Brainrot

(any pronouns) I go into fandoms, take tropes and mash them into something niche that only I will enjoy. And then several people end up enjoying it. I reblog all fanart no matter how mid you think it might be

[moosemann404]

A long overdo intro post

Hey, my name is Moose (Moose Man on ao3), my pronouns are a roulette wheel at the best of times so just pick something and run with it.

I’m a creative writing major first and an artist never. I swing violently between writing 15k in a week and 500 words in a month. Seriously, there is no schedule, I simply just ball. Im a rarepair conisour however the fuck you spell that

Porns okay here, even if I’m not outright searching for it. I have none reblogged right now so if you don’t like it don’t worry.

Author of Portal: Learned Unhelpfulness (you wanna read it god you want to read it so bad and if you have you wanna go reread it yes you dooooo) and that one kinda popular Steve Harrington time travel series. It’ll have an ending eventually I swear.

Things I’m into: Portal, Stranger things (sorta), various Resident Evils, powerpuff girls, samurai jack, various horror movies, Gravity Falls, Over the Garden Wall, etc etc. basically anything with animation I’m down to clown. Also a decent horror fan!

Doug Rattman scurries around my brain at night and constructs my dreams.

This is a space for me to post art, reblog fanart (PLEASE tag me if you post some, I wish to CONSUME), generally ramble when I’m feeling a type of way, and anything else I decide. My main moot is seven-gill :) they draw cool ass dragons and like fish go send them some fish.

There’s a list of tags down below if you wanna look at stuff.

Smell ya later

[gayhockeyshow]

Hey…. Hey… Characters covered in blood, okay? You remember characters covered in blood?? You used to love characters covered in blood

[moosemann404]

Kicks open door

DRAFT ONE IS DONE

[moosemann404]

my 500th post was about talking heads. they’re going to hang me at dawn

[lesbiansagainsttheatre]

alexa. play slippery people by talking heads. loud enough to kill.

[moosemann404]

What's your creative process like? Where do you get ideas and how do you flesh them out, etc

Lmao okay multi-part question here goes

Getting ideas: I’m horrifically predictable with what my tastes are. If someone is having to Grapple with Bodily Changes, I’m there (like half my shit is ghost stuff because of this 😭😭😭). I also play a fun game of “wouldn’t it be cool if ___?” And that’s where other shit comes from. Asking myself what I want to see in a story plot wise, then ultimately throwing them all in a biiiig ol pot and stirring it up.

To take Learned Unhelpfulness as an example, I started with a trope I really liked (Wheatley getting stomped into a human body), something I wanted to see desperately (get Doug OUT OF THERE PLEASE) and things sort of went from there. The main trick is trying to figure out how well new ideas mesh when I get them and how to sequence them.

Fleshing them out is done typically while listening to music and pacing my room. I know an ideas got some stickiness if I can comfortably draw up half a dozen or so scenes. (Mind you, this isn’t done all at once, I rarely start with an entire outline.) Once again back to LU, I’d say I had the body reveal, the meeting with Cave, most of Caroline’s scenes and Doug’s memories locked in when I started. I did a lot of wondering about this man’s past lmao. Oh and the ending, I’ve had that in my brain 5ever. It’s all about what points and dynamics I find interesting. My writing professors would call these “hot spots”.

A coupon other things to note or things I’ve learned: Keep something to write with handy. Whether it’s a notes app or paper, I need to get prose or ideas in my head down immediately or they’re gone. Not even full likes or paragraphs, just summarized ideas or tagless dialogue.

Also, while I do outline sometimes, it’s not the end all be all of writing. It helps if I keep fluid with it. My stories typically end up drastically different to how they’re initially jotted down in my brain. Outlining is also really important if I get stuck. Asking myself what emotion I want from a scene what the end result is, it helps if I plot it out first then I can work from there.

[moosemann404]

tell us about your oldest brain child. the work you've been working on (or just had) longest!!

I actually went to go check cause I wasn’t sure dates wise, but I have this Stranger Things ghost fic that I’ve been on and off working on for about four years holy crap it’s been four years, which is pretty stinking neat. I’d say it’s definitely my favorite personal work out of that fandom, purely because I like dicking around with ghost lore in conjunction with Eldrich horror (when I make it as such). More people should get crazy with their ghost fics.

Technically speaking, my time travel series in the same fandom has been going on longer, and I still gotta finish it but it’s a multi-work series so it’s a different sort of beast and I keep wrestling with it (also, was started before my writing style really developed so I look at it a little differently).

[moosemann404]

You know what I’m bored come ask me things

[vee-da-skee]

Reading Talking Heads lyrics. This is from Love → Building on Fire

[moosemann404]

Not now kitten, daddy just realized an entire section of this chapter would flow better from someone else’s perspective

[shinahuila]

[moosemann404]

Hihi I got bored today and decided to draw one of the murals from chapter 3, it’s super lazy but I wanted you to see it

Ok byebye

My stinky tumblr did not NOTIFY ME ABOUT THIS >:((((( but this is lovely thank you :)

[astressedlittlejaybird]

I cut open my mouth on a tube of acrylic paint 😭 how do you even do that

[moosemann404]

hey man not to get sappy but do you think you could dremal your name into my ribs so that even when there’s nothing left, i’ll still have you

[moosemann404]

hey man not to get sappy but do you think you could dremal your name into my ribs so that even when there’s nothing left, i’ll still have you

[demelly]

You were murdered by Jack

[moosemann404]

YEAAAAAH ITS DONE!!!!!

[moosemann404]

they’re actually erasing me from existence today. yeah they said that interaction was so bad I simply have to stop being sorry :/