#original mermaids

[juicenet]

i've finally completed the epilogue of silver triptych (the 1950s mermaid fic) and you can read it here! so glad to give closure to this story that's been in the works for a while now <3

you can also start with chapter 1 here :)

[alanaartdream]

And finally done all my mermay mermaid drawings for 2023

Do tell witch mermaid 🧜‍♀️ drawings I’ve done is your favourite

[adalheidis]

Enthralled by the creature of the lake.

Available as a print on my store!

[violetwolfraven]

The funniest thing in the world to me is when people write mermaids that are bothered by humans eating fish. Like do you think fish don’t eat each other? The ocean is full of little freaks that will eat whatever or whoever the fuck will fit in their mouths. If the mermaids haven’t been eating fish this whole time what do you think they’ve been eating? If the answer is humans, that doesn’t make it any less funny. They’ll eat the species that looks like the top half of them but won’t eat a species that looks like the bottom half? Peak comedy.

[yinza]

I never see elderly mers so I thought I would toss something out there.

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[Image Description: A digital painting of two older black mer people kissing, their tails twined around each other. The mer to the left is a trans man with visible top surgery scars. He has short grey hair in an undercut and the tail of an epaulette shark (tan with black spots). The mer on the right is a fat woman with grey hair partially in cornrows and the tail of a mandarinfish (orange with turquoise patterns). Both wear a few bands of gold jewelry. /end ID]

[shpepyao]

Working on mermay, not following prompt list, just drawing fish people and what not

[lescarnetsdehaku]

"Do you really eat people?"

He stayed silent as she laughed. He could have fled, as his guts screamed him to, but he didn't. He didn't see her as the monster they say she is. She was the most beautiful thing he has ever seen.

Some more lore on the mermaid story with @koma-etoile . Enjoy the Naturalist and the Giant woman! You can find the mermaid POV here!

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

A guy doing marine research into phytoplankton is far out to sea and waiting for the samples to be ready when he spots a fast-moving ripple in the water up ahead.

Fully aware that this spot is home to a migratory orca pod, he assumes he's stumbled across an orca hunting a seal and settles against the railing to watch, because it's not every day you get to see that.

The ripples get closer, the shadows in the water more defined, the water choppier, and suddenly the orca and its unfortunate prey are zooming directly towards the boat and he's waiting, breath held, for them to duck right underneath--

When the water breaks, the ocean sprays, and he's suddenly smacked fully in the face by a very wet, very confused, and very pretty merman, throwing them both down onto the deck while the boat rocks as a confused and now quite hungry orca dives beneath it.

The merman, it turns out, thought that the boat was an ice float and didn't realise his mistake until it was too late. But he's very thankful for the impromptu rescue, and wow don't you have nice arms, and holy shit you've got legs, can I touch them? Is that weird? Can I touch them anyway? And your hair--

So of course they get to talking because they're both utterly fascinated with the other, and soon the sun has set and the samples are long-since ready and the moonlight is making the ocean look black and they part with the knowledge that they'll never meet again, and a kiss, and a lingering look over the shoulder for all the things that can't be...

And the researcher gets back to land, moors his boat, readies his samples. He packs up his things, shoves them into his bags, and prepares to go home. He steps onto the jetty boards and thinks of the merman and the solid wood beneath his feet seems to sway for more than one reason.

There's a splash. He turns, pulled as if by the tide, and there's a ripple in the water. A face. A pair of eyes made black by the moonlight.

And this is how the researcher acquires a merman boyfriend who helps him find samples and the merman acquires a human boyfriend who rescues him from whales.

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[tyiart]

jellyfish swimming through a submerged metro train. what happened here? 🪼

[juicenet]

chapter 9 of "silver triptych", my 1950s mermaid fic, is finally out! you can read it here.

chapter summary: Gracie's relationship with Max begins to strain, as she is still unable to accept her mermaid state. When she finds out about an upcoming planetary alignment, she realizes that it might be exactly what she needs to return to "normal". In the wake of this revelation (and amidst strife in Julia's family life), she and Louise are forced to reexamine their future.

chapter 1: read it here

[speremint]

Do people still do Mermay? Whatever, I'm doing it anyway 😂💖

[nymse]

Mermaid in bathtub

[miasmareninto]

don't wake up the worm

(actually it's moray)

[thvndrlight]

Get in the water

[makairodonx]

Keiko swims with a pod of Ichthyotitan severnensis, a truly gigantic shastasaurid icthyosaur which lived about 205-202 million years ago at the end of the Triassic of what is now southern England and at 25 meters long is possibly the single largest Mesozoic marine reptile ever discovered, in her mermaid form.