#mermaidposting

[sepiapol]

I originally followed the mermay tag to reblog beautiful art of mermaids, but now my dash is full of mermen. It's obscene. It's unjust. Men weren't meant to live in the sea, unless they're on a boat. You can draw your sailormen if you want but don't give them fish tails! They don't deserve them!

[emberwritesinsight]

Mermaids are capable of carefully deboning fish and pulling the exoskeletons off crabs and cooking over hydrothermal vents (usually with friends and/or family, kind of like how humans gather around campfires), and many in fact prefer their food be processed in some way before eating it, so please know that every time you see one bite the head off a crab or devour a live fish bones and all, that is a choice

[honeybutterjellytoast]

if i don't go to the beach soon i am going to evaporate into a mist of some sort

[ommikko11]

It's hard to relate to people with thalassophobia most of the times when the surface of the ocean looks like a shimmery blanket. "But oh when you look underwater all you see is the deep blue void! And scary creatures that'll eat you!! And the fear of the unknown!!!" Thinking about how the noise of the surface world is just drowned out by the water and the bubbles just brings me so much comfort and seeing a few little aquatic friends around me probably wont spook me as much.

[softspineofthesiren]

upset that sirenposts aren't are prevalent as, say... princessposts, but like in a "where are my people???" kind of way.

I'm slowly crawling out of my shell and might post my wistful thoughts, because I know, be the change you wish to see.

I can't really ask for mutuals, this is a side blog but.. I mean, I could just follow you back on my main. any other sirens wanna be friends? alternatively any sailors wanna be enemies for life?

[softrespite]

Feeding a Mermaid

on the boardwalk of the beach you look out and see a mermaid girl floating in the water. she is clinging to a wooden post that holds the pier in place above the water.

she looks hungry, so you drop down some of your fries from your bag. you weren't going to eat them anyway. she collects them as they fall and eats them. she swims away when she’s had enough.

this happens again, same time different day. you find her by her gentle singing. it sounds like another cry for help. you drop down more boardwalk food. you figure she must be desperate to eat, since she’s come back so soon. you're alright with foregoing your lunch just for today.

the third time you go to the boardwalk, you hear her singing again. this time, you decide it might be more polite to just try and go to her directly instead of dropping food on her like an animal. you walk down onto the sand underneath the boardwalk and wait.

she sees you and swims over, just barely staying out of the shallows. you meet her halfway, waist-deep in the ocean water. she sizes you up and presents her hand. you hold out the paper bag with greasy street food to her.

she snatches you by the wrist.

silly human, she was grateful for the snacks, but you were the main course all along.

[softspineofthesiren]

ship name for a merfolk and a knight: tinnedfish

please tell me this is something

[mermaid-facts]

Fact #81

While different species of Mer vary wildly on the social spectrum, none appear communal nor metacognizant enough to recognize holidays in the same way humans do. Beyond mating cycles, the day-to-day calendar of any given Mer is generally understood to be quite dull.