Almost-ideas #1 - Tshirtmania
I have lots of ideas for content for this site, usually when I'm completely incapable of acting on them. I promise myself that I'll remember them, but I invariably don't.
I should carry around one of those voice recorder thingies and occasionally shout into it things like "IDEA: Tranny Olympics. Events... 100 metre faffing about..."
But I don't do that. For one very good reason: I don't want to look like a twat.
And the ideas that I do manage to commit to digital paper often tend to run out of steam before they get going, and languish in Development Purgatory™*.
A few days ago I had an idea. There are phrases that only a tranny would recognise, and then only some trannies. I'm not even sure how widespread this kind of tranny is. Perhaps you can help, take a look at the phrases below.
If that generated a spark of recognition, you're the kind of tranny who's read, and probably enjoyed, that most specialist of genres: transgendered fiction. What's more, you've almost certainly visited the tranny fiction equivalent of the British Library, Fictionmania.
Tranny fiction is a strange beast. Full of evil maiden aunts who seem to delight in turning nephews into neices, and magical devices that turn hard-nosed businessmen into simpering bimbos. Most of it, to be honest, is utter crap. But certain people, it seems particularly closeted transvestites, love this stuff. Before I decided to stop thinking about girly stuff and start doing girly stuff I used to visit Fictionmania regularly.
Once I started dress-up myself (by the age of 30 it was becoming increasingly apparent than none of my aunts were going to do it for me) I lost the urge to read tranny fiction. I can't really explain the way that it works in a tranny brain. It works something like this:
Trannies grow up knowing it's "wrong" for a boy to want to look like a girl, but the idea is intrinsically appealing to us, often also in a sexually arousing way. Boys aren't allowed to dress as girls, so we create situations in our mind where the act of being dressed girly is taken out of our hands, into the hands of the aforementioned "evil aunt" for example. We're no longer to blame for being dressed en-femme, so we can enjoy the idea of femininity being imposed over masculinity without the guilt of knowing that we did this to ourselves. Tranny fiction provides characters that the closeted tranny can identify with, characters that are boys turned into girls due to events beyond their control.
I often say that I didn't start dressing and going out en-femme because I'd become more of a tranny. It did it because I'd become less of a coward. My levels of "tranny-ness", aside from natural fluctuations, have remained constant. My levels of "giving-a-shit-what-people-think-of-me-ness", dipped over the years until they reached a point where there was no reason for me not to go out. As shown in the graph below...
Once I'd given myself "permission" to dress, I didn't need the fantasy of someone else doing it for me. So the appeal of Fictionmania and it's ilk faded. That seems to be common among a lot of my tranny friends.
Oh yeah... I was talking about my idea!
So, anyway, I was talking to Sophie and Jess on holiday and for some reason tranny fiction came up, and we realised we all recognised the phrases Fictionmania uses to categorise it's stories. We were joking at how some of us used to enjoy the "Magical Transformation" stories, whereas others preferred the "Deals, Bets or Dares" stories. It got me thinking that many online trannies would probably recognise these phrases, and, with a bit of lateral thinking, it could be a way for one tranny to declare himself to another without raising the suspicions of other non-trannies.
So I came up with this, and then the idea ran out of steam.
Still, got a long blog entry out of it, eh?
* "Putting Things in Capitals and Trademaking Them"™ Siobhan Curran - Used Under Licence
I should carry around one of those voice recorder thingies and occasionally shout into it things like "IDEA: Tranny Olympics. Events... 100 metre faffing about..."
But I don't do that. For one very good reason: I don't want to look like a twat.
And the ideas that I do manage to commit to digital paper often tend to run out of steam before they get going, and languish in Development Purgatory™*.
A few days ago I had an idea. There are phrases that only a tranny would recognise, and then only some trannies. I'm not even sure how widespread this kind of tranny is. Perhaps you can help, take a look at the phrases below.
- Physically Forced or Blackmailed
- Deals, Bets or Dares
- Caught With Consequences
- Wedding Dress or Married
- Chemical or Drug Induced Change
If that generated a spark of recognition, you're the kind of tranny who's read, and probably enjoyed, that most specialist of genres: transgendered fiction. What's more, you've almost certainly visited the tranny fiction equivalent of the British Library, Fictionmania.
Tranny fiction is a strange beast. Full of evil maiden aunts who seem to delight in turning nephews into neices, and magical devices that turn hard-nosed businessmen into simpering bimbos. Most of it, to be honest, is utter crap. But certain people, it seems particularly closeted transvestites, love this stuff. Before I decided to stop thinking about girly stuff and start doing girly stuff I used to visit Fictionmania regularly.
Once I started dress-up myself (by the age of 30 it was becoming increasingly apparent than none of my aunts were going to do it for me) I lost the urge to read tranny fiction. I can't really explain the way that it works in a tranny brain. It works something like this:
Trannies grow up knowing it's "wrong" for a boy to want to look like a girl, but the idea is intrinsically appealing to us, often also in a sexually arousing way. Boys aren't allowed to dress as girls, so we create situations in our mind where the act of being dressed girly is taken out of our hands, into the hands of the aforementioned "evil aunt" for example. We're no longer to blame for being dressed en-femme, so we can enjoy the idea of femininity being imposed over masculinity without the guilt of knowing that we did this to ourselves. Tranny fiction provides characters that the closeted tranny can identify with, characters that are boys turned into girls due to events beyond their control.
I often say that I didn't start dressing and going out en-femme because I'd become more of a tranny. It did it because I'd become less of a coward. My levels of "tranny-ness", aside from natural fluctuations, have remained constant. My levels of "giving-a-shit-what-people-think-of-me-ness", dipped over the years until they reached a point where there was no reason for me not to go out. As shown in the graph below...
Once I'd given myself "permission" to dress, I didn't need the fantasy of someone else doing it for me. So the appeal of Fictionmania and it's ilk faded. That seems to be common among a lot of my tranny friends.
Oh yeah... I was talking about my idea!
So, anyway, I was talking to Sophie and Jess on holiday and for some reason tranny fiction came up, and we realised we all recognised the phrases Fictionmania uses to categorise it's stories. We were joking at how some of us used to enjoy the "Magical Transformation" stories, whereas others preferred the "Deals, Bets or Dares" stories. It got me thinking that many online trannies would probably recognise these phrases, and, with a bit of lateral thinking, it could be a way for one tranny to declare himself to another without raising the suspicions of other non-trannies.
So I came up with this, and then the idea ran out of steam.
Still, got a long blog entry out of it, eh?
* "Putting Things in Capitals and Trademaking Them"™ Siobhan Curran - Used Under Licence
Very useful and thought provoking...
A very good reason indeed, can't fault the logic whatsoever.
And I too love the graph. Next time someone contacts me fretting that they're still in the closet I shall refer them to this graph.
"Dahling, the problem is you still give a shit" I shall very helpfully point out.
Did anybody actually buy one?
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