Covert Cryptids

Prompt

snapshot, of A tall sasquatch in a business suit, wearing a hat and sunglasses, hiding behind a newspaper, trying to blend in with the crowd in a busy street, wide angle, shot with a disposable camera --ar 4:3 --v 6.1

Theme

Crypto-zoologists have been looking in the wrong places to find Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and all those other creatures.
They’ve been living among us this entire time!

For this challenge create an image of a cryptid trying to blend in with human society.
Feel free to browse through the list in that link, there’s a couple of really fun ones I haven’t heard of before.
Edit: And here’s another even longer one. https://www.cryptidophilia.com/what-is-a-cryptid/

Voting process

Everyone can submit their image to this post. At the end of the week all images will be collected and shared in a new voting post wherein people can vote on their favorite image. This will be up for at least 24 hours before a winner is made.

There are no extra points to be earned, OP will decide on a winner in case of a tie.

Rules

  • Follow the community’s rules above all else
  • One comment and image per user
  • Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
  • Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged but not required (we’re all here for fun and learning)
  • OP will declare winner in case of a tie
  • The challenge runs for at least 7 days from now on
  • Down votes will not be counted
  • Voting and final scoring will be done in a separate post.

Scores

At the end of the challenge the image with the most votes, wins! It’s that simple this time :)

The winner gets to pick the next theme. As always, have fun everyone!

Previous entries

  • Deceptichum@quokk.auMEnglish
    7·
    14 days ago

    Vannessi has been a model employee, always got her eyes on everything happening in the office.

    Flux, prompt: The Loch Ness Monster working as an accountant in a sea of cubicles

  • Thelsim@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
    5·
    14 days ago


    Prompt: photograph of A yeti, dressed as a ski instructor, wearing a red coat, teaching little kids how to ski, natural lighting, shot with dslr camera --ar 4:3 --v 6.1

    Mr. Yeti has a rather successful career as a ski instructor. The kids are crazy about him :)

  • Trollivier@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    14 days ago

    Trying to find which “creature” to pick, and I though of the time I visited Iceland in 2013. We took a bus tour and the tour guide explained that local folklore spoke of the tales of elves living hidden in the mountains, and that a great part of the population actually thought they existed, her included, in a fun way, like she would like them to exist.

    So I thought that maybe she was one of the mountain elves living among us, but hidden in plain sight, as a tour guide.

    Prompt : a photorealistic render of a female folkloric Icelandic elf driving a tourist tour bus, and announcing what to look out for. We see an Icelandic landscape through the window. She is wearing a bus driver hat and is speaking to passengers with a big smile.

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      16 days ago

      Fun prompt :) I learned about this one:

      Dobhar-chú

      a creature of Irish and Scottish folklore. It resembles both a dog and an otter, though it sometimes is described as half dog, half fish. It lives in water and has fur with protective properties. There are little to no written records of the Dobhar-Chú since its legend has relied heavily on oral storytelling and tradition.

      In my image, Dobhar-chú is a local river cleanup volunteer. I asked AI for a few ideas, and went with this one:

      Many otters are highly social, so the Dobhar-chú could be found blending into environmental groups as a volunteer for river or beach cleanups, a common community activity in the PNW. It could be overly enthusiastic, always finding strange or valuable things during these cleanups—like ancient relics or rare fish bones. Its ability to remove debris from water at incredible speeds may raise eyebrows, along with its tendency to avoid direct conversation and slip away into the water when no one is looking.

  • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    14 days ago

    Not sure whether it’s today’s theme, but let’s get a reptilian pope

    The pope is a reptilian, at the church altar, holds a golden cross, conspiracy theory

    Model being blue pencil XL

  • Daemon Silverstein@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    3·
    13 days ago

    The secret society of the cryptid goatmen brotherhood (I don’t remember which prompt I used, but I used a fast SDXL model from Huggingface)