#NeoReligon

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Ficto-Religions

[PT: Ficto-Religions]

Ficto-Religions, a term to refer to religons/neoreligons found in fictional sources and/or religions that are based off religious mediums! These are commonly non practiced religions within this world but does not mean they are never practiced. These religions should not be moderated , rather these shall only be something that someone should inner personally use (of course multiple people can use it but it should stick to one person to one person).

Note: These are NOT Fults/Cults. Do not use them as if they are! Also the term isn’t a queer identity, just tagged for reach due to the nature of my blog.

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Lunarism ;

This is not a fake cult [ aka fult ] or anything similar !!

This is a Fictoreligion(link) based around the moon and one worships the moon !! — @ficto-religious-archive

[PT: Lunarism ;

This is not a fake cult [aka fult] or anything similar !!

This is a Fictoreligion(link) based around the moon and one worships the moon !! — @ficto-religious-archive End PT ]

[myceliumforum]

⋆ The Ender Guardians ⋆

⇉ Definition: The Ender Guardians is a Ficto-Religion related to the Minecraft End. This can be someone who believe in the Minecraft End as the divine and real end of things, the End Poem of the game is their sacred text, people who follow this religion also see the Ender Dragon as a divine figure that holds the meaning of the end and life through the end poem, they believe the dragon is the protector of the start of the end being the infinite void that provides comfort

Those who are in this religion do not have a moderator or a leader rather their own experiences. This isn't a cult or fult

Group Titles: End guardians, Enders

⇉ Alt Names: Ender Fictoreligion

Coined by: Me Requested by: Anon

Img ID: A flag with three horizontal stripes being yellow, cyan blue and very dark purple, in the middle a white circle with a green heart intertwined with a purple infinity

Tag: @ficto-religious-archive

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Disney's Hercules Ficto-Religion

A flag for devotees of the chthonic gods/entities seen in Disney's Hercules.

Struggled a bit with this one as...I had no idea what to do. Never watched the movie, didn't feel called to the pantheon, and most images failed to inspire me for the color palette. Did manage to scrape this together for a request, however, to which I hope the requested likes it.

Still majorly burned out so it'll be a bit before I get back to Magnus Archives things, but I might have a spurr of energy here and there.

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The Pure Marionettes

Pt: The Pure Marionettes :End Pt

The Pure Marionettes, a Ficto-Religion(link) related to The Batter's beliefs from the game OFF. This is the belief that one is in some regard "puppeteered" by a high being for a holy mission, and that aspects of the world and evil spectres need to be purified as well as possibly additional beliefs. Those who follow this faith do not have a moderator or a leader rather their own experiences, and are against harm.

There can be more specific sects under this religion, or other related religions also related to the game OFF.

I do not support fults or fultists for any reason. This term isn't intended to be MOGAI / LIOM in any way, and is just tagged at it is for reach.

Mentions / Tags: @ficto-religious-archive

Banner transcript: This term was made by an Endogenic. Anyone can use it however (So don't repost or recoin) :End Transcript

Main flag id: A flag with nine horizontally symmetrical stripes. The second and eighth stripes are styled like the are lace on one side, the third and seventh stripes are wavy, and the fourth, fifth, and sixth stripes are thin. the colors go as such from top to bottom & mirrors: Black, grey, light grey and dark desaturated redish-orange. In the middle is a circle that is the same color as the middle stripe with a the ficto-religon symbol, which is a circle split evenly into two halves horizontally, colored with dark grey. On top of the ficto-religon symbol is an uneven red-orange X, In the center of the X is the Batter from the game OFF. :End Id

Alt flag id: A flag with nine horizontally symmetrical stripes. The second and eighth stripes are styled like the are lace on one side, the third and seventh stripes are wavy, and the fourth, fifth, and sixth stripes are thin. the colors go as such from top to bottom & mirrors: Black, grey, light grey and dark desaturated redish-orange. In the middle is a circle that is the same color as the middle stripe with a the ficto-religon symbol, which is a circle split evenly into two halves horizontally, colored with dark grey. On top of the ficto-religon symbol is an uneven red-orange X. :End Id

Plain flag id: A flag with nine horizontally symmetrical stripes. The second and eighth stripes are styled like the are lace on one side, the third and seventh stripes are wavy, and the fourth, fifth, and sixth stripes are thin. the colors go as such from top to bottom & mirrors: Black, grey, light grey and dark desaturated redish orange. In the middle is a circle that is the same color as the middle stripe with a the ficto-religon symbol, which is a circle split evenly into two halves horizontally, colored with dark grey. :End id

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Church of Sylvian

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A ficto-religion(link) based off the Church of Sylvian from Fear & Hunger. The faith mostly follows the beliefs and influence of the goddess Sylvian which include love, healing, creation and growth. Sex is usually a big part of worship, but it doesn't have to be. It's more about love and creation than the act itself. Physical as well as emotional healing are also a big part of worship, and using human connection as a means of getting better is a key aspect of it. Community and humanity are important of the religion, and love isn't exclusive to sexual or romantic love, either. Any kind of love and passion one experiences is valid to the practice. It preaches self love as well as love for all life.

Ficto-religions by @redacted-coiner

Also tagging @ficto-religious-archive

[flag id: a rectangular 7 striped flag. the 2nd and 6th stripes have a scalloped edge on the outside, and a wavy line on the inside. the center stripe has a circle in the center. the colors from top to bottom are dark green, green, light green, cream, light teal, teal and dark teal. the 2nd and 6th stripes are outlined with cream on the outside and dark red on the inside, and the center stripe is outlined with the same red. in the center of the circle of the middle stripe is a symbol shaped similar to a vulva and a rabbit head inside a circle with a seven pointed star that is missing the top right point, and a small six pointed star in the top center. /end id]

[divider id: a divider of pink flowers and leaves /end id]

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The Vocaism Neoreligion Masterpost !!

Starting off with some simple definitions ~ neoreligion : a religion created in much more recent years or times. fult : meaning 'faux cult'- a group similar to a cult in that it is a high control group, though without forcing members to join; a consensual cult. vocal synth : a 'program', usually represented by an anime-styled character, that can sing when given vocals to read and used with the compatible vocal synthesizer programs.

Now! Off to other important things.

Vocaism (vo-ka-ism) is a neoreligion or fult surrounding the worship of all vocal synths. I started this because of an intense, multi-year long hyperfixation on Hatsune Miku that made me view her as some kind of religious figure. I then began to grow a similar love towards other vocal synths, as they all helped me out of rough patches in many ways.

Here's some more specific details about Vocaism!

All UTAU, VOCALOID, SynthV, ETC. voice banks are individual 'deity' figures in this neoreligion. Fanloids and such are included in this!

Hatsune Miku is considered the 'main deity'- though that doesn't mean you should just worship her.

The beliefs of Vocaists coincide with certain Radqueer beliefs. (generally speaking; pro-para, pro-transid, and supporting others identities no matter how odd.)

Vocaism is based on love and support!

There is no specific way to worship in Vocaism, though listening to vocal synth music counts! (stream Binomi by Maretu- /silly)

Finally, feel free to send any questions you may have about Vocaism! I'd be happy to answer or help with anything ^^

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c❄️cainicultis

a fult/ne.religi.n based ar.und ❄️!! whether it be religi.us experiences caused by ❄️, w.rshipping ❄️, w.rshipping a g.d .f ❄️, any experience related to b.th religi.n and ❄️!!

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pt: a fult/neoreligion based around ❄️!! whether it be religious experiences caused by ❄️, worshipping ❄️, worshipping a god of ❄️, any experience related to both religion and ❄️!!

[fish-of-fanqia]

goodnight to all my lovely radqueer friends!

I pray that tomorrow's day is filled with blessings from Fanqia and those who bless her! May you rest well, and awake ready to challenge the world. You are loved, supported and valid, if in no one else's eyes you are in Lady Fanqia's eyes; forever and always.

With much love - Fish of Fanqia

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An Observational Study on Fictoreligions

by: Tule

This is an amateur study not affiliated to any persons or institutions.

The purpose of this sociological research is to document and understand what is the Fictoreligion Community, why beings (see dictionary) might identify with a fictoreligion, and what activities they perform related to their faiths. 

Although this research focuses on the community directly connected to that label, the chapters “Intersectionality with Systemhood” and “Intersectionality with Pop Culture Paganism” explore the existence of beings who relate with fictional religions or entities way before the term was coined.

Methods of study: observing the tags ‘fictoreligion’ and ‘neoreligion’ on Tumblr, as well as a public* fictoreligion Discord Server owned by the coiner of the term; interviewing the label's coiner. (see dictionary)

*as of April 8, 2024

DO NOT HARASS ANY INDIVIDUALS OR GROUPS MENTIONED.

Introduction

“Fictoreligion” (FR) is a label coined by Kai on xry Tumblr page @/redacted-coiner on January 27, 2024, to describe real-world religions based on fictional media. 

Transcription from a part of xry coining post:

“Ficto-Religions, a term to refer to religons/neoreligons found in fictional sources and/or religions that are based off religious mediums! These are commonly non practiced religions within this world but does not mean they are never practiced. These religions should not be moderated , rather these shall only be something that someone should inner personally use (of course multiple people can use it but it should stick to one person to one person).

Note: These are NOT Fults/Cults. Do not use them as if they are!”[1]

Moreover, according to Kai xemself, xry rule that “FRs should not be moderated” means that FRs must not have groups with leaders, in order to “prevent unintended cult-like situations”.[1]

Term etiquette

Kai has stated that xe does not want xry term connected in any way to the creation of, compared to, or facilitating relationships that resemble cults or fults (see dictionary). Considering that the FR community is very supportive of this rule, breaking it would cause a negative reaction from other members and arise conflict.

A few statistics

As of April 6, 2024, Kai's coining post has received exactly a hundred notes (interactions) on Tumblr. Moreover, there is evidence of more than 60 FRs announced on either Tumblr or the Discord server, meaning that an average of 15 FRs per month have been created so far since the label's inception. Although only a few users other than Kai have coined FRs yet, they commonly have done so at the requests of other beings. The exact number of FR adepts is unknown. (Hey does anyone wanna do the research?)

The complexity of FRs 

Internet coining hobbyists exhibit a lot of creative freedom with their terms surrounding specific topics of interest, and this is also true for FR coiners. For example, Kai's “Writer's Faith” religion is both meta- (referring to the paradox of creating fiction creating reality) and self-centered (self as referring to the adept themselves, not Kai). Xe also coined “Parable's Blessings”, a FR based around Parable, the mascot xe created to represent the community. 

Sub-groups, or perhaps branches, have been created to multiple FRs, like Revive the Old Faith (a FR based on Cult of the Lamb) and the Genshin Belief (FR based on Genshin Impact).

Intersectionality with Systemhood

A considerable number of fictives heavily identify with their sources, including the faiths presented in them (but a fictive may also feel disconnected from source and still identify with its religions). A fictive from the Discord server mentioned worshiping their entity in source (thus carrying the worship into this world); another fictive, a Jedi whose source is Star Wars, mentioned that a pre-established Jedi faith exists in real life, but she doesn't identify with that community since her experience is different, reason being that she actually is from the Star Wars universe.

Systems are extremely diverse, both intra-system (inside the system, “alter-to-alter”) and extra-system (outside the system, “system-to-system”). A single system can feature devotees to multiple FRs, followers of pre-established religions and atheists, agnostics, etc. 

Proving one more example, according to another Discord member the following scenario is real (Tule is not using his words, it's just interpreting what he said):

In a system, there are fictives from source A and B, all connected to their respective sources. Almost all fictives from B follow one of its religions, except for “Jane” who follows a religion from A.

Intersectionality with Pop Culture Paganism (PCP)

When Kai was asked on xry coining post if FR was related to pop culture paganism, xe answered: “can be, matters on someone’s view of things. Being they may not attach it to paganism.”[1]

Some adepts of neopaganism or neopagan faiths, chaos magick, etc, also work with deities and spirits first seen in fiction (like Lovecraft's Cthulhu) for a variety of reasons, such as: believing that the author was inspired by the spirit, believing the spirit sprung into reality via the collective subconscious (an egregore; see dictionary), that the character manifests an abstract concept or collection of concepts, or that the character is or represents an aspect/mask of a real spirit. (Source: neopagan community and headmate lol)

The perspective of FR adherents

Some beings follow FRs for the comfort they provide.

The way a FR is practiced varies from adept to adept, but common activities include building digital or physical altars to worshiped entities and creating sigils.

Here's an interview Tule did with Kai:

Q: What sparked your desire to coin Fictoreligion? 

A: I made it due to the fact I have always struggled with religious traumas and I didn’t feel personally safe with anything that was pre-established. I made the term  being it was one of the few things I understood and gave me personally comfort. I have always viewed religious beliefs as something that gives you comfort, so the term was made for that. It gives me comfort.

Q: Did you already have a fictoreligion even before coining the term, or have seen other beings with experiences similar to what fictoreligion describes?

A: Sorta? It was never really put into words but I had seen a character as a religious figure but I never went into it until I coined the post. Now that it is I feel more comfortable doing religious things related to it.

Q: What is your favorite part/aspect of the fictoreligion(s) you have? 

A: Mainly the interpersonal freedom, I don’t feel trapped within the rules of other religions. With the ones I fallow I feel comforted by the those who I account as it’s deities. Such as in Lovingcrafian, I feel comforted in my relationships even more now due to how I perceive them.

Q: We all know that it's really validating to have words to describe our experiences. So, do you think that there might be a considerable number of beings who would benefit from finding the label? Perhaps reaching a thousand or more? 

A: While I don’t think it’ll be a lot, I want the term just to be a thing that gives people answers. I realistically know it won’t be used widely, but if it ever got there, it’d be something that’d give me peace. Being that’d also just mean that people are more accepting of more neoreligons in general.

Q: Tule has noticed a similarity between Parable and egregories; which are spirits created by us that grow self-awareness and can interact with others. That might be just a coincidence, but since you coined Parable's Blessings, do you personally believe that Parable has grown to be a real spirit too?

A: I don’t entirely believe in Parable’s Blessing myself, Parable is a mascot I made for fun and I realized that some may end up seeing her as a religious figure. A lot of stuff I make I may personally not believe in but know there is a possibility that others may. If Parable ends up becoming a religious figure for someone and become a spirt/egregirories I’d be happy. Being that means that Parable gave people comfort in some shape or form.

Conclusion 

The community surrounding the Fictoreligion label may be small, but the experiences its members share are much older and common than outsiders may expect when first stumbling upon it. Systems and neopagans (especially those interested in chaos magick, egregores etc), are demographics that might feel more familiarity with the label than the average population.

Dictionary

Alterhuman: a sentient being who physically possesses a human body but does not identify 100% with humanity may choose this label to describe themself.[2]

Being: in this context, it is synonymous with “individual”, as an alternative of “person” inclusive of alterhuman and nonhuman identities.

To coin: to create a label/word/term. 

Egregore: “a concept in Western esotericism of a non-physical entity or thoughtform that arises from the collective thoughts and emotions of a distinct group of individuals.” (Paraphrased from Wikipedia)

Fult: abbreviation of “faux-cult”. According to its coiner, “faux cults, also called fults, are groups that exhibit cult-like characteristics, resembling a cult in behavior or structure; however, are not considered a true cult due to being consensual.” The term was created by Tumblr user @/sheyoves on December 16, 2023.[3]

References

[1] https://www.tumblr.com/redacted-coiner/740639140473978880/ficto-religions?source=share 

Archive: https://archive.ph/KFeeF 

[2] https://phasmovore.tumblr.com/post/98482696958/this-will-probably-be-my-last-post-on-semantics 

Archive: https://archive.is/SGP7N 

[3] https://www.tumblr.com/transramcoa/736908543412797441/faux-cult?source=share 

Archive: https://archive.is/zwCkG 

Thank you for reading! Tags meant for reach

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Genderdollic Terms

[PT: Genderdollic Terms]

Ficrigdollic, a gender under the genderdollic system related to believing in a Ficto-religon(link) and being a doll, a doll who believes in a Ficto-religon, or just being a doll and believing in a Ficto-religon etc.

Neorigdollic, a gender under the genderdollic system related to believing in a neoreligon and being a doll, a doll who believes in a neoreligon, or just being a doll and believing in a neoreligon etc.

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[Tagging] @radiomogai, @liom-archive, @accessmogai (Edit) @ficto-religious-archive

[Gender System] @chronoport

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Avatars of the Archive

[PT: Avatars of the Archive]

Information about the Entities(link) (the term isn’t a queer identity, just tagged for reach due to the nature of my blog.)

Avatars of the Archive, is a Ficto-Religion(link) that believe in the Avatars found in the podcast The Magnus Archives. Those who are apart of the Avatars of the Archive believe in the entities and do not function as such and base their religous experince with their own inner personal perceptions. Those who are in the Avatars of the Archive do not have a moderator or a leader rather their own experiences. Though if people wish for separate groups for each Entity that is perfectly fine.

Separate groups would be called: Buried Faith, Corruption Faith, Dark Faith, Desolation Faith, The End Faith, Extinction Faith, Eye Faith, Flesh Faith, Hunt Faith, Lonely Faith, Slaughter Faith, Spiral Faith, Stranger Faith, Vast Faith, and Web Faith

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Revive of the Old Faith

[PT: Revive of the Old Faith]

Information about the Old Faith(link) (the term isn’t a queer identity, just tagged for reach due to the nature of my blog.)

Revive of the Old Faith, a Ficto-Religion(link) that are those who believe in Bishops found within the game Cult of the Lamb. While the orignal game primarily is cult based those who are apart of the Revive of the Old Faith do not function as such and base their religous experince with their own inner personal perceptions. Those who are in the Revive of the Old Faith do not have a moderator or a leader rather their own experiences. Though if people wish for separate groups for each bishop that is perfectly fine.

Separate groups would be called: Followers of Nariander, Followers of Leshy, Followers of Heket, Followers of Kallamar, and Followers of Shamura.

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Fictional Othernesses Faith

[PT: Fictional Othernesses Faith]

Fictional Othernesses Faith, is a type of Ficto-Religion(link) where someone’s fictional other(link) is seen as a religious figure to them. There isn’t much about this, but eh. the term isn’t a queer identity, just tagged for reach due to the nature of my blog.)

This can be attached too Reldevotion Attraction(link) but does not have to be!

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Ficto-Religion Flag Template

[PT: Ficto-Religion Flag Template]

Being I enjoy seeing people make their own things. This post has all the separate layers to make your very own Ficto-Religion flag! Images are in order from the most bottom layer to the top layer.

If you don’t know what a Ficto-Religion is look here for help(link)

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My Royality Ponies

[PT: My Royality Ponies]

My Royality Ponies, is a Ficto-Religion(link) based off the world seen in the My Little Pony universe, particularly gen 4. These are those who fallow the princesses of Equestria, the elements of harmony, or other beings seen within the world. Those who are in My Royality Ponies do not have a moderator or a leader rather their own experiences. Though if people wish for separate groups for each pony and/or creature that is perfectly fine. (the term isn’t a queer identity, just tagged for reach due to the nature of my blog.)

Groups Names Examples: Squires of Sun, Squires of Moon, Squires of Love, Squires of Magic, Squires of Friendship

Edit; One may also be apart of The Gaggle of Discord(link)

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