Here’s a version of the prompt list without me blabbering! Also with a text version at the bottom because I completely forgot to do that whooooooops
Mermay- For Whumpers!
May 8- May 11: Fish Out of Water
May 8- aquarium/dolphin show/circus attraction
May 9- beached/low tide/gasping for breath
May 10- mer whumpee with something wrapped tightly around their gills, cutting off their breathing underwater.
May 11- “They’re more afraid of us than we are of them.”
May 12- May 18: Sink or Swim
May 12- “Here, fishy, fishy, fishy…”
May 13- shipwreck/pirates/thrown overboard
May 14- blood in the water/catch and release/hook, line, and sinker
May 15- descaling/finning/fish bait
May 16- marine research/mers as pets/seafood
May 17- mer whumpee hung by a rope threaded through their mouth and gills, to bleed them out the way fishermen bleed fish.
May 18- “I caught a fish!” “I…I don’t think that’s a fish…”
May 19- May 25: Here There Be Monsters
May 19- “Release the Kraken!”
May 20- caught in a net/ship’s figurehead/tied to the mast
May 21- harpoon/spearfishing/rod and line
May 22- jellyfish sting/shark bite/electric eel shock
May 23- selkie coat/mermaid tears/siren song
May 24- mer whumpee captured in order to win a prize or claim a reward.
May 25- “Sea monster! There it is!”
May 26- May 31: Lost At Sea
May 26- “There’s always a bigger fish.”
May 27- fish on ice/in hot water/went too deep
May 28- trophy hunt/mounted fish/the one that got away
May 29- minnow-sized mer/whale-sized mer/anything but a fish tail
May 30- adrift/drowning/transformation
May 31- mer whumpee from the deepest parts of the ocean, dragged up to the surface where they were never meant to be.