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💦🧜‍♀️ Hello! Welcome to my MerMay for 2025! 🧜‍♂️💦

Another MerMay prompt list? You might be asking this and the answer is YES. 🤗 Why?

I personally would like an annual 31 day MerMay prompt list clearly open to all content creators across all fandoms for *almost* any ship featured here on Tumblr with an AO3 Collection !

My inspiration? Basically how @flufftober and @whumptober run their events! We MerMay lovers deserve that kind of commitment to our trope too! 😉 It's mentioned enough around the fandom world we should. I'm definitely ready for it!

You can find all the important information and the prompt list for 2025 below!

First ➡️ Please do take the time to read our Standard Blog Rules found HERE!

We hope you enjoy our prompt list this year and have fun creating any ideas it sparks! 🥲

🌊 MerMay 2025 Prompts: 🌊

1. Wishes

2. Cove

3. Inheritance

4. Abandoned

5. Jewelry

6. Mariana Trench

7. Sunbathing

8. Secret Relationship

9. Myths

10. Stream

11. Otters

12. Music

13. Stargazing

14. Tsunami

15. Experiment

16. "You're safe, I swear!"

17. Ancient Artifact

18. Confessions

19. Smooth/Rough

20. Ice Shelf

21. Drawing

22. Submerged City

23. Misunderstanding

24. Bright Colors

25. Feast

26. Platonic

27. Predator

28. Glowing

29. Shadows

30. Healing

31. FREE

👙💦 Are you unsure how you can participate? Check out the FAQ post HERE and hopefully I've covered most things, but feel free to ask if you still have questions! 🏊‍♂️🏊‍♀️

MerMay 2025 AO3 Collection

🐚 Please remember to tag and MENTION (@) us when posting to Tumblr so we can reblog your MerMay content! 👩‍💻

Happy creating! 💙

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Decided to make my own Mermay prompts this year since I want to participate in :>

Feel free to tag me if you use ^v^

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Art Help

I redid this list because broken links 💀

General Tips

Stretch your fingers and hands

Art is for fun

Never too late to start/improve

Using a tablet

Editing software: pictures & video

Moodboard resources

Comic pacing

Watercolor

Coloring

Color Theory (not children's hospital)

Resources: coloring things a different color

Gold

Dark Skin undertones

Dark Skin in pastel art

POC Blush tones

Eyes colors

Cohesive Color Palette

Lights and Colors

Human Anatomy

POSE REFERENCES

Wizard Battle poses

Romance poses

Shoulders

Tips for practicing anatomy

Proportional Limbs

Skeletons

Hair Directions

Afro, 4C hair

Cane use

Clothing

Long skirts

Traditional Chinese Hanfu (clothing reference)

CLOTHING REFERENCE

Sewing information

Animals

Horse -> Dragon

Snouts: dogs, cats, wolves, fox

Foot, paw, hoof

More

Drawing references sources

Art tutorial Masterlist

Another art tutorial Masterlist

Inspiration: father recreates son's art

Inspiration: Lights

ART BOOKS

Plants/flowers: North America, Hawaii, Patagonia

Art Cheats

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Do I know how to animate? - no. Will it stop me? - also no

Aus mentioned - created by @keferon and lovely maccadam community

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Hey y’all!!

Soon I am going to begin an Art Training Arc challenge! I have a lot of things I want to study and improve on, so in 2025 to kick off the new year I  plan on studying art full force for three months. I will begin on December 30th and plan to work until the end of March.

Any kind of artist can join! This is an art challenge meant to be tailored to your art. You are welcome to follow along with me on my goals, but I encourage you to build a plan and work on what’s best for your art journey! Your Art Training Arc doesn’t need to be as long or intense as mine. Here are the basic criteria:

Every week choose one topic you want to improve on to focus on and study

Draw/paint every single day for a set amount of time

One day out of the week, study another artist’s style and/or technique. Learn from those you admire!

Have at least two break days a week, you don’t want to overwork yourself!

At the end of every week I will post about the things I studied and learned, as well as share pictures of what I worked on.

If you would like to join and share your progress, tag your journey with #arttrainingarc (#art training arc on Tumblr) or tag me! I will check these tags on Bluesky, Tumblr, and Instagram once a week starting in January.

Here is the plan I have created for myself! For context, I am a pen and watercolor artist who focuses on anime/manga style art.

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Sorry to break it to you, but it's not going to write itself. So you might as well get to work.

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Some sketches to cure my yaoi addiction

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Me. Currently. And permanently.

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Day 2

Mirage x reader

Have anybody say a few months ago that you'll be head over heals in love with an alien bot creature, you would laugh (and call the hych yard on them). Had it happened and you would say that this person is crazy ad move on forgetting about it next Monday. And even there was such a possibility, you defentely would not be crushing on the smaggest fratboy of the bunch. Or what was the point in avoiding all those traps in university only to end up in one set by the spoiled mechanical giant.

Yet here you are, face to face (though more like face to peds) with a silvery-blue cybertronian who is yet again trying to foist you some kind of alien substance.l

-Take it, c'mon don't leave a good mech stranded.

Mirage bended slightly movingg his servos closer to your tiny frame. Some really bright poisonous-coloured object, slightly reminding you of a small star was .... Yep, definetely deadly for you.

-Listen, er, Mirage... I don't think that it's safe for me to even be near this stuff... no matter what is it even.

-Please, ..., you have no idea what I promissed Hound for it! Why don't you take it?

-Raj, it's not that-

-So you do really hate me, ha?

-I..-What?

You finally looked away from the alien object to lift your eyes to meet his. For a second, you thought you did not hear him correctly, but the crustfalled expression on the hooligan showed that he said exactly what you thought he did.

-Raj, I like you very much, actually. It's just that I am more than sure that this thing is even more dangerous for me than those cubes of energon you showed us. Remember?

The bot did not know where too look, too caught up in the sence of overwhelming foolishness and embarrecement.

-I mean... C'mon, give your bot a break! You humans are just unnececcery tricky all the times! How should I know that?!

Is was almost too entertaining to see him skrimish. Always so cocky.

-Oh? Are you now ''my bot''? My-my...

He sputtered but in a second was face to face with you. Bright optics filled with some kind of strange fondness and speks of mischief. He was practically purring: - Well, of course, my meteor. Always.

You felt as your whole body overheating from a rizing temperature, suddenly shy and unable to meet his gaze. That made the culprit of your misery smirk smugly. Oh, this damn smirk. You were tempted to say you hate it, but even on the inside, you could not bring yourself to. Damn, you were deep in.

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Firelight deputy Scar in Act 2, requested by anon.

⸻   SCAR, Arcane Season 2

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Cute fish-man enforcer: a comprehensive artist's reference collection

I've heard people simp for him already, so I gathered screenshots. Also, to note : his ears flick, and he has third eyelids like a Na'vi Metkayina.

I caught the third eyelid in 2 different shots.

Anyway, make great art of the fish twink. He's also the first one to rush to the captive Zaunite's help, and reacts after Vi to Cait's bloodlust. He saved Mel during the attack on her speech, and rescued his enforcer buddy. He has zero lines but it's pretty obvious he has a good heart despite a snooty resting face.

if you know what his name is, drop it in comments so I can update the tags.

pretty boi