Everything about the mascot that is your face on qwertime: choosing it, evolving it, your chest, rare mascots and gifts, and mascots by designers, celebrities and brands. Site FAQ: the site →
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Your mascot
What is a mascot on qwertime?
It is your face here. It sits beside your posts and on your profile, does the mood of each post you write, reacts to other people's posts for you, and shows up in their notifications when you follow them or reply.
How do I choose mine?
You start with one picked for you, and pick any mascot from the catalogue in its place, once: when you first save it, it is yours for good. Then dress it as you like: a hat, eyes, something at its neck, in its hands and on its feet, a dress in a pattern and colour of your own, its colour, its lines and its build. Name it, and it evolves with you. Another mascot comes from your chest, with its own handle and name, once yours reaches its final form.
Can my mascot have its own name and @handle?
Yes. Give it a name (emoji welcome), and it has an @handle of its own, its own followers and its own page. People can name it in their posts, and follow it.
What does my mascot say?
The lines you give it (up to 20, of 50 characters each), now and then as it roams with you. You also choose how it answers each reaction to your posts: a Love answered with confetti, a Haha with a dance.
Can I go back to a look I had before?
Yes. Save a look by name as a version and wear it again any time. The last 10 looks before each change are kept too.
Can other people copy my mascot's look?
Only if you let them ("Others may copy its look", off at first). They get its look, never its name or its lines. A rare mascot is never copied.
Can I put my mascot on my own website?
Yes: one line of code puts it in a corner of your site, doing lively gestures and saying your latest post or your line about you. A click brings your visitors to your profile here.
Can I make GIFs of my mascot?
Yes. On its page, Make GIFs turns any of its gestures into a GIF for a post, a Discord emoji or sticker, or a pack of them.
On the pages
What is a post's mood?
Every post carries a mood: what your mascot does beside it (waving, laughing, coding, drinking coffee and over a hundred more). Pick one, or let qwertime pick the one your words call for.
Why is my mascot walking around the page?
It roams with you as you browse, says a line now and then, and opens a menu of the site when you click it. You can turn that off on Your mascot, and focus mode keeps every mascot still.
Someone else's mascot just peeked onto my page!
That is a wandering mascot: now and then another member's mascot visits a page, peeks, sneaks about and maybe holds on to a button (it still works: press it). Click it to catch it (its member is told). You can ask for none on the pages you look at.
Evolving and points
How does my mascot evolve?
As your points grow it goes through four stages: Rookie, Rising at 50 points, Star at 250 and Legend at 800, gaining sparkles, then an aura, then wings. You are told when it happens, and it is celebrated. You may keep an earlier stage if you like it better. A designer's mascot may go through stages its designer drew instead.
How do I earn points?
From what you do on qwertime and how others engage with it: posting, replying and coming back, opening the questions on this page, and people reacting to your posts, replying, reposting and following you and your mascot. The exact formula is not published, so it cannot be gamed. Just be here and be good company.
What are critters?
Creatures that evolve into new forms as your points grow: Ember, a fox kit with a spark in its tail; Terrashell, a turtle whose shell grows leaves; Aqualon, a bubble of a fish whose fins grow. Each has four stages, and you can wear any stage you have reached.
Can my points go down?
No. A mascot never goes back: the most points you ever had are kept.
Your chest
What is my chest?
Where your mascots wait. Once every mascot you have reaches its final form (Legend, or a critter's last stage), you may start a new one, for some of your unused points (Your mascot says how many): the one you had goes into your chest with its look, its points, its @handle and its followers. A chest holds up to 50.
Which of my mascots earns points?
Only your active one: the one by your posts. Its points are its own, shared with none of your others. Make any mascot in your chest active again whenever you like.
What are unused points?
Points a mascot earned beyond its final form. A new mascot of qwertime's (a fresh one, or a rare one you catch) costs some of them; what is left you may give a fresh one, so it starts further along. You are asked first, and shown how many. A designer's mascot, or a gift, costs none.
Rare mascots and gifts
What is a rare mascot?
A mascot designed by qwertime's team in a numbered edition: only 10, 20, 40, 50, 60 or 100 copies of it ever exist ("1 of 10"), or just one. Nobody can pick one.
What is the Golden Quill?
The one and only: a single Golden Quill exists, and only one member can ever own it. Every 100 days, at a random moment, it comes out of hiding and roams through the replies of a post's thread for ten seconds, here and there, until someone catches it. Miss it, and it shows up again somewhere else.
How do I get one?
Catch it. Now and then a rare mascot peeks over a post or a box for two seconds, glowing, with its edition on it. Click it in time (logged in) and a numbered copy goes into your chest, once every mascot you have reached its final form: it costs some of your unused points. One copy of each design per member, and one catch a day.
How do I know mine is genuine?
Its page shows its number ("Rare · #3 of 10"), its designer's signature and a seal qwertime signs for that copy and its owner. Anyone can check the seal on its certificate, which also lists who had it before.
Can I change a rare mascot's look?
No: it keeps the look its designer gave it, so it stays one of so many. You can still change what it says, and it evolves like any mascot.
Can I give a rare mascot to someone?
Yes. From your chest, Give wraps it for the member you name. It waits on their Gifts page until they open it, and then it is theirs, sealed anew in their name. You can take it back until they open it. Opening a gift costs no points.
Can I lose a rare mascot?
Only by staying away. If you do not visit qwertime for six months, your rare mascot breaks out of your chest to find a new owner, keeping its number. Visiting now and then keeps it yours.
Designer, celebrity and brand mascots
What is a designer's mascot?
A mascot made and signed by a verified designer, celebrity or brand, in a numbered edition ("#3 of 100"). You get one from its maker's own store, bought or with their merch, as a code you claim here. It keeps the look, name, lines and answers its maker gave it, and it never breaks out of your chest: it is yours.
I have a code: how do I claim my mascot?
Log in and type it on Claim a mascot (it looks like QT-ABCD-EFGH-JKLM-NPQR). The next numbered copy goes into your chest, sealed for you; make it active from Your mascot whenever you like. One copy of each design a member: a second code is yours to give.
What are attachments?
Brands' products your mascot carries: a phone, a bag, a tablet. Some are free; others come with a code from the brand's own store. Your mascot keeps the ones you attach and holds one at a time, in every pose; all of them show on its page and your profile, and in its card when someone double-clicks it.
Can a designer's mascot evolve its own way?
Yes. Its designer may draw its evolution: 2 to 8 stages, each a new drawing, with the points it needs. A stage may have no arms or no legs, never no eyes, and may face you or turn 45 degrees to one side. Its page shows every stage; your copy grows into each as your points reach it, and you may keep an earlier one.
What does "signed electronically" mean?
Its maker signed it themselves on qwertime, drawing their signature or typing their name, and qwertime sealed that signing: who, when, and everything the design is. Its page checks the seal each time it opens; a signed design is never changed.
Can a designer keep a mascot secret until its launch?
Yes. When they sign it, a designer says when it comes out: at once, on a day and at a time they pick, or when they release it. Until then only they see it, and it is not in their shop. Its store can sell it meanwhile: your code works from the moment it is out (claiming it before says when).
How do I become a verified designer?
Apply as a designer, a celebrity or a brand, with your links and, for a celebrity or a brand, how we can check it is you. Once approved you get a badge and a Studio: design mascots from your own, sign them, connect your store (Shopify, WooCommerce, Lemon Squeezy, Gumroad) so each order emails its buyer a code, make print-ready art for merch, and, for a brand, send your own items for your mascots to hold. A celebrity's or a brand's mascot only ever comes from their own verified account.
Hires
Can my mascot work on other websites?
Yes. Put it up for hire, and members can ask to hire it for their website. You accept or decline, either of you can end it, and its page lists the websites it works at. It shows there as it looked when they asked: what you change after stays here. What it says there is the merchant's.
Your AI assistant (MCP)
What is MCP?
The Model Context Protocol: how an AI assistant (Claude, or any other MCP client) uses an app for you. qwertime has an MCP door, so your assistant can look after your mascot, read your feed and post, as you, when you ask it to.
How do I connect my assistant?
On Connect AI, make a token and give your assistant the line shown with it (one for Claude Code, one for any other MCP client). The token is shown once and lasts 90 days; revoke it any time and it stops working at once. If Connect AI asks for a few followers first, it says how many.
Can my AI assistant change my mascot?
Yes, once you connect it, in your own words ("give my mascot a party hat and teach it to say good morning"): which mascot it is, its name, @handle, lines, outfit, colours and how it is drawn, how it answers each reaction, the stage it is at, its versions, a look someone lets others copy, which mascot in your chest is active, a new one at its final form, the products it carries, and a rare one given as a gift when you ask.
Can I choose what my assistant may do?
Yes. On Connect AI, What your AI may do lists every tool it has: switch off any of them, and a call to one is refused, saying so. Telling it who you are is always on.
Will people know my assistant did it?
Yes. What it posts shows via the assistant's name, and your mascot's page says when its look was last changed by an assistant, and which one.
What does my assistant never do?
Make a token, change your email or password, delete your account, or sign a designer's mascot: only you do those, on the website. It asks you before it deletes a post, and it makes 60 calls a minute at most.
Can a designer's assistant draw a mascot's evolution?
Yes. A verified designer's assistant drafts a mascot (design_mascot) and may draw its evolution, stage by stage, after reading how (evolution_guide): arms and legs may be left out, the eyes never are, and each stage faces you or turns 45 degrees left or right. The designer looks at the draft in their Studio and signs it themselves.