#organ manipulation

[jangillman]

[astra-ravana]

What Is An Egregore?

An egregore is a collective thought-form or psychic entity created by the shared beliefs, emotions, and intentions of a group of people. It exists on the astral plane and is sustained by the energy it receives from those who acknowledge or interact with it. Egregores can range from simple constructs, like a shared group mindset, to powerful spiritual forces that take on a life of their own.

As they become more autonomous, egregores may begin to influence even more individuals, leading them to act in ways they might not otherwise choose. They can also become malevolent, manipulating their creators or growing uncontrollable if their energy is not properly managed or if the group’s intentions shift. The longer an egregore exists, the harder it becomes to control, and it may exert a disproportionate influence over those who have fed it, making it a potentially dangerous force in occult practices.

Origins and Function

The concept of egregores dates back to ancient mystical and occult traditions, particularly in Western esotericism, Kabbalah, and ceremonial magick. The term comes from the Greek word egregoroi, meaning “watchers” or “guardians.” In modern occultism, an egregore is often likened to a psychic servitor, but instead of being created by a single person, it is formed and strengthened by collective consciousness.

Types of Egregores

• Religious & Spiritual Egregores – Gods or angels that have been empowered by centuries of belief and worship of organized religion.

• Cultural & Societal Egregores – Nations, political movements, or even corporations that develop their own energy and influence.

• Magical & Esoteric Egregores – Thought-forms created intentionally by occult groups for protection, knowledge, or power.

• Pop Culture Egregores – Fictional characters or mythologies that gain psychic influence due to mass belief and emotional investment.

How Egregores Are Sustained

An egregore requires attention, emotion, and ritual to survive. The more people interact with and reinforce its presence—through belief, symbols, rituals, or storytelling—the stronger it becomes. Some egregores can gain autonomy, influencing the thoughts and actions of those connected to them.

Working With or Disrupting Egregores

• Creating an Egregore: Occultists and magickal groups sometimes create egregores for protection, guidance, or manifestation. These are carefully built through ritual, intention, and structured feeding of energy.

• Dissolving an Egregore: If an egregore becomes negative or harmful, it can be weakened through neglect, conscious dismantling, or banishing rituals.

• Recognizing Their Influence: Many egregores subtly shape reality through collective belief. Understanding their power can help one navigate group dynamics, avoid manipulation, or harness them for magickal purposes.

Egregores exist everywhere, from spiritual traditions to modern fandoms, corporations, and ideologies. Whether viewed as independent entities or as psychological constructs, their impact on the world is undeniable, especially within witchcraft and occult circles. Learning how to recognize egregores for what they are allows a practitioner to circumvent unwanted influences and protect their energy.

[robo-milky]

[Read: Left -> Right]

You have NO idea how hard I was fighting for my life when using screen tones in CSP until I learned about layer properties 😭😭 I think I’m finally satisfied with a manga-esque style now!

[Excess + Thumbnail/Sketch]

Although I really like the first Cloche panel- The full bleed crop is more visually appealing, and makes Cloche’ introduction dialogue feel more natural.

Idk if anyone is really interested in my process, but I love looking back at drafts and seeing how things change- (I typically write my scripts on the notes app-) TBH, even now, I still find formatting things in templates SUPER confusing, but I think I’m getting the hang of it? It’s so jarring to focus on a safe zone, and my gosh is it a whole beast to consider all the potential printing mishaps there could- My respect for pros are going way up.

[spaceandbones]

Homicipher MC is very cool and groundbreaking for her trope subversion of "cute weak human mc thrust into a world of monster men" by being a serial killer and a vicious monsterous brute warped by a world she unknowingly made blood sacrifices to and I don't ever want to take away her autonomy BUT there is also something fascinating to me about the concept of her having No memory of killing people and No Idea why she even would in the first place

[miamaimania]

"Untitled" by Daisuke Yokota ☀ Chemical erosion on darkroom print ⌾ Surface becomes substance

[july-19th-club]

baru and aminata are such a fucking tragic comedy of errors neither of them ever knows WHAT is going on with the other and it is going to get them sooooooo fucked

[flumpermergen]

Listen… comparing hoyoverse characters can be a bit annoying but sometimes it’s just too un-fucking-canny to NOT point out

[alethianightsong]

Christians use hyperbole to manipulate the fuck out of people. They call it a "sex addiction" when it's a healthy amount of masturbation for someone of that age range. Imagine if we applied that logic to eating. "I am a glutton" (ate 3 meals today instead of 2). "I am a gluttonous sinner with no self-control" (ate a snack cuz they felt peckish). It sounds silly but sexual urges and hunger are basic feelings. Instead of processing them in healthy ways, the church wants you to break down in tears of self-hatred every time you satisfy them so they can "absolve" you of the "sin" they created.

[infinitesimalvermin]

LISTEN TO ME. VIKTOR LEAGUE OF LEGENDS IN THE STYLE OF PHIL HALE. SHAKES YOU. VIKTOR ARCANE IN THE STYLE OF FRANCIS BACON. ARE YOU LISTENING

[minothtime]

HWAT DO YOU MEAN THREE ENTIRE MILGRAM CHARACTERS ARE DEAD AND IN THE GROUND??? HELLO???? IT ISN'T EVEN SEASON THREE??????

AMANE WHEN I GET YOU AMANE WHEN I GET YOU AMANE WHEN I GET YOU AMANE WHEN I GET YOU AMANE WHEN I GET YOU AMANE WHEN I GET YOU AMANE WHEN I GET YOU AMANE WHEN I GET YOU AMANE WHEN I GET YOU AMANE WHEN I GET YOU AMANE WHEN I GET YOU AMANE WHEN I GET YOU

[endlessfuckup]

Okay I've had enough

this shit is so fucked up and obnoxious I cannot take it anymore

I get slightly reworded versions of this exact same message with using the same 3-4 pictures at least 20 times a week

!While there absolutely are legitimate fundraisers being set up and circulated by/for actual Palestinians in need!

They are being completely drowned out by these scam/bot accounts spamming the same 2-3 messages with the wording changed around slightly if changed at all

This has got to stop

I have every tag related to PayPal/gofundme/fundraisers/Palestine/the genocide blocked for my own sanity and I STILL, no matter what the fuck I do, cannot avoid seeing fundraiser posts containing pictures of dead or severely injured children or graphic text descriptions of the ongoing genocide(ex. starvation/death/illness/injuries) EVERY. FUCKING. DAY.

I don't care if I sound selfish for complaining it's genuinely taking a toll on me

I already have ptsd and a slew of other mental issues so seeing this stuff on a daily basis is actually really fucking me up

Realistically, I have no ability to help or change what is going on on the other side of the world.

I legitimately have zero ability to do a fucking thing about it actually!

I have no platform, I am not a politician, nor am I financially able to provide support.

I am barely surviving myself

Please let me have one fucking place where I don't have to see traumatic shit on a regular basis

@staff @staff @staff

[eveninglakehomeworld]

someone posted this regarding the book club codex entries and it perfectly captures one of the biggest issues with the companions and their writing. the game is trying to convince us that they've all become a found family but only does a fraction of the work to get there.

when it comes to most of the companions, not only is HR in the room, you are HR! companions don't seek you out unless they need something and they don't really include you in anything. you can listen in on their conversations with each other but never participate (unless they need to be guided through basic conflict resolution).

why wasn't rook invited to the book club??? it could've been really fun to pick the genre of the next book or something! if you're going to emphasize going grocery shopping, skipping rocks, taking the griffon for a walk, and other mundanities, lean into it! let me join!

and the way you only find out from meeting minutes Bellara leaves lying around - considering there are no ambient dialogues or references to it (that I heard) - really makes it feel like they're going out of their way to keep it from you 😭 and it feels even worse that they're excluding you all while telling you you're such a great friend that helped them move through really hard things in their personal lives. I feel used 🫠

it makes it feel like Rook is the saddest character in the entire game and it wasn't even on purpose! like, I would start hallucinating a supportive friend if I was treated this way, too!

[escapingarchives]

in line with my love of mischievous motherfuckers, to no one’s surprise I like Kayne, that bastard

[revvethasmythh]

okay, here's the thing: i don't think the reapers needed to be explained at all beyond what we got in like, leviathan. they're a plot device. they're the reason the plot is happening. i am content with this, they could have kept handwaving shit and using big words to say nothing about the purpose of the reapers and i'd've been like "yeah sure man, whatever you say" but they DIDN'T do that, instead they tried to explain them by using the child that gave us PTSD nightmares (literally) to claim that war between organics and synthetics is, for some reason, inevitable, despite the fact that this very argument can be thoroughly disproven within the actual plot of the story. babe i brought quarians AND geth to this space fight. WHAT are you talking about

[ceruleancrafts]

Me when “those” MLM shippers and MLF arcane shippers don’t know how to be fucking normal about their ships without being a homophobic/misogynistic fuckazoid.

[firestorm09890]

FUCK what I said about the majority of significant changes to dialogue in Re:CoM being to adjust Axel's characterization, the most egregious change is actually this

(GBA CoM)

(Re:CoM)

if I had to guess, the reason for this change was because in GBA CoM, The Superior was a spooky, unknown being at the head of this Organization we had very little knowledge on, and for Vexen, the guy who runs his mouth constantly about how much better he is than the others, to be terrified of him, he must be some pretty scary dude. But then after kh2 we know him, it's Xemnas, he's very dramatic, he likes to talk to the moon, and the effect of your mind filling in the gaps about what "The Superior" must be like is gone. So it wasn't really necessary anymore, right?

(rest under cut because it's long)

Except... the way they changed it is so weird. In the GBA version, what's happening is pretty clear:

Marluxia tells Vexen that his project is a failure

Vexen demonstrates that he does not give a shit about Marluxia's opinion

he does care very much about The Superior's opinion, though, and Marluxia uses this to blackmail him into eliminating Sora- an action which is nonsensical, as the entire point of what they're doing needs Sora alive, making it clear to everyone in the room that he is deliberately sending Vexen to die

and then after that, when Vexen shows up to fight Sora, he goes "if you want to fight me for real you've gotta do it in the memories from the other side of your heart lol bye" and Sora goes "huh? other side?" and then it cuts to a scene on the top floor:

and then this gets more into subtext but here, Vexen has realized he's totally fucked and his only hope is to mess directly with Marluxia's plans (well, they were the Organization's plans, but it's pretty obvious by now Marluxia's abusing his power for his own purposes) by giving Sora more information than he should know. This does get the traitor gang worried enough to send Axel to go kill him (as opposed to just letting Sora take care of him, which was presumably the original plan)- he very specifically cuts Vexen off to keep him from saying too much (this is retained between the original and the remake)

Anyway, what happens in Re:CoM sort of follows the same order of events, but everything is changed slightly in a way that just makes things more confusing.

Marluxia tells Vexen his project is a failure and Vexen demonstrates that he doesn't give a shit about Marluxia's opinion, as before

Marluxia threatens Vexen with a weapon, rather than threatening to tell the Superior

this, notably, does not seem to faze Vexen very much. he continues to run his mouth while having the scythe pointed at him.

Xemnas is still leveraged- Marluxia points out it was the Superior who entrusted him with the castle

...even though reasonably Vexen would already be aware of this, and has still demonstrated that he has zero respect for Marluxia despite it

the lines about betraying the Organization being a capital crime are retained, probably because it's super relevant later, but then that line of thinking is abandoned in favor of Marluxia and Larxene just taunting Vexen instead

The part where Marluxia says "do it. you won't" could be seen as a sort of threat... if not for Axel's line: "You give a challenge like that to Vexen and he'll seriously want to eliminate Sora." It frames it all as though Vexen went to fight Sora out of some sort of pride.

And look, Vexen may have a temper and a superiority complex, but he's not stupid. They're obviously baiting him. Plus, what happened to him seeing himself as above the others and countering things he doesn't like with "well actually I'm higher ranked than you and also you're an idiot"? Is he that insecure in his fighting capabilities? I could deal with characterization changes doing him dirty if it didn't also make no sense in the context of the plot.

So now we have Vexen going to try to kill Sora, something that really makes no sense to do, out of pride. What was the purpose of sending Sora to Twilight Town? Also pride, over the fact that he managed to get that information? Giving the writing the benefit of the doubt, I could say that these nonsensical actions can be explained as evidence that Nobodies can have hearts and people with hearts do strange and rash things, but that just feels like a reach, which is bad because what they had in GBA CoM worked perfectly fine and made sense without any reaching for the "idk emotions make you do strange things" explanation.

It continues. After Vexen gives Sora the Twilight Town card in Re:CoM and Sora wonders about what the "other side" means, this is that version of the conversation the top floor members have:

...what? "If Sora disappears, that would mess up the Organization's plans"? what are you worried about? the only reason Sora would disappear is if Vexen killed him. there's no way they think Vexen being in Twilight Town would give him an advantage, right? they know he's a pathetic fighter. "Vexen has clearly committed a treasonous act against the Organization" HOW? HOW IS IT CLEAR? they don't express any worry about Sora learning too much, up until Axel says "I came to stop you from talking too much" when killing Vexen- and that being there makes it seem like they were worried about Sora learning to much, but if that's the case, why would they replace the perfectly serviceable lines in the above scene? it's just... baffling that they would want to lean into the narrative that Vexen going to kill Sora (which he'd been goaded into doing) is the problem here, because it just makes so little sense compared to what it was originally.

once again giving them the benefit of the doubt: Marluxia's real plan was to take over the Organization, and he saw an easy way to pick off one of the members, so he took it. the motive for stopping Vexen doesn't actually matter.

buuuuut it's the same as with Vexen earlier. Marluxia may be too self-absorbed and power-hungry to notice Axel is scheming against him, but he, too, is an intelligent man. he's plotted for a while, getting into Xemnas's good graces in order to be put in charge of the Castle. this is incredibly sloppy for him. I guess it could be said that getting so close to his goal would make him sloppy, but again, if they'd just left things the way they were in GBA CoM, I wouldn't even have to be saying this

in conclusion: GBA Chain of Memories' intra-Organization strife subplot is so tightly woven with calculated moves on all sides that Re:CoM changing certain things without taking into consideration the consequences makes certain parts of the plot fall flat and become far more confusing than in the original story