#spraffing

I mean I know some teachers swear by those scented ink pens and I definitely see the appeal.

But I like having options.

And having blue, black, and green means that whatever the student wrote with I can pick a different colour.

There's also the red ink but that gets reserved for Serious Business because it's Scary.

I can pretty much endorse everything OP is saying, and I'd go a step further and say that there definitely is neither a shortage of tops/doms or bottoms/subs.

But there are a hell of a lot of people who aren't acting considerately of potential partners and subsequently aren't going to be able to find a stable play relationship, and because of how so many people tend to map gender roles relating to courtship onto the d/s dichotomy (ewww, by the way), you get a lot of starfish subs hoping desperately that a top will aggressively court them.

Anyway, this particular line spoke to a very very very tired part of my soul:

What if my hypnotic style is just an elaborate post-post-post-modernist side project in my ongoing crusade to slay truth in its cradle and unweave reality?

Most of this stuff isn't that hard it's just listening and a bit of trying out new things, but having to interact - even if I minimise it as much as possible - with the occasional true dom hypnotist who wants to impersonally stamp their kink onto their partner is a tremendous chore.

I think I'll try to keep that pacing (slow as it may be).

For reasons unknowable I know *more than a couple* hypnokinky people who are professional editors and nothing has broken the minds of previously talented, articulate people like having to read, understand, and make publishable the offal that gets packaged up and shipped out of commercial publishing houses.