Ask A Mermaid
if you have any questions about or thoughts on mermaids, the oceans or other water or environment related issues, feel free to voice them here! i will try to answer them as faithfully as i can… 
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Hi, I had a question, but it’s a bit long to explain and don’t want to do it here. Can someone e-mail me? Thank you.
Yes – pleasure!
how do you change into human when you are in a mermaid form?
do you have a top on when you are a mermaid form or is your chest bare?
what spell did you use to become one
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alas! what a set of questions. i’ll answer then in reverse order.
1. i didn’t use a spell to become one. i just happened to get born as one.
2. clothing has too much drag – i have scales!
3. i don’t really change on land as i’m only half a sea creature. my human heritage allows me to go on land and breathe like a human. under water my gills become active. my head fin is usually mistaken for a mohican haircut on land.
ohhhh, thanks, can i see a picture of your tail?
what color will mine be if i will use a spell?
is it annoying being a mermaid
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again, in reverse order:
it’s not annoying being a mermaid, but it can be frustrating.
i don’t know about colours and spells – but i do know about krill fishing!
not all mermaids have tails. some have tentacles or webbed feet. i have a head fin and not a tail fin – this is why i am considerably slower than most mermaids! will see if i can find you a picture.
thankyou
hi,i like mermaids and i whis to be like you can you help me pls
am currently swimming around far away from the webocean. will reply when i’m back in my tub!
hi, i really want to become a mermaid do u know anyone ( a mermaid ) who knows a spell that i can use?
what are the spells to become a mermaid
hello spell-seekers! the mermaid does not know about any spells as she already is a mermaid. however, she has asked other mermaids, but they, too, seemed a little perplexed. either, some landfolks have this fascinating knowledge to create a merfolk from a fully-grown landfolk, or, when landfolks speak of mermaid transformation they speak in what they call ‘metaphors’ and mean people who look after the ocean? i will keep on looking into this question…
Tell me more about mermaids!what r their favorite foods?do they swim in hot or cold?how do they keep from getting cold?iwant to know every thing about them!
well, mermaids are quite different from one another in my experience. they swim in all sorts of waters – i have encountered my kind in the icy waters of the antarctic (for which they need thick skins and lots of blubber, which may answer your question about how they stay warm) and even down by the hot deep sea vents. you’ll rarely see deep sea mermaids as most of them stay in their comfy homes at the bottom of the trenches. most mermaids eat all sorts of fellow sea creatures, i’m afraid, from mollucs to big predators, depending on their appetite and temper. i am one of the few mostly vegetarian mermaids who lives off sea weed and other sea vegetables. i have to confess, however, that if i see some already dead fish or shells i sometimes find it hard not to eat it. in the sea, we make sure that nothing goes to waste, so we’re kind of programmed to eat what comes in our way. though in contrast to most fish and certain sea mammals, we tend to enjoy communicating with fellow sea creatures more than we like eating them. does this help?
i cast a spell that turned me into a merman do you know how to change me bak
hmh, i have absolutely no idea. if you read the above comments, some people would consider you lucky! you should maybe consider adjusting to your new life, maybe with the help of a friendly diver, marine biologist or manatee. alternatively, contacting the ladies at weeki wachee springs may be an idea.
paul can u please give me the spell you used to become a mermaid?.. plz tell me! i beg of u!
hey tell me story please lol
contact me i left the wrong reply to sum1 else IsraelLopez@live.com IDK any spell but i will like to hear your story.
I have done a mermaid spell my legs feel like there cold and in water rite now even though my top half is boling!
Why do you want to change back this great!
I realy hope to become a mermaid soon!
p.s what spell did you use?
Really? like REAL Mermaids?
Oh my gosh. I have been looking around the internet FOREVER to find a website like this. I just have one question: Is there a way for a person to become a Mermaid? I don’t mean ‘give me a spell’ or anything, I’m just asking if there’s a way for a human to become one without being born one.
Another thing; There are LOTS of people out there who want to become Merpeople! as a matter of fact, there is a website where there are 1,645 people who share this goal. Any information would be helpful, as this is a only a dream for them. One person I talked to tried for 15 years! I want to help them. But I’m only human. I can only do so much…
uh, wow. where is this website? as I was already born a mermaid i’m afraid I cannot help you. actually, landfolk are already merfolk in a sense, at least that’s how many merfolk see it. it’s just that they forget their connection to the ocean from which they were born and are still living in symbiosis with.
i know i should consider my self lucky but im too young to get up and leave and i cant tell my parents plus i live in a rainy place in england no where near the sea
hmh. my best advice is to contact the child line:
http://www.childline.org.uk/pages/help.aspx
they say that they can help with anything, so they might have someone there who knows about magic.
hello I will like to hear your story you ca email me if you want at IsraelLopez@live.com
hi.. i wanted to know.. if someone loves the ocean and mermaids and they know the connection they have with the ocean why arent they mermaids?.. how can you breathe underwater? and is it true that if you touch a human they can breathe underwater meanwhile your touching them?
like i said, landfolk are merfolk of sorts, but they cannot breathe underwater anymore. most of the time, it is pretty strenuous to live underwater for any creature. you are constantly considered food, for instance. i can understand why people wanted to leave it. maybe one day landfolk will come back to the oceans. it will be very hard though. i haven’t found that when i touch humans that they can breathe underwater. that would make life very interesting though. but first landfolk would have to get better reflexes so that they don’t get themselves into trouble!
hi again i wanted to tell you if you ever have a spell to turn into a mermaid can you post it here.. all my life i wanted to be a mermaid.. if u tell me of a spell yull make my dream come true. ur so lucky for being a mermaid.
thnxs for answering my Q. how do u reproduce and why dont you show yourself to the world in mermaid form?
we don’t have one way of reproducing ourselves. there are so many different types of mermaids, some of which you wouldn’t even recorgnise as our kind (sometimes even we don’t!). we show ourselves to the world in mermaid form most of the time. but people don’t always recognise us or believe their eyes.
how do u turn into human form and mermaid form?
not all mermaids switch between forms. most of us are just half-human half sea creature all the time. but who knows what else there is. the ocean is soooo big!
why do u call urself mermaids?.. sorry if i ask a lot of Q
we don’t actually call ourselves mermaids. humans made that up, probably because the first of us they saw was a female. some of us are made so that humans feel a greater affinity, in fact. they are then trained as diplomats, usually by other mermaids or larger sea mammals. we are still working on our techniques as we haven’t been too successful so far.
hi.. i kno this sounds weird but can you show yourself to me… plz!
there is a painting of me which a friend did:
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=57548986&albumID=297997&imageID=245536
i look a bit less human than that though!
but how do you get born if you dont reproduce?
we do reproduce, but each species has their own procedures and rituals, most of which i am not familiar with. i haven’t reproduced yet so i don’t know much about this.
u dnt hv a tail.. but do u have legs?
but cnt u show yourself to me?… is it true that mermaids have no soul?.. is it true that when mermaids are hungry thier eyes are red? do u kno any spell that can turn me into a mermaid?
we sure do have a soul. why shouldn’t we have one? our eyes don’t turn red when we are hungry. otherwise my eyes would always be red. i don’t know any spell.
paul can u plz give me the spell you used to become a mermaid plz!
Hi it’s FirstStar again…here’s the link to the website that has over 1000 people who want to become mermaids. It’s approaching 2000 people now. http://www.43things.com/things/view/131861/become-a-mermaid
Of course, most of the kids on there are young (12 to 19) so they do kinda joke around a little.
Some of them are really borderline desperate, and we need as much help as we can get with this. There just has to be something out there that will help them. Something, anything. Your website seems legit, so I’m pretty much trusting that information on here is right. Maybe the Merfolk can find it deep within themselves to help us Landfolk achieve unity with the Ocean once again, since one canno’t blame an entire race for the mistakes of a few.
Hi how are you? Angela I know you are already a mermaid and can’t help me but I have so many dreams some nights about becoming a real mermaid and I have already done some spells. Do you think I will become one, one day. If not thats ok.
can give blessings to make someone a mermaid?
hi…
angela can i ask u sumthing? does ur kind has anything to do with the dissaperances of the bermuda triangle? im just wondering… and can you tell me completly honestly.. thnxs..
the bermuda triangle? not as far as i know. we have no interest in sinking ships, crashing aeroplanes or abducting people – more the opposite. these incidents cause far too much pollution!
then how can you explain the dessapereances.. in the bermuda triangle?… i thought ur kind did that becuase they were hungry and they wnted 2 eat the humans?
although there is not only one kind of mermaids, to my knowledge none of us eat humans. i have no theory as to what happens in the bermuda triangle. haven’t been to this region yet. the ocean is very big and bears many secrets…
hi angela, I always wanted to be a mermaid! it’s not only kids below 12 and 19, I wanted to become a mermaid since I was 5 or 6 years old and now I’m almost 13, do you know any mermaids who have tail fin? is it true that some mermaids have like mood colored fins? is it true that mermaids can speak any language in the world or do you just explain things by moving you’re hands or something? I live near water and it dosen’t rain that much, can we landfolk become merfolk? is there any way for us to become a mermaid?
hmh, i do know some mermaids who have a tail fin. i don’t know about mood coloured ones, though. will ask around next time i meet my kin. maybe somebody knows something. we do not normally learn landfolk languages unless we either have a human parent or live near them. then, we usually try to learn whatever language we think is most useful. however, landfolk language can be very difficult to master for us, unless we get especially trained from when we are just hatched. communication through movement has also been proven somewhat effective. i guess that if you feel like a mermaid you might be one already!
i dont live anywhere near the sea but i do live by a river and ive allways wanted to be a mermaid so can someone help me?
thnxs 4 ur information angela. i have another Q. are your kind the most dangerous predators out there?
no, not at all, unless there is a major merfolk villain i haven’t heard of. there are what you call predators of all shapes and sizes and even we mermaids got to watch out for them if they are hungry. it’s pretty strenuous business being in the sea, although it used to be much worse thousands or even millions of years back, although then we at least had no what you call fisheries. just lots of mean big things.
i’d say when it comes to dangers to humans, some jellyfish can be pretty nasty and i guess anything with big teeth and a lot of speed! luckily, most sealife does not find landfolk very tasty, so most of the run-ins are either accidents or acts of defense. the rest, i guess falls under curiosity and annoyance.
angela.. can i ask u another Q. and answer honestly. i have been havin rare symptoms… my head is always hurting.. my stomach aches sometimes… i always have 2 b drinkin sumting cuase i get thirsty…. wen i sleep my legs automatically get together.. sumtimes i dnt even notice it…. always wen i put my hans down i fell energy coming up my hand 2 my arm… i swim faster than b4… wen i swim like a mermaid.. i swim so fast… my family says i look lyk a real mermaid.. the only thing i need is a tail. wen i was a baby.. my mom told me she was in a store… that wen i was little a weird woman came up to me and said i was going to have a great power i swear this is true. do u kno wats happening to me?????? plz answer honestly… thnakyou
hmh. i’m afraid i cannot help you there… i haven’t come across any of those symptoms before :/
angela i want to be a mermaid adn i’m 14 and i swim like a mermaid and when i watched the movie little mermaid i wanted to be like her and how can i be a mermaid and how can i be a mermaid forever and how can i live and breath underwater and be a mermaid forever i want to be a real mermaid. please tell me how can i be a real mermaid adn live like a real mermaid and be a mermaid forever
i have to say that i’ve actually never met a mermaid in the ocean who looks like the little mermaid, so i’m afraid i cannot help you :/
um angela you kinda havnt answered my question about the river i live no where near an ocean but i do by a river
there are mermaids in rivers. i, for instance, currently live in the thames, but i’m not sure how i can help you!
um angela you kinda havnt answered my question
hello this unique story about you seem so interested hello my name is Israel Lopez I will love to speak to you more about it my sign is a Pisces….
ah, the mermaid once met one israel lopez who plays what landfolk call the double bass!
lol u replied very quik I see. well hello there u seem to be very interesting with being a mermaid. you jus caught my atention because I remember my dreams of mermaid or however you call them with all do respects…
so tell me your story Angela?
can you be a bit more precise?
hi angela
tell me how did you become a mermaid?
i was born one
how do get internet acess if ur a mermaid
lol sorry, ok my Q is how was you born a mermaid or was your biological parents are mermaids to. If not then how does it feel living a life as one. And its impossible to be born one. I heard of spells you prob have use it on yourself =p. And if I was a merfolk would we hang out in the sea. Lets find Atlantis…
i just answered that question above and in several posts. i was born one. one parent is human, one is a sea creature. we don’t really have cities as such – that is a very human concept. we have networks of sort.
How can you walk? and get to your computer lol jk. And can you understand sea creatures?…Like AquaMan jk
i can understand some sea creatures, but not all. but i can usually understand their way of life. this is why i’m currently undertaking some diplomatic activities. i am currently also working on a scholarly project at a university to help humans understand their relationship with the ocean. this is why i’m quite busy at the moment and have to give short answers.
Oh 4got do u have a BF ?=p….
i assume that BF refers to a mate. no, i don’t have one. mated merfolk are seldomly sent on diplomatic missions as they may not return!
Mission what do you mean mission as in go out there and survive and return to back as to show the mate is Bold/strong enough for there female mate?
no, not at all. missions are of diplomatic and scholarly purposes. sometimes, we are misunderstood and get killed. sometimes, we are very successful and stay permanently attached to a place or project. there are plenty of projects for mermaids to get involved in, for instance, the recent plans for an international ocean station.
but angela if i turn into a mermaid can i live with the other mermaids and live with them forever because i did a spell and i have side affects so is it possible for me to live with them if i turn into a mermaid???
can u tell me your story please? you can email me if you want IsraelLopez@live.com
if you turn into a mermaid i can’t see why not. as i’ve said before, i haven’t met another mermaid yet who became one by magic, but as so many people are telling me about it, it must be true…
but r u a mermaid if so how can u acess the internet?
because my people sent me on a diplomatic mission. for this i trained to do some human things. and i also learned some more when i met the oceanographers. i hope that in the future, there will be speech recognition systems for whales and dolphins, so they, too, can access the webocean.
the webocean so if i turn into a mermaid can i connect to a webocean aswell??? on the computer??
yes
wait angela where r u right now and where r u from
i am in london at the moment at a place called the balhamas (not the bahamas, it’s much colder here). i grew up around the baltic and north sea and also the mediterranean.
oohh and r u a mermaid
yes. i will be off the web in a bit as it is quite late here, and i need to continue my research tomorrow.
ohh but r u in the water and wat research
i move between river and various other water sources and occasionally land. i work on different geographical projects. my current one is based at a british university.
oohh cool
Oh I see… people are very into turning themselves into mermaids I see, well I just wouldn’t try unless i hear it from some experience(not that I will tho. WOW. Angela would you recommended people to do such things? turning themselves into merfolk and if yes or no why?…And if one day all the merfolk will join were would you live? Do you dare to live in the middle of no were in the Sea/Ocean…with scary creature living underwater such as sharks..
i cannot recommend anything, because i don’t know enough about it. also, i don’t have any of those plans you mentioned. i just undertake scholarly activities.
yes, living underwater can be pretty ’scary’. you probably wouldn’t be top of the food chain unless you take tools with you, and you would definitely have to change your diet. but i see sharks as more useful than scary. they help maintain coral reefs, for instance. here are two websites you might find interesting:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sharks/masters/myths.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18624966.000
Do you have religious believe ?…so I guess you will only find merfolk in river is it a certain river or any river. But if I go look let’s say in Puerto Rico will I find one or will they hide from me because I am human?…
i don’t know if all merfolk think the same, but i believe that things have spirits.
you can find merfolk in any river or ocean, sometimes even lakes. i even heard of the possibility of merfolk living in bogs!
most merfolk will probably hide from you, because we’ve had bad experience with humans in the past, especially merfolk who were not trained to interact with humans. but, increasingly, we attempt contact so that our people and our habitat does not get destroyed.
do u have a real picture instead of a drawing?
there are some floating around
me again:) my sign is aquarious(because I was born in january) and I was thinking if that’s why I’m so interested in mermaids and water and that kind of stuff? one more question: I live near a river and then I mean near near!! it takes 2 minutes to walk over there but I’ve never seen any mermaids there, do you know if they would show up at night when all the humans are asleep? could I go there at night and spy a little?:D by the way…. if I become a mermaid one day… am I selling my soul then?:s
my oceanographer friend tells me that aquarius is an air sign, but from the image the ‘aquarius’ looks a lot like some mermen. i once saw some wrestling sharks – mermen, eh? i don’t know if the mermaids in your river are nocturnal. i pretty much am. i tend to wake up when the water has been warmed up by the day sun and go to sleep late when the water is starting to cool and the music from the boat parties stops.
as far as i know everything has a soul so why should you be selling yours?
i cant find any picture or proof that you are a merfolk because I dont know how you look nore see any pic with such curious look. Its hard to believe im sorry talk is just talk….
why are you so concerned with imagery?
Angela when you’re on land do you have to be careful of water?
like if water touches you will your tail come back?
I love mermaids and I will hopefully become one soon!
no. i don’t have to be careful. haven’t noticed anything so far!
I need to see it to believe its thats all?
Then let me know when your done with your project at the university.
do your people exist today & where are they currently living?
of course we exist today. we mostly live in the oceans, but sometimes in other large bodies of water such as rivers and large lakes.
i know Angela everyone says that mer-people don’t exist but i believe them don’t worry i’m on your side and also if i’m going to become a mermaid where do you live right now
in and around the river thames
also Angela what are you using and where are you now under the water and i have bunch of questions to ask you Angela i seriously do and also when i do a spell and if i touch a mermaid will i turn into one Angela
i don’t really know about spells, though many other people seem to do though. maybe there are mermaid who use magic?
and also how long do i have to swim to see a mermaid. and when do they come out, also do they also live in chile
to my knowledge they live pretty much anywhere where there are large bodies of water. most of them are pretty shy or cautious around humans though, especially if they haven’t been trained to communicate with landfolk! i don’t know how long you have to swim for. it is likely to depend on what kind of mermaid you come across! try asking local marine biologists maybe…
but i don’t harm any mermaids i love mermaids i wish to become one really i am becoming one i’m using magic to become one so you can see i really want to become one of you i really do. And also there is this place in Chile are there mermaids there
mermaids don’t always know this, you see! but don’t worry, one day you might come across one. some just might not look like you expect them to…
um Angela where are your mer-people now what lake ocean or river where are they located and do they also go to the lilenes it’s type of beach in chile
do they go there or a small beach in chile, please responde thank you.
i do not know very much about mermaids near chile – it’s very far even for some mermaids (some mermaids are faster and more enduring swimmers than me, though, and get around more). mermaids do not visit beaches often, at least not when they are populated by landfolk. they are sometimes near beaches though, especially the younger ones, as they are naturally curious about landfolk! so the mermaids you encounter are probably of a similar age as you!
thanks Angela but i’m going to chile this winter so cwn you tell me where i can find mermaids can yoyu tell me the location and the country and where they are right now. if you can thanks.
unfortunately i can’t tell you much about chile mermaids. but maybe the locals can! you could also write to a chilean marine biologist.
also i have a question Angela r u a mermaid? right now?
yes. i am actually just off to plunge into the water for my breakfast swim!
i have a question how did u become a mermaid please tell me then you can see if i can turn to be just like you then i can hang out with you haha no seriously.
i was born one.
Angela where are most mermaids located in the ocean of Florida of the carribean or are they located in lakes as well in philadelphia
mermaids are located almost anywhere. you’ll probably find some even in the arctic. there, they tend to have very thick skin and lots of blubber. some of them closely resemble what you call manatees.
um do you know the movie the little mermaid do they have like a kingdom down in the sea.
i have heard of the movie, but i have not had a chance to see it! as far as i know there is no mermmaid kingdom. most of us are either hermits or live a very nomadic lifestyle like whales, for example!
do they have a kingdom down under the sea like the little mermaid
no, but there are some landfolk in the indian ocean at the moment who appear to be building some kind of sea city called ‘autopia’. this might serve as a communication point between land- and merfolk in the future. we are certainly considering having an embassy there if the project continues successfully. in the past, landfolk temporarily maintained a dolphin embassy.
can you post the pic if you se it when it’s done please because i would love to see it of what it looks like and if my spell works i would love to live under the sea autopia if thats how you spell it.
well, here is a model of autopia’s building style tha somebody has photographed: http://www.flickr.com/photos/emily_fong/3896971439/ it is going to look very much like a sea shell like place, so you will probably like it! you can then live both over and under the sea!
but where are you living now r u living in the ocean now or somewhere else.
i live mostly in the thames nowadays, but i’ve live in the baltic and the north sea, too! when i’m older i might go and live out in the ocean. but i need to accumulate more experience first!
can i see a pic of you & your tail ?
i do not actually have much of a tail. i have other types of fins though!
can i see a video of you? i promise i won’t tell any one
yes i won’t tell any1 either and the shell model is so cool now i want to live in it.
also where r u from and where r u now.
ah, you asked that a month ago. i am in london at the moment and grew up around the baltic and north sea and also the mediterranean.
is that far of philadelphia or north america
a few thousand miles. i’ve swum the distance a couple of times – it’s quite exhausting! there are very few places to rest during the journey. luckily, the azores are on the way!
oohh well how can i get there
by boat is probably a good idea. i saw lots of boats on the way!
oohh ok thanks and i’ll see if i can go in the future but um how do u sleep??
i usually sleep under water because it feels safer. i can sleep on land, too, though. i like to sleep near boats, because i enjoy the music and the voices coming from them. it is also very educational.
and um tell me all about you if you want anyything that you can tell me about please that would be alot helpful
i’ll think of something!
oohh ok i am growing a tail so it will take 2 or 3 months so ok think of something lol
i have a question how old are you angela
in human years a little over thirty years.
wow so thats incredible so um what are you trying to research for.
i am researching human ideas of nature.
oh what for for a project.
hi Angela
i am 16 and i recently did a spell to become a mermaid and it work but do to curtain circumstances i need to find a way to lose it.
can u help me please if you can?
or do you know any one who can help me?
hi! unfortunately, i do not know anyone off the top of my fin, but i can ask around. but as i have mentioned before, i am not versed in magic of any kind.
thank you and please do
have u every been to the bahamas??
unfortunately not!
Hi:) im sorry, but i just have a quick question… is it true that mermaids have special powers? and if so, whats yours?
i have been told that some mermaids have special powers, but i have never met one so far. there are so many different kinds of mermaids though. some of us could be described as having a power of some sort, if you count physical abilities. some mermaids are build so they can swim much faster than other mermaids, some mermaids have so much blubber that they can stay in icy water for a long time, some mermaids can stay in polluted waters for a long time without being harmed, some deep sea mermaids have organs that glow in the dark and some of us are even rumoured to have claws! i guess my special power is that i can communicate with landfolk.
um mid johnson can u tell me the spell to transform into a mermaid please, because i really want to be a mermaid so if u can tell the spell that you used that will be great.!
email me at mibjohnson@hotmail.com
if you want the spell
thanks mib johnson
thank you mib johnson
um so what have you been up to since you last swam angela?
well, i have applied to join a research centre. i have proposed to develop a voice programme that allows some merfolk to communicate with humans and vice versa. apparently, this is pretty complicated as there are so many different communication styles under water, but maybe we can make this happen for at least some merfolk. also, i have learned a lot about a land creature called the ’spider’. they are very fascinating creatures. there is one type that even lives under water, although it is an air breather – like a sea mammal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_bell_spider
i would like to interview one of these ‘diving bell spiders’, if i can, why they have chosen this aquatic lifestyle.
that is a pretty cool diving spider but i’m afriad of them wow. angela if u can do that thing that ur doing can i listen to ur voice because i would love to hear what you sound like
and also if u see mermaids or mer-folk tell them i said i
how do mermaids have babies?
ah, that depends entirely on the type of mermaid. most of us will conceive and give birth like other marine mammals such as manatees or whales. others will reproduce more like fish and attach egg pouches to plants or rock or give them to a merman to look after.
ooh so how are you angela are you in the water, when do you go to the water or live in the water?
i spend most of my time in the water. it is quite cold at the moment. about 8 degrees celsius, so i have to eat a lot of hearty food to keep me warm. there is not that much food in my river at the moment, so i often eat with landfolk who make really weird, but excellent meals. i have to be careful, though, because a lot of the tasty landfolk food is not very nutritious, but makes you want to eat more of it!
um so angela so are you in the water right now do you sleep in the water, but i have a question in the winter time does the water freeze and the whole river is frozen or do you just sleep in the warm water like in a house or some where, where do you sleep if the water freezes in the winter, and tell me some stuff about mermaids please i would love to know all about them lol thanks.
hmh. in london the thames does not freeze over any more, so i’m fine being in the water. some mermaids swim to warmer regions if it gets too cold. really well adapted mermaids don’t mind extreme colds and keep themselves a breathing hole when the water freezes over. sometimes, landfolk invite me round to their pools which are sometimes heated. i sometimes go there for chats and entertainment, but the stuff they put in the water (chlorine, for instance) is not very good for my body, so i usually cannot stay very long. last time i went to a water ballet party with landfolk females with very elaborate swimming hats. that was nice!
um but where do you sleep if the river where you live freezes, and um do you have to sleep somewhere else like in a home bath full of warm water or something like that. But just tell me some thing about mermaids i would love to know about them like cause i always wanted to be a mermaid since i was little, and right now i still want to please tell me if you cane because i want to know every single detail that you know, so yeah not every single one but just some of them, so yea thanks.
erm, there are many different types of mermaids. and, apart from moving around in the water, they do pretty different things. they even speak different languages from each other. some of them you probably would not recognise as mermaids. they look pretty different from the depicitions landfolks have in circulation. i have not met a mermaid yet who looks like ariel. most of us look a lot more like fish or manatees. our skin is more like fish skin, for instance. have you ever touched fish? some fish are more slippery and others have quite abrasive skin. it keeps us protected from the water. sometimes, the scales can make our skin look silvery or give us a golden or iridescent sheen.
also, i haven’t seen a mermaid with long flowing hair yet. long hair would give us too much resistance while swimming. some of us have fins on their heads, for instance. some of them resemble hair. maybe some mermaids have long hair and keep it tied back and release it on land?
other things? it’s actually quite hard to type for me. some people i do research with are trying to make me a software that uses a hydrophone and converts my noises into english text, but that is quite difficult.
will try and think of other things. am off my friend’s boat & back into the river now!
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How long do mermaids live?
sorry it has taken me so long to reply. i was away for a bit to do some fieldwork.
age spans of merpeople vary by sub-species, it depends on the type of environment they live in, and also on how clean or polluted their environment is. most merpeople dwelling in clean, temperate waters near the surface live about as long as humans. there are legends that in the deepest parts of the ocean, there are merfolk that are many ages old. we call them the lore keepers. a similar legend exists about lore keepers in the under-ice lakes of antarctica.
angela um who are going to build the shell and where is the shell going to be built.
i’m working on a research project at a university. they have access!
there are no videos of me yet. will let you know when.