Hi, friend!

August slipped away into a memorable moment in time for The Homeschooler’s Chat. Let’s take a look at what’s happened in HSRC this past month!

📌 Jump To:

• Social Media Updates
• Website Updates
• Server Updates
• This Month’s Art Prompt
• This Month’s Other Events

✨ Social Media Updates

• Added Mastodon account
• Added Bluesky account
• New posts everywhere!

🌐 Website Updates

• NEW Links page for easy access to our social media and website navigation
• Menu reordered for ease of navigation
• Parents page merged into FAQ page
• Mascot page organized, navigation drop-downs added
• Added quick navigation links to Resources page

💚 Server Updates

• Bound activity starting permissions to Gold rank and higher
• Added the ability to report messages via emoji reaction
• Added Harold & Friends personality type vanity roles
• New Fun & Games category
• New #ping-pong channel
• New #counting channel
• Some channels have been reordered
• Began XP leveling system transfer to new leveling bot. View details.

🏃‍♂️ These channels have MOVED

• ⁠#qotd is now in Fun & Games category
• ⁠#polls is now in Fun & Games category
• ⁠#spam is now in Fun & Games category
• ⁠#levels-games-bots is now in Fun & Games category
• ⁠#goals-and-progress is now in Hobbies category

🎨 This Month’s Art Challenge Prompt: Comfort Food

Pay tribute to the food you never get tired of, the meal that always makes you feel better during difficult times and makes your best moments even better.

The topic of this month’s art challenge is comfort foods! Your challenge is to create a work of art based on a food that always lifts your spirits. A food that feels like home. Consider highlighting what makes it special. You could create an artwork showing off the warmth of a fresh soup or the love baked into your favorite cookies.

• The first food you learned to cook
• A dish you like to eat when you’re feeling sick
• The meal you would make for a friend as a gift
• The first food you thought of when you read this prompt

Studio Ghibli is my personal favorite reference and source of inspiration for art about food. This is a lovely compilation of foods from Ghibli films that may inspire you!

✔ DO submit

• A single still image, GIF, or animation (30 seconds or less)
• Artwork that is 100% your own
• Art created with this prompt in mind
• Traditional art, digital art, or a craft submitted as a clear photo

✖ DON’T submit

• Work that is not 100% your own
• Traced or copied artwork
• AI generated art
• Art created BEFORE this prompt

To submit an art piece, you can either post your piece in the ⁠#monthly-art-challenge channel within out Discord server or DM it to @hsrc on Discord before September 25th, 2024!

Worried you’ll forget about this?

I’ve got you covered! The @Art Crowd role in our Discord server will get a reminder ping when there are 10 days left in the challenge. Get a notification on the day before submissions are due be selecting the “interested” button on this event in our Discord server!

September’s other events

• Productivity Session – September 4th
• Geotastic – September 7th
• Productivity Session – September 11th
• Game Night – September 14th
• Productivity Session – September 18th
• Art Challenge Submissions Due – September 24th
• Productivity Session – September 25th
• Game Night – September 28th

More events are always being added to the schedule, so be sure to tune in on our Discord server for more. We look forward to seeing you around The Homeschooler’s Chat!