Easter Sunday? Easter Funday! .. and a discussion RE: Deviant Art

He is risen .. well, until she puts him into a chastity device!

Well, Happy Easter everyone!

I've been doing this long enough that I have a BUNCH of Easter captions posted here, and I could have just dusted off one of them and reposted it BUT .. about 2 weeks ago I saw this image and thought, "I think I can do something with this," and what happened? I did do something with this!

And I'm pretty sure it's an actual image (not AI) that someone posted to some adult site and it bounced around until I found it on some aggregate site. I would like to believe that I told the official story of what happened, but you're guess is as good as mine. And for those of you that are in this situation, I've got my fingers crossed that the ending is what you receive too!

So if this isn't to your liking, just type in 'Easter' as a keyword in the "Search this Blog" section in the right hand column and find one which more floats your boat! We here at Deelusions of Grandeur are all about people flouting their dinghies as much as possible. There's at least 10 official Easter captions, a few for "Palm Sunday" and some others that weren't officially Easter related but close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades.

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I am approaching 300 followers on Deviant Art. What I've been doing is posting captions from the current month but 4-5 years before our current one (For any time travelers out there, it's 2026 here for another 270 or so days left until 2027) and it's been going well. Why am I doing this? Well, perhaps I can explain my reasoning.

• I am not sure how much time is left here on Blogger. They've done everything they could to drive people away, with the age checks, the "must sign in" to view and comment, and started pulling down posts that they deem are offensive, only by checking the words in the body itself, hence why I've had to go with s!ssy and other silly l33t speak to get by them, and it won't shock me to see that they'll update that blocker soon enough.

• I love everything about having a blog here, where I can interact and give more detailed elaborations about the whys and whats of my creative process .. and of course all the wonderful comments and the replies I respond with to create a community.

• But guess what? I also have an ego .. a big fucking ego! And I don't like to think that the caption game has passed me by. BUT the page views are depressing to say the least, and I know that most of it is due to the restrictive nature of Blogger. I so appreciate everyone that still stops in, and even more, the ones that comment.

• And yes, I totally understand that Deviant Art has it's own issues. At this point, I am running older captions there, with the purpose of trying to get more page views coming here, and build up this community. However, I have no idea if Blogger is going to Pompeii the entire TG caption landscape here. So if something happens here, I can pivot there and still continue to post without interruption. 

• Another thought with that in mind, is that perhaps I could monetize the new ones there on DA, keep them free here, and balance them both out .. though I have always fought to keep everything I have created .. gratis, especially since I am technically harvesting 80 percent of the images I use. Hell, I'll be happy if people "gift" me one of the levels for a month or two, so I won't have to pay for the tools that Deviant Art provides.

These are all ponderings I've had about it all, and there are pluses and minuses to all of it. 

• With all that "extra" exposure, people aren't really heading over here .. though I am going to keep trying to steer them this way. 

• Also, there's not a lot of interaction .. I barely get any comments or reactions other than something getting put into the viewer "favorite" folder. That's nice, until you see that most people have like 4k worth of saved captions. Will they even look at them again?

But I thought it'd be good to put it out in the open, for those who didn't know I was there on Deviant Art. I would like you to join and follow me if you can, even if it's just for 2 reasons .. (1) if this blog disappears, you'll know that I am somewhere else you can reach me, and (2) maybe you'll see some captions that you don't remember, or that were posted before you were aware of this blog.

And lastly, I would love if you comment below on both the caption posted WAY UP THERE at the top, and your thoughts on Deviant Art and the points I have brought up regarding it. There are probably things I hadn't pondered yet, and having other views always helps to get your head around stuff that has you puzzled. And if you are a caption creator, do you use Deviant Art .. and if so, what sort of interactions, issues and bonuses you enjoy or endure with being on that platform?