Mermay 2025 – Day Eight – Atlantis

Mermay 2025 – Day Eight – Atlantis

When I was scanning the prompt list, Atlantis was the prompt that stumped me.

The usual approach to Atlantis is an underwater glowing skyline in the background. This seemed a little cliche to me. The best thing I thought of was mermaid tourists in a scenic street in Atlantis. But, to me, this was just an underwater street in an underwater city, not Atlantis.

I went to my old standby trick of looking it up on Google images to see what everyone else imagined. Most of what I saw were pictures of sunken ruins.

I finally went with a family visiting the ruins. Thanks to having watched a lot of videos debunking pseudohistorians lately, I went with an Egyptian aesthetic rather than Greek.