This is theย Myย Place in Poptropica story of Squeezy Starfish, a Poptropica player who likesย the sponsored islands and creatingย good outfits.ย See belowย for details on sending in your own MPIP!

2012 | What’s this?
It was Friday Fun at school. I was in the computer lab, playing around on the running gameย QWOP. The teacher then told usย a few websites we could goย on: Sumdog, i-Ready, or Poptropica. The first two I knew were educational game sites, but what was Poptropica? Being the curious person I was, I googled it. I clicked on it and a bunch of charactersย ran across my screen.
I created a new character for myself, going through the names, not the outfits. I got Squeezy Starfish, which I thoughtย went together pretty well. My beginning outfit was *violent shudder* me with my hair back in a green headband, a heart shirt, and a skirt.ย As you can assume, I didn’t like it.
But I shrugged and went along, my friend guiding me throughout the entire thing. He taught me about the pop quizzes, and saving your account, and the islands. Theย first island I wanted to try out was Red Dragon Island since I liked Magic Treehouse, the Wimpy Kid islands being the next since I liked those as well. And oh gee, that was a bad choice. Red Dragonโs actually one of my least favorite islands to this day. Now, I never really knew what I was doing, but I played around and switched islands all the time.
2013 |ย A Re-Discovery
Boom! After that day, I didnโt play at all. Until a day in 2013 when I was cleaning out my backpack, in small illegible handwriting on a post-it note, there lay my username (cs84910), and my password. At the bottom there were big bubbly letters with the words Poptropica on them. And so I went on my cousinโs computer and started playing.
Oh look, fetus Clare (Clare’s my real name) actually wanted to finish Red Dragon. But oh well, sheย couldnโt get past the bonsai tree part and still canโt to this day. Oh look, fetus Clare wanted to finish Wimpy Wonderland. But oh well, sheย couldnโt get past Twisted Wizard and still canโt to this day. You see, Iโm not the most committed person. However, I surprisingly got past Wimpy Boardwalk.
I didnโt try out any of the other islands, since I justย liked the books and wanted to do only those islands. Also, during this time, I finally got a non-cringey outfit and got rid of the bad hair for a wavy hairdo and a light blue kimono from Red Dragon. Then there was a small period of time that I forgot about Poptropica once more.
2014-2015 | The Year of Poptropica
I had stumbled across a website called the Poptropica Help Blog and remembered about Poptropica. I had also friended a lot of my friends on Poptropica. By this time, I was a *cough* emo nerd who considered herselfย a rebelโฆ but that doesnโt matter right now. So I looked around the PHB. THESE PEOPLE KNEW HOW TO COMPLETE ALL THE ISLANDS?!?!?!?
From then on, I went on Poptropica as much as I could and tried to complete all the islands. And I almost did. Halfway through my island adventure, BOOM! I forgot about the sponsored islands and now I can’tย finish them because I donโt think I really want to be a member. I was disappointed.
Oh, and look, Clare got an outfit that was even less cringey! Aย blue superhero suit and a blue beret! And… holding her signature fish. Also in this period, I made three more accounts. Cuddly Panda (tylerandjoshdunit), Spotted Fox (bluecrayon410), and one where I used an ASG on Red Lizard (poopyunicorn123). After this, I got an even less cringey outfit. The Hermione Granger costume and the Aqua Hipster costume (from the PHB Costumes page) combined! Yay.
Since Clare is a person who gives up easily, she never finished Red Dragon, Astro-Knights, Skullduggery, or any of the sponsored seven besides Wimpy Boardwalk.
2016 and beyond | ???
If Iโm being honest, I think Iโll lose interest pretty soon. But thatโs okay! Iโll still visit the PHB for funny posts and try to complete the mentioned islands. If the Creators keep going with islands, I hope theyโll make a Harry Potter one or a Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus one. (Hey Creators, if you decide to do a Heroes of Olympus one, be sure to include my bae Leo – What? I didnโt say that hahaha… *awkwardly slides away*)
Welp, thanks for reading Clareโs MPIP, and – goTTA BLAST!
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