About
If you’re wondering what the deal is with this blog, it’s exactly what it looks like. I’m a 25 year old guy who likes mermaids and mermen, and I have a blog where I post drawings and art that I’ve made, and talk about things relating to merpeople, freediving, the ocean, and other aquatic stuff.
You may or may not be aware of this, but there’s actually a small online community of people who like mermaids and mermen. Some of them even make/sell/buy/wear costumes. Its these people I’m impressed with the most, and it’s my interest in networking with anybody who likes merpeople that is the main incentive for this site. I’m always looking to talk to people since I’m perpetually interested in learning to draw and paint, freediving, costume making, and more.
deviantART: malinghi.deviantart.com
myspace: myspace.com/malinghi
AIM: MermanNate
email: malinghi@gmail.com
goatgirlbookworm said,
December 27, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Have you read the book “Sirena” by Donna Jo Napoli? There aren’t that many good merpeople books out there, but this one is tops! She even has a believable history and origin for mermaids included.
Sirena
malinghi said,
January 4, 2010 at 12:54 am
That sounds really awesome, thanks! I’ll have to check it out. How did you find this blog, anyway?
gh0stm1ck said,
March 15, 2010 at 2:41 am
Hey Nate,
My name is Sean you don’t know me (obviously) but I’m a mermaid fan too. I came to your blog after searching for blogs related to mermaids and other fantasy creatures and found yours. While I don’t think wearing and swimming in a tail is something i’d ever do I’ll admit it is something I’ve thought about in the past. I’m more of a writer than costumer and artist and mermaids have found their way into my work in the past (and set to in a novel i’m developing).
anyway, the reason why i’m writing to you is that I noticed you had a link to Seatails up on your main page. I have to ask when did ST come back online? I was a member of the previous version that ran a year and a half ago and I remember the one that Kurt Cagle ran back in the 90′s was a book marked site back in the day. Last I had checked the site had crashed or was shut down or something had to be cleaned up and eventually I stopped getting updates from it. Will this version be up and running for a while?
-Sean
malinghi said,
March 15, 2010 at 2:17 pm
That’s really cool that you’re writing a novel, especially one that features mermaids. Best of luck.
About seatails, I dont know when or for how long you followed it, but for as long as I can remember seatails has gone through an overhaul every year or two. I don’t know why this was, but it presumeably had to do with the burden on kurt in terms of the time he put into it, the cost, the hardware… like I said, I don’t know the details. I do know that sometime around April 2009 seatails.org was taken down and replaced with seatails.ning.com. It’s been at that address ever since, and its fairly active today, although most of the activity is just posting images and commenting on them rather than forum discussions. Also different is that very few of the old members migrated, so the people are all totally different. I have no idea if this version will last for the next 6 months or the next 6 years.
I would like to mention that some people and I have recently started something of a sister site devoted entirely to costume tails that’s intended to make buying, selling, making, and using them easier, both for professionals and hobbyists. The URL is mer.yuku.com. If you don’t have an interest in swimming in a costume then it’s probably not your thing, but I just thought I’d mention it since you like mermaids and I promote it to pretty much everybody.