In grad school, I studied how drag performance uses common understandings of women and femininity as a tool to emphasize, subvert, and/or challenge gendered dynamics of power, sexuality, etc. When I analyze male bondage, I basically do the same thing, but direct it at performances of masculinity. Instead of subverting masculinity by putting men into drag, putting men into submissiveness via bondage similarly challenges gendered dynamics of power, sexuality, etc. because femininity and bondage both involve vulnerability. Any combination of masculinity and vulnerability is typically a social taboo that I find fascinating to explore. Vulnerability is usually understood as the antithesis to masculinity and when the two things intersect in the mainstream, it gets ridiculed and deemed effeminate, queer, or an otherwise "failure" of masculinity. Beyond the gendered aspect of drag, I also borrow drag's method of reappropriating pop culture in my bondage aesthetic. 

I'd describe my bondage style as derived from screencap culture. Specifically, the tradition of screencaps in male bondage culture is the act of saving clips and screenshots of bondage scenes in mainstream media like movies, TV shows, commercials, cartoons, books, comics, etc. Obviously, a lot of mainstream stories and things have scenes where men are kidnapped, tied up, gagged, and placed into some kind of peril. The appeal of these scenes is that the bondage is part of some kind of story, with at least a little character development and higher quality acting, which makes the scenes seem more realistic than a lot of male bondage media. However, mainstream stories hardly focus solely on bondage, mainstream bondage is usually impractical, there aren't many closeups of tied bodies and gagged faces, depictions of kink are usually unflattering of the kink community, etc. 

So, in addition to writing about bondage scenes in movies and sharing screencaps, I also like to either reenact mainstream bondage scenes or create original scenes that resemble movie screencaps. I like paying homage to pivotal scenes in movies that were formative to my fetish, as well as known scenes from classic male bondage media, like Bound and Gagged magazine and Capturedguys from the early oughts. I also like following certain tropes from old movies and recognized bondage scenes to create images and videos that look like they could be screencaps, but fit into stories that I've written. With all this, I feel like I try filling the gap between the details that mainstream bondage leaves out and the contexts that a lot of bondage media overlook.