It all started with Twitter user @Justin79554989, who mentioned DeLonge (but didn’t tag) in a post with screenshots from an Animal Planet documentary about mermaids. The dark video supposedly shows ...

Melissa Broder: In The Pisces, the mer-creature-in the context of romance, and particularly romantic obsession-embodies the paradox of why a fantasy love (that might even kill you) can feel so much ...

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Melissa Broder wanted to meet underneath the fiberglass whale. “I am #dtw (down to whale),” the 38-year-old writer wrote, suggesting a rendezvous in the Hall of Ocean Life, at the American Museum of ...

Mermaid Melissa Dawn has fallen in love with a merman. Dawn is a performer at SeaWorld in Florida, where she appears as a mermaid. She met fellow performer Antonio Padilla when they performed ...

Time to mark a legend-ary occasion—March 29 is International Mermaid Day! Apparently, the cable network Freeform founded the annual holiday in 2017 to celebrate the launch of its TV show Siren. The ...

Being a professional mermaid is about so much more than just flipping your fins. Although ordinarily the stuff of fantasy — and blockbuster Disney movies — being a real-life mermaid or merman is ...

The mermaid Syrenka falls in love with a human man so, naturally, she must abandon her life underwater for him. Unfortunately for Syrenka, though, life on the land has unforeseen consequences. One ...

Fans celebrated their first national convention this summer. They claim that swimming with a mermaid tail is a very demanding sport (and art): it involves apnea, synchronization, diving, acrobatics ...