Neopets is so funny right now. It's a 24-year-old website and half its pages haven't been updated in 15 years. Its ostensible audience is children. The core active audience appears to be nostalgic 20-40-year-olds. Old code means no accounts or pets can ever be renamed. The virtual pound is full of virtual pets named after Justin Bieber. It has an economy and inflation is rampant. New ownership is combating this with the stimulus of random super-rare items via daily quests and events, while the equivalent of Neopian Upper-Crust complain that their investments are deflating. You can't say seaweed or grapes.
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they get drunk and Steve’s cupping Billy’s face in his hands and kissing him square on the mouth and mumbling disgustingly sweet things that Billy scrunches his nose about but he’s melting all the same
Steve tastes like that god awful tequila-beer-juice-wine concoction in the kitchen but Billy can’t bring himself to care, not when he’s got his pretty boy pressing him up against the wall in the basement, sneaking greedy kisses in the dark
ten minutes later they’re playing beer pong, kicking every other team’s ass, shouting over the loud music and laughing when Tommy falls as he chases after the ball, wiping their eyes because it shouldn’t be as funny as it is but they’re leaning on each other as their stomachs hurt from laughing too hard and long
stumbling out of the house hours later, down the street and towards Steve’s because the party was in Loch Nora and it’s only a couple blocks
it takes them over an hour to walk it because they stop a lot to look up at the stars and Billy pulls his boy down to wrestle in the grass, the two of them rolling around until they aren’t, Steve laying on his chest and they’re mumbling drunken words about the party — gossiping and remembering and bitching
they don’t even make it inside the house
it’s warm out and they collapse into the same plastic recliner by the pool, Billy half on top of Steve, feeling his pretty boy’s arms around him in a comforting hold as he presses his face to Steve’s neck and inhaling the scent of him there, so obsessed with it that he wishes he could bottle it
Steve softly, lazily, tells him to stop smelling him and Billy gives one last obnoxious sniff that has his boy giggling before he truly stops, resting his cheek against Steve’s shoulder
he can feel Steve’s hand in his hair, rubbing his scalp, and he falls asleep just like that
they wake up hours later, when the sun is starting to rise, and they both feel terribly hungover already, but they’re still half asleep so they go inside to the cool of the AC and strip and collapse on Steve’s bed to sleep until Mrs. Harrington is telling them to get up it’s one o’clock go do something fun, but first change your sheets it reeks like your father’s liquor cabinet in here
which is ridiculous because they’re eighteen, they don’t need to have fun, but Steve mumbles ‘okay mom’ as she leaves and Billy pretends to sleep just so he doesn’t have to get up, but then Steve’s kissing his bare shoulder and telling him to wake up and it’s so sweet that Billy turns to him and they share a sleepy smile and Billy kisses him, kisses over to his cheek and down his neck where he takes another loud sniff and Steve’s laughing and telling him to stop but he doesn’t really mean it
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Love the thought of Leo just casually being well traveled to absurd degrees. Like one day they’re facing their new Big Bad of the year and like, Draxum or whoever says that the key to their fight is located somewhere in, like, Latvia or some place, but no one knows where to start.
Then Leo’s like “oh I know a place” and when asked how the heck he could know of one it smash cuts to Leo falling through the ceiling of said place due to a portal mishap.
Also love the idea of Leo, being as accidentally (and then later, purposefully) well traveled as he is, sometimes taking his family on outings to different places all over, maybe to some new Yokai spots he found along the way.
In these places, Leo 100% lets his bros get scammed by tourist traps.
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You know. I have Thoughts now about Olric.
I originally wanted him added as a romance option (as do many others) and I think I changed my mind! I love him and he's amazing and supportive and he likes rocks but what I think so far that I really super love for him? Is how friendly he is and so far (I'm not far) he has zero romance related lines. Like he's not a romance option, but looking at the other NPCs (the innkeeper/wife, the general store owner/wife, the retired socialite who talks about past flings) I think Olric stands out as possibly the only one I can hope for aroace representation.
Let this guy just exist with the most positive vibes ever because he's just a good guy with positive vibes for everyone.
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