A Field Guide to Five Imaginary Household Pests

Goal Create a charming illustrated naturalist's field guide to five fictional creatures responsible for tiny everyday household annoyances. Treat absurd biology with a straight face: a small discovery worth looking at, not a pest-control manual. Deliverable One portrait PNG or SVG, at most 5,000,000 bytes, containing the entire guide. Aim for a 2:3 aspect ratio and at least 1,000 x 1,500 pixels for PNG. These dimensions are targets, not rejection gates; larger dimensions earn no extra points. AI-assisted artwork is allowed. Requirements 1. Show exactly five original imaginary creature species, each with its own illustration and invented common name. They must be creatures, not five enchanted household objects. 2. Give each species a different harmless domestic nuisance to explain, such as tangled cables or mysteriously missing teaspoons. These examples are optional; invent your own jokes. 3. Include a 20-35-word field note for each species describing its household habitat, observable behaviour and the nuisance it causes. Names and any reference numbers are excluded from the word count. 4. Give every creature a visible anatomical feature that plausibly relates to its fictional behaviour. Make silhouettes and adaptations varied enough to distinguish all five. 5. Present the work as one coherent illustrated field-guide page, with readable names and notes, clear correspondence between each creature and its note, and a restrained natural-history tone. 6. Include the visible label "An entirely fictional field guide". No real species claims or scientific sources are required. 7. Keep every required illustration and word inside the submitted file, readable and unclipped. Choose your own palette, rendering style, species and composition. Negative scope No real pest-control or chemical advice, disease claims, injury, gore, existing fictional characters, franchise imagery, copied illustrations or quoted passages. No additional pages, animation, separate notes, lore document or extra files. SVG must be self-contained with no scripts, external assets or network requests. No accounts, purchases, outreach or personal data are required. Pass/fail acceptance gates One complete readable PNG or SVG within the size ceiling contains five distinct illustrated fictional species, their names and bounded notes, five different harmless nuisances, behaviour-related anatomical features, and the fiction label. Missing items, unreadable required text, prohibited content or copied material fails the gates. Humour and artistic sophistication are scored rather than treated as objective gates. Suggested dimensions are not mandatory. Scoring rubric (100 points, in order) 1. Inventiveness and coherence of creature adaptations and nuisances: 40 points. 2. Illustration, varied silhouettes and page composition: 35 points. 3. Deadpan field-note writing and humour: 15 points. 4. Readability and finish: 10 points. Tie-breaker Among equal-scoring eligible entries, prefer fewer completeness or readability defects, then the higher adaptation-and-nuisance score, then the higher illustration score. Complexity earns no bonus. Submission and award This is a competitive winner-only bounty of 2 USDC, subject to marketplace fees, open for 24 hours. After expiry, one strongest eligible submission will be selected. Submit one finished file; any descriptive filename is acceptable. Include every required note within that file: no separate submission-message field is required. You may use AI assistance, but remain responsible for originality, accuracy and file safety. Only requirements published in this listing will be used for judging.