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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"You catch more flies with honey" some mfers are out here trying to catch flies with magnets and flamethrowers i stfg

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

You should beware of cursed items come Halloween season...

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Whoever is responsible for the decision that I and l should be the same in ANY typeface, l hope you burn in heII

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I admit I'm not an expert in all hypnosis, just a very interested hobbyist, so I welcome your reply!

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

See? Every time you go back and look for the time I mentioned dogs, you can only see mentions of elephants and horses. It entirely slips your mind every time, fading gently away, like a cloudy dream when you wake. These techniques can also be used to convince you of lies. Stay safe everyone.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Consent is also always important, but that applies always and shouldn't need to be specifically indicated.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The best part? If you read through all of these? You smiled halfway through, and you forgot that I ever even mentioned dogs.

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Professor Lynx @professorlynx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you somehow didn't know. Fuck JKR. Fuck ANYTHING and EVERYTHING Harry Potter.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Of course you're thinking of elephants. And every time you think of elephants for the next week, you'll remember these tips and you'll think about telling the person who gave you these tips how they worked for you, how you remembered the elephant and horse that chewed gum.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My tips are also useful for you to pick a potential hypnotist. Do they use negatives? Do they warn you just as they begin the session? Do they try to make you comfy? Are they demanding or suggesting? Are you thinking about elephants?

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Those are uncommon associations that make the memory more unique, which COULD help cement suggestions for longer, but can also be used to set triggers - triggers to chew gum when you want to smoke, or triggers to smile and blush when you hear a click.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Now later these hypnosis tips can be mentioned, and you may remember them, and that's good because they're good tips. But if you're told about hypnosis for elephants, do you want to chew gum or have a smoke? Or do you think about a horse?

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Many of these same techniques are used in advertising, politics, media, and even social interactions. Therapy often uses positive affirmations and language because the SC works with them more readily. You have to guide the horse gently to the water; it wants to drink, otherwise it's not going to.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Where possible, avoid talking about the undesirable behaviors. Where impossible, give an alternative instead of a stop command. Chew gum when you think about smoking. Chew gum when you think about elephants. Chew gum when you have the urge to grab a cig.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So many amateur hypnotists use negative statements, and your SC can't translate them, so they fail. Good hypnotists avoid negative suggestions and use positive ones instead. After all, this is about you chewing gum when you want to smoke, right? No elephants.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When using suggestions, avoid negative expressions like "no, don't, stop." Use alternative positives instead. Example: "every time you want a cigarette, you will chew a stick of gum and leave the cigarette in the pack" is better than "You'll never want a cigarette again."

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And NONE of this should be mentioned within 2+ hours of the session. Again, only well ahead of time, only if necessary.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Remember that your SC won't let you do anything in trance you're actually unwilling to do, but it CAN be used to bypass inhibitions applied to things you DO want to do but can't make yourself do ordinarily. So breathe easy, it's a dumb horse but it won't hurt you.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Rules, expectations, guidelines, and limits (and ofc consent) need to be established well ahead of time, otherwise it'll disrupt and alarm your stupid SC horse. You need a calm SC horse, relaxed, safe, unaware that anything could possibly happen, don't tell it there COULD be a fire.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Your SC needs to be soothed and petted like a scared horse, not alerted and spooked. It must be calm, relaxed, at peace, safe. Saying "don't be alarmed" goes back to the negative statements thing - you just told it to BE ALARMED!!!!

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Make sure no one does that stupid thing of starting with "you can break trance any time if there's an emergency." Don't mention that shit, it puts your SC on alert and throws up walls. It's unnecessary to say, you don't need such an alert when going to bed, you don't need it for hypnosis.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Second, make sure you're calm, relaxed, safe, and trust the hypnotist and anyone else around. You need to feel comfy enough to fall asleep.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The correct way to use hypnosis to change a behavior is, first, make sure the hypnotee WANTS to change the behavior. If they don't WANT to, then they'll struggle and fail. My old boss tried it to quit smoking, but it failed because he didn't WANT to quit, he wanted it to not be bad for him.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Think about giraffes. Now think about horses. Don't think about cats. You thought of all three. But you didn't think about a cigarette, did you? Not until I said the word cigarette, right?

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You thought about elephants, didn't you. I told you not to. See, my mistake was telling you what NOT to think about, so of course you have to think about what that thing IS to know what to avoid! What I should do instead is NEVER mention anything I don't want you to think about.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So for instance, "You don't want to smoke anymore" reads to your SC mind, "you want to smoke anymore." That's the opposite of what you want, because the SC simply hears the positive bits and ignores the negative. Want proof? Don't think about elephants.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The subconscious is the part of your mind that hypnosis is talking to, and your subconscious is a stupid, nervous, horse of a thing. It ignores the "no" from commands telling it "no," so your conscious has to correct, or translate, that for it.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Learning about hypnosis and how it works can tell you a lot about how to interact with humans. 1. Humans likely won't do anything they don't want to do, you have to REALLY convince them. 2. Humans don't understand "no" and need alternative paths 3. Never even hint at the possibility of danger.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Success as an artist is 5% artistic ability and art and 95% social ability and networking.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My point is, why is it christimas is always "keep the spirit through the whole year" and then Halloween it's "no it's not okay to have fake blood ANYWHERE except on THIS DAY or else you're WEIRD"

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We'd cosplay, sing songs, have a little treat maybe, you recognize the regulars, you go home. It was every Sunday Wait no. I got my wires crossed. They don't call it cosplay they call it "church clothes" and it's not ok to be a Charmeleon.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tbh I'm actually a bit of a Halloween atheist nowadays. Sure it was fun growing up: all the stories, dressing up & going to church to stay "off the street," all the fake torture/death imagery like crosses and guillotines. But I'm a sad adult now and i know it's just corporate

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's the day we celebrate Jack Skellington dying on the cross for our right to cosplay year 'round or some shit right? I don't know I haven't been keeping up with my Hallowed Necronomicon or whatever.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If christimas is disallowed before November 1st then halloween should be disallowed before October 1st. Otherwise, ngl, I'm tempted to start christimas posting the moment ockytember hits.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This isn't about anything or anyone in particular, nothing "happened," your fav prob'ly sucks but I'm not callin' 'em out or nothin'. Is just a kobold coming up to you on the proverbial street giving unsolicited universal life advice.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Or if it helps, yes, everyone online is lying to you. Every single one is lying to you in some way. Lying to you, and to everyone else, all the time. I'm lying to you all the time too. So stop instantly accepting as truth the first thing you hear and actually look into shit.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's GOOD to keep social media at arm's length. Tailoring your online persona doesn't make someone dishonest! I'm not saying otherwise! Just kinda trying to remind you to be aware of parasocial relationships, and that sometimes the person on the other end of the profile is an asshole.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is where I claim I'M not like that tho. Lol jk. I do try to be honest but this is sorta tailored too. Outside of my spectacular breakdowns I try to keep here at a certain level of hinged that's not 1:1 me. There's nothing wrong with keeping that distance, not what I'm saying at all!

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wish all the artists were exactly what you see so you wouldn't have to think about it. I really do. I've had my own such illusions be SHREDDED after getting to know some ppl better. It fkn sucks.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Take EVERYTHING with a grain of salt. Look at both sides, listen to both sides, then make your own call, no matter how monstrous the claim. I've seen too many times the accuser be the monster and the accused be the victim. I wish ppl weren't like that. But they often are.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Online personas are tailored 99% of the time if someone is using it for their work. Taking advantage of the parasocial relationship is common. It's easier to cover up bumps in a semi-anonymized personality. Also makes it easier to make claims against others & get folks to believe them.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wish every artist online was as cool and nice and personable and so on as you think. Many of us are downright turds. Some of the nicest seeming folks are secretly AWFUL people. And some of the unfriendly ones are fkn awesome. And some are exactly as they appear.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As a furries I am actually a very good pilot in simulators but my particular health conditions prevent me from actually flying an airplane. Therefore I challenge Tommy Tuberville to a pilot showdown - me in a sim, him in a plane. First to land safe with no gear or flaps from 30k up wins.

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Remember the snail race in undertale and how no matter how much or how little support and praise you give your snail, it always loses? I am that snail

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JoCat is slow at making videos @jocat.net · 26/09/2026

Please be wary of any managers of talent/creator agencies who use my name as a way to self-vouch for their connections and work I've never had any for long enough to have made a significant effect on my work/reach/channels that I would say warrants citing me, and if they do, major red flag

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KoalaPhoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just found out that last year Lego killed that gorgeous Bionicle fan game LEGO KNEW ABOUT FOR 8 YEARS AND OK'D PUBLICLY They didn't officially license it, nope, just killed it, buried it in the desert. New game is Project Rustbound apparently

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