Hello everyone!! Thank you so much for electing me as your new SM for the next term! This is my first term and I am so excited to work with you all, and I have a bunch of fun things planned—but first, I want to give a massive shoutout to our previous SM, Melpomene, who did an amazing job and made Antitheocra a really fun and lively state to be part of. I will have to work hard to bring forward her energy!!
For those of you who didn't get a chance to read my program (and those who did), here are some fun things I have planned as SM to keep in mind:
☆ Continuing the birthday board / birthday prize wheel for active users! Message me on your birthday (or I'll message you) to get a spin on the birthday prize wheel!
☆ Monthly Antitheocra-exclusive fashion contests! The first one of these will be occurring in the second half of the month, and I'll make the forum post a pop-up when I post it, so keep an eye out for that! I have a fun first theme planned for this first one that I suspect you all will like ;)
☆ Ximbo of the Week: This will happen either weekly or bi-weekly depending on how active members from Antitheocra are being! I will make a thread for this when I share my first winner, but the goal with this is to highlight a friendly, helpful, and active citizen of Antitheocra for their forum and site contributions. You are much more likely to get this if you're active in the forums, especially in Antitheocra Town Hall, so get engaged, let's have some fun!!
☆ Monthly prized creative challenges (usually non-fashion) open to all states! I'll be starting my first one of these in the next few days (or today, if it works out) and it will be continuing throughout the month! There will be timelines associated with the activities, so make sure you're logging in so you don't miss anything! There will be higher prizes for more participation <3
☆ Fun social threads, particularly one for sharing big life achievements (and good news) so we can all celebrate with you! I'm also planning on making a thread for wellness and self-care tips that everyone will be welcome to contribute to—it's a hard world out there, let's take care of each other!
I also want to emphasize that I am here for you! If you have any questions, concerns, or just want to talk, feel free to message me. I will try to update my profile to let you all know if I'm going to be inactive for a few days (so check there first), but otherwise I'll get back to you as soon as I can ^-^ I'm here pretty frequently!
Okay, so that's enough about the term and my plans for now! I want to introduce myself and I'd love it if any of you (Antitheocra especially, but out-of-state citizens are welcome to join in as well) would introduce yourself in this thread so I can get to know everyone! You can just plain introduce yourself, or for fun, try to use this format:
☆ Name (what you would like to be called, username only is also fine)
☆ Pronouns, if you're comfortable sharing them
☆ A piece of art that is meaningful to you (song, poem, excerpt from a book, painting, photograph, etc.)
☆ aaaand this one's optional, but I'm a really big fan of the Enneagram system of typology, so if you already know your type, feel free to share it, or you can take the Eclectic Energies (Classic) test! However, tests for Enneagram are often fallible because types can look like other types depending on health level and some other more complicated Enneagram things (instinctual subtype, tritype, wing, etc.) that are kind of beyond the scope of this thread, haha. My suggestion for this is that you take the test, then read through the pages of some of the "common mistypes" listed in the description, and any other types high on your results list. The correct Enneagram type should feel a bit like a "call out," perhaps feeling a liiiittle too seen, so if you feel that way, you know it's the one :) If you don't relate at all with your result, read through the pages or through descriptions on Enneagram Institute. Again, this is only if you have some extra time and feel like taking a silly little test, don't worry about it otherwise! I'm just curious.
My answers: You can call me Polly or V, either is fine! I go by mostly they/them pronouns, but I don't really care what you use. Offering by Arden Levine is one of my favorite poems of all time. My Enneagram type is 4, specifically 4w5!
If you read all of this (I write way too much, this is normal for me haha), thank you so much! I am so excited to lead your state and again, let me know if there is absolutely anything that you need! Lots of love to all of you and Happy Holidays!
