Posts by BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club
(DIR) Post #B1LHa2V4CeM90f3wQK by BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club
2025-12-17T14:30:58.890421Z
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Over time I think I've come to realize that the people who talk about liking things "ironically" are just insecure about the fact that they enjoy things that others might perceive as dumb, so they spin this elaborate cope about the thing they like being "so bad its good" so that others don't judge them for liking it.
(DIR) Post #B1LLGPGmEixJeYGxPc by BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club
2025-12-17T15:12:19.084372Z
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@feralphilosophernc Ah yes, the "Star Wars Prequels" approach.
(DIR) Post #B1LSpLnfpKX2hvGlAe by BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club
2025-12-17T16:36:45.052225Z
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@slipgate Exactly!
(DIR) Post #B1kGHMSqmFPStKJCEa by BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club
2025-12-29T15:44:14.170865Z
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Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Ghost of Bloody Bride Bridge.This is one of the more well-known Wisconsinite ghosts, appearing at Bloody Bride Bridge near Stevens Point. She appears as a woman in a blood-soaked bridal outfit, and appears either in the road or in the backseat of a driver's car.
(DIR) Post #B1mFKaqA4ZVehz6q5w by BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club
2025-12-30T14:43:03.021211Z
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Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Gloomnadoom.This being takes the form of a small, hunched, hooded figure. His hooded robes obscure all parts of him from view apart from his pointed wooden shoes.The gloomnadoom is usually invisible, and will climb onto the shoulders of a chosen victim, gradually increasing in weight and causing sadness in its victim until its victim can no longer move under the crushing mass.The gloomnadoom is also somewhat an obvious metaphor for depression. In that vein, it is sad that alcohol can temporarily drive a gloomnadoom away, but it will always come back more powerfully later.The gloomnadoom legend was found in Wisconsin's Scottish immigrant communities, though interesting no such legend can be found in Scotland. Rather the legend seems to have originated in Germany under the name of the aufhocker, and was adapted and renamed by the Scots-Sconnies.
(DIR) Post #B1t9N7SaWb0Ipzck6K by BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club
2026-01-02T22:39:14.137566Z
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A scene from a dream I had once involving the angel of death. Had the dream many years ago, and tried to bring it to life a couple times over those years, but only now do I have the know-how to make an image that does the scene justice.
(DIR) Post #B1vNnAHmQe8unxnmwi by BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club
2026-01-04T00:30:14.684429Z
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@f0x @bajax More cheese is generally speaking the solution to all of life's problems.
(DIR) Post #B1yxCgQEADBvaDXKF6 by BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club
2026-01-05T17:51:10.139414Z
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Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: Long Lake's Monsters.Long Lake is a pretty diverse lake when it comes to the number of monsters that supposedly dwell within it (not that much when you compare it to Devil's Lake, of course, but notable apart from that anomaly).First and foremost, there have been sightings of your standard sea monsters in the lake.Secondly, there is a rather unique sighting of a large, black, swan-like lake monster with a dragon-like head, which also is said to dwell somewhere underwater in the lake.Finally, there was a sighting of a giant salamander on a road nearby a lake, which has been theorized as being a "baby monster" or an infant form of one of the other lake monsters.
(DIR) Post #B211pnJZG8YqO2FLCS by BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club
2026-01-06T17:52:28.343718Z
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Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: EVERYTHING that's in Devil's Lake.Yesterday I posted the monsters of Long Lake and mentioned it has one of the largest varieties of monsters in the State. That got me thinking that today I should present THE lake with the MOST monsters and spirits in or around it according to local lore: Devil's Lake.Some of today's entries are repeats, things I've posted before. But I think it's worth putting together something with EVERYTHING that Devil's Lake has to offer, to show just how deep the lore of this one lake goes!To start, there is a flying ghost canoe seen hovering over the lake from time to time. Not much is known about it, apart from it being a modern legend and similar to many other ghost canoe legends found statewide.There is also a belief among the Native Ho-Chunk that various large boulders around the state which are shaped like human faces had powerful, protective spirits dwelling within them. One of the cliff faces surrounding Devil's Lake is one such rock.The Lake was also believed by the Ho-Chunk to be the dwelling place of the wakcéxi, or water-spirits. Hodag-shaped creatures analogous to both the underwater panthers and the horned serpents in the legends of other Native groups. The wakcéxi used the lake to travel to different worlds in the cosmos, as the lake was both bottomless and thought to bridge the worlds.The thunderbirds were believed to do battle with the wakcéxi at the site of the lake from time to time. The thunderbirds would drop their eggs like bombs down at the lake-dwelling wakcéxi, and the wakcéxi would conjure up waterspouts to fire boulders back up at the thunderbirds. This was said to be the reason why the land around Devil's Lake is covered with boulders.Eventually the son of a wakcéxi chief captured the son of the thunderbird chief in battle, and the wakcéxi forced the thunderbirds to agree to a peace treaty. As part of the treaty, the thunderbird chief's son married the wakcéxi chief's daughter. The couple had a son, which for reasons of "spirit genetics is just weird like that" ended up being a merman. The merman was thought to still dwell in the lake.One green-colored wakcéxi in specific was said to have dwelled in Devil's Lake and to have demanded virgin sacrifices from the Ho-Chunk living near the area.In later times, American pioneers in the area had a legend of a seven-headed green dragon which dwelled in the lake and which demanded virgin sacrifice from the Natives. A pretty clear instance of the earlier wakcéxi legend transforming. The dragon could only be killed if shot in the left eye of its central head.Americans in the late 19th century also thought the lake contained plesiosaur-like monsters known as the "hokuwa," which allegedly originated in earlier Nakota legends. The hokuwa was witnessed several times in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.It's perhaps worth mentioning that there are a LOT of plesiosaur legends in Wisconsin... and most of them suspiciously emerged after Nessie got popularized. However, the hokuwa of Devil's Lake is an exception to this, as the legend was around long before Loch Ness became popular.In more modern times, people have also reported seeing a kraken-like octopus monster in the lake. The Devil's Lake kraken is one of Wisconsin's three kraken legends, along with the Lake Superior kraken and the Whitewater kraken.Finally we get to Cthulhu and the Deep Ones. See, there's this sex cult in Chicago which not only unironically believes that H.P. Lovecraft was writing factual truth disguised as fiction, but they believed H.P. Lovecraft's friend, the author August Derleth when Derleth claimed that Devil's Lake was a "Cthulhu Power Zone." The cult, known as La Couleuvre Noire, believes that the lake is a portal to R'lyeh, and from time to time they perform rituals on the shores of the lake to commune with the deep ones.Pretty much no lake in the state of Wisconsin has as much legends as Devil's Lake, apart from MAYBE the Great Lakes, and that's ONLY if you count the non-Wisconsinite legends tied to those lakes.In terms of Wisconsin lore, this lake is the deepest, which is perhaps fitting given the Ho-Chunk belief that the lake is bottomless.
(DIR) Post #B22z2rVZkIZKfFddsu by BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club
2026-01-07T16:30:39.613458Z
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Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: Let's keep the lake monster theme this week with the Fowler Lake Monster.The Fowler Lake Monster is a fairly obscure one that was spotted throughout the 19th century (but which really hasn't been spotted since).Witness accounts of it are wildly inconsistent, describing it as either a giant otter, a giant beaver, or a giant fish... and so my depiction splits the difference.
(DIR) Post #B24x0LxGHKbMdEBTSS by BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club
2026-01-08T15:17:12.250259Z
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Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Lake Michigan Lizard-Fish.This is a strange one, as it is an animal which was reportedly captured in Lake Michigan and observed in captivity in 1902, but we have no modern evidence of the creature outside of those early 20th-century reports of the people who saw it.It had an eel-like tail, lizard-like limbs, and a fish-like body, and was gray and spotted. It had no eyes, but had ears which grew larger when the animal became agitated.Most curiously, when other fish were placed into the same tank as the lizard-fish, the lizard-fish would emit poisonous "pills" which would kill and even dissolve the other fish.
(DIR) Post #B26vOpsYrTOEnWS4xc by BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club
2026-01-09T14:08:39.613192Z
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Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Lake Delavan Serpent.Most of Wisconsin's Lake Serpents are pretty much just your standard sea serpent. The Lake Delavan serpent, however, is... different.It's head was described as somewhat leonine, and completely toothless. It had golden scales that retracted telescopically. Between its glowing green eyes was a strange protuberance, which produced a “dreadful humming sound.”The serpent had a habit of attacking small boats. It would loop its body around the boat, taking its tail in its mouth like an ouroboros, and then would tighten its body until the boat was crushed.
(DIR) Post #B2TtUvbwSElCmB5Hua by BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club
2026-01-20T16:05:41.658161Z
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Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Magic Horse and the Magic Ox.These are two legends that I find rather neat, as they were recorded as legends among Wisconsin's Ojibwe, but have clear European influences, and are likely adaptations of legends that the Ojibwe got from the French.Both the horse and the ox are actually princes who have been cursed (by either a witch or the devil himself), both have a host of magical powers which they use to aid a heroic warrior on a quest. In return for the gifts they offer the hero, they eventually request that the hero decapitate them, which breaks the curse and turns the horse/ox back into a prince.In essence, they were sort of mythical fusions between the Native American concept of animal spirits and the European concept of a cursed prince.The horse was capable of disguising itself, of turning a handful of flowers into a garden, and of making a magic sword and armor which a person could use to singlehandedly defeat armies.The ox had two detachable, magical horns. The left horn could produce a massive feast, and the right horn contained a warhorse and a magical suit of armor. The ox also had the ability to prevent a windigo from reattaching its severed heads, thereby allowing the hero he was helping to permanently slay a windigo to complete his quest.I really like legends like this where the legends of two very different cultures blend together into something unique.
(DIR) Post #B2TtrEz96O4lEdZqaW by BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club
2026-01-20T16:09:43.891032Z
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Ah crap, just realized that the ox picture has the wrong horn producing the feast... Thankfully just need to flip the image and it's good... XD
(DIR) Post #B2VqmHgFk65gbGbZPk by BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club
2026-01-21T14:44:39.190888Z
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Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Swamp Augur and ... the other Swamp Augur.There are two creatures that go by the name "Swamp Augur" in Wisconsin lore, one being a type of fish, and the other a bird.The Swamp Augur Bird is rather straightforward: A ducklike bird with a corkscrew bill which it uses to dig into the swampy earth looking for food.The Swamp Augur Fish is a fish with a corkscrew horn which likes to drill through the bottom of boats. If this happened while you were in the boat, you were supposed to sprinkle cayenne pepper down the hole and onto the fish's snout.This caused the Swamp Augur to violently sneeze. And the Swamp Augur, as something of a freak, actually enjoyed this. And so it would plug the hole with its nose so that you could sprinkle more cayenne pepper on it. As long as you kept indulging in this fish's weird pleasure, it would keep the hole in your boat plugged with its snout long enough for you to get to shore.
(DIR) Post #B2WF1xUgxdHzWgCjgW by BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club
2026-01-21T19:16:22.674405Z
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@vitalis Beautiful calligraphy.
(DIR) Post #B2Xr6QfePnOgagqhou by BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club
2026-01-22T13:57:42.120629Z
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Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: Ghost CarriagesNot much to write as way of description on this one: There's been plenty of sightings of ghostly horse-drawn carriages throughout Wisconsin's history. Unsurprisingly it was more common before the invention of the automobile, and in the modern era haunted cars or spectral motorcycles have sort of replaced the phenomenon.
(DIR) Post #B2ZwVmeOihI85Q5lxY by BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club
2026-01-23T14:07:32.542095Z
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"Pinky the Ninja Mosasaurus", made an image based on a character my three-year-old daughter came up with.Originally she was holding the ninja sword with her flipper, but my daughter said "No that's not right" and explained that obviously the sword should be protruding from the ninja-mosasaurus' back. Also initially asked me to make her blue. Then had me change to red. Then purple. But now, finally, the image is perfect.Following the whims of a three-year-old's OC design has been fun!
(DIR) Post #B2Zz8nbLJpFaElOXtw by BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club
2026-01-23T14:37:02.526653Z
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@benis_redux Because my daughter insisted that that was the correct orientation for the blade. And if you're gonna make an image based on a three-year-old's designs you might as well commit even if the design makes no sense. xD
(DIR) Post #B2eW0dYyY0NfDyOBBA by BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club
2026-01-25T16:48:45.526173Z
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@vitalis @Dutch2Redux_Elecrtric_Boogaloo @NonPlayableClown To this day, we don't really linguistically differentiate the "cyan" hue from blue, despite the fact that cyan is as different from blue as yellow is from red. There's a wide spectrum of light and color and how we draw the lines between which color is which is largely arbitrary. A lot of cultures have the same word for blue and green. They can see the difference, they just linguistically consider them different hues of the same color.