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Team 2? and Team 1

Hi Team 2! So I haven't seen anybody post since the 10th, and when I asked on twitter if a couple of you knew what was up, all I got was Xing saying she needs to take a hiatus.

If you are on Team 2 and still want to play this round, I need you to either comment to this post or ping me on Twitter (Mousapelli) or email me at mousapelli@gmail.com . If all of team 2 needs a break, that's fine, but if there's one or two of you that want to be active, then we probably need to shuffle you to a different team for the moment.

Team 1, nobody's posted since the 14th. Can somebody please tell me what's up with you as well?

Casual reminder that Shiritori Sonic is open to all and like half a dozen of you are listed as re-starters and yet not much goes on there. Anybody can restart it with any words at all!

Lastly, happy holidays to those of you who are celebrating, be safe, and have a relaxing break if you have one. I am officially off school as of today and desperately need the rest. I hope everyone can look forward to a 2018 that is brighter and more hopeful than 2017 was for many of us.

Thanks as always for being a part of the shiritori family. I've met so many good friends here and I hope you all have felt encouraged to write more and meet some new friends as well.

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Hi, sorry. We're all in Kpop fandom and still grieving over Jonghyun's death last Monday.

I was hoping it would be okay for us to have a little bit of a break before we write again, but I didn't realise I'd left it quite so long without mentioning anything--I wasn't aware the last person posted on the 14th, I thought it was later. I'll skip the current writer, but I'm also not in the correct headspace to be writing anything.

Is it possible for us to have a little reprieve, just for a week? I hope to be feeling more up to writing next week. I'd skip myself, but I don't think any of my team is really ready to be jumping back in again, and I'd feel guilty about just having a team of skip posts. I'd rather not clog up the current posting page like that. It seems to be a current feature of my team, as only two of us have been consistently writing, and I'm very sorry for this.

Sorry again for this. I should have told you earlier. I've just been too upset to think about this.

As ashamed as I am for both my tardiness and number of skips this round, I still want to take part. Team two does seem to be slowly and silently disintegrating so if there aren't many of us left that want to keep going I'm fine with being put onto another team for now.

If team two does want to stick around, I'm cool with keeping a closer eye on things and prodding the team - I actually messaged dusk a few days ago to check up but since faded_lace is team leader I didn't feel like it was my place to go any further than just checking in (at that time dusk was determined to post something but as that was a few days ago I don't know where things stand with that now). If there's anything else I can do to help things run more smoothly for us just let me know!

So long as you guys talked it out amongst yourself, anything you want to do is fine with me. I was just checking in since I hadn't seen anybody at all. Take all the time you need, and feel free to restart yourselves with whoever is ready write first.

Since I have to captain Mirai nearly as often as I captain my own team, I officially empower you to poke your teammates or make any other executive action you feel that you need to to keep yourselves on some kind of rotation.

I really don't mind whoever skips or passes or anything like that? To me it seems like the active members of your team are you and sanada, and Kay sometimes (I know her job has her very busy), and Mirai sometimes (also very busy). So if you guys want to keep going, I'm all for that. So long as you guys don't feel like the smaller team number means your turn comes too often and so it becomes a chore you don't enjoy.

If you want an extra person, let me know; I was taking turns on two teams for ages before this reshuffle because we didn't quite have a good split between the JE and anime teams, so I don't mind throwing down something to help keep you guys going. But if you're happy as you are, either way is fine.

Thank you so much. ;;;;;

Cool beans, I'll start taking a more active role with the poking! I was hoping some of my team would come in and give opinions here but so far nobody has, maybe if we leave things as they are for another run through and if things start to slip again then maybe we consider breaking us up for now. Maybe the extra busy guys would prefer to be on the slow team or something? Or as you say, if we're on bigger teams it won't fall on our turns as often...

yeah this is pretty much how things are, so you definitely need broken up next shuffle, but for now do whatever you guys want. If you get too frustrated, let me know.

I still would like to play. Just been crazy over here since I've had to travel back home for the holidays~

I'm with you! I'm embarrassed with the number of times I've skipped and the time it takes for me to post my turn, but I still want in. /____\ I didn't feel human in the past six months with my (ex)job having eaten all my time and my willpower, but now that I'm over that, I'll (maybe) have more time to be active. Hopefully my creative juices haven't run out yet. XD

That's fine! It's more just that I feel like I have to keep on checking in with you guys after like 10+ days have passed, so if Eru takes that over, that's all fine with me. Does she have your twitter or some other reliable way to get in contact with you?

I hope you have safe flights!

The skipping and whatever is really not a problem at all, it's that I'm never sure if you guys have even seen it's your turn or told the next teammate what's going on. So if Eru takes over that, that's all totally fine with me.

I'm sorry your job seemed like it was making you really unhappy; I hope whatever happens next is better!

Yeah I've noticed we haven't been moving very quickly or at all. But she does! She has my twitter account so she can poke me to remind me it's my turn

And thank you! Next flight is January 4th so that's gunna be a long trip xD

I'm really sorry for how late this is/how MIA I've been recently. I did mention in my last post that I'd be out of town during this window (here (https://writetomyheart.livejournal.com/769094.html), I'm sorry if it wasn't clear enough), but I'm sorry for getting back to you sooner. I've been finally getting my feet back on the ground after real life stuff was hectic, and I was really trying my best to have consistently posted or passed within 3-4 days (considering time zones) of the person before me, but I'm really sorry for making you feel like you "have to captain Mirai nearly as often as I captain my own team." I had been told that

dusk037 was deputy team leader since I don't use twitter and had mentioned that I'd be MIA, but I'm happy to step down and let whoever has more time and ability to contact people take over.

Again, I'm really sorry for causing you so much trouble, and I'd really like to keep going, if that's okay. I'd like to stay on Team Two, since people above me seem to be commenting that they're still interested, as well, if you'll still have me.

I'm really sorry I wasn't able to come in and give opinions; I mentioned in my last post (https://writetomyheart.livejournal.com/769094.html) that I would be away during this time window, but I'm sorry for not making it clearer. I also want to apologize that I haven't been fulfilling my role as team leader recently, and that it's really inconvenienced everyone. Thank you for being patient, and for wanting to take on the responsibility yourself. I'm really, really sorry for the frustration and logistical issues that I've caused.

It's really fine that you're busy, and I did see your post. I'm not annoyed with you or anything like that, so please don't think that I am. Honestly, on most of the other teams it probably wouldn't have even mattered, but this cycle, 2 just really needs somebody moving it along basically all the time. And then Kay was just as busy as you were, so it's not anybody's fault or anything. I don't even mind telling you, personally, that it's your turn to make sure you saw, it's just that I felt like I've been picking on your whole team over and over and I was starting to feel really bad about it.

It's totally fine for you stay on 2 and keep posting or skipping as you need to, I don't at all want you to feel unwelcome whenever you are around to write, and I'm sure your teammates don't either. In the end I think everybody did check in, except for Xing being on hiatus now too, so it's all fine. And there's no shame in being busy, you've had a crazy year so I'm happy you're still playing at all.

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly, and I'm sorry again for being such a failure of a leader this time around. I had been letting it go because I thought that everyone was on the same page about Kay taking on most of the responsibilities for the time being, but looking back, I should have double checked with everyone. Truth be told, my head has just been a total mess with moving and new job stress for the past few months, and I let it slip, which is on me, not you or Kay. I'm really sorry again, and thanks for being understanding and always willing to poke me when I need it.

I probably need to take a break from being the team leader next cycle if there's someone else who can be really on top of keeping everyone moving and skipping if need be (I've always been really bad at telling people they need to skip anyway because I always feel like a jerk, OTL), especially since by now I think most people use twitter and I'm the only weirdo who doesn't. But I really want to keep going, if possible on a team with other people who are posting JE stuff (I've been on Team 2 the majority of my shiritori career, so I have to admit that I'm partial to it), and I want to keep contributing to fandom as much as I can in my current work schedule.

Thanks again for being so understanding, and I'm really sorry for letting it come to this. I really appreciate all that you put into maintaining this community and I want to help with that, not make it harder, in the future, and I know you've had a lot of stuff going on as well, so yoroshiku for 2018, and I'm going to do my best to be back on top of my shiritori game.

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