muffintop-madonna:

theofficialvincenzo:

asundergrowth:

sassymurderousangel:

gayndam:

guys listen

mermaids would have to be dark-skinned and chubby to survive in the ocean 

water isnt a great means of protecting oneself from the sun
theyd have to be very dark if they were shallow mermaids and they didnt want to be constantly sunburnt
and they may be paler if they lived deeper in the water but theyd have to be buff and/or chubby as hell to resist the water pressure and cold of the deep sea

what im saying is pale-ass white skinny mermaids are just unrealistic

I love this tea

Fat isn’t a defense against water pressure, it’s an insulator. So the colder the water, the fatter the mermaid.

Scandinavian merfolk would be tubby, evolving more for persistence hunting in the freezing coastal waters, possibly relying more on siren-song to lull prey into effective range. The less moving the better! Gotta keep the chub on to survive the winter.

Whereas Mediterranean/Polynesian merfolk would spend their time among the fertile reefs in warmer waters, competing with other predators. They would be built for speed and agility, buff like sprinters. Darker skin would be harder to spot under the surf, and more resistant to the glaring sun.

Also: it’s not hair, it’s scillia that they use to filter plankton out of the water, and it stings like a jellyfish if you touch it.

I would imagine that merfolk come in many different colors, maybe they even have the ability to shift their skin tone to assist in hunting? I guess that depends on how intelligent your mermaids are.

Tldr; cold water mermaids would probably be chubby, warm water mermaids would look like Serna Williams.

Another thing to take into account is Deep-Sea-Gigantism. It’s not fully understood why many animal species such as the colossal squid and whales typically grow to unimaginable sizes in high-water-pressure areas, but it’s assumed that it develops as some sort of defense mechanism. This would imply that deep-sea merfolk would be a sort of Leviathan-class eldritch horror. 

Hell yeah hell yeah

lethal-cuddles:

“Baby, It’s Cold Outside” is not actually about date rape, but it’s easy to make that assumption when looking at the lyrics from a modern perspective. The thing is that the song was actually written in 1944.

At the time that the song was written, it wasn’t considered socially acceptable for a woman to spend the night with a boyfriend or fiance, and “What’s in this drink?” was a common idiom at the time used to rebuke societal expectations by blaming one’s actions on the influence of alcohol.

The song isn’t about date rape, but it is absolutely a product of it’s time, and it’s fairly easy to misinterpret it that way without the context of the time period it was written in.

frogparty:

oceanicgf:

frogparty:

the real question is how the fuck did persephone only manage to eat 6 pomegranate seeds. theyre like the fucking cocaine of fruit you cant eat just 6 singular seeds you have to pop handfuls upon handfuls into ur mouth at rapid speeds and then get sad cause you spent half an hour getting them out of the pomegranate and ate all of them in 5 minutes

are you ok

pomy granite

fandom-is-for-pleasure:

Question: the fuck’s up with the Purity Brigade’s utter obsession with ‘normality?’ If I screenshotted every single post along the lines of ‘why can’t you freaks be normal?’ or ‘we normal people…’ I’d have a giant binder by now. There’s just something entirely bizarre to me, about a mass of teenagers and young twenty-somethings (at most) in fandom spaces, of all places, massively clamoring for ‘normality’ and using the lack of such as some sort of grievous insult that should be cutting people to the quick. I’ve said it before, but looking back ten years ago, when my lot was at about the same age-range (teens to early twenties LGBTQ+ fannish people), I honestly can’t recall much in the way of behavior like this. Rather the opposite – we’d actively challenge each other to create the darkest, most messed-up shit we could, for enjoyment and just because we could and no one was the boss of us in fandom. 

I also can’t wrap my head around why they don’t seem to comprehend that lack of normality isn’t an insult to quite a lot of people in fandom. I genuinely don’t know how to put it more bluntly than this, so people comprehend – my raison d’etre isn’t to be ‘normal’, to be some cog in regular society, nice and respectable-like. My raison d’etre is to maximize my enjoyment of life and minimize my suffering – and if I can do that for others as well, so much the better. Nowhere in there is ‘normality’ stipulated or even required. So why, exactly, would a lack of normality be offensive to me? 

ponpox:

Ok so this morning I read this post by @gothreigen and I agree on so many levels and I got inspired so I had to sketch some Momos (I didn’t plan on re-designing her hero costume it just sorta happened because I really don’t like the Canon one)

The suit is made with very durable, stretchy fabric and the holes in it have reinforced edges so they won’t break too easily. The slits in the corners of the holes have hidden fabric flaps sewn in so the holes can stretch even bigger. Because lets face it, even though Momo can materialise things from anywhere on her body, she still has certain places she favours. She doesn’t have to be almost naked.

Also the talk about her being a tank made me really want to see her handling a minigun… Anyway go read the post it’s really good