For me, inanimate transformations in and of themselves are…well, I like them if they have a purpose behind them. There needs to be some further plot focused reason for why that character is becoming an object, or else all you’ve really done is cut off a whole lot of possibilities.
So honestly (and this is true for a lot of the stuff I write, as far as fetish content is concerned) I don’t decide to write an inanimate story–rather, if I have a story in mind, and an inanimate TF fits with the overall plot and theme of what I’m going for, then yeah, it’ll be in there. Otherwise, the TF tends to just completely kill the forward momentum, because the character no longer possesses any agency, pretty much by definition.
That said, there are a few inanimate TFs I definitely enjoy. Toilets and urinals are right at the top of the list, especially if they retain a bit of their human form and biology as they shift. Pipes and cigar TFs are fun…but difficult to do well. Maelstrom was the king of these, but I’ve only ever attempted a few off and on, with varied success. Clothes are always fun, particularly underwear, but always feel a bit…overdone and obvious to me. Drones are great, though I don’t really know if that gets classed under inanimate necessarily.
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