Today's palette comes from a British army recruitment poster printed in 1916. We're pretty deep into World War I at this point, so there's been a lot of war-adjacent posters. We continue my impromptu series of vaguely threatening travel posters with my partner's homestate, Texas. Specifically the city of Austin, a place very near and dear to their heart. Now, there's not really a cryptid specific to Austin. But in my hunt for one, I stumbled across a couple of reported sightings of a "winged humanoid". It's exactly what it sounds like: A creature that appears to have the body of a human with giant wings. I think the key thing that differentiates them from your everyday angel is that the wings are reportedly bat- or dragon-like. I couldn't find more than a handful of sites mentioning a variation of the same two reports, but I couldn't resist it. Why? Because it fit in perfect with what I really wanted to feature in this poster: Congress Bridge. For those who don't know, Congress Bridge in Austin, TX is home to [a huge colony of somewhere between 500,000 to 1.5 million bats](https://www.austinbats.org/bats). One of THE things to do when you're in Austin is to visit the bridge around sunset to watch the massive flocks of bats emerging from underneath the bridge. I sadly didn't get to see it the one time I was in Austin, but you can find hundreds of photos around the internet. It's so very cool and, as far as I'm aware, something really unique to Austin. I really hope that next time I'm there I get to see it. I drew. SO MANY BATS for this before I started finally copy/pasting.