Unlike ocean mermaids who have plenty of room to grow their hair, freshwater mermaids prefer shorter styles similar to humans; because of their close proximity to the surface, “freshies” may also be seen wearing hats to block out sunlight and peek out from the water like alligators.
Additionally, due to their small size in even smaller environments like lakes and rivers, freshwater mermaids prefer human speech for communication over the whale-like humming used by their ocean relatives to speak.
Abyssal mermaid, humming: [Hello cousin…!] River mermaid, tipping their seashell cowboy hat: HOWDY
also while i’m at it i wrote a bunch of lines to use as a stunt in my Mirror Flag play if you might like to read them:
basically the play is the story of an upright Magistrate who loves the law, who has been pursuing the criminal mastermind Thorn-in-Roses across the country for years. (the Magistrate was originally a female character but Manus thought it would get the point across better if he played her so chose to change her gender over crossdressing on stage.) Thorn-in-Roses is wily, brilliant, manipulative, and intensely alluring to the Magistrate, who is just as much a criminal genius as she is, but spends his life suppressing his base urges to profit off others, devoting himself to keeping the law instead.
as Thorn-in-Roses dances through a glittering array of parties, robbing a glittering array of nobles, the Magistrate follows a few steps behind. the only way he can head her off in the end is by committing a spectacular crime himself; Thorn-in-Roses is captured, her ill-gotten gains seized and returned. the mastermind goes to her execution serenely, knowing that the Magistrate has done the one thing he swore to her, over the course of their long dance, that he would never do, and she leaves behind not a triumphant enemy but a partner in crime.
watching as Thorn-in-Roses is led to the block, the Magistrate muses alone:
since viri did homestuck on main here i am too in solidarity. just reused that same picture again since uh lazy
homestuck AU Manus is Mannus Ganimi, one of the youngest successful Legislacerators who’s still, you know, alive. he’s already lost one eye, but he saw that coming from the start, and his nascent powers as Mage of Doom helped him get a new one. he tends to be more legis than lacerator, and he’s trying to really embrace it like the ancestor he idolizes, but he knows it’s only so long he can put off the killing part. if only bureaucracy was a little less lethal…
I know some people might not care about this. I know some people think this is to complicated. And I know some people think this won’t affect them. But here’s the thing, IT WILL definantly effect you no matter where you live. It will effect you tumblr user, you reddit users, and you watching youtube.
If this law gets passed then it’s gonna inspire the rest of the world. It was just like how in the USA.
The video is barley sixteen minutes and less if you skip ahead.
IT IS THE TRANSLATED AND SIMPLE VERSION OF ARTICLE 13’S IMPLICATIONS
Don’t have time to watch? Then just reblog. It takes two seconds on phone and two clicks on a computor
A Quiet Respite 