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Saturday, July 02, 2005

One from the Archives

Back in the mists of time, I had got into captioned story writing. I didn't realise how big this was on the internet and I still get a lot of traffic and links to this section of my website.

I spent a lot of time getting images from various places, and writing a short caption that put the image into a TG context - with the girl in the image invariably having been transformed from a man in various ways...

It was through these that I initially met Becky who used to do a similar thing.

We took a certain pride in our images, and made good use of photoshop. Looking at others that have been done on the web the quality of the captions was quite poor...

In the end though, I sorta got burn out. You reach a plateau where eventually you have covered pretty much every plot line and I lost my muse.

This one is one of my earliest ones, and still one of my favourites.



I tried to recapture my muse by producing real world products or mock ups from other sites, and I might do some more of these sometime. Kind of like this one or this one which give me a chance to play with Photoshop a little.

For those interested in TG fiction - there are immutable laws that you have to follow. This article kind of sums them up nicely with tongue firmly in cheek. With things like:

1) The Laws of Quantum Reality favor TG. Of allpossible outcomes to a situation, most will result inTG. Unknown containers, curious knick-knacks, and strange devices will all cause TG. Odd stores appearing, dispensing such items, and disappearing arean example of quantum realities overlapping in orderto facilitate TG.

21) Fact: Each day hundred of acres of rain forest arecut down. This is a shame, because 95% of unknownplant species cause TG.

34) Law of Liquid Similarity: Most TG formulas areutterly indistinguishable from milk or beer. Research scientists store them in gallon and quart jugs or six-packs and glass bottles and bring them home forstorage in the family refrigerator.

42) Law of Histamine Reaction: The most commonsymptoms of an allergic reaction to a substance are redness, irritation, difficulty breathing, and spontaneous gender swaps.

95) Men are never transformed into ugly women. In therare cases that they are, it's only temporary.

3 Comments:

  • At July 02, 2005 3:34 PM, Anonymous Lauren Teo said…

    Heh, that reminds me of this list. Although I found yours not hitting so close to the target as often as that one, perhaps I'm just reading the wrong fiction....

     
  • At July 02, 2005 8:48 PM, Blogger Joanna said…

    Heh Heh.. nice list too Lauren... As a player of stuff like Everquest and Neverwinter Nights, a lot of that rings true :-)

     
  • At July 11, 2005 9:13 PM, Blogger Marrie said…

    Hi, I love neverwinter nights thats a great game.
    I'm still in my closet thats where my wife keeps me

     

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