I Spent A Day With FICTIONKIN: "I'm a Superhero, Spiritually"

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🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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I spent a day with Fictionkin to learn the truth about their experience of being connected to a character in alternate reality and the misconceptions that surround this community. Sponsors ▸ Go to http://betterhelp.com/padilla to get 10% off your first month! 💥NEW YOUTOOZ FIGURE: https://youtooz.com/products/anthony-padilla 🧨HUGE thank you to Erik: ▸ YOU TUBE - https://www.youtube.com/bikenesmith ▸ INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/bikenesmith/ ▸ TWITTER - https://twitter.com/bikenesmith ▸ TIK TOK https://www.tiktok.com/@bikenesmith 🧨HUGE thank you to Charles: ▸ TIK TOK - https://www.tiktok.com/@gothtelepath ▸ INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/gothtelepath/ ▸ TWITTER - https://twitter.com/gothtelepath 🎥Crew ▸ Creator, Director, Writer, etc. - Anthony Padilla ▸ Executive Producer - Alessandra Catanese ▸ Producer, Co-writer & Research - Elise Felber ▸ Director of Photography/Gaffer - Matthew Faulkner ▸ Camera Operator - Laura Odermatt ▸ Social Media Manager - Mallory Myers ▸ Editor - Mike Criscimagna AKA Mork Crispy ▸ Assistant Editor - Patrick Horba ▸ Assistant Editor - Ash Duckworth ▸ Assistant Editor - Nikki Blacklock ▸ Sound Editor - Gareth Hird ▸ Post PA - Levi Villalpando ▸ PA - Joshua Dozier ▸ Thumbnail Artist - Dill Toma 🎵Theme Music Composer - Matt Good AKA The King of Emo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Anthony Padilla and I'm curious.
0:03.0	What would you do if you were watching a movie and you suddenly felt a connection with one of the characters that was so intense that no human language was capable of putting into words.
0:15.0	And then what if you started experiencing memories that were so vivid
0:20.0	that you had zero doubt that you personally lived that fictional character's life in an alternate reality.
0:27.0	I spent today with two fiction who had those very realizations and are now cosmically linked in a blossoming relationship as
0:34.8	Magneto and Professor X.
0:38.0	Hello Charles.
0:42.4	Eric. Hi.
0:43.0	By the way, this episode is sponsored by Better Help Online Therapy.
0:49.3	Visit BetterHelp.com slash Padilla because sometimes existing is exhausting.
0:53.6	Can you define what fiction kin is?
0:56.6	Fiction kin is a person who identifies with or as a fictional character.
1:02.0	Some people connect to a character like spiritually
1:05.0	and through like past life and reincarnation sort of kin.
1:09.0	And then there would be like psychological kin.
1:11.5	People who connect so like much to the
1:13.8	characters psychologically that they decide to identify with the
1:16.5	character. Fiction can would just be anything that lies in a fictional
1:20.1	universe. It could be a book, comic book, a video game, a movie, even things like old, old novels.
1:27.6	Can you list some of the characters that people you know of identify as?
1:32.4	Sherlock Holmes, America or Iron Man
1:35.5	anime characters like sailor moon
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