(I've been seeing art going around of @chimkin-samich's mermaid Caine and have ALSO been seeing art of Mer!Bubble and saw someone questioning the presence of other mers, so I'm just gonna throw out the information. I'm largely inactive on Tumblr but like... Thems my AUs so I may as well put the information out there, lmao.
Rehabilitation AU (Primary)
An AU in which OC's/Sonas Ayala (mine) and Tari (Chimkin's) run a specialized rehab center and sanctuary focused on Merfolk. In the context of the AU, Ayala is the owner with a lot of knowledge on mer and is the one in charge of arranging for the various specimen to be brought to the location. Tari is a "veterinarian" and caretaker. Other human characters include Crysta (mine) who is a biologist that routinely does lab-work to monitor the overall health of the specimens, and eventually Kinger; one of Caine's creators who eventually reached out.
Caine is specified as being an experimental recreation of an extinct species of mer, who is deemed a failure due to being born deformed. He was kept around and used as a basis to eventually create Abel; a much more successful variant. Things take a negative turn for Caine following Abel's creation, and Chimkin's art tells the story from there. Ultimately Caine is due to be culled and vivisected for research purposes due to not being a major problem that has cost them more than he could ever be worth. He's kept around long enough to provide what is needed to make the next desirable experiment, but is both neglected and abused during that process (the muzzle plays a key role here).
Through Kinger's timely intervention, Caine is rescued by the Rehab center before he can officially be culled. But not before more physical damage can be done (the vivisection process had already started by the time the emergency payment was offered). Caine is saved, moved to the rehab center, and then the long care/recovery process starts. During which he becomes very close to Tari.
A while later Bubble winds up coming into play. He is a 2nd failed experiment born lacking "scales". He is bald. Only having the thick armor plating on his head (and the teeth) while otherwise lacking all forms of armor. In addition to this he as leucism. He is very pale, with very delicate skin, and develops a lot of issues as a result. He is easily wounded, has no protection from skin parasites, and requires specialized care/housing. Bubble's creators reach out to Ayala to sell him, effectively strongarming the purchase because she'll know that he'll ALSO be culled if she doesn't buy him. And considering that she perceives Mer to be effectively the same as people, she can't in good conscious just allow him to be murdered. (Bubble is noted as desperately wanting to be around Caine but largely can't be due to risks. Not just because of Caine's history, but because Caine is sharp.)
Other mer noted as being in the facility are Sun, Moon, and Eclipse. All of whom are rescued circus performers. Eclipse is specifically noted as having been born wild and poached, whereas Sun and Moon were born in captivity. None can be returned to the wild. All of them are brought to the facility with severe problems (health wise and mental health wise) brought on by poor care and the abuse that went into conditioning them to be circus performers. Sun and Eclipse are "Bettas". I have yet to decide for Moon (I'm more inclined to make him an eel).
Personal OC's that are mers include Scorpius and Hollow (Blood Moon OC). Scorpius is a Lionfish and Hollow is a giant eel hybrid that was also created in a lab setting.
In some variants of the AU, Abel is actually noted as SURVIVING the attack but is left maimed. He is also eventually sold to Ayala for rehab purposes, and there's lots of fun drama in that regard.
Sea-Witch AU's (there are a bunch)
There are multiple variants of this AU. Named this way because they all involve a focus on sea-witches and in pretty much all of them, someone has been turned into a mer.
There is a variant of the AU where Tari is a human princess who abandoned her role to become a mermaid and has to try and integrate herself into an underwater world that is largely designed to reject her or judge her (due to current conflicts with human and her father in specifics). In this one she winds up developing relationships with Sun (Lionfish), Moon (Shark), and Eclipse (Orca) and there's some fun drama.
There is a variant of the same AU where all of the details are the same, only instead of encountering the DCA inspired mer, Tari winds up encountering Caine. Who is ALSO a human that was turned into a mer... Only the sea witch in question intentionally turned him into a malformed monster and tortured him, leading to him becoming a highly dangerous entity. She tames him and rehabilitates him with the power of friendship.
Yet another variant of the AU where Tari is actually born a mer but was born into a not-great family that treated her like property and put her in bad situations (which would've eventually led to her dying). She is Confiscated and then adopted by a Sea Witch (Crysta) and taught magic alongside Ayala (Sea-witch in training). Tari very specifically is NOT a Sea Witch in this setting (due to lore related reasons and rules) and is instead something called a Vorlocc. Which is a magic user trained by a witch who failed to undergo all of the rituals that are required to create a witch.
This AU is in turn broken up into at least 2 variants. One where Tari encounters and helps a Human Caine, who then goes on to get himself transformed into a monstrous and deformed mer by a human magic user; and another where Caine was formerly human but was transformed into a monstrous mer by an entirely different Sea Witch out of spite due to having wronged the merfolk. In both of these settings, Caine largely forgets who he was as a human. He is much more dangerous in one than the other. But Tari winds up being there for him regardless.
In all variants of this AU, Ayala is a Sea Witch (and the one that transforms human Tari into a mer) and she is very specifically an Octopus. Crysta is the witch that made Ayala; and Crysta's mentor is the one responsible for Caine's creation in certain iterations.
Subnautica AU
This one is still in development. It is very canon-divergent from the actual story of Subnautica (it is instead the equivalent of Space Australia, in the sense that it is an entire planet that violent criminals were banished to and imprisoned in). Humanity is trapped in space after fucking up Earth and search for a new "homeworld" is underway, leading to Ayala being stranded on the waterworld.
Ayala is just trying to survive in this hostile new world. All the while there is a hostile Cartel formed up of the trapped descendants of those that were banished to the planet thousands of years prior; as well as individuals that have been FORCED to join after also winding up stranded on the world (ships that get too close get shot down because the "Wardens" very much think that the planet is still a prison and that the inhabitants are prisoners who cannot be allowed to escape).
Tari is a former Cartel member who has escaped and is intentionally causing problems. Kinger and Queenie are some of the more "recent" additions (who are being held against their will, tortured, and experimented on). Jax has been born into the Cartel and has ALSO been experimented on.
The Cartel members experiment using a highly mutagentic substance made from the remains of deceased Wardens (who are highly advanced, self-replicating, shapeshifting entities made up of super-colonies of microscopic organisms that are both machine and organic) to force sudden "adaptations" and mutations. The end goal being to find a way to access a special form of Telepathy that can be used to manipulate the Wardens into just letting everyone leave the planet.
Caine is the result of one of these experiments and is a Telepathic Mutant composed of the DNA of multiple "Leviathans". In this AU he DID kill and consume Abel; but it wasn't out of malice and more out of a warped desire to protect them from harm. He is deemed a failed experiment and is kept imprisoned in the waters around the Cartel base, where his whole purpose is to be a violent, murderous, guard dog. (He is eventually set free).
There's a lot going on in this AU and I don't feel like describing it all. But this reveals the gist of it.
And that's all the current AUs that feature the Mermaid Caine design that Chimkin came up with. So far.
I was listening to "A Sadness Runs Through Him" by The Hoosiers and had the image of something along the lines of what I drew, the line art and anatomy is a little buns but its FINE! Just ignore it :3 I will do a more anatomically correct and clean version when I am not on 0 hours of sleep -w-
Common ADHD experience: coming back to a task you thought you had finished, only to find out ya didnât finish it and for some reason your brain checked it off the to do list.
Effectively making you forget about it until the crucial moment you need the result of that task being done so you can do another task pertaining to it. ONLY to find you have to do two tasks now, one being extremely overdue to the point of seriously hindering the second task you now have.
*screams into pillow designated as the ADHD scream pillow*
Hi so, our pigeon son likes to act normal and make a normal check up at the vet turn into multiple tests and meds that eat into a large portion of our grocery budget (heâs alright just some parasites that are better taken care of now than later!)
If anyone can help so we can afford both his meds and our groceries that would help immensely, weâll link the Kofi and also proof of the visit as well down below
No pressure of course but any bit helps us
Ko-fi goal <- link to our kofi
The second image is in Italian but itâs his second prescription that weâre still unsure of the cost but it shouldnât be more than 25 bucks, first one was 5 bucks and already acquired
just like, if there's a history at your institution of disabled kids not being able to make it you realise that's your fault right. like why don't you fucking do something about it. i guess they tried to do something about it with me and it failed so they let me go. crazy. nice work. why should we try to do any better.
only 5% of people with adhd who go to college finish a degree. FUCKING. FIVE!!! PERCENT!!!!!!!!!!!
that should disgust and enrage you.
if any other demographic of students had a 95% failure rate, we would be demanding reform and studies to understand why thatâs happening
when i was at my first university, trying to get accommodations for my ADHD, they just kept asking me what accommodations i wanted, and refused to answer when i would ask what was available to me. how the Hell am i supposed to know what i can have? whatâs available???? also, i donât know!!!! iâm an adhd sufferer, not a fucking disability expert for the fucking college, unlike you, DISABILITY EXPERT WHO WORKS FOR THE COLLEGE.
but because the us is OBSESSED with making sure no one gets anything ââfor freeââ, she literally would not tell me what my options were until i broke down in tears and asked her why she was refusing to help me. and then she did a big sigh, like i was fucking up her entire career by *checks notes* asking the disability center in my university to help me, a disabled student
at the second uni i went to, i tried to explain to a dean that i was literally two gen eds that had nothing to do with my degree away from graduating and that i was burnt out and broke and exhausted and suicidal and i just needed to be able to finish my degree without the gen eds. and this. fucking. guy. looked me right in my face and said in the most patronizing tone he could muster âif you canât handle it, then maybe college just isnât for you.â keep in mind that up until that semester, i had been an honor student who made Deanâs List every semester and didnât get below Bs. if it hadnât been for my mental breakdown, i would have graduated cum laude, maybe even summa cum laude.
but this dean of students looked a disabled person right in the face and said well i guess you just canât do it, short bus
Pulled these from a couple articles really quick but yeah the statistics are not kind. I remember writing a scathing essay about my issues with ADHD and college as part of an assignment for academic probation. I got back an email calling me entitled and lazy. Somehow, this thread helps me feel a lot better. I still have about a semester of school unfinished that Iâm unsure if Iâll finish but⊠yeah. Makes me feel better to know itâs not just me.
PSA: The Job Accommodation Network maintains a searchable database of accommodation suggestions for a wide variety of disabilities.
The full database can be accessed here and the ADHD page is here. The full database can be filtered by disability, by limitation, by work-related function, by topic, and by accommodation. Many of these accommodations are applicable to academic settings as well as the workplace.
Here are the section headers for ADHD accommodations ideas to give an overview of what the page contains - this post would become Do You Love the Color of the Accommodation if I attempted to list them all here
The ADHD page linked above also includes case examples and strategies for determining what sort of accommodations might be necessary. More broadly, the JAN website as a whole is a treasure trove of information related to the Americans with Disabilities Act and resources for both individuals and employers.
The head of disability accommodations at my college just kept ablesplaining to me that âaccommodations are to level the playing field, not give you an advantage,â and that her job is to âprotect the schoolâs rightsâ rather than help disabled students. The only accommodations they would offer me were 1. extra time on tests, and 2. an alternative test-taking location - neither of which I needed. I ended up getting (most of) what I actually needed by unofficially asking the individual professors, but it should have been legally protected.
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