This doesn't necessarily need to be shameful guilty pleasure but either something you have found people have dismissed or found weird. Despite that you passionately put into your writing

This whole community is probably people writing their "weird" passions.

For me the most prominent is Mecha. Giant piloted robots has always been a guilty pleasure of mine. I build gunpla, have numerous blurays from Eacaflowne, and gundam to The Big O.

Then Cosmic horror, love HP Lovecraft, Laird Barron, and Thomas Ligotti.
Then along side that, insects and parasites. I love learning about them and it's also a major factor in my book.

So I want to hear the most random odd things you love that you just have to put into your writing.

A master of Smoke Magic making barbecued ribs.

Dumb shit taken its logical extreme. 

I enjoy politics way too much, so my werewolf adventure ended up getting a major political component.

Dragons and unicorns. Plot wise there is very little reason for these to exist, they just make my world a little richer and I love writing scenes with them in. 

Oh, and the unicorns aren't you're usual little white horse with a little spike on their head, these are heavy attack unicorns, more like shaggy rhinos, intelligent, bloody minded and destructive.

I love including weird fetishes, like certain body parts, clothing fetishes, or masochism. I feel like a lot of people try to stay too vanilla and avoid having characters with strange hang-ups, but I think it really adds to the complexity.

The best examples I can think of come from light novels and Manga (the Japanese don't shy from kink). Think the MC from Lazy Dungeon Master who has a severe foot fetish, or the MC from The Ledgendary Hero is Dead who is obsessed with thick thighs. A good example from web fiction is the MC from The True Endgame who has a thing for girls in sweaters (I can totally relate).

Note that I'm not necessarily into including sexual content, but just acknowledging the fetish is fun.

I love me my melodrama and edge, baybeh. Maybe it's a way to actually process my own overboard emotions, but even without days ruled by my depression--I unashamedly like dark shit. 

Sociopolitical commentary, cooking, and random science.  I feel like that kind of describes me as a person and if I have to suffer these maledictions then so does everybody who reads my schlock.  

I've been with the same beautiful lady for fifteen years, and with the exceptions of boogers and poop, I love every physiologically gross aspect of her existence. Fifteen years and showers together are still trés bon.

Really detailed descriptions of flesh and things that happens to it and what it does to other things in turn.

Kerma Wrote: I enjoy politics way too much, so my werewolf adventure ended up getting a major political component.

Kerma Wrote: I enjoy politics way too much, so my werewolf adventure ended up getting a major political component.

You would probably enjoy Redmoon by Benjamin Percy. It's a commentary of how Muslims were treated after 9/11 but werewolves and its taken to the extreme. So much so I think it really foreshadowed the 2016 election.

Trathnonen Wrote: Sociopolitical commentary, cooking, and random science.  I feel like that kind of describes me as a person and if I have to suffer these maledictions then so does everybody who reads my schlock.

Love it! 

Ovid Wrote: I've been with the same beautiful lady for fifteen years, and with the exceptions of boogers and poop, I love every physiologically gross aspect of her existence. Fifteen years and showers together are still trés bon.

That's sweet and beautiful. Exactly how I feel about my daughter. All the gross stuff is a kind of privlage to the intimacy of love.

mer_curry Wrote: I love me my melodrama and edge, baybeh. Maybe it's a way to actually process my own overboard emotions, but even without days ruled by my depression--I unashamedly like dark shit.

What writer isn't using their medium to process their emotions and eccentricities?

Because same. I love edgy dark shit.

The Wrote: A master of Smoke Magic making barbecued ribs.

Hell yes. Using a great power in a domestic way is top notch fiction world building.

Haust Wrote: Dumb shit taken its logical extreme.

I love this in fiction. 

I spend way too much time explaining why giant humanoid robots are actually good for fighting. When there is no good reason for them lol

T Wrote: Dragons and unicorns. Plot wise there is very little reason for these to exist, they just make my world a little richer and I love writing scenes with them in. 

Oh, and the unicorns aren't you're usual little white horse with a little spike on their head, these are heavy attack unicorns, more like shaggy rhinos, intelligent, bloody minded and destructive.

Love the dark unicorn.

So like the siberan unicorn? Which is badass

lkohol Wrote: Really detailed descriptions of flesh and things that happens to it and what it does to other things in turn.

This always makes my skin crawl. But I am a machoscist so I dig it

Shape-shifters.

Seriously, for most of my serious projects, there is one or many characters who can change into a critter. They generally tend to be canines or canine-like. However, current WIP, the male love interest is a phoenix.

All my stories feature a paranormal creature that needs to hide because they're being hunted, so there is always this Spiderman style secret identity. I love playing with the secret identity and how the characters deal with it vs how the rest start to get suspicious and end up discovering it. It's a lot of fun.

The "power awakens in a moment of danger" is also another guilty pleasure of mine.

And slowburn. I love the flirting part. The game between the two lovers and not knowing how they're going to end up together keeps me hooked to the story. I quickly loose interest when they're already together. This also implies the "we kissed, we're not together, we felt something and now we're confused" trope, which I'm also guilty of using because I enjoy it a lot.