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Welcome one and all to our fantastic chocolate delivery thread! This year we are running our Valentine Edition. So expect more Cupids And more hearts And if possible EVEN MORE CHOCOLATE So, how this works! Do you ever wish you could give your Dragonmount friends well wishes and gifts as if this were real life? Do you think all the nice things about your White Tower buds but forget to say them? Then this is the thread for you! So PM me, the thread creator Blank with your messages for all your White Tower friends. You can give me a message or just ask me to find a delici…

Welcome to the Brown Ajah's Valentines edition Chocolate Week! I'll be posting Valentines Day riddles and awarding cupcakes, the official coin of the event, to whoever gives the correct response first Happy Valentine's Day, Merry Chocolate Week, and Good Luck to all! the cuppycake tally: Illian Tear - 1 Nicana - 1 James Brown - 2 Rhea - 2 Jivenrah Sedai - 1 Ithillian Turambar - 5 Elaevia - 1 thehumantrashcan - 3-1/2

Welcome one and all to our Movie Game!! So this thread will be hosted by Oscar and myself and how you play is we will post scenes from movies, in honour of this being Chocolate Week - the Valentine's Day edition, the pictures will be of romantic characters! You'll be playing for cupcakes instead of points and we're looking for the name of the movie and the names of the characters involved! Participants:

We all love food. We all hopefully love chocolate. And here we love COOKING with chocolate! Welcome to the Chocolate Recipe Hub! And while we want to see all of your favorite chocolate centric recipes, we really want to see recipes using chocolate in a slightly different way. Have a recipe for Mole? or a unique Hot Chocolate? Or there a recipe for chocolate in chili? Pork? Lets have em! Look em up, do a little exploring through the web's recipes. share what you'd like to do, what your favorite is, and what you may dare to try sometime!

Welcome one and all to Brown Ajah Chocolate Week! This year we have a special version...our Valentine's Day Edition We have a bunch of threads all about chocolate and love and chocolaty love. Come join us! We have Cross presenting us with top notch Chocolate Recipes, come and share yours! I'm delivering a bunch of chocolate and anonymous lovely messages in our Chocolate Delivery thread Oscar is hosting a movie guessing game, featuring romantic characters and points in cupcakes in our Movie Game Cindy is running our Valentine's Riddle thread and other chocolaty love related games We have the fabulous Ryrin who will be asking lots …

Welcome to the Winter Olympic Hangman Event! The rules are simple... 1. Follow the code of conduct of DM. 2. You may make one guess at a time letting at least one other person guess before you guess again. 3. One point for each correct letter guessed. 4. Five points for each correct game solved. 5. No points will be deducted for wrong letters. 6. Have fun! All puzzles will be run by me and will be themes from the Winter Olympics. Such as "Ice Skate" or "Costumes"...PM me for any questions! Here we go! Scores: Cindy 25 Cross 12 kukasö 1 Mashi 6 nicana 16 Sooh 1 …

Welcome one and all to the White Ajah Winter Olympics event! This game is PICTIONARY, a game where you get to show off your drawing skills. We need 3+ players to begin. RULES: Player 1 is given a ice skating term/topic/person from ME. They have 24 hours to draw a picture and post it here. Drawings can be digital, or real (with pen/pencil/etc.). A picture can be taken of a real drawing and it can be posted here. If you need directions on how to do this, PM me. As soon as Player 1 posts the picture, the other players are able to guess what the picture is. Player 1 or myself can chime in and say yes or no to the guesses. The Pl…

What is your favorite winter sport? When I was a child, I loved to watch figure skating, fueled on by films such as The Cutting Edge. This was about the time Nancy Kerrigan became famous, and not long after, Tonya Harding became infamous. I gravitated toward Kristi Yamaguchi and Oksana Baiul. As I grew up, I stopped watching the sport. Flash forward to 2016 when the anime Yuri on Ice came into being. My love for ice skating drew me to the show, and I'm glad it did! It's amazing, a show many real life figure skaters love because of how accurately it portrays the sport and the relationships established within it. Last weekend, my husb…

Welcome to the White Ajah Winter Ball! I just finished up at the kiss and cry, so give me a minute to change into my gown. Here we are! The Winter Ball is a place for athletes to relax in between their sports, and to mingle with those of other countries (or Ajahs/Disciplines). So come in and have a seat. Eat some delicious food. Or hit the dance floor!

History of the Winter Olympics Although the Summer Olympics had cemented itself as a major world sporting event, the introduction of the Winter version was delayed for some time by Sweden, which staged its own very successful Nordic Games, held every four or five years from 1901-26. Also the Summer Games had hosted some winter sports prior to their being a separate Winter Olympic Games. At the 1908 and 1920 summer Olympic Games, the program inculded what are now winter Olympic sports of Figure Skating and Ice Hockey. Organizers of the 1916 Summer Games in Berlin planned to introduce a “Skiing Olympia,” featuring nordic events in the Black F…

Welcome to the annual White Ajah Winter Carnival, and welcome to Winter Olympic Trivia, where you will be trusted not to Google for the answers like I did to come up with the questions! Some sort of fabulous prizes will be awarded or something, and all kinds of fun will be had in the process! I might prove to be more of a cross-country skier than a luge competitor, but I will try to acknowledge correct answers promptly and ask new questions right away. Let's begin, shall we? 1) Which amazing city turned down a chance to host the Winter Olympics after begging for the opportunity for the previost twenty years, and then asked again nearly …

Welcome to the White Ajah's Winter Carnival! Our theme this year is the Winter Olympics, which beings in real life next month! We're going to celebrate all things athletic with games, quizzes, and discussions. Winter Ball Games: Ice Skating Pictionary Hangman Trivia Discussions: Favorite Winter Sport Winter Olympic History

It doesn't really matter what kind of life you lead, at one point in time we all are faced with and have to fight our own personal battles. they cover the gambit too, from addictions, to abuses, to health issues, to loss and family problems. mental health, emotional scars you name it. they may not even affect you directly but someone close to you. as a result we may all be scarred but for a great many our personal battles become a place to take a stance. to be a warrior for the cause, to stand in when others can no longer stand up. so here, here is the place to tell us about your battleground, is there a cause you have taken up? something you donate time or mone…

Personal Heroes Who are your personal heroes? Are you anyone's personal hero? Let's talk.

Each nation has lost warriors in battle. How does your country honor them? How do family and friends honor them? We honor by remembering in different ways.

In this discussion, you can share what sort of experiences you have or are interested in with martial arts. When most people think of martial arts, the first thing that may come to mind is an East Asian art, such as "kung fu," karate, or tae kwon do. This is in part due to its popularisation in media for the past several decades, as well as the availability of teachers. There are many other kinds of martial arts, however - many cultures had multiple styles of how to fight with a given weapon or hand-to-hand. Because of centuries of disuse in favour of gun use and "conventional" warfare, much of European martial arts have been largely forgotten; in recent times, thoug…

They assist wounded and disabled veterans. They risk their lives providing health care in some of the darkest places in the world. They rescue flood victims and provide everyday necessities. They stand up for LGBT rights. They help children who are fighting poverty and a lack of opportunities. They rescue hurt and abandoned animals. They clean up rivers, beaches, and lakes. This is a place where we can share our ideas and stories about everyday heroes. We may learn of them through television and news reports. We may hear of them from friends or groups. Please join in.

It is important to recognize those who chose to serve their country. As DM is comprised of an international community, we represent various countries. We would like to take the moment to acknowledge those of our community who have served in their country's military. My father was in the United States Army. When I graduated high school I tried to enlist, but due to medical restrictions, I was unable to. I would like to recognize my father and his service. If you have served, please let us know. If there is someone in your family, a parent, spouse, child, who served, feel free to take this opportunity to recognize them as well. We thank you for your dedication a…

In honour of Canadian Remembrance Day, the Green Ajah will be commemorating warriors, both our resident DM warriors and those abroad in the world. But of course, a warrior is not merely a soldier. A warrior fights for his people, but he also fights for himself. Wars are fought on the battlefield as well as in the mind and for justice. So we will be discussing topics not only dealing with martial experiences but also those who fight or have fought for others, or who are fighting their own internal troubles. We hope you will join us and share your experiences, whether of what you have fought for or the warriors who fought and changed your life. Activities will run …

Welcome one and all to the Middle Earth Field Trip and Discussion. I encourage you to find a comfortable place to sit as we begin our discussion at where J.R.R. Tolkien's two most famous stories began The Shire, Here I'd love discuss your favorite things about the Shire; who were your favorite Hobbit families? What's your favorite bit about shire history? To start I have to say the one Hobbit family that makes me laugh the most are the Longbottoms. Seriously, how did they get their name? Was it because they have one of those butts that just doesn't exist, their back just melds into their legs? I used to think maybe they rode around in long bottom …

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Please join me in a grand adventure of our creation! Frodo Baggins, Merry Brandybuck, Samwise Gamgee & Pippin Took are our main charachters. Please feel free to add new characters to the story. Add no more than 6 words at a time. I will start the story.... It was not a day like any other day. The shire far behind them, this trip would surely be their last. Frodo sat in the bow of the boat, watching the dense forest flitter past, as though it were moving, not they. He hated boats. There wasn't enough Brandybuck blood in him to like a boat. Ever. Glancing over his shoulder, he saw Merry grab Pippin's cloak ju…

Welcome to the White Ajah Middle Earth Event. In this thread, we will be exploring the people, places, events and such of Middle Earth through a fun game of "Wheel of Fortune". Each correct letter will earn you a point, and solving will earn you three points. There will be individual puzzle winners and a champion at the end of the event. Come and join in the fun. Learn about the fascinating world created by J. R. R. Tolkien. Puzzle Category: Places _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

.. Hello! Have you ever thought which race you'd be in the Middle Earth? Take this quiz and find out! Or find which caracter you would be here (that will identify your race too ) Or do you already identify yourself with some Middle Earth race and don't want to take stupid quizes? Tell us! And get the siggie with your race! Elf Hobbit Human Wizard Ent Dark Lord Hobbit Elf Wizard

Okay, I’m going to get started on the next film today, about 6pm EST. My recollection of this movie is so much less than The Fellowship. We’ll see how it goes!

The lands of Middle Earth are vast and the kingdoms varied, many a battle have been fought on these lands. Blood spilt and men rallied against the evils of the Orcs. Some epic, some made into song and rhyme. Though the minds of men became clouded, and the greatest battle of Middle Earth forgotten. No longer. Here it will be fought again. Kingdom against Kingdom with only one to be victor and rule the land of Middle Earth and obtain the Ring. How may it be fought you ask? Simple. By use of the mighty weapon known as the GIF! Sign up here by posting and declaring your intent to do battle, you will then be divided into two kingdoms (teams). I wil…

Welcome to Mashi's Movie Rewatch: The Fellowship of the Ring! It's been probably eight or nine years since I've watched these films and I thought this would be a great opportunity to view them all again. We'll start with The Fellowship of the Ring, the first in the series. The film originally opened in the US on December 10, 2001, with an extended version released the next year on DVD and VHS (which really dates how long ago the film came out!). For this purpose, I'll be viewing the extended version. I'm going to watch this tomorrow, (Monday the 9th) around 11am EST. I'll post my comments as I'm going through, with things I like, dislike, or anything that stan…

Hello all! And welcome to the White Ajah's Middle Earth Event, a celebration of all things Tolkien! We have several games and discussions that will continue throughout the week, so feel free to join in! Discussions: Mashi's Movie Rewatch Thread - The Fellowship of the Ring Which Middle Earth Race are You? Field Trip and Discussion Games: Frodo's Grand Adventure Wheel of Fortune GIF Wars

Photo Nature photography refers to a wide range of photography taken outdoors and devoted to displaying natural elements, such as landscapes, wildlife, plants, and close-ups of nature scenes, and it's elements. I will be sharing some particularly beautiful photos that I've found. There will be a link to each photo/photographer. I will be sharing some that my husband has taken over the years and perhaps a few of my own. You are welcome to share photos. Welcome to Green Ajah Nature week!

Want to go on a hike? how about a weird one? I thought so.... we all love the weird lets just face it. And there is plenty odd and curious things on this lovely planet. In fact we'll take a tour of it all. Here's how it works: YOU pick the destination, be it a state or a country, and I'll find some weird nature in it and take you for a tour. To keep from crowding we'll do ONE location at a time so first come first serve. You can be as specific on the location as you want, you can also try and stump me. But I'm willing to bet that there's something a little odd and curious in any nook or cranny. So grab your hiking stick, get some snack…