#mod neg

Hello everyone! A bit of an important OOC announcement, hence the header graphic to get your attention.

For those unaware, southern California is due to be visited by H.urricane H.ilary tomorrow and Monday. On a super cool and unrelated note, Mod Neg lives in southern California.

I have no way of really being able to gauge how bad the storm will be when it gets here, whether we'll lose internet at all, whether living on a mountain means I'm fucked, so on and so forth. It's also been brought to my attention that other people are anticipating being affected by this.

As mentioned in the rules, this event is not chronologically locked, so you're welcome to have your muses arrive on Monday or Tuesday and still write them as being "on time" in-universe. But to account for the unpredictability of the current situation, we'll be starting the event off slowly. Provided that I or the other mods are able, we'll post a list of sentence starters for you guys to play around with, and the first day of the event can generally be a "get your muses to Insomnia and checked into their accommodations" type of beat. Specific IC events to react to and such won't ramp up until after the dust — erm, rain — has settled.

I see a lot of people posting in the event tag, and it makes me super happy that everyone is excited! I'm really sorry that Mother Nature has decided to literally rain on our parade, here. Hopefully the storm won't be a full-on hurricane by the time it gets here, and we'll be able to continue business as usual.

Thanks for understanding! Let's hope this doesn't get as bad as we think.

Hello everybody! I know we're all excited and I'm happy to see the promo post get traction! But to make everyone's lives easier, please remember to send us an ask with the following in order to officially participate in the event:

Mun name: Pronouns: URL(s): Participating muse(s): Are you comfortable with non-mutual interactions during this event?:

This is so that the mods can keep track of who's participating and ensure this event remains a safe space, and other participants can check our #RSVPs tag and see at a glance who's writing whom, and who's open to non-mutuals!

If you haven't already sent us an ask with this information, please do so! Apologies if this information was unclear; there is a read more on the promo post with the OOC information and rules!

Feel free to share this post around to help out anyone you feel might have missed the memo.

Thanks for your cooperation!

Pronouns: Mun: She/Her Muse: They/Them

URL(s): sillydillybanana

Participating muse(s): Dill

Are you comfortable with non-mutual interactions during this event?: yes

((oh boi i hope im not too late

Not late at all! We still have nine days until the festival begins! Just be sure to pick out a nice bowtie or something; wouldn't want you to blend in with the fruit spread.

Hello, everyone! Some notes about the flow of things today and moving forward in the event, to clear up any confusion:

Today will largely run on the queue. All event announcement posts for the ball are scheduled / queued to go up today between now and midnight Pacific time. However, you are free to continue any ballroom interactions in the days to come! This is just the timeframe in which new ballroom-related event posts will be made to the blog — for all intents and purposes, it can be August 30th in-universe for the rest of the event period if you so wish.

For the best dressed poll, voting will be open until 11:59 PM Pacific Time on Thursday, August 31st. Because of this, any new outfit posts made today will be queued, but not eligible for the poll. The mods will use Friday to announce the winner and prepare their prize, which will then hopefully be delivered to them by Saturday!

And, as has been the case this entire time, you're free to jump back and forth in time between ballroom and festival streets! Nothing is set in stone, and you're free to continue event threads after the event period officially ends. Don't let the manmade concept of time dictate your fun!

Happy dancing!

I'm actually gonna be corny here for a second — looking through the drive folder and seeing just the sheer NUMBER of outfits, which doesn't even reflect the full number of participants in this event...I'm FLOORED. Genuinely. I came up with the idea for this event at 3am one night because I was having warm fuzzies about corny royal ball cliches, and made this blog like. The next day. I think it's just now hitting me how many people this reached and how many people are participating and I'm honored!!

So, thank you for taking interest in this silly little festival! I hope tomorrow we can make it worth it!

Pronouns: She/Her

URL(s): thetravelershub

Participating muse(s): Gwen & Mimi (Century and Cruel Smash Mii Gunner OCs), and Pap (Fake Peppino Clone OC.) Gwen wanted to come, Mimi was dragged along, and Pap is… Pap. (Blame Sora Madeimpact for it being here. It fell asleep in the Gummi Ship, it has no clue where it is, and now it’s everyone’s problem. Ribbit.)

Are you comfortable with non-mutual interactions during this event?: Sure!

I'm sure Pap will be just fine! Maybe. Possibly. Sora will keep an eye on him.

Hi, all! Just a quick little OOC update.

I just would like to apologize for the relatively slow pace of things these past couple of days — I've been busy working on other things IRL, so I've not had as much brain space to work on event posts. However, I've filled out the queue with a few things, so expect some new posts and some more ball outfits in the next couple of days! Things will also start to ramp up more as we get closer to the date of the ball, so look forward to that!

I appreciate everyone's patience with me in the meantime!