I feel like this is extra awkward when you’re a fabric tail mer.Quote:
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I feel like this is extra awkward when you’re a fabric tail mer.Quote:
Originally Posted by mermaidsophia14
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Nope! Explain to them ankle biters that in mermaid culture, there are many types of mermaids. Some have real skin (don't say its silicone, it will spoil their effect), some have slippery skin (fabric) and others have rubbery skin (neoprene).Quote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Ankhali
Brilliant!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Jaffa
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That awkward moment when you find out a friend or colleague likes mermaids and you start to over-enthusiastically "test the waters" with not-so subtle references to mermaid tails to see if they would be interested in joining your one-mer pod.
The struggles of being a lone mer in a country that hasn't discovered mermaiding yet. (Something I want to change)
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I love this [emoji1787][emoji108]Quote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Jaffa
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This was my first public event as a volunteer mermaid (not my gig lol), I had met up with a few mers and a professional mermaid at a Pirate Fest locally, and when i was about to get my tail from finfun on, I slipped and fell. (We were at the boat launch). I ended up getting a scrape on my knee, but it wasn't too bad. Didnt even bleed. But my shorts got wet lmao. I was fine, not hurt.
LOL ditto. I cant wait to get one though! if anyone has the purple mermaiden tail from finfun, tell me all about it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ayla of Duluth
LOL, They must be so cute, " Umm, Wady? Can I touch wor mermaid tawl?"Quote:
Originally Posted by mermaidsophia14
I do! Heres my review: https://youtu.be/pN6kehn55lkQuote:
Originally Posted by MadeleineTheMermaid
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OH, so you are that girl! I watched this a while ago, and I loved it! how is the tail doing so far? I am (hoping) to get one for my birthday, so I want to know all about it, so I am prepared. Keep up the good work, and don't let anyone tell you what to do!Quote:
Originally Posted by Nerdmaid Faith
Madeleinethemermaid
When you get really comfortable in the water and ready to try swimming underwater and cant sink. Then proceed to try REALLY hard and manage to end upside down with butt and legs sticking straight out but somehow STILL not making it down at all!
My fiance tried to show me all kinds of ways but i guess a big ol booty and spare tire make me much too bouyant.
That’s me!! Big ol floatty butt! I have an early video of me in my finfun trying to dive down and ended up floating back up like a cork. It took a while for me to get underwater for any length of time. Now its just practice to stay there.Quote:
Originally Posted by SirenGita
oh my Neptune yes! but usually when they ask to feel it they've already indicated that they know its not real, and me in the moment not being great at improv just agrees with them, especially since I might want to take off my tail later to swim with dual lower appendagesQuote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Ankhali
The super awkward moment when you have not told your boyfriend about being a merman yet. And then comes over with food to surprise you but you are on the floor trying on your new tail.
Good news he thought it was cute and was fascinated how real the fabric tail looked
When you and your pod go to the pool, and there's two girls (pre teen?) with Fin Fun tails. (This is new for me because in the years I've been mermaiding I haven't run into kid mers)
Hasn't happened yet, but I'm dreading the awkward moment when I go swimming in Lake Balaton and some kid tries to ask me about my tail while I don't speak a lick of Hungarian :')
when you havent swam in your tail in forever and you start cramping everywhere. like??? i dont remember this happening ever 2 laps. im a mermaid why is this happening????
Sounds like you were dehydrated, and were pushing too hard! "...haven't swam in your tail in forever..." was your first clue :mermaid kiss:Quote:
Originally Posted by Fun123joker
Dehydrated and did you stretch before hand? What's your vitamin intake like?
Honestly, probably piss poor. I'm not a healthy eater lol
Me neither. I'm working on it. ;)
Potassium and magnesium are a big help to preventing cramps :)
That awkward moment when you've been swimming for a few hours in your tail then decide to take it off, but upon reentering the pool find that you've forgotten how to swim without it. lol My husband was like "umm do you need help love" as I was floundering about like a sad weak little human.
hahaha I'm just imagining if this happened to me...."Oh god, what are these meat sticks?!" and my fiance dying of laughter and being unable to help :D
Every. Single. Time.
That awkward moment when a mothers excited little children are touching the tips of your fluke and then their mom just comes right up and runs her hand up your tail almost to the hip. Then her eyes go wide when she realizes what she did and mutters out an apology like "I'm so sorry I didn't even think." That was an awkward experience. Usually you can't get away without little kids wanting to touch your tail (which I'm usually fine with as long as it's the fluke area), but I've never had a parent do that. lol
That's cute! A parent who believes just as much as her children.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Avalynn
I guess, but I hate people touching me. lol Right now I'm expecting a Merling and people (little old ladies mostly) just come up and touch my bulging belly which makes me want to slap their hand away. I mean I don't even know these humans so its really awkward.
Congrats!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Avalynn
I'm getting all my systems checked bc we are getting ready to start our family soon, but i swear if anyone touches my belly they are losing that arm! I've never understood how people can get so insanely rude with women!
That moment when you tell your co-workers you're mermaiding and 2 of them want to do it too...
I'm really sorry people are doing that. When I was pregnant, I'd heard so many stories of this happening that I fully expected it. And it never happened, even once! Which is good, as I hate being touched most of the time. Friends decided it must be the tattoos and being a surly type in black. :p lol But people also totally changed toward me... asking me about my due date, talking to me about pregnancy, helping like immediately when I'd drop something. That actually continued, the average type of person who used to never say a word to me will ask me for my opinion on things when I'm with my daughter. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Avalynn
ANYWAY, maybe you need a maternity shirt with a big HANDS OFF on it. Maybe they'll get it. Maybe carry pepper spray and point it while telling them, "I'm hormonal and done with humans touching my belly!" That ought to do it. haha
That akward moment when a sharp rock pokes into your tail! Fortunately, neoprene is pretty tough and it did not tear the suit. Looks much more ridiculous in the video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jiFYmxmk10 around 08:28.
:p Been there, done that.
Did all my scuba diving in cold murky quarries (except for the two ocean dives off the coast of DE, and the one in the St Lawrence River.... and the high altitude one in a Virginia lake). Full neoprene coverings are my friend (even tho somewhat claustrophobic now).
Even more fun is mermaiding on a Chesapeake bay beach (Rock Hall MD), with no mask, cause murky, so, just tail. The Bay has about 3 rocks, all of which are carefully charted... except for the riprap rocks everywhere to prevent erosion (which is what sand does, it moves).
yuh, swimming swimming swimming over the murky shallows in your Fin Fun tail and... scraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaape....
There are random stingrays too... it happened to the Pocahontas guy... (John Smith, therte's a place called Stingray Point where he apparently stabbed a ray with his sword... and got stabbyed back. He fell so ill he told his guys to dig his grave. But recovered in time for supper... which was stingray.
They're actually avoidable if you do the "stingray shuffle" and slide your feet around the bottom rather than stomping down...
I feel this soooooooooooooooo much. I never could swim in feet. Bleah, flounder flounder. I used fins since I knew they existed (pair o fins). I also swam with the mermaid kick fairly often before I knew it was a thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Avalynn
In open or deep water I NEED my fins... or fin... though I am quite capable of floating and derping and not drowning without.
I keep a pair under the deck bungees of the kayak. I once was in open water (back bay of Chincoteague Island VA) snorkelling, about 6' of water, totally over my head. It got late in the afternoon and I had to get back in the boat and couldn't... too tired. So put the fins back on and swam up over the deck. I keep a pair of fins there now, always, as a safety thing.
That awkward moment when a little kid sees you taking off your tail at the beach and they start crying