Moosethewriter

Me liking 38426274950 posts about the locked tomb at midnight because I can't stop thinking about those fucking weirdo loser characters

you will ALWAYS catch me being pathetic on tumblr.com

It wasn't until high school that I began seeing the world as a story to be written. It was a survival tactic, I think, for covid. That and a general habit created by my near-constant writing.

To that extent, it wasn't until post-lockdown that I realized how fucking cool fog is. And since it's foggy today, I'm going to talk about it.

I think that fog is only cool as a visual medium. Book descriptions don't do it justice. "A bank of fog rolls in" "tendrils of fog reach through the trees" yeah but what does that LOOK like?

It looks like a digital artist was drawing clouds behind a mountain and misplaced a layer. It looks like a cloud bisecting the landscape. The tops of the trees look like an island rising out of a flat calm, gray sea while the bottom half of it, the bushes and the houses and the roads, looks like an unfinished painting. If two people were to stand down the road and hold a flashlight, it would be a damn good impression of a car.

And I think a lot of authors forget to describe how fucking damp everything is. There's always this impending sense of rain. Nothing is dry except maybe your clothes, and odds are they're not gonna stay dry for long. Your socks and shoes are toast the moment you stray from a paved road. Hope you like wet socks.

Fog doesn't work like the poison mist in the hunger games. You don't walk into a wall of fog unless some outside force has confined the fog to a specific area. It's a gradual claustrophobia, a slow loss of sight.

It's also usually still when the fog is thick. Otherwise, the wind would blow it away, right? But unless a monsoon is following the fog, there's not quite that eerie "calm before the storm" stillness. It has a different vibe to it.

But you can't say all that without interrupting the flow of the story, so people tend to stick to the simpler descriptions.

I need the 10 or so people who follow me to look at this stupid ass whimsical little dog

He is actually a deer

"Death first to vultures and scavengers" is such a hard line I wish that there were scenarios where I could use it in my day to day life without eventually having to explain that the quote was said by a scrawny teenaged(?) nun in response to what is essentially a dick measuring contest run by a bunch of idiots who have no business being unsupervised for that long anyways.

I'll be crafting the most beautiful prose in the shower or the car, like stuff that even Shakespeare can't touch, or the most gut-wrenching, spine-chilling horror scene, but the moment I have a free second to write, the best I can do is "SUDDENLY there was a Very Loud Noise and everyone was very scared. AND THEN the monster appeared and went BOO!"

My brain the second I sit down to write:

*banging pots and pans together* STOP! SAYING! THAT! TOE WALKING! IS! A SYMPTOM! OF AUTISM!!!

There is not a line in the DSM 5 that says "toe walking is a symptom of autism" or "autistic people don't like food touching" these behaviors are the PRODUCT of ACTUAL SYMPTOMS that I'm not yet awake enough to explain but I'm SICK of people acting like if you'd rather not have your food touch or if you walk weirdly that's a 100% surefire sign you have autism. Like I love joking as much as the next guy but it's becoming clear that it's not a joke anymore. It's very much giving "if you like to clean you're OCD lol quirky haha" and it's starting to genuinely piss me off.

John Gaius shortly before eating the solar system to kill some useless bastard billionaires, creating the creatures that would hunt him and his friends down for the next 10000 years and also the Barbie that will (hopefully) lead to his downfall in the process.

sometimes i wonder what it's like to he mentally stable. anyway *resets the universe* this time it's gonna work out for sure

Can we talk about how PERFECTLY Jorge cast his characters? And what a good job they did? Like yes they absolutely embody the characters they're voicing, and they made the characters theirs as much as they are Jorge's.

This post is inspired by me listening to God Games again and being absolutely amazed at the gods in particular.

ESPECIALLY Aphrodite's lines like please Janani K Jha did NOT have to be that good but she knocked it out of the park. I can't even tell you how often the line "you're a little high and mighty" gets stuck in my head.

I think Nona would very much like the speech at the end of Minecraft. Especially the last few lines, I think.

I have more thoughts on this but I just spent far too long in the end and my brain is fried. Feel free to add on if any of you also have thoughts on this.