Another activity check come and gone!

The list of inactive accounts has been compiled and deactivations and list maintenance are underway :) If you lost a character you'd like back, you may post in Maintenance starting Wednesday, 10th August. If you have no currently active characters you can post in maintenance immediately!

(If you lost a character before the AC, you can post there whenever you'd like!)

Stay tuned for more monthly rollover updates, probably xD

The winners of August Posting Wizard were Lynn (Reuben Crouch) with 245 posts and Nolie (Ida Chang) with 82! Next up, it's me up against Kayte, Bree, Dante, Emma, Fox, Soph and Stefanie!!

Now that August is upon us, it is time to prepare for the Return to School (cue the educators of Charming sobbing in a corner).

The Hogwarts calendar and roster have both been updated for the coming year, but it is also time for account updates, the annual clerical tradition. For players with students, these MUST be done before the September AC. For players with Hogwarts staff, please take a moment to look over the information <3

Welcome to the winners' circle!  That's right, it's our second drawing for the 2022 Summer Raffle! And the winners are...

• Immortality Discount: Kit (Clarissa Cosgrove)
  
• Featured Want Ad: Lynn (Reuben Crouch)
  
• Against the Odds: Kayte (Aldous Crouch)
  
• Occupation Lock: Fox (Basil Foxwood)
  
• Moodboard OR set from MJ: Emma (Melody Crouch)
  
• Moodboard OR set from Bee: LdyPayne (Walter Staghart)
  
• Playlist from Beanie: Stefanie (Barnabas Beck)
  

Those victorious will be contacted later today with more information <3

Student Club rollovers have started! See the directions both in the thread and in the spreadsheet on how to add your students to clubs and presidencies! If you have any questions please feel free to PM me, send me a skype message or simply post in the Student Clubs thread!

Signups are now live for students looking to join their house quidditch team in the coming year! These will remain open until September 9th to ensure lots of time to get your butt in gear ;)

Those who play Captains can look forward to a PM from me sometime this week!

SWP #11 has officially kicked off! A Fatal Countdown will explore the killings that have transpired this season—adn their aftereffects—and that will likely continue if the culprit isn't caught!  Head on over to the info thread in Contests & Events for more details!

Camp Charming wraps up in thirteen days! To help you ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS, we have the following still to come...

• Another Charming Weekend!
  
• A Happy Hour this Thursday! (See Discord for details)
  
• Another movie night!
  

Keep an eye on your inbox, as your updated CC counts will be coming to you this weekend as well <3

Hello my Charming Darlings! Bee reporting with her last official Staff Announcement! It was a tough decision, but I have decided to step down from Staff and come back to the land of membership to give myself some more breathing room and a better work/life/hobbies balance. I will still be running the Buddies (& probably NaNo lbr)! If you could please direct any PMs from here on out to @"Daffodil Potts" here as she will be my main account, that would be greatly appreciated!

Same Bee, just you know, regular Bee without the fancy editing abilities ;)

Due to my werk schedule, I've posted the sorting a smidge early! It'll run until the end of September, but please post in Student Updates before posting your first year. :)

September is COMING SOON. Please note that the next Activity Check is six days away, and will take place on Sunday, 4th September. Please make sure that...

• Your mini-profile is filled in
  
• All of your characters have been listed in the Character Directory—check back on your entries to make sure they were processed properly! Anyone reactivated this month will need to be placed back on. 
  
• Characters made before the last AC have posted at least once this month
  
• Profile has been filled in if not done during acceptance (Did you get a "DIY" PM? You'll need to do this!)
  
• Your character's height is displayed in their mini-profile—if you reactivate an account, this may need doing!
  
• For all returning Hogwarts students, make sure you have done your updates and your miniprofile is showing the correct year.
  

Looking forwards to September, there are so many things to check out, including...

• Posting Wizard signups are open and we're looking for monthly events!
  
• Calling all firsties, the Hogwarts sorting has begun a little early! Hogwarts Quidditch signups are also now available.
  
• Get in your final Camp Charming posts and activities, and win raffle entries!
  
• To help with that, we have a LONG Charming weekend coming up next weekend;
  
• An August writing challenge to complete, with September's coming soon;
  
• And SWP#11 "A Fatal Countdown" fun to get involved in!