#professional mermaiding

[catsithkelpie]

Not what I usually post but I'm not getting quora just to ask this

Mermaiders/Merfolkers, professional or not,

do you know what I could substitute for a finfun monofin that doesn't float and also accommodates large feet? (I literally had to cut holes in my monofin to fit my feet inside and be able to remove them safely)

Something that would fit about a size 10, cheap, and again, DOES NOT FLOAT (I'm not gonna drown trying to swim underwater while my feet float to the surface) would be preferable, but the price isn't that big of an issue I guess, I can save up.

I keep wanting to train underwater but before I can do that I need to not be risking death any more than usual by going in the water.

For my followers seeing this, yes, I am training to be a merman, lol. Surprise?

[yuwuta]

olympics coming up…… athlete aus on the mind….. satoru as a swimmer….. unreasonably large wingspan…. huge hands..... thinks “official” competitions and tournaments are boring because he can’t use the goofy purple googly eyes goggles he likes to practice in…… practices at ungodly hours solely because he likes when the pool is empty because that means you’ll dip your feet in at the edge and be there to greet him with a kiss when he’s finished his laps….. they bring up the stats board and it’s just his name ten times before the next fastest person and he could still lap them, and even tho he’ll always put so much pressure on himself to be the best, it’s worth it to have you hold his face and tell him you’re proud of him... he’s gotten so much merch from events and sponsorships and he used to think they just created clutter but that all changes when you start to wear his clothes (esp the ones with his name on it… he’s not proud to admit that does Something to him)…. always looks up to the stands when he finishes a race and if he knows you’re not there, he looks right at the camera, draws an infinity sign with his fingers, and blows a kiss (which, some commentators routinely call “unsportsmanlike conduct” but he doesn’t care, and always, publicly says he’ll pay the fees if it means blowing a kiss to his girl at home)

[gleafer]

Mermaids are my go-to hammer to break free of artist’s block.

What’s yours?

[sentientsky]

immense respect for michael and david and their ability to work professionally on set together. cause if i were in a show with my bestest friend in the whole entire universe, absolutely FUCK ALL would get done

[pftones3482]

I want to be excited for the live action Little Mermaid so badly

The Little Mermaid is my favorite Disney movie. Anyone who knows me knows I'm obsessed with mermaids as a whole and will watch any media that has them. Hell, I own my own tails and monofins. But every time I see a gif or a video for the new Little Mermaid, I cringe

(btw, this is NOT because of the casting. If you're against this movie because Ariel is black, you're a racist piece of shit and this post isn't for you)

My issue lies with the CGI. It just looks so FAKE. We've seen through the course of movies and TV shows that use it that CGI does not age well, and that's because technology is constantly improving. What was impressive in 2005 is not impressive in 2023 (Just look at Aquamarine, another movie about mermaids). And the CGI on Ariel and her sisters already looks fake and the movie isn't even out yet!

Compare this image from the trailer

To this screenshot from H20: Just Add Water (a TV show that came out in 2006):

You can see the details of the scales in the second image

The first image is flat. Sure, it's colorful, but it's flat. It's fake. Halle herself is the most beautiful and alive part of the image, because everything else is fake

The difference?

H20 had costume designers, ones specifically trained in mermaid tail making, HAND CRAFT every tail on the show. All of the scales were hand laid, all the tails molded to fit the actors/actresses perfectly, painted by hand

Let's even look at someone with no affiliation to TV or movies:

This is Mermaid Linden, a very well known (in the mermaid community) professional mermaid. You can tell her tail is not as high quality as the ones made for H20 (though it's still a VERY expensive tail) - but it still looks like it's a part of her. You can still see the details. Because professional mermaid tails are also all handmade and molded to fit each person. Even if they don't lay every individual scale, good professional mermaid tail makers are very meticulous about what they do.

This is what happens when Disney refuses to pay practical effects artists. We could have had beautiful, handmade tails that would look real on screen for decades to come and could be reused for promotional purposes - instead, they're underpaying and overworking their non-unionized employees to make CGI tails that don't even look real now.

(to be clear, I'm not shitting on the artists. As I said, they're being underpaid and overworked. This is not their fault)

And before anyone comes and says "But swimming in those is difficult!" Absolutely it is. You should never swim in a professional level tail (or even just fabric tails) without practice and training. Which Disney could have given the cast if they were willing to PAY people (the cast of H20 [a TV SHOW] literally learned how to be mermaids on set. It's been done before)

Disney's "Live Action" needs to be rebranded as "CGI with some real people tossed in" because that's all any of these remakes have been, and it's exhausting when I look at what we could have had.

[helpimhyperfixating]

it's halloween again!

mertaro and the merpups seeing y/n's house all decorated and wonder what its about. maybe some of the costumed trick or treaters see mer jolyne and think she's just in a "really nice mermaid costume" 😂

She would fully be wanting to go around trick or treating too. Just get a wheelbarrow and get her along (if you manage to convince Jotaro to let you).

I would imagine Jotaro gets a kick out of scaring the piss out of kids just by opening the door. He may be stationed by it for like 30-50 minutes before getting too annoyed with the constant ringing 😂

Life of a Mer on land is tough, guys, ya can hardly move.

All in all, please take care explaining the holiday though because otherwise there is gonna be a very warped view of humanity and/or some injuries because of a startled mer lashing out.

Happy Halloween :3

[laurasimonsdaughter]

"So you're not a lawyer?"

"A lawyer, gods no! People just think 'counselor' sounds better than 'PR consultant'. Personally, I'm still partial to 'spin doctor', but sadly I'm in the minority."

"And you do this sort of thing a lot?"

"It's our bread and butter. We work strictly no cure not pay and we've never had to give a refund. It's all about picking your audience, of course. We can't always guarantee a wide reach, but there is always something to be won.”

“Go on…”

“Well! I’m sure you’re aware of our successes, or you wouldn’t talking to me. We’ve done wonders for the vampire community, since the Count was kind enough to hire us. Their public image might be called downright desirable nowadays. And I’m sure people barely remember what mermaids were considered to be like, before we got involved.”

“Not all of us care about being desirable.”

“Very true, well, sometimes it’s just the little details that make the difference. Look at the fairies! We have an entire generation convinced that they can’t lie, and all they are interested in is stealing names. I’ll be honest, we really hadn’t expected that to take off like it did.”

“But it was the Queen of Faerie who hired you, wasn’t it?”

“A Queen of Faerie, certainly, but she might as well be the only one by now. But you see, our methods work. We get results. Need I say more?’

“Yes, actually. Presuming money is no object, which it won’t be, I’d like to hear your opinion on dragons…”

[nicointhestars]

HC: Percy and Annabeth get part-time jobs while in college. Percy is lucky enough to land a gig as a professional mermaid. He quickly becomes and industry favorite due to his skill, enthusiasm, and of course the lack of pro male mermaids. Annabeth starts to get nervous about all the offers he gets to go full time and travel, but he always turns them down with a simple, “Sorry, but I promised my mom and my girl I would finish college.”

[s0ljpeg]

Hello!! Here’s some info about my mermaid au

(in general for this post; next time, I’ll focus on Wolfwood ^_^)

Also bare with me cause this is a LONGGG ONE

The setting is an alternate version of Gunsmoke, in which there are little to no seas and Vash lives in one, close to the town of Jeneora Rock. As for the reputation of Vash with the citizens, it’s slightly different. For one, most of them theorize that he’s a ruthless and unforgiving monster in the sea, ready to destroy any city he visits, which Meryl is trying to figure out; she reports a lot of notices about him, and Milly gives her a hand in each of her reports, as well as Wolfwood, an ex-priest and a pirate, exploring each sea he can with his brother, Livio.

The humanoid monstrosity, as people call him, destroys cities with his “tentacles” and constantly goes after the power plants, whose power comes from these sea creatures, known as plants; they have the same abilities as the original ones, but their appearance resembles that of a leafy seadragon, here’s what they look like!

Once Meryl, Milly, Wolfwood, and Livio find Vash, they realize he isn’t as big of a threat as people say he is, nor is he a monster; he’s just a merman, at least that’s how he presents as for now.

He travels through a lot of seas but mostly spends his time in a cave with his brother, Knives, who isn’t as fond of humans as Vash. When he finds out some humans interacted with him, he decides to sink Wolfwood’s ship and kill both Wolfwood and Livio—at least that’s what everyone in the town thinks.

Nai used them to his advantage; his tentacles gripped them and took them to the depths of his cave. Livio was able to escape, but Wolfwood wasn’t as lucky, almost being transformed fully into an orca with the help of one of the humans he experimented with. Vash rescues him halfway through the process, making him a merman just like Vash.

As for Livio, people don’t know much about him; he was eventually captured by Knives again, then turned into a merman as well, yet he keeps the two away, letting them live under one condition: bring Vash to him and show him the horrors of humanity he perceives.

That’s practically all of it!! Hopefully, I get to show more about this AU in the future ^_^

Also, side note, feel free to ask anything in my inbox or in the comments‼️ I don’t bite so dw

[captain-harpo]

the mermaid shit was the gayest ive ever seen in anything in my life for real

[artistic-moth-man]

Imagining life as a professional mermaid part 2

[nuks]

lil angel... her name will be marisol...

[prosebushpatch]

fully aware that a night of sleep might be enough for me to realize it's garbage and still majorly lacking BUT I JUST WROTE A QUERY DRAFT FOR MY MERMAID STORY AND I THINK IM FINALLY ONTO SOMETHING. IT ONLY TOOK, WHAT, 5 YEARS TO FIGURE OUT QUERIES?!?!?!

[faefins]

Drifting about in the dreamy blue 🧜‍♀️

[golden--doodler]

Yes, I'm posting this art again, because I couldn't help myself and just had to record myself doing the final part of Part of Your World (aka the best part). It's not my best work, but I had so much fun doing it!!

[airconditionertm]

I find it so funny when those conspiracy videos are like omg this is footage of a real mermaid

as if you can’t just buy a mermaid tail and their is a massive community of people who are professional mermaids