Slipped under every door of the occupied Ari Apartments and Memoria Apartments is the following:



Characters will notice that they have all received 2% of their memories on the same exact day.

Retroactive hiatus here, ending now. I've been horrendously ill for the past week. Sorry I didn't notify in advance; this put a lot of things out of my mind.

The event is now over! All clothing returned to its normal colors at midnight.

For the next day, every single garment on the island -- from coats to shoes to underwear -- will be a lovely shade of green.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

The following four characters have received 3% of their memories:

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Congratulations!

We're going to keep this short and sweet (Frank and birthday vgifts will be back next week). You've probably seen the updates to our main menu. Don't be alarmed. You'll find everything you need, just in slightly shifted format. Just so you know, we based these changes on input from both experienced and new users who were not familiar with LiveJournal. Our goal was to reduce barriers to usability and make LiveJournal more accessible and easy to navigate. Please note that this is a work in progress. We welcome your detailed suggestions in feedback. We thank you, in advance, for helping us improve your LiveJournal experience.

We've updated the global navigation menu:

Here's a quick breakdown of what you'll find where:

• Scrapbook can now be found under Profile (thanks for your feedback, btw), along with Settings, Stats, and Edit Profile.
• You'll find all the tools you need to post and update entries under Journal, which includes posting and editing entries, managing comments and tags, and customizing your journal's style.
• Friends contains all of your friend settings, from filtering your Friends page to adding, removing, and finding new and existing friends on LiveJournal.
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• Explore includes search features, RSS feeds, Question of the Day, and FRNK radio.
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LiveJournal Mobile update:

We've enhanced LiveJournal's mobile site to improve usability and load times. We've made more of LiveJournal's features accessible via mobile, including posting comments, uploading photos, reading and commenting on friends' posts, finding and messaging friends, and more. We look forward to reviewing your feedback and recommendations for future improvements.

Other important changes:

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• We changed some of the icons on entries (you can hover over the icons to view descriptions).
• You'll see a Tag count on your Tag management page.
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• We've added options to help you control receipt of vgifts, which you'll find in My Stuff under Edit Profile. You can now enable vgifts from friends or everyone and disable anonymous vgifts.

We've got your fix:

• UPDATE: Rolling several updates into one listing here -- 1) Scrapbook should be back and working again. 2) The problem with the Update Journal page in IE6 and IE7 should be fixed now. 3) The problem with the userpic add-on package pricing has been fixed and refunds issued to anyone who was overcharged while the erroneous prices were in place.
• Non-conforming images will now be automatically resized for custom mood themes.
• Line breaks no longer count as two characters against your entry's character limit.
• We fixed a bug on the Manage Tags page so you can clear all tags and add new tags.
• We corrected the UI for the update.bml page so it displays properly in IE8.

Thanks again for joining us. Frank and company will be back next week!

OK, computer repair has been completed and a number of real life obligations have been dealt with, so I'm back and so are Yomiko deathly_origami and Nall catslooklikeme! Yaaaaaaaaaay!

Hey gang, just a heads-up to let you know that the next month or so is going to be busier than I expected (suddenly I am booked everywhere for burlesque and a couple of photoshoots FFFFFF I blame my hair) and while I'm not taking a full hiatus, I'll be slow to tag. Mostly because I have no home internet and I'm too lazy to switch accounts on my phone. >_>

This affects Mr Grumpypants (rawrsoangry) and Guts (guts_noglory).

♥ Erika

Time for a memory raffle! The list of characters can be found under the cut.

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If you have a character or characters who have posted or commented between 3/1 and 3/14 but are not listed here, please link to their activity in a reply to this post. (This does not apply to characters who failed to get off the warned list last cycle or who won the previous raffle.)

Results will be posted tomorrow night.

Ayame here, to say...I'm really, really sorry guys, ( but it is time for Vash to go home. )

Vash will miss you all so much. I might even make a musebox post about it, so I'll link that here if I do. XD; I'm not sure I can bring up the muse properly to even do that, though...

Friend remove love_and_donuts. LOVE AND PEACE!

The rest of my muses must go on hiatus until further notice: Ginko, (sore_feet_man), Taichi (couragewhistled), Gintoki (jump_isforkids), and Nenene (nani_wo_yomu).

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Whether you're a wizard or a passionate novice in the kitchen, we've all had our share of recipe disasters. From the fallen souffle to the runny chocolate mousse to the lasagna that looks (and/or tastes) like it's been eaten before, come embrace your epic fails through photos and stories. Help others learn from your cooking calamities or simply revel in the fun of failure.

Time for a probation check. If anyone is unclear on the rules, you can look here to see who is on probation and here for an explanation of the probation rules. Also note that these rules do NOT apply to characters on a hiatus, so if you know you'll disappear, post a hiatus in the comm.

March 1 - 14

CHARACTERS WARNED
carries_a_bell Sheena Fujibayashi
cellphoning Kotonoha Katsura
couragewhistled Taichi Yagami
jump_isforkids Gintoki Sakata
love_and_donuts Vash (Vash is now probation dodging.) - Dropped.
sparklepiredesu Takuma Ichijou

CHARACTERS ON PROBATION
n/a

Keep in mind that only IC comments are taken into account.

I probably should have done this a while ago. I'm very sorry to everyone I have kept waiting. I'm not sure if this is a valid reason for a hiatus, but basically, shortly after applying for Decus, I was thrown into a stressful situation that killed my muses. Now that it has been resolved, they have been coming back, but Decus is a little slow to return. Therefore, I'd like to take a week to canon review/do other things that might bring back his voice.

I'm sorry I've been such a let down with tags. I hope that I'll do much better when I return.

First, why haven't I announced being back from hiatus? Simply because my computer's still broken so I wasn't "back" per se. Just happened to have computer access from time to time. And was sick, too.

More importantly, though, due to several, uh, complications (i.e. workload + STILL NO DAMN COMPUTER + getting access to one is getting difficult/tiring + stupid hot spots here are not compatible with consoles), I'll be forced to, well. Go on another hiatus. For, say. Three weeks tops? If the thing won't be fixed by that time, then I suppose it never will. I'll still be able to reply here and there a few day in a week (seeing as most of my homework includes using the computer - how very convenient!), but don't expect to see me all that much.

/tl;dr Sorry for that, everyone ;;

/peeks in

So um, I know I've been gone for forever and a day--unfortunately, I unexpectedly ended up busy with various things right after joining that led to me having little time or motivation for anything RP-related.

But um! That seems to have cleared up enough for me to be able to say that if you guys will have me back, I would like to try and get back into game! Or..well, get into it for the first time.

Either way, I'm really sorry for disappearing like that! I feel really bad about it. ;;

We're finishing up a few odds and ends before our next major release. Our mighty Ops guys continue to slay spambots and balance load times on a highwire without a safety net (which is kind of tough dressed in full ninja gear). Down on solid ground, we're celebrating this week's virtual birthday party with a warm toast to pants. If you can rearrange the letters of your favorite city, state, and/or country (feel free to combine these elements) to spell one of Frank's favorite treats (e.g., pants, wire, paper, etc.), he'll send you over a can of whipped cream to top it all off (provided you return the empty can for his midnight snack)! And, with that, let the word scrambling commence!

Stuff you should know:

We're still working on the delayed/missing notifications issue. Sorry, we're frustrated too. We'll keep you posted. Last week, we became aware that a recently-implemented script was overwriting affiliate referral fees for some of our users. Once we confirmed this, our Ops team quickly removed the script. Please be aware that, while we may beta-test other affiliate scripts down the line, we will take greater measures to ensure that no existing user-referral arrangements are impacted in any way. While we plan to stick to a weekly news schedule, if we have a release in between regular newsletters, we'll post here to keep you informed. You can also check lj_releases for current release information.

To our paid users, we send squirrels in love!

If you have a paid or permanent account, you can send five free Squirrels in love vgifts through Monday, March 15th at 4pm, PST! You'll see both the free and the $0.99 squirrels displayed until they've scurried off to their new homes. Please send only one vgift at a time. In other words, you'll need to complete check-out and start a new order for each vgift you send. If you're not receiving vgifts (from friends and/or Frank), you may have disabled them. To enable vgifts, visit Edit profile (under Profile), scroll down to the bottom of the page, and select 'Do not disable' from the drop-down menu. Have fun!

Help is on the way!

We're pleased to announce the winner of our first charitable vgift poll, Doctors without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières, which provides critical medical care to under-served populations around the world. Priced at $2.99, we'll donate 100 percent of the proceeds we raise from the sale of this vgift (we'll cover credit card fees). We invite you to start recommending nonprofits for our next fundraising drive at ljnewscontests. We'll take suggestions through the month and post a poll in the news during the first week of April to let you choose the recipient. We thank you, again, for your passion and generosity.

We've crowned a header

Congratulations to ohterlus for submitting the winning header, which will go live next week and keep us leafy through mid-April! You can submit designs for our next header contest at ljnewscontests now until March 31st. We'll post a poll in the news to let you decide which header will sit at the top of LiveJournal from mid-April to mid-May. All artistic interpretations are welcome. The winner will get a $25 LiveJournal gift certificate. All other contributors will receive $5 gift certificates. Our heartfelt appreciation for sharing your talent and creativity!

For this week's winning photo and more adventures with Frank & Meme, we'll catch you under the cut!

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Who: Olette, Nathan, X, Luke, Emil, Danny, Lloyd, Guts, Takeru, Tsubasa, Maguri, Anyone and Everyone
What: FOOD FIGHT! Defend your honor and pride while wrecking some poor girl's bakery!
Where: Sunset Bakery [Olette's bakery somewhere in town]
When: March 10
Notes/Warnings: None at the moment. I'll post them as they crop up... other than that, go wild! Toss food and have a ball, guys!

( It was starting to look like such a normal day, too. )

Machi-

Wha- HEY! LEMME GO! [there are noises of things being kicked, but in the end, there's silence]

[[ooc- Tidus has been Mally-napped so I can think of where to take him next. Sorry ladies. D:]]