Wednesday, February 22, 2023

A Hooters Temp Bump?!?


You can call this caption anything you want, except late for buffalo wings!


Had this idea that I thought would work for Myother12 over on the Haven, but wasn't quite sure, as they tend to want forced femme captions .. and if you've read it by now, it's forced, but not in the traditional way. I think of it as more 'trapped by circumstances' that make it hard to change back.

This path is usually used more in TG fiction, where there's time to flesh out the slow descent into femininity that usually requires a butt-stupid protagonist and a mean-as-fuck stepmother, auntie, girlfriend, boss or a combination of all of them.

I write that last paragraph with it sounding like I'm not a fan of that trope. I do enjoy it, but it's so much better when there is resistance .. and if you don't have much resistance, you need to take a different tact.

That's what I tried to do here. He didn't start out to stay a female. Originally Ryan was trying to "game the system" by both collecting unemployment AND using that spare time to earn more money. Side benefits were: more time with the magical GF, and all the sexual things they could do together.

Then time moved along, and a new normal set in. Perhaps inflation happened and all the wages weren't saved as much as they were before, and he was spending more time as Rilynn, losing a bit more of Ryan everyday, where instead of improving Ryan's lot, he was mostly keeping the alternate persona afloat. Then the GF was missing having a "real man" around, and wasn't as much into women as she might have thought.

Which lead to the current situation where he's probably stuck as Rilynn for the future. Maybe there's better earning potential to be had as a female, and maybe Sara likes him better as her best friend, and doesn't want to lose that by changing him back. Maybe metaphysically, he's much more Rilynn now than Ryan, to the point where his male self is now the alternate persona. Maybe he changed back to Ryan but his mannerisms, thought process, and demeanor ended up being more femme, which affected everything else in his life.

I guess you could say that Ryan ended up force femmed himself with his own decisions. That's got to hurt even more than just having a strong willed woman do it to you. at least there's a bit of victimhood there you could take consolation in, right?

So what sayeth you, the blog reader? You really like this caption and the story it tells? Just into looking hot in the uniform and doesn't matter what the plot is? Either way, or with another view point, let me know what you think?



6 comments:

  1. Dee, Love this! Very cleaver idea to make a living and enjoying what she is doing and who she has become. Actually, she wasn't forced in the swap, rather went willingly. Zoe

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    1. Yes. In a way, it makes it all the more .. like the ending of an Edgar Allen Poe story? Sort of hoisted on your own petard, so to speak. A prison of your own making.

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  2. Yes I do really like it. A clever way to have fun and make money. A twist on the trope for sure, forced himself to change by willing choices made. Rilynn has made the right one to stay as her new self.

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    1. Yes. sometimes we have an idea that comes to fruition, but not exactly the way we had in mind. I know a few people over the pandemic that were happy to have been laid off / fired because they could collect and not have to worry about possibly catching Covid. But, it made it harder for them to find the next job, both because of a "hole" in their employment history, but also, everyone ense in their field was looking to come back at the same time, so much more competition for the good jobs.

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  3. Works for me. I'm guilty of overlooking or downplaying that inner conflict myself, because I *want* the characters to *want* their feminization, but it does add so much when it has to be either earned or your own inhibitions overcome.

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    1. It's a fine line that we captioners walk, especially when we are creating a trade caption for someone else. It needs to sound plausible, and usually has to fall within their preferences of "forced" even though the desired outcome is definitely "pre-determined" to be what the recipient wanted. Luckily, she enjoyed the caption, so my job was very much acceptable.

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