#cult mention

[separocean-anxiety]

Joanna Wang has a song about this!

a cult whose leader thought they were just doing improvised live-action roleplaying and are only now realizing that oh shit, you guys were serious about this?

[oncillaphoenix]

I don't think N would be terribly interested in most social media but tbh I can see him getting big on TikTok. he makes an account because Bianca mentions using it for scientific outreach and he figures he can use it to teach a few people how to form deeper bonds with their pokemon, and he has enough good looks and accidental cult leader rizz that he quickly goes viral despite his lack of update schedule or video editing skills. his account is half calling out habitat destruction and videos about how to read your pokemon's body language, half him rambling about random cool math concepts at 3 in the morning while his legendary dragon looms ominously in the background. ok wait I'm weirdly invested in the idea of future N as a semi-accidental tiktok influencer now

[windybluebelles]

Whiz Kid Billy Batson goes to Gotham to get an interview from the Waynes…

Only to shove all of them out of the way and start talking with this random blonde teenager???

And- is that Greek? Since when could Whiz Kid speak Greek? Are the teen’s eyes glowing? What is happening???

Guys I do badly want Billy and Bernard to interact it’s not even funny.

You cannot tell me that Billy, The God’s Champion, Batson and Bernard, nearly became a human vessel for Dionysus, Dowd, wouldn’t feel a kinship with one another over their weird relationships with the Greek Pantheon

Also also also also, I really want Bernard and Freddie to share theories they used to believe in about superhero’s. Tim could also join in with his past stalkerish tendencies, it would be like family bonding, but for autistic boys with troubled home lives.

Honestly I just want any fic where either Bernard or Billy interact with either eachother or other DC characters with relations to Gods or Cults

[awkwardandeccentric]

So I know that a lot of people are anxious about the “Stolas joins I.M.P. Arc” and I get it, but since it looks like the show is going that way, I do want to point out three reassuring things:

1. He’ll more of a chance to find community. It wasn’t just Paimon keeping him under lock-and-key that kept him isolated. It’s also a cult that actively kept him discouraged from talking to anyone that wasn’t a Goetia or a Sin. There just aren’t that many Goetia or Sin, and even less who like him. If he’s able to diversify his options for community, he’ll find other out and proud queer people. Autistic people. People who don’t use him as the scapegoat or the cautionary tale. It’s not like Blitzø will keep him dependent and locked up. If anything, I imagine Blitzø will actively encourage Stolas to find community in others.

2. Stolas’ classism/racism is at its worst when he’s around the other Goetia (namely Stella). Probably because he's unconsciously trying to fit in to a community that will not accept him. But when he doesn't talk to the other Goetia for a while, he chills out a lot. Not to where he needs to be, but he at least treats them like autonomous beings with feelings. I think it’ll be a lot easier for someone to point out his race/class issues if he’s not being influenced by a community that requires that mentality to be accepted.

3. The Ars Goetia is a cult. I cannot stress that enough. He’s in a cult. He needs to GTFO for his own safety and well-being. It’s a high-control setting that does not allow you to fraternize with anyone not like you and controls everything about you, like how you dress, who you marry, your reproductive life, your job, etc. He was nearly murdered and there were no repercussions. The Ars Goetia need to be torn down as a society. They are actively damaging not only their own people, but also a lot of Hell, itself.

[asher-012]

That's crazy wtf (also I apologize for all the reblogs we just found your account and are giving it a scroll for a while)

I personally myself don't believe a feeling or disorder can be abusive. Like how you're for empath abuse, however I understand what your account is about (or at least I believe I understand it, if it's for the people who claim to be 'empaths' but are so incredibly shitty).

Either way that's getting off topic. I swear that some people are DEFINITELY leaning to cultist like???? They just seem crazy honestly, narc abuse believers have absolutely NO logic behind it. Their only argument is always "well I was abused by [x person]" and label said person a narcissist only because they're an abuser, which haha. Isn't how our disorder works!! They're mostly just too ignorant I'd say, they're people who are hurt from trauma and that's fine, but they let that be an excuse for acting shitty and are, in turn, not much better than what their abuser was to them. They give abusers an excuse and stigmatize the disorder in the process which then leads to, 1. People struggling for a diagnosis, 2. Abusers or ex-abusers furthermore will avoid NPD all together when acknowledging that could be beneficial (even active abusers are able to notice they have issues), 3. Society outcasts people with said disorder. And MORE! then they complain about people not seeking help??? Like buddy, we can't seek help because of YOU. Because you demonized us so fucking much!

I could go on forever but I'll stop it here but yeah

Are narc abuse truthers a cult? Like I’m actually asking because like

They literally said “anyone who disagrees with me is the evil thing”

[bendysinitiation]

Sammy’s cult if it was awesome

This isn’t technically in the au, it’s more concept, but I love it. It is based off of a snippet of a Snow White documentary where it was a band playing but all of them had these eerie Mickey Mouse masks on with soulless eyes. Apparently, it was extra footage in the Snow White dvd, but I can’t really seem to find more about it.

(Image ID: A black and white digital painting of Sammy Lawrence conducting a band. His hands are raised, the pose that signals the song is about to start, with his conducting stick in his left hand. He, along with the players, are all wearing plastic-looking masks of Bendy, much more 3D than his usual cardboard mask. He also wears a tuxedo with a tie and pants. End ID)

Reference photo under cut

(Image ID: A black and white photo of a band. All of them have haunting Mickey Mouse masks on. The trumpets are in the front facing to the side, and there seems to be clarinets and a sousaphone to the far left. There’s a crowd watching them. The black sign on top says “Mickey Mouse”. End ID.)

[manganumber4]

Hunter x Hunter: Chapter 401 Theory

Both English-speaking and Japanese fans of Hunter x Hunter have theorised that Beyond Netero was modelled after the Aum Shinrikyo cult founder Shoko Asahara in chapter 401.

[valictini]

I was watching a video analysing how the Yiga clan were handled in botw and how the person analysing it lamented the fact that Kohga was a joke character who totally destroyed the much more threatening image the yiga clan had all throughout the game. Although I do understand the sentiment (I felt that way for a long time) I’ve come to realise that we might not be viewing it in the right perspective. I ended up writing a comment under that video explaining how I saw things, and realised that maybe it could interest people here too? So here is the fleshed out version of it:

I think part of why they made Kohga extremely goofy compared to a way less goofy clan of literal assassins is to emphasise how even though the clan originally held some understandable beliefs, it has become a cult of personality over the years, and like most cults, the leader is way less charismatic than his followers make him out to be. Indeed, from the outside, it seems absurd how anyone could take Kohga seriously, let alone kill under his command, but from the inside, Kohga is the Beloved Leader That Guides Them Towards Victory, and anyone threatening him deserves to die.

In a way, yiga clan members feel like vulnerable, impressionable people who were enrolled into a cult and given a Big Family and a purpose (and a lethal weapon) by their lovable Master Kohga who wants the best for them… Except if you want to get out, then you’re a filthy traitor who also deserves to die. It’s especially visible when you beat him and they all get personally mad at you for killing him. They didn’t care about Ganon, they didn’t seem to actually understand the bigger picture, they only cared about Kohga.

It also shows how, like the rest of Hyrule, the Yigas are very much disconnected from their own history, seemingly holding on the grudge their ancestors held more as an excuse to continue to enact violence and perpetuate the cult of personality than fighting for a “noble” cause. Only Kohga seems to actually care about Calamity Ganon, and the rest of the yigas seem to be just tools to him. Wether or not he’s actually conscious of what he’s doing is unclear. Is he a fully aware con artist, or is he purely another product of Yiga indoctrination?

So yeah, to me it feels like a parody/critic/mockery of cult dynamics. It shows that this gang of assassins are indeed a real menace, but for seemingly no reason other than “that one lunatic they admire told them to” and “if they go away they get killed”. The reason why the clan was originally created becomes almost anecdotal. Under the current leader, no one is required to actually know what they’re doing, they just need to follow orders.

In the end, I think it is the intention the developers had because cults are a rampant problem in Japan. At the very least, even if it’s not a actually conscious critic, it’s a concept that is much more present in their cultural landscape than ours and that almost certainly influenced how they handled the Yiga clan. Basically, cults are not cool and can even be dangerous both for the public and their members. Cult leaders especially are not cool and often are con artists. Therefore, Kohga couldn’t be badass, he had to be a doofus getting beaten in the most unexceptional way possible.

[thecorvidforest]

i’m so sick of people treating cults like silly little props for their stories. here’s a list of cozy games where you start a cult! try this board game where you’re competing to be the most successful cult leader! want to join my fake cult roleplay server? cult leader character design! read this forbidden erotica romance book about a cult leader and a cult member!

it’s so endlessly frustrating. the majority of my life i suffered awful abuse because of the cult i was in. every part of my body holds an immense amount of trauma that i may never be able to let go of, and i may never be able to function independently because of it. and people are out here acting as if cults are just silly fantasy and would never happen in real life. cults are real! their victims are real! the abuse and the trauma is real!

media about cults can absolutely be well-done and respectful - but at this point it feels like it’s almost always used for either shock value or treated like a fun cutesy storytelling trope. the commodification and normalization of our trauma is nauseating, especially when the majority of cult survivors will never see justice.

idk. i’m just so sick of it. cult survivors deserve better.

(anyone can interact but please be normal. i’m not sharing any identifying info about the cult i was in, don’t bother asking.)

[the-crow-cryptids-domain]

So yeah, Silas Birchtree, amirite?

[ingo-in-places-he-shouldnt-be]

Ingo shouldn't be joining a cult.

(Version with hat under the cut because I couldn't decide.)

[jojo-heritage-posts]

truly a top 5 jojo scene is dio trying to rope avdol into his sex cult and avdol jumping out of the closest window immediately

[computer-gummy-worm]

i like silas a lot

[earlgaylatte]

How to Empathize with the Sad Tboy who Lives in the Dorm Across From Yours-

1) Shed everything, from the seatbelt wrapped around your core to the sheets on your childhood bed. When the sun rises in the morning and peppers your face with kisses, draw the curtains and block him out. Believe what the media says about transness, that it is a life of absence.

2) Start practicing constant fear. Wake up with shaking hands and looming dread laying over you like a blanket. Check the news. Don't check the news. Prepare to carry the burden of every sixteen year old killed in the nearest big city, even when the police say it was a suicide. Check the news. Watch the murders slowly get closer to your home.

3) Put wrapping paper up over your mirrors because you can no longer bear the sight of yourself. If anyone asks why you aren't eating or showering, make something up. Fill your stomach on the feeling of shame.

4) Daydream that you were born a boy. Replace all your childhood memories with this version of you. Your father is still around, and he's carrying the precious little boy he's raising up to bed. His feet are nimbly dodging toy trucks and legos, and in the morning, he'll wake you up to scrambled eggs and little sips of his coffee. When he talks about you with his new family, he'll say, "That's my son," instead of "Pass me the bottle."

5) When your mom starts catching on, try to ignore the sobbing you hear from her bedroom, her shaking voice begging the pastor of your church to make sense of it. Don't knock and try to comfort her. Don't acknowledge how icy your stepfather has become, how often he seems to be accessing your masculinity and finding you lacking. And whatever you do, don't start trying to track down your father, who must've seen some ghost of it on you when he left.

6) When the church gathers around you in a circle, rebuking the boyhood they call demons, don't flinch. Don't cry either. Just clutch the baggy flannel you're wearing around you tighter, like a fabric hug could heal the fractures of your soul.

7) Don't call that church a cult, even if it was. Don't go back to it, either.

8) When you get older, stand in the bathroom with scissors, hair dye, and a promise. Slowly shape yourself into something you can recognize, soft waves of hair falling into the sink. When you see yourself again, it will be a disaster. But it will feel like being whole.

9) When your mom says that the HRT will kill you, when your stepdad says that the HRT will kill your mom, don't let it under your skin like the other cruelties. Don't trade a full life for conditional familiarity, some semblance of holiness, and no sense of self.

10) Instead, tell them that you want to live long enough to tell your story. Tell them if you die, it will be in a blaze of glory: god's gift of creation is told in the generational echoes of people like us.

[just-antithings]

This is probably old news to some, but so much of organized age regression on Tumblr is displaying cult-like behavior. You can’t use certain tags with other tags, you must do xyz just like us or else you’re badnastywrong and god forbid you have a sex life that involves age play, whether because the lines blur or because of trauma or just because age play is fun!

You are immediately exiled from any community other than the ones already “shunned” and badnastywrong to the cult.

I swear, I’m glad I got out of there when I did. I write age regression content on AO3 but I can barely go into the tag anymore because I see so many people shitting on age play and CG/l and I’m like.

Y’all.

They invented these terms, you KNOW that, right?

Whatever. I’ll continue to be an age regressor with a kinky side whether they want me to be or not.

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[qhideduo]

Because I've noticed this im the notes of my mooners art and talking to peeps, I want to know:

The Mooners were the members of the Moon Cult Mumbo created back in season 8, and that Impulse, Grian, Scar and Pearl were also part of.

(Please reblog so there's a wider range of data)