Ask the Staff!

[Aaron✦]

What are you guys' stims? I'm almost constantly humming/singing, which I kind of only realised yesterday xD

Oh this is my favourite question!! My biggest one is rocking back and forth. Very stereotypical, I know.

Do you guys get paid for this? Seems like a nice way of makin a bit of money.

Nope!

To any staff:

How long have y'all been working?

I've been a GH since August 30th 2015 <:

To any staff.

What is your favorite candle scent?

Mine is personally watermelon spritzer, most likely bonfire if they had one like it

Apple cinnamon cider

If you could shape shift once, what animal and color would you be?
Question for any/all staff

I think I'd have to be some form of bird, just to see how flying really feels. I'm not sure which, though. It would be very easy to be a seagull in my town!

what is your least favorite & favorite school subject?

I'm not in school any more, but my favourite was English and my least favourite was PE.

To anyone!
What was your first pet ever on CS?

This one!

to anyone what music genre is considered a guilty pleasure to you?
example, mine would be country music

Hmm, dubstep, I guess! I think a lot of people find it tasteless, but I like some songs when I'm in the right mood.

To anyone: what is something you have accomplished recently that you are proud of?

It's little and not very exciting, but I've been working on a town in animal crossing: new leaf that I'm really proud of! <:

[Swiftalu]

To any artists:

Which pet design are you most proud of creating and why?

Honestly? Between these 2, I couldn't pick one because I love them both very much. It's funny too since the design elements + colors came to me while I was asleep :'D

To any artist!
Whats the least favorite pet you’ve created and why?
:3

I feel like I was really lazy with this one, I wish I could make it better. The whole litter is recolors of the same design and I'm still kicking myself to this day for that. D:

to: any mod
what would you do if suddenly some member sent you some quality memes? xD
(more like some memeber)

I would be one happy camper if they are to my quality standards

To any staff.

What is your favorite candle scent?

Mine is personally watermelon spritzer, most likely bonfire if they had one like it

Gosh there's a lot of candle smells I like; but to name a few Tikki Beach, Magic in The Air, Cactus Blossom, Blue Winter, White Gardenia... there's probably more but because Bath & Body Works switches out their candles for every season it's hard to keep track, I've been loving their new winter-y smells though as it reminds me of my homestate. I also love floral smells. o:

To any artist, or anyone who makes pets:

How long does it typically take to make one litter of pets?

It varies! Some can take me as long as 4-5 hours while others can take me as little as 1-3 hours. It depends how quickly I can work, the size of the litter, and how my motivation is in general!

To all who make the monthly pets:

What do you guys use to edit and color the pets?

I personally use Photoshop CS5 because I grew up a bit using Photoshop Elements! :'D

To any staff;
What’s your favourite childhood memory?

I was just reminiscing on it the other day, when in about 6-7 years old my home state was overrun, and still is, by these Eastern Tent Caterpillars. You could find them everywhere on the roads, sidewalks, etc. because they were super common to see during the Spring.

Little old me decided to take one home and take care of it, I didn't know it was a moth at the time, I figured it was a regular old butterfly. But because a lot of them meet their... demise outside because they walk around everywhere in peoples way and stuff, I figured I would save it from the outside world.

I kept it in a bug container and gave it leaves to munch on, and about a week or 2 later it became a silk cocoon! I left it alone and cleared the overgrowth out so when it emerged it would have enough room to stretch around, it eventually emerged into a moth and, regardless of it being a moth, I really loved it.

I let it go the next day and it stayed on my arm for a couple of minutes giving me little butterfly kisses as if it was saying thank you, before flying off. I still am kinda touched by this, and so are my parents.

There's honestly so many more good memories I have from childhood where I was nice to others or things because I wasn't the most liked kid at all, so I didn't want others to feel the same way.

To any staff:

How long have y'all been working?

I worked as a General Helper from Jan 2014-2015, Oekaki Moderator from 2015-2017, and Artist from 2017 to now! Technically, I have been working on this site for 4 years now. o:

[Shinryu]

To anyone: what is something you have accomplished recently that you are proud of? :o

I realized the other month that I'm no longer scared of approaching and talking to people.
I used to get incredibly nervous and could hardly ask waiters for a glass of water, but I've been practising and recently noticed that I seem to only get anxious about situations now where it actually makes sense.
I've become a lot more socially confident. I can't count how many times I procrastinated on important and often urgent responsibilities just because they involved making phone calls, or visiting some office, or writing emails. It feels so good to finally have reached a point in the management of my disorder where I am capable of just getting this stuff done.

If you could shape shift once, what animal and color would you be?
Question for any/all staff

Definitely a bird! Maybe a frigatebird? They are some of the most skilled fliers among all birds - they are highly agile in the air and have been recorded flying for days or even weeks without a landing! They can fly as high as 12k feet and may soar for miles without having to flap their wings.
I would love to experience what that feels like.

Then again, they're the bird equivalent of pirates and steal a lot of stuff from other birds...

To any staff;
What’s your favourite childhood memory?

Probably my first day at elementary school. I remember a year before that my family was visiting the USA, and there was a store we went to that had this cute bald eagle beanie baby. I wanted it sooooo badly but my parents didn't buy it for me and I threw a tantrum omg. I was such a bratty child. Eagles were my fave animals back then, yknow?
Anyway I didn't get the plush and was very salty.

Except cue my first school day and my family were giving me gifts (it's tradition here to give new elementary schoolers a goodie bag filled with stuff like school supplies, sweets and toys), and surprise! My parents actually did buy the plush! They had done so sneakily when I wasn't present and wanted to gift it to me all along!

I still have him and he's very important to me hahaha.

To any staff:

How long have y'all been working?

I've been a GH since 2015.

what is your least favorite & favorite school subject?

Favourite would be either English or geography. I always liked English because I never had to study for it, lol. But geo was always super interesting. I went on to study both at uni, which only strengthened my love for geo.

This is gonna be really cliché, but my most hated subject was maths. Not for lack of trying, mind ya. I took private lessons in an attempt to save my grades, but no matter how hard I tried, I was always awfully slow and constantly lagged behind the class.
It's super difficult for me to wrap my had around maths stuff. I don't know how describe it; it takes me a really long time to make sense of it and I can't seem to just work with instructions when I don't understand the 'why'.
Every time I finally understood a topic our lessons already started moving on to the next. Sometimes I managed to catch up just in time to get a D on the test, but usually... not.
I couldn't not hate the subject when it was a never-ending stream of frustrations.

[AnewLeif]

To any staff
Can we post photos of our homes if they don't show any indication of location?



Prince of void

[GAIRENTH]

To anyone:

Has there ever been times where you really have no idea how to help or handle a situation?
Maybe you were new, or perhaps it was so bizarre you weren't able to even think of a solution/answer.

If so what did you end up doing?
(Asking Tess/Leave it for someone else to handle/ignore it even maybe..?)

[vicasterology]

to anyone
in your friend group, which role are you (like mom friend or whatever lol)

[Vampiric]

to anyone
in your friend group, which role are you (like mom friend or whatever lol)

The pun-making clown. I've lost count of how many 'shut up's and sighs i've caused to this day.

[sun]

what is your least favorite & favorite school subject?

if going by the high school type of subjects, i never really enjoyed math. too much brain work, made me feel like a zombie. and here i am, trying to study programming. and before you ask, yeahhhh it's going very slow... but at least it is going.
favorite subject, then... almost everything else, honestly. i love writing so finnish and english classes were so much fun, history and biology/geography paired up with religion classes taught me about other countries and their cultures and ahhh it was all so fascinating to me

To any staff.

What is your favorite candle scent?

Mine is personally watermelon spritzer, most likely bonfire if they had one like it

lavender's pretty good, haven't tried any of the more exotic ones hahah
then there's this new one labeled as "relaxing zen" that smells just heavenly and truly helps with stress

To any staff:

How long have y'all been working?

almost three years now - time sure flies by
started in nov 2016 as a rp mod, switched to green in nov 2017

[Obius]

Has anyone here ever flown a kite? I remember I used to when I was young. I even made ones out of paper!

[while it lasted.]

to : anyone

are there anything small and random that you treasure dearly?