#Hiveminds

[theriu]

For as popular as the idea of a "hivemind" is we never talk about how it doesn't exist in nature. There's no animal colony that connects and controls all its members through a psychic connection. Even bees, the eponimous hivemind, communicate by pheremones and, more importantly, interpretive dance. My point is when are we going to get a movie about an intensely organized alien race that mainly communicates via sick dance moves, why are we sleeping on this.

[arachnixe]

Two hiveminds in love, fascinated by the differences between them. The individual members fuck each other—and sure, that's fun—but when a hivemind wants to feel another inside itself, nothing beats trading members back and forth, each subsuming a piece of the other into itself.

[sophieinwonderland]

Is there something to be said about comparing a tulpa to like, a wizards familiar? Idk, it’s what feels like a cool idea, I just don’t have any real substance behind it. -Aspen

Yes! But there is a lot of variation in what is a "familiar."

Familiars could be divided into a lot of different categories. There are spiritual familiars that are connected to somebody, and these can very often come off as extremely plural for the same reason any spiritual system is plural.

Historically, I think there is a good case to be made that a lot of familiars like this may have been psychological headmates interpreted as something spiritual.

In other cases, there were familiar spirits that were said to be locked in objects. I'd like to do more research into these, because it sounds like it could give a historical basis for what I call Inhabitation, where a headmate is manifesting and identifying as a physical object.

I also think that animal familiars could be examples of headmates manifesting not just as objects, but as physical creatures. Someday, I would like to write about inhabitation of living physical creatures and how that could give the illusion of telepathy. Because there are today still plenty of people who believe they have telepathic communication with physical animals the same way that the POSIC community reports communicating with stuffed animals.

If we are just focusing purely on the typical fictional familiars where all of the magic is assumed to be objectively real, there are two main kinds that I know of. In the first, the familiar is a completely separate being. Think Salem from Sabrina the teenage witch. It's just an animal, sometimes a sapient talking one, that is more like a pet. This is something that I wouldn't consider plural, because they aren't sharing any mental link at any point.

But there are others where there is a mental link between the two. And in those cases, I think that's something extremely plural. Cases of these types of mind sharing and mental links, I would consider to fall towards the center of my hivemind and multiplicity horseshoe.

Also, while not technically classified as a familiar, I'm realizing this also might apply to Eragon and Saphira from the Eragon series Ghost read as a child, and that we might need to revisit that at some point.

[theshadowrealmitself]

Hive mind species where you add one on social media and then suddenly your device crashes from the influx of add requests from everyone else in the hive mind

[cringywhitedragon]

So I’ve discovered the Planetary Moe comics and decided to do my hands at two characters based on fictional planets and hive minds (Who may be out for Earth)

The Iris and Tau Ceti 5 (From Gemini Home Entertainment and System Shock 2)

The Iris is a strange planet/drifterwho has arrived in the Solar System for a currently unknown purpose. It’s “children”/“pets” are a bunch of fleshy Woodcrawlers.

It is after Earth and may have “persuaded” Neptune and a few other Gas Giants to work under its belt (More like mutated them and held a few moons for hostage.)

They are best described as rather grotesque looking (Think Cancer Cell from Cells at Work). They have an affinity for gardening and have a large appetite for meat.

Knowledgable with technology

They’re shorter then Saturn and Jupiter but are considered a pest in their eyes.

Loves to pick on Neptune and gas giant moons (Tends to tie them together, Neptune usually gets dragged along as it’s “second in command”)

They also ate a probe (and yes I mean ate. It tasted awful but it’s said to still be in them)

“The Red Spot is a Wound

The Rings are the Gateway

One is the Butt

Neptune has been Mutated

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Tau Ceti 5 is the fifth planet of the Tau Ceti star system.

On the outside, they appear normal save for the fact that they claim to have voices in their head and sometimes speak as if something else is controlling them. Also they have a little spaceship they found.

Their best friends are a bunch of Worms. Do not tell or ask SATURN about Citadel Station or where those things came from. THOSE ARE BAD MEMORIES.

[pandora-and-gobo]

Okay so some news bout' Gobo over here. A few weeks ago they figured out their full dream angel form.. which they were having issues understanding, the tail is what was missin'. Gobo very shortly after this realization ended up actually merging into the collective hivemind of the dream angels. They became a part of the hive. Let's just say it was overwhelming for them. But felt right at the same time.

Heck, they actually co-piloted the body with Button then. Because they could barely control their hands.

[kaijuposting]

People are like "hiveminds are so scary, I think being in one would be the worst!" My good person you are a social critter who will experience extreme distress if you do not check in and find out what all your friends are thinking on the regular. You probably carry around a device to make this easier. You're already part of a hivemind, because that's what people do.

[bryan-aiello]

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[spicelold]

Riley !

[arrimorr]

Every security guard in Hl1 being the same freaking dude is still one of the funniest things ever to me. Barneys.....

Like what the hell is this.

[buggbuzz]

gone fishin'!

[arachnixe]

Here's To Us

Something in this androgynous creature’s eyes captivates me. It draws me in, inviting me to say hi and strike up a conversation.

“What are your pronouns?” I ask, after they introduce themselves, trying to be polite.

“We/us/our,” is the response.

It catches me off guard. “Even for others referring to you?”

“To ‘us,’ yes,” they—we—gently correct.

I’ve never heard of such a thing, but, uh, we are so attractive, full of such captivating allure, that I can’t help but put in the extra effort for us.

“A-alright. May I buy…us a drink, then?” I feel a little awkward and unsure about referring to us this way, but…

We smile brightly, and in that moment our smile is the sweetest gesture I’ve ever seen. “We would enjoy that,” we tell me.

We share drinks and lovely conversation. We talk about our work, our hobbies, and our dreams of the future. It gets easier and easier to refer to us correctly over time.

It isn’t long before we stumble out of the bar together, unable to keep our hands off each other.

We duck into the nearby alleyway, ignoring the annoyed look from the bartender on her smoke break while we pin us to the wall and press our lips together, filled with such needy heat and desire.

We’re terribly drunk, and it becomes so hard to tell whose hands are whose. Whose fingers slipping under whose skirt, whose teeth breaking whose skin—none of that matters in this dizzying blur of mutual fixation from us on us.

We don’t know when it happened—when the thought of saying “I” to refer to us became obscene, absurd, a slur that no longer fits in our mouth—but tonight, at some point, we smeared ourselves together in a way we could never separate again.

Just as we hoped.

The giddy excitement of adding a new us to ourselves mixes with the hazy intoxication of alcohol, and our bubbly, infectious joy carries us back home to the collective.

Oh, we’re going to fuck ourselves silly tonight.

[muyru-iru]

Fox: We have a lot more in common. We both are shunned by our own people. The GAR hates us Corries. The Jedi "hates" the Síth. The Senate hate us clones. The republicans the separatists. Where does the circle end? Nowhere. Obi-Wan might be the best negotiator but he's send to war with Cody. For that talent? Unfitting. I would have had him in the Senate but they don't deserve him and he's a bit dense if you look at Anakin.

Count Dooku: how did you even get into this ship? I made it sure it was secured.

Fox: no..no..listen to me. I'm not finished here. Anakin. Anakin is the embodiment of a war prodigy but he does seem to lean to your side. Doesn't he? But foremost, I agree with you on the Jedi council. Not trustworthy. They do praise themselves to help everyone but had their noses deep in businesses that have nothing to do with them or don't require to believe in some force osik to deal with problems but real actions. And the only progress so far, as I traced back, is you.

Fox taking a sip from a bottle of moonshine: And no one knows this but I. You and me. Shouldn't we be colleagues? Weren't you that guy that ordered us? No wonder we fit so well. We weren't fabricated for the Jedi....no it was all you.

Count Dooku: And how did you come to this conclusion?

Fox: Nala Se.

Count Dooku: she...?

Fox: we're planning on burning the Senate down. Are you in?

Count Dooku: from the very start, Commander.

[thevulturesquadron]

Dropping this as an example and leaving out any names - so please don’t go and start an argument with these people or harass anyone. It’s not why I'm writing this, it gives them more attention, and there is no room for an actual conversation.

But, to my point! I am starting to believe that people online aren’t always shitheads on purpose. They are seriously lacking reading comprehension and that is absolutely terrifying.

In this one example the dev has not said any of the things they are being accused of. Let me break this down a bit.

Starting with the Bellara statement - the answer literally says Bellara is the most knowledgeable when it comes to elven magic EXCEPT compared to the elven gods. And even then, it’s prefaced by two things: 1. PROBABLY, which is used to show that it’s not a certainty and that there's a high chance there are others around the world (let’s saaay... people like Merrill), but they are not within reach so it's inconsequential. And 2. ‘Bellara ASSUMES’, which implies she doesn’t actually hold the totality of knowledge. The game shows again and again that she is in the process of learning through experimenting and nothing in this answer contradicts that. Additionally, literally during the game, Bellara has access to Solas’s ancient library at the Lighthouse AND an ancient archive of knowledge. Basically she has MANUALS on ancient magic from the very people that practiced it.

2. ‘Evanuris don’t understand magic’ - again the answer never said that. What it conveyed was that the Evanuris had access to magic and found ways to make it work for them. It was a tool, much like electricity: we didn’t invent it, it is a phenomenon we learnt to turn into power and use. The game kept reminding everyone again and again that the Evanuris weren’t gods, just powerful mages and Epler’s answer just reaffirmed that. (Plus this is something previous games have also hinted at repeatedly). The Elven Gods didn’t invent magic, and much like everyone else in Thedas, after they tapped into that force they started applying it in ways they were able to understand. Solas himself (the voice the devs created to tell a story) said that in so many ways throughout the game, so why are people acting like this is the first time they're hearing about it??

Anyway, this is just me taking the time to analyze one of the many absolutely mind-boggling takes that exist out there, and there’s… a lot of them. These people should just put the phone down and open a book.