Wawawawa

Hi hi!! I’d love to share! (And if anycreature would like to add on, please feel free to!) 

below cut: 3 paragraphs, 1 about kinsidering, 1 about my experiences, 1 about kinsidering tips

Anway, let me drop some more resources.

If you're looking for info on being a mer, I've written a bit about some generalizations in the aquatic community here!

Here is a tumblr group all for aquatic kin

Also listing some mutuals of mine who post or reblog stuff about being aquatic in some way! This isn't all of them, I've surely missed many, but they were the first to come to mind. You should go read their stuff and see what resonates with you!

(sorry for the mass tag)

My sloppy little kelp dwellers,

keep posting friends. There is a severe lack of sea creature community, and I think we deserve forums and events and rep just as much as any creature. I find it near impossible to think there’s hardly any known groups of sea monsters/creatures in comparison to dragons, fae, vamps, or weres. there’s so much good we can do for eachother and the world (especially with US marine life protections under threat!) just by sharing our experiences and educating (or not, your not obligated to educate because you exist.)

I love you oysters, I love you whales, I love you coral, I love you anglers, I love you river monsters, I love you gar, I love you I love you I love you !

Btw have I shown my gill tattoos! Got them a few years ago! Wish I had more opportunity’s to show my gills but it makes me happy to know when I look down I can see them again

𝚝𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚙𝚘𝚘𝚕 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚋𝚘𝚊𝚛𝚍 🌊🦀🦪🦐🐚🌊

If you look at an image of myself as a gillman, one of my main traits is all my frills. I don't feel every individual layer or every fin, but rather "sections" of them that move as a unit (mostly); the top of my head, the back of my head, the nape of my neck, the sides of my face, my upper back, lower back, and forearms. It gets iffy when you get into the realm of shaking them out or ruffling them, but this is generally how they're split. I can feel these individual groups not from phantom sensations the way I feel webbed hands or my hog tail, but rather because they are sensory organs that desire sensory input.

I can't feel my frills, but I desire sensory input that I can not experience without them. I am such a sensory seeking beast, I need to tap and rub and use my hands in the same way that I need to run clean water through my frills. I can feel the buildup of sweat and grime between them, and I need to shake it out. That desire for that specific sensory experience is so strong that I don't need phantom limbs to understand the shape of me, I just need to pay attention to what my sensory desires are and figure out what parts I'd need to experience it.

Its the same with my gills, and its why they're so rare. I don't need the sensory experience of breathing underwater, of feeling the water run through me and exit, until I am in an environment where that sensory experience is necessary. It's a deep desire I feel, but can't achieve. If I were to satisfy that desire, I'd need gills. Ergo, my brain believes that I should have gills.

I have a constant desire for very specific sensory input on these parts of my body? And XYZ feature would left me experience that? Then that's a part of the body that my brain thinks we're supposed to have.