Foremost Rules

You must be at least 13 to access this site and own a Serptail.

Users under 13 who currently own their Serptails will not have their Serptails revoked, but they will not be allowed to join our Discord server or register for this website. Users under 13 will be kicked from the site and the Discord server for breaking our Terms of Service and the Discord Terms of Service.

All Serptails must be registered to the Serptail Masterlist.

A Serptail will only be treated as authentic or valid if it is on the masterlist. You must have an account on Serptails.com to keep track of your character ownership for this species if the design or slot was made past December 31, 2024.

You may not be a bigot and access this species.

For the safety of our members and staff, you may not maintain an account on this site or interact with the species if you hold bigoted views. This includes racism, sexism, transphobia, xenophobia, antisemitism, and Zionism.

We are a safe space for minorities, and if you jeopardize that space, we will remove you from the site.

No AI.

We are staunchly anti-AI art. Your submissions to this site may not be AI-generated, whether it's illustration or writing. Repeated AI use will result in a ban.

Species Policy and procedure

Cooldown Rules

All Serptails have a standard cooldown of 2 weeks or 14 days.

You must wait two weeks to transfer a design or MYO slot after obtaining it. This policy discourages "trading chip" practices and allows mods to catch up with the masterlist easier.

Do not take trade or sale offers before the cooldown is up. Even if you do not accept an offer, you are breaking cooldown.

Do not take trade or sale offers on a MYO, custom, or design you do not officially own yet. For example, you may not take offers on a half-finished custom commission or a design that you are actively paying off.

Do not plan trades to evade cooldown. You literally, physically cannot transfer the character because of site locks.

All redesigns have a standard cooldown of 2 weeks or 14 days.

The site functions so that you may not redesign your Serptail within two weeks of owning it. Out of respect for the original designer, our policy is that redesign concepts are not allowed within this cooldown window. Minor changes are acceptable, but not a total redesign.

The redesign cooldown will reset to two weeks after we approve your redesign. You may not make another design within that period.

Design Rules

Refer to our Design Guide for in-depth rules.

This section of the Terms of Service is only for basic information.

Serptails are always on real snakes from specific snake families.

Serptail designs must be recognizable when placed next to an image of their snake inspiration. All other information is accessible in the Design Guide linked above.

Design Concept Rules

The following rules are for publicly sharing unapproved designs/design concepts, meaning any Serptail design not on the masterlist. We will enforce these rules on our Discord and the site, but we don't have control over it on other social media. We do discourage you from breaking these rules outside of those two spaces.

If you do NOT have a MYO:

• You may not share a full-body concept of a Serptail if you do not have a slot.
• You may create headshot concept art, colored or uncolored.

If you have a MYO:

• You may share the concept art of your MYO. You must add the disclaimer that the design is unofficial in your post.
• We discourage you from publicly posting concepts of the same design several times. If you would like feedback, our staff is available to assist you privately. 

These are acceptable regardless of whether or not you have an MYO:

• You may share real snakes you would like to use as inspiration for a Serptail.
• You may share written character descriptions of the kind of Serptail character you would like to make.