#ajco

[ipredictacyborg]

I miss the AJCO stuff.

That was fun.

Even when I messed up sometimes.

The Beach Shack and the island are still some of my favourite Minecraft builds I’ve ever done...

Never DID get to the end of the memory arc either... it was about to kick off in a major way... 8D

[sgtbuckyybarnes]

Ava Jacobs

“This is us, the Original family, and we remain together, always and forever.”

Briar Price

( @isaaclahys )

[sgtbuckyybarnes]

“You’re getting crumbs all over my bed.” Kol and Briar

Requested by @isaaclahys :)

“Okay you have me for the entire day!”

Briar raised an eyebrow as she looked up from where she had been reading the book lying in her lap “Was this something I requested because I’d like to take it back please,” she said glancing over to where he was leaning against the doorframe of her room.

“Hilarious,” Kol answered as he made his way further into the room “So what’re we doing?”

Her eyes rolled as he dropped down on the bed beside her and sent her one of his infamous grins “Who put me down for babysitting duty?” she asked placing her bookmark between the pages “I’m sure I was duped into doing it last time, this is unfair,” she added with a sigh and in a teasing tone.

Kol huffed and glared at her out of the corner of his eye “You have me for the entire day Briar! Just me and you...we can do anything!” he said lighting up with mischief and excitement.

“Anything?”

“The possibilities are endless B!”

“Wonderful,” she said clapping her hands together as she hopped down off her bed and made her way over to the cabinet her television was sat on top of. Swinging it open she kneeled in front of it and ignored all of the questions being fired at her from the annoyance sitting on the bed.

Letting him know she’d be right back she spent a good ten minutes rooting around in the kitchen for the bags of popcorn she was sure she had brought into the compound.

“What’s this?”

“Well this-” she paused as she plucked the DVD box from his hands “-is Grease but this in general,” she waved her hands around the pile of DVDs mixed in with bags of popcorn, chocolate and bottles of fizzy drinks “We’re having a movie day!”

“I was expecting fun B!” he whined pulling a face when he plucked Dirty Dancing off the pile “Like vampire fun. Fun involving blood.”

“That’s what these are for,” she answered innocently as she pointed over to where her Halloween and Friday the 13th movies were sat “I’m pretty sure you’ve either spent your entire life daggered because you’re a little shit or out doing the things that led you to the daggering without taking time to keep up with these kinds of cinematic masterpieces-”

“This one is about a tornado that has a shark in it?”

“Cinematic masterpieces,” she said snatching the DVD he was holding up and placing it back into the pile “So sit back and eat your popcorn,” she said chucking him a bag of his own before she switched the tv on and started to set up the film.

“But I don’t-”

“Eat the popcorn,” she insisted glancing over her shoulder and flashing him a look at her electric blue eyes, laughing to herself as he obediently opened up the packet “This’ll be fun,” she continued diving onto the bed beside him. Reaching out she grasped onto the blanket at the bottom of the bed and flung it over the two of them.

They lasted barely a couple of moments before they were bickering over all of the different questions Kol was coming out with. He wanted to know whether or not this ‘Grease’ was the country or something different? Were they going to be singing the entire time?

It took a dig to the ribs and the threat of telling Ava he was being annoying while she was out before he promised he’d only ask relevant questions.

“You’re being quiet,” he said as he glanced to her halfway through the first Scream “I thought you said you liked this one?” he asked gesturing to the screen.

“I do I do!” she nodded shuffling beneath the blanket as she tried to get comfortable. Placing her bag of popcorn by her side she turned to face Kol properly “I was just thinking…” she paused as her eyes narrowed and she stared into his face “Were you Jack the Ripper?”

He shrugged “Yes.”

“What?!” she exclaimed kneeling up and turning so she was properly facing him as she reached out and pressed pause on the remote, ignoring his protests about how much he was actually enjoying this murder filled one “Wait wait wait…” she said placing her hand on his arm “The Texarkana Moonlight Murders?”

“Guilty.”

Briar’s jaw dropped open as she shook her head “I can’t believe I’ve never asked before! Why would I never ask?? Of course you lot could have been involved in all of these unsolved mysteries!” she said, her words getting faster and faster “The Zodiac?”

He thought over it for a couple of seconds “Yep.”

“The Atlanta Ripper?”

“Uh-huh.”

“Kol…” she began, her eyebrows furrowing as she tugged on his sleeve and made him look to her “Were you in the Manson family?”

“Not for long,” he said with a shrug “Didn’t play by the rules so Marilyn kicked me out.”

“Mar-Kol!” Briar groaned aiming a punch toward his arm “The one modern day singer you know is Marilyn Manson?” she said with a sigh as he shrugged his shoulders once more “Was any of that true?”

“I don’t know, I have no idea what you’re talking about,” he answered shrugging his shoulders “I’ve just learned that when I agree to something it makes you happy.”

“I swear to God,” she said placing her hand over her face “I thought I’d cracked some unsolved cases!” she whined putting on a pout “Have you really no idea what I’m talking about?”

“Okay I’ll let you play detective,” he said placing his own bag of popcorn (for someone who had pulled his face at eating it he was sure scoffing it down) at his side “Give me some dates.”

She took a couple of seconds to think over the unsolved cases she had blurted at him “Uhm 1888, 1946, 60s and 70s, 1911 aaaand the 60s again.”

Kol’s eyes raised to the ceiling as he whispered beneath his breath and worked out where he was during those times “I don’t know why I’m delaying it’s pretty easy. Daggered, daggered, daggered, not daggered but busy elsewhere and, you’ll never guess, daggered.”

“Oh,” Briar said with a sigh, feeling more disappointed than she was expecting “I thought I was sitting next to Jack the Ripper!”

“Sorry to disappoint,” he answered reaching back for his popcorn “My killings were obviously much more thought out. Intelligent even.”

“Yeah right,” Briar scoffed sending him a grin when he glared in her direction “Calm down with the popcorn you pulled your face at anyway. You’re getting crumbs all over my bed!” she exclaimed leaning over to try and pull the bag out of his hands. 

Settling down once she had triumphantly won she bit down on her bottom lip “You were daggered a lot in the past huh?”

“You can blame your little boyfriend for that.”

“I’m sure you had a part in it,” she laughed settling back down beside him “No more daggerings. I kinda like having you around...even if you do lie and get my hopes up.”

He chuckled as she pushed her arm through his and leaned with her head on his shoulder “Now press play again,” he said as he nodded toward the control in her hand “I’ve watched your lovey dovey crap, I was actually enjoying this one!”

[sgtbuckyybarnes]

"Did you set something on fire again?" “It’s six o’clock in the morning, you’re not having vodka.”  Ava and Briar.

Requested by @isaaclahys :) 

Ava narrowed her eyes as she wandered sleepily down the compound staircase. Nose wrinkled she followed the strong smell of burning as she wrapped her arms around her waist “B?” she called out through her yawn “Why does the whole place smell of burning? Did you set something on fire again?”

Briar was frowning as she poked her head around doorframe of the kitchen “What do you mean again?” she said huffing irritably “Oh, the power thing,” she added as her friend sauntered into the kitchen “No I’m just trying - well I just wanted...don’t touch!” she exclaimed racing across the room and slapping Ava’s hand away from where she was reaching into one of the bowls on the counter.

With one eyebrow arching Ava turned on her heel and sent her friend an amused glance “Are you baking?”

“No,” Briar answered a little too quickly as she reached up to push her hair behind her ear.

“Then why do you have flour on your face?”

“Well I-” Briar huffed as she allowed her hands to fall to by her sides “It’s nothing I just couldn’t sleep,” she said with a shrug as she reached up to try and wipe the flour off of her face as she glanced in the window over Ava’s shoulder in an attempt to see where it was.

“Then what is this!” Ava exclaimed dodging around her friend quickly and yanking open the oven door, coughing loudly when she was greeted with a cloud of smoke “Seriously,” she said glancing to Briar over her shoulder “What is this?”

Briar let out a sigh as her bottom lip jutted out into a pout “Well it was supposed to be a cake,” she said allowing her arms to slam against her sides. Narrowing her eyes as Ava let out a laugh and attempted to smell what was left of the crisp cake mixture she reached into the cutlery drawer to her left “Happy Birthday!” she exclaimed raising the pink party blower to her lips.

But the look of amusement slipped off Ava’s face at Briar’s words. Placing the cake tin down on the kitchen top she turned around.

“Ohhhh no!” Briar said diving forward. She had assumed her best friend was checking the calendar in a moment of confusion not that she’d have to wrestle a bottle of vodka off her “It’s six o’clock in the morning, you’re not having vodka!”

“You were gunna let me eat cake. What’s the difference?”

Briar let out an exasperated sigh as she placed the bottle back into the cupboard “We were going to eat cake later,” she said with a scowl “We never celebrate your birthday AJ! I just wanted to make you feel special!”

Ava was shaking her head as she bit down on the inside of her mouth and raised her eyes to the ceiling “I’d just...I’d rather not,” she said as she tugged the sleeves of her dressing gown further over her hands.

“But-”

“Briar please!” Ava snapped as she ran her fingers through her hair “Just leave it okay? Today’s a normal day,” she added in a softer tone as she eyed the alcohol cabinet before she wandered out of the kitchen.

“But I can fix it!” Briar said rushing after Ava “There doesn’t have to be cake I promise... I can’t really be bothered trying to make another one myself anyway,” she continued as she put a slight jog in her step to keep up with the redhead “I suppose I could call some caterers in though? Do you prefer chocolate or-?”

“B stop,” Ava insisted as she spun on her heel and held her hands up “No cake. No caterers. No mentioning it to another being in this household okay?”

“I just don’t understand why!” Briar said with a slight whine “You showed up to every single one of my birthdays with gifts and fussed over me making me feel like the most important person in the world and I never got to pay you back for that! I never got to help you celebrate, help you feel like the most important person-”

“Today isn’t my birthday Briar!” Ava blurted out, cutting through Briar’s sentence before she could say any more.

“I...yes it is?” the younger of the two replied with a confused look on your face “I remember you being at mine and Katherine mentioning it,” she said with a shrug “How you were another year into your life and you should be celebrating not moping.”

“I didn’t know you were listening in that day,” Ava said with a sigh before a small smile came to her lips “Though I’m not surprised, you were always lurking around somewhere when we were meeting with your mum,” she added teasingly but her smile soon dropped from her face “Today isn’t the day of my birth it’s the day I died. The day Katherine killed me.”

“I...but - what?”

Ava smiled as she reached out to rub Briar’s arm “She insisted we celebrate that instead of my birthday to convince me this new life was so much better for me,” she explained before she shrugged “But discussing the inner workings of the psychotic Katerina is the only thing lower on the list of things we should be doing than celebrating my death day.”

“AJ I...I’m sorry,” Briar said with wide, sad eyes Ava most definitely did not mean to cause “I’ll make it up to you! My misunderstanding! When...well, when is your actual birthday?”

Ava paused as she tapped her fingers against her palms and the corners of her lips tugged into a nervy smile “Well I don’t...I don’t remember,” she stuttered with a shake of her head and a shrug of her shoulders “When you aren’t surrounded by familiarity and the only day of the year Katherine mentioned in passing was this one it’s easy to let things like that slip.”

She let out an ‘ouff’ as Briar launched forward to pull her into a tight hug “It’s okay B I’m used to it,” she chuckled as she reached up and patted the younger girl’s back “I know the year was seventeen forty five and that’s all that matters to me.”

“Go and get dressed,” Briar said once she had pulled out of the rare hug Ava allowed “Me and you are spending the day together. Like old times.”

Ava narrowed her eyes almost in suspicion “Aren’t you playing mummy and daddy with your hybrid husband and his child today?”

Briar rolled her eyes in reply “Klaus isn’t my husband and you know you love Hope as much as the rest of us,” she said shoving Ava’s shoulder jokingly “I just want to spend the day as just us,” she added with a shrug “Maybe you could tell me more about what you remember of your old life? Even some stories about Almyra?”

Ava frowned, if her heart beat she was sure it would have skipped. Just hearing her little sister’s name sent all kinds of nostalgic feelings flooding through her body “You remember?”

“I remembered this date after one eavesdropped conversation Aves multiple stories about a princess called Almyra when I was younger was bound to stick,” Briar said hooking her arm through Ava’s as the two wandered back toward the stairs “Plus I am a SuperWitch.”

Ava let out a groan “You and your superwitch shit,” she said with a teasing look as she elbowed her friend gently in the side “Thanks B.”

Briar leaned over to press a kiss to Ava’s temple “Anytime AJ.”

[meihex]

YOU WOULD THINK THAT THE DAYS OF MODDED MINECRAFT RP HAVE LONG SINCE PASSED.

THAT IS UNTRUE.

the ghost of modded minecraft rp possesses us, again and again, those with the love of story and minecraft and goofing off all alike. even some 13+ years later i still find great joy in this. i've spent these years pursuing the same joy that these communities once brought me- through the same method of minecraft rp servers, it lead me to a friend group that i now frequently play ttrpgs with.

i would like to extend the invitation i have here to those i've played with before, when i was but a wee lad. we've done some releases over the years, but it's definitely ready, now. customizable player models, create, ars noveau, iron's spellbooks... magic and tech alike, and a ton of custom rp-friendly modifications and additions! not only that, but here, i am surrounded by loving and welcoming people who share my passion.

IF YOU ARE STILL EVEN A LITTLE INTERESTED IN A MODDED MINECRAFT COMMUNITY, OR AN RP COMMUNITY- ESPECIALLY BOTH!- please give my friend Scalapher's modded minecraft rp server a shot. we would love to have you & i hope i see you there. 🧡

MUCH LOVE - NOAH / bandetto / #1 Dog

(Attached is a mysterious note...)

"Realms of Artifice Ⅴ Launch!

The latest rebuilt version of my modded Minecraft RP-SMP is now ready enough for full release! Realms of Artifice is a steampunk fantasy modpack of my own design, with plenty of marvels and mystery to discover and create! Immerse yourself in a fantastically dangerous world of mad science, monsters, and magic! Make a name for your character, and change the world! Help us tell an unforgettable story in a collaborative worldbuilding roleplay project.

To join, simply follow the installation instructions in the project's discord below the cut."

https://discord.gg/zPJpH9hwv4

[rosadon3]

We ARE all living our best lives! All of us UK-Castle squad are still friends who hang out...pretty much daily? Some of us moved closer together and now are just normal IRL friends. We still use the names we picked for that server. That friendship that began with way-too-earnest silly minecraft RP is now...family? We talk about you and others on the server we don't see anymore with such fondness. It was such a tough time in all our lives, and even though we don't all still talk, it meant the world <3

🥹this means so much to me you have no idea. I’m so glad at least some of you guys managed to stay together! It was definitely family back then, its good to hear that it still is for you guys. Digging through all this stuff I have in docs from years ago has been rough but it’s also been wonderful remembering the fun we had (even if I cringe at some of my writing choices 😫)

thank you for this, it really means a lot to know yall are out there still going strong <3

[thejewishlink]

AJCO Presents Oral Arguments in Camp Case Against New York State Governor Cuomo

AJCO Presents Oral Arguments in Camp Case Against New York State Governor Cuomo

Judge Expected To Issue Ruling By End Of Week

This morning, a plaintiff group led by the Association of Jewish Camp Operators, AJCO, as well as parents of potential campers, presented oral arguments in their case against New York State Governor, Andrew Cuomo. 

AJCO, founded by Agudath Israel of America to represent the interests of the Orthodox Jewish summer camp community, and parents, are…

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[jotaerrante]

Oh! ¿te sentías bien con esa situación? te estabas haciendo ilusiones... qué ingenua. Por suerte para tí, ¡aquí viene el Tren del Desengaño!!! pero tú no te subes al Tren del Desengaño, el Tren del Desengaño te atropella. Y duele.