#candy meerca

[glitteringstardust]

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candy meerca stimboard

[secretcherimaybe]

[nicepets]

Pet: GumbaIIs

Owner: chocoshake

[adobe-outdesign]

I would love a meerca review! One of my earliest disappointments in life was waking up to find my adorable meerca standing on two feet with a shortened tail and one fist raised to the skies. Of all Neopets I feel like you’d be hard pressed to think of one that was done a greater disservice by conversion than the meerca.

Meercas are one of a only a few rodent 'pets, and between them, the Xweektok, and the Usul, Meercas definitely come across as the most rodent-esq—though which rodent is somewhat ambiguous. I like their faces a lot, which sport little dot eyes and a set of buck teeth.

The Meercas big theme and uniqueness comes from their tails. It's harder to tell with the converted art (which we'll get to shortly), but Meercas have incredibly long tails that they use to balance on. It's a fun premise that gives them a lot of personality, especially when combined with their round bodies.

Beyond that, Meercas have a good use of color, which white around the bulk the body, under their tails, and in their ears. My only nitpick is that in the converted art, the color underneath the tail bleeds a bit onto the outside, which isn't too big of a deal but always low-key bugs me.

Customization-wise, Meercas were unfortunately done pretty dirty. I'm not sure I can call them the worst case of conversion, because to be fair, conversion kind of requires all pets to be standing normally and to have a fist when possible. The issue is more with the entire premise of customization itself, but I'm not going to blame a converted pet for, well, being converted.

The Meerca at least doesn't change that much about the body at random the way the Wocky or Lutari did, and the old art was starting to look very dated, with minimal shading and some kind of janky anatomy. I also like how the converted version did things like remove the little hairs from the top of the head.

However, what I can't excuse with the converted Meerca is the absolute butchering of their tails. The entire point of this species is that their tails are stupidly long. Even if customization means they can't sit on their tails anymore, they could've at least kept the length, as it was the key element of the design. Maybe the concern was trying to keep the pet itself fairly centered, but like... have the tail curled up against the body, have it go vertically up above the body, fold it over on itself, there were tons of ways to keep the length. Unfortunately none of that was done, and we ended up with a sadder Meerca as a result.

Favorite Colours:

Candy: It's a gumball with those sour belt candies! It's absolutely perfect for the species, utilizing both their long tails and gumball bodies beautifully. The shading on the body is also richly detailed and gives it that extra bit of gumball shine, and the colors are nice and cohesive. Good stuff all around.

Striped: One of only two striped pets that doesn't default to being blue with pink stripes, the striped Meerca is a chipmunk, applying some lovely brown shades and lots and lots of stripes but stylizing them just enough to fit the body shape. I also like little details, like removing the outline around the white part of the body.

Woodland: Similar to the candy Meerca, the woodland Meerca takes full advantage of the round body and long tail to make it into a taro, a type of root vegetable. While its very different than most woodland pets, the tail works perfect and the body has lots of attention to detail.

BONUS: Maraquan Meercas, while not the best Maraquan pets, have to get at least a shout-out for the fun pufferfish concept. I do wish there was more color, maybe on the fins (I know pufferfish aren't known for having a ton of color, but this is a fantasy creature first and foremost), but the overall idea is very fun and it's one of the only ways to get the old Meerca expression post-customization. The converted and UC/styled version are literally identical save for the customized version sporting fists, which aren't as good at the original's hands but aren't too bothersome.

[miniestation]

I loathe some of the designs for xmas paint brushes on neopets, so… ima redo them 🙈🎄✨

Acara and Meerca got completely redone because their original designs are atrocious!! 😭 Blumaroo and Chomby merely received retouches because I thought the candy design was a really cute, so I just wanted to amplify the overall aesthetic. 🍫🍬

I know reindeer is an obvious concept for Acara, but I don’t mind because I think the result is really cute (and bc this is Neopets fan art, I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel lol). As for Meerca, a few kind of abstract ideas popped into my head, but the concept of a lump of coal felt the most fun to me. Is it a lump of coal carved to resemble a Meerca, or did a Meerca get stuck in a chimney? Both are plausible…

It’s not clear exactly what Blumaroo is supposed to be in his design, so I assumed it was meant to be candy cane like some of the other pets. Some pets receive more detail in their designs in later years, and I imagine Blumaroo would look like my retouch if he got the same treatment! More definition was added to this body to imitate the glittering of spun sugar. Chomby got a few of its design elements swapped because they just felt super clumsy beforehand. I kept the holly, but placed it on the wreath as a bow (again similar to other pets). I added detail to Chomby’s spikes to make them look more like peppermint bark, including putting crumbled pieces in the spots the holly was originally placed (this also looks much closer to Chomby’s base design!) More warmth and a bit of shine was added to its body to help get closer to the appearance of molded white chocolate, which looked extra cute with the retouched peppermint bark embedded in it!

Each design received touch ups and added detail to their strands of lights! ❤️💚💛💙 Meerca’s ribbon tail needed to look like those super glam velvet ribbons with the posable wire inside. I’m super happy with all of the looks so far~

Which ones should I try next?

[nintundo]

I'm active on neopets again, and it's inspiring me to get back into art a bit! It's a painful process lol, but fun. Here's my beautiful candy meerca Kandychan :3 If you want to be neofriends, feel free to add me @ giskid!

[goodpupsarchive]

Original Upload Date: October 19th 2022

A candy Meerca for Abel! Added an extra bit of chub to him since the neopet is a literal orb-

[neopetsstaff]

there she is! my beautiful baby girl!! little gay rat baby!!!

[princecharmingtobe]

Neopets TTRPG Project is going well I think

I got some basic stats down for all 55 species, and have moved on to colors. Some of these are mildly infuriating, but with the help of some friends and a few strangers, progress is being made.

Currently on Candy, and my main thought is some sort of Sugar Rush type ability, maybe working similarly to Haste in D&D? 

[glitteringstardust]

i am working on the current requests--and am enjoying doing so because i love disney parks stuff so much, so thank you to whichever anon(s) requested those--but right now i'm in a garbage mood so i'm also spontaneously looking for gifs for a candy meerca stimboard

because i love these little guys and because the neopets staff actually announced some good news today which was a bright spot in the rest of how my day has been 💖 truly hope everyone else is doing well and has had a good day, though!! if any of our followers ever wanna just talk about your day or infodump about your special interest or anything feel free to send us asks :o

[riddlerosehearts]

okay so the last time i actively played neopets was close to a decade ago when my oldest account got frozen for a stupid reason and i couldn't get unfrozen so i quit

and the last time i got really nostalgic for it and made a new account was in like 2017-2018 but i stopped playing again after a few days lol

i have now been feeling extremely nostalgic for it again and am kinda wondering if anyone actually still plays and would wanna be neofriends?? also do the flash games even still work ajsjskdkgkd i wanna play meerca chase. also the key quest thing or whatever it was called, that used to be way too fun to me.

but ALSO i literally had no idea until 5 minutes ago that there is now a candy paintbrush and i'm crying at how cute some of these are!!

like hello i want to adopt every single one of them immediately??

[nicepets]

Pet: Bootsu

Owner: natloo

[pokedext]

Working on getting a candy meerca

[melpetz]

since neopets vary so much i needed to make a point of reference for myself so i can keep my designs consistent. so here are my headcanons for general neopet heights (since the ones listed on their pet pages are so inconsistent)

long list of specific species height headcanons below the cut

key:

* next to the species means they are usually on the shorter side

^ next to the species means they are usually on the taller side

no marking means they fall in the middle

3-4ft: the majority

Acara^

Aisha^

Blumaroo^

Bori^

Bruce^

Buzz

Chia*

Cybunny

Grundo*

Ixi

JubJub*

Kacheek*

Kiko

Koi*

Korbat

Kyrii^

Lutari^

Meerca*

Moehog^

Mynci

Poogle

Pteri*

Quiggle

Shoyru^

Techo

Usul*

Wocky

Xweetok*

Yurble^

MOST food pets (biscuit, candy, chocolate)

MOST faerie pets

SOME baby pets (the larger species)

5-6ft: almost tall

Bori*

Chomby^

Draik*

Elephante^

Eyrie

Flotsam*

Gelert

Gnorbu

Grrarl^

Hissi

Jetsam^

Kau^

Kougra

Krawk

Lenny^

Lupe

Nimmo

Ogrin

Peophin

Ruki*

Scorchio

Skeith^

Tonu^

Tuskaninny

Uni^

Vandagyre

Zafara*

MOST anthro pets

MOST mutant pets

MOST tyrannian pets

SOME halloween pets

SOME maraquan pets

1-2ft tall: little guys

all petpets

fruit/vegetable chias

MOST baby pets

SOME faerie pets

SOME plushie pets

SOME toy pets

SOME maraquan pets

SOME food pets (biscuit, candy, chocolate)

MOST origami pets

[neocryptids]

the candy meerca is stunning omg

[neopetsstaff]

idk i just love him

[gif id: the 3D heart locket with the text "candy meerca my beloved" on the left and an image of a candy meerca neopet on the right]