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neeeeeed a dark elf baddie to blow nirnroot smoke in my face and i hear that ringing as i look down her tunic

Happy Accident

i genuinely think this might be one of my favorite magic cards of all time. i could talk for an hour about how much i adore the flavor text and how its functioning on a craft level and what it says about the world of magic and how we are shown this giant cosmic event through the camera zooming in to a small, nonmagical, real-world crab.

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.

by Kasumi Oomine

this thing contains the divine spark. it evolved from ancient ungulates like whales did