Being bound with an open-mouth gag and bent over a measuring cup to drool into, then punished based on how full it is when your dom comes back

Not just the humiliation of feeling your mouth leak but the knowledge that you’re going to suffer for the mess you make

My Roman Empire is the first-come popularity effect on fanfics, and how easily amazing works can be lost when you sort by kudos only.

Hear me out- the most jaw-dropping, heart wrenching, soul satisfying fanfic can be posted for a fandom/ship and not have anywhere near the amount of kudos that the top fics have, even if the top fics are mid in comparison.

The reason for this is because the top fics are often the ones that were posted during the height of the fandom/ships popularity. And while they were certainly amazing for the time, and while they’re nowhere near bad fics, they might not be the actual best in the fandom/ship, even if they appear at the top when searching by kudos. A lot of kudos on the top fics are old kudos, which stay there forever and ever and add to the immortality of fics posted during the height of popularity.

When looking for new fics in fandoms/ships, I like to look for those lesser known ones through either A) sorting by “date updated” and clicking “complete works only”, then scrolling to see the more liked fics. The diehard fans in each fandom will be on top of new fics posted, so if, on average, finished fics in a fandom currently get around 100kudos, but you see one with 300, that must be a relatively good fic in the fandom (one that you never would’ve seen if sorted by kudos, especially if the top liked ones have 3k plus kudos)

Another way is to sort by kudos while adding a date range to your search. Depending on how many fics get posted a month, you can search for the past week, past months, past 6 months, etc, and sort by kudos to find the top fics from that time period.

I’ve found so many beautiful fics this way, especially for fandoms that lost popularity in recent years. And I do want to be clear- this is no hate to the top liked fics in fandoms! So so many of them are well deserving of the kudos they have- they got popular for a reason after all!

BUT, this is a reminder that there are OTHER fics out there, beyond pages 2-3 of most liked kudos!! Low amount of likes is NOT a determining factor, so long as the lower liked fic is from more recent times.

So, once you’ve plowed through the first few pages of top-kudos fics- turn to the newer ones!! There are beautiful fics just waiting to be found, I promise you <3

something something about the fact that when wei wuxian dies he's with the two people he loves most something something about the fact that he looks at them in such different ways something something about how in the end neither of them could let him go

his eyes plead with lan zhan to let him go and they flood with relief and gratitude towards jiang cheng when he thinks he will do it for him BUT jiang cheng can't do it he can't do it for the same reason lan zhan can't let go because HE LOVES HIM

something something about the fact that wei wuxian begs lan zhan to let him go and welcomes jiang cheng's anger to do it for him but in the end he has to let go himself because they both love him too much to do it

i wonder what child me would think of me now. would she be proud of me? would she be happy for me? what would she think of my hair? my sense of style? the way i present myself? my relationship with others? my current life choices? what would she think of my choice in degree? would she even recognise m?

one of the best things about growing up with digimon was explaining digivolutions to my friends, especially to the ones who liked pokemon

i remember showing a friend who was over at my house gatomon digivolving into angewomon, and she was so shocked. she looked at me, looked at the tv, and said, “how did it go from a cute cat to an angel? is that even possible?” my only response to her was, “just wait till you see the others," and she shouted, “there’s more?!”

i think that will forever be my favorite reaction to a digivolution

Sincerest and deepest apologies to anybody who knew me before I turned 20. I will return in a decade to sincerely and deeply apologize to anybody who knew me before I turned 30.

2 best friends drunkenly eating Hershey’s Kisses while they talk about their New Year’s Resolutions. Meow Chemical Romance is playing for some reason too! What will they do?

can you explain the iykyk about patrick's number 1 song pick... ? pretty please

so glad you asked

x

[linking instead of reblogging because it's a giant ass post]

I was malding at how dumb her S2 ending scene was, but damn this is really on point??

It also made me realise that a lot of Link Click characters have a tendency to avoid their own problems while being willing to face others' head on (e.g. both the twins, Lu Guang)

Sexual pervert with ptsd who gets triggered by anyone else being sexual <- me

Another bonus post 👀

"Hey Racer, we're next to order, what do you want?"

"Uhhhhhh..."

“We know we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers…”

1 John

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.