Imaginary Gardens

from their "definitions" section:

That said, at least within kink circles, top and bottom directly referenced the active person in a scene and the receiving person in a scene, with no requirement or expectation of sexual penetration. The flogger is the top, the beatee is the bottom.

Switch was also a term for those who did both in regards to play scenes. (Though every top could be a switch since in The Old Days you always started as a bottom and earned your way up.)

The shift to these terms being used exclusively for sexual activities has always bugged me, but the kids these days are gonna do what kids always do any day.

Thank you for bringing up, and trying to research this topic.

And sometimes fanfiction is, ‘Watch me do a fucking KICK FLIP off this cool sentence!! Also here's some sex'

deathly curious how good the average tumblr user is at distinguishing dinosaur skulls from non dinosaur skulls

The mirror replied "To whom?"

"The miller who made the flour for my bread," the queen would say, or "Whoever spun the thread my shawl was made of".

The second time, she says "To the King," and she is pleased to see herself once more.

The third time, she says "To the Royal Advisor," and is once more satisfied to see herself.

The fourth time, she says "To the scribe who takes the King's letters." She is shown the man's wife. And she seethes, but quiets herself, for it is only right that a man loves his wife.

The fifth time, she says "To the Court Wizard," and is shown the man's departed mother as he remembers her from his youth, radiant and smiling and warm and larger than life.

The tenth time, she says "To the Stable Master," and is shown the fastest horse in the stable, majestic and free as the wind even in captivity

"To the baker," she is shown the man's daughter, young and adorable and full of joy and laughter.

"To the artist who did my portrait," she is shown a painting of a woman done by the man's teacher, who he still looks up to now that he is well established himself.

"To the Royal Knight," she is surprised but not displeased to see the castle's entire guard force in the middle of doing drills.

The one hundredth time she asks the mirror, and it asks her "to whom?" she once again says, "To me." And she does the same the one hundred and second, and again and again and again.