#myrmidons are mermaids

[im-just-a-dumb-gay]

So....was thinking for a while to add more fandoms to my Myrmidons Are Mermaids au but didn't want to overcomplicate it.

Yeaaaahhh, I'm doing it lol. Myrmidons Are Mermaids tag gonna focus on Patroclus/Moon and Achilles/Sun and the equivalent of the Trojan war.

New tag, Megamix Au, gonna be for the entire world as a whole. Fandoms I know gonna add are Winx, Epic (which was already added because Trojan War lol), Sonic, Transformers, and Stex.

Some stuff I've thought for Megamix Au. Some things might change over time lol:

Winx characters are kinda like guardians between each of the 7 seas. Not powerful like the Sirens but do interact more with mermaids and passive to humans.

Stex and Transfomers are pirates/fisherman/humans. C.B. Will be friends with Starscream and they do cause very much chaos lol.

Sonic are sea creatures that are slightly anthropomorphic. @knizuu Shadow gonna be a sea bunny lol.

Not really a plot for the au. Just my favorite characters all in the sea who will interact with each other. Like Shadow chilling with Flora or Bumblebee being splashed by a playful Chica or something lol.

[alwayslookingforthose]

PATCH (hotfix) #19 FIXED HALSIN'S VOICE LINE TRIGGERS. I JUST HEARD HIM YELL AND IM SO HAPPY!! the little mermaid (water myrmidon) has her (his) voice again!!

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lol this remainds me of how in english class we once talked about the myrmidons of greek mythology and one classmate kept asking "but why did they have mermaid soldiers ON LAND"

Haha if they were warriors I bet they were doing some mer-der!

[mynarco]

YOU DREW WHAT

YEAH YOU FUCKIN' READ THAT RIGHT, I DREW A MERMAN SABER. I HAVE CONTEXT, THOUGH.

So Kyle McCarley (Alm's VA) used to stream himself playing Shadows of Valentia, yeah? He'd bring guests on the streams, too. When it came time to start Act 2, Erica Lindbeck (Celica's VA) showed up, and damn it she is an absolute treasure. When she promoted Saber up to Myrmidon, she called him a mermaid, aaaaaaaand I got inspired. (Keep in mind this was 2017 so my art was s h i t . Or if not that, worse than it is today)

Saber fans, I am so sorry.

[jamessuhr]

#116 Nereid A Stranger. So Nereids, or sea nymphs, come to us from ancient Greece and they were the daughters of Nereus (the old man of the sea). He had fifty daughters (some sources say a hundred, I don’t know maybe he was a man-slut, I’m just telling numbers here) and that they were goddesses of the sea’s rich bounty and protectors of sailors and fishermen, coming to the aid of those in distress. Individually they represented various facets of the sea from the salty brine, to the sea foam, sand, rocks, waves and currents, as well as the various skills possessed by seamen.

The Nereids dwelt with their elderly father in a silvery grotto at the bottom of the Aegean Sea (sounds kind of like The Little Mermaid, huh? And were was the wife? Oh, my notes say she was there and her name was, Doris… the most unepic name ever for a god or goddess). The Nereid Thetis was their unofficial leader and Amphitrite (another Nereid) was Poseidon’s queen. Thetis is a purposeful mention here because she was the mother of the demigod, Achilles. Knowing her boy would grow up to lead the Myrmidons–a small but very formidable army of warriors–she feared her son Achilles would die too young. So Thetis did what any mom would do, she dipped her boy in the River Styx (the river that flows into the underworld, that’s all) all the way up to his ankle, making him immune to everything but an attack on his heel. Leaving poetic irony to work it course on that story, let’s move on.

The Nereids were depicted in ancient art as beautiful, young maidens, sometimes running with small dolphins or fish in their hands, or else riding on the backs of dolphins, hippocamps, and other sea creatures.

On a zoological note, it is the name for a type of bristle worm.

On a drawing note, I just found out I really, really like drawing dolphins. I feel I’ve missed out on this joy for years.

[panbaobi]

W009: Finding Out

I like to read fiction with ‘stuff’ in it – with content, new things I did not know before, references I can draw on and link to literary and other culture more widely. I like quotation, intertextuality – in language and structure. I like science and mythology and theology and history and knowledge deployed in fiction as allusion, as metaphor and quite simply as information. If I like it as reader, it has to become one of the things I work with as writer. Curiosity, wanting to learn, moving into new territory, aligns the writer with the reader.

'Walking about with your eyes open' - When your eyes are open enough to notice that different trees turn different colours in the autumn, you are probably going to want to turn to a book of information and find out which trees are the colour you need and whether they are likely to be growing in the place your fiction is proposing for them. If you have enough natural curiosity you may also learn why trees change colour, which is very interesting as it happens and will deepen your fiction, empower your imagination, expand your mind and engage your readers – even if you don’t actually put it in this particular bit of writing.

I am constantly amazed by the difficulty I have luring students down this path. It is as though people who come to writing classes are escaping from, rather than moving into, reading. I have discussed this with other creative writing tutors, so it is not just me. Somehow students believe that reading and writing are completely different and disconnected activities, and they don’t want to read, or by extension ‘research’, as part of the writing process. But writers need to read – not just to understand genre and form or to develop narrative strategies, but in order to enrich their language and extend their knowledge and sensibility.

‘What colour were carrots before oranges arrived in Britain?’ Researching the answers to that (it’s very complicated because of the history of horticultural names among other things) led us into Persian and Middle Eastern folk tales and thence to an extraordinary short story by one of them that used flying-carpets as a central metaphor for drug use and abuse; a new way of writing about dependence and excitement and risk.

We are used to the ideas of grounding writing in the physical senses, and of training eye (and ear, finger, nose and tongue) to observe accurately, to pick out with precision the salient detail, the appropriate image. The idea of using our intellectual senses to the same end seems less developed in writing courses and books about the creative writing process.

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✍   But a favourite group exercise in this area – though definitely one for a group, not the solitary student – is a development of the TV game show Call My Bluff. Here is a list (prepared by me and refined by a workshop I ran in HM Prison Ashwell) of eight somewhat obscure words, each with three meanings – one of these is the real meaning as defined by the dictionary, the other two are tiny works of fiction:

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Knurl:

1   An ancient Celtic game, still played in some Scottish islands, not dissimilar from hockey.

2   A short, stumpy person; a dwarf.

3   To hit someone from behind; to attack from the rear.

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Oeps:

1   Some benefit or profit earned by hard work.

2   A Victorian word for an eccentric or nutter – from the initials of the Organization for External and Psychic Studies.

3   Boys in the junior houses of Eton, called fags in other public schools (no pun intended).

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Jobbernowl:

1   A clerk or other lowly worker in the Stock Exchange.

2   To cheat or lie your way into a job; to fake your references.

3   An idiot; a thick stupid person.

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Deipnosophist:

1   A person who enjoys talking at meal times.

2   A person who believes that the gods are not interested in human beings.

3   A person who studies diseases of the mouth – gums, teeth, etc.

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Haysel:

1   A native officer in the Indian regiments during the Raj.

2   An East Anglian word for the hay-making season, late May and June.

3   A type of helmet, with a low visor, worn by medieval knights.

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Collybist:

1   Originally a money lender or banker, now any miser, skinflint or excessively ungenerous person.

2   A species of sea snail, a bit like a cockle but with a whiter shell.

3   A small explosion deliberately set off for scientific experiment.

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Myrmidon:

1   A wicked and seductive young mermaid, with a particularly sweet singing voice, who lures sailors to their deaths.

2   An ingredient used in expensive perfumes, extracted from the musk glands of minks.

3   A fierce warrior from a tribe in ancient northern Greece, celebrated by Homer.

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Ozena:

1   An unmarried woman, often a belly dancer, living in a Turkish harem and having many of the privileges of a wife, but whose children do not inherit their father’s rank.

2   Putrid snot brought on by ulcerous diseases of the nasal mucous membrane.

3   A mythical beast, somewhat like a gazelle but with the legs of a bird, which the Spanish conquistadors believed to live in what are now the Peruvian and Chilean mountains.

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Now you have to guess which is the true meaning. It will be mainly guesswork actually, but this list is carefully compiled to reflect the major sources of English vocabulary – there are Teutonic, Romance, and classical derivations.

Next you have to write a short narrative using all seven words (which usually leads to warm admiration for the ingenious and also to merriment, since a sensible plot is perfectly possible, but weird sounding). Finally, on the spot if you can produce enough dictionaries, or between classes if not, compile your own version of the game. With a bit of luck you will get to produce some tiny fictions within a rigidly imposed genre of dictionary entries; you will get to think about the history of words and thus of language, you will almost inevitably encounter a large number (more than the required half-dozen) of new words and above all you will spend time inside one of the best reference books available.

During feedback on these exercises it is usually possible to introduce elements of rhetoric, aspects of the way words sound and look, some history of language – a deepening of the understanding of how these basic tools of writing can be deployed in so many ways – not just for sense, but for sound and tone and mood as well.

Source: The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry (Julia Bell, Paul Magrs)

[im-just-a-dumb-gay]

What do you get when you mix your at the time favorite book, favorite musical, and a fandom you got back into with mermaids? For me, this au lol.

I was reading Song of Achilles and thought Myrmidons was close to Mermaids. Then I added DCA as Patroclus and Achilles cause why not lol.

Might be hard to see but the lyrics are "You're too sweet for me. You're too sweet for me" from my at the moment song I was obsessed with Too Sweet by Hozier.

At some point just added Epic too cause, Epic was the reason I got into greek myth which led to reading Song of Achilles.

For this au, the gods are sirens with the main 13 being huge with special siren abilities. Example, Hermes' voice is like sonar and can be carried across oceans.

Other gods/sirens are only slightly taller than mermaids and have a stronger and sweet voice. Since Achilles is half siren, his voice is considered beautiful whether talking or speaking and his voice does carry farther than the average mermaid. (In legend, it is said when Patroclus died, all oceans could hear Achilles' cries and screams, his siren voice full with grief and no longer sweet, but harsh and cold.)

Haven't worked on the au in a while and there might be changes if I continue to work on it lol.

(Also, was because of Song of Achilles I learned Neo was the son of Achilles from the line "Neo, avenge your father, kill the brothers of Hector")

[im-just-a-dumb-gay]

Wingfish

Some close ups

[im-just-a-dumb-gay]

Getting sleepy so wanna also add a bit on my Myrmidons are mermaids au.

Aelous is a turtle. Also, though Poseidon is god of the sea, this au is all underwater so the siren ability to create storms in the water go to Zeus. So Poseidon instead controls the life of the sea. Aka the plants, coral, etc. If I get a better idea I'll change it.

Also maybe Scylla might be mish mash of different sea creatures. Or she is instead a leviathan or some giant sea creature like Polyphemus.

[im-just-a-dumb-gay]

Forgot to add this:

Achilles(Sun): Featherfin Rainbowfish

Patroclus(Moon): Lantern fish

Neo(Ruin dlc Eclipse): Boseman's Rainbowfish

Brisies(Marionette): Angelfish

Glamrock Roxanne: Wolf fish

Glamrock Chica: Parrot fish

Glamrock Freddy: Mola Mola

Glamrock Monty: Alligator Gar

Freddy: Cuttlefish

Golden Freddy: Nautilus

Helen of Troy: Beta Fish

Polyphemus: Giant Leafy Dragon

Thetis: Octopus

Zeus: Lionfish

Poseidon: Leafy Dragon/Sea Horse

Hera: Waleshark

Athena: Owlfish

Demeter: Black Sea Nettle Jellyfish

Apollo: Shrimp

Artemis: Lobster

Hestia: Giant Squid

Hermes: Hourglass Dolphin

Dionysius: Dumbo Octopus

Ares: Great White Shark

Hephaestus: Pacific White Skate

Aphrodite: Mandarinfish

What do you get when you mix your at the time favorite book, favorite musical, and a fandom you got back into with mermaids? For me, this au lol.

I was reading Song of Achilles and thought Myrmidons was close to Mermaids. Then I added DCA as Patroclus and Achilles cause why not lol.

Might be hard to see but the lyrics are "You're too sweet for me. You're too sweet for me" from my at the moment song I was obsessed with Too Sweet by Hozier.

At some point just added Epic too cause, Epic was the reason I got into greek myth which led to reading Song of Achilles.

For this au, the gods are sirens with the main 13 being huge with special siren abilities. Example, Hermes' voice is like sonar and can be carried across oceans.

Other gods/sirens are only slightly taller than mermaids and have a stronger and sweet voice. Since Achilles is half siren, his voice is considered beautiful whether talking or speaking and his voice does carry farther than the average mermaid. (In legend, it is said when Patroclus died, all oceans could hear Achilles' cries and screams, his siren voice full with grief and no longer sweet, but harsh and cold.)

Haven't worked on the au in a while and there might be changes if I continue to work on it lol.

(Also, was because of Song of Achilles I learned Neo was the son of Achilles from the line "Neo, avenge your father, kill the brothers of Hector")