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
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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.
So the Weasleys are the rare pureblood family that actually keeps some sort of track of their squibs, right?
Like, 11-year-old Ron knows he has a cousin who’s an accountant, even though he’s aware that it’s vaguely shameful.
So please consider: one of the businesses Fred and George ran out of their back room, in the early days after the Ministry fell, was creating fake family trees for Muggle-Borns.
Weasleys are already known to have enormous families, what’s one or two extra a generation or two back?
(Aunt Muriel is awful, but in the face of Muggleborn Registration, absolutely she’ll admit to having a couple of squib children she doesn’t mention in polite company, because who would, but she’s delighted to learn that magic resurfaced in their grandchildren, why are the men from the Ministry frowning when they deliver such wonderful news, and they can d**n well keep their boots off the carpet. A couple of Muggleborns the Twins kept out of trouble that way sent Aunt Muriel half-joking mothers’ day cards until the day she died.)
AU where Cody is running on three days of battle with no sleep and too many stims, and he just can’t figure out what this random-ass guy in a hood wants. Who is he? He doesn’t look like any general Cody knows. Honestly fuck this, he’s trying to keep his men and his reckless idiot Jedi alive, try again later Sidious. And that’s how everyone survives 66.
It occurred to me that the T-rex (we really need an official name for her) from the original Jurassic Park only killed one human in the movie, and it was that shitty lawyer who abandoned the kids anyway, so he had it coming. She wasn’t in the second or third film as those took place on the other island. She was, however, in Jurassic World where (spoilers) she saved everyone’s asses, JUST like she did at the end of the first film. So let’s do a tally here.
Humans Killed: 1
Humans Saved: 8 + 1 velociraptor
In conclusion the T-rex is the real protagonist of the series thank you.
Of course!! She was the pride and joy of the park. She probably had an audience when she hatched. She imprinted on people, not dinosaurs. Her whole life she was given her proteins handed to her, she has never had to really hunt to survive. She is like a captive-bred tiger. She probably had favorite human handlers. She could tell which humans were the nasty one. Reframe the movie where Rexy (that’s what I’m calling her) is just as scared as the humans that the power went out, that things were falling apart. She was exploring outside her habitat. She wanted to play with the jeeps. Maybe she wanted to help get the small human out of jeep? Be free, tiny humans! Come back, tiny humans! Don’t fall off the cliff, tiny humans! The lawyer smelled bad. Rexy really disliked his smell. He tried to hide it on the toilet, but her nose easily found him. He didn’t taste as good as goat, though. His stinky clothes gave her a stomach ache for days. Rexy tried to figure out where the humans went. She found them at the visitors center. And when she got there, a rude raptor wanted to pick a fight with her. No! Get off my back. What is this thing falling on me??? Someone bring me a goat, I’m hungry!
Reblog if you want to be in a combination of a lesbian biker gang and knitting circle where we ride along the west coast going on adventures and take breaks to knit at cafes and talk about girls, stories from our pasts, problems, and dreams
I can’t be in one now, but I hopefully can someday
I want this, but a bi-ker gang. We’ll go to all the LYS.
do you ever think about how sam wilson was in pararescue in the army? as in, it was his job to rescue soldiers? and he did that by flying with a pair of wings on his back? just swooping in and saving people? basically what i’m getting at is actual guardian angel sam wilson bye
rhodey as one of the people behind the EXO-FALCON project, please discuss.
Rhodey’s an engineer with the Air Force whose best friend from college easily created a robot suit for human, please point me towards the best of the billions of fics exploring this premise that I’m sure must exist.
GUYS GUYS GUYS
Given Sam had already been grounded for a few years in Winter Soldier, and there had to be a lot of testing before there were even human testers and they’d had to go through a lot of practice before they were in the field
WHAT IF
Falcon came first.
It was a secret air force project Rhodey was working on, and it was so cool and so complicated that he had to go to his BFF to bounce some ideas off (under strict confidence of course, Tony, this is serious).
Trapped in a cave, with nothing but a box of scraps, Tony thought Rhodey made something that let a man fly. That means it’s possible. Maybe I can do that too.
two great tastes that taste great together:
1) Rhodey’s job, experience, and education all being part of something that speaks to his own passions and not just Tony wrangling
2) RHODEY INSPIRING TONY
Their first time meeting, Sam’s working really hard to act cool, even though what the hell, Steve has the weirdest friends, how is this is life (and Steve is smirking because he’s an asshole)
And he finally gets over to introduce himself to Stark
And Tony, upon learning he’s the Falcon, is like “So you kind of saved my life.”
And Sam just- look, he flew with mechanical wings to rescue people. He raced Captain America. He helped Captain America and Black Widow take down government Nazis. But he still wasn’t prepared for this.
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