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2021 was another wild year, and just to make forms extra confusing, it was also the year that we shifted into 2012 here at Absit Omen. We've had 12 years of writing stories together! This January, we shared our favorite moments with the Owlies and created an anniversary thread (featuring a character gallery) for all our well wishes!

In the interest of inspiration, we asked and you voted a resounding Oui! From May, we're skipping the summer months and starting fresh with August 2012 and the new Hogwarts school year in September. The new timeline is open now! Jump right into posting, or chat about plots in Plot Development or via Discord. You're welcome to continue your threads from the spring or post any necessary summer threads in the pensieve as well. Next to the calendar above, we've included June through July dates in gray for reference.

Are there any plots or summer events you'd like to wrap up or refer to? Here are some ideas:

• Plot with us in the poll thread, where we discuss plots we'd like to conclude or advance in the fall.
• Create a reference thread for your characters, such as Niobe's Where are they now?
• In-character, post a snapshot
• In-character, start a summer rumor or send a postcard in Correspondence
• If it has a specific date, tag it as usual. If it's kind of a summary, tag it "Summer 2012"

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School! We barely had time to miss you. Students, depart from Kings Cross Station on September 2nd and join the Welcome Feast and Sorting in the Great Hall! Classes begin on September 3rd.

• Hogwarts School Calendar 2012-2013
• Class Schedules
• New Class Threads

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Last January, we offered the Owlies superlatives survey, a chance to highlight some of our favorite moments, threads, and characters. Despite the Ravenclaw-essay length of the survey, several of you responded, and the results are in! Check out the slideshow and feel free to share some laughs in the thread.


Also, thank you for another wonderful Dobby Swap! Seven of you participated, creating beautiful artwork, fashion sets, avatar sets, and even an Arithmancy analysis. Dobby is impressed, as always!

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Below are several updated plots, discussions, and new characters!

• Return of the Mirror of Erised - During the April holiday, students take a school trip to find themselves (and land some extra credit).
• Moon Madness - Lucinda runs away during the April full moon! Will she be caught?
• Tenacious - ELF (Eradicate Lycanthropy Foundation) hides nefarious plans behind its harmless acronym. Also, will Layton get his comeuppance? (Yes please!)
• ELF - Eradicate Lycanthropy Foundation - A helpful summary and continuing conversation from the 'Moon Madness' and 'Tenacious' plotting threads above
• Muses Be Disquieting - A patient at St.Mungo's has turned up missing important memories! Will the origin of Muse be discovered?
• Out of the Woods - Savvina Katopodis starts to recover her memories and find a new home.

• Transgenderism in the Magical Community
• Writing PoC as a White Person
• Important: AO Poll for Timeline Skip

• Write with Erika, who brought back the wonderful Blake Knight!
• Write with Nuri and her new wixes, Salvador and Salma!
• Please welcome Rylan Marsh, a Gryffindor 4th Year played by new member, Fayt!
• Say hello to the Abbotts! Jules Abbott, an Unspeakable played by Kit; Heather Abbott, a Gryffindor 6th Year also played by Kit; and Ivy Abbott, a Hufflepuff 1st Year played by Milly!

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All Hogwarts staff may award and deduct house points. Prefects and the Head Students may suggest awards and deductions from their own house, pending approval by the student's Head of House or Headmaster.

Replies to this thread should clearly state the HOUSE, TOTAL POINTS won or lost per house, as well as a breakdown of WHICH STUDENT won or loss the points, along with the REASONS WHY points were awarded or deducted. Please wait until THE END OF A CLASS THREAD to post points, rather than each time your professor rewards them- this will keep all points awarded per class in one spot.

**NOTE: Please just post points won or lost - do not add or subtract them from current house totals.

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Attendence: Students may earn +/- 5 points for writing in class threads.  Do not deduct points from inactive students for class absences.

Merit & Discipline: Awarding and deducting of house points for a variety of triumphs and trip-ups both objective and subjective is a time-honored Hogwarts tradition.  The most famous or infamous of actions seem to cap at +/- 50 points.

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• AO World History
• Transgenderism in the Magical Community
• Adoption/Fostering in the Magical World

• Return of the Mirror of Erised - possible school trip, possible fleeting museum exhibit?
• Moon Madness, Tenacious and SAWS Revisited - the full moons are best spent indoors these days
• The Dark Coven and Stick Your Neck Out - vampire happenings
• Waverly's Witch Weekly Wireless - a relic of the airwaves rediscovered
• Muses be Disquieting - the new magical drug on the streets is more sinister than you think
• Hogwarts Howler Issue Mar 2012

• Write with Cody
• Write with Mai
• Write with Kit
• Write with Gris
• Write with Niobe
• Write with Angel/Aurelia

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There have been many new characters in the past six months!

• Euphraxia Wandsworth, a professor from Niklas
  
• Tara Sallow, a hitwitch from Gris
  
• Alex Cooper, a Quidditcher also from Gris
  
• Meredith Misslethorpe, a Slytherin from Milly
  
• Yumi Hatsui, a Ravenclaw from new member Mimi
  
• Leander Hunt, a no-good-wizard from Sparky
  
• Charline Sinclair, a Hufflepuff from new member Jenn
  
• Patrick Watkins, a cursebreaker also from Jenn
  
• Jacob Moore, a young Auror from new member Kris
  
• and Terra Williams, Hogwarts librarian from new member Tina
  

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For the past year (and well before), Curators and members alike have been taking steps to make Absit Omen a place where everyone feels welcome regardless of race, gender, sexuality, disability, religion, and nationality. Most writers at AO are White and from the United States and UK, including 2 out of 3 current Curators. We understand this can create a harmful bias, despite good intentions. Curators deeply appreciate when members point out when where we're falling short. We still have a long way to go.

Here are some ways that staff and members have tried to accomplish this goal of inclusion.

• Requiring avatars be the same race and ethnicity of the characters they depict.
• Doing better at reading new characters for problems with stereotypes.
• Posting clear statements about AO's values concerning diversity and inclusion, including a direct confrontation to JK Rowling's transphobia, anti-semitism, homophobia, and fatphobia.
• Posting clear Discord guidelines on what topics are acceptable.
• Accommodating the optional sharing of pronouns in Discord.
• New: The Character Guidelines page now includes a statement about higher standards when writers create characters outside of their own identities. Curators are going to make an earnest effort to do better.
  
• New: Creating a library of links in the Character Development forum where anyone may share outside resources concerning how to write characters of marginalized identities, and just generally be better informed about those lived experiences. These resources are available for anyone creating new characters.
  
• New: Continuing to simplify the process for new members to generally reduce the barriers to entry, to make it easier to join overall.

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We've had some technological advances since the last FF in November

• New BBCode for posts
  
• New mobile-friendly and updated design on the Wiki
  
• Self-assigned character-type membergroups in Discord. You can join groups for Hogwarts, Ministry, St. Mungo's, werewolves, etc which allows us to easily @ everyone who might be interested in a plot.
• Self-assigned membergroups for pronouns. It's an easier way to share your pronouns than using your nickname.

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In January, we announced AO's first awards show, the Owlies! Please send in your nominations so we can pour out some love for each other. There are many categories, but you do not have to fill them all out. Just do as much as is fun and manageable for you![/list]

Our Character Guildelines state that members should take care and effort when writing characters outside of their own idenities, especially considering matters of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, culture, disability, and religion. This thread contains a list of outside reading to support that.

Please feel welcome to submit your own using the form at the bottom of this thread.

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Writing about people of color

• https://writingtheother.com/resources/ - Website with lists of articles, links, and resources for writing characters different from you sensitively and convincingly.
• https://writingwithcolor.tumblr.com/ - Actively maintained, moderated collection of resources and Q&A centered on racial, ethnic, and religious diversity.
• https://indigenousfantasy.tumblr.com/ - Actively maintained blog about improving representation of Indigenous people in fantasy, fiction, and fandom.
• https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/who-gave-you-the-right-to-tell-that-story.html - Professional authors of multiple racial backgrounds discuss their own writing of characters of different races than their own.

General information about race and ethnicity

• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/30/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race - "Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race" by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• https://www.instagram.com/p/CC9I85Dpk-U/?igshid=19xbm41hpuhrr - Instagram post explaining the concepts of race vs ethnicity.

UK-specific:

• https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/another-england/ - History of Black and Asian people in England.

Colonialism

• https://soundcloud.com/bignoseagenda - Multi-part audio series by Mercedes Acosta, an Indigenous Latinx artist and author. The series is about storytelling from a decolonial perspective.

Issues in the Harry Potter books:

• https://brigitaorel.com/published-works/racism-and-sexism-in-harry-potter/ - Thesis by a Slovenian author about racism and sexism in Harry Potter.
• https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/jirr/issue/view/70 - (Scroll to article at the bottom, downloadable as a PDF) - Thesis in the Journal of Research and Reflection about racism in Harry Potter.
• https://www.proquest.com/docview/305118396?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true - PDF of a thesis by Simone Hüls from the University of Alabama. "Disrobing the white wizard: A postcolonial examination of race and culture in Harry Potter"

Writing transgender characters

• https://thestoryanditswriter.wordpress.com/2015/12/10/the-dos-and-donts-of-writing-a-transgender-or-non-binary-character/ - A transman explains the do's and don'ts of writing transgender characters.

Writing disabled characters

• https://mimzy-writing-online.tumblr.com/post/185122795699/writing-a-blind-or-visually-impaired-character - Multi-part series by a visually-impaired author about writing blind characters. Includes links to many other resources.

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Let Niobe/Knox know!

Would you like to chip in to AO's web hosting bill this year?

Our webhosting bill for the year is £119.99. (We are hosted by Krystal Hosting now it seems to be working out very well.) When the bill comes up, sometimes we ask around and see if anyone would like to chip in. Any amount is welcome and helpful. Contact Knox/Niobe by PM or in Discord if you'd like to contribute and we'll coordinate.

As always, donating to the cost is entirely optional and we have no expectation anyone give money or feel pressured.

Calling all old and new AO members! For our 12th anniversary, we've set up a fun, optional awards survey we call The Owlies!

In this survey, we've listed superlatives for different categories of AO characters: kids/teenagers, adults, NPC's, and inactive/retired. We've also got categories for threads, plots, and writers as well! Come vote on which character is most in need of a happy plot and which untrue rumor is your favorite.

We'll share the results once the votes are in! Select the code below and submit it via personal message to the Absit Omen RPG account. 

A few things to keep in mind...

• Voting is out-of-character
• ...but if your characters are talking to you, go ahead and include a few quotes from their perspective
• Your answers can span all twelve years that Absit Omen has been active. Check out the Cast of Characters, Wiki, and Tags for help finding characters, plots, and threads.
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• Add your own formatting and decoration, if you like!
• Feel free to leave some fields blank if you're stuck
• Did we miss an amazing opportunity to add a superlative or category or whatever? Probably! We added a blank field at the end of the survey for any extra awards you'd like to give
• When we present the results, we'll focus on nominations first and foremost. It'll be less about who or what got the most votes, and more about who or what got nominated and why. Count on silliness.

Select the code below and submit it via personal message to Absit Omen RPG!

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[h1]Owlie Awards Nominations[/h1]

[h2]Kiddos[/h2] [des](17 or younger)[/des]
[b]Most likely to … [/b]
[color=white]… break your heart:[/color]
[color=white]… break your nose:[/color]
[color=white]… break the rules:[/color]
[color=white]… join the Ministry:[/color]
[color=white]… join a life of crime:[/color]
[color=white]… start a revolution:[/color]
[color=white]… run the family business:[/color]
[color=white]… drop off the face of the earth:[/color]
[color=white]… save the world:[/color]
[color=white]… become a professor:[/color]
[color=white]… become a rockstar:[/color]
[color=white]… travel the world:[/color]

[b]Best…[/b]
[color=white]… fashion sense:[/color]
[color=white]… quidditch player:[/color]
[color=white]… secret keeper (not quidditch):[/color]
[color=white]… duelist:[/color]
[color=white]… diplomat:[/color]
[color=white]… friend squad:[/color]
[color=white]… excuses:[/color]
[color=white]… social chameleon:[/color]

[b]Most…[/b]
[color=white]… romantic:[/color]
[color=white]… unpredictable:[/color]
[color=white]… open-minded:[/color]
[color=white]… gossipy:[/color]
[color=white]… concerned with school:[/color]
[color=white]… stoic:[/color]
[color=white]… excitable:[/color]
[color=white]… angry:[/color]
[color=white]… gentle:[/color]
[color=white]… artistic:[/color]
[color=white]… ambitious:[/color]
[color=white]… muggle-friendly:[/color]
[color=white]… like a Ravenclaw:[/color]
[color=white]… like a Hufflepuff:[/color]
[color=white]… like a Gryffindor:[/color]
[color=white]… like a Slytherin:[/color]
 
[h2]Adults[/h2] [des](18+)[/des]
[b]Most…[/b]
[color=white]… surprising backstory:[/color]
[color=white]… complicated romantic history:[/color]
[color=white]… well-traveled:[/color]
[color=white]… sociable:[/color]
[color=white]… independent:[/color]
[color=white]… hex-happy:[/color]
[color=white]… likely to be hexed:[/color]
[color=white]… dedicated to a cause:[/color]
[color=white]… corrupted:[/color]
[color=white]… tragic fall:[/color]
[color=white]… reckless:[/color]
[color=white]… dramatic entrance:[/color]
[color=white]… redeemed:[/color]
[color=white]… positive change:[/color]
[color=white]… distinctive mannerisms:[/color]
[color=white]… in need of a happy plot:[/color]
[color=white]… in need of a comeuppance:[/color]
[color=white]… in need of a hug:[/color]

[b]Best…[/b]
[color=white]… advice:[/color]
[color=white]… leader:[/color]
[color=white]… mentor:[/color]
[color=white]… strategist:[/color]
[color=white]… at what they do:[/color]
[color=white]… judgement:[/color]
[color=white]… at judging others:[/color]
[color=white]… at interacting with muggles:[/color]
[color=white]… at delving into secret/dark magic:[/color]
[color=white]… at instigating chaos:[/color]

[b]Superlative achievement in…[/b]
[color=white]… repressing emotions:[/color]
[color=white]… bringing a little sunshine:[/color]
[color=white]… poking their nose into danger:[/color]
[color=white]… surviving a curse:[/color]
[color=white]… playing politics:[/color]
[color=white]… murder :[/color]
[color=white]… pub crawling:[/color]

[h2]Special Category: NPCs[/h2]
[color=white]Actually a primary character in disguise:[/color]
[color=white]Nobody kill this one off:[/color]
[color=white]Should have died dozens of times by now:[/color]
[color=white]Best scapegoat:[/color]
[color=white]Makes the workplace better:[/color]
[color=white]Makes the workplace worse:[/color]
[color=white]Not invited to the wedding:[/color]
[color=white]Best running joke:[/color]
[color=white]Funniest name or nickname:[/color]

[h2]Special Category: Gone but not forgotten[/h2]
[des]Inactive or retired[/des]

[color=white]Biggest impact on AO canon:[/color]
[color=white]Most missed:[/color]
[color=white]Most dramatic end:[/color]
[color=white]Most inspiring goodbye:[/color]
[color=white]Could be a ghost now:[/color]

[h2]Threads[/h2]
[b]Thread most likely to…[/b]
[color=white]… make your skin crawl:[/color]
[color=white]… make you feel old:[/color]
[color=white]… make you feel young:[/color]
[color=white]… make you laugh:[/color]
[color=white]… make you cheer:[/color]
[color=white]… make you want to join the combat:[/color]
[color=white]… make you cry:[/color]
[color=white]… make you go, 'awwww… !':[/color]
[color=white]… make you want to reach through the screen and slap someone:[/color]

[h2]Plots[/h2]
[b]Favorite…[/b]
[color=white]… original AO canon (like a spell, books, history, creature, laws etc.):[/color]
[color=white]… sweeping plotline:[/color]
[color=white]… funny or lighthearted plotline:[/color]
[color=white]… in-character friendship:[/color]
[color=white]… in-character couple:[/color]
[color=white]… in-character feud:[/color]
[color=white]… AO family:[/color]
[color=white]… small-group or short plotline:[/color]
[color=white]… untrue rumors:[/color]

[h2]Writers[/h2]
[des]Life-time achievement award for…[/des]
[color=white]… thread titles:[/color]
[color=white]… puns:[/color]
[color=white]… descriptive settings:[/color]
[color=white]… turns of phrase:[/color]
[color=white]… NPCs:[/color]
[color=white]… plot thickening:[/color]
[color=white]… plot twists:[/color]
[color=white]… collaborative efforts:[/color]
[color=white]… character development:[/color]
[color=white]… multi-media (signatures, footnotes, soundtracks, fashion collages, poetry snippets):[/color]


[h2]Open Nominations![/h2]
Create your own nomination. Provide both award and nominee.

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• SAWS Revisited - Hogsmeade weekend in March will see a SAWS protest in front of Zonko's!
• Chinese Magic Workshop at Hogwarts - Hogwarts students and staff should join Auror Xin for a special seminar on Chinese magic.
• Tenacious Trouble - Ominous things are afoot once more...
• Hogwarts Howler - Contribute to the Hogwarts Howler, March 2012 edition!
• Murder by Mail - Barnabas Cuffe has disappeared! Should the MLE admit to a security breach at Azkaban? Discuss here.
• It Came from Outer Space - Ministry folk and visitors can have a look (or more) in the current Mysteries open thread for this extraterrestial conundrum!
• April 2nd through the 13th, Hogwarts students may go home for the holiday if they have permission from their parent(s)/guardian(s).

• Sade - Plot with Gris' character Sade, vampire thief!
• Brinley Abbott; Andromeda Gamp; Sandy Misslethorpe - Plot with Milly's characters!
• Happily Ever...? - Plot wedding drama with Kit and Nuri's gay wizards!

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• The Schäfer family is expanding! Anton's younger brother, Micha Schäfer is written by Mai
• Gris' new character, Sam Forester, has recently become a Knight Bus conductor
• Milly's Brinley Abbott is the Senior Undersecretary to the Minister of Magic
• Gris has joined the MLE with an Auror-in-Training, Gris Hericho
• Hogwarts has a new Healer! Please welcome our new member Rose and her Healer, Emma Prince
• Gris has a vampire thief, Corinne François aka Sade

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We made a minor but significant change to our Welcome block on the home page of Absit Omen. This Welcome block is visible to all guests, so in case any members missed it, you can read it below! The changes we made are italicized. Please let the curators know if there's anything else that would be helpful to include on Absit Omen.

Absit Omen is an online Harry Potter role-playing game set in J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World. Writers from all over the world gather here to write exciting plots together.

Though we write in a setting created by J.K. Rowling, we do not condone the author's transphobia and intolerance. Absit Omen is a safe space for liberal ideas. We encourage writers of diverse backgrounds, cultures, religions, and orientations to join and to create plots and characters that reflect their perspectives.

It's we, the writers, who direct our stories.

We also added a new bullet to our Code of Conduct:

Absit Omen is a safe space for liberal ideas. Our Discord and out-of-character topics reflect this.

In our Discord General chat, if you are sharing political news or articles that might be sensitive to members, we encourage you to use Spoiler tags and briefly describe it. We've included a link to Spoiler tags at the top of the Discord General chat for your reference (you can find other formatting tags in that link as well).

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• St. Valentine the Sinner  - Valentine's Day events are underway. We can also start Hogsmeade weekend any time.
• Stick Your Neck Out - With the Christmas Eve blood-draining death, the Ministry has a suspect in custody.
• SAWS Revisited - It's time for the next meeting of students wishing to help werewolves at Hogwarts.
• Chinese Magic Workshop at Hogwarts - Hogwarts students and staff should join Auror Xin for a special seminar on Chinese magic.
• Tenacious Trouble - Fall out from the January full moon continues as the Ministry regroups and the investigation gets underway.

• No Skittles for Breakfast - Akira's got a sweet tooth. Help her see the benefits of broccoli this February!
• Trying to get back into the game - plot with Angel's characters!
• Write with Neon - plot with Neon's characters!

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• Welcome back to Dana and her young werewolf Olivia Foley
• Part-veela Slytherin from Akira Allura Bythesea
• Sparky has adopted Niobe's brother Pollux Thursby^§
• Elle's new werewolf student Greer Grant
• Neon has created a new character Lyra Avery^§
• Nuri's young American-in-London Dido Tansi^§
• Kit's Orion Gamp is more than meets the eye.

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In October 2019, we updated several of the rules and guidelines found in the Rules & Info tab at the top of the site, with a focus on presenting the 'need to know' information in a simpler format. As the site has grown and changed over the past ten years, we hope this is useful! As always, let us know if you have any questions.



The Eleventh Annual Dobby Swap kicked off in December 2019, and concluded on January 6th, 2020! A big thanks to our participants who helped make this season extra warm and fuzzy. Check out the creative gifts here.

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Timeline

Dec 1 - Feb 29

Upcoming Events December 3-4 - Hogsmeade Weekend December 10 - Full Moon December 12 - Exams begin December 16 - End of Autumn Term December 17 - Hogwarts Express Departs December 22 - Solstice December 24 - Christmas Eve, New Moon December 25 - Christmas Day December 26 - Boxing Day December 31 - New Year's Eve January 1 - New Year's Day January 2 - Hogwarts Express Arrives January 3 - Term Commences January 9 - Full Moon January 24 - New Moon February 7 - Full Moon February 11-12 - Hogsmeade Weekend February 14 - Valentine's Day February 18 - Ravenclaw vs Slytherin February 22 - New Moon Weather Almanac

December Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa              1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31          January Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31        February Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa           1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

• St. Valentine the Sinner  - Let's brainstorm some Valentine ideas! <3
• Hogwarts Howler Jan 2012 - Putting together an issue of the student-run publication!
• A Bungled Burglary - Tamzin Ollivander is being burgled!
• Magic Measles - The magicless illness has spread to Hogwarts !
• Seeds of Mischief - Cináed Tawse is back at it again!
• It Came from Outer Space - Somewhere at the bottom of a lake in Scotland...

• Plot with Bruce - Come plot with Mel's head of the WCU!
• Some Hogwarts Focus - Hogwarts plotting with Amberlee!
• Rigel wants some friends... - Ian's Slythie needs friends!
• Looking for Some Light-hearted... - Help Mai cheer things up!
• Nuri & Co. - Thread with some of Nuri's lot!

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Plotting Thread: LINK
SAWS Plot Chaper: LINK

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Firstly, a warm welcome to new members Ian and Audrey! We hope you're both settling in!

New characters since our last flyer:

• Waverly Roh-Ballentyne - Sarah's new drug dealer!
• Terrence Hooker - Nuri's new vampire!
• Savvina Katopodis^§ - Sarah's new werewolf!
• Tessa Fenneken^§ - Sparky's new werewolf hunter!
• Rigel Acrux - Ian's seventh year Slythie!
• Leonidas Bretaskógr - Tim's new auror!
• Norman Shufflebottom^§ - Kit's new criminal!
• Zoe Antonopoulos - Audrey's thief/smuggler!
• Lochlainn O'Keeffe - Gris' new criminal!

Take a plunge and jump into an open thread. These are usually threads where most things go, so explore a sandbox or chance situation with another writer and celebrate or torture your character as you prefer!

• Where to put a heads up for your thread: Open Threads Directory
• Waverly needs some customers
• Hogwarts character staying for Christmas? Snowball fight?
• Relatives and friends are invited to join the Peppers for a Christmas gathering, flying cars included.
• Do you like coffee? turns out centaurs don't, sympathise, despise, your choice
• The Hogwarts Howler needs some content even if you don't write a student!
• Give your character the measles

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• Class Thread Timeline - Directory of all class threads!
  
• Hogwarts School Calendar 2011-2012 - See what's coming up!
  
• Class Schedules - Copy and paste to grab your student or professor's daily schedule!
  
• New Class Threads - See when new classes are posted!
  
  

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After 8 years, Absit Omen has a new theme called Pensieve. It's meant to be easier to read in general, much easier to use on mobile screens, and be easier to use for people with disabilities.

• All users have been switched to the new theme.
• The old theme is still available if you want to switch back. To switch back, go to your Profile > Modify Profile > Look and Layout. then choose Absit Omen 2011. (The custom colored themes have been disabled).
• The new theme accepts a bigger avatar size. If yours is looking grainy or blurry after the switch, you can upload a new one in Modify Profile > Forum Profile. The new size is 300 x 300px.
• We'll continue to add improvements and fix bugs as time goes on.
  
• Find a bug? Have an improvement to suggest? Send a note to the Curators or contact Niobe/Knox.
  

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Timeline

Nov 1 - Jan 31

Upcoming Events November 5 - Ravenclaw vs Slytherin November 5 - Guy Fawkes Day (Bonfire Night) November 10 - Full Moon November 19 - Hufflepuff vs Gryffindor November 25 - New Moon November 30 - St Andrew's Day December 3-4 - Hogsmeade Weekend December 10 - Full Moon December 12 - Exams begin December 16 - End of Autumn Term December 17 - Hogwarts Express Departs December 22 - Solstice December 24 - Christmas Eve, New Moon December 25 - Christmas Day December 26 - Boxing Day December 31 - New Year's Eve January 1 - New Year's Day January 2 - Hogwarts Express Arrives January 3 - Term Commences January 9 - Full Moon January 24 - New Moon Weather Almanac

December Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa              1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31          November Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa        1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

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Hundreds of writers, hundreds of characters, thousands and thousands of threads - who knew what we could do together? See the anniversary message here and share your memories here.

• Magic Measles - a mysterious bug is temporarily rendering witches and wizards magicless!
• Seeds of Mischief - Cináed Tawse is back at it again!
• It Came from Outer Space - Department of Mysteries investigates a meteorite that manifests your deepest fears...
• SAWS Revisited - The Hogwarts werewolf rights group is getting a revival!
• Catastrophic Prevention - Come brainstorm level 3 and 2 collab opportunities!
• The Continuing Adventures of Wendy Werewolf - The Grants are being made to give up custody of their werewolf child!
• Pentrals Possessing - Dementors and mysterious new pentrals galore, in Elle's latest plot, for DMLE and beyond!

• Plotting with Contessa
• Talisha Crowe - Seeking Clients
• Lazarus Connections
• The dog only eats the cheese - Lucinda Temple
• Art & Antics - Plots for Zeta
• Looking for Some Light-hearted Trouble...? - Anton Schäfer
• Personal Plotting for Tamzin
• Beth's Plot Bunnies

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