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riftwitch: According to all known laws of marine...
i have no idea what’s goin’ on and i don’t wanna know but wouldn’t higher levels of melanin make sense?? sunburns are a thing and so’s countershading?
A person on twitter tried to argue the opposite, saying that a mermaid who lives at the bottom of the sea would not get enough sunlight to produce melanin. Disregarding the fact that this is incorrect for many reasons, I have to wonder why this person took the concept of a half human/half fish and decided the skin tone was the only biological conundrum it presented.
And then my friend @riftwitch made a funny fucking joke about the whole situation.

















