Star Trek: TOS writers ingeniously retaining viewership by including a Hot Girl in the episode (audiences will uncontrollably cum all over themselves at the sight of Woman and be forced to watch the rest of the episode while they clean up)

@h3mmy

My condolences. Storytelling is quite an art form and it’s unfortunate that has been a negative experience for you.

aw, thank you! I’m just very easily hurt by witnessing things like injustice or cruelty, fictional or not, and storytelling is almost never calibrated with my emotional sensitivity in mind - so I end up much more hurt than what I think was intended

for the most part I avoid storytelling right now - even in video games. although sometimes I’m able to enjoy a video game with a story because the story isn’t told in a way that affects my emotions very strongly. for example I’ve been really enjoying Alien: Rogue Incursion in part because the story isn’t able to upset or disturb me in the ways that it’s trying to (sadly some of the audio logs still managed to hurt me though)

but yeah I don’t know what I need in order to be less hurt by ficitonal injustice or cruelty. I wish I did

I had quite the polycule going in my BG3 runs

aww hehehe omg that sounds really nice. I’ve always wanted to be able to play a game with romanceable characters like that

I’ve actually done some studying at some point of the different “schools of thought” such as the Milton Erickson model and its potential applications. It was part of my sociology interest topics, and was quite useful as it kept coming up as I dove into social influence mechanics and how they are used with high cohesion groups (cults) with applications in broad scale societies (colonialism and imperialism)

woahh interesting. I had no idea that you studied sociology, let alone that you dove so deep into hypnosis, or even how applicable that kind of thing is for understanding cults - though that last part does make sense

Anyway, long tangent to say that you are right about it being difficult to ethically study hypnosis, and the subjects belief structures play a huge part in any sort of “suggestibility.” 😅

omg wait what do you mean by “ethically”? are there easier ways to study it that are unethical instead? I always thought that it was just inherently difficult to study because there were way too many confounding variables - because what you’d have to control for are {social dynamics between the hypnotist and the subject} and the subject’s beliefs about hypnosis (and probably other messy social/psychological things too) which sounds basically impossible

You’re right that things are much different with queer folx. It’s also different depending on localities. And bottoms/tops won’t necessarily correspond to submissives and dominants. They are different dynamics altogether. I’ve much more practice as a soft domme and scene top. And some practice as a softly dominant scene bottom.

hm that’s a distinction that I have to admit I’m kind of fuzzy on. like I here are how I think those words are defined:

• top: the one who performs actions in the scene (the one who ties the ropes, uses the impact play toy, etc.)
• bottom: the one who receives the actions in the scene
• dom/domme: the one who asserts control in the context of the scene
• sub: the one who relinquishes control in the context of the scene

but by these definitions, for example it makes sense to me that the top in a rope-play scene would also always be the dom because they’re restraining the bottom, and therefor taking control for themself (by making the bottom physically helpless). so I feel like there’s something I’m missing

I have actually interacted with some domme and top leaning switches that have expressed interest but there’s often some difficulty getting aligned on boundaries around sexual touch and the fact that I don’t actually want those parts (I was born a tease or something which makes me an exceptionally frustrating brat)

hehehe omgg - very fair lol. so it sounds like it’s difficult for you in general to find play partners who aren’t interested in doing completely non-sexual scenes? (and scenes with any kind of sexual component would be a hard limit for you)

Yup! I’ll let @Trey answer those questions. She was a bit tied up over the weekend and wasn’t able to respond so far.

oh - right! sorry I should have asked her instead. I guess I was just shy to talk to a new person hehe. but I would love to hear about it, Trey!