Please read these rules before posting anything!

Rules for Images and Text Posts in the Roleplay Boards


The power of written roleplay is that you are only limited by your imagination. This is what makes roleplay so interactive and unpredictable. We don't believe you should rely heavily on drawings and photos to define your characters or setting. Heavy use of images has made the roleplay boards difficult to manage in the past, so we have limited the number of images you can use. This also includes the use of decorative images. Once the appearance of a character sheet becomes more important than the writing the purpose behind roleplaying is getting lost.

Appropriate Images
Like the rest of the site, all content should be child-friendly. If you're using images for your roleplays they need to follow these rules:
No personal photos - it breaks our privacy rules to share photos of yourself or your family and friends
No nudity, including those with strategically covered breasts/crotch. Males can be shirtless.
No images of people in sexually suggestive or flirtatious poses
No images of people with focus on the breasts/crotch/butt
No images of people who appear to be undressing or with clothes suggestively slipping down
No images of people in skimpy underwear/swimwear or see-through fabric - however some images may be acceptable if the clothing has reasonable coverage and the pose is not sexually suggestive. Example
No images of excessive blood/gore/horrific injury

Image and Link Limitation Rules
Character Reference sheets
You may only post one reference picture per character, unless they are a shape-shifter and then you can add one picture per species/form. If you want to describe different outfits, hair styles or accessories then do that in writing. Do not post secondary images or link to extra images.
Please do not make image collages or animations to get around the 1 image per character rule.
Your reference picture should be no more than about 600px on the longest side, as large images make browsing difficult. Large animated gif files may be removed if the file size (in mb) is too large.
Your reference image should either be something you personally own the rights to use (such as a drawing you made), or something which is widely distributed online for fan use such as celebrity/movie images, famous models, or TV characters. Remember this only includes official artwork/images such as gifs or screencaps from shows, not fanart drawn by other people.
Please pay careful attention to the source of anime-style artwork, as many of the anime images found online are not available for free use. If you want an anime style reference picture please remember you may only use official artwork such as gifs or screencaps from shows, not fanart or original designs made by other artists. The only exceptions are if you have the artist's permission, or you drew the image yourself. If you recieved special permission from an artist to use their drawing you need to credit the artist well visibly and provide evidence of the permission given.
You should never use someone's personal art/fanart/photography/characters/fursonas which you found on Google search or on websites like deviantart, tumblr, furaffinity, Chicken Smoothie and related image sharing websites unless the artist/photographer gave you permission to use it, or said that it was for anybody to use.
Please do not link to videos (eg: YouTube) in your character forms for things like theme songs or voice examples.

Roleplay Descriptions + Introduction Posts
You should only use 1 image per post in your roleplay's introduction (Introduction, Rules, Characterlist, ...).
You should only use 1 image (max) per setting that you wish to describe for your roleplay - for example one picture of the highschool, one picture of the city, one picture of the sports field.
Any character references posted on the main post should follow the same rules of only containing one image per character.
Please do not make image collages or animations to get around the 1 image per roleplay description/introduction rule.
Your reference picture should be no more than about 600px on the longest side, as large images make browsing difficult. Large animated gif files may be removed if the file size (in mb) is too large.
Any text-images or roleplay descriptions used should be created specifically for the roleplay. Copying text and images from other roleplayers is not acceptable behavior.

Font images
Font images from sites such as 1001Fonts allows people to make cool headings and subheadings in different fonts.
Image
You may use font images for a heading/subheading of your character sheet or roleplay introduction posts.
You should not use font images for additional 'decorative' purposes such as quotes or song lyrics.
You should not use those for every roleplay post you make, as posting images repeatedly is considered spam.

Decorative images
Images which only serve decorative purposes are not permitted to be used in either your character forms or roleplay topics.
Please do not make image collages or animations in order to include decorative images.

Special formatting for reference sheets and roleplay topics, common names and images
We sometimes get reports complaining that someone has stolen their layout or "form". Unfortunately you cannot copyright your particular layout of bb code and font colors. We encourage everyone to design their own roleplay layouts, but there's nothing we can do if someone else's font color, alignment, size and placement of images looks suspiciously similar to the formatting of your own posts. It's quite possible that the same design may have been thought of independently and it's not worth getting upset about it.

We also sometimes get reports about character "theft" if someone else starts using the same reference image that you use, or the same character name. If you own exclusive rights to the image then you should report anyone else who uses it, but if it's just something random you found online then you don't own it and you can't stop anyone else from using it. If your character name is particularly unique then you can report the person who you believe stole it and give us any information to explain why you think they stole it. However, if your character is just named something like John or Taylor then there's nothing unique about that and anyone can use that name.

Roleplay Posts
Once you've posted your character reference and been accepted into a roleplay, you can start posting!
Avoid repeating information/pictures in posts.
Your post replies in roleplay topics should not contain any links or images (including font images).
Please do not decorate your posts with repeating text such as information from the character's ref sheet. Keep your posts tidy and simple so that they're easy to read and search for.
There is one exception here: You are allowed to include a link to your character's reference post.