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[memedokies]

this month's sticker club reward is NEOPETS stickers! join any time in June to get two sheets shipped to you when the month ends 🎨

[osocuteclub]

Y2K Faerie Sticker Sheets ✨osocuteclub.com✨ ✨osocuteclub.etsy.com✨

[loupgawou]

[gifs-of-puppets]

Bear in the Big Blue House (1997-2006)

[biskyfresh]

My version of a cute wrinkly floppy mutant Aisha 🩷🩵💙💜

[pan-of-light]

[ot3]

The video game history foundation has just finished scanning every copy of the neopets magazine and added it to their archive. Super cool!

Why we scanned every issue of Neopets The Official Magazine | Video Game History Foundation

It might be a little silly, but Neopets Magazine is an important slice of a different part of gaming culture.

During its four-year run, Neopets Magazine covered the latest news and strategies for the influential 2000s-era web game. It also had a lot of articles about Neopets merchandise and trading cards. In fact, it’s mostly ads for Neopets products. Or long articles about Neopets lore. At best, it is mostly an off-topic magazine. So why did we focus on this magazine of our archive? Simple: it’s about the game’s audience. Neopets was, arguably, the defining girl game of the 2000s. An entire microgeneration of girls got their start in the world of digital entertainment by raising virtual pets and playing Flash games to get Neopoints. [...] Notably, many of the magazine’s articles are about creativity and customization. There’s shades in here of the gameplay styles that have become more popular in the last decade with the rise of cozy games and farming sims. My favorite quirk of Neopets Magazine is in the audience survey that came with some issues. In one survey question, they asked whether readers bought this magazine at a clothing store! That would have reached a completely different audience than we usually associate with game magazines. Can you imagine PC Gamer being sold at a Charlotte Russe? The point is that Neopets The Official Magazine represents a different slice of gaming culture, one that we know matters to researchers and to our extended community.

[broken-clover]

You can tell Iridesia is canonically trans now bc TNT deadnames them within the same week they came out

[lockssteps]

disco

[illegaltruffle]

kep bonnefie and osielle lidel hanging out and encountering paparazzi probably

[funnybunny0088]

let's party!

[draconym]

Went through my old notebooks to recycle them and found some drawings of my Neopets that I did in college

[dullanyan]

spin the wheel of misfortune to risk your life your items and money all to receive crunchy as fuck death pizza

[neobastard]

happy first day of pride, here's some pride flags color picked from neopets!

gilbert baker: rainbow chomby

lesbian: candy scorchio

gay: faerie jetsam

bisexual: royal girl gelert

trans: baby acara

nonbinary: mutant usul

pansexual: disco koi

asexual: darigan hissi

aromantic: speckled xweetok

intersex: island ixi

queer: toy bori

if there's any flags i missed, or if there's any flag/neopet combinations you'd like to see, feel free to send me an ask! i tried to cover as many as i could remember.

[sleepytroll]

Sir Toy, Knight of the Meadow

[lordhayati]

Neopets is the tumblr of Virtual pet websites.

[sparrowlucero]

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