#snake things

[whotfelsewantedtobelynnyx]

As a snake owner, one of the funniest things I get to do in life is explain to people who are less versed in reptiles that snakes (at least ball pythons) do, in fact, fart, and watch their reactions as they process that

[candiedgrim-blog]

Crowley wip that I'm a little too proud of

[ellaenchanting]

Hypnovember Day 2: Coils

When I write an induction that makes sense to me, at least. And also my two characters. So that’s 3? (When I write out inductions the way I would say them sometimes they turn out marvelously incoherent. I actually tidied this one up to make occasional sentence breaks. if you can believe it.)

Jamie laughed. “What do you mean you don’t like spirals?” Her laughter sparked a bit of feedback over Daniel’s Skype.

Daniel frowned. “They’re just…kind of tropey, I guess.” 

Jamie giggled at him. 

“They’re just not my thing,” he continued, defensively. 

“Daniel, “ Jamie said, “We met on a Kaa forum. Your Twitter picture is a big rainbow-eyed snake. How can you say that you don’t like tropes?”

He responded irritably. “Just because I like ONE trope doesn’t mean I like them all. YOU were the one who scoffed at ME when I tried to hypnotize you with a pocket watch.”

“That’s because pocket watched are dumb. Clearly,” Jamie replied. She absentmindedly pushed away her cat who appeared to be trying to walk across her keyboard.  “You know, I bet I could hypnotize you with a spiral.”

Daniel rolled his eyes. “I bet you could hypnotize me with a bar of soap if you wanted to. That still doesn’t make me like spirals.”

“True,” said Jamie. “How about this? I bet I could make you actually ENJOY being hypnotized by a spiral.” The cat poked his head back on screen. 

Daniel raised his eyebrow.

“Without the obvious cheating I mean.” She shoved the cat to the side again. 

“What do I get if I lose?” asked Daniel.

“The satisfaction of having been right,” Jamie replied. She shoved the cat to the side again.

“I’ll take it.”

“Great!” remarked Jamie. 

A link to a spiral popped up on his screen briefly.

“Jamie. You just…have a link to a spiral ready? Right now?“ he asked.

“Hmm?” she asked distractedly, picking up her cat and placing him firmly off the bed. “Oh, yeah. Yeah I do.”

‘Do all hypnodommes do that?” he asked.

“Yeah, probably,” she said, matter of factly, looking offscreen. “Did you click on the link yet?”

He clicked on the link. A black screen emerged with green and yellow lines swirling into a spiral. He sighed, annoyed. “Yup- looks like a spiral.”

“OK good- go ahead and maximize the window. I’ll be able to tell when you do.”

Daniel was about to follow her instructions, when the small screen with his image from his webcam caught his eye. Like in a mirror he could see  the reflection of the bright colored loops from the spiral in his glasses. It looked almost like they were reflecting in his eyes. 

Huh.

OK- he had to admit that effect was appealing. If he softened his gaze, the illusion looked even more real, like he had already been entranced and his eyes were full of colored, mesmerized whirls. That was one of his favorite early fantasies- being hypnotized by a creature and left, dopey and defenseless. 

He relaxed his jaw leaving his mouth open and tilted his head to complete the image. his reflection in the webcam looked totally dazed, totally gone. 

“Ok Narcissus, “ he heard Jamie’s amused voice after a few moments.  “It’s not fair to hypnotize yourself in order to get out of me hypnotizing you. Y’know- I didn’t even think about how your glasses would reflect the lights when that spiral came up. I’ll have to use that in the future. But I promised to hypnotize you with a spiral, not with your own reflection, ok? So focus here.”

Daniel felt his eyes look straight forward as his mind snapped to attention. “Focus here”  was one of their oldest, strongest trigger phrases. Only, instead of looking straight ahead at  Jamie’s face, he was now looking at a slowly turning spiral.

He had to admit, it didn’t feel quite as annoying as it had a few minutes ago. 

“Good,” cooed Jamie, moving into her lower hypnotist voice. “Go ahead and take a deep breath and just watch the spiral right now. Let your eyes start to take it in. I know that you weren’t really into spirals before, but I wonder if watching something gentle and slow like this can just set your mind into a rhythm of my voice or the rhythm of my words or the lines circling around and around all in the same pattern. And you know what it’s like to be hypnotized, to be in sync with trance, and this trance can just  start to form between the words, within the pattern, inside yourself all syncing up now and following along together.”

“And I know that you like snakey things, so I wonder  what it would look like if this spiral was a snake. You could picture it as a snake winding round and round in a smooth pattern, tail to head, coiling around and around. That smooth motion hypnotic as it moves.  Maybe you could even imagine what it would be like to touch that snake, starting with a finger on the outer coil and tracing it down and around as the coils tighten together and draw you further in. How ssmooth and sslippery that would be to trace that ssnake’s skin, going deeper and deeper within the coils, further and further in. Around and around.

You can follow that sssensation or smoothness as that snake spirals more and more inward, coiling tighter and tighter and finding yourssself following it further and further into that snake’s sssspiral, coiled in further and further and fasssster into the center. And you can notice the tightening of the spiral there as you reach the ccccenter of the snnnake in the cccenter of the ssspiral and the coilsss just move around and around just ccccircling you now like the prey you are. And maybe there you feel a sssssqueezing ssensation- trapping you there in the middle. The spiral  consssstricts around any thoughts in your head, ssssuffocating them, sslowly  ssssqueezing them away. And with every cccircle, every ssssqueeze, every consssstriction, you grow more and helpless. More and more weak. More and more sssleeepy. More and more messsmerized. More and more my prey. Even more as the sssssnake constricts around and around and around.”

Then his thoughts squeezed out, sleepy and mesmerized, Daniel listened for what he would believe next.

[kdanielle92]

The big ol’ noodle on the left is Honey, the largest of the education ambassadors I used the work with. On the right is a much younger Burmese, Tarzan.

Tarzan is the sweetest and was my snake that I ended up giving to the wildlife center on permanent loan. This way I can still visit him whenever I want, but he can continue being an amazing ambassador and teaching students about snakes and reptiles and wildlife conservation! It was a tough choice, but I think the best decision for him. He has already grown a bit since this photo was taken a couple months ago!

[axe-me-darius]

@theolanderwitch

Ba-teall doesn’t like the cold months and naturally curls up to closest heat he can. Nea warm body easily settles the snake to sleep. 

[kdanielle92]

Hey look it’s me! It’s been a hot minute since the last time I used tumblr. I’ve decided to try and get back on the horse and try it out again. I want to have a nice blogging outlet where I can also get a little more involved with the reptile and conservation community on tumblr.

My life has changed quite a bit since last time I made a post. Today is my 1 year wedding anniversary, and I will definitely be posting a couple photos from the wedding because it involved a lot of alligators and snakes. Just last month I started a new job at an amazing aquarium where I am a Tours supervisor. Once I am done training I will be helping to run our behind the scenes and tours experiences, as well as assisting in developing new ones. I’m VERY excited. Not to mention, I get to work in a building with a lot of really cool critters.

Anyways, I would love to get some good reptile, animal, zoo/aquarium, wildlife conservation, encvironmental science, etc blogs to follow!

[snakeeyesnfangs]

mr snake: are you making a chicken patty at 9pm?

me: yes

mr snake: ...cool

[snakeeyesnfangs]

1991 • she/her

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