#luxortasks

[thelittlestcheshire]

 Task 004 - Moodboard (Inside)

[songsofacagedbird]

Task 004 - Moodboard (Inside)

[ofnichols]

Hello, Collen dearest! You haven’t been the most welcoming to some of our newest students, have you? I’m sure everyone would like to see you and Adrian Knox getting along better so do what you must, approach him, be nice to him for a few hours, buy him ice cream even. And when the ice cream ends up all over his face and clothes, well, we’re sure you can make up some excuse on your own.

“You know what? In this case, I’m actually looking forward to this, just to see his face. After all, given how things went down with Lucy - this isn’t that bad.”

((OOC Reminder - Remember that characters do NOT know this IC.))

[jckelly]

JACK’S (slightly dysfunctional) FAMILY / / / / / / / / / / 

kelly family:

- lauren kelly (deceased) / jack’s birth mother (fc: elena tonra)

jack’s birth mother, to whom he was very close despite being removed from her care at a young age. she died a year ago, he remains sensitive about the topic since he blames himself and believes he could have prevented it. 

- finn kelly / jack’s brother (fc: jake bugg)

jack’s 23 year old brother who’s sole job in life seems to be picking up jack’s messes. even from an entire continent away. really wishes jack would stop calling him at 3am. is also too nice to tell jack not to call him at 3am. 

- maisie adeyemi / brother’s gf (fc: yewande biala)

is not too nice to tell jack to shut the fuck up at 3am

- liam gallagher

jack is currently trying to advance a conspiracy theory that he is the illegitimate son of liam gallagher of oasis. he is not. do not listen to him. 

- jordan taylor / jack’s birth father (fc: alex turner)

jack’s ACTUAL birth father, not liam gallagher. has recently been trying to reach out over the internet. has also been rejected and subject to many bernie memes with the caption “i am once again asking you to fuck off.” tries anyway. is weirdly closer to finn despite not being related to him. 

fielding family:

- claire fielding / jack’s adopted mother (fc: julia roberts)

very wholesome and loving. thinks jack is just a very sweet boy with some trauma issues. just wants to protect him and his entire friend group from the world. truly just wants to help him. is very much taken advantage of. 

- george fielding / jack’s adopted father (fc: timothy olyphant)

SEES THROUGH JACK’S BULLSHIT. calls him out on it. is not easily fooled. but secretly proud of jack anyway . 

a rat

- look let’s not discount the possibility of there being one in there i mean the resemblance is striking

[wtftk]

                                    Moodboard (2/?) : TK on the inside

[marcelloderosa]

welcome to the DE ROSA family.

enzo de rosa. fc rob lowe. giorgia de rosa (formally bellucci). fc nicole kidman. emiliano de rosa. fc beau mirchoff. marcello de rosa. fc lorenzo zurzolo. benedetta de rosa. fc sophia lillis.

enzo, father. 46. gemini.

Enzo is a tough, honorable man who values tradition and reputation. It became clear relatively quickly that his youngest son would struggle to follow his assigned role, especially when Marcello began getting into serious scuffles as young as eight years old. For the most part, Marcello abides by his father’s demands and expectations, although he is the only member of his family that actively stands up to his father. The tension between them has since then worsened once Enzo made the decision to send him away so that he’d be unable to corrupt their family image in Spain, and Marcello has a deep, violent hatred for his father.

giorgia, mother. 42. virgo.

Giorgia is the eldest daughter to a ridiculously wealthy parliament member in Italy, and she was married off to Enzo to further her family’s political ties. She is a strong woman, and she operates on duty and compassion. She is a quiet, stoic woman, who has been groomed to marry a rich, powerful man all her life. Although she is not the most emotionally available mother, she actively played a role in raising her children, unlike Enzo. Giorgia is largely discontent with her life, married to a cruel man and she often plays Marcello’s savior in crises. Marcello admires his mother, simply because she has always been good and patient with him. While he can not readily see how his mother sacrifices and suffers to protect her son, he is a mama’s boy at heart.

emiliano, older brother. 22. leo.

Growing up, the two boys always had an intense rivalry between each other.  Emiliano was beefy and exceptionally bigger than Marcello, and he seemed to thrive in the spotlight while Marcello drowned trying to stay afloat. The boys would often physically fight, and neither was keen to holding back on the other. His brother is a manipulative man who oozes natural charisma, and he is his father’s favorite child. Unlike Marcello, Emiliano’s anger is subtle despite being almost as hot-headed as his younger brother. He is more diplomatic than Marcello, often relying on his wit to get what he wants.

benedetta. younger sister. 14. cancer.

Benedetta is the beloved baby sister of the de Rosa family, although she mostly uses her title to maintain the peace within her family. While her parents failed to notice their sons’ feud, little Benedetta was always quick to step in between, even if it lead to her only getting shoved out of the way. She is playful and naive, her father choosing to completely shelter her as his only daughter. Marcello has a deep love for his sister, often coming to her as his confidant and good conscience. These two are the closest out of the entire de Rosa family, largely due to them being the most affectionate of their family members.

distant family.

francesca bellucci. 39. aquarius. fc jessica chastain.

Francesca is the middle daughter of the Bellucci line, and she is the most dignified of the three sisters. While Giorgia has a yielding personality to the authorities of her life, Francesca prefers to be the authority. Although she did not escape her father’s insistence on marrying a well-connected diplomat, she is vocal about her dismay and irritation with her husband. She is currently a lawyer, and she is a very viscous one at that. Francesca has a lot of qualms about Marcello, considering how untamable the boy is. Although, she is quick to follow her sister’s beckoning and raise to her nephew’s defense.

serafina bellucci. 35. pisces. fc amy adams.

Being the youngest of the tight-nit group of sisters, Serafina is often the mediator between her older sisters’ disputes. Although she has a tendency to be ditzy, she has a good-heart and values family above everything else. Fortunately for her, her husband is an acclaimed businessman and philanthropist who she had the pleasure of knowing beforehand. Sera bears an unfathomable amount of love for her sisters’ children, specifically Marcello because of how broken the boy is. She often checks up on him, offering advice and always heeding Marcello to be smart about his decisions. While she may not agree with how the younger boy handles his issues, Sera is the most gentle and understanding of her sisters.

[skypagex]

sky page’s family

people who don’t matter:

robert page (deceased father, died at 57) - aries sun, virgo rising, taurus moon, fc claes bang

caroline murphy page (mother, 55) - scorpio sun, libra rising, virgo moon, fc miranda otto

dawn shepherd (nee page, sister, 30) - aquarius sun, scorpio rising, leo moon, fc tuppence middleton

star page (sister, 26) - gemini sun, leo rising, cancer moon, fc astrid berges-frisbey 

PEOPLE THAT MATTER MUCH MORE TO SKY:

yossarian (his cat): unclear birthday due to being a rescue. sky thinks he might be a scorpio. likes sky. strongly dislikes people who are not sky. fakes his own death with alarming frequency. 

[of-all-irrelevance]

@luxoracademy @luxorstarters @luxorgossip

Dear Luxor,

I am writing to the current members of Luxor and to those who might be considering joining. I'm writing this because I have things to say, and I've been quiet for far too long. While the admins may write me off as a member burned, I hope at least one person can take me at face value, because I am here to tell my story.

I joined Luxor on May 17, 2020. However, it was not an easy process. The face claim I wanted to use was rejected as being "too old," despite that face claim having copious amounts of resources from when he was younger. At the time of my application, the rules regarding face claims were that they should have played a high school character before, which my desired face claim did. I had to fight to use the face for my character that I wanted to, and while I was successful, I was often scared to use resources that were in the time frame deemed acceptable by the admins, but that I was afraid they'd see as too "old". And this is a fear that I've kept until my last day as a member of this rp. I am still afraid that I may be issued warnings or other forms of cease and desists for using a resource for my character.

Despite the initial trouble, Luxor seemed like a great place. So many of the members I met when I joined were wonderful and welcoming except, funny enough, the admin team. The only thing I received from them upon joining was a link to the Luxor Discord server. They never introduced themselves, and only one of the admins included a very basic "welcome!" message upon my joining the server. 

So while I was plotting with and getting to know the members, the admin team gave the air of being aloof and untouchable. Trying to reach out and plot with them, would result in a message or two every two weeks. And then nothing would ever come from it. I'd start threads and reply to threads with the admins, and they'd end within 4-5 replies if they ever got a reply at all. The rules of the role-play prohibit "bubble rp," but there's no one in more of a bubble than the admins.

Before this is written off as an unfounded claim, despite trying to plot with Admin Mimi for months, my first ever dash interaction with her was on October 21, 2020. That was more than five months after I joined the rp. So, for anyone considering joining and wondering about plotting with the admins, I'd suggest another rp, as these admins don't plot much outside their clique.

And yes, I called it a clique, because that's exactly what it is. Some people are in the "inner circle" and included in a private discord server with the admins, and surprise, those select people and the admins rarely plot outside themselves for anything. A thread started outside the clique, will more than likely be abandoned after one or two replies, if you see any replies at all.

Beyond their clique and bubble, the admins have a growing history with power trips. The first was on July 25, 2020, when the admins created a firm rule about the role-play's secret aspect. We were told that we were no longer allowed to speculate amongst ourselves. Honestly, that took a lot of the fun out of it. It was fun to speculate with others, see if they guessed our own characters' secrets or not. They created a rule; however, that stated that only two characters could know a secret of another character. Depending upon the secret, that is potentially impossible to maintain. But it limits characters from having ties to others in their past when the secret may have originated if two other characters already know the secret. The rule came out of nowhere and seemed very arbitrary. It was an unnecessary bid for power.

Then on October 7, 2020, the admin team decided to temporarily shut down the role-plays Discord server, under the guise of making the rp more inclusive. They asked for member feedback and thoughts and concerns. I, as well as others that I know of, gave them a list of concerns that we had. I can't speak for their concerns, but mine went largely ignored. I had issue with one of the members that were a part of the admins' clique, and the response was rather that they seemed untouchable, as if they couldn't possibly be making me feel like the rp was an unsafe environment. This was not the first time that I brought a concern that I had about this member to the admins, and it was the not the first time that they disregarded my concerns, as the things that bothered me weren't "against the rules."

Most recently, the admins created a new rule on December 15, 2020 about starters. The rule is unwieldy and dictates who a character can and cannot interact with. By forcing members to reply to three threads per character in order to do a single starter call, they remove the ability for some to role-play closed starters from more than just the few people they reach out to. I did bring this concern to the admins, and they all but wrote me off. Personally, I am a full-time student with a part-time job. I can barely maintain four threads per character. This new rule made it impossible for me to do a starter call in any capacity, severely limiting my ability to role-play as I have been doing for months now.

However, my issues aren't just from arbitrary and overly controlling rules. The admins have also accused me, personally, of things that I won't go into as they concern other people as well as my self. I received a warning for something they took on hearsay. It was reported to them by someone that had a falling out with myself, and the action itself supposedly occurred during a voice chat. Now, there is no way to prove a conversation over voice chat without a recording, but that's not the point. The point is that I was given a warning without the admins reaching out for my side of the story. They took the other person's word as fact, and didn't consider to hear both sides before issuing warnings. I wasn't the only to receive this treatment either, but that's not my story to tell.

On December 28, 2020, the admins began what is essentially a witch hunt. They received what they perceived as hate. In my opinion, what they received was simply a statement of an opinion of their members. However, they began this witch hunt, asking for members to accuse other members of sending these messages. This, like most witch hunts, ended with the accusation of someone innocent. This innocent is a dear friend of mine, and it hurt to see them hung out like a witch for the world to see with little to no proof. Seeing this, I know it's completely my time to leave. I cannot stay in a place that breeds hostility and threatens private conversations and feelings to be become public spectacle. 

So now we're here. This is my official withdrawal from Luxor Academy. To potential new members, I hope at least some of my words prepare you for what kind of place this is. This all said, I want to be clear that it is not the whole admin team that are powerhungry. It is the two main admins, Nora and Mimi. I have had very little good experiences with them to share. To Yo, thank you for trying, and I appreciate you as the only sane admin on this rp. To my friends, I still consider you my friends. If you ever want to talk or even do a one on one role-play over Discord, you know where to reach me. Just because I'm dissatisfied with Luxor's management, does not mean I think less of my friends.

Further, upon completion of this letter, it has come to my attention that a member of this rp, someone I thought was my friend, or at least friendly, shared my personal medical information with the admins, without my knowledge or consent. This speculated information was taken as a screenshot and sent to multiple other members, something that caused me to have a panic attack. Having my information circulated like this is the very last straw. Luxor is an unsafe role-play environment, and anyone thinking to join, please think very carefully.

Sincerely,

A Former Member

[ridiculousyoungicarus]

Task 004 - Moodboard (Outside)

[thelittlestcheshire]

Task 004 - Moodboard (Outside)

[songsofacagedbird]

Task 004 - Moodboard (Outside)

[lav-jones]

LUXOR TASK 007

Sunflower (Post Malone): “You're the sunflower” // Little Joana (McFly): “She will always be my sun kissed trampoline” // Golden (Harry Styles): “You're so golden. I'm out of my head and I know that you're scared because hearts get broken” // Wild Heart (The Vamps): “She needs a wild heart” // Break my broken heart (Winona Oak): “So what's one more scar? Break my broken heart” // Be kind (Halsey ft. Marshmello): “Wanna believe that you don't have a bad bone in your body” // Stop crying your heart out (Oasis): “May your smile shine on. Don't be scared, your destiny may keep you warm” // All of the stars (Ed Sheeran): “I sang a lullaby by the waterside and knew If you were here, I'd sing to you” // You’re not special (McFly): “They'll only let you down, I learnt the hard way, always the hard way” // Two ghosts (Harry Styles): “We're not who we used to be. We're just two ghosts standing in the place of you and me, trying to remember how it feels to have a heartbeat” // Isn’t she lovely (Stevie Wonder): “Isn't she lovely? Isn't she wonderful? Isn't she precious?” // Wouldn’t it be nice (The Beach Boys): “Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray it might come true” // Somewhere over the rainbow (Israel): “Someday I'll wish upon a star, wake up where the clouds are far behind me, where trouble melts like lemon drops” // Here comes the sun (The Beatles): “Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces” // Happy (Marina and the Diamonds): “It felt so sweet, it felt so strong. It made me feel like I belonged. And all the sadness inside me melted away like I was free” // Gravity (Pixie Lott): “Every time I'm ready to leave I seem to be pullin' in the wrong direction, divin' in with no protection.”

[maiacroft]

Hello everyone, we wanted to take a moment to update the members on a few things and keep you all in the light.

A MESSAGE FROM THE ADMINS

We wanted to address some points with nothing but honesty.

Point #1: Inclusiveness

The first thing we would like to address is the issue with admins and their inclusiveness. In the months leading up to the holidays, the admins have not interacted with as many people as they should have been. When we acknowledge that we haven’t had threads with as many people as we should, it isn’t for a lack of trying. Every one of the admins wants to participate like any other member and we do try to have threads with as many people as we can but with balancing our personal schedules, maintaining the main (which we are still never perfect with), answering questions, organizing the grand plot, and managing the rest of the behind the scenes for the RP, sometimes we do struggle to have as many threads as we would like and as many threads as we expect our members to have with one another.

When we started this RP, each one of the admins had more free time to spare on RP in general. Obviously, a lot occurs and changes in your personal lives over the course of a year and a half, and despite the fact that we do have more things to balance on top of running the RP, we still want to see the grand plot through, we still want to run this group for the members that have been developing their characters here for so long and while the number of threads we are able to maintain is affected, many of the other responsibilities we have are also affected. This includes being able to come online regularly. If we come online with the intention of doing replies, if there are questions or concerns that have been brought to our attention, if they are matters we can handle alone, we are usually prioritizing those over doing our replies. Although it may not always show on the dash, we do want to have threads with everyone, and every time we plot with people OOC, we have every intention of seeing that plot through on the dash.

We don’t want to use our busyness as an excuse to not engage with everyone, but we do want to be transparent in saying that sometimes, us trying our best to maintain everything: not neglect our personal lives and have threads with everyone, is a lot, and it doesn’t always allow us to have threads with everyone that we would like to. We claim full responsibility for not reaching out to our members and plotting with them as much as we should have, and we take responsibility for not having threads with as many people as we should, and if the admins have made you feel excluded IC or OOC, we are truly sorry for that and it is never our intention. With that being said, we will be making a conscious effort to reach out more to our members for plotting purposes and threading purposes as well. Please understand that if we can’t be on to reply regularly or if we can’t get our plots on the dash quickly, etc. that we are trying our best.

Point #2: Our Top Priority

We have put so much work into the RP and we want to keep running it for as long as we can. A great deal of time, thought and effort goes into the overall plot of the RP. We sit down as a group and plan out the progression of the story months before you guys see any of it, to make sure it all makes sense and goes smoothly. Everything that happens during a plot drop — be it big or small — is deliberate and serves a purpose that a lot of thought goes into. This includes the secret reveals along with everything else. There’s a lot of care behind the scenes to make the plot as interesting and interactive as we can make it. For a year and a half, the admins have scheduled time to be online all together to work on these things. We put so much care into it, and because of the effort and time that we actively put into it, because it is challenging and even stressful at times, even just to keep it up and running on a base level, we would never intentionally exclude anyone from this group, whether IC or OOC. We care so much about the health of this RP because we want it to last.

We would never intentionally upset any of our members. When resolving OOC matters, our number one concern is resolving whatever has arisen for the betterment of the RP. The admins are a team of three separate people. That allows us to communicate from three different perspectives and consider multiple angles before making a decision. When dealing with members or situations where someone has broken the rules, our number one priority is to resolve whatever has occurred. As we have mentioned in a previous post, of course, we are people with feelings and sometimes we are frustrated and stressed as we are sure many of you have been frustrated and stressed with RP matters before. But we want to make it clear that any negative feelings we may have never take priority over the health of the RP. We set those feelings aside when speaking with you and when resolving issues. Simply put, we care more about the wellbeing of this RP than whatever negative feelings arise in the process of running it because we put so much work into it. We want it to last, and above just generally sticking around the main to answer questions, accept apps and update the pages, we have to approach everything in a solution oriented way.

Point #3: Warnings and Strikes

The third thing we would like to address is our method of issuing warnings or strikes. When it is clear to us that one of our members has blatantly broken a rule, we issue a warning or strike right away, depending on how serious the rule break is. Otherwise, we usually open a door for discussions when we happen to give out warnings or strikes to hear out the other side. If there doesn’t seem to be a reason why the other side acted the way they did, then we issue the warning or strike as we see fit. We have reached out to multiple members in the same manner when an OOC problem occurs and we always have discussions with them about the event that occurred. It is always our mission to handle things delicately with care to ensure that things don’t blow out of proportion when issues arise.

It is always very discouraging to see the very thing you have put your heart in receiving such a treatment. We do firmly believe, as stated multiple times by the admins, that if someone is unhappy with how we handle things to the point of sending us rude anons, being unhappy in the group, or starting OOC drama as a result, then we prefer for these members to leave our group. We believe that this is beneficial for both the member as well as the RP as a whole. RPing is meant to be a fun activity, if it becomes something that has a negative effect on an individual, then the best course of action is to leave the group instead of remaining unhappy. We try our best to make sure that our members are heard, but if the issue is with the plot or with how the admins choose to run the RP, then maybe it’s not a good match.

OUR NEXT STEPS

After days of contemplating what our next step should be with the RP, the admins believe that moving the RP to Discord and having it be a closed RP is the best choice for us. If you are interested in remaining in the RP, please send us a message BY MONDAY to let us know so we can include you in our future plans. We will be explaining the process of how Discord RP works to our members to help with the smooth transition. If there are any concerns regarding this, please don’t hesitate to reach out to the admins.

We will be following up again after the weekend once we have a clear timeline of when things get back into motion again. We thank our members who have stuck around and we hope things can get back to normal soon. We also want to thank all of you for your patience. We greatly appreciate it.

NOTE: We are aware that some of our members don’t like the way live events are conducted, but we wanted to say that Discord RPing is not the same format as live events. In Discord RPing, each member will have their own category where they can have regular threads, much like how it’s done on a tumblr dash. The format of this can be seen below:

[wtftk]

The Morrow’s

Papa Morrow : Paul Morrow || 46  || Contractor || (Daniel Craig)

Mama Morrow:  Anna Morrow || 45|| English Teacher || (Rachel Weisz)

Brother Morrow: PJ Morrow || 26 || Medical Assistant (William Mosely)

Sister Morrow: Elizabeth “Beth” Morrow || 22 || Aspiring Influencer (Diana Silvers)

Baby Morrow: Taylor Kennedy “TK” Morrow ||18 ||Student (Charlie Rowe)

Not photographed:

Sister in-law Morrow: (Chelsey Chow)

TK’s niece and baby nephew, Alice and Henry

Beth’s first husband and her new fiancé

Their pet fish, Tony.

[marcelloderosa]

marcello’s cave

for character development task 3 !! this is marcello’s dorm room

((posting this specifically rn for his thread with sav <33)

imagine band posters and used decks hung up. and also a stuffed white rabit named clementine his sister gave him when he left to luxor.

name: clementine. age: 5 years. gender: unknown. role: npc

[gems-campbell]

gemma campbell - the personality playlist

pretty hurts | beyonce - mama said, "you're a pretty girl", what's in your head, it doesn't matter, brush your hair, fix your teeth, what you wear is all that matter. she will be loved | maroon 5 - beauty queen of only eighteen, she had some trouble with herself. blank space | taylor swift - got a long list of ex-lovers, they'll tell you i'm insane, but i’ve got a blank space, baby....and i'll write your name. buy me diamonds | bea miller - give me something that won't tell me lies, won't leave me hanging out to dry, won't fuck me over, make me cry.  save your love and buy me diamonds. crash my car | coin - walk in like a wrecking ball, the way she move makes you miserable, all eyes on the golden girl. roommates | dixie d’amelio - cause i’ve got plenty of roommates, even when i'm alone. i've never known any silence, they turn my head into home, and they keep me awake with a vacancy sign. yeah, i got plenty of roommates and they're all in my mind. heather | conan gray - i'm not even half as pretty, you gave her your sweater, it's just polyester, but you like her better...wish i were heather.  jealous | labrinth - as i sink in the sand, watch you slip through my hands, oh, as i die here another day cause all i do is cry behind this smile. everybody loves you | the chicks - sometimes, i close my eyes amidst the dancing lights when it feels too wild for breathing, i can't sleep at night, unless I start to lie. fake happy | paramore - if i smile with my teeth i think i believe me, oh please don't ask me how i've been, don't make me play pretend. primadonna | marina and the diamonds - know i’ve got a big ego, i really don't know why it's such a big deal, though. and i'm sad to the core, core, core. successful | ariana grande - yeah, it feels so good to be so young, and have this fun and be successful, yeah. i'm so successful, yeah. royals | lorde - you can call me queen bee, and baby, i'll rule (i'll rule, i’ll rule, i’ll rule), let me live that fantasy.