#mermaid effect

[miyamiwu]

Cool dice

Cool Dice = nerd (complementary), cool socks, please tell me about your special interest/hyperfixation

Hmmm where do I start

I am really into Chinese bl (danmei). Most danmei are like shounen with the homoerotic undertones, except the sexual tension actually gets paid off!!!

And I say “like shounen” because, unlike Japanese BL, there’s a lot more emphasis on plot when it comes to danmei. Of course, there are also danmei focusing on romance, but the best ones have complex plots you don’t really find in shounen ai/yaoi.

Naming a few mainstream danmei, to start:

Heaven Official’s Blessing = fallen god reascends for the third time and befriends a demon king. Together, they get to the bottom of a lot of scandals in the heavenly court

The Husky and His White Cat Shizun = evil emperor is reborn to the year he was still a teen and is yet to do any evil stuff and once again has to face his loathed master (shizun) and obey him.

Little Mushroom = sentient mushroom takes over dead human body and infiltrates the human base to retrieve his stolen spore

The Earth is Online = humanity is pulled into a death game

Sha Po Lang = ancient industrial Chinese setting (steampunk???) about a prince and his Yifu + war and stuff

And some non-mainstream ones, but are my absolute favorites:

Fourth Perspective = Sci-fi where characters have “logic chains” that grant them random abilities (that may or may not be useful), but with limits. Main character’s logic chain allows him to see other people’s “logic factors”

I Became a God in a Horror Game = Guy who’s obsessed with money gets pulled into a death game and comes out victorious every time (his driving force is money). Very mindblowing arcs and well-written characters

Mermaid Effect = guy picks up “fish” on the beach and keeps it as a pet, but then it turned out to be a biological weapon

Si Tian Guan = guy who died in political drama gets reborn to the year before it all started and vows to not repeat the mistakes of the past and also protect the person most important to him. This one made me cry a lot that I still couldn’t finish it...

It’s like… these stories just happen to have gay protagonists. The characters being gay and in love aren’t their main selling points. They actually have stories to tell outside the romance and the fucking (which is often censored coz, yknow, China) and also explore a variety of deep themes, and that just makes them more interesting to me

[ohno-the-sun]

Brain empty only fish 🐟

[johnnygoth]

Here We Are Alone (Official Music Video)

[brooksdavis]

What would I give, to live where you are? What would I pay, to stay here beside you? What would I do, to see you, smiling at me?

[maxyvert]

🐟Mermay 11-13🐟

🐟1-2🐟 🐟3-4🐟 🐟5-6🐟 🐟7-8🐟 🐟9-10🐟 Sketch comparison under the cut-

[thelien-art]

Celegorm-Orca!! 😍

(if it inspires you 😊)

It does inspire me!

Fun fact! Orcas have a higher chance than most other whales and dolphins for being albino or having leucism!

Leucism is the lack of melanin pigment in most of the body because of the absence, or small amount, of melanin-producing cells whereas albinism is the complete lack of it

@elentarial you requested him too but with a different fish but I´m going to tag you just to be sure <3

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

She Creature | 2001

[allisonmckenzieart]

I HAVE RETURNED!

Which means my shop is finally open again!

Here's a coupon, since there's still time to get gifts for the holidays- hope this helps!

20% off code: IMBACK

Shop <-

[aurorepeuffier]

Selkie et small animation test with after effect and tvpaint

[miyamiwu]

MERMAID EFFECT HAS EXTRAS??? AND EVEN TWO OF THEM???

How have I not read them before??!!

And omg the author's note in the last non-extra chapter:

Munster and Rand stole back Munster's box of childhood teeth, which had been confiscated by Deep White, and then turned it into some kind of artwork and hung it in their living room

Vincent secretly took down the teeth art and hid it under the sofa hahahah

Munster and Rand would sometimes dive into the deep sea just to have sex there

Vincent cheered when he learned that it was impossible for Rand to get pregnant with mermaid cubs

Vincent has feelings for Rand that goes beyond of that between brothers, but he doesn't realize it. (I KNEW IT!!! Vincent is so obsessed with Rand, it was sus)

Vincent hates Munster very much. (Gahahahah)

Until he died, Vincent firmly expressed his disgust for Munster (bro you're just jealous). But deep inside, he has already regarded him as a member of the family (aaaaw)

Their life afterward was so smooth that Rand and Munster had big bellies in old age. Only Vincent maintained a good shape

Simon and Ryan got married (yay!) and had two babies through artificial insemination

Even after a long time, Rand and Munster would still blush whenever they say "I love you" to each other (aaaaw)

Munster loved deeply until the end of his life. His last words to Rand were "Will I become a bubble?" (In reference to the Little Mermaid, which Rand used to read it to it)

Rand said, "No. You will live in my heart until I reunite with you."

I wasn't expecting to learn anything new in my reread of this novel, but god there turned out to be a gold mine!

[indigos-stardust]

Work In Progress artworks for mermay

Rough sketches and designs, personal thoughts in the tags

Edit: https://archiveofourown.org/works/53871985/chapters/136356367

Please read the fic that inspired me to make mer stuff, its one where legend slowly goes mer mind over the course of being trapped in a cave. The chain try to get him out but shenanigans ensue and its wonderful <3

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

ancient greek mermaid for historical mermay prompts from chloe.z.arts on instagram

based a bit on vase paintings of triton and this one of thetis holding dolphins like clubs??    black figure style my beloved 

[aioliravioli-69]

...

I have never realised before how much I needed a story like this

DDOGAK I LOVE YOU OMGGGG

I LOVE THE TWO MAIN GIRLS SO MUCH OMGG

they're so precious

Like, one's dealing with the traumatic effect of bullying and the other(while I'm not quite sure yet) is just doing her best to keep a certain secret and is dealing with a seemingly unloving (possibly abusive???) father (-> all of this is taken from the last scene of the free release)

[cutiesseasonisalmostover]

Aquamarine (2006) 🌺🪸💕

[queenofthursday6599-blog]

So we all agree that H2O and Mako Mermaids are different timelines right?

Like yes we see Rikki in Mako Mermaids, but that's definitely not Rikki from the same timeline as H2O.

She's not wearing red, she's selling the artifacts she's using her mermaid abilities to find and retrieve to random privet collectors instead of trying to get them back to the rightful country/cultures.

Even though back in H2O we had a whole episode about why Rikki shouldn't just sell anything she uses her mermaid gifts to take out the ocean to complete randos for personal gain.

Like baby girl this is how you ended up accidentally selling endangered/protected animals to the black market. Let's not repeat your mistakes with historical artifacts, by way of selling it to random privet collectors instead of repatriating them to the people they rightfully belong to.

Let's not be the British Museum.

This doesn't even get into the fact that Rikki in Mako Mermaids only mentions that she was with two friends when she was turned into a mermaid. And when asked about where they are now, she just says that they all grew up and got different interests.

She only mentions two girls, and she doesn't mention them by name even.

Even though H2O Rikki was also good friends with Bella by the end of that series, and her not mentioning her two friends by name leaves the door open for the other two girls in her old group to not be Emma and Cleo.

Which I honestly think there's a pretty good chance it wasn't Emma and Cleo who MM's Rikki became mermaids with.

MM's Rikki says she became a mermaid after ending up in the moon pool with her two friends.

But H2O's Rikki wasn't friends with Cleo and Emma when they became mermaids. If you go back to watch the first episode of H2O, I'm pretty sure Cleo explicitly states that while she's seen Rikki around school before, she's only even talked to her a couple of times.

For H2O's Rikki her becoming a mermaid alongside Cleo and Emma was the bedrock of that friendship.

Sure they might have still ended up as friends if they'd stayed on Mako's beach until the water police came to pick them up and never went to the moon pool.

It's just as likely that without the secret to bind them together they wouldn't have. I mean, Rikki 100% stole a boat and got them stranded on an island who's waters is a shark breeding ground.

I definitely think Emma at the very least wouldn't have been interested in being Rikki's friend if it weren't for being turned into mermaids togehter and having to share that secret.

Not in the immediate aftermath of their being stranded on Mako island together, due to Rikki being reckless, anyways.

Now if Cleo wanted to stay friends with Rikki after that, because Rikki did save her from when Zane tried to strand her on the boat and have her drift out to see alone, even if Rikki also ended up getting her stranded on Mako island for a few hours.

I could then see Emma eventually ending up as friendly acquaintances with Rikki due to their mutual friendship with Cleo.

Not immediately, but at some point, and they'd definitely wouldn't have been anywhere near as close of friends as they were in H2O's timeline.

Then there's the fact that MM Rikki doesn't have either of her friendship necklaces. Either her locket from the 50s girls that she shared with Emma and Cleo, or the moon pool crystal necklace that she shared with Cleo and Bella.

And while that could imply that she simply doesn't choose to wear either one anymore due to drifting apart from them. I could also pretty easily see it being that due to it being a different group of mermaids from H2O, they never ended up with either set of necklaces.

I mean, they meet Mrs. Chadwick because the woman randomly spotted Cleo while she was taking a trip to the marine park, and the woman noticed that Cleo was a mermaid.

Without Cleo in the group, Mrs. Chadwick might have never made contact with MM Rikki's group, and thus even if one of them did find Gracie's locket at the bottom of the moonpool it would have just been a random locket.

I don't know if they even would have thought it belonged to someone in a similar situation to themselves. Or if it was brought into the moonpool by like sea currents, or a bird flying over the moonpool dropping it. Or something like that.

While the moon pool crystal necklaces are only introduced after Bella gets one first, and it seems like MM Rikki might have never met Bella.

All of this, and MM Rikki never talks about how she and two of her friends saved the world because apparently the Mako mermaid pod that has supposedly lived there for hundreds of years at least, were slacking off and not paying attention to the impending doom of it all.

And when we see MM Rikki in the moon pool with the Mako Mermaid group, she mentions that it hasn't changed at all since the last time she was there, even though the moonpool looks completely different in the two shows.

In H2O it looks way more natural and cave-like, while in Mako Mermaids the edge of the moon pool is like tiled, or has large stone blocks squaring the edge of it off at least. It looks man (mer) made, or at least has had construction done to it.

The moonpool in H2O definitely feels more wild-magic-y I guess you could say.

Magic collects and moves through there by way of natural means and processes, and will do so without the interference, presence, or guidance of any kind of sentient being. It is in itself alive and sentient to some degree.

It directs Rikki, Cleo, and Bella on how to deflect the comet and save the world, or at the very least the surrounding area, from the potential impact.

Mako Mermaid's moon pool feels far more colonized I guess. Lived in by beings that change nature in order to make themselves more comfortable is what I mean.

I mean the mermaids are shooing away fish from around the island, they're gate keeping the moon pool to keep humans away, they've altered the moon pool from it's natural lava tube/sea cave structure into something more people friendly, they use the moon pool's magic for their own ends.

They're also just completely willing to potentially destroy the moon pool due to their own personal fears of mermen, which is said to also kill any mermaid that is tied to that moonpool, but that's a whole other thing.

Not to mention the fact that the H2O moon pool is severely damaged by that illegal mining operation in H2O season 3. And it's the whole reason why Cleo and Rikki have to help Bella make the tower of light instead of Bella doing it on her own with the help of the moon pool.

While it's again, completely fine magically, and in fact looks like it was altered for people's comfort in Mako Mermaids, even though it's only a time gap of 6 years because Rikki is 24 years old when she meets the Mako Mermaids.

So there's just no way that H2O's season 3 and Mako Mermaids exist in the same timeline at the very least.

There would have been mention of the potential end of the world, or at the very least how the Mako Mermaids had to repair the moon pool, or Rikki noticing that he moon pool was repaired after what Will's sister did.

But none of that happens, so the only explanation is alternate timeline, and I'm not afraid to argue that to the bitter end.

[teasodium]

Wanted to do something for mermay and I've been watching the music video for Casual by Chappell a bit too much