Just another fanfic writer, rambling on occasion

a/k/a Mookie (in other fandom social media)

[sorrygotthesesacks]

Well now I gotta go and pin this thing

I make fanfic shaped things for whatever fandom is gnawing at my brain at any given moment.

Most of them are posted on AO3 and can be found here.

It doesn't take long to figure out which characters/ships I favor because I will, on occasion, not shut up about them. And they will appear in the aforementioned fic-shaped things.

And in the tags, but if you want a comprehensive list, I have a post on my dreamwidth account.

"You're Mookie everywhere else but Tumblr...so what's the deal with the sacks?"

This is the deal with the sacks.

I like cats and believe there is no such thing as a bad pun and I accidentally Rick-rolled myself somehow at work today so this is the high quality content you will find here.

(Credits: banner by Jane.)

Other info added in 2025:

I’m not posting my age but it’s probably obvious from some of my posts and pop culture references that my birth year begins with a 1.

Responses to Asks are tagged with the super creative tag #asks.

Responses to drabble requests are similarly tagged as #drabble requests.

Regarding my work and AI training

I know that my wishes regarding this probably don't matter, but I do not want my work fed into AI for training or other purposes, nor do I grant permission for this sort of thing.

I can't stop you from doing it, obviously, but if you like what I write, I’d rather you let me be the one to actually write it.

[chorige]

[meow-tay]

🌹❤️

[sorrygotthesesacks]

[sorrygotthesesacks]

Happy birthday, Deuce!

(If Lilia offers to cook you anything, say no!)

[egophiliac]

as penance, here's that Georgina/Dylla for y'all 🙇

[pathetictvlover]

Happy pride month everyone

[neodith]

i read some sad silbek content, so i had to amend it

[sorrygotthesesacks]

It’s always much more difficult to drag myself out of bed when there’s a cat curled up next to me.

[sorrygotthesesacks]

Another bait-and-switch ao3 ship tag? Say it ain’t so.

[idia-draconia]

The only person (beside Trey) that can make Riddle stop studing is this eel man that's name is FLOYD LEECH!!! HIS BELOVED BOYFRIEND!!!❤️

[egophiliac]

absolutely cheesed that silver runs everywhere despite having a perfect functional horse

horse gets tired. Silver keeps going.

[hasuyawwn]

You haven't drawn teh 1x2 cuddlers recently. Would you mind? I just absolutely adore these two in your style <3

HELLO 3 MONTHs LATER OMG

[terroroforest]

I honestly intended to do this just as a sketch with the Scarabia's boys, but I overdid it a little… Thank you book 6?

Kalim's race is not human, it's a projectile or I do not know a basketball ball

[sorrygotthesesacks]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Finally managed to write something. 🎉

[xibalbavixen]

Soooo I am going to be starting a new job soon, sadly, away from vet med, bc my foreign degree apparently means nothing to people in the middle of nowhere, PA. Buuuut still, I wanted to have a fun badge holder to cheer me up and I made this!! Enjoy a bit of my RadioApple delulu!!

[pheita]

Memo to everybody :

Never be afraid to recycle an idea you had for a WIP you abandoned. Sometimes the idea needs a different set of characters or a different setting.

[indecisive-behaviors]

An addition:

Never be afraid to recycle an idea you had for a project you already completed. Sometimes ideas really are just that good and deserve to be used more than once.

[mytrinketsandknickknacks]

Don't be afraid to use the same recipe to make a new cake

[traegorn]

I'm going to tell y'all a story about creative recycling.

Lynn Baxter is probably the most popular character I've ever created. She was one of the main characters for the entire ten year run of UnCONventional (2009-2019) and currently appears in Peregrine Lake (2024-current).

But I didn't create her for UnCONventional though.

I first created Lynn in 2003 for a project I was working on called Re-entry that I never ended up getting past character designs and basic write ups. It was about two friends putting their lives back together. Marcus, who was one of the main characters in my short lived comic Room 825 (2000), was one of the two leads, and the other? The other was Lynn.

But 2003 was personally rough for me, so I didn't end up getting the project off the ground.

In 2006 though, I was working on a collaborative ARG fiction project told through character blogs with two other writers called Full Circle. It was a neat idea (that could only work in 2006 era internet) and I pulled up Lynn and Marcus and my pile of storyline ideas for them and brought them to the table. Full Circle was the first public project where she appeared. It's also where I created the setting that UnCONventional would eventually share, the fictional Clearwater University and it's city of Eau De Puanteur, WI. Now, Full Circle kind of flopped. One of the writers left after a few months, so we stalled and lost momentum.

But I had all these notes on a full city, a university, and a character whose voice I really liked writing, and nothing to do with them.

And three years later, I decided to write UnCONventional. I needed a town, and since i was modeling the fictional con's history after No Brand Con's, I needed a university. And I also needed a bunch of characters for the staff.

So, I brought out Lynn for a third project.

And this one stuck! I got to spend a decade telling her stories. She got to live and breathe (metaphorically) while thousands of readers connected with her. People cosplayed as her. COSPLAYED AS HER.

None of that would have happened if I had just left her on a shelf in 2003 when I gave up on Re-entry. Reuse your good ideas. Strip bare your abandoned projects like a car in a chop shop. That thing you liked in the thing that flopped? That might be gold if just repurposed for a new thing.

And it might end up being one of the most creatively fulfilling things you've done.