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It's that time again, folks. Time to see where you've been and what you've been doing with your little critters. So without further ado, here are the ( Last Activity Dates. )

For those who are behind on activity, or on the bubble *eyes people suspiciously* there is a great way to get them some quick action: try the Kentucky Derby Thread that Dawn very conveniently put up.

Oh hi! Nae here again. I play Sassafrass, Whackafrass, Scratchafrass, Frasslessfrass, NotOdinsfrass, Huggasnuggafrass, and Yodafrass. Oh wait, no, that's Kate. Nevermind! I play HADES. But he's so maniacal mischievous, and sneaky manipulative, and cold hearted evil all the time. I really needed to pick up someone else for balance.

So anyway, here's Eris!!! 4 feet, almost eleven inches, of pure fun and sunshine. She is such an incredibly good person that even if you don't invite her to a wedding that you have invited everyone else to, she still brings a gift. She's also super super humble. She is so willing to give other people all the credit for things she's done. Sometimes when they weren't even involved at all. Plus she's always fixing everyone's lives, and helping everyone else using her unique skill set, and asking for so little in return. Just...GUH. Best friend ever. You should all plot with her. More details can be found at her journal. Like how she's a chaotic little nutcase who produces reality tv, and touches the lives of celebrities and kindergarteners. Oh and she has like 23489384938 unclaimed children, so if you want any of your critters to have fathered one of hers, we can talk.

Eighteen replies later (literally) and 10 hours and I am finally caught up. Thanks everyone for your patience lately. I have no idea when my critters got so popular, but yours make mine happy to play!

The next couple weeks are going to be very busy as I spend three days in the woods next weekend, and five days away from internet or cell service the following weekend. Then it's only three weeks until the BIG vacation of the year. So I beg your continued patience. I will try to keep as caught up as I can over the next few weeks.

<3

Tereesa
~Ahti, Bes, Hel, Hermes, Isis, Odin, Tyr

So. In the past, prior to the reset, whenever we had a big group thread, when it reached 49 replies, we would move it to a new thread to prevent it from collapsing down. This had the effect of keeping the replies open for everybody to read as soon as they opened the post, and it was a little easier to follow the story. However, it also sometimes seemed like a small subthread would barely get started when it would have to be moved to a new post because another subthread moved faster and generated a lot of posts. So there were pros and cons to this system.

With the new Kentucky Derby thread, Cary and I started talking about those pros and cons again. And we'd like to know what you guys think of it. Do we want to move group threads when they approach 50 replies to keep the post easy to read and follow, or should we let them play out to keep the flow more natural? What are your thoughts?

There's woo, and there's hoo, and there's a bit of hey-now! I'M DONE. FREEEEEE. (at least until the start of summer session.)

And thanks to all you guys and your well wishes, I totally rocked that last final. I got 122 out of 134 available points, and that ended up giving me a 96.45% in the whole class! Tomorrow I am taking a passel of books back to the bookstore to sell back, as well as pick up my next set of books for summer session, and as soon as I get home, I'm gonna catch up. Today? I'm getting in a nice, cool shower and then celebrating with a couple of margaritas and whatever's left in my mom's bottle of Jim Beam. <3 Yahoo!

I swear on all that is holy in every religion and spirituality that I did not know about this when I posted this.

I kinda feel... a little uncomfortable now.

~ Dawn

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Normally this is where I make this nice little intro about how awesome you guys are and how proud I am of all the really great threads going on and how I'd love to see that continue. But I'm sick and very drugged up, so I'm just going to say, you guys are AWESOME, and I'm really PROUD of all the great threads going on and I'd LOVE to see that continue. Now, on with the summaries.

( April 2012 )

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Thank you guys for being so supportive. The messages I have gotten and the texts and everything have helped. I have been pretty quiet. But I will be at the plot chat Friday and sunnnday? Or Friday night I will be looking to do replies. I kind of had a breakdown. Sort of. Stress induced weeks plus going through the mourning process and psycho sister..

But yes. I am still alive and I love you and miss you guys. Sorry!!

I've gotta ask y'all for a little patience! I was trying NOT to do this, but I'm gonna have to ask that y'all give me a few extra days. Finals are coming up this week (at least one opens on Friday and goes through Monday, so it's either tomorrow or the weekend) and I'm gonna be a little busy getting ready for, and taking them. So I may not get to anyone's replies until after the weekend, though I WILL be at the plot chat, come Tartarus or high water. I'm not hiatusing or anything, cause I don't think that's quite necessary, I just need a few extra days. Nobody hate me!

Cary and I were talking about this and that, and we think that the first Friday of the month is a good day to have as a standing Plot Chat Day. What do you guys think of that? Would that work for you in general, or is it going to take some major rearranging? Please let us know.

But in the mean time, we figured it's time for a little bit of a get together this week anyway. Yes, we know, some of you (us) still have plot up the wazoo, but some people need some, and really, we think Plot Chats are about more than just plotting. There's Vagina Dentata too. Hell, we just like talking to you people; you're nuts, and we love that about you.

So, it's going to be Friday, May 4th, 10:30 EST, which makes it 9:30 CST, 8:30 MST, and 7:30 PST. Be online about 10-15 minutes before the start of chat so we can make sure we can get you into the chatroom. And please make sure it's a version of AIM that is compatible with a group chat. (Godsdammit, Kat, I need to WRITE DOWN that SN that actually works, because I forgot it again. Smack me Friday and remind me to do that.)

Oh and hey? In case you missed it, Dawn came up with this fun idea that will be launching Saturday morning. It's a stand-alone thread, but a really great way for your critter to get in there and interact with other characters they might not normally get a chance to play with. Do it! It's fun! You can dress them up! There's horses! And gambling! DO IT! prettyplease.

So, I had this thought last week sometime, pitched it to Kate (since Zeus would totally bring his main lady with him), and she said, "why not open it up in DDC to others?" And I thought that was a fabulous idea.

Here's the deal:

The Kentucky Derby is Saturday. Zeus breeds Thoroughbreds at a stable in Versailles, Kentucky. We're going to pretend, without naming one of the runners, that one of the horses in the stakes is his. He's rather fond of the horse racing circuit. So, Zeus will be there.

I'm going to put a post up early Saturday morning (before I leave town for the weekend, don't worry, I'll have net access at night on Saturday and then Sunday afternoon when I get home). I'll tag Hera first, then anyone that wants to have their kids at the Derby (and interact with Zeus and Hera) is more than welcome to pop in.

This can run concurrent to any other threads you may have. It's just a day at Churchill Downs for some deities. We can let this thread run for however long it needs to go. We'll plan on it being the schmoozing prior to the race with the thread ending with race start.

I think this will be fun. Goddesses, get out your dresses and your heels and your big, lavish Derby hats (google image search Derby Hats for inspiration) and have fun. Gods, well... try not to upstage the ladies. lol

Um... anything I'm missing, Kate?

Questions, anyone?

~Dawn
Enyo, Frigg, Harmonia, Iris, Loki, Thoth and Zeus

Poor Pretty Peitho (hehehe)... in all the work to get Nike, Eros and Zephyrus in play (replies coming now) I pretty spectacularly pushed Peitho to the side and well I didn't exactly forget her, I just didn't remember her is a timely manner.

Yeah that's it. Can I blame that on Dawn too? No? Damn.

SO. Before she really causes havoc in my head and before the mods make with the mean faces, I'm getting a thread up for her. There were some things planned for her but they haven't gotten underway yet so this one will be up for anyone.

I think that's all.
Happy Saturday and things, and stuff.

~Jess

Ooo, so we had our very first activity check since the reset! Holy crap, you people have been BUSY! And we LOVE how active you guys have been. It took a while to sort through all the threads, which was honestly a bit of a pain in the butt. KEEP DOING THAT, PEOPLES!

But for this month, to prove that we're being honest (and so you can double check our math), here are your ( last activity dates. )

I too need to apologize for delays. Which I planned to do as soon as I got home from work, and now it looks like I'm just copying Dawn. Which is expected, since she is so incredibly awesome!

Anyway, yeah. I've had extra meetings at work Tues and Wed, a funeral last night, and Dawn's presentation to go to tonight (Not that I'm interested at all, mind you, but you KNOW how she gets... J/K!!!!) Then tomorrow I have dance class (again, guess who's teaching that), podcasting (guess with who), drag show (again..any guesses?)...

Dawn, I'm seeing a strange pattern here!!! Are you MY new hetero life partner???

ROFL

Seriously folks, sorry about the wait. I will get done what I can in between over the weekend. Thanks for you patience!

Since I don't see all of you on AIM, I thought I'd better offer my apologies for my delay in replies. Wednesday, I taught dance. Thursday I went out with some girls from work, which being that I work from home now, is important. Tonight I have a presentation on Hellenismos to give and I'm not ready. Tomorrow I have house cleaning, podcast, weekly shopping and a drag show.

So I may not get to replies I owe until Sunday. I'm going to try here and there, but I can't make any promises.

<3 you all!

Sunday is dedicated to replies!

~ Dawn
Enyo, Frigg, Harmonia, Iris, Loki, Thoth and Zeus

EDIT: OMG And how could I forget that I have a belly dance class tomorrow morning, too?!

This is a joke, right?

Gods Behaving Badly

Someone tell me that's not real. I won't believe this.

Best or worst idea ever. I have this feeling that with the advent of cellphones, if any of your gods or goddesses are technologically inclined and friends with Ninkasi (who does get around mind you), there may be a fair amount of drunk texting and/or calls involved in their relationship. Why? Because drunk texting/calls are fun and you know--awesome THREAD starters.

If you would like for your god or goddess to be in her phone, let me know!

I haven't been around for a while, and I apologize. But I finally got stuff with my office sorted and made my decisions on what to do here with the reboot.

I decided to keep Anansi, Perses and Oizys.

With Anansi and Perses, I'm open to what gets kept and what gets left behind. Please let me know if there's anything specific you would like to keep or abandon with them.

Oi, however, I would very much like to try to keep as much as I can with her. So if there's anything you specifically want to not have, history, interactions or whatever, PLEASE let me know, because otherwise I am going to assume that her history is mostly in tact.

Currently, I have plot for none of them, so I'm completely open to any ideas.

Also, Hello to the new players!

-Mila