Ending MerMay with one of my faves 💜 Very pleased to have hit every single one of the prompts this month!
MerMay Prompts: Body Art, Tail Care, Sparkles
(https://bsky.app/profile/bizarrelittlemew.bsky.social/post/3llebot62j22z)
Gay pirate era, AuDHD, 30s, they/them 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Hyperfixations: Our Flag Means Death, Deadloch, X-Files, Indigo Girls, cryptids, queer music, horror films, knitting, Lego
Ending MerMay with one of my faves 💜 Very pleased to have hit every single one of the prompts this month!
MerMay Prompts: Body Art, Tail Care, Sparkles
(https://bsky.app/profile/bizarrelittlemew.bsky.social/post/3llebot62j22z)
"So remember how you wanted to try cooked fish? I took that grate-y thing we found in the wreck and put it over these heat vents and VOILA - cooking!"
"Ed, it's absolutely remarkable!"
"Yeah, I could be a chef."
"I would come to your restaurant..."
MerMay Prompts: Seafood, Technology (https://bsky.app/profile/bizarrelittlemew.bsky.social/post/3llebot62j22z)
I am obsessed with how #OFMD uses print culture and conceptions of celebrity because I am an 18th centuryist through and through, so I made a zine about it 🤷
Print your own: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WgNm65NhInZzQbkFauKBn1vuQZ4KyD6O/view
Something of a sequel to my last post? Ed has left his lighthouse for the beach, where he and Stede can exchange gifts without the risk of cracking up on the rocks
MerMay Prompts: Sea shells, Beach (https://bsky.app/profile/bizarrelittlemew.bsky.social/post/3llebot62j22z)
He first approached the lonely lighthouse keeper on a moonlit night after months of observation. He brought a letter detailing the deal he had made with a sea witch and what it would take the break the spell.
MerMay Prompts: Lighthouse, Letter, Night (https://bsky.app/profile/bizarrelittlemew.bsky.social/post/3llebot62j22z)
Interior spreads and back cover!
You can download a PDF in color: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P3x4MA8tllk4tM4fnoaqqwpEp0ZPjPTh
Or B&W: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OW6N_bP2mx4OLaGpccMPTRtOivACxRNc
Cover (and my special #OFMDZineWeek mani)
A little something I made for #OFMDZineWeek over on Bluesky
The last thing the Gentleman Explorer expected to stumble upon while mapping caves was this strange creature - half man, half squid, with the biggest eyes he'd ever seen (in a pretty way, though, not a scary way)
MerMay Prompts: Cave, Secrets (https://bsky.app/profile/bizarrelittlemew.bsky.social/post/3llebot62j22z)
"...and we didn't thank the fairies and now they've stolen my lute as punishment!"
Meanwhile...
"Ed, look what just floated down from the surface! I think it's musical!"
MerMay Prompts: Music (https://bsky.app/profile/bizarrelittlemew.bsky.social/post/3llebot62j22z)
MerMay Prompts: Rainbow (https://bsky.app/profile/bizarrelittlemew.bsky.social/post/3llebot62j22z)
Stede has been trying to find Ed for ages after their breakup, but Ed's new friend isn't very happy to see him... Will Ed save Stede or let the kraken have its way?!
MerMay Prompts: Travel, Kraken
One of the production designers for #Severance David Schlesinger is a private account on insta & they just allowed me to follow them & I'm so psyched 🤣 I wonder if it's bc they saw my last post abt #3Dprinting a severance console that docks my Boox e-reader 🌐💧
Tired of being forced into battle by outside forces, the turtles and crabs have banded together - and now they're out for REVENGE.
MerMay Prompts: Underwater Foes (https://bsky.app/profile/bizarrelittlemew.bsky.social/post/3llebot62j22z)
MerMay Prompts: Jewelry, Treasure Map, Shipwreck (https://bsky.app/profile/bizarrelittlemew.bsky.social/post/3llebot62j22z)
MerMay Prompts: Underwater friends/pets (https://bsky.app/profile/bizarrelittlemew.bsky.social/post/3llebot62j22z)
MerMay Prompts: Rescue, Rowboat, Fishing (https://bsky.app/profile/bizarrelittlemew.bsky.social/post/3llebot62j22z)
MerStede got into a bit of trouble with a shockingly large pelican - fortunately a retired pirate-turn-fisherman happened to be rowing by and saved him 💜
“Do you think that maybe there’s some force larger than us that has responsibilities that make them miserable and directing our lives brings them some spark of joy?”
“Babe, we’re laying in a giant sunflower and neither of us know how we got here. I have other concerns.”
Weather is wreaking havoc on my joints and all of my WIPs are in tiny needles, so I took a break to make a snail for my tattoo artist 🐌