Focus on the Feet

I am in the process of writing a story that has been in the works for a while—unfortunately, months of lead-time is becoming a bit of a habit for me—and which has brought to the fore questions about how I want to use kink in fic. Particularly, I want Albus Dumbledore, in a romance with Tom Riddle, to feel viscerally aroused by Tom’s body, his youth in decline as he suffers from sickness, and I made the choice that body-part kinks (armpit, hand, foot) would be the most interesting way to convey that.

But it is me, and I would never be satisfied with something less than hours of introspection about the nature of a thing before doing it, and so I want to talk about a meta essay I recently read.

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