The AC is underway—lists and deactivations are in progress! Remember that if you lost a character you did not wish to lose, you may post in maintenance to take their soul back from the reaper starting Wednesday, September 11th. If you currently have no active characters, you may post immediately to reactivate one!

Posting Wizard has rolled over! August's winners were Renny (Felicity Gallagher) with 222 and Bree (Edric Umbridge) with 73. We have quite the group this month—hit up Beanie, Olive, Lady, Eve, Fallin, Finn, Fox Spirit, Kit, and Ocean for all your summer needs ;)

Our final batch of Summer Raffle winners have been drawn! They are...

Moodboard OR set from Lady (Amelia Evans)	Renny (Felicity Gallagher)
Immortality Discount	Fallin (Sisse Thompsett)
Against the Odds	Catcher (Leif Heaney)
Featured Want Ad	MJ (Elias Grimstone)
Character Playlist from Beanie (Cassius Lestrange)	Bree (Edric Umbridge)
Moodboard OR set from MJ (Elias Grimstone)	Lauren (Elladora Black)
25HP	Ocean (Chrysanta Ruskin)
25HP	Kelly (@"Acacia Ruskin")

Thanks to everyone who participated this summer!

Hogwarts is back in session! This means that...

• All Students should make sure their CD entry is accurate—including the colouring!
  
• First Years may now post in the Sorting Ceremony to find out where they truly belong!
  
• All students should give some thought as to what courses they're taking. It's not mandatory, but can be v. helpful to professors (and disorganized players)
  
• Quidditch Tryouts are underway! Please make sure you register before posting in the appropriate thread. Tryouts run until September 14th.
  
• Professors should start thinking about class threads and homework assignments ;)
  

To whom it may concern, we still have an assortment of Hogwarts Staff and Prefect Positions open!

Please be advised that the school year calendar in the Roster thread is from last year.
(Kayte might have forgotten about it, and plans to update it this week!)

Our THIRD annual Camp Charming has wrapped up! Thanks to everyone who participated in any way. Completion ribbons (aka the stamp) go to...

Kayte (Aldous Crouch)
Kelly (@"Acacia Ruskin")
Lynn (Ophelia Devine)
Renny (Felicity Gallagher)

Feel free to PM or Skype Kayte if you want to know your final totals!

In addition, we have a few bonus!awards, regardless of whether or not the players completed CC. They earn you absolutely nothing except bragging rights =P

Participation Trophy Participated in 5+ events

Kayte, Lynn, Kelly, Kit

And last but not least, MJ and I alone completed the Summer Reading Challenge BOOM.

Hey all!

TinyPic is shutting down this month, and that's starting to impact certain on-board images—signatures, avatars, want ads. As such, you'll probably want to reupload somewhere else, remembering that Charming does not host user images!

If you're in the market for an image host, I recommend...

https://imgur.com/upload — delightfully easy uploads, fantastic uptime, and does not require an account however doesn't love being used to hotlink so you're being a bit of a butt using them for that I still do it tho

https://nickpic.host/ — designed with roleplayers in mind and lets you organize all your images within albums for easy use however not all regions of the world have access to it and so some of our players may not be able to see your pretty things.

In the meantime, all your TinyPic images have been replaced with sad faces, so have fun with that ;P

We have HEAPS of activities on the go/coming up, so I thought it would be tidy to do a little round up :)

• We have events for September and are now accepting listings for October
  
• One week left to finish the September writing challenge!
  
• Pumpkin Regatta signups run until the 2nd of October
  
• Potion Brewing signups close THIS SATURDAY
  
• As always, you can check out the calendar for our regularly scheduled IC events :)

The AC is coming!  The Ocober AC will take place on this Saturday, October 5th! To ensure you survive, please make sure that...

• Your mini-profile is filled in with height properly formatted
  
• 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
  
• This one's mostly for staff, but that your full profile has been filled in ;)
  

If all of the above are squared away, there should be no reason for you to fall inactive in the upcoming check!  To our new members: the AC requires no work on your part. The staff team simply makes sure the above is seen to!

And before I go, Wednesday is the last day to sign up for Pumpkin Regatta, and Posting Wizard signups are open!