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My other blogs: ⬥ my mindscape/headspace ⬥ my main alterhuman blog

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Imagimancy Carrd¹
Gideon (it/they)
This is my Imagimancy sideblog. I coined² Imagimancy for adults with imaginary friends (and imaginary enemies³)
My other blogs: ⬥ my mindscape/headspace ⬥ my main alterhuman blog
One thing I think is important for understanding the daemian community – especially if you're coming from an alterhuman perspective – is that daemonism is not a word for a shared experience, nor a shared identity.
Daemonism is a practice. The concept of it can be used by anyone: alterhuman or not, plural or not. It can be pure playfulness. It can be imaginary, and that's okay! That's a beautiful experience in its own respect!
There's no universal daemian experience because we accept and embrace that our minds, and our experiences, are ours alone.
The community isn't built on a shared experience – just a shared idea which we all create unique versions of.
Some people stick closer to the basic idea we started with. Some just take what they like from it and throw out the rest. Some only take vague inspiration from it. Some people adapt it more than others, sometimes due to being neurodivergent, plural, and/or alterhuman.
It's still daemonism because daemonism isn't defined by us all "doing the same thing" or "having the same experience".
Daemonism is, for the most part, defined by a person deciding that they want to call what they are doing or experiencing daemonism.
And a large part of that is often in connection to the community, whether directly or in a peripheral way, by taking inspiration from the practice, making use of the community's writings, and so on.
This is why I think daemonism is often misunderstood in an alterhuman context. Daemonism is not an experience, it's not an identity – it's just an idea we each take and make our own. And that's what it should be. That's the beauty of it!
Anyone could be a daemian if they want to. There's no requirements. A lot of people get started with daemonism purely because it sounds fun! A lot of people start with only their imagination, and many people remain so.
For others, it might become something else in time, or they might discover there was something underlying their imaginings all along. It's no more or less a practice of daemonism, either way.
A lot of alterhuman concepts don't apply to daemonism because of this. Fact is, there's plenty of daemians who are orthohumans too, and plenty of people who specifically see their daemonism as an orthohuman practice.
I see it get included under the alterhuman umbrella a lot, and I feel like it gives the wrong first impression to come at it from that angle by default.
Really, it's more comparable with being a furry. For some people, it is a deep, impactful, life-altering experience, and the people who feel that way are a vital part of the community. But equally, for some it is an exercise in whimsy, playfulness, or creativity – and those people are no less members of the community for it.
We're not united by being plural, or having thoughtforms, or being alterhuman. We're united by being a bunch of people who were inspired by some books (or a film or TV show) to play around with the idea of daemons, and ended up sticking with it for one reason or another.
While the individual experience can be very deep indeed, that isn't what makes daemonism what it is.
My daemon has decided to be a Star Fox / Fox McCloud esque hologram
(He's already incorporeal so the "hologram" thing is unnecessary, but whatever, it helps us imagining if we justify stuff)
Changes size from 5ft to 5in. He also likes being a floating head, sometimes with hands. I don't have a drawing of it lol
@funnier-as-a-system
[ID: a post by inspector ratchet (@_hood_mona_lisa_) that reads: my brain is a group chat where no one replies / end ID]
cant believe im a real person what the hell. the good lord will just make anybbody
man you ever force yourself into basic self care like "blorbo would want me to eat rn. blorbo would be very disappointed if i stayed in bed all day. blorbo would want me to be happy" why did i fixate on a fictional guy who wants people to be well. couldn't i become obsessed with an evil guy who wants me dead?? :/
blorbo is currently yelling at me to go to sleep but unfortunately for him i don't like being told what to do
@funnier-as-a-system
found family? no, MADE family. CREATED family. i built this catastrophe brick by brick and none of you can leave
I know I said let's not reinvent the wheel and make up new terms for things that already have many terms but I keep running into the walls of
has too much history from a community I've never been in and so feels weird to use
I want to use what are probably perfectly good terms but I've been defined out of them in some places and I'm confused tbh
While technically the same thing and the definition doesn't exclude me, people have associations and misconceptions that make it more annoying to use than not example: "Headspace"
implies something incorrect (or at least feels that way even if I haven't seen evidence yet lol)
genuinely confusing for me Like imposing and projecting. The word "superimpose" makes much more sense to me.
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
There's been a little confusion so to clarify:
Yes, headspaces/wonderlands/mind palaces also fit under this. I didn't really mention it because that was more of an overlap with the similar stuff than a gap between them, but it's under "inner visualizations".
Personally I define paracosms as an intricate/complex/detailed grounded setting with a lot of worldbuilding where narratives and stories take place.
While headspaces are more flux and simple (comparatively), unrealistic, more obviously a mindscape than not?
but understand that this is arbitrary lol.
Another confusion that I absolutely misworded in the OP:
This includes semi-autonomous thoughtforms as well. And fauxtonomous. And quoitonomous.
And technically some imaginaries do become fully autonomous for some!
I don’t want Definitely For Sure Nonautonomous to be The Only Way To Have An Imaginary.
This was supposed to be to fill in the gap between communities and needs wiggle room. Plus it's not always easy to tell, and it's a spectrum.
Some attempts at definitions for clarity:
"How do you brainstorm your ideas and stories?"
Listen, man, I've been using thinking about fictional characters and their problems to avoid thinking about The Horrors since I was single digits in age. I have no idea how to start. Nor do I know how to stop. The inside of my head is constant "what ifs". I just made them fun instead of horrifying.
apparently this is only funny to me but
my imagimates watching me do basic tasks from the mindscape
(while I have very little spoons and am having a bad body day)
It's also worth noting that like...there's nothing saying you have to figure out exactly what term applies or doesn't apply in your situation. Sometimes it's just "there's a guy in my head that I really appreciate" and further detail is irrelevant. If you find yourself spinning your wheels over nitty-gritty terminology, just remember that the Guy In Head police aren't going to come for you for taking a step back and not defining your experiences in terms of other people's words.
We were talking about thoughtforms in The Otherconnect Discord Server and I wanted to share this (with permission!)
Thinking about using "imagimates" for my main imaginaries – the two (not counting my daemon) that are important everyday companions, vs the other imaginaries I have/had/might make.
"veritbond" would technically be correct (they both originally came from paracosms), "munbond" would fit if the definition didn't exclude nonsentient/non-autonomous/not-independent thoughtforms, but in both cases I'm not part of those communities and it feels weird to try to use the terms??? Plus "imagimate" is intuitive imo.
It just feels like saying "my main imaginaries" doesn't get across that I mean these ones are meaningful and important to me, and also it's a mouthful
Also lowkey want a prefix so I could say like "my imagi-nestmates" or something along those lines? because they're not headmates nor "real" I feel I need to clarify.
also also I'm just struggling because. The reason they can't and won't become fully sentient is that it would be a bad step for all three of us. This balance we have at the moment is what we can handle. They're not Not Real because they're not Important, you know? I just feel like I can't articulate/communicate that properly argh
Thinking about using "imagimates" for my main imaginaries – the two (not counting my daemon) that are important everyday companions, vs the other imaginaries I have/had/might make.
"veritbond" would technically be correct (they both originally came from paracosms), "munbond" would fit if the definition didn't exclude nonsentient/non-autonomous/not-independent thoughtforms, but in both cases I'm not part of those communities and it feels weird to try to use the terms??? Plus "imagimate" is intuitive imo.
It just feels like saying "my main imaginaries" doesn't get across that I mean these ones are meaningful and important to me, and also it's a mouthful
Also lowkey want a prefix so I could say like "my imagi-nestmates" or something along those lines? because they're not headmates nor "real" I feel I need to clarify.
btw, me specifically, my idea was just to get a term out there so those of us who already have imaginaries and mindscapes could find each other to talk about it
Genuinely didn't even think about how people would see it and go I wanna do that
Not that you can't lol it just didn't occur to me, so I don't have any info or warnings or anything
and I still don't know if we need warnings...? It's like... literally just imaginary friends...
Is the word 'headspace' confusing when I use it?
It's not a plural-only thing, but people assume it is
Would it be less confusing if I called mine like a mindscape or... idk I'd need to find a word I like
Honestly I kinda like mindscape???
It's very intuitive. A mind area. A mental location.
Personally I use the word "fauxtonomous" because I don't have total conscious control over my mind and my imaginaries, like a lot of things, tend to be mostly controlled by my subconscious. It's me doing it but only about half is on purpose/intentional and half is just my mind likes to do things in a way that's too fast to 'feel' like it's me but I can still tell it's me.