I'm about to leave the adopt community as a whole

There's just been a lot on my mind that I can't keep in my head anymore, so I'm sorry for ranting, but things in this community make me frustrated, things that people do

This isn't about anyone specifically, I've followed tons of adopt books in the past and have seen this over and over, most of them influenced even me in the past. So please don't be hurt by my words and try to see where I'm coming from

Time is money. I get it. Time is valuable and if you think your adopts are worthy of payment, I won't stop you from making them OTAs strictly. But some of us are also busy. Some of us don't have time to make multiple drawings for a single character with no other options

Remember when I started out with just doodling a bunch of free characters AND bios for them in the beginning of this book? That's when I feel like this book was really alive and people were actually enjoying adopting from me. Remember Lolox's adopt book with 100 chapters, one free character in each? Remember when you could trade characters for characters?

Cuz I do, it was 2 or so years ago

OTA has a ton of flaws that at this point I don't want to contribute to it

I'm sorry, but I don't do art just to pay others, it's my only coping-mechanism against all the hurt I deal with and all the secrets I keep from the people I know in real life, the 'facade' I keep up. It's what makes me happy

And it's just a tiny bit insulting to see such a wide variety of options from a bunch of people, with paywalls behind them all. There's a reason I dislike adopts made for DA points, or bidding, or anything like that (I've seen it on Wattpad, trust me)

Nowadays it's either online base adopts or adopts worth drawings. Not like some people draw faster and some are slow with a lot of procrastination, that isn't valued. If you can make adopts fast or pay fast, good for you. But there's no fun behind it anymore. No enjoyment coming out of it

Yes, I may be a hypocrite, but I don't do adopts often. The rarity of them made me think they'd be worth something. But posting the unused OCs chapter, with basically all the OTAs left behind, it made me open my eyes

So, I'm sorry, but I think I'm just gonna leave adopting and making adopts as a whole. It's one of the main things that has ruined my mental health. So, yeah, this book is basically dead, sorry

Thank you for staying for so long, and I'm sorry to disappoint