Seashells - Tumblr Posts
A Star-Filled Evening
Atlantic City, NJ
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjlQoKuqXwo)
So useful! Informative and lovely.
Finished the mermaid after how long? I wanted her skin darker but my mistakes are starting to grow on me. Or I’m learning to forgive my errors.
More practice!
Take the memory, leave the shell! Watch what happens when we return seashells to the beach & marine hermit crabs!
Seashells are so important to beaches for a whole host of reasons.
🐚Over-shelling can affect hermit crabs because it reduces the availability of suitable shells for them to inhabit. Hermit crabs rely on empty shells of other creatures for protection and shelter. When there are too few shells available, hermit crabs may be forced to inhabit inadequate shells & pollution as homes, which can hinder their growth and make them more vulnerable to predators and environmental stressors. This can ultimately impact their survival and reproductive success.
🐚Shells provide homes or attachment surfaces for algae, sea grass, sponges, coral and a host of other microorganisms.
🐚Animals such as decorator crabs and octopus use shells as camouflage and many fish use shells as hiding places to avoid predators.
🐚Shells help to stabilize beaches and anchor seagrass.
🐚Shells are used by shorebirds to build nests.
🐚When shells break down, they provide nutrients for the organisms living in the sand or for those that build their own shells. (Shells are a major source of calcium.) I’m a firm believer in when we know better, we do better. I once shelled, and then when I learned all of this, I returned all shells that were not sprayed with a clear varnish to the beach & watched the marine hermit crabs go wild changing shells that were so needed!
If you get this, answer w/ three random facts about yourself and send it the last five blogs in your notifs. Anon or not, doesn’t matter, let’s get to know the person behind the blog <3
1: I'm obsessed with slipknot on a level that can't be healthy anymore
2: i love love LOVE collecting seashells (there's no vacation I've been on where is water for me to collect seashells. If there's no water to collect stuff i already know it's gonna be boring)
3: i play the drums
Tattoo flash concepts from my Instagram :)
🐚 Seashell Correspondence (masterpost!) 🐚
This is my near completed masterpost of shells which I tried listing up some common and uncommon shells for the past few days! I might add more shell info in the future💕
Disclaimer: This list is of associations collected from various sources around the internet and a mix of my personal ones!
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Abalone: love, healing, prosperity, luck, wealth, balance, peace, cleansing, meditation, psychic abilities, self-love, feminine energies, earth + water element
Angel’s Wing: determination, freedom, angelic energies, positive spiritual guidance, protection, aid in receiving and sending energies, air element
Auger: fertility, strength, courage, power, masculine energies, fire element
Ark Shell: safety, protection, finding strength in the outer world
Bear’s paw: power, strength, vitality, nurturing, protection, warmth, feminine + masculine energies, earth + fire element
(Banded) Tulip Shell: binding, friendships, relationships, social life, water element
Bonnet Shell: secrecy, the unknown, protection, mystery, trust, beauty, air element
Button Shell: connections, gatherings, friendships, spirituality, divination, air element
Bubble Shell: inspiration, creativity, happiness, curiosity, wished, intuitions, cleansing, psychic abilities, divination, air element
Carrier Shell: overcoming shyness, helps getting out of your shell, courage, protection, strength, escaping from negative thoughts
Cat’s eye Shell: protection against jealousy, gossips and negative energies
Cerith Shell: sexuality, fertility, masculine energies, fire element
Clam: purification, love, friendships, abundance, communication, healing, stability, vitality, protection, protecting emotions, truth, balance, peace, grounding, feminine energies, water element
Cockle: love, friendship, relationships, emotions, centering, gateway to a new life, new beginnings, feminine energies, water element
Conch: love, beauty, friendship, communication, feminine energies, truth, art , beauty, clarity, freedom grace, movement, speech, spirituality, strength summoning, trust, truth , vanity, feminine energies, air element
Cone Shell: protection, control, motivation
Cowrie: abundance, prosperity, fertility, love, wealth, pregnancy, growth, divination, sexuality, protection, beauty, menstruation problems, feminine energies, water element
Crown Conch: associated with crown chakra, meditation, divinity, intention, confidence, intuition
Drupe Shell: reflecting oneself, discover and being comfortable of who you are, self trust, confidence, bravery
Fig Shell: wisdom, creativity, peace, love, luck, fertility, divination, fortune, water + air element
Fighting Conch: aggression, defense, warding/shielding, protection, masculine energies, fire element
Frog Shell: moving forward, starting over, new beginnings
Harp Shell: secrecy, beauty, art, protection, feminine energies, water + air element
Helmet Shell: grounding, protection, strength, honor, masculine energies fire element
(Horned) Turban: protection, faith, trust
Horse Conch: beauty, freedom, grace, strength, progress, water + earth element
Jackknife Clam: (inner) strength, speed, warding, secrecy, masculine energies, air element
Janthina Shell: faith, peace, trust, moving forward, going with the flow, trust in the universe, air element
Jewel Box Clam: beauty, vanity, glamour, passion, (self) love, self care, feminine energies, water element
Jingle Shells: wealth, prosperity, cleansing, positivity, trust, intuition, earth element
Junonia Shell: strength, beauty, marriage, fertility, childbirth, feminine energies, named after the Roman goddess Juno/Hera (Greek)
Keyhole Limpet: finding a way in/out in a situation, meditation, unblocking psychic/divination abilities
Limpet: courage, confidence, strength, nurturing, self trust, peace, endurance
Left-Handed Whelk: making drastic / positive changes in life, transformation, air element
Lightning whelk: awareness, banishing, intent, trust
Lion’s Paw: strength, courage, protection, inner strength, victory, pride, masculine energies, fire element
Miter Shell: peace, spirituality, grounding + centering, calm energies, spiritual introspection, lunar magick, feminine + masculine energies, water element
Moon Shell: purification, peace, protection, meditation, clarity, vitality, rebirth, cleansing + charging energies, psychic awareness, cycles, progress, warding, lunar magick, feminine energies, water element
Murex: protection, defense, binding, masculine energies
Mussels: communications, friendships, luck, health, travel, abundance, dedication, determination, community, life giving stability, enduring life’s hardships, feminine enegies, water element
Nautilus: focus, intentions, clarity, wisdom, growth, peace, endings + beginnings
Olive Shells: healing, hope, love, friendship, hope abundance, opportunity
Oyster: love,luck, good fortune, prosperity, banishing, fertility, (hidden) beauty, vitality, passion, turning pain into beauty (pearls), lunar magick, feminine energies, water element
Oyster Drill: curses, warding/shielding, protection
Pearl Whelk: control, life, progress, trust, strength, manifestation, fire element
Pen Shell: beauty, confidence, creativity, self-love, art, love, inspiration, feminine energies, water element
Periwinkle: grounding, intuitions, focus, friendships
Purple Snail Shell: beauty, divination, psychic abilities, air element
Pyram Shell: determination, hope, strength, air element
Scallops: travel, love, friendships, movement, beauty, grace, change, fertility, peace, healing, travel, spirituality, happiness, communication, patience, diversity, openess, all-purpose shell, feminine energies, water element
Slipper Shell: balance, generosity, transformation, healing, peace, community, helping others, air element
Snail Shell (Garden Snails): fertility, sexuality, travel, protection, home, feminine + masculine energies, earth + water element
Spider Conch: maturity, responsibility, self-defense, maintaining your position, fire element
Spindle Shell: inspiration, meditation, fate, change, karma, destiny, vitality
Strombus Shell: truth, communication, divination, speech, trust, air element
Star Limpet: strength, growth, beauty, art, water element
Sundial Shell: hope, success, victory, the sun, fire element
Thorny Oyster: defense, creativity, intuition, focus, beauty, art
Tooth Shell / Tusk Shell: wealth, business, abundance, strength, aggression, masculine energies fire element
Top Shell: spiral energies, centering, helping energy flow, control, air element
Triton Conch: happiness, intentions, prayers, helps clearing your voice/intentions, use to seek help/attention, air element
Turkey Wing: freedom, happiness, emotions, lifts bad moods, change emotions, water + air element
Venus Comb Murex: vanity, beauty, glamour, love, feminine energies, water element
Wentletrap: creativity, inspiration, art, water element
Whelk: taking control, get a hold of a situation, life changes, good fortune, wisdom, guidance, control, positivity, understanding, spiritual development, air element
Whelk Egg Casing: abundance, new beginnings, faith, luck
Worm Snail Shell: tenacity, hope, life and death, creation, overcoming obstacles, hope, changes, earth element
❤ Note: Please use/collect your shells ethically! ❤
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POST DIVIDERS | the sea.
( requested by -> Anon )
not gonna lie, I’m actually really quite happy with how this turned out HAHAHAH. i added versions where it’s sand and sea or just the sea (my fave is the turquoise version). as always, they all work on light and dark mode ! i hope you guys like it !
feel free to use; please like, reblog, and credit〜
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ུᩧ mermaid-core dividers by me 𓇼ㅤᩧ ♩
Writing Prompt
A merperson having to find the best seashell on the ocean floor, rare water flower, best coral and offering it to someone is their sort of courting ritual. But it of course is uncommon when one falls in love with a human, not sure of how to approach this they try to present these things to them anyway but the human clearly not understanding accepts it and thinks the little things they're doing is cute and becomes fond of the merperson who comes to meet them everyday.
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Comes to shore to meet them
Merperson: "I hope you can humbly accept this seashell!”
Human: "Oh, It's lovely. I’ve never seen one like this. Are you sure you want to give this to me?"
Mer: “Of course! There is no one, I would rather give this to other than you!”
Human: *Smiles blushing* “Well, thank you! It’s really sweet of you!”
Mer: *Gets excited then swims away*
Another sticker sheet for my fellow seashell chocolate fans :3
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