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4 years ago
- Dan Aykroyd. Aykroyd is essentially my spirit animal and was with me in spirit as my spirit guide throughout 2020 and also he's sticking with me for a long time and one of the most fun people I write about, especially regarding that I come up with a fan-made lore involving his characters and also came up with the idea of a 'Were-Aykroyd' based on a suggestion a few of my watchers came up with. In-universe Dan has powers and he can possess people and also there is a storyline in the universe about a cursed script with dark powers that the bad guy characters of his want to get their hands on.
- Certain albums and artists...if an artist or band has an album with one or two songs that either have a video that screams 'this would make for an awesome story' or 'this screams transformation/monster' it's one I often use, but I use a lot of songs and song numbers to express how my characters are feeling sometimes, this helps to get to know the character and if there was a soundtrack meme i'd definitelly make my own transformation soundtrack playlist on the meme. Like for example 'Bark At The Moon' by Ozzy Osbourne or see also Shot In The Dark also by Ozzy which has a music video with a possession scene, 'Cat People (Putting Out Fire)' by David Bowie, 'Can't Fight The Moonlight' by Leann Rimes (I know it's about romance but I hear 'moonlight' and immediately think 'full moon/classic were-scenario/werecreatures'), a majority of Alice Cooper's songs but in particular the albums with the Steven character.
- Tragic villain characters. I have a tendency to be drawn to villains especially ones who have a really tragic story behind them or simply have more to them than simply being the Big Bad, like for example characters like Erik, Dawn Bellwether, the Burton version of the Penguin, Isaac Izard in the movie adaptation of The House With A Clock In Its Walls or Randall Boggs. I also like giving villain characters like the Hessian Horseman or King Sombra that kind of backstory to flesh them out.
- Twin Peaks. I go with elements of horror or surrealism within my works especially since my stories have that kind of aspect to them, they take part in a city called Oakendale which is in between Burbank and New York but not exactly near both of them and has a number of strnage occurences and supernatural elements that play out, I even included surreal dream/vision sequences based on my own dreams and this helps add an aura of eeriness to it, and also the relationship between my character and his 'Were-Aykroyd' alter-ego as if seen in my Aykroyd-verse pieces is inspired by Dale Cooper and Bob, specifically how Dale's doppelganger acts as a vessell for Bob (see The Return, where the doppelganger is 'Mr C' and takes after Bob) except of course the 'Were-Aykroyd' or 'Dan' as he's called isn't a killer, but there is a lof of mystery revolving him. It all depends on the story.
- Nightmare On Elm Street. The element of 'what happens in your dreams, happens to you in the waking world' is prevalent in my stories especially if it involves transformations which my character often has, sometimes he transforms in his sleep or transforms as the result of a vision/dream and I like to mess with people's heads by making the dream sequences appear to be dreams at first only for them to turn out to be real especially with the Aykroyd related visions.
- The Fly (1986). I intentionally sometimes make the transformations creepy/weird to make jabs at people who find transformation to be disgusting or creepy in general, as if to say...'see? This is what you think you're getting when you read one of my stories, lots of skin-peeling Body Horror and screaming in agony' and sometimes I subvert by having it start off as creepy/horrifying but it becames nicer as the process goes along. The Fly has been a big influence in that, also because I had a dream that was basically a Fly homage/parody only with someone becoming half grinch-ike creature and I adapted that into a story.
- Big Wolf On Campus. Since I have a werecreature character who is a good guy like Tommy, I sometimes do first-person transformation stories/tales in a similar style to how Big Wolf episodes are narrated by Tommy and also I make use of the 'What happened in the movie' running gag frequently as well as having a character ask....'So you're an (insert monster species here)...what's that like?' like how Merton does it in the show.
- Night-time imagery in particular anything to do with lunar cycles. Now I am not a were-creature IRL, if I was...we all know i'd be a Were-Aykroyd with psychic abilities who turns into a different character of Dan and I wouldn't go by the 'full moon' rule since that tends to not be accurate to how lunar cycles actually work. I just have a love of this type of imagery and a lot of my stories do take place during the evening or at night.
- Abandoned theme parks and 'ghost' places. Places like Centralia and also abandoned places in general in particular theme parks lend themselves well to this, like how Centralia is the inspiration for Silent Hill and Valkenvania from Nothing But Trouble and one of my versions of this is 'America-Land', basically an abandoned theme park based around America in general and I used it as a scenario for some of my Trump parody monsters.
- An American Werewolf In London. I include several homages to the movie in my work and in some of the transformation stories i've done that have a sequence that is painful/scary when it happens I make that scene a homage to the werewolf transformation from the movie, I've done with this with both the Robin Williams transformation in one of them and also with Russell Brand. I created my Weregrinch fursona/character as a little nod/inside joke since Rick Baker did the makeup effects for both AWIL and the Jim Carrey version of the Grinch thrown in.
-Interspecies romance stories.
- John Landis. My sense of humor and the way I do horror and comedy elements in my work is very much like Landis with elements of Joe Dante thrown in.
- Goosebumps.
- Aura and energy...specifically 'energy vampires' as a type of monster. I often talk with my friend JohnSpartan1982 about different vampire depictions and how not all vampires have the same set of rules/traits, like how there are some vampires who don't drink blood like for example you have the episode of I Am Weasel where Weasel and Baboon are vampires and while Weasel and Baboon can turn into bats like classic vampires in movies can Baboon has trouble with his transformations and turns into a baseball bat and also in the same episode Weasel states that he only drinks canned blood that is low fat, and then once Red Guy as the vampire hunter gets bitten he gets vampire powers but he cannot find the right thing to transform into. And also Count Duckula and Bunnicula are both vegetarian vampires that are animal-like, also you have Morbius from the Marvel universe. And also even movies like Killer Klowns and Sleepwalkers have what I call 'energy' vampire aspects with the title monsters, the Dark Crystal universe does this with the Skeksis too. Of course you have the Jiangshi, which feeds off 'chi', and you have all sorts of different vampires in folklore including the Australian myth of the Yara-Mara-Yha-Who, basically a short frog-like vampire that sucks blood through the suction cups on its hands and also absorbs the people/creatures it captures, and spits them out and they turn into a frog-vamp just like it, and of course there's also several other vampire myths and movies that differer than your typical bloodsucker. I use this aspect a lot especially with 'aura' transfers where the aura of a character is transferred into another which is basically like possessing them and that character who has the aura transforms as a result, and also I use the energy draining aspect of some of these type of monsters.
- Stephen King.
- 80s culture. A lot of 80's but usually 80's music or imagery.
- Tales From The Crypt. Horror anthology shows are the basis for my 'Tales From The Web' stories, especially the ones that have a twist and a moral to them, I originally started doing them to get back at really horrible people who shouldn't be on this planet to begin with, people I can't understand why anyone likes them or would ever want to hang out with them, making them as unlikable as possible was intentional since that is how some Crypt episodes and most Grizzly Tales episode are...with a character you just love to hate get their just desserts. As in you just really love to hate this guy and can't stand him because of how horribly he treats everyone and you desperately want him to get killed but he's just such a fun character to watch you can't help but enjoy whenever he does or says that makes him out to be more villainous than good. Of course, the twist/comeuppance is the best part.
- Possession stories. I started with typical human to humanoid creature transformations, then TG and now possession...my favorite, it's my favorite way of causing a transformation to occur really and it's prevalent in my dreams involving David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Dan Aykroyd. Of course I use Michael Jackson's Ghosts as a major influence for this particular type of scene.
- Werecreatures and shapeshifting in general.
- Wallace and Gromit: Curse Of The Wererabbit. This movie along with An American Werewolf In London, the Thriller video, Big Wolf On Campus and Teen Wolf 1 and 2 (as well as the animated series) and a slew of websites got me interested in werecreatures and transformations, I love the Wererabbit in general...Wallace as the Wererabbit is huge but also oddly adorable especially when Wallace is trying to hide the transformation and when he does that hand gesture he always does to show Lady Tottington that he's still who he is on the inside despite being a were-rabbit.
- 'Based on a true story'. You may have seen me use 'based on a concept' a lot and some people tend to question what it means, basically it is my version of a trope you see sometimes in movies where it says 'based on a true story/loosely based on a true story', only in my case it is 'based on something I thought up in a dream or something that came to me in a dream' or 'based on a concept I had in my brain for a really long time and wanted to try out' or 'based on something I reaaaaally really liked and wanted to do my own version of it'. That's basically what 'based on a concept' means, or sometimes I use 'based on a music video or song'.
- Vampires, both folkloric vampires and movie vampires including non-traditional vamps.
- From Dusk Till Dawn. I use a number of different vampire depictions as inspiration/a basis for my vampiric characters, my character Nathan isn't any particular kind of vamp since he has a mixture of different vampire types thrown in, he's got a bit of the Lost Boys and Fright Night vamps, he's got Lifeforce and Sleepwalker-esque aspects (see the aura/energy angle), he's got folkloric vampire traits, but also definitely From Dusk Till Dawn vampire traits (he even has one of his Game Faces resemble the vampires from the movie),
- Pokemon. Pokemon play a huge part in my stories, my characters have Pokemon teams...their Pokemon can talk in English and also can understand what their owners are telling them, I try to be accurate regarding what types go together and which don't and I don't have any kind of hammered in message about 'Pokemon are better than humans and humans are evil' or 'humans and Pokemon/masters and slaves' and I don't have any message about 'hey if you're a human you suck you should be a Pokemon instead', oh no...true, there are some Pokes in my work who originated as villains but I have it so my Pokes have anthro forms too. Each member of my characters's Pokemon teams represents a personality trait that character has or something connected to them. Like for example Mel is beautiful but tough so she has a Lopunny that represents that, she's also a lovable marsupial and she has a Komala which represents that. Each Poke has a personality that suits them. Oats for example is a Ponyta or 'horse' Pokemon, but he defies the character archetype of horses always being viewed as manly animals by being into things that are for the opposite gender and also being sweet, caring, sensitive, adorkable and also feminine and very passionate and also being timid at times.
- 80's horror.
- Dreams/nightmares/dream-scapes.
- Phantasm. The Phantasm series is a horror movie series that toys with your brain, it makes you think that what you saw may have been just a dream and you think it's just a dream only for those immortal words of...'No...it's not!' to pop up, there's a whole angle of messing with your head and toying with you that really adds to the surrealness of it all.
- South Park. A lot of my humor comes from South Park and The Simpsons as well as sitcoms, in particular Blackadder (I have a bit of British humor in my work).
- Koalas. I have a koala obsession that has never left me, so i'll always see a koala no matter where I go.
- Giantmicrobes. My characters Mel, Eucalyptus, and Oats, Hoofer and Soo are all based on toys I have, I like giving my toys their own characters and personalities and I do so with the Giantmicrobes 'microbes'. White Blood Cell is always the relilable good guy who is the resident superhero who fights viruses, Harry (my Heart Microbe) is always very welcoming towards others and kind, Henry the Heart Cell is always upbeat and helpful, Mozzy/Marv the Mosquito is a male mosquito who is a fruit-eater and is much nicer than his female counterpart who is much more annoying and drinks blood, Keith (named after Keith Richards) is a tardigrade who is slow-moving but he is full of wisdom about life and is a miracle, Brian the Back Pain Microbe is always in agony and he is always crying and screaming, Sam Celiac has two personalities - the cuddly and lovely Intestinal cell character who is happy to see you and the mean Mr Celiac who is the complete opposite and comes out if you force him to eat anything with gluten, Sammy the scab is always there to remind people that even though he's disgusting to look at, he's not a bad guy. Corey Covidicus or 'Corey' as he's called is a covid microbe who is viewed as a villain because of what he does to people but he makes up for it by being nice, sometimes he cannot help but be a bit 'naughty', but usually when he plays 'touchy feely' with someone he doesn't mean to it's just a little game he plays, but sometimes groups/crowds of people can trigger his more 'viral' personality and cause him to have 'episodes', he enjoys helping out others and being a good sport. Samius the Sars microbe is one of Corey's two siblings and the original 'big bad virus', now the two of them are very competitive but in general are very nice to each-other and are to others (the other sibling is Mers, my depiction of Mers is that he often feels left out since he isn't as well known as his two brothers). I also came up with the idea of the Microbes being like people with their own homes and their own hobbies and such.
- The Simpsons.
- Garbage Pail Kids. I base a lot of my Donald Trump parody monsters (Monstrumps) on the Garbage Pail Kids depictions of him, instead of just making them all based on one singular aspect of Trumpy I made them all different and have different traits or even be part-creature and have different spins on a 'Trumpish' character, and yes while some do have the 'build a wall' angle that most jabs at Trump have in them, not all of them are like that. I had the Garbage Pail Kids in mind when I came up with what they would look like and that's what I portray them as being like.
- H.P Lovecraft...in particular Reanimator.
- Makeup and costumes, specifically look-a-like/creature makeup. I've always had an interest for makeup and cosplay items and have doen a bit of the latter myself, I like seeing actors and musicians wearing makeup and transforming themselves, I like seeing an actor or actress being made up and I sometimes like to envision myself doing the same thing and sitting in the chair.
- Grimm.
- Michael Jackson's Thriller.
- 80's soundtracks/AOR Soundtracks.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A lot of my monster world stories have a similar angle to Buffy in the sense that they take place in a town or city where weird things happen on a regular basis and humans and monsters both live there and there's a designated monster hunter/slayer, sometimes it's Nathan but most of the time the 'Buffy' type role goes to my koala-girl OC Mel. Mel is made to be like Buffy if she was she was half-koala.
- Certain albums and artists...if an artist or band has an album with one or two songs that either have a video that screams 'this would make for an awesome story' or 'this screams transformation/monster' it's one I often use, but I use a lot of songs and song numbers to express how my characters are feeling sometimes, this helps to get to know the character and if there was a soundtrack meme i'd definitelly make my own transformation soundtrack playlist on the meme. Like for example 'Bark At The Moon' by Ozzy Osbourne or see also Shot In The Dark also by Ozzy which has a music video with a possession scene, 'Cat People (Putting Out Fire)' by David Bowie, 'Can't Fight The Moonlight' by Leann Rimes (I know it's about romance but I hear 'moonlight' and immediately think 'full moon/classic were-scenario/werecreatures'), a majority of Alice Cooper's songs but in particular the albums with the Steven character.
- Tragic villain characters. I have a tendency to be drawn to villains especially ones who have a really tragic story behind them or simply have more to them than simply being the Big Bad, like for example characters like Erik, Dawn Bellwether, the Burton version of the Penguin, Isaac Izard in the movie adaptation of The House With A Clock In Its Walls or Randall Boggs. I also like giving villain characters like the Hessian Horseman or King Sombra that kind of backstory to flesh them out.
- Twin Peaks. I go with elements of horror or surrealism within my works especially since my stories have that kind of aspect to them, they take part in a city called Oakendale which is in between Burbank and New York but not exactly near both of them and has a number of strnage occurences and supernatural elements that play out, I even included surreal dream/vision sequences based on my own dreams and this helps add an aura of eeriness to it, and also the relationship between my character and his 'Were-Aykroyd' alter-ego as if seen in my Aykroyd-verse pieces is inspired by Dale Cooper and Bob, specifically how Dale's doppelganger acts as a vessell for Bob (see The Return, where the doppelganger is 'Mr C' and takes after Bob) except of course the 'Were-Aykroyd' or 'Dan' as he's called isn't a killer, but there is a lof of mystery revolving him. It all depends on the story.
- Nightmare On Elm Street. The element of 'what happens in your dreams, happens to you in the waking world' is prevalent in my stories especially if it involves transformations which my character often has, sometimes he transforms in his sleep or transforms as the result of a vision/dream and I like to mess with people's heads by making the dream sequences appear to be dreams at first only for them to turn out to be real especially with the Aykroyd related visions.
- The Fly (1986). I intentionally sometimes make the transformations creepy/weird to make jabs at people who find transformation to be disgusting or creepy in general, as if to say...'see? This is what you think you're getting when you read one of my stories, lots of skin-peeling Body Horror and screaming in agony' and sometimes I subvert by having it start off as creepy/horrifying but it becames nicer as the process goes along. The Fly has been a big influence in that, also because I had a dream that was basically a Fly homage/parody only with someone becoming half grinch-ike creature and I adapted that into a story.
- Big Wolf On Campus. Since I have a werecreature character who is a good guy like Tommy, I sometimes do first-person transformation stories/tales in a similar style to how Big Wolf episodes are narrated by Tommy and also I make use of the 'What happened in the movie' running gag frequently as well as having a character ask....'So you're an (insert monster species here)...what's that like?' like how Merton does it in the show.
- Night-time imagery in particular anything to do with lunar cycles. Now I am not a were-creature IRL, if I was...we all know i'd be a Were-Aykroyd with psychic abilities who turns into a different character of Dan and I wouldn't go by the 'full moon' rule since that tends to not be accurate to how lunar cycles actually work. I just have a love of this type of imagery and a lot of my stories do take place during the evening or at night.
- Abandoned theme parks and 'ghost' places. Places like Centralia and also abandoned places in general in particular theme parks lend themselves well to this, like how Centralia is the inspiration for Silent Hill and Valkenvania from Nothing But Trouble and one of my versions of this is 'America-Land', basically an abandoned theme park based around America in general and I used it as a scenario for some of my Trump parody monsters.
- An American Werewolf In London. I include several homages to the movie in my work and in some of the transformation stories i've done that have a sequence that is painful/scary when it happens I make that scene a homage to the werewolf transformation from the movie, I've done with this with both the Robin Williams transformation in one of them and also with Russell Brand. I created my Weregrinch fursona/character as a little nod/inside joke since Rick Baker did the makeup effects for both AWIL and the Jim Carrey version of the Grinch thrown in.
-Interspecies romance stories.
- John Landis. My sense of humor and the way I do horror and comedy elements in my work is very much like Landis with elements of Joe Dante thrown in.
- Goosebumps.
- Aura and energy...specifically 'energy vampires' as a type of monster. I often talk with my friend JohnSpartan1982 about different vampire depictions and how not all vampires have the same set of rules/traits, like how there are some vampires who don't drink blood like for example you have the episode of I Am Weasel where Weasel and Baboon are vampires and while Weasel and Baboon can turn into bats like classic vampires in movies can Baboon has trouble with his transformations and turns into a baseball bat and also in the same episode Weasel states that he only drinks canned blood that is low fat, and then once Red Guy as the vampire hunter gets bitten he gets vampire powers but he cannot find the right thing to transform into. And also Count Duckula and Bunnicula are both vegetarian vampires that are animal-like, also you have Morbius from the Marvel universe. And also even movies like Killer Klowns and Sleepwalkers have what I call 'energy' vampire aspects with the title monsters, the Dark Crystal universe does this with the Skeksis too. Of course you have the Jiangshi, which feeds off 'chi', and you have all sorts of different vampires in folklore including the Australian myth of the Yara-Mara-Yha-Who, basically a short frog-like vampire that sucks blood through the suction cups on its hands and also absorbs the people/creatures it captures, and spits them out and they turn into a frog-vamp just like it, and of course there's also several other vampire myths and movies that differer than your typical bloodsucker. I use this aspect a lot especially with 'aura' transfers where the aura of a character is transferred into another which is basically like possessing them and that character who has the aura transforms as a result, and also I use the energy draining aspect of some of these type of monsters.
- Stephen King.
- 80s culture. A lot of 80's but usually 80's music or imagery.
- Tales From The Crypt. Horror anthology shows are the basis for my 'Tales From The Web' stories, especially the ones that have a twist and a moral to them, I originally started doing them to get back at really horrible people who shouldn't be on this planet to begin with, people I can't understand why anyone likes them or would ever want to hang out with them, making them as unlikable as possible was intentional since that is how some Crypt episodes and most Grizzly Tales episode are...with a character you just love to hate get their just desserts. As in you just really love to hate this guy and can't stand him because of how horribly he treats everyone and you desperately want him to get killed but he's just such a fun character to watch you can't help but enjoy whenever he does or says that makes him out to be more villainous than good. Of course, the twist/comeuppance is the best part.
- Possession stories. I started with typical human to humanoid creature transformations, then TG and now possession...my favorite, it's my favorite way of causing a transformation to occur really and it's prevalent in my dreams involving David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Dan Aykroyd. Of course I use Michael Jackson's Ghosts as a major influence for this particular type of scene.
- Werecreatures and shapeshifting in general.
- Wallace and Gromit: Curse Of The Wererabbit. This movie along with An American Werewolf In London, the Thriller video, Big Wolf On Campus and Teen Wolf 1 and 2 (as well as the animated series) and a slew of websites got me interested in werecreatures and transformations, I love the Wererabbit in general...Wallace as the Wererabbit is huge but also oddly adorable especially when Wallace is trying to hide the transformation and when he does that hand gesture he always does to show Lady Tottington that he's still who he is on the inside despite being a were-rabbit.
- 'Based on a true story'. You may have seen me use 'based on a concept' a lot and some people tend to question what it means, basically it is my version of a trope you see sometimes in movies where it says 'based on a true story/loosely based on a true story', only in my case it is 'based on something I thought up in a dream or something that came to me in a dream' or 'based on a concept I had in my brain for a really long time and wanted to try out' or 'based on something I reaaaaally really liked and wanted to do my own version of it'. That's basically what 'based on a concept' means, or sometimes I use 'based on a music video or song'.
- Vampires, both folkloric vampires and movie vampires including non-traditional vamps.
- From Dusk Till Dawn. I use a number of different vampire depictions as inspiration/a basis for my vampiric characters, my character Nathan isn't any particular kind of vamp since he has a mixture of different vampire types thrown in, he's got a bit of the Lost Boys and Fright Night vamps, he's got Lifeforce and Sleepwalker-esque aspects (see the aura/energy angle), he's got folkloric vampire traits, but also definitely From Dusk Till Dawn vampire traits (he even has one of his Game Faces resemble the vampires from the movie),
- Pokemon. Pokemon play a huge part in my stories, my characters have Pokemon teams...their Pokemon can talk in English and also can understand what their owners are telling them, I try to be accurate regarding what types go together and which don't and I don't have any kind of hammered in message about 'Pokemon are better than humans and humans are evil' or 'humans and Pokemon/masters and slaves' and I don't have any message about 'hey if you're a human you suck you should be a Pokemon instead', oh no...true, there are some Pokes in my work who originated as villains but I have it so my Pokes have anthro forms too. Each member of my characters's Pokemon teams represents a personality trait that character has or something connected to them. Like for example Mel is beautiful but tough so she has a Lopunny that represents that, she's also a lovable marsupial and she has a Komala which represents that. Each Poke has a personality that suits them. Oats for example is a Ponyta or 'horse' Pokemon, but he defies the character archetype of horses always being viewed as manly animals by being into things that are for the opposite gender and also being sweet, caring, sensitive, adorkable and also feminine and very passionate and also being timid at times.
- 80's horror.
- Dreams/nightmares/dream-scapes.
- Phantasm. The Phantasm series is a horror movie series that toys with your brain, it makes you think that what you saw may have been just a dream and you think it's just a dream only for those immortal words of...'No...it's not!' to pop up, there's a whole angle of messing with your head and toying with you that really adds to the surrealness of it all.
- South Park. A lot of my humor comes from South Park and The Simpsons as well as sitcoms, in particular Blackadder (I have a bit of British humor in my work).
- Koalas. I have a koala obsession that has never left me, so i'll always see a koala no matter where I go.
- Giantmicrobes. My characters Mel, Eucalyptus, and Oats, Hoofer and Soo are all based on toys I have, I like giving my toys their own characters and personalities and I do so with the Giantmicrobes 'microbes'. White Blood Cell is always the relilable good guy who is the resident superhero who fights viruses, Harry (my Heart Microbe) is always very welcoming towards others and kind, Henry the Heart Cell is always upbeat and helpful, Mozzy/Marv the Mosquito is a male mosquito who is a fruit-eater and is much nicer than his female counterpart who is much more annoying and drinks blood, Keith (named after Keith Richards) is a tardigrade who is slow-moving but he is full of wisdom about life and is a miracle, Brian the Back Pain Microbe is always in agony and he is always crying and screaming, Sam Celiac has two personalities - the cuddly and lovely Intestinal cell character who is happy to see you and the mean Mr Celiac who is the complete opposite and comes out if you force him to eat anything with gluten, Sammy the scab is always there to remind people that even though he's disgusting to look at, he's not a bad guy. Corey Covidicus or 'Corey' as he's called is a covid microbe who is viewed as a villain because of what he does to people but he makes up for it by being nice, sometimes he cannot help but be a bit 'naughty', but usually when he plays 'touchy feely' with someone he doesn't mean to it's just a little game he plays, but sometimes groups/crowds of people can trigger his more 'viral' personality and cause him to have 'episodes', he enjoys helping out others and being a good sport. Samius the Sars microbe is one of Corey's two siblings and the original 'big bad virus', now the two of them are very competitive but in general are very nice to each-other and are to others (the other sibling is Mers, my depiction of Mers is that he often feels left out since he isn't as well known as his two brothers). I also came up with the idea of the Microbes being like people with their own homes and their own hobbies and such.
- The Simpsons.
- Garbage Pail Kids. I base a lot of my Donald Trump parody monsters (Monstrumps) on the Garbage Pail Kids depictions of him, instead of just making them all based on one singular aspect of Trumpy I made them all different and have different traits or even be part-creature and have different spins on a 'Trumpish' character, and yes while some do have the 'build a wall' angle that most jabs at Trump have in them, not all of them are like that. I had the Garbage Pail Kids in mind when I came up with what they would look like and that's what I portray them as being like.
- H.P Lovecraft...in particular Reanimator.
- Makeup and costumes, specifically look-a-like/creature makeup. I've always had an interest for makeup and cosplay items and have doen a bit of the latter myself, I like seeing actors and musicians wearing makeup and transforming themselves, I like seeing an actor or actress being made up and I sometimes like to envision myself doing the same thing and sitting in the chair.
- Grimm.
- Michael Jackson's Thriller.
- 80's soundtracks/AOR Soundtracks.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A lot of my monster world stories have a similar angle to Buffy in the sense that they take place in a town or city where weird things happen on a regular basis and humans and monsters both live there and there's a designated monster hunter/slayer, sometimes it's Nathan but most of the time the 'Buffy' type role goes to my koala-girl OC Mel. Mel is made to be like Buffy if she was she was half-koala.
