#I'm very invested

[guzhufuren]

better luck with strawberry goods and cake criminals next year to San (4/?)

+ ANEWZ christmas. rip San 😔

[thedevilundercover]

I'm slightly insane and in the midst of a new hyper-fixation about guys on really fast bikes motogp my beloved (I've watched so many races in the past 72 hours oh my god)

HEAR ME OUT OKAY

Tim's adrenaline addicted ass *cough cough* redboard *cough cough* would love racing and I think Jack would frantically endorse him because thank God he has a normal interests

I think Bruce would be like one of the old legends and have a riding academy which Dick, Jason, and Damian are in. He would totally own a team too.

Dick is probably retired and a test rider or smth bc that man is old okay and he probably crashed a lot and fucked up his body because looking back at his robin years, that bitch was definitely really aggressive. He also had a huge beef with Slade bc fuck that old man

Jason and Tim should have the Rossi-Marquez insanity because they're absolutely perfect for it. Like I do think Jason would beef with a child because he has already done it in canon <3

[reindeer-riot]

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Prologue

[voidzpng]

I started watching the Lego show

[egophiliac]

Where can you play ride kamens? It looks fun looking at your blog but idk where to play

it'll doesn't start until the 30th, but there's some pre-release episodes/character bits that are scattered around the website and twitter! (the links to pre-reg/download are also on the website :D)

honestly I'm really enjoying it just based off of the pre-release stuff, these characters look like they're going to be exactly that blend of ridiculous and emotionally constipated that hits me so right.

[mechieonu]

i know that disney is too big to boycott effectively but that shouldn't translate to "and so we should keep buying their products like normal" but rather "at the very least we should try"

[lgbtlunaverse]

Horrible thing to say but I think there's a real chance Jiang Yanli was both of her parents' least favorite child and knew it and just kinda. Had to go on with her life knowing that.

[okmcintyre]

I really don't go here, BUT: What if the story about Rhaenyra we hear in GoT is a fake....?

Alicent is already headed for a quiet life. If Rhaenyra wants that too, faking her death is the only realistic avenue for that to happen. No one would accept her stepping away, otherwise.

Maybe she fakes her own death. Maybe her son is even in on it. He tells the world that he watched her get eaten by a dragon, brings an empty box of remains back with him, and goes on to become the next ruler.

In the meantime: his mother fakes her death (just like her 'late' huband did). Rhaenicent finally get their happy ending together. The story comes full circle, with them quietly enjoying each other's company under a tree. HoTD finishes with a soft ending.

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

Hello may 31th anon! Look at that, another year behind us and a new one to come. Have a nice day! ₍՞◌′ᵕ‵ू◌₎♡

[synthaphone]

Allowing myself to go on a tangent about the nearly 26 year old virtual pet website that i am way too invested in.

So today they released the Candy Pteri. While I appreciate what they were trying to do here with it effectively having two designs that you get to choose between (The "Melted Candy Pteri" on the left is a Paint Brush wearable that can be removed to reveal the customizable base pet on the right), I think in this case, they have created two extremely boring designs when they could have easily created one strong design, or hell, even two strong designs if they wanted to do extra work.

Because with this release, we get a base Candy Pteri with no real lineart changes (like the rounded hair tufts and spines on the Candy Zafara), and an alternate design that's just... a drawing of a Marshmallow Peep™???

I would have WAY preferred a base Pteri where they did something like give it a little marshmallow dollop shape on its head and in place of the tail tuft, like my friend @darieyrie suggested. Or they could give it the Peep dot eyes and more rounded features! There's all kinds of ways you could do this concept.

I'd be less frustrated if the Peep wearable had any Pteri traits whatsoever, but its JUST a Peep that's been slightly microwaved. Which is a little funny, but even more than the Toy Poogle is just an iDog, the Candy Pteri does not have any deviation from its base inspiration at all. It's not actually an execution of the concept of "Candy Pteri thats based on a Peep" if there's no Pteri left at all!

(also are they just banking on the Just Born corporation (who make Peeps) never taking any action on this? it kind of goes beyond 'cheeky reference', its EXACTLY their product. I mean, it seems unlikely that they'll notice or bother doing anything if they do, but i don't really know why you'd risk that.) The saving graces of this design, imo, are that the pink and cream color scheme of the base pet IS pleasant (though the lineart and shading treatment aren't really my bag), and some people will enjoy the novelty of having a pet Marshmallow Peep™.

But really this is just the latest of a number of recent outfit and color releases that feel like they don't think people want Neopets. Like. This cardinal outfit that they also released today.

I love the idea of a cardinal Pteri! But this outfit literally takes away every distinguishing trait of the Pteri to make a high effort, nicely rendered, but stylistically incongruous generic cartoon cardinal????? Its not even a Neopet anymore!!! Even if I set aside my personal dislike of the overly rendered style they're using for more and more of the site assets, this wouldn't work with most of the rendering removed either, because it would still be a Pteri in pose and proportions only.

Not every new design and outfit that's come out in the past couple years has these issues and there have been a number I've really liked, and I DO think its great that the quality of the art has improved since the JumpStart era. But I would really appreciate it if the new pet colors in particular were designed a little more thoughtfully, so that they at bare minimum still resemble the species they're supposed to be outside of the rough pose and proportions. It sometimes feels like there isn't a rough draft or workshopping progress for new colors, and the members of the art team just kind of do their own thing and then the very first draft of an idea is what gets polished and released.

The current art direction for the customization aspects of the site just has me feeling like they've decided to throw out years of relatively cohesive art and world design for a strange jumble of ideas that don't really capture the appeal or feeling of Neopets to me.

[c6jpg]

Hunters fight not for fame, but to aid the people whenever they are summoned.

[canisalbus]

Looking at your art summary your art has gotten a softness to it that it didnt have before (said positively). I hope this is, in part, because life has been kinder to you than it was before, if only because you deserve a good, kind life. I hope the new year greets you like an old friend.

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[project-sekai-facts]

What could possibly lead you to drop prsk? Like, completely drop it, not following the news, new events etc

Cis mizuki

[warpedpuppeteer]

Listen, I can't wait for Buck to realize whose attention he was actually trying to get. My man, you fucking adjusted your shirt sleeve and looked over as you lifted the weights to see if Eddie noticed your arms flexing. I don't think getting Tommy's attention was the problem here my guy 😭.

[loveletterworm]

Minecraft skin I made as a commission for my friend @microwave-kid the prompt was "Generic minecraft girl skin but the head is a minecraft dispenser". There were some tribulations fitting the dispenser face onto a square the size of a minecraft skin's head but we got there

[clfixationstation]

I'm so intrigued that I watched Arcane and ended up getting kinda attached to the m/f couple and the m/m couple, and not the f/f couple. Like, this is the complete opposite of my typical mode of operation what is happening here

tbf I don't care very much about jayvik, but timebomb really endeared itself to me

It's not that I dislike caitvi, and I'm very, very glad that it exists in its full, uncensored glory - and with a happy ending! I was just never sold on it somehow. I kept almost getting it, and then being put off (by Cait's classism & cop tendencies, or the timing, or whatever). And I really wanted to like it! And I do like a lot of it, I'm just not attached :(

I can't tell if caitvi just isn't for me or if the writing slipped up somewhere, because a lot of other people seem to really like them together. Perhaps a bit of both

anyways, caitvi are lucky they're hot