Banner reads “The Magic of Metta” with a colorfully radiant heart behind the glowing text.
A two-week Muggle Studies workshop exploring loving-kindness, or metta, as a form of subtle magic. Through simple guided exercises, participants may practice how to direct goodwill toward themselves and others, building awareness, compassion, and a more thoughtful way of moving through the world.
Organized By:
Prof. Sindor Aloyarc
Timeline: 5/1—5/14
Week One:
• May 1: Task #01
• May 3: Task #02
• May 5: Task #03
Week Two:
• May 8: Task #04
• May 10: Task #05
• May 12: Task #06
• May 14: Everything due
Up For Grabs:
• 100 beans/sapphires and 1 award spread over 6 tasks! (10 beans/sapphires per task, plus a bonus 20 each week for submitting all three tasks over the given week).
• The Metta award:
For completing all 6 tasks.
Award image features the radiant heart from the activity banner.
Join in:
This is a castle-wide activity. You do not need to sign up or wait to start submitting.
** Participants: **
River Fenwick
Tracking:
Keep tabs on your progress in the Workshop Tracking thread!
Accessibility:
If you run into any accessibility concerns, please reach out to discuss!
— QUESTIONS may be posted below or sent via Private Messaging.
Questions might include:
• How late can I start participating?
You may join in at anytime, however everything is due by Thursday May 14th at 11:59pm (HOL time).
• Is AI acceptable to use for completing writing or graphics?
In the case of writing assignments, this means you cannot submit text generated by an AI/ML tool and claim it as your own. Everything you submit must be written in your own words.
In the case of artwork, graphics that are purely AI/ML generated are not permitted. As many graphics on HOL rely on source material that you do not create yourself (such as stock images and elements), we can’t prevent you from using AI generated art as part of a graphics submission but you must have altered, added to or manipulated the source material in some way to create a graphic. This is exactly the same approach we would take with photographs that were not directly taken by you.
From the “Use of AI Tools at HOL” post on the main forum.
• How do I post Graphics?
A few popular Image Hosting sites are Postimages, Imgur, and Imgbb where you can upload your work, then locate a direct link toward sharing elsewhere. The “BBCode” to attach on The Roost forum submissions (which can be accomplished automatically for you by the click of a button from options at the top of your editing page) is [*img][*/img] with url in the middle (i.e. [*img]link[*/img]) — NOTE: You would remove the asterisks (*). They’re added here to display the example effectively. Images imbedded directly into posts must be kept within 600x600 pixels.
