#shut up spaghetti

[buttercup-barf]

An assortment of older Peppino doodles of various quality!

Take a wild guess as to which one of these was drawn at three AM, when my brain was barely functional, and all Ii could think about was kissing that old man on the lips, and which one was drawn with a mouse.

And some attempts at replicating the game's art style more closely. (I love Peppibot Factory so much, guys, I am Grieving the fact that people don't like it for some reason.)

[writingbecauserealitysucks]

It should be an Olympic sport for when your parent or another family member says the most, offensive, outlandish thing you've ever heard, and you just have to pretend like you didn't hear it so you aren't the one to ruin family dinner this time.

[iheartpeppino]

I said yes. And yes, that is a real engagement ring. I am the queen of cringe, but I have never been happier.

[jeweledstone]

The Labyrinth-verse aka In which my Peppino plush goes through a several dream long character arc that has a lotta bizarre and kinda disturbing implications

DATE(S) FORGOTTEN

Okay, for context, here’s a pic of the boi, he exists, I bought him off of Fangamer a few whiles back, look at him.

He didn’t have the ribbon on his hat during the events of these dreams tho, that’s a more recent edition.

Now onto the dreams and stuff.

This…”series” takes place over 4 or 5 different dreams and takes place in a universe I’ve come to call “The Labyrinthverse”, named after a backrooms like area that was in said verse called The Labyrinth. There were many entrances to The Labyrinth hidden in multiple locations around that specific part of the universe I was in, the first of which was found in a fancy restaurant I went to with my dad in the first dream (which was the only Labyrinth dream that didn’t have Pep in it, mostly cause I didn’t have him yet at that time.)

The Labyrinth itself was made up of many levels full of these zombie-like people who would try to attack you if they found you, with said zombies becoming more dangerous the deeper in you got. Luckily, you could also find various weapons and resources in The Labyrinth that could help you survive, and maybe even escape.

For some reason a lotta people in that verse would actively seek out the entrances to it for reasons I still am not sure of. Maybe they believe some sort of treasure or reward laid in its depths, or perhaps they just did it for the thrill of it all.

Anyway, going back to the plot summary bullshit. A few months or something after this first dream when my Peppino plush was still new to my plushie hoard (as well as the whole traveling with me to other universes via my dreams thing, which he was at first a little reluctant towards but soon warmed up to). This was when I found another entrance to The Labyrinth inside a dying mall. I remember Pep being extremely anxious about being in The Labyrinth and wanting to leave as soon as possible. I remember there were these unreasonably complex puzzles that were blocking our only way out and having to use my reality warping powers to solve them. (Would’ve taken hours to finish them the “vanilla” way and ain’t nobody got time for that)

It was around then when we encountered these two women who turned out to be the kinda-sorta “final bosses” of the Labyrinth who basically controlled the entire place. I guess something about me “solving” the puzzle so quickly got there attention, cause usually you can only find the controllers at the very depths of the Labyrinth, which looks like a combination of a theatre and Hell itself.

And to make a long story short, this ritual of sorts ended up happening that created these fucked up clones of me and my Peppino plush called Bent!Neo and Bent!Peppino who ended up becoming the new “rulers” of The Labyrinth.

Idk why or what my reasoning it was for it, but for the rest of the Labyrinth Arc my goal was basically to find my way back to the very bottom of the Labyrinth and kill Bent!Neo. I think it was cause I thought doing that would destroy the Labyrinth, thus freeing anyone trapped in it but I’m not quite sure.

I remember that a few dreams later in the series, my Peppino plush’s soul ended up getting “stuck” inside the Labyrinthverse and I ended up having to go back to sleep to retrieve him. During this dream, Bent!Peppino started helping me behind Bent!Neo’s back, telling me where my Pepp was and helping me find him so he could “go home” so to speak. The reason for this was because while the Bent versions of us were in control of the Labyrinth, Bent!Pepp began to remember things.

Things that definitely weren’t from the Pizza Tower verse.

Things… from a past life in the verse The Labyrinth is in.

Turns out that (according to the dreams I had) before my Peppino plush existed, his… soul? Consciousness? Existed as the spirit of this guy who lived in the Labyrinthverse and ended up dying and eventually “possessing” the plush, thus giving Pepp sentience. Apparently the reason Bent!Pepp was able to learn this before the regular Pepp did was because his former self’s SON, named Benny ended up in the Labyrinth, where I guess they somehow crossed paths, thus causing him to remember his past life.

Bent!Peppino insisted on helping me defeat Bent!Neo as long as I promised to help my Peppino remember who he used to be and also make sure Benny would make it out of the Labyrinth alive.

It all reached a climax when I ended up teaming up with Benny and basically defeating Bent!Neo once and for all. Because of this, the Labyrinth was put into a dormant state of sorts, regular Peppino finally remembers his past life, and blah blah blah happy ending, you get it. For some reason, even though Bent!Neo and the Labyrinth were gone, Bent!Peppino was still around, and ended up deciding to stay in that verse with his kid.

For a while, that seemed to be the end of The Labyrinth arc and my journeys in it, until a more recent dream where I ended up back in that verse. Turned out, Bent!Neo wasn’t completely destroyed in that final battle, but instead was now left as an unstable blob of sorts, hellbent on getting their revenge against me. Luckily for me, I haven’t seen anything of him or that verse since then, so I guess that’s all she wrote so to speak.

But yeah, that’s all I have to say. I procrastinated on finishing the draft of this post WAY TOO HARD so it’s now been months since this arc of my dreams has ended. Hopefully y’all still enjoyed it nonetheless! :)

I have a bit more dream lore stuff to catch y’all up on, so be sure to stay tuned for more of this in the future if you enjoyed this little rambling

[emilythezeldafan]

just so you know, I'm still emotionally devastated over the Loki finale, it's just inward now /lh

(Loki Series Antis DNI)

[zedortoo]

Plundering the seas around Crust Cove can be a great income source! Just make sure you have an adequate boat and sea legs, or things may get hairy...

[moon9931]

mid art about peppino and noisette

when they were like 9

wggwhhjd I haven't posted in like 2 days and this is what I do 😭

[carmsgarms]

The option to ~ * E A T * ~ the Astral-touched tadpole NEVER stops being funny to me

[peppersfromhell]

once more to see you

[the-chessboard-is-personal]

is this anything

[lovebugism]

i'm too weepy to write an entire post right now (my period starts tmrw so i'm losing my mind a bit hahah 🥲) but i wanted to say that i am v v v thankful for all of u. i felt really really alone when i first started writing on this blog a year and a half ago, and now i've found such an amazing community full of the sweetest people ever and i'm just!!!!!! i love u all!!!!!! i love all of my mutuals, and anyone who's ever read any of my work - even just one wee blurb!!! it's still slightly unfathomable that anyone would want to my work at all so just. thank u guys. thank u thank u thank u!!

(i will definitely be doing a proper celebration when my summer fic fest is over btw u haven't heard the last of me yet hahah i WILL be annoying about this again 👹)

[buttercup-barf]

An assortment of doodles!

Some Pavels. (Wouldn't it pluralise like Pavli? Since it's a Russian name...) He's from @/ali-borsch's Vodka Tower "AU", and he's like if a man was also a man and was also a man. Cool guy!

And right under the Cool Aroace Man is my Pepstavo propaganda. I truly am Not Like Other Boys[tm].

OC time! Ian. Ian. Ian. Ian. Ian. Ian. Ian. Ian. Ian. Ian. Ian. Ian. He makes me sick to my stomach.

Contemplating bringing back his curly hair from loooooong ago. (Although not like it matters what hair he's have anyway because his gruesome death and subsequent resurrection as Tin Man: Loser Edition takes his hair away anyway.)

[appreciatingtokrev]

shinichiro is a great cook. he loves cooking, and always wants his family & friends to eat well. ONE time he fucked up by burning some spaghetti because he put too many of them into a pan that was too small & didn’t fit enough water, and his siblings (especially mikey) are still giving him shit for it decades later even though it was when mikey was like 7.

[iheartpeppino]

I think Peppino Spaghetti is very attractive. I like how big his nose is, it's strong-looking. I like how round his body is. I love how expressive his face is. I love his mustache. I don't care that he's old and bald. I'm practically middle-aged myself and I love how mature he looks. I also love how effortlessly he beats the shit out of his enemies, how strong and powerful he is. How manly and impressive he is. Peppino is a damn cutie.

Oh, but let me talk about Pizzahead for a minute! I think he's super-attractive too! I'm as much of a fan of silly men as I am the manly ones. He is shockingly handsome for someone who's supposed be a clown-like mascot made of pizza. I mean... that smile. Those blushy pepperoni cheeks. That cute tomato clown nose. Gosh! And he even has a dapper little bow tie. AND HE'S TALL. OMG! So cute! And his laugh makes me giggle like an idiot.

I am obsessed with these two. They are my pizza husbands and I love them horribly and terribly (that is to say, a lot)!

[jeweledstone]

Pokemon types I think Pizza Tower Characters would main/use

Cause I’m autistic like that

Peppino: Fighting

Main pokemon: Primeape

Gustavo: Normal

Main Pokemon: Raticate or Greedent

Pepperman: Grass (duh)

Main Pokemon: Scovillain

Vigilante: Rock/Steel

Main Pokemon: Rhyperior

Noise: Electric?

Main Pokemon: Alolan Raichu

Noisette: Fairy

Main Pokemon: Slurpuff or Wigglytuff

Fake Peppino: Dark/Ghost

Main Pokemon: Seviian Blastoise

…

Jk jk, uhhh Zoroark or Annihilape

Pizzaface: Steel/Fire

Main Pokemon: Metagross or Genesect (that’s not too op is it?)

Pizzahead: Fairy/Ground? Fire? Idk

Main Pokemon: Mr. Mime

Gerome: Rock (also duh)

Main Pokemon: Probopass

Mr. Stick: Steel

Main Pokemon: Gholdengo

Might do more if asked or I get the inspiration to

[maxwell-grant]

Addendum: If Peppino is supposed to be a really good pizza chef who makes really delicious pizza, but whose business is failing because he's stuck in the middle of nowhere and has a volatile and destructive personality and awful luck and etc, I feel like Gustavo should be the opposite, as fitting their Wario-Mario dynamic. Opposite in the sense that he makes really basic, unremarkable pizza or whatever else he cooks, but he's managing a business with a steady line of customers (the Gnome Forest NPCs maybe) who probably just buy the pizza because it's Gustavo's.

You never see ads or banners or anything related to Gustavo anywhere in-game, but said NPCs are clearly happy with his deliveries. Of course they like Gustavo, and want to support their friend Gustavo the chef in his small business. Among all the chefs and mascots and wackos in the cast, Gustavo is personable and genuinely friendly in a way nobody else in the game (besides Noisette) is, and so it probably doesn't matter much if his pizza is lame or even sucks.

Maybe becoming friends with Gustavo was the thing that saved Peppino's Pizza more so than any new ingredients or recipes, Peppino having someone on his side now who makes up for what he's been lacking. From the start of the game, to every escape sequence, to the final boss fight and even the finale cutscene, Gustavo is the friend who has your back even when the world is out to get you or falling apart. The real Pizza Tower was the friends we made along the way