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Porcelain Autumn Releases New Album Hometown Heresy

The swinging darkness of Porcelain Autumn has returned with a new album: Hometown Heresy. After hinting about it on growlr, the band has released their 4th album and 2nd studio album on Wednesday.

Porcelain autumn wrote:

@PorcelainAutumn

Beware, mortals, for there be ghosts haunting lately.
You may hear the banshee scream of events yet to
come. Stay tuned and with a brass cross in hand

The album contains eight songs. While following their established sound of electro-swing and dark cabaret, the band ventures into different sounds in their new album. Drawing inspiration from rock and metal, Hometown Heresy brings a new type of energy to fans that ventures into heavier sounds. Hometown Heresy is now available on streaming and vinyl.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL31KVA7uDzd2PsVI4iWlbNO7Jz6-Z3F3A

Wileyshire wrote:

See the below news!:

DSA CFL + SLU CFL Merge into W+W CFL

by The Free Syndicates of Wileyshire

The Democratic Socialist Assembly Collegiate Football League managed by Wileyshire and the Social Liberal Union Collegiate Football League managed by Wildy have merged into a single league. For the time being each region will maintain it's own conference and the regular season will be ran intra-conference exclusively. Post season play will be the exception to the rule where conferences may and will play against one another. There are plans to expand the league into other regions, creating new conferences as well to add to the competition. Rules for the larger league as well as Season 2 changes (including more teams per nation allowed!) are in the works and once finalized the sign ups for new teams will open.

To celebrate and cement the league as it's own entity, the league championship game will be played in the coming days. The matchup will be Wileyshire's University of Wileyshire representing the DSA versus Kanoria's Gekennafrœgi Ginnagrtúnn representing the SLU. Scores will be posted in the RMB of each region.

If anybody has any questions, concerns, ideas or other inquiries, please TG me on either Wileyshire or Wildy. Thanks!

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Tbh, I can't help but feel that there may be some difficulties with this merge, mainly considering the relationship the DSA and SLU have had since 2019. Not saying you shouldn't try, just me being a little...idk what the word would be...cautious, maybe?

Below is the scores for the Season 1 Championship game!

W+W CFL Season 1 Championship
Gekennafrœgi Ginnagrtúnn 3 7 3 3 16
University of Wileyshire 3 3 10 7 23

The University of Wileyshire wins 23-16 over Gekennafrœgi Ginnagrtúnn.

Please go to the below link to find the sign ups for the Season 2 W+W CFL League! Please note that you can sign up only one team per season, but you may have a total of 4 teams in a given league from a single nation!

https://thedsa.proboards.com/thread/696/collegiate-football-league-season-sign

From The Department of Sports Leagues

Remember when we used to have the Summer Olympia Games? Yes? No? Well your answer doesn't matter because this is only related to it. The 2020 DSA Winter Olympia Games are commencing! Would you like to join? The Winter Olympia Games is intended to show unity and brotherhood among our nations. All DSA member nations, as well as members of Allied Regions, may join the Winter Olympia Games.

DSA Winter Olympia Games 2020

by The Isles of Student Loan Debt

Remember when we used to have the Summer Olympia Games? Yes? No? Well your answer doesn't matter because this is only related to it. The 2020 DSA Winter Olympia Games are commencing! Would you like to join? The Winter Olympia Games is intended to show unity and brotherhood among our nations. All DSA member nations, as well as members of Allied Regions, may join the Winter Olympia Games.

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Signing-Up and Hosting

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• Sign-ups to be in the tournament will begin today (January 17th, 2020) and end in 8 days (January 25th, 2020). To sign-up, send me, Student Loan Debt, a telegram saying that you wish to enter. You also need to make a team roster (see Tournament Specifics below for more detail).

• We also need to find a place to host the games. To sign-up to host the games, directly DM me, Student Loan Debt and tell me that you wish to host the events. These will start today (January 17th, 2020) and end on January 21st, 2020. After, there will be a 2 day voting period (January 21st-January 23rd) where the people will decide who will host the Winter Olympia Games.

• If you wish to host, it is required that you have snow. This should be obvious but probably someone would try to have it on a beach or something. However, you do not have to send a team to the Olympia Games if you are hosting. You can just host if you like.

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Tournament specifics

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• You will need to make a team name and a roster of players. Each team will have 4 players. All we need to know is their names. However, you want to be creative, tell us more about them. Send your team name and roster directly to Student Loan Debt.

• Competitors can have a skill level between 1 (new athlete) and 10 (professional athlete). All competitors will start at 5 (average) or lower if you request it. If you want to get it higher, do some role play involving all this. The more RP you do, the higher skill levels you can give your team. The higher your skill level, the better chances you have of winning (this is an RP event, of course actually participating in RP gives you advantages).

• Once the sign-ups have ended, we will know how many nations wish to compete in the games. This will determine how many events we have, from skiing to skating to curling and more. Once sign-ups end, I will post which events are happening and you can sign up your athletes.

• Only 1 athlete per event, meaning you can't put 2 people from your team on the same event.

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When is the Tournamanet?

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The Tournament will be on January 26th.

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Where Will The Scores Be Posted?

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The scores will be posted on the DSA Forum. I will also provide links to the scores on the RMB and the Discord server as they come out, along with tagging members who got scores so that they will know. If you cannot see the scores, tell me and I'll try and figure out why

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Hello DSA friends! ^_^

There are only two days left to submit your photos to this year’s Forest Photo Contest! Submissions will close on January 21st at midnight GMT. Anyone from a region that has an embassy with us can submit photos.

If you haven’t dug out your best photos yet or snapped some great new ones for the Contest, I highly suggest you do so. We have four great categories this year!

You can find all the full information here:

Sixth Annual Forest Photo Contest 2020!

by The Pacific Alpine Commonwealth of Mount Seymour

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Forest Photo Contest 2020

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2020 has undoubtedly been a year like no other. The general consensus is that it’s been crazy if not outright terrible. But with the holidays and the new year just around the corner, 2020 is finally coming to an end. Before we move on to a hopefully smoother 2021, though, there’s one last thing that needs to be done: the sixth annual Forest Photo Contest!

Here's what you need to know:

🌲 We have four categories once again this year:

• Trees (this category is permanent each year)

• Light & Dark (photos that display astounding lights and/or shades)

• Seasons (photos that represent one of the seasons or a certain time of year)

• 2020 (any photo that resonates with or represents this crazy year)

🌲 You may submit up to 12 photos total. You may choose how to divide those among the different categories, but please do not submit more than 12.

🌲 Please post your photos in the appropriate thread on our forums, located here. You may also submit photos via a link to an image hosting site in a telegram to Mount Seymour.

🌲 The photos must be taken by you, but can be taken at any time (not just during the contest).

🌲 Anyone in Forest or in a region which has an embassy with Forest may submit photographs for the Contest.

🌲 Timing:

• Submissions will be open from December 18 at 00:00 GMT (7:00pm Dec 18 EST) to January 18th at 23:59 GMT.

• Voting will begin on January 21st at 23:59 GMT and end January 28th at 23:59 GMT.

🌲 Voting will take place on a Google Form. Needless to say, please no puppeteering!

🌲 The photographers with the top three photographs in each category will have their photos acknowledged on our RMB, on our World Factbook Entry, and potentially in our next foreign update. A banner will also be created with a collage of the top photos to applaud the winners, and participants in the competition will be encouraged to add it as their nation's custom banner. Forest's flag will also be changed to the 1st place photos in each category for a week after the Contest.

Now it's time to head out and start photographing! Good luck to everyone!

Any questions about the Contest should be directed to Mount Seymour.

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You can head over to Forest's forums (https://forest.freeflarum.com/t/photo-contest) to submit your photos, or you can telegram links to the images to me.

Happy submitting! :)
- Mount Seymour