1. love yourself. your work is an extension of your being, this space is a way to play and grow surrounded by other well meaning cherubs who themselves are on their own journeys. extend the same gentleness to yourself as you do to others

2. play to learn. play to feel. play for you. you don't owe people anything you can't give them and at the end of the day, artfight is what you want to make it. be here to have a good time, if something feels bad, it's alright, you don't have to do it if you don't want to

3. greed is your worst enemy. to contribute to a community based around giving is a rare and beautiful thing. desire is natural and healthy and feeding it is good (we all deserve nice things) but do not let it consume you. we can always art trade, but not always artfight ...!

4. some rules can be stretched. this is just about meme redaws im forever salty about meme redraws they are So Fun and honestly. artfight. let me do them. i'm gonna do them anyway.

5. hitlists.. only once we break free of the chains of mankind can we see their crushing power. if you are a brave soul, you may be able to tame the power of the hitlist, but just remember, target-hunting and tag search are fair and just methods of character collection. do not feel the need to make one, they are not necessary. new artfight era where we don't use hitlists anymore when

* add animation, add hanky code