#not mer related

[thelateandboggythagsimmons]

Met the absolutely lovely @thylacines-toybox today (technically yesterday) at TetZooCon and we introduced our cuddlies to each other!

Marco and Mossy say thank you for the wonderful conversations, and that we hope you enjoy the tour!!!

[draconic-ichor]

MerMoony!

Hotheaded and protective, Moon is covered in bioluminescent spots to assist with night hunts. Slightly larger than Sun, but tends to be submissive towards him during mating

Day vs Night versions:

[way2gosuperrstarr]

lil sun doodle dump + some other things . 2 sunday's and a mercury . im sorry freddy fazbear i did not do you justice while drawing you. i am ashamed.

[bloo-the-dragon]

so *points at mer au eclipse and ruin* these bitches gay, obviously

but im curious as to like. how do they view each other. do they see themselves as human labels of relationships? do they kinda have their own word for each other or is it just "yeah im stuck with this fucker for the rest of my life and while i may act like its a horrible thing i really dont mind and even prefer it bc honestly i doubt we'd be able to survive without each other"

honestly they give an "idc wut its called we're bonded for life" vibe /silly

HJGFGH Oh definitely it's a 'bonded for life' kinda deal, literally as well as metaphorically. As for what to call it, well it's not romantic nor is it platonic - Queer-Platonic is the closest/best term for it and that's generally how i refer to their relationship! It's very much it's own special thing, and it differs greatly from typical human relationships. (Honestly if they were humans it would probably be super unhealthy lmao)

From Eclipse's perspective he doesn't really give any label to what he and Ruin have. At the very beginning it was a sort of mutual roommate situation that developed overtime into them becoming so much more, to the point that - as you correctly said - they would no longer be able to survive without the other.

Presently Eclipse is aware that Ruin is now his counterpart and has fully accepted that (again there's a story behind this happening that i hope to one day share should i ever manage to finish the fic gfjkg) but as far as an actual term goes? Hell if he knows, but he's content either way, even if he does grouch a lot!

For Ruin, it's more simple - to him Eclipse is his mate, his bonded, his partner for life. Now again this differs greatly from human and even your typical animal forms of relationships (especially with the mated for life deal) and it still falls very closely under the qpr catagory. Mers don't actually mate in the sexual sense (genderless beings and all) so for them to bond for life is to quite literally bind/tie their soul to another making them as one almost.

So long story short, it's a queer-platonic partnered for life kinda deal! Neither of them have any actual labels for it, it's just a 'we're attached at the hip and we ain't letting go'. It's truly queer!

[citrus-kiddo]

MER-BOYS!!! 🎣🦐

Meet Jasper and Ace! They're nautical boyfriends, Jasper being a anglerfish and Ace being a mantis shrimp.

Jasper is a scary looking pred but is actually a sweetheart. He has two tummies, one being for digesting food (he's gotta eat afterall) and one for Ace, which is more like a flesh pocket rather than a functioning stomach. Since Jasper is somewhat blind, only being able to recognized him via Ace's colors. He likes to swallow Ace to ensure Ace is close and safe with him. He likes to lure and/or tease Ace with his light, knowing Ace has a love for shiny things.

Ace is feisty prey, taking no nonsense. He met Jasper by accidentally falling for the light but for some reason Jasper allowed him to camp out in his mouth, which is return for sheltering him Ace gave Jasper company. After a while, the two partnered up and rarely leave each other's side. Though being small, Ace is as protective as Jasper is with him, being able to pack a mean punch when needed. Ace goes out for treasure runs from time to time to add to his collection, but his favorite treasure is Jasper himself.

These two love each other very much :3

(pspspspsp.. @pineappleparfaitie .. lookie)

[yippee-dnd]

jellyfish family!!

[[[CW IMPLIED SH]]]

lesbians that adopted their child

fun fact jellyfish reproduce asexually (hence the adoption)

click for better quality!

species from left to right:

australian spotted jellyfish

mauve stinger

lion's mane jellyfish (longest in the world!)

genasi are jellyfish

hong-ka's alias is Ash

their last name is quagcnidae, a merging of the prefix of 'quagmire' and the scientific word for jellyfish stingers!

i love this family so freaking much

Image ID: Three elven jellyfish mermaids stand posing for a family photo. From left to right: A darker-skinned, blind woman with sand dollars braided into her brown hair wears an off-shoulder light blue top, has white freckles and eyelashes, and has the translucent jellyfish bottom of an Australian spotted jellyfish. In the middle, a light-skinned, orange-haired, and green-eyed jellyfish mermaid cheerfully smiles up at the left mermaid, wearing dark green semicircular garments with brown accents. They appear to have sh scars on their arms and have the pinkish-red and spotted body of a mauve stinger. On the right, a taller, also light-skinned jellyfish mermaid stands smiling down at both of them. She has a sleeveless turtleneck top with a sheer red mesh covering connected by two rusty cuffs on her arms that pull at her skin. Both mothers have poliosis or a white forelock. The leftmost mother and child both have a tooth gap. From left to right: Salina (she/her), Fen(land) (they/them), and Hong-ka (she/her). Their last names are all Quagcnidae. End ID.

[braingone]

school is taking a lot more out of me than I anticipated, so have some old Skyrim sketches that I don't...think I've posted?

[camels-pen]

Use me. Use me.

[sleepyzz0h]

Sneaky peek 👀

[toru-saynomoree]

mer diavolo but make his fish part a devil ray

This is rushed cuz i didnt know if i was doing it well aw

I personally think more about Octopus! Diavolo but i like this vision!

[sparks-chaotic-cove]

Tomorrow. Tomorrow I shall do something.....

tehe

[thelateandboggythagsimmons]

the chronic illness do be illnessing today

[fitzrove]

Started watching a "problem with greek myth retellings" video and it began with a blurb montage like "Condemned by the misogynist guys of history, this is the true girlboss feminist story of [A WOMAN]" and like. brb writing one of those about crown prince rudolf. It's ok he's like a misunderstood girlboss to me<3

[feelingbat-ty]

HOLY SHIT YALL I WAS JUST REMINDED THAT ITS OFFICIALLY MERMAY 🧜‍♂️🧜‍♀️🧜⛴️

[rotton-teeth]

Toralei Fearbbok after school activies that arent just ~Music~

[occasionally-victor]

i feel like i need to start atleast sometimes talking about my au's, they can't keep cooking in my brain for years without output because for some reason i always need to visualise (draw) what im gonna talk about lmao. and when i day years - i mean it, my mer au was first conceptualised back in march 2021 (even though the most recent version of it was developed in 2023)

Anyways, mer au, huh? It isn't restricted to one specific smp (like all my au, ig), i just put anyone i want there.

I wanna talk some general things about it because i never really did (also, every time i say people - it means just everyone living in this dimension on this planet, who possesses the level of intelligence of a human irl. Sometimes i just need to specify which species of people we are talking about, like here about mers. and yes there are other dimensions im not talking about them tho.)

The world itself is pretty much just more or less normal fantasy world. I don't really go into world building more than necessary considering i mostly focusing on mers, but there are a lot of non-mer characters as well so. I basically kinda bullshit through there, but oh well. One thing i know for sure is that the planet they all are on is implied to be really fucking big. It's very common to often not be aware of existence of another species just because there never been one living close enough. Mers are very much one of the biggest "victims" of that (it's not bad nor good - it's just is). They are not hiding tho - it's just the ones who have contact with them are mostly people living by big bodies of water like sea or giant lake.

Talking about people living by big bodies of water, overall relationship between the ones on land and mers is pretty good - like, they trade between eachother; mers often seen around bays and beaches just hanging out with their land friends; it's very normal for food places that are right by the water to have an area for mers to access (and some are even ran by mers).

Mers usually live in underwater cities - each city is protected by Heart of the City (HotC) - a system of runes scattered in secret places (its one main rune and a bunch of smaller ones). Those runes also can be "found" in some other protected places outside of city. Making one rune is not hard (for mers, everyone else is fucked tho), but time consuming. How does it protect? By basically powering up mers in all ways. To not mess up with perception of their own might, mers tend to not "use" this power up until needed. Also, a lot of entrances in important places are made with much more heavy materials so without the rune active they would be hard to open. However, there's another thing about those runes - they also make non-waterbreathing creatures be able to breath under water when around. No one really understands why. But it does make tourism to underwater cities more accessible (tho, its pretty limited if going with a tourist group. however, if you have a mer friend - they totally can just get you there np)

Both qsmp and hermitcraft parts (they kinda separate, but also not really, it's just me splitting up lmao.) of au happen around the same sea. The two underwater cities would be pretty far away to really interact tho. (i also already kinda have the thing showing who's mer who isnt, but it isn't fully finished). Also, like i said, the au doesn't really have a plot lmao i just think mers are neat.