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Cover Snark: How Do Legs Work? (Diagrams Included)

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Welcome back to Cover Snark!

Love the Duke by Amelia Grey. A historical cover. A man and woman are in a parlor. The man has blond hair and his navy coat is slight open to reveal his chest. He's behind a blonde woman in a blue dress, who appears to be squeezing her legs together.

Amanda: Does she have to pee?

Claudia: Yes! Also, his left pant leg is missing?

Sarah: Why is the perspective weird? Their legs look so short and their heads are so large?

Okay taking another look, I think the angle of her hip looks too low.

So it looks like her legs are short and her midsection is bizarro long, and her head is sized correctly, just looks out of whack with the leg.

Sarah: So frame one is where her hips likely are, and frame two is where it looks like her hips are because of her leg position.

Elyse: That’s like the walk you do when your period gushed and you’re trying to get to the potty without spillage.

Sarah: COME ON. YOU’RE NOT EVEN TRYING.

Tara: This is so bad it might actually be…perfect?

Sarah: It reminds me so much of 2010s web design when folks were going for an 80s aesthetic updated.

Tara: It also feels like one of those “which mood are you?” memes. Yesterday I was a bottom right, but today I’m a bottom left.

Sarah: Oh my gosh you are RIGHT.

A continuation from last Snark’s Hanover Square romance:

Pall Mall Peer by Annabelle Anders. A headless woman in a green dress sits on a brown horse. A blond man in a green waistcoat stands nearby, holding the woman's calf.

From Susie: Do all these heroes in this series have a Leg Thing? I mean, no shame, but that last one is giving me pause. Like even that horse is offended.

Sarah: She’s not really on that horse, is she?

Elyse: The horse is like “WTF. Why am I involved in this?”

She is floating in the air next to that horse.

Amanda: Pall Mall like in the cigarettes?

Fleet Street Scoundrel by Annabelle Anders. A room with a purple chaise and a lit fireplace. A headless woman in a purple dress stands in front of the chaise. A man in an open white linen shirt sits on the floor. He's wearing glasses and has his arm wrapped around the woman's knee.

Sarah: OH MY GOOD GOD HOLY HELL

Y’all are not going to believe this one.

LOOK at that fucking guy.

Elyse: How long is her upper leg? How is her knee attached? What in the orthopedic hell is happening here?

How. Just how.

Sarah: this is going to be a “trying to figure out how legs work’ cover snark

The outward curve of purple fabric near or at her hip is disorienting.

Elyse: Maybe she has backwards knees like the horse her sister is inexplicably floating next to it.

Bond Street Bachelor by Annabelle Anders. A man with dark hair and a light beard in black jacket, silver waistcoat, and white ascot, walks along a dimly lit street. A woman is in a teal dress is tossed over his shoulder. We just see her butt and legs.