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With clear skies and warm nights finally returning to us, we would love nothing more than to settle beneath them with a refreshing drink and a filling meal to share among company. So of course, we have to take advantage of such and do just that; inviting our patrons along with us. For our tavern night, we’ll be picking up the bar and bringing it outside and out back with a starry themed menu sure to bring some wishing luck for the remainder of our year. 

Blackbird Brewery is located in Rustberg Village, Tol Barad, where we host monthly tavern events open to both Horde and Alliance alike! We are faction neutral and utilize both elixirs of tongues and the roleplay add-on cross-rp for seamless roleplay. For this months themed night, we will be out back BEHIND the tavern and under the stars! So if you come in and see an empty building, you’ll find us out back! 

We will be open on Monday, May 24th, from 6:30pm - 8:30pm WRA server time. Though once hours are over, we switch over to NPC bartenders, so you are free to stay as long as you’d like to enjoy the atmosphere and roleplay!

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Something a little more gritty is shaking up Maelstrom this month, brought to us by our DJ HOOFBEATS. No fancy dancing shoes or attire required, let your hair down, wear your comfiest sneakers, and come to the dancefloor to experience a musical playlist we’ve yet to feature. But if you’re not one for mingling, our bar is there to keep you satisfied with both alcoholic and non-alcoholic mixes sure to awaken your senses as the beat shakes the walls.

Maelstrom Nightclub is a faction neutral club, so elixir’s of tongues are encouraged, and that also means no violence on the floor or our security will be forced to toss you out.

Maelstrom is located in Rustberg Village, Tol Barad, within the Grand Hall directly beside our tavern; and it will be open this month on Friday April 2nd from 7pm until 9pm WRA.

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Join us here this Saturday!

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You see, as far as I'm concerned what's happening is incredible —my world is collapsing, my world is rebuilding itself: wait and see how you (meaning me) survive it all. I'm not lamenting the falling apart, it was already in a state of collapse, what I'm lamenting is the rebuilding, I lament my waning strength, I lament being born, I lament the light of the sun.

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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The Blackbird Brewery will not be having it’s tavern doors open upon their usual schedule, but instead will be opening up the ballroom for a night of fancy dressing, mingling, and an art auction to showcase artist talent within our ranks and to gather donations to further support future events and our staff. 

On Monday, July 27th from 6:30pm - 8:30pm (WRA server) the ballroom will be open! Our artists will be present during the event for approach and conversation about their pieces, and a silent auction will be held throughout the night for those who wish to participate and bid upon their chosen artist. A custom piece like the examples above will be on auction, and thus it is for in-game gold as the gold is then used to pay our staff and fund our events, as well as being split with the artist themselves. 

For those who may not wish to partake in the auction, and as well as those who do, we encourage formal dress for this event, and we will have the floor open for dancing and company throughout the night. 

We are located in Rustberg Village, Tol Barad, and the building we will be using for this event is where we hold our monthly Maelstrom dance-club directly beside the tavern! We are also faction neutral, so both Horde and Alliance alike are more than welcome to attend. Just don’t forget your elixirs of tongues! 

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This was shared tonight at @maelstrom-nightclub but for those who didn't attend, it is still very important to spread around.

https://tinyurl.com/SupportNow2020

We are in Pride Month and with that (alongside our tumultuous climate right now where minority lives/rights are concerned) comes remembering that Stonewall and the subsequent protests and movements were fronted by black trans women, drag queens and lesbians. If you are LGBTQIA+, you doubly cannot be complicit and quiet right now. Stand up for those who need it the most. Protect POC within this community and beyond. Help them and educate everyone you can. Let your actions contribute to a tidal wave of change this country (and world) desperately needs.

The above document holds only but a miniscule fraction of small businesses needing exposure and upvote. Consider purchasing or donating to them. So often black businesses and platforms get buried in the accomplishments of white folx.

I am working on a much longer list from multiple sources but I wanted to get something out that begins the conversation/information.

Thank you for being an ally. Continue doing your part to make this world better. DO IT.

-V

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OOC

I started this guild wanting RPers to have both a safe space to roleplay in without fear of judgment, and to offer a space for LGBTQIA+, all races and cultures, differently-abled, Neuro diverse, etc. to have somewhere to play and be welcomed/accepted with open arms.

Years later, this is still the foundation of my guild and the sole purpose I have at the end of the day.

We stand by POC during this tumultuous time in our current timeline. We hear you, we see you, we fight for you.

I have already seen so much white privilege just in the conversations surrounding the addition of darker elven skin tones. This issue does not isolate itself just to real world events.

Keep in mind that this is a game people escape to. Please be mindful of those you play with. Reach out to your friends of color, even if you're only bnet acquaintances. Educate yourself on the history of injustice and the continuing inequality on this planet. Do your part to make this world better. I implore you.

I would be remiss if I didn't state that if you need a guild to join that will embrace you with open arms, please consider us. We would love to have you.

Thank you gamers. Keep safe and keep speaking out

-Vynix, GL

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DESIGN: Bioluminescent Forest 

Photographer Tarek Mawad and animator Friedrich van Schoor just spent six weeks embedded in nature to create Bioluminescent Forest. The filmmakers state that everything you see was created live, without any effects added in post-production.

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“Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.”

— William Shakespeare

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October Writing Challenge: Transformation

The mark of a well-transcribed musical piece is that the result sounds- feels- as though it was meant to be written. Sprawled across a mottled quilt one idle evening, surrounded by staff papers and a few dulled pencils, Vesper smiled at the thought. The room was in whispers now that her record had ended, giving way to the gentle pop and hiss of the needle, and the soft scratch of her notations had soon followed suit. In this void was where her thoughts wandered, making music of her own to accompany the Goblin turntable’s steady heartbeat. She sat up on the bed afforded her and Kori, for the rare times they didn’t sleep in their seaside sanctuary. It was a comfortable space, like all the rooms there, with room enough to house her many serpent friends. Looking around at the rows of enclosures, she smiled to see their scaled colours in various stages of shed, transcribing themselves into something else as they were wont to do.  It made her think about her own capacity for change, how in many ways she was not that different than the girl who’d left Silvermoon so long ago. She’d always had a heart for lightness, for the liminal spaces and snippets of time. In many ways she was even better, happier, than she’d ever been in that time before. Perhaps that was simply the way of it, and she was only just beginning to learn. Like with Melisande, a girl who gradually became more and more herself with the growing swell of her belly, until at last she emerged with a baby at her breast, the woman she was meant to be. And then there Julrien, the ‘florist’ who lived down the road. When first they’d met, his Light had been daybreak, fiery bright and relentless as he moved through their little, grey village. But sometime over the course of his troubles it had folded into something else altogether, until it was less a cloudless onslaught on the grey, and more a warm, sun-dappled clearing she enjoyed being near. Was there anything so dramatic about the changes she’d been through? Vesper wondered again at that. If there was, was it striking enough that Kori could remark upon it, or would that have to come from someone she’d long left behind? And if there wasn’t, what might that mean for someone like her, touched by the Void in all its twisting terror? Reason dictated that she ought to be frightened by this. Yet, there was something to be said for being comfortable in one’s own skin, regardless of how many times it was worn and shed anew; the difference between tea at noon and early, lilac dusk. It seemed a small part of some larger, natural order. Maybe even a little harmonious in itself. What a delightful thought that was.    @kharrisdawndancer, @turning-through-the-never @korizar-shademyst, @melisandemeadowshine, and mah boi @julesvalebright @heartoftheravenwra too <3.

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Halloween Giveaway!

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“It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention.”

— Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding (via books-n-quotes)