I've had this pic for quite awhile. At least a couple weeks now. It's just been hanging out on my desktop as I had the basic idea for it and thought it's look cute as a cap. The basic idea was "He's dressed up by his friend then gets stuck like that when more people come in. He can't even get up because he has a hardon"
There's nothing un-trope like in this cap. But as I learned years ago, just because it's a trope doesn't mean its bad. After all, it had to be a good idea to become a trope, right?
Two things came up in my thoughts while I made this. The images that I choose and the idea of cross-dressing.
In the images that I choose, I mean that I pick images that I find aesthetically sexy. In this image, it's really her ass and her lips. Her pose is sexy too, but it's not showing much else of her. I don't particularly like her hair and I'm not a foot person. Once I thought of it that way though, it made me sit back and wonder if that limits me on the types of stories I tell in these caps. I mean, realistically, this is NOT a guy that's had a weekend worth of makeover. I could buy the face, and I even relented in the story that her hair was a wig... but the curve of her ass? The thinness of her waist? No, those are distinctly feminine. In the stories I tell I work pretty hard at explaining those types of changes like body prosthetics and corsets, but those don't work at bare ass photos like this.
I guess I wonder are the caps better because I pick out distinctly feminine subjects and then make at least a LITTLE effort to explain their femininity? Or would I be better off using images like this for complete changes (magic, future technology...)?
The other thought is about cross dressing. That is, a guy dressing up like a woman. Maybe a wig, maybe some body enhancers, of course some makeup... but no real changes to their body. I mean the whole category of caps is called TG caps. Trans-gendered caps. Cross dressing isn't really TG, is it? They're changing the public's perception of their gender without changing their gender.
I wonder if it's just me over the years, slowly preferring stories that could actually happen to me. I could be dressed up, I could have makeup on, I could put a wig on, I could put a corset on. I could be forced into embarrassing situations to try and hide the fact that I'm a man by acting more like a woman. But with all that I know of gender affirming treatments and surgeries, I find it unappealing to read about someone that is just POOF a woman.
I don't know... it's just something to think about. Anywho, I hope ya like the cap. I do have another image picked out for another cap and this one is overtly completely changed gender so I think it will be fun and sexy.
I think the most important thing is to trust your own instincts. To put it more plainly, just write whatever you want to write and include whatever images you want to include—as long as you like it, that’s all that matters.
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