But when making the game I rediscovered my love for making poison swamps. I know how people feel about them, but you know, suddenly I realize I'm in the middle of making one and I just can't help myself. It just happens. A kind of Fanservice where the presence of a particular gimmick or kink is so widespread and prominent that it is interpreted as a specific reason the creator actually produced the work.
Often, this can overlap with a certain philosophy the author espouses. Deliberately satirical or political stories often invoke associated Take That! Author Appeal is perhaps the single leading cause of Massive Multiplayer Crossover settings.
Beyond just being written from the ground up to appeal to the author's interests, most writers can't help but to then derail the storyline and other characters to facilitate the character; that's the line where Author Appeal gets out of hand. Interestingly, with careful handling, Author Appeal can still remain subtext which may not be detected until much later. On the flipside, an audience who enjoys a work specifically because of Author Appeal can be easy to produce work for , if the rarity of such works sufficiently balances out any faults with the work itself.
Creator's Favorite may also be relevant when specific characters, not kinks or gimmicks, keep reappearing. Inversion of Author Phobia , 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 Fanfiction. Creator Thumbprints are often this. See also Write What You Know , which can be similar to and overlap with Author Appeal, but is when the author writes about something because they know about it rather than any particular personal attraction.
Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos. 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 Eldritch Abomination -like monstrosities. A common secondary effect that the females are blessed with figures that would make Jessica Rabbit blush: gorgeous faces , outrageously large busts, killer legs, wide hips, shapely rears, the whole package.
