babs' virtual pet blog

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 🎨

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Bear in the Big Blue House (1997-2006)

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

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.

disco

kep bonnefie and osielle lidel hanging out and encountering paparazzi probably

let's party!

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

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

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.

Sir Toy, Knight of the Meadow

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