Weekly Update - Feb15th to Feb21st

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⊗ APPS ARE CLOSED! Thank you to everyone who applied this cycle, and to those who gave them a warm welcome on the Test Drive Meme.

⊗ The brand-new Wanted List is live! Come post what characters you'd like to see around the Institute.

⊗ As a reminder, because February is a bit wonky length-wise, AC will start on the 23rd to ensure that it's still the same length as usual.

⊗ Thanks to everyone who made the Valentine's Date Auction a success! Feel free to keep backtagging, though we're looking to wrap up the bidding itself in the next day or so.

⊗ For anyone who missed it, there's a new AU CR Meme up. It's a great opportunity to plot and let people know what kind of things you're interested in playing!

SCHOOL NEWS

⊗ A few new faces have appeared (and a couple sort-of-newish ones)! Come and say hello to Skaar, Eddie, Mona Lisa, and Catherine!

⊗ Okuu is communicating about some friendship issues in the Internet generation's native language: pictures of cats.

⊗ Reki, marking the end of a (ridiculous and frustrating) era, tells it like it is.

⊗ Last week's news mingle is still fair game!

⊗ With the Date Auction wrapping up, we're sure there are plenty of things for the RUMOR MILL! What is the 4-1-1?

AROUND THE WORLD

⊗ While the final tally has yet to be released, the staff and students of the Xavier Institute raised quite a great deal of money for District X's relief fund. The district's representative has sent a personal letter of thanks for the school's help.

⊗ Dazzler dropped a new single on Valentine's Day; it's at the top of the charts, and probably stuck in your head right now.

⊗ Several mutant groups are planning to participate in New Orleans' famous Mardi Gras parade. The Friends of Humanity and others have complained, but parade organizers show no signs of changing their minds about allowing them to participate for the time being.

⊗ President Kelly, in an open letter published and speculated on by news media the world over, has made another attempt to reach out to Genosha, reiterating his and his administration's dedication to improving human-mutant relations and preventing the Mutant Registration bill from becoming law. As of now, there has been no official response.

⊗ Rumors are swirling about plans for a big Mutant Liberation Front rally in District X in the coming weeks...

⊗ The National Film Board of Canada sent a representative to Salem for the Date Auction, hoping to bid on Logan. They were turned away at the gates.

Comments

[presto_turn]

So, did you hear that Shindou and the soccer club's wingy-haired captain are totally an item?

Sources closer to the team may insist that the two are just close friends, but he was awfully quick to trump any bid on Tenma...

[soccerwhisperer]

Let's not forget they hail from the same hometown...

[totallystoned]

Get ready for a lecture about how you'd better not break his heart