I created the teratophilia pool to agglomerate pairings with attractive monsters. It is a specific aesthetic: the monster as alluring rather than abject; beautiful, graceful, or compelling rather than grotesque or primitive. It provokes desire, not disgust.
Teratophilia is The Shape of Water, The Ancient Magus' Bride, Robots & Lace. But more than the series, the actual content of the image is paramount:
post #6986960 is teratophilia, post #10092907 is not.
post #9536003 is teratophilia, post #11411097 or post #11046847 are not.
Tagging generic, nauseating, monster rape like post #11446882 as teratophilia makes the tag no more useful than monster rating:e.
Teratophilia should be something like pool #20151, but for monsters. There are plenty of ugly, disgusting, or simply boring monsters on this website. I do not think "teratophilia" should be used to describe them.
I haven't had much time to log on since I got accepted into a PhD program, but it seems like the pool got turned into a tag, and the meaning I intended for it was lost. If it was still a pool, I would have purged some posts, edited the description, and moved on. But since it's been moved to a tag, I think it warrants discussion. I know this is somewhat subjective, but I thought it was at least lucid enough to deserve a pool.