going to move this to feedback, it reads as feedback.

Rah already addressed plants on the pet spotlight board: "I'd like to go into some more details, so we can see how separated your tree-pet is from being an animalistic type pet. Does it move, or is it firmly planted in the ground? (A tree that stood up outside the ground would immediately point to being anthro) Does it have any more anthropomorphic features - for example, does it use its branches to pick things up?

To fit in with the rules, the simplest way from an art perspective would be to fit the aeanoid into the character's design somehow - carved on the tree, even! (A carving of an aeanoid, or a slight face as if to indicate there is more to this particular tree than just being a plant - it doesn't have to be a cartoon moving face, but something that just hints even, like a cloud that might look like a baby or a pattern in a tile could look like a face)

It's a tricky one with plants, because although they are living, they are by nature not able to move or sense unless we make them do so in our stories.

Another simple way around this through art would be to have an aeanoid silhouette made out of twigs, or carved into a cross section of wood, or included in any way that fits in with your profile layout and colours while pointing to pet or animal form that it is based off of.

But yes, if your tree looks like a plant moreso than an animal, at this time it would not be able to win the spotlight."

Hi, everyone! If you have questions about how pet-spotlight ready your specific pet is, please take it to Subeta Pets, sMail, or comments. If you have questions on understanding the rules, there's a board here.

As this is a Site Feedback board, please focus your posts on providing feedback on the new-ish rule requiring the pet image be included on your profile. Thanks!

Indeed. Pet misrepresentation has been a problem for me maybe 3 times over my pet spotlight judging history, and each time has been a mistake on the users part rather than policing their choice because we didn't like it.

We very much understand the idea that even though there is a sloth pet on site, and you have a sloth character, you may instead choose to use a glade kora because it represents the feel of your character more. What was trying to explain earlier in this thread was that a sweetheart ontra used for a flower based character without the story cohesion looked more like a mistake than an actual choice, but in this example the story wasn't there for us to see the connection, the page wasn't finished and the whole thing is pretty hypothetical. We're a case-by-case decision making team, and is still being trained on the nuance of it all.

Let's not start making assumptions please, this is not something that's even a problem to us 99.9% of the time. Be your creative selves, just show us pets, because that is what we want to see in our spotlight.