How I use tags

In an attempt to make it easier to navigate the blog and find the sorts of captions you're interested in, this page will explain how I tag my captions in order to categorise them.

Firstly, I'll explain the tabs that you see across the top of the blog:

Caption Length

Every caption is tagged with 'Long', 'Medium' or 'Short', which is based on word count.  Generally speaking, Short is around 150 words and Long means over 300, with Medium sitting in between. These aren't hard limits - sometimes I might call a caption with 200 words 'short' because it contains dialogue and so makes for lighter reading.

The exception to this rule are any series I do, which tell a story over multiple captions. These are just tagged 'Serial' as their individual length isn't really relevant.

Requests / Guest 

Together with the length tags, these make up the final two tabbed categories along the top of the blog. Requests are captions that I was asked to write for a particular image which someone else supplied. Guest captions are ones that have been written entirely by someone else and given to me to put on my blog.

The rest of the tags are the words that appear as a cloud on the right-hand side (e.g. 'forced' or 'hypnosis'). The larger the word, the more captions there are with that particular tag. Most are self-explanatory, but I've broken a few down:

• Clothing: These are tags like 'dress', 'skirt' and 'heels'. These will only bring back captions that reference that particular item of clothing. Most of the time this means the image includes them as well.
• 2nd person: These are captions written as though the reader is the one experiencing what's being portrayed. E.g. "Your hands are shaking as you remove the dress from its hanger and lift it above your head".
• Accidental: This is different from 'unwilling' - it just means that something unintended has happened. For example, the subject may have willingly transformed into a woman but unintentionally left themselves stuck as one.
• Make over: This means a man being given the works (clothes, make-up...), but no surgery/transformation - they remain male.
• Transformation: Some kind of body morph takes place.
• Sincere: Generally this means the caption is more 'real life', and focuses on the struggles that transgender people face.