It's probably about monster lovers or monster researchers, reminds me of this bit from his profile

"His love of monsters is so great that he has once encouraged to become a monster researcher. The wall of studying loomed too large, though, and he gave up pretty fast"

trust me, you're not the only ask i've gotten about it

i could see this being like, peppino REALLY not wanting to actually take up the offer to race because he'd rather just be doing his job. but at the same time seeing somepony be really interested in his skills outside of pizza is kind of flattering... maybe he finally accepts it later after a few days and dash is fucking stunned at his show of skill. like they come really close, and maybe peppino fuckin beats her not because of speed (though it comes really close) but because he's able to act quickly on his hooves. moral of the story is uhhh don't judge a pizza by its box

also i just realized. i don't even need to come up with a pony name for peppino, do i? his fucking name, "peppino spaghetti" sounds so fucking ridiculous already. it already sounds like the name of an italian who make-a da pizza. that's fucked up

Wahh thank you so much! I'm so happy you like my designs for them qwq

so i'm pretty sure this is like, 100% hand-drawn !! hopping around gameplay footage and it looks like sometimes theres a bit of shaders used to make some of the art wobbly (trees & other objects) by taking like, a texture that looks like this

and scrolling it across the object. and then distorting it by whatever color its on. so lets say the color from the distortion texture is red (1, 0, 0), then it pushes that part of the texture to the right, and if it's green (0,1,0) it pushes that part of the texture up!

no doubt my TRI-SLOSHER !!! o(≧▽≦)o its so much fun just to slosh it around! and i even owe the old one!

surprisingly, they let me keep and use it in turf war, even though its supposedly has a small disadvantage against the new tri-sloshers...

I’ve been searching for it for like half an hour, but I can’t find it! I saw a screenshot of his lil bio/backstory on Instagram, and it seems like it’s from a Disney kids book or something.

If I find it, I’ll reblog this ask with it, or if anyone else finds the picture, it would be great if you reblogged this with it!