iriszi the water aisha ♥

now if i could just draw my other 17 or so neopets in this exact same style i would finally be happy

WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON’T LIKE NEOPETS

Happy spring!! 💛🌼💛

My 10 years old self would be so proud

WIP btw

god i wish i wouldn't have to explain the intricacies of the neopets economy to you guys to give the full context for this but. the new neopets team that took over from jumpstart pledged that they were going to curb the inflation of rare items, which is great because a lot of rare items are worth literally hundreds of millions of neopoints, they are unbuyable unless you've been playing actively for 20 years. they did this earlier with a site festival that included random loot boxes, some of which had Unbelievably Fucking Rare And Precious items worth 200 million neopoints apiece.

well.

today they have gone a step further. by releasing this year's trick-or-treat bags. and having the trick-or-treat bags be stuffed to the brim with unbelievably fucking rare stamps, weapons, paint brushes, defense magic, and other unbuyables. (all prohibitively expensive and in-high-demand types of items.)

jellyneo, the premier neopets website, has recorded prices of some items plummeting from 2,000,000 neopoints to 4,000 neopoints IN THE LAST THREE HOURS. this is when most people haven't even heard about the event or OPENED THEIR BAGS YET.

and of course. cherry on top. 20-year-old account holders are crytyping on the site events neoboard about how mean and cruel it is to make rare stamps part of the prize pool, because their entire identity hinges on being part of the neopian bourgeoisie, and they are having MELTDOWNS over their assets being devalued until they're part of the lowly proletariat.

this is a children's game for children btw.

none of the money is real.

i'm having such a good time.

according to a random cake item illusen has relatives which means: embarrassing mom

the continued adventures of an internet user who was frozen in 2004 and defrosted in 2021: some things are just the way you left them

previous 2004 internet user comics are here: one, two, three, four, five; or just in my 2004 tag

OH DANG they're bringin' back the old UC art over on Neopets!🙌🏼🎉

My last summer working at Neopets was 2007, which was riiiight on the eve of the big conversion—I rarely kept track of my more basic paintbrushes (purple, rainbow, checkered, etc), but I sure as heck kept track of all the PBs I designed that required full redraws:

I do not think I realized until this moment how many ixis I drew, apologies to all other pet species 😔🙏

shiny espeon reminds me of alien aisha

happy gnorbu day! i made this art of ashbella back in 2017 and i am still SO proud of it. i seldom make the effort to do full backgrounds and it took me many days of working on this to get through it. i tend to work fast and in short bursts, which means a lot of my art doesn't make it past a messy unfinished stage. this piece means a lot to me.

great gift ideas for the Neopets 1% getting mad over people being able to actually enjoy UCs now

I found a Neopets internal style guide from 2005.

I was originally gonna make a post complaining about how inconsistent and lacking the species model sheets were (which is pretty on-brand, all things considered), but then I glanced at the grundo model sheet and

... ????

An important reference, apparently.

They couldn't bother to give any do's and don'ts, proper turn-arounds or even just stick to one style in their own style guide, but they thought it was absolutely imperative that their artists were given an illustrated diagram of exactly how a grundo puffs that galactic ganja.

OK.

Neopets Faerieland Flash Preloader [✩]

[ID: A digital painting of a Vulpix from Pokemon, floating in a blue cloudy sky with a pink border, with an image of a Faerie paintbrush from Neopets in the upper corner. The paintbrush has pink paint dripping from it, and has purple fairy wings. Vulpix is a small fox-like Pokemon with curly hair and a wide fluffy tail. Now it is pale purple, with darker purple hair and tail, transluscent pink fairy wings, tiny antenne, and its eyes are purple and filled with clouds and the sun. End Id.]

vulpix painted with a faerie paintbrush 💜

Found out that theres just no explanation for where the neopets faeries come from or how they can apparently have generations of families lol,, so theories: