#^ effect of an ask

[pearatwar]

Why are you pear :v

ohohohohohoh this is my favorite story to tell okay so

once upon a time (a couple years ago): our italian teacher explains to us how surnames came from the position our ancestors held in society and she tells us to look our surname's origin up

so i look it up, it's a surname present rather sporadically in the north of italy, where i live, and it barely ever comes up in the south, and its meaning most definitely was and still is "pyre maker" (see: funeral pyres)

BUT the first half of the surname (which everyone calls me by) in a SOUTHERN dialect (the surname does not exist in the south) means pear; or rather pear tree

at the same time poor old me was trying to outgrow their government-mandated (created by parents) online username

It had struck me like a bolt of lightning so white and pure.. i was pear!! pear pear pear peae pear

but i damn well knew pear was going to be taken on every site, game and relational database known to man, i had to improvise and god forbid i settled for numbers. numbers dont make an impression unless you are a big nerd person guy.

threw some words at 'pear' to see what stuck. 'light' was a close second and i am not proud of that. 'fire' also was on the table but 'war' is what i ended up with. it rolled off the tongue like a tasty bite of pear.

fast forward some years, everyone of my friends refers to me as pear and even my parents acknowledged it. whoop dee doo! thats how you make an username that lasts

BONUS: other potential nicknames??

pyremaker (one of my friends is called filemaker so. uh.)

metheas (no real reason except its close to my real name)

rebex (originally meant 'rebecca' + 'regex', see regular expressions, still a cool name imo)

nullpointer (sometimes i daydream of owning a radio channel that broadcasts dnb and jungle music and it's called null pointer and its so cool woah. null pointers are purple little creaturws that explode badly written code)

[goldensunset]

if someone is talking about how much they love their parents do not jump in and start venting about your issues with your parents. if someone is venting about their issues with their parents do not jump in and start talking about how much you love your parents. peace and love amen swag city

[nothing-impt]

Had a late night thought and wondered if Tiresias ever felt bad that his prophecies always devastated those that sought for his help.

I decided to draw it out! It may have a part two :D

Edit: Part 2

[ink-the-artist]

house tour :)

bonus art, lossy versions of the first 2 gifs

[time-woods]

HIIII i found you from the "patterns of the buried" piece, and now im curious!! how would you visualize the other entities? id love to see it! (also may i ask, would we be able to take inspo from it? im in love with the buried patterns aaa)

oh goodness that was such a long time ago - ive always had the idea of doing the other fears and you reminded me to do it !

this ofcourse is a simplified version but heres my idea for most of them ! and of course you can take inspo from these ! i think they add some fun to the avatars

[artbymesa]

Playing Mass Effect for the first time in 2025 and This is basically what Shepard did, right

Am I missing something

[lynxgriffin]

Pluey?

Pluey

[deerspherestudios]

OUR MONARCH HAS RETURNED!! /silly This is my first time sending an ask on a blog (not too familiar with tumblr yet but im getting there lol) so hopefully i do it right!!! My question is: has Mychael ever had any pets other then the chickens? Like for example did he raise one then it passed away or has he tried once but it didn’t work out? And as a side question how did he come up with his chickens names?

The ladies are the first pets he's ever had! He wouldn't have an animal companion unless he's comfortable where he's living, and I believe I've implied in-game and on the blog that he's only recently stopped being a traveling nomad.

And the chickens' name origins are here! He just thought the flower names sounded pretty!

Also, here's a bonus from my Patreon back in July 2024:

[catmask]

sometimes while i think about that while a lot of adults did not treat me very well as a kid i also get a lot of 'in hindsight this person was so good to me and i didnt even realize it until now' as an adult. today i was thinking about how the first anime convention i ever went to was when i was 10 and i asked the man working the manga cafe what manga was/what a good place to start was (because the con was very overstimulating for me and i had gotten lost) and he asked how old i was before recommending yotsuba and asking if i wanted any water or something to eat. its really simple but theres a lot of bad things that couldve happened or he could've been careless in his recommendation, but instead yotsuba has remained one of my favorite manga for years, and probably a large portion of why i continue to read manga as an adult... i think adults who try to involve kids in the world safely/kindly even in little ways make so much more of a difference than they ever really know.

[zeropro]

[Click here to view all my Transformers stuff in the order in which I posted it, so you can experience me slowly lose my mind in chronological order.]

[ikiprian]

Ghost Kitchen (brought to you by criminal entrepreneur, Red Hood)

Danny’s got the easiest job in Gotham.

He works as a fry cook at a shoddily-run, independent burger joint. Hardly anyone comes in, despite prices being criminally low, and portions insanely large, and while the manager looks like the average tough-as-nails ex-con, he lets Danny mess around in the kitchen whenever the place is empty. (Which is often. This place has to be the city’s hidden gem or something!)

Mr. Manager’s the only one ever there with Danny, except for sometimes when his buddies come over to smoke and play cards. Danny would find it shady, except part of his job is not to ask questions. Literally, he was told during the interview.

(It was a weird interview. Why would they need to hire someone who’s been in a gunfight before? Like, he has, but Gotham’s idea of “hirable qualities” is so bizarre.)

So instead he whips up some killer burgers with the frozen ingredients, and basks in the praise as the guys tell him he shouldn’t have, he does too much for this joint, ain’t that friendly!

Now, Danny’s a chef on the newer side. As a teen he’d preferred the look of Nasty Burger over anything with Michelin stars, and he only really took up cooking after Jazz moved out for college. But just like ecto-exposure used to turn the groceries sentient, Danny’s low-level ecto signature imbues all his food with something historically haunted Gothamites just love! And Danny’s never been one to half-ass a job when it makes people happy.

With fresher produce, real meat, Danny’s sure he can take his dishes to the next level. It takes a couple months of badgering, but his manager finally agrees to contact the mysterious store owner, who keeps the place going, despite profits Danny knows have to be in the red.

Danny spends the morning prepping. He pours his heart into his food, eager to impress. The big boss will be here soon, and he wants to prove that despite the dangerous location, this place has real potential!

It isn’t until the Red Hood shows up that Danny realizes he’s been working for a money laundering scheme.

[assorted-things]

This is how I feel every time I talk to Zaeed and I kind of love it tbh

[dailyhatsune]

im going around tumblr saying what I think people's artstyle tastes like

yours tastes like when you eat a bag of Skittles all at once i love it

-👾

in all seriousness, though, i’m positively fascinated by that description, thank you very much

[violetsandshrikes]

this poor woman ended up in hospital because she ate cayenne + cinnamon coated orange (unpeeled) because there’s a health and wellness influencer with millions of views who recommends it for digestion - she burned her oesophagus

i always saw a few really good other additions of similar things on the comments

please be so, so careful taking advice from these people online, as many of them are not formally trained or educated, brand ambassadors, deep in pseudoscientific rabbit holes and unfortunately, there are many out there who struggle with disordered eating habits

(not mentioned here but another one worth noting: i have personally known people who have burned their oesophagus with viral apple cider vinegar shots and drinks. don’t do that. a burned oesophagus is not fun)

[peace-hunter]

I need to know what the thirteen’s reaction was to first seeing Bumblebee I bet they where like he is definitely our new nephew because Optimus is basically his dad no matter the continuity

they love him dearly <33 and optimus is not above using this to his advantage <333

haunted au