spacekin

English

Etymology

space +‎ -kin

Noun

spacekin (plural spacekin)

1. A type of otherkin that identifies as an astronomical body.
   • 2009, Karen Subach, “A Wolf Should Roam”, in New England Review, volume 30, number 1, Middlebury College:

     Frau Vanderhoeven waved to me to come over. "Greetings, spacekin!" she said. "We are only just finishing our funeral pyre."

   • 2016 August 4, Callie Beusman, “'I Look at a Cloud and I See It as Me': The People Who Identify As Objects”, in Broadly:

     In addition to the otherkin identify as animals, there are some who identify as mythical creatures, like dragons, fairies, or vampires; fictionkin, who identify as fictional characters, frequently from anime series or videogames; weatherkin, like Marco, who identify as weather systems; conceptkin, who identify as abstract concepts; spacekin, who identify as celestial bodies; and several other even more obscure categories (musickin, timeperiodkin—the list goes on).

   • 2017, Bryant A. Loney, Take Me to the Cat, →ISBN, page 190:

     There's plantkin, spacekin—who's to say planets don't have souls?—and a whole bunch of other Otherkin, It's not just animals.

Anagrams

• capeskin, spacenik