Character Design Of An Apsara! According To Hindu And Buddhist Mythology, Apsaras Were The Beautiful

Why don’t I live in NY

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I feel so disappointed in myself. I forgot to carry a book with me today and now I'm just sitting here bored out of my mind.

Time may be a concept created by humans but it lets us have a moment of rebirth many of us need. Take this chance to create a you that makes you feel great everyday

Words for the new year from me

ok ok… have a fix it comic… choose what you wanna believe in…

first part

pretty much 

My only two moods are bisexual and clinically depressed

Death and the Maiden  by Jaroslaw Datta.

i hate that my first reaction to stress is always Time To Die™ like ok calm down edgelord

I haven’t stopped staring at this for weeks 

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50 books to read before you die!

# 1 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy # 2 1984 # 3 Pride and Prejudice # 4 The Grapes of Wrath # 5 To Kill a Mockingbird # 6 Jane Eyre # 7 Wuthering Heights # 8 A Passage to India # 9 The Lord of The Flies # 10 Hamlet # 11 A Bend in the River # 12 The Great Gatsby # 13 The Catcher in the Rye # 14 The Bell Jar # 15 Brave New World # 16 The Diary of a Young Girl # 17 Don Quixote # 18 The Bible # 19 The Canterbury Tales # 20 Ulysses # 21 The Quiet American # 22 Birdsong # 23 Money # 24 Harry Potter Series # 25 Moby Dick # 26 The Wind in the Willows # 27 His Dark Materials Series # 28 Anna Karenina # 29 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland # 30 Rebecca # 31 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time # 32 On The Road # 33 Heart of Darkness # 34 The Way We Live Now # 35 The Stranger (Algeria) # 36 The Color Purple # 37 Life of Pi # 38 Frankenstein # 39 The War of the Worlds # 40 Men Without Women # 41 Gulliver’s Travels # 42 A Christmas Carol # 43 Huckleberry Finn # 44 Robinson Crusoe # 45 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest # 46 Catch 22 # 47 The Count of Monte Cristo # 48 Memoirs of a Geisha # 49 The Divine Comedy # 50 The Picture of Dorian Gray

🌊 Types of Mermaids 🌊

please be respectful of cultural boundaries when working with mermaids from various cultures and traditions, and be mindful not to intrude.

🌊 Rusalkas - slavic in origin, disturbed spirits of the “unclean dead”, ghosts of women who died violent deaths, with a penchant for drowning young men. they live only in rivers and lakes, and are known to have green hair like aquatic plants, only appearing in the night. 

🌊 Melusina - a mermaid that walks among humans, but returns to their two-tailed form during baths and when they bathe their children. often a water spirit of a nearby lake or river. french origin. 

🌊 Siren - greek mythology. servants and companions of persephone, whom searched for her when she was abducted. they are known to sometimes have the body of a bird, and for their song, which lured sailors to their doom. cannibalism implied folklore. have the power of prophecy. 

🌊 Merrow - irish mermaid. known to have green hair and webbed fingers. particular noted love of music and their red cap, which when stolen, they will live with the thief until they find it, and then return to the water, leaving even a whole family behind. 

🌊 Ben-varrey - from the isle of man, known to bless those that are kind to them with prosperity, gifts, and even the location of treasure. 

🌊 Aicaya -  Caribbean mermaid, humans who become mermaids when they are shunned from their community and go to live in the sea. 

🌊 Amabie - japanese merpeople, with birdlike torsos and three legs and scales. they are gifted with prophecy, usually foretelling abundant harvests or epidemics 

🌊 Ningyo - “human faced fish” known to have golden scales, that brings bad weather and misfortune when caught, but when their flesh is eaten the consumer is granted youth and beauty, even agelessness. 

🌊 Finman / Finwife - magical shapeshifters that disguise themselves as sea creatures or plants to lure humans, unlike most mermaids they kidnap people from the shores to be their spouses or servants. they have a greed for jewelry and coins, particularly silver, and prefer humans over other finfolk. 

🌊 Sirena Chilota - considered the more friendly mermaids, caring for all fish life and rescuing drowned sailors to restore life to them. known for their human-like beauty and youth, according to legend they are the child of a human and a “king of seas”, tears are a powerful substance. from chilote mythology. 

🌊 Cecealia - sometimes known as “sea witches”, they are half human and half octopus. origins in native american and japanese mythology. 

🌊 Sirena / Siyokoy - the philippine version of mermaid and merman respectively. also called “magindara”, they are known to protect the waters from raiders, and protect the boy moon from sea monsters. Siyokoys can sometimes have legs however, covered with scales and webbed feet

🌊 Sea Mither - scottish/orcadian mythology, a spirit that personifies the sea during spring and summer, battles along scottish isles using storms to bring the summer about. a mother figure to all aquatic life. 

🌊 Ceasg - a fresh-water mermaid, specifically half-salmon, said to grant three wishes if captured. sometimes called maighdean na tuinne (maid of the wave) or maighdean mhara (maid of the sea). scottish. 

🌊 Selkie - though somewhat different from the typical mermaid, as they are not cold-blooded, have the body of a seal in the water and are human on land. in legends their skins are often stolen and they are kept by fishermen as spouses, or become lovers to fishermen’s wives who shed tears into the sea.