Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Word Count

Second draft is done...!

Laura was meant to come round yesterday to pick up her copy, but instead she's calling round tonight. While I wait for her to arrive, I've been going over the word counts to all the books so far. I'm very surprised by the first four books— for some reason, I thought everything I've written had been over 80,000 words. Apparently not.

Skulduggery Pleasant was 67,393 words.
Playing With Fire was 69,683.
The Faceless Ones was 69,689.
Dark Days was 77,335.

And now we see the numbers start to jump...

Mortal Coil was 104,000.
Deathbringer was 118,000.
Kingdom of the Wicked was 134,765.

And the second draft of Last Stand of Dead Men is coming in at a back-breaking 156,688 words. Basically, it's twice the length of Dark Days.

I don't know how long it'll be after the edit, but hopefully I'll be able to trim it down a little.

Ooh, Laura's here. Hold on a sec...


Okay, this is Laura, holding the manuscript of LSODM.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I must chat to Laura about... stuff...

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Mary Contrary said...

Aw, bye Rhydian! *waves/hugs*

I have to go. :/

*hugs Mara again, and hands her another cookie, because she deserves both of those, too.*

Bye, all!
*hugs*

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

You're not a :85"/m (whatever that means, I'm assuming you insulted yourself. If you said you were awesome or amazing, though, you're totally right)

And you tried, remember that.

And you deserve to get to meet 1D and hug them all, in my opinion.

Just because other people have problems too doesn't mean that you don't count.

And you're perfect.

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Bye Taia [hugs]

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Star Inkbright said...

*IS HERE*

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I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

HI STARRRRR :P

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

[Tackles Star]

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Alastair Cruciatus said...

*teleports in with Niccolo* We're back! Without all the instruments, this time. You know he learned to play the organ yesterday?

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

[Pokes Jubi]

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I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

ARI AND COCCO!!!!!!!!!!!!! *Supermegatacklehugsofdoom*


hi.


*Pokes Fabi*

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

No, I didn't...

And, I should maybe go before I--

[Shadows flicker at the corners of eyes]

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Fabi- And yeah, hello Ari and Coco.
[Turns to go]

Glow- Hiya Aretha and Orchestra! [Plays imperial march on organ]

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I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

*gasp*
COCCO LEARNED THE ORGAN??? :D CAN HE PLAY A SOONGGGG????? :D

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Glow- [Glares at Jubi, then Niccolo] He stole my job.

[Ignores a bunch of facts]

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Niccolò Croatoan said...

I could already play the piano, but Aretha has been interested in learning to play the organ, so I decided I ought to learn.
Glow, I only began to play because you refused.

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I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

um

HIYA GLOW!!

Star Inkbright said...

Sorry I'm distant . . .

*hugs everyone*

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Glow- It's called bargaining! Fabi might have paid me! [Pouts]

[Fabi slips off into the woods]

I will have to go soon.

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

[hugs Star]

Glow- Hiya Happy Yellow Alien!

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

I should go... I need more ice and writing and stuff.

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Alastair Cruciatus said...

Bye, Fabi! *hugs*

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Noelle said...

HELP ME VAL IS KILLING ME AHDHOS SMSJZABBAHVS SKAGGSNSKSSHS JSKHAHD BABSG

Willow Storm said...

I haven't been here for ages! :o
Hi! How is everyone who is here?

Alastair Cruciatus said...

Adra- what is she doing?

Hi, Willow!

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Willow Storm said...

Hi Aretha! (:
How're you?

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

ADRA!!!!!! WILLOW!!!!!!!!!!! *supermegatacklehugsofdoom*


hi.


OH NOOO! WHat's she doing, Adra?

Willow Storm said...

Hi, Jubi! *hugs back*

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

How goes it? :)

Alastair Cruciatus said...

I'm well, thanks! Finally just finished the armory in Blogland Minecraft!

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I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

GAH I MUST GET A MINECRAFTTTTT

Alastair Cruciatus said...

YES YOU MUST!!!!!

The armory is pretty awesome, if I do say so myself. XD

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I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

the thing is, I'm kinda broke and if I ask my parents is I can get an account they'll make me pay them back the $20 that it costs to get a Minecraft

BUT I'M MONYLESSSSSSS


so it wouldn't work out too well

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

*romps around*

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

*On Clemy

Willow Storm said...

My internet decided to die! Sorry.

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

*Glares at Willows internet*
BAD INTERNET *flicks*


I think it's learned its lesson *nods*

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

[Sticks head around corner and blinks]

Hello?

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Alastair Cruciatus said...

Hm... Well, I'm sorry, Jubi!

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Alastair Cruciatus said...

Hi Fabi!

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Willow Storm said...

Hey Fabi!

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Hi! [hugs]

Oh... I need to do some stuff. :-(

Back in twenty or so? [shrugs]

[hugs all who want hugs]

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Willow Storm said...

Sorry but Delirium is staring at me and I'm scared. :) Bye!

Star Inkbright said...

. . . I finished reading Slumdog Millionaire.

Reading steals my life. When I'm reading a new book, I can't stop reading it, and so I lapse out of Blogland. :P

But seriously, the title is a FAIL. XD The book was originally published as Q & A, but when it got made into a movie, it was republished as Slumdog Millionaire because that's what they named the movie. However, in the book, he doesn't win a million rupees; he wins a billion. It's a new quiz show which thinks that offering a billioon instead of a million will gain it more popularity. He's a BILLIONAIRE, and the whole point is he is MORE than a millionaire, and it makes it more exceptional, and yet the title of the book is Slumdog MILLIONAIRE.

FAILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL.

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Alastair Cruciatus said...

Hi Star!

Bye Fabi!

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I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE IS A BOOK!!!???

Star Inkbright said...

FOUR MORE SONGS AND I CAN START A NEW PLAYLISTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT.

Sorry, gonna spam you with the countdown. :P

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I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

Oh joy...
-_-


xP

Alastair Cruciatus said...

I need something to build on Blogland Minecraft. What should I build?!

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Star Inkbright said...

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE WAS A BOOK CALLED Q & A THAT GOT MAD INTO A MOVIE.

See, on our penultimate Georgaphy lesson of the year, we watched the first half of Slumdog Millionaire (because we'd been doing about India and it is obviously set in India), with the promise that we could watch the next half in our last lesson. However, we were watching it with a replacement Georaphy teacher as our usual one had had to teach someone else and had given us up for the last few weeks of term, and our real Geography teacher said we couldn't watch it. Dunno why. COuld have been the swearing, could have been the people getting their eyes burnt out with acid, could have been the fact the terachers were specifically told not to just show films in the last lessons of the year (although everyone was showing us filsm anyway. Me and my friend actually MISSED normal lessons.)
So we didn't watch the rest of Slumdog Millionaire, so I was annoyed. But we did watch the first hour of the Top Gear Indian special, so yay. :)

And I'd seen Slumdog Millionaire in the library in between my penultimate and last Geography lessons, and I was like WHAT IT'S A BOOK oh hey that was good luck spotting it it took me montsh to spot The Secrets Of THe Immortal Nicholas Flamel and I LOOKED for it.

And so after my replacement treacher said sorry, can't watch Slumdog Millionaire, then I got the book out BECAUSE I WANTED TO SEE WHAT HAPPENED.

However, the book is very different to the movie (still a teenager from India knowing the answers to questions on a quiz show and winning a lot of money because he found out all the answers at some point during his life, still a gangster man crippling kids to sing for him, still a borther/friend called Salim, still Salim's mother dying because people came and burnt all the Muslims) AND THAT'S ABOUT ALL THE SIMILARITES I SPOTTED) SO I STILL DON'T KOW WHAT HAPPENED. :P

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Back.

Sort of...

[Hums Think of Me]

Watching Phantom again. :-)

And I'll be on and off as I do stuff.

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Star Inkbright said...

HEY FABI! :)

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I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

YOU SHOULD BUILD A RAINBOW!!!!!
because Clemy flies in on them

Alastair Cruciatus said...

But they already have a rainbow room...

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

HI STAR

HI JUBI

I don't know what you can build on Minecraft, so...

[Hums Angel of Music]

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Star Inkbright said...

^^^Oh, plus Ram/Jamal still gets arrested and beat up for winning.

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I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

oh...


hmmm

did you make Zaf's tree yet? xP

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

or Mara's 1D house

Star Inkbright said...

@Ari: Idk . . .

Hunter: BUILD A POPCORN MACHINE.

Hunter: NO, BUILD A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN BURN YELLOW SHOWER CURTAINS.
Because they're trying to take over the world, you know.
Ez: *facepalm*
Hunter: Well, they are!

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Alastair Cruciatus said...

Really? I haven't heard that. Tell me about yellow shower curtains, Hunter.

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Star Inkbright said...

Ez: Hunter, if you start going on about yellow shower curtains now, I'll fucking strangle you.
Hunter: Okay, fine, I'll let them all die then!

Me @ everyone: . . . Sorry. :P

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

In sleep he sang to me
In dreams he came
That voice that calls to me
And speaks my name
And do I dream again
For now I find
The phaaaaaantom of the opera is there inside my mind

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I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

*watches amused*

Niccolò Croatoan said...

Hunter, what exactly do you intend to do with Adra?

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

[The next time you look, Fabi is simply gone]

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Alastair Cruciatus said...

Fabi...?

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I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

WHERE'D FABI GO?????

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

[A ribbon of shadow reaches out from the forest and gives a little wave, then vanishes once more]

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I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

oooOOOOooo

Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

Hi all! How are you?

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Star Inkbright said...

Hunter: Well, yellow shower curtains host these gremlins which eat your brains.
Salt repells them, though.
Ez: Ignore him, he's just being delusional.
Hunter: Ignore her, she's just a heathen who doesn't care about whether you die or not.
Ez: You don't really care, you just want someone to believe this shit.
Hunter: I do care.
Ez: Not that much.
Hunter: No. But every little helps.
Ez: Oh my God, you're quoting a supermarket.
Hunter: Yes?
Ez: Because supermarkets are really so clever and well-esteemed.
Hunter: Well, if they weren't clever, they'd have died out, and if Tesco wasn't clever, it wouldn't be such a massive organisation, and if they weren't well-esteemed, they wouldn't have any customers so wouldn't be a big organisation and so would have died out.
Ez: My point was, Tesco isn't Shakespeare.
Hunter: No, Tesco's better. Shakespeare had the queen behind him. Tesco have to do everything themselves.
Ez: I'm pretty sure Shakespeare had to do everything himsle fand get pretty far that way to get the queen behind him?
Hunter: History is written by the victors. He was probably her brother or something.
Ez: What?
Hunter: Well, it's quite plausible. Henry the Eighth got around.
Ez: But Elizabeth the First was queen . . . right?
Hunter: Yeah, but Henry the Eighth was her dad.
Ez: Oh.
Hunter: Yes.
Ez: But hen why wasn't Shakespeare king?
Hunter: Because he had Shakespeare unlawfully. Duh. So he had to hide his existance, and he gave him away to a poor family at birth so he wouldn't know who he was.
Ez: Then how did the Queen know?
Hunter: Oh, Henry told her.
Ez: But wouldn't he be afraid she'f expose him?
Hunter: He was the king, everyone would think she was lying.
Ez: Why would he tell her?
Hunter: He was drunk.
Ez: Why would Shakespeare believe her when she told him?
Hunter: He didn't, but hey, he benefitted from it. OH MY GOD, I THINK THIS THEORY IS A POSSIBILITY.
Ez: . . . Please don't say you're going to go on a massive battle to make everyone agree with you.
Hunter: I'm not going to start a battle, don't worry.
Ez: Yay. You're finally starting to recognse sense.
Hunter: No, I'm not. I was lying.
Ez: *groans* Okay, but leave me out of it.











And that is how Hunter's theories are born.

(Sorry! They just kind of wrote themselves out.)

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Alastair Cruciatus said...

I ship Hunter and Ez really hard!! Also, I think Hunter and Niccolo should be best friends, because it just makes sense.

Also, I have to go now, so bye! I'll be back later!

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I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

*eyes widen* GREMLINS?! *Dumps saltwater all over self* there.. that should repel them...*Shivers* ...hate gremlins...

Star Inkbright said...

. . . Hunter isn't actually here, I was just writing . . .

He can be here, though, I guess.

Hunter: @Niccolo: Probably ask her a lot of questions about alchemy. Because it's jolting my theories out of sync and I'd also like to add to my theories.

And then probably try to get her to help me do alchemy.

And then probably try to emply her in some way.

But I may change my mind. My mind changes itself a lot. It's a very flexible thing.

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Star Inkbright said...

*employ

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Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

Gremlins are awful. Bye Ari!

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I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

A gremlin tried to kill me once...

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

At least I THINK it was tried to kill me...


or maybe it was just hungry...

IT WAS SO TINY! I DIDN'T THINK IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR IT TO EAST ME!

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Glow- [Relocates organ to Hunter's current location] Nice theory. Bye now. [Vanishes with organ]

And I'm not here, either. For reasons I refuse to admit. G'bye.

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Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

Really Jubi? Tell me all about it. It sounds interesting.

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Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

Bye Fabi!

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Star Inkbright said...

Hunter: *teleports away from organ*

The yellow shower curtain gremlines are microscopic. There invisibly increases their deadlyness and decreases people's belief in their existance.

@Glow: Thank you. :)

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Noelle said...

*is back*

Noelle said...

*is murdered*

Star Inkbright said...

Hunter: . . . I don't think any of you believe me.
Nobody believes me.
But it's true. I swear. I'm not imagining it. Everyone thinks I am but I'm NOT. People have died from yellow shower curtains. It's a real threat, and if you don't take precautions against it, you're all going to die.

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Star Inkbright said...

Hunter: @Adra: WHAT?

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Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

I suppose I believe you Hunter. But I need proof.

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Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

Adra? Have you been murdered? By who?

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I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

I can't remember much of it, Rhy...

But there was this little gremlin standing there and I went up to it because it was all tiny and cute, AND THEN IT FREAKING MAULED MY FACE!!!!!!



the end.

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

OMG ADRA'S DEAD D: DDD:

Noelle said...

Val is killing me lol

Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

Wow...sounds very interesting. You should publish that Jubi! Adra! Please come back!

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Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

Val? Val V? I haven't met her. She's killing you? I'm not sure what's going on.

Y

Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

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Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

Gtg now. I'll be back tomorrow! Bye!

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...
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I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

HI VAL!!!!!!

Maralie Lily Charm said...

I had a long comment I was going to post, but the page refreshed...
I'm going to at least pretend to be okay (What would you do? What would you say?) because what use am I if I'm all depressed-ish? People only like me when I'm eh, simply because if I'm too happy it's bad, and if I'm too sad it's bad too.

...
I didn't make sense there...
Never mind.

"Said her name was Georgia Rose
And her daddy was a dentist
Said I had a dirty mouth
But she kissed me like she meant it"

uh harry
that's slightly weird
uh

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Noelle said...

AHHHCKKSNDMKDHSBNAKISHXBKSIHE

*you all will have a chance to see our video ifyou want. Msd.*

Alastair Cruciatus said...

*looks around* Hello...?

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Star Inkbright said...

(We are frozen
We want everything)
(And we've chosen
To want everything)

We are frozen
We want everything
And we've stolen in this suffering
And we've chosen
To want everythign
But use caution in what you believe
And the haunted
Deny everything
Controlling in this suffering
When they're broken
And lost everything
They're so much easier to lead

Take their hope away
Take their life away
Leave them nothing left inside . . .

When your own have died
When there's no more pride
When your soul is frozen
Is that enough?
When your heart has broken
A thousand times
With every moment
Is that enough?

(Without warning
We take everything)

Without warning
We take everything
Undaunted in this suffering
The dark forces
Surround everything
Make it impossible to see

Take their hope away
Take their life away
Leave them nothing left inside . . .

When your own have died
When there's no more pride
When your soul is frozen
Is that enough?
When your heart has broken
A thousand times
With every moment
Is that enough?

Haven't they suffered enough now?
Haven't we suffered enough now?
Haven't they suffered enough?
The damage more than they can bear!
Haven't they suffered enough now?
Haven't we suffered enough now?
Haven't they suffered enough?
The damage more than I can bear!

Did they even have a reason why?
Countless sons and daughters had to die?
Can you even comprehend the pain?
Tell me when your . . .

Own have died
When there's no more pride
When your soul is frozen
Is that enough?
When your heart has broken
A thousand times
With every moment
Is that enough?
When your own have died
When there's no more pride
When your soul is frozen
Is that enough?
When your heart has broken
A thousand times
With every moment
Is that enough?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plR1cVLHBPY&list=PLTslNdjmKxFtyDjXNSMNesm8F-RgBg0Av&index=45

. . .

And some people fail to understand why I love Disturbed.

Those some people are utterly beyond my comprehension.

That song, despite the fact it makes me cry, is one of my most favourite songs ever.

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

[hugs Mara]

[hums along with Pretend It's OK and All I Ask of You at once]

You don't have to pretend if you'd feel better talking about it. And you're wonderful and perfect no matter what mood you're in.

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Star Inkbright said...

@Maraness: But I love it when you're happy . . . *frowns*

And no, I don't like it when you're sad, but only because you're too awesome and don't deserve to be sad. *hugs*

I'm always here to talk to if you're sad. Don't worry about depressing me. If you weren't talking to me, I'd probably be depressing myself listening to songs like Enough. XD

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Noelle said...

Still here.

Help.

And *jams out to Solidarity*

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Hi Ari [hugs]

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

[Waves to Adra]

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Alastair Cruciatus said...

I am just tired... Ugh... And I still feel like I can't write...
Can somebody give me a random name and then a random sentence?

Mara, please, don't worry about depressing us. We are here to be here for each other. And I don't even know what you're talking about as far as happy-is-bad. What?! We all love you, Mara, whether you're hyper or sad.

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Maralie Lily Charm said...

*hugs Fabi*

There are people out there, who have it way worse than me... Way worse. Pretending makes me feel like I'm not a female dog for hating myself so much, and bottling up my feelings is the best thing to do at this point. But thanks.

I'm no where near perfect or wonderful.
And I never will be, so I accept it. *shrugs*

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Maralie Lily Charm said...

*hugs Star and Ari*

As far as everyone irl and most people online are concerned, me being happy makes me annoying. And me being sad makes me annoying too. So if I'm eh, I'm in the middle. I still don't reach their standards, but I don't wake up every day just to impress them, so. *shrugs*

But depressing people is bad...

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...
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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

But it's fun when you're happy because then we're all crazy together!

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Alastair Cruciatus said...

Oh no no no no, that's not how this works. 'Having it worse' is all a matter of perspective, and I hate people who try to turn pain into a competition. Hating yourself is hating yourself, and it isn't fun, no matter what kind of life you have. In fact, it's awful no matter what kind of life you have. And just bottling up your pain is the absolute worst thing you can do about it. So cut it out right now, and let us try to make you feel better, because that's all we want to do. And don't you dare, even for a second, think that you don't have a right to feel bad, because you do. Pain is human, Mara- we all feel it. Just because your family hasn't spent the last 14 years yelling at you or whatever does not mean that your pain is fake or meaningless.

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Star Inkbright said...

I often wonder why I sit and wait to die
What have I done to justify the sentence they gave?
Too many hours spent in darkness questioning
"How and why?"
I can't remember many moments in the light
This retribution has defiled me to no end
An execution without merit looms ahead
Tell me why!

I was a boy who had to live his own way
I never fit into the model they had designed
I chose a path less taken
I stood with others who had often felt the same
We garnered stares from passers-by
Our dark atire seemed to frighten people away
And when the three young boys died
THey pointed fingers and entangled us in a lie
With no hope in sight . . .

Now I sit here terrifed! (Terrified, terrified!)
Can't someone try to bring the truth to light? (Truth to light, truth to light!)
Won't anybody open up their eyes? (Open their eyes, open their eyes!)
Before the three of us have lost our lives?

Why was everybody so damn afraid?
They blamed the devil for the heinousness of the crime
To justify their own faith
We were labelled followers of Satan for a time
The three of us were attacked and disgraced
for many hours we were questions and so maligned
One of us couldn't take it
His simple manner was manipulated in time
Fear made him lie . . .

Now I sit here terrifed! (Terrified, terrified!)
Can't someone try to bring the truth to light? (Truth to light, truth to light!)
Won't anybody open up their eyes? (Open their eyes, open their eyes!)
Before the three of us have lost our lives?

Now I amterrifed! (Terrified, terrified!)
Can't someone try to bring the truth to light? (Truth to light, truth to light!)
Won't anybody open up their eyes? (Open their eyes, open their eyes!)
Before the three of us have lost our lives?
And why (Tell me why, tell me why!)
Can't anybody see through their disguise? (Through their disguise, through their disguise!)
Won't they believe we didn't take their lives? (Take their lives, take their lives!)
And now the three of us have lost our lives!

I often wonder why I sit and wait to die
What have I done to justify the sentence they gave?
Too many hours spent in darkness questioning
"How and why?"
I can't remember many moments in the light
This retribution has defiled me to no end
An execution without merit looms ahead
Tell me why!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnr7zD_V-YI&list=PLTslNdjmKxFtyDjXNSMNesm8F-RgBg0Av

Disturbed made 3 about the West Memphis Three, who were these three teenagers who were arrested for the murder of three boys, a crime they didn't commit, just because they wore black and listened to metal music.
True story.

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Noelle said...

*hugs all*

Maralie Lily Charm said...

Bottling up my emotions is essential.
If I don't, I'll break down.

I have to go... Sorry....

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

If you feel you must, Mara. [hugs]

It won't help in the long run, though, I'm afraid.

[hugs again]

See you...

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Star Inkbright said...

MARANESS!

You don't annoy ME. Those who mind, don't matter, and those who matter, don't mind!

Depressing people is bad when you're depressing them for no reason. They just adds negativity to the world.

But if you're sad, and you tell us, then we can maybe stop you being sad, so positivity is added to the world.

And even if we can't stop you feeling sad, then at least we still feel honoured that you confided in us and at least we love each otehr, so positivity is still added to the world.

And I'd much rather know.
I find it chiling when I think of myself being happy when you're suffereing and I don't even know about it. D:

Mushroom says she's here for us whether our problems are large or small, and we can ditto her. :) Also, if you are sad, we want to help you. If we know anyone who has it worse, then we'll try and help them too, but if we don't, we still want to help you out. Why should you suffering be okay just because people suffer worse? That's like saying, some people murder loads of people and that's a bad thing, so it's alright if I just murder one because it's only ONE. UH. NO.
All murder is bad, and all victims of it are important.
And all suffering is bad, and all victims of it are important.
Yeah? :)

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

[Is still watching Phantom]

[Hums along with Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again]

[Smiles slightly at a memory]

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Star Inkbright said...

And I like cheering people up. It makes me feel better, and often proud that I managed to write something, and plus the experience and reading other people's stuff is getting me better at it all the time so I'm rpoud of that.

POSITIVITY!!!

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

[Shuffles back and forth nervously]

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Noelle said...

*hugs Fabi* HERRO

Alastair Cruciatus said...

DARN IT! I HAVE TO GO AGAIN! SORRYSORRYSORRYSORRYSORRY!!
(I really really don't want to go...)

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

[hugs Adra back]

[hugs Star]

[hugs Ari]

[hugs Mara]

[hugs Lucy]

[hugs Em]

[hugs Death]

[hugs Jubi]

[hugs everyone else who wants a hug, regardless of their current location]

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Jophiel said...

*Pokes Mars then hugs her tightly* I love you gorgeous. You're so amaZayn, so perfect, so... You. I still have a nagging suspicion about everyone on here hating me but we don't think you're annoying. I never, ever Gould think that about someone so beautiful, someone who always makes me smile and someone I have a Skittle cake for. *Hands over Skittle cake and tilts Mara's head up* You're my little sister, I've always wanted one because I only have a really sweet little brother. All my biological siblings are REALLY annoying. But you... *Trails off in awe* You're too freaking awesome for your own good, babe. Never forget that. Come to Aus and live with me if you want to, I love you so much, we all do! *Hugs*

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

See you, Ari [hugs]

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Jophiel said...

Ooh.. How'd you know I was there...? And my fav colours...?

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

You told me which colors for your name in the name project, remember?

And I didn't know you were there, I hugged Em and Lucy too, and they're not here. Also I think Jubi poofed.

Or actually--

[Winks]

Secret spy stuff.

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Jophiel said...

Bye Ari!!!

*Nods carefully* So, that man in the suit isn't working for the FBI? Wait... Fabi's Bureau of Investigation... Oh... *Nods again* Scary!

Star Inkbright said...

@Death: . . .
You're amazing.
*hugs*

Oh, right. MSD!

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Star Inkbright said...

FABI'S BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION?????????? *screams*

OHMYGOSH WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT NOOOOOOOOOOOOO JEALOUS. D:

You're brilliant. D:

@Fabi: *hugs* :)

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Jophiel said...

*Hugs back* I'm a mirror, it gets reflected off me and goes straight back to you (meaning that I don't believe it and that you're amazing too)!

Star Inkbright said...

THe first part of the previous comment was @Death, btw.

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Jophiel said...

*Laughs*

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

[hugs Death] [laughs slightly]

Probably not, my agents generally dress normally, not in suits! Besides, I generally don't need agents to watch my friends.

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

[Laughs again and hugs Star and Death]

[Offers pudding]

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Jophiel said...

There's this really awesome forum on Chicken Smoothie called In My Pants. You say the title of the song you're listening to turn add 'in my pants' at the end.

By Death Rose

I See You in my pants...

Avatar soundtrack!

||
By Chocolate Junkie

Hall Of Fame in my pants

Hall Of Fame by The Script XD

||
By Dearh Rose

Johnny are you Queer in my pants? XD

Johnny are you Queer ~ Josie Cotton


☻/ This is Bob, copy paste him in
/▌ your signature so he can
/ \ take over ChickenSmoothie
Embrace your inner lunatic. Fun times guaranteed.

Jophiel said...

*Death

*Hugs Fabi* Thanks! *Takes tiny bit of pudding and sets down plate of Skittle cakes*

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Auuuugh! What do I paint?

My head is square, I don't like that. Go back to your normal shape, head. [Raises eyebrow at self in mirror]

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Jophiel said...

Heads aren't square!

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

[hugs back]

[Takes a Skittle cake]

[Decides that the no chewing right now rule does not apply to Blogland]

Thank you.

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Jophiel said...

Ooh... I've got some stuff to write!! *Disappears*

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...
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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

[Waves]

[Realizes I have stuff to do as well]

Wbd.

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

I dedicate this page to dreams, because sometimes that's all we have left. I dedicate this page to friends, to hopes and a bunch more meaningful stuff as well as to each and every one of you. This means you. No really, don't count yourself out. You are perfect, all of you. Also to Little Mix, One Direction, Disturbed, Emile Autumn, Mayday Parade, Evanescence, Imagine Dragons, Hayley Westenra, Pentatonix, Birdy, Taylor Swift, Avril Lavigne, Cher Lloyd, Nine Inch Nails, They Might Be Giants, Motion City Soundtrack, Ingrid Michaelson, Bach, Emeli Sande, Carly Rose Sonenclar your favorite band/singer/composer/musician and music in general.

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Noelle said...

*raises glass* hear hear!

Trip Castalan, Lord of The Hobbits, The Fourth Most Popular Folk/Parody Banana Thief In The Land said...

Here again? Guys, we're using up comments at a dangerous rate!

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Star Inkbright said...

14, 19, 32, 33, 48, 39, 79. *smiles*

Awesome ded, Fabi. *hugs*

And now I'm going to sleep.

Fours!

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Trip Castalan, Lord of The Hobbits, The Fourth Most Popular Folk/Parody Banana Thief In The Land said...

*finally lands after leaping at Star* Took you long enough!

Bye!

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Noelle said...

*waves * hey Trip!

Trip Castalan, Lord of The Hobbits, The Fourth Most Popular Folk/Parody Banana Thief In The Land said...

Hi Adra! How're you this fine evening/morning/noontime?

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Noelle said...

Afternoon/evening, actually. And I'm with Val V in Washington, taking over the world.

Trip Castalan, Lord of The Hobbits, The Fourth Most Popular Folk/Parody Banana Thief In The Land said...

Oh cool! What are you gonna do with the world after you take it over?

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Ah, people are here. :-)

Hello!

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Noelle said...

... We got lots of cats (for Val, around 50)
A black dog names Sirius
Raid Derek's house and get a key...

Go on Doctor who and Sherlock and bring 10 & 11
Back and make Derek write more books and suchhh

Trip Castalan, Lord of The Hobbits, The Fourth Most Popular Folk/Parody Banana Thief In The Land said...

Hey Fabi!

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Trip Castalan, Lord of The Hobbits, The Fourth Most Popular Folk/Parody Banana Thief In The Land said...

Oh okay, so no summoning satan or building a bridge to mars then.

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

[Laughs slightly]
Awesome.

Hello Trip, Adra.

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Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

Msd just popping in to say hi and check up got wifi at gad staion

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

Nvm i gtg goodbye! Maybe be on again later at a hotel

Sapphire Iota (S/ Cam) said...

Hi, if anyone's on.

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Trip Castalan, Lord of The Hobbits, The Fourth Most Popular Folk/Parody Banana Thief In The Land said...

Hey Saph!

Hyebye Zaf!

How is everyone?

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Sapphire Iota (S/ Cam) said...

Hey Trip *hugs*
Hi/Bye Zaf *hugs*
Trip; Meh. Not too good really :(

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Hi/bye Zaf! [hugs]

SAPH [gives a blue cupcake]

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Noelle said...

VAL- IM GOING TO KILL HER OH NO FEELINGSSSSS

*curls up in a ball and waits for death*

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

I'm as well as can be expected, you?

Aw [hugs Saph] what's wrong?

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Trip Castalan, Lord of The Hobbits, The Fourth Most Popular Folk/Parody Banana Thief In The Land said...

What's wrong Saph?

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Sapphire Iota (S/ Cam) said...

Hi Fabi and Adra *hugs them too*
*Noms blue cupcake* Thanks Fabi! *feels slightly better*

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Sapphire Iota (S/ Cam) said...

I just... *sighs* I found out at the beginning of the month that my best friend is going to move to Australia. Then last month I found out that my second best friend can't afford to go to my school any more and is moving. Then another explained that at the end of the year, she's moving to Saudi Arabia, and another is moving to India because of her dad's job, and another is moving schools for a better arts course, and so on. :( I feel like I'm losing everyone.

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

[hugs Saph] That... :-(

You'll still have email at least, right?

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Sapphire Iota (S/ Cam) said...

Yeah, we'll still have email. I know it's stupid. Other people have much worse things to worry about. I should stop whining :/

Where did Adra go? *Looks at previous comments* Is she dying? *pokes*
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Noelle said...

*hands a skulcake*

Sapphire Iota (S/ Cam) said...

Gtg *hugs everyone* bye

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Saph, it's not stupid. [hugs]

And you and Mara both, shut up about other people having it worse. You both matter, and it it helps to talk about things, then by all means do so. [hugs again]

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Bye Saph [hugs]

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Noelle said...

Yeah Val and I thought of the worst ending ever for the series.. Ill fill you in later

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...
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Trip Castalan, Lord of The Hobbits, The Fourth Most Popular Folk/Parody Banana Thief In The Land said...

Sorry I poofed, I died. My knee became a glow-worm and then an eagle ate it. Then my face exploded.

Or was I just dreaming?

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Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Trip, do you ever sleep?!

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Noelle said...

*rolls eyes* this is hat happens when you don't sleep

Trip Castalan, Lord of The Hobbits, The Fourth Most Popular Folk/Parody Banana Thief In The Land said...

Yeah, I think I should do that now.

Um, bye.

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Noelle said...

Bye *hugs*

Msd

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Night then, Trip.

Wbd, not even sure what I'm doing. Jumping from project to project like a frog or rabbit or kangaroo or something else that jumps a lot.

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Noelle said...

First

Alastair Cruciatus said...

Back again!

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Noelle said...

I'd like to dedicate to showers.
Val: showers are nice.
Yeah, because they keep up clean. And... They have water. And water is good,

I also des to Val and I being awesome
*raises glass*
Hear hear!

Noelle said...

Hey Ari

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

HEY GUYS


HEY ADRA


GIVE ME A WEIRD LOOK WHEN YOU SEE THIS

Jophiel said...

Sup Ari?

Noelle said...

Done lol

Jophiel said...

You guys are weird... *Begins to fight tree with spoon*

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Hello! [Waves]

Hi Ari and Adra and Val and Death!

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Noelle said...

HI GUYS IT'S VAL


I'M ON ADRA'S PHONE


I'M GOING TO KILL ADRA











Jophiel said...

*Laughs harder* Hi Val!! Can you please poke Adra for me?

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

[Dramatic suspense music]

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Noelle said...

(By the way I poked Adra for you)

AND HELLO PEOPLE

Alastair Cruciatus said...

Death!!! *hugs tightly*

Hi everybody! *sneakyassassintacklehugs everyone*

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Jophiel said...

(Thankies!!!)

HELLO VALKYRIE

Jophiel said...

*Hugs Ari back tightly*

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

[is sneakyassassintacklehugged]

[hugs back]

Also, I'm mildly worried what the two of you have been up to, Adra and Val. [raises eyebrow]

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Jophiel said...

Those two are scary together....

Noelle said...

JOIN US FABI YOURE FIFTEEN MINUTES AWAY

Jophiel said...

What?! Why are you all so close... I'm 14 hours away... You are all so mean...

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