Pix Chat

Here's the most recent of my attempts to make Dee laugh.  Honestly, anytime I see a beautiful girl being silly, I want to just hug her...  and then write a funny caption!  Pretty and Silly in the same picture is with no doubt my favorite combination.  Of course, they say a girl can only be two of the following three: Smart, Pretty & Funny.  If that's true, I'll take the last two any day of the week, and then argue that it takes courage and intelligence to be funny.

Doorways

Sometimes I just need to write and get things flowing...  Last week led to creating this cap for Maddie, who I feel like I haven't captioned in ages, but more realistically it's just been a few months.  She actually provided this picture, and I just wanted to take it in an unexpected direction.  Challenge completed?

While They're Mine

A recent creation for Jackie Blue on the Haven.  The way I figure is this: No matter what guy you are, if you found yourself in this situation, you'd surely take any and all advantages.

Naptime

An early caption for Zefie in 2011, and a variation on my snorg-themed captions.  For those who don't know, I love the combination of t-shirt slogans in a caption.  So much so, that I found a website company that made many nerd/pop culture references on their t-shirts and used them for captions.  Also, I bought several of their shirts.  In particular with captions, I love the use of the t-shirt graphic to tell part of the story so I don't even have to mention it in the caption; instead, I can let the reader decide.

5 Years - A Kaity Special

In this post, you're going to see 5 different captions.  One from each year I've been creating.  Enjoy them for what they are.  I'm posting these mostly because I like looking at how I've changed with my story-telling, caption templates and style overall.

A very early creation for Courtney on the Haven.  If memory serves, I had only been trading for a couple of months.  I went very generic with the photo and text in white space.  I do remember saying to myself very early on that a caption should not exceed one photo--the story should be self-contained, unless it is a multi-caption story.

In 2010, I began sometimes incorporating multiple photos in the same caption.  More importantly, I began putting my name to my work.  I had started branching out a bit from my comfort zones, and would play around with some more options in style.

2011...  The year of the border.  I was quite fond of the colored border around my captions.  I had even grown to a point where different colors represented different universes, but eventually I phased that idea out.  I felt this border helped signify my captions.  Also, this was the year my faerie marker was introduced (Thanks to AshleyM).

2012...  Well, I still blame Rachel (Yes, the Rachel of the Haven), but themes and photos over what I considered as an 'R' rating began leaking in to my work.  2012 was when it became rather prominent.  I suggest it represents that I had fully grown into things.  I also began a new technique I had seen in some other captions, allowing me to use larger pictures and/or two pictures with one faded enough to read text on top.  I feel like I perfected this and carried it into this year.

Feb 2013 - At this point, I've been blending the old with the new, allowing a photo to pop from the background, which is itself a faded image.  I've just began using this technique, and still have some issues to work on, but overall it looks very crisp and new without sacrificing any elements.



So that's it.  Five years of captioning.  I'll probably post something similar in the future.  Maybe captions made for someone over the years, or perhaps captions from a universe.  Hopefully, even if you just read the captions, this was an enjoyable post for you.

Serving Time

Mid-week post.  Something from my *ehem* naughtier side methinks.

Outlooks

A recent Role Exchanger creation.  Can you guess what was exchanged?

Back in Time

Playing with the space-time continuum...

Upgrades

Pink Slipped

Discussion Question for the week:  How much should urges affect the mind of the transformed?  How fast or slow should the mental change take place if it should take place at all?

More Mad Science

Here's one of the very first captions I created, and truly this was for no one but me.  Before I began posting to the Haven, I made a few captions just for me to see how mine would compare to what else was out there.  Another blast from Kaity's Captioning Past.

Rude Awakening

This cap is so new, it's only been posted on the haven for less than 24 hours at this point.  I really enjoyed writing this one--as other had commented, it is a bit 'matrixy' although I'm sure the Wachoski Brothers stole that concept from somewhere else in so on.  Great minds and all that.  Which brings me to this week's discussion question:

DISCUSSION QUESTION: Do you prefer originality (if such a thing exists these days) over a television or movie transformation theme?  Or does a movie themed transformation help make things more accessible?