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Welcome to my Petz blog! Here, you can see all my posts. Most are Petz related, or talk about site updates. Occasionally I might share a tidbit of something else (especially if it's relevant to why I can't update, lol).
Scroll down for more, or click the month to go to the oldest post for that month!
2025-05-28
If you want your very own silly greater lophorina, head to my new project page for the form!
2025-05-27
I've shuffled some stuff around on my site:
2025-05-23
I now have a shop on The Petz Bazaar! I'll add a permalink to it in my header eventually, but for now, it's here. It's closed, but I'll update again once I open it!
2025-05-21
I had it in my head to try and hex a pet into my beloved chipmunk plushie Sebastian. Sebbie, the resulting Sheepdog, is very cute and fluffy (and uses Queenie@Phantasm's "autumn" palette...
...but at one point I opened Petz and... this came out of the Carrying Case.
Not gonna lie, I saw this thing and immediately had flashbacks to The Forbidden One. The fact that it must have had scales of 300 didn't help either! It was so tall it stood taller than the Family Room fireplace.
I figure this was the fault of a LNZ error, as I had just had part of Sebbie's model disappear in LnzLive shortly before this being appeared. Something's telling me that I accidentally removed a heading or something in Sebbie's LNZ, because the next time I opened Petz, he looked fine.
I'm giving myself this stamp both to commemmorate the occasion, and because it's really funny. On that note, I'm redesigning my stamp page to better accommodate stamps that aren't mine but I've collected!
2025-05-20
After first using the palette swap function, I decided to try my hand at making my own palette!
Most people use LibreSprite or something similar to edit their palettes, but I felt lazy, so I did mine in GIMP! It took waaaaay longer than it should have, probably, but I'm happy with the results! This is based on a palette I use for the fifteen elemental powers from my fiction writing over at my furry site, Owlkalinity, hence "rainbowlka".
If you want the palette for yourself, I'm going to include it on my Downloads page, below my breedfiles!
2025-05-15
I've just joined the Petz Life Discord! It's an 18+ server, so if you're reading this and you aren't 18 yet, don't go there! I'll probably put a link on my Links page once I get around to that. I still have a lot of link cliques to put there.
2025-05-12
I've been trying lots of utilities for Petz lately, and this time, I tried out the palette swapping feature included in Prism Rainbow Lens' PetzA fork!
I went on a bit of a palette scrolling binge over at Queenie's collection, and eventually found Andi@Cirrutopia's "ciraurora" palette which, with its cyans, indigos, and purples, feels like it was made for me specifically, lol. Thus, we have Boreal!
Bory here is a mixie I hexed to resemble an aurora, hence the name. Under all that, she's actually a still-pretty-but-very-weird-looking dog, with all sorts of clashing colour paintballz.
Bory's on my Petz page now, if you want to learn more about her!
2025-05-07
I tried out Oasis' three new genexing tools, specifically the looks editor, to give Sunny the ability to pass down both blue and pink eyes!
I said in my terms guide definition for GenePoolz that GenePoolz 3's rumoured genexing capabilities would make me unstoppable, and practically the same day these three tools came out! I would love if someone could somehow make it so that weird eye colours (e.g. red-249, purple-234, etc.) were inheritable, but until that day, these tools are perfect! Every pet of mine is about to have pink, blue, or black eyes in their genes, mwahahahaha.
2025-05-05
With the old Basic Hexing Techniques tutorial now being up, I have officially moved everything from the old site here!
Accordingly, I've taken the old site down. If there's something I've forgotten, I still have 30 days to bring it back!
For now, though, please make sure to update any bookmarks or links to the Neocities URL!
2025-05-03
I added the Guide to Petz Community Terms to my guides page! Go brush up if you want, since I've added a few more!
2025-04-26
With my updating of the Petz page tonight, every page on this new site of mine now has at least a little bit of content on it!
2025-04-26
In honour of my second site clique, I'm going to explain why I use the clubs symbol in a lot of things, including that clique, this site's emphatic text, and my usernames on the forums and Discord!
If you aren't aware, the clubs symbol, ♧, respresents the clubs suit in a certain style of playing cards. Its tarot equivalent is the wand/rod/staff, but that isn't relevant, just a neat tidbit!
I'm in the aroacespec community (specifically anegoromantic and anegosexual), and back in the day a lot of aces used to identify themselves with card suits because of the "ace" pun! Aromantic asexual people used spades, romantic asexual people used hearts, demisexual people used diamonds, and grey-asexual people used clubs!
As such, I've grown attached to the clubs symbol as a representation for that identity, so now I use it all the time. It's even part of the name I use to identify my phone in Bluetooth connections!
Come to think of it, some card suit cliques would be interesting. I'd make some with the correct suit colours (black and red), the four-colour colours (black, red, blue, and green), and maybe some with the identity flags...
2025-04-25
♧ — Content Warning: This post contains discussion of simulated animal gore. No images are shown! — ♧
Default AC Name: Chickie
Hexed From: Great Dane
Reasoning: A horribly dark advertisement. See below.
Variations: Eleven! (Yellow, tan, brown, black, cream, orange, white, and green, with the latter three having one alternative eye colour each)
Ivy's Fave: Black with steel-110 eyes
Other Notes:
Behold, the Easter breed I discussed! And yes, the dark reason for me wanting to make this file is going to be detailed below in red text, just in case someone wants to skip it!
Basically, I was on TV Tropes (yeah yeah I know), looking at their page on horrible ads, as one does. One of the ads they bring up is for some chocolate brand, where a young girl is shown grinding up a baby chicken. The gore was simulated, and not well, (even ignoring that it's photoshopped, it looks like beef coming out of the grinder, and there's way too much for it to come from a chick), but it still struck a chord with me as I have always loved chicks and found them adorable. I'm not overly disturbed by gore, but seeing that cute little chick in there made me want to rescue it.
And then, I thought, "Why not make a cute Petz chick breedfile?"
So here we are!
This is the Chick, and they come in a variety of patterns and colours based off of real baby chickens! (Except the green, obviously. Unless you put one in some harmless green dye.) They also hatch from eggs around age 70 in-game, with the eggs having four possible colours that can hint at the colour of chick, if you're into the mystery aspect! Brown eggs always contain brown chicks, but white eggs can contain yellow, cream, or white chicks, cream eggs can contain tan or orange chicks, and off-white eggs can contain black or green chicks! I may also edit the file so that any kind of chick can come from any kind of egg...
As with all the others, you can find this breed on my Downloads!
2025-04-23
I'm pretty sure I'm done work on the new breed! I'll probably put it up either tomorrow or Friday.
In the meantime, here's a teaser for what's to come...
2025-04-21
Gods, it's late here. This is what I get for only getting onto my computer at 10:30 PM.
I updated the tutorials to include my old "Getting Started With Petz" tut! Go check it out if you want!
I also now have a guestbook! I tried to get a shoutbox, but none of them seemed to like my coding, lol. I don't blame them. The guestbook works though, so go check that out too!
As for other things, here's my plans for the site for the next little bit:
Stay tuned!
2025-04-19
I swear, my computer loads so much faster at home than at school. Makes no sense. >.<
I have some plans for this impending Easter! Namely, a cute semi-related breed. Not sure if it's going to be a cat or a dog yet, I'll have to weigh my options for the personality.
The story behind why I made this breed will be... kinda dark, but I'll try not to let that distract from how it is! I'll be sure to let you guys know when that breed is up!
2025-04-18
I've moved out of residence and am now back home! Also, I made the mistake of calling Saturday the 18th when it's actually the 19th. Today is the 18th, silly!
Either way, I need to settle in a bit, but it'll be back to regular posting very soon!
2025-04-15
As this is quite literally my last three days of university, and I have exams and need to move out, I have started to update the WordPress archive less, skipping it entirely today.
You can probably expect more from me again starting Saturday April 18! I'll be moved out of residence and living at home again by then.
2025-04-12
I've added more to the WordPress archive, and added the genetics guide! I also fixed the glitch where the favicon wouldn't show up, lol.
2025-04-11
My cliques, stamps, and downloads are working now! Go grab anything you want from there!
2025-04-10
I really feel like a proper Petz community member now, lol. I've moved my stuff here from my Wordpress because, well, I despise Automattic and its founder so, so much. I want absolutely nothing to do with Matt Mullenweg because of numerous reasons that I'm sure some of you are aware of. Plus, WordPress and Automattic as a whole are also very open to generative AI, while I... am not, to say the least. I intially was just going to switch to CosmicWord, but decided against it as it looked too complex for me. Then I started using Silex, and was going to publish this on Gitlab, but I had troubles with that too. So, now, I came here! If it works for everyone else, it works for me. Besides, I have a bit of HTML knowledge thanks to Tumblr... which, on that note, despite Tumblr also being an Automattic-owned social, I will still keep using it out of begrudging love for the platform and the people there.
Anyway, here's my plans for the site for now, in roughly the order I want to complete them:
