Hey, it's what I named it .. you don't like it .. YOU name it!
Sometimes it can be hard to name a caption, especially if you are trying not to give away any special plot points. I like people to go in somewhat blind, or if I have a great title for it, delivering what I wanted by using it as a setup. In this case, I mostly had a bit of a setup and then straight into the meat of the caption.
And I do like the juxtaposition of the story as it is. I know a few people that are trans, and it sucks for them because they are technically the definition of what masculinity should be .. muscular tall and well hung .. and now what they wish to be .. petite, curvy and, well whatever they'd like to have down there.
I think I've done a few captions where I've had a guy who wants to be a woman swap with a woman that wants to be a man (I mean, I've posted almost 2500 posts here, and most likely done 3K panels so it's probably a given) but I thought it'd be fun if a guy stole a woman's femininity, which isn't nearly seen as much as the other way around, where the guy is trapped in a female persona.
I think it's been awhile also since I've done a caption with this design, with the image being framed with text above and below. It's a great thing to use when the image is more in landscape mode, and also when you are telling a linear story, and can place the image exactly where the transformation or plot point takes place. In this case, the look on her face corresponds with the last sentence about and the rest of the dialog below. I do think about design elements and placement of text, font design, alignments of sentences etc. a lot more than people expect .. and was the main reason I started this blog back about 15 years ago!
Titles are indeed hard. I always found it interesting on Saturday Night Live when they would do a sketch, they always named them bizarre names to not give away the joke. Like the cowbell sketch is officially called Recording Studio I think.
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