#surprise pie

[fridkefyrrih]

Okay! You're now firing a gun at your imaginary friend... near 400 gallons of nitroglycerine!

[fshoulders]

I’m a little weird about surprising people with baked goods. And pie is the very best, because a pie is such a glory!

I just did this today on a larger scale than usual. (Usually I…don’t tell my spouse I’m making a pie, then super-casually leave it out cooling or ask him to take it out of the oven in ten minutes while I hurry off because I’m almost late to an appointment.) My friends asked us over to (COVID-cautious backyard) dinner and I asked if I could bring anything. “Dessert? Bread?” (I was already plotting.) They had bread covered; I could bring dessert if I wanted to, but I shouldn’t feel obliged. THEY FELL INTO MY TRAP

So I:

hit the farmstand for cherries on the way home but bought local blueberries instead;

made pie crusts and seasoned them in the fridge;

consulted my pie testaments, rejected their strictures and modified a recipe instead, added 2 unexpected off-book spices feeling like a wildly creative and intuitive domestic goddess;

made a lattice top, crafted a really awkward bunch of ‘botanically accurate blueberry blossoms with leaves’ that looks more like a rejected monster design from The Thing;

baked the pie and ran upstairs to scrub the oven-sweat off my face and put on presentable pants;

pulled the pie out just in time to leave and put it in my two-decker Amish-made pie basket (a gift from relatives who wanted pie);

tried to hold it level between my feet all the way up hill and down dale to our friends’ house; dribbled blueberry pie juice in the car footwell, on my pants cuff, all the way up their deck;

off and on through dinner worried about the weird spices I’d so blissfully added;

cut my pretty lattice and served out pieces to my hosts, graciously accepted compliments but was still somehow surprised it was goddamn delicious!

And I tell you all this to emphasize how completely ridiculous and irrational it is that I did every single step of this with incredibly smug mischievous glee in my heart, like I’m pulling The World’s Most Perfect Prank, like I’m an unstoppable chaos goblin, like can you believe I’m going to pull this off!? They won’t expect a pie, and yet there will be a pie! Those rubes, those absolute fools! No one expects a beautiful* lattice-topped berry pie when I said ‘oh I’ll umm get something while I’m out’! I’m laughing in my wicked, wily insides the entire time, pulling off the lid of the pie basket and suppressing the deep evil cackles that rise like bubbles from my dark gooey heart. 😈

*The flowers were not beautiful but they were edible so I don’t think anyone minded. I figured I should show them. I may be a mischievous pie faerie, but I need to stay humble:

[captainzigo]

here’s a bad guy oc. she’s a surviving pinkie clone. she’s evil, and not just because she committed cutiemark tampering (felony-misdemeanor) but i think she wants revenge on twilight. and she does something else evil like eat meat or something (this is evil, or just creepy because they are herbivores)

[glitterghast]

pinkie pie [2010] | surprise [1986]

A4 print now available in my sh0p

[lezzlesdrawsponies]

🌟And magic makes it all complete!🌟 (Full Res)

[menmyshelf]

a little comic I made that i wont finish

[vaguely-concerned]

on the one hand I think inner demons could stand to have a bit more romanced rook specific content, but on the other hand the underlying in-built implication that 'yours is the one true voice of comfort and safety in my inner world' is a sentiment and intimacy so way beyond the romantic or the platonic or any secret third thing you could care to name that it makes me lose my entire poor little mind a bit. it's so big and fundamental — near-existential — that in that exact moment at least the distinctions kind of seem irrelevant.

all the people lucanis' mind conjures up along the way are relationships he has that are unavoidably mixed and fraught in some ways even when they're also full of love (they are fraught BECAUSE they're full of love) — the good in them inseparable from things that hurt him at the same time. (it's about: the basic disorganized attachment patterns this poor guy is dragging around with him. careful with those, they're dellamorte heirlooms. what you love also inevitably hurts you and you won't be allowed to have one without the other, you have to surrender parts of your soul to hold on to what little you have left: this is the story up until now.) and the idea that rook isn't that to him — that beneath the fear of wanting them when romanced (which is more its own separate thing because within this psychology, actively wanting something and not just clinging on for dear life to even a meager status quo lest you lose it is in itself dangerous bordering on catastrophic), this is a relationship where there isn't resentment, or guilt, or shame, or dread, or rage, or self-hate, or any of the other emotions that keep him paralyzed, unable to move this way or that. no debts, nothing owed of yourself and your soul's substance except what you can freely and safely and happily give. love and freedom don't coexist — but, I mean, you're almost starting to make me think........... unless...👀👀👀. the unconditional and undramatic 'you are here and I am here with you, you can be exactly how you are right now with me and it's safe for us both even though you're afraid it won't be, I'm not going anywhere' acceptance rook shows him here that he returns to them in the big romance scene, when it's rook who needs it. the way he's just. standing there in the center of it all, like a child desperately helplessly waiting to be found, hiding in the place he hopes you'll know to look first. (rook does know. it's one of the first things they say in there.)

in short the most important room in his little mind palace for the romance is the very first room — the one where rook isn't. where, in fact, rook cannot be, because they disprove the entire structure of the place with their existence and presence in his life. with everyone else he's putting words in their mouths about what they think of him, and rook is the one who actually gets to come in to speak their own words to him — and have him listen. ('he'll listen to you, he always listens to you', 'your voice is a comfort'.) of course rook isn't present anywhere else in there — at the risk of stating the obvious to a tedious degree, they aren't one of the locks, they're bringing the key. in the very finest 'the messenger and the message' sort of way.

[eiswolfzero]

🫣

[shummthechumm]

woaw...a surprise....

[bloodydeanwinchester]

making you choose one but feel free to give nuance or another option in the tags

[crewtawn]

Freako Funtime Icecream Surprise!

I recently saw a really interesting MLP oc on @captainzigo 's blog! I'll leave it to you to go check out their profile. It's a Pinkie clone gone rogue!

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

I wondered what they'd look like in the style of FIM, so here goes nothing!

i changed a few design things to better fit mlp official style, colors are color picked from official mlp art! Hope ya'll enjoy <3

[charmsponies]

[sleepytoycollection]

Wanted: Potion Surprise Balloon Pinkie

There's not a lot of MLP merch that's inspired me to go out of my way to get it, but I adore these balloon minis and have been trying to collect the full set.

I've managed to get everyone EXCEPT these two versions of Pinkie, and it's driving me a little nuts I can't seem to get her.

So in a bid of desperation, I thought I'd ask if anyone has either of these two they'd be willing to part with. I'd be more than happy to buy them off you. I can find the unopened blind bags pretty easily, but finding anyone selling the open figure so I can just get Pinkie has been near impossible. So I keep just getting repeats instead of the ones I want.

So again if you have these and are willing to part with them I would love to buy them from you.

[captainzigo]

my oc, Freako Funtime Icecream Surprise, a surviving pinkie pie clone, has become very popular. i love her. i don’t know how well i will be able to explore my ideas about her relationship to identity, and to twilight sparkle, in short form comics, but ill try. some exciting stuff that will take me forever to get around to, if i ever get around to it.

[adorkabletwilightandfriends]

Adorkable Twilight & Friends - “The Line"

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[stevetwisp]

WELL HELLO!! 🎉🎉🎉

pinkie pie (gen4) meets Surprise (gen1)!!