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OK I have found this compelling enough that I am willing to share the title under the cut - please know this is a backseat to CTDL and the demigods AU that are already in-progress but I stayed up til 2 AM outlining last night on the wave of inspiration:

The Thirteenth Year: The Tale of Cody Marshall

Summary: Thirteen years ago, Sean and Andrea Marshall, already parents of two boys of their own, mysteriously found a baby on their boat....

Now, twin brothers Sean (Jr) and Cody Marshall are the stars and rivals of the Mahone Bay Marlins middle school swim team, about to qualify for the state finals, just ahead of their birthday.....

The brain continues to cook new compelling AU concepts.....

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The brain continues to cook new compelling AU concepts.....

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Sorry I’m late I was obsessing over herb spirals

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The Famous Jett Jackson intro

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Finally have a new CTDL chapter for you all

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Mergrandma art!

@itsybitsybatsyspider did this gorgeous artwork of Cody's grandmother! It shall now be featured in her story interacting with the dugongs and hammerhead sharks!

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A truly stunning piece by @scriptorsapiens / @zachdoesfanart of Cody and a nautilus from this episode! The gorgeous moonlight, the shadows of various sea creatures in the distance, the beautiful rendering of our favorite merman!

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Enjoying the day of my favorite movie. Sharing a fanart that was made in 2021, unfortunately I lost contact with the creator and he doesn't have a Tumblr account. But it's one of my images favorites and has everything to do with the fanfic Creatures that defy logic by @andy-the-8th Which I also discovered in 2021. This POST is dedicated to everyone in The Thirteenth Year microfandom

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Good morning! I hope you have a great day

Well thank you anonymous :D I hope you are doing well as well!

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Mermay Day 28: Morgana from The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea (2000)

A quick rerun of my history with this movie as discussed on my post about Melody, When I was little the original movie terrified me so I made do with any other media that I could. Pat Carroll was brought back to voice Morgana, and as much as I am prone to "Oh it was a shameless attempt to remake the original," Carroll's performance was delightfully different. Comparing it to Ursula's deliberate and calculating control, Morgana is a functional disaster. We must stan.

Like Ursula, Morgana gave me a bit of a challenge because her look is so very human-drag-queen, but this time Disney gave me some spots to work with and inform the rest of her design. I just love her face, man. So expressive and with fun bold features. I also gave her a glowing trilobite necklace to contrast with Ursula's ammonite.

This is my most "inaccurate" piece solely because of Undertow (Clancy Brown the icon). Undertow is (probably?) based on a tiger shark, but is the size of a great white (and later the size of a megalodon) and living in the Arctic like a greenland shark. I didn't want to do another empty ocean, so I decided to just heavily fudge it and make Undertow an obscenely large polar tiger shark.

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Mermay Day 29: Perseus Jackson from Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2005)

Yeah, this is stretching the limit of mermaids, but I have a point. Years ago, my first real venture into telling comic stories was making a very involved mermaid AU for Percy, and in the end the design I came up with for him went on to inform the look of Singing Each to Each. As such, I felt like I would be missing the point of doing a month of mermaids who inspired my own comic story about them.

This drawing is basically the same as Percy appeared in my comic, but with a few mild edits to bring the design fully into the SETE style. Obviously, this design is of a more mature Percy than his canon counterpart (who is never allowed to grow past 16), but that's how I drew him then and I wanted to indulge in that design.

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Mermay Day 31: Ariel from The Little Mermaid (1989 and 2023)

Mermay is over, and of course I had to wrap it up with the one who started it all. I don't think I even need to introduce her.

For her design, I mixed both Halle Bailey and the Animated version. The animated version for the colors and the inspiration for the shell top, and Halle for the hair, face, and body. As much as I have Issues with the remake, Halley Bailey's performance is not one of them.

Ariel's design was quite easy for me to translate. Since the SETE merfolk don't have a concept of nudity, I decided to make her iconic sea-shell top into a necklace, and since there are no purple scallops that I know of I gave her an amethyst necklace as well. Her tail pattern came to me very late in the game, but I settled on the split and spots design to evoke legs and feet (in constant pain for a reference to the original).

I am very proud of how this one turned out. Happy Mermay, everyone! See you all again next year!

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Today is Melanin Beam Day, so I decided to contribute Urchin from The Little Mermaid: The Animated Series. I just think Ariel getting an adopted brother is nice. @creatingblackcharacters, this one's for you!

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Another piece by @scriptorsapiens of a rather angry Cody featured in the season 4 finale of Creatures The Defy Logic, with some minor appearance-continuity updates since the last posting that the artist was kind enough to add!

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Another beautiful piece of art by the great @scriptorsapiens featuring our two favorite guys hanging out with a California moray eel!

You can read the scene that inspired this piece on Ao3 here! Originally written as a request by @raedshadowlegends as part of the companion series to my main Thirteenth Year sequel series.

If you'd like to request a sea creature, send me a message! You should all go and look at and share the work of this excellent artist, we are so blessed to have such wonderful talent in the microfandom!

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Commission piece from the lovely @andy-the-8th's wonderful fic series Creatures that Defy Logic.

Hell of an awesome series and recommend checking it out if you liked the movie The Thirteenth Year.

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Another beautiful piece of art by the great @scriptorsapiens featuring our two favorite guys hanging out with a California moray eel!

You can read the scene that inspired this piece on Ao3 here! Originally written as a request by @raedshadowlegends as part of the companion series to my main Thirteenth Year sequel series.

If you'd like to request a sea creature, send me a message! You should all go and look at and share the work of this excellent artist, we are so blessed to have such wonderful talent in the microfandom!