I wrote my own list of mermay prompts! Feel free to use for art, writing, whatever
A ship trapped in ice at the North Pole
A mer weaving among submerged branches in the dark, murky water of a swamp
A mer in the desert whose lake or stream is rapidly drying up
A mer who swims up the same river every twenty years or so to spawn but this year discovers that the river has been dammed/severely polluted
A mer farming pearls in giant clams
Cultural differences between surface mers and deep-ocean mers
Mers fighting for reef territory
A mer constructing an elaborate, colorful nest to impress a potential partner
A mer who isn’t so much half-human, half-fish as all eldritch
A mer having an octopus as a pet
A sharp-toothed mer who subsists on blood and shuns the sun - and the blood of warm-blooded animals is a particular luxury
A mer who is vain about their hair
A mer whose skin speaks for them
A siren musician annoyed no one can give unbiased feedback on their songs
A mer trapped in a fishing net
A mer who finds a human shipwrecked on an island
A mer playing in the wake of a pirate ship
A mer rescues a drunk human who fell off a yacht (or was pushed?)
A luxurious beachside resort that caters to the wealthiest of both mer and human
A human feeling up a mer in a hot tub
The city of Atlantis: the sunken ruins of a human settlement, or a thriving mer metropolis?
Human and mer rival treasure hunters
A lighthouse keeper who doesn’t believe mer are real
A mer in disguise as a human shows their true form for the first time in 20 years after being pushed into a pool
Mers arriving in a seaside town in the wake of a hurricane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathysphere the year is 1930, two humans have just descended for the first time 800 feet below the surface of the ocean to observe the marine life, and the mers were not at all prepared
Pre-1900, a human mapmaker makes a deal with a mer for information about an area not navigable by ship
A mer in an aquarium (exhibit or employee)
Humans kept in a zoo underwater for mers to look at
2087
kaledo-art
areudirty
ellievsbear
