Reaction to the book is exactly what I'd been hoping for — shock and AWE. There have been MANY threats of violence and decapitation made against me, which I thoroughly deserve for what I've put you through.
All in all, people have been very good about not spoiling it for others, but dear god, there have been some exceptions. A few things on the Facebook page, a lot of stuff on Twitter, some stuff on Tumblr, and one of the very first Amazon reviews has a major spoiler. I don't understand the need to spoil things for others or to seek out spoilers for yourself, and I really can't understand why anyone would casually mention a plot twist without realising it could ruin things for others.
Basically, beware of the internet, Minions.
But on a lighter note, Orla came to a signing on Saturday and she gave me a photograph of the cake she'd had for her birthday.
Check it OUT.
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*climbs out the window and swings onto the roof*
Hm... Very, very tempted to start another afterparty, but my internet is being really slow right now and I can only be here for another hour and a half or so, maybe just hour, so that's probably not the best idea. I think I'll see if I can host on Thursday. *nods* Um. Anybody feel like truth or dare?
#ChaseForBook9
annddd... I AM BACK!!!
hello!!
(( I actually gtg in a few minutes- school tomorrow))
Wow. That's... That's pretty darn impressive, Adra. Congratulations.
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*deletes her siblings's numbers on her phone*
*writes furiously*
Ari; Sure!
Snow; Hi again! *tackleglomps*
Sparky; What're you doing?
*waves to Saph from roof*
Marvelling at how tall my treehouse got.
((Ok I kind of feel like writing now. What should I write?))
#ChaseForBook9
*nods* thank you!! But if is so much bigger than that. It's-
*phone rings*
...Roman?
Yes. Come by later.
No?
Because you helped teach me?
Uh, well... There was an accident...
..
..
..
I know.
Yes.
Thanks- appreciate it.
Yeah later,
See ya.
*hangs up, breathing out*
*straightens up*
AHEM
Ari; Dunno.
Going distant, I've remembered some stuff I have to do.
HEY I KNOW
THE ALASTAIR THING YOU SAID YOU WOULD DO AT THE HOSPITAL.
*hums*
((BECAUSE THAT WAS A LONG TIME AGO AND MY BIRTHDAY IS TOMORROW
OKAY
NO IT ISN'T
BUT YOU CAN PRETEND IT IS))
*taps her foot nervously*
*counts to three on her fingers over and over again*
I can't draw a frog.
So if when I show you all the animation, you see a green blob flopping around from lilypad to lilypad, just pretend it's an amphibian.
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*looks at fab* sure.... *is curious*
SORRY I POOFSD
changed terminals
Fabi; frogs are a weird shape.
((Right! Okay, I'll get right on it. Distant/msd.))
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It's nowhere near done. But yeah...
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Or maybe it's a MUTANT frog...
SPIDER FROG!!!
(I can't draw frogs. Or anything at all, for that matter.)
*eventually for subconscious and falls to the floor, asleep*
((GOOD NIGHT MY LOVLIES))
((Night, Adra))
((Neither can I-- Frogs, bananas, fashionable clothing... Can't draw any of that))
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*sits on the edge of the roof*
It really is very pretty...
Bye Adra! *hugs*
Snow; *Sings Spider-pig song, but changes it to spider-frog*
*Tackleglomps Ember* HI.
BYE ADRAAAAA
FAB: frogs are imposable to draw!
Sparky, yes, it is. Don't you dare fall off.
I SHALL MAKE SPARKY FALL!!!
*smiles down at her*
I wouldn't dream of it.
*grips the edge of the roof tightly and chuckles at Snow*
The roof is very hard to get onto.
*Gives Snow the evil eye* :P
•hugs Saph
Staph (yes, my phone still wants Saph to be Staph) you used to have an SS name, so the three of us should have an SS party.
((Damn you Aretha.
WE ARE GETTING TO IT
GOD DAMN
AND YES I WAS I AM CURIOUS
FUCK))
i am a teleporter... *looks at top of roof*
*teleports t=next to sparky*
hi!
HAHA! Wow, look at that, I'm already finished! Posted it to Nameless and everything! Now I need something else to write (and probably fall asleep halfway thought it, just as a warning).
#ChaseForBook9
g2g, byee!!
WHAT IF I DID SOMETHINE ELSESS
SPLZ
PLZ
PLZ
PLZ
I NEED TO KNOW I CAN'T COPY ON MY PHONE PLEASEDEEEEEEEEE
Ember; *Laughs* Yeah! And Sparky can serve us drinks, seeing as she's only SB ;P
I'm glad I changed my name though. This one suits me completely.
Bye Snow! *hugs*
*Goes to read Nameless*
*grumbles as Snow leaves*
My treehouse is protected against teleporters...
It always has been and always will be...
I'd really like people to stop teleporting into my house...
PLEASE ARIIIIII
...
I'll do that moment from the ball where Tadra BLEW THE HOUSE DOWN
TELL ME SO I CAN SLEEP AND I WILL WORK ON IT TOMORROW AT SCHOOL, OKAY?
Read it XD
...That sounds awfully familiar. Just saying. :-P
Ember, if you want, you can run into Saph and invite her?
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Hey, Ari, can I join the Nameless? I really want to write about the Ball :) sapphireiota@gmail.com
Please?
-_- fine
I'll do it anyway.
NIC TELL HER TO PLAY NICE
*falls back asleep on the floor*
Fabi; Me? What?
*is a little astounded* Wow... I wasn't even expecting that great of a reaction...
You mean you literally blew it down? Was I there?
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distant... :/
What are we talking about? What's happening? Invite her to what?
WHY IS KATY PERRY MARRYING JOHN MAYER
YOU JUST KNOW THIS IS NOT GONNA END WELL
Fabi; Is this about TSE?
*crosses legs and sighs*
I have absolutely no idea of what anyone's talking about and all of the people I already knew are gone...
*narrows eyes*
And I'm complaining like a little shit.
*stands up*
If you would all excuse me.
No just the bit where you started screaming Tadra
You write what I want
And I'll do Tadra.
Deal?
Deal.
Good.
GOOD NIGHT
Sparky; Nooo! Don't go!
Nameless is a blog where we write about role-playing.
@Sparky: I know you kind of!
....kind of!
And NO, YOU ARE NOT EXCUSED
SIT DOWN
AND EAT YOUR VEGGIES
The S party in Shunting Experiment.
Saph, do you mean to say there's actually someone who doesn't read the drafts before I publish them?
#ChaseForBook9
'Course, Saph! I'll send you the thing right now!
Ok, fine. I'll write the thing. And then I'll write some really feelsy stuff. Yay.
#ChaseForBook9
Bye Adra! *hugs*
Ember; *Whispers in ear* She's already eaten her veggies, dear.
Oh... Sorry, Sparky. :-(
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Ari. I'm on a phone. I can't read the Nameless. The whiteness.
Fabi; *Coughs* Well... uh... I've read a few...
Thanks Ari!
Ember; You wouldn't be able to read it anyway -_-
Invited you, Saph!
Ok, I just read Adra's "Nic, tell her to play nice!" and I'm trying very hard not to laugh...
#ChaseForBook9
GAMZEE HAS THE RING MGOSBDISBSISNE
*vaults back into my house and whistles as I walk to the second floor*
Fine. I'll stay.
GAMZEE HAS THE RING MGOSBDISBSISNE
Saph: •whispers in ear• well what about her fruits? Last time we had to feet them to the monkey because she said she was too full
TELL ME SOMEBODY READ THE HOMESTUCK UPDATE AND DIED LIKE I DID
Yay Sparky!
Now sit down. Eat the fruit. You know we don't waste.
I read it a few hours ago and my reaction was "That perfect asshole."
If there's anything you want me to explain, I can try my best.
#ChaseForBook9
Oh! Sorry, Sparky! Nameless isn't secret or, like, exclusive, or anything of the sort... In fact, it's been dead for a bit, but maybe now it'll pick up because of the ball. Um, anyway, it's just for writing about the roleplay. There was just this part that Adra really wanted me to write up, and- well, you can look. I pulled the same thing on her that she did me. ;)
#ChaseForBook9
I love Gamzee, though. Seriously. My love for Gamzee almost tops my love for Mycroft, and that's saying something.
I'm gonna disappear or go very distant to write :) Bye!
Oh, Ari?
You and Niccolo would attend the demonstration together, right?
And then if someone tried to attack you, you'd both try to restrain/interrogate that person?
I don't really have time to write the scene in detail, but I'd like to be able to describe it sort of accurately...
((This is for Shunting Experiment, a collaborated story which I am really failing at beginning))
#ChaseForBook9
Aw ;(
By the way, Saph, your ficversary is in five days. I think. In my time zone.
See you, Saph!
... I'm writing as well. Or animating. Or crocheting.
Or jumping back and forth between stuff and not accomplishing much of anything.
#ChaseForBook9
•flails at Fabi
☔You're doing just fine, Fabi!☔
☔At your shunting experiment thing, I mean. And everything else.☔
🌂Okay, these will be my talking umbrellas for now.🌂
🌂The purple ones will be for actions🌂
☔Flails again for good measure☔
Thanks...
Maybe I'll agree with you once I've finally finished the intro.
#ChaseForBook9
Yep! We'd attend it together. Niccolo would probably poke around inside that person's head to figure out their intentions and maybe just knock them out like that, without having to attack them, or if there was something preventing that we'd just detain him or something, like you said.
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Okay then, Ember.
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Okay, thanks Ari.
I think I know how this is going to happen now...
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🌂Heh. I'm sure you'll finish it soon, if you put your mind to it.🌂
I'm sort of close...
I have enough to post another chapter, but there are some
holes I have to fill in...
#ChaseForBook9
💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩
*groans and tumbles into a balcony-hammock*
Bored.
Hm...
[Tries to think of something interesting to do]
#ChaseForBook9
I did tell you to use roleplay us, though, right? Because if it was MC he'd just kill whoever it was.
#ChaseForBook9
🌂IF YOU'RE BORED🌂
🌂EAT YOYR FRUITS🌂
I HAVE NO FRUITS
YOU DRINK YOUR FAYGO
☔sobs☔
🌂THE MONEY I SPEND ON YOUR EDUCATION, SPARKY, THE THINGS I DO FOR YOU, AND YOY REFUSE TO EAT YOUR FRUITS. HOW DARE YOU!!! YOU RUINED MY LIFE, SPARKY🌂
DRINK. YOUR. FAYGO.
Yeah, you said roleplay.
If you want to change it, though, you can.
#ChaseForBook9
🌂I DON'T WANT TO DRINK MY FAYGO AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME🌂
(Have you actually drank Faygo before?)
🌂I'm excited to read it, Fabi!!!!🌂
*throws cans of Faygo at her*
No...
EAT YOUR WICKED MOTHERFUCKING FRUIT, MY INVERTESISTER.
EAT IT.
AND JOIN ME.
☔Dave comes and slices the cans of Faygo in half then disappears☔
*looks at her*
No.
GOD
NO
NO
THIS IS NOT GOING TO BECOME A HOMESTUCK CONVERSATION
WE'LL BE UP TO OUR TITS IN DEAD DAVE'S
dead daves are the enemy
(🌂One time I wrote this really cool high school AU about Kurloz going evil and killing everyone because Kankri (like a nasty version of Kankri) bullies him for years and tries to go out with Meulin. And then Gamzee (Kurlloz's brother here) tries to stay "good" and not hurt his brother at the same time, and he ends up forming a gang with the rest of his grade to stop Kurloz.🌂)
(🌂There were so many deaths and bloody scenes that my readers yelled at me to no end. I'm normally a fluff girl.🌂)
☔_☔
Wat
*not even sorry*
🌂Okay fine🌂
☔Dave is actually a random guy named Dave who happens to be good with swords☔
Nope! Thanks for the offer, though. Yeah, I like our roleplay selves better.
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My dad just came home and showed me some awesome pictures of doughnuts... Lots of doughnuts... Of course, he didn't actually bring any doughnuts back.
...now I'm hungry.
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Okay. Yeah, it's probably easier for me to write the RP versions...
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Why, though, Fab?
Just read a bit of it:
OooooooooooooooooooooooO
Gamzee's eyes fluttered open at exactly midnight.
It was a habit. His brother and he used to have ice cream as a midnight snack every night.
Used to.
Lately, he wasn't even home that often. Gamzee used to come home to afternoons baking pies and help with homework. Not anymore. Never anymore.
Gamzee sighed and rolled over to look at his new best friend. Mituna was Kurloz's best friend, but now all Mituna did was walk around with glowy purple eyes and steal things from shops. His girlfriend had been in a terrible skating accident the week before and had lost the use of one of her legs, leaving her wheelchair-bound. Just like Tavros.
Sweet, sweet Tavros. Beautiful Tavros. Gamzee had hoped that Kurloz and Rufioh would become friends, just so Kurloz would let him ask Tavros out, but no. Rufioh had been very mean to us, for no good reason, he thought.
A little part of his brain told him Tavros wasn't like that, and Gamzee sighed. There was no point trying to go back to sleep. It wouldn't work without his brother beside him, soothing him, telling him things were going to be okay.
He sighed. But maybe…
"Karkat?" he whispered. "Karkat?"
Karkat rubbed his eyes drearily. "Yeah?"
"I can't sleep. Wanna have a midnight feast?"
"Yeah, okay, I think there's some ice cream in the fridge."
That was an understatement. The fridge was completely stocked with ice cream and cake and sweet things for Kanaya. Karkat drowsily got up and fetched a tub of cookies and cream plus two spoons, and Gamzee grabbed a bottle of Faygo and poured it all over the top.
"What are you doing?" Karkat whisper-yelled, trying not to wake anybody up.
"It tastes better this way. Come on, eat up!"
Karkat took a nervous nibble, and then he pulled a face. "I… I'm not sure…"
"You'd better get used to it then!" Gamzee chuckled.
The two ate their treat in companionable silence. When they were done, Gamzee buried the evidence by throwing everything out the window (the Maryams lived in an apartment) and settled back into bed.
He drifted off to sleep for the first time in days.
Why what?
He showed me the doughnuts because they did them to look like hamburgers and he thought it was cool. And it was cool.
He didn't bring any back because Mom's obsessed with healthy food.
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Hmmmm. Ok, time for me to go to bed. Night, all! *hugs everyone* *leaves*
#ChaseForBook9
Night, Ari!
...what is Homestuck, anyway?
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SORRY I POOFED
That's really good and I like it very much yes yes.
🌂So anyway, eventually all of them run away with the help of Cronus, who is one of the only teens who isn't dead (Gamzee and his friends are kids.) But then Cronus shows up drunk at Kurloz's place and tells him where the kids are. So when Gamzee goes to get money, Kurloz kills all his friends. When Gamzee sees it, he kinda goes insane (basically sober Gamzee) and kills his brother before he can change his mind. He leaves Kurloz to bleed to death, and while Kurloz is dying he goes to Jane Crocker to get her to return Karkat to life because he's the only one who can cure Gamzee.🌂
🌂Then Kurloz dies.🌂
Niiiiiiiice.
🌂Thanks!🌂
Fabi, Homestuck is a web comic :)
🌂I screen-shotted th update because Gamzee is so adorable in this one!!!🌂
Awwwwww
I'm going to go now, stuff...
Until later!
[hugs anyone who wants/needs/doesn't mind a hug]
[Waves]
[Runs off into the night]
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When Karkat said that Gamzee ended the moirallegience I actually cried.
Later!
Am I alone?
😊😊
😞😊
😪😰
😭😠
😭😡
💫💥💢💥💫💥💫💢💢💥💢💥💫
😵😈
😵😐
😵😟
😵😦
😵😱
😇😶
👺😬
👹😧
💣😔
📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢
😈😵
No...
Aw, bye Fabi :)
SPARKY I KNOW I WAS SO UPSET
IT WAS HORRIBLE
Oh, btw, what's your magical discipline?
I so want them to be moirails again... I feel like the moirallegiance was just for the purpose of SoberGamzee and nothing more!! Which is terrible!
Oh. I'm an Adept that can take people's souls, being people back to life, and heal people.
Mycorrhizza.
I tried to type in Mycroft and that is what my phone thought it was.
Anyway, Mycorhizza has no magical abilities but I gave him a magic umbrella that can shoot lasers and allows him to teleport.
Okay!
That's pretty cool.
Thanks!
Which troll is your fave/least fave?
okay, so here is a random story me and my friend just wrote:
Fred locked himself in the bathroom. This was weird.
After seeing that he went home. When he went home, ha saw a crowd of lobsters outside.
So Fred ran. He ran from the man with the gun, hot on his heels, till he couldn’t anymore.
But he just kept dancing.
The class screamed as the man with the gun ran in screaming at Fred.
“What are you?” asked Jeff.
“I’m batman,” he replied.
He was stunned.
When he woke up he was in a dark dungeon.
He went through the dungeon, watching the ugly clowns.
And then Snow Stormberg came and punched the evil guy in the face and saved him. She was his hero!
THE END
:DDD
we did it only showing each other the last word of each sentence.
Vriska.
Tavros.
Do with that as you will.
I <3 Roxy to pieces though.
So much I even typed '<3' for her.
She's a babe.
Oh my god Snow
I just cried that was gorgeous
You and I can never be friends, Sparky, I swear XD
What?
Why not?
*rolls eyes*
Sparky I just had this thought
WAT IF JOHN COMES HOME AND FINDS GAMZEE IN THE FRIDGE THAT WOULD BE COOL THEN THEY COULD F***
I have odd thoughts.
And on that cheerful note, I must take my leave. See you!
bye ember... *eyebrow creases* odd
TAVROS
VRISKA
ROXY
are like the only characters I don't like XD
(Besides Jake. I HATE JAKE)
*hums*
WHY DON'T YOU LIKE ROXY SHE'S SO AWESOME HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE HER
I hate Tavros, though...
g2g, byee
Whoops...sorry Adra, I fell asleep after CTF and now I have to go to school..bye again people
hello...?
hi
hello.
i dont believe we've met...
i'm Snow! *hugs* i dont believe in handshakes. well, thats a lie. i just dont today :P
*grins*
HI!!
hah sorry that was a weird double comment :) nice to meet you
Sooooo.... I used to come on here alll the time, but I dunno I stared high school and I got really busy, now I though I would make a grand return!
:P
and now i have no idea what to say *frowns*
i may appear odd, but i assure you i am not.... most of the time.
GRAND RETURN!!!! dun dun dun!
sorry I had to set the table... lol anyway..
if you are odd, thats okay we are alll crazy on here, I haven't met a normal person yet ;)
normal is for people with no imagination.
Are you entering the competition to die in the last book?
theres a comp??
OMG YES!!!!
True about the normal thing.. although I am really shy in real life :) its takes awhile for me to reveal my true level of craziness
okay dinner sorry bye nice meeting you :)
nice to meet you too!
ho hum...
all alone :(
*sings*
g2g, byeee
When it's you and me
We don't need no one to tell us who to be
We'll keep turning up the radio
What if you and I
Just put up our middle fingers to the sky
Let em know that we're still rock and roll...
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I really like that picture of a picture of a cake
*Waves* Msd...
I'm only here for a few minutes!! I'm waiting to watch The Mortal Instruments!!
Hello...
Hey Sparks! *Hugs* You okay...?
*smiles and hugs back*
Yeah, course.
How are you?
...Helloooooooo?
Have you seen The Mortal Instruments...? I don't particularly want to watch it... I'm sick...
Hey Missy!
Yo.
HELLO DEATH!! *tacklehugs*
HEY ZATH!! *tacklehugs*
Hey Miss.
No I haven't.
*nods*
Miles.
Just finishing up a little bit of the story before I send it.
Sup? *Waves* Sup Zathy?
^ When I'm sick, I don't care what I say...
HEY SPARKY!! *tacklehugs*
Sorry, slightly hyper. I'm eating sugar again :3
And my LSODM HB came todayyyyy :D
I got LSODM today... I ran from Flinders Street Station to Dymocks on Collins!
Hi Miss!
Alright, Rachel. Looking forward to it.
Hey, Death.
While I acknowledge that you're sick and how that is unfortunate and that it may be reasonable that you don't care, I still do. So please don't. Before I start blowing things up.
*looks at Miles*
They're gonna love it.
*glares at Death*
I'm the only one who calls him that.
*Covers mouth with hands* Note taken, Zath! *Grins*
*grins*
Dedicate.
Sparks, you call him Miles. I call people whatever I feel like calling them... *Looks at watch* I'm getting a guilty feeling... I'm going to leave.... *Vanishes*
...
I dedicate this page to the hateful, hateful genius, the almightily Golden God, Landy.
She calls me Miles among a large variety of other things, Zathy included.
Bye, Death.
Best ded ever, Sparky :3
Awwww, bye Death! *hugs*
Fair ded.
You finished the book yet?
Up to Chap 64.
Taking another much needed break.
DAMMIT.
Don't you hate it when you type out a comment and then it gets deleted along the way?
The funny thing is, my comment said that I was distrusting of the reliability of electronical devices . . . :P
Maybe this is revenge.
#ChaseForBookNine
Wait, Sparky, you're male right?
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