I think the CBC blew half its budget on The Tudors because the whole time that I lived in Toronto, every bus and every subway car was plastered with Jonathan Rhys Meyers' pouting face and ten yards of cleavage. I believe we've all learned a valuable lesson here, and that is William Cecil may have been a crack statesman, but if he wants to me to give a shit about him he better start hitting the gym.


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HEY GUYS IT'S ACTIVITY CHECK TIME AGAIN! I bet this news thrills and delights you.

SO! Because it would take way too much of our time to look through all the posts on here and try to work out who has and hasn't been active, here is what we would like you to do:

• Comment to this post before December 6th with a link to some kind of IC activity (at xi_rpg or xi_online) for each of your characters.
• The post you're linking to has to have been made between November 21st and December 6th.
• That is all. You don't need to make individual comments for each of your characters, but you do need to check all of them in individually.

NAME OF CHARACTER (<lj user=LJ OF CHARACTER>) <a href="LINK TO POST">DATE OF POST</a>

Anyone who hasn’t posted to this thread within a week (it's closing on the 6th of December) will receive an email regarding their inactivity. If you’d like to have a word with us about any of this before then, feel free to contact any one of us. People listed on the hiatus post and characters introduced during the current app period will be exempt from this check.

On that note, we'd like to remind you of the importance of actually using the hiatus post! It's our primary means of keeping track of who is and isn't hiatus'd; it's much easier than having to trawl through the OOC comm to check hiatus notices on there! We know we mentioned this last time, but it's started happening again, so this is a handy reminder.

LOVE YOUR ~SEXY~ MOD TEAM

YO. New mun here courtesy of Baku-mun, blame her with Malik Ishtar of Yuugiou fame. Or not-fame. |D

He's telepathic, which means that, essentially, he's gonna be hearin' whatchu think so BEST BE WATCHING YOURSELVES. And don't mind the anti-social. XD;;

Anyway! I'm Sierra, can't wait to get into this game and hopefully to play with you guys!

⌈ Secret Post #1058 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 17 pages, 406 secrets from Secret Submission Post #152.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 2 3 4 5 if you're going to TELL ME "it's a not!secret" in the comment then why even post it - not!secrets ], [ 1 2 3 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ], [ 1 (that wasn't me, by the way :|) 2 3 4 - doing it wrong ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

AT THE XAVIER INSTITUTE:
October 11th (Sunday) is Coming Out Day! Professor Albus Dumbledore, Sorcerer Supreme and Master of the Mystic Arts, has taken it upon himself to pay the school a visit and give a talk in honour of the occasion, so keep an eye out for that.

New mentor groups are announced today – new students who've been put into groups are emailed about it, as are any staff members assigned new students (the staff members' emails are a little more detailed and give a little blurb on the students' backgrounds and abilities). The mentor groups page is here – for your convenience, characters newly added to this page have been highlighted in red. As ever, if we've made any slip-ups – misspelled character names, leaving characters out, putting one character in two separate groups, putting two characters played by the same person in one group, &c. – please let us know so we can fix it as soon as possible!

The weather this week is bright but not especially warm.


NEWS:
The third presidential debate is aired on Monday, and (here it comes) the nation's Mutant Problem is the topic of discussion this time round. Thompson argues powerfully in favour of mutant registration and is widely considered to have won. He argues that registration is necessary for the safety of humans and mutants alike, and says the advantages to registration would include increased efficiency in tracking down mutants who use their powers for criminal activity, better medical care for mutants, and putting the minds of the public at ease. He compares testing young children for the x-gene to testing them for illnesses and adds that knowing from the start that a child is a mutant will make it easier for families to deal with, both emotionally and in the sense of reducing potential accidents when their powers first manifest. Henderson makes a good case for some alternative approaches, like schemes making x-gene tests available to young people with no obligation for the results to be available to their parents or any third parties, but her argument overall is less cohesive than Thompson's and her failure to perform in this area over her last term is damning.

On Thursday a protest against the idea of registration in Washington DC escalates into violence; several people – mostly protestors but also two police officers and an onlooker – are killed and dozens injured in a small localised hurricane.


WHAT WOLVERINE DID THIS WEEK:
This week Wolverine attended a professional ballet performance in Munich. Everyone was a bit confused as to why until it turned out that the prima ballerina was a Doombot.


OOC NOTICES:
• You may have noticed it is not Sunday! DO HO HO SURPRISE
Well, it's Sunday in-game, but we thought it might be easier to keep track of in-game passage of time if we posted the update marked Sunday nearer the beginning of in-game Sunday, instead of ... like a few hours before the end of Sunday. Or. Something. We have our reasons! Point is: game updates in future will be 8pm GMT every other Saturday (but that's still Sunday in-game).

• FURTHER SURPRISE we reworked the taken characters list so that it is more informative and includes things like what people's powers are and what they teach! On the downside this now means it takes up two whole posts all by itself, but you can't win them all and, really, this game wins a lot so far so it was probably only a matter of time. Anyway, the main taken characters post is in the same place it always was, but we'd really appreciate it if you could give the new lists a once-over and tell us if we've made any grievous errors listing stuff!

• We still want to hear from anyone who'd be interested in apping villain characters – henchmen/mooks and big bads alike. If this is something you'd definitely consider, drop an email to the mods at xavierinstitutemods@gmail.com. (If you emailed us already and we didn't get back to you, don't worry – we will. :D)

• Remember, kids: if you want to do some serious property damage, that needs to be okayed with both a mod and the owner/inhabitant of the property. No wrecking things that are important to characters without checking with those characters' players first.

• As ever, this post is open for talking about what's going down for classes and mentor groups this week. Now that first-person action logs are permitted as well as prose, we'd encourage people to thread more classes and mentor group activities rather than just handwaving all of them, but if you don't want to do a thread or you want to plan something &c., this is the place to do it!

Heyyyy, ya'll. The name is Koko, I'm a newb to this particular game, and I be bringing you Roxas from the Kingdom Hearts series. He's a bit of a derpy boy and can be pissy at times if you really push him, but overall he's ~*~precious~*~, so go easy on the new kid! Seriously, how can you be angry with a face like this? --->

Oh. And he's currently suffering from severe amnesia, so he can't remember squat about his life before Xavier. But he knows that he can use his powers at least. Even more reason to be nice to him! XD If you need to know more of his non-canon background check out his snazzy journal.

I'm always up for plotting especially if I'm taking a break from college shit-pplications so hit me up over AIM at imsoflattered if you wanna chat.

&hearts Love always

Bases pack { 04 }
. balloons . New York . guys . city night lights .

i just realised that i really, really need a hair cut


like, really fucking bad ahjflsfd i've got about 23789240324 split ends and my fringe is really not flattering anymore because it does this stupid bend and won't just go straight like i want it to. and goddamnit i look so ginger right now, brb going back to sticking to brown hair dyes forever. the next time i dye my hair it will be brown and will the last time for a while, i wager. /growing tired of it now finally

and i really want something to do right now

idk i'm just so bored but i kinda don't feel like tagging, and i'm randomly really tired even though i went to bed at what... three-ish? and woke up at ten. that's like, my usual hours per night.


adjfkls;;sddsf i'm feeling really out of it today idek. but ji young and i went to town today! we had lunch at wagamamas and i bought colourful, jingly bangles ♥ and we found her elusive green highlighter lmao dfksdffsdf. brb fighting with my mum about something incoherent again and possibly drifting off to have a random nap.