2025-04-08 3:10:21 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

prokopetz:

> 1. The author’s poorly disguised fetish
> 2. The author’s proudly displayed fetish
> 3. The author’s fetish you’re pretty sure they don’t realise they have
> 4. The author’s fetish which they’re firmly convinced everyone has and is just pretending otherwise
> 5. The author’s non-sexual special interest which just sounds like a fetish because of their habitually unfortunate phrasing
> 6. The fetish the author is making a well-meaning effort to cater to in spite of clearly not understanding it themselves
> 7. The author’s fetish that never quite makes it into the text because they keep getting sidetracked by the requisite worldbuilding
> 8. The author’s utterly pedestrian sexual preference which the text treats like a bizarre fetish because they’ve got shit to work through
> 9. The author’s seemingly innocuous recurring trope they’re going to have a personal revelation about ten years down the road
> 10. The author’s fetish you missed on a first reading because it’s so far out of pocket, it never occurred to you that you could sexualise that