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Gooseberry Mods (goosemods) wrote in goose_ooc,
@ 2016-12-09 10:50:00

Entry tags:

! announcement, ! meme, ! mod post

RULES AND MEMES
Over the last week, a few things have been established about how detention and mail work at school! Here's that information for everyone:

Detention is served Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. It's not served on Fridays because Fridays are often irregular with monthly bonding. The staff is aware that some characters (cough cough Casper and Quinn cough) would probably rather serve detention than go to monthly bonding.

Detention takes place for 1-2 hours after dinner. What it entails depends on the teacher that gave it to you. If it's a sweeping detention assignment, such as with sledding, you default to your Head of House as the teacher overseeing what you serve and how.

Packages are magically screened when they arrive. There's a charm in place that detects alcohol, drugs, weapons, explosives, and other illegal materials. There is no way around this charm; it's exceptionally thorough. If the spell is set off, your character will be called into the lodge by their Head of House to open the package and see what caused the trouble. If it's something within the rules that just got caught in the wide net (cough medicine as alcohol, a new bow for Archery Club as a weapon), it'll pass. If it is contraband, it'll be returned to the sender. Kids will only get in trouble if it's blatantly obvious they're trying to sneak in contraband. Ms. Vector is harder than any of the others about this.

Letters without anything but paper in them can be dropped off straight to the tables by owls and ravens a la Hogwarts.

MINI MEME:
We did these a while ago, but we have so many new characters and players now! Let's re-introduce ourselves by answering some quick questions for fun~

Which Gooseberry house would you be in?
Which Hogwarts and Ilvermorny houses would your character(s) be sorted into?

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neattrick
2016-12-09 10:13 pm UTC (link)

Also, bonus JJ sorting story:

From the time my grandmother read me my very first Harry Potter book as a bedtime story at the tender age of 6, I have a strong and deep affinity for Hufflepuff house. First of all, badgers were my fuck-all favorite animal when I was 6. I was INTO THEM. And then I think I also felt a little wronged even as a child that the like, "play fair and support your friends" house was considered to be the leftover one that nobody wanted both by the books and by my older brother who to this day torments me by calling it "the Nose-Picker House".

Anyway. I loved me some Hufflepuff. I had all the swag I could find, which was not an awful lot of it, but what I could not find I MADE. I dressed up as Hufflepuff for all the book events and movie launches and everything. Imagine this montage-style culminating in me & my college roommate having our dorm all done up in Hufflepuff colors with like pennants and everything. It was ADORABLE.

NOW it's late summer of 2011 and the much-anticipated Pottermore beta has just gone online. It's like, midnight, I think, because I definitely would have stayed up all night to get myself Officially Sorted™ by JK Rowling's Pottermore test. I was so hyped. I took the test and it came up... SLYTHERIN.

To this day I have never had my own perception of myself and my moral fiber shaken SO DEEPLY to the core as that moment in which I was sorted into Slytherin. I was not a happy camper. I called my best friend who was like, you know, doing his own shit. In the middle of the night. To make him give me the log-in and password for the Pottermore Beta I had made him sign up for but he didn't really want. So I could take the test again.

And I did, this time PICKING SPECIFICALLY HUFFLEPUFFISH ANSWERS. It worked, and that account got sorted into Hufflepuff.

"Ha," I said over the phone. "That's better."

"Did you just cheat on a test to get the result that you wanted?" my friend asked me, presumably tired and pissed off that I was bothering him with this at all.

"I guess," I admitted.

"That's literally the most Slytherin thing I've ever heard," he said, and hung up the phone.

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	paladins 2016-12-09 10:19 pm UTC (link)
	this is my favourite story ever (Reply to this) (Parent)

	misssperfect 2016-12-10 10:41 am UTC (link)
	Omfg this is the literal best story ever LOL (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kingulysses 2017-02-10 12:19 pm UTC (link)
	im so glad i went trawling thru the comms for memes so i could officially confirm this story for true (Reply to this) (Parent)

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