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[sleepingoceans-dreaming]

Heheheheheeh jordan peterson is a cuck boy about rhizomatic life flows, he's trying to be a tree. Cuck tree. Crying over laterality. Meanwhile we be like mmmmm tasty rhizome. No lobsters allowed heehoo

[sleepingoceans-dreaming]

The conceptual idea of a vampire being moody and dramatic by casually eating an apple and sitting on your window sill before they drain you of your blood, but like, they can't eat normal food, so they have to find a way to conceal the fact they're spitting apple mouthfuls out the window

[karlovycross]

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[poppyfreeman]

jellyfish mermaid 🧜🏼‍♀️

[f1nechina]

&God

[silverhawk]

can you imagine how freaky shark mermaids would be like unlike sharks, shark mermaids would have actual arms/hands and could rely on touching things with their hands to see if they’re prey rather than having to bite like sharks do. like youre just swimming in the ocean and suddenly you feel a strong grip on your leg, you freak the FUCK out because uh what????? the fuck??? youre swimming alone in the ocean??

a head pops out of the water, dorsal fin pointed from its back and it just points at you and says in a low whisper: “i thought you were a seal. please dont swim alone like this, im sorry i scared you i just wanted to see what you are” and then disappears back into the depth. what the fuck.

[wbicepuppy]

no come back ma’am

[spoookiepie]

*under my breath* underwater girlfriend

[transmechanicus]

underwater wife

[jambambles]

Underwater love of my underwater life

[gailynovelry]

There are benefits to being a marine biologist

[weaselle]

underwater girlfriend underwater wife underwater love of my underwater life underwater benefits to underwater studies turning underwater sharks into underwater buddies underwater lovers are the partly sharky sirens seen if you’ve achieved degrees in underwater science

[amonsteronmaplestreet]

[moron-rights]

… couldn’t help it….

[gallusrostromegalus]

For Context: Underwater Temple, Underwater Monk

[dailycreaturesbysal]

Creature of the day #43: Deep

[cansu-m]

[maviyenot]

[consecuences]

[fracturedporcelaindoll]

Beautiful~

[rienafoutre]

[rocy5]

[thestuffedalligator]

The Captive Mermaid is one of those very specific cultural images which I think has only been around for the past forty years or so, but it’s basically everywhere at this point. A mermaid has been captured and is on display in a fish tank or an aquarium or in some kind of government research site.

Splash, 1984

Siren, 2018

May: The Mermaid of Lily Lake by Andy Ivanov

“Deep Trouble,” Goosebumps Terror Trips, 2007

This is also everywhere in fanfiction and fanart. You can’t swing a stick without hitting a mermaid AU featuring The Captive Mermaid.

And I can’t stop thinking about The Captive Mermaid, because it’s such a huge and recognizable image, and as far as I can tell, nobody’s recognized it as a. Thing. A theme. A trope. If you look up “mermaid aquarium art,” you’ll get hundreds and hundreds of extremely talented and beautiful pieces of art by artists online, but nobody I’ve seen has stopped to say “Oh hey this is a recurring image in western art and media, I wonder why that is.”