I think it's because I'm from a programming background, but now that I've been paying more attention to online art communities I find a lot of the attitudes within online artist circles to be obnoxious.

Like I just want to share my art with people. But a lot of other artists are, like, psychotically controlling over even really low-effort stuff. People will absolutely ruin their art going over-the-board with watermarks trying to make sure that no one can steal an image no one ever would want to steal in the first place.

Meanwhile in the programming community, releasing your work so that other people can use it is just, like, a common practice. There's a mentality of "Sure, take my work and build on to it! That's what it's there for brother!" Meanwhile in artist spaces people will be like "You clearly copied this character's pose from my work, you've STOLEN from me!"

Just completely different mindsets between the two.

Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: Ghost Carriages

Not 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.

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.