Or sometimes all three. I like that he noticed that. It felt...validating.

So, yeah. I like tribe. Although I've also been known to use "lovable band of weirdos and miscreants." ;)

[belenen]

awwww! such a sweet happening! thanks for sharing <3