I Just Love *clenches Fist* Talking About Character Analysis And Why Characters Act The Way They Do.

Infinity times this.

When I say “Fanfiction is free” part of what I’m saying is yes, you did not pay for the thing.

But I saw a comment from someone that made me realize the rest of the intention behind these words is being lost.

Fanfiction is provided for free, but it is not produced for free.

Authors pay their effort, including physical and emotional and mental. Authors pay their time, in planning the story (mental time) and writing the story (physical time). Sometimes it’s less than an hour for something quick and dirty, like askbox prompts. Sometimes it’s years of their lives in epic fic hundreds of thousands of words long. Authors pay additional time to alpha read their own stories, trying to make sure that they’re free of SPAG errors and make sense and sound good. Beta readers pay their time and effort alongside the authors for editing the stories. Authors pay for posting their stories with all of the anxieties that come from allowing their work - which to this point they have invested all of the above - into the public eye because while it has certainly cost them a good amount to produce the story, fandom history has proved that many other people out there enjoy fanfiction, and authors believe that at least someone else will enjoy their story, too.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is that it costs the writers a lot of something in order to produce it. A lot has already been paid into a piece of fanfiction by the time it is available for readers to read. The expense of fanfiction creation is, by and large, resting squarely atop the shoulders of writers.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is that readers don’t have to pay the cost of creating fanfiction.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is that readers don’t have to pay in anything - not time, not money, not effort, not anything - in order for fanfiction to be created. It’s a donation. It’s a gift. It’s available for you to take or leave, at the expense of someone else.

Writers have, for a very long time, requested donations of one thing as remuneration for everything they put into making fanfiction: comments. Authors have asked, in so many different iterations: “If you have consumed what I have labored and invested in to create and if you have found any enjoyment in it, please tell me, so that I can recharge enough to do this again.” Some of them may recharge on critical comments, but most of us don’t because we’ve already paid everything we want to pay to create the story.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” isn’t just that it doesn’t cost you any money. I am saying “Please respect the time and effort you didn’t have to pay into creating this thing you enjoyed, by respecting the individual creator’s requests.”

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is “be kind to authors, they have paid a lot for this gift they’re sharing with all of us, and they deserve to feel like it was worth it.”

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is “please don’t charge authors more time and emotional effort than what they’ve already provided you at no absolute cost.”

I’m not saying any of this to argue. It’s a fact that authors pay into providing fanfiction. They do it for fun. They do it out of love. They do it because they enjoy writing. No one is making them do it. No one is paying them to start or finish the story. That doesn’t mean it’s not WORK. And the only return they get on what they put into the story is the kindness of strangers that invest a little bit back by leaving a nice comment. That is why they stay, that is why they do it again, that is why we have fanfiction.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is “please don’t be the one charging authors so much more that they leave.”

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is “please keep it that way.”

A little question for those curious

What would you want if you could have any one thing, no matter the limitations of reality? It can be anything at all... even if it's illegal. Feel free to PM me if you're shy about it or reblog your answers. Also it goes without saying but this is a one answer only question, so feel free to think on your answer before letting me know. If it's anything I can achieve via hypnosis (which in practice is most anything even if it's just a very convincing illusion) and you meet my previously listed criteria feel free to kik me at paradoxicmind since I can't seem to respond to certain people on the tumblr app for whatever reason. Without boundless curiosity from the Abyss, regards Abyssmaluser

I... don't see why you'd think otherwise? Both are equally awesome

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Hypnosis/Mind Control Dialogue Prompts

- “I feel…so weird…”

- “You are my slave.”

- “My head! It hurts!”

- “You are mindless.”

- “I can’t make it stop!”

- “Don’t try to resist it.”

- “Get out of my head!”

- “You can’t look away.”

- “I don’t know them at all…”

- “Call me your master.”

- “I obey you. Only you…”

- “You’ll remember nothing.”

- “What are you doing to me…?”

- “Your eyes feel so, so heavy.”

- “My friends…mean nothing…”

- “All you really want is to sleep.”

- “Please…please stop, just let me go…”

- “That’s it…Going deeper and deeper.”

- “All you can hear is the sound of my voice.”

- “Surrendering feels so very good, doesn’t it?”

Tom's hypnotic massage.

Tom was sat at his desk, leaning back in his chair as he was bored out of his mind. After filming ended there was a short gap between it and the movie premiering and each time Tom had to wait for it to premier he was always bored. Being a celebrity was fun and all but the attention sometimes got too much.

His phone vibrates against the desk and he picked it up, it was an unknown number (something which he had to deal with constantly) and for once it interested him, the text read: 'Dear Mr Tom Holland, I hope you are doing well. I am the manager of a very renown spa and I understand that being a celebrity is quite stressful so I'm offering you a special offer. A three day getaway, i understand this is a bit sketchy but I have offered this to many of your friends and other Avengers cast members so just ask them. Please let me know and we will arrange it.'

Tom had never been to a spa before so he was willing to accept the offer without even fact checking but he thought it would be best to fact check. He would text Chris Evans and Hemsworth as well as Robert Downey Jr. just to see if they got the offer and both of the Chris' said they had but Robert hadn't, and warned Tom to be safe if he accepted it.

The young celebrity messaged the manager back and arranged it for the coming weekend, Friday to Sunday, and he couldn't wait. When Friday came he got an uber to the location and it looked like a place from a magazine, he pretty much ran in like a giddy child and headed straight for the reception. It was like they were expecting him as they already had someone to take his bags to his room and tom followed.

His room was a suite and he instantly fell back onto the queen sized bed and the sheets were so soft, it felt like a few minutes to tom as he dozed off and when he woke up the manager was knocking on the door with a towel in hand. The manager looked dazed and not entirely with it, his eyes completely dull. "Please follow me."

Tom did as was asked off him and they arrived at a gym, "its recommended to work out before you experience our massage, here is your complementary towel and headphones. It's also recommended you listen to these as you work out, it's a playlist made just for you." He take them both thankfully and the manager left. Tom looked around and saw a basketball hoop and he smiled, deciding to play some basketball.

He pulled on the headphones and started to dribble the ball about, the music they had him listen to sounded like the ocean, it relaxed his muscles to the point whenever he shot the ball at the hoop he couldn't even raise his arms above his head. After a few attempts he gave up and looked around, a man was watching him and when he noticed he had finished beckoned him to a room off to the side.

Tom followed and took off the headphones, it was a small changing room with a locker and the guy smiled at him. "Its a pleasure to meet you, my name is Isaac and I'll be your masseuse today. You can either go nude and use the towel or wear your boxers underneath. It's completely up to you." Tom nodded and Isaac went in to the massage room to prepare it for the celebrity.

Tom took off his shoes and dirty socks, before stripping off his sweat covered shirt and lowered his shorts past his knees and they pooled around his ankles. He put them all in the locker and spent a couple of minutes whether or not to go nude, he had read it was better to wear underwear but something made him strip them off and place them in the locker with the rest of his clothes.

He wrapped the towel around his waist and stepped into the massage room with the headphones in hand, unsure what he was meant to do with them. The room smelled great and there was some candles lit, the smell got into Tom's lungs and made him feel dazed as he walked to the table and lead face down. He heard isaac move closer to the table. "The music is gonna help you relax alright? I'm going to start now." Isaac slipped the headphones on to Tom's head and the song was different.

It was more relaxing and it sounded like it had some chanting involved with it, Tom felt Isaac's hands gently caressing his back, causing his muscles to relax and he would kneed his back making Tom sigh in relief. After a short while of isaac repeating this the chanting in the music got more intense and something cold was applied to Tom's back but his muscles were so relaxed he could barely raise his head to look.

It was an aphrodisiac infused massage oil, and as the man rubbed into his back Tom's sighs of relief turned into quiet little moans as his whole back became sensitive. Isaac repeated the same for the celebrity's calfs. The chanting turned to coherent words for Tom now, telling him how much he liked the sensation of hands running along his body and that he should just let his mind go and listen to people who could make him feel good. Isaac's hands ran up from his calfs and into the small gap of the towel causing tom to moan and shiver in happiness.

The words suddenly got more intense, telling him to obey constantly. 'Obey the hands' and 'obey the sensation.' After a few minutes he had fallen into a trance and isaac stopped, he took off the headphones and cleared his throat. "Now Tom, why dont you turn over." Tom did as he was told and the towel around his crotch was tenting from his hard cock and isaac grinned. "That's a good boy. You like feeling like this dont you tom?"

Tom had a dopey smile on his face as he mumbled a yes, the man grinned as he caressed Tom's cheek. "We've been monitoring you tom. The things you look at on tumblr, the things you read on the internet. And you like the idea of hypnosis dont you?" Tom nodded as his dull eyes stared at isaac.

"Your going to obey every command I give you Tom, because i am your new master. And you like that dont you? Being told what to do." Before tom could even nod Isaac had crossed his arms. "Stand up and drop the towel, once you have put your hands behind your head." Tom sat up and undid the towel and as he stood up it dropped to the floor, and he put his hands behind his head.

Isaac pulled out a razor and started to shave the young celebrity humming the spiderman theme song and once he was done smiled widely. "Now sleep tom...sleep~"isaac had his arms out wide to catch the celebrity as he fell forward, in a deep deep sleep.

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When Tom woke up from is sleep he was in a dark room, or was it dark because he couldn't see. He went to reach up to touch his face but his arms were tied behind his back. He went to let out a scream but it came out muffled into the gag in his mouth and his ankles were spread apart by a spreader bar.

He knew something was wrong, it felt very very wrong. Isaac smirked as he watched Tom struggle in his bonds as he grabbed his jaw. "Stop moving now tom...its okay. Your safe, masters here. And he's gonna take good care of you. You like that idea. I'm gonna be all you think of now, so please dont worry. Just take deep relaxing breaths, and wait for me to come back. When I do we will have some fun~"

Tom relaxed and a minute later Isaac left, closing and locking a door behind him.

fanfiction authors moodboard

All of my yes. THIS is what I mean when I talk of the Abyss and it's endless potential. With hypnosis your wildest fantasies can come true. The Abyss might be endless and filled to the brim with the unexplored and unknowable but that shouldn't deter you from discovery of sensations and experiences real life can hardly compare to and sadly confined to the the likes of Wonderland or the lands of the Fea.

I welcome one and all to at least try it once or twice, to escape the cruel bindings of reality and explore the true potential of your mind. It doesn't matter if you wish to embody a fictional character, turn into a robot/pet, or anything else. The Abyss can help you get there, even if it takes a while.

What It's Like to Have a Hypnosis Fetish

When I first realized the idea of mind control turned me on, I was shocked and embarrassed. But then I found the hypnokink community.

Great personal story and some really cool illustrations.

“Ghost Times” Grand Finale!

Pokémon Tale 33 “The Little Ghost” splendidly illustrated by Aya Kusube (1998) Enjoooooy!

PSA: Stuff You Maybe Didn’t Realize You Can Back Up To AO3, And How To Tag it

Tumblr seems to be in potential death throes or at least, incredibly volatile and unreliable lately, but we’ve done some pretty good and informative work on canon analysis and reference guides so I was looking for ways to back it up without losing it…and the solution became obvious to me: Archive of Our Own, aka AO3.  “What?” you might ask if you are less familiar with their TOS. “Isn’t that just a fanfic archive??” No! It’s a fanWORK archive. It is an archive for fanworks in general! “Fanwork” is a broad term that encompasses a lot of things, but it doesn’t just include fanfic and fanart, vids etc; it also includes “fannish” essays and articles that fall under what’s often called “meta” (from the word for “beyond” or “above”, referencing that it goes beyond the original exact text)! The defining factor of whether Archive of Our Own is the appropriate place to post it is not whether or not it’s a fictional expansion of canon (fanfic), though that is definitely included - no, it’s literally just “is this a work by a ‘fan’ intended for other ‘fannish’ folks/of ‘fannish’ interest?”  The articles we’ve written as a handy reference to the period-appropriate Japanese clothing worn by Inuyasha characters?  The analyses of characters? The delineations of concrete canon (the original work) vs common “fanon” (common misconceptions within the fandom)? Even the discussion of broader cultural, historical, and geographic context that applies to the series and many potential fanworks?  All of those are fannish nonfiction! Which means they absolutely can (and will) have a home on AO3, and I encourage anybody who is wanting to back up similar works of “fannish interest” - ranging from research they’ve done for a fic, to character analyses and headcanons - to use AO3 for it, because it’s a stable, smooth-running platform that is ad-free and unlike tumblr, is run by a nonprofit (The OTW) that itself is run by and for the benefit of, fellow fans.  Of course, that begs the question of how to tag your work if you do cross-post it, eh? So on that note, here’s a quick run-down of tags we’re finding useful and applicable, which I’ve figured out through a combination of trial and error and actually asking a tag wrangler (shoutout to @wrangletangle for their invaluable help!): First, the Very Broad: - “ Nonfiction ”. This helps separate it from fanfic on the archive, so people who aren’t looking for anything but fanfic are less likely to have to skim past it, whereas people looking for exactly that content are more likely to find it. - while “Meta” and “Essay” and even “Information” are all sometimes used for the kinds of nonfiction and analytical works we post, I’ve been told “ Meta Essay ” is the advisable specific tag for such works. This would apply to character analyses, reference guides to canon, and even reference guides to real-world things that are reflected in the canon (such as our articles on Japanese clothing as worn by the characters).  The other three tags are usable, and I’ve been using them as well to cover my bases, but they’ll also tend to bring up content such as “essay format” fanfic or fanfic with titles with those words in them - something that does not happen with “Meta Essay”.

- I’ve also found by poking around in suggested tags, that “ Fanwork Research & Reference Guides ” is consistently used (even by casual users) for: nonfiction fannish works relating to analyses of canon materials; analyses of and meta on fandom-specific or fanwork-specific tropes; information on or guides to writing real-world stuff that applies to or is reflected in specific fandoms’ media (e.g. articles on period-appropriate culture-specific costuming and how to describe it); and expanded background materials for specific fans’ fanworks (such as how a given AU’s worldbuilding is supposed to be set up) that didn’t fit within the narrative proper and is separated out as a reference for interested readers. Basically, if it’s an original fan-made reference for something specific to one or more fanworks, or a research aid for writing certain things applicable to fanworks or fannish interests in general, then it can fall under that latter tag. 

- You should also mark it with any appropriate fandom(s) in the “Fandom” field. Just like you would for a fanfic, because of course, the work is specifically relevant to fans of X canon, right? If it discusses sensitive topics, or particular characters, etc., you should probably tag for those. E.g. “death” or “mental illness”, “Kagome Higurashi”, etc. 

Additionally, if you are backing it up from a Tumblr you may wish to add: - “ Archived From Tumblr “ and/or “ Cross-Posted From Tumblr ” to reference the original place of publication, for works originally posted to tumblr. (I advise this if only because someday, there might not be “tumblr” as we know it, and someone might be specifically looking for content that was originally on it, you never know) - “ Archived From [blog name] Blog ”; this marks it as an archived work from a specific blog. And yes, I recommend adding the word “blog” in there for clarity- Wrangletangle was actually delighted that I bothered to tag our first archived work with “Archived From Inu-Fiction Blog” because being EXTREMLY specific about things like that is super helpful to the tag wranglers on AO3, who have to decide how to categorize/”syn” (synonym) various new tags from alphabetized lists without context of the original posting right in front of them.  In other words, including the name AND the word “blog” in it, helps them categorize the tag on the back end without having to spend extra time googling what the heck “[Insert Name Here]” was originally. 

Overall, you should be as specific and clear as possible, but those tags/tag formats should prove useful in tagging it correctly should you choose to put fannish essays and articles up on AO3 :) Oh, and protip sidebar for those posting, especially works that are more than plain text: you can make archiving things quicker and easier for yourself, but remember to plan ahead for tumblr’s potential demise/disabling/service interruptions. The good news: You can literally copy and paste the ENTIRE text of a tumblr post from say, an “edit” window, on tumblr, straight into AO3′s Rich Text Format editor, and it will preserve pretty much all or almost all of the formatting - such as bold, italics, embedded links, etc! But the bad news: keep in mind that while AO3 allows for embedded images and it WILL transfer those embedded images with a quick copy-paste like that, AO3 itself doesn’t host the images for embedding; those are still external images. This means that whether or not they continue to load/display for users, depends entirely on whether the file is still on the original external server! As I quickly discovered, in the case of posts copied from the Edit window of a tumblr post, the images will still point to the copies of the images ON tumblr’s servers. What this means is that you should back up (save copies elsewhere of) any embedded images that you consider vital to such posts, in case you need to upload them elsewhere and fiddle with where the external image is being pulled from, later.  Personally, I’m doing that AND adding image descriptions underneath them, just to be on the safe side (and in fairness, this makes it more accessible to people who cannot view the images anyway, such as sight-impaired people who use screen readers or people who have images set to not automatically display on their browser, so it’s win-win)

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