crimeronan

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.

riftclaw

oh fuck yeah this is the coolest

charaznablescanontoyota

do people on the wider internet know that neopets.com is experiencing time drift. not as a plot thing like the actual neopian standard time clock on the servers has been slowly de-syncing with real time because of a security update that broke it

charaznablescanontoyota

the nst clock is ~3 minutes fast at the moment, the funniest consequences of which are that you can still put in your food club bets for about 3 minutes after they should have been due, and 2fa is broken because neopets doesn't recognize your 2fa code from 3 minutes in the future

senatortedcruz

Need minimum 12 hours a day of do my own thang time

catmask

cats will see u eating a single bagel and look at u like your a european monarch cackling eating every last shred of food while they a poor beggar boy go off and die at war for the kingdom of a god they no longer believe in

catmask

girlfriend is a type of cat. maybe

leave-her-a-tome

(source)

• Unsplash -  photography, illustration, and art
• Pixabay - same as unsplash
• Pexels - stock photos and videos
• Stockvault.net - stock photos
• freepngimg - icons, pictures and clipart
• Veceezy - vectors and clipart
• Kissclipart and kissPNG - more vectors and clipart (often transparent!)
• Getdrawings - simplistic images and drawing tutorials
• Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)
• Canva - needs login but has lots of templates
• Library of Congress - historical posters and photos
• NASA - you guessed it
• Creative Commons - all kinds of stuff, homie
• Even Adobe has some free images

There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without infringing copyright! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own. 

Please add on if you know any more sites for free images <3

tatzelwurming

the way i want to die is to be shot by an opportunistic hunter who spies me capering through the woods in a gorilla suit, thinking that they had just slain the world’s first bigfoot, until they pull off my head and find that they’ve been made the world’s most gullible asshole and also an abomination in the eyes of god for killing his fellow man

crippleddetective

everybody supports disabled people until we’re inconveniencing them.

everybody supports people with chronic pain conditions until we have to cancel plans because we’re in immobilising pain.

everybody supports people with brain damage until we need extra support, until we have memory issues and forget basic information, until we have immobilising migraines.

everybody supports disabled people until we are disabled.

mclennonyaoi

no twitter . we cannot do leftist death penalty .

mclennonyaoi

abolishing the state sanctioned violence from the justice system to just opt for mob violence instead . 👍

mclennonyaoi

so much of abolitionism revolves around actually taking a look at how we view revenge, justice, crime and retribution in our society and changing how we fundamentally see these things . if your abolitionism is “i think we should get rid of jails so i can kill rapists myself with vigilante justice” you have already lost

mclennonyaoi

genuinely just insane takes happening here

mclennonyaoi

from what i can tell from the replies, child abusers and rapists. which seems like a really good idea if you are looking at it through only an emotional point of view and also you don’t really think about it for longer than five minutes . otherwise the fucking obvious flaws with that present themselves

cemeterything

it's rotten work, but without the rot nothing can grow

cemeterything

it's rotten work but decay is an essential part of the cycle of death and rebirth