#mermainds

[meninamagicastudio]

꒰ა ( Mermaid Kokomi 🎀🐋)໒꒱───✦

✦About this illustration, I don't even know what to say, but I have so much to say, I'm a very sentimental person, making this illustration sometimes made me cry, even more listening to Aurora's "Exhale Inhale", I broke into a thousand pieces, and I was very inspired by the melody to bring this melancholy and playful air.

✦I dare say Kokomi, is my favorite character from Genshin impact, is pure fiction with fairy tales, is something that "breathes in and out", I'm being poetic because... I am myself, my art is my oxygen , and it is the purest fact!

✦This art took 13 hours to finish, but it was so worth it, it's very pure, very sweet, I like the brush strokes, things that I dared to try and create in this illustration, I'm happy, I'm at home🎀🐋!

[curemoonlightsworld]

[sw1tez1anka]

THE album ever

[fuzzyroseparadise]

it may be too late for Mother's Day, but not for Mermaid Month.

[pidzamowa-blog]

[coramermaid]

Ciao a tutti pesciolini, mi chiamo Coralia se vi viene difficile chiamatemi Cora.

mi piace disegnare personaggi anime

[babyspacebatclone]

I just finished reading the YA The Little Mermaid novel Against the Tide.

It’s good!

I’m, however, very conflicted.

This book is an AU for me, because there’s two things that in my kind go against the canon of the 2023 movie, one slight I could forgive, one just huge and debilitating.

On the plus side, it’s got great worldbuilding, and I love Ariel and her character growth though it.

Non spoilery expanded thoughts below the cut.

First the canon issues: The big one is Ariel learns something about “The Sea Witch Ursula” that, in my opinion, would mean she would never trust her.

And I don’t know why, because - it could have been written around? Hint it in a way that the audience understands what’s going on, but Ariel not making the connection makes sense.

I personally hate the detail, because I honestly liked what was given in the 2023 movie better, but that’s spoilers for both.

The second issue is the timeline: this book is set on the Coral Moon the year Ariel is 15, and production notes say she’s about 18 in the movie.

I can see the characters growing enough in those 3 years to be where they are in the movie, but… It’s a stretch.

It’s not a spoiler to say the daughters of Triton are estranged to put it mildly at the beginning of the book - that’s chapter 1 stuff.

But the extent of their trauma, compared to the camaraderie they show in the movie at the shipwreck, especially if they only get together as a family annually on the Coral Moon (therefore 2 times between the events of the novel and movie)…

It’s possible, but I myself don’t like it.

But that’s a small thing, and I only bring it up because of it’s synergy with the Ursula thing.

On to the worldbuilding…

In isolation (aka as an AU), I absolutely loved everything. I guessed 90% of the evil plot in the first chapters, but that’s me being an author and consciously aware of the rule of narrative detail and common tropes. I was hoping my guess of the villain was wrong because of that, but the fact I wasn’t isn’t a knock against a YA novel - Penn and Teller being able yo tell how a magic trick works doesn’t mean the trick isn’t amazing on it’s own!

(I’m not saying I’m on a Penn and Teller level, just their show is a great example of what I’m talking about)

My complaint in making the novel a prequel of the movie is that it treads a lot of the same themes - breaking generational prejudice, for example.

Which is not a bad thing, you’re reading a The Little Mermaid novel, giving the readers what they like is a good thing.

It just feels frustrating in the context of the timeline, that in 3 years Triton doesn’t trust Ariel’s opinions of things if this book were canon.

(this isn’t on the same level as the above timeline snag, Triton feeling hatred towards the humans is still 100% in character and justified in context. it’s the “not trusting Ariel for a second” when she’s literally had to drag him by the beard to listen to her and then force him to make systemic changes to how he rules that feels out of place in such a short timeline.)

Pinning the plot on the prejudice theme ends up feels like a rehash of the movie, as it doesn’t lead in organically to how the family reacts to Ariel.

But, as I said, a lot of this is fitting the novel into canon: As a standalone, the themes are well explored and Ariel’s journey is great.

i loved the characters, although I read the book to learn more about the sisters and the estrangement plot point meant I didn’t get nearly as much if that as I wanted. You get their personalities, but it’s all filtered through their love for Ariel as their baby sister, so it doesn’t explore each girls’ individual personality beyond the ways they resent each other.

Or how they respond to trauma, but I’ll let you read the book there.

Overall world building is excellent! The writer in me cringed at first at the level of “this is exotic!” detail sharing (the “clamshell bed” with “seaweed covers”), but gradually it felt more like an extension of Ariel’s fascination with the world: even things that are common and normal to her get a level of precise observation that is in character.

And I love Flounder, this is one detail I consider canon to the movie!!!

Overall a great read if you’re interested, I’m up for discussing spoiler stuff if anyone else is!

[cariciapadre]

ITS MERMAY

[teekapoa]

Asmund saw something unusual - a mermaind could it be true

[junior-high-rui-official]

p. psttt. pssssttttt. pspspspspspsp rui. rui rui rui. c. can we watch the little mermaind pleas

- @junior-high-nene-official

hmm...? Hehe, ah, sure...

[heybyeol2]

🍨 ⚝⊹ ˖ 𓇼 mermaind and  ˖ ⊹ ˖

 ˖ 「⚝」 secret princess  ˖ 🌸

♪ 🌸 ˖ ⚝ ❀

[curemoonlightsworld]

Credits on image

[wrong-answers-only-polls]

[fuzzyroseparadise]

-I appreciate your support with my sexuality dad, …but is it necessary to wear that shirt that says "I love my safica daughter"?

[i-gotyou-dontworry]

Just curiously, what do you personally think Zendaya’s wedding dress will look like? Do you see her more in a princess or a mermaid type of dress?

uhhh I see her more mermaind style. I think it's going to be unique and I hope it has a cut because.. yes legs💁‍♀️

[robinette-green]

Are whale-fin mermainds like very big? OwO

Absolutely. 100%

Massive. Just like that.