Cryptidcore Starterpack: The Guide

Pagans - how do you fight worrying about being “crazy”?

As someone with OCD, I struggle a lot with obsessive thoughts surrounding if I am “crazy” or “delusional” as someone who went through spiritual psychosis ~6 years ago. Does anyone else struggle with this? My deities help so much with reassuring me that I am in a totally different mental state, I’m very stable, I’ve got a good job, and I am generally a pretty grounded person. But that doesn’t relieve the worry about “slipping into the pattern” again.

I wish I saw more speak on here about how dangerous spiritual psychosis is in general and how to recognize the signs! I’ve been thinking of making my own post about it as someone who went through it, and did end up returning to paganism as my path.

just one psychotic episode will change your life, forever. it'll alter your self perception beyond recognition. you'll remember who you were before, back when you were (relatively) sane, always been sane, and you won't recognize her anymore. she'll feel more like a sister. you're still the same, you are--but you aren't. you're different, you know you are. You're different in ways you cannot articulate, in ways your loved ones cannot truly grasp. you've experienced something most people believe is impossible to experience. likely because it is. it was something impossible, grand, and terrifying. the most scared you've ever felt in your life. God looked down on you and laughed, and finally, finally you know what it feels like to be that small and vulnerable. you can't go back to before, when you were naive, ignorant to your size. but it's okay. you're okay, now. it's over and you're safe. and you've always been safe, really, it wasn't real, but the trauma is. the trauma is real and it's lasting.

and it's not real. and you know it's not real. but sometimes you get scared again. so, so, so scared, because it was traumatizing and now you're left with flashbacks to a time when the world didn't make sense, when you weren't yourself, when you were small and confused and lost and could not understand yourself let alone be understood--and it feels real again. but you don't believe it, not really, you know you don't. you know it's not real. it's not psychosis round 2, but you're still so so scared--scared that you're wrong, that it is real, scared that you'll go back there--that you'll lose the sanity you grappled for. fought for. but you don't. not yet, at least. the flashback passes, same as any other flashback. but the fear lingers. you'll fear losing control like that for the rest of your life. years of sanity, remission, and you're still afraid, because you know what that felt like and it was scary. it's weird to believe again, when you don't really believe, it's weird to relive unreality while knowing you're within reality. you can feel your sanity, you know it's there, because it's saying "this isn't real and we know it's not real. we know this. but I am so so so scared anyway. I am so scared of experiencing it again. I am so scared that I was right and now I'm wrong."

psychosis is traumatic and trauma leaves you with flashbacks. and sometimes it feels like you're there again. like you've slipped away again. and it's scary. but you'll be back, I know you will, because I'm back, I'm okay, and you are too. I love you. I love all of you. love yourselves for me.

Fruit Correspondences

Apple: spirit work, offerings, love, healing, beauty, wisdom, harvest

Apricot: love, self love

Avocado: beauty, love, lust, fertility, spell work

Banana: wealth, luck, spirituality, religion, masculinity

Blueberry: protection, banishment, curses

Blackberry: protection, fertility, femininity, funerals, afterlife, moving on

Cantaloupe: spell work, protection, grounding, energy work

Cherry: lust, love, fertility

Clementine: childhood, dreams

Coconut: protection, cleansing, femininity

Cranberry: holidays, blood magic, spirit work

Date: fertility, luck, money

Dragon fruit: lust, passion, spell work

Durian: curses, cleansing, protection

Fig: happiness, divination, love

Grapefruit: cleansing

Grape: money, spell work, fertility, offerings

Guava: love, self love, lust

Honeydew: cleansing, energy, love

Jackfruit: divination, spell work, happiness

Kiwifruit: health, love, lust, happiness

Kumquat: luck, health, money

Lemon: cleansing, purification, protection, curse breaking

Lime: cleansing, protection, love

Lychee: love, self love, femininity, beauty

Mango: love, lust, fertility

Nectarine: love, self love, spell work

Orange: cleansing, protection, divination

Papaya: curse breaking, banishing, spirit work, love

Passion fruit: lust, love, passion

Peach: fertility, love, happiness, spirit work

Pear: offerings, happiness, luck, money, confidence

Persimmon: healing, love, luck, protection

Pineapple: protection, health, offerings, money, luck

Plantain: fertility, masculinity, lust, passion

Plum: love, healing, offerings

Pomegranate: offerings, blood magic, fertility, divination, spell work

Prune: cleansing, protection

Raspberry: love, dreams, health

Strawberry: love, wishes, dreams, happiness

Starfruit: lunar/solar magic, spell work, cleansing

Tangerine: solar magic, strength, energy work

Tomato: protection, cleansing, love, passion

Watermelon: healing, femininity, lust, love, spirit work, cleansing

Tip Jar

GOD I love them, they’re so pretty :(

The first time I ever felt romantic attraction towards a vibe, whenever I went to the craft store these were in I would just stand in this section and stare and admire them for the entire time 😭

✬ wacky cryptidcore-ish stuff i do/watch !! ✬

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•im chronically outside, in the woods searching for stuff, even if ive been there a hundred times something could be there, istg:(

•spending every night watching youtube breakdowns of cryptids, sam n colby, and other ghosthunting crap !!

•i watch horrific amounts of gravity falls, paranormal activity, fear, ghosthunters, scooby doo and random creepy indie movies :]

•spend all my time listening to folkpunk, expecially ajj and tfb !!

•read lots of old books on local ghosts and cryptids in my town:)

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teehee plzz check out my lil cryptidcore playlists, theyre what i jam to while ghosthunting, ect.

【XIV】 RECALLING EVENTS

a combination of newspaper and illegal document-themed docs. this was previously an exclusive document but now it is for public use! it includes four pages including general information, a roleplay sample, an important event, an important relation, appearance, persona, and connections.

do not get rid of credits — if you don't know how to edit already: file > make a copy — after copying, go to share > settings (top right icon) > uncheck "viewers and commenters can see the option to…" — to replace images: right-click image > replace image — to replace images in drawings: right-click drawing/double tag drawing > right click image > replace image — dm me if you have any questions

Rewatched Gravity Falls

I LOVE ITTT

kat doll real

Yeah I made at Kat doll lol

I’ve wanted to make a doll of Kat for a while and welp now I did

Time: 2 days

Materials I used:

The victim: Ghoulia Yelps G3 doll

Acrylic Paint

Rerooting tool (from ShimmerLocks)

Nylon hair (jungle fever from the doll planet)

Chains

Random heart necklace I scrapped for her

Bad matte sealer (I’m soon switching to msc so yeah)

Rainbow high mesh leggings and shirt (to cover up the paint shops

Shadow high shoes

That’s kinda it lol

There are a few changes I did (belt and necklace) but that’s cuz for the belt the last one I made for my first was not good and I tried glueing tiny plat six diamonds on it and they kept falling off, so i went with chains, and for the necklace, I would’ve used clay to make it but the clay I have is shit and it will turn to sand in a few months, so I went with this heart necklace that I had cuz the dang Chain thingy that opens won’t open.

I like the way she turned out and just thought I share her :)

few pics while I was making her

Not much just rerooting and styling it I didn’t take that many pics

[   01   ]         ―         MISCREANT   

this  is  a  super  basic  criminal  record  template  that  i  made  for  personal  use  while  working  on  a  timeline  for  some  characters.    i  cannot  guarantee  how  accurate  it  is    /    if  it's  what  an  actual  criminal  record  looks  like  as  i've  based  it  on  whatever  i  could  find  on  google,   but  i've  had  a  lot  of  fun  with  it   &   it's  helped  me  do  a  lot  of  building  so  i  thought  i'd  share.  you  are  welcome  to  edit  this  document  in  any  way  you  want,   add  anything  you  want,  but  please  do  not  remove  the  credit.   please  consider  a  like  and   /   reblogif  using.

HOW   TO   USE

click  the  source  link

go  to  file    >    make  a  copy

have  fun!

I miss my star :( I fell in love with a star last summer, but she’s only visible in the summer. Ughh I can’t wait until I can see her again. I wonder if she misses me too

Edit: I finally found out her name, her name is Gomesia I’m pretty sure (I can’t see her right now so I can’t be sure tho 💔)