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I'm probably one of like 3 people who still plays Neopets on this website but I need to discuss this image- A rundown: there's been a fuck ton of discourse over the Seasonal Attack Pea (SAP for short) item being introduced into the neopets trading economy via random chance through the yearly advent calendar they do.
The Seasonal Attack Pea (from my understanding as someone who's never engaged with the Battledome mechanic until like 3 weeks ago despite having played Neopets for 18 of my 28 years on planet Earth) is one of the single best items in the game, and turbo expensive. We're talking 9 figures worth of neopoints. Maybe 10. It's initial distribution also made it so ludicrously sparse. Only 100 existed and it was released in 2002. This thing is a *grail* item in Neopets, is what I'm saying. Things like getting Invincible to drop or a full odds shiny pokemon are child's play videogame achievements compared to getting any of the Attack Peas. Dec 1 rolls around and suddenly players are reporting in staggering numbers that they got Seasonal Attack Peas from the advent calendar and all hell breaks loose. The fat cat neopets players are all mad that their items are being devalued to hell event after event and the proletariat masses are excited to see the neopets economy in shambles so they can finally own grail items, it's chaos and I personally love it. There's conspiracies on reddit about it that I can barely parse and don't care to get into. Anyway, so I just logged in to get my free stuff, do my dailies, drink my 4:30 am soda pop and see Dr. Who Mr. Orion O. Ophiuchus the Shadow Ogrin in *shambles* talking about how we need to stop the Advent Calendar and it's making it seem like he's baring the brunt of the Seasonal Attack Pea discourse and I'm HOWLING right now. My man literally just got introduced as a character to this game in like... May of this year??? And now it looks like he's being pinned to the cross of the Seasonal Attack Pea discourse- Like I doubt this was intentional but I choose to believe Orion did an oopsy and is The One reason for the chaotic mass redistribution of wealth across Neopets.
POV: Orion tries to give your neopet a Seasonal Attack Pea
MY MAN LOST EVERYTHING IN A DIVORCE, IS NOW BEING HAUNTED BY A CURSED LYRE APPARENTLY AND REINA WON'T EVEN THROW HIM A BONE??? What is Neopets team doing to this poor pathetic man!!!
hi, me again, back with the final (for now) update on Orion's life falling apart.
Apparently someone on the Neopets team really likes World of Warcraft cuz he's being haunted by visions of C'thun fucking up the space time continuum.
C'thun showing up in Neopets in 2023 was not on my bingo card but it probably should have been...
Anyway Queen Fyora also showed up and told his ass to go to bed so at least he'll finally get some post divorce sleep after the Seasonal Attack Pea debacle...i mean, after being haunted by C'thun for weeks on end! (Also in case you're wondering why I keep saying he's divorced, notice the ring-)
It’s been close to a year but I’m back with another update on the trials and tribulations of Mr Orion O Ophiuchus.
Apparently he read some Jhudora x Illusen fanfic on AO3 and got possessed.
Link me the fic dude, I wanna sneak a peak.
The wedding ring(?) is back by the way?? But only when possessed by the haunted lyre?? Probably just a continuity error on the artist’s part but I choose to believe there’s some kind of scandal here.
Lastly I just need yall to know his fancy, green coat and slicked back hair never returned. He’s just been disheveled ever since, save for getting his glasses fixed and washing his clothes. Letting the pocketwatch just dangle is unhinged though, I used to wear one before the proliferation of smart watches and they are decently heavy-
Okay I'm back to yell about this wet ass Ogrin again my brother in christ, you spent like a year and some change trying to resolve the whole being haunted by a cursed instrument only to GO FIND ANOTHER ONE. You idiot, you fool, you dumbass.
I'm sick as a dog and barely functional as I type but neopets dot com just handled me these items......
UHHHH idk, I needed a pince nez wearable for my uni also named Orion so this is actually very convenient for me, I don't think our haunted maestro is long for this world-
It's good to be back Anyway I'm here to start a new conspiracy: Does this man have a tail or not?? So to my knowledge, the first time we saw Orion's whole body was in the Void Within comic. He's just randomly in the background of Chapter 1 Page 5 and, at time of writing, has not been seen *directly* in the VW plot comic since. We also get visual confirmation Orion is 5'11" and Queen Fyora is 6'.
Decidedly tailless, which is odd. Ogrins do have tails and usually anthro neopet characters keep the key features of their feral forms but I digress. He seemingly doesn't have a tail. Recently, TNT added new essence cosmetics to the Styling Studio which allows us neopians to make our pets look like some of the beloved characters across the game and, wouldn't you know it, Mr Orion O Ophiuchus as in that batch! So as I'm lamenting the fact I'm gonna have to spend money, I notice something about this cosmetic. It's extended version of his First Appearance from the 2023 Festival of Neggs (that green coat has not been worn by him in years at this point) and he seems to have a tail...
Wonderful! I'm glad he has the classic Ogrin tail that beautifully matches his ears... but I could of sworn he didn't have one... which made me dig through past content he appears in. Surely I just failed to notice the tail and...yea, if you look at the 2024 Advent Calender comics he appeared, it's there! Hell, even in this thread, I have used an image of him showing his tail, so clearly I'm boo boo the fool, mystery solved.
It seems like that VW plot comic panel was either a mistake or Orion's tail is just obscured by Dr. Landelbrot's big ol' Lutari tail. But then I really started to think. The two remaining brain cells I have left recalled something: his action figure
Tailless!!! His plushies?
If you guessed tailless, you'd be right! And just to compare it to the regular Shadow Ogrin plushie item...
Tail, visible as the sun on a cloudless day. And then I figured it out...the reason I didn't think he had a tail was because I've literally bought over 7000 Snowy Orion Plushies, therefore it is the piece of artwork of him I've stared at *by far* the most of...well, probably any artwork on neopets dot com. Conclusion: can we definitively proved Once and For All that Orion has a tail? Well, yes, it is visible more often than not. BUT someone at the neopets toy factory's gotta get their shit together smh. PS. I did purchase the essence... I am not immune to bad money decisions and mercifully its implementation was not bank breaking like the initial batch of essences were. Also you can't control the order in which your pets are listed so the fact they're next to each other on my pet look up........
Cracks knuckles hey it's been a minute, time to do my semi annual Wtf is going on with Orion Neopets thread cuz that's all this tumblr account is these days. First up: The 2025 Advent Calender sapphic nightmare??? My ass got to see this on christmas, I lost my fucking mind. I'm still losing my mind, he just wants to hang out with the girlies but he's in a coma and possessed by a music demon!!!!
The June 2nd plot update, basically reading this in real time as I type: Nyx just saying what I've been saying for years here. Glad he's confirmed to be an Old Man so my crackship with him and Landelbrot is now certified Old Man Yaoi
This is crazy, bro literally is capital P Possessed to the point where it's not even him in the plot, it's the music demon-
Why is the music demon calling Ozzy "darling"???? I'm so glad the music demon is fruity. (Ozzy is a full ass grown man btw, he's just tiny)
The demon out here like "You're non biney? Das cool"
NEW SPRITE POSE JUST DROPPED, I refuse to believe this demon can make that man have good posture
GORE OF MY COMFORT CHARACTER NOOOOOO
WELP that sure was an update- Fyora says he's alive but....ho boy, time to wait in baited breath for next week-
I'm probably one of like 3 people who still plays Neopets on this website but I need to discuss this image- A rundown: there's been a fuck ton of discourse over the Seasonal Attack Pea (SAP for short) item being introduced into the neopets trading economy via random chance through the yearly advent calendar they do.
The Seasonal Attack Pea (from my understanding as someone who's never engaged with the Battledome mechanic until like 3 weeks ago despite having played Neopets for 18 of my 28 years on planet Earth) is one of the single best items in the game, and turbo expensive. We're talking 9 figures worth of neopoints. Maybe 10. It's initial distribution also made it so ludicrously sparse. Only 100 existed and it was released in 2002. This thing is a *grail* item in Neopets, is what I'm saying. Things like getting Invincible to drop or a full odds shiny pokemon are child's play videogame achievements compared to getting any of the Attack Peas. Dec 1 rolls around and suddenly players are reporting in staggering numbers that they got Seasonal Attack Peas from the advent calendar and all hell breaks loose. The fat cat neopets players are all mad that their items are being devalued to hell event after event and the proletariat masses are excited to see the neopets economy in shambles so they can finally own grail items, it's chaos and I personally love it. There's conspiracies on reddit about it that I can barely parse and don't care to get into. Anyway, so I just logged in to get my free stuff, do my dailies, drink my 4:30 am soda pop and see Dr. Who Mr. Orion O. Ophiuchus the Shadow Ogrin in *shambles* talking about how we need to stop the Advent Calendar and it's making it seem like he's baring the brunt of the Seasonal Attack Pea discourse and I'm HOWLING right now. My man literally just got introduced as a character to this game in like... May of this year??? And now it looks like he's being pinned to the cross of the Seasonal Attack Pea discourse- Like I doubt this was intentional but I choose to believe Orion did an oopsy and is The One reason for the chaotic mass redistribution of wealth across Neopets.
POV: Orion tries to give your neopet a Seasonal Attack Pea
MY MAN LOST EVERYTHING IN A DIVORCE, IS NOW BEING HAUNTED BY A CURSED LYRE APPARENTLY AND REINA WON'T EVEN THROW HIM A BONE??? What is Neopets team doing to this poor pathetic man!!!
hi, me again, back with the final (for now) update on Orion's life falling apart.
Apparently someone on the Neopets team really likes World of Warcraft cuz he's being haunted by visions of C'thun fucking up the space time continuum.
C'thun showing up in Neopets in 2023 was not on my bingo card but it probably should have been...
Anyway Queen Fyora also showed up and told his ass to go to bed so at least he'll finally get some post divorce sleep after the Seasonal Attack Pea debacle...i mean, after being haunted by C'thun for weeks on end! (Also in case you're wondering why I keep saying he's divorced, notice the ring-)
It’s been close to a year but I’m back with another update on the trials and tribulations of Mr Orion O Ophiuchus.
Apparently he read some Jhudora x Illusen fanfic on AO3 and got possessed.
Link me the fic dude, I wanna sneak a peak.
The wedding ring(?) is back by the way?? But only when possessed by the haunted lyre?? Probably just a continuity error on the artist’s part but I choose to believe there’s some kind of scandal here.
Lastly I just need yall to know his fancy, green coat and slicked back hair never returned. He’s just been disheveled ever since, save for getting his glasses fixed and washing his clothes. Letting the pocketwatch just dangle is unhinged though, I used to wear one before the proliferation of smart watches and they are decently heavy-
Okay I'm back to yell about this wet ass Ogrin again my brother in christ, you spent like a year and some change trying to resolve the whole being haunted by a cursed instrument only to GO FIND ANOTHER ONE. You idiot, you fool, you dumbass.
I'm sick as a dog and barely functional as I type but neopets dot com just handled me these items......
UHHHH idk, I needed a pince nez wearable for my uni also named Orion so this is actually very convenient for me, I don't think our haunted maestro is long for this world-
It's good to be back Anyway I'm here to start a new conspiracy: Does this man have a tail or not?? So to my knowledge, the first time we saw Orion's whole body was in the Void Within comic. He's just randomly in the background of Chapter 1 Page 5 and, at time of writing, has not been seen *directly* in the VW plot comic since. We also get visual confirmation Orion is 5'11" and Queen Fyora is 6'.
Decidedly tailless, which is odd. Ogrins do have tails and usually anthro neopet characters keep the key features of their feral forms but I digress. He seemingly doesn't have a tail. Recently, TNT added new essence cosmetics to the Styling Studio which allows us neopians to make our pets look like some of the beloved characters across the game and, wouldn't you know it, Mr Orion O Ophiuchus as in that batch! So as I'm lamenting the fact I'm gonna have to spend money, I notice something about this cosmetic. It's extended version of his First Appearance from the 2023 Festival of Neggs (that green coat has not been worn by him in years at this point) and he seems to have a tail...
Wonderful! I'm glad he has the classic Ogrin tail that beautifully matches his ears... but I could of sworn he didn't have one... which made me dig through past content he appears in. Surely I just failed to notice the tail and...yea, if you look at the 2024 Advent Calender comics he appeared, it's there! Hell, even in this thread, I have used an image of him showing his tail, so clearly I'm boo boo the fool, mystery solved.
It seems like that VW plot comic panel was either a mistake or Orion's tail is just obscured by Dr. Landelbrot's big ol' Lutari tail. But then I really started to think. The two remaining brain cells I have left recalled something: his action figure
Tailless!!! His plushies?
If you guessed tailless, you'd be right! And just to compare it to the regular Shadow Ogrin plushie item...
Tail, visible as the sun on a cloudless day. And then I figured it out...the reason I didn't think he had a tail was because I've literally bought over 7000 Snowy Orion Plushies, therefore it is the piece of artwork of him I've stared at *by far* the most of...well, probably any artwork on neopets dot com. Conclusion: can we definitively proved Once and For All that Orion has a tail? Well, yes, it is visible more often than not. BUT someone at the neopets toy factory's gotta get their shit together smh. PS. I did purchase the essence... I am not immune to bad money decisions and mercifully its implementation was not bank breaking like the initial batch of essences were. Also you can't control the order in which your pets are listed so the fact they're next to each other on my pet look up........
Attack on @whereshadowsthrive
Tysm again, absolutely adore this piece!!!
His entry into the SSC was really hard to adjust to.
(Look at me remembering to post on tumblr for the first time in eons and it’s a gawd dayum niche shitpost)

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My spicy comic KNIGHT'S EMBRACE is finally out and available to download COMPLETELY FOR FREE! It features Zaidan and his perpetually grumpy princess boyfriend Orion having some late night fun. This comic was a massive labor of love between me and my friend DraconicSeraphim and I am so excited to finally put it out in the world! Additionally, if you do like it and want a physical copy, DM me! I have some copies ready to ship as early as tomorrow! Links (18+ only): Itch.io (free but tips are enabled if you are feeling generous) Patreon (free)
Folks, backup your Tumblrs, for real this time
To be clear, I don't have any news about any impending doom. But I've heard a bit more about what's going on with staff after the layoff of last week, and there are even less people than I thought still working here.
I don't think even the current staff know what's going to happen, but honestly, I don't see how the high ups could even pretend to intend to keep this place open while virtually unstaffed.
And of course, if the most despicable thing happens, you can find me at @[email protected] from any fediverse platform 🤷
for reference, OP is a former employee of Tumblr who tries to keep up to date with tumblr’s inner workings. please back your blogs up.
In your blog settings you have the ability to initiate a blog export, and this will generate a backup for your blog.
Fair warning though, if you've been on the platform for a long time this archive is likely to be quite hefty in file size. This blog I have had for 5 years with 22k posts, and the export from tumblr came to be 48GB. My previous blog I made in 2011 and has 95k posts, so needless to say I did not use tumblr's built in export to back that one up.
If you want more control over exactly what you back up from your blog, I recommend that you use tumblr-utils instead. It allows you to backup specific tags, post types, and to ignore posts that you did not create (reblogs where you've added a comment count as a post you created, to be clear).
To use it:
download and install python 2.7
download tumblr-utils
create an application on tumblr to get an api key
extract the tumblr-utils zip and open the tumblr_backup.py file in notepad
search for "API" and paste in your OAuth consumer key
then go back to the folder where you extracted tumblr-utils and choose open folder in terminal / command prompt, or type cmd.exe in the address bar while inside the folder
now in the window that opens it should show the current path, and you can type "py -2 .\tumblr_backup.py [your options] [your blog name]" and hit enter. Example:
Backing up just my original posts from this blog with this command came to 632MB rather than 48GB, and also gave me the option to save my posts in JSON format which will be useful for converting my posts to a new format for self hosting.
On that note I'm currently looking into figuring out a simple (and ideally free) way of self hosting a static site blog that utilises activitypub, and also converting my old posts to re-host on said blog.
This post series by maho.dev on implementing activitypub with any static site is my primary source of guidance atm if you also want to try figure that out yourself, as well as having an explanation for why you'd even want to do this if you don't already know
but if tumblr goes down before I get things sorted and write up a post about it then i'll be reporting back on it via my bsky, mastodon, and toyhouse accounts
if you dont have an account on any of these I'll also be sharing an update via my personal site's RSS feed, link of which includes an explanation of what RSS is and some feed readers you can use, I highly recommend checking it out as getting a feed reader is going to be the best way you can stay connected with people if they scatter across the internet!
tldr: download tumblr-utils to backup your blog more efficiently, introduce yourself to RSS and get a feed reader to stay connected with people, consider saving mine so you can find out how to self host your blog later if tumblr goes down
Feeling like shit, have some sad art I guess.
[-MARK FOR DEATH-]
Inspired by Know This I Am - The Slow Readers Club
Pleased to announce I have updated Midnight Hercules' key art to feature The Spooky Gun that Bites You instead of the old cannon.
Idk I just think he’s neat.
Wanted to doodle his old fit before his boss decided to hunt him for sport- I mean uhh put him on mandatory, indefinite sabbatical :)

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Inspired by Know This I Am - The Slow Readers Club
I have decided to become uncringable and made graphics for my OC playlists. The tracklists are meant to be listened to in order and more or less tell the broad strokes lore of my blorbos up until they get with their respective partners!
Made an interest form for my spicy middle aged man yaoi comic and got 3 responses, which is 3 more than I expected so I’m on cloud god damn nine rn.
Idk I just feel as though my original worth is worthless and that I’m only useful as a bespoke commissions artist so the idea that 3 people would even be vaguely interested in my comic makes me feel warm.
Here’s the elevator pitch to the comic’s premise, I hope you see the vision.
Made an interest form for my spicy middle aged man yaoi comic and got 3 responses, which is 3 more than I expected so I’m on cloud god damn nine rn.
Idk I just feel as though my original worth is worthless and that I’m only useful as a bespoke commissions artist so the idea that 3 people would even be vaguely interested in my comic makes me feel warm.
God I love sitting down and getting to draw the same milk toast, vanilla AF yaoi of my blorbos over and over and over and over and-
I simply will never get tired of it.
I appreciate all the ice cream metaphors in the notifs but this just happened and I’m gonna roast myself over it. I know I just said I’ll never get tired of drawing the same basic ass yaoi over and over and over but I didn’t think I was so basic as to Draw The Same Image Twice Within a Week Of Each Other and not realize it…
People have asked me if I ever get sick of my tiny roster of blorbos and it’s like No, I Literally Do Not.

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God I love sitting down and getting to draw the same milk toast, vanilla AF yaoi of my blorbos over and over and over and over and-
I simply will never get tired of it.
we should bring back the trend of drawing trains as dragons. for no reason at all
Hey @whereshadowsthrive
correct, here's one i drew like 2 weeks ago