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It body swapping really could happen i would want to be a teenage girl instead
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Sounds like fun to me to bad body shaping don't realy happen
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A great cap, as usual Amanda, and also, food for thought.
Would a bodyswap with your own attractive mother really be so bad, especially when you have a step-father? Admitting his previous crossdressing misdemeanours must be so cathartic, and having totally free access to a whole new wardrobe would be like a kid being let loose in a sweetshop.
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You could be right. I think it would depend on how much the son already identified with his mother. Not all cross-dressers would identify that closely, to the point of subsuming their own identity in hers, but stranger things have (allegedly) happened.
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I think this world has to be referred to as the 'Little Shift', doesn't it? I agree there are problems with the Great Shift (danger of chaos and the collapse of civilization, as you mention), but I don't think being too large a concept for captioning is one of them. You trust your readers to be familiar with the idea, so a lot of exposition is not necessary. As with any trope, it's how your caption slots into it.
Your theme is more original, so you need more exposition. Do you bring it off? I think you do. Explanatory parts are seamlessly welded into another very good caption And we will all love the appearance of your 'signatory cliche': Mom in son's body gets a stiffy when she sees a girl with - beautiful hair
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Thanks, PL. I like the term "Little Shift". Not-So-Great Shift kind of appeals to me as well.
I know that the "shared world" concept can be useful as a writing shorthand, but I seem to value originality (at least a veneer of it) more than saving wordage. If I'm checking out a caption and I see the words "Great Shift", my first thought is, "God, not another one? Talk about lame!" And I stop reading. That's partly because I assume the rest of the caption isn't likely to be much different than a pile of others I've read, and I've probably already read too many TG captions. Ah well. Such is life. Back to work.
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Ah, originality! We all seek it, but it is so difficult to achieve. Is there anything that hasn't, in some sense, been done before? But as well as originality of theme, you can have originality in treatment of a theme, even in treatment of a cliche. Alexander Pope said that 'True Wit' consisted in "What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed". (Sorry - switches off his pretentious mode )
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True, much has been done before. Also true: writers steal from other writers, and from everyone and everywhere else as well. What matters is what one does with the material. There are two ways to improve on (or at least alter) the original source(s): (1) update the idea to adjust to changes in society, (2) mix in aspects of one's own personality. I like to think I do both of those things, even when starting with an idea that's already been done to death. (Or almost-but-not-quite dead. To quote the Pythons: "I'm not dead yet!" Whack!)
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Thanks, Mellissa. That pic had to hang around for quite awhile before I figured out what it was trying to tell me.
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Heh Heh Heh.... You do come up with the dangedest ideas. And some good pics to go with them. Excellent stuff.
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Thanks. Actually, for captions, the pics come first. I've got a ton of 'em saved, and now and then one rises out of the pack and suggests that it has a tale to tell. For longer works the story idea comes first, and then I trawl through my archives to see what pics might help illustrate it.
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Which way is more fun?
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Caps are probably more fun. They're sort of like a cheap, but short-lived high. Writing long-form is certainly more work and far more demanding (a lot more things to go wrong), but it's also much more satisfying in the long run.
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