Every Fanfic is Wish-Fulfillment.

l8rose

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Now I'm trying to figure out what wish I'm fulfilling by having an Orc Dragonborn run around Thedas. :blob_hmm:

The smut-filled crackfic on the other hand...
 

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"Every fanfic is wish-fulfillment. The best written ones just make you believe it isn't."

-Sir lucifer morning star. (SilusGimbel)
Sure, if you include "I really wish this story existed" as a wish to be fulfilled. But if you're doing that, everything but the most mercenary work-for-hire is wish fulfillment.
 

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Enlighten me!
taboo fetishes are usually a hit, if you can find a place to post them without them being removed. Incest usually has the easiest time (as long as everyone is of age and consents), and as such, it gets the top spot.

But general rule of thumb, supply and demand. Incest has the easiest time finding a home, so while it is most popular, it's also got the largest supply. On the far other end of the spectrum, scat has hardly any supply but also very little demand. That said, a scat story is more likely to get a larger percentage of available readers - but there are many lines even I flat-out refuse to cross.

You can also look at pop culture. Incest is so popular that it's a common trope in anime, TV, books, web novels, etc. Again, on the other end, scat is so hated that it was a common "prank" to get your friends to see a specific video back in the 2000s while also being on the lookout to avoid being duped into seeing it yourself. But in both cases, it's common and only acceptable to claim hatred while keeping one's interests secret.

Just as in art, you've got to find the line you won't cross figure out how to get the best portion of the available readers in that. I've got 2 stories that are lite-incest and they're more popular chapter-by-chapter than my other stories that aren't incest related in the least.
 

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taboo fetishes are usually a hit, if you can find a place to post them without them being removed. Incest usually has the easiest time (as long as everyone is of age and consents), and as such, it gets the top spot.

But general rule of thumb, supply and demand. Incest has the easiest time finding a home, so while it is most popular, it's also got the largest supply. On the far other end of the spectrum, scat has hardly any supply but also very little demand. That said, a scat story is more likely to get a larger percentage of available readers - but there are many lines even I flat-out refuse to cross.

You can also look at pop culture. Incest is so popular that it's a common trope in anime, TV, books, web novels, etc. Again, on the other end, scat is so hated that it was a common "prank" to get your friends to see a specific video back in the 2000s while also being on the lookout to avoid being duped into seeing it yourself. But in both cases, it's common and only acceptable to claim hatred while keeping one's interests secret.

Just as in art, you've got to find the line you won't cross figure out how to get the best portion of the available readers in that. I've got 2 stories that are lite-incest and they're more popular chapter-by-chapter than my other stories that aren't incest related in the least.
Dammit, John, I needed names, not a small essay! Say the names!!! I NEED THEM FOR MY TAGS!!! :blob_thor:
 

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Dammit, John, I needed names, not a small essay! Say the names!!! I NEED THEM FOR MY TAGS!!! :blob_thor:
in order of popularity by what I've seen, this also happens to be easiest to find a posting home to hardest to find a posting home:

Incest, bestiality, Loli, (Rape with women, vore with men, reversed order for vice versa), water sports, necrophilia (higher on the list for zombies, I have it here for normal dead), gore, scat.

Again, just from what I've seen. I have no personal experience with most of these, though I've been toeing the line with Incest-lite in 2 of my stories.
 

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Again, just from what I've seen. I have no personal experience with most of these,
Of course I believe you. Who do you take me for? I know you for a long time, and I know you would never stoop that low, John. You are a good author who simply happens to be cultured enough. :blob_wink::blob_wink::blob_wink: (This is the text, post it in reply, and don't forget to delete the part in parenthesis.)
 

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Of course I believe you. Who do you take me for? I know you for a long time, and I know you would never stoop that low, John. You are a good author who simply happens to be cultured enough. :blob_wink::blob_wink::blob_wink: (This is the text, post it in reply, and don't forget to delete the part in parenthesis.)
John is my 4th penname. I've nuked the prior 3, and I plead the 5th as to any allegations made against the prior 3. :blob_sweat: :blob_teehee:
 

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in order of popularity by what I've seen, this also happens to be easiest to find a posting home to hardest to find a posting home:

Incest, bestiality, Loli, (Rape with women, vore with men, reversed order for vice versa), water sports, necrophilia (higher on the list for zombies, I have it here for normal dead), gore, scat.

Again, just from what I've seen. I have no personal experience with most of these, though I've been toeing the line with Incest-lite in 2 of my stories.
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Incest, bestiality, Loli, (Rape with women, vore with men, reversed order for vice versa), water sports, necrophilia (higher on the list for zombies, I have it here for normal dead), gore, scat.
TIL about vore (wtf). I'm surprised by the sudden shift from water sports to necrophilia.
Honestly I was expecting something like the usual stuff like BDSM, and feet (I guess there's no foot fetish tag here).
 

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TIL about vore (wtf). I'm surprised by the sudden shift from water sports to necrophilia.
Honestly I was expecting something like the usual stuff like BDSM, and feet (I guess there's no foot fetish tag here).
Foot fetish, while hated, isn't considered a "taboo" fetish. Same with BDSM. Which is what I was restricting my list to. Things that are considered "wrong", not just "weird".

And yeah, I'm sorry for destroying that bit of your innocence. :blobthumbsup:
 

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Fanfic or not, I think people tend to write about their lives, about their dreams, and about their nightmares.
 

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in order of popularity by what I've seen, this also happens to be easiest to find a posting home to hardest to find a posting home:

Incest, bestiality, Loli, (Rape with women, vore with men, reversed order for vice versa), water sports, necrophilia (higher on the list for zombies, I have it here for normal dead), gore, scat.

Again, just from what I've seen. I have no personal experience with most of these, though I've been toeing the line with Incest-lite in 2 of my stories.
From what I've seen, I'd (sadly) put loli over bestiality for popularity. I could honestly make a case for over incest even. people are disgusting for even considering underage shit like that arousing, though that might be a tiny bit hypocritical from me considering how far in i am with like submissive/dubcon stuff... anyhow my kinks don't matter here.

My opinion on how i would list taboo fetishes is probably Loli/shota, noncon/dubcon, incest, bestiality, slavery, watersports, gore, snuff/necro, scat.

I added in a few other categories too but yeah. don't ask why i know this stuff. I know some demented people.

(hell of a first forum message.)
 

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Every fanfic is wish-fulfillment.
Every story is wish fulfillment. Real life sucks. I wish I could ride a dragon.

Why do people write fan fics of boruto and his mom doing stuff then? Do people wish for that?
Yes, apparently.

You know what? Someone, somewhere, wished for something. Everything is wish-fulfillment.
Correct. Whenever I eat something delicious, a wish of mine is fulfilled. Whenever I get to clock out of work, another wish is fulfilled.
EDIT: whenever I find a story with futas a wish is fulfilled.

didn't say I was into Incest, either. But I'm a smut author. I'd be stupid to not know which fetishes are popular.
All fetishes are popular, but its the uncommon ones that'll make you a bunch of commission money. Make an incest story, and you compete with hundreds of thousands of artists and authors. Make a belly-button worship fetish story, and you'll only compete with a few hundred artists and authors.

From what I've seen, I'd (sadly) put loli over bestiality for popularity. I could honestly make a case for over incest even.
He wasn't ranking them. He just named them.
 
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