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Orca is still my fav animal, but this seemed like a fun idea to try. Hope you're day is fintastic, and filled with fun ocean things.

(This one's not halloweeny but it seems right up your alley. <3)

"Alright, now gimme an open G," Engineer said, watching Pyro look down at the strings on the guitar in his hands.

Pyro shuffled his feet in the gravel as he sat atop an old crate, resting the new acoustic guitar on his leg. Engineer sat beside him on a log, his own trusty guitar in hand. "Open..." he mumbled.

"Open's when you don't press on any o' the frets, remember?"

Perking up, Pyro nodded. There was so much to learn and remember all at once in this lesson, but he wasn't about to let himself get discouraged. After all, Engineer was taking time out of his work to teach him, and he was more than grateful for the Texan's time. "Yeah! Okay, so..." He strummed the G string with his pick, fingers off the frets, the warm sound humming from the instrument clear as a bell.

"That's good! Now gimme a third D."

Pyro pressed the D string just past the third fret line and strummed, the sound a little muted and flat. He huffed a little in confusion.

"It's alright, darlin'. Just remember, you want as little tension in those strings as possible, so they can vibrate as much as they can and make all that pretty sound. So you don't need to push down hard, just give 'er a little press. Your position's good, though."

Trying again with less pressure, Pyro strummed out another nice, clear note. He bounced a little, excited at his success. "Better!"

"A whole lot better," Engineer assured him with a smile. "An instrument, just like learnin' to do anythin', is all about gettin' the basics down first. The hows and whys o' how it all works. Once that's a nice solid foundation, you can build your skills on top o' it and really show off." He chuckled.

"Maybe I'll write a song for you," Pyro teased, trying out a few chords idly.

thank u doodle for @dizzyahellfire for donating to my phone fund!!

I saw it at a place where I used to volunteer

Also are there freshwater mermaids, that live in ponds, lakes or rivers? Or brackish water maybe?

Thanks in advance!

Oh no no no, you ought to refrain from giving out pizza to a mermaid! And if you must at the very least hold the cheese, mermaids do not produce lactase in their bodies and are therefore horribly incapable of digesting dairy products. Mermaids don't naturally eat cereal products either, although inland and coastal merfolk do both include plants in their diet, so the crust might be given more of a pass. But then again, there is the matter of additives... Eeehhh, with the aforementioned mermaid species, approach the topic of pizza as more of a "cats can have a little salami, as a treat" kind of situation. The bulk of a mermaid's diet must always be fish, disregarding a few select species.

Partially answered your second question with the first, freshwater mermaids do exist! Not very many of them belong in true mermaids, however. For example the nixie, which inhabits moving waters and has the fishy look, is taxonomically unrelated to oceanic mermaids! As these things tend to go, though, many true freshwater mermaid species and subspecies exist as well. They are either a result of saltwater merfolk getting trapped in newly forming lakes and being forced to adapt from there, or even more interestingly, small brackish water mermaids evolving to tolerate a new environment as they’ve explored new ground (er, water), switching from lagoon and estuary living to preferring rivers and lakes. Freshwater mermaids tend to be much smaller but there are exceptions! The mermaids of Lake Baikal and the Great Lakes of North America can grow to extremely large sizes and bear a stronger resemblance to their oceanic kin.

Just wanted to share this old photo I took

I'm a fish out of water as a koi!