A whole new year...

So I'll be doing New Year's at friends, having some drinks and chatting and absolutely not getting into a party dress and trying to get kissed at midnight. Hmph.

Georges Chakra 2015

Being turned into a retro 50s girl is totally in right now.

Thanks to Jennifer Sometimes for the pic!

Simone is BAAAACK!

Three new captions, including this one! I especially love the expressions in the photo here.

The space between holidays...

Stuck at home... resisting the temptation to loot my mother's closet...

A picture, via Wenterburn

"I love having people help fasten me into my heels..."

Bella Thorne, preparing for the VMAs.

A gift just for me!

For Christmas I got nothing draggy.

Although I did just get to start a new Elliquiy thread to star in called "Modern Man To 50s Housewife"... ;)

Happy Holidays!

Hope you're having a good time!

Help me, Clara, I want to go back!

Of course it was the Victorians who really made Christmas

Hence carolers in bell skirts and bonnets. Lucky them.

Pictured: Not me. Boo.

The longest night...

Time for my long black skirt...

A modern 1950s Christmas

She's making so much more of an effort... just like I would!

Pete and Shanna Cistulli, December 2011

Wrapped up with a bow...

"Your new body has arrived! I hope you like it!"

Debbie Reynolds, 1950something

I try to keep my non-kinky fandoms separate. (It doesn't always work, see wanting to be Clara in Doctor Who...)

And obviously to be beautiful and rich and have lots of pretty things to wear for him...

All I want for Christmas is a husband...

I have no idea...

But I want that last dress.

A thought tonight

We have people living in space tonight, and have had constantly for years. We have reusable spacecraft (again). We have a probe on Mars, we landed another on a comet. All that in less than 60 years since we sent someone into space properly. We're amazing. really, when we try.

Sky Ferreira for Illicit

New Jimmy Choo perfume advert, so pretty.

Not sure I'd want a fragrance from s shoe designer though. :D

Feeling so naughty tonight...

Terrible weather... where's my mink coat?

New envy target

Rotem Sela, Israeli model

A picture via Mistress Simone...

“Don’t look so worried, Graham. No-one will recognize you like this.”

“That’s what worries me!”

Perfume and clothing adverts... a tempting parallel world

Xmas TV advertising is full of faux-festive cheer, toys, food... and fashion and perfume ads trying to lure me into evening dresses, stiletto heels, full makeup and perfume.

Pantomime

Panto is many a British child's introduction to the theatre... and to seeing men in dresses.

I've never wanted to be a panto dame... I want to be the "principal boy", and end the day by taking off that costume and going back to girls' clothes...

Panto has pretty much lost that half of its stage crossdressing tradition, keeping the drag-ish dames in most cases but making the male leads, well, male. The lack of female 'princes' in tights and heels is a real shame...

Of course I want to be the principal girl most of all.

Holly came from Miami, F-L-A...

Holly Woodlawn, the original walker on the wild side, has died.

A serious post - Prison Transform

A petition to change the way the prison service treats trans prisoners.

Oh Clara, if you had to leave, at least you did it in a retro waitress uniform...

Soooo tempting

There's a dress shop near my work with a lot of 50s-style pretty retro dresses in the window. And on a local shop promotion day earlier this week they had this red polka-dot one with a red satin bow belt out in the doorway. I had to stop myself touching it...

Snow!

So pretty. So impractical. So me.

Keep cosy by the fire!

December!

I'm not really a fan of the "sexy Santa" thing, but you know I would if I had the figure for it.

Not really bothered by the Zoolander androgyny joke. Considering the original had guys drenching themselves in petrol to pose wet-look and then accidentally setting themselves on fire.

Not the change I want

Went on a climate change march. (In sensible shoes.)

Horrible weather, staying in with a floor-length skirt on.

Shopping!

Happy Little Black Dress Friday!

I won't actually be doing any shopping today (are you crazy?) although I might look at some online deals...

Happy Thanksgiving!

"Find the courage to be yourself"

Poster and magazine advertising for The Danish Girl, in which Eddie Redmayne plays Lili Elbe, disappointing to some who would have preferred a trans star, but eh. He's certainly pretty.

Scream Queens. o dat wardrobe.

Another dismal Monday, cold and rainy, I just want to stay in, dress up hot... I mean wrap up warm...

I want to go too...

Girls' Night Out by KannelArt. I'd love to look the way Kannel draws...

Male pregnancy now possible. Ish.

Uterus implants are now possible. But not terribly practical for those of us without pelvises built for childbirth. (Bonus point for use of an image from Junior.)

Transgender Day of Remembrance

Remember.

Celebrating International Men's Day properly. By dressing as a woman.

Why have cotton when you can have silk?

Oh, the weather outside is frightful

Looks like snow. Time for opaque tights and full skirts... I wish...

One small step

It turns out that Bethany Black's role in Doctor Who was actually quite small, and more importantly, not about gender. Which is a nice little thing, especially in a show watched by millions of families.

Go Baby Go

With your cherry lips and golden curls
You could make grown men gasp when you go walking past
And in your hotpants and high heels
They could not believe that such a body was for real
It seems like rainbows would appear
Whenever you came near the clouds would disappear
Because you looked just like a girl
Your baby blues would flash and suddenly a spell was cast

Tonight, just going out is political.

It's for a good cause...

The Children In Need fundraising telethon is tonight, and as is traditional, crossdressing is a popular option for people going out in costumes with buckets. I wonder how many of them are working through something and not just borrowing from a convenient wardrobe.

Friday the 13th... like Halloween but not as good.

Remember those who fought against tyranny, bigotry and cruelty.

'Normal'

Sigh. Back to normal. The sooner I can escape normal, the better...

Do you feel it?

Do you feel it?

The way the skirt swishes around your smooth thighs?

The tightness of the bodice over your bosom?

The high heels pushing up your calves?

The smile on your pink lips?

Becoming Cynthia

By Kitty-Marshmallow for sailorrob

If I looked this good dolled up I'd be smiling too.

If I were a Zygon I might get distracted by looking like Jenna Coleman too.

I want to be Chanel number 7

Yes, I've been watching Scream Queens, why do you ask?

Remember, remember

... the holiday that's good for bonfires and fireworks but not really for dressing up.

One Night Treat

By Infinity Sign. Yummy.

Preserving Trans* History: A Short History and Suggestions for the Future (2014)

Preserving Trans* History: A Short History and Suggestions for the Future (2014)

(via Transvespires)

So, time to stow away your dark lipstick and nail polish for another year... :/

Transvespires

A little post-Halloween tricky treat.

What IS going on?

I really want to know the story here...

Dress me...

Just dress me!

Happy Halloween!

Dress me Bond Girl

New example: Léa Seydoux.

Although I'd most like to be Léa Seydoux in Beauty And The Beast.

Loiza Lamers

Loiza Lamers, TG model, wins Holland's Next Top Model.

Dress me corporate Goth

Wouldn't say no...

Dress me Gothic Princess

Obviously!

Dress me really...

Sadly, Halloween will be in boy clothes. The ultimate disguise.

Dress me princess again...

Yes...

(via Mistress Simone)

Dress me 1950s Goth

Not generally a thing, but I want it soooo much...

Yes please...

Human Rights

TG human rights equality in New York.

"With this executive action, Gov. Cuomo has made it clear that his administration is committed to protecting transgender and gender nonconforming people in New York State."

Equal marriage rolling out

Good on yer Ireland!

Dress me Back In Time

Back To The Future was just a year or so too early for me to be identifying with the female characters... but now I really want to look like Elaine at the dance.

(Michael J. Fox as Marlene McFly in Part II... kinda disturbing. :D )

Dress me... something Canadian

To mark the election. Not a Mountie.

Sarah Gadon. That'll do nicely.

Dress me Personal Assistant

Different from Secretary... sort of.

And I don't know why this picture came up in GIS, but...

Dress me in Sunday best

Ready for my husband to take me to church.

"Born in the wrong body" on Channel 4

A season of programming about trans lives and issues.

Crimson Peak

Do want dresses.

(swoon)

The jolts of horror disrupt a smooth ride of beauty, alas.

Dress me as one of them

Just one of a girl group.

Dress me Girls Aloud (again)

Like this.

Completely like this.

Dress me Cheryl

Be her, you know you want to.

Dress me, for real

A black skirt, a black blouse, lingerie, dark makeup, heels...

Dress me Goth Punk

The line's always been a bit hazy.

Dress me in a Denim Skirt

Post 501, get it?

My 500th post!

To celebrate, off to slip into something a little more comfortable...

Dress me Meter Maid

Not really a thing any more, but...

Dress me Receptionist

I'm not even a secretary, all I do is answer phones and smile as people come in... but that's very important, I'm the public face of the company, and I have to be friendly, and sweet, and smile...

Dress me Stewardess

Wish there was a better quality copy of this video online.

Dress me Cowgirl

Yee-ha!

Ladyship

Keshara's adaptation of Waldo's Ladyship on TG Comics is now complete, with a new ending. This is pretty close to my ultimate fantasy...

Dress me Cute Goth Girl

Because I go for cute more than statuesque.

Kenzi in Lost Girl is everything.

Dress me Goth Girl

I always cycle back to wanting to be turned into a beautiful Goth girl. So elegant, romantic, feminine.

I want to be Morgana sooooo much.

Dress me...

It's October! This time last year I started a list of styles, costumes and dresses I want to wear. I showed off some of my dearest fantasies... Of course I have more!

I don't really fantasise about being a witch, but sure would like to be a retro 50s pinup girl...

Wake me up when September ends...

Because October is Halloween month!

Army Wives

New story with Ranae (hi Ranae!) about a female soldier's husband joining an Army Wives' Club. Inspired by a short story by Caitlyn. Going to take it in a slightly different direction...

Well, I'm in a skirt now. Better enjoy it while it lasts...

Busy week ahead

I'll be lucky if I get one night in a skirt.

What if your birth gender was unknown until puberty?

Guevedoces translates as "penis at twelve".

(continued swooning and envy)

Selena Gomez envy

So nice to see a modern girl surrendering completely to 1950s retrofication.

I wish I could too!

Happy Bisexual Visibility Day

My own bisexuality is a bit visible, I'll sometimes admit to liking this man or that... even though I don't admit to wanting to be with them as a woman.

In the autumn...

I can wear hose with my skirts without it being a little too warm or a little too cold.

The leaves are as vibrant as I wish my hair and lips could be.

Halloween is just five weeks away!

Half male half female animals split down the middle!

Split down the middle! For real! They're called "bilateral gynandromorphs".

The Go-Between

The BBC is really spoiling us with classic adaptations lately... and with beautiful women and handsome men all over them.

I've fancy-envied Joanna Vanderham since I first saw her, and every time she gets to wear a period dress I wish I were her that bit more...

I love when someone asks what I'm wearing and my honest answer is fun.

A quiet night in with my favourite skirt and blouse.

Normalising, one laugh track at a time

Boy Meets Girl is such an ordinary sitcom, apart from the casting. Hopefully it will lead some equally everyday trans characters into the mainstream.

Yes, of course I've fantasised about being the girl in Doctor Who...

A job I'd love

Looks like Jenna Coleman will be playing Queen Victoria next year. Which means many corsets and petticoats. Lucky girl.

Although the fun of seeing her as a modern girl in period dresses on Doctor Who will be lost.

And then this...

2012! And the appalling research means the writer doesn't seem to know about key developments like The Avengers coming out.

Let's Do The Time Warp Again

So this happened...

Short version, a woman decides to dress as a Victorian lady and fill her house with retro tech. Good for her. Then she goes online (as one does in the 1880s) to talk about how everything was so much better then.

Er... no.

Darn it, missed The Man From UNCLE in the cinema.

Henry Cavill in a nice suit, Armie Hammer in suede and Alicia Vikander in mod dresses...

Harvard student ID

Students joining Harvard can now identify with He, She, Ze, Hir and They.

Which is wonderful.

(And puts me in mind of the end of The Elements Song...)

She is Legend

Emily Browning in Legend (the new Krays film with two of Tom Hardy).

Jealous noise.

On the subject of bridal fantasies...

This one from Dividence is just delicious.

Thanks to Anguine_Adept for letting me indulge my bridal fantasy in RP. :)

Seriously. Yes please.

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Quite mild as adaptations go, but...

I want everything Holliday Grainger got to wear.

Tonight I am most definitely dressed up.

Being turned into a retro pinup

Australian Buzzfeed video - Guys get makeovers as pinups. Three of them as pinup guys, but the fourth...

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lady Chatterley's Lover, starring Holliday Grainger and Richard Madden. Apparently it tones down the sex but that is one sexy pairing...

Why I like knickers

Guys try on thongs for a day...

Life is like that...

Things getting back to normal. Which in my case means I can spend more time secretly wearing women's clothing.

Jealous noise.

Tonight I can be me again.

Having to spend to weekend being guy too

Being butch is so exhausting. Still, nearly done.

Whatever shall I wear?

Looking forward to a weekend of lots of going out... wishing I was on a man's arm.

Oh, Jupiter Ascending, why can't you be the story of my life?

Misfile: The series?

Pilot trailer for a webseries of the webcomic.

John Oliver continuing to be great on LGBTQ+ discrimination news. And sadly necessary.

Not if you were...

The Last Man On Earth is about (not actually) the last man on Earth after a global disaster meeting a woman after two years alone, and then... January Jones is the second woman he meets, two days after the first demands that they get married so they can have babies and repopulate humanity. Ouch.

(I'm reminded of The Quiet Earth, where the supposed last man alive tries on various clothes including a nightie, and the last woman goes for a fairytale princess costume at the earliest opportunity. Like I would.)

Give it all up and become a showgirl? Okay!

Weekend's over, back to passing for male. Ick. I want to run away and join the circus Lady Boys.

50s Housewife TG TF sequence

I want this SO MUCH.

Back to me time

Okay, busy times just about over. Time to kick off those heels... no, wait... time to put them on! Getting home from work means dressing as a secretary. Wish I could correct this obvious continuity error...

Jessica Raine gets to be retro 50s again

This time in Partners In Crime, a 50s set adaptation of an Agatha Christie series, alongside David Walliams who I'm sure must be as jealous of her frocks as I am...

Trans Scripts

Currently showing at the Edinburgh Festival, Trans Scripts is "an original stage play by based on material assembled from interviews with people from around the world who identify as transgender. Its characters range in age, ethnicity, socio-economic status, educational level and experiences." With a name cast including trans actors, it's been receiving strong reviews.

I know I need to feel released...

I know I need to feel relief...

Take care to bury all that you can...
Take care to leave a trace of a man...

And this is going to be a long week too. So, um. how are you? Bought anything pretty lately?

Okay, long week, short posting time.

I want to be the before...

Okay, this one's a more serious statement about gender identity. (Still, those shoes!)

And some more...

Normal service will be resumed shortly.

In the meantime, here is some music.

It's a busy week again...

So...

The Scandalous Lady W

Natalie Dormer swore she would not put on a corset again... for a year and a half.

Being a Ladyboy

I wonder what it would be like to live in a culture where TG is as accepted as it is in, say, Thailand, where ladyboys are prominent enough to be part of our cultural stereotype of the country. (Right now it's the 20th anniversary of the Lady Boys Of Bangkok coming to every Edinburgh Festival.) Would I have come out if it had been more acceptable to do so?

24 TG historical figures

From Ranker. Good to see some representation, like Marsha P. Johnson, one of the actual heroes of Stonewall (unlike the white guy made up to star in the movie). I think including Joan of Arc is a bit of a stretch but nm.

Being paid to wear retro dresses? Sounds good to me!

It's another quiet Saturday evening, watching TV and wishing I looked as glamorous as the leading lady. (Specifically, the film noir episode of Castle.)

Bethany Black to guest star in Doctor Who

Bethany Black (previously mentioned here) will be appearing in the new series this autumn.

She's not playing a specifically trans character, which is pretty damn cool.

And it comes close after the Master becoming Missy, and current Doctor Who boss Steven Moffat saying this about that:

“... you know how human beings are never completely male or female; you’re mostly a woman, I’m mostly a man? — that maybe a male Time Lord is someone most of whose regenerations are male,” Moffat continued. “Maybe he’ll have a couple of female ones. The science-fiction of that would make sense to me. Otherwise I think life might be a little bit complicated on Gallifrey — or would it? I don’t think they’d care.”

Still thinking idly about writing something...

Plenty of time for thinking idly at the moment.

Um...

That awkward moment when someone asks what to add to an RP as TG transformation isn't fantastical enough.

So this is a placeholder. Hi!

A quiet week

Visitors here, so no time for dressing, not much time for typing either. :/

TG movie: Unconditional Love

Unconditional Love is all about one condition. It's a no-budget British indie film with a very pretty reluctant crossdressing boy in the centre. I never looked that pretty even at sixteen. (Though I'd loved a chance to go as far as he does... unlike him.)

Staying in tonight and I am in a skirt and heels. That feels so much better.

Going out tonight, dressed up male style. Gah, wish I was in a skirt and heels.

Inclusion

Stockholm Pride poll finds that about half the participants last year were straight. And about 40% joined the parade when they saw it go by.

If I were to write something long form...

Where would I start? Willing or unwilling? Cute or naughty? Modern or historical (or time travel)? And which style to end up with? Bride? Schoolgirl? Secretary? Stepford Wife? Victorian lady?

Becoming an authoress?

Considering writing some of my fantasies at length, for here, maybe Fictionmania... or the Kindle, considering how short most of the 'books' there on the subject are.

The Change-Up

Just watched this on TV. Body swap between two guys, caused by a wish when both relieving themselves in a fountain, which is then removed when they get back there next morning. The thinness of that excuse is almost charming...

How do I follow that?

Well, if I were organised, with a caption of my own. But. obviously...

Genteel Refinement

Mistress Simone did a caption for me! So grateful and happy and honoured!

Drag, trans, Pride, complicated

Free Pride Glasgow's decision on drag performance is not as simple as it's being negatively reported. Is anything ever so simple...?

Transparent creator Jill Soloway on male privilege and male protagonists.

The Science Of Tacky Formal Dresses

The origins of silk, the uses of tulle and the horrors of velour.

Speaking as someone who would love to wear formal dresses a lot, including some adorably tacky ones...

Wilde Tales

The year's best gay speculative fiction - some more description of the contents would be nice, though.

Growing up TG

I saw this in the news today and thought I'd share.

I'm typing this with painted nails.

Here's to another evening spent properly dressed, for the first time in too long.

Miss Cloud

How should we talk about Final Fantasy VII's crossdressing sequence? by Sarah Nyberg.

I'm older than Sarah when I encountered, I knew my desires and had been keeping them secret for years already. It felt strange to see them being acted out in such a location. Strange... and good.

(Being able to change shape like a Terminator would be fun, of course.)

I need your clothes, your boots and your handbag.

At no point in the new Terminator movie does Emilia Clarke wear so much as a waitress uniform. Boo!

I want a movie where she looks more like this.
Is that wrong?

Max's Big Bust

An anime-style video game on Kickstarter, nearing its stretch goal with twelve days to go, about the perils of picking up mysterious artifacts at crime scenes. Hint: the perils are TG-ish. (Thanks to Ursine for the linky.)

It's over 9000!

My Pageview count.

I don't really know what that means.

Tangerine

A new comedy-drama about two transgender prostitutes, and apparently the first film shot entirely on an iPhone. Which I'm sure must have annoyed someone at Apple. And hopefully pleased others.

Review found at The Mary Sue while looking for news about any more fantastical TG story content at Comic Con since Crosswind.

I don't watch many non-fantasy TG stories, they're so often reflective of the most depressing stories from the community. This is a comedy, so we'll see.

Bride Envy

There are currently 1,789 stories in the "Wedding Dress Or Married" category at Fictionmania, so I'm not exactly alone here.

The thought of being dressed in a beautiful bridal gown, very traditional and as feminine as can be, with a tight corset bodice, full skirts with petticoats, all in white silk or satin... and then to walk down the aisle, with so many guests there admiring my beauty... and then to be wed, and made into a wife...

Always a guest, never a bride

I attended a wedding today. Cue spike in Bride Envy. The reception had no dress code, so the women mostly dressed up and half the men made some effort. Another nice visual and tactile reminder of how much less fun men’s clothing is. Oh well.

Elliquiy celebrations

To celebrate my Elliversary I got a new avatar, based on this photo...

And put that poor Civil War soldier in her first dress...

And added some suggestions to my RP requests:

Defeated: (M/TG probably BON)
A defeated enemy, at the mercy of his captor - who wants to shame him in defeat. Physical changes, coerced dressing and behavior, possibly in a historical setting?

Transformed To Order: (M/TG probably BON) I've attracted someone's attention and he has decided I would be a perfect subject for an experiment in transformation. Will I submit to the changes? Will I learn to like them - and him?

Elliquiy

It's my Elliquiy anniversary - seven years, during which I've even managed to finish writing a few stories. (Statistically, more with Wenterburn than anyone else. After last week, possibly more with Wenterburn than everyone else.)

Roleplaying / shared fiction writing by forum can be frustratingly slow, even without sudden stops and disappearing partners, especially when a story really has your interest. Especially if it's a sexy scene rather than a dramatic one, and they often are.

If I were a lot less lazy, I'd collect some of the completed ones (and complete some of the incomplete ones) to put on Fictionmania or somewhere. See how many can people work out where one writer starts and the other ends. As it is, at least I have some readers there. I'm hoping I can share the current non-public American Civil War forced feminization story I'm co-writing when it's finished. Yum!

Bodyswaps again

This time in the cinema, as Sir Ben Kingsley is offered the chance to be young again, and taller and buffer than  he was at that age, by being downloaded into Ryan Reynolds. Apparently it's not the old Joss Whedon script of the same idea (boo!) which is fair enough as it's about someone taking the offer happily rather than having to, and it's directed by Tarsem Singh, who made the oh-so-pretty The Cell and The Fall but apparently doesn't get to do anything so crazy this time (boo!)... but still, if you could be turned into someone new, healthy, young and pretty...

(See Surrogates for a version where everybody's at it, and yes, someone uses it to go TG in the very first scene.)

I may now want to be Anna Kendrick. Shut up.

I may have just watched Pitch Perfect 2.

Yay John Oliver!

Because this.

Do this to me...

Please.

From here, thanks to Mistress Simone for sharing.

Happy Independence Day!

Feel free to turn me into an all-American girl!

Body swapping

Would you want to switch bodies with someone? I would... if I had a say in who!

A new comic from Gail Simone coming soon drops two people in the deep end, TG and all. Sounds like it'll be a fun ride!

My pal Ranae (head of tgrpclassifieds) really likes body swap stories, so I'll make sure she sees this...

For my 400th post - For EVERY Girl!

Girl Scouts are awesome. Giving back a $100,000 donation because the donor wanted a guarantee it wouldn't go to help trans girls. And so someone reading about this organized a donation online, which is currently over $300,000.

Summer's here, apparently

Time for thin dresses, no hose (aww) and less layering.

What I really want from that is to be loved, looked after and allowed to be feminine.

My own wedding fantasy...

... I'm the bride.

Now, if we could just get some other LGBTQ discrimination banned... and some societal changes... and...

People have married in the last day who could not have just a day before, some who didn't believe they ever could. I wish them all the best in their lives together.

Love is love

Congratulations to everyone in the USA who can now marry freely.

And some days I want to fall in love.

And some days I just want to please...

Going into it willingly... ish

Another type of story I've been considering lately has someone willingly feminised for other reasons - fame and fortune, in a couple of ideas I've had.

"If you want to reach the top, you'll have to wear high heels!"

And of course the subject isn't as prepared for her new life as she thought she was...

Defeated and feminised

"Creating The Perfect Secretary" is the latest in a series of ideas where an enemy uses feminisation as a way of defeating the protagonist, or of showing the extent of his/her defeat. I suppose it's a mix of my desire to be feminised by a strong man and wanting the play to be dramatic rather than immediate total surrender.

The Perfect Secretary

Just started a version of this on Elliquiy:

Ken and Simon were rivals at the same advertising agency, seeking the same promotion. Then Simon found a way to take Ken out of the running for good, use his skills and knowledge to further his own career, and remind him constantly of his victory.  

Would Ken be able to escape once he was under Simon's control... when he was turned into what Simon wanted? Or would he become the perfect secretary?

I used the same picture as the first of this series by Mistress Simone as the "cover", though it might not get quite as sexual. Or it might...

Just not the kind of busy I want to be...

Typing, fetching and carrying, obeying the dress code and mincing in a pencil skirt and heels, being the perfect secretary.

Busy, busy...

Short posts because I'm away all week.

New trailer does show sorta-nearly-equal sister, doing normal Assassin's Creed character things, which is good, but I'd have liked to see more than the one unisex outfit.

I want a virtual Victorian dress-up game, okay?

No sign of the apparently-nearly-equal sister in the shiny trailer for Assassin's Creed Syndicate. Hmph.

A handbag?!

As I spotted in the news today, a new version of The Importance Of Being Earnest on the stage is to star David Suchet as Lady Bracknell. Normally you have to get your Victorian crossdressing on stage with Charley's Aunt. (Or Fanny and Stella.)

TV on TV

I seem to be talking about TV a lot. Fair enough, I have been watching quite a bit lately.

And not just RuPaul's Drag Race...

Avoiding spoilers, but...

Tonight's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell hit one of my fantasies bullseye. I imagine the creator Susanna Clarke has seen the same film I have...

Jamie Clayton

Sense8, the new internet TV series from the Wachowskis, features Jamie Clayton as a trans activist. She's beautiful, confident, heroic, basically awesome.

Thanks to Caehlim on Elliquiy for pointing her out.

Penny Dreadful already had my interest...

Then Angelique arrived. (wardrobe envy grabby hands)

At last it's nice out!

Lovely warm weather... wish I was in a flimsy nightdress. I'll certainly take the next opportunity to step into a skirt.

The New Dress Code

Beorning has been running The New Dress Code for me for almost a year now (and in turn I've been running A Visit To Stepford for Beorning) and we just got to a major plot development...

"The office had been doing well under its current manager, with her relaxed style suiting most of the employees well, but when she took maternity leave the company sent a man to take over. He had some old-fashioned ideas about office politics and gender relations... and some new ideas for how to implement them.

Can a young assistant discover his secret... before it's too late?"

Our heroine has gone along with the new heavily-gendered dress code with some reluctance, but a fellow intern has been complaining. Until the morning, she arrived in a nice new blouse and skirt suit...

Luxuriating in the bath... thinking about shaving my legs.

All trousers and no skirts make B a sad girl...

Nothing like a few weeks of freedom to dress to make a week of no freedom to dress really sucky.

I stumbled on this picture, and...

"My face! It feels so... soft! So smooth! So... feminine! I'm the real me at last!"

Back to boy clothes, for now

I've been dressing more for the last few weeks, which has been lovely, but sadly I and my clothes have to go back in the closet for a while.

Homme Mystere

Lingerie shaped for male bodies.

Tempting...

Fanny and Stella

Currently being told on stage in London, the story of Victorian crossdressers Fanny and Stella shows that as always it ain't what you know, it's who you know - one of them having a judge for a father probably helped them be acquitted on sodomy charges.

And damn if Stella wasn't a pretty gal.

RuPaul's Drag Race

On the sides of buses lately has been the announcement that RuPaul's Drag Race has returned to one of our minor TV channels. So I check and it's apparently series 4, from 2012. It doesn't seem to have any contestants who ping my 'passing envy' either.

Caitlyn Jenner

A TS Olympic athlete introduces herself to the world. She's a very classy and sophisticated lady. Totally jealous of her style! Congratulations Caitlyn!

April, May, June... I'd answer to any of these names

And January too!

Hi again, welcome to June, or... well, not "summer" based on the rain outside and the heating going on automatically inside. Still, I greet the new month in my favourite nightdress and slippers.

One pill makes you pretty...

Does anyone have a spare 220 dollars? I want a PVC Alice in Wonderland dress... and to be the girl they have modelling it.

Maidenhead

Maidenhead, a forced feminization novel in (so far) eight chapters with more to come, by Lissa of Locked In Lace. Oh my. :)

7 Things You Learn As A Straight Guy Who's A Crossdresser

7 Things You Learn As A Straight Guy Who's A Crossdresser from Cracked.com

Not that I'm exactly straight, as such.

A Fictionmania art suggestion

Some cute art for New Age Geisha on FM.

Of course, if I'm suggesting stories with images... Red Elise's come first!

How to curtsy

How to curtsy. Make notes. There may be a test.

Regency witchcraft

The main eye candy in Jonathan Strange And Mr. Norrell is the magic. But there's still Charlotte Riley as Arabella. (The men are rather lacking in candy-ness though.)

Oh yes please!

Ireland's equal marriage referendum passes

Yay Ireland!

World Goth Day

Apparently it's the 22nd, so tonight as I sail on into morning. Let me just go put my long black skirt on...

The end of Mad Men

No spoilers, I haven't even seen the last series. But oh, I shall miss Betty and Joan...

Scream Queens trailer

Thanks to Beorning for the link. Emma Roberts as the bad blonde, Skyler Samuels as the good blonde... I may have used them both for stories...

Why yes that hour-long internet outage while I'm working on seven different forum stories and chatting would be wonderful thank you.

Crimson Peak swoon again

New trailer. Such lovely costumes, I want to wear them...

It's strange how important the difference in wearing a skirt is, even in private and with nothing else on...

And now I'm sitting at my computer in a pencil skirt, like a proper little PA.

Lounging around in a nightdress all day!

A going out outfit (while staying in)

Friday night, time to be a Goth girl. Leather jacket, black blouse, long black skirt, witch boots, black cherry lips. Wish I had fishnets and long jet black hair to go with it...

Skirt Length

I don't generally wear short skirts. I like the swish of a long skirt, and short ones expose more of my not-so-shapely legs. So the above the knee A-line skirt I'm wearing now is about as short and tight as I go.

A lazy day

Wearing a nightdress and robe.

Tonight I'll be a housewife

Not my prettiest dress, but it will do as I cook and clean.

Start of the working week... dressing as a secretary.

I think I'll spend every evening this week properly dressed. Putting on some things I don't wear so often. Right now I'm in a skirt suit. I can't quite fasten the jacket, alas.

It's the end of a... political week. I think we've all earned a little girly time.

Spent the day wearing something pretty. I think I've earned it.

Seeing someone else in the mirror

Sense8, a Netflix TV series from the Wachowskis, is about eight people starting to share a consciousness. From those creators I expect we'll see some discussion on gender identity. One of the eight is played by Tuppence Middleton... who I would very much like to see looking back when I look in the mirror!

;)

There's never been an out crossdresser in Parliament. Plenty of closeted ones though! :D

Eddie Izzard has promoted Labour but he wasn't running. I'd have voted for him...

I'd only vote Tory if I got to be one of their wives. ;)

Far And Away

I'd never actually watched this 23-year-old 19th century historical romance thingy with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman (back when they were a thing) all the way through before. But I knew Nicole gets some great outfits in it...

I think I want the riding ensembles from the beginning and end most of all...

Which I did. :)

Maybe I'll sleep in a nightdress tonight.

I do love being free to dress properly.

An actual update

Much as I'd like to, I really can't excuse spending X much on a few hours of secret fun. :/

Mayday! Mayday!

Danger! Danger! High Voltage!

I'm wearing a skirt.

Spent pretty much the whole day at home, swishing around properly dressed.

Penny Dreadful clothes

Swoon.

More modern cutely Goth than full-on Victorian, but I still kind of want... all of them.

Okay, I'm now free to dress as much as I like for over a month. Where to start...

Right then... free tomorrow.

Elliquiy's tenth anniversary

I've been there myself almost seven years, and in that time I've even managed to get to the end of a few stories!

The skirt slides down and you feel your body surrender to it, like it did to all the other garments you have allowed yourself to wear. You are now fully dressed as a woman from head to toe... and you suspect the mirror will show only a woman...

Okay, last one...

I want this coat.

SO MUCH.

I want to be her...

Please!

This is my dream...

A new version of Far From The Madding Crowd... Carey Mulligan in as many beautiful Victorian outfits as they can fit into two hours... swoon.

Yes please.