What is worship?

What it is

Worship is an act, not a transfer. Kneeling, kissing his boots, a prayer said out loud, a photo taken the way he likes it — whatever the two of you call worship is what it is.

You pick the man and you pick the way. Nobody assigns you either, and any method you do not want is one you switch off and never hear about again.

Then you do it again tomorrow. The repetition is the point — it is what turns a nice evening into belonging to somebody.

Where it comes from

The word is old and it was never ours. Boot worship, muscle worship, foot worship — men have been naming these for decades, and every one of them means the same shape: you put yourself under somebody and you show it with your body rather than saying it.

What is newer is doing it where people can see. Online this scene runs on visible submission: a sub answers his King in the open, puts the man's name in his own bio, and the fact that everyone watched is half of what he got out of it.

In their words

How people do it

None of this is a rule. It is the shape the habit takes when men are left to it.

• Pick one man

  Devotion pointed at everybody is devotion pointed at nobody. Most men have one they mean it with and a few they are polite to.

• Pick your way in

  On your knees, at his boots, hands behind your back, a written prayer. Some men use the same one for years; some pick by mood.

• Do it where it can be seen

  The public part is not showing off. Being watched doing it is what makes it cost something.

• Wear his name

  The oldest signal in this scene: his handle in your own bio, so anybody reading it knows who you answer to.

• Do it again tomorrow

  The men who get the most out of this are the ones with the longest unbroken run, and they will tell you the number without being asked.

How it works on fStable

You choose a King, choose how you are going to worship him, and do it. The act counts once per King per day, up to five different Kings, and nothing at all arrives for simply logging in.

What it pays you is called worship too — this site's own currency. It is free, it is worth nothing anywhere else, and it is the only thing anybody spends here. You hand it back as tributes, unlocks, gifts and prayers, and what a King has been given is what ranks him. He can never spend it and he can never buy it, which is why a rank here means something.

If you are the King

Every one of those acts is aimed at a man. When it is you, it arrives with the sub's name on it and the way he did it, and it adds ten to what you have been given. A sub has five acts a day at most and can give you only one of them, so each is a man choosing you over everybody else he could have chosen that day.

What the act pays him is his to spend, and whatever he spends on you as tributes, unlocks, gifts and prayers goes onto the same total. That total is your rank. It climbs from Rising to Divine, it sits next to your name on every post you make, and the King who is given the most in a week is crowned Alpha of the week on the public board.

You can never spend it and you can never buy it, which is why your rank here means something. Nobody gets to the top by posting louder or paying more. The only way up is men choosing you, one act at a time, and coming back to do it again tomorrow.