Monday, September 9, 2013

Let ME Eat Cake!

When I meet people, I no longer say "Hi, I'm Derek Landy, pleased to meet you." Now I say "Hi, I'm number one bestselling author Derek Landy. Worship me." And it's because of YOU that I can say this, because once again you have blasted a Skulduggery Pleasant book to the top of the book charts.

You guys rock.

Today is my first free day in... days. Which doesn't sound like a big deal, but it is! Today I bought groceries! GROCERIES! Oooooh! 

I've had a few days of highly successful signings, and when I say highly successful, I mean they went on for WAY longer than expected. That kinda drains when they come one after another, but I manage to keep my energy up by soaking up the pain and anguish LSODM has caused you. So it's all good.

Now, fair enough, these three don't look PARTICULARLY traumatised, but I assure you they were crying on the inside.


And this Minion had to put her pain down on canvas in order to deal!


And this one gave me cake! CAKE!



And now that I have a few days off before the Manchester and Liverpool signings this Saturday, what am I going to do?

That's right, I'm going to plot out Book Nine, and discover new ways to ruin your happiness. 

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

Adra drop le fox

(( o.o me got in the play))

Noelle said...

Jesus, it's just a fox, Zafira...

((Woohoo!))

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

Its a bad fox!

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

Sorry wbvd/msd i got to go to bio soon...we doing lab so i may not be here

Noelle said...

It's a good fox! What in God's name makes it bad?

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

It POSSED you. Possessed!

Administrator Kestrel LeStarre-Sparrowhawk The Celestial said...

Hiya! *doesn't know how long I'll be here*

Noelle said...

Hi Kessie-

And that isn't quite what happened, Zaf. My cognitive functions unhinged, and I was hallucinating.

Administrator Kestrel LeStarre-Sparrowhawk The Celestial said...

Hi Adra!

Nope, it was definitely the fox.

Noelle said...

Kessie, wh-

WERE YOU EVEN THERE?

Administrator Kestrel LeStarre-Sparrowhawk The Celestial said...

Probably not. I've spent the past half hour reading comments, though.

Noelle said...

Ah.


It wasn't the fox.

((Wbd for a bit))

Administrator Kestrel LeStarre-Sparrowhawk The Celestial said...

OH ADRA ADRA ADRA I HAVE SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO SAY.


























































hi.

Administrator Kestrel LeStarre-Sparrowhawk The Celestial said...

What wasn't the fox?

Administrator Kestrel LeStarre-Sparrowhawk The Celestial said...

Dammit, I've got to go. Valete!

Noelle said...

The mind control. It was a projection of my subconscious onto him

Ebony Law said...

Does everyone here think that Miley Cyrus straddling a wrecking ball whilst naked and making out with a sledgehammer is slutty and/or disgusting?

Noelle said...

Ah. Vale, Kessie!

Noelle said...

Uhm....

I wouldn't know

Ebony Law said...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=My2FRPA3Gf8

Watch all of it. Yes there's nudity, but not explicit nudity. I will change your mind after the video.

Jophiel said...

Damn, missed Kessie...

Noelle said...

Uh, can't. I'm at school

Ebony Law said...

So what if you're at school?

Jophiel said...

It's probably blocked. YouTube is blocked at my school on the school computers, not iPods and school laptops!!

Noelle said...

Um, in school. In class. I'm not about to pull out my earphones and get a demerit for a silly pop star's music video

Jophiel said...

(Sorry, I'm only on here because I'm trying to get out of a pissy mood...))

Ebony Law said...

(Always a good reason)

Jophiel said...

(Eh, usually... In this case, yeah, I can talk to you too!))

Why are we talking in brackets...?

Jophiel said...

Okay... I'm going to sleep... Night...

Noelle said...

Night-

wbd

Jophiel said...

Sorry, I just found something really funny...

Billy-Ray Sanguine comes up as the top search in Google when you type in 'Billy-Ray'!

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

No way....SANGUINE?! Derek be proud

Jophiel said...

He beats Billy-Ray Cyrus!

Okay. I'm actually alseep now.

Noelle said...

*cuddles Dimka*

Anonymous said...

Anyone around?

Anonymous said...

Hm... I'll leave then...

Anonymous said...

*flys away*

Noelle said...

Hi! Sorry, we were doing something in bio...I'll still be distant until... 12:45.. Lunch. I'm not sure what that is your time

Maralie Lily Charm said...

Baaaack from schoooooool

Omg my friend's laugh is hysterical omf XD

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Noelle said...

Hi Mara :3

Maralie Lily Charm said...

Damn sorry homework bbs

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Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

Hi everyone! How are you all?

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Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

Hi Dragona! How are you?

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Dragona Pine said...

I'm good! And I've chosen a title for myself so yay :D

How are you?

Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

I'm good-ish. Laptop is pissing me off though.

What do ya mean, title for yourself????

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Star Inkbright said...

*is here*

But I might be distant. I think I'll do more homework . . .

Homework is so fun. I just love it. I spend the whole day longing to get home and do it. Whenever a teacher gives me some, I scream and dance around the classroom with sheer joy. It is the meaning of life. My definition of heaven is homework, homework and more homework.

WHAT? WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'M BEING SARCASTIC? NO! HOW DARE YOU? WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU THINK THAT?

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Dragona Pine said...

Your title is "Flower Knight, Friend Of River Cross" etc.

Mine is now "N7 Engineer"

It's a Mass Effect title.

N7 is special forces. Like the best of the best of the best. Trained in LOTS of situations (including zero-gravity) and stuff like that. Like seriously - the BEST.

Then engineer is a class based in tech powers. Combat drone (small holographic spheres that can shoot things - and talk. Yay!), Incinerate (the power to incinerate people's armour) and Overload (electrical pulse that can disrupt electronic thingies and ALSO temporarily incapacitate a human. Or alien)

I am one on Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer. ^^

Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

Oh right

Hi Star! How are you? Apart from the homework.

Hi Jonhathon!! Nice to meet you! (I'll just call ya John if you don't mind)

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Edward Fletcher said...

sure rhydian, i changed my name from edward

Star Inkbright said...

Hi Rhydian, Dragone, Johnathon, anyone else! :)

@Rhydian: I suppose I'm probably good. How are you? :)

Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

*facepalms* Ed...why do you keep changing your name?

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Dragona Pine said...

Hey Star!

Edward Fletcher said...

i change my name because i kill off all my characters in the roleplay

Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

I'm good Star! Except my laptop is pissing me off and now my phone is. *sighs* I'm gunna have to go soon.

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Star Inkbright said...

*Dragona
Sorry, phone and short fingernails. :/ I'm correctly most typos but occasionally I miss a few.

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Dragona Pine said...

Ooh! In the roleplay can I from now on use the Engineer powers?

Noelle said...

*tackles everyone to the ground*

HI

Star Inkbright said...

@Rhydian: :( Devices can be stupid sometimes.

*correcting

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Edward Fletcher said...

sure dragona

Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

HI ADRA! How are you?

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Dragona Pine said...

Yay!



*summons little combat drone*


I name you... Cheese!

Noelle said...

WAIT

FROM LSODM ENGINEER?

Because if so... Not now, I say. Spoilers. But if you don't care about anyone else's experience with the book, go ahead


Hey Rhydian. *lifts up fox* DIMKA

Star Inkbright said...

Hi Adra! :)

@Dragona: I guess so. :)

Hunter had this nightmare that included rainbow lollipop trees which tasted of liquorice. :)
I kind of want to draw a rainbow lollipop tree, now. :P

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Dragona Pine said...

Adra... no... not at all. A Mass Effect Engineer.

Dragona Pine said...

Cheese: *floats in the middle of everyone* Greetings.

Star Inkbright said...

@Adra: No, Mass Effect. :)

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Noelle said...

RIGHT.

Sorry. I just about killed you, Dragona. Sorry

Dragona Pine said...

It's alright, don't worry about it.

Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

*is planning an epic rp*

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Star Inkbright said...

@Rhydian: Yay! :)

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Dragona Pine said...

Star, do you have time to read my Mass Effect/Skulduggery Pleasant crossover?

Noelle said...

*shoves Dimka in his face*

RHYDIAN..


DIMKA

Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

WTF IS A DINKA!?!?!.

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Edward Fletcher said...

back, had to eat tea

Star Inkbright said...

@Dragona: Not this moment, doing homework (HOMEWORK, GLORIOUS HOMEWORK
WE'RE ANXIOUS TO KILL IT
100 PIECES PER DAY
OUR FAVOURITE VICTIM

. . . Oh, wait, that doesn't rhyme.
WHATEVER. -_-), but probably at some point today. :)

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Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

Dimka**

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Noelle said...

MY FENNEC FOX, RHYDIAN.

HE IS ADORABLE, HOW DARE YOu

Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

*looks at fox* He's cute!

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

Kill the fox and Dragona couldnt be the Engineer....think. Thats all ill say

Star Inkbright said...

BULLET HALF RHYMES WITH KILL IT . . .

'On it, we use our bullets'?

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Noelle said...

*the fox hisses at him*

*laughs*

Noelle said...

IF YOU KILL MY FOX, I WILL KILL YOUR SOUL

Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

*glares at fox*

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Dragona Pine said...

Zaf, not THE Engineer. A Engineer. From Mass Effect. Engineers haven't got any ridiculous powers, though. ^^

Noelle said...

*the fox scrambles onto her shoulder, growling*

Ahem.
Rhydian, please don't attack the fox. He's a kind creature. And small.

Edward Fletcher said...

*places rabbit on foxes head*

Noelle said...

*puts the rabbit down before the fox eats it*

Johnathon, common sense, please. Hierarchy or predators here

Noelle said...

*of

Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

I wasn't going to Adra. It just hissed at me for no reason. All I did was glare

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Edward Fletcher said...

ok adra *places lion on foxes head* now the fox wont kill anything

Dragona Pine said...

Tea brb


*exits and Cheese flickers before disappearing*

Noelle said...

*puts the stuffed lion on the ground*
What.

*grabs the fox and he curls up in her arms* Quit trying to squish him.


And good, Rhydian. Because then I would have to unfriend you.

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

I got an idea! *shoots fox* MSD maths quiz...

Edward Fletcher said...

*melts bullet before it hits fox*

Noelle said...

Thank you, Johnathon. *glares at Zafira* I must unfriend you now. Apologies.

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

KILL THE FOX

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

You dont even like me ANYWAY *sulks*

Star Inkbright said...

Oh my gosh, today . . .

You know how I have a tall friend and a short friend and the tall one makes fun of the short one?
Seriously, she has some remark about her height every day. :P
Anyway . . . My tall friend makes fun of my short friend for other things as well, and one is her voice. She says she always talks in a really high-pitched voice (in reality, it's just sometimes, like when she's protesting things. Which is amusing when she's protesting she hasn't got a high-pitched voice :P). And today my tall friend was kneeling on the floor talking in a high-pitched voice as an impression of my short friend AND IT WAS JUST SO FUNNY. XD

. . . You sort of had to be there. XD

This height making fun of is done in a friendly way, btw. They're best friends, my tall friebd and my short friend . . .

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Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

Zaf what do ya have against the fox?

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

Idk...bye quiz

Noelle said...

Star, my brother and I were once out on the water on an inflatable watertube, being pulled behind the boat... my da was driving like a bat out of hell, MEANING to throw us off and he screamed higher than I did... Needless to say, I fell off from laughter.

Noelle said...

She's under the impression that the fox has a conscience because it told me depressing things once, spoke to me- but in reality, it was my own subconsciousness projecting onto him in the form of a hallucination

Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

Gtg now. Continue building my Tardis in Blogland Minecraft. Bye!!!

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Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

Back. My sis is on the computer. BITCH!!!!

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Star Inkbright said...

@Adra: XD

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Noelle said...

*laughs* Ha

You, me and Em ought to have another google hangouts sometime.... *nods*

Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

Yeah Ads. But next time we need to talk about something. Not just laugh

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Noelle said...

WELL, Em and I made fun of each other the whole time and bickered.
We're fun people :3


Yeah that was fun. I'm smiling now remembering it.
People are staring
Goddamn

Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

Gtg in two mins. :(

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Lewis Ravenscroft / Rhydian Blake said...

Gtg now :(

I'll go on Minecraft asap. Bye y'all!!!

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Noelle said...

*waves* Bye Rhydan! *hugs*

Noelle said...

LOL. He said "y'all". My southern ways are taking over.

*laughs maniacally*

Star Inkbright said...

@Adra: Sometimes I want to say y'all . . . Then I think what an odd word it is and don't. :P
No offense, btw. We have plenty of odd words. :)

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Noelle said...

Yeah I know Star ;D

Y'all.
*grins*

*swings Dimka around*

Edward Fletcher said...

*melts into puddle of lava*

Noelle said...

Um. You alright there, Johnathon?

Edward Fletcher said...

im fine, going treasure hunting

Noelle said...

Huh. Alright then.

*murmurs to Dimka* What does a fox say?

Edward Fletcher said...

*arm reaches out and drags fox through*

Noelle said...

NO

*jumps after them*

NO YOU DON'T

Edward Fletcher said...

*jumps out into erupting volcanoe and holds fox above lava* one more step and i drop it

Star Inkbright said...

NO!

*tries to think of way to attack Johnathon without risjing Dimka's life* *fails*

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Edward Fletcher said...

*lava rises to exactly one inch beneath Dimka*

Noelle said...

*stands in shock* No... Stop it.


((Okay so my friend just showed me a 9/11 poem at lunch.. Me and another girl cried... And now I'm just about to start sobbing oh my shit oh my shit NOPE. TOO LATE))

Edward Fletcher said...

*places dimka in adras hair and volcanoe glitches*

Star Inkbright said...

*screams*
JOHNATHON IF YOU DARE GET DIMKA LAVAIFIED I'LL PUSH YOU IN, OKAY???

((Btw: in real life you'd both be literally burning alive this close to it from the heat it gives off. Just saying. This isn't real lifr, sp it's okay. It could be speckle lava.))

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Maralie Lily Charm said...

Same Love is like the Larry theme song omf

MY MAM'S GETTING ME SKITTLES AND RANCHEROS OMG ILH

I really should be doing homework um

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Star Inkbright said...

. . . Glitching is good, bad?

@Adra: :( :( :(

Oh, wait, is it 9/11 TODAY???
Oh yeah, it is . . . *facepalm*

Last year, all you Americans were coming on saying sad stuff and we were all like "*looks at calender* Oh, it's today? Didn't realise."

Although, it's odd, because we do our dates like:
11/9/13
Whereas you do them like:
9/11/13
So 9/11 for us is kind of 11/9.

But yeah . . .
*hugs Adra* Sadness is sad. :(

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Noelle said...

((Yeah lol lava

but then I almost had a breakdown because of my da and stuff...

Yay))

*cuddles Dimka*

Star Inkbright said...

HEY MARA! :)

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Star Inkbright said...

Bbs, dinner/tea.

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

The next time you google hangout add me. Or no sorry forgot nobidy cares to add me.

*vanishes for PE*

Noelle said...

You weren't on, Mrs. I-Jump-To-Conclusions.

Hi Mara

Star Inkbright said...

I love pasta and green pesto and chicken with broken crisps on the top . . . :)

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Ieni Lorarté-Strider said...

I just bashed my head onto the stairs xD It's one of those ow-that-hurts but is very funny things xD

9/11, today:(

Very msd.

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Star Inkbright said...

@Ieni: Ow! But I'm glad you found it funny. :)

Hi!

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Maralie Lily Charm said...

A = {1, 3, 5, 7, 9}

i. List the eight subsets of A.
ii. Write down a proper subset for A.
iii. Wirte down an improper subset for A.

WHAT ARE YOU ON ABOUT

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Ieni Lorarté-Strider said...

Hey, Star!!!:) *ninjaeroplanetacklehugs*
I MESSED UP YOUR BIRTHDAY THING BTW:/

What's pesto...?
I've never had chicken. I wonder what it tastes like.

Hey, Mara!!!:) *ninajeroplanetacklehugs*
Ugh, I have no idea:/ Sorry:/

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

HELLOOO
class starts soon so msd

Noelle said...

Hi bye people??

yeah, Ieni...

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

ok I gtg now

BAI

Noelle said...

Bye! *hugs*

Ieni Lorarté-Strider said...

Hey, Jubi, Adra!!:)

Bye, Jubi:( *hugs*

It was like the time in P.E when I fell over and at first I thought I was okay, but then I checked my knees and elbows and um I wasn't and everyone was looking at me in horror and because I was dripping blood from my elbows and I just thought it was funny because they were all looking at me as if I had just broken my leg and that made me grin, because it was funny. I can't even remember the point to this story but

Mumford and Sons is on the radio<3

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Maralie Lily Charm said...

*hugs Ieni* Me neither XD
Oh well, I SHALL STRUGGLE ON *sighs dramatically*

I really shouldn't be here omg stop dragging me back here

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Noelle said...

Right here we go.

Religion class. 9/11.
This is making me sad.

God.

I'll be distant. Wish me luck. I'll just go ahead and say I'm going to cry so I don't have to tell yo ual labout it later. But I will make a speech

Maralie Lily Charm said...

*hugs Adra*

If my mum didn't leave three years before 9/11 to come back to Ireland... /:

She worked in the exact floor that was hit. Scary stuff...

RIP to anyone who died in 9/11 ❤

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Dragona Pine said...

Hello again.

Star Inkbright said...

@Mara: Hmm. Difficult language . . .

By 'proper subset', does it mean 'nth term'?
And by 'eight subsets', does it mean 'write out the first eight numbers in this sequence'?
. . . By 'improper subset', could it possibly mean 'rule', like 'add two'?
Um.
*doesn't really know*
Subsets and that A thing? Never done that. :P

@Ieni: Pesto! YOu know, like sauce stuff, except yeah. When you have green pesto pasta, you have pasta covered in all this green stuff. :)
And, I like chicken. Chicken is my favourite meat. :)
But I can't really say how it tastes like . . . :/

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Dragona Pine said...

*activates Cheese*




*Cheese (orange, holographic combat drone) appears*

Cheese: Greetings.

Star Inkbright said...

*hugs Adra* :(
Good luck, then, since you asked me to wish it you. :)

@Mara: :O THAT'S SCARY. D:

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Ieni Lorarté-Strider said...

*hugs Adra* :(
It didn't really hit me properly until last year and I watched this video of people jumping out of the buildings and you could see the ties flailing and you could see the ties and...that's when I realised, properly, these were real people.

Oh, my God, Mara. That's very scary.

THAT SOUNDS DISGUSTING STAR OMG

Hey, Dragona!!:)

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Maralie Lily Charm said...

Star - ... I have no clue. *laughs* XD
See, I was sick the day our class was learning it, but my teacher's clueless and didn't know that, even though I told her. So -.-"

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Dragona Pine said...

Is anyone planning an RP tonight?

Maralie Lily Charm said...

Yeah. /:

She worked in a design studio, I think. But it closed down three years before, and she moved back to Ireland. We were watching a programme about 9/11 last night, and she said she remembers when I was two, she sat me down on the couch and turned on Sky News, and then she saw the Twin Towers and she said she started crying because she knew people who worked there... :(

That's all she told me, though, because she started to get teary-eyed and I didn't want to push too far.

*hugs everyone*

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Ieni Lorarté-Strider said...

*hugs Mara tightly back* :(

Oh my God, I just realised. 911 is America's emergency number and all the 911 calls on 9/11...Did the terrorists do that on purpose?

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Star Inkbright said...

@Mara: :( Oh, my gosh . . .

@Ieni: WHAT???
Green pesto is awesome! :(

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Noelle said...

Yes Ieni. *facepalm*

Star Inkbright said...

@Adra: I'm sorry, we don't do about it here! I didn't know that . . .

We only really know what we get vaguely told. The most I know is from fiction books I've read, like TimeRiders . . .

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Noelle said...

Oh Gods...

Yeah.

It isn't pretty.
...

And now Obama could bring us to war. I don't want to get drafted. oh godskdifubkalwicdj

Star Inkbright said...

@Adra: Gah. I am pretty against war . . .

England just went to war. *nods*

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Noelle said...

..America needs to wait with this. Trans- Atlantics often escalate into full-blown...

I'll be going to Canada, thanks

Ieni Lorarté-Strider said...

The only clips I saw of it growing up was the ones on the news and stuff and I didn't really understand it. It wasn't until I was older that I started looking into it, because that's why we're in Afghanistan and a relative of mine used to serve there.

This is England. People don't tell you anything.

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Noelle said...

Heh...

It's just... Scary

Star Inkbright said...

@Adra: :(
I know.

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Maralie Lily Charm said...

@Harry_Styles: Love and prayers to anyone affected by 9/11. We will never forget.

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Star Inkbright said...

*hugs Mara*


We won't . . .

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Dragona Pine said...

Back, sorry.

Noelle said...

I'll put my ded up later...

Yeah.

But then there's the Syrian conflicts right now that are concerning... If America goes anyway, Russia... And then-

It's just awful.

Star Inkbright said...

WB, Dragona . . .

Oh, hey, I can read your crossover now. :)

@Adra: :(
Conflict = bad. :/

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Dragona Pine said...

Yay Star!

Ieni Lorarté-Strider said...

I should probably go do my homework now:/
Byeeeee!!!! *hugs*

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Dragona Pine said...

I really think we should adopt the same monetary system that they have on Mass Effect.

At the minute, economy relies on material. Like money would be worthless without gold to 'back it up' with.
On Mass Effect though, money is electronic. There's no inflation because there is a large group of Volus (who are extremely good at managing money), who make sure the prices stay stable, no matter what happens.
Yes, there are other monetary systems. Like dollars etc. But the galactic currency is credits. And everyone gets a fair exchange rate when they trade their conventional money in for credits.

It's a rather good system. It doesn't have to have ANY value - actually credits are completely worthless - but there are people who MAKE it worth things by keeping prices stable. They manage it and make sure that credits are still worth something.

Star Inkbright said...

:( FOURS IENI!

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Rose Black said...

Hey :D

Dragona Pine said...

Because at the moment, every economy is going to fail. And it's already failing.

And there's nothing we can do to stop it. Yay.

Dragona Pine said...

Hey Rose! How are you?

Noelle said...

So here’s my dedication…
I’d like to dedicate to all of those who died and were affected by September 11, 2001. But not only them- but the people who are suffering in Syria, and other countries with oppression. No human being deserves to be treated with misuse, and no one should have to go through that. Hopefully no one will be too rash or unreasonable, and hopefully, people won’t start to flex their muscles. If that happens, people will begin to take sides, and… That could mean war. Not just a two-country war, but multiple countries. We are all people, but no one should be oppressed and killed in mass genocide. That’s wrong. So if everything goes right- this will end.
But to all of you who may or may not be scared because of it- I am too. I really am. I don’t want anything to happen. I don’t want more death. Unfortunately, it’s inevitable. But I want you all to know that I love you all. So much. I never want anything to happen to you and I’ve cried three times today about this. Don’t any of you guys be stupid, okay? You all mean too much for that.
*hugs*






I’ve lost where I was going with this…

*raises glass* Hear hear, I guess. Be safe.

Noelle said...

ALSO

LEMME TELL YA

Al Qaeda is to Muslims as Westboro Baptist is to Christians.
It pisses me off when people say all middle easterns are terrorists.

If you do,
YOU'RE BEING A DICK

Star Inkbright said...

Do you remember when Derek posted the cover of LSODM?

I was reading all the first few comments on the ferry, because we were going to the Netherlands, and I remember just laughing because everyone cared so much more immensly about the Bently than about Val. It was like, "Oh no, poor Val!" and then, "OH MY GOSH, IS THAT THE /BENTLY/!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! *sobs*"

XD
ANd they just went on about the Bently for ages.
And Val got, like, barely a mention. XD

Fun times. :)

Did I mention about seeing our Dutch friends in Germany? We had to drive through the Netherlands to get to our campsite in Germany; we were right near the Netherlands, so. Our Dutch friends texted us saying they were coming back from Berlin (they'd been there for their holiday) and where were we and could we meet up, and we told them where we were, and they drove to our campite and we saw them for a few hours. :)
It was fun.

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Dragona Pine said...

Star, thanks for the comment on my story. I'm glad you liked it - even though everyone died xD

Edward Fletcher said...

back and hear hear adra

Noelle said...

*huggles her fox, sitting on her swing*

Star Inkbright said...

@Adra: *hugs* Hear, hear . . . That ded was really good. *smiles*
And . . . I suppose . . . Read the ded. Because it means stuff.

You're right, and I then, WAR IS BAD BECAUSE LOADS OF PEOPLE DIE AND UNFAIRNESS AND BADNESS.
And then I'm like, BUT WAR AGAINST HITLER AND STUFF WAS GOOD BEACUSE HE WAS COMMITING GENOCIDE.
And then I'm like, BUT ALL WAR IS REALLY BAD.
And then I'm like, SO WHATEVER WAY YOU TURN IT'S BADNESS AND DEATH.
And then I'm like, um.

But I think I mostly disagree with war. Because war is BAD. And if war is preventing badness . . . then whether or not you go to war, it's bad, so I don't know.

I guess, the world is bad, and the world has badness in it. Like war. Which is always bad.

Um.

:/

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Dragona Pine said...

Star, the world is not bad. People are the only bad ones. We need to stop making wars about trivial matters and just concentrate on SURVIVING.

Noelle said...

It's a lose-lose situation.
It's sad how death is brushed off today. In literature... Television... It doesn't effect us as much. It's sad.

*right*
*should stop now*

*hums, scratching dimka's ears*

Noelle said...
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Star Inkbright said...

*think

Not then.

@Dragona: If everyone dying in stories was bad, my sequence of chapters I'm (sort of) (slowly) (sometimes) writing is over 90% bad character-wise. XD

Ten out of eleven people die. It's epic. *nods*

I've killed off most of them now. But I'm getting bored of all the death scenes . . . I'm just writing the same kind of thing over and over again, you know? :P

And, yeah. Getting carried away.

YOUR STORY WAS GOOD.

*nods*

@Adra: I would tell you not to be scared, but I think we should be, kind of . . . :/

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Dragona Pine said...

Adra, in SOME literature and television. And in SOME video games too.
That's why I like Mass Effect. You don't just shoot people without a reason. You get to see the consequences of war and how it affects... everyone. Like you have to help refugees who have had their homes destroyed by war. And every decision you make, ultimately, can lead to the death of a character who you have gotten to know. It is... emotional? More so than any other media concerning death that I've seen/read/played.

Maralie Lily Charm said...

*hugs Adra*

THANK FUCK FOR SOMEONE ACTUALLY SAYING THAT

DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE COME ALONG AND SAY "ZAYN DID 9/11 CAUSE HE'S MUSLIM!!!!!1!!1!11 HE'S A TERRORIST!!!!11!-!1!-!"

OH SORRY I CAN'T FUCKING HEAR YOU OVER THE 500,000+ LIVES HE SAVED

*seethes*

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Dragona Pine said...

Uh Maralie, I've never heard ANYONE say that... Then again I've never heard anyone mention the band either xD

Noelle said...

*nods to Mara*

Yeah... *sits there*

We need an Rp

Flashlight tag, you guys

Noelle said...

Brb

Dragona Pine said...

One minute. Just uploading a programme to Cheese.


*uploads flashlight programme*


Done. Now he won't kill anyone whilst he lights them up.

Dragona Pine said...

It's nearly weekend tomorrow so yay.

Maralie Lily Charm said...

Someone even made a SONG about "Zayn doing 9/11'

HE WOULD HAVE BEEN ELEVEN YEARS OLD

ARE YOU SAYING AN ELEVEN YEAR OLD WAS A TERRORIST

*is on a rant*

And, fyi, ZAYN MALIK IS THE GUY WHO SAVED 500,000+ LIVES, REMEMBER? FOR COMIC RELIEF?!

THAT'S A MILLION POUNDS DONATED TO THOSE KIDS OUT THERE WHO COULD DIE WITHOUT A VACCINE WHICH COSTS £5.

So you're saying he's a terrorist. Well. -.-

*screams*





Okay I'm done.

Sorry.

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Star Inkbright said...

@Adra: I love how I just proved your point there with my comment right behind yours AND I DIDN'T SEE YOURS. :P
People are getting less affected by death. And it's kind of bad . . . Because real death is horrible.

Yeah. Lose-lose situation. :(

@Dragona: I know. Humanity sucks. I have said so before and probably will again.

We're destroyed ourselves, and we're dragging the other living creatures in the world down with us.

. . .
We suck.

I used to be really passionate about how awful we were, you know? But now I've told people they're awesome so much that I totally believe it myself, and I can see how awesome people are, and people are awesome. And they suck as well, obviously.
I say that you can't have the good aspects of a person without the bad (because you can't), and it's the same for large groups of people, or just people in general. We're good, but because we're good, we're also bad.
. . .
There is so much bad about us.

We're basically choking the world. We're crawling all over it and multiplying and covering it all up and soon we'll be crawling on top of each other. We're like string, starting to wrap round once or twice, and then being wrapped round quite a bit, and soon the world wll just look like a ball of string and it won't be able to breathe and it'll choke up and die and BADNESS.
In food chains, if there are too many of one species, they start dying off beacuse there isn't enough food and reasources and shelter for them all. We're doing that. We're using up everything, and then it'll all be gone, we'll fight over the remains, and we'll both metaphorically and literally starve to death.
We'll kill us, the world and everything in it, and . . . any good we do, or did . . . it'll sink down into the sea when we drown and get washed away like scribblings on the sand.

In the end, the bad will override all the good.






. . .

What is the point, really?

. . . I know this is yet another star metaphor, but I like star metaphors, so: humanity is like a star. We come into the world, we burn bright, and then we explode and die. Unfortunately, we take the world out with us in our explosion. :(
And you might think, 'what is the point'? But I guess the point is that whilst stars exist, they glow and shine and light up the world. They're suns. They allow life to live. They're some of what makes everything possible.
. . .
But then I guess you could say, what is the point when the planets we light up will die when we die?

. . .

I guess it's enough that life exists. Kind of. ANd I sort of think, in my mind . . . that living is, you know . . . it's sort of . . . Idk. You live, and that's good, and the goodness is worth the badness of dying and there being no point to your existence?

. . .
Balance.









. . .
You know, I'm still not totally sure of the point. :P

















I'm not really sure where on earth I'm going.

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Noelle said...

*sips some wine*

So.

Flashlight tag?
Hide, Go and Seek?
Capture the flag again?

Dragona Pine said...

Star, indeed. People CAN be awesome. But the nature of humanity is terrible. We should all be turtles or something xD

Maralie Lily Charm said...

zayn is so beautiful omg

can u not pls

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Dragona Pine said...

Cheese: Flashlight tag would be recommended. Software updates may need testing before prolonged use.

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