What's this, you ask? A brand new Tom Percival cover for Book One? But why? Whatever could be going on?
Well, my loyal and grinning Minions, it's because of the response we've been getting from our American readers that we've decided to have another go in the States. You've all been spreading the word to such an astonishing degree that we figured we'd help you along by re-releasing the first trilogy in eBook format, all with brand new covers. In fact, to FURTHER aid you in your recruiting endeavours, the first book is FREE to download for the entire month of October.
Because you're awesome. And so am I.
To see what's happening, just go to www.skulduggerypleasant.com/promo/index.html.
But hark! The news doesn't end there. We're also about to run a first-of-its-kind competition for my American Minions (Ameriminions?), and my American Minions ONLY. Let's face it, the poor dears have to go through an awful lot to keep up with Skulduggery, so they deserve a bit of special treatment every now and then...!
What does the winner get, you ask? Oh, nothin' much... just the brain-melting honour of a special Halloween short story being set in their home state, starring (and I know you've been missing her) Tanith Low, to be released free in time for October 31st.
And what KIND of competition is it, you're asking now? Why, it's the kind of competition in which you write the first line of the story, and I continue on from there. Simples! So it's up to you, my Ameriminions. It can be as spooky, as crazy, as scary, as funny, as weird or as atmospheric as you like. I've read all your posts, and so I like to think that I know each of you just a little bit, and I know for a fact that you're all, y'know, just a tad... UNUSUAL. Ahem. Oh, and naturally I'll need your permission to actually USE your first line, so at the start of every entry could you all write "I hereby give my Golden God, Derek Landy, full permission to take this line and incorporate it into his wonderful, wonderful story."
And you had BETTER put that at the start of your entry, because if I find the PERFECT opening line that lends itself so much to a weird and spooky story, and then I realise that you didn't give me your permission to use it...? Why, I'd just have to hunt you down and kill you with a spoon.
And this is all thanks to the reactions we've been getting from the Ameriminions, so thank you Kallista, Skyril and Mar Chu, and Skulgirl13 (A.K.A Deryn Mellifluous), and Saoirse Equus, and of course Thor, and Thalia, and Ann Marie, and Vivianna Spark, and not forgetting Alana Core, Jugglingpaynes, Laura, Valkyrie V., Tori, Skulduggery Skellington, or even Gwaila, Pandora Wakeshima, Ophelia, nights.raven, Arabella Valkyrie PleasantSparrow, Nicole, annaslanski, Naomi Wiflath, MooGirl XD, Bella Votolato/Valkyrie Cain, mmodrall, Artemis Shakora, Ven Curor, Minnie, Lois Lane, Another Individual, Deila, Thornton, legolas3, Anya, Captain Zombie, Lauren Longbottom, Idlewind, Hanna, Gwyneth Noire, Funk Tuba, Docktor, Dantea William, Cat, Bekka, and last but not least- Andrew.
Did I miss anyone? I bet I did. Dammit.
RULES:
You MUST give me your permission at the start of your entry!
There is no limit on word count- it can be as long as you like, or as short, cutting and snappy as you like. But it must ONLY be one line!
Competition closes on October 23rd. The winner will be announced soon after on this Blog.
With your entry, please include your home State, not your town. Your State is all I need.
Each person is limited to FIVE entries each.
The short story, once it's finished, will be available to everyone, all around the world. Yippee! (Ahem.)
Anyway! That is the first of our Americaland competitions, and the second will be unveiled next week, with all sorts of goodies up for grabs. But for right now, for THIS competition, all I have to say to my Ameriminions is good luck, and don't be afraid to be different. Embrace your inner lunatic. Fun times guaranteed.
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Blake, Zafira, Gwmma...
I've officially ducked up my entire arms- up to the shoulders.
You...
You all are just so cruel- you don't realize how much it hurts. I've always been receptors with kindness- and this place has always had the impression that I can vent if I need to- I don't have to say anything, I can just vent.
I never wanted anyone to "make me better". All I wanted was someone to just say "I love you". But instead I get this, or "Noelle, you should do _____".
I care about a great many people here, Gemma, and you don't have a right to speak for me.
It hurts to be here because I want love but I also feel that I don't deserve it.
I want friends, but I also feel like I'm stranded on a moon in space- alone.
I want to heal, but I also have no energy.
I want to live, but I also want to give up.
I'm... I'm so contradictory- and what has happened in the last 24 hours has been so negative.
Gemma, I don't remember ever crnering you- if I had, I apologize. I'm sure that what I said at the time, I felt justified to say. But at the same time, you have a tendency to e... Fiery like you are now- and hurtful, and I'm sure I felt that I was protecting this place
As for Zafira, it was never fighting. Please don't use that term. She bullied me- mercilessly- and that was it- the moment I asked for help, the moment I stood up for herself, she has turned it on me, and it hasn't.
But...
All this day has done has affirmed that I'm worthless, alone-
And if any of you
Cared in the slightest bit
You would PLEASE just stop talking.
Last night, I cried for so long and I nearly drank all of the paracetamol. I made myself wait- and talk to Aretha before I did anything. I don't kill my self- I scarred up my arm, but I didn't kill myself. But... It was the strongest that I've ever felt like I needed to do it so
Please
Everyone
Just please calm down... It's so hurtful
(Well Sophia you still contributed to one of the worst nights of my life and made me feel dead already.
I guess i forgave you anyway though even if you didn't apologise. Noelle too. But i hate when people see me as the bad guy and forgets what other people have done to me which is worse...
I'm going to sleep...Goodnight, Soph.)
((And when that night happened, Gemma- I remember that you were fighting with Blake- and when you brought Keiron on, the entire place grew into more drama between the two. I didn't think it was a good idea and wanted all three of you to just settle your differences off the blog, because the arguments were so disruptive.
Perhaps you thought yourself attacked, and I'm sorry if I hurt you. However, I sti believe that that decision was a very unwise one.))
...
I need to go.
This atmosphere- there's so much hatred directed towards me.
...
I'm meeting Aretha next week. I hope that that will lighten my spirits.
And honestly?
I'll just save you all the time of having to deal with me on here. I'll just post all of my "whiny bullshit" onto my public blog, and just not come here. Deal? Deal. Cool. Bye.
(... I try... I do, not to say things when they are not be said, to say things when they do... most of the time I don't take offence to it all... I love you all... I don't hate anyone... not really, I like some more some less but there is none of you I wouldn't drop a razor for to make you drop yours... )
I-i'm not even going to post that.
i just...
*leaves*
(Is it normal to feel like my bottom rib has broken inward and punctured my lung? It hurts to breath... maybe I will go naturally... )
(Happens a lot to me, Keir. It'll pass.)
(Aww :( i'm going to continue to sleep in this position hoping it doesn't )
(Noelle - I have no illusions about what the event that took place involving you and Zafira could be classified as, do not worry.
I believe it would be in your best interests to continue posting here (please correct me if I am wrong). You said that you wish for someone to say that they love you, but that would largely be more difficult on your Public Blog which has the comments disabled.
Gemma - Your forgiveness is noted, but I do not believe any apology is necessary on my part. Bringing Keiron here was not suitable at the time, and it was likely to cause more issues. It made sense to attempt to remove him from the equation, especially considering you three seemed to have little interest in discussing the blatant issues elsewhere.)
(I didn't say much as "keiron" In the first comments... I remember trying to rp with Adam and Blake and Jai .... I claimed to be a vampire... got bitten anyway, then got burned by a dragon... as Keiron has said he came here b4 he was with Gemma... he just didn't comment for fear of that happening anyway. )
(It was less than a week after that when I became Skully and I did that to try and help more than just Gemma... you were having a spat and I do believe I calmed it down at the time... even made an rp with Val, Fletch, China and Caelean who ever they were... )
It just generally sucks.
Just all of this and that and constant bickering and fighting and everything.
It just sucks.
Generally.
I wish it was really easy. I wish we could all just mutually bond over the versatility of potatoes and eat them around a campfire singing Journey's, Don't Stop Believing. And it's not that easy and it's not going to be fixed that easy and that in itself, sucks.
It just generally sucks that sweet potatoes and Journey can't fix this.
You know I have this wish jar that I got at a birthday party in prep. It has four bits of paper in it supposedly covered in fairy dust and a little scroll of instructions on how to make the wish come true. I've kept this blinking thing for like 8 years not using the wishes because I was saving them for something really special.
I didn't use them on dying people, on world peace, on myself, on my friends or on my family, it had to be something absolutely necessary. Something that I could not function without.
I just used all four of my magic fairy wishes on this place.
And deep down I know that it's probably not actually fairy dust. And that just sucks.
Look, if you don't have anything nice to say, please talk about potatoes instead. Or just post the first three lines of Don't Stop Believing and wait for a big happy sing-a-long campfire moment.
Because to be honest, that's something that wouldn't suck.
And things that don't suck would make a nice change around here.
Not that I have nothing nice to say, but I don't think enough people fully understand the versatility of the potato.
:))
Potatoes are absurdly versatile.
*Searches desperately for people who are still awake*
*awake*
I don't remember what I was gonna say now.
...
I feel like it was gonna be something about potatoes.
I've had a strange obsession with potatoes since I've tried to stop swearing. I think about them at least 40% of the time.
How're you?
If it means anything to either of you, I am also awake...
I'm alright, would be better if I wasn't taking summer courses that demand an absurd amount of homework.
Hi Memorie, I'd do the accent over the e but I dunno the keys for it.
*Starts singing*
Loneyyyyyy,
I'm Mister Lonelyyyyy...
Oh, yes, those people. I wonder who they all were...
Sleeping now.
*Falls forward and starts to snore before he ever hits the ground*
(*sighs and headbutts a wall*)
[leaves hugs for Noelle, Elleni, Jai, and anyone else who might want one]
[Is still doing the whole not-getting-involved-in-Blogland-drama thing whilst on vacation]
[Notes that if there's anything that I, as an individual, can help you, as an individual with, I'm happy to email]
[Might send random pictures of cute animals to people who seem like they need it...]
[is going dune surfing tomorrow]
[waves and vanishes]
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
SHE WAVED AT US. AND SANG TO US
SHE BENT DOWN AND MOUTHED THE LYRICS AT US.
I SCREAMED WHEN THE INDIGO GIRLS INTRODUCED HER EVEN THOUGH I KNOW SHE WAS COMING BECAUSE SHE ALWAYS DOES BUT I WAS SO EXCITED.
WE WATCHED HER SIDE STAGE WATCHUNG THE INDIGO GIRLS AND WHEN PEOPLE WERE CLAPPING MAYA SCREAMED "BRANDI!" AND SHE TURNED AND WAVED AND I WAS SHAKING AND QLMOST CRYING I WAS SO HAPPY AND IT WAS SO GREAT AND THEN SHE THROUGB US PICKS AND MAYA GOT A BRANDI CARLILE PICK AND JANE GOT AN INDIGO GIRLS PICK AND I HAVE TK ADMIT I'M JEALOUS BUT IT'S GETTING KINDA SQUASHED BY ALL MY EXCITEMENT OMLI BEST NIGHT EVER
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BRANDI CARLILE IS THE BEST
Oh for fuck's sake.
I'm going to school today so I can't really comment. Sorry.
But I am so sick of people coming on here and saying they hate it. If you don't like it, leave. If your only goal in posting is to express hatred at everything here - how on earth do you expect that to help?
If our community sucks so much, go and make your own, don't sit here criticising. You're being like an atheist of a Muslim going into a church and criticising everything you see.
. . . But I agree with Elleni on the Noelle front.
@Gemma: Noelle had that almost every day for a year, and now with all of us fighting over her she"s getting g if almost every day again.
and no, you're not new, but although you'very known Noelle a long time, you were never close friends with her.
I treat this like a place to vent. As do people like Dugglyn (with Brand Carlile. Glad it went so great for you, btw, Dugglyn :)). And I'm not going to stop doing that. I like saying that everyone has the right to vent here, but idk anymore. :/
And now, I must depart. Bc school.
(... The Jeremy Kyle Show really makes me just give up with humanity. Four Irish people coming on because they've all slept with each other and they are all cousins or something is depressing, hilarious and irritating.
I agree with Star, but that being said it is not so much the criticism that is the issue - it is those who come on just to complain about how much they hate it here. What will that achieve, other than cause disagreements with those who do actually enjoy coming on?)
Liliana: Mmm... Yes, you do.
Parasite: Most of them would not have any value to me, other than experiences.
Bethany: *she kisses her back* ... You are perfect.
Lily: Good... You've never really told me much about your upbringing.
Onwa: *smirks, rolling of her, laying next to her*
James: Mm.. what would you like to experience
So are you
Manuel: It wasn't very nice
cuz he ain't got nobody
to listen to
to listen to
to listen to
I'm blue bada debadeedie
dabadeebdabadie
dabadeebadeedie
Can we all just be nice to each other?
And just accept each other?
And value each other?
(Just a small town girl
Livin' in a lonely world
She took the midnight train goin' anywhere
Just a city boy
Born and raised in south Detroit
He took the midnight train goin' anywhere
A singer in a smoky room
A smell of wine and cheap perfume
For a smile they can share the night
It goes on and on, and on, and on
[Chorus]
Strangers waiting
Up and down the boulevard
Their shadows searching in the night
Streetlights, people
Living just to find emotion
Hiding somewhere in the night
Working hard to get my fill
Everybody wants a thrill
Payin' anything to roll the dice
Just one more time
Some will win, some will lose
Some were born to sing the blues
Oh, the movie never ends
It goes on and on, and on, and on
[Chorus]
Don't stop believin'
Hold on to the feelin'
Streetlights, people
Don't stop believin'
Hold on
Streetlights, people
Don't stop believin'
Hold on to the feelin'
Streetlights, people
better? :P
I'm still in the dark about China... i've got my theories. )
I'm happy to accept and value people. I'm not sure I can manage the nice thing. :P I can most of the time, just not when it turns into lying, y'know?
You know I was saying that I'm a lot better at the whoel speaking thing online so I'm more critical and have the courage to say stuff more online?
Well, it actually works the other way as well, because I can and do edit my speech a lot better online. I mean, online I can occasionally edit my words to some degree, but I can't really edit tone or facial expression at all, and you see, I am just REALLY not a nice person. I never have been, and I mean, I dislike spending time with people for really stupid reasons like "they're quiet" or "I don't know them" or "they're annoying," and when I was little I used to dislike people based on their appearance as well. And you see, because I can't edit myself in real life then that ends up SHOWING in the way I speak and act and it's just really really bad. XD Like there's this girl and she's kind of quiet and not that interesting and Cat was like "Oh, why don't you come sit with us" becaus she didn't have anyone to see with and Internal Me was like "no don't sit with us beacuse I want to talk to Cat and I don't want to have to botehr with talking to you," and of course I didn't SAY that but I couldn't really filter it out either. XD
(I told you. I'm horrible.)
Online - however much I instinctively like someone, I can edit myself so I'm nice anyway. :)
So, yeah.
I should probably explain that although my previous two comments seem to contradict each other, they actually don't. I don't see filtering illogical irritation/disliek as lying. I just see it as showing basic respect and manners.
If I seriously had an issue with someone - and I mean an ACTUAL issue, not an instinctive illogical one that I'd get rid of if I could because I disagree with its existence - I would most likely tell them, and I wouldn't lie and go along with it when they do issueful things. "You're kind of boring" is not an issue. That's just being rude. -_-
That's how I see it anyway. If I went around pointing out all the things about people that irritate me I'd upset everyone and hurt everyone and it would do nobody any good at all. Logical actual dislikings are different. People need to know where they're going wrong or they won't see there's an issue. But if there isn't an actual issue then you may as well hold back hurtful comments, particularly if you don't really and actually mean them. Yes?
I hope that makes some kind of sense. :S
(It makes some sense but I like to think I know al my ailment anyway so if you were to tell me i#d just be all I know right ughh
so you know if you do't like anything about me that's coool )
@Keiron: -_- Nah mate.
Look, if I start picking people apart, it will make them feel horrible and it will make me just as bad if not worse.
Nah nahhhh nahhhhhhhhhhhh mate.
Pointless criticisms are stupid and unnecessary and hurtful. For everyone.
Also, I'd have to put quite a lot of thought into deciding what I dislike about people (most of it, when there is stuff, is instinctive and emotional and doesn't translate well into words), and like . . . I don't want to do that.
I like people, and I want to like people. Teaching myself to dislike people is just not good.
(LOL but I wanna know.... I consent... :P)
@Keiron: No.
I wouldn't feel comfortable a) trying to think of ways I dislike you and b) telling you.
Just
no.
(fine.)
(Hello.)
Liliana: *she kisses Onwa passionately*
Parasite: *she grins, kissing him passionately*
Bethany: No...
Lily: Why, what happened?
Keyboards are not good pillows . . .
(Star - I do not imagine so.)
Onwa: *kisses her passionately back, smiling, not realizing her vulnerable position*
James: *kisses her passionately back, smirking*
Yes..
*smiles*
Manuel: A lot..I wasn't brought up every well..
*brushes his hand across his knuckles, his scars being revealed on his back*
(Hello, Jaimie. *she cuddles Jaimie tightly*)
Liliana: Mmm... *she climbs on top of Onwa, starting to tickle her*
Parasite: *she presses herself against him*
Bethany: No... I'm not perfect... I'm really not... I have so many flaws...
Lily: Oh... Did your parents hurt you?
Mmh. No. They're really hard . . . . . . . . .
*drifts off to be sleepy*
(*cuddles her tightly back, cuddling close*)
Onwa: *laughs, squirming, struggling*
No!!! S-stop!
James: *holds her close*
Hmm..
I think you are.
Manuel: Yes. And some others.
OMG LIZZIE BROKE ME
I'M NOT SURE I EXIST
I THINK I MIGHT BE A FIGMENT OF HER IMAGINATION
WTF
Well, at least I'm awake now.
WTF
(*blinks at star*
...I'm fairly certain you exist.. I mean, I talk to you, and I've drawn you..)
@Jai: No but you could be a figment of Lizzie's imagination tooooooo
[7/13/2015, 18:55] Lizzie: No and that's why my life's so sitcomy its because it's not real
[7/13/2015, 18:55] Me: No, I must exist.
[7/13/2015, 18:55] Me: No, but that's what I'd think if I didn't.
[7/13/2015, 18:55] Me: Omg.
[7/13/2015, 18:55] Catherine: Okay. Back.
[7/13/2015, 18:56] Lizzie: And that's why I don't see u all at the same time cause the imagination is fading and I'm gonna have to go back to my real life in a mental hospital
[7/13/2015, 18:56] Lizzie: Oh hey cat
[7/13/2015, 18:56] Lizzie: Or are you cat
[7/13/2015, 18:56] Me: ALL OF YOU HAVE BROKEN ME TODAY WTF
@Lizzie: Awwwhhh. :( I want to exist! Carry on being mad!
[7/13/2015, 18:56] Me: Noooooooooo I love us too much.
And fandoming.
Lizzieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee please be mad. Don't take the meds. Please.
[7/13/2015, 18:56] Lizzie: U do exist but only in my head
[7/13/2015, 18:57] Me: OMG now I'm a malignant hallucination causing you harm.
[7/13/2015, 18:57] Catherine: .......
[7/13/2015, 18:57] Me: Yeah, but if you go sane, then we won't exist anymore.
[7/13/2015, 18:57] Lizzie: And I don't want to go back to my life cause scary
[7/13/2015, 18:57] Me: OMG now I know why voices in people's heads are harmful!!!!!!!!!
(@Star xDD)
(*she cuddles Jaimie back, closely*)
Liliana: *she tickles her more* Nope. Never.
Parasite: What are you thinking about?
Bethany: But I'm not...
Lily: ... Who?
(*cuddles closer to Soph*)
Onwa: *laughs more, struggling, squirming desperately*
P-please!
James: Isabelle the parasite who turns people insane..
I think you are.
Manuel: Some are from fights, some from the occasional heroic act. Some from the ring master.
(*she cuddles Jaimie tightly*)
Liliana: *she tickles her more* No. Never.
Isabelle: What about it?
Bethany: But I'm not... Like at all...
Lily: I don't think I understand...
(*leans against her*)
Onwa: *laughs, grinning*
Please! Oh mercil-less mistress!
James: About how she is rather beautiful. What colour eyes would you want, if you could have them?
I think you are. You are to me.
Manuel: My parents beat me, so I ran away from home. Joined the circus.
Liliana: *she tilts her head, tickling more*
Isabelle: Blue, I think.
Bethany: Thank you... But I can't imagine myself being perfect... At all...
Lily: ... And they beat you too?
Onwa: *laughs and squirms more, gasping for breath*
Please!!!
James: Hmm..
*covers her sockets with his hands, pouring magic into them, forming eyes there that graft into her head so that they're fully functioning*
Mm. These should do for now. If you like them then when I awake you can have them permanently.
*moves his hands from her eyes, cool blue irises tinted with flecks of green*
I can, because you are.
Manuel: The ringmaster did sometimes, when I nearly hurt myself and others if a stunt went wrong.
I keep getting the very disconcerting feeling that my right hand is my left hand (without feeling like my left hand is my right hand).
Whcih is GREAT when you're trying to colour in a Ludo board. -_- It feels really odd and I keep going over the lines.
((@Star's comment before, mentioning being a horrible person, etc:
Um, firstly, I know I do this like every time you say otherwise, but when you say you're really not a nice person it kind of makes me want to pull off my toes and throw them at you and then apologise profusely because who tf throws toes, that's disgusting. :P So I wrote a whole long comment figuring things out, but then a small section of it seemed like an OK summary, so, hey:
Idk. I think that most people have things they immediately dislike for small & petty reasons. But I don't think those thoughts/feelings responses* make you a bad person, because you didn't choose them: but how you act on them** is a choice, isn't it? That's the thing you're actually doing.
* [eg. thinks: ‘You’re annoying’]
**[eg. saying ‘Go away, you’re annoying’ or not]
And I'm not sure if that logic makes sense when detached from the rest of the thought-process mess, but... In my opinion, the reaction you choose says more than the instinctive one you couldn't choose. And if you choose to be nice, then, you're... being nice? Idk. I just read the things you said as more of a nice-person thing than a not-nice-person thing. And, uh, yeah? :) ))
((...Also, a side-note about the quiet person who was sitting alone:
I am probably the essence of that person. :P
And if that's the case, then I'd say that... whether or not your initial 'I don't really want you here' reaction was visible, the gesture was probably still appreciated, if at worst a little uncomfortable. *shrugs* :) ))
((... This still turned out longer than I wanted it to be. HOW do people write in normal sized sentences & phrases? T-T))
Cake.
Something about cake.
On the ceiling...
Remember that?
@Taia: But that's my point. When I'm online, I don't act on my thoughts/feelings. In real life, I can't filter as well, so I inevitably do.
(OMG MY RIGHT HADN FEELS SO WEIRD)
Which is why I am nicer online.
Also, I am just generally not a very nice person. Thank you, but I'm not. It's okay and all. I have accepted it. I don't get overly upset about it. It's just like. A thign.
@FABI
I DO
I think I can recall ice cream on the ceiling, too, incidentally. :P
:)
YES LANTERN
:)
And people write in normal-sized sentences and paragraphs by being boring, Taiarawr. :)
@Lantern: :( :( :(
@Star: *nods* I know but----
idk. THe way that I understand things... is not the same. :P
I think...
There's an instinctive human reaction feeling to a thing you find negative (like something which annoys you or stops you from getting what you want), which is 'avoid that thing', or it could be 'attack that thing'. And you kind of have the choice between those two. You can outright say 'Go away, you're annoying', or you can hint at it, or you can go away yourself, or you can do nothing much and nobody goes away.
And maybe you can't help your instinctive internal response, but you know what is rude and what is fair and you evaluate it and you choose how you actually act in real life.
And maybe you can't change how much of your instinct response shows through, but... idk. To me, the nice choice would override the initial not-nice reaction, whether you can edit out the visible instinct bit or not.
And so... The person online is not a different person, it's just, sort of more exaggerated?
idk.
... Either way, self-acceptance seems to be a good thing, so.. :)
The hand confusion sounds troubling. :S
... I was going to make a joke about having two right hands, but then realised the phrase is 'two left feet' and it made no sense whatsoever anyway. :P
@Ink!: *laughs* *is very not boring! :P* :)
@Fabi: Oh, yeah. Huh. :)
*hugs* :( I hope you're feeling better soon. Will you get another chance to do that? ^^
@Taia: Mmh. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmh. I think this requires further evaluation. :P
You can probably divide it into intrinsic niceness and observed niceness.
I have not much of the intrinsic stuff.
I have more of the observed stuff online than offline, so my observed niceness is nicer online.
Also, because online is slower and stuff - like, in real life, it's kind fast-paced and stuff just happens before you think about it - then because I reflect more online, my intrinsic niceness is actually higher online too. Ish.
I think you need to divide it into further type of niceness. :P
Now, where it gets REALLLLYYYYYYYYYYY interesting is whether you rate people on their intrinsic niceness or their observed niceness.
Personally? I think intentions are everything when judging how nice someone ACTUALLY is, and that doesn't really come under intrinsic or observed. It sort of comes out in the person who edits the intrinsic and sends instructions to the observed.
:P I don't know whether that made ANY sense at all to eanyone except me.
(Like let's look at it through the eyes of a weird person....
I'm not a serial killer because I've never killed but I do think of it... :P )
Oh, I was thinking about it in paedophile terms. :P
(Tehn again, I watched an hour-long documentary on paedophilia today. Kind of interesting. Did you know that 36% of underage sex offenders are children? I think that was what the statistic was matched to. :P)
INTRINSIC IS A GOOD WORD, WOW :)
OK OK, that's definitely... yeah. That's interesting. Like, good interesting. Woah,-I-hadn't-thought-of-it-that-way interesting. COOL interesting. Interested interesting. :P
Um, wow. I'm not sure how to... uh. Yeah. :P
Yeah, no, I definitely understand that. *nods*
Um, I think... idk.
The way I was looking at it before, I think I'm sort of discounting the instinctive, internal human response to things we don't like, from deciding how nice people are. Because, I think 'this gives me a negative emotion and so I don't like it' is not something you have very much control over? And it's a thing that probably everybody does. And so, maybe everybody has that ground level not-nice thing, and so when you're comparing nicenesses, it cancels out?
So I don't think I'm counting it as niceness.
And so everything that you do after that fits into the 'nice or not'.
Your explanation doesn't really allow that, so now I'm thinking, maybe leaving out that whole instinct portion is cheating. :P
@Taia: :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
Ooh. Pretty. :)
Mmh, some people are naturally psychopaths and some people are naturally really empathic and caring and really feel it when epople get upset.
(i think the lack of sleep for 2.5 years have started kicking in now....I walked home and slept from 4 till now. And I've had 4 hours of sleep last night, however yesterday i also slept another 4 hours during the day, making it 8. The night before that i had 10 hours, and still slept during the day. This is so not like me :D ^_^ )
hello people btw :)
(Can't one be both ?
Genuine question because I feel both at times.)
((A lack of sleep can contribute to a lack of mental concentraiton, resulting in a lowening of school grades, and an increase of negative emotions. Please try to keep up this standard of sleeping, Fera. :)))
(It seems I disappeared briefly.)
Liliana: No. *she tickles even more*
Isabella: *she thinks for a moment* They are... interesting.
Bethany: But I'm not...
Lily: ... Do you want me to heal your scars?
@Keiron: You couldn't literally be a psychopath and be empathic. That's like saying "Could you be covered all over in red and have no red on you at the same time?"
You could have psychopathic tendencies and be empathic at the same time, but the defintion of a psychopath is someone who feels no empathy, ever.
(Isn't that a sociopath? )
star: yeah I'll try to ^_^ umm...well I always study at home anyways, i've always found it hard to concentrate while writing in school and understand and memorize the stuff...And yes, even when i am rested, i am just too slow ^_^ and then again, the 2nd time our 6th form leader spoke to me about reconsidering taking something else than science, cuz i apparently can't do it ^_^
@Keiron: Other way around.
Psychopaths don't feel any empathy at all, and are usually that way from birth.
Sociopaths (like Sherlock and Dan) feel very little empathy, but can feel some empathy in limited situations. Their behaviour usually results from enviromental factors.
:P I have researched this a bit from time to time.
@fera: How can't you do it?
(Hey F btw. *hugs*)
star: well, he's looking at my grades throughout the year(including mocks), and i know all of them look horrible ^_^ I am pretty sure my exams went better though, if they didn't I will be so disappointed ^_^
hey keiron :) *hugs*
Onwa: *laughs more, struggling, tearing up*
Please! Mercy!!!
James: Do you like them?
You are to me!
Manuel: No thank you.. they.. serve as an important reminder.
(Well in that case "I'm a high functioning Sociopath, do your reasearch" :P )
Hi...
(I have always believed that psychopaths and sociopaths are largely the same, in the respect that both suffer from Anti-social personality disorder. However, psychopaths tend to be cold and calculating, whereas sociopaths tend to be more impulsive.)
@Fera: Why?
@Keiron: ?? I know that was a quote, but how was it relevant? :(
@Sophia: Yup.
XD Dan's definitely impulsive as opposed to calculating.
star@ why what? :)
@Fera: Eh. Overall, after a think, I don't think it matters.
(Because I'm a fangirl that likes quoting things and guessed that if I am empathetic then it'd be sociopath not psychopath :? )
star: what doesn't matter? ^_^
Sorry for vanishing. Also, have to go.
*hugs Fera* :)
*hugs Kas & hopes you're OK*
*vanishes for a bit longer*
(For psychopaths, I look to No Country for Old Men, and for sociopaths I look to The Dark Knight. It is a fairly efficient system, despite the fact I do not especially like either of the movies.)
Liliana: No. I'm going to make you suffer just like I did! *she grins*
Isabelle: Yes, I do. Thank you. *she kisses him again*
Bethany: But I'm not...
Lily: But I don't think anyone should remember it...
*hugs taia* ^_^
@Keiron: Well, yeah, but sociopaths still have very little empathy. Psychopaths are a bit like asexuals and sociopaths are like grey-aces. ;)
Onwa: *squirms, smiling*
I was merciful!
James: *kisses her back, smiling*
*conjures a mirror, handing it to her*
I think you are.
Manuel: The lessons I learnt are important.
Errrrrrrrrrrrrr no offense to any asexuals or grey-asexuals who happen to read that. :P
@Fera: If it mattered, I'd explain. :)
star: alright then ^_^ but yeah,if i don't pass this year i'll repeat it which means i am gonna have to go with the year lower, so with people your age ^_^
@Fera: Ooooooooooooooh cool. :)
star: not for me XD :P
@Fera: No, possibly not. :/
star: like i am not saying that i don't like people your age, honestly there isn't much of a difference, however...It would mean me repeating a year, which is just like I've wasted one of my school years, also the uni that i will be possibly applying to will ask why i repeated the year and it looks bad overall ^_^
@Fera: I know. :/ :/
star: It's fine, don't worry about it ^_^ my own sturdiness led me to this point, now i have to dig myself out ^_^
@Fera: *nods* :/
On the earlier topic - it's a lot easier to be (observedly) nice when you have a higher quantity of instrinsic niceness.
Like, you can say nice stuff all you want, but I mean, if you're not a naturaly caring person, then when people have problems you'll say nice stuff, but after the conversation you like won't think about it again, whereas people who actually care will be all concerned and will worry about people, and hence they will actually do their best to follow up and make sure people are okay. It's like people who aren't that intrinsically nice will just be nice until they feel they've been nice enough to reach a standard of 'nice,' whereas people with high instrinsic niceness will just keep on being nice until their niceness actually has an effect. This results in two things - them having a higher observed niceness, and then doing much more good for the world.
This is why intrinsic niceness matters. :)
(It's weird when you have epiphanies at weird times when you're not even aware you're thinking about the subject.)
LIZZIE FIXED DEAN AND CAS
THEY'RE FRIENDS AGAIN (they haven't been friends throught the whole roleplay, and that began in March)
AWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I love Cas. He keeps making me awwwhh.
Lizzie writes in a way that makes it clear where there is an awwhhhh moment to make me awwwwhhhh. :P
Liliana: Hardly. *she continues to tickle her*
Isabelle: *she frowns a little* I look strange with eyes.
Bethany: *she cuddles against her* Well... Thank you...
Lily: Like what?
Onwa: *laughs, struggling more*
I was-s!
James: Perhaps. I think they are rather nice. If you would prefer a different colour I can change it?
*smiles, kissing her cheek*
You're welcome.
Manuel: my manners.
Two things -
- I MADE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL STAR EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
- Darcie couldn't sleep last night. That means that all four of us are having sleep issues haha.
(Star - How did you make the star?)
Liliana: You was not!
Isabelle: No, these are nice. Thank you.
Bethany: ... I'd like to go somewhere, but I'm not entirely sure where...
Lily: But they are a part of you. There is no need to keep the scars.
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Onwa: I stopped tickling you!
James: *nods*
Very well, you're welcome. Hmm.. now you can better torment people.
Hmm.. dinner at a restaurant?
Manuel: They.. I need them. They are me. And they are my parents.
@Sophia: Uhhh . . . felt tip.
It was five-pointed and rainbow coloured. You know when you begin with, say, a line of yellow on the outside and then do a line of red and a line of orange and a line of pink and a line of purple and a line of blue etc.? Well, I did that, except each point began on a different colour, and so the rainbow sorta swirled inwards in a continuous line. :) I didn't think it looked that great until I just got to the centre (musta taken me like four hours altogether) and you see all the different colours swirling out from a centre poitn and OMG it's cool, even if I screwed up a a bit near the middle which is the wosre place to screw up but heh yeah. XD
And now, going to sleep. :) School tomorrow.
see you star ^_^
(Star - I see. Congratulations?)
Liliana: Not for a long time. *she tickles Onwa more*
Isabelle: That I can. Hmm... If you do one more thing for me, I will release you from this dream.
Bethany: ... Yes. That would be nice.
Lily: I don't think I understand.
(Fera is that something I should decypher? )
Onwa: *squirms, laughing more, gasping slightly*
Please!!!
James: Anything, of queenly one.
*smirks*
Then let's go get food. Claire shouldn't mind..
Manuel: they are a part of me, they are part of what made me me. They keep me humble.. and they remind me of my parents.
Liliana: Mmm... What will you give me in return?
Isabelle: *she kisses him passionately, using her cold tongue in the kiss*
Bethany: ... Are you sure?
Lily: Okay... They're just... You didn't deserve it.
Onwa: What do you ask?
James: *kisses her passionately back, not even flinching at the coldness this time, merely using tongue also, partially in an attempt to help warm hers up*
Yeah. *smiles*
Manuel: I know.
Liliana: Mmm... What to ask for...
Isabelle: That is what I'd like you to do.
Bethany: Okay... Where are we going? And could I maybe see your vault after?
Lily: *she hugs him* You really did not deserve it.
Onwa: *whimpers quietly*
James: kiss you passionately?
Hmm.. where we normally go? And okay.. its nothing special but sure.
Manuel: *hugs her back*
keiron: maybe, maybe not :P
(i'd rather know so that I'm not wasting time... )
Hmm... I've been pacing around the empty first floor of my house talking and ranting to no one for like half an hour after my mom and her boyfriend went to sleep... And I would've continued for who knows how long has my sister not come downstairs... Like I would have probably just kept going for a much longer time...
That probably isn't a very healthy thing to have spent my time doing...
I had quite the day today. Disclaimer: this will be probably pretty boring to read, but hey, I just spent a log time typing it out... So feel free to not read this obnoxiously long chunk of pointless text...
To start it off, I ended up staying up until 5 in the morning reading fanfiction on the Internet. Then I proceeded to sleep until my sister woke me up at like 12:30, when I promptly sat up and continued reason fanfiction on the Internet for an hour. Then I was productive for a while and it was all good, then I decided hey I've been cooped up so much-I'm gunna go outside! Where I proceeded to read more fanfiction, but now I was leaning against a tree. Then bugs were annoying me so I went into this tent thing on my deck that has a bug screen, where I continued reading and then started watching YouTube. Then I wandered around outside my house for a while watching YouTube. Then I ate dinner while watching YouTube. Then I went into my room and continued watching. Then I finally put my phone down and went downstairs to eat food and sit with family members, who then went to sleep. Then I paced around talking to no one for half an hour. Then I went back into my room, went to bed, and continued reason fanfiction, and now it's midnight and I don't feel like sleeping, and no one's here... So then I messaged my friend, who hasn't responded. Then I spent a few minutes /writing/ fanfiction, but then realized I didn't want to do that and had next to no ideas. Then I wrote this, which took a good deal of time.
I can already tell that everyone is positively seething with envy at that day...
I really need something to occupy me so I can stay off the Internet...
It's becoming a problem.
Oh well, might as well try to sleep... Ponder ideas and such...
Wow, haven't been to sleep at such a reasonable hour in a couple days... Only just past midnight... Yup, totally reasonable *nervous laughter* Well, now you've all had an exciting peak into my absolutely enthralling life. Hope y'all enjoyed. Off to sleep!
Watch someone come on as soon as I go to sleep... I can just feel that it's going to happen...
God dammit, I just realized I am talking to no one /again/
Aaah, something outside just lit up my window but there isn't any sound and the light isn't going away and I have no idea what it is holy crap the suddenness of that freaked me out so much XS
That took like five minutes to turn off. No sound was made. Still have no idea what it was. Kinda want to sleep but kinda doesn't. *shrugs goes back to trying to sleep/just thinking anyways*
If you really want to sleep, it might be advisable to put away whatever device you're using to comment. Glowing screens make it harder for you to sleep.
...
At least, that's what Fabi said once. If that's not actually correct, blame her, but from personal experience, I'm fairly certain it is.
OH GOD IT HAPPENED AGAIN. THIS LIGHT IS FREAKING ME OUT.
Rosalind: I did, but then the light came on and I was freaked out and couldn't sleep anyways so I came back. Like I am now...
*sighs* This eerie and ominous light just had to happen the one day in a while I was actually putting in an effort to go to sleep at a decent hour... Of course it did... And it didn't turn off for like five minutes again. If this thing comes back I am going to start getting annoyed. This is preventing me from resting... *growls in the general direction of the window*
Hm. That's really odd. Hopefully it will not return.
Also, you can call me Rozzy if you'd like.
@Ansviolet: XD XD Oh dear.
And dw, pacing around thinking is one of my favourite activities and I'm sure it's very good for you. I no ally either talk tou self in my head, though, unless there are other people around, at which poiby I can rant into thin air for hours with the pretence of talking to the people. :P
You DO appear to have an Internet problem, but I don't think k I can talk.
(There is a new post.)
(Only commenting to get to the new post faster.)
Hey. People care, Gem. I care. *hugs*
*pulls everyone into the hug*
You'll get this in... Probably a month.
But you'll never see me again.
This is a swear.
Goodbye
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