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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.

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-)

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-

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-

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........

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

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.

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-)

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-

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-

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........

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!

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