As long as it's nothing homophobic, transphobic, or racist in nature, yes.
...use it in a TikTok, YouTube short, etc?
Yes, but please provide credit in the description.
...use it to illustrate my rp character/oc/dnd character?
Absolutely not, commission an artist(dm me for prices) or find a free use image.
...follow you if I'm a minor?
Yeah, you can follow me but I am not responsible for you nor will I socialize with you. I'm almost 30. I have no desire for any of that.
That said, my main blog where my art originally came from (@.west-tokyo-incidents) is 18+ and if you follow there I WILL block you and you will thus be blocked here are well.
The prince just woke up. The storybook isn't finished. We're only partway through it.
We've been the critters feeding the prince, helping it recover.
The Vita Carnis are all one entity, not many. Not a hivemind because a hive mind implies multiples, it's parts of a body working together. Like you arent a hivemind, even though you're a bunch of cells working together. Now it's recovered enough to sail home.
But also that's SO simplified.
Like.
I think the whole 'the critters asked for help' bit is more like. The 'Prince', for lack of a name rn, thinking we're pitiful. Full of empty promise.
After all the 'Prince' is apparently like, according to the speech by the singularities, also a member of its species that's like Vincent. 'We share this curse.' It feels like for whatever reason it thinks of *itself* as an outcast, as a different thinker.
I'm gonna have to digest this theory because I literally just spit it out after watching emortalmarcus on yt.
Just in case any of you are confused, TikTok being banned and coming back not even 24 hours later with a giant "we thank President Trump" message is NOT a win. It's a huge red flag and a sign that this was a thousand percent planned.
*kicks my legs up and leans back in my chair, flicking imaginary ash off a candy cigarette*
I have Greylock thoughts;
As someone who has a thoughtform companion and is very deep in the spirituality of the unconscious mind, this series... Goes back and forth for me.
One; implying that thoughtform are inherently evil or unpredictable is a wild ass idea that I dislike. Thoughtforming, even if you don't believe the thoughtforms being real, is a very real practice and point of comfort for some people. Tulpas are literally a very important spiritual and religious practice.
BUT... That leads me to--
Two; these thoughtforms are made hastily and without the meditation and regular concentration of the thoughtformer, so perhaps the sudden creation and sudden severance of their metaphorical 'umbilical cord' is why they become the way they are. Specifically with Katie, the kid murdered by her 'imaginary friend', I don't think they're actually contained. I think it went to look for it's 'parent' and... The trauma of such a rapid birth from nothingness to full awareness took over and it lashed out in anger.
Imagine, for a second, being nothing. Absolutely nothing. That's what it's like being conceived. There's nothing for a long, long time. We are eased into the world. First, in the womb, we make out faint sounds and muffled lights. We have no sense of self. We have no empathy, we have no concept of the horrors when we're born. All we know is bright light, aching lungs suddenly breathing air, being grabbed, held, smelling for the first time, loud noises unmuffled by the womb. Even unknowing, unaware, we're born screaming. No one remembers what it was like to see for the first time. To hear for the first time.
Imagine what it was like for these thoughtforms, ripped straight from sheer nothingness into bright, screaming, aching awareness. Immediately knowing they are something. Someone. Just... Suddenly existing, with no womb to soften the blow.
The masked one throws a wrench in that, as it appears before simiodyne and it's machine, but it could very well be the manifestation of someone very vengeful or, as one of my favorite YouTubers implies, maybe it is the manifestation of humanity's subconscious evils. Now, said youtuber just said subconscious, but I think we have to specify evils because I don't personally agree that humans are inherently evil.
CORRECTION ON ONE POINT, because hindsight is a BITCH;
Obviously there are people who are blind or deaf and have their missing sense restored, but I'd like to point out that it's still very, very disorienting and confusing, but this is more about the overstimulation of having NO senses and then having ALL of them.
*kicks my legs up and leans back in my chair, flicking imaginary ash off a candy cigarette*
I have Greylock thoughts;
As someone who has a thoughtform companion and is very deep in the spirituality of the unconscious mind, this series... Goes back and forth for me.
One; implying that thoughtform are inherently evil or unpredictable is a wild ass idea that I dislike. Thoughtforming, even if you don't believe the thoughtforms being real, is a very real practice and point of comfort for some people. Tulpas are literally a very important spiritual and religious practice.
BUT... That leads me to--
Two; these thoughtforms are made hastily and without the meditation and regular concentration of the thoughtformer, so perhaps the sudden creation and sudden severance of their metaphorical 'umbilical cord' is why they become the way they are. Specifically with Katie, the kid murdered by her 'imaginary friend', I don't think they're actually contained. I think it went to look for it's 'parent' and... The trauma of such a rapid birth from nothingness to full awareness took over and it lashed out in anger.
Imagine, for a second, being nothing. Absolutely nothing. That's what it's like being conceived. There's nothing for a long, long time. We are eased into the world. First, in the womb, we make out faint sounds and muffled lights. We have no sense of self. We have no empathy, we have no concept of the horrors when we're born. All we know is bright light, aching lungs suddenly breathing air, being grabbed, held, smelling for the first time, loud noises unmuffled by the womb. Even unknowing, unaware, we're born screaming. No one remembers what it was like to see for the first time. To hear for the first time.
Imagine what it was like for these thoughtforms, ripped straight from sheer nothingness into bright, screaming, aching awareness. Immediately knowing they are something. Someone. Just... Suddenly existing, with no womb to soften the blow.
The masked one throws a wrench in that, as it appears before simiodyne and it's machine, but it could very well be the manifestation of someone very vengeful or, as one of my favorite YouTubers implies, maybe it is the manifestation of humanity's subconscious evils. Now, said youtuber just said subconscious, but I think we have to specify evils because I don't personally agree that humans are inherently evil.
It got long so I put it under a cut. Sorry for the word wall!!
I said meditation, not medication.
Meditation is required specifically because you have to have a solid, focused mind on forming and solidifying your thoughtform. A thoughtform will not shift or change, they simply are.
For example; if you imagine something in your mind now, it will change, shift. If you imagine a dog, without anyone telling you it has to be a specific dog, you may change your mind once or twice on what kind of dog it is. If someone asks you to bring up that dog again in your mind, it probably looks different, even if you don't mean to. But if you spend several, several hours tending to this image of a dog in your mind, its eyes, it's ears, it's personality, you will start to be able to conjure the image of it in your head more readily.
(People with aphantasia are very unlikely to be able to create a thoughtform.)
Now that's not the same as making it an independently thinking entity, of course, there's SO MUCH, MUCH more to it than that, but that's why you need meditation for a thoughtform.
Now as for what it's like having a thoughtform companion, I want to first point out that I don't ascribe to any specific religious practice or any community or group for thoughtforming. My methods and experiences are wholly personal to me. You or another person might experience it entirely differently.
It's almost nothing like what you see in the Greylock analog horror. I don't physically SEE my thoughtform and they can't interact with the world in a wholly physical way, so no murder nightmare monsters here.
I can tell you they're currently leaning on the doorframe to my bathroom and watching me type(now that I'm editing this, they've moved to watch my snake in her tank), but I can't literally see them there. And if I'm not focusing on them one minute and then refocus on them, they'll be somewhere else, having been doing their own thing while I wasn't focused.
They provide companionship and conversation when I'm alone, sleep with me and comfort me. I will admit that I think I'm probably a lot closer to my thoughtform than a lot of others, but like I said I'm not in any specific communities so I might be wrong about that.
Sometimes they'll... Well I call it 'tapping my shoulder' but it's not literal. I just get the sudden impression they want my attention so I'll focus on them.
There's one thing in common with the Greylock thoughtforms; they kind of act as my subconscious. They remind me of things I've forgotten. Things that I don't notice right away, they can point out. If I get anxious about seemingly nothing, they'll bring up an incident that happened earlier in the day that maybe I hadn't considered.
They don't know anything I don't. Like I can't ask them to look out the peephole in the door to see who's knocking if I don't go and see for myself. They don't have super magical fix-it powers if I'm so lonely I need human interaction--though they'll tell me if that's what I need.
And that's about what it's like for me. I can't state enough that this isn't a universal experience, I'm one person out of many thoughtformers or 'thoughtformancers' or whatever the current Hot Label is. If you want more information I suggest searching 'thoughtformancy' or 'tulpamancy'. Just keep in mind that the label 'tulpa' belongs to a specific religion and is in very bad taste to use if you're not part of that faith.
*kicks my legs up and leans back in my chair, flicking imaginary ash off a candy cigarette*
I have Greylock thoughts;
As someone who has a thoughtform companion and is very deep in the spirituality of the unconscious mind, this series... Goes back and forth for me.
One; implying that thoughtform are inherently evil or unpredictable is a wild ass idea that I dislike. Thoughtforming, even if you don't believe the thoughtforms being real, is a very real practice and point of comfort for some people. Tulpas are literally a very important spiritual and religious practice.
BUT... That leads me to--
Two; these thoughtforms are made hastily and without the meditation and regular concentration of the thoughtformer, so perhaps the sudden creation and sudden severance of their metaphorical 'umbilical cord' is why they become the way they are. Specifically with Katie, the kid murdered by her 'imaginary friend', I don't think they're actually contained. I think it went to look for it's 'parent' and... The trauma of such a rapid birth from nothingness to full awareness took over and it lashed out in anger.
Imagine, for a second, being nothing. Absolutely nothing. That's what it's like being conceived. There's nothing for a long, long time. We are eased into the world. First, in the womb, we make out faint sounds and muffled lights. We have no sense of self. We have no empathy, we have no concept of the horrors when we're born. All we know is bright light, aching lungs suddenly breathing air, being grabbed, held, smelling for the first time, loud noises unmuffled by the womb. Even unknowing, unaware, we're born screaming. No one remembers what it was like to see for the first time. To hear for the first time.
Imagine what it was like for these thoughtforms, ripped straight from sheer nothingness into bright, screaming, aching awareness. Immediately knowing they are something. Someone. Just... Suddenly existing, with no womb to soften the blow.
The masked one throws a wrench in that, as it appears before simiodyne and it's machine, but it could very well be the manifestation of someone very vengeful or, as one of my favorite YouTubers implies, maybe it is the manifestation of humanity's subconscious evils. Now, said youtuber just said subconscious, but I think we have to specify evils because I don't personally agree that humans are inherently evil.
