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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

wildly inaccurate animal illustrations is such a vibe

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Look at samurai era illustrations of lions and leopards. The artists only had the skins to work off, so they used house cats for the faces. And they thought they were the same species, with lions being males and leopards being females.