some towns have high crime rates, while others have the fashion police. some towns are so loaded they don’t know what to do with themselves and others are so pathetically poor hey don’t even realize it. some towns are hosting tours by world famous bands while others remain content with their uneventful and ignorant bliss. some towns are gossip centrals while others advertise their utopia-like qualities. so what happens when there’s a town that isn’t quite that popular or crime-ridden? what happens when gossip isn’t every other citizen’s life and wealth is held on various pedestals? what if music wasn’t something the town was privileged to host for one exciting and hot summer? what if music… was the people?
welcome to boston, massachusetts. the ‘city of champions’, as the sports fans will have you know. the ‘city on a hill,’ to most geographers. or the ‘cradle of liberty,’ a term more popular among historians. but there is so much more to boston than meets the average tourists eye. each person you meet, each smiling face and unique style, is so much more than a run of the mill bostonian. ever get the feeling you knew someone well enough… that you could pick out ‘their song’? in boston, this concept becomes a reality: for each thriving soul that walks the streets there is a tune, a melody. for each diary that is written or blog that is posted, there is a set of lyrics written. each life has a rhythm. each person is a song.
update timmmeee. if you're an old member swinging
by then you probably already know that we've been a tad down and out as of late. you've probably recieved an email though and know that we're trying to get things going again. us admin don't want to lose smas and we're sure some of you would love to see it stick around as well. we're holding an activity check, which is in the bulletins, and we also have cleared out the old claims. if you're sticking with us, please post in the acitivity check and reclaim your faces and songs. we'd love to get things up and running again and what is a site with out its devoted and lovely members?
if you're a guest swinging by, welcome to sing me a song. (: take a look around and don't be shy, ask us admins questions and poke your head in the cbox for a hello. we'd love to meet you. <3
Those Broken Lives « Thread Started on Nov 1, 2009, 11:42am »
"What private business have they got together anyway?"
"Gold I expect. He''s been giving generously to all sorts of things for years .... Gets him in with the right people ... then he can ask favors ... delay laws he doesn't want passed ... Oh, he's very well connected...."
"...and it's very important for us to have spies inside the Ministry, because you can bet Voldemort will have them..."
"Rookwood was a spy... passed He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named useful information from inside the Ministry itself!"
"He used a network of well-placed wizards, both inside the Ministry and out, to collect information -"
"I thought I was collecting information for our side!"
"The Ministry places a rather higher value on my life than yours, I'm afraid."
He created new bureaucracy and printed warning pamphlets and, when quick successes didn’t happen, arrested innocent people to make it look like he was doing something.
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The Ministry of Magic is these things and many more. Faced with its own corruption and incompetence, it is sinking lower and lower and drawing steadily further from the justice it once sought to protect. Now it faces both quiet rebellion from those seeking to regain the values it once stood for and deadly infiltration from those wishing to destroy it from the inside. With the threat of the Dark Lord removed by the universal hero of the wizarding world, it is now up to the survivors of the Great War to drag the Ministry from the depths. The only question which remains is whether or not it can rise from the ashes and become once again the pillar it once was.
In the mean time, money, sex and power are the order of the day in every department. The Ministry is rife with scandal; illicit affairs, lies and deceit, bribery, extortion, embezzlement... it is a dog eat dog world and its every man for himself.
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