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Interestingly, with ''careful'' handling '''Author Appeal''' can still remain subtext [[Fridge Horror|which may not be detected until much later]]. On the flipside, an audience who enjoys a work specifically ''because'' of '''Author Appeal''' can be [[Playing to The Fetishes|easy to produce work for]], if the rarity of such works sufficiently balances out any faults with the work itself. Sometimes '''Author Appeal''' nets you not only people with similar interests, but people on the receiving end of those interests who may be flattered to be an object of an author's/fandom's affection.

 

Compare [[Fan Service]], [[Author Tract]], [[Writer on Board]], [[Filibuster Freefall]], and [[Mary Suetopia]]. Contrast [[Playing to The Fetishes]] when it seems like the author is acting out a personal fetish but is in fact just playing to a niche demographic. Very common in [[Fan Fiction]].

 

== G ==

* Mark Gatiss also likes addressing his own homosexuality, both in his work on ''[[The League of Gentlemen]]'' (in which he rather savagely rips into the concept of the [[Fag Hag]]) and in his detective novels, which star a dashing bisexual chap named Lucifer Box.

* Shoji Gatoh (creator of ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'') seems to have a...thing for [[Ho Yay|overt homoerotic overtones]]. Arguably more so than [[Les Yay|lesbian overtones]]. He even made one novel sidestory dedicated to getting Tsubaki to [[Anguished Declaration of Love|confess]] (albeit accidentally) to Souske, in what appears to be an effort to clarify to the readers that Sousuke (along with Tsubaki) would be the [[Uke|submissive one in a gay relationship]]. And then there's his fascination and love for the [[Big Bad|villain Gauron]], whom he kept [[No One Could Survive That|bringing back to life]] (while many, many fans were screaming ''why'' he liked Gauron so much to bring him back). And every time [[Depraved Homosexual|Gauron]] makes an appearance, Gatoh makes it more and more obvious that the idea of [[No Yay|Gauron with Sousuke]] appeals to him. Including a gratuitous part in the novels where Gauron graphically describes how he fantasized killing and raping Sousuke. And then there's that episode in ''[[Lucky Star]]'' that Gatoh had a hand in, where Kagami picks up a graphic [[Yaoi]] doujinshi of Gauron and a [[Bound and Gagged]] Sousuke. It's safe to say that countless viewers cried for [[Brain Bleach]], and the only possible reason why Gatoh even ''thought'' of it was because he...[[Fetish Fuel|liked it]].

 

 

=== Pen-names ===

* The [http://worlddreambank.org/L/LYR.HTM Lyr altworld] (landing page SFW but other pages on the site are unpredictable) is supposed to be an exploration of intelligent life on a large Earthlike planet with a thicker atmosphere and an eccentric orbit. However, it rapidly degenerates into an excuse to show the reader furry porn. Repeatedly. With occasional attempts at [[Justified Trope|justification]] based on the social structures of bonobos (who do in fact engage in copious social sex), and the, uh, "fact" that species with wings can't fight, i.e. because a broken wing would be more disastrous to a flying species than a broken leg would be to a ground-bound species. There's even an explanation for [[Animesque]] eyes shoehorned in - large lashes and clear eyelids to protect the eyes of said flying species.

 

* Several [[Doujinshi]] artists and [[Fan Art|fan artists]] have a fetish for [[Amazonian Beauty|muscling up their girls]] (whether [[Original Generation]] [[Self Fanservice|or not]]) and then having them [[Fan Service|show off their physique]] and/or [[Charles Atlas Superpower|Herculean-feats of might]].<ref>These are most likely the fetishes known as sthenolagnia (the display of muscles) and cratolagnia (the demonstration of strength).</ref> A common secondary effect that the females are blessed with [[Impossible Hourglass Figure|figures]] that would make [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?|Jessica Rabbit]] blush: [[Rule of Glamorous|gorgeous faces]], ([[Gag Boobs|outrageously]]) large busts, [[She's Got Legs|killer legs]], wide hips, shapely rears, [[Rule of Sexy|the whole package]]. [[But Wait! There's More!|That's not even all of it]], as other possible kinks like [[Cute Monster Girl]]s and [[Hermaphrodite|futanari]] are sometimes thrown into the mix.

* ''[[Property Of Gwen]]'' and ''[http://lowroad75.comicgenesis.com/ Lowroad 75]'' both fit in, as series where the main premise is the size of the main characters' breasts. ''Lowroad 75'' is fanservice to the extreme.

* The [[Whateley Universe]], non-stop. Every member of Team Kimba is [[Gender Bender]]ed in varying ways. Everyone living in Poe Cottage (the secretly LGBTQ-exclusive dorm) have admitted on their Whateley Academy entrance forms that they're LGBTQ, which is why they are assigned there. Even a lot of the non-Poe Cottage major characters are LGBTQ. And most of the other fetishes mentioned on this page show up there too. Hilariously, most people linking to the comic don't mention the fetish aspect, presumably assuming it might be mistaken for porn, meaning that readers tend to run headlong into issues you don't normally find in superhero-related works. [[Conveniently-Common Kink|Not that they necessarily complain]]

** Judging from the website, LGBT is the (expressly stated) whole ''point'' of the [[Whateley Universe]]. While it should be noted on this page for the sake of completeness, for anyone who's even aware of what the [[Whateley Universe]] is it's rather like noting that many Transformers stories involve robots.

* ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' has an unusual focus on plots involving [[Incest Is Relative]].

* ''[[Totally Spies!]]'' is infamous for putting its heroines in situations that appeal to one or more of a variety of sexual fetishes (e.g. [[Bound and Gagged|bondage]], [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever]], [[Incredible Shrinking Man]], [[Animorphism]], and many more) in virtually every episode, despite being aimed at a primary audience of teenage girls.

** Jim Mortimore and [[Body Horror]], specifically dealing with full-body infections leading to transformation. At one point he does it to '' {{spoiler|the entirety of Asia}}''.

 

* This is the very reason for "Linkin Park Z" (i.e., [[Dragon Ball]] (Z) music videos set to [[Linkin Park]] songs), despite the fact that most Linkin Park songs are relatively dark and brooding and have little to do with the more cheerful and combat-oriented Dragon Ball sagas.

* There was a fic where [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Rei Ayanami]] revealed her love of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''. After that the whole thing dissolved into an [[Author Tract]] about how people can't appreciate modern fantasy.