#{beneath the waves}

[authorspirit]

Lova Randranomasina

Beneath The Waves 🌊 A 5 Oceans Legacy.

[justawolfxx]

Meet Sklep! Sklep is a very special breed of merfolk. Snail merfolk do not share the same biological features as other breeds of merfolk. Sklep is able to breathe underwater and on land for a limited amount of time. He has excellent eyesight due to having four eyes. Unlike other merfolk, snail merfolk are strictly vegetarian and feast on algae and plants they find in the water. Sklep can change out his shell during shedding.

It is common knowledge that regular snail slime can help treat getting scratched by sharp merfolk claws. Strangely enough, snail merfolk slime does not treat scratch wounds, but it is used for skincare products!

[beneath-the-waves-comic]

Miss Bella Santiago in full color! (Now you can see starting page one that Bella is wearing an oversized tank top over jeans and not just a dress with knee high boots… Even if she would much prefer to wear the latter)

BTW should be “reairing” starting this summer. In the meantime I aim to spruce up the old pages. In addition to the new colored serialization, I’ll be changing some dialogue to better fit the story and characters.

[droppingneedlesembroidery]

Glow Below by Boomerang Stitches

[interstellarbeams]

endless list of my favorite book series (1/?): the colosseum; (books 1-4) by melissa addey

My only choice, if I wish to keep him alive, if I wish to keep him safe as I promised his wife, is to lie. The promise I made her, so fleeting and casual, has in the past few hours taken on the strength of an oath in my mind, unbreakable. I swore to a woman who is now dead that I would look after her husband, ‘keep him safe’, and now I feel the burden of the promise I made so lightly.

[madcat-world]

Beneath the Waves: Underwater Forest (1 of 2) - Paweł Latkowski

[stylistic-nightmare]

Warbringer - Beneath the Waves

[world-of-tomorrow-dreams]

snow overanalyzes Ayreon - 01011001 - Part 5

hello i'm some degree of back i think and i have not forgotten about this! as always i have Thoughts about this album but i'll try to make it something that's not a disorganized jumble of words

Connect the Dots

Haha KFC song go brr

Uh I mean. Just kidding

This one did take awhile to grow on me because it's comparatively Goofy™️but it is a favorite among the friends I've forced to listen to Ayreon, and I definitely see why! Like yeah, this exactly:

It is kind of jarring though, seeing how it occurs wildly anachronistically. Here we are in the middle of an existential drama of these otherworldly aliens who have lost their humanity... and there's this Guy wrapped up in his own 21st century life. He's so very complacent with technology and very much "living for today" and I guess it's supposed to be Goofy™️and easy-listening in contrast to the Forevers.

Also Mr. L (aka Arjen Lucassen self-insert) appearance! The one human who does have a grip on what's happening! - also this song parallels The Truth Is in Here a lot, so stay tuned for that.

it's very like slice of life but in a depressing way and the subtle reference to global warming aka the sixth extinction

Also thanks Sam for pointing this out :D Anyway if you've ever wanted to listen to this song for 10 hours on repeat you can do that here (warning it is very conducive to utter chaos)

Beneath the Waves

oh yes i Love this one. Arjen probably does too seeing as he named the 01 live show after it. There's also a Room of Swords episode named after it and skimming through it makes me want to overanalyze Room of Swords except this is the wrong blog for that. so anyway.

Eight whole Forevers on this one too! This seems like the track where everybody unifies and realizes what they had before - unbeatable, untouchable, invincible, inseparable - was better than losing their humanity entirely.

So yeah. Lots to go feral about on this song. The watery vibes are fantastic, the imagery in the lyrics (especially "How I miss the scent of sweet emotions," I think about it a lot), honestly the whole crescendo... The chorus is sung three different times by three different Forevers (♡, 𓅛, ☯) in what seems to be increasing intensity. Kind of a climax at "Face the facts" both musically and thematically as they decide "it's time to act" (specifically Forever 🕈, supposedly the Forever version of the Astronomer from the Source. interesting). And then it goes ethereal and melodic again... until Forevers 𓅛 and Ω join in again with renewed intensity.

Essentially the song is a powerful and atmospheric ride - almost like riding a wave shall we say. Also wanted to note that the funky instrumental outtro is called Reality Bleeds so do with that what you will? Sounds kind of like the thematic transition between "oh god oh no we lost our emotions part 4 of 4" to "hmm maybe we should Do something about it." And that we will see in Newborn Race :)

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