#imaginaries

[itsokimnotrealeither]

trying to get something started for people with imaginary friends, paras without paracosms, inner and outer visualizations, etc

Didn't find what I was looking for in Immersive Daydreaming or Tulpamancy places.

And there's an odd concept floating around that making a non-sentient thoughtform = cruel or unethical? Which seems backwards, if someone doesn't want or isn't prepared for that, it's like getting someone a pet rabbit for Easter when they're better off with a stuffed animal.

And while looking I've found people who have expressed interest, so...

Imagimancy (?)

(eh-maj-eh-manse-see)

Trying to make a community/tag for people with non-autonomous (or fauxtonomous) imaginaries and thoughtform constructs, NPCs and such.

similar to/overlap with: daemonism, tulpamancy, soulbonding, self-shipping, immersive daydreaming, willomancy, (etc)

considered more or less plural-adjacent

focusing more on visualization/imagination tips/talk, ideas for useful constructs, etc. No pushing people into making thoughtforms autonomous if they don't want to!

(currently very alterhuman heavy / ties to alterhumanity in general but isn't required or officially an alterhuman thing)

not trying to reinvent and re-label things, there's just a gap between communities here

[odd-im-o]

Making this to boost this post

Do you still have imaginary friends?

Fictional characters you talk to?

Friends in your head that aren't quite sentient enough to be alters?

Then consider dabbling in imagimancy!!

Imagimancy is a term meant to describe people who create imaginaries (any imagination-based being such as imaginary friends, pets, or companions)

We're trying to build a community based on having imaginary friends and are hoping this term picks up! Consider posting about your own experiences and tagging it so we can all chat

[imagicalcentral]

Imagimancy Guide for Beginners

Step 1: Create a headspace. To do this you just have to envision a space in your mind and slowly build it from the ground up. Places in your headspace could include a common room, your own room, and a room for your future imagi.

Step 2: Get in tune with your emotions as a starting point. Then once you feel emotionally prepared start brainstorming ideas for your imagi. It must come to you naturally and feel right. Forcing an imagi will only make the process uncomfortable. Don’t attempt to make an imagi that is nothing like you. Build up on yourself and ideas you have of yourself to make an imagi that will be in tune with you.

Step 3: Once you have the name, form, and pronouns of the imagi envision it doing mundane tasks in headspace such as walking around and allow your mind to get used to the idea of another being within your headspace.

Step 4: When your first start attempting to communicate with your imagi you will want to sit with it in headspace and try simple exercise such as analogies, counting, colors, shapes, objects, places, and similar.

Step 5: Once you feel confident in yourself and your imagi start to build up more complex sentences and topics. Do not expect any responses and just let yourself feed ideas into the imagi.

Step 6: Once you are comfortably and easily able to do the latter then start working with your imagi on empathetic communication. Think of yourself as a hivemind where you and your imagi can feel one another’s emotions. Try to invoke them to feel things and try to feel those emotions yourself. These will be both your own emotions and their emotions. Two sides of the same coin.

Step 7: Once you have a handle on the dual empathy start to spend time with your imagi. As well as occasionally act as your imagi. The act of acting as your imagi is called transferring.

(Steps can be adjusted to better suit your needs)

Feel free to ask questions about this in the replies or send me an ask!

[thestuffedalligator]

So usually when an imaginary friend is a real thing in a story, it’s either a demon or a ghost or some supernatural boogeyman that probably wants to eat the kid they’ve befriended (Mama, a couple of the Paranormal Activity movies), or “imaginary friends” are just treated as a real thing in the setting, and if a child just thinks hard enough they can manifest a friend into existence (Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, Happy).

And somewhere in the middle is an area where the imaginary friend in question is real and they are supernatural, but they aren’t malevolent, and they aren’t entirely honest about what they are. Like maybe they’re a fairy or a god or some kind of boggle from mythology, but they just got caught by a six year old and they don’t have time to get into it, so they just go “…Yes. I’m your imaginary friend. We haven’t met. How do you do.” And then they stick around because they do love this kid, and if you’re a boggle from mythology in the modern day good food is really hard to come by.

And at some level. That’s what I think Hobbes is.

[theanxiousbookdevourer]

A Collection of My Favorite Parenthetical Asides in Disco Elysium:

[gerardpilled]

soooo much of the modern conception of gender is based around products and consumerism that people can’t even identify actual misogyny anymore. People reply to posts “It’s sexist to hate on something so many women enjoy” and that something would be a Stanley cup

[angelgigisworld]

[destinationtoast]

My grandmother is Japanese and really likes to give gifts. Often those gifts are Japanese desserts or other food, but sometimes she just slips me cash, folded up inside a tiny, beautiful envelope. But she likes to pretend she's not giving me money, so when possible, she'll hide it somewhere that I will find later.

Today I spent the afternoon with her doing chores and tech support, and she clearly felt this warranted a significant gift in return (no matter that I enjoyed myself). But she forgot to slip something into my pocket or bag before I left, so instead she rushed outside as I was starting my car, making the old-school "roll down the window" gesture. Once I complied, she was forced to acknowledge she was handing me money, but she also tried to minimize the gesture.

The result was that she said, "Thank you, dear! I just wanted you to be able to... to buy yourself a hamburger," and then handed me a darling little envelope that turned out to contain $100. And all I could think was:

[teslacoils-and-hubris]

You just know vampire discourse would be insane

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🧛‍♂️ dr.acula follow

Cannot stand these freshly turned vamplings pretending like it doesn't matter if you're drinking virgin blood or not. As if unpure blood doesn't literally weaken vampiric powers 🙄

🦇 baby-batz follow

Wait omg is this true??? Is this why I've been having so much trouble staying in bat form??

🧛‍♂️ dr.acula follow

If you can't control wolves with your mind or turn into ominous mist it's literally because nonvirgin blood is basically poison. Like yeah you can drink it if you're starving but why would you do that to yourself intentionally?

🦷 fang-fag follow

op doesn't know what they're talking about. The virgin blood thing was made up by a bunch of victorian prudes who only hated sex more than they hated women. the fact that op (who had already been a vampire for decades when the myth was started, if you believe their bio) should be Very telling.

🩸 blood-fan follow

People will try and tell you that there's something wrong with you if you vampiric powers don't come naturally to you, but it's literally fine. You have all the time in the world to figure yourself out. Literally. You'll get there I promise

🧛‍♂️ dr.acula follow

You're all degenerates undeserving of the gift of eternal life after death

🦷 fang-fag follow

Lmaoooo not op showing their whole ass! XD

💀 stake-my-heart follow

But what about the blood types thing? Couldn't this be like the blood types thing?

🦷 fang-fag follow

For the last time, feeling better after drinking blood of the same type (or compatable with the type) you had in life is a well documented scientific fact with actual evidence behind it. We know blood types are real and affect blood. Virginity is a made up social construct, which has absolutely no impact on blood at all. Red blood cells can't tell if you've fucked or not

🫁 childofthenight follow

op trying to find a tasty snack

[aropride]

looks at the ethics board with my big wide autistic eyes and they say fineee you can do human experiments and i say YAYYY :3 !!!!!!!

[odd-im-o]

Every drawing I've done of my imaginary, Benny

[miittchan]

me and my bestie

[bananakeiky]

MARCH MARCH MARCH MARCH MAR

[caffeinated-linguist]

Legendary Holy Blade, by nolan192

[sparkle-fiend]

They deserved a happy ending

[prokopetz]

I mean, treating yaoi as the opposite of yuri just doesn't make sense mathematically: boys are not the inverse of girls. The actual opposite of yuri would somehow have to involve fewer than zero girls, and that's not an easy thing to characterise.