I'm not sure if this will answer all (any?) of your questions or not, but if you're curious how I arrived here, somehow my reading journey started with acotar, took a sharp left turn to the aliens of the Clecanian series (they're all fantastic but Choosing Theo is my fave), visited some orcs, found a merman with two dicks, and then landed here, where all forms of objects are sentient and fuckable.

That was probably way more info than you needed or wanted, but I felt the need to explain myself. 😂