Leaderboard

Couldn't sleep, so I started refreshing the magma pool. Wasn't expecting to have the guard fall asleep, but he did either at 12:51 or 12:52 Am NST.

So I've been looking for a fanfiction I read when I was a teenager for ages. First for myself and then for my foster sister. I could remember the name of the fic, but the site it used to be on is no longer alive. So I've been looking for back doors into it, to no avail. So my brother is helping to clean out my parents home in order to make it safe for my mother when she finally gets home from hospital. And he finds a load of old binders. Many of which have fanfiction in them. So he sends me the names and lo and behold, one of them is that fanfic I have been looking for!! So I get very excited and bounce around a lot, all the while my brother is trying to persuade me to let him burn it and I'm going NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! But that sets me thinking. If I had it printed, then I must have had it saved somewhere. And I have one single very old pen drive stick that I used to use to save private stuff on at work before we got given Home Drives. So I go rummaging. And I find it in a pencil case... because apparently, I am almost as much of a hoarder as my mother is. And even better, I find the bleeding fanfic on there that I have been searching high and bloody low for!!! SUCCESS!!! The fanfiction by the way is Harry Potter and the Year of Living Stupidity. It's a rather ridiculous parody fiction that has most of the Hogwarts Professors as incompetents, Harry as an attention seeking brat, Ron as an absolute moron and Hermione as a cat because the Hogwarts staff were too incompetent to change her back in second year. Sirius came back as a half-ghost because the afterlife was boring. Oh and Narcissa forces Lucius to get a job at Hogwarts as a janitor because Voldemort is eating them out of house and home. I'm not kidding, it's ridiculous. "But near the beginning of the school year, Harry and Ron had messed around with some old curses they'd got from a book Harry had sneaked out of the restricted section in the library one night under the Invisibility Cloak. In Lupin's opinion, handing that cloak over to Harry had been akin to giving a psychopath a chainsaw, a machete, and a copy of Mutilation for Fun and Profit, but that was old Dumbledore for you. Anyway, something had (unsurprisingly) gone wrong while Harry and Ron were playing with these illegal, terrifically dangerous curses, and Hermione got caught in the crossfire. Whatever spell had struck her had both rekindled and intensified the effects of the Polyjuice Potion she'd taken incorrectly in her second year. In short, it seemed as if she was now a cat for life, particularly since the highly incompetent staff of Hogwart's either couldn't figure out what to do for her condition or couldn't be bothered."

Can confirm that it works nicely spinning in another window, anyway.

Dug up this thread so I can talk about the latest twist in my CC prep! Firstly, are you guys aware of the current drama escalating on the boards about the Money Tree? It's all very soap opera. A growing number of users are mass-donating 6 NP amounts. Let us see... *visits tree* Yup, there you go. First time I've seen that name, too. It's been like that for several hours. Seems this is in retaliation to people aggressively complaining about junk on the tree. Like actually contacting the people who've donated and telling them to stop, and sending them dung... I mean, seriously? So there's now guilds dedicated to flooding the tree with 6 NP (the smallest amount you can donate), and boy are they dedicated!!! You can read about it here, if you're so inclined! Anyway! This really messes up my method of nabbing r80+ items from the tree for CC! So I decided that instead of futilely refreshing all day and hoping for some actual items to show up, I'd clear 10 of the 6 NP bags, then allow myself to buy 10 r90+ items. IF I can get them for 100 NP or less... Gosh WHY do I have such massive reluctance to spend for CC? Talk about making myself jump through hoops. x'D Yesterday I got a Tyrannian Acara Plushie for 20 NP, yay! Really not having much luck with my self-imposed limits though, but I do check out the rest of the stock of the cheapest sellers, and grab some r80+ items if they're just 5 NP or so, so I am loosening up a little on my punitive restrictions. Before I know it I'm gonna be spending thousands, right??? I don't think so. But this is progress!

A new update was released today for Neopets Beta which includes a Valentines Day site theme, a new clock, the Wheel of Monotony release and various bug fixes! A new Winter and Valentines Day site theme has been added. Wheel of Monotony has been converted and sound effects are back on! Neopets Standard Time clock added to site theme. Bug fixes (bookmark issues, Neopoint counter auto updates, graphical updates) Coming soon is a Festival of Neggs site theme, HMTL5 conversions for Maps, Faerie Quests and Community Central.

Apparently not... which is why my brother has been hunting for anything vaguely flammable!!

HAHAHAHAHAHA. Lost it at this point, sorry. This is a fabulous success story though, well done!

I dyed it darker, it's natural now haha. Definitely was right into the emo phase.

What about the two Neoquests? You can get avatars, trophies, cool prizes, NPs, lots of Random Events... Time consuming but fun.

I've seen the nuclear fallout on the Facebook groups and Reddit. The more people complain about it on there, the more people join in and donate 6np. It's a vicous circle... I've given up on the money tree until it all calms down. It literally started with one individual doing it... now there are tons of them!!