I haven’t drawn a mermaid since like…2020. This was delightful.
Why does this drawing exist? Well because I thought mermaid tella would be cute and I thought “I should write a fic”. Then I remembered I can’t write, so I made this instead
As mentioned I can’t write so I’ll just dump the headcanon things I had here
Tella can’t talk, he whistles and clicks like a dolphin but billy is teaching him morse code as a means of communication.
Billy is an ex-pirate who lives by the beach with Tatiana. I had the silly concept of billy wearing two eye patches as a pirate, just to screw with people and hopefully throw them off with the “ he definitely can’t see me” thing (which tbf he can’t )
I had 2 separate first meeting things, one is Tella singing and billy getting distracted and falling off a boat and tella dragging him out of the water to stop him drowning and the other is Billy coming across an injured mermaid and going from there. I like to think wound treating is a big deal to merfolk since being injured is basically a death sentence as a fish so having someone help with that is … important.
Tella isn’t a name, I like to think it’s a translation thing, mer don’t have conventional names epithets are more common. Tella doesn’t sing due to… tragic reasons I haven’t fleshed out yet… so they refer to him as “one who speaks “ or something like that, which billy interprets as teller (Tella).
Like
Billy : you got a name ?
Tella : * incomprehensible chirping noises *
Billy : I don’t have the equipment to pronounce that, got anything else?
Tella: <it more or less means speaker >
Billy : tella then B)
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I’ve started riding Fjara to help my dad with her tripping (read: he likes to ride with a long loose rein and Fjara ends up tipping forward).
The first two times we were still getting used to one another, she’s still trying to gauge why the heck I’m asking her for turns and to do a few steps backwards and walk sideways a little.
Today I decided to take a different path around the farm and Fjara was particularly high in her energy, so when we turned to go back her back curled a little and her tempo went up…
And I’m sitting on her all impressed at the energy but also please don’t do a happy buck, I’m still getting used to how different you are from my regular horse 😅
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i’ve been having such bad headaches & needing to pop my jaw so often for the past several days so i started wearing the mouth guard that i’ve only used once & i’ve alrdy chewed through it in my sleep
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i had a lisp when i was growing up bc i have tongue tie that they just never did anything about so im a tongue thruster. and its funny bc in years of speech therapy they tried to teach me the appropriate mouth posture regardless of the fact my tongue cant really do all that (i can not make an R sound by touching my tongue to the roof of my mouth it doesn't reach) (i can not make a shh sound when my teeth are closed) so instead if you watch my mouth it does like lisp posture stuff like my tongue between my teeth when i make an s sound but i've just tuned it so it really doesn't sound like i'm lisping
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