OFMD MerMay 2024 prompt list (as posted 24th April)
📢Calling all artists 📢
#MerMay is a month long art challenge, & this year we've written our own #OurFlagMeansDeath themed prompts. 🐙
Which ones are taking your fancy? 🎨🏴☠️
We would love to see what you all come up with! Share your merfolk art in comments, or using the hashtag for us to see 👀
Long description:
Graphic of a still from the episode The Innkeeper. Ed and MerStede are reunited, underwater. Overlaid are a series of Our Flag Means Death themed prompts for artists to use for inspiration during MerMay 2024.
OFMD x MerMay 2024 - prompt list:
1 Spanish Jackie's
2 Plunder
3 "A curse is a curse"
4 Treasure Hunt
5 Lighthouse
6 Seabird
7 Soup
8 Jeff's Inn by the Sea
9 Revenge
10 "Where's the fucking loot?"
11 Red Flags
12 Moonglow
13 Roads to Moscow
14 Orange
15 Blind Man's Cove
16 Kraken
17 "Have you ever been sketched?"
18 Calypso's Birthday
19 Rowboat
20 High on a Rocky Ledge
21 Sandwich
22 Gravy Basket
23 Dagger
24 "Murder's a natural cause"
25 Unicorn
26 Teal
27 The Chain
28 Marmalade
29 Republic of Pirates
30 Nine Guns
31 "Not a fucking mermaid"
#MerMay #OurFlagMeansDeath
= OFMD MerMay 2024 Explained - April 30 2024 =
Ahoy there, maties!
As you might know, the SaveOFMD Crew is very excited for MerMay. 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
MerMay is month-long art challenge that runs daily in May. This year, we have made our own list of prompts in the hope that they will inspire some creative fun!
You can read more about the official MerMay challenge on their website: https://www.mermay.com/. The official MerMay challenge only accepts certain types of media, but they are not strict on prompts and whether you use their official prompt list or not. If you would like to use one of our prompts for a piece that you will submit to the official MerMay panel for judging, we would love to see it! Please tag us or drop us a link to your submission post(s).
If you are not submitting for the official MerMay challenge, then the rules are a lot looser! We will accept submissions including:
Fan fiction 📖✍️
Traditional and digital art 🎨🧑🎨
Crafting 🔨✂️🖌️
Music 🎵🎻🎹
Baking 🧁🥨🥐
Fiber arts 🧵🪡🧶
Cosplay 🌺🦄👯
Got any other ideas? Surprise us! We want to see all of your creative merfolk art, whatever form it takes (unless it is AI generated – please do not submit AI art).
If your art is NSFW then please blur and tag it appropriately
== OFMD MerMay 2024 Explainer Video ==
#MerMay #OurFlagMeansDeath
== 05/01/2024 - Spanish Jackie's ==
== 05/02/2024 - Plunder ==
== 05/03/2024 - "A curse is a curse" ==
== 05/04/2024 - Treasure Hunt ==
== 05/05/2024 - Lighthouse ==
= 05/06/2024 - Seabird =
= 05/07/2024 - Soup =
= 05/08/2024 - Jeff's Inn By The Sea =
= 05/09/2024 - Revenge =
= 05/10/2024 - "Where's the Fucking Loot?" =
= 05/11/2024 - Red Flags =
= 05/12/2024 - Moonglow =
= 05/13/2024 - Road to Moscow =
= 05/14/2024 - Orange =
= 05/15/2024 - Blind Man's Cove =
= 05/16/2024 - Kraken =
= 05/17/2024 - "Have You Ever Been Sketched?" =
= 05/18/2024 - Calypso's Birthday =
= 05/19/2024 - Rowboat =
= 05/20/2024 - High On A Rocky Ledge =
= 05/21/2024 - Sandwich =
= 05/22/2024 - Gravy Basket =
= 05/23/2024 - Dagger =
= 05/24/2024 - Murder's A Natural Cause =
= 05/25/2024 - Unicorn =
= 05/26/2024 - Teal =
= 05/27/2024 - The Chain =
= 05/28/2024 - Marmalade =
= 05/29/2024 - Republic of Pirates =
= 05/30/2024 - Nine Guns =
= 05/31/2024 - "Not a Fucking Mermaid" =
=== Assets and Pictures ===
== 05/01/2024 - Spanish Jackie's ==
It's the first day of #MerMay 2024! 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
We're excited for a month-long adventure, packed with lots of new merfolk art. 🧑🎨🐙
If you're new to MerMay, check out our explainer post for more info. Whatever your medium, please share your art! 🎨✍️
Today's prompt: Spanish Jackie'
#OurFlagMeansDeath
== 05/02/2024 - Plunder ==
#MerMay 2024 is underway! 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
Today's prompt: Plunder 🪙
Have at it, crew! 🏴☠️
(Please don't forget to share your work with us, we love to see it!) 🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
#OurFlagMeansDeath
== 05/03/2024 - "A curse is a curse" ==
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: "A curse is a curse" ☠️
Poor Stede, all he wanted was a fancy outfit – and he looked so good in it!
We love that he puts the well-being of his crew first, though (eventually). 💕🏴☠️
Have you got any cursed merfolk art for us today, crew? 👀
#OurFlagMeansDeath
Alt text: A clip from the show, overlaid with the SaveOFMD Crew MerMay 2024 sticker. Izzy is sitting with his feet on Stede's desk and talking to him about the cursed suit. Stede responds with a frustrated 'Oh, fuck off!'
== 05/04/2024 - Treasure Hunt ==
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: Treasure Hunt 🗺️✖️
Maybe the real treasure is the unhinged fanart that the show has spawned? 👀
Whatever your medium, share your OFMD-themed MerMay fanart with us!
#OurFlagMeansDeath
== 05/05/2024 - Lighthouse == 
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: Lighthouse 🕯️ 🏡
Lighthouses are used as symbolism for various different ideas throughout the show: a guide, the unattainable, a beacon of hope. How will the symbol of the lighthouse inspire you?
Share your lighthouse merfolk with us. 😍
#OurFlagMeansDeath
== 05/06/2024 - Seabird ==
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: Seabird 🎵
We love the way music is used in the show! While the first half of Season 2 was rough for our pirate crew, Buttons achieving his dream & hearing this song makes us feel like better days are coming. 🌊💙
What merfolk will this song inspire? Tag us with what you create!
#OurFlagMeansDeath
Alt text: A clip from the show, overlaid with the SaveOFMD Crew MerMay 2024 sticker. Izzy stands at the prow of the Revenge at night, his head held high and a slight smile on his face as a seagull flies past him. Then, we see the Revenge from high above, with the seagull flying towards the camera and out of frame.
= 05/07/2024 - Soup
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: Soup 🥣
Who doesn't love soup? The Revenge crew certainly do! Although we've never seen anyone love soup as much as Roach does.
Give us your best mer-soup art! 🍲
#OurFlagMeansDeath
Alt text:
A clip from the show, overlaid with the SaveOFMD Crew MerMay 2024 sticker. The Crew of the Revenge are enjoying some delicious soup while on the Red Flag. Roach is absolutely blown away.
= 05/08/2024 - Jeff's Inn by the Sea =
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: Jeff's Inn by the Sea 🐙
Would you book an idyllic seaside holiday at Jeff's? And perhaps more importantly – would you go back the next year? 😂🏴☠️
Artists of the OFMD fandom, we'd love to see what you think goes on at Jeff's! 🍻🛌🌊
#OurFlagMeansDeath
= 05/09/2024 - Revenge =
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: Revenge ⛵
We're looking forward to seeing what you all come up with for this one! What does "Revenge" conjure up for you?
Is it the ship? Or a dish best served cold? 🏴☠️
#OurFlagMeansDeath
= 05/10/2024 - "Where's the Fucking Loot?" =
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: "Where's the fucking loot!?" 💰 🔪
Stede learns a lot from Ed and his crew about the realities of piracy. Which of those lessons will inspire merfolk art for you today?
Please keep sharing your work, we really love seeing it! 👀
#OurFlagMeansDeath
Alt text: A clip from the show, overlaid with the SaveOFMD Crew MerMay 2024 sticker. Edward is giving Stede a lesson in pirating by threatening the captain of a French merchant ship with his dagger.
= 05/11/2024 - Red Flags =
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: Red Flags 🚩🚩🚩
From the episode title, to the name of Zheng's ship, to a sign of danger, the possibilities with this prompt are endless! What does it inspire for you?
We're looking forward to seeing your red flags! 👀☠️
#OurFlagMeansDeath
= 05/12/2024 - Moonglow =
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: Moonglow 🌕🌙
Buttons sometimes has great chaotic energy, but we also love seeing him peacefully basking on deck with Karl at his side.
Show us your powerful sea-witch merfolk, in the glow of the moon! 👀
#OurFlagMeansDeath
Alt text: A clip from the show, overlaid with the SaveOFMD Crew MerMay 2024 sticker. Buttons is trying to bask in moonglow.
== 05/13/2024 - Roads to Moscow ==
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: Roads to Moscow 🏴☠️🎵
This 1973 song by Al Stewart tells the story of a Russian partisan during WW2. It's a story of war, betrayal, & the personal cost of fighting for a cause.
50 years later, #OurFlagMeansDeath used it to make what was already a badass scene truly epic. 🖤⚔️
Please share your art with us. 🙏
Flustered Jeff by @snejpowa_art on Instagram and Twitter! 💜
Alt text: A clip from the show, overlaid with the SaveOFMD Crew MerMay 2024 sticker. Roads to Moscow by Al Stewart plays as the crew of the Revenge dress for battle against the British navy. A soldier's naked butt is covered by a blushing purple octopus (our mascot, Jeff).
= 05/14/2024 - Orange =
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: Orange🍊
Do mer-folk eat oranges? Do sirens sing because they need oranges to treat their scurvy? 🤔
We're at the halfway point now, & we love the art you've been sharing! Check out our round-up posts, where we share art links from across platforms.
#OurFlagMeansDeath
Alt text: A clip from the show, overlaid with the SaveOFMD Crew MerMay 2024 sticker. Pete has found some oranges, but Jim says these oranges are off-limits.
= 05/15/2024 - Blind Man's Cove =
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: Blind Man's Cove 🏴☠️
Also known as Hornigold's favourite place for an ambush, & the place Calico Jack sells Ed out to the English.
Do mer-folk play whippies? Throw coconuts at each other's heads? Make turtles fight crabs? 🐢🦀
Show us what you've got! 👀
#OurFlagMeansDeath
Alt text: A clip from the show, overlaid with the SaveOFMD Crew MerMay 2024 sticker. Ed and Calico Jack argue in the boat when Ed realises that Stede has been sold out to the English.
= 05/16/2024 - Kraken =
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: Kraken 🏴☠️🐙
Jeff's been excited for this one! 🐙💜
The Kraken is a powerful motif, and has spawned many a gorgeous piece of art. How will it inspire you?
Get Kraken, folks! (we're sorry) 💀
#OurFlagMeansDeath
= 05/17/2024 - "Have You Ever Been Sketched?" =
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: "Have you ever been sketched?" 👀✍️
The possibilities are endless! We're looking forward to seeing what you create!
Special reminder on this one: if your art is NSFW, please remember to blur/tag it appropriately. 🫢😉
#OurFlagMeansDeath
Alt text: A clip from the show, overlaid with the SaveOFMD Crew MerMay 2024 sticker. Fang is supervising Lucius's barnacle scraping and Lucius asks him, 'Have you ever been sketched?'
= 05/18/2024 - Calypso's Birthday =
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: Calypso's Birthday
The crew of The Revenge know how to party! 🥳🥂🕺
There's plenty in this episode to draw upon for inspiration – beautiful decor, a bath full of rum, drag, fireworks... The possibilities are endless!
Give us your best Calypso fan art, crew!
#OurFlagMeansDeath
= 05/19/2024 - Rowboat =
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: Rowboat 🚣
OFMD is known for its moving and "totally accurate to sea travel" depictions of rowboats. 😅
Show us your rowboat mermaid encounters! 👀
#OurFlagMeansDeath
Alt text: A supercut of images from the show, overlaid with the SaveOFMD Crew MerMay 2024 sticker. The video is made from images of rowboats as they feature throughout both seasons of the show.
= 05/20/2024 - High On The Rocky Ledge =
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: High on a Rocky Ledge 🎵 ⛰️
The way Stede fosters camaraderie and bonding amongst the crew is iconic and heartwarming.
From flag crafting day to his bedtime stories (with the voices!), what will you be inspired by in your MerMay art? 🤥💤🥱
#OurFlagMeansDeath
Alt text: A clip from the show, overlaid with the SaveOFMD Crew MerMay 2024 sticker. Moondog's 'High on a Rocky Ledge' plays as Stede reads a bedtime story to his crew, who are cuddled up on deck. The camera pans from them to the hostages tied to the mast, then all the way to the top of the mast, where the crew's handmade flags are flapping in the wind.
= 05/21/2024 - Sandwich =
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: Sandwich
In S1, Izzy got hit in the face with a sandwich. In S2, it was Lucius. Who do you think would take the ol' sammie to the face in (fingers crossed) S3?
Give us your best mer-Roach or sandwich-flinging art, crew! 🥪🤕
#OurFlagMeansDeath
Alt text: Two clips from the show, cut together and overlaid with the SaveOFMD Crew MerMay 2024 sticker. In season one, Izzy is accidentally hit in the face by the sandwich Roach has made him. In season two, Lucius is accidentally hit in the face by the sandwich Roach made for Ed.
= 05/22/2024 - Gravy Basket =
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: Gravy Basket
We know that Buttons has been in the Gravy Basket, but the show never tells us much about his experiences there...
Who else on the crew has been down to the Gravy Basket, and what was it like for them?
Show us your theories! 👀
#OurFlagMeansDeath
= 05/23/2024 - Dagger =
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: Dagger 🗡️
From Jim's beloved dagger, to the ones Ed uses to "redecorate" Stede's quarters, to the blades Roach offers to Pete & Lucius at their wedding, we have a *pointed* wealth of inspiration.
Give us all of your mer-folk dagger art! 🧜🗡️
#OurFlagMeansDeath
= 05/24/2024 - "Murder's A Natural Cause" =
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: "Murder's a natural cause"
This line from Evelyn Higgins is truly an iconic moment. What does it conjure for you?
Can merfolk smoke? God, look at her... 😍
Share your Evelyn or mer-der art with us – we can't wait to see it! 👀
#OurFlagMeansDeath
Alt text: A clip from the show, overlaid with the SaveOFMD Crew MerMay 2024 sticker. Mary talks to Evelyn about being un-widowed. Evelyn tells her that murder's a natural cause of death, insinuating that Mary should murder Stede.
= 05/25/2024 - Unicorn =
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: Unicorn 🦄
The unicorn is a legendary symbol of purity: its horn is said to have the power to heal.
Throughout OFMD, the crew's fate and the unicorn's go hand in hand.
Show us some pure, healing, uni-merfolk art. 🦄🧜💜
#OurFlagMeansDeath
= 05/26/2024 - Teal =
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: Teal 💎
Teal is a reoccurring color through out the show, from Stede's many teal outfits, as Jim's favourite colour, and the colour of Oluwande's evil eye earring. 🧿
How will you use the colour teal?
Tag us with your beautiful teal creations, crew! 👀
#OurFlagMeansDeath
Alt text: A clip from the show, overlaid with the SaveOFMD Crew MerMay 2024 sticker. Jim and Olu are looking for oranges in St. Augustine, and Jim is being normal secretive about why they hate it so much.
= 05/27/2024 - The Chain =
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: The Chain ⛓️🎵
And if you don't love me now
You will never love me again
I can still hear you saying
You would never break the chain!!
(The foot touch heard round the world)
What does a mer-folk foot touch look like? Show us! 💕
#OurFlagMeansDeath
Alt Text: A clip from the show, overlaid with the SaveOFMD Crew MerMay 2024 sticker. The English navy are boarding the ship and taking the crew hostage, while The Chain by Fleetwood Mac plays. We see Ed and Stede's foot touch as they are reunited.
= 05/28/2024 - Marmalade =
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: Marmalade 🍊🫙
Our co-captains certainly enjoy the finer things in life – including some damn good marmalade! Who can say no to a bittersweet breakfast in bed (aka the crow's nest where you slept)? 😋🧡
Show us your mer-malade art!
#OurFlagMeansDeath
Alt text: Clip from the show, overlaid with the SaveOFMD Crew MerMay 2024 sticker. Stede and Ed share marmalade for breakfast and start to realise that they each have something unique to offer that intrigues the other.
= 05/29/2024 - Republic of Pirates =
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: Republic of Pirates 🏴☠️
Everyone in the show comments that the Republic of Pirates has become gentrified. Can you imagine what it would have been like before? 💀
We want to see what the RoP was like before it "got lame." Show us what you've got! 🏴☠️
#OurFlagMeansDeath
Alt text:
Clips from the show, overlaid with the SaveOFMD Crew MerMay 2024 sticker. Buttons describes The Republic of Pirates in sinister tones, but Roach is more dismissive.
= 05/30/2024 - Nine Guns =
#MerMay 2024 🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: Nine Guns 🔫
We have agree with Ed, nine guns really is overkill. It makes for a great Kraken-era Blackbeard cosplay, though! 🐙
Give us mer-folk packing heat, crew! 🔥
#OurFlagMeansDeath
Alt Text: A clip from the show, overlaid with the SaveOFMD Crew MerMay 2024 sticker. Stede shows Ed a picture of Blackbeard in a book and Ed is frustrated about him being depicted with a ridiculous number of guns. It then cuts to a scene from Season 2 Episode 1 where Ed is in fact carrying 9 guns.
= 05/31/2024 - "Not a fucking mermaid" =
Well, crew, this is it. Today is the last day of #MerMay 2024. 🥲🧜♂️🧜🧜♀️
We've loved seeing everything you have created in the last few weeks. 😍
We're ending on a curveball, but we can't wait to see where you go with this one! 🎨✍️🐙🧑🎨
Today's prompt: "Not a fucking mermaid"!
#OurFlagMeansDeath
Alt text: Clips from the show, overlaid with the SaveOFMD Crew MerMay 2024 sticker. Jim is annoyed that the crew keep asking them if they are a mermaid. Ed is back from the Gravy Basket and he tells a baffled Stede that he's not a mermaid.
