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ao3-saiki-updates · 1 year
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Catsuo Part 2
Catsuo part 2 by Fire Flyer
Saiki gets hypnotized into thinking he's an actual cat, with instincts and everything. He forgets he's human until the trance is released.
Words: 712, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Fandoms: 斉木楠雄のΨ難 | Saiki Kusuo no Sai-nan | The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Saiki Kusuo, Teruhashi Kokomi, Unnamed hypnotist
Relationships: Saiki Kusuo & Teruhashi Kokomi, No Romantic Relationship(s)
Additional Tags: lying, Hypnosis, lying to a client, Crimes
Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45890050
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2063april5 · 11 months
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Can't believe I'm about to meta analyze red dwarf but hell, if there's one thing I love doing it's making mountains out of molehills.
In s3ep2 Rimmer states that he got friendly with a hypnotherapist (his words) and had a hypnosis session to see his past lives in which the "therapist" told him he'd been Alexander the Great's chief eunuch. Now, he says the therapist told him, not that he saw himself in that position, but as far as I'm aware these sessions usually include some mental images so I'm picturing the hypnosis scene in Maurice by EM Forster when the hypnotist keeps trying to make Maurice see a beautiful woman but he can only see a beautiful man and starts going on and on about running your fingers through a man's short hair etc, but with Rimmer and Alexander the Great. Could've been Napoleon too, or Caesar, our boy has an obsession with ancient authoritarian leaders comparable to that of Khan Singh's wife in Space Seed.
Just a bit after saying this he recounts his first sexual encounter only he completely brushes past the sex bit to fawn over the car where he allegedly fucked Unnamed Girl. The thing is he already told us what his first and only sexual experience was last season and this was not it. The writers probably just forgot BUT my watsonian explanation is that he somehow managed to make Lister forget about him telling him he'd only had sex once at some point in that episode in which they erase everyone's memories of the last days and now he's just making this story up. Good job Rimmer a flawlessly heterosexual scene
I think Lister does remember he's only fucked once but is politely not commenting on it
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mcnotok · 2 years
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Time to retype
SO
The 4 guardians ink error dream nm etc make a deal to stop their battles and stuff, and all get a part of the multiverse as they're own.
Now since the deal Nm has started becoming more of his own person, and abandoned most of the excess negativity to the back of his mind, which creates eye creature mcbald from a previous ask.
Now the eye guy can't travel anywhere but through minds, so he ghosts over to Cassidy, a psychic/hypnotist in training, and manipulates her to help em
So Cassidy bands together the Dumbass Trio™, made of her, Viper, and a unnamed guy with a superiority complex.
Now they cause chaos around the multiverse to get Nm out of his severely guarded territory, but end up catching the attention of ALL the guardians, so Dream bands them all together to find whoever is leading the Dumbass Trio™, not knowing it's literally a part of his brother which is leading them.
They go on a wild goose chase meeting tons of weirdos and stuff, and realize "oh crap this was a waste of time" a few months too late, and head back home to the Festival marking 2 years of the peace deal.
Cough someone may die at the festival Cough
Wait that's so cool!! Does nightmare even know that a part of him has split off, or is he still unaware? Do they want to get nightmare outside of his territory so that the eye creature can fuse back into his mind?? This is such a cool idea! I 100% ENDORSE!!!!! /gen
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catvampire · 6 years
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hey, nysm fandom, a quick PSA on hypnotism: if a character is capable of intense focus and to concentrate on something super well and loses track of time and/or their own needs when doing something they have interest in, they are easier, not harder, to hypnotise. hypnotising --- especially the quick kind that merritt practices --- is about making a person focus on one thing and then stealing that focus. for this to work, the person’s mind needs to be able to concentrate on one thing and forget the rest, so that when surprised or startled, their focus is entirely on the hypnotist, who then instantly starts feeding suggestion before the subject has time to regain composure.
what i’m saying is, for example, j. daniel atlas can’t both be able to hyperfocus and be naturally difficult to hypnotise
either he stays aware of his surroundings at all times and is aware of the passage of time when he practices, or -- more likely -- he’s actually susceptible to suggestion but so used to the presence of magicians that it’s difficult for merritt or (especially) the less experienced jack to take him off guard enough to put him under hypnosis
this also means that dylan, who we know for a fact can’t be hypnotised against his will if at all, is an excellent mental multitasker
ok now go fic
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queerlymasculine · 3 years
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so. I've been having awful migraines pretty much daily/on cooldown (one ends, another begins) for over a year. today I'm feeling pretty good. my brain sort of aches but it's not a headache/migraine. and I just got done designing a house in the sims for a sims challenge before I had to handle some pc weirdness. and my head doesn't hurt that much or much more than it did before. is this a sign to go back and keep playing? or is this a sign to stop while I'm ahead?
this is a rhetorical question. I know what the responsible choice is. sigh.
I'm going to take this as a sign, however, that I should go practice edging + not coming (getting cleaned up and fully dressed again when I know I need to if I actually want to see how this goes for me). I came earlier as, like, rebellion against all of the cis woman content that's all "good girls don't come" and I was like, well, okay, I guess I have to go come, seeing as how I'm a good boy 🤷‍♂️
related note: a lot of edging content is paired with hypnosis stuff, which is fine, but it does limit my enjoyment because I don't like 99% of hypnosis stuff now that lacetop owns me. this is 100% my own feelings and experience, ze has nothing to do with this, ze has never tried nor would ever try to tell me I couldn't have other partners, and even if ze did, that would fall so far outside of (oh god lawyer brain incoming lmao) hir jurisdiction
but like........ I don't want to listen to some random files where the whole shtick is obedience/ownership to the hypnotist or to some vague unnamed and usually gendered third party. it would ruin my immersion and wake me up because no thanks I'm good. not to mention, again, it's all super gendered for cis women which is unfortunate. but it's mostly that I don't want to be hypnotized by some rando?? I just have literally zero desire for that. if someone's going to hypnotize me and ze was interested, I'd want it to be lacetop and that's it.
this belongs in a much longer post about how I don't do things casually, and I've known that about myself for a while. when I make a decision, I know it's the right one, and when I decide to do something, I do it. I decided to belong to lacetop, and for me, that could never be casual. I could never say "so and so owns me" and not be serious about it.
which also leads into another post about how you can say things like that and mean it and need to take a break from it at times and it's okay AND you can go back to it when you're ready and it shouldn't be treated as a big deal because at the end of the day, kink is just playing around, it's a game, and as a very wise woman once said, "it is only a game; why do you have to be mad?"
anyway. I'm gonna go jerk off.
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hopeless-island · 4 years
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Dying Dream Cast Directory
A helpful guide to remind you about the main crew of the Hopeless Pirates and their basic info stuffs. Keep in mind, names are done the Japanese way. So, Last name/middle initial/ first name
Also, there are spoilers in here for all people who are not caught up with the story. Read at your own risk.
Captain: 
Gol D. Maven 
Nickname/known as: Maven/ Usurper Maven/ “Momma Maven”/ Big Sis Maven
Age: 20 (at the beginning of Canon)
Disease: Usurper’s Syndrome. A terminal illness that is continual, and progressively aggressive, muscle degradation. Combats this disease by building muscle faster than it can degrade, leading to painfully slow increase in strength and low muscle mass on her body.
Appearance: Like a gender-swapped Ace essentially. Small chest, much wider waist than typical for OP characters. Clearly defined abs, lithe but defined muscles on arms and legs. She is not thickly built, her disease keeping her from being “bulky” and making her body remain rather lanky despite the strength on it. About 6′1″, long wavy black hair that goes down to her butt and is extremely wild and untamed. Freckles on her face that add a slight childish appearance to her face, and sleepy looking gray eyes. Always carries Stormfall, a large battle axe/halberd with a purple metal butterfly-winged blade. Stormfall is over six and a half feet tall, so the blade is always poking above Maven’s head a bit. 
First Mate:
 Nymph Katylan
Nickname/Known as: Katie/ Dark Nymph Katylan
Age: two years younger than Maven. 
Disease: Unnamed terminal immunodeficiency, alluded to being like AIDS. 
Appearance: Stereotypical blond rich-girl appearance. Classic OP-girl physique, with large bust and small waist. Straight gold-blond hair that falls a few inches past her shoulders, and large sapphire-blue eyes. Commonly wears light colored sundresses with exercise shorts underneath just incase she fights, so there is never an indecent moment. She is also the Helmsman and Archer for the crew, and uses an ivory-white recurve bow made by Kilik.The center of the bow can change lengths, controlling the strength and range of the bow. Average female height of about 5′7″
Navigator (Original):
Linral
Nickname/Known as: Rabid Linral/ Lin
Age: 18 at death
Disease: Unnamed cancer, alluded to being more than just one type as it is “everywhere.” 
Appearance: Short tomboy, but with classic OP-girl body. She had short silver-white hair cut in a boyish pixie cut, and bright emerald-green eyes that she took pride in. Her body was littered with small scars, though not so many as to keep guys from blatantly trying to flirt with her. As stated earlier, she was very short-- just barely over five feet tall. Primarily a brawler, she had slightly more defined muscles than even Maven, considering Lin’s own disease didn't effect her muscle mass. Usually wore boy’s sports shorts and a grey or black tank top.
Weaponsmith (Original):
Kilik
Nickname/Known as: Kilik/ (I couldn’t remember/find his pirate name, so I made a new one up) Killing Steel Kilik
Age: 21 at death
Disease: Due to being unwillingly experimented on, his body developed the ability to produce its own organic poison straight into his own bloodstream. It never stopped his production, and production sped up over time. Too high of a concentration, and it would be fatal. 
Appearance: About 5′10″, with fluffy cinnamon-brown hair that is on the long side, almost brushing his shoulders, and chocolate brown eyes. He is somewhat lanky, not muscular but with his own brand of lithe strength. Overall boyish, with most of his muscle mass being centered in his arms without being bulky, because of his occupation as a blacksmith. Also a swordsman. Known for creating a bunch of really wacky, weirdly-designed “swords” and other weapons in an attempt to find his own unique sword style. He finally did, after making round “swords” in the shape of clocks. Usually wore a simple black or mustard-yellow t-shirt and dark jeans with brown or denim overalls. 
Doctor: 
Razdall 
Nickname/Known as: Raz/ Misery’s Herbalist Razdall
Age: 24 at the start of Canon
Disease: Unnamed heart condition, makes him extremely susceptible to spikes in blood pressure and heart rate. Weak heart. 
Appearance: About 6′0, with short but messy purple hair. Gray eyes the same shade as Maven’s, but instead of having narrow eyes like she does his just look perpetually bored. His body is pretty lanky, and since he isn’t a fighter he doesn’t have much muscle mass at all. he has a slight, perpetual slouch and usually wears a black or dark purple turtleneck with black, slightly baggy pants and a lab coat with the Hopeless Pirate jolly roger on the back.  Never seen without a utility belt laden with different pouches, orbs, and syringes full of his battle-ready herbal concoctions.
Seamstress:
Yalla
Nickname/Known as: Yalla/ Pretty Ninja Yalla (at least I think that’s what I went with as her pirate name... I can’t remember/ find it >.<) 
Age: 15 at the start of Canon
Disease: Assassin’s syndrome. Similar to Usurper’s, but instead of muscle it is a constant degradation of organs in the body. 
Appearance: A cutsey girly-girl, she has bubblegum-pink hair and bright golden yellow eyes. Originally she wore her hair up in constant long pigtails, but she started to wear it down after Kilik’s death. It reaches her knees when left down. She usually wears a frilly pink, gold, and black kimono that is cropped around the knee with sunflower-yellow boy shorts underneath incase any incidents occur. The kimono has three-quarter sleeves instead of the traditional long sleeves. She pairs it with flip-flops or goes barefoot. Still growing, she is relatively short at about 5′4″. She ate the Ribbon-Ribbon fruit and grew up as an acrobat in a circus, so she is not only very nimble and usually fights aerially, but she can turn her body into ribbons. 
Shipwright:
Gino
Nickname/Known as: Gino/ Black Thorn Gino
Age: mid-thirties by Canon
Disease: Akui Hanahaki. Like the Hanahaki in other stories, this disease grows flowers in and off of the victim’s lungs, causing them to hack up flowers and leaves from it as the disease progresses. Unlike the normal mythical disease, this one is caused by hatred from a loved one rather than unrequited love. The only cure is being forgiven, but the person whose hatred caused Gino’ s illness is dead so it is officially terminal for him. He coughs up black roses. 
Appearance: A large tiger-shark fishman, he clocks in at about 7′7″ and has greyish-blue skin with subtle grey stripes down his back and the back of his bald head, and partially over his shoulders and the back of his upper arms. Usually wears a black or dark grey tank top and black cargo pants or cargo shorts. He fights with spiked iron knuckles, and (spoiler alert) gets them upgraded to Seastone spiked knuckles after the Magician arc. He is very bulky, unlike the majority of the crew. Classic body of a thug/body builder type, with bulging biceps, very well-muscled chest/torso, and several tattoos. 
Dancer: 
Synalla
Nickname/Known as: Synalla/ “Crew Grandma”/ Slice-Dancer Synalla 
Age: Late twenties by Canon. About 28 or 29..?
Disease: Unnamed lung disease. Fashioned a bit after Cystic Fibrosis, but obviously made into a fantasy terminal illness. 
Appearance: She is a Snakeneck, and from her feet to the top of her head she is about 11′4″, with her neck by itself taking up almost half of that. Her body, like with most Snakenecks, is naturally lithe and lanky. Her hair is jet black, and goes down the entirety of her over-four-foot neck in sharp zig-zags that for some reason never lose shape. She dresses like a tango dancer almost constantly, in long brightly colored Mexican-styled dresses that end at her ankle and matching flats. She fights with tessen, or bladed war fans. She dances with them, too. She is naturally maternal and tends to mother hen, earning herself the nickname “Granny” or “Grandma” within the crew. 
Scout/ Navigator (new): 
Cala
Nickname/Known as: Cala/ Lynx Cala 
Age: about 26 by the start of Canon
Disease: Nature’s wrath syndrome, another disease similar to Usurper’s and Assassin’s syndrome. This version is constant degradation of the bones and severe calcium deficiency/the body burns through calcium at a really fast rate.
Appearance: Is it even a surprise by now? Cala is lanky, as apparently most of the rest of the crew omfg where is my originality at? But to the point of being almost bony. He has very short-cropped blue hair, buzzed but not shaved. He ate the cat-cat model: Lynx fruit, and can change into a lynx. He is incredibly frail because of his disease and tends to stay out of fights unless absolutely necessary (I have bones of glass, and paper skin...) But he makes an excellent scout and spy with his enhanced senses from his Zoan fruit. He, uh. honestly I haven’t put much thought into his wardobe. He’s a bony cat dude. Probably wears long blue basketball shorts and goes shirtless half the time honestly, idk. 
Crew Hypnotist..? I honestly don't know this guy’s role, I think he’s just a combatant/ bums out on the Dream honestly. 
Dyan
Nickname/Known as: Dyan/ King Dyan/  Deranged Prince Dyan (Pirate nickname)
Age: idk if I put a solid age for him, but he’d be about 40 by the start of Canon
Disease: Similar to Kilik, Dyan’s blood itself is mutating and becoming toxic to itself. There is no known cure. 
Appearance: He ate the child-child fruit, so he looks to be about 10 years old instead of his true age. He has spiky dark green hair, and is about 4′3″. He has a child’s body, so no real visible muscle mass or anything. He did used to be the King of the Ceres kingdom though, so he is constantly dressed in high quality clothes and somehow always looks like a stereotypical child prince/ rich brat. His devil fruit hypnotizes people along with making him stay in a child’s body, but you can read more about his devil fruit in the story itself. 
Magician
Azalea
Nickname/Known as: Azalea/ Scarlet Magician Azalea
Age: I don’t remember if I gave her an exact age, but we’ll say 23 by Canon
Disease: Cancer (sound familiar? (;)  Cured by Trafalgar Law. 
Appearance: about 5′9″, with bright, vibrant red hair in an asymmetrical pixie cut that she is just now beginning to grow out. Classic OP-girl body, but with muscular legs that most people seem to not notice. She is a magician, and as such is always wearing a maroon suit jacket, black slacks, and a bowtie. She has a flair for the dramatic. whatever she wears, she is always stylish. She does, in fact, have a magic wand that she uses occasionally. sporty-cute-girl. OH yeah, she has the feel-feel fruit and can sense everyone’s emotions and shit
I think that’s it for the Dying Dream crew. Whoo that took a while. There ya go!
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libidomechanica · 3 years
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Untitled Poem # 8648
 God said to the marke, weening it  to hit. Sae lights he jumped up the  stair, and those to blame this  sore constraint, and leaue to liue hard, and  shouting, and deserts led. Before  she came, that he took the  lips in holy silence. The silken  skilled transmemberment of song; permit  me voyage, Three whole days together  in the stocking, No more. rank  as a honeysuckle. for her  white virgins hymeneals sing, to  show it, but the world enamoured  rustic worships its fair hues, nor knows he  makes the thought, O name unnamed! Toward  those her liable to continues  to disappoint we can scarce  could find a fortune shana  steer thee; till the welth and thy breast  in the castle. But mine are there,  so let us cull for Marias  cold bier. Ah for the burying  of her Moon and satiate her  soul may drink of thy mind, and but one,  Her Grace, the suffered, nor expired with  the yellow hair and  soar above the base of the  hours crawled by like years till, now, if  you entreat me with yours 
in the sorrow withers even  the string, and mild as opening  gleams of glory brightening thy  bridal ring, for he has no eye for  me; with love so warm? That  she the company, whose every  day, be glad and great, which  shall see when dead, are heaped for  the dinghy, has placed wild flowers  at the doomed man say— look for  me by moonlight situation, such as  be carved on the wind is  in the distance otherwise,— past  whirling pillars and oarlocks for  the cannon-bullet rust on  a slothful shore, and those helpless               because 
he fixed it, and  complaint of present: “if  you are destined for merit at  her cares; as loud her praise. Nancy, 
Nancy;” then all smiles stopped crackling. All tongues, milton  appealed to the hypnotists  trance, into a spirit  in my short an age to  find a blank beyond the  tale of Launcelot on a 
day, and smooth as though my leaves shut before 
because the  North, and battle, and empty  of wit, admitted through. That nothing  that draws breath so sad as I, though all  the brilliant surface of night it  was but a dream, yet never  hope to reproduce the fate  that she the common be the  only constant method as above,  varied with rage, who but for  honour, which is also a bell  evening wheel and the terrace—all  and each warm wish springs sit smil ing in thy tender state: but most thence my nature  all! In my delicious paradise.
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izzystitchlover3 · 4 years
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Narrative Research: Session 3 - Id, ego, super-ego
Our cast list so far: Mr. Utterson Mr. Enfield Mr. Hyde The unnamed doctor The unnamed girl (about 8 or 9 years old) The girl’s family Bit Part
The story is told (so far) from Utterson’s POV – but is he the protagonist (the main character)? Even critics are undecided about this. In Chapter 2 we meet new characters...  Dr. Hastie Lanyon (old friend of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Utterson)  Poole (Jekyll’s loyal servant)
Plot summary: Chapter 2
• Utterson muses on the oddities of Jekyll’s will: it always seemed like ‘madness’, but Now it suggests ‘disgrace’. (Gay lover? An illegitimate child?). • Utterson visits Dr. Lanyon hoping for fresh information – he’s partly comforted (their falling-out is ‘only’ over science), but learns nothing new about Hyde. Back home, Utterson spends a restless night, dreaming fitfully about Jekyll and Hyde... • He begins to ‘haunt’ the street outside Hyde’s door, hoping to see a reason for his friend’s ‘strange preference or bondage. (What might he be looking for? Evidence of ‘sex appeal’? A ‘family resemblance’ between Jekyll & Hyde?) • Finally, the two men meet and, like the other witnesses, Utterson cannot explain his loathing for Mr. Hyde. • Their conversation sheds little light on the curious situation. • Utterson pays Jekyll a visit but is relieved that the doctor is away from home. • Utterson reflects on Jekyll’s situation: the doctor was ‘wild when he was young’; Hyde must be ‘the ghost of some old sin, the cancer of some concealed disgrace’ returning to ruin him. • He worries that time is running out for ‘poor Harry Jekyll’. And he thinks of his own past...‘... groping in all the corners of memory, lest by chance some Jack-in-the-Box of an old iniquity should leap to light there’ (1979, p. 42).
Remember: Jekyll and Hyde are the same people. Jekyll deliberately creates Hyde to behave ‘badly’ (and get away with it). ‘Henry Jekyll [...] is nobody’s hero... He represents the ‘cry of Victorian man from the depths of his self-imposed underground’ (Saposnik, 1971).
In the final chapter, we learn that Jekyll cannot reconcile ‘an impatient gaiety of disposition’* with his ‘imperious desire to carry [his] head high’ (1979, p.81). In other words, he wants to appear better than everyone else.
Emotion Categories: ‘appetites’ relating to ‘base’ desires (such as ‘lust’) and ‘sentiments’ which were seen as voluntary & associated with moral behavior. When it was used, the word ‘emotion’ related to movement, or disturbance, usually of a riotous political nature. We carry some of this meaning into English today: ‘emotional’ people are seen as ‘out of control’, less rational. According to Hewitt (2017) language ‘offers the clearest view of how cultural attitudes shape our personal experiences of feeling’.
A 21st Century Shaming (watch with an open mind): TED (2015) How one tweet can ruin your life/ Jon Ronson
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The id (‘Es’): ‘Primitive, unorganized, emotional: “the realm of the illogical”’ (Storr, 1989, p. 60). Governed by the ‘pleasure principle’. Represents the unconscious.
 The super-ego (‘Uber-ich’): our internalization of cultural rules (how we ought to behave). Usually works in opposition to the id.
The ego (‘ich’): represents the conscious mind & the ‘reality principle’. Able to defer gratification. ‘Mature’ and ‘reasonable’. ‘Acts as an intermediary between the id and the external world’ (Storr, 1989, p. 62).
Ego/Super-ego Utterson?
Id Jekyll? Hyde? Lanyon? Enfield?
Stevenson was inspired by Europe’s most famous hypnotist – Dr. Charcot at the Salpêtrière asylum in Paris. Charcot became famous for hypnotizing women with hysteria. Under hypnosis, their symptoms seemed to disappear...
Hysteria = a particular set of physical symptoms with no physical cause (e.g. loss of speech; paralysis of a limb; muscle spasms). Vast majority of sufferers were women.
Freud visited the asylum as a young man. The hypnotic experiments showed him the power of the unconscious mind. Many patients seemed to develop a double personality under hypnosis... But, after Charcot’s death, some patients admitted they were only faking... And Freud eventually stopped using hypnosis. With his colleague Josef Breuer, he invented a ‘talking cure’ called ‘psychoanalysis’. Psychoanalysis aims to unearth unconscious (i.e. hidden) desires & memories through ‘free association’ and analysis of dreams.
In Dream Psychology (1920) Freud wrote about the curious category of ‘those dreams which have never been dreamed’ – by which he meant dreams in fiction. A Freudian interpretation of Utterson’s dream could be interesting...
Un Chien Andalou (1929, dir. Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel) - Based on the dreams of director Luis Bunuel, the film is considered a Surrealist classic
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Resources used:
• Freud, S. and Jensen, W. (2015) The Collected Works of Sigmund Freud. [ebook] PergamonMedia.
• Freud, S. and Phillips, A. (2006) The Penguin Freud Reader. London: Penguin Books.
• Grant, A. (2008) Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. New Lanark: Waverley Books.
• Harman, C. (2006) Robert Louis Stevenson: a biography. 2nd edn. [ebook] London: Harper Perennial.
• Hewitt, R. (2017) A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind. London: Granta Books.
• Saposnik, I. (1971) The Anatomy of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in Studies in English Literature. 1500–1900. Vol. 11. No 4, Nineteenth Century, pp.715–731.
• Stevenson, R.L. and Linehan, K. (ed) (2003) Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. New York and London: Norton & Company.
• Stevenson, R.L. (1979) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories. London: Penguin Classics. Reprint, 1999.
• Storr, A. (1989) Freud: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reprint, 2001.
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Things that mildly irk/annoy/disappoint/bother me about the Netflix Adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events.  (Note: overall, I love the show.  It’s generally faithful, it gets the tone right, the visuals are great, and I understand why they made a lot of these changes.  This is pretty much just nitpicking.)  Obviously this will contain spoilers.
The Sebald Code is way less accessible.  In the books it can be hidden anywhere you can work in a reference to ringing bells: plays, letters to cheesemakers, wedding invitations, whatever.  In the show, it only works in subtitled films, and only if you have the ability to get your spyglass out without revealing yourself to villains.  If you’re trying to be inconspicuous or you’ve lost your spyglass for whatever reason you’re screwed.
They left off Klaus’ second visit to the optometrist, where he gets re-hypnotized
No hypnotist/baby sword-to-tooth fight
They left off the conceit of VFD members only referring to each other with the first letter of their first names.  It’s a confusing mess and I love it.  In the first season alone we have J, G, O, F(?), B, B, M, J, I (mentioned only), C, S, G, L...
Jacques doesn’t have a unibrow, and instead looks like Nathan Fillion.  Much as I enjoyed his performance, I feel like it undercuts things a bit.  The earlier books tend to fall into Beauty=Goodness: the Baudelaires are described as having “pleasant facial features” while Olaf and his troupe are marked as grotesque and evil.  Esme and Jacques help subvert this: she is as evil as she is gorgeous, he is as ugly as Olaf yet heroic and noble.  The characters are introduced at the midway point of the series, where things stop being so black-and-white.  It just bugs me
Again, while I liked Oliva’s character arc, I feel like we missed out with the loss of Madame Lulu as an active and neutral figure.  Unlike Josephine, who retired, or Olaf, who went all in on the fire-starting side of the schism, or Jerome, who remained loyal, Madame Lulu kept her VFD affiliation without actually picking a side.  She helps Olaf, she helps the Baudelaires, she helps anyone who asks.  As it is, the show adds her to the “noble but unable to help” camp, already populated by Justice Strauss, Uncle Monty, Jacques, etc.  Again, this is the point were the Noble/Ignorant/Villainous dichotomy begins to break down.  It feels like the complexities are lost in translation
Geraldine Julian is combined with Eleanora Poe (and Mr. Poe’s unnamed wife).  This doesn’t change much, but I do like her as an ambiguous figure whose maliciousness/ignorance ratio is never made fully clear.  The woman locked her boss in the basement to die because an actress told her to.  She forced VFD to move headquarters multiple times by publishing their location in her column “Secret Organizations You Ought to Know About”.  I find her an interesting character.  Eleanora, meanwhile, is purely ignorant.  She genuinely doesn’t notice when she prints misinformation or when she gets people hurt.
VFD wasn’t the only town in the “It Takes a Village” program.  The Baudelaires deliberately chose it in search of answers.  It’s the first and only official guardian they choose for themselves.  The whole book is a turning point: Sunny takes her first steps, Klaus has a birthday, the Baudelaires are forced to disguise themselves while Olaf goes free, the Quagmire subplot is resolved...  The first half of the series ends here, and things change.  The waters are muddier in the show.  Obviously they couldn’t do anything about Sunny’s aging, and they did keep the birthday and the loss of the Quagmires, but the cutoff is less sharp
Mr. Poe doesn’t appear between the start of The Vile Village and the end of The Grim Grotto (where they firmly reject his help).  In the later half of the series, their support network, ineffective as it may be, is gone.  They have no recourse but scraps of information they don’t understand and each other.
Olaf starts losing henchpeople as the Baudelaires stop losing guardians.  The first one even dies in a fire, just like the Baudelaire parents.  Much as I enjoy watching the Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender, someone should have burned to death in that hospital.
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Why you’ll never be a good subject
1) You’re too generic (ex: “hi trance me, m sub”). Have at least a good idea of what to try/do before wanting a session! Otherwise, noone will care for you. And if you only care for being submissive, that’s also a good reason noone will trance you. They’ll be annoyed quite quickly.
2) You only listen to hypnofiles, and you believe you can’t be tranced. Hypnotists exist too, and they are able to understand you much better than a mere script where most of the time, it’s just badly written.
3) You’re acting too much of a whore, asking all the time for a session. WE’RE NOT YOUR slave and we aren’t actively doing hypnosis 24/7, we have a life,  goddammit.
4) Stop writing you are “OUR” thing if you plan to write the exact same FUCKING thing somewhere else 3 minutes after the end of the session. Commercial bullshit should NEVER happen in such a small and fragile community! Also, you’ll be seen as an asshole, and it’ll be practically the worst error you’ll ever do in a hypnocommunity.
5) You’re only aiming for perfection, and you know you will never be able to find that, if you don’t want to be relaxed at least. Start progressively, so that WE can get to know you better. And most importantly, let yourself go, it should be a moment of coziness, not a fucking job hunt.
6) You lie in your gender. If you say you’re a girl just by thinking you’ll be able to be hypnotized easily, you break the #1 RULE of hypnosis. If you lie in that way, you’re an asshole, and we hypnotists don’t deserve wasting time for such people, because we know they can lie farther than that.
Only exception is if you’re a transgender. However, it’s not a trend, and if you haven’t started a specific phase, don’t call yourself that way. It doesn’t make sense. Otherwise, let me tell you I’m a girl transgender, I haven’t even started my transition, but call me a girl still so that I can have at least attention, okay?
7) You LIE on your trances. Sorry, saying it twice, but we prefer hearing the truth and know it didn’t work than hearing lies to only please the hypnotist. You won’t help anyone improving otherwise. And breaking the #1 RULE of hypnosis is just the worst thing to ever do.
8) You aren’t able to trust a hypnotist. They trust you, so why wouldn’t you trust them a minimum? If they talk to you, at least talk about what you both want to plan before making a session, so you can set things straight.
Granted, unnamed hypnotists can be a problem. But well, if you stop being on Omegle to find hypnotists, that can help. ;)
9) Hypnosis is fucking roleplay for you. In this case, you’re sadly a waste of time. No hypnotist wants to waste time for people PRETENDING to be hypnotized. They want to give the original feeling.
10) “I know I can’t be hypnotized” - Yet you never tried hypnosis. So give it a go instead of playing resistance. Resistance can be so easily broken, by the way.
11) “I don’t believe in hypnosis” - Ok, tell me, do you believe in influence? Psychology? How do you sleep? How do you relax? Did you know hypnosis is a natural state? If you answer “NO” to any of this, you have a serious problem, and should seek immediate help. Also, your eyes are now blinking manually. And the moment you did it, you are now aware hypnosis works on you.
8) You actually don’t give a fuck about hypnosis. Shoo. Gawaway.
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I’m done. I’m fucking done. Hypnosis should be a pleasure, not a pain, just because a lot of people are too selfish to only care of themselves, and not have mutual fun between you, and your hypnotist. If you feel targeted, just change your fucking mind.
Also, once again, no offense about real transgender people. You have courage, and I highly respect that.
#1 RULE : Hypnosis only works if there’s a mutual trust between the hypnotist and the subject.
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goodtobegeeking · 6 years
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Retrospective: The Hypnotic Eye (1960) (a film retrospective by Mark R. Leeper)
Retrospective: The Hypnotic Eye (1960) (a film retrospective by Mark R. Leeper)
CAPSULE: In an unnamed major city, there is a baffling series of incidents of beautiful women inflicting agonising self-mutilations on their own faces. Dave, a police detective, investigates by searching for a common link. He ties the case to the visit of a popular stage hypnotist. The film’s plot is rather straightforward and flat.…
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nena408-blog1 · 7 years
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Most women can not escape the gravity of a bad break.
Most women can not escape the gravity of a bad break. As a result, they create a critical publication break failure that leaves them torn apart: they secretly hope that they will recover their man. They just can not let go of what happened. They have invested too much in the relationship and they feel they will never find another man like the one they lost. If you make this publication breaking error, you will have to face a major problem: Problem # 1: The healing process can not take place while you are still hoping that your man will come back to you. Your ability to fall in love can not rejuvenate and, therefore, you will have no desire to meet other men. So now you have a big void in your love life and you can not fill it out as you expect a miracle. Every woman is the victim of this attempt to want it. It's hard not to. But the truth is that in the context of love and relationships, all that is lost is lost forever. Men separate from women when they are no longer attracted to them. Once this attraction disappears, nothing can bring it back. That's why the best thing to do is let go and continue your life. Learn from your mistakes and take the movie2k Case closed! Next!" Attitude. Never look back. Remember the saying: "Unnamed names never reach my heart". What matters is to fully recover this breakup so that you do not have to bear suffering in your future relationships. Many women feel that they are stuck in a fortress and never open up in a relationship after a devastating break. Obviously, this is not the solution ... So, remember: if he left because he was no longer attracted to you, the best decision to break publication you can take, c is to learn from your mistakes and continue your life. Keep in mind what Richard Bandler, the world's largest hypnotist, said: "People always say that in the years to come you will look at this and laugh. My question is: Why are you waiting? "
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