i'm completely normal about the idea of a presentation and role and mental shift being driven in and then the second you're behind the curtain, all of it fades into a dull nothing

it's up to you to guess and deliberately ambiguous in a vaguely threatening way unless you catch me backstage without the kayfabe

that's basically exactly my thoughts; plus, if we're both here for someone going under, i'm more interested in that happening to someone rather than deciding who.

cocky, smug arrogance, in my mind, is great on both sides, provided both sides are leaning into it for aesthetic and facade

to press your thumb down in this realistically involves a lot of pre talk and checking in that it's welcome and leaving all of the usual safeties around "hey, not right now!" and affirming the subject's will to remain steadfast. moods are mercurial, and they'll align at some point! maybe not now.

without the fantastical posturing; as a lot of the ideas posted are much less pragmatic than they are idealized - there is a thin line to be tread on this sort of thing. requires respecting their mood! only when it is warranted, negotiated and so on. a feeling of not being taken seriously is not fun

"i had something in mind but i'll just get you back for it later and nod along" is basically ideal

yes, perfection. ideal behavior on all sides here. wonderful.

no, it will continue happening

hope this helps

bonus points if the reaction doesn't even shift the overall mood; you wouldn't want to bulldoze someone's surge of inspiration. but just press pause on that and come back later and let the hypnotist drag your fancy around for a bit; be useful to them, smile, wag your tail, and then be released.

don't worry, i'm on it with everything but a sharp salute. they got added as recurring meeting invites. i'll be a limp orange rind next to a tall, fresh glass of "more posts about casual hypnosis and brainwashing" with a side of probably something paw related depending on how much they wring out.

quadraurals instead of binaurals, they're saying it's four times as efficient

and then you have to ask yourself when it shifted and if you're only just now noticing it and how much you passively picked up nodding along before that and that it was always going to happen and that you'd be better off listening, voice growing distant, responses becoming call-and-response, and

the former is pretty fun just for hearing broad takes about this stuff.

plus, i'm more than happy to use that verbiage to give off the image of knowing what i'm talking about -- to leave someone that much easier to suspend disbelief. if it's all a performance, i've gotta -seem- smug about it.

throw a poke whenever, i certainly do

my take exactly on a lot of the "how does it work" side of things

is this the exact method by which someone ends up going into a state of trance - is it even a state? - is it just a context that they themselves sink into

oh, wait, they're already flustered and sleepy. mission accomplished.

this sounds cool as hell i'm watching this like 👀

exactly!! it's as fun as it gets when there's that background of how it's happened before, the expectations of what the other might do and anticipation that may linger in the background, and it can just gracefully tend towards that moment -- and then they drop.

please understand were it not for the character count restrictions the word dragons would be repeated more and more and more and

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