You're drunkenly stumbling home one night and from the duckboards through the booze haze you see the most scrumptious ass teasingly glide away deeper into the dark swamp. You follow, legs getting heavier and orientation more difficult by each step.
How many times that scenario has played out in Ditovo is not easy to calculate but it's likely not zero. The more sober locals will tell you that the slamreta, also known as "harlot of the lake", is not a malicious creature, it wants nothing to do with you in fact. This animal uses inflatable sacks on its hind legs to float on the water's surface perfectly still as it looks for fish or other small things to eat. It hunts using its sharp vision and plunges its long neck to reach prey. It's long tail is curled up to act as a stabilizing anchor. At sign of danger the slamreta can deflate the hind leg sacks to dive and swim away. It spends most of its time in water and will build a nest in-between reeds or other shore vegetation.
Cattle at Rest on a Hillside in the Alps, Rosa Bonheur, 1885, Art Institute of Chicago: European Painting and Sculpture
A. A. Munger Collection Size: 54.9 × 66.4 cm (21 5/8 × 26 1/8 in.) Medium: Oil on canvas
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/39542/
A totally strange and incorrect interpretation of what the first fish to crawl onto land might have looked like...
from "Dinosauri giganti da scorprire" (Italy, 1992)
illustration by Chris Foss
so i rewatched disney atlantis. try to guess which characters are my favorite, yeah it's very difficult, i know
here we are, bunch of redraws of timeless classic. you can't say it's not them
i ship them and shipname is "drill and blast" by the way.
Wara! 2023 - oil on canvas — Krzysztof Powałka (Polish, b.1985)
https://www.instagram.com/k.powalka_oilpaintings
Doodles of my sweet menace to society & Desert’s Edge, The Narrator! A little puppet anomaly who is a bit of an unreliable narrator sometimes <3
EARTH TO DORIS...
The Kindly Neckbeard