No worries! I don't know that I was all that memorable when I was here last anyway, haha. And yes, I would love to be a part of the Secret Santa event! I'm super glad I made it back in time for Lumi, since it has always been one of my favorite events.

Aha, aw, I'm sure there's someone that remembers you! You seem super nice. n_n I was just bad at consistently getting on here since I didn't have very many things to do here at that point! Awesome, I'll put a note down in my document and once they let me know whether they want to be put in for this round or the next one I'll get everyone partners! You're totally right, Lumi is always an amazing time to be on here. The community as a whole is wonderful, we always get some gorgeous art (in the form of Melody items, collections, or pets), and it's just generally a really nice holiday. It's definitely one of my favorites too!

Awesome! And yeah, maybe, haha. Honestly I'm pretty lost in general right now after being away for so long... so many things have changed. (Like the locked topics, although that's a new things, and this new wardrobe nonsense that REFUSES TO LOAD for me so I'm stuck with an avatar from last year... I cry.) I also love the fact that I can gift so many things to people. I tend to just save up/hoard my sP from doing quests and selling things, and then when Lumi rolls around I become a gifting machiiiine. Haha one of my favorite parts is seeing someone's reaction when they open their presents. I just like making people happy. <3

[small]Hahaha awh! I'd have all the animals too if I didn't live in the city. They're super strict about pets. I'd definitely say that Flapjack is my favorite. He's four, and was the first dog I had that was actually mine, so he means a lot to me. :) He's helped me get through some rough times, and means everything to me.[/small]

[small]Welcome back! :D I love your HA. Have you picked a Lumi tree yet?[/small]

Ahh, thanks! And yes, I have - nothing seems to want to load for me lately though so not only am I unable to get into my wardrobe, my Lumi tree won't show up, my forum signature won't change, and my status thing (I forgot what it's called, under my username) for the forums won't change either. /BREATHES HEAVILY/

[small] O_o; Oh noes. They've been working on some things lately, maybe that could be it? Have you tried clearing your cache? I usually spam the refresh button until something happens. Lol.[/small]

Tbh I attributed it to all the problems the site has been having, and just assumed I'd have to wait out. XD It seems my status thing finally changed though. Clearing out the cache was going to be my next attempt if things hadn't changed in the next little bit, but since I'm getting impatient to change my HA I might try to do it sooner.

edit:; HOLY CRAP the Tempest just randomly gave me a Storm Potion... is this their way of apologizing to me? >.>

Hello ^_^ Love your username. I also recently returned from hiatus. But I hadn't been around long enough in the first place for anyone to remember me xD Congrats on the potion! The same thing happened to me soon after I came back! Pretty nice luck.

It's so colddddddd. I get to wear shorts two days out of the year xD (Don't tell my mum I do at all, she would kill me x_x). At uni anything goes. Pajamas, onesies, suit and tie, I've seen it all. I've come very close to having to go to a lecture in full indian partywear xD (I just skipped the lecture haha) Technically the uni I go to is also called a college... and we also have further education colleges. I never realised how complicated it was until now xD

Ahh, well then welcome back to you as well! Honestly that happened when I first joined subeta back... idk, a really long time ago, haha. The funny thing is, I actually had the Storm potion in my wishlist, because I guess at some point I planned on making a Storm pet... but I forgot which one? XD And now I'm satisfied with all the ones I have, so I'm not sure what to do with it.

Oh, speaking of items I don't know what to do with. I've discovered that I have WAY more items than any one person could ever need, ever. It's taking me five trillion years to move my gallery/shop inventory to the new system (that's how old my stuff is, lol), since I have to do it page by page. And I think I'm going to turn the gallery I'm hoarding it all in into a shop, just to get rid of it... if there is anything you guys want that's in my Gallery of Hoarding 2 (here), please let me know and I'll give it to you. I mean anything you want/need/whatever... I'm just going to sell it all anyway. :)

Sorry for my absence. I'm (hopefully) back from hiatus. Hopefully. Got caught up in a ton of stuff and such, but I am glad to be back in time for the holidays! With a small stock of SP to prepare for the gifting season.

How has everyone been?

i had a marapets account aaaages ago, but it got deleted, so i made a new one. XD it's ok. i think it's easier to make money on subeta than almost anywhere else.

FR is a breeding one. it's all dragons all the time ___ some of the colors people manage to get is amazing.

[small]Ahh that is so exciting!! Congrats. :D[/small]

Okay sooo my beloved 6 year old laptop decided that it is now time to start overheating and burning itself, so I'm having to use another (much less wonderful) laptop for the time being. So I won't be around as much as I'd hoped because this is painful. :C crai

I love you all thoughhhh It's so nice to see so many old faces returning for Lumi. <3

Dear Secret Santa: Thank you so much for the beautiful and amazingly well-thought out gifts! They're so sweet and nice and funny and fantastic. ^_^ I feel so loved. Sorry for not posting this anywhere sooner! I'm so busy and tired and stuff, aha. <3

totally going to bed now at 8 PM when I pretty much just got home

Yeah, rural areas are always somewhat of a weird area! The village I lived in had a strangely large amount of immigrants (us included) which was quite different from normal. At least we were close enough to big cities to not be completely backwards. But yeah, I agree with you disagreeing with them haha Yeah, although my mom has warned me not to speak about religion in too much depth with other people, because while I'm not atheist (more like an eclectic agnost), I have a lot of more "controversial" opinions about the bible for example. Germany is actually pretty amazing, no matter how much I tend to complain. I think the biggest issue is when you start to compare the people; the Germans can be very cold when you first meet them and some take very long to warm up, so it's a bit ughh sometimes. You've never had a real tree! Scandal! Honestly, the whole going to pick out a tree, setting it up and then decorating is pretty magical. It's the clean up that's annoying, they're constantly loosing leaves. Oh! we had the most hilariously pathetic tree a few years ago, I'll go and look for pics in a bit. Problem is, our tree now is a small, small, metal thing that falls over when you put any ornaments on it D: i had to stabilize it with a bunch of stuff last year. it also fits onto a table, so imagine that it's very small.

And thank you! my doggos are adorable (but not very bright, one of them ran full tilt into a door) and your doggo is amazing too !! Moose is such a cute nickname tbh

and btw, can we post what our secret santa gave us? Or is that not a thing?

BECAUSE THANK YOU MY SECRET SANTA, you're amazing!!

Ahh, yeah, the wardrobe's pretty weird sometimes. It looks like you've managed to get it to let you wear something else though, you look cute! n_n If there's anything you're wondering about, feel free to ask! No one here bites, aha. Aww, that's super cute! I might start doing that too, I hoard cute stuff year round mostly because I just like it. Usually I'll clean out my wardrobe a bit around Lumi though, and gift the things I've found myself not using!

Ahh, that's annoying. Technically I'm not supposed to have my rooster in the little city I live in, but y'know, oh well. cx My neighbors don't care, so I think it's okay, aha. Aww, that's adorable!! Flapjack sounds precious, and having an animal that belongs to you is always such a cool thing. My little kitty, Lily, was my first animal and she's still my favorite (even though I do love the birdies a lot.)

Aww, that's a pain. :c There's four-ish moths of the year where it's super warm here and then another four where it gets super cold, so I have to have all sorts of clothes to keep up with it. Is your mom really strict? Aha, that's great! You totally should've gone, Indian partywear sounds gorgeous. Indian clothes in general are so pretty, I love all the patterns on them! Oh wow, aha. That is a bit more complicated than I'd thought! We have graduate schools here and they're like further education from the first four years and they're often built on the same campuses, but high school is pretty separate.

Hey there! You're back just in time for Lumi! ❤️ How long have you been gone? We've also got a Secret Santa event going and since it looks like there's some people who will want to join for the second round (or maybe even this one if I hear back from them relatively soon), figured I'd ask if you wanted to participate as well? The original info is in ">here!

Ahh, yeah, mine's probably gone by now too. cx I was on there for like a week before I got bored, so I just stayed here. It probably is easier to make money here, you're right! It's pretty easy here, and there's definitely enough pretty things on this site! That's cool! I personally get kinda bored with breeding sites, but the colors are definitely really pretty. n_n

Aww, that's terrible! :c I hope that laptop decides to be nice and work for you! I'm really glad to see some older faces back too! It's really cool, because I didn't get to meet some of the older members.

That's pretty neat! I don't know why there's such a stigma against immigrants, they're usually really cool people and have some neat stories. Sameeee, aha. I have a lot of odd opinions on religion apparently. I'm basically the same, an eclectic agnostic, most of the time, though sometimes I can definitely convince myself that I tend more towards atheistic. Religion is an odd thing. x3 Ahh, yeah, a lot of places have a bunch of people like that. I guess once you've been there for a bit though, it's better? It sounds so fun, I definitely wanna figure out a way to at least visit sometime. n_n Aww, you guys need a better fake tree then! cx My family's always had like a 7-ish ft tall one that we stand up in the living room, and our main problem is that the cats like to climb it a little too much. cx Also we can't put any low-hanging ornaments because they'll definitely get batted off and broken. Silly kitties.

Honestly, I don't know where Moose came from. My bf started calling him that one day, along with calling one of the kitties Muffin, so now we have Moose and Muffin instead of Mikey and Midnight most of the time. cx

I guess you could, but it'd probably be best to do that when the list's up! I'm glad you're happy with your person though! ❤️

My mum's views are stuck in 90s India lol My cousins who live over there have it easier than me xD I have to choose my clothes considering how much energy I have to fight about what I wear xD Haha I tried to convince some friends that we should sit in the front and break out into a dance number for the break :P

FE Colleges are actually closer to before/instead of uni rather than postgrad. Though they probably do a whole load of stuff I have no idea about. Our postgrads live in the same bit as us. My masters project is overseen by a PhD student for example. (Thank god for that, my supervising professor scares me into a babbling fool).

I avoided thanking my secret santa too soon in case it gave people clues about who theirs aren't (I have already been Sherlocking this shit as much as I'm trying not to xD )

Thank you so much for all the gifts! You are awesome <3 <3 <3

yeah some places just aren't as exciting as subeta, tbh. the quest givers are so generous and if you get the right item and sell it, you have a million sp easy! but i'm a hoarder, so i hoard all the sp & items i get XD

Aha, aw! My mom used to be kinda like that too, but I guess now she figures I'm old enough to pick out my own clothes. x3 My grandmother, however... rolls eyes That'd be so funny! You guys totally should've (though I wouldn't have the guts to do that)! Ohh, okay! They sound really different but probably pretty cool. I don't particularly know if postgrads oversee things here, but that sounds like a good way to do things! Our graduates/postgrads do tend to share dorm/apartment buildings here too though. Aha, you'll find out who your person is on Lumi, no need to Sherlock! cx That's funny though, and I'm glad you like your person. ❤️

Yeah, some of the smaller sites tend to be less active/exciting. You're totally right about the quest givers, too! I tend to sell a lot of what I get just because I can't see myself using it, but it's definitely good to keep some of them too. n_n

i agree. i think pet art has a lot to do with keeping members and getting new ones. subeta pet art is a+, imo. i do the same, but some things i keep like, maybe i can use that later, but i never do. XD

Omg my grandmother. She can never know. My mum has given up trying to change my mind but it's still bleh to hear her talk about it. And I just hide the party photos XD I hadn't realised how crazy that is lol Lol I don't really have the guts either (and I can't dance!) but it would have been amazing. It's less overseeing and more that PhD students are the slaves of their supervisor. Like they mark all our homework too haha.

Haha well scientists are like detectives. I just can't turn it off! Don't worry I haven't figured it out and I am too busy now xP