That is a dead butterfly [0] being reanimated, not a live butterfly flying
[0]: https://www.emilydamstra.com/please-enough-dead-butterflies/
Until I clicked on the link, I thought you were just using a metaphor :)
I'd also link to a recent HN post [0] exploring butterfly flight. The top comment shows the actual flight pattern of a butterfly.
Perhaps zombie butterfly fly differently, but otherwise it's doubly dead.
This isn't a real nit, but I figured I throw it out there anyway.
Ugh one of those things I kinda hate to know now.
It ruined pretty much all butterfly drawings for me. It's the kind of thing that is better not knowing lol
I think it's overblown. It made me pay more attention to butterflies in the real world and what I see is when landed they often flap their wings intermittently. So I just think of the drawings with wings open as catching one of those moments.
I agree with your sentiment, the human body is sometimes considered most beautiful with the limbs extended in dance, that does not mean it is always posed that way. I lay in the "corpse pose" every day, it does not mean I am dead.