diff --git a/1.1.md b/1.1.md
index ef0a025d..4315e801 100644
--- a/1.1.md
+++ b/1.1.md
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 
 - Rename `--shuffledir` and `$shuffledir` to `shuffle_dir`.
 - Added support for ascii art inside of text files.
+- If `--image` and `--ascii` are left empty we fallback to ascii distro mode.
 
 ```sh
 fetch --ascii "path/to/ascii" --ascii_color 2
diff --git a/fetch b/fetch
index b53af5e1..f3fb550f 100755
--- a/fetch
+++ b/fetch
@@ -1862,7 +1862,8 @@ while [ "$1" ]; do
         --block_width) block_width="$2" ;;
 
         # Image
-        --image) image="$2" ;;
+        --image) image="$2"
+            [ -z "$2" ] && image="ascii" ;;
         --image_backend) image_backend="$2" ;;
         --shuffle_dir) shuffle_dir="$2" ;;
         --font_width) font_width="$2" ;;
@@ -1876,7 +1877,8 @@ while [ "$1" ]; do
         --clean) rm -rf "$imgtempdir" || exit ;;
 
         # Ascii
-        --ascii) image="ascii"; ascii="$2" ;;
+        --ascii) image="ascii"; ascii="$2"
+            [ -z "$2" ] && ascii="distro" ;;
         --ascii_color) ascii_color="$2" ;;
         --ascii_distro) ascii_distro="$2" ;;