Wishes do come true...sort of.

So I have been fiddling with new software for the past few days, and have been ignoring caps.  I found I owed some when I checked in at the Haven this morning, and here's what I came up with.  I am finally getting to what I would call "competent" at making caps in GIMP.   Hooray.  Hope y'all enjoy!

What was I thinking

Hey all.  I've spent much of my free time over the last two days beginning to learn the ropes of some new (to me) photo editing software, so I haven't really produced any "new" captions.  The creative bug is still pretty strong, so I've been jotting down some quips, situations and stories that I will certainly turn into captions as I travel up the learning curve with a pretty complicated piece of software. (GIMP, for the curious) 

I will, in the meantime, be posting the captions which I've put up at the Haven.  There are still a few I've not yet presented here.  The one I will show today is a single panel caption which I entered in the February caption contest.  I'm not 100% pleased with the wording.  Go ahead and read it before I talk about what I don't like, as I wouldn't want to offer a spoiler without warning.

Done?  Good.  Now, the problem I have is having the story come to fruition both suddenly, and within the brief space of a single panel.  The concept that the husband has lied to his wife in order to "win" a bet, only to be caught betraying himself for the feel of sheer stockings on smooth legs (a feeling worth committing light treason, btw) combined with her decision to make his punishment involve feminization might be a little too complex.  I am afraid I went for too much. 

What I do like here is the use of a simple image of a single part of the body to set the tone.  As I read more and more captions, I am coming to the conclusion that showing all the action can sometimes take away more than it adds.  That's not to say I don't get a thrill from reading/writing a good x-rated fuck fest caption; it's just that the key part of the fantasy (for me anyway) generally takes place in the mind.

Anyway, those are my thoughts on this caption.

The lesson

The idea of a man with some piggish attitude being forced to confront their sexism is one I find delicious. In this cap, the sisters of Freyja have ensnared a young man who shared his scientific views on the female orgasm.  The sisters will surely teach him the error of his ways, simply by using his own ideas against him!

A recurrent dream

Rather than post a cap in this entry, I am going to describe a recurring dream that I began to have when I was about eight or nine years old.  Don’t worry too much – I’ll post my next cap sooner than later, but I figure posting fantasies will provide a fairly twisted view of my personality.  And after all, what’s the point of blogging if not to let people in on these kinds of things?

It starts with me, lying naked on my back in a dark room.  As my awareness increases, I can see images around me growing more distinct.  Once the images become clear, I realize it’s all of my female peers (the first time through, it was my grade school classmates) looking on. 

I am filled with the knowledge of the situation: that I can lay there still under their scrutiny for however long I can bear to do so; however, if I try to move, I will be in some way feminized.  Of course, I feel ashamed of my male body, and try to move anyway.  Immediately, a girl steps forward (invariably whichever one I have the most attraction to at the time of the dream) and applies lipstick to my face, and I begin transforming into a girl. When I try to move again, to escape the changes, the girls approach and place me in a pretty dress.  I know then that I am a girl, just like them and can leave the room with them.

I then wake up.

As I have gotten older, the dream has changed in subtle ways.  Because the first time I had the dream, I was more or less ignorant about most of the actual differences between male and female, the simple symbols of lipstick and a dress were the extent of the process which made me a “girl.”  Eventually, more detailed makeovers occurred, including eyebrow plucking, blush, foundations, complete eye makeup etc.  The dressing also became more complete, with lingerie, stockings and such. When I hit puberty, the physical changes of sex organs became part of the dream as well.

To this day, I still have this dream on occasion.  I recognize it as the same dream, even if the women in it have changed, and the content has far exceeded the original iteration. 

One wonders what Freud might say…    

Expertise

 Expertise...I will admit I am new at this.  One thing I hope to get from this blog  is input on what works and doesn't work in the captions I post.  So if you make your own captions, please feel free to comment on my work, and to link those creations you have made which might exemplify your lessons.

Just a simple, single panel caption today.  My dreams have forever been haunted with images of beautifully made up lips. Okay, not forever, but at least since I was 6 I have recurring dreams about women (formerly girls) applying lipstick for me.  This is a cap I did for a member over at Rachel's Haven, a really great site for tg and transformation content.

Entry 1

Welcome to my Blog.  I am Brandi, and I am a middle aged transgendered personality living in a male body.  I started this blog just to offer some captions and stories - quite simply to find a place to share some of the creative pursuits which have gender related themes.  That said, I'll get on with why you probably came here in the first place:

This is a caption set I posted over on Rachel's Haven.  I personally prefer shorter, less verbose series/caps than this, but the set put the idea in my head.  Since the idea took exposition, I went ahead and fleshed it all the way out.

I just love the idea of being in a predicament which offers a dubious choice.  Since control is an illusion, the choice we might "want" is sometimes loaded...as Jeremy will find out here.