you know I love my big monster boys but where’s the love for like the junji-ito monsters? what about the humans that aren’t so human but aren’t immediately a hot demon or sexy fish beast? what about the actual scary humanoids??? sorry but I feel like that subcategory of teratophilia is waaaay to underrated

Ok, first of all thanks for making me aware of Junji Ito. I’m not too much into manga but the art looks great and I dig horror stories. So I’ll definitely check this out.

The thing is that I personally would classify stuff like that as horror. On tumblr teratophilia or monster love is mostly used to describe being horny on main for some monster dick (or pussy). At least that’s what I mean when I use these terms. I’m a simple gal.😋

I did a little searching and found tons of Junji Ito’s art and similar stuff here on tumblr. And judging by the notes it seems this art style is quite popular so I wouldn’t say these kind of monsters are an underrated subcategory of the teratophilia spectrum, they simply belong in a different genre. (I’m not quite sure if teratophilia is its own genre but gawwwd I wish it was…)

Anyway horror is fine by itself but I guess teratophilia means transforming the monsters of horror stories into love interests [insert long and well researched essay about sexual psychology and sociology here].

ganymedesrocks:

swordfishtrombones:

“Lonely Centaur” by
Ferdinand Keller.

Ferdinand Keller, or von Keller (1842 – 1922) became a German genre and history but also allegorical painter who, from childhood, showed precocious tendencies for the arts, making sketches and studies from life. At the age of twenty, he often visited the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe where he studied under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer. In 1866 he travelled to Switzerland and France, and then spent two years in Rome, from 1867 to 1869, where he met Anselm Feuerbach. He brought back from Italy numerous studies of landscapes and people, which he later used in his great historical compositions. Being above all a painter of history, he was nicknamed the ‘Makart badois’ after the Austrian artist Hans Makart, who was celebrated in this field. It was only in 1900 that he was influenced by Arnold Böcklin and, like him, inspired by themes taken from ancient mythology. His landscapes, romantic in spirit, became animated by rustic characters. A magical atmosphere emanates from these evocations of a lonely centaur, the myth of Narcissus or his vision of the melancholy in death as with ‘The Tomb of Böcklin’, a transposition of ‘The Island of the Dead’ by Böcklin; a token of the admiration he had for his master

Have any of you seen The Company of Wolves (1984)? If not I would highly recommend, I think you three might enjoy it. It’s an interesting retelling of fairytales and growing into womanhood and burgeoning sexuality.

metamashina:

We haven’t seen it but it’s been recommended to us before and we’re going to cover it at some point.

This is a great recommendation. This film did things to me when I was young – too young to understand it on an intellectual level but it still hit me like a brick in the head. I was feeling something between confusion, disgust and fear while at the same time it turned me on. I guess it was my own sexual awakening. One of many…😋

Anyway for a while I was obsessed with this scene: