The Pound
Bubbles & General Information
Bubbles are the currency we use here at the pound! All characters start out with a flat price of 50 Bubbles. These can be earned in four ways.
- Surrendering pre-existing characters to the Pound: 30 Bubbles
- Creating new characters to donate to the Pound: 30 Bubbles
- Creating gift art (minimum of a clean halfbody) for the Bonus Bubbles prompt: 10 Bubbles
- If you are a first-time owner within this group, you can purchase a FTO bundle in Sudsy’s Shop containing 50 Bubbles – essentially giving you a free character to start out in our group with!
Each method has a submission limit of twice per month for each method (i.e. Two submissions a month, two surrenders a month, two Bonus Bubble submissions a month).
If you have extra Bubbles to spare or you're not interested in adopting a character, you can also visit the Bubble Shop!
Characters that are in the Pound for a while will have a Duckie price added that incramentally lowers each month. After a while, the Bubble price will be knocked down too. Characters that are unsold for long enough will be raffled off.
Surrendering Toyhou.se
Profiles:
- If you are surrendering a character and they have a pre-existing Toyhou.se profile, please transfer it to our admin account, Soapuppies, and mention it within your surrender.
- If you are submitting a new design for the pound via the Pound Submission prompt, or the character you are surrendering does not have a profile, please do not create one. Profile creation will fall on the user adopting the character!
Claiming Toyhou.se Profiles:
- If you've adopted a character, check this
folder
our admin account to see if they have a Toyhou.se profile. If they have
one
you
would like to have transferred to you, file a claim!
- All profiles on this account are public, so if you don't see your character there, they do not have a profile.
- If a character was newly created for the pound, they do not have a pre-existing profile.
Surrendering
Surrendering a character is to put a character you own into the pound in exchange for Bubbles. This completely forfeits your ownership and puts them up to be purchased by someone else. Each surrender yields 30 Bubbles.
- Characters must have been in your ownership for a minimum of two months before they can be surrendered. You are allowed to use MYO slots to make designs with the intent of surrendering them, but you will still have to wait the cooldown time!
- If the character has a Toyhou.se profile, please make note of it in the surrender and transfer it to the Soapuppies account on the site. From there, it will be transferred to the new owner by us. If your character does not have a profile, noting this is also appreciated.
- If the character has other forms (e.g. other species, one-offs), you are forfeiting the entire character and all forms that may exist, not just their Soapuppies version.
- Existing CBCs are allowed to be surrendered to the pound.
- You may surrender up to two characters per month.
Creation
Creating a design for the Pound does not require any MYO slot, but there is a limit of two designs per month per user. To submit a created design, simply visit the prompt here, or at the bottom of the page, and follow the instructions from there!
These can use any traits from common to uncommon, plus one rare trait. Other rarer traits may be added, but you must use your own items for them. (i.e., a design with three rare traits can be submitted, but two Little Loofahs must be attached within the submission.) You do not get any bonuses from using items to gain more traits!
CBCs are not allowed to be submitted. Music and media-based (e.g. a character based on the aesthetics of a franchise as a whole rather than one specific thing from it) designs may be submitted, but they must be disclosed within your submission as per usual.
Pound Rules
- Any exploits or loopholes to earn more Bubbles or pound adoptions – such as multi-accounting, havings friends register for the solely for adopting characters on your behalf, or anything else obviously ill-willed are strictly prohibited and will result in a temporary ban from the species, and revocation of cheated chacters. This is very easily catchable on our end!
- Please only purchase characters you want from the pound. We strongly discourage
purchasing
characters for the sake of trade or sale fodder.
- Trading adopted characters is allowed, it's only purchasing a character as an attempt to gain further value that's discouraged.
- Purchasing characters for three-way trades or gifts is perfectly fine!
- Any created designs must have clear effort put into them. Base designs must have
significantly altered/personalized lineart, and all designs must have several colors with clear
markings and distinctions. (Show
visual guide)
Guide on base editing:
Guide on "minimum" requirements
- Pound submissions made using traditional media must include a digital color palette on the image.
- We do not have any restrictions regarding chibis, sketchiness, etc. so long as they are clean and readable!
- Personal designer TOS are not binding for pound designs (aside from anything obviously harmful or innapropriate). If you have strict restrictions or rules on things such as Toyhou.se profiles, breedings, or redesigns, submitting a design may not be for you.
