oooh that's a toughie, actually. in most cases I could basically sum up my tastes with "anime archetypes, but fat (and possibly middle-aged)". including the pretty hair, haha. and another would be "what if person + animal???", giving us sphinxes and frog people and such.

LIKE. I kinda have to do my own thing since I can't find it in media or other people's art, y'know?? my autistic overly specific tastes being the death of me aaaaghhhhhhh

even in the case of, say, civilized giants that eat people, it was based on a dream I had as a kid, me as a little woodland creature and giants musing out loud about eating me and my friends or such, lol. and later still I have a dream of a lanky giant collecting people in a jar, or a pouch, I forget, implying he was cooking them. then decades later Hubert (RIP) and Catignol's comic series Ogre Gods is a thing, wow!!!

man I digress asfdsg