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“the heart wants what it wants”? okay well the heart is fucking stupid can we let someone else have a turn? maybe the spleen wants to have a go?

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When I was little I had an irrational fear of when you tried to turn off your Windows XP and the screen would gradually turn Grey as you choose which power option to enter

That shit was SCARY!!!

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crisp glass of water moodboard

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FEif10周年

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collection

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I think we as a society should bring back brotps. I think we should be weirder about characters being friends the same way people are weird about ships. Make those two characters who interacted once or twice besties. Make it difficult for them to get rid of each other even if they want to. Go nuts

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the horseless carriage implies the existence of a "horse"

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Part 2 because Heaven Forbid I get to have things nicely organised

UPDATE: The links should work now, but I had to remove the links to the AC goal poses to get it to post. Hopefully it should all be functioning properly now

SK: AC 2 - 10 Blurbs and Sunnyneo blurb, AC 11 - 18 Blurb, Press-release and Sunnyneo blurbs, AC 19 Press-release and Blurb, The grey year and Pinkpt

MT: AC 5 - 10 Blurbs and Sunnyneo blurb, AC 11 - 18 Blurbs and Sunnyneo blurbs, AC 19 Press-release and Blurb, The grey year and Pinkpt

DA: AC 19 Press-release and Blurb and The grey year

BONUS: AC 1 Summary, AC 1 Scores and Final Standings and AC 1 Awards

Altador Cup Lore Preservation Post

Ah, Altador Cup lore; there is a lot of it, it is messy and most egregiously - its preservation is in a less than a stellar state. For TNT it's hardly been a priority and as a result it has been up to us fans to try to keep whatever information we can. This post will be a collection of my contributions towards this effort.

I'm hardly tech savvy, just a single woman armed with the wayback machine, the printscreen button and stubbornness. In an ideal world I would be able to give you every press-release and blurb for every team from AC 1 til now (AC: the grey year as of time of writing), but with my current tools and leads that sadly is not the case and for that I can only apologise. Below will be a collection of links to other posts I have made in my effort to catalogue all this information. Consider this a master post of sorts (the teams being ordered numerically rather than alphabetically), but firstly; time to clarify some terminology. What is a blurb? A team blurb is the written description of the team that you would get upon clicking their icon on the sign-up page. These have existed since the very first Altador Cup.

What is a press-release? Press-releases are short pieces of writing that they started doing in the lead-up to AC 6. These are often done in the style of a reporter writing an article or doing an interveiw of a team player and so forth. These are done before the Altador cup itself starts and is thusly different from the blurbs.

What is a "sunnyneo blurb"? To put it simply; telling the difference from blurb and press-release can be difficult. Even more so when my main source of post-AC 6 information - the Neopets fansite Sunnyneo - also fails to differentiate the two. When I label something as a "sunnyneo blurb" its basically me saying "I cannot tell which category this one falls under"

What is Pinkpt? Pinkpt is an old neopets wiki that is - as of time of writing - currently unavailable. I started collecting these as they were the only way to read some AC 1 info. While I eventually managed to recover all AC 1 blurbs and player info I still find these to be valuable if only for comparisons sake. Side note: since many of these are old they may not be up to date when it comes to things like player transfers. For the sake of visual cohesion I will be keeping players of the same uniform together even if that player currently plays for another team (i.e Timu's page will be under AL even though she currently plays for SK) These are the instances where I have been unable to recover neither blurb nor press-release and thusly those years will not be shown in their respective posts. The missing info is: AL 10, KI 4, KD 4 & 13, LD 15, RI 4 and TY 18.

Be it the lore enthusiasts, the fanfic researchers or just the plain old curious - may this information serve useful to whomever may need it for whatever reason.

(Please check the pinned post on my blog for part 2 that includes the last 3 teams + some bonus AC 1 info)

AL: AC 1 Blurb and Player info, Blurb and Press-release AC 2 - 9, Blurbs, Press-releases and Sunnyneo blurbs AC 11 - 18, AC 19 Press-release and Blurb, The grey year and Pinkpt

BV: AC 1 Blurb and Player info, Blurbs AC 2 - 10, Blurbs, Sunnyneo blurbs and Press-release AC 11 - 18, AC 19 Press-release and Blurb, The grey year and Pinkpt

DC: AC 1 Blurb and Player info, AC 2 - 10 Blurbs and Sunnyneo blurbs, AC 11 - 18 Blurbs, Press-releases and Sunnyneo blurbs, AC 19 Press-release and Blurb, The grey year and Pinkpt

FL: AC 1 Blurb and Player info, AC 2- 10 Blurbs and Sunnyneo blurbs, AC 11 - 18 Blurbs and Sunnyneo blurbs, AC 19 Press-release and Blurb, The grey year and Pinkpt

HW: AC 1 Blurb and Player info, AC 2 - 10 Blurbs and Press-release, AC 11 - 18 Blurbs, Press-release and Sunnyneo blurbs, AC 19 Press-release and Blurb, The grey year and Pinkpt

KL: AC 1 Blurb and Player info, AC 2 - 10 Blurbs and Sunnyneo blurbs, AC 11 - 18 Blurbs and Sunnyneo blurbs, AC 19 Press-release and Blurb, The grey year and Pinkpt

KI: AC 1 Blurb and Player info, AC 2 - 10 Blurbs and Sunnyneo blurb, AC 11 - 18 Blurbs and Sunnyneo blurbs, AC 19 Press-release and Blurb, The grey year and Pinkpt

KD: AC 1 Blurb and Player info, AC 3 - 10 Blurbs and Sunnyneo blurbs, AC 11 - 18 Blurbs and Sunnyneo blurbs, AC 19 Press-release and Blurb, The grey year and Pinkpt

LD: AC 1 blurb and Player info, AC 2 - 10 Blurbs and Sunnyneo blurb, AC 11 - 18 Blurb, Press-release and Sunnyneo blurbs, AC 19 Press-release and Blurb, The grey year and Pinkpt

MQ: AC 1 Blurb and Player info, AC 2 - 10 Blurbs and Sunnyneo blurb, AC 11 - 18 Blurbs, Sunnyneo blurbs and Press-release, AC 19 Press-release and Blurb, The grey year, Maraqua AC 19 VS YYB and Pinkpt

MD: AC 1 Blurb and Player info, AC 2 - 10 Blurb and Press-release, AC 11 - 18 Blurb, Sunnyneo blurbs and Press-releases, AC 19 Press-release and Blurb, The grey year and Pinkpt

MI: AC 1 Blurb and Player info, AC 2 - 10 Blurbs and Sunnyneo blurb, AC 11 - 18 Blurb, Sunnyneo blurbs and Press-release, AC 19 Press-release and Blurb, The grey year and Pinkpt

RI: AC 1 Blurb and Player info, AC 2 - 10 Blurbs and Sunnyneo blurb, AC 11 - 18 Blurbs and Sunnyneo blurbs, AC 19 Press-release and Blurb, The grey year and Pinkpt TM: AC 1 Blurb and Player info, AC 2 - 10 blurbs, AC 11 - 18 Blurbs, Sunnyneo blurbs and Press-release, AC 19 Press-release and Blurb, The grey year and Pinkpt TY: AC 1 Blurb and Player info, AC 2 - 10 Blurbs and Sunnyneo blurbs, AC 11 - 17 Blurbs and Sunnyneo blurbs, AC 19 Press-release and Blurb, The grey year and Pinkpt VP: AC 1 Blurb and Player info, AC 2 - 10 Blurbs and Sunnyneo blurb, AC 11 - 18 Blurbs and Sunnyneo blurbs, AC 19 Press-release and Blurb, The grey year and Pinkpt

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Pinkpt AC 1 Awards

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Pinkpt AC 1 scores

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Pinkpt AC 1 summary

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Dacardia; The grey year

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Dacardia AC 19 Press-release and Blurb

(Please note that DA did not participate in the first eighteen ACs and thusly have no blurbs for those years)

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Moltara Pinkpt pages

(Tulah Kisner's page was the only one archived by the wayback machine)

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Moltara; The grey year

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Moltara AC 19 Press-release and Blurb