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I had this mental image of my pet, Anna124, having this, like, completely lovestruck moment, probably targeted toward Aeroeuf, my super buff mutant Grundo. 💚

After years, I am updating my Neopets Maraquan project! I added two more species to the project (Flotsam and Peophin!)

If you never saw my project, what designs you like the most? Would you have them? Share with me your thoughts! Once again, thanks everyone for the support and all the shares those years!! <3 Follow me for more Neopets arts!

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This is my face and these are my cats 🥰

Anaesthesia

👷‍♂️Work In Progress🔨

OOAK Project: I put a Yasmina Clairvoyant (I think) Bratzillaz head on a generic LOL OMG doll body I ordered from aliexpress. I did my best to match skin tones from the images and it's pretty close! I think this is such a good body and head match! Bratz heads are almost too huge for their bodies!!! And LOL OMG dolls have big bodies but even larger heads!! I feel good about marrying the two!

I was thinking of making her an overwatch Widowmaker Talon outfit. That butt would be perf. o////o

My dnd group is pretty cute!

Neopets OCs Story Outline

Anna124 is a pink aisha who confidently hunts bounties.

Aeroeuf is a green grundo who is a bit nerdy and feels unnoticed.

Plot A: Love triangle @ the Grundos Cafe on Virtupets Space Station

Gargarox likes Anna124 in an open, loud manner

This chef professes his love daily by asking her out often and giving her free snacks (which she loves.)

Garg is very self confident and assured. It will only be a matter of time before she falls for me!

Anna likes Aeroeuf in a semi-open manner

The frequent patron often has to shoot down Gargarox’s requests.

She tries to drop hints to Aero, another patron.

Aero likes Anna in a completely private manner

He sometimes alienates her.

Anytime he tries to ask her out, Garg gets in the way.

Aeroeuf or Anna must gain confidence and make a move. Garg backs off only when he hears a resounding NO!

Plot B: Anna124 is a bounty hunter. She has her own spaceship. She has issues with the competency/cowardice of her current partner.

She sees Sophie the Swamp Witch’s bounty is $$$$$$

Sophie turns the current partner into a petpet. Anna catches her while distracted.

Anna needs to hire a new partner.

Hires mutant Aero (unknown it is him). Evil Fuzzles invade the spaceship.

They think it’s weird that there are plushies on the ship.

The ship is becoming damaged, the toys work like weeping angels, don’t blink, just blast em!

National Neopian: Need to catch the band of thieves - scorchio, 2 meerca brothers, usul

Aero goes undercover as bank teller; Anna plays customer. They predict this band of thieves will attack.

The thieves are so bumbling that they capture themselves.

Plot A & C have the overarching resolution explained.

Plot C: Aeroeuf starts taking Transmogrification Potions to become a mutant grundo version of himself.

He wants to become Anna’s partner.

He takes the transmogrification potion and becomes mutated.

He applies for the open job of assisting her in catching baddies.

He is a strong sidekick, dumb brain, he can’t communicate how he feels for her.

He helps crush the Fuzzles. Benefit: he blinks very slowly; making it hard for the Fuzzles to move when he’s around.

He is highly valued for his strength and slow blinking. (Side peck ♥)

He has bad side effects.

He is losing his memory and is dumb. Inner monologue is rich and vivid.

He is still fiercely loyal to her and takes a bullet for Anna during the bank heist, rendering him unconscious.

She finds an empty bottle of the potion. Aero wakes up in the Healing Springs, no longer mutated. Anna expresses gratitude but displeasure for his dishonesty. She starts a conditional romance with him: no more secrets!! >:V

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Drawing neopets from memory. XD

beginner’s guide to the indie web

“i miss the old internet” “we’ll never have websites like the ones from the 90s and early 2000s ever again” “i’m tired of social media but there’s nowhere to go”

HOLD ON!

personal websites and indie web development still very much exist! it may be out of the way to access and may not be the default internet experience anymore, but if you want to look and read through someone’s personally crafted site, or even make your own, you can still do it! here’s how:

use NEOCITIES! neocities has a built in search and browse tools to let you discover websites, and most importantly, lets you build your own website from scratch for free! (there are other ways to host websites for free, but neocities is a really good hub for beginners!)

need help getting started with coding your website? sadgrl online has a section on her website dedicated to providing resources for newbie webmasters!

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are the core of what all websites are built on. many websites also use JS (JavaScript) to add interactive elements to their pages. w3schools is a useful directory of quick reference for pretty much every HTML/CSS/JS topic you can think of.

there is also this well written and lengthy guide on dragonfly cave that will put you step by step through the basics of HTML/CSS (what webpages are made from), if that’s your sort of thing!

stack overflow is every programmer’s hub for asking questions and getting help, so if you’re struggling with getting something to look how you want or can’t fix a bug, you may be able to get your answer here! you can even ask if no one’s asked the same question before.

websites like codepen and jsfiddle let you test HTML/CSS/JS in your browser as you tinker with small edits and bugfixing.

want to find indie websites outside the scope of neocities? use the search engine marginalia to find results you actually want that google won’t show you!

you can also use directory sites like yesterweb’s link section to find websites in all sorts of places.

if you are going to browse the indie web or make your own website, i also have some more personal tips as a webmaster myself (i am not an expert and i am just a small hobbyist, so take me with a grain of salt!)

if you are making your own site:

get expressive! truly make whatever you want! customize your corner of the internet to your heart’s content! you have left the constrains of social media where every page looks the same. you have no character limit, image limit, or design limit. want to make an entire page or even a whole website dedicated to your one niche interest that no one seems to be into but you? go for it! want to keep a public journal where you can express your thoughts without worry? do it! want to keep an art gallery that looks exactly how you want? heck yeah! you are free now! you will enjoy the indie web so much more if you actually use it for the things you can’t do on websites like twitter, instead of just using it as a carrd bio alternative or a place to dump nostalgic geocities gifs.

don’t overwhelm yourself! if you’ve never worked with HTML/CSS or JS before, it may look really intimidating. start slow, use some guides, and don’t bite off more than you can chew. even if your site doesn’t look how you want quite yet, be proud of your work! you’re learning a skill that most people don’t have or care to have, and that’s pretty cool.

keep a personal copy of your website downloaded to your computer and don’t just edit it on neocities (or your host of choice) and call it a day. if for some reason your host were to ever go down, you would lose all your hard work! and besides, by editing locally and offline, you can use editors like vscode (very robust) or notepad++ (on the simpler side), which have more features and is more intuitive than editing a site in-browser.

you can use ctrl+shift+i on most browsers to inspect the HTML/CSS and other components of the website you’re currently viewing. it’ll even notify you of errors! this is useful for bugfixing your own site if you have a problem, as well as looking at the code of sites you like and learning from it. don’t use this to steal other people’s code! it would be like art theft to just copy/paste an entire website layout. learn, don’t steal.

don’t hotlink images from other sites, unless the resource you’re taking from says it’s okay! it’s common courtesy to download images and host them on your own site instead of linking to someone else’s site to display them. by hotlinking, every time someone views your site, you’re taking up someone else’s bandwidth.

if you want to make your website easily editable in the future (or even for it to have multiple themes), you will find it useful to not use inline CSS (putting CSS in your HTML document, which holds your website’s content) and instead put it in a separate CSS file. this way, you can also use the same theme for multiple pages on your site by simply linking the CSS file to it. if this sounds overwhelming or foreign to you, don’t sweat it, but if you are interested in the difference between inline CSS and using separate stylesheets, w3schools has a useful, quick guide on the subject.

visit other people’s sites sometimes! you may gain new ideas or find links to more cool websites or resources just by browsing.

if you are browsing sites:

if the page you’re viewing has a guestbook or cbox and you enjoyed looking at the site, leave a comment! there is nothing better as a webmaster than for someone to take the time to even just say “love your site” in their guestbook.

that being said, if there’s something on a website you don’t like, simply move on to something else and don’t leave hate comments. this should be self explanatory, but it is really not the norm to start discourse in indie web spaces, and you will likely not even be responded to. it’s not worth it when you could be spending your time on stuff you love somewhere else.

take your time! indie web doesn’t prioritize fast content consumption the way social media does. you’ll get a lot more out of indie websites if you really read what’s in front of you, or take a little while to notice the details in someone’s art gallery instead of just moving on to the next thing. the person who put labor into presenting this information to you would also love to know that someone is truly looking and listening.

explore! by clicking links on a website, it’s easy to go down rabbitholes of more and more websites that you can get lost in for hours.

seeking out fansites or pages for the stuff you love is great and fulfilling, but reading someone’s site about a topic you’ve never even heard of before can be fun, too. i encourage you to branch out and really look for all the indie web has to offer.

i hope this post helps you get started with using and browsing the indie web! feel free to shoot me an ask if you have any questions or want any advice. <3