#pear text

[pearwaldorf]

We should all say thank you to Jordan Peele for rescuing Monkey Man from streaming because this movie deserves to be seen on a big screen. There was a lot of love and craft put into this movie and I'm glad it can be properly appreciated.

I am pleased to report it absolutely fucks and the soundtrack is banging. It owes a lot to John Wick, of course, but also Atomic Blonde and Hong Kong action movies. (They didn't even use all six shots in the revolver, which was a nice touch.) I would watch a whole John Wick-esque franchise with Dev Patel as an action hero.

If, like me, you are a fan of attractive men suffering and/or getting fucked up, this movie will feed you extremely well.

I'm extremely not familiar with Indian cinema, but it's real interesting watching this after RRR. (To be clear, this is a movie made by somebody of Indian descent, but it is not exactly an Indian movie.) Not just in political outlook (the evil politician and his party are clearly meant to evoke Modi and the BJP), but how they use Hindu religious imagery to frame the story.

[edit:] Netflix gave up the rights to the movie precisely because of the portrayal of the nationalist political party. Well then.

I am not culturally equipped to discuss the role of hijra in Indian society, but it is absolutely significant (and intentional) Patel's character is rescued and guided by a community of hijra. That speaks a great deal to where his social and political allegiances lie, and I'm glad to support that.

#pear text #monkey man

[uselessalexis165]

even some more examples of mine

#eclipsa and globgor are the greatest ship in their series #my text #my little pony #my little pony friendship is magic #spy x family #puss in boots #puss in boots the last wish #star vs the forces of evil #pear butter #bright mac #loid forger #yor forger #kitty softpaws #eclipsa butterfly #globgor

[rad-roche]

i do think it's funny that the general stereotype for fanfiction plots, and no offence intended if this is the sort of thing you like and do, is for things like fix-it fics, or 'x character doesn't die!' or the like. i see the vision. i understand it. i am completely dedicated to doing the opposite. lovingly crafting my difficult, complicated little red-haired woman, just to look at her with deep affection and slowly lower her into the deep fat fryer

#dead man talking #dead woman walking #text post #gloria roche #ah throw her boyfriend in too. why not #note to self i have a little comic planned. it got sidetracked for obvious reasons but i want to try sequential art #i love these characters. get in the pear wiggler for eight days

[sunny12th]

Viserion sensed her disquiet. The white dragon lay coiled around a pear tree, his head resting on his tail. When Dany passed his eyes came open, two pools of molten gold. His horns were gold as well, and the scales that ran down his back from head to tail. "You're lazy," she told him, scratching under his jaw. His scales were hot to the touch, like armor left too long in the sun. Dragons are fire made flesh. She had read that in one of the books Ser Jorah had given her as a wedding gift. "You should be hunting with your brothers. Have you and Drogon been fighting again?" ... Viserion's tail lashed sideways, thumping the trunk of the tree so hard that a pear came tumbling down to land at Dany's feet.

#beloved #he got his mama a pear #he's so pretty my bby boy #viserion #daenerys targaryen #i want to write some more about the dragon's names and the prophetic explanations behind them and how we see that play out in the text #viserion being affectionate and loving. rhaegal being protective and aggresive. #drogon (we dont have an explanation for his name ugh!) being a leader maybe. #dragons #asoiaf #mine

[handinlovablehand]

i saw the future in a dream last night there's nothing in it

#tumblr color text i love you color text you are my best friend #larkspur oc #art #digital art #artists on tumblr #procreate #the mountain goats #tmg #taking the step of tagging tmg bc this is pretty extremely inspired by black pear tree #ocs #original character #fairy #fairies

[thefragile-left]

Bingle bongle dingle dangle yickety do yickedy da ping pong lippy tappy to ta!

#rare text post #where was i going with this #doctor who #tenth doctor #i hate pears /ref

[multi-lefaiye]

actually yeah i'm just gonna go ahead and state this boundary real quick. i'm not saying this as an attack on anyone, but i figure i should say something b/c this does make me extremely uncomfortable.

anyway random people coming onto my silly posts to be self-deprecating annoy me and i'm at the point where i just block on sight.

genuinely if you blorbo tag a post... unless i say otherwise, go for it. that's fine. i love seeing those.

if you're coming onto my post where i jokingly self-aggrandize about how cool i am and how much people love me just to say that you wish that applied to you and no one loves you! i'm probably gonna dip! i'm sorry if that sounds mean and i genuinely wish you the best, but that's not what we're about my guy and i do not really want that on my post

#multi makes text posts #listen. i have depression. i have *bad* depression #right now i really really do not like myself. i will be honest #but i've been trying to stop talking down about myself all the time #and that *has* genuinely helped #at least a little bit #it's not a one-step solution and you're not gonna be cured forever and never be depressed again #but it's better than nothing if it's something you can do #also regardless can you do that somewhere else. this post isn't about that. fuck off actually #also. let me put it this way. #in one example of this i made a post joking about how people love me for being a silly little guy #and i got one reblog saying 'no they don't' #and it was in reference to themselves i believe #but like. literally go fuck yourself? i don't know you? #your self deprecation came as an insult to me so now i have no sympathy. go sit in the pear wiggler.

[alicedrawslesmis]

sorry I didn't prepare anything for barricade day babe do you still think I'm sexy

#note: this is the most rotund pear I've ever seen but it was the only one Ihad asdfghjkl #barricade day #ALT text added

[punkbakerchristine]

cactus jack’s cake

This is a recipe I invented shortly after I began baking and cooking, back around Christmas time: my mom and I were watching one of those baking competition shows, and no exaggeration, every single one of the competitors employed the raspberry-pistachio fusion with their tiered cakes. Flabbergasted, we started naming off different variations of cakes for Christmas and the holiday season, and this was one that stuck out to me. Passionfruit cake is a bit more yellow than green, but prickly pear is a nice bright pink: the apple variation will give a nice golden color, as will blood orange.

Also called my “high desert” cake for the heavy Southwestern influences, I named this one after Cactus Jack’s in Carson City, where my family lived when I was a kid: I remember seeing the big neon sign of the cowboy through my sleeping eyes after a long road trip back from my grandparents’ house, and I knew we were home. I hope to make this one day!

(passionfruit sponge)

4 passionfruits (can also be substituted with blood orange or apple) 2 eggs 115 grams of butter, cubed and softened 115 grams of sugar  Zest of a lemon 1 teaspoon vanilla extract  1 1/2 cups of self-raising flour  Pinch of salt 

(prickly pear sponge)

1/2 cup prickly pear juice  2 eggs  115 grams of butter, softened  115 grams of sugar  Zest of a lime 2 teaspoons of lime juice  1 1/2 cups of self-rising flour  Pinch of salt 

(citrus vanilla frosting)

3 cups of powdered sugar, sifted 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract  1-2 tablespoons of milk 1/3 cup of butter  Zest of lemon and lime, plus extra for dusting over the top 

(passionfruit curd)

3 passionfruits 4 egg yolks 2/3 cup of granulated sugar  1/8 teaspoon salt 6 tablespoons of butter, softened and cubed

(cactus decorations)

1 cup of dark chocolate chips  1 cup of white chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350°. Grease two 8” pans with shortening and then line with parchment.

For the passionfruit sponge:

Halve the passionfruits and scoop out the seeds and pulp. Press the pulp through a sieve, then set to the side. (If using blood orange, halve and juice. If using apples, halve, scoop out the seeds and press through the sieve)

Beat butter and sugar together with the electric mixer at medium speed for 4 minutes until smooth and fluffy. Add in eggs, one after the other, then the salt and vanilla extract followed by the flour, little by little, until well incorporated—should take a few minutes. Turn mixer down to low and add in zest and passionfruit, and continue to mix for 1 minute.

For the prickly pear sponge:

Concentrate the prickly pear by boiling the juice for about five minutes.

Beat butter and sugar together with the electric mixer at medium speed for 4 minutes until smooth and fluffy. Add in eggs, one after the other, then the salt followed by the flour, little by little, until well incorporated—should take a few minutes. Turn mixer down to low and add in zest and juices, and continue to mix for 1 minute.

Pour batters into either pan and bake for 25 to 30 minutes: the prickly pear sponge is a bit heavier, and should take 30 minutes; or until a skewer comes out clean. Let both cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes, and then turn both over so they can cool all the way on the rack—be careful because the pans might still be hot!

For the curd:

Halve and scoop out the pulp of the passionfruit, and press through a sieve.

Whisk yolks, sugar, passionfruit pulp, and salt in top pot of bain-marie/double boiler for 10 minutes or until thick—I usually use a metal bowl atop a saucepan of boiling water (be careful not to let the water boil over!)

Remove from heat and whisk in butter—the butter will melt from the heat of the bowl.

Pour curd in bowl and cover directly with plastic wrap until cool (the plastic has to be right on the curd to keep a skin from forming).

For the frosting:

Mix butter with the electric mixer on medium until smooth. Bump mixer down to low and gradually add in sugar (be careful as powdered/confectioner’s sugar, like flour, has a tendency to get on everything) until mixture is creamy. Stop mixer for a second to add in milk, vanilla, and zests, and then beat for another 1-1 1/2 minutes.

For the cactus decorations:

Trace five cactus designs on one side of a piece of paper and turn it upside down so it shows through—make sure one is a little bigger than the other four as that one will be the topper.

Melt chocolate chips in the bain-marie and spoon into ziplock bags. Snip off the corner of the bag about an eighth of an inch and squeeze the chocolate onto the designs. Let them sit until they’re hard and then very carefully peel off.

To assemble:

Either of the cakes can be on the bottom tier: place one cake on a lazy Susan and spread a dollop of the curd on the top with an offset spatula to have a thin but even layer. Place next layer on top of that and spread another even layer of curd on the top. Let the curd sit for a few minutes before applying the frosting with a separate spatula: even out the frosting on top and on the sides with the offset spatula.

Sprinkle the top and sides of the cake with the lemon and lime zests. Carefully apply the large cactus atop the top tier and the other four around the circumference of the cake. 

***if you’d like: keep the tiers flat on the lazy Susan and use a bread knife to slice them in half for four tiers.

#mine #recipe #cactus jack cake #high desert cake #passionfruit #prickly pear #baking #bakers of tumblr #bakers gonna bake #sweet food #baked goods #text

[dancing-with-stars]

guys. guys !!!!

#vanu is rambling #ok idk this is gonna b a happy post but i think there are lots of people who love me in this world. or at least enjoy my presence. #like i always always always ALWAYS doubt if my friends or family like me and in my head they all secretly hate me #but like for these past couple months things have been different. #i don’t feel so left out (like i usually do in groups) or alone. #like my friends genuinely want me there like they always ask me to go places with them. and i almost always say no because im so busy or #i just cant but they still ask me everytime. yesterday the whole group was calling and playing a game and i got a bunch of texts like hey #where are you u shud join the call it’s rly fun ! but i just couldn’t bring myself to talk to anyone at that moment. #today they were rly happy when i joined the call and idk it made me feel like. oh. maybe my friends do like me #and also i have two moods: i’m either super talkative or i go into my little shell and don’t say anything/add to a convo. and like during #those moments they’ll be like hey u ok? or they’ll just listen to me talk about ceramics and how fun it is or how much i hate eating pears #and like. we laugh so much together. like i have so much fun with all of them i love every single one of them omg #and scary thing is we might not even be friends after we start college. but yk what? that’s okay i don’t wanna think about that. #because like who cares? i’m not gonna let my fears ab the future ruin my friendships. i’ll always love them anyways. and we’ll always call. #i’m glad i met them. they’re all such beautiful and funny and amazing strong willed-people. they are my friends. #it’s just so crazy to me that they willingly want to spend time w me and are sad when i can’t. and they’re so understanding at the same time #they don’t get mad about it. and like they have mad eng last year in high school so much more enjoyable. #someone told me that this is ur last year do things so when you look back you don’t regret anything- so you can be proud of what you did #and my friends helped me with that. and like i still feel lonely the majority of the class because despite this there’s like a permanent #stain of sadness right there at the bottom of my heart. but they make the hard days more manageable. #like i’ve been on call with these people until ungodly hours at night just laughing and i go to sleep feeling a bit lighter. #they introduced me to the tech side of theater which i never thought i’d get into but here i am. they teach me silly facts and words in asl. #they taught me dances- knowing full well i SUCK at it- because we all had fun with it. theyve taught me it’s OKAY to be vulnerable in #friendships and that sometimes being open/yourself is quite literally the best thing you can do for your own soul and others. they’re cool #people really. really cool people

[pearwaldorf]

I have heard of Hbomberguy and the "why Sherlock sucks" but had not actually watched any of his stuff until today. The recent plagiarism video is long and extremely good:

The main bulk of the video is about James Somerton, a video essayist who I was only vaguely familiar with. I watched the Our Flag Means Death video he made and thought it felt kind of flimsy, and moved on with my life.

Turns out he's been lifting words from other published sources, many of them queer writers who were paid freelance rates or possibly nothing at all. This is a screenshot of the transcription of the video he did on queer horror (ID in alt):

I have legit never seen this level of plagiarism before. I am honestly surprised these videos sound thematically coherent at all, given the variety of sources he's cribbed them from. (There's a lot you can say about queer horror, and not all of it is going to overlap.)

The thing I don't understand is that given how much work it must have been to compile these sources, he could have done all the fucking reading himself and synthesized it in his own words. He could have just thrown up a Pastebin of links he consulted and nobody would have noticed.

One of the reasons plagiarists steal is because they have no respect for the effort put into the work or people who do said work. A (presumably cis) white man stealing the words from other queer people, many of them economically marginalized and/or of color? I'm going to say that probably figured into it.

I don't know how much he made, but it was a significant fucking amount. That's money he took from the mouths of other queer people who are probably way worse off. That's discoveries of ideas and words people have been denied because they thought they were his.

(Hbomberguy is donating proceeds from this video to as many people who Somerton ripped off as he can track down. It's absolutely not his problem, and I imagine it's going to be a bitch and a half to identify and contact all these people. It is a mitzvah, in both the colloquial and religious sense, to do this.)

And as marginalized people, we know that context (historical, global, personal) is important, sometimes essential. Removal of that information greatly hampers comprehension and understanding in ways we are already limited or denied.

It feels like a deeply personal betrayal because we like to think we (as in people who have this particular trait or share a community) are all above cynical sociopathic bullshit. But [trait/thing] people are people, and sometimes people fucking suck. I regret to say that despite knowing this in my head, my emotions do not always remember.

#plagiarism #james somerton #hbomberguy #pear text #Youtube

[lynne-monstr]

my juicy pears are ripe and holy moly, they are so good. so juicy. so soft. so delicious. I look forward to these all year long and they're always even better than I remember

#random text post silliness #food mention #juicy pears my beloved #if you have never bought yourself a gift basket of juicy winter pears before #i highly recommend it

[splinter-sister]

If we're talking about muses and the touches they like, fair warning, the moment Rach gets the green light, she's often so touch heavy with others. Physical contact is a big comfort for her and as a sort of passive bonding activity. She craves it and it's a fairly good gauge to see how much she trusts you.

#prickly pear [rachael] #flavor text

[the-punforgiven]

When you've been eating shitass broke person gut wadding meals for a good while and then you get to eat one real healthy honest to god fruit or vegetable and you just feel yourself immediately regain 25% of your max hp

#For the record I've actually been eating rather well #but my roommate brought home pears for everyone and it reminded me I wanted to make this post a while ago lmao #Pun's text Posts

[welikemonstermen]

Game: Pears to Pairs - Card Game

#the squidward nose one has me laughing like an idiot i swear #roblox #funny chats #pears to pairs #text post

[cosmicspino]

Vote and reblog, running for a week!

#tumblr polls #polls #hyperspecific poll #writeblr #this started as a serious question but i had to have Fun with it #text #blursed = blessed and cursed #if the vanilla extract in the pear wiggler wins i reserve the right to laugh until next year thanks #Yes this is a sample of what to expect at least in part