[allthepresidentsmen1976]

no actually i do need to die at sea i think that would fix me

[dailyclassicart]

Charles Herbert Woodbury - "Off the Florida Coast"

[oshiwambo]

[aestum]

(by Mathias Reding)

[king-incarnadine]

We'll Make them Look Up

(A Gold-Spotted Eel and Mercury)

[aestum]

(by Philipp Düsel)

[dailyclassicart]

Winslow Homer - "The Fog Warning" (1885)

[valtsv]

tired: mermaids are all women

wired: much like elves, merfolk are mistaken by sailors for being all women because they have long hair and are very pretty

[valtsv]

inspired: merfolk actually have very different concepts of gender to humans because they’re an entirely different species with their own unique culture

[valtsv]

marine scientist: what’s your gender?

merperson: what’s a gender

marine scientist: like, are you a man or a woman?

merperson: i’m merfolk

marine scientist: no, like, what’s in your pants?

merperson: i don’t… wear any? i don’t have legs?

[9lunarseas6-deactivated20240914]

It’s a biological fact that fish do indeed change their sex to keep the male/female ratio balanced in their school population. So this fluidity actually makes more sense from a scientific standpoint than the silly idea that merfolk are born with a strictly assigned sex like humans.

[witchcraft-in-wonderland]

Merfolk are all canonically genderfluid and we love them for that

[anonymous-lizard]

Human: (invites merfolk friend to a boat party with their friends)

Merfolk: oh man, there are a lot of women here. Haha don’t worry guys, I got this :) *changes into a man to keep a balance because that’s culturally polite for merfolk*

Human: (spits drink) what the FUCK

[sexy-necromancing-bird]

OH MY GOD

[kingfisher-colours]

So in the presence of a ship with an entirely or mostly male crew, nearby mermaids would become female to keep the balance.

[ace-aussie-asshole]

That’s it. We figured out why everyone thinks merfolk are all women. Get a boat of fems out there and let’s see what they report.

[aretheslugsblessed]

Marine biology enthusiast here! This is really fun and I just want to add some notes. There are actually 3 different kinds of sex changes that fish can do, and in line with the proposed mermaid theory, they would be expierencing bidirectional hermaphroditism, in which a sex change occurs when two members of the same species meet but they’re both the same sex. The important thing to note is that, unlike the other two types this one typically allows for changes multiple times (the other two are mtf or ftm permanently), and allows for the flexibility of the condition being meeting a member of the opposite sex (as opposed to loss of the dominant male or female).

[valtsv]

tired: mermaids are all women

wired: much like elves, merfolk are mistaken by sailors for being all women because they have long hair and are very pretty

[valtsv]

inspired: merfolk actually have very different concepts of gender to humans because they’re an entirely different species with their own unique culture

[valtsv]

marine scientist: what’s your gender?

merperson: what’s a gender

marine scientist: like, are you a man or a woman?

merperson: i’m merfolk

marine scientist: no, like, what’s in your pants?

merperson: i don’t… wear any? i don’t have legs?

[9lunarseas6-deactivated20240914]

It’s a biological fact that fish do indeed change their sex to keep the male/female ratio balanced in their school population. So this fluidity actually makes more sense from a scientific standpoint than the silly idea that merfolk are born with a strictly assigned sex like humans.

[witchcraft-in-wonderland]

Merfolk are all canonically genderfluid and we love them for that

[anonymous-lizard]

Human: (invites merfolk friend to a boat party with their friends)

Merfolk: oh man, there are a lot of women here. Haha don’t worry guys, I got this :) *changes into a man to keep a balance because that’s culturally polite for merfolk*

Human: (spits drink) what the FUCK

[sexy-necromancing-bird]

OH MY GOD

[kingfisher-colours]

So in the presence of a ship with an entirely or mostly male crew, nearby mermaids would become female to keep the balance.

[ace-aussie-asshole]

That’s it. We figured out why everyone thinks merfolk are all women. Get a boat of fems out there and let’s see what they report.

[talonabraxas]

Full moon at the Temple of Poseidon in Sounio, Greece

[thecollectibles]

Pirate’s Treasure by Tatyana Kupriyanova

[thecollectibles]

The Collectibles: Best of 2024

[sailorloneperblog]

"Waiting"-Adam Gregory Burke (1971-2018) was an American animator. 

[mister-carnival]

There's salt in the air, I can taste it. I will wrap myself in the colors I wasn't taught to see. I will remember where home is.

[mister-carnival]

At the edge of the ocean, it pours endlessly, love in all it's splendor.

[mister-carnival]

Holy Water

[oceancoresunset]

National Geographic: this marine predator is extremely dangerous and mysterious, we only know so much about it due to how hostile it is

Me immediately: I’m gonna fucking pet it

[plaguedocboi]

Wait, beneath the sea floor?

OUGHGH??

OIUOHGHHVOIH!!!!!

[a-book-of-creatures]

Look below the sea floor and you may find a little dude and friend

[catboybiologist]

Ooo fun! Basically flipping over rocks to look for isopods, but thousands of feet underwater