#Entity NEO

[rockium-z]

The universe works in mysterious ways, but I'm starting to think it ain't working for me Doctor, should I be good? Should I be good this year?

happy (actually checks numbers this time) 8th anniversary to @entityneo! love this traumatized ghostbot. love how they cling onto the past so intensely that they end up dragging its dead weight forward :D

[mothcpu]

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[shiroeyoru]

[lycorisicecream]

Pretend this caption says something funny

[ascendandt]

i wouldnt be like mad if undertale took place before deltarune cuz i trust tobyfox to have it make sense but with the evidence we have now it doesnt really work for me.

[spamtonsmakemehappyyy]

I PRESENT TO YOU THE BOY THE ONE THE NOT-SO ONLY BUTTERCREAM! He is here to say hello and he hopes you have a good day <3 <3 <3 <3 That being said my ass tiiiiired I'm gonna go to bed and then go more on Pinterest later today to learn stuff and save every single ref Jinx gave me from the board <3 I'm so excited, this is genuinely- I might have finally broken through my stunted growth all thanks to a friend being so kind as to guide me ;o; <3 <3 <3 but yes for now I 100 percent need some rest and then I'll wake up and provide more *food* <3 Feel free to lmk how you feel if you want! ALSO: YES I KNOW HIS HAIR[THE POMPADOUR/FLUFFY MOHAWK] IS VERY AMATEUR AND NOT VERY GOOD. I AM CURRENTLY RESEARCHING POMPS AND MULLETS TO LEARN HOW TO PROPERLY SPAM. I WILL FIX HIS HAIR FOR THE FINAL DON'T WORRY. <3

[bittiblakebelladonna]

I think it's weird as hell when people act like Trivia is a separate person from Neo and want her to "come back". Like dude Neo is who Trivia was always meant to be, that was the whole point of Roman Holiday. She found herself.

[corntort]

somepeople still in passing call me void and i really really still quite enjoy the name

[darewolfcreates]

Compilation of sillys :]

References under cut

[13thpythagoras]

WOW!

Very cool.

Now people without an income can still file a patent

[rockium-z]

the star of the show!

@entityneo

[waloeders]

i havent even finished editing the prev fic for jupe but i did write this for the next part and it made me laugh

[majamatusiak]

_you know your hair

_i know of it

_it's all blue!

_i change my hair every week-and-a-half, dude. get used to it.

[sweetretribution]

...Hmm. To think when she first showed up here she'd have felt a lot less conflicted about this vacancy.

[cryptidsmagick]

Not related to Cookie Run (I run Identity Coining, for reference, if you've noticed a similar syntax) but I can't exactly say I, personally, haven't had a problem with anything due to... Avatars of the Archive.

I fully understand that it was originally a request, but there are still...a few things.

TMA Paganism does not have a leader at all, obviously, however the server I'm in (nearly been in it for a year, it's been around for 4-5 years now; founded near the end of TMA), has been a dominating space for TMA Paganism on Discord, and one of the members runs the TMA Pagans, which is just as old of a member of the community.

And again, they do not lead it, but I did extend an invitation on their behalf for discussion as they welcome other forms of PCP/neo-faiths as well for discussion (there's a dedicated channel), as they would've been happy to discuss their concerns and give advice as people who've been in the pop culture paganism community for a while!

Now, the main issue me and other TMA Pagans had:

The Name.

Avatars of the Archive imply members of the Magnus Insitute of London, which is reserved for Eye Avatars. Now, "The Magnus Archives," and "TMA" will inevitably be used to address the avatars and their entities to address them as determiners, but more vague terms can be used (Smirke, Lietner, and Jonah Magnus have been brutally pipe murdered peer-reviewed by the community, however, Dread Fears is a canon term people wouldn't mind being spun off of to describe their practice).

Plus, there are canon names for some of these TMA faiths. Imagine if someone started coining names for Christian sects that already had names—people would not be pleased. A lot of eldritch horror media has canon faiths that should be acknowledged before coining any religion imo, such as the Silt Verse.

Now, once again stemming from the name, Avatars of the Archive implies everyone who follows the faith is an avatar or describes themselves as such.

Summary 1: Name can be easily mistaken for things/is confusing. There are more canon-appropriate names + canon subfaiths that should've been included on the wiki page.

Absolutely not!

One of the older members of the community I mentioned typed up this lovely article regarding discernment between avatars, devotees, etc.

In simple, avatars are individuals who feed off others. Devotees, are, evidently devoted but are not necessarily Avatars. Then there's the Prey/normal people who the entities feed off of but do not Hunt for themselves. So forth.

"The Prey" may not be comfortable with the idea of being an Avatar. They are, often, not even comfortable acknowledging that they even are prey for an entity.

"The Avatars" might not even be comfortable grouping with others in a religion, which is why even with the canon faiths, there were canon divisions and loners and so forth.

Media likes this has very specific terms that should be respected. They also have phrases that should be respected.

To get my point across, you wouldn't address a TMA Pagan with "Ceasless Watcher, turn your gaze [...]" because it's the equivalent of a hex. You wouldn't address a Silt Verse Pagan with "The river rises" because it's the equivalent of a hex. So if you wouldn't misuse a hex, why should you misuse everything else?

Summary 2: Elaborating on some issues with the name, Avatar should not be used as a catchall address.

Then there's the fact it's a Religion.

I love the concept of Neoreligions, hell, I coined a couple of neoreligions on request, but evidently, I had some qualms when I felt an obligation to write an essay regarding the Dreadful Ones.

To start with unpacking this: Religion inherently implies there is a defined system for a faith. The person who started it believed in itself or started, intentionally or unintentionally, as a cult. I'm being brutally honest here.

Now, obviously, we don't want that. But it's nice to have a term to bring members of similar beliefs together.

The issue, again, lies inherently in religion.

However, this is the only available term at the moment besides the recently coined, Neomythic.

Now, ficto-religions do not have a defined system as they're just...chaos magic. More specifically, they center on the pop culture paganism branch of chaos magic. By trying to shape it into a religion, you're taking the freedom of paganism out of it, no matter how vague you try to make it.

This is inherently harmless, but plants seeds for harm.

Concerns are further discussed here.

Summary 3: Ficto-religion in general; taking paganism out of pcp and making it religion is harmful to practitioners. Requires putting the coiner at center (or at least, making it the "supreme" or "right" form of practice) which opens ways to fults/cults and discourse.

Regarding the Dreadful Ones—

I did not coin the term. The term was entirely paganism based, and references to the Magnus Archives (Dread Fears? Dreadful Ones?), and as result of tumbling across @redacted-coiner, it was requested that I make a flag. And I did, heavily linking to the original coining and other beliefs that wold fall under the umbrella.

Even though the flag was coined under "Dreadful Ones Ficto-Religion," it is not a religion but a general self-identifier for a path one might follow in their pagan journey.

Summary 4: More about Dreadful Ones; It's not a religion.

Just a word of advice.

I feel as if more people haven't commented with their opinions because you aren't coining with the right tags. If you tagged the original communities (please just look at the tags below as an example, I'm not going to write them out twice /tired), you would find a lot more people will comment. So far, you've only been tagging with liom and mogai which people usually don't look to for faith/paganism/religion/etc, and have not been reaching to the right people. The community cannot provide input if you stay in a dusty corner of Tumblr walled by your own terms. No offense, but the only reason I found you was due to following queer tags as a member of the LGBTQ community.

Summary 5: More tags/relevant tags = more input.

Hi being someone brought this up to my intention, did I do something wrong with Baked Faith (Cookie Run Ficto Religon) in the way I explained the term? To my memory I wasn't informed that anything was wrong but if I did please inform me? I did expand on the subgroups within it's wiki page but I just want to make sure something isn't wrong.

If I don't do something right with my terms I do apologize. But if possible please inform me directly if something is wrong, I will not always see comments about things so having a direct line of comment would be helpful.

[notaplaceofhonour]

it’s october 7th. you hear about the attack by seeing people you followed glorifying the terrorist attack—a massacre, a pogrom—as victory & justified resistance, glorifying a terrorist group that was founded with the explicit intent to kill your entire people

you make a post in which you make it clear you support palestinians and oppose the ways israel has wronged them, explaining that the terrorist group is still not good. you know you will probably get some flacc from the pro-Hamas side, but naively underestimate how much.

you get thousands of notifications on that one post, the majority of them hateful comments.

some of the response is positive. multiple messages thank you for the post, expressing bafflement that it’s controversial.

a few Israelis are upset at the loaded language in your post, but explain their problems with it civilly. you called Israel “apartheid”. they ask you what apartheid laws Israel has. you admit you honestly don’t know.

your inbox is flooded with anonymous hate from anti-Israel leftists.

over the course of a few weeks you have received hundreds of death threats, a dozen rape threats. people accuse you of being pro-genocide. you’re a literal Nazi. you’re racist, you thirst for the blood of Palestinians. you’re brainwashed by propaganda, a shill for The Zionist Entity. a few of the hate messages are from literal Neo-Nazis; the overwhelming majority are from leftists, many of them queer.

you are considering suicide.

you see footage of the october 7th attacks. you see footage of the bombings in gaza. you see footage of a Jewish man being murdered at an anti-Israel rally.

a popular creator you follow posts in support of an antisemitic hate group that masquerades as a Jewish organization. this organization regularly posts blood libel and other antisemitic rhetoric, works with groups that are even more explicitly antisemitic, including celebrating October 7th, holocaust inversion, blood libel, “Khazar theory” and others. more than one of the orgs they work with is pro-Putin.

your former roommate liked the post.

graffiti appears on a street you frequent that says “#freepalestine” and “end settler colonialism”

the boyfriend of the friend you spent most of the summer with makes his first post about the war. it’s a reposted comic that mocks and downplays the october 7th attack.

you doubt he’ll be receptive to criticism. he’s shared leftist memes about “monied elites” pulling all the strings and evangelicals being modern day “pharisees” in the past, and getting him to understand why that was antisemitic was like herding cats. you try anyway.

another of his Jewish friends also pushes back. he smugly dismisses her, tells her she’s falling for Zionist propaganda and uses several antisemitic tropes. you go off on him. he just deletes your comment.

you give up. you’re done. you block him.

you see anti-Israel posters and billboards around town

you mention what happened with the guy you went off on to his girlfriend—the friend you’ve grown very close to, who you’ve been listening to as she unburdens her fears for the future and complains about her bf’s BS over the last year. she doesn’t respond to you.

a friend of a friend shares posts tokenizing fringe groups that spread blood libel and have collaborated with holocaust deniers. you know they don’t know what you know, so you explain what those groups are. they seem somewhat receptive, apologize, and take it down

the next day they share several more posts that dip into antisemitic tropes. you mention this to your mutual friend, that you’re worried about them being radicalized. you’re not sure how receptive they’ll be to continued criticism

you have a confrontation with the foaf. in the meantime they’ve shared even more antisemitic posts. they say they didn’t mean to cause you distress but instead of stopping they effectively block you.

the “end settler colonialism” vandalism has been counter-vandalized with the words “commie propaganda” in place of “settler colonialism”. you don’t know if this is an improvement.

a month passes. the friend whose bf you went off on still hasn’t spoken to you. you see she shared a post defending an SJP chapter that posted Nazi cartoon caricatures of Jews repurposed in “Anti-Zionist” memes. you unfriend her on all social media platforms but you can’t bring yourself to block her number.

you see a friend of someone whose couch you surfed when you were homeless harassing Jewish celebrities with “Free Palestine” comments. you block them.

you’ve lost count of how many people you’ve unfollowed or blocked, or who’ve blocked you. friends, content creators.

when a friend takes an unusually long time to respond you worry if it’s because of your posts about antisemitism.

most of the podcasts, youtube channels, and other content creators you regularly engaged with no longer feel safe. you wonder who will be next

a couple friends wish you a happy hanukkah. you don’t celebrate much aside from lighting the hanukkiah and making some latkes.

you see posts about a destroyed chabad menorah, antisemitic comments on Jewish celebrities’ Hanukkah posts.

your neighborhood is covered in pro-Palestine & anti-Israel posters. some are seemingly innocuous, some are JVP “not in our name” posters. some call for intifada. “globalize the intifada” “Zionists fuck off!” “solidarity means attack!”

a man kills himself shouting “free palestine”. you learn about his suicide by seeing posts from several popular accounts you followed glorifying it.

you follow a bunch of jewish accounts on social media and commiserate with them about everything happening

your jewish friends post screenshots of the dead man’s antisemitic, pro-Hamas views. you look at his reddit and find even more horrific shit: anti-Ukraine posts. mocking Zelensky. “elites” are “lizard people”; the only named individual he calls a lizard person is Jewish. you start to notice a pattern: a lot of the people he dislikes just so happen to be jews.

several people you know share a post glorifying this man’s suicide. most are acquaintances, one is someone incredibly important to you.

you wonder how they would respond to your suicide.

you tell the close friend that shared this post how it scares you. you show them the receipts of the man’s antisemitism. their response is a single sentence. they didn’t know about the antisemitism.

they don’t apologize.

you notice none of your irl friends, even your closest ones, interact with your posts about antisemitism. you are able to vent to a couple friends, but no one has reach out to you

you try not to read into it. you try not to take it personally.

you haven’t slept well in months. you’ve always been an insomniac but not like this. you’re not sleeping until 4am, 6am, even 9am. even when you get to bed at a decent hour and get a full night’s rest it takes you hours to get out of bed.

a few weeks go by. the friend with the single sentence response shares a post saying they’re excited and proud to join a group to help palestinians. you’re excited and proud for them.

a couple days later, they share a post about a fundraiser to help a palestinian family get out of gaza. you note to yourself this is a much more effective & less concerning form of activism than the pro-suicidal antisemite post.

your friend shares another post about the fundraiser. it’s a joint post between their group and another group.

you open the other group’s page

the page is just a wall of signs from rallies. you swipe through one after another: “from the river to the sea”, “by any means necessary”, justifying/denying the atrocities of october 7th, calling for violent revolution. anything done in the name of resistance can’t be terrorism, all Israelis are terrorists. Jews aren’t indigenous; they’re white colonizers. holocaust inversion. other vile, thinly veiled violent rhetoric

you feel sick to your stomach imagining talking to your friend about it.

you already feel like you’re burdening the few friends you can talk to about this. you already feel like you think about it too much, talk about it too much. but you can’t not think about it; it affects every aspect of your life.

you’ve filtered out relevant keywords on more than one social media site to avoid the worst of it. some still manages to leak through.

there isn’t a single friend you regularly interact with that you don’t fear the moment when they will switch from listening to your concerns to seeing you as the evil zionist or indoctrinated hasbaranik they’ve been warned about.

it’s not an irrational fear. it keeps happening. you knew it would then, and you were powerless to do anything about it before, and you continue to be as it happens again and again.

you don’t know what to do about any of it.