TG Captions has a new home

A quick note for fans of my TG Captions website: Please note that I have had to movethis week.

I've been having problems with Heart Internet who tell me that, despite promising unlimited hosting with unlimited bandwidth, this site is using up too much of the system resources. Unless I do something about the server load then they will take the site down. So basically it's hit it's unlimited limit.

I have tried to put into place some Wordpress caching plugins that are supposed to ease server load - but I don't think they are working. The site gets about 15,000 hits a day, so it's much busier than any of the other sites I run.

I can't afford to pay for a dedicated server - the banner ads on the side of the site only bring in a few quid a week, nowhere near what a dedicated server costs. And as the site is only a bit of fun, unless it's self-supporting I don't want to spend lots on it.

So for now I am moving the captions across to a WordPress-hosted site that hopefully will be able to cope with the load. I'm currently in the process of copying all images from my old site to there, and will eventually remove the images from the tgcaptions.co.uk site and just leave a redirect in place.

You can find the new site here: http://tgcaptions.wordpress.com/ please update your bookmarks and any links you may have to it.

All new updates will go there for now. If you follow the caption site via RSS then please update your feed settings.

Out of the Shadows

I was about to post a rant I'd been working on after suffering really bad television on holiday, but something was just posted onto the Angels forum that I just had to share.

Out of the Shadows, Transgender Children. Please watch it, and share it around. As many people as possible need to see this.

I'll write about my vacation, and rant about stuff later. For now, watch that video.

Captioned Images

After a hiatus of over 2 years I have finally produced some more TG Captioned images for my website. I used to really enjoy making these, and I went through a period of producing hundreds of the things.

I know the TG Fiction world is 99% unoriginal, derivative stuff. I have written about this before, back in the early days of my blog. There are certain rules that have to be obeyed, and they are not all everyone's cup of tea.

Basically you either have the male being transformed via prosthetics or more technologically advanced surgeries but its still essentially the same person/body underneath, or the more magical/science fiction bodyswap or total transformation where the male is totally transformed.

Now while the ''male dressed up'' one appeals to my tranny side and tends to be more ''believable'' (using that term very loosely) I do have a thing for the magical and the body swap stories. I think its because that, if I ever got into a situation where I could become a girl I know that my body would make a bad one - I have big feet, big hands etc etc and I would hate to see those features in my female self. A total body transformation or swap would suit me better. I've said before I don't want to be a transsexual woman, I want to be a complete woman or nothing.

So I do get a thrill when reading good tranny fiction, but the majority of it is pretty bad. I do find the odd gem, and there are some good writers out there. The same goes for TG Captions with people like Femur making some excellent stuff.

Anyway, after several years of writing captioned images I basically lost the urge. I had tried to make some very different kinds of image - real world objects rather than plain story snippets, but in the end I ran out of ideas. There are only so many ''When Ben said he wanted to get into her knickers this was not what he meant'' that you can write - unless you find just the right image to go with it.

I did however keep a folder of images, and when I saw a picture on the internet that was just crying out for a caption I saved it, but never got round to producing the finished product.

I built up quite a image bank, and this week I finally sat down and realised it was time to make some more captions. They are always well visited areas of my site and I do still get requests from visitors to produce more.

So today I made 19 of the things. They are up on my Captioned Images section of my site, if you like that kind of thing.

I'm just getting my muse back, so they are not highly original, but I like them (and I like the images that go with them). I must thank the owner of a Hollyoaks screen cap site for some of them, they were just crying out to have a TG caption to go with them. I lilke the fact you can have two people talking to each other so there's a sense of dialog, rather than just having a model with a caption to go with her.

I have loads more that I could do, and if I get some time maybe I'll make some more.