Finally, a non-blog exclusive! Something for my good friend Ashlee (Totalditz) so come inside ...
and read about Kevin's fate!
I was looking at more beach / bikini pictures, and saw this one, thinking about one of Ashlee's big preferences, being forced to do girl things / tasks for some reason or another. I saw it and immediately thought of how she had failed a task before, of not using cutesy selfie filters on "her" social posts.
And I went with it by making a caption setting, putting the picture in it, and then creating a fake set of text messages to drive the story .. but I had some extra space there to use in whatever way I desired .. so I figured I'd write a wraparound pre and post log to perhaps enhance everything else. I'm hoping I succeeded in bringing it up a few more notches. You'll have to tell me in the comments if I did.
So we've had an entire week of vacation / beach captions. Which one was your favorite? Let me know .. perhaps I'll pick one commenter and try to get them involved in a later caption! Why not?!?
Also, do you come back to read my replies if/when you leave a comment? Do you read other's comments down below? Figured I would ask as I try to respond to most of your comments.
Both Ashlee and I are on the wrong coast for this song, but we'll dance to it anyway!
You can tell the programming is taking hold, because it looks like the poor girl has forgotten to charge her phone after taking all those selfies!
ReplyDeleteI think out of all of this week's caps, my favorite would have to be "His Vacation... Abroad!" just for the pun, although today's is a very close second.
And I make it a point to always come back to check if my comments got replies, and I usually end up checking the other comments while I'm there cause they're always interesting to read.
I wondered if anyone was going to notice that, as I set it that way on purpose, as that was his age BEFORE the summer tasks happened.
DeleteThanks for the comment reply. I had wondered if people come back looking to see if I have responded to them. Looks like my friends do seem to come back and check. It's good to know!
Great cap Dee! I think the pre/post story makes this a more well rounded cap. Without them, it's almost too meta. It could be read as just a transformation and not necessarily male to female... making her sister go to the beach and get bigger breasts.. But the wraparound firmly establishes the forced femme bona fides.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read the earlier caps as I'm just catching up, but I'll come back and give an opinion in a bit.
Yup, nothing against the previous caps, but I like this one the best! Layout, story, dialog... it just works!
DeleteYeah, that was one of the reasons why I went with a wraparound story. Sometimes I take shortcuts knowing that people are coming here or to the Haven for TG caption content, but wanted to drive home the older boy to teenage girl plot that I was trying to focus upon.
DeleteI always like this kind of set up and I agree that the wraparound text really helps ground the story!
ReplyDeleteAs for comments: yes - I do try to come back and read your replies (sometimes I do forget and then check back a week or so later when I remember). And, of course, read all the other comments. I tend not to reply then though because, well, by that point you've usually posted a new caption or I wsorry about how much I'm typing. I tend to go for full essays rather than short and conversational responses and I'm working on it but the pull of the run on sen tence is sometimes a little too strong meaning that I'm still here counting the lines whilst changing subjects a little too often. Aaaand there I go again. Point is: yes, I appreciate your replies! :)
Nowt wrong with a bit of Katy Perry now and again. I shall drop this link without any further context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IURWeQvtcNI
As mentioned above, I'm glad that most of the regulars do check to see if I've written a response to their comments. I had asked because I wondered if I should sometimes highlight a response of mine to a good comment in the next post to make sure others saw it. Glad to know that I don't necessarily have to.
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