It fascinates me how there are distinct subpopulations of furries and furry-adjacent sorts with high concentrations of specific kinks. Obviously, people will tend to invent characters that let them invent whatever fantasies they’d like to share, and there will be some “form follows function” there, but I find parts of these clusters that seem tangential to be really fascinating.

A mild example: dragons seem to have an unusually high concentration of interest in inflatable toys (especially _being_ inflatable) and latex. Maybe there’s some excessive appeal for smooth textures, if smooth scales were an attractive trait? What I’m _not_ including here is the high concentration of interest in vore and egg-laying because those have some obvious logical connection to large egg-laying predators.

The subpopulation that specifically had me thinking about this is the community of asexual nonbinary (often agender) very brightly colored fluffy kaiju, almost all of whom are soft vore preds, and a wildly disproportionate number of whom are artists. “Kaiju” and “vore” have the same considerations for dragons, but I find the concentration of extremely correlated color-aesthetic, gender identity, and sexual orientation - while _also_ having a kink (although that kink experience is distinct from sexual interest in some cases - it’s complicated, as all experiences of sexuality are) - to be notable. Why are there so many enby+ace hungry neon fluffmonsters? I can think of hungry fluffmonsters with binary genders and conventionally-identifiable sexual interests, but not ones using the Lisa Frank pallette.

I dunno where I’m going with this. I just think I see a pattern that I don’t understand and I’m fascinated by. And, frankly, I am hungry-neon-fluffmonster-adjacent; I love the aesthetic, I have pretty much the same interests (among a zillion others, like many of the dragon stereotypes), I just haven’t had the emotional energy to pursue it.