#talesintertwined

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The Devil’s Seamstress of Scaosia and the Sailor’s Serpent make for a fascinating scene in the starlight.

In this universe’s lore, the city of Atlantis (or the equivalent, we haven’t come up with an original name yet) was saved from certain destruction by the Sea God, who transformed the people into mermaids so they’d survive the city’s descent. During the sinking, there were only a select few who were turned into mermaids through the Sea God personally. Those few were given a gift, able to transform their neighbors into mermaids through a kiss. From there, these mermaids spread across the oceans, starting a massive trade network with both mermaid and human civilizations. Some human civilizations are more accepting of mermaids than others lmao

Mary is a lone mermaid, who has an unfortunate (but not unwarranted) reputation for wrecking hunting and whaling ships that come near her island. Kylen is a wanted pirate who’s had friendly trade with mermaid merchants in the past, and doesn’t understand why this freaky catfish won’t let her crew take refuge for a few days. Their relationship is initially fraught with misunderstandings and insults, but eventually they bond over their hatred of the British (or the equivalent, again, lack of original name 😭). Obviously, Mary ends up using that ancient kiss because they 💖love each other💖but it’s getting to that point that makes the whole story super fun.

MARY MONDAY, TALES INTERTWINED LORE, LESBIAN FISH, AND MERMAY, ALL IN ONE POST. AN ABSOLUTE WIN IN MY BOOK.

Kylen is my OC humanized for the purpose of this AU, and Mary belongs to my lovely bestest friend @holidamned. Their fishy forms are based off an albino catfish and a sandbar shark, and I love them both dearly 🥰

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The gals!!! Mermaid and pirate sapphics, I love them both so much and I can’t wait to share them more on here 💖💖💖

Mary belongs to the wonderful @holidamned, and Kylen belongs to me We’ve finally reached the end of my old Instagram posts, so anything from this point on will be entirely new material.

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💖 Introduction To The Nonsense 💖

My name is Alex, and I moved here from Instagram (also helpless-avacado, nothing if not consistent). I’ve got a love for fantasy, sci-fi, birds, beasts, bugs, and biblical lore. I am a LoTR and Hobbit fan, a lover of Blue Eyed Samurai, Arcane, Spiderverse, and my bestie’s stories. I’ve got a few tales of my own in the works, and more than a few fanworks just for funzies.

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Establishing navigation tags early to simplify things:

Semi-Religious Stories

• #shoulders(avacado) — The first legitimate prophet since John of Patmos, Jenny Woods, starts seeing her death alongside apocalyptic visions, and does everything in her power to prevent it. Religious trauma and existential horror galore.

• #threerealms(avacado) — Jean has to deal with two over-invested supernatural entities bickering over their future in the afterlife. Found-family, queer-self-love, and a coming-of-age in spite of all the difficulties.

• #Heresy(avacado) — Biblical stories penned from the perspective of Fallen angels, so convoluted, so many characters, SO much blasphemy

• Angeltober2024 & Angeltober2025 masterposts

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Babes (with religion sprinkled in cause I'm predictable)

• #divineinheritance — Manifest Destiny, colonialism, imperialism, and all the horrors that come along with it but in Space. So many alien species and so many concept sketches.

Dwarrowdams, AUs, Etc.

• #tagalongau — a self-insert that took on a mind of her own and became an entirely different character. Alda joins the company of Thorin Oakenshield, shenanigans ensue.

• #pilkado aus — general tag for characters and stories that both @pilkypills and myself have a hand in

• #erid_luin_roundup — a beautiful tale detailing the discord that Óin and his family go through after Erebor/Dale is destroyed. So much chaos, so many romances, and such a beautiful homage to community and connection!!! (Pilkado aus)

• #quest_to_Mazam — Thâri and Góa go on a quest to both discover and recover family lines… with the unhelpful addition/third wheel known as Henní lmao (Pilkado aus)

• #design.a.dwarrowdam — a December drawing challenge centered around the beautiful dwarrowdams that Tolkien didn't take advantage of so I did. Prompt list and my Masterpost (for 2025 ).

Self Indulgent Stuff

• #talesintertwined — Pirate/Mermaid AU/Crossover (my OC, Kylen, and @holidamned's OC, Mary). They’re in love, and they deal with the trauma of abandonment in a world that's hunting you down for no reason other than your existence. No further explanation needed.

• #marymonday and #wormwoodwednesday — a lil drawing challenge that holidamned and I do every so often for our OCs

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working on Mermay/Mary Monday/Tales Intertwined stuff and this crab is the real star of the show 💖

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no caption or date necessary I’m still proud of this.

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(Originally posted on May 1, 2023)

No copying the caption: FIRST POST ABOUT TALES INTERTWINED. I still really like the lighting I did on her scales, and catfish Mary’ll (belonging to my bestie @holidamned) always be my fav. Can’t wait to develop their story here 💖