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ltwilliammowett · 1 year

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The Zennor Mermaid Chair in the church of St Senara, Cornwall, 6th-12th century

Long ago, a beautiful and richly dressed woman occasionally attended services at St. Senara's Church in Zennor, and sometimes at Morvah. The parishioners were enchanted by her beauty and her voice, for her singing was sweeter than all the rest. She appeared infrequently for scores of years, but never seemed to age, and nobody knew whence she came, although they watched her from the summit of Tregarthen Hill. After many years, the mysterious woman became interested in a young man named Mathey Trewella, "the best singer in the parish." One day he followed her home, and disappeared; neither was ever seen again in Zennor Church. The villagers wondered what had become of the two, until one Sunday a ship cast anchor about a mile from Pendour Cove. Soon after, a mermaid appeared, and asked that the anchor be raised, as one of its flukes was resting on her door, and she was unable to reach her children. The sailors obliged, and quickly set sail, believing the mermaid to be an ill omen. But when the villagers heard of this, they concluded that the mermaid was the same lady who had long visited their church, and that she had enticed Mathey Trewella to come and live with her.

The parishioners at St. Senara's commemorated the story by having one end of a bench carved in the shape of a mermaid. The famed "mermaid chair" was the same bench on which the mermaid had sat and sung, opposite Trewella in the singing loft.

There are many reasons as to why there might have been a mermaid carved into a chair at a church, as mermaids represented two things to medieval Christians. They were thought to be a symbol of lust, due to their connection with the Greek goddess Aphrodite, and they were also thought to be an illustration of Jesus Christ, because of their fish-human form, for, just as mermaids are both human-like and fish-like, Jesus can be both human and divine.

#naval art #mermaid chair #cornwall #6th-12th century #medieval seafaring

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igotsnothing · 12 days

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Beginning/Previous/Next

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mccallhero · 3 months

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favourite ouat scenes: 53/?

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seahydra · 2 months

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Trying to regain the motivation to actually draw something but in the meantime take this 💥💥💥

#atari.png #❥ the prince and the little mermaid #I like the dynamic we have going on it's kind of silly . I love her #I'm like one of those over the top romantic shoujo anime characters with the dramatic love confessions and all #Well except none of it is ROMANTIC but you get my vision.#Realizing also I once again accidentally made myself look taller than he is. It's okay. He's just sitting in her gamer chair or something

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akuma-tenshi · 2 months

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HEAR ME OUT.

#void and i were talking about them earlier today and i'm losing it holy shit #so first of all we talked about them being in love on a boat #and then we discussed octopus mermaid emily and sailor luca #i just. i'm so normal about them (gritting my teeth gripping my chair eye twitching head pounding)#rambling #idv #identity v #emily dyer #idv doctor #luca balsa #idv prisoner #lucaemily #someone should ask me about them idk </3

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slaughter-books · 20 days

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Day 10: JOMPBPC: Spring Colours

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seaside-cave · 1 year

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interior room practice -- trying to envision the bedroom of my mermaid oc :>

we might see this very bedroom in the upcoming chapter of @redskyatmorningcomic 🫢

#ssc art #my ocs #red sky at morning #artists on tumblr #webcomics #bedroom design #environment design #mermaid art #ley #gonna start slowly posting my stuff from school now that the quarter is over #some bits like the chair are a little silly but im just having fun here

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lemonhemlock · 1 year

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I need hot house hightower hc and lore 🫠

I have a few in my House Hightower tag!

They're definitely one of the coolest houses in Westeros. They have historically dabbled in alchemy and necromancy. They have a Valyrian steel sword called Vigilance (ofc they do). There's a possible maester conspiracy going on. Lord Leyton is obviously doing sorcery up in the High Tower and sending his sons on various errands. There are known to be glass candles in Oldtown. Tower of Sauron symbolism? Future Panopticon if Euron gets his hands on it? In any case, Leyton is clearly a man with a plan.

"The Hightower must be doing something." "To be sure. Lord Leyton's locked atop his tower with the Mad Maid, consulting books of spells. Might be he'll raise an army from the deeps. Or not. Baelor's building galleys, Gunthor has charge of the harbor, Garth is training new recruits, and Humfrey's gone to Lys to hire sellsails. If he can winkle a proper fleet out of his whore of a sister,* we can start paying back the ironmen with some of their own coin. Till then, the best we can do is guard the sound and wait for the bitch queen in King's Landing to let Lord Paxter off his leash." The bitterness of the captain's final words shocked Sam as much as the things he said. If King's Landing loses Oldtown and the Arbor, the whole realm will fall to pieces, he thought as he watched the Huntress and her sisters moving off.

They're preparing for a massive Lovecraftian showdown against Euron. We're all going to be rooting for the Hightowers come TWOW! I am begging the fandom to stop sleeping on this house. They're right at the junction where magic, science and religion intertwine - all expressions of man's quest towards transcendence!

*that's Lynesse Hightower, Jorah Mormont's wife, the person indirectly responsible for Dany's entire arc.

#pls don't let oldtown fall george!!!#house hightower #leyton hightower #malora hightower #they're in a part of westeros surrounded by places with selkie and merling legends #like the shield islands (up north)#and the mermaid's palace (near the island of the arbor)#the base of the high tower might be made from similar material as the seastone chair??#the hightowers would be servants of the eye in the magnus archives

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bylertruther · 1 year

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the degree to which i love mermaid fics always makes me giggle bc i get so #entranced by them but in real life i'm literally kicking screaming and crying like a little baby whenever i have to actually get in any kind of natural body of water and having a full on crisis whenever anything (god forbid) actually touches me while in that body of water

#chlorinated pools >>>>>>>>>>#my family's fave beach was always clearwater and it was so unbelievably miserable for me every time #everyone's ooooooh and awwwwww-ing at all the fish n sea life and i'm perched on top of a big rock or on the sand and wanting to cry #bc there's SOOOO many CRABS in the sand and clams with clear tongues EVERYWHEREEEEE and then the BIRDS that #don't leave you alone omg awful. just awful. they stole my chicken once. AND I ALSO GOT PINCHED BY A FUCKING CRAB ONCE #I WANS'T EVEN DOING ANYTHING...... I WAS SITTING IN MY CHAIR MINDING MY BUSINESS LIKE EXCUSE ME BTCIH.... RUDE AND FOR WHAT?#god. reading a mermay fic now and going ehhehehehehehhe but then going 😳🫣😭 whenever i think abt how #fish and crabs are actually real and they live in the ocean. not as a joke. like they are Real. a fish bumped into me and i cried and ran #back to the sand could u imagine if i came across a mermaid...... forget falling in love i'd faint and die on the spot n she'd eat me #anyway. so much unnecessary denise lore but here we are 🫂#this is my long-winded way of asking for more merman!will x human!mike fic btw. please please please pleas eplease pelase pelasepleaseplesa

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poltergeist-coffee · 10 months

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the first time it happens they don't know if it's a one time thing or not, so once phil gets forever some pants and forever manages to stand (with a lot of assistance of course) they don't want to waist a second of their time together on land so instead of having forever try to learn to walk with what little time they have, phil carries him everywhere

they spend the whole day exploring the human world, forever being carried on Phil's back with his arms around his neck and new legs being held up to keep him secure. forever knows he should be taking in the sights of the human world, and he is, but he can't help when his gaze drifts back to phil. phil who is answering all of forevers questions with a huge grin on his face.

forever can't help but steal as many kisses as possible, Phil's laugh only spurred him on more even when phil complained that he was gonna miss all the sights. it didn't matter to him, as beautiful as Phil's world is it pales in comparison to his loves smile

the only thing that manages to tear forevers attention away from phil is the flower field, it was so colourful he couldn't not get destroyed by it. it was just like how phil had described it.

they spend the rest of their evening sitting in the field, phil braiding flowers into forevers hair whispering sweet nothings into his ear and giving forever little kisses to keep him awake. it doesn't work of course and forever fall asleep soon after, not surprising considering he just spent the day in a whole new world soaking in as much information as possible. it doesn't take long for phil to succumb to his own exhaustion, falling asleep next to forever surrounded by flowers

he wakes up to forever giving him the drowsy morning kisses he had always longed for since the thought first entered his head, he has the biggest smile on his face when he kisses forever back

- giggling and kicking my feet 🪶

there has been an attempt ON MY LIFE

#✉️ asks or whatever #poltergeists mermaid au #🪶anon #feather anon comes back with th STEEL CHAIR OH MY LORD #YOUR WRITING!!!!!!#YOUR INSANE /POS NEVER STOP #WHAT AM I EVEN SUPPOSE TO SAY!!!!!!!!!#THEYRE SO IN LOVE OH MY GOD!!!!!! KM GOING TO EXPLODE!!!#phil is carrying forever around to show him everythign oh my god he loves him he finally gets his sweet good mornings <- said through tears

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frecht · 2 years

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notebooks i made today!

[id: two photos of two handmade books against a wood floor. the first photo shows the front of them, where the left book has a whale on the cover and a blue spine on the left, and the right one has a mermaid on the cover and a brown spine on the top. the second photo shows the back of the same two notebooks. the left one has a lighthouse on the back cover, and the right one has a giant octopus.]

#heartbreakingly both my favorite designs had to go onto the back.#the lighthouse bc otherwise the spine would cover it #and the octopus bc the bookcloth covered half its head and so i think the mermaid looks a little better #but i got to use my favorite paper ever for the covers so i shouldnt really complain #also i bought so much new paper bc i ran out and i think im going to run out of wallpaper samples (what i used for the covers) before paper #but ill deal with that when i get to it. maybe ill go with my mom again to the interior design place when she picks up our chairs #bc last time the owner gave me all these papers for free #he doesnt know what hes missing out on!!!!#but also now that i have so much paper. i can probably make some of these to sell!#so if you made it this far......is that something you think people on etsy wokld be interested in?#bookmaking #bookbinding #handmade books #handmade notebook #talkin #my art

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amariemelody · 11 months

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The Little Mermaid | Choreographing Under The Sea

#-SCREAMS-#-AND SCREAMS AGAIN-#THEY USED ACTUAL HUMAN DANCERS FOR 'UNDER THE SEA'?!?!?!!!#-falls out of computer chair-#The Little Mermaid #Halle Bailey #Videos

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jakekochina · 1 year

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Mermaid Furniture

#seashells #chair #interior design #furniture #under the sea #art #one of a kind #Italian #grotto #mermaid

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lemontongues · 2 years

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only like halfway through my current evil crochet project and already planning one that's even more evil smh

#sage talks #'oh now that im sitting at my desk im noticing how cold the ac makes me i should make myself a lap blanket'#'omg my chair looks like a seashell i could make one of those mermaid tail blankets'#'...........theres a billion patterns but nothing Exactly Right so what if i just figured out how to piece together my own monstrosity'#this is hell in the making. i Will die.

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lilithpleasant-archive · 2 years

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loving these husbands and their dog paco that my game spawned. made them over into pirate mermaids to hang out in sulani, as thats my new mission, to make that a pirate/mermaid hangout lmfao

#mine #ts4 #theres something wrong w the ones mermaid form already but ofc there is #i ordered a new desk chair today #i just got back from vacation yesteray #hows everyone doin

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sohannabarberaesque · 4 months

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Postcards from Snagglepuss

Breezly Bruin explains ursine diving technique for you

SANDY BAY, OFF ST. THOMAS, US VIRGIN ISLANDS: "Is it any wonder polar bears can dive so deep, and so gracefully?" exclaimed Breezly Bruin in that rather dopey sort of voice of his to me and, as I understand it, Peter Potamus during a lull in diving aboard the Diver's Delight at anchor on the north side of St. Thomas one evening close to sunset.

"Heavens to Cousteau!" exclaimed I.

"Breezly," Peter Potamus chimed in, "I do have to acknowledge that bears could get to be skillful and playful in water, and especially polar bears like yourself."

"Still," Breezly continued, "back in Nome, it was often for survival as much as fun!"

"Fish, I assume," said I.

"Correct." With Breezly explaining that it was rather necessary, considering the dead weight they carried, to dump his boots, scarf and Stormy Kromer cap before diving sessions. "And such being all the more important for someone bound to dive as deep as 40, maybe 50 feet on his own lung power!"

Peter Potamus was quick to remark about the several times with the Magic Divers that Breezly Bruin pulled off some spectacular dives as were well documented, a few of which appeared on Underwater America with Peter Potamus, if you still recall that. And equally at home in fresh water as much as salt.

"And how impressive that must have been," Peter Potamus remarked, "when we were diving off the Mermaid's Chair a little earlier!"

"Yet," Breezly remarked, "you have to wonder if there really was such a chair underwater near that particular dive spot; I would have loved to sit there, picturing myself as an ursine Neptune ..."

"Though I should note," saith I over some shandy--as in lemonade and ginger beer, a rather refreshing thirst quencher in the tropics, mind you--that you happen to be rather comical underwater, even for a natural born freediver!"

"Who said that I wasn't necessarily?" was how Breezly responded.

Whereupon Betty Bruin, Breezly's girlfriend and sometime diving compadre, joined in the converse. "I do have to admit there, boys, that Breezly can get to be a rather interesting diving companion as much as lover ... and given waters such as these, with coral reefs so fascinating and dolphins being especially playful, is it any wonder they can bring out the romantic side in us?"

"From experience I've had in the uncharted waters and islands of Polynesia," Peter Potamus added, "even allowing for such being a mainly primitive population still keeping to themselves in the absence of so-called 'Civilisation,' and excusing outright nudity as being practically natural ... it just seems tropical waters can be all the more sensually stimulating!"

"Put it down to the warmth of the waters," remarked I, "as much as the effect of the reefs and the presence of dolphins, who, quite naturally, are rather romantic."

Which, after a brief spell of stunned silence, brought out the laughs.

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