Hello, everyone!! We hope you're all having a wonderful start to the summer season. Thankfully, school is now over for the next few months and we'll (hopefully, barring any unexpected circumstances) have the entire summer to get to work on fleshing out the site more and bringing in new content for you all to enjoy! If we're especially lucky, we'd like to get the fall festival out this year, but no promises at this point. There's a ton of other stuff that still needs to get done and what will likely end up happening is that we won't have another festival this year, but we'll be able to refine the spring festival for next year and POSSIBLY add a new one on top of it. But we'll see! As for this months major site changes, please check out the information below.

Submission Guidelines & Currency Overhaul
We know you've all been waiting for a really long time, and we apologize for the delay, but our new Submission Guidelines & Currency Distribution page is now live - and with it comes some major submission and currency related changes. First and foremost, we've opted for a new(ish) system for currency distribution for prompts (currency distribution for general art hasn't changed), which grants currency at a base rate when the user makes the gallery submission for the prompt. This means that users will get the typical rate for their submission based on the level of detail, amount of characters, etc. for the submission when they make it and anything received through making the prompt submission will be for the sake of bonuses/exp specifically. The submission guidelines page also details information on character visibility, background requirements, and much more. That said, there's no longer any reason for users to not meet the minimum requirements for submissions and now that we have solid, outlined guidelines, any submissions that do not meet those requirements in the future WILL be rejected.

Undermining Guest Artist Privileges
Before we get into this, we want to make it very clear that no one is in trouble for this and no one specific person is being called out by this change (as it's happened multiple times now from multiple different people). On the contrary, we're very grateful that things like this happen, specifically because it helps us determine where lines need to be drawn and thus helps us clarify overall community rules and guidelines. But just to nip it in the bud before it gets out of hand, we want to make sure that users know that they CANNOT create designs to sell with the intent of making them official before doing so, as this directly undermines guest artist privileges. To prevent things like this happening in the future, registrations for new chracters now have a 60-day cool down, meaning that a character cannot be sold/traded/gifted within 60 days of its initial upload. If users attempt to bypass this rule by selling a design and then "gifting" a voucher so that that design can be made official, we will make vouchers account locked. So please respect our decision on this matter and don't make us take drastic measures in order to prevent it from happening!

Monthly Prompts

Due to a bit of a delay and also the fact that we want to avoid stressing about future prompts, despite the fact that it's only June, both June and July's monthly prompts are now live. We're still working on revising the monthly prompt system a bit, but major systems are taking the priority and we can't really promise right now when those changes will take effect.