When the "Worldbuilding" is just a Fetish

I was originally going to include this in the other worldbuilding styles video, but it got cut. Decided to make it its own video instead. So enjoy this monstrosity.
#worldbuilding #fantasy #booktube
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[@IsaacRedWo0d]

The quality of one’s worldbuilding should not be judged by expansiveness or depth, but how well the author incorporates their fetish into this world without suspicion.

[@DarkDoughnutsVids]

Made in Abyss

[@NinjaPiParadox]

​@@DarkDoughnutsVidsit hurts because its true

[@The_Blazelighter]

​@@DarkDoughnutsVidshe said without suspicion

[@logangant7732]

Dark souls

[@RushWheeler]

This isn't even Made in Abyss in a nutshell anymore, this is the whole damn NUT TREE

[@Steingrabber]

"Sir. The book clearly a barely disguised fetish porn about maids." "Barely disguised fetish? I was being subtle?"

[@SupHapCak]

What if your fetish is monogomy?

[@xerfrex7869]

Fujimoto when asked why he made Makima that way

[@Calebgoblin]

You've just described anime as a whole

[@zanktheblank]

You must understand, the valley of the eight-foot-tall muscular orc women who forcibly breastfeed all human men they catch in their territory is INTEGRAL to my fictional world, my totally-not-a-self-insert protagonist MUST venture through it and get caught for CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT reasons, and I'm afraid I CANNOT change it.

[@solalabell9674]

Jarvis, how do you delete somebody else’s comment

[@phoenix_waffles2122]

You gotta understand. The totally-not-a-self-insert character dressing up like a femboy and being called a good boy by the dark evil witch lady is INTEGRAL to his character development

[@halfneptupnian8046]

Also the part where my totally-not-self-insert character being mind controlled by an androgynous dryad into thinking that he's a pregnant woman and has to choose between continuing on the adventure thus aborting the baby or settling down and raising his kid is very necessary for the plot

[@neversparky]

@@solalabell9674 Hol' up, let bro cook

[@FaeTheMf]

What’s the name of your novel? Asking for a friend

[@zinkheroofyoutube8004]

You know, this isn't the worst way an author’s incorporated their fetish into a story

[@nomisunrider6472]

Cough GOR cough

[@Dr.Frogerston]

Human Centipede

[@asherroodcreel640]

​@@Dr.Frogerstonhuman centaweed

[@truthseeker7815]

@@Dr.Frogerston, I highly doubt that is a fetish

[@truthseeker7815]

What about the self insert in Powerful girls?

[@groofay]

"Quentin, you've said you would direct ten movies and then retire. What happened to that?" "This isn't a movie. It's a cinematic experience."

[@realdragon]

"There is bigger calling than retirement. A true art"

[@Trepur349]

If you count the 2 kill bill volumes as one movie he's only done nine This was the movie he was waiting to do before reitiring

[@revimfadli4666]

He's not directing, he's "producing with a bit more active involvement"

[@uhUm31st-gs1gs]

So he does direct here and there

[@ND-nr6mx]

"I said I would direct ten movies *for Hollywood audiences.* This one is for *me*."

[@tobyeasterbrook8117]

Dude, one time I read this weird book about dragons, which I picked up because the title had stuff about dragons on it and the summary involved dragons, and then the dragon ditched the protagonist three chapters in, and she spent the rest of the book being abused until she gets to university, where it is then revealed that the entire magic system of this world is powered by sex and the reason she was failing her classes at magic school was because she was studying instead of fucking random dudes like her roommate was. I then put the book down forever. I was 12. I picked up a book about dragons. I wanted to read about dragons. I'm still a bit traumatized.

[@Ryan-iw4pt]

Dude I'm so sorry lmao What's the title? Asking for a friend

[@Quirderph]

The way you wrote your comment was a bit vague, so I'm choosing to believe that it was the dragon who was abused, went to the university and got introduced to sex magic.

[@tobyeasterbrook8117]

Honestly that might've been less traumatizing@@Quirderph

[@tobyeasterbrook8117]

Okay you're in luck, I can't remember the title but I did some speedy googling and it's definitely 'Here There Be Dragonnes' by Mary Brown. I will warn you, it doesn't read like erotica, there's too long between the sex scenes and too much plot. If you want erotica, go read that, and if you want fantasy with sex in it I would recommend the GoT books over this one (I didn't like them much either, but they made a bit more sense). It's possible I'd like it now if I read it now, but highly unlikely. @@Ryan-iw4pt

[@simply_nebulous]

I like to read werewolf/ wolf shifter books. One time I stumbled across a horse shifter book and I was really excited because I like to see new twists on beloved tropes. Then 10 chapters in the author started graphically describing the mc having s3x in horse form.

[@blindcat91]

"Sometimes you have to suck a toe to feel a little magic" - Tarantino acceptance speech for best picture at the 2025 Oscars

[@ND-nr6mx]

Life isn't about winning at The Oscars, it's about the toes you sucked along the way.

[@alexjewett7455]

That sounds horrific out of context.

[@yourlocalfemboywastaken]

it's Tarantino's magnum opus

[@thekiss2083]

*magnum toepus

[@lobianienjoyer]

Dusk till Dawn😭

[@WJPindar]

Lmao

[@Kalesoup_]

Tarantoeno

[@omegaflames8964]

@@lobianienjoyerhave you forgotten about butch’s story in pulp fiction

[@Gabriel-lh7gy]

The trick is to have fetish so weird that no sane person would ever think that it could possible be one

[@RoninCatholic]

Not possible in the Internet age. The baseline _accidental_ levels of porn consumption and fetish exposure now are higher than the lifetime consumption rates of perverts _actively seeking porn_ 20-30 years ago. Everyone's deep enough into the rabbit hole that there's no "sane people" left to not recognize a fetish when they see one.

[@j.b.5422]

@@RoninCatholic yes, because in the internet- oh, you already disproved the existence of sanity

[@RoninCatholic]

@@j.b.5422 Sanity used to be common, and people who don't use the internet a lot are often pretty sane. I was already an oddball without any internet help, though it did make some things worse once I did get into it in my mid teens. My fetishes being chief among them.

[@neztech.]

That guy with the tile fetish could make a crazy ass magic system if you really think about it

[@Gabriel-lh7gy]

@@neztech. What madding knowledge have you cursed me with, what warped ideas have you sowed in my imaginary, what man made horrors within my comprehension have you casted upon me *WHAT THE FUCKING HELL HAVE I JUST READ* I swear to god I thought I had seen the worst of the internet but you just proven me wrong Also yes that guy would 100% create the coolest magical system ever

[@Threeohtoo]

3:07 I'd like to believe that the six toed foot depicted is this series' equivalent of silver hair and purple eyes on a protagonist

[@samc9133]

Looool basically. "I was born with one extra toe. They say it's supposed to give me even more power than the average podician. I've even heard people say I could be The Chosen Toe. Lots of people say I'm destined to be the Right Foot of the Empress. Just one problem: No matter how many times I get my toes sucked, my powers just won't activate!"

[@nierzh620]

@@samc9133 LMAOOO

[@corndo9]

@@samc9133I think you mean “The Toesen One”

[@asherroodcreel640]

​@@samc9133right hand is the hammer hand left just holds the beans

[@sarah69420]

This is even funnier if you know about Martin and his "hidden" breast milk fetish

[@MSOGameShow]

When he said "podomancy", I thought what he said was "potomancy" and was expecting him to mention magic gained by getting high or some shit.

[@herddragon9215]

same here.

[@kevaughnmerrill6534]

Don't steal my concept ✍️🏾

[@FoxGoesSquee]

its not yours, been done before@@kevaughnmerrill6534

[@UltimaDoombotMK1]

Takes "magic mushrooms" to the next level

[@hugohoeglund1424]

I wish I was high on potenuse

[@thekinginyellowmessiahofha6308]

“Hmmm, why are all these monsters so big, and why can almost all of them able to swallow people whole?” “Don’t worry about it”

[@ND-nr6mx]

"The vivd details of her slippery guts squirming against the hero are important for the readers to get a sense of the danger he's facing. It makes it all the more exciting when he finally escapes." "Yeahh, so about that last part. You wrote that the she-snake 'births the now-naked hero' before once again 'swallowing his vulnerable body whole." "...it's scarier the second time."

[@Mag_ladroth]

AoT is just vore fetishism?

[@petersmythe6462]

AoT isn't really vore fetish. I mean I guess it's tangential but it seems like it's done in a way that deliberately *avoids* being vore fetish. Probably for a reason lol.

[@bungiecrimes7247]

​@ND-nr6mx can I commission something?

[@jandiqar]

I think the difference is that they never eat people whole, they always try to bite down on them. ​@@Mag_ladroth

[@falconstudios146]

The best part is that at a certain point, if your fetish gets wild and/or depraved enough, people can no longer tell the difference. If the big reveal is that your villain is keeping an angel bound by iron chains in his basement and drinking its blood to steal its power, nobody would bat an eye, but there is a specific subset of traumatized gay people on the internet for whom that concept is INCREDIBLY arousing.

[@honaleri]

....What?

[@CherriesAreGreatILoveThem]

That's oddly specific.

[@jonunya6552]

no no, you’ve got a point

[@jonunya6552]

no no, you’ve got a point

[@jonunya6552]

no no, you’ve got a point

[@KingOfMadCows]

It's hard for a new author to get their foot in the door so I respect someone who is willing to dig their heels in and refuse to let the publisher walk all over them even when they're stepping on someone else's toes. And we should celebrate when the new author gets a foothold in the industry and stomp out the competition.

[@Karanthaneos]

I bet you got a kick out of writing this.

[@ChewedBubbleGun]

@@Karanthaneos Hey don't judge till you walk a mile in their mysteriously non-existent shoes

[@liljepolak8565]

The sole joy in writing is making it your own

[@arcshadowstorm]

heck, this guy could go toe to toe with the author with his writing skills

[@oliverlarosa8046]

It took me a frankly-embarrassing number of seconds to get the joke

[@McCbobbish]

STEP BY STEB GUIDE TO GOOD WORLDBUILDING: STEP 1: YOUR KINK STEP 2: YOUR POLITICAL POWER FANTASY STEP 3: ??? STEP 4: PROFIT

[@FerretyZebra]

Step 3: WRITE GOOD

[@ArbitraryOutcome]

STEP 3: CHARACTERS (OPTIONAL)

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

​@@FerretyZebrapretty much. Basically sums up Dune (the 6 by Frank, Brian skipped steps 1 and 3 and probably 2), Foundation, Ender's Game, Wheel of Time, and I'm pretty sure the Inheritance Saga, to name a few good ones.

[@Andreaa_-_]

Step one: take one of those "this is the future the left wants" Step two: that's it. That shit's kinky enough.

[@PRGME7]

My political power fantasy is a fair democracy where everybody has an equal chance of leading the nation regardless of race, color, creed, sex, gender or, sexuality.

[@Taradoxxi]

Gary Gygax writing the Drow as a matriarchal society of evil dominatrixes:

[@MrViki60]

He was so based for this.

[@Mortablunt]

Yoko “I just like girls” Taro

[@SupHapCak]

I mean It would make sense if they were drow and drider mixed together and only the females could be driders

[@markbaker4425]

And god bless him for it

[@tempestvenator9809]

One of the greatest contributions to fantasy ever made.

[@zetjet9901]

3:05 I like this image because it implies they all retired to the same farm

[@kitsong]

They did. Gaiman and Sanderson had to bring Rothfuss along so he could teach them how to stop writing.

[@dew-it8744]

And they were roommates

[@Elijah42069]

I know hahahaha

[@BazukinBelyugovich]

@@dew-it8744 "Oh ma gah they were roommatess"

[@ManFromThePits]

Sounds like a concept for a sitcom.

[@adham3210]

"it's thematically important because it represents how the higher classes in the society are sucking the live essence out of the lower class" ayo that's the will of the many

[@ND-nr6mx]

I dream of a system where every toe can be sucked, from each toe according to its ability, to each toesucker according to their needs.

[@LonaliDei]

Doesn't he mean the Toe-er class?

[@irid-ame8588]

the toe-letariat@@LonaliDei

[@cheesemanmaster]

the bour-toe-sie

[@somethingforsenro]

@@irid-ame8588 ok but this is actually slick though

[@petersmythe6462]

When every single homebrew monster in the entire campaign has a heavily customized version of the "swallow whole" ability...

[@Silkyfin_]

fr fr

[@tbotalpha8133]

Dare you enter my magical realm?

[@MissEarthling]

Whizzard

[@Kaymazo]

Not quite, but close enough, the entire concept of Hisone to Masotan/Dragon Pilot

[@BazukinBelyugovich]

"Take a wild guess who the director was" That's one of the best punchlines I've seen XD

[@willc3697]

A punchline that flew right over my head as a guy who has no idea who that is.

[@BazukinBelyugovich]

@@willc3697 Consider yourself lucky

[@SrakenKraken]

​@@willc3697it's quentin tarantino, just watch pulp fiction or dusk till dawn and you'll realise what it's all about

[@ND-nr6mx]

​@@willc3697Quentin Tarantino, the creep master of inserting shots of women's bare feet into his films.

[@andrefilipe9042]

​​@willc3697 That's Tarantino. He wrote a scene about drinking booze from the foot of one of his female characters, the cast himself in that scene. He has basically been known for having a huge foot fetish

[@furrybastard27]

No no no, the fairies that capture humans and treat them like pets is *integral* to the plot. Yes, the protagonist (that is nothing like me why would you say that) *does* need to spend half the book being a fairy knights puppy. It’s very important to the story.

[@xryeau_1760]

I thought I was better than this until I came across this comment but no, I'd absolutely read this

[@fourthmatchflame]

@@xryeau_1760 id also read this. i mean if it was femdom or m/m, otherwise its not really my thing.

[@catika505]

Isn't this basically ACOTAR (I have not read it)

[@MrWooaa]

The affini would like to know your location.

[@falconstudios146]

@@MrWooaa That's a bold reference to make and I respect it

[@guyr3618]

This is basically the origin of every vampire story ever.

[@Abd-kb7tr]

all vampire stories need to have a tinge of horniness otherwise it doesn't work

[@TacoLoverPerson]

​@@Abd-kb7trAye. Any and all vampires in my fantasy world inevitably become Bi shortly after turning or reaching sexual maturity. The "lore reason" is because they're fully dependent on blood to retain their sanity. And since love and/or horniniess *really* gets the blood pumping, that sends the vampires into a high so great that it can be described as them being "in heat." Which also comes with a side effect of them being incredibly overprotective of any mortals they might fall in love with, since the vampires don't actually have a beating heart, but mortals obviously do. This is 100% deep lore and *totally* not some bisexual fulfillment fantasy.

[@Nemo_Anom]

You could make the argument, a very strong argument for books like Dracula, that vampires were, in literature, a metaphor for gay people.

[@Abd-kb7tr]

@@Nemo_Anom there is a whole subgenre of lesbian vampire films

[@JackdotC]

​@Theo-oh3jk I think one of the oldest vampire books is actually about a gay vampire called carmilla. So even og vampires were gay

[@parsat4t4r14]

Ah yes, "hard" worldbuilding indeed.

[@lyokianhitchhiker]

Dad?

[@ensaladadepapaya8511]

Grandpa?

[@seraphinw1]

"she breaths through her skin"

[@Hemostat]

I was so sad when I learned that 😢😢

[@krsmanjovanovic8607]

Hideo Kojimba trying not to weirdly sexualize a character that is suposed to be traumatized survivor of war (imposible)

[@internetrules8522]

bro mgsvtpp is bery smart. didunkow that 1984 and moby dick? hideo kojima hugest brain

[@andrewcapra7153]

​@@krsmanjovanovic8607tbf, it's quicker to count the number of named characters that aren't weirdly sexualized in Metal Gear, it's just more blatant with Quiet

[@nahman3836]

Then you got Paz a 23 yo spy that looks 16, yuck

[@CodeNameX001]

This phenomenon is all too real. I once found a manga about a guy who unlocks his innate magical abilities whenever he smells pee. So the entire series was just more and more increasingly implausible reasons to pee on him, so he can save the day.

[@youtubestudiosucks978]

What the fuck?

[@sephsticles1016]

Why doesn't he just bring a bottle of piss with him that he can just open and smell whenever he needs to use magic? is he stupid?

[@yourehereforthatarentyou]

that’s fucking funny

[@kasaix_yt]

Damn they got that far? I remember a manga about a guy getting powered up by sucking titties. Different titties he sucked would grant him different powers. At this point I am starting to see a pattern in the jp manga industry

[@letsgogaming8112]

First of all, funny comment. Second of all. @youtubestudiosucks is a based username.

[@Kellet]

this video unironically ruined mist for me. You see, whenever I look outside and it's foggy or misty, Ill say "holy shit mistborn reference!!" but now i cant help but think of footborn and be haunted by this video

[@VoxAstra-qk4jz]

On a related note, it doesn't make sense for Mistborn to not wear shoes. Kelsier trashes a greenhouse early in the book, and the broken glass only gets worse from there.

[@sapomen1352]

footborn jumpscare

[@hastur2905]

You could play Persona 4 and start to associate fog with that

[@oompalumpus699]

🦶👣 🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️

[@linuxwizzerd5908]

Step 1: Your kink Step 2: Your Political Powerfantasy Step 3: Esoteric Magic System Step 4: Characters (Optional)

[@cara-seyun]

Anarcho capitalist femboys (single sex species) practicing a money-based magic system

[@ConvincingPeople]

I feel like this would be a much shorter conversation if this were between a fantasy mangaka and their agent. "Really?" "Yes." "OK, fine." *tops the Oricon sales charts for six months straight*

[@kazsolan]

Can't wait for the TV adaptation by Dan Schneider

[@TrashTawk]

Ugh

[@lemonfork1152]

sina jo e sitelen kijetesantakalu👀

[@gurmyigoll3535]

Dan "Hymen Divider" Schneider

[@tempy2440]

Lease we want of age actors involved

[@golmec9981]

Writing books like that was an impressive FEAT

[@cara-seyun]

It does seem pretty impressive

[@viscountrainbows2857]

I'd say I have some rather big shoes to fill in furthering this subgenre, but now I'm just TOE-ing a dangerous line.

[@mercaius]

"You're acting like this toe-sucking thing is something I threw into the story at the last moment." "I'm not. Oh god, I wish I was."

[@Señor-Donjusticia]

The more detailed your fursona, the stronger you become.

[@olivercharles2930]

Eww.

[@Silkyfin_]

🗿

[@Eris250]

Ironically a good concept.

[@RoninCatholic]

I'd be one of the strongest people in the universe while also being handsome because my complexity is so meticulously cohesive.

[@Señor-Donjusticia]

😂

[@Hammerholics]

Love the 6 toes in the movie poster.

[@JasminUwU]

Oh god it's the chosen one!

[@sylph8005]

@JasminUwU Toesen One

[@RushWheeler]

​@@sylph8005Toesen Bunion?

[@revimfadli4666]

​@@RushWheelerPaul Bunion?

[@Matt..S]

@@JasminUwU Polydactylosaurus

[@desu38]

"You don't understand, it's how they replenish their mana! Yes, I know some of them are a bit young looking... and half naked when they level up, but-"

[@ibrahimihsan2090]

Man, humans are both the greatest beings on earth and the worst.

[@oompalumpus699]

⛓️👮👮‍♂️🚓

[@soulangela7154]

Dimitri underestimated people how many people are into feet. Tbf that shit would be hilarious so I would buy it too.

[@maimtubeTV]

Tbh I'd love to see someone actually do this but treat it seriously just to see what happens. There's also huge potential w/ BookTok bc you can definitely shock market it, but then backpedal and reveal that it's satire.

[@pik910]

I think a series would legitimately work financially, because everyone would watch this "ironically". Not to mention the fetishists.

[@meicc398]

Yeah yeah, ironically😉

[@ecstaticwooper368]

yeah i would watch it ironically nothing else to see here

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

I mean, 50 Shades was somehow popular, so yeah.

[@christophmccarthy5421]

The ironically is how they get you It’s the foot in the door You are now an unironic fan of Toeborn

[@lemsavage9473]

This is how great vampire fiction was written

[@randomnothingness6557]

If you write characters and worlds with enough detail and only slip in some weird stuff here or there, most people won't notice. And sometimes you can get away with even more blatant stuff of it just looks cool to an outsider. (This also works in dnd)

[@Silkyfin_]

*cough cough* swallow whole ability *cough cough*

[@Nyssine]

@@Silkyfin_ i really want to revert myself to a previous time when i had no idea this was a fetish to some people

[@starshade7826]

I have an idea for a Holy Order vs. Degen Cult game. But every time I pitch the idea, my players ask if they can play as the cultists.

[@destinpatterson1644]

I'm going to be honest with you man, playing as a holier than tho goody two shoes character sounds a whole lot more boring, when I could be playing as Karen the Dog Breeder, the blonde beast master ranger who really, and I mean REALLY, loves her wolf animal companion. Or a rogue who wears incredibly tight black leather armor and uses a whip. Or the classic duo, the sadistic healer and masochist tank. The cult just breeds incredibly fun ideas as opposed to generic paladin A and other generic paladin B

[@maxthepaladin2147]

The solution is simple: make the Holy Order secretly just as kinky as the cultists. Hell, it doesn't even have to be secret, if you dress it properly Example: "In order to repent your sins, you have to walk barefoot for a month. Also you have to put on this leather outfit and allow yourself to be whipped. Trust me, this is all essential to your penance"

[@cheesemanmaster]

simply add the ability to pick one or the other at the beginning

[@Azerty72200]

The Holy crusaders' main method of fighting the defence cult involves hiding as their victims so they can take them by surprise. Just hint at that, and your players will have *no* trouble playing the Holy Order.

[@RoninCatholic]

Make the Holy Order more righteous and strong, and show the cultists as sickly, weak, and physically rotting from their depravity, borderline zombies. Give the Holy Order access to cleansing flames, lightning bolt smites, and Holy Hand Grenades. Playing as good guys and especially Paladins has been my favorite thing ever since I discovered roleplaying.

[@kvn8907]

Ah, reminds me of Changed. I feel like Dragon Snow wanted an excuse to do lots of stuff with latex and transformation, but as the game got more complex, he decided to actually add on a story and justification for it. And I think he did it pretty well.

[@udontseemeiseeuuseemeiseeu]

says you

[@michealshixam1731]

Furries can’t have horror games can they I’m sure he just needed the money to fund his game.

[@patrickthebunny2626]

Wait really?? I always got confused by the happenings

[@EepyGirlLava]

All i saw of it was that it was a cute furry game for like 2 years, and was generally interested, I genuinely didn't know it was a fetish thing for a while.

[@thatoneguy9582]

@@EepyGirlLava it’s both! there are genuine fans of the game(s?) that just do not have interest in the fetish .or so i’ve heard

[@maybelater6282]

Idk if its the autism but most of my best world/character building ideas come from me trying to make sure my non-canon, never-to-be-released personal fap scripts make logistic sense to the universe. One of my main, most important villains came from an offhand script I made when I was down bad.

[@Soitisisit]

I hate how much I relate to this comment. That said for me it's also often just random things I'm internally raging about whether justified or not.

[@TheFalseProphetofDomeocracy]

so glad that this is a universal experience and not just me being insane

[@masicbemester]

mood lmao

[@DevineInnovations]

Reminds me of an episode of American Dad where it turns out that all of the Fast And Furious movies are written and filmed as gay pornos and they just cut out all the gay stuff in editing, except in France.

[@Soitisisit]

@@TheFalseProphetofDomeocracy Oh it's definitely insanity. It's just an insanity that's basically universal to writers. :) Embrace it, since sometimes the best stories come out of things like this.

[@SurrealKeenan]

I like the idea of all fantasy writers retiring to the same farm

[@TalkingWeirdStuff24]

This video was funny, and then the "ten million copies" part hit and I busted out laughing! As an aspiring author, honestly sometimes cruising goodreads and seeing all the weird cheesy carbon--copy books that have hundreds of rave reviews can be inspiring. Like, I feel like I can write something at least as good as a generic 'teen girl is a secret half-fae princess who falls in love with sexy elf assasin' book, and if that can have a 3+ star rating then there's gotta be hope for me!

[@LadyMorrigan]

As someone who reads those books, you absolutely can do better lol. The bar is not high, and by simply writing a novel with good characters you have probably passed it.

[@imagiguard]

I mean, satisfying sexual urges (note: only the urges specifically, intimacy is higher up) is at the bottom of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, so no wonder anything that satisfies it and is relatively easy to access sells well. Or gets a lot of traffic.

[@TalkingWeirdStuff24]

@@LadyMorrigan Thanks for your vote of confidence. Honestly, not sarcastically, it's nice to hear that.

[@TalkingWeirdStuff24]

@@imagiguard Hey, fair point. My stories have romance, but no real 'sex', and I've wondered before if that hurts my chances. I'm not about to add that kinda scene just to try and sell more, so yeah.

[@asimpleram]

Hideo Kojima is one of the most respected video game developers and he broadcasts the weird shit he likes all the time. If you can make a good time, no one really minds!

[@SentientHoodii]

flashback to Quiet's actress talking about getting her feet, even the bottoms, scanned for the game.

[@bloodmoonyt1901]

​@@SentientHoodiiWell ofcourse they scanned the bottoms, the soles are the best part!

[@xviii5780]

He tries to make one of the female characters naked in every game and fails every time xdd

[@yYSilverFoxYy]

Piss Kink Stranding and the mud monsters that are all allergic to this one guy’s body fluids.

[@nobody4248]

​@@xviii5780He also tried to make a boss fight that last a whole weak of irl tine

[@mr_mist7891]

Me when Made In Abyss is amazingly drawn and pretty well written, but then once in a while: *:(*

[@floflo1645]

It is even worse because I am fairly certain that guy is a pedo

[@bross92]

I don’t know why but you sucking on the candies WHILE talking about sucking on toes really upped the stomach churn. Well done sir.

[@anonimanonim2710]

My world, where healing magic can only be done through hatred and malice, so every hospital is an S&M dungeon: 😶

[@thunderdrae7749]

Steps of World Building: Step 1: Your Kink Step 2: Your Political Power Fantasy Step 3: Esoteric Magic System Step 4: Characters (Optional)

[@merrittanimation7721]

Well someone has to engage in the fantasies. Even if they have no personality otherwise

[@toyotawitha20mm35]

True except the magic part. Just a ton of communist space furries lmao

[@rye872]

Using a fetush you have for inspiration is genuinely and completely unironically good writing advice. Hear me out i swear im going somewhere with this. You should be excited about what your writing. Have elements to it that keep you coming back, and what could do that more than a fetishis? People can feel when passion was put into art, and ill be honest a lot of my favorite art clearly has the authors fetish as an important element, even if that isnt my thing the passion comes through.

[@uhUm31st-gs1gs]

"So anyways i was writing this book and ohhh my God I couldn't stop writing after seeing her soles oml"

[@HaPpY_MaDdNeSs]

This is true for me. I write sci Fi romance. And my fetish of cuddles takes over sometimes with the romance part

[@izidorzupan9665]

It doesn't have to be a fetish, it can be politically charged instead!

[@HaPpY_MaDdNeSs]

@@izidorzupan9665 My writing is based mainly on astetics

[@skepolotv4173]

Guro fetishists deciding to make a horror film:

[@Noelciaaa]

Meanwhile, Japanese editors: great concept sensei, you're gonna be our moneymaker

[@TapiTalk]

The true meme would be the author isn't into feet.

[@daFalcon3000]

Bandai calling Miyazaki about Dark Souls IV

[@samm8190]

Can we go back to magic in books being wizards and fireballs? 😂

[@catbatrat1760]

If an author gets off to that, sure. XD

[@Hydralysk445]

@@catbatrat1760 Now you've got me picturing a wizard who just had a sexual awakening after incinerating his first pack of kobolds....so yeah...thanks for that.

[@JasminUwU]

@@Hydralysk445 if your imagination is that vivid, I think that one is on you

[@Hydralysk445]

@@JasminUwU You know what? Fair.

[@asherroodcreel640]

​@@Hydralysk445you should look up Joe frank, you'd have a good time

[@smartsmartie7142]

Are you talking about chapterhouse? Frank Herbert made a book about nuns that try to take over the world by controlling men with their adult website abilities.

[@joshc5613]

I feel like this is a common enough thing that it could be talking about any series. however, I'm a little intrigued by this particular case

[@legrandliseurtri7495]

@@joshc5613 It's in the last two books of the Dune series. It gets kind of crazy.

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

Priestess-Whores were a very real thing in a lot of the near and middle East, the Mosaic law has specific death penalties for them. It's not totally implausible society could wrap back around to that. As for Nuns, well, EVERYONE in those books is hyper religious, at least once the Harkonnen are out of the picture.

[@easolinas1233]

... wut?

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

Priestess-prostitutes have been around since the day of Babylon.

[@DJYungHoxha]

"...but Miyazaki-san! We can't possibly put any more bare-footed women into our games, people already think you have a foot fetish, sir." "Well, Tanamura-san, what they don't realise is that it's simply a nod to Kentaru Miura's magnum opus Berserk in which women's feet..."

[@redbuck1385]

I like that all the fantasy writers are living on the same farm, it's wholesome.

[@kendra_t]

I like the implication that the other fantasy writers all moved into a house together

[@oberonpanopticon]

It was either that or live in the same house as toesucker99. Not a hard decision.

[@akl2k7]

​@oberonpanopticon Make that "live on the same continent".

[@liljatupsu]

The robot mpreg in The Lost Light didn't raise my suspicion at first. It was part of the main villain's big plan, after all! Then I found out about the author's book-long fanfic for the same franchise, which apparently _also_ has mechpreg in it. Welp, he's good at hiding it _and_ also freaking amazing at writing so I'm gonna continue looking past it

[@keklordkaotic]

To be fair, it was only at the very end, and that fanfic was based on the Marvel UK comics, and in the Marvel UK comics… that was an important plot point. Look up ‘transformers budding,’ it’s got two dedicated paragraphs on the tf wiki (and blessedly no more than that)

[@demoncastledracula]

NO because my favorite thing about JRO is I'm not even sure its actually a fetish thing! But when you notice the mpreg theme it's goddamn Everywhere. There's a location named the fucking fecund moon. It being a fetish is the more comforting answer than "he just has a weird nonsexual obsession with transformers mpreg" I'm ngl

[@liljatupsu]

@@demoncastledracula I have the MTMTE notebooks and the word "pregnant" came up twice in the third one (in relation to a character who was essentially a walking hotspot). I made a post on tumblr saying I would eat a tree branch if it appeared a third time. Luckily I didn't need to, but the stuff about surrogacy near the end did give me quite the scare. And yeah, it's weird because the context is never sexual, but like _why_ does it appear in his writing so much? Does it count as bodyhorror? Is there a ton of story potential in pregnancy that has gone unexplored in TF due to the robots and the usual child target audience? (To be fair, he _has_ managed to squeeze quite a few stories out of it, but...)

[@SirEriol]

Yes, Tarantino _should_ direct a 7+ hrs fantasy epic movie trilogy.

[@erikm8373]

I'm always more fascinated by the people who clearly put an immense passion for worldbuilding into their deranged fetish works. Like, they have a dozen pages describing the complex history of their pantheon of gods, and a detailed explanation of how this ties into their elaborate magic system, weaving together a complex and rich world in which all their stories take place. And all this is important background reading for their 72-chapter tragedy about about a woman whose life crumbles around her as she slowly succumbs to the corrupting influence of an ancient artifact which serves as a brilliant metaphor for the nature and legacy of colonialism in our modern world. The only thing preventing the story from being the most compelling and emotionally devastating thing you've ever read is the fact that said ancient artifact's corrupting influence primarily takes the form of a desire to engage in the author's frankly bizarre sexual fantasies.

[@jakecross6212]

This is just the entire plot of kill la kill

[@pigcatapult]

Nah, KLK is just really brazen satire

[@kripposoft]

This is about Wheel of Time, right? All those witches using spankings as punishment...

[@MarfansGoth]

Oh yeeeaaah, I'd forgotten about that lol

[@nomisunrider6472]

Yeah and the magic system is that men dominate their magic while women submit to it.

[@MarfansGoth]

@@nomisunrider6472 Like I see what you're getting at but I think that was just bc of Mr. Jordan being fairly elderly and having a lot of outdated ideas about gender roles. Edit: well, he would be really old if he were still alive. I just meant that was raised in the 50s and that is reflected in some of his writing

[@nomisunrider6472]

@@MarfansGoth I mean yeah that is most of it, along with the yin yang symbolism. But when you add in so many spankings, chains, forced submission, and people getting stripped naked for no good reason, it’s hard to think there isn’t a LITTLE bit of kink in that too.

[@MarfansGoth]

@@nomisunrider6472 Yeah no don't get me wrong there was definitely something going on, especially with the spanking and collars lmfao.

[@federicopalacios7439]

When authors take the word 'fantasy' the wrong way

[@BioYuGi]

There's so much thought put into this concept for the video that it makes me think it's some weird meta thing and the video itself is just for the fetish.

[@samfranck2119]

It's a loveley franchise! I've got all to(e)mes in the German translation on my shelves. (note: "toe" is "Zeh" in German, and "toes" is "Zehn") Series 1 : Die "Zehntrum" Trilogie 1: Die Zehn Gebote der Magie (the ten/toe rules/commandments of magic) 2: Zehndrehfugalkraft (*Zentrifugalkraft - the toe twist fugal power) 3: Im Zehntrum der Welt (*Zentrum - In the world's eye/centre) Prequel 4: Die Zehn Magier (The ten/toe magicians) Series 2: Die "Zehnmeister" Trilogie 5: Die Geburt des Zehnmeister (*Zenmeister - Birth of the toe master) 6: Tod des Zehnmeister (The toe master's death) 7: Die Rückkehr des Zehnmeister (The return of the toe master)

[@CuDoesThings]

Dies ist der Zehnit vom allem was ich liebe

[@Rurtanar]

Series 3: Der Zeh der Zeit ( the toe of time): 8. Orc Zehen und sterben (Orc toes and die) 9. Die Zehen Gebote (the toe/ten commandments) 10. Die wilde drei Zehen (The wild three toes / thirteen) Thus we have our Zehntologie - ten magnificent books! (little note that Zehen=toes and Zehn=ten, so we both took some liberties with that, but I think it still works well)

[@samfranck2119]

@@Rurtanar Splendid! I haven't read those, but I think they turned several of them into movies, starring amongst others - if memory serves me - Charlestoe Heston (Die Zehen Gebote), Christoe Maria Herbst (Die wilden Drei Zehen) and Orc Zehen und Sterben was directed by the very talented Martoe McDonagh.

[@uniguy2126]

The A24 logo killed me

[@schwarzerritter5724]

Everybody talks about Tarantino's foot fetish. Nobody talks about his food fetish. You can't tell me you wanted a Big Kahoona Burger or a Five Dollar Milkshake when Watching Pulp Fiction.

[@sirmemes1225]

to write fantasy, you must include _every_ fantasy

[@enif_plays]

"fetish world building" ...I'm looking at you Sword of Truth.

[@Carewolf]

Wasn't that just the author wanting to show children how smart he was, and adults how much of dumbass he was?

[@Konpekikaminari]

Having read the first 2 books a long time ago, I feel like the worldbuilding could still work if you removed the author's thinly veiled fetishes from it The central plot, on the other hand...

[@VoidHearted]

The whole torture girl chapter of Wizard’s First Rule is why I can’t recommend that story to other people lmao

[@kujojotaro8752]

What fetish does that series have?

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

I read all... 26? Books, when I was WAY too young. Twice. This is why media censorship should exist. Ironically, it had exactly the wrong effect politically, somehow I came away from reading books designed to proselytize libertarianism thinking: Yeah, Communism!. Thankfully I later realised both Communism and Objectivsm are hollow promises.

[@diamondmemer9754]

Tarantino bought all 10 million copies so he could direct a movie about it

[@ManFromThePits]

I did something similar once, but with vore. It was main stream, a societal institution, even had a religion built around it. The main character was a rogue wolfman who rejected vore, and so, being neither predator nor prey, he was a third-class citizen known as a "deviant". The message? "When deviance becomes main-stream, the ordinary becomes deviant." Needless to say, the story never took off, and never got finished. For this I am grateful. Had some good characters, though.

[@futurevegan8617]

I've seen a few sketch comedy channels that really drag the joke out and it wasn't all that funny in the first place, but this was pretty good. Good use of a straight man, good bizarre activity for the novelist to be doing while on the phone, and it wasn't literally riffing on the same joke the whole time... I particularly enjoyed the very last gag. Thank you!

[@michaeldavis9190]

Honestly, the idea of bodily based magic is kind of cool. Earth bending is connected to the feet, it's basically an unspoken rule that you either have to have your feet on the ground to bend earth you aren't in contact with. Fire bending is said to come from the stomach, which creates the body's energy, and the breath, and it extends past someone's limbs. There are definitely ways in which bending is linked to body parts. Different body parts and even bodily fluids being given different magical properties actually sounds like a cool idea to me, even if it could easily be twisted into fetish material or body humor.

[@ChadtronicFan]

How to worldbuild 101! Step 1: Kink Step 2 Political Power Fantasy Step 3: Esoteric Magical System Step 4: Depth (optional)

[@mrtheasley]

This is some of the finest acting we've seen from Generic Entertainment.

[@exukvera]

If we look very hard on those Shōsetsuka ni Narō archives you will probably find a web novel with a similar premise and a ridiculously long name like: "My athlete's foot makes me invincible after I was sent to another world where feet magic is absolute".

[@nerdalert647]

The hair, the glasses, the thin color border and yellow text thumbnails... are you Man Carrying Thing's secret younger brother

[@Biochemitra]

You know, at the end of the day, the best stories are the ones that make the author happy, and if that means incorporating their kinks into the worldbuilding, then by the gods, ride that wave of passion!

[@asafupps]

Nice six-toed foot there at the end… ai is getting no better

[@raizin4908]

Coincidentally, the video I watched before this was about how AI image generation has been making a lot of progress lately, including much better hands and feet. But it seems like that's mostly about advanced users who train their own custom models, and write huge prompts, and use AI tools to correct the bad parts from another AI tool's work. For the casual DALL-E user, not much has changed in that time. But I'm sure it will improve soon enough for us casuals as well, as people figure out how to make this stuff more user-friendly.

[@leonmayne797]

Ah, yes I remember the butt magic anime (only women could do it for some reason).

[@cara-seyun]

I think you’re remembering a hentai

[@leonmayne797]

@@cara-seyun I don’t know I saw people making fun of it in another KZbin video.

[@asherroodcreel640]

Men butts don't count, no woman where consulting during the making of this peace

[@randomrandle9141]

Keijo?

[@leonmayne797]

@@randomrandle9141 no it’s about a form of magic not a sport.

[@Ervo]

_Quentined and tarantined by_ _Writtin Directino_

[@RobertPatrician]

Sounds like the "FATAL" tabletop RPG system, which has you roll for things like aerola size and color.

[@Eris250]

FATAL seems to be deliberately made for shock value, or perhaps to pander to a certain group. Aside from the sex, there are also mechanics for peeing, bad game mechanics, and sexist/racist worldbuilding elements.

[@falconstudios146]

Ah yes, the source of the infamous anal circumference check.

[@michaelmartin9022]

The real reason the next Game of Thrones is taking so long.

[@VTsiFanfic]

For real though, I enjoyed the Legends of Pern series a lot other than all the detailed descriptions of how the dragons go into heat and mate in flight while their human telepathic bonded riders got busy.

[@biggali]

I assure you reader, having the protagonist spend half the first chapter struggle-snuggling the first women he meets is integral to his character building.

[@snager80]

so my sci fi space colony survival story about how all crew members are altered so they can carry a fetus and give birth...

[@applejhon8308]

The trick is making it good enough that no one will care.

[@shinobix4925]

This editor is clearly not fit for their job, how tf do you see a softcore erotica with fantasy elements and a thought-out story and NOT think it's gonna sell well. Having a target audience is important when it comes to business, and that writer knew his target audience well.

[@audreyharris7643]

Exactly people who like feet have big money this book is gonna sell great

[@C4MG1RL]

You didn't have to call out Miyazaki like this

[@xryeau_1760]

You mean Hidetaka, right?

[@pelhami]

being a fantasy writer with a TF fetish must be amazing because you can put werewolves and druids in without anyone caring why every transformatiom scene is hyper detailed and 5 pages long

[@cara-seyun]

And just add a trickster god or illusionist for human TFs

[@user-no4ge4gp8r]

when the fetish is a normal and often incorporated part of fantasy so no one bats an eye.

[@ChBrahm]

Dude I told you this idea in confidence! You can’t trust anyone these days

[@Demonskunk]

Nah, see, it's that single minded passion that leads a book like this to become popular. You can tell that the writer's feet were brimming with power that the audience was eager to suck out.

[@Feasco]

i appreciate how you get the audio to switch from sounding like its in person or over the phone depending on who's in the shot

[@kalenics123]

Ok so Kojima has a hand fetish? You know, magical hands everywhere in Death Stranding 1 and 2.

[@mrslasher1064]

People find inspiration from things they like,including things that make them sexually aroused,besides sucking toes to gain magic power isn't nearly the weirdest power system idea,there's a manga where frog tadpoles possess people and turn them into monsters and the way they maintain control is by huffing jenkem... (That's real by the way,it's called Jagaaan and it's written by the mangaka of Bluelock...)

[@losj3020]

this is definitely the most common variety you see in the wild but I rarely see people talk about the reverse lol. I didn't notice how much of my worldbuilding hinges on what is basically religious power play, psychological masochism, and way too many instances of people getting high/mindbroken from wielding their powers until I sit down and reread my manuscript. At one point you just see the fight scene you thought was innocently cool and get embarrassed bc it kinda makes your pp hard :/

[@Kaladin_S_]

Your 2024 videos have been on fire, this had me cracking up 😂

[@BoldMold]

Honestly, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. No matter how weird your fetishes are and how bad you are at incorporating them into the lore, there'll always be a niche with the same fetishes somewhere who will appreciate your fantasy world.

[@Tempusverum]

👈 found one of the ten-million

[@TheOneWayDown]

I once created a character who existed simply to be a self-insert protagonist's love interest, because obviously he needs to bone someone. In the years since, he morphed into just a self-insert of my depression and her one of the most tragic and likable characters ive written about

[@tiberiusdawn2042]

What her name?

[@Aleuse]

you can get away with self inserts, unless people see you in real life and connect the dots. That's when it gets a bit... weird I guess?