Brittany might have been born at night, but not last night.. Or maybe she was?
How would we really know? And neither would she if this was a typical TG caption. And that was what I was trying to get to .. how reliable are narrators or the story that people inside the caption generate? More so than that, would our protagonists believe them if they found out what really happened to their bodies. And at what point do they just accept the situation because, what else can they do? The alternatives could be worse.
And from that, I extrapolated this little story line. What is real and what isn't? How should I know? I just wrote the thing, I don't have to believe it, do I? Maybe I'll listen to you and think you know the truth, so tell me, goddess!
Honestly, I had put this picture into a caption setting way back around Marie Kondo time .. figuring I would work with it a bit later when I had a fresh idea for it. Came back to it just recently and still wasn't sure what I was going to do with it, until I looked at what I titled it, "tackychoices" and then just started writing around that bit of a brainstorm. the first line of dialog came right away .. and when I wrote the first few liens of her dialog, I came up with the half a dwarves line. Then it was just coming up with ludicrous tales of how she went from female to male and back to female again.
Making a bit of a dent in the amount of captions I'd like to have done to keep the blog running smoothly when I'm not around over the next 2 weekends and the days in between. Saturday morning and evening was productive last weekend and I'm happy about what I will be posting. Some will be blog exclusives and others are made with someone in mind, usually for a trade. Now if I can make ONE caption Wednesday through Friday, I'll be ecstatic!
I think sounds a bit "3rd rock from the sun", maybe are all aliens and the one being the earth woman is actually the leader on their home planet even though other team members are the earth males ( think that was the premise of the show). That is what is wonderful about this cap so much left to the imagination.
ReplyDeleteThat was the feel I was going for, offbeat and ludicrous.
DeleteOkay, that was clever - so many hints, teases, stories, and explanations. You totally nailed the mix of unreliable narrator and confused subject who can't trust her own memories, but you've left me with one burning question.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened with the aliens? I have a bit of a fetish for that. ;)
Glad you mentioned the aliens. I put that in there to perhaps balance out the question Brittany had, namely, "why would a woman move in with 3 guys even IF it was free rent to do cooking and cleaning?" with the aliens being the answer.
DeletePerhaps she's been a he more than once before! It *IS* a TG caption after all!
Delightfully absurd. I love these realms of the bizarre where you went for this. I can't help but wonder if that's where writers like Douglas Adams, Lewis Caroll and Frederic Brown went for inspiration.
ReplyDeleteI am guessing, that unlike me who remains painfully sober, they used lots of drugs to come up with that whacked out shit! LOL
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