And the over-muscled legs seem so clearly human-male, that puts the oversharing open fish mouth projecting forward just about where his features essential to continued evolution in another generation might be found.
I would put this in the EW category. In fact, I was just commenting to Hubby the other day that outright alien/scary movie/tv creatures don’t frighten me (I admire the imagination and the work[wo]manship), but take a human figure and distort it somehow (the goddess Kali with her six arms, for example), and it is nightmarish to me. Like this . . .
Hieronymus Bosch’s artwork has many of these human/animal mutations.
It looks odd because the fish are drawn in a cartoony-style, while the legs are drawn in a more realistic style, and placed in a rather bizarre location for a fish — even for a cartoon fish.
It’s like if there was a drawing of a beautiful, shapely woman wearing a sleek dress, and on top of her shoulders, where you might expect a neck and head to be, you instead saw one of those yellow happy-face emojis.
Land fish has neither gills nor nostrils. Not sure about water fish. Maybe they breathe through their mouths?
Land fish has evolved an eyebrow, not yet morphed into a unibrow.
The creepy association for me was something that has haunted me for about 60 years: the cover art for Nightmares and Geezenstacks. Alas, I can’t figure out how to embed an image, but you can see it on the wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmares_and_Geezenstacks . The leggy creature is from the Bosch painting The Last Judgement, as Andréa mentioned. (The dragon-woman figure isn’t by Bosch – it’s a drawiing by Heinrich Kley.)
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Among other things, the legs aren’t replacing the equivalent structures on a fish, it’s like getting legs jutting out of our chest.
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Oh yeah, he should have stuck with waiting for the evolution to do its job, mixing in those other regimens messed with it in a bad way.
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And the over-muscled legs seem so clearly human-male, that puts the oversharing open fish mouth projecting forward just about where his features essential to continued evolution in another generation might be found.
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I would put this in the EW category. In fact, I was just commenting to Hubby the other day that outright alien/scary movie/tv creatures don’t frighten me (I admire the imagination and the work[wo]manship), but take a human figure and distort it somehow (the goddess Kali with her six arms, for example), and it is nightmarish to me. Like this . . .
Hieronymus Bosch’s artwork has many of these human/animal mutations.
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PS – Don’t skip leg day.
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It looks odd because the fish are drawn in a cartoony-style, while the legs are drawn in a more realistic style, and placed in a rather bizarre location for a fish — even for a cartoon fish.
It’s like if there was a drawing of a beautiful, shapely woman wearing a sleek dress, and on top of her shoulders, where you might expect a neck and head to be, you instead saw one of those yellow happy-face emojis.
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The thing which spoils any story: too much detail.
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Land fish has neither gills nor nostrils. Not sure about water fish. Maybe they breathe through their mouths?
Land fish has evolved an eyebrow, not yet morphed into a unibrow.
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Uncanny valley territory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
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I did an image search for “reverse mermaid” but decided those results were waaay to creepy to post.
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It’s ridiculous! Everyone knows evolution is just a theory! So the fish is talking nonsense. :)
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The creepy association for me was something that has haunted me for about 60 years: the cover art for Nightmares and Geezenstacks. Alas, I can’t figure out how to embed an image, but you can see it on the wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmares_and_Geezenstacks . The leggy creature is from the Bosch painting The Last Judgement, as Andréa mentioned. (The dragon-woman figure isn’t by Bosch – it’s a drawiing by Heinrich Kley.)
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That certainly is derived from Bosch. Let’s see if this will embed correctly:
(There was some attribution text suggested but I can’t find it again.)
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Speaking of mermaids . . .
https://safr.kingfeatures.com/api/img.php?e=png&s=c&file=Qml6YXJyby8yMDIxLzAzL0JpemFycm9fcC4yMDIxMDMyNF82NTcucG5n
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. . . and . . .
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. . . and another one . . .
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Andréa: A FishBit! And, yuck.
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