And I've just been going through the comments marked as "Spam"- even though none of them were spam. For some reason, at various times Blogger reckons you might be spamming the comments section and so doesn't show what you've written (which might explain some missing posts). But I was going through it and I found a message from Teena, my Thai translator. Hi Teena! I think translating the short stories is a lovely idea, and you're so good to even offer to do it. You might have to check with the publisher that it's ok to go ahead, but you absolutely have my permission (if you haven't changed your mind by now...)
And, because no short Blog post is complete without a picture, here's a little doggy.
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«Oldest ‹Older 2401 – 2600 of 4680 Newer› Newest»Why is she annoyed at you?
I think I was telling her how to do stuff she already knew.
I guess it can be annoying
She's probably not, But if you are Val v, forgive me.
I'm bored.
So am I
Say sorry to her and tell her you'll smash your head through a window.
But she's kinda used to that. Whenever she gets excited she runs around in a circle and smashes into the wall and falls over.
I leave it at the "sorrys" I've said above and be done with it.
Ok... You've met her?
HAHA
Yes. but not passed this blog. She says that whenever a person she's excited to see logs into the blog.
*runs around in circles* *hits the wall and falls over*
(her words exactly)
I do not smash my head into things! *smacks head into wall*
And I wasn't annoyed, though that's really funny that you assumed so. My mumzy asked if I wanted to go to the store with her and I said yes. XD
First!
Yay you
Now what.
Okay, dedications...
Derek Landy. Derek, you should know that all my conversations consist of 99.9% of the time are:
-Derek Landy
-what's going to happen when I meet you
-Skulduggery
-Ireland
Those are my favourite things to talk about because of you, and your awesomeness.
I also dedicate it to Sparky, because, well, she's Sparky and probably my favourite person on here. No offence to everyone else.
To Amanda. She's awesome, and if anyone meets her she'll say, "My name is Awesome Person", I guarantee it.
And to Thrust and China Sorrows Minion - because I think it's hilarious that you thought I left out of annoyance.
Also to ME. I'm amazing. Mmhm. And you all know it.
I did not think you left out of annoyance.
I thought you were.. lurking in the shadows with annoyance
Thrust Ominous is awesome too.
Lurking in the shadows, huh? Naw. There's no one to scare in the shadows.
I actually didn't think you left out of annoyance. I just thought you were annoyed
You weren't annoyed were you?
No, I left because I literally left. I mean, I wasn't even at my house.
1st of all I didn't think you left out of annoyance. (meaning I knew you left) I just thought you were annoyed.
2nd of all: YEESSSS I knew it! (Thrust Ominous seldomly annoys)
*writes more of chapter six*
How many words?
Um... *clicks word count button* In total I have 13,015 words, and in this chapter so far I have 898.
Nobody here yet?
And please call me Gabriel.
Nice. and no, sorry Cobalt
Okay. Gabriel. Got to remember that. It shouldn't be too hard though...
Iwas woundering just that. Thank, Gabriel, I will.
Ok. I'm gonna spend my time now learning the flute and guitar and thinking of a good idea for my story. From this point on I mean.
Oh, I almost played the flute! I play cello instead, though.
I bet I'm gonna suck at the flute, and at guitar I don't even know what the hell the teacher was talking about! should have chose vocals...
Cellos are big right? String's family.
I wanna learn guitar, but it looks so hard... Besides, I already play a cool instrument...
I play the piano. The guitar is just sitting right nest to it. I think I'll search lessons for it.
Yeah. Cellos are second biggest in orchestras. The bass - the HUGE one that you have to stand up to play - is the biggest.
Damn it I was supposed to learn acoustic or something..then the teacher just told me to do the bass. Anyway I'm not gonna try really hard at it. I don't have time for that. I have other things to do. Like reading. And playing games. And uhh what else? Oh yeah writing stories. Wow that just got me mildly depressed.
And you can't play a cello unless you're sitting down.
I meant the bass guitar or something..
Whenever I pick it up, I go Let's go I know how to do this because I've watched this other guy really closely for five minutes Then I play a cord and realize it's useless.
I know what a bass guitar is... It's super confusing though that there's two stringed instruments called a bass.
My brother has a bass guitar... And a guitar... And drums... And I have a cello... My sister has a viola... My dad and two uncles are all musicians...
There are a lot of instruments involved in my family.
I live here:
http://go.hrw.com/atlas/norm_map/world.gif
Nice one, Thrust.
What is it? Something's wrong with my computer internet.
It's a picture of the Earth.
Wow... you have a big house! Try reducing world pollution and global warming a bit.
And get an elevator from Seattle to Dublin.
I was trying.
An elevator from NZ to Dublin too!
Hey Val V. Would you going to move to Ireland if you got the chance, or choice.
OW! I JUST SMACKED MY HEAD INTO THE WALL FOR REAL!
I was trying to get a teleporter. But OK, if you want an elevator, I'll tell them to abolish the plans...
*told you, Gabriel*
Yes, I would probably move to Ireland. I'll be honest - Washington's boring. Besides, the UK seems so cool... Not to mention that Derek's there! I could go to his book signings!
I have to go, bye!
Bye!
See ya!
She left TWO MINUTES AGO!?!?!?
Not cool Val. Not. Cool.
You're too late.
OH MY GOD SPARKY! If I get in trouble for still being on, it'll be worth it.
PLEASE DON'T BE GONE.
VAL, YES!!!
*hugs her tightly*
It feels like so long since we talked last!!!
Ok apparently I was wrong.
I know! *hugs back*
My head hurts. I should stop smacking it into things...
I emailed you, I think...
Oh, and guess what?
You did e-mail me. I sent a response back.
WHAT WHAT WHAT!?!?!?
I get to have a solo part for my school's glee club concert, because I'm amazing. And I wrote my own melody, so...
COOLIO!!!
Guess what I did today!
Uh... Send a response email? Smack your head? Say something about how awesome I am to someone? Uh... uh... Scream "PASTA!!!"?
Oh, and I think you'd like to know that I've written more of chapter six.
No!
I MANAGED TO STAY PARTIALLY AWAKE FOR THE WHOLE DAY!
which is an achievement, considering that I walked up to Alfred today and she looked at me and said:
'Dude, you look like sh*t. We need to get some coffee into you STAT!!!'
YES!
MORE OF CHAPTER SIX!
Woah, you mean you didn't fall asleep in ANY classes? That's super hard! I mean, yeah, I manage, but BARELY.
Congrats Sparky!!
Yey more of chapter 6!!
Yay for the thing Val v didn't tell us about!!
Do you wanna read it? I can't send you it yet, because it's at a bad part to just stop and send it, but I can write a little more then send it to you.
I was half asleep the entire time!
Even when we played sleeping lions in Christian Studies! (That subject is so boring that it doesn't count as a least favourite subject)
Ya sure I'd love to see it!!
YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, let me write a little more first. Actually, I can just stop where I am... I'll brb. Bear in mind, that the story is just a first draft... I'll post it here.
What story is it?
I gotta go...
EMAIL ME THE STORY VAL!!!
CHAPTER SIX
They all immediately stepped back, reasonably wary. The mannequin things stopped, and Saturnine came closer, still smiling. Her red hair was wet from the rain, and her green eyes gleamed with what Ivy sensed as evil, although they seemed somewhat familiar.
Don’t teleport.
Ivy glanced at Anomaly. Why not? We should just leave.
Because, Anomaly responded, we need to get to the same place.
Fine. I won’t teleport. I’ll just claw her throat out and we can leave.
Don’t do that either!
Ivy sighed. As Saturnine came closer, her thoughts became easy to hear. Hello Ivy, hello Anomaly.
“Why don’t you speak so we can all hear you?” Ivy said, glaring. “Because if you insist we speak through thoughts, I assure you, I can kill you with mine. And I will.”
“Okay, then we’ll speak out loud.”
“Interesting army you’ve got there. Do you mind telling me what they are?”
“They’re mannequins.”
“I see that. Is there a fancy name for them or anything?”
“Of course there is. They’re called…” Saturnine looked as if she was trying to think of something.
“I have an idea. They’re called cucumbers.”
“That’s not what they’re called.”
“I love your cucumber army, Saturnine. It looks so friendly and loving.”
“Stop it.”
“But they love you. You should show them some respect, at the very least.”
“I’m serious; Ivy, you had better stop it or I’ll kill you right now.”
“With what? Your cucumbers? Because they’re so incredibly terrifying.”
Ivy saw Audacious and Anomaly grinning, shoulders shaking, doing their best not to laugh. Saturnine, however, seemed furious about the entire thing. She observed the three of them for a moment. She looked as though there was something she needed to say, but thought of something else instead. “Well, I just wanted to know if you had any last words.”
“Before…?”
“Before I kill you with my army.”
“Ah. How lovely. I always thought I would die because of a cucumber. However, I usually expected it to lick my face off with its peel or something entirely rational like that,” Ivy responded with a grin.
Saturnine glared for a moment, then sighed. “Indeed. Death by cucumbers. So, any last words?”
“Oh, I have some,” Audacious said, his hand raised, looking at Saturnine. “Let’s see, what were they… Just, just give me a moment. Man, I had thought of them, just in case of the odd situation where I would need to know them… Wait another few seconds… Um… Oh yes. That’s right. I remember now. They were, ‘You should look behind you, moron’.”
Saturnine’s eyes narrowed and she turned around just as a ball of green energy hit her square in the face. Anomaly hurled another, and that one hit Saturnine in the stomach. Saturnine fell down, and stopped moving.
Ivy stared. “Does it always look that cool when I attack someone?” she asked Anomaly.
“I’d assume so.”
Ivy thought for a moment. “Saturnine is so easy to defeat. I bet she hates us.”
“Oh, she does. That’s for sure.”
“Yeah… Hey, why did she want you dead anyway?”
She hesitated. “That’s another matter.” Anomaly glanced around at the mannequins. “Damn… those are creepy.”
“Well, all vegetables are creepy. And murderous,” Ivy said. “By the way, I’m officially calling those things cucumbers. You should too. That way I know what you’re talking about, and you know what I’m talking about when I talk about those and when you’re talking about those cucumbers. I doubt we’ll ever talk about cucumbers, so when we talk about cucumbers we’ll always know what cucumbers we’re talking about. Do I make absolute perfect sense to you?” Audacious was about to respond, but Ivy cut in before he could. “I do? Do I? Are you positive? Entirely sure? One hundred percent? No doubt whatsoever? Are you completely sure—“
“Ivy!” Anomaly said abruptly.
Ivy looked over. “Yes, Anomaly?”
“Stop it!”
“Oh. Right. Sorry. Back to the situation of dealing with the cucumbers.”
Audacious looked at Ivy. “I never would’ve guessed that a feared assassin was so… random about everything.”
“No one would’ve. That’s what makes me so interesting. Well, that and every other thing about me, too.”
“Okay then…”
“Yes. That is okay. You know it is.”
“I’m just going to stop responding now.”
“Ivy, it looks like your cucumber friends don’t like us too much,” Anomaly said, “because they look like they’re about to attack us.”
“Is that so?” a voice said from behind them. They whirled around to see Saturnine getting to her feet.
“Can I please just kill her?” Ivy asked Anomaly softly.
“No, Ivy, killing isn’t very nice,” she replied in a whisper.
“Why do you think I care about nice?”
“Just shut up.” She raised her voice. “Hey Saturnine. I guess I didn’t hit you hard enough – want me to hit you again? Or Ivy could. I know she wants to.”
“I would enjoy that,” Ivy muttered.
“I wouldn’t, though,” Saturnine said. “Well, I’m just going to give my army – my not cucumber army – the order to attack you, then I’ll be leaving.”
“You won’t get very far,” Ivy pointed out. “Audacious is a vampire, so he’s really fast, and both Anomaly and myself can teleport.”
“I think I’ll give the order… Now!” Saturnine commanded, then pulled a small black ball with a button on it from her pocket. She pressed the button, then faded away, as if she had teleported. And then she was gone.
“How the hell did she do that?” Audacious asked Anomaly as the mannequins drew closer.
“There are only Seven Sorcerers,” Anomaly said as the three of them backed away, “but there are people who have a small degree of magic and there are objects that possess magical properties. That little ball was obviously one of them. And so are these cucumbers, as Ivy calls them.”
“Thanks for acting like a teacher, Anomaly. I always loved that when I bothered to go to school,” Ivy said sarcastically, then threw a ball of dark blue energy into the nearest mannequin. It exploded in a flurry of plastic shards.
SPARKY HOW DARE YOU LEAVE! GET BACK HERE!
That sounds good.
Thanks.
That's the sixth chapter (or what I've written of it), though, so it won't make too much sense if you haven't read the other five.
Oh, I actually have to go now. Bye!
Ok bye!
typo?:
She hesitated. “That’s another matter.” Anomaly glanced around at the mannequins.
WHAT?
THAT IS EXELENT VAL V! LOVE THE "LOOK BEHIND YOU PART"
I SEE YOU'VE ADAPTED YOUR EVIL VEGTABLES IN HERE!
I LOVE IT, ITSSOCOOL!!!
Oh.
Cobalt, for future reference, I have a tendency to read all the comments.
Gotta go again, I only came back to read Val's story.
Ok got it.
He likes Gabriel, rather than Cobalt
I am back!
I have to go now too Bye
Come back Sparky!
Hello?
Yo Johanna!
Have to go now. The thing with siblings, are they're annoying and sometimes dumb.
Ohhhhhh
Hi sparky!
I'll be responding slowly, so give me at least five mins.
I haven't spoken to you in ages!
I just made a paper crane with my friend. It was fun.
You haven't been here in ages!
No the blogger blah posted wasn't updated. So there.
...?
...?
...?
I am really happy.
...Okaaay...
Sorry. I keep saying random stuff. Just ignore it.
K.
... Yeah ...
Alrighty then!
Are you in year nine?
Yeppers. I am indeedy.
I'm in yr six this year.
Well, you're picture would indicate that.
No offense.
I have got kindergarten buddies and mine are twins. They are so sweet.
Naw...
It's ok. I meant to have that photo. It's quite a good photo of me.
JEALOUS!
There is no such thing as a good pic of me.
I don't get it. I keep saying that I'm officially gone, and then I come back...
And no to whoever said that I had a typo... That was meant to be that way.
VAL!!!
*tackles hugs*
Hmmm...
*pushes Sparky off quickly* I just got out of the shower. MY HAIR IS WET. And you'll shock yourself if you hug me anytime soon...
Hi Val.
*lets go*
Thanks for the tip.
Hi Johanna.
I'm still in my school uniform.
Anytime, Sparky.
I went surfing yesterday.
The first thing I did was stand up, fall off the board and then get hit in the head by said board.
I told ALL my friends that would happen and NONE of them believed me.
I'm still in my school uniform.
Surfing? I could never do that. Not to mention the fact that it would be impossible in Washington. I mean, in Cannon Beach dwn in Oregon, maybe, but that's it.
School uniform? What time is it? It's almost 11:00 PM here...
Quarter to six.
Ok, so I really want to say my character idea, even if it's pointless and no one will probably see it.
Faith Hawkeye
About 16, (but technically in her 30's) Exotic features, freckles, and coarse long brown wavy hair. She wears large goggles around her neck.
An adept, basically she has a 17 foot wingspan and when it's folded against her back her wingtips hit her ankles. She can fly at fastest, about 70 mph(sorry I'm american, Oh and so is she :)) it's about time you have an American character that's a good guy. Anyways, she comes from a long line of successful assassins which is where she inherited her wings, and her incredible stealth. However, her parents were arrested and executed when she was a very young infant, and so she was adopted and raised in a middle class American elemental family. As far as fighting goes she's an expert marksman with eagle like eyesight. She can hold her own in hand to hand combat, while she's physically strong. But she has flimsy bones, and only weighs about 80 pounds, so she prefers to pick her enemies off from the air. Being part bird has its disadvantages, as she has to constantly be eating, since she burns so many calories flying. Her wings make it hard to both blend into a crowd, and sit in a chair properly. She also gets nervous and claustrophobic in confined spaces. She has a very bubbly, sweet, girly teenage personality, and always looks on the bright side and tries to lighten the mood. She has the annoying habit of picking the pockets of people she dislikes.
Sorry. I was instructing other friend on paper crane making.
*thinks* Wait, you have uniforms? I don't...
Private school.
Ah. That's probably better than my public school. I HATE my school. A lot.
I mean, I go to a public school.
Val, is your school like one of those typical Hollywood movie school??
I
NO. NOT AT ALL.
At my middle school, you get lunch detentions for being even a second late to class. If you get up to five lunch detentions throughout the etire school year, I think that you get suspended or something... And the teachers are HORRIBLE. It doesn't even seem safe to be there. I mean, earlier this week a garabage can was set on fire. And all the eighth graders like to push around us seventth graders (I refuse to put up with it, though, because I smack them in the face), and everyone is really judgemental.
Man, that sucks Val.
I walk into a room and instantly have people mutter things about me because I wear all black...
It's absolutely terrible.
F*ck them.
If it weren't for Amanda being my best friend EVER, I would've gone to a private school where I wouldn't have to deal with it, but I refused because Amanda's so important to me.
Are you dry yet?
Hello?
My school is really nice, but that's probably because I go to a primary school...
No, Sparky, my hair's still wet. But in Blogland I can dry it. *holds out hand and water lifts off*
I've gotta go now, for real, bye!
Yeah
Yay!
*hugs*
We just GOTTA meet in real life Val!
Bye everyone! I have a tv calling my name!
Oh yeah and Sparky, my profile picture for the Straight Jackets is a gorilla. Its not meant to be. i cant change the picture to my normal profile.
Nobody you there now?
Apparently not.
...
Sorry, mini boss battle.
I'll brb.
Back, responding slowly.
BOSS BATTLE BRB.
Done.
*super smily face*
I just came to say that I figured out a name for Chapter Six.
ATTACK OF THE CUCUMBERS.
Because of the epic fight...
Nice.
Gotta go, dinner BYE!!!
first comment on blogger!
Hi Derek.
HI if anyone's there!!!!
I'm here.
Yay!! Hi Gabriel!!!
Hello.
How're you???
I'm good and depressed. My PSP'S broke and I want to play Dissidia Prologus!!!!Damn you life! If I had Sigil Magic I would've kicked your ass!
Ok.....
I'm going to school now so BYE!!!
Lol it's night here1
Anyone here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
Ok I'm alone.
Hello??
Hey.
*swears and kicks rock*
*grabs toes*
OWWWWW.
FIRST!!!!!
FIRST!!!!!
FIRST!!!!!
FIRST!!!!!
FIRST!!!!!
FIRST!!!!!
FIRST!!!!!
First. I dedicate this page to Flane Phoenix.
I miss you.
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