Greetings, Succubuns users! We hope you're all staying warm as it gets cold outside, and maybe taking the unpleasant weather as an excuse to stay in and collect some imps with Hutch.

We have some news to share with you today regarding the rules and mechanics for submitting works for carats.

♡ Carat Calculator ♡

We've rehauled the Carat Guide to be more detailed and contain all of your questions.
More excitingly, we've also added an automatic Carat Calculator to all prompts.

When you fill out a prompt, you no longer need to tally up all your earned carats in the comments. Click on the 'Criteria Reward' box, select the options corresponding with your art piece, and they'll automatically be added to the prompt rewards for you.

You can find detailed descriptions of everything we currently award for on the updated Carat Guide page, as well as specific Criteria Reward details.

♡ General Art Claims ♡

In order to allow general Succubuns art claims to use the Carat Calculator, we have created a new General Succubuns Submissions "prompt." 

Instead of using Submit Claim to claim carats for promptless pieces, you will now go to Submit Prompt and submit your work under General Succubuns Submissions. This prompt will always be available for limitless submissions, and can be found at the very bottom of the prompts list.

To reiterate, all art and writing submissions for carats will now be submitted through Submit Prompt.

♡ Submission Rules Updates ♡

We have several rules for submitting art to the site that we would like to update or clarify.

♡ Firstly, we will no longer allow Discord image links to images being submitted for prompts or carats. Discord is not an image hosting site, and Discord image links are unreliable.

If you're submitting works for a prompt or for carats, you must host it in our official Gallery. 

We will continue allow exceptions for creators who want to keep their work completely private—art may be submitted in a sta.sh or imgur link, and writing may be submitted in a Google Doc.

♡ Secondly, we would like to clarify our rules about submitting artwork using premade bases.

On-base artwork is not allowed to be submitted to Succubuns.com unless you created/own the rights to the base yourself, or the base was created for use in Succubuns. We are unable to verify if the creator of any given base is 21+ and would consent to the use of their base on our website unless they are a member of Succubuns.

On-base artwork cannot earn carats, and may not be submitted to contests, unless you created the base yourself. If you created the base, you may claim carats for the first piece you make with it, but not for any others.

♡ Thirdly, we would like to clarify our rules about submitting commissioned art. If you commission art of your Succubuns characters, you may submit it for 1/3rd the amount of carats it would usually earn. There is an automatic setting for this in the Carat Calculator.

You may submit commissioned prompts drawn/written for you by someone else. These prompts will earn you the full prompt reward, but the regular carat earnings will still be 1/3rd.

If you are commissioned to draw Succubuns art or prompts for someone else to submit, you may not submit or claim carats for that piece.

♡ Finally, we would like to cover our bases for something we hope will never come up: AI generated images and writing are not allowed to be submitted to Succubuns.com under any circumstances. We also do not permit any content on this site to be scraped for use in training such AI.

Thank you for taking the time to read through all of this important information!

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We're almost at the end of November, which means the end of many current Succubuns events and activities, and the start of new ones in December.

Don't forget that the Emoji Contest ends in just 8 days! Each entry you submit has a chance to win 100 carats, a Drink Ticket, or even a Hell in a Handbasket MYO item.

To thank everyone for the great turnout, we've decided to award one ticket to the Launch Raffle to every user who submits at least one emoji before the deadline.
>>You need to submit a claim with a link to your entry to obtain this!<<

The Launch Celebration Raffle closes on November 30th, and the winners will be drawn the day after. We've added five Adoption Vouchers to the prize pool as reward for hitting 300 tickets! Make sure you've claimed all of your potential tickets to get the best chances of winning.

Winter Gift Exchange signups also close at the end of the month, at which time we will assign everyone their giftees. (Don't forget that pinch-hitters will recieve a Drink Ticket or Adoption Voucher if they get called on to make an extra gift!)

Make sure to fill out the form soon if you'd like to get the gift of Succubuns art this holiday season.  I see we've had quite a few entrants express interest in giving or receiving NSFW art of their succubuns... 👀

Our November Monthly Prompt will close and be replaced with the December prompt when the site clock rolls over to December 1st. Make sure to submit your entries before then.

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What's coming next?

December is bringing several new things to Burrowgatory, and we're excited to share them with you.

There's rumors of snow on the edges of the city of Burrowgatory, and Shibani wants to make a new pile... Log in daily to collect Snowflakes, which you can exchange with Shibani for a new seasonal imp, two new seasonal drinks, and tickets for the holiday raffle.

Luca and the guest artists have been hard at work preparing an Adoptable Advent, featuring 16 bun flatsales and 9 doll auctions. These designs will be revealed one a day from December 1st to December 25th, at 8pm EST.

The advent teaser will go up on November 29th at 8pm EST, and preclaims for the flatsale buns will open for 24 hours, closing when the first design is revealed.

Entrants to the Winter Gift Exchange will be assigned their giftees on December 1st, and will have until the 25th to finish their gift art. Look forward to a holiday explosion of Succubuns art on the site!

Other updates for December will likely be light, as we'll be busy preparing for our first plot event in January.

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Thank you to everyone for your fantastic support during our first month of Succubuns.