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Millie · 23 · they/them · bi || mtg, love live, the muppets, retro fps, star wars/swtor, soulsborne games, horror, etc
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Millie ♡ 23 ♡ they/them

mostly magic the gathering, star wars/swtor, love live, elden ring/bloodborne/souls games, retro fps, the owl house, horror (esp. old timey horror/horror actors) and whatever else flits across my little brain. here's my carrd

i have a cat i love very much. his tag is #junebug

tagging ♡

personal tag - #millie says

watching stuff - #millie watches: (insert show)

my crochet - #millie makes

my mtg posts - #millietg

I tag triggers as #thing cw (ex: blood cw) please ask if you need anything specific tagged!

other places ♡

@ourlittleforever - self ship

@milliesocblog - text posts and memes that remind me of my ocs

twitter: arvadsbride

SWTOR only twitter: thalislegacy

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saywhat-politics

NE State Sen. Lou Ann Linehan (R) complains filibusters of anti-trans bills made her miss her grandson's preschool graduation.

Sen. Megan Hunt (I): “You won't come off this bill that hurts my [trans] son. You hate him more than you love your own family. That's why you're here."

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sic-semper-hominibus

btw that (I) by her name is bc she ditched the dems for not supporting her in this

#GET HER ASS SEN. HUNT#there is exactly 1 good politican in this godforsaken hellhole of a state
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pumelopinniped

I really don’t think we appreciate how how absolutely strange, bonkers, wacky and incredible Neopets was in every single way.

  • It was technically an American website but it was founded by a couple of Welsh expats so it primarily used British Commonwealth English and St David’s day was officially recognized as a holiday.
  • In addition to the use of Commonwealth English the site’s grammatical and linguistic style was always a bit… idiosyncratic and prone to typos.
  • The art style and design evolved and changed several times over the years but some legacy art was never changed even as the site grew and became more sophisticated.
  • The in-game economy and market system was always gloriously broken and many player’s stores were essentially just display cases for their rare items with the prices set at the absolute maximum so they couldn’t actually be purchased. As such there was a bit of a class divide between rich and poor players and the site kind of leaned into this with features like the donation tree and a soup kitchen for players with less than a certain amount of neopoints
  • It began during a time when broadband internet was not widely available so using the site with dial-up could definitely put you at a disadvantage particularly with the aforementioned donation tree or attempting to buy items at any of the official in game stores.
  • That said having a combination of a slower internet and an older computer could give you an edge in at least one game: a shell game/three card monty against a caveman kangaroo where the slow animation speed made it easier to track the movement of the marble.
  • Oh yeah, there were various gambling games, and even a CASINO.
  • The various regions of neopia included a desert/Egyptian area, a prehistoric area which featured a giant dinosaur egg omelet, an underwater kingdom (that eventually was destroyed,) a space station, two (iirc) different medieval kingdoms, a halloween spooky forest and a sky kingdom populated by faeries.
  • These faeries were essentially the only humanoid entities in the world; early some characters seemed to be vaguely human shaped but many of them were retconned either into faeries or neopets.
  • OH WAIT I was wrong there were humans: the dev team had their own chibi self inserts and one early game was a MURDER MYSTERY where they would be killed off in humorous ways.
  • There were several species of neopet of various levels of anthropomorphism but the site’s unofficial mascot pets were these weird little pudgy plant/featherless penguin looking things called chias that look hideously cutesy and could transform into various fruit and vegetable shapes when they ate ice pops.
  • Some species of neopet were limited introducing yet ANOTHER class divide!
  • Several features of the site were gated off if you were under 13 requiring you to have your parents fill out an actual physical permission form to access it even if after you turned 13 iirc? My brother got my dad to do it for him but for one of my accounts I just lied but I forgot what fake birthday I picked so I was locked out.
  • There was official merch including stuffed animals, mcdonalds toys, handheld electronic games and even a ps2 game that I’m not sure ever made it out of development hell?
  • The site changed ownership a few times and was eventually purchased by Nickelodeon/Viacom but at one point the owner was allegedly a high ranking member of the Church of Scientology who reportedly pressured employees into participating in CoS auditing. Needless to say this was a bit weird given that one plotline involved an evil space overlord.
  • The site as far as I know still exists but is a security nightmare and since flash is dead most of the games are too.

I might be misremembering several things but yeah, it was definitely very weird and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

#neopets my beloved#yeah the games are pretty much all broken which makes me sad:( rip mutant graveyard of doom 2#ALSO there was a nintendo video game! my sister had it