#it's already there it's two syllables it's done you don't have to add another four

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re: the last post i am constantly battling my inner demons because while I Know language changes all the time and we should be conscious of how it's actually used rather than hanging onto prescriptivist ideals, whenever i hear someone say comfortability instead of comfort i have to close my eyes for a second

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Common Hypnosis Asks I Get

If you have questions, please hit the Ask (or DM me) and I will be happy to reply.

1. Does hypnosis work?

Yes, it does. How does it work? That's complicated and entire books have been written about it.

Just know that if a particular thing isn't working for you, try a different one. A different induction, different tist, different media, etc.

We're all different and we all respond differently based on any number of factors. Try reading my RESISTANCE trance and ... relax - clear your mind - and focus on the words and let them sink in.

2. Can you hypnotize me?

This is a trickier one.

Short answer is: probably, yes. And I've tranced many, many people that I've met on Tumblr. I've done 7 - 10 trances per week for the last four months.

And that leads to the longer answer: I've gotten myself burned out. I *might* start trancing again in the future. And I *am* still trancing people that were already working with me when they ask for sessions.

But for the most part, I'm moving to lounge mode and chilling out for a bit. As much as I would love to make you all horny, submissive little pets for me, I need to just not for a while.

3. Can hypnosis make me dumb?

Hmmmmm ... now this one is going to make people sad but the truth is "no". Hypnosis cannot make you dumb just as it can't make you smart.

But what it *can* do ... is it can interrupt your thoughts and recall in subtle ways. And I have done this with my "DumDumPond" that I put inside people's heads.

The way it works is things that you have in your mind are replaced with blank spaces, or fog, or a different thing, whatever. So when you would normally think of the number 2, for instance, you instead come up with "???? I can't see what used to be there".

Another way it works is to interrupt thinking with other things. "Every time you start to think a complicated thought, you hear a sexy moan (or a train whistle or a hum or whatever)."

And it can also distract you with things like "if you try to use words over two syllables, you will find it impossible to say or write those words to completion." That has a double whammy of making you always consider syllable counts - which slows down cognitive processing - but it also makes you halt and look and feel dumber.

Are you dumber? No. But you will look and feel dumber. And the dangerous thing is we can become what we feel over time if we do it too often. Internal dialogues are a form of hypnosis.

4. Can you make me attracted to <pick anything you want here>?

This one can only be answered with a question:

Do you believe in conversion therapy? If you do, please leave my blog and block me.

If you are a man and want to be with men, or if you are a woman who wants to be with women, please accept yourself for who you are.

Now it may be extremely challenging, and even, sadly, life-threatening in some parts of the world to be open with who you are. I wish I could change that for you. Honest to god, I wish I had that power.

Since I do not and no hypnotist does, please find a professional to talk to. Find peer groups to talk to. Find others who have faced down similar challenges - not the same, but similar - and can share experiences with you.

Hypnosis is just going to add noise into your head when you need to be clearing up your mind and addressing your desires in a healthy manner.

5. Can you make me a sissy or force feminize me?

Oh darling ... this answer is the same as above for me.

So many men come to me wanting this. Some will have closets full of gear and deep deep desires to literally come out of the closet with their best dress on.

You do not need to be hypnotized for this.

I say this with full understanding that the "forced" angle is a massive kink for many. I also understand that many of my transwomen friends started this way - being forced or diving in deep to sissy hypnosis.

I understand. And yet ... I don't think it's helpful for me to force anyone to do anything and I don't feel comfortable doing it.

I love you for who you are already.

I have, and will, put out some pieces about being a bimbo and ultra-girly. But I'm not converting you. I'm not forcing you. I'm not changing you.

There are lots of files and tists out there that will do that. Please be careful, ok?

6. Can you make me a permanent, mindless slave?

I hear this one a lot. I don't want to get morose but this one depresses me a bunch.

"Mindless slave" for a bit? Ok.

"PERMANENT Mindless slave"? I would never do it and I would never want it done to you.

You are the only you in the world. You are, by definition, unique and special.

Don't trade that in and become a mindless slave to anyone.

I get the desire to escape the unbelievable stresses and anxiety of daily life. I feel it all the time. So I understand this request intimately.

Resist it.

Have fun with hypno and feel aroused and fall into subby space and feel blank and empty for a bit. But don't go chasing becoming mindless for someone please.

There are a lot of assholes out there that would love to take advantage of you, give you what you asked for, dispose of you, and move along. They don't care about you. YOU need to care about YOU.

So do that. Or please seek a proper therapist to discuss your feelings.

You are welcome to hit my Asks or DMs if you are struggling with this idea of how special you are. I can talk for days on end about how special you are.

One individual said to me "you probably say that about everyone you speak with" and, for the most part, that is correct. But it doesn't make it less true.

You are unique. You are special. Deal with it.

7. I listened to a file that made me <insert something here>. Have I permanently damaged myself?

Short answer: most likely not.

Usually triggers and effects don't last even when we want them to, so for the most part, it's unlikely they will impact you forever.

Complicated answer: it's possible to create long-lasting effects that alter you depending on how long you listened and what behaviors you adopted and built around listening.

Personally I'm still struggling a bit with impacts from the B--bi S--ep files. They get lesser and lesser each day but it still makes me want to say: be careful what you allow into your brain.

What sounds fun! may end up being very much not fun.

I wrote a text piece that has the secret of how to remove triggers, compulsions, feelings, and other effects that you might be experiencing. Give it a try here - CLEAR TRANCE.

8. So what do you do? Not trying to offend but you don't seem to do anything fun and exciting, tbh.

Yeah. I bore myself so no offense taken.

I've posted my Trance List. It grows and grows.

I've been writing stories that show my filthy dirty mind (although my stories are a lot more "evil" than I actually am when I trance people).

My tumblr is my open mind with all my fetishes, desires, kinks, and things I enjoy doing with hypnosis:

Making pets - not slaves.

Helping pets improve their lives.

Lifting people up and helping them see their uniqueness.

Putting people in mental collars to make them horny and submissive.

Making people horny AF - many, many, many ways to do this.

Putting in safety triggers or "bad trigger" removal systems.

Establish places of strength and power in people's heads.

Establishing triggers and places that people can use on their own - without me.

Trancing and relaxing people - just for relaxation purposes.

Putting people to sleepy time - so they can drop off at night.

Encouraging women to be more dominant (only within their limits and desires).

And much, much more.

If you have questions about me or hypnosis, please Ask!

[bonmonjour]

Spelling Reform VII: Short and Rhotic Vowels

The vowels come in three broad flavors: long, broad, and plain. These are indicated with an aigu, a grave, and no accent respectively.

Plain Short Vowels

⟨a⟩ for me has the sound of both TRAP and BATH, though in dialects that differentiate the two, the latter can be written as a plain ⟨a⟩ or with the broad ⟨à⟩. This letter also interacts with ⟨l⟩ in some funny ways, but I'll talk about that in another post.

⟨e⟩ when not silent has the DRESS sound. In addition to English words that already have ⟨e⟩, the short sequences ⟨æ⟩ and ⟨œ⟩ are also replaced by just ⟨e⟩. American English has already largely replaced ⟨œ⟩ with ⟨e⟩ in words like "estrogen" (cf. British "œstrogen") but we should get rid of the ⟨æ⟩ as well, in words like «esthetic» [aesthetic].

⟨i⟩ is pretty straightforward: it's the KIT sound (when not silent/palatalizing, of course).

⟨o⟩ is both LOT and CLOTH for me, but again lots of dialects instead have CLOTH merged with THOUGHT, which you can write as ⟨ò⟩ if you want. For a lot of Americans, the rounded /ɒ/ vowel has merged with the unrounded /ɑ/ vowel, but not for me. The good thing about having a spelling reform based on current spellings instead of purely phonology is that it can account for more dialects.

⟨u⟩ is predictably the STRUT vowel (which I have written with the schwa because come on). Importantly, it is never the FOOT vowel, which is written ⟨uu⟩. The only exception is that what would be written as ⟨wuu⟩ is simplified to just ⟨wu⟩, as in «wulf».

⟨y⟩ represents two different vowels based on where it occurs. Internally, it stands for the KIT vowel, same as ⟨i⟩, but at the end of (multi-syllable*) words, it stands for the unstressed HAPPY vowel.

Finally, ⟨ø⟩ is the vowel letter I added. See, many words in English are pronounced with a STRUT or GOOSE vowel, even though that word is written with an ⟨o⟩. There are quite a few of these, including "one, done, none, son." The thing is that since "won, dun, nun, sun" also exist, simply replacing the original ⟨o⟩ with a ⟨u⟩ wasn't an option that I liked. The solution I came up with is to add a letter that looked like an ⟨o⟩ but was pronounced differently. Thus those original words are spelled as «uøn, døn, nøn, søn».

Another benefit is that this decision cleared up some other ambiguities as well. For example, the words "cove, dove, dove, love, move" look like they should all rhyme, but in fact they don't. Without giving too much away, the respelling gets rid of this ambiguity by spelling those words as «cóve, dóve, døve, løve, moùve». The words "blood" and "flood" are also re-written to have just one vowel: «blød, flød».

All of these vowels also have long versions with different pronunciations (yay GVS!), but those will be coming in a later post.

Plain Digraphs

In addition to the one-letter vowels, there are also vowel digraphs. They are the following; let's go through them one by one.

⟨aa⟩ pretty much only exists because I didn't want to make ⟨l⟩ any weirder. It can be found in «haaf, caaf» [half, calf] and in names like «Aaron». ⟨ea⟩ works pretty much exactly like in standard English. Although in the standard orthography, that digraph has four different pronunciations, those are all given to digraphs with accented characters in this respelling, leaving ⟨ea⟩ as only standing for /ɛ/. Another thing of note is that many words with short ⟨eo⟩, like "leopard," are respelled to this, i.e., «leapard». The two cells with equal signs are only in here because they are acceptable alternatives to «óa, óe».

The digraph ⟨ae⟩ now only represents the FACE vowel, like in "maelstrom" for example. The palatalizing version has been replaced by «é». The rest of the second row, with one exception, works pretty much exactly as in standard English, with the note that of course none of these digraphs represent their "long" pronunciations.

The split digraph ⟨ø_e⟩ is really a workaround for the fact that the CMS keyboard doesn't let you type ⟨ǿ⟩. This is method for writing the long pronunciation of ⟨ø⟩ when it appears word-internally, in words like «tømbe, wømbe, whøse» [tomb, womb, whose]. Note that words like "shoe" or "canoe" in which ⟨oe⟩ represents the GOOSE vowel are respelled to «shue, canue». This is partly the reason for why the pronunciation of ⟨ue⟩ is described as /(j)u/.

The third and fourth rows again works pretty much exactly like in the standard orthography, including the fact that, in native words at least, ⟨Vy⟩ is the word-final version of ⟨Vi⟩. This also means that homophones like "rain, rein" stay distinct, but also that "gray/grey" stays the same amount of confusing. One thing to note is that the unstressed suffix "-tain," like in "mountain, fountain, captain" is respelled to «-ten» to better reflect its pronunciation. This yields «mounten, founten, capten».

I know I've said this a lot, but a lot of the last row works exactly as you'd expect. Even so, there are some things I should explain. The digraph ⟨au⟩ is also a replacement for ⟨al⟩ when it sounds like the THOUGHT vowel. This happens quite a lot actually, in words like "all, ball, call, fall, gall, hall, mall, pall, tall, wall." These words have their ⟨al⟩ replaced with ⟨au⟩, and maybe an -l appended to the end if needed for disambiguation. Thus all of those words are spelled like «aul, baul, caul, faul, gaull, haull, maull, paull, taul, waul».

The digraph ⟨øu⟩ sounds exactly like ⟨ø, u⟩ and is really only included to keep the spellings similar. This can also preserve connections between related words like «yoùth ~ yøung», «south ~ søuthern», and «mouth ~ Plymøuth».

Finally, I mentioned this before but the FOOT vowel is written with ⟨uu⟩, though I guess if you wanted to, you could also use ⟨w⟩.

Plain Rhotic Vowels

English also has a number of rhotic vowels, but after the explanation above, hopefully the chart of said rhotic vowels and their spellings will be clearly understandable.

The spelling of "heir" showcases the rule that silent initial H is replaced by the spiritus lenis. This can be seen a few words, e.g., «’eir, ’our, ’onor» [heir, hour, honor].

Natively, the sequence of sounds /ojər/ doesn't really occur I don't think? But there are plenty of French words with ⟨oir⟩, which is why that trigraph takes the French pronunciation. By the way, "choir" is a weird one and I've decided to spell it as «choír». It's not perfect, but it's good enough.

Also note that since ⟨ø⟩ is a letter I straight up introduced, it doesn't play nicely with ⟨r⟩ for rhotic vowels. In fact, it doesn't play at all.