u/pissyromancewriter

I live in Florida really close to the beach and I've just felt dark and kind of uninspired and angry the last few years of my life. Plus sometimes I secretly feel down about all the stupid stuff I see online about younger people seeing mid 30s as old.

I randomly came across H20 because I saw a joke reel about a guy reenacting a scene from the show and decided to look it up.

I'm still on season 1 but something about the simplicity of this show is giving me mega feel good vibes. Something about mermaids just makes me feel so young on the inside and out. Glowy, playful, fun, happy, free—everything that youth really is no matter the age.

I'm at the part where Cleo comes across a potentially older mermaid at her marine park job (no spoilers, lol, I'm guessing its the Mako Mermaid stuff I've been seeing.) And seeing the older mermaid made me really perk up. IDK if she's still a mermaid (I hope she is??) but seeing an older woman still happy and glowing and being part of it made me so happy.

I've been experimenting with some new inspiration boards for fashion/clothing. Just silly things that feel really fun and summery and kind of getting me out of my darkness. (I've been wearing almost nothing but black and reds the last 6 years LOL and considered myself more of an angry little pissed off beach goth.)

I bought beach waves hair spray that smells good and a new candle scent that made me think of the show. It also inspired me to finally paint my nails this nice sparkly silver color.

I'm just so into it.

Plus...

• The mash up between frutiger aero and Y2K is perfect
• We really did have the perfect blend of technology then
• It's made me pay more attention to the water at the beach - it's SO SPARKLY
• I already enjoy marine nature a lot as I'm a lady angler - but yesterday I saw a shark jump out of the water while I was wishing and for some reason seeing this stuff just makes me feel hyped up in a different way??

I don't really know where else I'm going with it, I'm just kinda here for the ride.