There Be Monsters Here

a selkie falls in love with a sailor. instead of stealing her sealskin (bc no wtf), he takes a job on a whaling ship so that she can keep living her best life in the arctic and just hang out with him when it suits

#tired of this social pressure where selkies are expected to surrender their sealhood and live on land and raise human kids #what about a selkie who can have both a marriage AND a job (being a seal) huh??? #they both spend their days working (catching fish) and evenings chilling out #she comes to visit him in his cozy little cabin #yeah his co-workers sometimes wonder why there's a goddamn live SEAL sleeping in his berth #but it seems polite and well-trained and only ever bit anyone that one time so whatever it's fine #anyways i love the potential of a human/selkie couple imagine the conversations they could have #they argue about whether or not mermaids are real (the selkie doubts it but the sailor is superstitious) #and whether or not they should attempt to have a threesome with a mermaid if the opportunity presents itself #(she's dtf but he's worried it will lead to Curses and Shipwrecks)

one munchy citrus fruit cured me. I can once again sit upright.

pov pirates after sailing in the sea for months

pirate who's worried mermaids are gonna fuck his girlfriends: me fear fish want me women

at the mariners bar: sorry mates i cant go out today.. My boat's transmasc now. He's more comfortable with he/him. He just went through top surgery to get his sails removed and he's recovering. Bluebeard-and-Pronouns the woke pirate: arrg so he's gotten a mastectomy. well i'm glad that he's discovered himself.

Confused abt something? Try eating an orange #NoScurvy

Are you fucking kidding me right now?! I was told we’d cruise the seas for american gold, that we’d fire no guns AND shed no tears, but NOW I’m a broken man on a halifax pier, the LAST of barrett’s FUCKING privateers!!! Honest to god the nerve of some people

this sucks so bad i need to (remembers suicide jokes only make my mental health worse) join an expedition to find the northwest passage

Mopping the floor while listening to sea shanties. Now I’m swabbing the deck

actually I prefer to think of it as a press community

but yes you're joining the navy

"pirate's treasure"? yeah i would love to be treasured by a pirate