forever in the virtual pet phase

Lierre on Chicken Smoothie, Blake on real life he/she + 26 + gay

[mar-im-o]

I'm not a fan of puppeteers But I have a nagging fear Someone else is pulling at the strings

This is Wynn! I haven't drawn her ref sheet yet bc she's sorta hard to conceptualize. She's been at the shop for the longest and is the head manager. Despite being severely fucked up and having some eldritch manipulation abilities, she was mortal once and is still holding onto the threads of that which are left. She is truly just another cog in the machine, not the machine itself, though her years in this place have left her forgetting what it's like to be manipulated and lose control of your body and mind.

She keeps the shop itself running for the higher ups, and is responsible for pushing her employees to the point of corruption

[a-sweeter-solarsystem]

more cs fanart to practice doggies :) yellow sorbs my beloved,,, soon you will be mine

►Ko-Fi

[csuserlierre]

HAPPY DECEMBER 18TH!!! i got…. nothing good. 😭

[xschatulle]

Hey hi hello long time no post, have a WIP. I’m making some of my chickensmoothie pets into OCs.

[jackgenderfuck]

Drawing of my first and favorite Chicken Smoothie pet!!

[csuserlierre]

recently got the last extremely uncommon i was missing to complete my euc and below collection and i have no interest in high value trading or a complete rare+ collection so now im just like sitting on my stash of 6000+ extras like well. now what.

[7frogsspeaks]

Randomly decided to go through all my old pet site accounts for fun since all the websites amazingly still exist and it is so surreal and delightful that photoshop doodles I made 15+ years ago are being traded around as high-value currency (and have fanart made of them!) on Chicken Smoothie. It's like part of my teenage self is encased in amber. The website is exactly the same as it was 10 years ago and some of the staff I was Internet Teenagers with are even still working there? All the little animated avatars I made are still available for members to choose? I might have to start playing again just for the nostalgia.

[7frogsspeaks]

@relientk @i-liked-these-posts My reply feature is broken but I'm Moonflight! The most popular pet I made gets referred to as the "kiss PPS" but most of them are honestly pretty unremarkable. I was a teenager experimenting with a drawing tablet for the first time (and my first few were just colored with a mouse) and since pet creation wasn't a designated job yet Nick and Tess released them with everyone else's 😅

Anyway, the site started out as just a little forum with an adoptable pet feature (sort of like Dragon Cave). There wasn't an adopt limit or a way to bind pets to your forum account, you just wrote your name when you adopted stuff so it would be on the image and then made a forum post to compile them all, and the forum was used mainly for random chatting, compiling other adoptables, and trading art. I think Nick set up the ownership system in September and manually added everyone's pets to their accounts which I'm sure was a lot of work, though there weren't that many people yet. I'm not sure when we got the ability to trade stuff but that came later. The forum appears culturally and demographically almost unchanged which is really cool since forums are an "old web" thing and I had no idea younger generations used them. I think the only difference I can see is that there's way more of a restriction on what you're allowed to talk about, which I'm sure is the result of 15+ years of the kinds of mishaps and drama that can occur when a forum has a ton of kids on it. We used to talk about basically anything on there.

The staff was originally a handful of forum moderators if I remember correctly, but I got officially added in December to run the archive. I was sort of a half staff member prior to that since I'd been making little gif avatars for people with their favorite pets and Tess asked if I wanted to make some that users could select (they're still the majority of the ones on there!) which is why I have a custom from October. After becoming official staff I ended up making some items and pets for fun and helping Nick add pets and items to the internal system which resulted in an item release mishap once since they live on the opposite side of the world and I forgot they were 12hrs ahead of me. I'm definitely the most random staff member the site ever had since my role was essentially "odd jobs" lol

It's so cool to me that a little community I joined bloomed into this fully functioning pet website, since it just started out as a bunch of us messing around and keeping ideas that people liked. So many little things I did or said or made have been immortalized into site features or culture and it's really touching. The "pet army" concept, for example, came from a topic I made encouraging people to turn their PPS cocoons into weird sheep creatures (linking because it apparently still exists holy shit) and then the idea caught on and just kept going. The 2009 unreleased dog was a random doodle I put on the staff pet design topic. The highest rarity rating was an offhanded comment I made that we needed an "omg so rare" bracket for the unreleased pets and Nick decided it was a good idea and just used it verbatim when he implemented the rarity system.

If you snoop around the pets of old staff you'll probably see some custom moose plushies I made; I know Dianne's is still on her lion. I also made Tess a custom pet with my pangolin lineart :)

This was way more than I expected to write, whoops... Having a good time reminiscing I guess 🥰

[relientk]

That is wicked cool! You say it's way more than you expected to write, but I could seriously read posts like this all day. I joined the site back in 2016 when I was 14 and have really been getting into it again the past year, and now I'm 23. I always love reading the site history, because it's so cool to see how much everything has changed and where everything started.

Also, the dress ups for the cocoons are so funny, I've never seen that done before and now I want to try it out.

Did you keep in touch with any of the old mods/friends you made there? What happened with the item mishap?

Thank you so much for taking the time to write this!

[7frogsspeaks]

I didn't end up keeping in touch with anyone, though I wish I had. In 2012 I transitioned to a paid art position on Felisfire (which is now essentially dead) and gradually faded away from CS as I dealt with college and life stuff, but some people are still around and I might catch up with them!

The item mishap was April Fools 2009, I made a bunch of silly stuff and had it scheduled to release but they decided to only keep a few of them (I'm sure the art wasn't great lol). They didn't tell me, though, so on March 31st I saw the items missing and re-added them not realizing that the event was on New Zealand time and already active. People received the unapproved items and then had them vanish from their accounts a few hours later when they were discovered and deleted, which users thankfully just took as an April Fools prank. Tess and Nick were understandably upset with me about it but forgave me once they learned I thought the items being gone was a glitch and didn't know the event had started. The things that happen when you're a high schooler with admin access you probably shouldn't have 😅

@idrawweirddragons The other piece of lore people probably don't know is that all the standard lineart horses and unicorns made prior to a certain year were remade in a huge project by two staff members (approved by the original artists if we were still there). The original lines had to be scrapped because the person who made them was found out to have traced all their art. I unfortunately really don't like the new art but it's not like we could use her base any more. You can see the old lineart if you look up the adoption graphic for early 2nd gen horses.

[csuserlierre]

named the flux/major kiddos and dressed everyone up! i had fun giving them all their own interests and personalities

[csuserlierre]

does anyone have the cowboy worm for trade? i have the princess worm i can swap for it! mine is a rr so im happy to add an extra rare or some extremely uncommons if yours is td! but im more than okay w a rr ^^

[collieadvent]

the collie advents!

[csuserlierre]

just had 5 wl pet filled successful trades (including the pps draft from this month 🙏🙏🙏) within 10 minutes the cs girlies are ON IT this afternoon

[csuserlierre]

yoooo, i havent been in the tumblr CS scene in a hot minute but seeing your post on my dash is such a blast from the past

omg hiii 👋👋👋👋 you’re welcome(or perhaps i’m sorry 😳??) for the reminder LOL

2013-2015 cs tumblr went so crazy tbqh and i definitely regret being so purposefully mean and snarky but man people were also so nice and always gifting each other it was so fun

[csuserlierre]

wow uhhh hiiiiiiii i haven’t posted here in over 8 years but i’ve been very back into cs the past year and it got me nostalgic for the old tumblr days and this blog lol

lots has changed for me over the past 8 years but i’m still lierre over on cs :’D i never really lost interest in cs since it’s so low maintenance if you want it to be but i’ve been getting more into trading and collecting every outcome for each month as they come. been doing good so far, still trying to get that rainbow pps draft so if you have an extra… shoot me a trade….. let’s make a deal…

anywayssss HELLO to anyone who remembers me, idk how much i’ll end up posting here but i will certainly be back to lurking in the tag… reading the salt… but this time keeping my mouth shut lmao (i had so much vitriol in my teenage heart lol)

[csuserlierre]

im a HUGE NERD and made me and my gf as cs pets

(she the first, i the second)

[chicken--smoothie]

never forget the idiocy that went down on this thread

[zel-cs]

Yooo CS tag! So there’s been a lot of good things happening to me this month. Namely, apart from a wonderful vacation to visit a CS friend of mine, and a fun day meeting another, I’ve been made a General Helper, and got accepted at my dream university. Those who know me are aware that especially the last thing in this list is a huge deal for me, and together with the GH announcement, I could not be happier right now <3 So here’s a little thing for you all. 

I’m going to give this lil’ bugger away as a 1st prize for a giveaway! For those who don’t recognize it, this is a UR* Butterbun, and it’s a mid-Main List pet. (*Not an actual UR pet, but designed after one) Annnnd:

These two Ocober 2012 Store Jackalopes will be given away as well, making up the 2nd prize. RULES: - reblog this post with your username to enter - or enter a friend, if that’s what floats your boat! - you don’t have to be following me - the giveaway ends either at 20 notes, OR on September 5th if the 20 notes have not been hit - winner will be chosen via random.org list randomizer. I will post the results on this blog, without the CS tag, but will tag it with the winners’ tumblr usernames and send the trades immediately Good luck!~

[csuserlierre]

Aww congrats on all that good stuff! My username is Lierre.

[shinylesbian]

Some of the Sucrose City Headlines

Candy King and the Sugarbees performing tonight as part of their extensive Sweeter Than Sugar album Tour.

E. Claire trades her own children for a small snack. Bad parenting?

“Squids are the best animal in every way” claims Tess. “Gummy sharks are better” say tourists, invoking the “nuh uh” defence.

Sugar vein of chocolate rocks discovered in Taffy Mountain after earthquake. City Mayor quick to claim harvesting rights.

Sorren Fey and Verdana spotted working together on Caramel Street assisting earthquake victims; “Everyone could use a helping hand right now.” says Sorren Fey

Tourists seek help at local hospital after accidentally consuming broccoli and peas. “I thought they were lime candies”

Repairs to town bridge aided by Ted. Witnesses stated they bearly fixed it in time.

“Is Pumpkin a proper P.I., or is his title just a pun?” wonders visiting tourist.

Where are Snickers and Honey getting all these chameleons? Shady business or lizard lovers?

“But when will I get an alicorn?” Wails local tourist.

The mystery continues: since chocolate milk comes from brown cows, where does strawberry milk come from?

Sales of gummy bears are on the decline. Store owners say they will bounce back in no time.

Coming up next: Sucrose City celebrates annual pig day. Whole town gathers in the field to watch pigs play in chocolate.

On the evening broadcast we ask the question on everybody’s mind: “Who is the father?”

Lacuna caught in sticky situation after main bubblegum pipeline explosion; experts blame mess on a very large bubble.

New bestseller “The other side of the Spoon” beats previous sales record.

Tourists crowd the cocoa river with cups and straws now that earthquake has temporarily turned it into milkshake.

Bernouli caught in sticky situation after main bubblegum pipeline explosion; experts blame mess on a very large bubble. 

Local P.I. Pumpkin determined to solve Sucrose City’s latest mystery. “If I can’t solve it, surely someone else will!” he declared.

Witness sightings of a river monster are reported to local police, but closer inspection reveal it to be nothing but a giant candycane placed there by a prankster.

Tourists reporting to hospital in sugar-induced comas are being medicated with innovative substance based on syrup.

Local repairman Ted being investigated by Workplace Health & Safety Board for his decision to employ unregistered engineers to help fix Sucrose City’s bridge.

“Tourists are taking all the good sharks” complains Gin G. Bread.

Misunderstood bear labelled “evil” by suspicious citizens.

E. Claire’s newest outfit is a big hit outside of the city. “I’ve received an invitation to enter my designs in the next Milan Fashion Week!”

Elderly couple’s farm completely infested with worms, says pest control. “They’re unstoppable!”

Mayor issues swimming ban on Hot Cocoa River after witness sightings of sharks in the area.

Bentley, Pluma and Fiery Gatoh in hospital with Sugaritis after failed Competitive Chocolate Chewing Contest.

Bonus, Hashtags:

#sugarforeverymeal

#sleepisfortheweak

#YoureJustJelly

#ChocoholicsAnonymousse

#sugarrush

#WrapBattles

#E.ClairesAffair

#teddydidit

#YoureJustJelly

#ILoveWaffles

#BubbleBlower

#thatsweetcandylife

#achocolypse

#teddyisinnocent

i’m sure there’s tonnes more but i’m too lazy to do any more