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Taxonomy of Monsters/Fetishes - Fusion
🕑 Added 2020-06-24 00:20:09 +0000 UTCA long while ago I posted a journal where I talked about how horror themes and certain furry themes tend to overlap. We've all seen furry art featuring transformation, cities being crushed/destroyed by wide-hipped giants, swarms of whatever is swarming (I prefer bimbo plagues, but I've seen some art with breast expanding leech parasites akin to "They Came From Within"). I'd wanted to do an image series since then to show how this works, but I couldn't decide how to do it.
The original idea was that on one half I'd show a well known horror/thriller idea, in the middle I'd put the description of the kind of "monster" being discussed, and on the other side have a mirror pose featuring a fetish along similar lines. For example, "The Birds" by Alfred Hitchcock on one half would show a person being attacked, in the middle would be the "massification" description and on the other half a character being similarly attacked by tentacles.
I decided against it, it's twice the work, and while it would make a great comparison, it would also clash a little.
My hypothesis is that the difference between horror and fetish is safety. Vore features characters being eaten, but very few enthusiasts include the digestion stage, for example. The less safe something is, the nearer the fetish gets to being horror. This also works the other way around, which is a disturbing thought, but I'm not planning to do that.
In the end, and inspired slightly by a fan video of Cyberpunk 2077 with the song "Le Perv", I decided to make this picture, the original goal was to just make it a slightly more ominous take on the robomanda picture I did a long time ago, and I realized this could be the first of a small series depicting each part of the taxonomy of monsters using fetishes without including horror elements.
Also, I just wanted to do some quick lighting practice, the hair always trips me up.
"Fusion monsters are a mix of the ordinary (usually an ordinary human) with some sort of impurity. This include zombies (humans with a disease), ghosts (humans that are dead and alive), and demonic possession (humans tainted by a demon). Sometimes, the host of a fusion can be freed to destroy the monster (e.g., an exorcism), but the fusion monster stays monstrous throughout the story. Haunted houses are also fusion monsters, as they are something ordinary mixed with something abominable. Popular fusion monsters include aliens, Frankenstein's monster, Freddy Kruger, the Boogeyman, the Fly, and the Village of the Damned children."
- Noel Carroll
EDIT: I made some tweaks, this was a rushed image and some of it still bugs me
