History Main / AuthorAppeal

** Zig Zag, the zebra skunk pornstar of all people, hangs the biggest lampshade on why such an Amiga fascination would be nothing less than a form of masochism.

** Back in the original flavor, Littlepip seems to get publicly embarrassed and teased about her romantic life (or lack thereof) an awful lot. Maybe once does she ever seem to ask them to stop, and then the person in question keeps doing it, but on "friendlier" terms [[note]]instead of being TheTease just to mess with Littlepip, despite having no actual feelings toward her..[[/note]] This culminates, perhaps, in her girlfriend talking about their sex life on the most popular radio station in Equestria. She also, ahem, "[[ADateWithRosiePalms mares off]]" with her crush lying in bed next to her.

* Froge from Blog/{{Froghand}} has [[https://froghand.neocities.org/buafy/2016-08.html#01 quite]] the [[https://froghand.neocities.org/buafy/2016-08.html#19 thing]] for [[https://froghand.neocities.org/buafy/2016-11.html#27 plushies]]. Perhaps even to the point of being a plushophile, seeing as he [[https://froghand.neocities.org/buafy/2016-06.html#27 brings the term up]] regarding ''{{Webcomic/Achewood}}''.

* ''Fanfic/TheDarkerKnight'' is a Franchise/{{Batman}} TrollFic in which Batman saves random celebrities and rock bands and fights against a zombie apocalypse with characters from other comics, cartoons, and movies. HilarityEnsues.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventures'' revolved around going back in time to meet the Venus de Milo (she of the armless statue). The real Venus de Milo had [[AmazonianBeauty bodybuilder-level muscular arms.]] She spent a lot of time flexing, with closeups, and performing various feats of strength.

* The fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6932565/1/Return_to_Atlantica_b_1_out_of_3_A_New_Beginning Return to Atlantica]], besides being a terrifying behemoth (one chapter, one hundred and sixty-six thousand, two hundred and eighteen words), contains everything from ''Pokémon'' to ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' to ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon'' to ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''

** Another thing he is a big fan of is military hardware in general, and infantry kit in particular. Many of his stories, particularly ''Tiberium Wars'', ''Forward'', ''Fanfic/{{Renegade}}'', and ''Fanfic/{{Harbinger|Peptuck}}'' place a lot of emphasis on realistic infantry movement, equipment, and tactics. The narrative in these stories often takes pains to show characters properly using sights, checking and securing gear, covering one another while moving, and proper room-clearing.

* Peptuck, the author of the ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' story ''Fanfic/TiberiumWars'' (no, not the official novelization) is clearly a big fan of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', especially ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'', and this shows up in his portrayal of Nod which definitely has elements of the Imperial Guard and Space Marines. Plus all the other subtler {{Shout Out}}s (and not just to ''Warhammer 40,000''). He even specifically referenced ''Gaunt's Ghosts'' in his notes, and the GDI 4th Recon Battalion are the Ghosts in all but name.
** The same author is also a fan of Creator/SummerGlau, as shown by some of his other fics, particularly ''Fanfic/{{Forward}}'', where River is the primary character.
** Another thing he is a big fan of is military hardware in general, and infantry kit in particular. Many of his stories, particularly ''Tiberium Wars'', ''Forward'', ''Fanfic/{{Renegade}}'', and ''Fanfic/{{Harbinger}}'' place a lot of emphasis on realistic infantry movement, equipment, and tactics. The narrative in these stories often takes pains to show characters properly using sights, checking and securing gear, covering one another while moving, and proper room-clearing.

* Anyone who has seen a few Creator/JCStaff shows can tell their artists really, really, really like big breasts and nothing else. In the best case of LaserGuidedKarma... er, MisaimedFandom ever, [[Literature/ShakuganNoShana every]] [[LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex single]] [[LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero one]] [[Literature/{{Toradora}} of]] [[LightNovel/AriaTheScarletAmmo their]] [[Manga/DreamEaterMerry most]] [[Manga/HayateTheCombatButler popular]] [[Anime/TanteiOperaMilkyHolmes anime]] [[LightNovel/OkamiSan series]] [[LightNovel/HeavensMemoPad nowadays]] has a flat chested tsundere girl as its most popular and/or leading girl. ALL OF THEM.

* {{Exaggerated|Trope}} and parodied in ''[[http://monicagilbey-bieber.deviantart.com/art/Alone-Chapter-1-377854038 Alone]]'' by Creator/MonicaGilbeyBieber, which features a SelfInsert who is a ridiculously wealthy world-famous architect and bestselling writer who has met and befriended various celebrities and rock stars. The story vividly describes how successful he is and how he is living the dream, including paragraphs worth of the author telling the readers about his architecture firm, luxury penthouse, black Lamborghini with personal chauffeur and butler, and black Persian cat named [[Literature/HarryPotter Cruciö.]] He also explicitly states his musical taste in-story. However, James (the character) surprisingly isn't really a GaryStu, and the fic manages to subvert the trope as well by stating that James is still short-statured and [[ChristmasCake single]] at thirty years old. He also exposes some of his own character flaws in-story.

If a writer's early work contains obvious Author Appeal, and their later work doesn't, this may overlap with OldShame.

* Anyone who has seen a few Creator/JCStaff shows can tell their artists really, really, really like big breasts and nothing else. In the best case of LaserGuidedKarma... er, MisaimedFandom ever, [[LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana every]] [[LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex single]] [[LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero one]] [[LightNovel/{{Toradora}} of]] [[LightNovel/AriaTheScarletAmmo their]] [[Manga/DreamEaterMerry most]] [[Manga/HayateTheCombatButler popular]] [[Anime/TanteiOperaMilkyHolmes anime]] [[LightNovel/OkamiSan series]] [[LightNovel/HeavensMemoPad nowadays]] has a flat chested tsundere girl as its most popular and/or leading girl. ALL OF THEM.

* ''Manga/NyoronChuruyaSan'' (a ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' gag manga) is largely based on Churuya's desire for smoked cheese -- which exists because the author really likes smoked cheese.

* Several {{doujin|shi}} artists and {{fan art}}ists have a fetish for [[AmazonianBeauty muscling up their girls]] (whether {{original|Generation}} [[SelfFanservice or not]]) and then having them [[{{Fanservice}} show off their physique]] and/or [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Herculean-feats of might]]. [[note]]These are most likely the fetishes known as sthenolagnia (the display of muscles) and cratolagnia (the demonstration of strength).[[/note]] A common secondary effect that the females are blessed with [[ImpossibleHourglassFigure figures]] that would make [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Jessica Rabbit]] blush: [[RuleOfGlamorous gorgeous faces]], ([[GagBoobs outrageously]]) large busts, [[ShesGotLegs killer legs]], wide hips, shapely rears, [[RuleOfSexy the whole package]]. [[ButWaitTheresMore 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.

Compare {{Fanservice}}, AuthorTract, WriterOnBoard, FilibusterFreefall, and MarySuetopia. CreatorsFavorite may also be relevant when specific characters, not kinks or gimmicks, keep reappearing. Inversion of AuthorPhobia, in which the creator uses their personal dread in a work. Contrast Playing to the Fetishes (the former name for [=Fanservice=]) 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 {{Fanfic}}tion.

Compare {{Fanservice}}, AuthorTract, WriterOnBoard, FilibusterFreefall, and MarySuetopia. Inversion of AuthorPhobia, in which the creator uses their personal dread in a work. Contrast Playing to the Fetishes (the former name for [=Fanservice=]) 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 {{Fanfic}}tion.

* The whole point of [[Wiki/TVTropes This Very Wiki]]. Tropers write about whatever they happen to be interested in. Also applies to page images. As most tropers are young geeks (per TroperDemographics), if the page image isn't from anime or manga, chances are it'll be from a webcomic.

** If you're playing an open-world WesternRPG which is full of references to Creator/HPLovecraft and the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, and has a HumongousMecha (even if it's just in the backstory), tries to rely on [[StoryBreadcrumbs environmental details to tell the story]], features detailed landscapes ([[TechnologyMarchesOn at least for its time]]), likes to create fascinating and flawed characters that often reveal HiddenDepths over the course of the story just as much as {{Bit Character}}s, analyzes FantasticRacism and [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman the worth of a person's soul]]/[[WhatMeasureIsAMook position in life]], gives the player as much freedom as they can while still [[GuideDangIt suffering from a lack of direction]], and jumps merrily around the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism, chances are that you're playing a Bethesda game.
** The writers/developers for ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' and the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series (starting with ''3''), are huge fans of Creator/HPLovecraft. The games in both series include numerous references to his works, including character and location names, as well as more general references to Lovecraft's style, such as a high number of EldritchAbomination-like monstrosities.

* If you're playing an open-world WesternRPG which is full of references to Creator/HPLovecraft and the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, and has a HumongousMecha (even if it's just in the backstory), tries to rely on [[StoryBreadcrumbs environmental details to tell the story]], features detailed landscapes ([[TechnologyMarchesOn at least for its time]]), likes to create fascinating and flawed characters that often reveal HiddenDepths over the course of the story just as much as {{Bit Character}}s, analyzes FantasticRacism and [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman the worth of a person's soul]]/[[WhatMeasureIsAMook position in life]], gives the player as much freedom as they can while still [[GuideDangIt suffering from a lack of direction]], and jumps merrily around the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism, chances are that you're playing a Creator/{{Bethesda}} game.

* In ''Manga/TheComicArtistAndHisAssistants'', Aito quite clearly stated he draws the ShowWithinTheShow to fulfill his panty shot fetish, often to rest of the cast's ire. In fact, many want to make sure he does not do this ''in expense of the plot''.

* In ''Manga/TheComicArtistAndHisAssistants'', Aito quite clearly stated he draws the ShowWithinTheShow to fulfill his PantyShot fetish, often to rest of the cast's ire. In fact, many want to make sure he does not do this ''in expense of the plot''.

* ''Fanfic/{{Starbound}}'', a ''Manga/LuckyStar'' fanfic, has two core points: the long-haired characters' hair done up into {{beehive|Hairdo}}s, and an attempt to be the next ''VideoGame/Earthbound}1994'. The former is even more noteworthy than the latter, because the fic has been written by the same person who commissions for other long-haired female characters with their hair in an updo, created a five-girl band of magical girls known as the [[http://dmxrated.deviantart.com/art/The-Beehive-Brigade-264114352 Beehive Brigade]] (of whom he also commissions pictures), and even runs a group known as The Beehive, which is all about that trope.

** Karen Traviss and Mandos. Most of Mandalorian culture and language ''Legends'' can be traced to her. More specifically, she has a thing for military and LGBT themes, in that she's the only writer to write canonically LGBTQ+ characters. [[note]] Traviss may be the only ''novelist'' to put in LGBTQ+ characters, but she was pre-dated by Creator/Bioware sneaking [[GayOption Juhani]] and her girlfriend Belaya into ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''. Bioware also added same-gender romance options and LGBTQ+ characters into VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic after fan outcry over Lucasarts's initial veto of such. Between that, the popularity of Canderous Ordo and the SWTOR Bounty Hunter, and similar BlackAndGrayMorality takes on the Jedi and Republic, Traviss's readers and [[=KOTOR=]]/[[=SWTOR=]] fans have significant overlap. [[/note]] And clones.

** Karen Traviss and Mandos. Most of Mandalorian culture and language ''Legends'' can be traced to her. More specifically, she has a thing for military and LGBT themes, in that she's the only writer to write canonically LGBTQ+ characters. [[note]] Traviss may be the only ''novelist'' to put in LGBTQ+ characters, but she was pre-dated by Creator/Bioware sneaking [[GayOption Juhani]] and her girlfriend Belaya into ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''. Bioware also added same-gender romance options and LGBTQ+ characters into VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic after fan outcry over Lucasarts's initial veto of such. Between that, the popularity of Canderous Ordo and the SWTOR Bounty Hunter, and similar BlackAndGrayMorality takes on the Jedi and Republic, Traviss's readers and [=KOTOR=]/[=SWTOR]] fans have significant overlap.[[/note]] And clones.

** Karen Traviss and Mandos. More specifically, she has a thing for military and LGBT themes, in that she's the only writer to write canonically LGBT characters. And clones.

-->'''Kris Straub:''' it’s tough pitching a movie when you’re actually pitching a multimillion dollar version of the reason for your divorce

* ''Webcomic/{{Chainsawsuit}}:'' In [[http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2013/06/18/hollywood-movie-pitch/ "hollywood movie pitch"]], an unnamed man tries to pitch ''Sexyfeet: The Movie'' ("Concept: What if you could marry a foot"). Then [[BlatantLies he tries to insist it's not just a script about his fetish]].

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