MerMay 2024 - Masterpost

MerMay 2024 - Masterpost

Speach & Text Key

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PART 1 - 1. Marine Biologist 2. Carnivorous 3. Dwelling/House 4. Healer 5. Revenge 6. Midnight

PART 2 - 7. Breakfast 8. Market 9. Semi Aquatic 10. Recycle

PART 3 - 11. Repaired 12. Glass 13. Crying 14. Kelp 15. Siren

PART 4 - 16. Sharp Teeth 17. Communication/Language 18. Migration 19. Literature 20. Begrudging

PART 5 - 21. Plankton 22. Lab 23. Colors 24. Game

PART 6 - 25. Cave 26. Found 27. Security 28. Passenger 29. Message 30. Reconciliation 31. Pod

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Character Ref Pages - Prompts List

Bet you didn’t think you’d learn what human and 100% troll Fass looked like today, did you? Or what his parents looked like. Or what he looked like as a human kid. Nope, betchu didn’t.

But anyway. A bunch of miscellaneous troll/changeling information just because. Also trolls are born as beans like bears. Just so everyone knows. Female trolls are called sows and males are called bores. That’s all.

YOUTUBE SHORT CAN BE FOUND HERE (showing all their little details is just easier in video format)

@canisalbus i made your silly little dog men as a gift for a friend (we frequently scream at each other about them because they are precious and we mutually adore them) and yeah. That’s all. Here they are- Small beans that they are.

This was originally a doodle I did during church with no pose reference (which, I’d like to add, I’m very proud of because it’s a weird perspective and it’s two people interacting and it actually turned out alright for once) and decided I really liked it, so I colored it.

And then proceeded to realize it reminded me a lot of this drawing I did two years ago, and it made me happy cuz I feel like I’ve actually improved which is nice.

Anyway. Yeah. My scrunklies which I love very much. Working on filling the rest of the page they’re on now.

MERMAY 2024 MAIN CAST- look at my stupid, idiot little children, I love them so much. If I can keep up, this year is gonna be fun; I have angsty plots >:3

MerMay 2024 Masterpost

Relative size reference and anatomical ramblings below cut.

Here’s a vague size comparison thing for all of them. And a human for perspective

I really, desperately want to make an illustrated guide to my merfolk lore, because it’s extensive and I’m really proud of it. But that sounds slightly overwhelming, so idk, but here are some random scraps that pertain to these four. My fish mers aren’t allowed to have hair; they have a variety of different fins on their head to mimic it instead. Oviparous fish (e.g. remora) lay their eggs and their mer counterparts do likewise, and therefore don’t have nipples and/or breasts. Eggs of ovoviviparous fish (e.g. manta ray) hatch shortly before giving birth and do not consume anything resembling milk, so their mer counterparts do not have nipples and/or breasts. Viviparous fish (e.g. lemon shark) essentially nurse when in the womb, so their mer counterparts nurse after having given birth and have nipples and/or breasts. Mammals (e.g. monk seal) are self explanatory.

Also most animals hatch or are born with navels, because even in eggs, there’s a cord from the embryo to the yolk sack. Oviparous and ovoviviparous creatures just tend to be better at healing the scar. However, I’ve decided that mers are not as good at healing the scar, and thus, have bellybuttons.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

First drawing I’ve done of Cosmo in about a million years. I drew him older than he would be in canon because I was in the mood. Slightly addicted to the SOL brush.

He’s nicknamed Bee/Honey Bee, because y’know how when honey bees sting, it pulls out their guts and they die (females anyway, because males don’t have stingers, but still), and he faints or gets very dizzy half the time when he sees blood, let alone actually bites. Also he tends to wear yellow. Anyway. Thoughts are not coherent and I’m gonna leave this here and go-