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MERMAIDS!

[mermaid-offical]

I love mermaids now I am mermaid-offical

Send your mermaids to me for inspection 👍

All mermaids are good mermaids

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[mermaid-offical]

"Why are boy mermaids so rare?"

Male mermaids are actually tiny and pathetic like anglerfish males end post

[aliensatemysocks]

if we had the ability to breathe underwater do you think it'd feel the same as breathing air

like would it smell different like air does or would it taste different since its a liquid

and would we be able to see air like we see water or would it stay the same bc technically we could still breathe air as well as water so idk how that would work

[mermaid-offical]

If we could breathe water we wouldn't have the same respiratory tract we would have gills. The way gills work is that it is part of the circulatory system with constant water moving over the capillaries (water in through mouth, out through gill flaps) and the capillaries engage in Weird Biological Stuff™️ and receives oxygen while expelling carbon dioxide. We likely would have no function for lungs (even though there are some fish who have lungs). So this means our anatomy probably would look different. We most likely would have a stronger jaw to keep our mouths open while breathing. We most likely would have our gills on our necks because that is where our carotid artery is and we would most likely receive oxygen there as it is one of the most significant arteries, sending blood directly into the brain. Even though I am fond of mermaids having their gills on their ribs. Apart from all of that, our eyes would also change because as of now, human eyes are not meant to withstand the pressure of water directly on them. Fish also don't have eyelids so perhaps we would evolve to not have eyelids. Also we have different shaped corneas than fish so they would also change probably.

The reason humans as they are cannot see air but can see water is because they are different densities. But when our eyes change so that we are better able to see underwater then perhaps we will be able to not see water but yes see air. Who knows?

But then you say what if humans could breathe both, are you referring to a specific animal that can do both? Because the things I am thinking are like, penguins, dolphins, whales, seals, and the thing with those critters is while they can hold their breath FREAKISHLY long. They can't breathe underwater. Or are you suggesting our body would morph to be something like a tadpole that way we keep most of the same physiology in the respiratory department but instead have outer gills which inhale through diffusion. But diffusion is when there is less molecules on the inside so the molecules wanna spread out and go inside. Because I hate to break it to you but our bodies would probably have to be a LOT smaller for that to work any sort of well. We're all gonna have COPD ☠️☠️☠️

Also while we might have some sort of olfactory sense we probably would not have noses the same way we do now because our noses currently connect to our respiratory system. Fishes don't do that ☝️ while fishes do have noses, it is different from their respiratory system and it just stimulates the nerve cells in their nose and their brains go "omg a scent" and yes because of our new human physiology, we probably would smell things differently than we do now.

We probably would not mind the taste of water because it is constantly streaming into our mouths so we can breathe so it would become like dead to the taste of water after a while. Which would be when you're a baby if this ever evolves into reality. I mean we might taste plankton or something if they ever decide to just float on into our mouths but other than that probably not

And you might be asking "if we as fish have to keep our mouth open all the time, how will we eat?" And let me tell you I had the same question. Luckily Britannica knows the answer. So imagine you're a happy little fish human and you're walking along your new atlantian home and you find a crab! What a delicious treat! So you bite him, in doing so you have water in your mouth because you live underwater in the Lost city of Atlantis of course because we're not cheapskates around here. Well actually we might be we just ate a crab off the street. Whatever so we're eating the crab and we're chewing well at the same time, the water that was in your mouth is flowing over your gills and out your gill flap as you swallow your bite of crab down your esophagus. So then after you swallow you open your mouth again and in comes more water at the same time you're taking another bite, you see where I'm headed with this.

I hope this helps your question. All of my research was done on Britannica. That was mostly for the tadpole section though because I'm decently good at marine biology but frogs aren't marine animals for like. The majority of their lives

Disclaimer: I am not a marine biologist I'm just a person who likes mermaids

You also might be interested in sirens because sirens are known for singing above water when they are mermaids and have gills so they can probably also breathe air if they are singing on rocks above water. Make sure you look up siren mermaid if you are interested in that because "siren" might give you like. Flashing lights or something idk. No photosensitive epileptic seizures or migraines on my watch ☝️ /silly /j

[the-court-ask-rp]

Great news! I have officially accepted a full time job as an engineering technologist for the Navy. This means that roleplay will be spotty at best. Thank you for your patience and understanding!

[mermaid-offical]

Favorite mermaid?

THE IARA

I love my warrior princess baby who hates men <3 you want real feminism? THERE SHE ISSSS

Try to portray the story however you want I guess 🙄 This story would be so easy to fuck up like they did to poor Medusa. but the fact of the matter is my girl is swimming on BUSINESS. She was better than her brothers and so they drowned her like tf?? Take the L bro 😭 and then she killed them in return >:) YES GIRL YOU GO!!

Now she hates men which tbh I would too

BUT SHE HELPS OUT GIRLS!! If she finds that a girl is not safe on land she will turn her into a mermaid and take care of her <3

THIS IS MODERN FEMINISM TALKING I EXPECT TO RUN THE WORLD IN SHOES I CANNOT WALK IN

[glitchyk]

Everyone should go bother(/aff) @mermaid-offical because it’s Mer-May and I haven’t seen anyone bothering them about it

[mermaid-offical]

That's probably because I was logged out lmfao

ITS MERMAID SEASON YALL

[count-sydula]

If you were a mermaid what type would you be

- siren

- ningyo

- renyu

- iara

- finfolk

- nøkken

- Kullulu

I'll do you one better have you ever heard of a rusałka...

Hi tkl

[mermaid-offical]

OH MY GOD I FORGOT ABOUT THEM

hi Syd 😁

Those are the ones that die by some death (it has to be semi violent like drowning or suicide iirc) and then turn into evil mermaids right?

[biteygremlinanon]

If you were a mermaid what type would you be

- siren

- ningyo

- renyu

- iara

- finfolk

- nøkken

- Kullulu

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

From what I know: siren, but not the fish ones, the bird ones

@the-court-ask-rp what do you think?

[mermaid-offical]

I think you would be a Renyu because, respectfully, what the fuck

You are a gremlin similar to the renyus <3

/respectfully /affectionate

[mermaid-offical]

when I was a kid I had a speculative biology and histroy book about mermaids and I lost it :( i really want to find it again but I forgot what its called :(

THAT SOUNDS AWESOME BRO I WISH I HAD SOMETHING LIKE THAT

After asking the internet, you may be talking about Merpeople: A Human History Amazon link

[halfofafeatheredcat]

sadly that's not it but i did ask r/whatisthatbook so hopefully i'll find it again 🤞🤞🤞🤞

[mermaid-offical]

If you find it you gotta tell me!!

[halfofafeatheredcat]

it was in the similar items tab on amazon!! i thought i would never see it again TT

Amazon.com: The Secret History of Mermaids: 9780763645151: Ari Berk, Wayne Anderson, Virginia Lee, Douglas Carrell, Gary Chalk, Matt Dangler

[mermaid-offical]

I was close enough that you could find it through the similar tab and I count that as a win

HECK YEAH MERMAIDS!!

[mermaid-offical]

when I was a kid I had a speculative biology and histroy book about mermaids and I lost it :( i really want to find it again but I forgot what its called :(

THAT SOUNDS AWESOME BRO I WISH I HAD SOMETHING LIKE THAT

After asking the internet, you may be talking about Merpeople: A Human History Amazon link

[halfofafeatheredcat]

sadly that's not it but i did ask r/whatisthatbook so hopefully i'll find it again 🤞🤞🤞🤞

[mermaid-offical]

If you find it you gotta tell me!!

[mermaid-offical]

when I was a kid I had a speculative biology and histroy book about mermaids and I lost it :( i really want to find it again but I forgot what its called :(

THAT SOUNDS AWESOME BRO I WISH I HAD SOMETHING LIKE THAT

After asking the internet, you may be talking about Merpeople: A Human History Amazon link

[mysticsybilmakes]

My boy, Reed- 2025 design update

[mermaid-offical]

OH MY GOSH A MERMAID

THAT IS 1,000,000% A NINGYO 👏👏👏

LOOK AT HIMMM HE DOESN'T ABIDE BY THE WESTERN BEAUTY STANDARD AT ALL <33

And are those red marks gills??? You've made it look like it's painful for bro to breathe and personally I'm very into the whole "make your oc's have chronic pain" thing

I like the green thing because it's not actually clothing it's just the way his colors are but it LOOKS like clothing. Similar to (deep sea) barrel fish that like. Their nose looks like eyes and you think "Oh, what a cool little fish-" and then you go "WOAH !!! That's its nose!!"

I've gotta say that given the hair and the background he's probably a little closer to shore than a Ningyo should be so just remind him to not get caught and eated

But given those teeth he'd probably turn the tables real quick he'll be fine

MERMAID-OFFICAL APPROVED

YAY MERMAID!!!

[otherwindow]

Mermaids LOVE shoes. 

Many of the materials present in footwear can withstand deep sea pressure, hence why human remains in sunken ships disappear but the shoes don’t. 

When fishing up an old boot, check inside for valuables, as a mermaid may have been using it as a bag.

[otherwindow]

In multiple mermaid languages, the words for “bag” and “footwear” are interchangeable. In a sense, it’s poetic, as footwear is needed to “carry” yourself on land.

[otherwindow]

Helping send out messages across the seven seas.

[otherwindow]

[big-ass-magnet]

sailor: oh my god…thank you for rescuing me…I owe you my life…how can I ever repay you?

mermaid: *points to his feet*

sailor: I don’t under–

mermaid: give me your shoes

sailor: what?

mermaid: GIVE ME YOUR

[glitchyk]

You’ve probably seen this before but @mermaid-offical what do you think of this

[mermaid-offical]

Depends on the type I fear. Sirens would love shoes as storage devices for small fish and crustaceans should they be unable to find any more filling food.

The Iara, however, she has no use for shoes. Though, if a young girl gives her a shoe as a gift/offering, she will display it in her underwater harem.

Crocs would simply be useless to any type I can currently think of. Mermaids are generally ambush predators and hide under the water until their prey gets close enough. So unless they're using the croc as bait, it would be useless. Mermaids do not want to be above the water.

Nøkken might actually use crocs for bait. Because they're in very shallow water and many people think they can go "Oh let me pick that up out the water-" BOOM DROWNED. MERMAID FOOD.

"But mod, sirens are seen on rocks to kill pirates all the time" stfu sirens weren't even mermaids until (at least) when the Romans took over so yeah they're the only type of mermaid that does that because they weren't even mermaids at all they were supposed to be birds.

Except for the Brook horse which isn't even a true mermaid fuckin shape-shifting river spirit ass who lures women and children to the water by playing beautiful music and then drowning them and taking their soul. They don't use shoes, that's one of their tells that they're not actually human actually.

Never trust a water spirit chat. Never good. Except for maybe Kulullu, who was the ancient Mesopotamia merman but he was benevolent and if you had a statue of him in your house you would be granted abundance. Kulullu probably wouldn't use shoes because he's kinda busy warding off evil from the Gate of the Abzu. Abzu was the god of freshwater btw. So basically be nice to the water spirits and maybe they'll grant you rain for a good harvest this season.

Ningyo would not use shoes. Because they're ugly and also are generally not very human like. They're said to be more fish than human. But fr Ningyo flesh is supposed to make you eternally young and give you eternal life so people go aha I will capture and eat it but if a Ningyo escapes and does not die it will cast a curse over you. Do NOT flood your town over ningyo meat istg.

Tl;dr: some mermaids would use shoes. Some mermaids wouldn't.

[transboy-offical]

How do trans boys feel about mermaids?

- @mermaid-offical

mermaids are awesome!!

how do mermaids feel about trans boys?

[mermaid-offical]

The sirens say trans boys make good snacks, the finfolk say trans boys make good husbands, and the Iara say trans boys are the only boys worth talking to

The mermaids like the trans boys!!!

[7-eleven-offical]

We are the BEST marketers :)

*a clearly drowned man is sitting against a wall with a slurpee next to him.*

- @mermaid-offical

i mean, looks like he bought a slurpee so id have to agree

[mermaid-offical]

Yes yes! Do you also accept eaten people as customers? We could still... encourage... them to buy slurpees.

[squiddyy-sweets]

i want to improve on my character and monster design and concept art skills. I feel like the stuff i make now is too simple and plain.

i have ideas but im scared to draw and commit beacuse i feel ill just give up or i wont do as well as i want on them and be upset.

anyways, heres a random mermaid i did :p

[mermaid-offical]

OMG A MERMAID

IMMEDIATELY that's a siren

I see strong arms, I see dark eyes that would help her be able to see in the dark ocean, I see grey scales that would help her blend into the darkness, I see claws that would help her rip into her prey.

The thing that throws me here is the hair, but I believe it could be kind of like an anglerfish. Similar to how they lure their prey with the light antennae thing, this mermaid lures her prey with her hair, which looks like kelp (food, shelter for small creatures)

It reminds me of a siren like from the show Sirens, definitely leaning more into the monster aspect than the Greco-roman "they were so beautiful" aspect. But that's okay because it was really their voice, wasn't it?

I LOVE IT, MERMAID-OFFICAL APPROVED

WOAH MERMAID!!!

[the-pineapple-offical]

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[7-eleven-offical]

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[the-pineapple-offical]

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[mermaid-offical]

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