alrighty here goes

here you can request advanced TCPdex notes for a type of your choice- ive got a lot to do and i want to get to them all so i figure that people can request which ones they want to see done so that people can get info they want for say, roleplay or character development more quickly 

my only rules are that you check in the dex whether it's been filled out already before requesting, only request one at a time, and wait for your request to be filled before getting another one queued up. these aren't going to be done on a schedule, they may not even be done in order, and i may skip around and just do them as warmups whenever. be patient, be nice to me, wait your turn, etc

so yeah, go ahead, let's do this

my shunt is hurting me and i need a pickmeup and this challenge seems fun, lets do it

1st comment: species (include type/morph/variant, if type, pick one. if picking a concept, pick variant and motif, but not complexity. no gods allowed)
2nd comment: body type (can be vague like tall/short/thin/fat/etc- ignore if TCP, skip to color palette)
3rd comment: color palette
4th comment: aesthetic
5th comment: mutation/modification level
6th comment: zone
7th comment: feature 1
8th comment: feature 2
9th comment: feature 3

result will be...im not sure maybe ill auction it off or something if i dont vibe with it personally and keep it as a canon character? we'll see

rules: don't give me a fucking car or something i'll hate drawing, let's do just my species for right now but if i do this again i am open to doing other peoples' species
be nice
don't post more than twice and dont post twice in a row
have fun

here comes another feedback thread- i'm looking into trying to get things a bit more cohesive around here in terms of community involvement when it comes to fan characters, and want to know what y'all think about both some new ideas and how things currently are. we have a ton of characters in the community, and some are more developed than others- some people are more content to collect, while others like making more extensive stories for their characters. some people prefer buying designs made by official team members, and others prefer to make their own. some people prefer to make their own morbit fan species and regions, and others prefer to stick to canon. it's very important to us that we make features and events that accommodate for community members of all kinds, so your feedback here is really important no matter what angle you take! 

we're definitely interested in more roleplay events and chatrooms, but our current issue is that we are busy with projects and our own lives- but getting people to remain consistent and engaged with our existing ones as is seems to be a challenge. we want to find ways to motivate people to stay engaged with the existing roleplays that we have going on both on the forums and on discord, but in addition, we'd like to encourage people to make new threads of their own and help enrich the community. we know this is kind of a "you can lead horses to water but cant make them drink" situation though, and as much as i say that i want this to happen, i can't force anybody to make threads. it'd be especially helpful if people could tell us Why they either are or aren't motivated to make or post in roleplay or game threads.

to help motivate roleplay in the forums, we're considering making some utilities to help generate prompts that we'd be posting on a daily and weekly basis. the daily prompts would go in the public broadcasts chat, and would be very simple and flexible in nature, meant to be ideal for sparking ideas for roleplay for those looking for something new to do. the weekly prompts would be much more complex and would require a bit more setup and fine tuning on our part, and would involve setting up a "room" thread- a setting open to a specific number of players with a prompt for being in said setting, as well as a set of prompts for interaction, and perhaps some set pieces to interact with while there. an example molasses came up with while we were developing the idea was a cafe that characters could stop by along their respective, long roadside journeys, with a waiter host character and questions for discussion amongst themselves. upon meeting a goal set for the room, a reward could be given to all participants, typically in the form of unlocking something for the canon such as a new object design, flora design, fauna design, location, etc.  

we want to organize sales, raffles, giveaways and games that involve prizes so that they provide the best community experience possible for people. currently, the plans for events and features that allow you to win/acquire things relating to characters involve characters themselves, clothing, and objects/furniture. worldbuilding elements and illustrations/other art are obviously other things that you can also purchase and obtain, but for the sake of focus, i want to center this on things directly related to what a character would have in-universe. the current setup is that people can get new kinds of outfits and objects designed both for personal use and as designs that other people can get custom recolors/variations of (similar to commissioning TCP types/species morphs), and we're going to continue with that- but we're curious about what kinds of other ways people are curious about obtaining and displaying these goods. 

following up on that, we want to encourage people to use character profiles/character hoards more, but we're not sure how to do that/how to make it more engaging or enjoyable. we'd like to someday down the line make a proper system for this if not a database of our own, but that's a long way away and not within our current reach, so input on that would be great.

forum games would also be a great way to enrich and distribute characters if we could figure out new ways to do so, such as mystery gift or things like the advent calendar raffles- we are very open to ideas, and encourage people to introduce and run their own as well. 

you can answer as many or as little of the questions as you like, and all of your feedback is very appreciated!

• how do you interact in the community with your characters currently?
  
• how would you like to interact in the community with your characters?
  
• what do you feel like the community is lacking in terms of character activity options?
  
• what kind of roleplay events would be most interesting to you? (official OR fan-run)
  
• what kind of sale/raffle/giveaway/other acquisition events of characters/outfits/items/etc would be most interesting to you?
  
• what kind of character-related forum games would be most interesting to you?
  
• what ways could we improve the character profile/character hoard system?
  
• would you be interested in the weekly prompt idea? what stands out to you about it, and where could it be improved?
  
• would you be interested in the daily prompt idea? what stands out to you about it, and where could it be improved?
  

Create a character for the person above you is a self-explanatory game. Characters do not necessarily have to be from morbit.

Basic requirements are as follows - (Yes I'm stealing from the secret Santa form, if you cannot fill all requirements that is okay, just try to give something substantial.)
(For TCPs, please list all modifiers, anomalies, conditions, etc. under their species.)

Name - 
Pronouns - 
Species - 
Appearance - Description or Art (or both)
Zone - 
Short bit of Backstory or a Blurb -
Something they like - 
Something they dislike - 
A fear - 
Fun fact -

Art is not required but it is surely appreciated. 

All rights to the character idea belong to the individual who receives them and they are permitted to make any adjustments to the character's story or design.

PLEASE, I BEG YOU, HELP ME FIND MORE HATS

THEY'RE COMING. NOT MUCH TIME. PLEASE.

• follow the theme as best you can- feel free to get weird with interpreting it, but the themes are there to help guide things and in some cases, limit things to what the artists Want To Do for this month
  
• no NSFW/harmful suggestions
  
• you Can second/upvote suggestions to weight them higher in the raffle if you like them! this also means you can suggest the same TCP type multiple times if you like.
  
• 5 votes for TCP type additions, 1 vote for species morph additions
  
• keep your TCP type additions to one noun per vote, and your species morph additions to a word/phrase plus reference images AT MOST. please do not draw or write out a full concept or anything like that! it's meant to be a suggestion!!
  
• while we are often too busy to work on extending canon like this in our free time/for fun, any suggestions presented here are considered relinquished to us for potential use down the line, and have a nonzero chance of being added to canon. the only guaranteed way of getting these suggestions in is through commissioning, however, and please do not heckle us about making your suggestions happen on our own time- we do not owe anyone that, and this clause is mainly here in the case of something really resonating with us. 
  
• feel free to make multiple posts if you can't come up with all of your votes in one go!
  

A thread for possums.

I thought I'd start a thread about learning a new language. you can share tips and tricks, products, or just talk about your experiences!

I'll start off. I've been using duolingo on and off rather sparsely, but am determined to use it daily in 2021! I am a massive weeb and wanna visit japan sometimes. I want to read manga, novels, and watch anime in the original language. I know I've picked a hard one  but I just don't find any other culture as interesting.