Mermay - Blog Posts
@traumas-mermay-2025 Day 22: Shells and pearls
Miranda x Roland mermaid AU!
I think that one moment in "Now's Our Chance" where their foreheads touch is really sweet.
Once I thought to myself: "How would King Pescoro travel around on land? Probably with a superchair." So I made this. Cristina is showing him how to use it.
Lineart under the cut.
[Image ID: A pencil crayon and ink drawing of Cristina and King Pescoro from Elena of Avalor. They are both in wheelchairs and Christina is showing him how to properly use one. There is a potted plant and a barrel in the background. End ID]
Queen Camila: Marzel, when was the last time you had a bath? Prince Marzel: Umm..Recently…. Queen Camila: If by recently you mean 2 weeks ago. Prince Marzel: Mom, I don't need a bath! Queen Camila: All right, you won't have a bath or dessert today. Prince Marzel: Fine, I'll take a bath! But I'm not going to like it!
(I Watched a nature documentary, and my brain produced this)
Mabel and Ford find some interesting creatures along with some treasure under the sea
Month of Maybel 2021 + Mermay :]
Originally made this for mermay, but forgot to share it here-
This is my Partner and I as Merfolk!
Made some merms
Tecciztecatl— Longfin Damselfish
Yauhqueme— Toro/Atlantic Bigeye
Opochtli— Flowerhorn Cichlid
Chalchiuhtlicue— Queen Parrotfish
IT'S MERMAY!!!!! 🧜🧜🧜🧜♂️🧜♂️🧜♂️🧞🧜♀️🧜♀️🧜♀️
And in Honor of that, I'm redesigning my mermaid Ballister from my AU
merry mermay!! 🦀🐟
A WIP for the merfolk au I’m working on! I decided to make Echo a war veteran who’s retired on the shores of Lake Superior. He fishes for a hobby, despite his disability, and also spends a lot of his time removing illegal gill nets/fish traps and abandoned fishing gear from his area. He has made friends with a shoal of the lake’s merfolk who spend their time doing similar work to help preserve the native species they herd.
I know it’s a little hard to tell, but this is how I think Omega’s introduction to the Batch will go: Echo comes across her caught in an illegal net, and wants to free her. But she certainly doesn’t make it easy! Although merfolk aren’t a secret in this au, there is animosity between humans and merfolk because the merfolk aren’t afraid to sabotage humans who treat their home waters disrespectfully. So there’s not a whole lot of trust between the two worlds. Omega doesn’t know Echo isn’t the owner for the net she was caught in, and it’s pretty scary being all tangled up like that! Echo’s hand will be fine. Though he’ll have a nice scar to remember the kid by XD
I’ve seen a lot of mermaid au’s where the characters are sea creatures. Freshwater fish often get overlooked. Which is a shame! There are a lot of really cool freshwater species, and I think they should get more love in these au’s! Last year for MerMay I designed a red-finned catfish Hunter mer, and this is kinda a continuation of that idea! I’ve got a lot of plans for this au, so stay tuned if you like it!!
Happy MerMay everyone!!!
Happy MerMay everyone!!
(The discord shenanigans are getting out of control)
revisiting and redesigning some OCs I haven't touched in years. I was going to make a joke about being early for mermay, but uh-
my stuff for mermay i guess??
I was planning on drawing Deuce but I accidentally drew a new Disney princess
Mermay Day 5: Drama
"If sacrificing a part of me means you get to live then take it, I beg of you!"
"But I would never wish for such a thing..."
I just LOVE when they use plays/movies to explore/parallel what characters actually feel in CCS. Sooo yeah, Little Mermaid who turns into sea foam if not for prince's blood in this case!!
list of prompts I use under the cut
Mermay Day 4: Axolotl
finally turned in the rest of assignments and can get back to drawing
i dont get xolotls (and tried to keep kero's look) so he looks weird srry
prompts i use under the cut
Mermay Day 3: Hair
It's still Yue helpppppp when am I gonna get to Yukito I have more touyue here than touyuki and that's not right because it's touyuki who got me screaming and smiling and rolling around and dying and rooting for from the very beginning (don't get me wrong I love touyue as well but touyuki got me crazy got me obsessed touyuki choke me and I can only say "harder")
Anyway, the prompts I use are under the cut
Mermay Day 2: Cosmic
Do I plan on Yukitoing/Yueing all the prompts? Yes. Yes, I do plan.
List of prompts I stumbled upon is under the cut
Mermay Day 1: Mirror
"Mirror, show him the one sharing his body and mind!"
idk the prompts I've seen by tag are different but that's what I've found and I guess I'll stick with it Also yeah, I'm late but I plan on finishing, even if my initial plan for today was closing college assignments I didn't do yet and I really hope I'll do that tomorrow
the story of the fisher girl and the super long fish that just fucking hated her for some reason
mermay 24k words slowburn
little mershade for the end of mermay 🐟🐟
random art thoughts under cut
it's actually a watercolor painting, but i'm not a big fan of the paper texture i get when scanning them. imo they look a lot more finished after getting rid of it with a filter, but it may just be me having looked at my own drawing for too long
any thoughts on the unfiltered version vs the above?
A fishy hades drawing for the start of Mermay
An illustration of a mermaid that I made for mermay 🥰 her design is inspired on the kohaku koi fish
The water was challenging, but I like how it turned out 😁
hellooooooo tumblr. i wanted to draw something for mermay but ive been so dead and dying. But here it is!! this is a silly little guy. based on a clown knifefish bc they look cool. apparently they are also invasive ! fun fact. i really liked my sketch for it.
anyways i aint done traditional art that isnt sketches in sooooooo long. it was nice
Sometimes a family is a prince, the pirate that raided his ship and almost drowned with him, and the sea serpent that found them
pirate/sea serpent au of my ocs for mermay