ari

ari | adult | half-japanese half-anxiety Hi there! My name is Ari. I've always loved writing and creating art in all forms. The process, result, and aftermath all act as ways to understand many things. I post nature, photography, art, cartoons, odd posts that usually make me laugh, informative posts, and a potpourri of other things. I don't queue so I post in giant batches whenever I logon. Also! If you need anything tagged, please hit me up! I know I do. If we're mutuals feel free to drop a message. I love hearing from you! Thanks for stopping by! icon by me

[the-shrimp-alchemist]

love this guy. sometimes i wonder what he was thinking during those years.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Taking up Japanese as a side project for myself has reminded me of something.

So like a long time ago I had a professor that I absolutely adored. She happened to be Japanese American. She grew up speaking Japanese at home but never really spent a lot of time in Japan. She mostly spoke with other Japanese Americans and read books.

So one day early in her teaching career there’s an exchange student from Japan who’s having a hard time understanding a concept so she explained it to him in Japanese and then he looked absolutely rattled. Like in shock. Pale.

This is how she learned that the way she speaks Japanese makes her sound like a gang member.

Japanese doesn’t exactly have cuss words in the same way as English does but imagine that the nicest professor you’ve ever had pulls your paper over and says “Okay listen here you little piece of shit I’m gonna fucking explain this to you. Violently.”

[cloacatak]

This (studying in Chile for a year) is more or less how I realized my two PhD-having, tenured professor expat parents raised me to speak the most disrespectful and swearword-riddled version of Spanish possible (with plenty of ancient slang I didn't know was slang thrown in). It was like:

[nathanierblog]

McCalls Pikachu Plush 2512 Sewing Pattern

This thing has been out of print for like, 26 years and some of us want to make chubby classic pikachu so uh... I figure it's okay to share bc it's kinda hard to get your hands on the remaining physical copies.

Bonus points: Aelith made some embroidery/applique files for it too

This is FREE, please don't pay for the pattern.

Only the EMBROIDERY is paid.

McCalls Pikachu Plush P462 Sewing Pattern - Redrawn for Archiving Purposes

Remade by AeilithArt so that we could use the pattern without like, destroying it. It's not exact since it's trace, but it's p much the same

[souperluminal]

05.07 - Last Light

[goth-queen]

[uberoll-oystercrackers]

what is wrong with you eww

[dotty-literati]

the big mamdani

[dotty-literati]

[chaaistheanswer]

Jousting at the festival to impress your lady love!!!

[zevrans]

THE SIMS (2000, dev. Maxis)

[lichposting]

[littlealienproducts]

PATTERN: Great Diving Beetle by JennaWingateDesigns

[eikonoklasms]

i cant stop thinking about this post so bad. cat named daniel

[throwbackblr]

[theyshapedlikefriends]

Sacabampaspis (crane game prize from 2023)

[art-femmes]

Tetyana Yablonska Evening. Old Florence 1973

[stuffman-main]

imagine if you will, a fairly dry survival crafting game in which you live in a bunker and must periodically venture out to scavenge food, set up turrets for attacking monsters, etc

now, your computer inside the bunker has a game-inside-a-game on it which is a charming farming sim of undeniably greater quality and scope than the survival game you're playing. therefore, the object of the game becomes to keep your bunker secure so you can play the farming game more.

now, once you achieve the highest rating in the farming game, a secret shop inside it unlocks, and one of the novelty items you can purchase is a game console, giving you access to games-inside-a-game-inside-a-game. most of the games for it are typical mobile shovelware, but one of them is a highly polished, extremely brutal precision platformer with amazing level design and production values exceeding that of the survival game and farming sim combined.

it is only at this point that the purpose of this entire contrivance becomes clear: to create the most deranged speedrun community the world has ever seen.

[redlipstickresurrected]

Ilda von Ernst-Lange (Austrian, 1873-1936, b. Austria) - Katze am Fenster (Cat at the Window), 1921, Paintings: Oil on Cardboard