I have a hand kink and it's kind of exhausting because it's such a normal ass body part. One of my close online friends, who I used to be super into, sends a lot of videos of him playing with and petting his cat. They are super cute and I love his pets! But half the time I don't even pay attention because I'm staring at his really nice hands. It just makes me feel pervy because they're innocent, lovely videos, and he's my friend, but I'm just really attracted to his hands.
I don't know, it feels weird. It's unintentional and id never actually perv on him about it, but it naturally feels pervy to get a cute cat video and be like "mghdfkfhhd hands hehehehfhe." I'm not trying to sexualise him and it's not even a sexual body part. I think it's also worse because, I still find him really attractive, but it's like having a hand "type," and the usual "type" hand fetishists have does not really align with what I like, so he has this perfect niche hand and I'm just crazy for it ༼;´༎ຶ ༎ຶ༽
I'm pretty open about it on my Instagram stories, and Instagram is where we talk, but I've never outright said like "I have a hand fetish." So if anyone even remembers them, it could just be interpreted as passing appreciation, but it really isn't. My best friend said she completely forgot I have a thing for hands because I keep it low-key now, like I have this anonymous side blog on Tumblr dedicated to it, but I'm considering just hinting or outright saying on my story that I'm into hands. I just don't want him to feel weird or stop sending them because again, he's just sharing videos of his cat :( it wouldn't be really out of pocket because I post so much bullshit all the time. It just feels weird and unconsensual, even though I don't mean to, because it's a normal body part and it's not his fault his friend is a weird hand freak :/