Peridot Fangirl

My personal has moved! Posting a lot more fractals over there and some art wips

It was... I think my sophomore or junior year of high school, and the school thought it would be a really cool idea to have a pumpkin painting contest for study hall classrooms. Not pumpkin carving, because 1: carving tools with high school students is a recipe for disaster and 2: ew rotting pumpkins on display afterwards. Anyways, there weren’t actually enough pumpkins for all the classrooms, so some rooms got theirs as much as a whole week late.

Except my chemistry teacher’s study hall. His class got theirs on the very last day of the contest, so instead of fighting to paint something quick and sloppy, my chemistry teacher says “fuck it” and promises his students he’ll do something really cool with it if they carve it. So the class pulls off the most stereotypical jack o’lantern ever, and he shows them the really cool thing.

Fortunately, my chemistry class is immediately after study hall, or else I may have never been able to witness the badassery he pulled off.

Here’s what he did: he carved a notch in the back-bottom of the pumpkin, set a funnel on the inside with the narrow end pointing out, and attached some rubber hose to the narrow end of the funnel. About 2-3 feet worth. He then places some kind of powder in the open end of the funnel. (He explained what it actually was but we were too excited and it was 11-12 years ago, cut me some slack)

So he stands back, blows into the rubber hose, and FWOOSH. Flame-thrower jack o’lantern. Badass, right? Well, it gets better. He lets the students try it out.

You can already see where this is headed. It gets to be my turn, and I’m just so psyched because the chemistry teacher is letting students play with flamethrower jack o’lanterns how awesome is that. But I don’t notice two things.

A: The lid to the jack o’lantern isn’t sitting on it properly B: The teacher’s hand is sitting right on top of the pumpkin

So, excitable little brat that I was, I take the deepest breath possible and blow as hard as I can into the rubber tubing.

Flames shoot out the top of the pumpkin, and my chemistry teacher YELPS and jumps back, slamming his body into the chalkboard.

Okay, so my girlfriend @ringoftheanscestors needs a place to stay until the new year. Long story short, she moved away from her abusive parents almost a couple years ago, and has been in a living situation with our mutual boyfriend @thedarkbunny for the majority of the time since.

Problem: Bun’s parents are at breaking point. They want her out for the holidays, after which they will be moving out of the house and leaving it in Bun’s care. Then? They won’t care, it won’t be their house any longer.

But we are serious about there being a breaking point. Sometimes, personalities just clash in irreconcilable ways, and unfortunately that’s what’s happening here. If there’s anyone at all that can take my girlfriend in for just a couple of months, we’d super appreciate it. It will allow both of my datefriends a chance to de-stress a bit, which they are in sore need of after constant tensions and lack of proper communication from the bunparents.

So if there’s anyone at all able to take in someone for the holiday season, especially in or around the Houston, TX area, we would all really appreciate it.