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We have tallied the votes of your survey, and the results are in! 

Winning just by a hair, we will have our first official event, a power blackout, coming this Friday, April 24th! Worry not carnival lovers, this event will be in Silver Lake’s future as well. To combine with this event as suggested by one survey taker, we will have an opt-in, thread pair up during the blackout wherein two characters will get paired up and end up in a location determined by us, the admin/fates. 

 Characters who wish to participate in the thread pair up, please comment their name on this post so we can pair them off with another character. If you play more than one character and wish to have them doing these paras, write both/all their names! You will have until Wednesday, April 22 to do this. Try to consider how active you will be able to be during the event week and only volunteer however many characters you can be active on during that time! 

Today marks 1 year since Silver Lake has been open. Whew, feels surreal saying it. Never did we think we’d be here, writing up a “happy 1 year anniversary to Silver Lake” post. This place was opened as a quick solution for having a group to write, slap-dashed together in 3 days, on an older iteration of a previous blog. For those of you wondering why this blog does not go back 1 year, the rest of Silver Lake was left over at @silverlake-archive. Our old main started malfunctioning for whatever reason, tags not showing up when we posted, among other things, so a rehaul was much needed.

Which brings us to here and now. We have more members and characters than we’ve ever had, we are busier than ever and the dash is thriving. We welcome with open arms anybody who would like to join and throw in their characters into our little hybrid of real-and-fictional Silver Lake, Los Angeles, and welcome them to write with us. Nothing makes us happier than seeing new characters, new faces, and new ideas being brought into the roleplay.

Of course, we’ve had our ups and downs, nobody is perfect and we certainly are not, but we have tried time and again to do our best when issues and problems arise, for the good of this roleplay and for the good of our members. If we have messed up in the past, we strive to do better today and tomorrow, and as always, we are here to hear out your concerns and suggestions on how to make Silver Lake even better than it already is.

Last year was a stressful, troubled year for many if not all of us, and 2021 is proving challenging as well. With imposed lockdowns due to Covid all over the world, it is safe to say that we have all been through some challenging, difficult times, and now more than ever people are seeking out RP. Because of that, we aim to keep Silver Lake running as a fun place for all to throw their muses into and enjoy this world we built together.

P.s. don’t forget — Valentine’s event from the 12th to the 19th! 

                                        ……AND WHEN THE PARTY IS OVER!

The last volunteers are still picking up tiny bits of colorful water balloons by the reservoir (and we imagine they will be for the next few days at least - y’know, if you fancy heading down to help out once you’ve recovered from partying the day away!). The party has long wound down on the main streets. Attendees will be dusting that pesky glitter out of their hair for days to come, but the memories made here will last a lifetime..

The Silver Lake Council Committee promised a great prize (in exchange for your mailing list details, address, phone number… whoa - lets not think too hard about that!). And they’re delighted to announce that the name pulled from the hat was AARON CONNORS ( @aaroncon ), you’ve only gone and won yourself a fully expenses paid weekend trip to Disneyland Park for yourself and a friend! Everyone else? Well, enjoy the daily email updates, and that page that says ‘content not found’ when you try unsubscribe!

OUT OF CHARACTER

This concludes our Pride Street Party event! We hope you’ve enjoyed yourselves, as have your characters! Here are a few bullet points of note to conclude with the ending of this event:

You are free to carry on writing your threads related to the event but please, do not post any new starters related to the event! Additionally, will be removing any event-related starters from the starter blog so new members joining us do not accidentally reply to those.

Winner of the event was picked by putting all of your submitted character names in a wheel of fortune. First name to come out won!

New Members Week!

Hey everyone! Along with increasing the numbers by +5 for the spring and summer months we have made the decision to hold a new members week for the next three acceptances, hopefully this will even out spots and allow some new people into the group as we’ve been pretty tight on some spaces for a while now!

Hello everyone! The event is now over. Please don’t post anymore event related starters but do feel free to continue the ones you already have on the go! If you requested a love fortune for your muse those are are incoming shortly at @silverlakeinspo so keep an eye out for those. 

We want to thank you all for taking part and hope you had a great week! We’re already thinking of ideas for the next event we can host here at Silverlake. 

Finally, we’re going to delete the event related starters from the starter blog so nobody gets confused and accidentally replies to them! 

Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in 2020 anymore. As the fireworks gradually grow more sparse across the night sky, it’s time to pack up and head home for a good night’s sleep. We hope you entered the new year with tired feet and hearts full of joy, and that you’re already starting it off on the right note... or at least that you will one the hangover subsides. 

A FEW NOTES

The event is officially over! We ask that no more new event-related starters or threads be made from this point onwards. Furthermore, tomorrow we will be removing event starters from the starter blog to avoid any confusion for new members.

You may still wrap up or continue writing your current event threads if you wish, as well as resume your pre-event ones.

Please consider posting a new open starter sometime in the near future to give our next batch of new members something to hit up upon joining.