#neomatch

[peadackles]

A retouch of this post - I learned how to color the lineart and the different is big enough that it deserves a throwback!

Left to right: Kim (@strawberrykacheek), Jo (@pinkeyrie), Tea (mine) and Ate (@neopies)

[womenlovingwocky]

any space gals (or non space gals... she's not picky) that wanna hang at a party with reggie are welcome to tag along

[sloppychuckleface]

Finally finished some art for my newest member of the team ~ meet Nelliespell !

[neomatch]

Neomatch is live!

Neomatch is a “dating site” made for the purpose of pairing the neotag’s lonely neopet OCs together with the intention of finding them friends, and maybe a little something more :)

Like all fun things, NeoMatch has some guidelines we would like you to read before submitting apps to help clear up any confusion or concerns! Please click to read more about this project and learn how you can be part of it.

Guidelines

Neomatch is intended to be a fun, community building activity and resource for people in the neopets fandom who would like to incorporate other’s neopet OCs into their stories/character development and need somewhere to start. We want to keep this site as drama free as possible and ask everyone to abide by the following rules:

Neomatch is purely for fun and not meant to be taken too seriously, so please refrain from starting conflict if your neopet does not find a partner or is turned down by the partner you wanted for them. This site is for making friends, not enemies! 

We ask everyone to respect the boundaries of the other individuals associated with this site. That means that if someone isn’t looking for romance for their pet, don’t ask! If they don’t want to RP or have ship art drawn of their pet then please be sure to respect that. What this also means is, regardless of the pet’s sexuality, if the user has stated they are only looking for a specific gender of partner for their pet, please abide to that as well. (I.E. someone’s OC is bisexual but only interested in girls, don’t pursue them with your male OC! Neopets can have preferences, too)

The minimum OC age to use this service is 16, and RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN UNDERAGE OCS AND ADULT OCS ARE NOT ALLOWED!!!! We have created tags with the purpose to seperate the adults from the teens, but while searching through other tags on our blog PLEASE keep an eye out for which OCs are “neominors” and “neoadults” respectively. The only exception to this is the “2 year age gap” rule which basically means that if your OC is 16, the oldest OC they can date is 18. If your pet is 17, the oldest OC they can date is 19. Please be mindful of this rule regardless of what your opinion is of age gaps irl. Anyone found to be purposely breaking this rule will be removed and blocked from Neomatch and will not be allowed to participate in events related to it.

Contact us ASAP if you receive any form of harassment from someone related to using this service. This includes disrespecting pre-established boundaries (unsolicited RP/ship art), pressuring or giulting someone into having your OCs date/be friends, and anything related to shipping minors/adult OCs together (that breaks the 2 year age gap rule). Anyone who is found to be breaking the rules will either be given a warning or be blocked and banned from using the service (depending on the severity of the situation). 

Now that is over with, let’s get to the fun part!

1. Making your Application

Below are examples of the templates available to you at this time, the first one is the Neomatch Application which is required to fill out in order to use this service.

Here’s a beautifully illustrated and completed version of the template made by Zji:

Here is where you can download the template yourself! The folder includes a Visual Guide, a blank PNG, and a blank PSD.

The second template is the Neomatch Profile which is completely optional!

Here’s Zji’s version of the profile:

Here is where you can download the blank version of the profile, as well as the visual guide +PSD! This template is easiest to fill out in Photoshop, but if you don’t have Photoshop you can add text to the blank profile in another art program like Paint. If you want to add emojis to your profile but don’t have them on your computer, I would type up the bio on tumblr mobile, save as a draft, screenshot it, then paste into the profile :)

Here is a brief rundown of what is OK and not ok to do when filling out the templates:

Feel free to

change the color of the background, text boxes, and font as you wish (as long as you can still read it)

add multiple pictures into picture box

use a different font to fill out the form

Please refrain from

Changing the color of the header/footer (This is fine on the Profile, but we want to keep the grey top and bottom on the Application)

Removing or editing the Neomatch logo

Leaving info boxes blank (except for the “Other” box) 

Filling out the form illegibly (if you really want to write in the info yourself just make sure other people can read it)

Using images you don’t have permission to use as the profile picture

If you have any problems filling out the form or have questions for us related to it, please send us an ask or DM and we will help you ASAP.

Here is where you can see some more of Zji’s apps/profiles if you want to see more examples.

2. Submitting your application

If you go to the Submit page you will see we have a few more rules and stuff to follow just to help keep stuff organized. I will briefly address them here as well as some other things 

We prefer at this time if you don’t post your applications to tumblr on your main blog/other blogs. You are absolutely welcome to reblog submissions from us, but we would like to keep everything in one place and don’t want to clutter people’s feed’s with the same picture over and over again.

You can submit as many apps as you want, but if we receive a lot of submissions at once we may put them into a queue to try to space out the posts.

It’s very important to use that you tag your submission correctly to save us a little bit of time when uploading them, we can’t tag them for you because we aren’t at liberty to assume what your OC is looking for

If your application or something related to your submission is incorrect we will send you a message and explain how you can fix it

If you have any questions or are confused about the submission process please shoot us an ask and we will try our best to help you

It is also required to fill out the following form in the description of your submission to be accepted:

Contact: (your blog[s] here) Is it OK to draw your OC interacting with other OCs platonically?: (yes/no/ask first) Is it OK for Neomatch to send you “Matches’ via DM with similar characters your OC may be compatible with, or would you like to look by yourself?: (yes or no) [BE SURE TO HAVE YOUR DMS OPEN IF YOU SAY YES OR ELSE YOU WONT GET MATCHES FROM US] If you marked “No” above, is it still okay for us to match your OC with other’s OCs? (you won’t get a DM from us but someone might DM you): (yes/no) Other important info: (maybe include a bit of your character’s backstory & if you are looking for characters to add to your story, etc? or anything else at all you would like to include)

3. Receiving Neomatches

We intend on providing a little matchmaker service to those who opt into it, what it consists of is the admins of this blog helping you find friends/romance for your OC by taking mutual interests, location, age, and so on into consideration and pairing your OC with someone else’s based off of that. These “Neomatches” will be DMed to you privately (SO KEEP YOUR DMs OPEN) and it’s completely up to you on whether or not you’d like to pursue it or not. The message will consist of something like “_____ has a new match!” and we’ll DM you the profile of the other OC. If you find this service annoying or are not interested in using it you can let us know and we will stop sending them to you :)

I think that basically covers the jist of it, so keep an eye out for future updates and announcements! Feel free to send us an ask here if you have any questions or concerns related to using this service! We hope you all have as much fun with this as we will!

[lordlioness]

stuff about neomatch + what to expect

i just want to give everyone an update about how this thing is coming along bc it seems like quite a few ppl are excited which is amazing!!!! thank you guys for your support and stuff this idea is gonna be a lot of fun

right now im in the process of developing a template to fill out, and i am also writing some basic rules/guidelines to follow while using the site and so on. here is a little blurb from what i have written so far to help explain what it is a little more since there’s not an actual info post about it yet:

“Neomatch is intended to be a fun, community building activity and resource for people in the neopets fandom who would like to incorporate other’s neopet OCs into their stories/character development and need somewhere to start.“

to answer some rlly quick questions also:

its not just for finding your pet a significant other, it can be used for friends too!

there will be a variety of tags you can search through to find the right friend/s.o. for your pet

there is no application cap (you can submit one for as many pets as you want)

there will be two templates available to you, the first one is required to fill out to get necessary information, and the other template is optional & will be more centered around your pets looks/personality, a little more similar to what you might see on a dating app/site if you lived in neopia!

i don’t mind if you make mock-apps and such for the time being, but please keep in mind that to use the service you will have to fill out the appropriate template and submit it accordingly<3

also, you are allowed to edit the template as you wish as long as it looks similar to the original and has all of the necessary info on there

right now im trying to arrange to have this blog up, running, and ready to go on Friday, February 23rd, so mark your calendars!! I also wanna thank @kougracrusader for inspiring me and helping me a lot with the template <3

I hope you guys are excited for this because I know I am!!

If you have more questions feel free to reply to this post or send me an ask on the neomatch blog, here: https://neomatch.tumblr.com/ask

[renarroyoart]

I ACTUALLY WENT AHEAD AND DID THIS, FOLKS!! A dating profile for my gelert Liki!! thanks to @lordlioness‘ excellent idea. 

Decided to draw her as human and quad but she can be anthro too 👌✨

OH I also noticed that @neopies used ‘Neomatch’ in the wip of Ate’s dating profile so I decided to put it on mine too! I thought it’d be a neat tag to track all of the dating profiles, so I encourage you to tag yours as #neomatch as well so I can stare at all the OCs!!

[wraith-bori]

real talk I was going to make a neomatch thing but then I got hung up on the thought of nobody wanting to match with my pet and now I'm sad

[peadackles]

GAL PAL BEACH PARTY!

Left to right: Kim (@strawberrykacheek), Jo (@pinkeyrie), Tea (mine) and Ate (@neopies).

I feel like they would probably have met at NeoLGBTQIA+ events and hit it off, and then thought it would be fun to go to the beach together!  I can’t deny that they’re gonna be meeting up with more friends once they get there though, so if you feel left out of the beach party you’re more than welcome to draw activities! :D