Your first question upon hearing that there’s a “Dragons Fucking Cars” subreddit might be: why? You’re not the first to ask; just look at the rules in the sidebar. “The sub exists,” write the mods. “We don’t need posts asking why.” So let’s just accept r/DragonsFuckingCars for what it is: a niche subreddit with a surprising amount of variation. Some posts are beautifully dumb and simple: a wholesome shot of a cartoon dragon figurine in a kids’ play park positioned suggestively behind a smiley, anthropomorphic toy car. And at the other end of the spectrum we have an A.I.-generated image of a giant, salivating lizard with scaly droopy tits straddling a car that looks like a Model-T Ford. Users have to mark any posts containing A.I. art — in fairness, they aren’t hard to spot — but there are some pretty impressive human-generated submissions too, like a hand-drawn Charizard preparing to do unspeakable things to the adorable, unsuspecting protagonist of Cars. Some users are likely just there out of curiosity, but that certainly isn’t everyone. Being turned on by fantasy monsters is common enough that it has its own name: teratophilia, which loosely translates from Ancient Greek to “monster love.” Accordingly, the dragons are the main focus on the subreddit. Rule three of the sub specifies “no aftermath pics” — basically, no cars covered in anything that could look like reptile jizz or primordial slime. “We’ve all seen the hagfish picture,” reads the description. (Just in case you haven’t, the “hagfish picture” is a viral photo of a car accident in Oregon, which made headlines back in 2017. Basically, the driver of a car filled with crates of hagfish — slime eels — slammed his brakes on to avoid crashing into a construction site, causing a multiple car pile-up. Slime eels get messy when they’re scared, so the crash resulted in a slime explosion. The resulting image was of a broken-down car covered in what looked like thick, sticky tendrils of jizz — basically the wet dream of some r/DragonsFuckingcars Users, who shared the photo widely.) Once you get past the novelty of dragons fucking cars, the artwork is actually pretty impressive. There are human-generated images of roided-out dragons jamming their big, veiny dicks into comparatively tiny cars, and imaginative comic strips explaining the concept of “dragon car sex” to a bemused vanilla dude whose mind looks blown. After this brief expedition into the alluring lair of car-fucking dragons, you might still be asking: why? (We won’t tell the mods.) Well, how’s this for an answer: The internet is a marketplace of gloriously depraved treasures; this might not be your particular kink, but we can all find solace in the existence of deliciously niche subreddits like these — the ones working overtime to cater to the most specific of desires.