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Normal to feel unhappy about writing captions?
From: guest (CaptainZap) , 59 months, post #1
I’ve been doing stuff on and off. But I still feel that unhappiness doing captions? Even when I try to be positive about it. Anyone else who writes captions feel like this?

From: ColoradoDog , 59 months, post #2
yeah, because I wish my fantasies were real :(

From: guest (Kanske) , 59 months, post #3
Writes every now and then just to have an outlet of my creativity.
I don't write if I don't feel for it.


From: Golvanious , 59 months, post #4
You could always take a break from it and come back when you feel really inspired. That, or maybe branch out and write a full-on short story, or maybe even a novel. The sky's the limit, right?

From: DrunkenSneech , 59 months, post #5
CaptainZap: Are you feeling burnout? Is it lack of feedback from viewers/readers? Do you feel you're just rehashing the same ground? Do the themes & actions in your caps make you feel uncomfortable in what you think they reveal about you? Are you too much of a perfectionist? Are your caps "no longer enough" to sate your drives?

Whatever the reasons, CZ, I hope you find your way to a more positive and creative headspace.

From: guest (chee) , 59 months, post #6
what is your site

From: guest (CaptainZap) , 59 months, post #7
@DrunkenScreech

Originally I was using captions for fetish writing, but I started feeling depressed after awhile. I’ve always felt like I was born the wrong gender and I think that’s part of the reason I’m depressed. There’s also the hostile environment of TG writing currently where everybody wants to demand that you do what they want. Along with the political correctness and shoving opinions down people’s throats. Caption writing hasn’t been fun for awhile like I said: it’s just that the current environment makes me want to do it less.

From: guest (CaptainZap) , 59 months, post #8
Also: since I have some conservative views which aren’t welcome by the majority of TG writers. Liberalization seems to be infecting anything and everything nowadays and now captions are becoming infested with the same people. Or they were always there, but now have become louder and more obnoxious.

From: DrunkenSneech , 59 months, post #9
@CaptainZap: There are always a small but disproportionately loud minority on both sides of the political spectrum. But you're just making caps for you and your fans; you're not setting government policy, writing legislation, or otherwise putting your boot on the throat of anyone. In the grand scheme of things, if someone(s) doesn't agree with your views or your creative output, that's on them. They can always stop reading, or write their own caps and stories.

Do what makes you happy and gives you release. Don't let anyone live in your head for free.

And as a tree-hugging, democratic socialist, pro-choice, SJW hippie freak, it often seems to me that the Overton window has moved way too far the other way. But it seems to me that what I see and read in the media is often largely distorted and deliberately shaped to keep people pitted against each other as a distraction to much bigger issues; the vast majority of people aren't black & white, but instead are complex blends of political positions, deep beliefs, and compromises that get them through the day. I'm fairly sure that I have many many more things in common with you than there are things that would divide us. I can't speak for anyone else, but I won't condemn you or try to shout you down just for your opinions or what you put in your caps. Hell, I might even learn something.

I don't have any sage words to sooth the gender dysphoria you seem to be feeling. I hope you can figure out a way to achieve your equilibrium with it.

From: guest (Nathan) , 58 months, post #10
I'm terrible at captioning, at least when it comes to actually making them on programs like Gimp or Photoshop as sometimes I just like to write out the actual story rather than figure out how to combine the story with the image. I try to do them but i'm just not good at it.

From: guest (Riley Avery) , 58 months, post #11
I used to not feel that bad about captioning, but once I entered a relationship things changed. I quit it (for the most part, with the occasional drunken binge) and every time I do it I feel as if I'm betraying my partner's trust. I feel horrible and I cannot fathom what they would think of me if they found out about me using photos of women who had no intent of their photos being used this way for a fetish. My long term relationship with my SO is more important to me than short term sexual gratification, and yet when I'm drunk and they're out of town I'll relapse.

I totally understand feeling bad about captioning.

From: guest , 58 months, post #12
@Riley Avery
The unauthorized use of real people's photos is one reason why I never even bothered to start captioning. But if I ever did start, there are a couple ways I could assuage that guilt.

One captioner I follow addresses this by only using logo'd porn photos for their base image.
There's also the website thispersondoesnotexist.com which uses AI to generate a realistic image of people.
There's also the various gender swap filters (Snapchat, FaceApp) where you could start with yourself as the base, do various transformations, and then write the caption around that.

From: guest (Riley Avery) , 58 months, post #13
@guest #12

Whenever I do relapse and get it out of my system now I have a set number of rules I try to follow.

- Only use pictures from women who have a high likelihood of knowing their images could be used in a sexual manner (porn actresses / cam girls, models, etc).

- To not have my own site. One of my biggest factors of my old caption habit was seeing the stats change on my site with each post. I can still post them elsewhere, but no blog owned by me.

- Every story has to have consequences. What those consequences are can be anything from good (e.g. the character loves their new body and life and has adapted to it perfectly) to bad (the main character can't handle taking on the responsibilities of somebody else and wants to go back). Having consequences takes the caption from a fetish to a story, and I like telling stories.

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