Look with Your Hands

Here's a quickie a pulled together with a little time I found this afternoon. There's really no reason for it to be two panels, but I really liked both of these pictures so I decided to stretch the story a bit and use a larger font to justify using both. Again, I'm just playing around with some different points of view than I normally use in an effort to keep things somewhat original. I can't say I love this one, but at least I don't feel like I've told this story twenty times before.

Burn to Disc?

Here's the first of two requests by Candy. She gave me some great ideas for future caps including this one, a request involving myself, her, and her creation, the Hentai Verse. I've never done a Hentai caption before so it was a interesting challenge to take on. I think it turned out pretty well, and hopefully she thinks so as well.

Oh So Pretty

Hey there everyone, I've got some good news for all of you. I'm not dead! Yay!

I just decided to take a break from the tg community for a while to try to clear my head. But now I'm back, and hopefully better than ever.

To everyone who gave me feedback on my last post and on the new page I created, thank you. No seriously, thank you. There were a lot of great suggestions on new topics to explore and things to consider and you all gave me a lot to think about. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it.

So with some new ideas, a nice stack of new images, and a clear head, let's see if I can pull off a string of new captions for all of you lovely readers. Sound good to you? Because it sounds fantastic to me.

P.S. The whole feedback thing is still in effect. If you think of something for me to work on, please leave a comment on anything I'm going to post from here on out. The more you give me to work on, the better captions you're going to see.

Just Ask

I've been in a bit of a rut these past couple of weeks. I'm still putting out new captions, but I haven't really loved any of them. I just sort of feel like I'm spinning my wheels. So I'm taking a tip from my newest caption and asking for what I want. If you've got a few minutes check out the new page I just added the explains what my current situation is and how I think it can be fixed. I'd really appreciate it.

Anyway, here's a new caption for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy.

Fairy Tale Ending

Fair warning, this is not a typical tg caption. For lack of a better term, I'm calling it writer porn. I didn't feel like creating the usual kind of caption today, but I still felt like writing. So I decided to play around with the idea of a character who has undergone a transformation, and is now realizing it wasn't the quick fix she was looking for. Actually, if it wasn't for the context of this blog, this wouldn't be a tg caption at all, as there is no mention of the gender change in the story. But seeing as we all know why we're here, I figured the transformation was implied enough. Anyway, thanks for putting up with my self-indulgence once again.

Fast Learner

As promised, here's something a little more...risque. I'm still on the fence about titles, but then again I'm not the best at coming up with new layouts, as anyone can quickly tell by the fact that I only use two, depending on the image orientation. I'll keep playing around with them and hopefully I'll find something that works soon enough. Enjoy what's left of the weekend.

Melt

My first caption with the title in the image. I'm fairly happy with how the caption ended up looking, the story is nothing special though. It's funny, I actually meant for this to be one of my standard forced lesbian taunting captions but I just couldn't make it happen. The past couple captions have been relatively clean (at least for my standards anyway) as I haven't been in a good smut writing mood in a while. I'll try to dirty things up a bit in the next update as I know that's what most of you come here looking for in the first place.

Mornings with Kylie

I'm still playing around with the idea of adding titles. I haven't found a way that I like yet, but don't be surprised if you see them start to show up here and there.

I haven't done a Kylie caption in a while, so I decided it was time for her to reappear and make my life a little more interesting once again. Not my best work, but I had a lot of fun writing it as I get write dialog and be sarcastic, which just happen to be two of my favorite activities.

For those of you who are new and unfamiliar with this little universe of mine, all you need to catch up can be found here. You can also click on the Kylie tag to see what other shenanigans the two of us get up to.

Angel in the Night

Happy weekend everyone. I had planned on using my down time today to find some new images and then create a new caption tomorrow, but this image just wouldn't wait. The story formed so quickly that I didn't want to risk losing it so I quit my search and went right into captioning. Unfortunately the speed with which I created the story was not present in the formatting process as well. I went through a ton of backgrounds before finding one I liked, and then it took me a longer than it should have to work it into my standard layout without the test becoming illegible. Needless to say the whole process just reminded me of why I'm primarily a writer, and not a designer.

Speaking of design, I've been considering including my titles in the captions themselves. Under my current system all my captions are labeled by their "production code" of C# while they're being made (which explains the odd names of the files I upload to the blog). I don't come up with a title until I'm making the actual blog post. But for today's caption the title came as I was writing it. I briefly messed around with including it before deciding I had spent enough time on this caption already and just went ahead without. But the whole process had me wondering, do you all want to see titles included in the actual caption? Or do you like the way they're formatted now?

How Lucky You Are

Nothing too special with today's update. I've had this image in my "To Caption" folder for a long time and I finally decided it was time to just get it done. It's nothing that hasn't been done many times before by myself and plenty of others, but I still think it turned out okay.

I'm going to try to turn out at least one new caption a week now that I'm back. It's a bit of a step down from my ideal of three updates every week, but I'm still trying to find a balance between sticking to a schedule and actually finding the time to create new material.

Relapse (One Year Anniversary)

While I'm not officially back from my break yet (although it's looking like that will be pretty soon) I figured I had to make something for today seeing as it's this blog's anniversary. So how far has my little corner of the tg community come in the past year?

• 255 Posts
• 248 Followers
• Over 1.5 Million Page Views

I'm absolutely stunned that this site has been so successful in such a short amount of time. All I can say is thank you. The fact that so many people are interested in seeing my work is truly humbling. I started this blog as a way to continue to expand my creativity and work on my writing, and I can't thank all of you enough for continuing to show your support for what I'm doing.

So as long as you keep coming back, I'll try to keep making it worth your while.

As for this particular caption, I decided to mark this milestone the same way I've done every major event on this blog, with the always stunning Ariel. In fact she was also the model in the first new caption I made after starting this blog (which was five days after my first post, but I had a bit of backlog I could burn though when I didn't feel like making new material). It's kind of crazy to see how far I've come in a year.

For me, this caption isn't so much about my own experiences with tg (which if you're interested I talk about here) as it is about captioning in general. There have been plenty of times I've considered calling it quits, but every time I take a break, I find myself drawn back in once more. This most recent break is no exception. While I've appreciated, and to be honest, needed, some time off, creating this caption reminded me why I enjoy doing this so much. And as long as that creative part of my brain keeps pulling me back in, I'll continue to keep making captions.

But that's enough of my rambling for now. Like I said, I'll probably be back to turning out material on a more regular basis fairly soon, thanks for being patient.

Here's to another great year of captioning.

Corporate Punishment

This was a request for Amber Smithe, who sent me the story outline and a massive photo set she wanted me to use images from. I changed the story around a bit as I decided to tell the whole thing through dialog, which also had the added effect of leading me to write the most awkward transformation description I've ever had in a caption. But as a whole I like how it turned out, and I hope Amber does too.

On a less pleasant note, I'm going to be taking some time off from captioning. I know what some of you are thinking "You're updating once every two weeks as it is, how much more time off do you need?"

To that I say...um...fair point. But here's my current creative process:

My current captions take me about 2 hours to make when you put everything together (image, background, story, formatting). But I usually only have about an hour of free time for captioning. So what usually happens is I end up with a lot of half formed ideas that end up on my to do list. Then when I do get time to revisit the ideas, I want to do something really good as I haven't posted in a while which kills my motivation to do most of the stuff I put on the list.

So I'm taking some time off where I won't look at anything captioning related. Hopefully it won't be much longer than the breaks between my updates are now, and I'll come back with some fresh ideas and the energy to do them. Some more free time would help too, but that doesn't see too likely.

Anyway, see you all again in a bit.

Isn't Magic Fun?

Two days, two captions, now that's more like it. This was a lot of fun to write as I love rhyming couplets. I'm pretty sure that comes from the heavy diet of Dr. Seuss I grew up with. Anyway, I figured it was time to have a little fun with my writing which inspired this cute little transformation poem. The last line still bugs me as I couldn't get the right number of syllables so the beat doesn't match, but whatever.
Enjoy.

All You

Time has not been my friend lately. I apologize that this caption is a little on the short side, but despite lacking a lot of free time and motivation, I really wanted to get something out since it's been too long since my last update. I'm going to try to turn out some more captions over the next few days in an attempt to build up a little momentum so there aren't as many long gaps as there have been recently.

Embracing His New Identity

It took me almost a month to find the time to make this caption, but it's finally done. This was a request by Tatiana over at Rachel's Haven, another one of the members of the tg community I frequently caption. Anyway, she gave me pretty much free reign to make what I wanted based on her preferences. I knew I was going to do a mental struggle as it's one of her favorite things to read and one of my favorite to write. But I didn't go into this expecting to make a maid caption. The reason I ended up going that route is I noticed "french maid" was listed twice in her preferences, but I didn't see a maid caption in the past couple months of captions made for her on her trading gallery thread (sorry if you don't visit the Haven that last sentence probably didn't make much sense.) So I decided to give her what she's been asking for, and luckily I found a great photo set to use. The end result is this three panel caption, which I'm pretty happy with. It's got a similar feel to my Kylie captions (which I plan on revisiting soon) with a bit of a darker undertone. Overall, I really like how it turned out, and I hope Tatiana does too.