>>45164601
I think they're using moteif wrong. A motief is a minor repeating theme or idea, like friendship or loss. Not nesessarily a central theme the work exists to discuss, but a tool or mechanism a work uses to discuss its themes. Sunlight could be a motief if its used reoccuringly as a visual metaphor for truth or something.

A knot isnt a motief, its a physical object in the story and the focus of a sexual attraction. Surely the correct literary term would be a fetish

And no

>>45164601
no but tg stories on deviant art might have. More like to be a symptom than a cause tho

>>45164601
holy shit I loved supernatural but I completely dodged this bullshit, no I never got into fanfiction but I was often surrounded by people way into it

>>45164731
i went back to check deviantart recently and, after disabling all the sloppa, it’s funny how many tg/cd artists from a decade ago are trans/nb now lol.