#false memory

[kukuandkookie]

The end of 2024 has proven that 2025 seems to be a huge year for donghua and I’m gripping everyone to give all these donghua besides just the most popular ones a chance!!!:

Link Click, Yingdu arc: releasing December 27, 2024

Nezha 2, sequel to Nezha 2019 aka Nezha zhi motong jiangshi, confirmed for January 2025

To Be Hero X, likely April 2025 release (I hope people will also support the version with Chinese VAs! 🙏)

Lord of the Mysteries, 2025 summer release—accompanied by more good news: the novel has officially entered the British Library and it will also be translated into English by Yen Press

False Memory, series version, confirmed 2025 release

I am making this post because False Memory just released its new trailer and I am very much so looking forward to it! The series started as an indie short before growing into a bigger thing, much like Fog Hill of Five Elements and The Legend of Luo Xiaohei and Alita’s Trial. We’ve thus been waiting a couple years for news so this is really exciting, especially after it recently got a Twitter account!!

Bonuses:

Ya She, released a couple months ago but late enough into 2024 I’d still love for more people to check it out!

Scissor Seven, another one that’s had its newest season out for a while now, but I assume that for those who have Netflix, it hasn’t been officially English subbed or dubbed yet. We’re also still getting trailers for its game!:

I Am What I Am 2, released Dec 14, 2024 in China!

Reminder that Mo Dao Zu Shi is now on Crunchyroll! They may have removed it from Tencent’s donghua YouTube channel for this, so definitely go support it if you do have Crunchyroll!

Some children’s donghua have also recently released, including news of the new Balala the Fairies season and the other magical girls show, Rainbow Crew! The latter is confirmed for an official release in English.

The Yi Ren Zhi Xia game is also coming soon to global, and Fox Spirit Matchmaker even updated their OP recently after quite a long time of silence.

And speaking of silence, even the long-awaited SVSSS donghua saw some movement recently!?

Now if I could get a confirmed 2025 release for White Cat Legend season 3 (and maybe God Troubles Me and Lie Huo Jiao Chou and Fei Ren Zai and All Saints Street and The Legend of Luo Xiaohei and Wo Jia Dashixiong Naozi You Keng etc…)), I could die a happy man (gender-neutral)—after watching all of these newly released donghua shows and films and seasons, of course ahaha. 🙏

For more news and info on donghua, you can check here:

There’s a bunch of new donghua information in the above document that came from 2024, even though they don’t have official release dates yet! Including but not limited to:

The announcement and PV of Call-Up Girls, based on a baihe manhua

The announcement of a Nirvana in Fire donghua, based on the danmei novel with a famous cdrama adaptation (with the manhua having recently gotten an official English license via Aloha Comics)

Trailer and announcement for 《向火而生》, based on Shui Qian Cheng’s danmei novel Blazing Armour

More announcements for Jing Wei Qing Shang, based on the popular baihe novel

Trailer for The Story of Rong Song, a spin-off of the famous Big Fish and Begonia movie

and many, many more…!

Hope everyone can join me in watching more donghua for 2025!! :D

[ca-tsuka]

"False Memory" indie animated project is still in the works. By Chinese studios Tumble & Flint Sugar for Bilibili.

[lyculuscaelus]

(Back to my daily musing over Odysseus again…and this one turns out a bit long and angsty I’m sorry not sorry)

Imagine Odysseus dissociating after Penelope’s death, at some point after his return to her side.

It hadn’t been long enough for them to retrace their happiness together, to make up for the years they had lost, for which the much-enduring man would forever grieve—when he thought of the ten years spent fighting to live on, of the ten more years wasted fighting to get back, back to the amount of time all too short to keep a smile on her face—he raged and wept and crazed and yet the cruel world responded just the same, as thrice the lifeless hand that had grown cold kept slipping from his clutch, as twice the heart of his ached to think of the years of reunion he was bereaved of, as once and for all the sight of the funeral pyre devouring his Penelope sowed the seed of melancholy in his great heart. This would be something he never felt capable of accepting—no, not the cruelty of the truth that she was nevermore here, no longer able to soothe his muscles of exhaustion with all her caresses, to ease his mind of sorrow with all her whispers. He just couldn’t accept it—no, perhaps he never could.

He began to dissociate—first it was the lingering hope that she was still living with him, somewhere in their room waiting beside the olive-tree bed. Every day he still muttered a good morning to the emptiness beside his pillow, every night he pushed open the bedroom door still hoping to catch a glimpse of her shape. But the nothingness frightened him, as much as the stormy sky that was to threaten his ships with a tempest—but sometimes the storm failed to come, as if the sign was never meant to be true; likewise, he found everything about this unreal, as if Penelope had never truly been gone, as if he himself was still trapped somewhere in a hallucination of all this grievance, as if the tear-soaked face never belonged to the Telemachus he should know. No, perhaps he had never returned at all—that must be it. That must’ve meant that none of this was real. His Penelope must’ve still been waiting for him in a homeland he had never returned to, his Telemachus must’ve still been hoping to meet a father for the first time. This must’ve been a dream—perhaps a figment of his imagination. Or perhaps it was real—just not something that happened to his family, back in his Ithaca. Then nothing he had seen so far could be trusted—not even the rocky landscape, nor the forested “Neriton”, nor the harbor that lay beside the Naiads’ cave—none of this would be real ever since the goddess unveiled the mist around him…

It must’ve been somewhere else—but where? Could it be that he was still trapped in Ogygia, just a victim to that goddess’s lust? But there was no hand clasping his chest at night, as the scent of olive saturated the room still. Could it be that he was just having yet another dream on board? But the surrounding felt so empty—where were all his crewmates? Oh, perhaps it was all but his own fabrication that fooled even himself—returning home? What a lie. Home is never in sight. Or…perhaps it was the bright-eyed goddess’s trick all along—yes, with a false hope of return, she must’ve fooled me like what she did with Ajax, when she unveiled the mist shrouding this land. This is never Ithaca to start with—no, so the Phaeacians had never brought me home.

Perhaps he’d begin conjecturing a “reality” for him—a false memory for himself to believe in, just to cope with this grief. The conviction that he had never returned to Ithaca started to grow on him, as he conjured a suspicion that he was trapped in someone else’s household in another land—perhaps Thesprotia, where the great Theseus was fabled to have been imprisoned. Just like himself. So it was never his Penelope that breathed out her last breath—this must’ve been a local queen bearing a face resembling Penelope so much (except for the wrinkles, which he had never found in his memory of her face), perhaps also a king’s widow in a kingdom haunted by opportunistic nobles, a queen hoping to restore the kingdom to justice by gaining his support through marriage—Callidice, perhaps, for it was the righteous justice she sought in her country? And this son he had had—so would he not be my Telemachus after all? It pained him to realize just how he couldn’t find out, when he knew even nothing of what the real Telemachus would’ve looked like. But for the many feats this son of mine and I have done together, perhaps I shall remember him as Polypoetes? Odysseus didn’t ask—even if he did, never would he believe in anything they said now. There was a war also—but who was triumphant? He remembered a city in flames, a people in flight—perhaps it didn’t matter at all who had won the fight. To Odysseus, only in home would his sole relief lie. And this…this was not home. It just could not be. Not to him.

So Odysseus began convincing himself that it was for the death of Callidice he grieved, someone he’d love as fiercely as he did Penelope. And each day he would come to the shores just as before, mourning for his homecoming back to his home, his family, despite how his Polypoetes kept begging him to look back, to hold his dear Telemachus in arms like he always wanted to, to open his eyes and see the crest of forested Neriton once more…Odysseus only turned away, taking no heed. At some point he’d even try to escape, from this very place he wished to return to, from this reality that he deemed fancy—he tried to build his craft secretly and this time there was no goddess to uncover his plan. He handed the throne to Polypoetes saying words of pride, with Polypoetes too caught up in happiness to figure out what could’ve been wrong. Everything’s wrong. Home is still waiting somewhere—and home I must see. Be the king to be loved by this land, son. Better subdue your people to the good, when I alone shall return to mine.

One day, when Telemachus went to the shores looking for his father, nobody was there. Whispers of the sea were the only thing that greeted him, as the rosy-fingered Dawn kept rising, rising, guiding a sailor home, to the place he could never again return to.

[why-i-love-comics]

DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1 - "Shinning Through the Wreckage" (2024)

written by Joe Corallo art by Rye Hickman

[guoman]

■■■■■■■□□□ 灰火：“我们只能永远和BUG人战斗下去吗？” Hui Huo: “Are we destined to fight the Bug Beings forever?”

[rirituuu]

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[you-should-care-about-animation]

Before the serie False memory comes out this year (and probably explodes in popularity), you should go watch the original short film!

↓ The original short ↓

[binaural-histolog]

Memory Suggestions

I've written up the memory suggestions page for the newbie guide.

This was a hard one to write. There's a lot said about amnesia, but writing about memory itself is surprisingly tricky.

The first question: if hypnosis is phenomenological control, and hypnosis can control memory, then is memory a perception? Does the mind look past the shadow of scattered engram neurons cast by the dim flicker of axonal neurofilament light to see a liminal qualia dancing against the cavewall?

I think it must be. Memory is many things, but it's not effortless. We we struggle to interpret and understand memory just the same way we peer at a dim image to try to understand what we're looking at. We can alter memory the same way we alter the act of seeing or hearing. The only difference is that it happens inside our skulls.

Having said that, there's a big difference between memory and the senses. Memory matters.

You can hallucinate or be temporarily blind and still be relatively okay. You know the risks you're taking, and you have other senses you can rely on. But if you have amnesia, you don't have the information needed to keep you safe. You are vulnerable in ways you don't even understand.

This is even worse when it comes to altered memory and false memory. If you remember being abducted and examined by aliens, that's just as much a real memory to you as your childhood. If your memory of being hypnotized and brainwashed for 10 hours only really took two hours, your brain doesn't know the difference.

I think this is part of what makes memory play so hot. It's an exposed throat to a vampire. It's placing reality inside someone's head after the fact.

I can even see it being supremely useful in breaking through barriers. You know you can hallucinate because you remember hallucinating. You know you can be a good dog because you remember being a good dog.

But you can't get rid of false memories. If you fuck up and create a traumatic experience for your partner, that's on you. You need a deep level of trust and experience when creating false memories, and even then it can go wrong.

Another thing I don't really go into is non-declarative memory, but I think this has to be covered under conditioning in general. The idea of conditioning someone with amnesia to give them an automatic behavior sounds like great fun, but not very practical and I have no examples of anyone trying it.

[beezzaroll]

not doin great at the clawthorn castle.

I loooovvve how the eyes turned out

"Mama Eda, I'm sorry, I messed up..."

[creature-wizard]

(Genuine question! Not asked in bad faith, Im just curious based on your pinned post. I clarify because this might sound weird? But I just have a question about you faq.) You mentioned false memories being triggered by hypnosis, but your pinned post implies that hypnosis is the sole cause of false memories (at least according to your beliefs) do you believe that false memories exist in people who haven't been hypnotized?

If you'd read the posts I liked from my pinned post, you would know that I don't believe hypnosis is the only cause. In False past life memories among the starseed movement I said:

People within the starseed movement believe that they can use regression hypnosis to access memories of past lives. They also believe that dreams and visions can reveal past life memories.

And then I posted a number of screenshots that demonstrated this in action among starseed believers.

A lot of these people in these starseed communities aren't even undergoing hypnosis. They just read starseed lore and New Age mythology until they start having extremely vivid dreams or vivid waking flashes of things that supposedly happened to them during the Lyran Wars or whatever. (For anyone reading this post who isn't aware, the Lyran Wars are a thing that we know didn't happen, due to it all tying in with New Age's mythology based on racist pseudohistory and antisemitic conspiracy theories.)

People can also develop false memories by other people simply reaffirming a false set of events around them. Like, if somebody you trust tells you that you're remembering something wrong and that it really happened a different way, you might just suppose that you just remembered wrong, and internalize the narrative they're telling you. The more you hear this version, and the more people you hear it from, the more likely it is you'll internalize it and start constructing false memories about it. (Which is why it's important to keep a journal or take screenshots if you're around people who are always spinning events in ways they didn't happen.)

[luninaryuwu]

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[churchofsatannews]

The Devil in the Details Bennett Braun: The Psychiatrist Who ‘Fueled’ the Satanic Panic

Bennett Braun, a psychiatrist who helped fuel the Satanic Panic and lost his medical license not once, but twice, recently died. Warlock Sword, the Satanic Skeptic, crows over his demise looking back at a career of false memories and malpractice. Read the article on the Skeptical Inquirer site.

[abuddyforeveryseason]

This is the Buddy for October 14th. It was made with Inkscape, again - it's got the whole "floating island over black background like we're outside of the universe" thing going.

Okay, so, this is going to be a deep cut. When I was real young - like before I even knew how to read - I found a bag of pizza-flavored corn chips, one of those that are shaped like little pizzas (or rather, like rotelle pasta), and it had a protoceratops mascot on the bag - because protoceratops' horns look like pizza, of course.

The bag came with a free black-and-white comic, which featured the dinosaur hero going on adventure, and I remember a scene much like today's Buddy, where she was jumping around these floating islands over a black background, likely to get to some final boss living on the topmost island. It's a bizarre memory.

But of course, it's all probably bullshit. After all, how could I know what a protoceratops was before I could even read? Why would a cheap pizza-flavored corn chip come with a free comic? Do they even do that? Why would this short comic feature such a trippy scene? The floating island trope didn't even exist back then. How did I knew it was a girl protoceratops if I couldn't read?

The more likely answer is, I just dreamt that happened, or it was a false memory or something like that. But still, I think about it from time to time as one of those vaguely nostalgic things you can't really pin down.

[weemietime]

My best friend has HIV and the medication you get when you have it can completely suppress the virus in less than a month (literal weeks) and have pretty much no side effects whatsoever. You are safer having sex with that guy than you are any self identified neg person who doesn't actually know their status and doesn't take prep or art lmao.

It's interesting 🤔 that antisemitism and IRGC propaganda have become so normalized that these "leftists" are straight up regurgitating Islamist fundamentalist talking points. Next they'll start spewing how aids was a satanic american invention----

oh wait they already have conceded Osama Bin laden "made some good points." These morons regularly post shit like writing destiel fanfiction makes u a pedophile and no one can fuck ever bc of the scary aids then wonder why people are pretending to be "ramcoa" survivors on Discord.com

(for those who don't know this is the modern day version of satanic Panic which is an extremely antisemitic conspiracy theory rooted in "cabals" of child traffickers who program people into having DID which was perpetuated by Allison miller and the false memory syndrome institute - which resulted in her straight up losing her license to practice therapy lol)

If the shit you are spewing is the same as Jerry Falwell and Osama Bin laden maybe go fuck yourself

abstension-only education has got my generation cooked i swear to god

[sachikoq]

This has been bugging me for ages but I don't think anyone gives enough of a shit about this game to tell me if I'm tweaking.

I stg I thought the song that plays over the credits to the game Mr. Bones had lyrics. Like some guy saying "There goes Mr. Bones" or some shit. I think I hallucinated that ages ago and it never left my mind.

[guoman]

■■■□□□□□□□ 千钧：“性命，就是拿来用的！” Qian Jun: “Life is meant to be used!”

False Memory has opened their Twitter account