ayellowbirds:

wordswithkittywitch:

The thing that I don’t think gets brought up enough about discussions of mermaids is that they make a lot more sense if you think of them as sea mammals like seals and dolphins and otters. Or, platypuses.

“Oh, mermaids hair would be all nasty and dried out because that’s how human hair is when they swim in salt water a lot.” or it might be soft and sleek, like the fur of otters and seals.

“They would have weird red bulbous fish eyes. Or human eyes that are all red and swollen because of being in the water so much.” Or maybe big, dark round eyes that look really cute on harp seals but slightly disturbing the longer you look at the mermaid.

I mean, I don’t want to say you can’t design eldrich freaky-looking species of merpeople, I just want the variety. And for the varieties to just make a little sense, even a mythological species that lives in saltwater would not evolve with eyes that can’t handle living in saltwater.

mermaids with blubber. Mermaids with sharp little teeth for catching fish. Mermaids with thick, dark body hair. Mermaids with venomous barbs.

i’m completely serious, i want those things.

every dnd game

dm: alright, so here’s a situation with a choice, and i cannot emphasize enough that there might be huge consequences in your decision
almost every other player: ok, can we like.. investigate… i dont want to jump int-
That One Player: I DO THE THING

raptorific:

I still think it’s hilarious that the reason nobody ever figures out Superman’s secret identity or where he lives or what he does when he’s not saving the planet, is because he already told them all the Kryptonian stuff that can’t be tied to any of his human friends or family. I guarantee you the in-universe wikipedia article on Superman lists his name as Kal-El and the “personal life” section says that he lives full-time at his private fortress of solitude at the north pole. Nobody in the world looks at Clark Kent and thinks “oh my god, maybe he’s superman!” for the same reason nobody ever starts to suspect that their coworker who looks KINDA like Barack Obama is actually secretly Barack Obama – They know who Barack Obama is and know what he does and they know their coworker Greg is Greg and not Barack Obama. They have no reason to assume Barack Obama secretly moonlights as Greg The IT Guy at their workplace even though they’ve never seen Greg and Obama in the same place. At best, “Greg is secretly Obama” would be a running joke at the office, and the same is true at the Daily Planet. “Kal-El of Krypton, who lives in a CRYSTAL PALACE at the NORTH POLE and whose dayjob is SUPERMAN, sometimes puts on a suit and pretends to be a clumsy reporter and lives in a one-bedroom walkup in Metropolis” is a ridiculous concept to anyone who doesn’t already know it’s true