#Finfolk

[dsamuelsonart]

Drawlloween day 9: Finfolk Gouache, 6 x 8"

[iseleylaura]

mermaid ophelia 🪷

[aerkame]

Welcome Home AU comp. 1

This is for later when I get back home, I'll reorganize my AUs since people are not aware there are 3 and I keep getting requests asking what Finfolk Wally looks like even though I already drew him. 😞

Alive AU(been here a while now)-still writing

Dream AU-only one chapter

Finfolk AU- Writing and drawing for still

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AU related art

Finfolk AU:

[aarie-mudpuppy]

It’s Mermay!!

Because of that, I’ve drawn a collection of water based creatures from the folklore of Northern Europe

I made these quicker than I usually do and I’m very proud of them

Here’s where each one comes from:

Selkie - British Isles, the Faroes, and Iceland

Kelpie - Scotland

Nøkk - Norway (there other versions from different countries with similar names)

Finfolk - Orkney, Scotland

Nuckelavee - also Orkney

[faefins]

Just watching the sun start to set as the tide creeps up the beach.

[nyxnaiastock]

More out-of-water mermaid:

[aerkames-artbook]

Finfolk Eddie ? *Offers dead rat*

Here is a yummy sketchy sketch >.> sorry I couldn't quite get myself to full on draw today, but I hope you like it!

[monstersandmaw]

Hi!

I was wondering about your selkie lore? Mainly courtship stuff because I'm doing a little something and I'm collecting info from wherever it exists

Also you have no idea of how many times I've read your stuff, it makes me extremely happy and I have way too many tabs bookmarked to find them easily. You're amazing ( ◕◡◕)っ ♡

My personal selkie lore/headcanons? Sure! (for more information on 'traditional' selkie lore, I'd recommend checking out this page that I found when I went to Orkney. It also covers the Finfolk, who I want to write a story about as well...

Anyway, Ghosti's Personal Headcanons:

Courtship with humans is not encouraged by selkie communities on the whole. Traditionally, it doesn't tend to end well for the selkie.

If they do decide to go ahead with it, they'll be shy to start with; watching their chosen human from the water as they go about their life on land. Then, maybe, they'll shift and try and interact with them on land a little to get to know them. Selkies value community and connection, so it's important that if they're courting someone (as opposed to just sleeping with them as a one-off, which happens a lot more than humans realise, probably!), they need to get to know who they are. They also need to learn if their chosen human is the kind of human to keep their sealskin from them and stop them returning to the sea...

If they go ahead with it, they bring their human gifts from the sea. Whether that's helping fishermen with their catches or bringing beautiful and rare pearls for decoration, or treasures lost in shipwrecks.

Selkies are tactile lovers, so expect lots of touches and hugs and contact, even in the early stages. It's how they let people know they're interested, after all.

I'm sure there's more but that's all I can think of right now. Thanks for reaching out, and I'm glad you enjoy my work.

Don't forget that I'm going to be slowly migrating all my stuff over to Patreon soon, including free-to-read Tumblr stories, so if you want to keep reading (and re-read!) my stories that have been posted on here, make sure you're a free member on Patreon so you can have access to the Tumblr Archives when they go up. I will be deleting old stories from here in light of my lack of trust of Tumblr to handle people's creative content...

[lilystrations]

"Glowlight Parade" Here's another new pair of mermaids for my fellow lovers of most things aquatic, with a helpful parade of off-brand African Sea Nettles. <3

[caelichythcat]

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a tragic seminautical tale

[miscwitchling]

Prompt 9 is Finfolk! I went with the idea that means merfolk n took inspiration from oarfish!

I just love me some horrifying, deep sea, massive creature vs scuba diver pictures🥰

[moryera]

Oh, hey, I haven’t posted these here yet! I went to my Very First Mer-Meetup down in Kansas last Saturday, made a bunch of new friends, and got to take my Hibiscus Bliss tail for a spin for the first time! (That’s the tequila sunrise lookin’ one in these pics. I bought it for my birthday back when it was Finfolk’s February tail of the month. 🍹☀���💝)

It was a little bit chaotic, but I was heavily involved in organizing the whole thing, so I got my own self to blame 😂 I guess I now have one point in the Event Planning skill tree?

[whaleofatjme1920]

Was finally able to use my new tail today!!!

[aerkame]

Welcome Home Finfolk AU Howdy art Page 1

I might be missing a few, been posting on this for quite a while now so I probably skipped over something x-x

EDIT: yes I did miss some, I'll try to find them all-

[neuromagicalmermaid]

Tail splash!

[pandoramusicbox]

I was intending to upload this picture here yesterday but I must have gotten tiered and forgot!

Emperess Nautilus, ruler of the Neptonians

Every year I try to do a drawing of her to see how my art has progressed. This is this years addition.

May has been… a lot and I have not really processed it or really registered that it happened entirely.

But I still managed to finish this.

Something Lore wise that always sort of surprises me about Nautilus is her hair.

See, she’s blond. Which among the sea people is a rather rare trait. Their “hair” tends to be colors of black and brown and in some places blues, grays and purples. Sometimes you might even see some ghostly greenish white. Meanwhile reds and blonds are rare as for the neptonians it is a detrimental mutation.

See I’ve explained it before but, Neptonian hair is not like human hair. It’s thicker and hollow with pores all along it’s shaft.

This along with some other specifics not entirely worked out yet allows neptonians to shift the texture and colors of their hair allowing it to act as portable camouflage. As they use it to mimic seaweed and other aquatic plants and structures.

(And when it’s not camouflage, their hair tends to have venomous stingers at the end or all along the shaft)

Blond hair and by a lesser extension red hair dose not have this mutation, meaning that they can not successfully camouflage to their surroundings. Making them vulnerable to predation and easier to spot by prey.

In other words. Emperess Nautilus is Considered a disabled woman among her own species.

Which is wild to me as by humans standards she is not in any sense of the word.

Though it’s not a Big Deal. Of all the people In the world the Neptonians are among, if not the best at accommodating and Adjusting for differently body ability. After all their empire consists of vastly different people, and even among the larger everyday population of the empire their citizens tend to have three vastly different body types that need different accommodations. As well as a population that does not stop growing as it ages. So why not build things with access for other difference too?

Within the central hemisphere neptonian Architects are considered some of the best in the world.

This along with neptonians lobbing for accessibility to their citizens in land dwelling countries has changed the way most public (and many private) buildings are designed within the southern half of scalipia (ideas eventually migrated north), and Aukulir. As well as all of Gargoraqi.

Empress Nautilus’s mutation is not a huge deal for her everyday life at least in the current empire.

For one thing she is the Empress, the most powerful person politically, economically and socially in the nation.

Her needs are met. (And so are the majority of basic needs for all her citizens)

And she had it relatively well of to start with. After all before she became Empress she had a loving pod. That helped her hunt and provided protection. She also used to keep her hair shorter; a bit of a social faux pas, as short hair is seen as a signifier that a person is aggressive. Cutting their hair to declare ‘war’ on someone. Though she simply cut it to lessen the drag as she swam.

Her daughter phillipa, dose not have blond hair and has black hair she inherited from her father.