Odds and Sods .. and Another AMA Type Question Answered!

OK, here's the "second" part of the AMA question that wasn't particularly asked, but does come down to a part of my personas .. all of them in fact.

It's my twisted, odd, quirky, bizarre, silly and whatever other words you'd like to describe my sense of humor. It manifests itself in so many different ways, but there is one part that probably shines more than others, and that is my love of self-referential bits of dialog and plot scattered through the captions, and those recurring .. um, tropes is not quite the word, but things is too vague. Anyway, here's a list of somethings you can look out for.

BENCHES: Goes without saying. I am going to drive that into the ground as a trope! It honestly just started because when it comes to legs/hosiery pictures, there are just SO MANY girls posed sexily on benches. For all the captions I've made, I probably have another 2X as many photos on my hard drive, so it's only a lack of story that keeps me from making even more. If I get inspiration, then I will throw another one together. I still have one in reserve awaiting me to find someone I think it would work for, and then I'll post it here, and perhaps on the Haven if the recipient has a trading folder.

JENKINS: When I need a lackey, or someone to reference that isn't really specific any sort of fashion, I tend to give that character the last name of Jenkins. I use him the say way that Scott Adams of Dilbert fame uses "Ted, the generic guy" .. when he wants to kill someone off or fire an employee. Where did Jenkins come from? It's based on Scooby Doo, where it's always "Old Man Jenkins, the owner of the circus!" who's scheme would have worked if not for "those meddling kids!"

CREDENZAS: What a wonderfully weird word for a piece of furniture! It just rolls off the tongue! I've used it quite a few times in the context of, "Dust my credenza!" which sounds vaguely dirty! I believe that it was a hypnotic trigger at least once. Another word I try to work in often is "Shish Kabob"!! Another wonderful sounding word, and it also has sexual connotations!

HUT: This doesn't come up as much anymore, but whenever I make a retail outlet, I'll often add HUT to the end.  It's also a funny word. I've written captions up with "Kayla's Hypno Hut" and "Petra's Pilates Hut".  The "Haven" gets worked in many times too, because well, I'm been an admin there for 10 years now, and since 80 percent of my captions are trades with other members, why not include a reference that automatically lets you know what is going to happen. A guy will become a girl!

ODD MAGICAL ITEMS: Magic toasters, magic salt shakers, refrigerators, A Jiffy-Pop pregnancy, flamingo bites, anagrams, blenders, etc ..

META THINGS: I've "traded" victims with other authors (I had the nameless narrator send Sally Bend into an Anne Michelle story! Because Dee couldn't figure out a way to end a plot!) referenced captions inside of captions, had people act out captions in real life, had "actors" portraying captions as if they were being photographed to belong IN a caption, referenced this very blog and the people reading it. Never mind the fourth wall, I am not sure I have any walls to keep a roof up!

POP CULTURE REFERENCES: I'm constantly referring to something to do with music lyrics, cartoons, TV show or movie quotes and/or plots, Not only that, but characters will refer to those things as well. Usually in a movie, you don't talk about other movies, and the same thing happens in captions. Even if not implicitly said, there's usually some sort of PCR guiding the overall arc.

 I think I've come up with enough for now. If you can think of others, please leave them below. I've been doing this long enough that I've probably forgot more than I have listed.

Also, this is a blog exclusive caption, so give me some love in the comments as well.

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And to end of a somewhat serious note, I posted this at the end of a comment from Karen the other day on the "Definitely Not Jake from State Farm" caption.

And to prove I'm serious, my best friend now has my password and would post about me here if anything happened with this coronavirus outbreak. I care so much for everyone, I would want them to know if I wasn't able to continue this blog.

I have recently give my best friend a password to my email/blog and would let everyone know if something serious happened to me, and I wasn't able to respond myself. Whenever I post something about my health, I feel like I'm describing some crippling ailment that sounds like I'm a complete mess of a human in real life! In general, I'm still a fairly young and somewhat in shape person with controllable issues that don't usually affect my daily life to any degree.

But you never know when something might come up .. like when Kaaren had an issue with her skull .. and I don't want anyone to worry about me, say like if I don't have a new post up after an entire week without one. People disappear often in our TG community, but trust me, I don't plan on just vanishing one day. If there was a plan, there'd have to be all sorts of celebrations and unreleased captions, and farewell speeches, and maybe a parade so everyone can curtsy in front of your supreme domme one last time! All the pomp and circumstance that a true queen deserves!

So yeah, she would let people know here what is going on, without giving away too much confidential information. I trust her completely, and as my best friend, I know she'd deliver the news gracefully and try to keep the community updated on what's happening.

Damn! I'm not ready to die yet .. again! That's the Dementia talking in me! I've got at least 5-6 lives left that haven't been used up.