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Content Restrictions

All content submitted to the group is closely monitored by staff, additionally, content is not considered "canon" until it is accepted into the group's gallery. The following are restrictions on the type of content allowed into the group:

AI generated imagery is prohibited, as are images created through tracing stock photos, linearts, and bases.
- We will contest your submission if we suspect it is created by any of these means.
Explicit or Sexual content of any kind is not condoned nor permitted into the group gallery and will be denied from the group.
- Topics that are also unacceptable include (but are not limited to):
  - S.A./rape
  - extreme violence/gore/cannibalism
  - homophobia/transphobia/etc.
  - pedophilia
  - ableism, etc.
Content containing topics such as murder, kidnapping, or generally extensive faction law-breaking requires a brief plot ticket to be opened with the staff. We don't require all the specific details just important details (When, Where, Who), we want to be surprised but not blindsided!
Named references to mental illnesses/disabilities IC are not permitted into the group gallery.
WSV staff and members do not condone the romanticisation of trauma/abuse, any submissions including it will be subject to immediate removal from the group.

Minimum Content Requirements

In order to be considered chime-worthy, all pieces whether written or drawn have a minimum standard they must meet.

All pieces, regardless of art, comic, animation, literature, or roleplay, must have a minimum of a 50 IC word description of what is going on in the piece. You can describe the scene, what your character is thinking in the moment, etc. This applies regardless of if the piece will be used for an activity check or not.

These minimum requirements are the standards that should be met in order to earn the minimum amount of chimes for their respective types. Each type is subject to earn more chimes based on bonuses, writing more, including more of your character, etc. For more information about how that is broken up and how many chimes all of these would earn, please visit our CURRENCY page.

These requirements do not always apply to memes. It will state in the description of the meme if there are different requirements (generally less than here)

Standalone Images

All chime-worthy art pieces should at minimum include a colored and loosely shaded headshot of one of your active characters, as well as a loose background (more on that in its own section below).

You are permitted to use different color palettes that differ from your character's colors, so long as it still resembles your character/their markings are still distinguishable. (Example of acceptable color palette art)
You do not need to have clean line work to be considered meeting the minimum, lines can be loose and sketchy, or you don't even need lines at all.
Shading does not need to be highly detailed or fully rendered. But some resemblance of shading should be included on your piece.
- This does not apply to PMVs as they have their own guidelines.

Please see the following for examples of what is considered minimum for a headshot:

(This is a basic guide, everything is subjective based on perspective. Reach out to staff if you have any questions!)

Comics

Comics must have at minimum 3 panels that meet all of the same above standards (headshot, colored, minimal shading, loose background).
To earn chimes for characters featured that belong to whoever is working on the piece, they must be featured in at least 2 out of 3 of those panels.

If collaborating on a comic, both characters must be featured in at least two out of three of the panels.
- If smim and speckled are collabing with Irina and Amias, Irina can be in panel 1, Amias can be in panel 2, and and panel 3 can feature either one or something different.
- Both members will earn the base 3 comic chimes so long as they do work on all of the panels.
If you are completing a solo comic with two or more of your own characters, each character must be featured at least twice to gain the comic chimes for each character.
- Otherwise, if only one character is featured 2 times, then only that character gets the comic chimes. The others only get what their individual panel would earn.

Each of these pieces should be able to be considered their own pieces if you were to separate them from the others. This means things like blinking between panels, slight expression changes, etc, do not count. There should be more substantial changes, like a change in pose, scene, a big expression change, etc

Animations

Animations still follow all of the same rules as general "Standalone Images" in regards to it must at minimum be a headshot, minimal shading, AND include a loose background.

PMVs

PMVs (picture music videos) include still images put together to tell a story generally to some music. They don't typically include fluid animation/moving parts, but motion can be indicated by jumping frames (like expression changing from happy to sad) and not including a "smooth" transition into it.

At minimum, PMVs should be sketches with a loose background, and to be chime-worthy/considered a PMV, should reach at minimum 30 seconds of content. PMVs do not require flat colors or shading, but you will earn more chimes if you include flat colors.

Backgrounds

Backgrounds do not have to be detailed and painted, they can be loose but should be more than just a gradient or one single-color texture brush across the entire thing. Backgrounds are divided into two categories: landscape and dreamscape

Landscape backgrounds refer to backgrounds that include natural elements. Trees, rocks, grass, water, etc.
- - Finished piece examples of what landscape backgrounds are: Example 1, Example 2, Example 3
  - At minimum, landscape backgrounds should show loose shapes/composition of a natural environment. Shapes that resemble bushes, trees, grass, etc. A background that just includes a random assortment of grass/leaf brushes like a pattern and your character floats over them does not count as an acceptable landscape background, it should look like your character is physically in a natural environment.
Dreamscape backgrounds are meant to be more symbolic pieces. They are often resembled through dreams, visions, or hallucinations.
- - Finished piece examples of what dreamscape backgrounds are: Example 1, Example 2, Example 3 (this would actually include both types!)
  - At minimum, dreamscape backgrounds should show loose shapes of some sort of environment or symbolism. A simple gradient does not suffice to be considered dreamscape.
In general, backgrounds cannot be a single solid color, a gradient (whether a linear gradient or just airbrushed), or a single-colored texture brush stamped across the entire background.
Backgrounds should also take up the entire image. You should not have your character floating over a small background and "sticking out" into a transparent part of it.

This would not be considered acceptable for a minimum background. A simple gradient or single texture does not meet the minimum requirement.

A background that only takes up a small portion behind the character while parts of the character are "outside" in a transparent section do not count for chime-worthy pieces. Your character should be fully in the environment created.

This is considered to be the minimum acceptance for a landscape background. There are some loose shapes/definition of bushes, trees, and grass, and despite the minimal detail, we can still pick out the actual ground being stood on, background, and midground.

This is considered to be the minimum acceptance for a dreamscape background. The background includes a loose shape/symbol of clouds in a wave shape, giving it more definition than just a single texture brush on a flat colored background. The environment around the character should feel surreal, or is resembled by shapes and symbols.

(This is a basic guide, things may be subjective but nothing is ever based on skill or subject to staff deciding how much effort you put into a piece.
Reach out to staff if you have any questions!)

Solo Literatures

These pieces are written pieces made only by one person with their own character(s).

At this time, we do not currently have any examples of solo literatures.

To be considered chime-worthy, you should reach at minimum 500 words for the piece.

Post by Post Roleplays

Post by post roleplays are literature pieces that involve two or more members with at least one character from each of them. The post by post part is considered when each member/character participating takes turns making their own standalone posts that are separated from the previous posts.

An example can be found HERE.

To be considered chime-worthy, you should reach at minimum 500 words across all of your posts for your own character(s) involved in the roleplay.

Script Roleplays

Script roleplays are literature pieces that involve two or more members with at least one character from each of them. The script part is considered when members write collaboratively together and their written parts flow together as if you were reading directly from a book with perspectives usually denoted by a change in text color, rather than broken up and separated into their own individual parts.

An example can be found HERE.

To be considered chime-worthy, you should reach at minimum 1000 words collectively between all parties involved in the roleplay.
(This does not need to be split evenly. smim can write 400 words and spooky can write 600 words to combine them to meet the 1000 word minimum)

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