Thursday, August 29, 2013

Competition Winners!

And here we are, coming in late (as usual)... The winners of the strapline competition. So many cool entries. A lot of similar ones, and unfortunately that meant we couldn't put those in the final ten. There were lots of "Burn, Baby Burn!" and suchlike, which would have been so cool to see on a cover if we'd only had one entry for it...! I love the winning entries, though, so a huge congratulations to everyone who took part.

And the winners are...

Hugo Peach

Evan Jenkins

Harriet Langley

Tom Wood

Jack Holton

Ashan Ali

Laura MacKenzie

Nigethan Sathiyalingham

Phoebe Ryall

Megan Smales


All the winners receive two signed glossy prints of the cover with their own strap line. Awesome.

Oh, and to remind you, the comments section below is NOT for spoilers!


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Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

Adra are you in LSODM?

#CHASEFORBOOK9

Noelle said...

HOW DID YOU MISS THIS

YES

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

AS I know of the Minions in LSODM, Zafira, Adra, NJ, Zatharact, Nix? Georgina Howlett but its her OC Ashione uhm....DID I MISS ANY? Is Brave or Eden? One of them.

Noelle said...

Msd for a bit? I don't know what the schmo is with this

Unknown said...

Loved the book.

Slept through the day and woke up at midnight to download it on my iPad.

Had read most of it by the time most bookshops had opened.

Technology is the way forward!!!!

Your books are amazing Derek, everyone would want to read them twice or more: disturbed or not!!!!! (Don't think this is a spoiler)

Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

I haven't read it all yet. I'm having a break. I'm up to chapter 7

#ChaseForBook9

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

Ah...you'll meet me soon enough, Rhydian. I was told by Derek I interact with Vex...*shrugs* Wednesday cant come any bloody faster can it?

Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

(Can someone help me persuade Derek to put me in book 9?)

#ChaseForBook9

Chione Asahina said...

So annoyed my mum didn't let me go to the Edinburgh book festival on the 25th... even though I've already met you Derek, I wanted to meet you again. I begged xD it was still a no. oh well. Re-reading the books before I get Last stand of dead men.

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

Rhydian there's a competition up for you to enter to be killed in Book 9. Honestly I don't know what I did exactly to get him to put me in, yeah I asked but at the time it was only POSSIBLE not definte I didn't know until January and then from there Derek continued to kind of tell me, I interact with Vex and I am an American Elder...I know how he described me but I can't say. Any information I know other then what I said, he'll have my head for saying. But anything that came out of his mouth I know isn't technically a spoiler...right?

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

http://www.skulduggerypleasant.co.uk/competitions/

link to the competition

Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

Thanks Zaffy! *tacklehugs*

#ChaseForBook9

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

*yelps* No problem.....*mumbles something about how she needs to figure out how to tacklehug Derek next year*

Chione Asahina said...

Hai everyone! god I need to come on more x.x I don't remember anyone here.

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

Lol hiya there

Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

Gtg now. Going to continue reading lsodm

Bye!

#ChaseForBook9

Chione Asahina said...

Grand you seem really nice ^.^ be my friend ;_;

Noelle said...

*begins like sobbing*

I signed up for nerdy clubs

Maralie Lily Charm said...

I hate my mam so much.

She knows about everything, yet she's so f**king clueless.

#ChaseForBook9

Noelle said...

*hugs Mara* Parents are like that

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

I'm only a third of the way through the book and it's just so damn awesome. Also, hi evrebodey!

#ChaseForBook9

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

*slams fist on table* It was a trick! A God damn trick!

#ChaseForBook9

Noelle said...

*throws a cupcake in his face* SHHHHHHHHH

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

I can't believe I let them, a bunch of overbearing, overly confident buffoons, trick me!

#ChaseForBook9

Noelle said...

Wait- what?

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

*sits down, rubbing temples* The supreme council. They were never interested in peace. They only hired/forced me to try and prevent the war so it didn't seem as if they wanted it. I knew this war was inevitable, but how could I have been so blind?

#ChaseForBook9

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

NJ...Skype...poor NJ

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

Hello I AM on the Suprme Council

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

As well as tying up a major threat to their plans, they averted suspicion by employing an anti-war spotter. I got so caught up chasing down external forces that could cause a war, I was completely blind to the true forces at work.

#ChaseForBook9

Noelle said...

*whispers* Spoilers...


And... *sits next to him* You aren't blind- you just refuse to give up hope. That isn't anything to feel bad about

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

I /know/.

#ChaseForBook9

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

No, *laughs* you have no idea how hard I'm working to keep any spoilers out. Well, apart from there's a war.

#ChaseForBook9

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

I just ignored the fact that /maybe/ the people who were mad enough to create a supreme council might just have a goal in mind. Like inevitable war.

#ChaseForBook9

Noelle said...

If you let ONE THING SLIP I will seriously blow up. Your bar.

I'm not kidding.

(but anyway)

I know. It hasn't exactly been fun for me either...

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

At least both sides are too afraid to attack me.

#ChaseForBook9

Noelle said...

Well then that's good... *frowns* It isn't going to be fun- they have me running around everywhere. *rolls here eyes* Sult. Ugh. No.

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

...

How much have you read?

#ChaseForBook9

Noelle said...

None- only what Derek has told me.

And I'm terrified.

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

What did Derek tell you?

Email. We wouldn't want to spoil anyone else's experience eh?

#ChaseForBook9

Star Inkbright said...

HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

#ChaseForBookNine

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

HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

LSODM!

#ChaseForBook9

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

HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

LSODM!

#ChaseForBook9

Noelle said...

STFU I DON'T HAVE IT YET. *hits the back of his head* *sulks*

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

You can get it on kindle!

Don't have a kindle? Get the kindle app!

#ChaseForBook9

Noelle said...

But I already payed for it!

I hate kindles...

*murmurs, digging a hole underground*

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

i got kindle..

Star Inkbright said...

I'VE HAD THREE ALBUMS ADVERTISED TO ME SINCE MY LAST COMMENT.

AND NONE OF TEHM HAVE BEEN A7XS. :( *is still looking for that advert*

I think I'll get LSODM for my birthday. We preordered it, but I think I'll be GIVEN it on my birthday.

I don't want to wait, but suffering is good for you, sooo. :P

#ChaseForBookNine

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

Well, I couldn't find a paper copy, and it turns out I didn't pre-order it. So here we are! Just like the situation with TMS. I've bought it on kindle, and will then buy a paper copy when possible!

#ChaseForBook9

Noelle said...

*oh gods*
*is dead*
*rolls around*

I NEED MY BARREL DAMMIT

BUT YOU IDIOTS MELTED IT

ARHGHGHG *rolls*

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

What?

#ChaseForBook9

Anonymous said...

Hello! I decided not to hide any more and came back...^^

Noelle said...

They melted my barrel.

Noelle said...

Hi Mith!

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

ill be back.....i need to go grieve silently

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

Hi Mith!

I'm sorry what Adra?

#ChaseForBook9

Chione Asahina said...

This blog is still lively as always...but I dont know anyone now...

Star Inkbright said...

*A7X'S

#ChaseForBookNine

Noelle said...

I was casually rolling around in my barrel when Jayla decided to bury me alive. Edward then pulled me out- still in the barrel- and began to melt it.

And thus I have a MELTED. BARREL.

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

Oh, hello Gemma!

#ChaseForBook9

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

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Not the barrel! Why? It was so young!

Nice to meet you.

#ChaseForBook9

Star Inkbright said...

HI MITHRIA! :)

@Gemma: Sorry. :(
Dragona and Taia still come on, if you know them?

#ChaseForBookNine

Chione Asahina said...

Hai trip ^.^ thanks for saying hi xD

Star Inkbright said...

DON'T TALK ABOUT BEING BURIED ALIVE. :P

#ChaseForBookNine

Noelle said...

Hi Gemma!

Not at all?

You must be an Ancient, then... O.O


I know.

It was an ANTIQUE BARREL AND THEY MELTED IT

Chione Asahina said...

Bb, isabella (think the last time I saw her she was having a baby) aquila dragona and other people

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

I feel empty without giving you free alcohol.

Here! Have this! *hands her a bottle of blogland 2023*

#ChaseForBook9

Noelle said...

Star, I'm terrified of being buried alive. I usually start freaking out then my asthma acts up then I can't breathe and it is AWFUL

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

Oh.

Then maybe it wasn't all that young. Moving swiftly on!

#ChaseForBook9

Star Inkbright said...

@Gemma: O_O
YOu are old. XD

I've been here a year and a half, and sadly most of the regulars from then have now left. :( Sadness.

HOwever, everyone new is awesome so it's all awesome and AWESOMNESS. *hugs everyone beacsue they're AWESOME*

#ChaseForBookNine

Chione Asahina said...

If you do what tesseract did you'll be fine!!!

Noelle said...

*awesome* Star, I thought you were older than that.. Huh.

So we have the ANCIENT people who have been here since the beginning, Luce's generation... Our generation... And then the December generation, then... Yeah. That's it?

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

My generation!


The generation of strife.

#ChaseForBook9

Star Inkbright said...

@Adra: You're probably more scared than me, then. :)

I haven't been afraid of it since very long.

*hugs*

#ChaseForBookNine

Chione Asahina said...

@star, im not old!!! Im only 15!!! I started this blog in like...August of 2011. I met Derek the 5th of September of that year.

Star Inkbright said...

I AM LUCE'S GENERATION. :)

I was here a bit before her and a bit after Zath and Nix and people.

January the 22nd, 2012. :)

And - really? Was it how mature I am? XD

#ChaseForBookNine

Chione Asahina said...

Oh, I forgot octa in the people I used to talk to on this.

Anonymous said...

Sorry, I poofed...
Hi to everyone who said hi to me^^ And of course to everyone else :D

Star Inkbright said...

@Gemma: :O I'm fifteen in a few weeks!

And, hmm. So you're only six months blogolder than me, approximately. O_O

#ChaseForBookNine

Noelle said...

WBD

Octa still comes on sometimes. *nods*

My generation are pretty awesome

Star Inkbright said...

Octa tends to come and spam for a few comments after we all move to the next post, for some reason. :P

#ChaseForBookNine

Star Inkbright said...

@Adra: Personally, I think all teh generations are awesome, so I suppose your gen ARE awesome. :)

#ChaseForBookNine

Chione Asahina said...

I hardly come on this, all the people I used to know are gone.

The last time I came on here, made new friends then didnt come on untill now x.x

Noelle said...

*nods*

Back when Em was Shell. *nods*

Those were the days. I think Sir is part of that gen...


SERIOUS WBD

Chione Asahina said...

Oh im so glad octa is still here after 2 years.

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

OH MY JESUS. A............

I have to go. Lest I explode into a massive fireball of spoilers. Good day.

#ChaseForBook9

Star Inkbright said...

@Gemma: :( It's sad how people leave. Sometimes I think about how much I miss people and start crying . . . yeah. But change is constant, and we should be glad that we had the chance to know people at all, plus everyone new is really awesome so it's easy to rejoin, I guess. :)

#ChaseFOrBookNine

Star Inkbright said...

:( FOURS TRIP!

#ChaseFOrBookNine

Maralie Lily Charm said...

She didn't even get me LSODM. I begged her. I gave her €20 so she could get it for me. When I came home from school, I figured out she spent it on ice cream for my brothers and herself.

I hate my mother so, so much. .-.

#ChaseForBook9

Anonymous said...

Oh Mara... that's not fair!

Anonymous said...

Dinner. brb.

Star Inkbright said...

@Mara: . . .

That is just unbelieveable.

*glares*

*hugs* I'm sorry. :(

#ChaseForBookNine

Star Inkbright said...

THE ADVERT CAME ON AGAIN!!!!!!

:)

#ChaseForBookNine

Noelle said...

TRIP NO SH

*hugs Mara tightly*

Chione Asahina said...

What advert?

Dragona Pine said...

Hello.






A few hours ago I faced the hardest decision of my Mass Effect-life and witnessed probably the most emotional scene in the history of EVERYTHING.

Shepard had to choose between two of his friends - and their races.
I could either choose between allowing a race of robotics to keep Reaper upgrades and making them more powerful - but destroying the Quarians and making one of my favourite characters (who I accidentally started a relationship with, with a wrong-press of a button), commit suicide.
Or I could prevent the robotic race having the Reaper upgrades and being wiped out by the Quarians.
It was both of my favourite alien races and I had to choose between them. Two of my favourite characters as well. And I was like "OH NO WHAT SHOULD I PICK".
Anyway I chose to let the Geth (robots) die. Then the Geth who was my friend turned hostile and beat the crap out of me but the Quarian who is my friend stabbed him and it was all very very very very emotional and yeah.
Then there was a scene where Shepard and the Quarian were talking and holding hands and stuff and it was emotional too but it was a HARD DECISION.
And I just caused the destruction of an entire species.

Oh well.

How is everyone?

Chione Asahina said...

Em...good I guess.

Dragona Pine said...

AND speaking of Mass Effect I have just posted a new part of my fanfic.


(Star, you haven't read this one)


http://masseffectfanfiction.blogspot.co.uk

Star Inkbright said...

@Gemma: THE AVENGED SEVENFOLD ADVERT.
I LOVE AVENGED SEVENFOLD SO MUCH.
AND THEY HAVE A NEW ALBUM.
AND THIS MORNING IT GOT ADVERTISED TO ME ON YOUTUBE, BUT I DIDN'T SEE IT AGAIN UNTIL NOW . . .

IT'S SO AWESOME, THOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AVENGED SEVENFOLD ON AN /ADVERT/!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)


IT'S, LIKE, LIKE, LIKE . . . WELL, THERE ARE YOUTUBE ADVERTS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!! IT'S SO SPECIAL! *screams*

*may be a tiny bit obsessed*

BUT SERIOUSLY, AVENGED SEVENFOLD ARE AMAZING. :)

@Dragona: :/ Well, well done on making the decision . . .
And sometimes, in life, you have to make those sort of descisions. :/ Life sucks.

*goes back to opening YouTube videos in hope of seeing the advert*

#ChaseForBookNine

Star Inkbright said...

@Dragona: OKAY.

I'LL READ IT . . . *thinks* Either soon or later if I something happens to make me not able to read it soon, if that makes sense. :)

#ChaseFOrBookNine

Star Inkbright said...

HI MITHRIA! :)

#ChaseForBookNine

Chione Asahina said...

Ah. Do any of you know about the Skulduggery movie, if there is one?

Star Inkbright said...

@Tanith: Derek said that the script got written and it was really bad, so they scrapped it, and now I think they're redoing it . . . :)

#ChaseForBookNine

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

rawr!

Star Inkbright said...

You still here, Maraness? :/ *hugs*

#ChaseForBookNine

Chione Asahina said...

Im so glad, but Derek better be the director AND the voice of Skulduggery.

If they muck it up I will not be pleased.

Maralie Lily Charm said...

I'm blaring One Direction, Little Mix and Avril Lavigne out of my headphones right now, so meh. *shrugs*

#ChaseForBook9

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

...I'm not reading back in the comments.

There's always some idiot who says SOMETHING.

So if anyone said anything that I may have been supposed to see, assume I didn't.

#ChaseForBook9

Chione Asahina said...
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Chione Asahina said...

Derek is so cruel to Tanith...

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

But hello!

[hugs Mara]
[hugs Star]

[hugs anyone else who is here and wants a hug]

Hello, Gemma, I don't think we've met. I'm Fabi, nice to meet you. :-)

#ChaseForBook9

Anonymous said...

Hi Fabiiii! :)

Chione Asahina said...

I want a hug too ;_; and hai ^.^ nice to meet you too.

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

PEOPLE!!!!!!!!! *Supermegatacklehugsofdoom*


HAAII!!!!

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

Hi Mith! [hugs]

And okay, Gemma [hugs] :-)

#ChaseForBook9

Star Inkbright said...

FABIIIIIIIIIIIII! *hugs*

You know, I read your thing where they went to see the 1D concert, and I was just crying. THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN. :'(

And - IKR. I now know stuff like this character is in it, and it annoys me. :(
I would give more examples, but withoput giving even the hint of a spoiler it's hard . . . :P

#ChaseForBookNine

Noelle said...

DON'T YOUUUU FORGET ABOUT ME

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

JUBI [hugs]

HI HELLO ALOHA HOLA BONJOUR

Uh, wbd/msd.

#ChaseForBook9

Chione Asahina said...

Yay! My first hug since I came back. Thank you :3

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

BUENOS DIAS!!

Star Inkbright said...

I think now might be a good time to stop desperately opening video after video without actually watching any of them in hope of seeing the A7X advert. XD

#ChaseForBookNine

Star Inkbright said...

*hugs Gemma* ? :)

#ChaseFOrbookNine

Star Inkbright said...

HEY JUBI! :)

#ChaseForBookNine

Anonymous said...

Haaaiiii Jubi! :)

Noelle said...

Salve, mea amica

Chione Asahina said...

Yay another!!!! *hugs fabi and star*

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

@Star YES IT DOES. BECAUSE MARA AND JUBI AND CLEMY AND EFFIE AND DEFINITELY.

A CHARACTER is in it? That's SUCH a spoiler!

...yeah, I get what you mean. I may attempt to avoid the Internet for a while or something...

Hi Adra! [hugs]

#ChaseForBook9

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

HI PEOPLE WHO SAID HI TO MEEEE xD


Wbd...

Star Inkbright said...

Bbs, evening meal. :/

#ChaseForBookNine

Noelle said...

Hi Fabi! *hugs*

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

[Yelps]

I have to go now!

Back in...time!

[hugs all] Yay!

#ChaseForBook9

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

hiya guys *sits listening to NJ's commentary live of lsodm*

Noelle said...

Hi Zaf!


*pokes the space*

Chione Asahina said...

Being in the world of SP again is so fun ^.^

Noelle said...

Welcome back, then! *hands skulcake*

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

If i suddenly disappear i have begun screaming

Noelle said...

Sh

Calm

Calm

I need to see this.

omg.


OMG.

FIRST ALEX THEN TRIP AND NOW YOU

STAHP

Chione Asahina said...

*eats cake* Mmmm yummy ^.^

Octa said...

NJ is doing a live commentary?

Where?

Skype?

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

Wait... live commentary?

Anonymous said...

gtg... bye everyone!

Noelle said...

Bye Mith!


And I'm at school, so...

Maralie Lily Charm said...

Little Mix in Korean is amazing. <3

So proud of them. ❤

#ChaseForBook9

Chione Asahina said...

Bye mith

Star Inkbright said...

I AM BACK!

#ChaseForBookNine

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

GAAAHHHHHHHHHHH WHY MUST AMERICA BE SO EVILLL

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

GRRRRR >:(

Chione Asahina said...

WB star ^.^

Maralie Lily Charm said...

This Is Us omg

Tomorrow ❤

Liam is twenty..

LSODM..

Where We Are book out...

Our Moment perfume out...

❤❤❤❤❤❤

#ChaseForBook9

Noelle said...

*somersaults around until she's dizzy*

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

GAAHHH

I'm, like, fighting the urge to look at the spoiler zone because I KNOW I'm not supposed to look which makes me want to look MORE!!

DAMN YOU REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY!!!!

Noelle said...

DON'T DO IT JUBI

DON'T SUCCUMB

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

OK.

I'm not gonna do it.
NO
NO
DON'T DO IT JUBI
DON'T DO IT!!!

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

I used to have this problem where I couldn't NOT read ahed.
it was horrible -_-

Chione Asahina said...

I read the soiler zone. Nothing big.

Chione Asahina said...

Spoiler*

Noelle said...

BBL

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

I can because i know some things but i wont say what i know unless in the spoiler zone

Chione Asahina said...

I do it because it doesnt bother me.

Star Inkbright said...

Spoilers bother me so much, ohmygosh. :P

Sorry I poofed, was writing out a ded.

NOW I NED FIRST.

*stares at comment count*

#ChaseForBookNine

Star Inkbright said...

HANDS UP IF YOU'RE HERE!

*raises hand*

#ChaseForBookNine

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

*raises hand*

MEEEEE

Star Inkbright said...

HELLO JUBIBIBABIBABIBA!!! :)

#ChaseFOrBookNine

Chione Asahina said...

*raises a leg* im not here.

Star Inkbright said...

JUST THIRY MORE.

#ChaseForBookNine

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

HAI STARRYARARARARARARARARRY!!!!!

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

COMMENT COMMENT COMMENT COMMENT!!!!

Star Inkbright said...

@Gemma: Oh, okay. :)

Are you there?

(I WILL NOT EAT THEM HERE OR THERE
I WILL NOT EAT THEM ANYWHERE
I WILL NOT EAT GREEN EGGS AND HAM
I DO NOT LIKE THEM, SAM-I-AM!)

#ChaseForBookNine

Star Inkbright said...

*hugs Jubi*

DANKE!!! :)

#ChaseForBookNine

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

*hugs back*

YOU'RE WELCOME!!!

Chione Asahina said...

Yes I am there. I am there with Dr Zeus.

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

HEY ANOTHER COMMENT!!

Star Inkbright said...

Maybe I should just be saying thigns like 'Avenged Sevenfold foREVer' to fill up the comments . . . :P

Avenged Sevenfold foREVer!!!

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Chione Asahina said...

Star, you speak German?

Star Inkbright said...

@Jubi: OH MY GOSH ANBOTHER COMMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!! *screams*

@Gemma: Yay! Is it nice over there? :)

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

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

Technically, though, I have two deds to do and you can take one of them, if you like.

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

I CALL GETTING THE LAST 2 COMMENTS, OK? xP

Star Inkbright said...

@Gemma: I speak some.
I've just finished year nine and I've been learning it in school.

However, I realise that that isn't excatly perfect German. You know Mithria? She's German, and the other day she told me and Taia that "Ich bin gut" wasn't a converstaionally accurate substitute for "I'm good" when someone asks you "How are you?"

XD

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Chione Asahina said...

Yes, it is very nice there
The wind blowing in my hair
The grass on my toes
Thats as far as this poem goes

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

*claps* that's a beautiful poem, Gemma! xP

Star Inkbright said...

FABI!!!!! :)

ACTUALLY

I JUST REMEMBERED THAT I HAVE A DED FROM THE OTHER DAY I NEVER DID. *facepalm*

All that and then . . .

I HATE MYM MEMORY SOMETIMES. :P

*hugs Fabi* Thanks, though. :)

So.

THe ded will be on the next comment.

Really sorry, everyone. :(

Chione Asahina said...

"Wie gehts?" And you can reply "gut, night gut, O.K, prima, fantastisch, wonderbar" stuff like that

Star Inkbright said...

Okay, so my mum and granddad were having this debate, and I was listening to it and kept crying, so I thought I'd tell you it, depressing though the subject matters may be. Don't expect to cry - one of the contributing factors was how my mum said it, and I can't put that into writing. :(

My granddad said that this old lady had recently died in hospital of dehydration, beacuse nobody had been giving her water. Apparently her family had been taking her in ice lollies beacuse her lips were so dry and cracked. And he was saying that you would have thought that somebody would have noticed, and that what had happened to basic human instinct?
And my mum, who just quit being a youth worker, said that it was because they had so many things on their checklist, so nobody noticed.
And my granddad was saying, well, it's common sense! If I was a nurse, and I saw an old lady who was dehydrated, I would give her some water! It takes two seconds to go and fill a glass with water, and I would do that no matter how many things I had to do, because it's simple human kindness.
And my mum said in reply that the thing was, there was too much management. There were too many people being managers, and that the manager would have to manage this amount of things to get his pay check, so he'd tell everyone that the top priority was to go and count the number of computers in the computer labs and that, so he'd have something to tell them to do. And the thing was, everyone got burdened down with these simple, pointless tasks, and if they didn't do them they wouldn't get their pay checks. And it gets so wearisome, and nobody's doing what they enjoy, that eventually they just get in the mental state of just doing everything on their checklist. So the nurse who was hecking the old lady's blood pressure wouldn't have been thinking about the old lady and if she was okay, she'd've been thinking that she had to log the result in her computer so people could see she'd done it and then do the next thing on her checklist. And she said that she was getting this in her job, and you just stop really caring about people, and just do what you have to do. People stop using their human instincts.

TBC.

Star Inkbright said...

And he also said - there is no such thing as an overworked nurse. In the olden days, each nurse treated forty patients in a day and every one of them came out happy and healthy.
To which my mum said - and they wouldn't have felt overworked and stressed, because they were doing what they loved doing. The problem is is that nowadays, things are so managed and measured that people don't just let people go and be human, and that's what needs to be done. She says that in youth work, you have to spend ages getting to know the young person and getting them to trust you, and that if you just run straight at people you'll get their backs up, but that obviously management won't think about this. They'll just say, right, you have six months to aolve this problem. (She's said previously that you can't just set deadlines for these things. In the old days, you had to try and help people, and you'd stop when the problem was completed. If you don't get it done in six months, is it okay to just drop it and leave people without any absense to their problems?)
And she said, kindness can't be measured, and they mostly think about things you can measure, and that's why they've gone into management, whereas the people like her how realise about this stuff have gone into her kinds of jobs.
(Background information: my mum knows this person called Nathan, and he was one of the teenagers she worked with, and then he was being a youth worker like her and they're really good friends. I think she thinks about him in the same way as I think about Maraness. Because she's like my perfect little sister. And a lot of I think about with the perfect part but without the little sister part, because you're around my age or older, and that's why I said Maraness, so nobody get all hurt or anything. Yes.) And she asked Nathan once what the thing that helped him the most was, and he said it was that she didn't give up, and that when he didn't turn up to stuff and showed no interest she was still alwasy texting him about this and that and still kept trying. But now, if people don't turn up to three appointments, you're not meant to continue working with them. You're not allowed to go into the reasons why they weren't turning up, and by just giving up, who are you helping?
My mum says that youth work is just magic, creating those bonds and all that, but she says that magic can't be measured, and it's all disappearing. People - her included - just start roboticly doing everything on their checklists because they just can't be bothered anymore.
You know how we say Blogland is magic? You know how we love each other and we're family? You know how people like us Bloglandians are just so perfect? You know how when you're trying to tell someone how perfect they are, you can never do it beacuse that sort of thing just can't be put in words? It's that kind of magic. You can't put it in words, you can't measure it, and it's all going down the drain.

I dedicate to that magic. May you survive foREVer. (Sorry, couldn't resist. :( However, the world is slighlty less magical now the Rev's dead, so it's vaguely appropriate?)

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Anonymous said...

@Gemma: That was good^^

Star Inkbright said...

@Gemma: I know. Just, apparently "Ich bin gut" is more used for saying you're good at something, and we didn't know, and O_O.

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Star Inkbright said...

@Gemma: Nice poem! :)

HI MITHRIA!

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Anonymous said...

@Star: Yep, that's true^^
Ha, you didn't expect me to come back, did you? :D

Star Inkbright said...

Mara is still the best poet ever, though. I'm sorry. XD

"Tadra is a ship
Ship rhymes with lip
Lip rhymes with ship
Tadra is a ship"

"Tadra
Is
A
Ship
That
Is
All."

Genius. *sobs into lacy handkerchief*

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Star Inkbright said...

@Mithria: Nope. XD

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

Amazing ded, Star :)

Star Inkbright said...

@Jubi: Thanks. :)

Listening to the real thing was better. :)

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

That ded...

Whoa...

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Dragona Pine said...

Hello.



To those who are not aware there is a brand new part of my ME fanfiction up (Star, I don't think you've read it yet).


http://masseffectfanfiction.blogspot.co.uk

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

Yeah, amazing.

It'll make the speech I'm putting up sometime today look silly.

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Star Inkbright said...

@Fabi: Thanks. :) :) :)
Like I said, the real thing was better. :)

I was just sitting there crying. D:

I was in the otehr room, so I don't even think they knew I heard them, but yeah. :P

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Dragona Pine said...

Oh crap I didn't mean to do that...

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

NO!!! I DIDN'T GET THE LAST 2 COMMENTS!!!

Chione Asahina said...

Im very artistic, I like writing songs, poems, stories, tried writing a book, I draw a lot... my new profile picture was SP that I drew. Most of the time, my words come out as rhyme.

Anonymous said...

Will be distant, watching a movie on youtube^^

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