Monty Python meets H.P. Lovecraft by way of Scotland

Thanks to Lady K for the giggles:



And just for the sake of completeness, here's the video I'd shared with her first:

My most frequently asked question

From time to time I get emails from my blog readers, and in those emails, one question pops up more than any other. They've experimented with hypnosis either through Virtual Hypnotist or a live hypnotist, and they just don't think they're going under.

I always tell them what people told me when I started experimenting: they're probably going deeper than they think you are. You can test this for yourself by focusing on how relaxed your body is, when you're listening to a hypnotic induction. Notice how limp your arms and legs are. Notice how slack your jaw has become. Notice how you just don't really want to move. You could move, you tell yourself; but you're just too comfortable to bother. You see, feeling this way means you're at least somewhat hypnotized.

At this point, you might argue that only your body is hypnotized; your mind is still wide awake. But think about this: yes, you really could move, if you were motivated enough - but you're not. And motivation comes from the mind, not the body. Your mind is at least somewhat involved in the hypnosis. So it's only a matter of practice and finding the right imagery to make you feel it.

Having a real, certified hypnotist as a partner is the best way to go, but of course, not everyone has access to that. And even if you do have access to a hypnotist, that doesn't mean you have access to a kinky hypnotist. And even if you do have access to a kinky hypnotist, that doesn't mean you should automatically trust them enough to take you deep. As a matter of fact, I hope you won't trust them that much until you really get to know them. Anything else is dangerous.

As for those of you who don't have access to a kinky hypnotic sex partner, Virtual Hypnotist can be pretty fucking awesome - if you're willing to take time with it. Those of you who've been following my blog for awhile (especially the "My Hypnotic Adventure"-tagged posts) know I started out in the same "I don't think I'm going deep" boat as many of you. Well, I can say with absolute certainly that I'm going very deep now. In fact, I had an absolutely unbelievable experience just this morning. Too bad I don't remember it completely, but that's by choice. I like the idea of having a Mistress who implants commands I can't even follow. And the fact that she's really me, the fact that I devised these commands myself to enrich my life and give myself pleasure, allows me to go as deep as I like. I trust "her" completely, because I can.

That's the biggest advantage to VH: if you write your own scripts, you have total control - even when you don't remember that you have it. You know just how to push your own buttons, and you can trust yourself more than you can trust just about anyone else, so that allows you to go extremely deep and have an extremely pleasurable experience. It just takes time to get there.

Caveat: I don't recommend pushing the envelope too much on the self-trust issue. I always preach safe play, so I hope you won't try to program yourself for intentional harm. At the very, very least, I imagine it would make you less likely to trust yourself in the future - and that could lead to poorer hypnotic results. At the worst, who knows? I don't. Just don't try it.

When you're writing scripts for yourself, try to get into the headspace of a kinky but ultimately benevolent hypnotist. Any post-hypnotic suggestions should be designed to enhance your well-being. Tell yourself you're a good person, a strong person, able to cope well with difficult situations in life. Tell yourself you can resist temptation to do things that would harm you. Tell yourself you deserve love and happiness, and you can find it.

And when you're giving yourself commands about how to react to hypnosis in the future (for instance, going deeper every time you hear your trigger), make sure you give yourself an "out" so you don't get yourself into trouble. For instance, suppose you've chosen "broccoli" as your trigger word. You don't want to fall into a trance every time you hear that word, because who knows when or where you might hear it? Worst case scenario, you could be shopping at your local grocery and suddenly drop your pants and start humping the produce. Okay, I'm kidding...but not entirely. Do follow up any suggestions about trigger words or falling into trance again with conditions: when it will work, and when it won't.

I also think it's important to program yourself not to be controlled by just anybody.   Don't let some random stranger who knows your kink take advantage of you, and don't become so submissive that it affects your everyday interactions. Tell yourself you'll only be hypnotized or otherwise manipulated when you consciously want it.

But enough preaching. I hope these tips will help you get the most out of your hypnotic play. If you want more information about how to customize Virtual Hypnotist, just look up to the top of the sidebar here; I have a whole tutorial.

*The image at the top of this post came from Bizarre. The model is Sophie Howard.

until later...

Life's a little busy right now, so while I have some posts percolating in my head, I don't have time to write much down. I hope this picture of a gold-painted Charlize Theron will tide you over. ;-)

Neal Stephenson knows how to party some more

Back in January I posted an excerpt from Neal Stephenson's SF novel The Diamond Age. That one was all about a kinky MC-fueled orgy. Today I'm sharing another scene from the same book - this one about kinky sex as well, though the MC is less overt. This scene is more about getting into another person's head deeply enough to turn their kinks against them.

Here's the setup: our heroine Nell has gone to work for Madame Ping's brothel, but not as a prostitute. She's a scriptwriter, creating and modifying role-play scenarios to feed clients' kinks. And today she's been presented with a problem. Colonel Napier has been a customer for many years, using a BDSM scenario to work out his guilt over sending soldiers to their deaths. Lately, however, the game just puts him to sleep; so Nell has to find a new way into his hindbrain. When she does, she goes in so deep that he actually reveals state secrets. And if that isn't juicy enough by itself, she turns a bit to the dark side and uses her control to answer some personal questions. Napier knows more than most about the hacker group CryptNet and the shadowy Dr. X; and Nell isn't shy about picking his brain. After all, it's laid out so neatly in front of her. How could she resist the temptation to become a temporary MC'er?

The scene begins with Nell watching the role-play from a giant monitor in another room. Just for the sake of clarification, no one involved here really belongs to CryptNet.

     [The actress] pressed another button, which caused Colonel Napier's body to go limp. She and a maid wrestled him into a dumbwaiter and moved him down to a lower floor, where, after descending via the stairway, they tied him to a rack.
     This was where the problem came in. By the time they had finished tying him up, he was sound asleep.
     "He did it again," said the woman playing the role of Miss Braithwaite, addressing herself to Nell and anyone else who might be monitoring. "Six weeks in a row now."
     When Madame Ping had explained this problem to Nell, Nell had wondered what the problem was. Let the man sleep, as long as he kept coming and paid his bill. But Madame Ping knew her clients and feared that Colonel Napier was losing interest and might shift his business to some other establishment unless they put some variety into the scenario.
     "The fighting has been very bad," the actress said. "He's probably exhausted."
     "I don't think it's that," Nell said. She had now opened a private voice channel direct to the woman's eardrum. "I think it is a personal change."
     "They never change, sweetheart," said the actress. "Once they get the taste," they have it forever."
     "Yes, but different situations may trigger those feelings at different times of life," Nell said. "In the past it has been guilt over the deaths of his soldiers. Now he has made peace. He has accepted his guilt, and so he accepts the punishment. There is no longer a contest of wills, because he has become submissive."
     "So, what do we do?"
     "We must create a genuine contest of wills. We must force him to do something he really doesn't want to do," Nell said, thinking aloud. "What would fit that bill?"
     "Wake him up," Nell said. "Tell him you were lying when you said this wasn't a CryptNet operation. Tell him you want real information. You want military secrets."
     Miss Braithwaite sent the maid out for a bucket of cold water and heaved it over Colonel Napier's body. Then she played the role as Nell had suggested, and did it well; Madame Ping hired people who were good at improvisation....
     Colonel Napier seemed surprised, not unpleasantly so, at the script change. "If you suppose that I will divulge information that might lead to the deaths of more of my soldiers, you are sadly mistaken," he said. But his voice sounded a little bored and disappointed, and the bio readouts coming in from the nanosites in his body did not show the full flush of sexual excitement that, presumably, he was paying for. They still were not meeting their client's needs.
     On the private channel to Miss Braithwaite, Nell said, "He still doesn't get it. This isn't a fantasy scenario anymore. We've been drawing him in for the last several years. Now he belongs to us, and he's going to give us information, and he's going to keep giving it to us, because he's our slave."
     Miss Braithewaite acted the scene as suggested, making up more florid dialogue as she went along. Watching the bio readouts, Nell could see that Colonel Napier was just as scared and excited, now, as he had been on his very first visit to Madame Ping's several years ago (they kept records). They were making him feel young again, and fully alive.
     "Are you connected with Dr. X?" Colonel Napier said.
     "We'll ask the questions," Nell said.
     "I shall do the asking. Lotus, give him twenty for for that!" said Miss Braithewaite, and the maid went to work on Colonel Napier with a cane.
     The rest of the session almost ran itself, which was good for Nell, because she had been startled by Napier's reference to Dr. X and had gone into a reverie, remembering comments that Harv had made about the same person many years ago.
     Miss Braithewaite knew her job and understood Nell's strategy instantly: the scenario did not excite the client unless there was a genuine contest of wills, and the only way for them to create that contest was to force Napier to reveal real classified information. Reveal it he did, bit by bit, under the encouragement of Lotus's bamboo and Miss Braithewaite's voice. Most of it had to do with troop movements and other minutiae that he probably thought was terribly interesting. Nell didn't.
     "Get more about Dr. X," she said. "Why did he assume a connection between CryptNet and Dr. X?"
     After a few more minutes of whacking and verbal domination, Colonel Napier was ready to spill. "Big operation of ours for many years now - Dr. X is working in collusion with a high-level CryptNet figure, the Alchemist. Working on something they mustn't be allowed to have."
     "Don't you dare hold back on me," Miss Braithwaite said.

The picture at the top of the post is of Dita Von Teese. Unfortunately, I've had it so long that I don't remember where I found it.

By popular demand

That post I made a couple of weeks ago about the Agent Provocateur video has been the most popular thing I ever posted on this blog (Aside from boob shots. Everyone always loves the boob shots). So all thanks again to Xenia LaFleur for providing the link.

Several of you have asked me how to download the video for yourselves, so here you go. This is Download Helper, a free Firefox extension that allows you to grab videos, audio, and images from all kinds of different sources. You do have to use Firefox as your internet browser, to use Download Helper, but I'd recommend Firefox even if DH never existed because it has so many useful add-ons.

Anyway, let's say you're using Firefox and you've installed Download Helper. Now you should see a DH icon on your toolbar, but if you don't, just change your toolbar layout to add it in (I'm assuming you can get this far on your own, but if you have any trouble, feel free to email me. I don't bite). Before you try to download anything, make sure your settings are correct. Right-click on the DH icon, then choose "General" and "Behavior." The last option under the Behavior tab says, "Upon clicking on the icon" - and then it gives you a drop-down menu to choose what you want to happen. Select "Open Menu."

Now you're ready to download all kinds of content from all kinds of places. YouTube is easiest because every time you view a video there, you'll see a DH icon right next to the title and all you have to do is click it to start downloading. If you're anywhere else on the web, it's just a tiny bit harder to get what you want.

Here's how to snag that Agent Provocateur video. At left is a (carefully cropped, hah) shot of my screen after I've clicked the DH icon. The left-hand arrow is pointing to the icon, which is lit up to show the page has content which can be downloaded. Notice the file name beneath the icon. Sometimes DH will give you several file names to choose from because there are multiple media items available to download, but in this case it's easy. There's only Agent_Provocateur_Fleurs_du_Mal_mp4.mp4. Click on that, and your private copy of "Fleurs du Mal" is on its way.

Now here's an extra piece of advice. If you're on another webpage with several available files to download and you're not sure which one is the right one, you have a couple of options. The easiest thing to do is select "All links to media files." You'll end up with a folder full of everything DH could find on the page - JPG's, audio, video, whatever - and you can sort through it and pick out what you want. Alternately, if it's a video you're after, look for a file name with the extension .mp4 (or sometimes .flv or .wmv). Notice that .mp4 is the extension of the "Fleurs du Mal" video - and notice also that the second screen grab doesn't include any mp4 options. This page of Ulorin Vex's LiveJournal only has images, so DH is giving you a few individual choices and then offering you the whole batch of 50 items at once.

Lastly, here are a couple of other notes, just in case you use DH a lot:

1. If you're after an audio clip, or sometimes a video, the download might be unavailable until the clip starts playing. In that case you have to hit the "play" button before the DH icon lights up and/or offers you the right choice for downloading.
2. Occasionally a website will block downloading of its content. This doesn't happen often, and sometimes you can root around in the source code and find a way to skirt the issue; but in most of these cases you're out of luck. Just be glad most site designers don't care enough to block you.

And that's it for today. Have fun downloading, and don't forget to credit your sources if you repost anything.

Beksinski's alien terraforming

And here, at last, is the promised new Beksinski post. A couple of weeks ago I discovered a blog devoted to his art, a blog that included lots of pictures I hadn't seen before - and larger, clearer versions of pictures I had seen. Once I'd downloaded everything I wanted, I cleaned up some of the images even more; so what you're seeing below is a genuine group effort. These pictures have come from all over the net, and some of them have made several stops along the way.

I can't share everything I found with you, not all at once. So I came up with a theme to build a selection around. Quite naturally, the first thing that occurred to me was alien terraforming. As a matter of fact, what occurred to me was transdimensional alien terraforming. Here's a wisp of a story for you.

The Old Ones had been waiting for aeons, in the seas beyond our universe. And now, at last, the stars were right. They could return. They burst asunder the doors separating their world from ours, and then they came inside.

The Old Ones strode across the earth, taller than the highest mountains, stranger than the depths of the seas. And everywhere they strode, they claimed. None could hope to oppose them.

 

They filled the earth with their alien ooze, remaking lands, plants, animals....

They repurposed buildings to meet their needs, turning even the simplest structures into portals of dread.

And, of course, they repurposed humans, too. They loved nothing better.

And so, at last, the dimensions were united. Into one. Big. Happy. Family.

The time Matt Bellamy MC'ed Grace Jones

I told you I might get distracted before I got around to posting those Beksinski pictures. ;-)

So, did you know that all the while Matt Bellamy has been ranting about MK Ultra and mind-controlling satellites, he's just been taking the piss? Oh, you did? Good. I did, too. But I didn't know just how he'd been taking the piss until this moment. See, all along, Matt has secretly been one of Them. And what's worse, Dom and Chris are Illuminati as well.

Oh, yes, it's true. I've just found a blogger who put a lot thought and effort into the subject, so I don't dare contradict him. Besides, if I did, he'd just assume I was one more MC'ed drone; and things would only go downhill if I said I wished I was.

I'll give you the link in a second, but first I need to warn you that not everything you'll see there is as much fun as the Grace Jones bit. In fact, I almost didn't blog about this article, because some of the stuff in the middle of it is pretty grim. Real-world grim. But finally I decided to put the link out there and let you all decide what to do with it. You can...

1. Follow the link below and read the whole blog post, understanding that some parts of it will probably upset you,
2. Follow the link below and skip over the upsetting section, which begins with the paragraph about the "Sunburn" video and continues to just above the video of the woman in the red bikini, or
3. Skip the link entirely.

The choice is yours, assuming you're not a victim of MK Ultra, yourself.