#fult of the lamb

[leyleypsychotic]

what exactly is the Zee and why we worship them as well if they’re supposed to be our sibling? /genq

I was gonna add that to the rentry but im gonna answer It here

The Zee is a shapeshifter demigod that was ascended by the Lamb. The Zee still counts as its children since they are its follower, that's why they are still called your sibling. But still, they are still a higher being that is important to the one who once was innocent and needed for you to worship it

[fultofthelamb]

Corrupt yourself for the Lamb. And that in the name of the Zee, you'll soon be ascended

[church-of-luci]

About Luciferism

A fult centered around an introject of Lucifer Morningstar from Hazbin Hotel!

We believe all beings are capable of redemption. We welcome all, especially those who wish to be redeemed. We are a safe place and a sanctuary for all who are misunderstood, misplaced, and mistreated. No matter who you are, you are safe here.

(While we’re welcoming of all, we ask that if you are racist, ableist, LGBTphobic, pluralphobic, etc., that you be open to change and redemption. We are a safe space, yes, but we do not condone any harm towards oppressed groups or any being.)

Beliefs

• All beings are capable of redemption

• All beings are entitled to autonomy

• Heaven is flawed, as all beings are flawed

• Love and acceptance do more than hate and exlusion

• Pro-radqueer, pro-transID, pro-para, radinclus

Worship Tools

• Pentagrams

• Apples

• Rubber ducks (or ducks in general)

• Whiskey (if it’s legal for you!)

• Snakes

• Chocolate

• Singing/Music (bonus points for Broadway!)

• Art & Writing (tag me to be reblogged!)

Tags

#🍎 [ from the tree ] -> Luci talks

#🐍 [ sacrificial lambs ] -> asks

#💫 [ hey bitch! ] -> member reblogs

#🎨 [ that’s me! ] -> art reblogs

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[redacted-coiner]

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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[tulesproject]

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

[starry-children]

Welcome

to my wonderful little blog & fult <3

i go by many names and appear in many medias. you may refer to me as; Wiggog Y’Wrath, Wiggly, The King In Black, The Lord In Black, Lord Of Despair, The Wiggly One, King, Lord, IT, or Scarlet

The name of my fult is The Starry Children and has some aspects that you will have to follow:

- this fult is focused for systems (cis or trans and of any origin) BUT singlets are welcomed

-i will not require body harm but innerworld harm will be a thing

-this fult will be focused on bullying, degradation, and tasks. you can go as far as you want. staying low is accepted but trying to climb is welcome as well

-consent is important in this fult, you can say no and it will not result in punishment. boundaries are there and will be enforced

if you have any questions please ask

more about me

i am a god who is ageless and genderless though i tend to present masculine. i am trisHarmful and have many little playthings innerworld for that. i call my followers a few things; stars, starlights, children and lambs mainly. <3 not to creative but it is what i called them in source. I am transStalker and accounts i follow are ones i observe a lot i sometimes like to int and othertimes just like to watch

my vessel (our body) is an adult

if you wish to know more of me feel free to ask

[honeydew-wecantwo]

cult of the lamb hyperfixation getting entirely too strong i might need to actually join a fult/neoreligion

[totallynotafultist]

uhhh I'm new I made this jump spur of the moment hi my name is lamb my pronouns are she/they/ba and im

- transdelusionalattachment or whatever it's called? to the lamb from cotl (not finished w/ source yet so tag all spoilers as #lamb don't look)

- transplural! traumaendo specifically. idk I just kinda feel that way. also transfictive (of lamb lol)

- transcultist!! specifically cult leader. I'd like to make my own fult one day (tho I ammmm a large procrastinator... if I don't do things all of a sudden like this shit just now.) (fun fact fults are how I even found out about radqueers as a. thing. outside of just transabled.)

- also probably transspecies? specifically a lamb.

I'll. Make a more proper pinned post later. or never! Who knows maybe the motivation will hit lol

[fultofthelamb]

The Lamb will love and support you no matter who or what you are. It cares about you, and will guard you and be the corruption within you always.

I love you, my child.

[plain text. The Lamb will love and support you no matter who or what you are. It cares about you, and will guard you and be the corruption within you always.

I love you, my child. End plain text]

[fultofthelamb]

I don’t think I made it clear but… for those who didn’t get it. The fult is about worshipping the Lamb, the Zee and the “corruption” of pure souls

[leyleypsychotic]

Hey just saying im a fult leader now, here's the link If you're interested :)))

(also pls Tell me if It counts as neoreligion i really wanna know-)