Category: Commentary

Someone recently raised the issue that post titles can sometimes spoil the on-image caption, e.g. by giving away a key part of the story in a less interesting way. This is actually something I’ve tried to keep in mind, but evidently I haven’t avoided it completely. I’ve actually seen this on other sites too, where titles detract from the content. I hope I’m not doing the same thing unknowingly. Titles are kind of necessary on this platform, but obviously being the one who posts it, I experience this blog in a different way from readers, so I’d like to hear what you all think about this. Any specific examples of spoiler-titles would be appreciated, as well as general thoughts on the matter.

These were continuing and starting to get on my nerves, so there’s now a CAPTCHA on user registration. If anybody has trouble with it, let me know.

Over the last few days I’ve got dozens of new user registrations, all with yahoo email addresses. (Normally I might get one registration every couple days.) I assume this is some sort of spam campaign, so I’m deleting them all. On the off chance any real humans get caught in the crossfire, please reply here and I’ll sort it out. (Not that user registration has much point anyway, about all it does is autofill  your name on comment and submission forms.)

So I’ve had a couple posts with multiple images sitting in my inbox for way too long, I’m not entirely satisfied with how WordPress handles them. That photoset feature on tumblr was pretty slick. This… isn’t. But it’ll do I guess. If you have any thoughts on how this works, better ways to do it, etc.

P.S. Someone just sent me a test message. Not sure what you were testing, but it worked I guess. Hello. And Bye.

This random post I saw on reddit reminded me of a permanent nudity story a bit, even though no one actually ends up naked. Thought some of you might find it amusing.

#clothed #school #rebellious #story

I got a bunch of new registrations today for some reason. I’m wondering if they’re real or bots. If you just registered, feel free to introduce yourself in the comments.

You know, I really haven’t been getting much in the way of submissions lately, except from a couple of regulars. They are much appreciated of course, but it’s fun to get surprises and new perspectives. If you read my blog regularly, I’m sure you have a pretty good idea what kind of picture and caption I’m looking for. Why not try your hand at it? The worst that can happen is I’ll tell you it’s not quite what I have in mind (with suggestions for how it could be improved, when possible).

Gifs! In fact I didn’t even have a gif tag until now, I guess that means none have made it to the new blog. I’ll have to look for some classics that deserve a place here. Anyways, this is somewhat experimental. Really great base gif, and I wanted to do it justice in the caption, but obviously space is limited. So I ended up doing it kind of silent movie style where the action pauses for dialog. Feel free to let me know what you think. It’s also pretty weighty, at 5MB, so again let me know if this causes problems. It’s nice to be free of tumblr’s arbitrary size limitations, but I still don’t wanna overdo it.

Just FYI, due to spam, the  first comment you submit is held until I approve it. I’m not exactly sure how it determines “first comment”, like if that’s based on the email address you supply, if any, or IP address, cookies or what exactly. But in any case, worry not, as long as your comment isn’t spam it’ll be approved, usually at the same time the next picture goes up.

So remember the #flashback tag I talked about a while ago?

I’ve already posted a few guest submissions with that; they seemed to fit. But I hadn’t done any flashback captions myself until now. More to come in the next few days. The idea is that these captions take place during the early days of permanent nudity (generally the early to mid 2000s, for anyone keeping track of the timeline), when it was still new and shocking. Some of the established rules might not exist yet either, for instance maybe some places didn’t have the cold weather exception yet, and it was really hard on permanudes for the first winter or two. That kind of thing. I think this will be a fun variation on the usual captions.

Feel free to get in on the act. Just put “flashback” in the notes if you want to submit one.