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General Discussion / Re: Switch stories
Last post by twistedsmile - Today at 01:16:48 AMQuote from: Caras pet on August 14, 2026, 06:44:02 AMPlease don't over interpret my feedback on that part
All good, I got your meaning
And I appreciate you sticking with the series through that episode. #2
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Last post by SolomonG - Today at 12:58:55 AMGood morning everyone,
Here are the latest blog posts:
"Help Me Grow" by Demora Avarice
https://thereshegrows.net/2026/08/15/help-me-grow-by-demora-avarice/
Requested Review – Giantess Fan's "Macrostania"
https://thereshegrows.net/2026/08/15/requested-review-giantess-fans-macrostania/
Respectfully,
SolomonG
Amazon Author's Page: https://www.amazon.com/author/solomong
Blog: https://thereshegrows.net/blog/
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/solomong.bsky.social
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X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/AuthorSolomong
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBciPE_SJBlvASYmsj7zSwA
Here are the latest blog posts:
"Help Me Grow" by Demora Avarice
https://thereshegrows.net/2026/08/15/help-me-grow-by-demora-avarice/
Requested Review – Giantess Fan's "Macrostania"
https://thereshegrows.net/2026/08/15/requested-review-giantess-fans-macrostania/
Respectfully,
SolomonG
Amazon Author's Page: https://www.amazon.com/author/solomong
Blog: https://thereshegrows.net/blog/
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/solomong.bsky.social
E-junkie: https://solomong.e-junkie.com/
X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/AuthorSolomong
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBciPE_SJBlvASYmsj7zSwA
#3
Selfbound Website Stories Feedback / Re: Brett and Darren by Twiste...
Last post by twistedsmile - Today at 12:25:47 AMOver on the Sophie & Mark threads, I've been doing chapter-by-chapter 'director's commentaries'. And because I love explaining myself, I'm going to do them here too
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Firstly, yes, the title is Brett & Darren so that, combined with Sophie & Mark, the initials are BDSM. Secondly, yes, the chapter titles Daydreamer/Believer are a Monkees reference.
With erotic/pornographic stories, I think it's easy for readers to assume that the writer is sharing their personal sexual fantasies, and that the main character is an author self-insert (especially if the story is written from a first person pov). So flipping from an F/m series to M/m, and telling stories from both a dom and sub perspective was, to some extend, an attempt to complicate that interpretation.
I have this suspicion that M/m stories are the least popular gender pairing. And it's likely that most fans of an F/m series would not be interested in M/m stories. So writing this series can only be viewed as an act of self-sabotage
01. "Daydreamer" Commentary
I wanted to do a classic "caught in self-bondage" story, like the ones I used to read when I first found this site many years ago.
The way this story was developed was, I started with that opening scene: a man tied himself up, a stranger finds him and sticks his cock in the bound man's mouth. Then I said, okay, how does this make sense - who are these characters, how did they end up in this situation, why are they doing this?
Working backwards from a sex scene led the stories in a direction I wouldn't have thought of if I had planned the story top-down. To be fair, Brett's motivations are pretty straightforward. The real problem was how to convince readers that Darren isn't a rapist (to put it bluntly). Given the story earned the 'cons' tag, I guess I pulled it off.
We start in media res, partly because (as I said) that's the first thing I wrote. But also it's meant to hook the reader, rather than start with a load of backstory. Though now I'm thinking back on it, maybe it would have been better to tell it in order, to give it more build up/suspense? Instead it plays out like a slow motion car crash, where you can see all of Brett's bad decisions stacking up.
"Now then... Not a bird after all, eh?" - I didn't want this series to feel like "Sophie & Mark except Sophie is a guy now". So I made the characters' relationship very casual and emotionally distant. Likewise, I didn't want the character voices to sound the same as Mark. For Darren, this was done by giving him a particular accent/vernacular. For Brett, I did something more subtle - he never swears or uses vulgar terms. The funny thing is, writing like that also changed his affect to be much more 'bubbly'.
"I imagine he's dangerous. I imagine..." - this is the stories recurring motif, and what the title "daydreamer" is referring to. Brett's kink is the IDEA of being caught and humiliated. What if your fantasy came true, but not in the way you expected...
"Open your fuckin' mouth." - I was unsure whether to include 'fuckin'. In the end I went with it for impact, but it does come off as a little threatening (for better or worse).
"The previous owners took the curtains with them" - I thought this was a more interesting framing that just leaving the curtains open
"a group of women. Maybe a hen-do passing by" - I didn't specifically intend this to be "Zara's hen-do" mentioned in Sophie & Mark 4, but it can be read that way. I think the timeline works out.
"I imagine her, I imagine this woman" - hammering the point that he's fantasising about women. The punchline being, his introduction to Darren basically plays out the way it's described in that paragraph, except with a man.
"I needed something to take my mind off it" - With Sophie & Mark I'm more conscious of saving ideas that can be their own story. In this case, I burned through like 5 potential stories in one go. That's probably why there's only been 2 chapters
"he was singing a football chant, I think" - apropos of nothing, did you know "Sweet Caroline" is sometimes used as a football chant?
"It wasn't until the clocks went back" - I bet daylight savings doesn't come up as a plot point in many porns. When I was about ready to send the story in, I realised this actually introduced a plothole, and I had to do a last minute re-write of the ending. Looking back, I reckon if I'd left it as was, no one would have noticed (or cared). But it mattered to me.
"pink, pleated skirt; thigh-high, stripey socks..." - I will admit this outfit is very 'femboy' -coded
"There's a standing lamp" - I actually hit this detail by accident. I realised the thing about the windows not being so see-through in the dark, which could have screwed the whole premise. The solution was to introduce the lamp, which in turn justified putting a blindfold on Brett.
"There's a safety latch on the cuffs" - putting my thumb on the consent scales again; he chooses to stay bound when Darren shows up.
"Darren: (🗸read)" - that's meant to be a read receipt, meaning Darren saw the message and Brett knows that he did.
"Darren: (·..)" - that's the bouncy dots you see when someone is typing. It's meant to imply Darren spends some time figuring out what to respond, then goes with the very short "pub?"
"The Dog and Pony" - if you've read Sophie & Mark 11, you may recognise that pub name. Small world, eh?
"Sometimes he drinks alone" - this was a bit of a mean joke on my part. But it ends up being the driving theme behind chapter 2
"A little rough around the edges" - there's a bit of classism going on here
"Until it got too dark to see anything" - this is what I meant about the rewrites
"some shit I dreamed about. But in real life!" - chapter 2 is trying to make these lines make sense
"just try the door. 'Cause obviously it's gonna be locked" - see earlier: "I imagine leaving the front door unlocked."
"I'm not... gay" / "me neither" - truth be told, that was originally just a joke. Like, Darren just had sex with another man, of his own free will, and now he's claiming to be straight. But then I thought, well suppose he's telling the truth - how does that make sense? That's what chapter 2 is about.
I think in practical terms, Darren is bisexual or at least hetero-flexible. But I also think he's the type of person who thinks there are only two sexualities (straight and gay); and he's into women, so he must be straight. Brett, on the other hand, probably never considered that he might be anything other than straight. And now, he's very much considering it...
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Firstly, yes, the title is Brett & Darren so that, combined with Sophie & Mark, the initials are BDSM. Secondly, yes, the chapter titles Daydreamer/Believer are a Monkees reference.
With erotic/pornographic stories, I think it's easy for readers to assume that the writer is sharing their personal sexual fantasies, and that the main character is an author self-insert (especially if the story is written from a first person pov). So flipping from an F/m series to M/m, and telling stories from both a dom and sub perspective was, to some extend, an attempt to complicate that interpretation.
I have this suspicion that M/m stories are the least popular gender pairing. And it's likely that most fans of an F/m series would not be interested in M/m stories. So writing this series can only be viewed as an act of self-sabotage
01. "Daydreamer" Commentary
I wanted to do a classic "caught in self-bondage" story, like the ones I used to read when I first found this site many years ago.
The way this story was developed was, I started with that opening scene: a man tied himself up, a stranger finds him and sticks his cock in the bound man's mouth. Then I said, okay, how does this make sense - who are these characters, how did they end up in this situation, why are they doing this?
Working backwards from a sex scene led the stories in a direction I wouldn't have thought of if I had planned the story top-down. To be fair, Brett's motivations are pretty straightforward. The real problem was how to convince readers that Darren isn't a rapist (to put it bluntly). Given the story earned the 'cons' tag, I guess I pulled it off.
We start in media res, partly because (as I said) that's the first thing I wrote. But also it's meant to hook the reader, rather than start with a load of backstory. Though now I'm thinking back on it, maybe it would have been better to tell it in order, to give it more build up/suspense? Instead it plays out like a slow motion car crash, where you can see all of Brett's bad decisions stacking up.
"Now then... Not a bird after all, eh?" - I didn't want this series to feel like "Sophie & Mark except Sophie is a guy now". So I made the characters' relationship very casual and emotionally distant. Likewise, I didn't want the character voices to sound the same as Mark. For Darren, this was done by giving him a particular accent/vernacular. For Brett, I did something more subtle - he never swears or uses vulgar terms. The funny thing is, writing like that also changed his affect to be much more 'bubbly'.
"I imagine he's dangerous. I imagine..." - this is the stories recurring motif, and what the title "daydreamer" is referring to. Brett's kink is the IDEA of being caught and humiliated. What if your fantasy came true, but not in the way you expected...
"Open your fuckin' mouth." - I was unsure whether to include 'fuckin'. In the end I went with it for impact, but it does come off as a little threatening (for better or worse).
"The previous owners took the curtains with them" - I thought this was a more interesting framing that just leaving the curtains open
"a group of women. Maybe a hen-do passing by" - I didn't specifically intend this to be "Zara's hen-do" mentioned in Sophie & Mark 4, but it can be read that way. I think the timeline works out.
"I imagine her, I imagine this woman" - hammering the point that he's fantasising about women. The punchline being, his introduction to Darren basically plays out the way it's described in that paragraph, except with a man.
"I needed something to take my mind off it" - With Sophie & Mark I'm more conscious of saving ideas that can be their own story. In this case, I burned through like 5 potential stories in one go. That's probably why there's only been 2 chapters
"he was singing a football chant, I think" - apropos of nothing, did you know "Sweet Caroline" is sometimes used as a football chant?
"It wasn't until the clocks went back" - I bet daylight savings doesn't come up as a plot point in many porns. When I was about ready to send the story in, I realised this actually introduced a plothole, and I had to do a last minute re-write of the ending. Looking back, I reckon if I'd left it as was, no one would have noticed (or cared). But it mattered to me.
"pink, pleated skirt; thigh-high, stripey socks..." - I will admit this outfit is very 'femboy' -coded
"There's a standing lamp" - I actually hit this detail by accident. I realised the thing about the windows not being so see-through in the dark, which could have screwed the whole premise. The solution was to introduce the lamp, which in turn justified putting a blindfold on Brett.
"There's a safety latch on the cuffs" - putting my thumb on the consent scales again; he chooses to stay bound when Darren shows up.
"Darren: (🗸read)" - that's meant to be a read receipt, meaning Darren saw the message and Brett knows that he did.
"Darren: (·..)" - that's the bouncy dots you see when someone is typing. It's meant to imply Darren spends some time figuring out what to respond, then goes with the very short "pub?"
"The Dog and Pony" - if you've read Sophie & Mark 11, you may recognise that pub name. Small world, eh?
"Sometimes he drinks alone" - this was a bit of a mean joke on my part. But it ends up being the driving theme behind chapter 2
"A little rough around the edges" - there's a bit of classism going on here
"Until it got too dark to see anything" - this is what I meant about the rewrites
"some shit I dreamed about. But in real life!" - chapter 2 is trying to make these lines make sense
"just try the door. 'Cause obviously it's gonna be locked" - see earlier: "I imagine leaving the front door unlocked."
"I'm not... gay" / "me neither" - truth be told, that was originally just a joke. Like, Darren just had sex with another man, of his own free will, and now he's claiming to be straight. But then I thought, well suppose he's telling the truth - how does that make sense? That's what chapter 2 is about.
I think in practical terms, Darren is bisexual or at least hetero-flexible. But I also think he's the type of person who thinks there are only two sexualities (straight and gay); and he's into women, so he must be straight. Brett, on the other hand, probably never considered that he might be anything other than straight. And now, he's very much considering it...
#4
My major obsessions are bondage, spandex and tights/pantyhose, which I'm sure will be obvious as soon as you read any of my work.
#5
Packaged Website Stories Feedback / Re: Aunt Sally's Farm by Grome...
Last post by taurired - August 14, 2026, 08:23:11 AMThanks for update. Is this final part?
#6
General Discussion / Re: Switch stories
Last post by Caras pet - August 14, 2026, 06:44:02 AMQuoteThe threesome chapter that Caras Pet called out
Please don't over interpret my feedback on that part, it was exactly meant as it was written: the "F M/m" threesome just wasn't my cup of tea, so I had nothing more to comment on that one.
Your style felt different than usual, reluctantly; at first I thought I was just imagining it because I didn't like the (M/m) topic, but now that you admit that you didn't enjoy writing it, it makes more sense to me.
#7
General Discussion / Re: Switch stories
Last post by twistedsmile - August 13, 2026, 07:54:45 PMThanks for the responses! I appreciate the insight.
To give some more colour from my perspective as writer:
I wrote the chapter where Sophie and Mark switch because it was a story I wanted to write. And at that point, I didn't even consider that readers might not be into it.
The threesome chapter that Caras Pet called out - I knew that it was going to be controversial. And unlike the switch chapter, it wasn't one I 'enjoyed' writing. But doing it felt necessary for the larger narrative (for reasons I will explain when I do the commentary). My hope was that anyone who had stuck with the series up to chapter 13 would be invested enough to go along with it (or at least tolerate it). But I can't begrudge anyone that was completely put off by it.
When I wrote my second series, Brett & Darren, I was well aware that probably most fans of Sophie & Mark wouldn't be interested in an M/m series. I did wonder if there might be people who liked my writing enough to give it a try anyway (but that's just ego).
As for why I asked this question, and without spoiling anything, the non- Sophie & Mark story I'm currently writing is working towards a particular climax, and for that to make sense (to me at least) the characters had to switch. But I had this sudden thought of - if M/f fans don't read F/m (and vice versa) then is anyone actually going to stick around for that climax?
To be clear, the story is what it is, and I don't plan on changing it. Even if that does mean that no-one reads it
To give some more colour from my perspective as writer:
I wrote the chapter where Sophie and Mark switch because it was a story I wanted to write. And at that point, I didn't even consider that readers might not be into it.
The threesome chapter that Caras Pet called out - I knew that it was going to be controversial. And unlike the switch chapter, it wasn't one I 'enjoyed' writing. But doing it felt necessary for the larger narrative (for reasons I will explain when I do the commentary). My hope was that anyone who had stuck with the series up to chapter 13 would be invested enough to go along with it (or at least tolerate it). But I can't begrudge anyone that was completely put off by it.
When I wrote my second series, Brett & Darren, I was well aware that probably most fans of Sophie & Mark wouldn't be interested in an M/m series. I did wonder if there might be people who liked my writing enough to give it a try anyway (but that's just ego).
As for why I asked this question, and without spoiling anything, the non- Sophie & Mark story I'm currently writing is working towards a particular climax, and for that to make sense (to me at least) the characters had to switch. But I had this sudden thought of - if M/f fans don't read F/m (and vice versa) then is anyone actually going to stick around for that climax?
To be clear, the story is what it is, and I don't plan on changing it. Even if that does mean that no-one reads it
#8
Packaged Website Stories Feedback / Re: Aunt Sally's Farm by Grome...
Last post by totalitarus - August 13, 2026, 06:33:09 PMDamn. the envy, pushing Vicky almost to the end.That jealousy. The 3rd part was great. A solid long read.
Good to read more from the Sally's side at the end. Would love to read more from her perspective. And sometimes those alternate endings are fun too. Like in "Garbage collection delay" story."
Good to read more from the Sally's side at the end. Would love to read more from her perspective. And sometimes those alternate endings are fun too. Like in "Garbage collection delay" story."
#9
General Discussion / Re: Switch stories
Last post by Zoé Cordelier - August 13, 2026, 10:44:43 AMQuote from: twistedsmile on August 11, 2026, 11:33:26 PMBut I'm curious how other readers approach such stories?
As a writer, in How Ethan met Claire, the general setup is M/f. In the to-be-published vignette Claire turns the Tables, it switches to F/m. I tried to write this in a way to make it appealing to people normally read M/f, and hope I succeeded.
"Ethan and Claire" are my goto consensual fun bondage OCs, and the bondage is usually playful, so I hope that worked out even for M/f reader preferences.
#10
General Discussion / Re: Switch stories
Last post by SwitchMan - August 12, 2026, 11:43:52 PMI am also a switch (hence the name). Most of my stories reflect my slight preference for M/f with no switching, but my longest work, Leather or Knot, is constantly changing from M/f to F/m and other variations. When I wrote it, I never really thought about it, and nobody ever complained... but I have no way to know who declined to read it because they didn't like the story codes.
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