The third lesbian fairy tale for @blimeyhermione, loosely based on The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen. See the other two here and here.
She stood in the water up to her knees and refused to go further. Anahita searched the waves for a familiar break in the crests. She felt her heart thrum against her chest, trying not to panic. She would be here soon. It was almost sunset and she shivered with anticipation. A dark strand of hair whipped around her and she quickly tucked it back into her braid. She closed her eyes and sent out a whisper of Power once more, calling her beloved to her. Coralin. She felt it ripple indistinctly across the waves away from her. Coralin. Anahita opened her eyes.
A beautiful, grinning face looked at her across the water. It was dusted with freckles (Anahita simply knew this, even though she couldn’t see them from such a distance) and framed by thick curly black hair. Coralin had come. Anahita watched as Coralin dove in the waves again and again; each time she resurfaced, she was closer. Coralin’s fins, a bright red matching the coral she was named for, were powerful as she glided through the water. She stopped, treading water, ten feet away from Anahita and smiled.
“Come on in. The water’s divine,” she called, her dark eyes laughing and her fins twitching to the surface. She splashed water at Anahita. Anahita shivered and took a step back as the water hit her. “For me?” Coralin wheedled, swimming another stroke forward.
Anahita sighed, “For you? Anything.” And she stepped further into the water. Her stomach climbed higher and higher into her throat as she felt the panic that the water always brought her. It was up to her chest and she felt her lungs constrict. She took another shaking breath.
The selkie comes from Scottish, Irish, and Faroese lore.
Unlike a mermaid, the selkie transforms fully into a human or into a seal, casting its seal skin and walking the land. When in human form, they can converse and mate with humans.
It’s said that a selkie male will seek out women (married or not) to mate with, and can be summoned when a woman sheds seven tears into the ocean during high tide.
There are many legends surrounding the selkie. Most of them are tragic, involving humans stealing away a selkie’s skin, leaving the selkie no choice but to marry their captor. Children with one selkie parent typically have webbing between their fingers and toes, and can hear the selkies singing from the ocean.
“But unlike sirens, selkies don’t mean any harm with their songs. They don’t sing to seduce or to kill. Their songs have nothing to do with anyone but themselves. They sing for the simple joy of it, and because of that, I imagine their songs are more beautiful than those of any siren” -Betsy Cornwell
why are there so many posts about asexuals being immune to sirens. people. sirens don’t lure you in with sex (necessarily). they sing about whatever it is that you want most. they could sing about mothman or cinnamon toast crunch and guess what then your asexual pirate is fucking dead
this is the only kind of ace discourse i ever want to see on my dash. the only kind. ever again. good job
Do you think the sirens would be grateful that they finally get some variety?
“Oh my god we can finally just sing about pasta thank the fucking gods.”
I’m not asexual but I’m fairly certain sirens would do a far better job luring me into the depths with a song about pasta rather than sex…
I mean.
“WHAT THE FUCK STAY AWAY FROM THE ROCKS.”
“FUCKER THEY SAID THEY HAVE FETTUCCINE CARBONARA AND HOT GARLIC BREAD OVER THERE HANG ON BITCH.”
This is true; Odysseus heard them promising him knowledge of the future. So the next time you see artwork like this:
Remember those sultry naked chicks are saying “We’ll tell you the winning lotto numbers.”
Them: “We have unlimited wifi at incredible speeds~” Me: *diving headfirst into the water*
I love this post
Them: hey man if you jump into the water you’ll fucking drown Me: i’m all in baby
A mermaid is a legendary aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide, including the Near East, Europe, Africa and Asia. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria, in which the goddess Atargatis transformed herself into a mermaid out of shame for accidentally killing her human lover. Mermaids are sometimes associated with perilous events such as floods, storms, shipwrecks and drownings. In other folk traditions (or sometimes within the same tradition), they can be benevolent or beneficent, bestowing boons or falling in love with humans. The male equivalent of the mermaid is the merman, also a familiar figure in folklore and heraldry. Some of the attributes of mermaids may have been influenced by the Sirens of Greek mythology. Historical accounts of mermaids, such as those reported by Christopher Columbus during his exploration of the Caribbean, may have been inspired by manatees and similar aquatic mammals. While there is no evidence that mermaids exist outside of folklore, reports of mermaid sightings continue to the present day, including 21st century examples from Israel and Zimbabwe. X
The shy Selkies are marine creatures in the shape of a seal. They can be
found near the islands of Orkney and Shetland. A female can shed her
skin and come ashore as a beautiful woman. When a man finds the skin, he
can force the Selkie to be a good, if somewhat sad, wife. Should she
ever recover the skin, she will immediately return to sea, leaving her
husband behind.
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