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How can magic captions be grounded in reality? Well, I've been doing them for many years now!


I planned on having this Friday, the start of my 4 day weekend(!) to do a bunch of captions and get a lot of things done .. and ended up sleeping most of the day! Guess I was a bit sicker than I thought!

Anyway, because of this, I'm posting a caption from 9+ years ago, as its something I try to keep going back to, keeping my captions centered somehow in reality, even when stretching the bounds of what can be, and what we know they cannot be. If you weren't around then, this is probably new to you!

Here's what I wrote then:

I made this caption "realistic" even though it involves magic. How is it realistic, you ask? Well, first off, if someone on the street turned you into a woman, would you really be cocky and demanding, all "you change me back right now or I'll ..." Dude, she just turned you into a chick, what makes you think you have ANY power whatsoever?!? You would probably do what Jake did in this caption, run home to his wife, try to convince her of what happened, and see if she could fix things. Well, at least that is what I think. Your results may vary!

I like captions that are grounded in reality, yet have that magical nature to it. Perhaps it is comforting to think that situations exist slightly to the left of real perception? Not sure what it is, but maybe my fine readers can enlighten me!

DISCUSSION QUESTION:  How grounded in reality should "magic" TG captions be? Should it be totally realistic, except for the method of change? Should it be a total flight of fancy?  Somewhere in between?

I really wasn't always as verbose as I am now. So how long ago was this posting? Well, the comments included people like : Petra, Smitty, Caitlyn Masked (as a newbie!) the other Kaitlyn, and Jennifer! talk about a murderer's row of captioners with what, like 6,000 captions between them? To read their comments, CLICK HERE! Feel free to add to a new discussion down below or talk about the caption. It really is amazing how far we've all come in ten years!