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General Discussion / Re: More stories
Last post by Rubberh - Today at 05:22:01 PMPlease do contact any author and give them your feedback, praise, unabashed worship 
, and let them know what you think about their work. Comments keep writers going.
As mentioned, authors have other sites they may contribute to. I am on Deviant Art for a number of my existing stories. I also have ones which may push the boundaries of Gromet's Plaza a little too far. The Plaza has been very generous in giving me some allowance and suggestions for changes that may make my stories more acceptable to the rules.
, and let them know what you think about their work. Comments keep writers going. As mentioned, authors have other sites they may contribute to. I am on Deviant Art for a number of my existing stories. I also have ones which may push the boundaries of Gromet's Plaza a little too far. The Plaza has been very generous in giving me some allowance and suggestions for changes that may make my stories more acceptable to the rules.
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BoundStories Website Stories Feedback / Re: Sophie and Mark by Twisted...
Last post by twistedsmile - Today at 04:11:20 PM14. "Searching" Commentary
"Searching" as in dating (searching for a partner), but also 'soul searching'.
I mentioned before coming up with story ideas by thinking up 's' words; 'split' is the intrusive thought of that approach. Did I really want to go down that road? Readers would surely hate it.
So, why did I break up Sophie and Mark?
By chapter 3, the characters were pretty well defined, and I found that I really liked them and their dynamic, and I enjoyed writing daft little scenes with them. So I wanted to write lots of stories with them! The original idea was to make a list of kinks and see if I could come up with a story for each one. If you look back at the story codes across the whole series, you can see that pretty clearly.
The original plan was that the stories would be standalone. But when you tell a load of stories with the same characters, they naturally develop continuity. I got to maybe 10-15 story ideas when I suddenly thought - wait, why does Mark keep going along with all this? At the start of the series he's established as non-kinky (per se), so why does he let Sophie do all these crazy things to him?
Chapter 1 establishes that Mark TRIES kink because it's something Sophie wants to do. But you can't build a relationship on one person only doing things because it'll make the other happy.
I felt it was worthwhile to break Sophie and Mark apart to show that they do belong together. We learn that, yes, Mark is into kink - independent of Sophie, and not just because he wants to make her happy. And at the same time, kink on its own isn't enough - he wants to do it with Sophie specifically.
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I'm a sucker for a crossover/shared universe. What can I say, I'm a comic book nerd at heart. But I didn't want Brett's appearance to be a cheap gimmick. Funnily enough, when I wrote the first draft of this chapter, Brett didn't even exist! And now I can't imagine the story working (as well) without him.
But realistically, I knew that people who read Sophie & Mark would not necessarily also read Brett & Darren (and probably vice versa); moving from F/m to M/m is a big ask. That being the case, I had to write this story so that it would work even for readers who hadn't read Brett & Darren. And going in the opposite direction, I couldn't do anything in this story that Brett & Darren readers might miss out on (I didn't want a "Mandalorian"/"Book of Boba Fett" situation).
This was one of those situation where the constraints actually made the story easier to write.
So the question was, how were Mark and Brett going to meet? Unlike in Stjepan Sejic's Sunstone, a local BDSM club feels a little outlandish for my fictional world.
Instead, I figured they probably connected on a local shared interest forum. Mark was looking for answers about his relationship to BDSM, and happened to end up chatting with Brett. In contrast to Mark, Brett is more experienced at BDSM, and is an enthusiastic sub, making him an ideal confidant (and mentor?) And it's already established that they live fairly close to each other (indirectly in chapter 11).
"cuff_mark" - 'cuff Mark' can be read as a directive. It's also a reference to the literal marks left around his wrists by handcuffs in chapter 12
"SelfBoundBB" - Brett is a self-bondage enthusiast (see B&D 1), 'BB' is a homophone of 'baby', and also his initials: Brett Surname-beginning-with-B
">" - I didn't want to keep writing the full screen names. I figured > for outgoing (Mark) and < for incoming (Brett) was clear enough.
"I was feeling lonely and probably way too drunk" - chapter 12
"yikes! u ok?" - I made a point of differentiating their messaging style; Brett is a lot more energetic, and uses a lot of shorthand and missing punctuation
"don't think I'll have the opportunity for a while tho" / "Mum & Dad" - the messages are in conversation with the surrounding sections. Mark won't have the opportunity for self-bondage because he's moved back in with his parents.
In the original version - the version where Mark was just exploring his sexuality - Sophie and Mark kept living together for a while. Until they had to acknowledge that doing that while Mark was dating other people was 'weird'.
"I know I'm not supposed to say this but I was never a fan" - parents, eh?
"The threesome had left a bad taste in my mouth" - that's a pun
"how far I'd let them go" - there's a careful framing here. "Sophie went too far" portrays Sophie as 'the bad guy', whereas "I let Sophie push me beyond my limits" makes them both culpable.
"Why didn't I use the safe word?" - see the previous commentary
"Did I really consent to being locked in a chastity cage that first week?" - chapter 1
"Was I really okay with being walked naked into the garden" - chapter 5
"Did I really consent to being handcuffed to a tree and abandoned" - chapter 11
"woman I loved having sex with another man?" - again, framing, 'having sex with' not 'being fucked by'
"I loved her; there was no doubt in my mind about that." - rest assured, dear reader
"as long as I was with her, I would keep consenting" - this is how I justify Mark's decision to leave instead of sticking around and having AN ADULT CONVERSATION
"She gave me the dog collar to take with me" - a little manipulative perhaps ('remember who you belong to'). This comes back around at the end.
"have you ever tried being a dom?" - the split is a good opportunity for Mark to explore his Dom side with a more willing sub
"she wanted to be a Domme so I kinda ended up as a sub by default" - lots of exposition in this chapter
"I don't think I would trust someone I just met" / "omg u dont want to know how i met my dom lol" - Brett & Darren 1 opening paragraph; Brett 'trusts' Darren when they literally first meet.
"She was the first woman to give me a second date. Then a third." - there's an implication here that Mark was seriously considering moving on from Sophie, and that this chapter takes place over a fair period of time; at least a month, maybe more.
"I tied a silk scarf around her wrists" - he's most likely replaying chapter 3 from the dom perspective
"we got on really well. And the sex was good" - Priya is the 'can Mark have a relationship without kink' test, so it was important to show that the relationship was good in its own right; its the lack of kink that was the deal breaker. On the reverse, Priya had to give kink a fair try and not outright reject it like Cloe. Even with the best will in the world, some people just aren't into it.
"I didn't need BDSM to have a good relationship. This was nice." - in the original draft, we do an ironic smash cut from this line to Mark visiting a professional dominatrix. When Brett became the focal point of the story, that didn't 'fit' any more, so the dominatrix has been punted back to the idea pile.
"I didn't think I was into guys" - I said in the previous commentary that this was going to be the original motivation for the split. And since I'd been seeding it through the prior chapters, it didn't feel right to completely drop that angle. So the split is also/still an opportunity for Mark to explore his sexuality
"Rob" - despite what went down, they're still on speaking terms. Call me a softy, but I want all my characters to get along.
"mind if I take a run at her?" - you might read this line and think "man, Rob's a dick". But then Mark literally just asked Rob out, and how is that any different?
"if u wanna we could maybe hang out some time?" - this feels a little clunky. I couldn't think of a smoother way of doing the invitation. The idea is they've been chatting all this time, they've gotten quite familiar with each other. Mark can trying having a gay encounter with Brett and if Mark discovers he's not, in fact, attracted to men, then it's no big deal to either of them. They can just hang out as friends.
"he just got engaged" - this is where Brett & Darren 2 leaves off
"Brett" - surprise! Mark was talking to Brett from Brett & Darren this whole time
In the original draft, Mark's only male-on-male encounter was a hook up with some random guy he met at a bar (Kyle). There was no kinky stuff involved, just an exchange of mediocre blowjobs. Then I thought, well maybe he SHOULD do something kinky. Then I though, rather than a throw-away character, why not use Brett?
"Welcome home, master." - this is the traditional greeting at a Japanese maid cafe; or so anime has lead me to believe
"he was dressed in a pink maid's outfit, with white thigh-high stockings" - Brett is very femboy-coded. I think in this case, he is presenting as (especially) feminine to make things 'easier' for Mark - or indeed to make himself more attractive to Mark - given Mark's stated uncertainty about his attraction to men.
"my Domme once had me dress up as a french maid" - chapter 7
"He wanted me to see the chastity cage" - when we last saw Brett in B&D 2, he was being locked into his cage. He's been in it ever since (more or less).
"I REALLY wanna orgasm." - Brett inviting Mark over wasn't entirely altruistic
"It made me feel strangely nostalgic." / "What I went through seems almost quaint next to that." - since Mark called out the chastity cage near the start of the story, you might call this a change in perspective
"Speaking of keys, how are you with rope bondage?" - for those that haven't read it, Brett has an arrangement where Darren holds all of Brett's keys. Brett can do his self-bondage, but he needs Darren to let him out. I initially thought that was going to be a dead end, until I remember they could do rope bondage instead - which is perfect, because Mark is canonically bad at it XD
I figured this would be a good opportunity for him to actually learn (albeit very slowly)
"he wanted to try something he couldn't do on his own" - for a while I wasn't sure what Mark was actually going to do with Brett. The rope bondage and Brett wanting to do something he couldn't do on his own really helped to narrow it down.
"'Man, I'm really immobilised.' He was beaming." - like I said, enthusiastic sub
"I guess we can figure something out." - baw chika wa-wah
"This fucking guy" - Sex Criminals, by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
"tearing his panties open" - callback to chapter 10
"It was my first time doing anal" - implying he hasn't crossed that frontier with Sophie
"pick a word that isn't problematic" - I think most words for cross-dressers are... 'contentious' in the trans community
"boy... pussy" - heavens! his bussy
"I like hearing you beg... I'm not done with you yet." - Mark's not entirely terrible at the Dom-sona
"Not only was I bad at being a Dom, but he was showing me what a real sub looks like" - I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards
"You're just too... kind." - I've thought about it since writing that line, and the explanation isn't quite right. I don't think you would call Domme Sophie 'unkind' (most of the time). And in B&D 2, we see that Darren is considerate even when he plays cruel.
It would be better to say Mark's not good at playing the persona of a Dom, and he's not good at being kind without breaking character.
"Why were there suddenly tears in my eyes?" - even though this is a breakup story, I didn't want it to be a total bummer; who would want to read depressing porn? So the tone of the story up to this point is surprisingly upbeat. The explanation/rationalisation is that Mark was practising stoicism, which is to say, ignore his feelings; until they come along and hit him like a ton of bricks.
"IF LOST RETURN TO... Sophie" - I've already explained this in two previous commentaries; this is written on the tag on Mark's dag collar. Here we're using the emotional interpretation of 'lost'.
Originally I had Sophie occasionally texting Mark (I miss you, come home). But I felt that Mark should come back of his own accord without prompting.
"Had I really lived here? Was this really the woman I'd fallen in love with?" - this is not my beautiful house, this is not my beautiful wife (Talking Heads, Once in a Lifetime)
"told stories of our time in the desert" - were they apart for 40 days and 40 nights? who's to say.
"never let each other go again" - and all of their problems were solved, and they all lived happily-- What's this? MORE chapters?
"Searching" as in dating (searching for a partner), but also 'soul searching'.
I mentioned before coming up with story ideas by thinking up 's' words; 'split' is the intrusive thought of that approach. Did I really want to go down that road? Readers would surely hate it.
So, why did I break up Sophie and Mark?
By chapter 3, the characters were pretty well defined, and I found that I really liked them and their dynamic, and I enjoyed writing daft little scenes with them. So I wanted to write lots of stories with them! The original idea was to make a list of kinks and see if I could come up with a story for each one. If you look back at the story codes across the whole series, you can see that pretty clearly.
The original plan was that the stories would be standalone. But when you tell a load of stories with the same characters, they naturally develop continuity. I got to maybe 10-15 story ideas when I suddenly thought - wait, why does Mark keep going along with all this? At the start of the series he's established as non-kinky (per se), so why does he let Sophie do all these crazy things to him?
Chapter 1 establishes that Mark TRIES kink because it's something Sophie wants to do. But you can't build a relationship on one person only doing things because it'll make the other happy.
I felt it was worthwhile to break Sophie and Mark apart to show that they do belong together. We learn that, yes, Mark is into kink - independent of Sophie, and not just because he wants to make her happy. And at the same time, kink on its own isn't enough - he wants to do it with Sophie specifically.
---
I'm a sucker for a crossover/shared universe. What can I say, I'm a comic book nerd at heart. But I didn't want Brett's appearance to be a cheap gimmick. Funnily enough, when I wrote the first draft of this chapter, Brett didn't even exist! And now I can't imagine the story working (as well) without him.
But realistically, I knew that people who read Sophie & Mark would not necessarily also read Brett & Darren (and probably vice versa); moving from F/m to M/m is a big ask. That being the case, I had to write this story so that it would work even for readers who hadn't read Brett & Darren. And going in the opposite direction, I couldn't do anything in this story that Brett & Darren readers might miss out on (I didn't want a "Mandalorian"/"Book of Boba Fett" situation).
This was one of those situation where the constraints actually made the story easier to write.
So the question was, how were Mark and Brett going to meet? Unlike in Stjepan Sejic's Sunstone, a local BDSM club feels a little outlandish for my fictional world.
Instead, I figured they probably connected on a local shared interest forum. Mark was looking for answers about his relationship to BDSM, and happened to end up chatting with Brett. In contrast to Mark, Brett is more experienced at BDSM, and is an enthusiastic sub, making him an ideal confidant (and mentor?) And it's already established that they live fairly close to each other (indirectly in chapter 11).
"cuff_mark" - 'cuff Mark' can be read as a directive. It's also a reference to the literal marks left around his wrists by handcuffs in chapter 12
"SelfBoundBB" - Brett is a self-bondage enthusiast (see B&D 1), 'BB' is a homophone of 'baby', and also his initials: Brett Surname-beginning-with-B
">" - I didn't want to keep writing the full screen names. I figured > for outgoing (Mark) and < for incoming (Brett) was clear enough.
"I was feeling lonely and probably way too drunk" - chapter 12
"yikes! u ok?" - I made a point of differentiating their messaging style; Brett is a lot more energetic, and uses a lot of shorthand and missing punctuation
"don't think I'll have the opportunity for a while tho" / "Mum & Dad" - the messages are in conversation with the surrounding sections. Mark won't have the opportunity for self-bondage because he's moved back in with his parents.
In the original version - the version where Mark was just exploring his sexuality - Sophie and Mark kept living together for a while. Until they had to acknowledge that doing that while Mark was dating other people was 'weird'.
"I know I'm not supposed to say this but I was never a fan" - parents, eh?
"The threesome had left a bad taste in my mouth" - that's a pun
"how far I'd let them go" - there's a careful framing here. "Sophie went too far" portrays Sophie as 'the bad guy', whereas "I let Sophie push me beyond my limits" makes them both culpable.
"Why didn't I use the safe word?" - see the previous commentary
"Did I really consent to being locked in a chastity cage that first week?" - chapter 1
"Was I really okay with being walked naked into the garden" - chapter 5
"Did I really consent to being handcuffed to a tree and abandoned" - chapter 11
"woman I loved having sex with another man?" - again, framing, 'having sex with' not 'being fucked by'
"I loved her; there was no doubt in my mind about that." - rest assured, dear reader
"as long as I was with her, I would keep consenting" - this is how I justify Mark's decision to leave instead of sticking around and having AN ADULT CONVERSATION
"She gave me the dog collar to take with me" - a little manipulative perhaps ('remember who you belong to'). This comes back around at the end.
"have you ever tried being a dom?" - the split is a good opportunity for Mark to explore his Dom side with a more willing sub
"she wanted to be a Domme so I kinda ended up as a sub by default" - lots of exposition in this chapter
"I don't think I would trust someone I just met" / "omg u dont want to know how i met my dom lol" - Brett & Darren 1 opening paragraph; Brett 'trusts' Darren when they literally first meet.
"She was the first woman to give me a second date. Then a third." - there's an implication here that Mark was seriously considering moving on from Sophie, and that this chapter takes place over a fair period of time; at least a month, maybe more.
"I tied a silk scarf around her wrists" - he's most likely replaying chapter 3 from the dom perspective
"we got on really well. And the sex was good" - Priya is the 'can Mark have a relationship without kink' test, so it was important to show that the relationship was good in its own right; its the lack of kink that was the deal breaker. On the reverse, Priya had to give kink a fair try and not outright reject it like Cloe. Even with the best will in the world, some people just aren't into it.
"I didn't need BDSM to have a good relationship. This was nice." - in the original draft, we do an ironic smash cut from this line to Mark visiting a professional dominatrix. When Brett became the focal point of the story, that didn't 'fit' any more, so the dominatrix has been punted back to the idea pile.
"I didn't think I was into guys" - I said in the previous commentary that this was going to be the original motivation for the split. And since I'd been seeding it through the prior chapters, it didn't feel right to completely drop that angle. So the split is also/still an opportunity for Mark to explore his sexuality
"Rob" - despite what went down, they're still on speaking terms. Call me a softy, but I want all my characters to get along.
"mind if I take a run at her?" - you might read this line and think "man, Rob's a dick". But then Mark literally just asked Rob out, and how is that any different?
"if u wanna we could maybe hang out some time?" - this feels a little clunky. I couldn't think of a smoother way of doing the invitation. The idea is they've been chatting all this time, they've gotten quite familiar with each other. Mark can trying having a gay encounter with Brett and if Mark discovers he's not, in fact, attracted to men, then it's no big deal to either of them. They can just hang out as friends.
"he just got engaged" - this is where Brett & Darren 2 leaves off
"Brett" - surprise! Mark was talking to Brett from Brett & Darren this whole time
In the original draft, Mark's only male-on-male encounter was a hook up with some random guy he met at a bar (Kyle). There was no kinky stuff involved, just an exchange of mediocre blowjobs. Then I thought, well maybe he SHOULD do something kinky. Then I though, rather than a throw-away character, why not use Brett?
"Welcome home, master." - this is the traditional greeting at a Japanese maid cafe; or so anime has lead me to believe
"he was dressed in a pink maid's outfit, with white thigh-high stockings" - Brett is very femboy-coded. I think in this case, he is presenting as (especially) feminine to make things 'easier' for Mark - or indeed to make himself more attractive to Mark - given Mark's stated uncertainty about his attraction to men.
"my Domme once had me dress up as a french maid" - chapter 7
"He wanted me to see the chastity cage" - when we last saw Brett in B&D 2, he was being locked into his cage. He's been in it ever since (more or less).
"I REALLY wanna orgasm." - Brett inviting Mark over wasn't entirely altruistic
"It made me feel strangely nostalgic." / "What I went through seems almost quaint next to that." - since Mark called out the chastity cage near the start of the story, you might call this a change in perspective
"Speaking of keys, how are you with rope bondage?" - for those that haven't read it, Brett has an arrangement where Darren holds all of Brett's keys. Brett can do his self-bondage, but he needs Darren to let him out. I initially thought that was going to be a dead end, until I remember they could do rope bondage instead - which is perfect, because Mark is canonically bad at it XD
I figured this would be a good opportunity for him to actually learn (albeit very slowly)
"he wanted to try something he couldn't do on his own" - for a while I wasn't sure what Mark was actually going to do with Brett. The rope bondage and Brett wanting to do something he couldn't do on his own really helped to narrow it down.
"'Man, I'm really immobilised.' He was beaming." - like I said, enthusiastic sub
"I guess we can figure something out." - baw chika wa-wah
"This fucking guy" - Sex Criminals, by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
"tearing his panties open" - callback to chapter 10
"It was my first time doing anal" - implying he hasn't crossed that frontier with Sophie
"pick a word that isn't problematic" - I think most words for cross-dressers are... 'contentious' in the trans community
"boy... pussy" - heavens! his bussy
"I like hearing you beg... I'm not done with you yet." - Mark's not entirely terrible at the Dom-sona
"Not only was I bad at being a Dom, but he was showing me what a real sub looks like" - I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards
"You're just too... kind." - I've thought about it since writing that line, and the explanation isn't quite right. I don't think you would call Domme Sophie 'unkind' (most of the time). And in B&D 2, we see that Darren is considerate even when he plays cruel.
It would be better to say Mark's not good at playing the persona of a Dom, and he's not good at being kind without breaking character.
"Why were there suddenly tears in my eyes?" - even though this is a breakup story, I didn't want it to be a total bummer; who would want to read depressing porn? So the tone of the story up to this point is surprisingly upbeat. The explanation/rationalisation is that Mark was practising stoicism, which is to say, ignore his feelings; until they come along and hit him like a ton of bricks.
"IF LOST RETURN TO... Sophie" - I've already explained this in two previous commentaries; this is written on the tag on Mark's dag collar. Here we're using the emotional interpretation of 'lost'.
Originally I had Sophie occasionally texting Mark (I miss you, come home). But I felt that Mark should come back of his own accord without prompting.
"Had I really lived here? Was this really the woman I'd fallen in love with?" - this is not my beautiful house, this is not my beautiful wife (Talking Heads, Once in a Lifetime)
"told stories of our time in the desert" - were they apart for 40 days and 40 nights? who's to say.
"never let each other go again" - and all of their problems were solved, and they all lived happily-- What's this? MORE chapters?
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General Discussion / Re: Forum down
Last post by teanndaorsa - September 18, 2026, 08:31:19 PMOh, actually, yes, there is a body size limitation that would also kick in, I might see if I can turn that off now.
#4
General Discussion / Re: More stories
Last post by Caras pet - September 18, 2026, 08:36:47 AMIt might help if you contact your favorite authors and provide feedback to motivate them to write and publish more stories.
It may also be that these authors have already published more stories, just on a different platform, which they will surely be happy to share with you.
It may also be that these authors have already published more stories, just on a different platform, which they will surely be happy to share with you.
#5
General Discussion / Re: More stories
Last post by Rachelsiss - September 18, 2026, 01:44:38 AMAww actually... yes I've read them all, you got my hopes up 
#6
General Discussion / Re: More stories
Last post by Rachelsiss - September 18, 2026, 01:39:51 AMWhat what what where do I search these!? 
#7
General Discussion / Re: Forum down
Last post by twistedsmile - September 17, 2026, 11:52:19 PMPosting seems a bit hit and miss for me. I was able to post in one thread (and presumably this one) but got a 403 error on another. The one that errored was a large message, so might have hit rate limiting?
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Selfbound Website Stories Feedback / Re: Brett and Darren by Twiste...
Last post by twistedsmile - September 17, 2026, 11:46:01 PMBoth Brett and Darren play a minor role in Alex & Becca 1-3 (fyi)
#9
General Discussion / Re: Forum down
Last post by teanndaorsa - September 17, 2026, 07:56:57 PMOkay, quick update: I have enabled a different mode of attack mitigation: anyone who makes more than a trivially small number of requests in a short period of time will trigger a silent Javascript challenge. For real users with normal browsers, you shouldn't even notice it. For fake users that are actually bots, unless especially sophisticated, they won't run that code and the site should block them.
I will monitor to see if it has the desired effect, but I am also keen to hear from real users if you experience any problems (or not). Obviously the worry here is that it breaks some proportion of real users and they can't tell us because they're unable to use the forum. So if it seems effective against the attacks, I'll put a post on the front page of the main site, telling people still having issues to email me.
I will monitor to see if it has the desired effect, but I am also keen to hear from real users if you experience any problems (or not). Obviously the worry here is that it breaks some proportion of real users and they can't tell us because they're unable to use the forum. So if it seems effective against the attacks, I'll put a post on the front page of the main site, telling people still having issues to email me.
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General Discussion / Re: More stories
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