Like... I feel terrible sometimes because I'll be super excited about a pet idea, then pound the poor thing after a day. Or I'll pick up a pet from the adoption center then change my mind, or abandon one I've had for a long time and feel bad about it. Or spend CSC on a name change and then adopt it out the next day ugh I've wasted so much money.

Is anyone else like this, or is it just me? :(

Right now I'm in a decluttering mood where I want as few pets as possible so I can spend all my sP on buying them stuff and training them. But I feel guilty for giving up on the ones whose stories I never was satisfied with, or the ones I never finished, etc. Even though I know they're not real lol. And I'm afraid I'll regret adopting out, because that's happened before, although it's rare.

Ugh I dunno, just wanted to rant and ramble. Tell me your pet philosophy: do you keep them forever, or do they come and go, or what? Do you ever just want to go konmari on your pets? :P (Konmari is a decluttering method, if you haven't heard of it! It's pretty neat :3) Or just tell me I'm a nutty balloon and send me on my way lol.

I 100% feel you on this!! I try really hard to find names that either a) fit a character I have that I want to have on-site, or b) that are super, super inspiring for me. Plots do change, too, and personas can get merged or tossed, and I think that is just how creators and their ideas evolve. But at the same time, I totally look up names I had to see if anyone has done something neat with them. >>;;; I still get torn up over a few that I let go at the time, only to realize they fit characters perfectly later on. But sometimes impulses happen! I think I have only kept 'super long term' a small handful of my pets. The rest came and went over time until something else fit. Still think it'll keep happening too.

I'm glad I'm not the only one, lol! I think the only two of mine I've had a really long time are the one I train, read to, feed, etc., and then one who's a memorial for my real life dog. So I'll never let them go, and there's a couple other special ones... like Drifblim is my super special Pokemon OC ❤ But I don't get too attached to most of them lol.

But I feel better thinking about it the way you put it, that it's just how ideas evolve :) That makes a lot of sense!

Not really constantly but it happens from time to time. Waylon for example. I had an idea, even considered making him a fanpet (another one for the game Outlast), but thought about an OC as well. But after getting the name it's just nothing at all. Hah. He has a color/species now, but this is probably only temporary. Until I can make up my mind, he will stay blank.

Then there are also some names I owned in the past because "I HAVE TO GET IT!!!" and then I was like "Oookay, and now what?" and renamed again a day later. XD

So yeah, I feel what you feel. Haha.

You're a nutty Balloon who I totally understand, sympathize and swear I coulda wrote the OP XD A name, a species a Bdate - all of it and then just.... Oo what was I doing with this? While working on a bunch of other pets at the exact same time - yep yep.

I have this really rarely but I also tend to only adopt names I have ideas or allready existing OCs for. It can happen that a pet I have hangs a round with a really blank profile for some time but mostly cause I have so many and not enough time to work on them all and all the time =).

But somtimes I know that feeling. I adopt a pet or snag a name and hold on the pet for ages and can't really come up with an idea. Lucky that happens not very often =).

I'm guilty and honestly feel like I'm hording now, but I'm too attached to most of them to even think of letting go.

I literally do this all the time.

Zak is my prime example. I've had him nearly 10 years and yet he's had a heck of an identity crisis. I don't even want to think of the amount of sP I've spent on him. He's gone through so many species and color changes, and I've bought him TC items only to get rid of them later on. I couldn't put him up for adoption though because I'm attached to his name. I am finally satisfied with his current character though.

But seriously, I often create pets when their names clear and then just get bored of them after a month, if that. Several of my other pets have gone through the same thing Zak has, just not to the same extent. I've pounded or re-homed sooo many pets. I do have several regrets honestly.

I really need to just focus on a pet (or a couple) at a time before moving on to another one.

I definitely WANT to just get rid of like...80% of my pets sometimes, and only have a few to work on and make really nice. But then I go to see who I would get rid of and I'm like...no I love you all, even the ones I impulse created because I found a name I sort of liked. They are mine now. MINE.

STORY OF MY LIFE LMAO ?

tbh though i don't actually adopt out many pets in general, mostly because i usually create/adopt pets when i already have a character i want to make

and even when i do get bored of a character i'm usually too attached to the name to adopt out, so i'll just try to make a new character |DD miki is one of my oldest pets and she's on her......... fifth character i think?? i spent so many millions on her old tc (both on items and 200+ slots rip me) so i hope i'll actually stick with her current one emil also went though a lotttt of ideas but i never changed his species/colour or tc so that's nice i guess haha

but omg don't feel bad about adopting out my dude q v q just think of how happy whoever adopts your babies is~

I change my mind on pets a lot. I constantly revamp characters, or just retire them. I recently just retired 1 OC and 1 fanpet story because I just don't feel like having them any longer. However, I only adopt out when I'm almost certain that the pet name is not inspiring to me (though I still regret about 20% of them). To me, if I like the name, I'll probably keep the pet because I feel that another idea will come along at some point, and I don't have to frantically look for a new name, and just use one of the ones I already have.

I generally don't worry about TCs, stats, and other factors when adopting out. If the pet ID is really low, or if the TC slots or stats are really high, I might just swap names.

hahah I love this XD I am the nuttiest of the nut balloons, that's for sure, both on Subeta and off XD (Hey, nut-shaped balloons... we need those next Fireside!)

and re everyone else, omg I'm sooo glad I'm not the only one who does this. I'm trying now only to adopt/create pets I have solid ideas for, but even then, my mind ends up changing before I complete them. (Although sometimes, waiting pays off... it took me literal years to finish Drifblim, but no way was I gonna give that name up!) But , I'm trying to do the thing now where I focus on one at a time. It's going okay so far, even though I'm easily distracted :P

Thank you ;X; Yeah that's true, someone else will be happy with them ❤ And I've thought about changing Tak's color/species because he's been a bloodred Serpenth from the beginning and I'm kind of tired of looking at him, lol. But his character wouldn't change and nothing else fits him so well, so I guess he'll just stay a bloody snek.

I try soooo hard to do the same. Then I have instances where they release a new pet, like the Angelic Bhakoru, and I'm like "OMG I need it RIGHT NOW" and then that's all I can think about. So despite the pets I've currently got, I'm sitting here thinking how I can work an Angelic Bhakoru into my family xD

Though I am getting better in that aspect! As much as I may want a pet, I won't create it until I have its character (and sometimes even story) figured out first. I wanted the Angelic Velosotor since it released, but waited until I had a concrete idea for one this past June. Course, angelic potions are so expensive that you kind of have to do that haha.

you could always get an overlay that keeps the 'feel' of the br serpenth but changes the pose and stuff! o:

steals Julien ;P I know that feeling of beeing attached to pets. Some of mine could need some more attention to be honest but I can't let them go cause I know if I do I will regret it badly the next day =) Good thing is, that I have ideas for most of mine and I don't let go pets very often.

If I get bored of a character (which can happen rarely) I often try to find another character that fits, especially if I really dig the name. Happend to Phobos recently. I had an idea ages ago biut I never really fleshed it out and got bored of it. Some weeks ago I had the perfect idea for him and even made his profile and planning to do some art for him soon =)

Adotping out isn't a bad thing. You allways will make someone else happy who loves the pet and adopts it from your hands =). Me for example, I allways feel really happy, when I get a chance to adopt a pet from someone who does not have any ideas anymore, leaves the site or sizes down.

yo that's great!! :' D yeah getting bored of a character can be pretty annoying ahaha for me there's also the fact that i generally don't like re-using designs so if i get bored of a character i did a lot of art for it's pretty unpleasant :v

I think everyone has gone through this tbh lol.

I probably sit back and look at my babs once a year maybe two years and kinda do a Spring cleaning for those who I have not had inspiration for in prob 6mo-1year. It can definitely be hard with the attachment we all get with them but at some point we all hit that line where we just know our ideas or inspiration for the pet has run dry. I think the freeing up of some names almost takes a weight off your shoulder and frees you up to work on other pending pets. It definitely has helped me get more inspiration for others when I'm not like "but so&so is still blank???".

It happens more for names I've had for years and less with names I creep on since I have so much time to debate on my plans for those names probably LOL. Or, on a rare occasion I will get a name that fits an idea/character better than the original name I had chosen.

I'm like that too. I felt that way when I got my own Angelic Bhakoru (changed a pet I already had). The beak threw me off and I wondered whether I had made the right choice in changing the pet species. I also struggled with the angel zasaba release and angel archan revamp because I was unsure what stories I could write for these pets. Thankfully, my angel zasaba is going to be a wedding story and my angel archan is a memorial pet to a late professor I had.

Bahaha I'm so impressed at the willpower of everyone here, changing my mind 3000 times is basically part of my pet process at this point! I wouldn't hold off adopting a name if I just really enjoyed the name. The character will come with time, even if it takes a few tries. I have landed on enough really solid characters, with real feeling and backstory and motives who I am super proud of, that I am fine with doing things on impulse over and over until I get the thing that "feels right" to me. Now the problem is actually portraying them on Subeta instead of just in my computer files or in my head.

Adopting pets out is harder and harder each year. ID # is a reason for me to rename now, especially on the pets I'd made originally when I started Subeta. I'm doing my best to get all my beautiful name hoard curated and the pets they're attached to looking great and existing beyond a filled pet slot on my account. Even after all these years they're so rewarding to work on. Maybe that's why it's so easy to start over again.

Aww I love the idea of the memorial pet for your professor :) One of mine passed away during the middle of a semester a couple years back, and it hit us all really hard.

I'm sloooowly going through all of mine. (But I'm also defending my dissertation in a month and teaching a college class myself so Subeta gets what time I have leftover... I say that but I should be grading papers right now hahahah.) I have two I'm rehoming to specific people once they can take the pets, and I've fixed up/completely finished four that I know I will keep forever (Topper, Herne, Drifblim, and Smiley).

I really should make Tak a profile next, since he's my main pet :P But I took down his profile 'cos it was so old and I got sick of looking at it XD Sorry, snek bby.