I Gotta Say, One Of The Greatest Achievements Of My 20s Was That I Learned (mostly) To Differentiate

I gotta say, one of the greatest achievements of my 20s was that I learned (mostly) to differentiate between:

"I truly do not want to go" and

"I'm just feeling the Demand Avoidance, and I will like it once I get there."

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3 pages of HLVRAI doodles of the team celebrating Chinese New Year.

Tommy contemplates a big bottle of Orange Fanta in a supermarket aisle. His attention gets drawn to Benrey when he hears him call out "Tommy!" excitedly. Benrey holds out his precious find - a pair of orange-patterned socks - and grins: "nice, eh?"

Separate Scenario: Halfway through new year spring cleaning, Tommy whips out his phone, hit by sudden inspiration to look up rabbit-themed new year phrases fitting for the Rabbit Year. Meanwhile, Benrey, who is on dusting duty, finds a spider and promptly eats it. The house is decorated with Chinese New Year decorations, including a potted Pussy Willow plant, small lanterns atop the shoe cabinet, and a chinese "fu" (good fortune) wall hanging decor with a bunny face on it.

Separate Scenario: The Science Team, who were invited to celebrate the new year, lounge in Tommy's living room. Tommy's Golden Retriever, Sunkist, watches as Joshua, Gordon's son, hangs himself over the edge of the couch gleefully, his shirt riding up over his belly. Gordon keeps hold of one of his son's ankles to keep him from falling off while he chats with Bubby, the old man standing behind the couch with his weight leaned into the side of it and a hand on his hip. Benrey, wearing his orange-patterned socks, is slumped over half of the couch with a leg hanging over the back of the couch and the other over the armrest. The back of his head is pressed up against Gordon's back like a headrest as he snacks away at the chocolate coins from a plastic bowl on the coffee table next him. Apart from chocolate, there is also a container of pineapple tarts, a prosperity tray of goodies, and a couple of mandarin oranges on the table. Meanwhile, Darnold shows off a new potion in a test tube to Dr Coomer, who studies it curiously. Sasha, Darnold's Spore Launcher, sits politely in a front-facing baby carrier worn across Darnold's chest. As Tommy looks at his friends, he is hit with a sudden realisation. Wait, did I prepare enough? he panicks internally, thinking about the single red packet he'd prepared for Joshua, the only kid of the bunch. Per tradition, red packets are usually gifted to single family members and children. All of his friends are unmarried.

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Chinese New Year (Eve) be upon ye. Happy CNY to celebrating folks and everyone else :O!!

I’m just gonna…gently put this atrocity down. And leave it here

Bits of basic premise: The first one features a more OG game-like “what if” scenario where the tower alongside the technology Pizzahead planted there decides to rebel against his rule, in the process accidentally landing Gustavo with Pizzahead and Fake with the Peppino/Brick duo. The two unfortunate groups now need to put an end to the rebellion for their own safety and goals.

The second au falls more into the “tower is an evil mind-controlling entity, it’s ruler being its victim” narrative, where a dream (tower equivalence) is secretly trapping the residents of the town Peppino's pizzeria is located inside itself. It's now Peppino’s turn to be preyed on by the dream. He will investigate said dream and its relation with the mysterious disappearance of his business partner years ago, all while avoiding being trapped forever in it. All the PT main cast gets involved in this ordeal! They also legitimately get their humanized design...

To be continued. These are still just some vague ideas I have, small prompts that need to be expanded…Just thought I should put them out there

Some concept art for the two recent pizza tower au ideas I had

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