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Your voices have been heard and a lead for the new combined department of Myschievia Effigy & Temple Associates (META) has been interviewed and chosen. Please welcome our first volunteer to fill this new position:  Minnie Smith will be the META lead this year! Minnie was the designer & META lead for the Meowschievia 2018: Cat Stuff effigy “Meow Mansion” as well as “Sagan Station” for Mys 2019: We are Star Stuff. She is a construction project manager, designer, and artist who is eager to help the community build amazing things! AND she's already building her team! The team will work closely with the designer of the effigy and the temple to bring their vision to life with regards for safety, feasibility, burnability, and budget. If you are interested in being a part of the META, they are looking for volunteers! Whether you have experience building or not, they can put you to work. All it takes is the willingness to learn! Let's talk Effigy and Temple submissions! Effigy and temple submissions are due by June 3rd at 11:59:59PM. Email them to the META lead here. BUT FIRST - Read the META proposal guidelines here: 
The META will review the submissions with the LLC, and the qualified submissions will be presented at Summer Town Hall by the designer for the community to vote on June 10th. The winning designer will then work with the META to see their design to completion.
If you are interested in building an effigy or a temple, but you feel like you might not have all the skills necessary to undertake such a daunting task or just need some advice, Minnie is interested in helping. If you need some help preparing your submission, please reach out before the June 3rd deadline. Effigy & temple submissions must include a concept drawing, a basic blueprint, an estimated budget, a proposed materials list, and they all must adhere to the LLC guidelines for each. If you are interested in submitting an effigy or temple, please reach out to Minnie for more information. We polled the populace and the people have spoken!
An overwhelming number of you said you'd prefer to have a designated META lead that is chosen every year before effigy proposals. Want to know more about the position before you apply? What does the META lead do? As the lead of the Myschievia Effigy & Temple Associates, your role encompasses overseeing the entire process of construction and design from start to finish. META Lead will be responsible for encouraging and working with communal participation in both Temple and Effigy builds -First, you need to assemble a team of dedicated and skilled workers who are passionate about bringing the Temple and Effigy to life and committed to the project's success. -With a team in place, you will work alongside them to design both structures, considering both the practical and artistic aspects of the build as well as the budget. -Throughout the construction process, the lead will maintain a balance between artistic vision and practicality. -The lead will ensure that the designs are safe, sturdy, will not harm the environment, and remain within budget. -All builds must follow strict guidelines, and it will be the lead’s job to enforce these guidelines to keep both our volunteers and attendees safe. -Finally, when the Temple and Effigy are complete, the lead will work with the ICS team to oversee their burn. Think you've got what it takes? Apply here! Myschievia is thinking about changing up the way we designate the effigy and temple team process.
As it stands, we vote on effigy and temple proposals at the Summer Town Hall and the submission that wins the vote is responsible for building. The proposed change is to have an elected META lead who has prior build knowledge to oversee the build teams. Everyone will still get to propose and vote on the effigy and temple, we'll just have an elected lead to oversee the actual build. What do you think? Cast your vote here: https://form.jotform.com/230614261500037 Play is an important part of burns - especially Myschievia. it's even in our principles!
Playful Mischief - Our 6th principle: Growth is impossible without pushing against pre-existing limits, and the magic of inner growth and achieving the impossible happens outside of our comfort zones. Lean into your discomfort. Safety third. That being said, it's time to embrace that western flair of fringe and cowfolk hats to make our space a super gay rodeo! Did you know? Before there were rodeos in Texas, there were pirates! Hughes Springs, the city just outside our very own piney playa, was settled while cowfolk were hunting pirate treasure! Let's enjoy our unique ability to create our own world of play and mischief, where the impossible happens. RAPSCALLION RODEO: Let's hunt some booty and discover that the REAL treasures are the cowfolk friends we make along the way! Now that you know we'll be voting on this year's theme at the Spring town hall, let's talk a bit about how it's gonna go down.
Theme Proposals Proposals may be submitted in person or by video. In-person submissions may be made at town hall until the end of the presentations. **All video submissions must be sent by noon Wednesday, Feb 22nd.** Submit your videos here. Voting Rules All voting must be done in person. Each person only gets one vote. That's it! Easy peasy! Get your presentations ready and your voting fingers primed. See you at town hall next Saturday! You know what's coming up soon?
SPRING TOWN HALL! "But Viv. What does it all mean?" Well, I'll tell ya. Grab your friends and head on over to the Myschievia warehouse at 1pm on Saturday, Feb 25th. We'll be introducing your illustrious 2023 leadership volunteers, picking a theme for this year's burn, and talking about effigy proposals (we'll showcase and vote on those at the Summer Town Hall). Here's the specifics in not-paragraph form: WHAT: Spring Town Hall WHEN: Saturday 2/25 @ 1pm WHERE: Myschievia Warehouse WHY: leadership introduction, theme selection and effigy discussion Check out the Facebook Event for more details. I can't wait to see all of your lovely faces! Want to get all the good info about Myschievia? Check out these great resources you can slap around!
The NTXB LLC Facebook page has all that sweet, sweet official information right from our magnificent LLC! https://www.facebook.com/NTXBllc The OFFICIAL Myschievia Facebook page has community information milk straight from the teat of our illustrious Batcave! https://www.facebook.com/MyschieviaTheNorthTexasBurn The Unofficial Myschievia Facebook page has all of the delicious snark and sarcasm you expect from Myschievians mixed in with information that's been posted on the official Mys page and the LLC page. It's a beautiful dumpster fire that's fun to watch burn! https://www.facebook.com/groups/154413387948472 Hate Facebook? Hey, us too! The Myschievia Discord can be joined here: https://discord.gg/aSmnWC2Fhk *IMPORTANT DATES* Don't forget about these things and when they're happening or you'll probably die? I don't know. I'm not a doctor. Spring Town Hall - 2/25 Summer Town Hall - 5/27 Fall Town Hall - 8/26 Myschievia - October 5-9 If you're just as neurodivergent as the rest of us, check out the calendar page to add the awesome Myschievia calendar to your own Google calendar selection so you never miss a thing. You ever think to yourself, "I sure would love to be part of the problem in the BEST way,"?
There are so many open positions in Myschievia leadership! Were you part of leadership last year? Apply again to see if you can keep your position! APPLY HERE Applications are open today 1/15/2023 and will close on 2/19/2023 at 3 pm. Applicants will be contacted to schedule interviews throughout the month. Nominations and elections will be conducted at the February Batcave meeting on 02/19/2023 at 4 pm. Wanna know more before you apply? Check out the volunteers page or this handy job description sheet! You guys. We're almost there. It's so close, I can taste the dust. Are you ready? Are you sure you're ready? Are you for really real for sure you're ready? Just in case you're not, here are some last minute reminders: Read the Survival Guide! Yes, all of it. It contains information VITAL to your SURVIVAL. Your first stop after Gate is Greeters. And while you will certainly be greeted, don't be fooled by their smiles and cheerful demeanor. They are there to QUIZ YOU and ensure that you are, in fact, prepared to SURVIVE! http://www.ntxb.org/survival-guide.html MASKS are REQUIRED at GATE! While masks are not required at the event as a whole, each camp is allowed to make their own mask policy. Gate is a tight space with lots of people crammed in waiting to get into the event. With this in mind, Gate has decided to require masks. Various camps may do so as well, so it wouldn't be a bad idea to tuck a few more into your bag, bra, or waist band. TICKET TRANSFERS are CLOSED! There are no ticket transfers at Gate. If you don't have a ticket by now, then you don't have a ticket. ALL REGISTRATIONS are now CLOSED! Can you still register your theme camp? No. Can you still register your RV? No. Can you still register your event? No. DO NOT SHOW UP OUTSIDE OF GATE HOURS! Gate hours are as follows: Wednesday (Early Entry ONLY): 9a-9p Thursday (Early Entry ONLY): 9a-12p Thursday: 12p-12a Friday: 12p-12a Saturday: 12p-6p Sunday (Exodus): 9a-6p DO NOT SHOW UP BEFORE GATE OPENS. DO NOT SHOW UP AFTER GATE CLOSES. YOU WILL NOT BE LET IN. Volunteer! Volunteer! Volunteer! Online volunteer registration is closed but you can still register at Volunteer Headquarters on site! IMPORTANT REMINDER: You MUST come to VHQ to check in for your shift bu signing into our shift log book. This is very important as this is our way of tracking you showed for your shifts so you can get credit towards your VIP tickets for next year. When VHQ closes at night you can check into the log book at Ranger HQ which is the tent directly next to VHQ. This will be the final blog post pre-burn. If you need any information you can't find in this or previous blog posts, check the survival guide or the rest of the website. See you on the Piney Playa!
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Author2017-2023 Information Manager, Viv, is an Amazon potato who lives under a bridge, occasionally popping out to throw cabbages at edge lords. 
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