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any chance y'all are still open?

Hello!

We're in a bit of a hiatus right now (although members are starting to write together again).

I'm uncertain if I'm able to maintain a tumblr presence due to my distinct dislike of the continued changes on the site and my phasing out of a big move. However, the eventual plan is to open back up to applications.

If you wanted to submit one, myself and the mods would be happy to review it! We would just need you to understand we're in a phase of restructuring so things will be running differently than when the group was fully open!

Thanks for the question.

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Are you guys still active?

Hello there! Thanks for the question.

Right now we're on a break. I, Admin Grant, am making a major life move and currently don't have the means to run the game while that is happening.

However, I have just written a new plot drop and our members are still writing. Once this strategic pause comes to an end then I will be looking at revamping all of our pages and potentially opening back up to applications again!

Hope that helps and keep your eye on this space for more! If it ends up that we won't be coming back I'll make an official goodbye post and delete our ads blog.

Thanks!

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As part of our Family Week 2022 event happening in game, this post details some special happenings around the town of Portsmith where Lowell Academy is based! Being that the mayor has a son at the school, there are some special offerings and tie-ins.

Community

A week long commitment expo will be held at the town's biggest convention center just five miles from Lowell. It will host vendors from catering, floral shops, bakeries, fine clothing & retail, tailoring, and several high end jewelers. Family Week has been known to spur quite a few sudden claims so this event is wildly popular and usually sells out.

The Community Center is hosting talks on communication skills and is hosting Emotions Researchers who have developed a seven day program for stronger intimacy and better relationships.

The Portsmith Museum is doing a Heritage Exhibit of all the important families and their histories with the town of Portsmith. Many Charter families are featured in this exhibit because of the impact their education and residence had on the growth of Portsmith in the earliest years as a town.

Eateries

Upper Cut is hosting a special for families and students of Lowell Academy as long as the student can provide proof of attendance. Any student who comes with their family gets one full price menu item for half price per person in their party. This includes cocktails, desserts, and appetizers.

Stovepipe is boasting their newest coffee subscription service where customers pay $15 per month for unlimited coffee or tea and free refills while in cafe. Annual subscriptions are discounted and offered only to Lowell Students or their families. Stovepipe's backyard cafe is also offering free appetizers to Lowell Students and their families (limited to one per family).

Binderz Books will have a tea party during Lowell's Town Visit with their parents. This tea party offers many varieties of teas, finger sandwiches, charcuterie options, and sweet desserts to accompany their afternoons of high tea. This event will have floral arrangements provided by local and aspiring florists as well as art hung by local artists.

Entertainment

For the first time ever, The Capitol Club will open up its doors to students if their fathers are Alumni of Lowell Academy. Word in the halls of Lowell is that a high stakes poker game will be played during the Town Visit in an illustrious pop-up speakeasy held in the back of The Capitol Club. This private room and these private games are known as the Diamond Club because buy ins cost at least as much as the Mayor's best diamonds.

Gaze is hosting a Thrills & Chills entertainment week (21+). Turkish oil wrestling for anyone wanting to take someone on in the ring, Silk aerial performers and trapeze artists dressed as ghouls, ghosts, and bats. A risque Masquerade with participants often wearing little more than their masks, and a burlesque haunted house.

The Drive In is hosting a scream fest with screenings of classic black and white horror films and modern masterpieces of terror. Tickets are $10 per car and Buy One Get One on Candy, Popcorn, and beverages.

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Welcome Apollo! You’ve been accepted as Staff PR Manager Mariano Ortega (Oscar Isaac FC)! I really liked how you positioned Mariano both within Lowell’s power structures and history but also highlighted what makes him differences based on his experiences being on the outside (coming from immigrant parents, etc). Mariano is coming in at a time when Lowell needs to rehab their image more than ever and what makes it all the sweeter is his secret that he’s got loyalties to the Windsor family. You’ve given him his own motives and you’ve made me intrigued to see what you do with him! Please use your join link within 24 hours. Once you’ve joined please go to the ‘Start Here’ channel and read carefully over the items on the checklist. Thanks so much and we’re happy to have!

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Family Week 2022 | 10/23 to 11/6

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Please bear with us as the Admins navigate a busy week! The usual acceptance time of 7 PM central may not be achieved today but rest assured we are actively reviewing and deliberating on apps! We will post a decision on some apps within 24 hours. Thanks!

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App Count Updated:

+1 - Oscar Issac; Ortega Skeleton 

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still active?

We certainly are! One whole year and going strong!

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Scandal sheet circulated among Lowell Academy and Portsmith residents

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The Choice

3 September 2022 Lowell Campus

The cooling of the summer days. The shortening length of daylight. The crunch of leaves underfoot. The mugs of cider and the cups of spiced lattes. These are the things many look forward to as fall arrives on the doorstep of Portsmith following the beginning of a new term at Lowell Academy. Students and faculty usually return refreshed and recharged. Ready to tackle the challenges of the year ahead of them. The Order of the Primrose is no different.

With the apparent lack of identifiable activity from the Order, Lowell had been lulled into a disquieted complacency. Yet many understood that the rumored secret society had gone too far in their quest to rid Lowell of Scholarship Students for the Order to truly be gone. Instead, they laid in wait. Watching.

Whispers among Scholarship students and trusted allies presented an untested but trusted idea that Halloween would likely be the primary occasion for worry. As September ushered in its first days, their assurances only grew more concrete that at least the days leading up to the annual Masquerade would be safe.

They were mistaken.

Perhaps the Order’s stark return was prompted by the seating of the new Student Council upon a recount triggered by an obscure bylaw of the Student Council charter. This bylaw allowed the challenging of election results from any faculty member and would trigger an automatic recount.

BETO AYALA challenged the credibility of the Student Council election results after no scholarship students won a seat. This challenge led to the discovery of a few hundred votes for some scholarship candidates. Headmaster Blackwood gave a humble apology and noted that while he had been away there was a lot of administrative shuffling around Lowell’s offices to accommodate for George and Magnus running the school. He said that he had earnestly counted the votes he’d known about upon his return and promised these new votes would be honored.

New this year to the Student Council for Dominants are SAFFORD LOWELL, sympathetic to Scholarship students of all classifications, TRISTAN KNOWLES who is a scholarship student himself, and Legacy write-in candidate SEBASTIAN ST. CLAIR who appears to be trying to make up for the embarrassment of being stripped of Lacrosse Captain while he tended to his health.

For Switches, SEONG MIN-JUN, long known to love power and wield it as deftly as he wields his foil. Newcomer NIKOLAUS KOBLE seemingly had support from the Headmaster himself and who won despite arriving not long before the election started.

Joining submissives on the Council is the Charter student, SHEN LAI, who is poised to outperform all the other submissives in the school and be the first to enter a claim if he seals the deal with St. Clair. JAMIE WHITLEY, a Legacy with ties to many powerful Legacy families shares the mantle of representing submissive handling of authority. Because of the mishandling of votes and mistrust in the integrity of the results, OAK WILDE was granted a position as an alternate council member. He must show up to every session to stay abreast of all Council happenings, but will only step in to vote if Shen or Jamie cannot make it to a vote or must otherwise recuse themselves in matters in which they are personally invested.

Further, a new regulation stipulates that submissive members of Student Council must cast their votes together before it will count toward any decision. This means that of the two submissive seats available on the council, unanimous votes will be required if the submissive students wish to have a say in Council proceedings. This teaches the power of cooperation and ensures they understand the gravity of the power with which they’ve been entrusted.

The presence of Scholarship students on the Council alone would likely have been enough to enrage the Order but having Scholarship sympathizers on Council who could vote alongside Scholarship students only worsened matters. It prompted not just action but seemingly a focus on one singular question. Loyalty. Who was giving their loyalty to the right side? And what was the penalty for not choosing correctly?

As fall began, old acquaintances had the chance of renewing social ties and building bridges. If NIKOLAUS thought it strange that a certain old friend was fast warming up to him, he didn’t show it much. The Order, looking to test the loyalty of FELIX, tasked the newcomer to get close with his old flame and rekindle friendly feelings. They asked for something simple…keep an ear to the ground and report back to the Order via a drop site in the library for passing messages. If he proved useful, they would reward Felix.

They let Felix know that they had someone watching him. That he wouldn’t want to doublecross them. That their friendship could be mutually beneficial. The trick would be to learn what Felix wanted most. The Order would dangle it in front of Felix. Bait. Bargaining chip. It didn’t matter. They often got what they wanted.

Including from ETHAN FORELLI. When Sebastian St. Clair went looking into the print shop which produced the photos of Oak which they used to send a veiled threat toward Oak, the Order realized quickly that they would need a fall man. They tasked Ethan with finding the perfect person to pin it on. Someone believable where not a lot of questions would be asked. Someone that could maybe take the fall for more than one thing.

MIN-JUN received a loyalty test too. As a Legacy and someone with a cunning knack for negotiation and retribution, they asked Min to ensure Ethan followed through on framing someone. If he didn’t, Min was to let the Order know and they would do whatever it took to believably frame Ethan for the crimes. Min would be the one to frame Ethan if Forelli failed.

Luckily for Ethan he happened upon someone who was perfect.

IAN MCCALLISTER had a boyfriend in his early years at Lowell who had been known to brag about his affiliation with a secret group who had the inside scoop on all the most advantageous claims. This secret group was rumored to be the Order of the Primrose. Ian happened to be drunk and drugged on Halloween according to his infirmary intake forms. Ian had been acting erratically and displayed a confused memory. He could easily have done something rash during the Halloween Masquerade. He had previously hooked up with Sebastian several times and was likely jealous of his tryst with Oak. This may have caused Ian to target him on Halloween, sending Tristan away so he couldn’t protect his friend Oak, and spiking the punch so that people would be distracted during the whole ordeal. His continued jealousy caused him to choose a new Lacrosse captain so Sebastian would see his mistakes, and when that wasn’t enough, Ian learned a few tricks from the photographer he was sleeping with and decided to send a veiled threat to Sebastian about Oak with the photographs.

This is the story Ethan was to paint in the form of planted evidence and the starting of poisonous rumor. The only thing left when the time came to unveil the evidence and the rumor was to have someone discover his ties to the old Order and bring him before the newly seated Council to be investigated.

For his part SEBASTIAN ST. CLAIR isn’t sure how he got his council seat. He’s not certain if he can interpret the signs right. But the charging of Ian in these crimes of passion seem to be a punishment for choosing someone else to replace Sebastian as Lacrosse Captain. This is made all the more suspicious by the fact that the man chosen to replace him, ELLIOT WARNER, is suddenly being sued by his ex-boyfriend’s family. Rumors are that Elliot falsified his admission records to conceal his guilt in the death of Elliot’s former boyfriend Benji. Could this be coincidence or could it be another consequence of slighting Sebastian?

Sebastian wonders if the Order is trying to curry favor with him so he doesn’t look into them further or if they are setting up in the perfect position to fall on Lowell’s sword if he messes with them again? The charging of Ian is flimsy at best and the investigation into Warner leaves a vacant spot for the Captaincy in Lacrosse. It could never come out that Sebastian knew Ian didn’t do the crime he’s accused of or else the Order would frame him next for being the very person to orchestrate the whole thing in his mission for power and respect. His getting appointed under the circumstances of the vote re-count when his name wasn’t initially on the ballot would be enough to make people suspect Sebastian used his Order connections to gain the seat and punish those who wronged him. So Sebastian is caught between wanting the power he’s got in order to protect his social standing, and knowing that at any moment, one wrong move could send him into a dark room on the end of questions he can’t answer.

‘Play nicely and so will we,’ They seem to be saying. In this they are requiring loyalty from Sebastian.

The Order isn’t playing nicely with IGNACIO WESTINGHOUSE however. It’s hard to say whether they’re punishing him for spending time with GRAHAM MONTGOMERY or if they simply wish to twist the knife with Elliot Warner, but planting photos of Graham and Ignacio out at Gaze’s Fetish Night seems to do both at once. The rumors started as soon as the photos were published in a small but growing SCANDAL SHEET which is now circulating Lowell and Portsmith. The students were quick to jump to conclusions and their eyes told them what they wanted to see. Ignacio stepping out on Elliot with Graham. Being disloyal to him. Precisely in Elliot’s most turbulent hour of need.

CAMILO MORALES was sorely surprised to learn in that same article that this isn’t the first man Ignacio entertained. ANTON MARTINEZ seemed to have cozied up to him before he left. The two were no strangers.

Just the same way that IHSAN DEMIRCI is no stranger to Tristan and DR. MAGNUS HOLM. While it was always clear to everyone that Magnus and Tristan were a couple, it was never clear just how close Ihsan was to both of them, especially while Ihsan was still posing as his deceased Dominant twin Sinan.

Yet the three seemed to have taken a vacation together and Tristan was seen helping Ihsan move into the submissive dorms with little confusion. It appeared to anyone paying enough attention that the three were close and that this transition was no surprise. Could it be that they knew of Ihsan’s deception all along and concealed it?

Long looking for a way to target Magnus and oust him for the dual purpose of opening a new counseling position and single handedly dealing a blow to the main source of support for scholarship students, the Order took action.

One evening IHSAN returned to find a heart etched by knife into his door with three sets of initials inside it. TK + ID + MH. Rose petals were scattered around the doorframe as though on a wedding night. ‘Don’t let our invitation get lost in the mail’ said an empty save-the-date invitation. Whether they were guessing at impending future claims or implying they knew of any brewing plans, the Order wanted everyone to see. It would be up to the rumor mill to try to guess the people whose initials were in that heart.

In one final sweeping act…it was during a back to school bonfire that the Order summarily announced their presence. At the height of the gathering, the acreage next to the main building lit up as the outline of a primrose erupted in flame. A message burned above it as smoke billowed in the air: Leave or Suffer.

A gauntlet was being thrown, a choice presented. Legacies or Scholarships. Loyalty or Sacrifice. Love or Success. Leaving or staying. None in Lowell would be spared having to answer.

FIN.

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Who could you see fitting a trans male? And could you see Joe keery fitting around here.

Thanks for the question! It is important to us that any trans character at Lowell is represented by a trans actor or model. We think some great potential fcs would be: Chella Man (23 & deaf), Elliot Fletcher (26), Leo Sheng (26), Zach Barack (23), Brian Michael Smith (39), & Jake Graf (41), only to name a few.

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would a character with a david harbour fc be wanted?

Hello and thanks for your interest! We apologize for the delay but we wanted to provide you an answer that factored in as many opinions from our admin team as possible.

While we have no specific ban on David Harbour, he's not a face that excites us as a potential faculty member. Allow me to provide a few suggestions that would:

Eddie Cibrian, Oscar Isaac, Daniel Dae Kim, Idris Elba, Tom Ellis, Anthony Mackie, Édgar Ramirez, Kumali Nanjiani, Dwayne Johnson, Randall Park, Omari Hardwick, Pedro Pascal, Charlie Weber, Tim Kang, Abisheck Bachchan, Brian Tee, Joel Kinnaman, Ricky Whittle, or Joe Manganiello

Pretty much any fc can be considered for acceptance (as long as they are not banned or taken) and we want you to choose one that will best inspire your characterization, but we currently have a bias towards BIPOC faces, especially for Lowell faculty.

Hope this helps!

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Good news!

Summer session has been extended by a week due to popular demand! The soft refresh we’ll do following the end of the summer session will be the perfect time for new players to come in!

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I'm super interested in joining but just curious about your most wanted faces? Preferably under 25 range?

Hey there!!

Thanks for the question.

For near or under 25, we have Archie Renaux, Evan Mock, Kedar Williams-Stirling, Michael Evans Behling (26), Michael Cimino, Joshua Basset, Paul Mescal (26), Mason Gooding, Anthony Keyvan, and KJ Apa.

For those slightly older but still workable, maybe Charles Melton, Ross Butler, Noah Centineo, Pierson Fodé, and John Boyega.

I also highly encourage you to take a look at this resource here (because historically this global school would have a large diverse population): https://diversegifhq.tumblr.com/

The tags should help you narrow down what you might be looking for!

Alternatively, what may be helpful is to search the top shows on netflix & hulu right now and browse their cast. It may spark an inspo for you.

I hope this helps!

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are you all still active?

Apologies on the delay - the Admins have been on vacation!

But YES! We're still active and very interested in new members!!!

Let us know if you have any other questions!

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Song family

♦ Stats

» Ross Butler / Charles Melton / Up To Player » 18-20s / UTP » Dominant OR Dominant Switch » Scholarship Student » Previous education/work UTP

♦ Potential Connection

The Song boy knows someone on the faculty personally given some work he did on an internship in their field of study. However they like to keep that connection more of a secret due to nepotism that occurred to get the Song Switch into the Academy. This connection could be the Ayala or the Kaur premade character bio!

† Biography Inspo

The Song Switch has always been a hard worker but somehow never seemed to get ahead by honest means.

The announcement of the 2019 scholarship lottery at Lowell had him excited about new prospects for his future. However he didn’t get accepted with his application.

Upon his rejection the Song Switch was done playing by the rules. In 2021 he used his connections to a faculty member at Lowell to smuggle in a forged acceptance.

The agreement means the Song Switch owes the faculty member something but he has no idea what that could be or when the bill will come due.

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As part of our summer break / summer session happening in game, these posts will happen weekly with the chance for characters to explore the city where Lowell is located!

Community

There is an official expo in town at the convention center just five miles from Lowell which is hosted by experts in fields of kink, professional D/S/s services, and tons of local/non-local vendors for toys, implements, instructional services, and claim planning.

The Community Center in Portsmith is hosting a Shibari workshop which will feature professionals from the expo and asks that you come with a partner for practice.

An Art Hop Festival is being held all week at a large open studio in town. People come for art talks, exhibits, on the spot collaborative art, and a paint fight in a room with wall canvases. Balloons filled with paint will be provided, as well as eye, shoe, and hair coverings, with free overalls with a ticket purchased.

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