Incidents That Can Occur When Combining Christmass Cheer With Overly Suggestible Individuals.

Greetings again everyone! This week we have another issue in EdgeOTM's Hypnohub 4koma comics, and the second one to feature myself. Also, it just so happens to be Christmas themed! I did mention in a previous post that I'm not exactly the most festive person, but once again, I'm always happy to be included in mostly anything people wish to do so. Although I do admit it feels funny posting Christmas themed pictures right dab in the middle of summer.

As we can see here, the comic is about myself and Hypno-tan being being hypnotized by the shiny decorations on the tree, only to be brought back under quickly once again after being woken up! The idea itself is short but sweet, and really plays into the submissive side of myself and Hypno-tan with the jokingly high levels of suggestibility! It's also nice seeing a group of characters not usually featured kind of hanging around during Christmas. We actually have the personas of Psi, Edge, and Keeper all featured in the first panel. As well as Pompom in the last one!

I actually forgot to get a comment from Edge before posting this picture, so I'm not sure if there was any kind of specific inspiration for this piece. However, I can only assume that he just wanted to post something festive during the Christmas time of year and opted for this idea. I do know that he did previously contact me and ask if I was ok with being included in it though, and naturally I was happy to not only be drawn by a friend, but also in a funny and cute idea like this.

Also I never noticed this in all these years of this picture being public, but "suggestible" is actually spelled wrong in the title of this comic. I only found out now as I was writing out the title for this blog post! I was actually torn a bit between keeping the title of this post accurate to the comic, or fixing the spelling mistake. I opted for the latter in the end.

Art by: EdgeOTM

Keeper of Pots' persona is owned by: Keeper of Pots

Psi's persona is owned by: Psi

Pompom is owned by: Pompom

Post Shower Trancing.

Hello everyone! We're back this week with a new piece, this time by the returning face of Etlabsotwe! Definitely not a name that's new here, and one we will definitely be seeing more of in the future, Etlabsotwe has the amazing consistency of somehow being able to produce some of the cutest renditions of me. This weeks picture is no different, as we have myself suddenly being ambushed by a pesky yen swinging hypnotist right after a shower. However despite Eltabsotwe's consistency, this piece actually does bring something very new to the table for the artist.

It might not be as apparent for people who follow him currently, but way back in the day when this picture first debuted, Etlabsotwe was actually very against doing nudity of any kind. So with that being said, this is actually the very first picture by said artist to feature some topless and nipple action! Even though it's completely unrelated to the picture itself, it is nice seeing that bit of corruption in play as the artist starts to do more and more risque works. Plays right into the fetish after all!

The picture itself is straightforward as can be, but the animation really sells it. I especially love how smooth the yen coin swings back and forth, and doubly so that it's reflected in my eyes perfectly as well. And while not as animated, the disappearance of the towel implying that I lost strength in my body and dropped it is a very nice touch! Plus it gives a bit for those people like pure nudity, and those who like the partial nudity. Fun for everyone!

This was actually more or less a Christmas gift from Etlabsotwe to me, as he ended up posting this on Christmas day of 2015, and it was a very welcome one. I'm actually not too keen on the holiday myself, but I'd never be sad over someone thinking of me enough to do something like this for me. Especially that to this day, this picture still holds up as one of my more favorite renditions Etlabsotwe has done for me.

I do find it funny though that I'm not actually sure if this is pre or post showering. The hair kind of looks a bit wet and heavy so I'd be leaning towards the latter, but if you notice when I drop the towel, my piercing is there. I don't actually shower with that in, so it could go either way. I suppose I can leave it up to the viewer to decide whichever is hotter.

Art by: Etlabsotwe

The Happy Helmet.

Greetings again all! We're back this week with another very unique post from Keeper of Pots! Those of you who have been following the blog should no doubt be aware of Keeper, but as a quick recap he was the one who helped design the graphics for the blog itself, as well as just generally being a fantastic artist in general. This picture in particular however, is more on the sketch side, as he did it fairly quickly and on a whim. That doesn't take away from how much personality shows up in the piece however.

To be quite honest with you though, I actually don't have much to say on HOW this picture came to be. You see, I remember at the time that I was upset about something. I couldn't tell you what because I'm usually upset about something new everyday haha... Though that being said, Keeper randomly felt inspired to create this piece after hearing about how frustrated I was about whatever it was at the time. Due to that, I actually managed to get an extensive quote from him about this piece that will hopefully answer some questions about it!

"As appreciators of fine culture will undoubtedly notice, this comic is pretty much a word-for-word recreation of a scene from The Ren & Stimpy Show, more specifically the episode "Stimpy's Invention".  I typically don't get to indulge too much in pure cartoony drawing when it comes to hypno drawings, so it was nice being able to show what I'm made of... Even if all of the expressions and poses are essentially replicated from the scene in question.

I think the idea was born from the fact that Erika was unhappy about something at the time, so I thought it'd be funny if she was forced to wear Stimpy's happy helmet. Had I done this comic today, I would've probably included an EdgeTech logo on it, in reference to Edgeofthemoon, another hypno artist and good friend of mine,

The last line about the Republicans was lifted from a completely unrelated episode ("Ren's Brain") and it lead to some people thinking I was actually making a political statement, which was pretty funny. Especially since I considered it a complete non-sequitur, but I s'pose I shouldn't expect everyone to catch my obtuse references.

Also, I made sure to include the animation error of having the dial being operated like a button. To be honest, I never noticed that until I studied the scene more closely when making the comic."

 

As you can see, there were a lot of references about Ren and Stimpy! Though I do know that now, at the time however, I was not familiar with said references. I did know of the show, but to be honest I've never been a fan of it. And actually, catching some scenes of it when I was young somewhat spooked me and really off put me from the show itself. That stigma has stuck with me even to this day, where I can say I'm not the biggest fan of that series.

All that being said though, the picture itself is solid! Granted, I can't in full honesty say that it's something I'm absolutely in love with. The style of this comic is a bit too reminiscent of the show itself, plus the jokes don't really hit for me, as I'm not a fan of the source material to begin with. But even still, I'm almost always happy being included in a hypnosis based picture. On top of that, Keeper made this for me when I was feeling sad, so I can't ever really dislike it! So funnily enough, I think this post might possibly the least Erika-like picture on this blog that I actually like.

P.s I feel stupid even adding this, but I did see some silly comments on this picture when it was initially released many years ago. Since some people tend to be very serious about politics, I'll add this disclaimer: Keeper mentioned in the quote, the whole thing is a reference to various episodes of Ren and Stimpy. The lines mentioned in here do not reflect my actual political views. And to be straight up with you guys, I don't have any political views. Heck, I don't even know what a Republican party is.

 

Art by: Keeper of Pots