This is the official Toyhou.se World dedicated to the closed species Calyptra! Calyptra are vampiric, anthropomorph moth-creatures with magical and limited shapeshifting powers. For more information, feel free to check out the species guide! You may join the world regardless of whether you own a Calyptra or not, and the same is true for submitting art so long as you have the character owner's permission and adhere to the rules. So please check out the World Rules and Species Rules below before you settle in. C:

World Rules

Community Rules:

• Other members of this world and Toyhou.se are to be treated with respect and courtesy. Insulting, harmful and hateful behavior of members can be reported to the owner of this world, and depending on severity and amount of offenses, this can lead to the user in question being banned from this world and the species for good.
• Members of this group are not allowed to advocate hateful content (for example racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.) in the descriptions and comments of art in or for this world's gallery. If it should come to my attention that world members partake in harassment or hatespeech towards others, this may lead to them being banned and their art removed from the gallery.
• Toyhou.se's community guidelines apply to this world.
• If you comment on the submissions of other members, please use common courtesy and offer criticism in a constructive fashion.
• If you want to draw a character that is not your own, ask the owner for permission and respect their boundaries.

• Toyhou.se's submission guidelines apply to this world.
• Art submitted to this world may not advocate toxicity (for example: homophobia, transphobia, racism, sexism, etc.).
• Characters containing sensitive or potentially squicky content should try to keep those parts of the content out of the thumbnail and have a small warning signifier in the title or header so users can avoid them.
• Art needs to be submitted to the correct folders. Art that was submitted to the wrong folders can be rejected without comment.
• Submissions must not contain personal data (for example: address, private telephone number, etc.) of anyone else without their consent. If you discover personal information of yours in one of the submissions within our gallery, feel free to report this to the admins.
• Submissions should be unique. If you repost something on a new account, please pm us about it so we can exchange the old upload with the new one instead of having doppelgangers in our gallery.
• For now, this group is dedicated exclusively to the closed species Calyptra. Please only submit art and writing containing or relating to members of the species.
• Submissions made from bases and dolls or with the help of outside assets (like background images) need to have proper credit in their metadata, complete with a link to the original piece. Websites like Saucenao or Google Image Search can help you find the source of an image if you don't remember it. Art that is discovered to break this rule will be rejected or taken out of the gallery, and may net you a place on the blacklist if it's a repeated offense.

Species Rules

If you wish to own a member of the Calyptra species, you need to agree to these general rules for their ownership. Different artists and creators might end up defining their own additional rules for membership, but those are generally linked or written out on or around the reference sheets/adopt batches they post.

• Read and follow the Individual Rules of the Adopt's original creator so long as they don't conflict with the rules in this or the Group Rules journal.
• Do not create a Calyptra character without explicit permission from Broeckchen or an official artist of the group (featured in the dedicated segment).
• Give credit for the species if possible when you post art of it. This is not necessary every single time, but at least on reference sheets. Please know that this is not about aggressively claiming some kind of intellectual property, but instead about giving the species and it's artists more exposure to keep it alive and thriving.
• Currently there is no limit to how many Calyptra characters you may own.
• Do not use a Calyptra character to advocate for, encourage, or commit any illegal activity, discrimination or hatespeech. The latter two are in this context defined as "prejudice plus institutional power", not merely as "hate" or "anger". It's fine if you disagree with this definition, but understand that it's the one applicable to this specific species. Of course you can make an asshole character who holds opinions different from your own, but make sure to distinguish between your and their opinions and to keep art or writing about them from turning into a mouthpiece for oppression.
• Your exclusive ownership of a design can be revoked if you break the rules set for this. In that case, the former owner might get my permission to resell or retrade it. However
• If you resell or retrade a revoked design, do inform people about the fact that someone else might still be using it. Do not fling mud at the other person, but others deserve to know that the design still has someone illegitimately using it.
• Meanwhile, using a design revoked from you naturally lands you on a blacklist and neither I nor any official or guest artist of the species will sell any more designs to you.
• Do not sell, trade or gift Calyptra to people on the blacklist.
• If you sell or auction off a Calyptra character, state well visibly in the offer what you originally got it for! If you got the design for free or a few bucks, people do deserve to know this before they consider giving you money or doing work for you!
• You may sell contest prizes by Broeckchen unless specified otherwise in a contest's rules.
• You may not sell raffle prizes for at least a year after winning them. I don't want people entering raffles to earn a quick buck snatching the prizes away from those who genuinely appreciated the designs and hoped to give them a loving new home.

Breaking any of these rules will net you 1-3 warnings before landing you on a blacklist, depending on how severe the rulebreak is and how much the culprit seems capable of changing for the better. Blacklisted users have no access to Calyptra via official means and are excluded from the communities. Note that getting blacklisted is a sign you broke the Rules severely enough that you disqualified yourself from refunds for Lightbulbs or designs! You may still ask, but it's entirely Broeckchen's prerogative whether you receive a refund or not!

BLACKLIST

Species Guide

The official guide of the species would be a tad too big to include directly on here, so please refer to the DeviantArt Submission for this.

Lore

Similarly to the species guide, the lore of the Calyptra species is extensive and still growing. It can be found in this folder and will soon be updated with short versions on most topics.

Artists

For the month of Decembre 2017, the Guest Artists are Parziivale and @AiC. Official artist and species owner is Broeckchen.

Lightbulbs

For several reasons that I will go into later, the Calyptra Species runs on an own currency called Lightbulbs! Please skip to the last paragraph of this journal if you wish to know how to purchase Calyptra adoptables, MYO slots and customs with a real-world currency instead. Lightbulbs are the glowing flowerbuds of a fruit tree only known and tended to by Calyptra and very few other species. Thus, they exist within their lore and world just like in ours, albeit in a different form. Within our world, Lightbulbs are a so-called "virtual currency", which means that you cannot walk into your local grocery store and buy things with it. You can pretty much only use it for trade with others who I have given them to - or with me, :devBroeckchen:! There are three main ways to obtain Lightbulbs: One is to purchase them directly from me. You can do this either by paying with Paypal, DeviantArt points or, if that is possible for you and I trust you with it, via bank transfer. The second way is to obtain Lightbulbs via activities in one of the Calyptra-communities. We have this Toyhou.se World for that, but also a DeviantArt Group and an Amino App. You might be awarded Lightbulbs for certain activities in one of the communities, or by winning in an event. The third way is to get Lightbulbs from other people who already own some. Maybe a fellow group member wishes to gift you some Lightbulbs so you can get your own character, or you offered to do commissions in exchange for them. I will detail in a bit how this process works. As you can see, Lightbulbs can be obtained for free. But what can you do with them?

Transferring Lightbulbs

Other Communities

Currently, Calyptra also have a dedicated DeviantArt Group and an Amino App. Suggestions for different platforms are always welcome.