My Christmas tree is up. It actually went up a few weeks ago. It's not a REAL Christmas tree. I mean, it's real ENOUGH. It's not IMAGINARY. If you threw it at someone, it'd hit them. But it's made from assorted plastics and stuff. Also it's black. It looks awesome, but lacks that Christmas tree smell. But I don't mind that. My folks have a real Christmas tree up, and that's where Christmas happens anyway, so who cares if my house doesn't smell of pine needles? Not me. Not really.
Not... really...
Anyway, yes, the tree. It's up. The presents are bought. They're not wrapped, but they're bought. Most of them. Okay, I haven't a clue what to get my dad, but he's a dad. He'll be happy with socks. Fathers are simple creatures.
So... tree up. Presents bought. These are things I set aside time to do, because I needed to set aside time. I've been so busy lately that if I hadn't set aside this time, I just wouldn't get around to it. There are loads of things I just didn't have time for, like sending out Christmas cards. I love sending out cards. I try to combine it with answering all the letters from readers, so when I send off a reply, they get a Christmas card too. How lovely! But not this year. Answering all those letters, sending all those cards, would take two days at a minimum, and they are two days I can't afford to take off writing.
The writing is going well, by the way. I've been focussing on short stories these last three weeks, building up quite a collection of new stuff. Each of these stories will be told in a different "voice" than the one you're used to. You'll see what I mean when you read them.
One thing that I haven't decided on yet are the Christmas Skype calls I was planning on making. Essentially, I was going to take an hour one day and just fit as many three-minute Skype calls into that hour as I could. It seemed like a lovely idea at the time, but I'm not so sure anymore. Not everyone who wanted a call would be available on that hour, and so I'd have to field quite a few complaints. Then there'd be the people who'd want a one-on-one chat, when I'd only be comfortable chatting if there were two or more people in the room with you. Basically, my idea would end up causing a whole lot of hassle that I could really do without, so I just don't know.
Okay then, enough jibber-jabber. I have work to do.
Be cool, my Minions.
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*is writing out reports and whatnot, freaking over losing Ari to War*
(But apparently, Mara, in this case, corks DON'T float)
Oh ouch))
(Hello Corvo)
Your morning is around midnight for me, Star. And yeah, I stopped staying up.
(It shouldnt be able to float, because Cork is a place not a cork.)
@Mara: What brain? *frowns*
And - :O That sucks! :( I hope Cork's okay. We had bad flooding in 2007, and years later there were STILL people living in caravans because of it. :/
Idk if there still are. My mum hasn't said so for quite a while.
#ChaseForBooknine
(I'm so sorry)
CORVO!!! HAI! *Supermegatackelhugsofdoom*
Have we met...? o.O
Exactly Zaf. Thank you. *nods*
AHHHH LITTLE MIX WON THE VOTE OFF FOR THE NEXT SONG YAYA :D
Hey Lavender! :)
@Lantern: Ah, okay. :) :)
I'm generally awake at midnight nowadays (go to sleep late, wake up late, remember?) but prior to this Christmas, I didn't/don't generally like to be awake until then . . .
I don't like being tired, basically. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
@Mara: Yay! :)
#ChaseForBookNine
(Yeah thats okay. I'm gonna continue with DD then)
gtg
ugh
ok
BYE! *supermegagoodbyetacklehugsofdoom*
Fours, Jubi! :(
#ChaseForBookNine
(Sorry Emmy! *huggles* im gonna have to go in a sec....i think.
*Waits*
*Realized she clicked the wrong number*
*Tries Hunter's ACTUAL number this time*
(Bye Jubab! And okay Em)
I left for like two seconds... wow
Hunter: *answers phone* Hello.
#ChaseForBookNine
Star - that thing inside in your head :P *pokes*
Not the little people with pickaxes though :o
Me too, I've got a few friends who live there and their house is flooded:/ and poor people! D: flooding is awful:(
I remember when the Suir flooded down near the Quay in my town, and people woke up to their whole downstairs flooded. It was terrible. :(
(That happens occasionally, Corvo :P)
*Quietly* Hunter? Er... It's Adra..?
Bye Jubi!:( *hugs*
*watches roleplay while watching Little Me (multitasking yaaaaasss)*
@Mara: I don't really have much inside my head. Other than empty space and the people. *frowns*
And - :/ Flooding is awful. D:
Hunter: *blankly* Hello, Adra. *smiles slightly*
#ChaseForBookNine
(I don't think we've ever been flooded, but there was a North Easter a few years back and a few trees fell through some of my friend's houses.)
...*Shifts nervously* HunterIWantToTakeYouUpOnYourOffer.
At least... For a few days... And I have to finish something first, but...
((@Adra: :O Poor them!!))
Hunter: @Adra: You WHAT??? *eyes flash through a multitude different colours*
#ChaseForBookNine
I..*Takes a deep breath* You're right, I think..
Hunter: *reflectively* No, I'm left.
*afterthought* But of course I'm correct, I'm me.
Wait, since when did you become intelligent enough to realise that I'm correct??? I swear, you leave people for a few days and then next thing you know, you don't know, and they do, and it's like age, isn't it? Constantly changing. You would think things would stop and wait for me to catch up, wouldn't you?
But, um, thank you for putting your intelligence to good use?
#ChaseForBookNine
I figured out the fourth book of my series.
Heh... Now I just need to write them all.
((@Lantern: Well, yay for figuring! :) :)
Hunter: The world would be an incredibly figureless world without figuring. *nods*
Star: Oh, go away.))
#ChaseForBookNine
(I hate it when that happens, Fabi :P)
...
I'm going to forget that you just said to me "when did you become intelligent enough"...
But.
Well.
A lot can happen in a few days
Hunter: I suppose I didn't mean intelligent. I probably meant nonsensical or insane or something like that, but the world's definition of sanity is decided by sane people, and if we insane people were the dominant ones then sanity would be insanity and the sane ones would be the ones who are mad and make no sense and should be locked up.
And a lot CAN happen in a few days. *nods* *realises she can't see it* I'm nodding, just in case you wondered.
#ChaseForBookNine
So I figured.
*Is about to comment on his comment*
*Decides she's too tired to and leaves it*
Hunter: *leans against wall* How are you, anyway, Adra?
#ChaseForBookNine
*Considers*
Pretty awful, if you can imagine. Which, you know, is why I decided you were right
Hunter: *instinctively* I'm left.
*thinks for a moment that if he's ever kidnapped or something and someone tells him that he'll die if he speaks another word, he'll probably die through informing someone about the left-ness of something or other because he'll just say it without thinking of the consequences* *slight worrying, that*
*minds drifts back to reality* That's . . . pretty awful. *looks sad about it* *although she can't see that*
You know, Adra, if the world were fair, people would get what they deserved. However, it isn't fair, which is rather good because I'm really not sure I'd enjoy getting what I deserve. But it's also bad, because . . . sometimes, good people get horribly bad luck.
And that's what's happened here.
#ChaseForBookNine
*slightly
Hunter: STAR, LEARN TO /TYPE/, DAMMIT.
#ChaseForBookNine
No, but... It would make sense- I've done some bad things, would it not only be balanced if I wee to receive them as well?
Food for thought...
So close! My activity after school is until 5, ot after so it ismt cancelled still msd
Hello fellow lunatics! How are you all doing?
((@Zaf: Okay. :) :)))
Hunter: @Adra: But the world ISN'T balanced. *shrugs* You have children starving their whole lives and eventually dying when they're merely a few years old, and what have THEY done? Plus, if we percentage our lives up, I'm sure I will be more bad than you are bad and less good than you are good, and I know a lot of people who will have more bad than you, and you're doing good things NOW and getting no reward for it, so what kind of incentive is that? Sometimes, the world is a bit stupid, which might explain why the people who live in it are so stupid, and nobody deserves exactly what they get, and even if you think they do, you've not been in their position so how do you know?
#ChaseForBookNine
((Hi Rhydian! :)
I'm good.))
#ChaseForBookNine
*She half shrugs*
I still believe that every soul came here to learn something. Whether it be that there are consequences, or the pains of survival, or even if it's just a break. We learn something on this blasted planet.
Hunter: *shrugs* We learn a lot of things, and then we die.
I don't believe that learning how to feel very much in pain is generally put to much use, though.
#ChaseForBookNine
No, it most likely isn't..
I think it's more about having it, and living with it/ dealing with it.
Hunter: *shrugs* Possibly. Or maybe it's telling you you need to reconsider your life choices.
#ChaseForBookNine
(Bye Rhy! *hugs*)
*Sighs* Not if it's in the past, Hunter
((Fours, Rhydian! :())
#ChaseForBookNine
Cya Rhyds!
Hunter: Well, maybe then it's telling you not to make that decision again. *shrugs*
*fiddles with gloves*
Do you know why we do the correct thing, Adra? Why we help people? We do it because we want to feel good about doing it, and we don't want to feel guilty.
It's essentially self-serving.
If you killed someone, and you felt really bad about it, then it would put you off killing more people . . . and maybe that's the purpose of the guilt, because maybe whoever designed guilt kind of likes that person over there that you want to kill.
#ChaseForBookNine
*nods* That is an acute observation, but also isn't the point of helping people for their benefit as well? To make sure they don't go through what you did? To stop as much pain and loss, whether of not you feel good about yourself?
Why would we stop pain and loss, though? *sits down on the floor* Is there a reason why we should? What does it matter to us?
That said, I do try and stop pain and loss . . . sometimes.
But often a lot of pain and loss is caused on the way to stopping pain and loss, so either way there's going to be pain and loss, isn't there?
#ChaseForBookNine
*Hunter:
#ChaseForBookNine
Ay, but to whom it's directed to can change. The innocent child, or the one who would rather take it from them?
Good morning, afternoon, evening, or other, Blogland.
(Hello, Sir! *Curtsies deeply*
Standard?)
Hunter: *isn't in Blogland, so doesn't greet Sir*
((Star: Hi, Sir. :)))
Hunter: @Adra: True, but sometimes, you have to kill people who don't deserve to die in order to save the lives of more people who don't deserve to die.
#ChaseForBookNine
Hello *waves*
((Dinner, bbs - sorry.))
#CHaseForBookNien
Greetings, Ms. Inkbright and Ms. Dark.
Indeed, Ms. Dark.
*Grumbles* Not particularly..
(Okay Star!
Figures, Sir.)
Greetings, Ms. Lavender.
((*IS BACK*))
#ChaseForBookNine
I don't believe we've met
(Hiya again, Star!)
Hunter: @Adra: *firmly* Yes, you do.
#ChaseForBookNine
Perhaps in your experience, but not in mine. I can usually find a way..
Perhaps, Ms. Lavender. Your name seems familiar to me, however.
I know Rhydian? And I was at Mara's wedding until I lost signal?
In any case, it hardly matters, Ms. Lavender.
Ok. Nice to meet you anyway, Sir.
((It immensely frustrates me when languages teachers tell you off for using translators when you haven't used them.
Well, unless online dictionaries count, but you may as well look a word up in an online dictionary to an offline dictionary. Practically the same thing.))
Hunter: @Adra: *shrugs* You probably can get around it. But sometimes you can prevent loss and pain by not attempting to get around it.
Plus, sometimes it's a more cause-and-effect type of thing.
#ChaseForBookNine
Quite, Ms. Lavender.
(I wouldn't know... Latin teachers are pretty lenient.)
*Half shrugs* Meh...
*Doesn't know how to answer*
*Yawns into her hand*
*Glances at the bandages and moves them aside, Makin sure he cut she made hasn't been infected*
((German teacher: Advice: Please do not write what you want to.
Me: I'M SORRY I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONE WHO WAS WRITING THIS???))
#ChaseForBookNine
Hunter: I've missed the word meh . . .
#ChaseForBookNien
It is quite a good word.
*Glances at her watch* Ah... It appears I'll have to go, Hunter- I'm terribly sorry... Er, as I said, I still have a number of things to do, and make sure everyone is okay before I, you know, pop off the face of this planet..
I like meh. Meh is a fun word.
Hunter: Okay, Adra. Bye. Have a good life. *ends call*
((Star: I also happen to be fond of the word meh. :) Ieni used to say it all the time, and she infected me with it. :)))
#ChaseForBookNine
*Frowns* He might have misinterpreted what I said...
*Shrugs, and gets to her feet with the duvet*
I'm breaking free from these memories
I'm letting go, I'm letting go,
And two goodbyes led to this new life,
Don't let me go, don't let me go
This song really explains Harralie's relationship, in a way:P
"Have a good life" has now simply become another thing Hunter says.
You know, I invent all these things to say . . . like when I used to nickname my sister. I'd make up a nickname, use it for a bit and then drop it, and she must have had at least fifty different nicknames but I just kept using them and dropping them, and now I just do it with things to say. :P
Radioactive milkshakes is immortal, though. That shall last foREVer. *nods*
Plus that fact that I'm a bubble.
My sister occasionally gets exasperated and tries to tell me about how I cannot be a bubble, but I AM a bubble. *glares at anyone who dares defy this statement*
#ChaseForBookNine
@Mara: I know what you mean. :) :) *hugs*
#ChaseForBookNine
(HEREEDEALERSD)
(Bubbles are good :)
G2G now. Laters! *waves*
Fours, Corvo! :(
@Adra: Bubbles are very good. :) :)
#ChaseForBookNine
adra what is a heeredealersd omg
*hugs Star* :)))
Bye Corvo!
Brb, shower :/
(Bye Corvo!
It was meant to be Harralie.
Gods I'm so tired. GRR.)
@Hereedealersd: Ah, I was WONDERING what that was . . . :P
@Adra: Aw. :( *hugs*
#ChaseForBookNine
*Cuddles*
Msd at about... 3 my time, 8 your time... For about and hour
I'm going back to see my tutor! I miss her so much :)
[flies in]
[hugs]
[flies off again]
*hugs!*
(It's actually one degree outside.
Man.)
@Adra: Okay. :) And YAY! :)
*hugs Lantern* :)
Sorry, I was walking around my bedroom in circles, planning how Hunter and Ez would go about killing themselves . . . XD
#ChaseForBookNine
(Its cold here i hear...msd
Hey Zaf. :)
#CHaseForBooknine
(Ayyyyyyy no)
(Our car fogged up because of the heat -because cars do that sometimes) and the fog froze and we had a mini crisis)
@Adra: :O Argh!
. . . You use the scrapey thing to get the frozen fog off, yeah?
*points to the plastic scarper you use to scrape frost off your windscreen in the morning when it's frosty*
We still haven't had any snow this year, nor much frost, so we haven't had great use for the scrapey thing . . . :(
#ChaseForBookNine
We did use the scrapey thing, and ice came off. But it was weird because we were inside the car, you know?
And I've got my scarf wrapped about my face like a hijab...
Gracious
Thank god for seat warmers :3
And I might not have school tomorrow either. It's supposed to be colder. My mom said -15F, without the windchill
Yay))
Msd for an hour!
it's so cold
we don't even get snow
we just get cold
i want snow
at least there'd be a reward for being freezing everyday
plus my school uniform is and only is a pinafore with a shirt and cardigan
no pants
brrrrr
@Mara: That sounds not great. :(
We can wear skirts or trousers . . .
And, I always get excited when it snows, but after a few hours I am horribly reminded of how much I hate snow and its cold wetness. :) :)
@Adra: I would probably be getting excited over how cool it was, but I get excited over everything. XD
Yay for seat warmers, though. :)
#ChaseForBookNine
(That's us right now Mara ;P)
Grr.
My email crashed and didn't save my draft. I'd gotten it just the way I wanted it, too.
I'm on lunch break, but still not sure I'm here.
Oh wait, it either didn't save the new version or it sent it already...
Or it's trying to send one version or the other.
Blah.
@Lantern: Ugh. -_- Emails can be so stupid. *hugs*
#ChaseForBookNine
OKAY, IT'S NOT FUNNY ANYMORE.
HUNTER, EZ, STOP IT, YOU'RE SCARING ME. :/
#ChaseForBookNine
D:
I DON'T WANT THEM TO DIE. D:
I should probably go to sleep now, though. :( :( School tomorrow, and that.
Sorry.
Fours . . .
#ChaseForBookNine
[Waves]
(Back!))
(Hi there Em!!)
(I believe myself to possibly be here
(Weather days definitely at least -25 windchill tomorrow...
I'm going to hope no school, yo.)
(No one? Hmm...)
Right. I am here!
((Can I send an email to someone who'll be able to check within the next fifteen minutes or so?))
((Not an important email. An is-this-stupid-thing-working-after-all-those-error-messages-or-is-my-sent-folder-lying email))
(Yeah I'm open Fabs!!)
(Hollah Em!)
Yeah go for it Fabi.
((I sent you a test message, Adra, but of course the errors didn't show this time. Hopefully that means it's working again.))
((Hi Em [hugs]))
((Oh, and hi Adra too [hugs]))
((And possibly Zaf [hugs as well]))
Where did Zaf go lol
(Idek lol
I AM SO FU JKING COLD
I was falling asleep three times today.
I never sleep during the day
Baaah
(Kaplot.
(What?)
(Omg i died laughing today
Hullo?
(Dinner brb
((Would that there were more hours in the day... Would that I had a time turner, or a reflection.))
#ChaseForBook9
I'll be waiting Zafira *insert creepy smile*
Hey Ari!!
(#MeRightNow #Annotating)
((Hey Em! *hugs* How are you?))
#ChaseForBook9
Yeah I'm good.
Days away from finally finishing Dublin Daes! Boo yah!!
It really sucks that you and Nicco can't be in the Camp Wolf roleplay. It would be awesome!!
(Ay, I second that.
We need to have more stories where the fate of the world isn't on the line...)
*lurks in shadows as people seem to ignore me anyway*
((Oh, congratulations!
Yeah, that would be a lot of fun. Unfortunately, at this point, he would probably just kill everyone. :/))
#ChaseForBook9
((Hi Snow! *hugs* I didn't know you were here.
Hey Adra! *hugs* Yeah, that would be nice. It seems like either the world is about to end, or everyone is bored.))
#ChaseForBook9
Jaysus... what's wrong with Nicco??
Is my storyline one of those storylines Ads?? Are you trying to compliment me...
[Hisses from somewhere behind Snow]
You're not allloneeee
You're neverrrr aloneeeee
(Hello Snow!
Hi Ari, too- yeah, that... Well. Sucks.
Bahhhhdkshsjd and then end of the world plots come along and you and Niccolò have to go off and die and go insane or get screwed over and then others take the lead and then BAM
Feels everywhere.)
*squeals and hugs fabi*
(Aye, it is a compliment, Em.
But theatricals get depressing really quickly, which then makes ME sadder, and sometimes I don't want to be here because I know I'll only get more upset. *facepalm*
Go me.
But yeah. That's why... Yano... I haven't been with the other plot. It's too sad.)
((Well, one of his more violent names took over, and killed his copy, and then killed me. Zaf brought the copy back but he's hiding so he doesn't get killed again, and I'm still dead.))
#ChaseForBook9
*silently high-fives ari* being dead is fun. Sometimes.
((Yeah, I wouldn't blame anyone for not wanting to do a plot like that. I just can't figure out how to get past the depressing-ness with Niccolo! Gah. Well, anyway. It'll happen eventually.))
#ChaseForBook9
((*high-fives back* I suppose it can be.))
#ChaseForBook9
((I do hope so. And I really would love to help, but I don want to be sad soooohoooooooooooooooo))
Don't let them in
Don't let them see
Be the good girl you always have to be
Conceal, don't feel
Don't let them know
#ChaseForBook9
[hugs Snow]
((Yeah, no, I'm going to go ahead and ask you not to help.))
#ChaseForBook9
((*hugs Moss* Have I said hi to you yet, Moss?))
#ChaseForBook9
Wth... I am watching winx and yet I'm about to turn 14...
((Tbh, I kind of feel like Zaf knows where she wants that whole Mevolent plot to go, and I'd just be in the way.))
((And I have my own \|/||=_/||~|||| to write, anyway.))
((Happy birthday Snow))
((I don't think so, Ari, but I'm not really here anyways...))
((War may or may not already have horribly messed up any plans Zaf may or may not have had. I honestly don't know. Your plot has been really interesting to read, though.))
#ChaseForBook9
Birthday on Saturday.
((Happy early birthday, Snow!))
#ChaseForBook9
(*Nods* Sure. *Nods* Wait- why?)
*agrees with ari*
(Ooh! How many candles will I need?)
Well I'm sorry you're dead Ari. If it makes you any better, I'm dead too.
(So's Snow
Remember that one time with the demons and almost everyone was dead?
A ton of people were.$
((Yeah, you have been dead for way too long! I feel pretty bad about that, actually...))
#ChaseForBook9
YOU ARE SO AMAZING!!!
#ChaseForBook9
Olé
I'm going to pretend that the second comment was actually the first comment. Now I have two pages to dedicate.
#ChaseForBook9
((Thanks...))
((Yeah, I remember. I was so stubborn about it for a while, because it always irritated me that it was so easy to come back from the dead in RP. Eventually I got bored of being a ghost, though...))
(Ari? Whats up? I dont think you messed up te plot
(No answer, Ari?
Okay. To my imagination I shall gander.)
@adra candles? 14.
*tickle attacks zaf*
(You didnt mess things up, you just modified my ideas which is fine, I'm used to being on my toes. Makes it more fun for me to now have the fact War can just kill people, honestly I didn't plan to kill Mevole- never mind.
(( [Smiles] ))
(( [Makes a bar chart] ))
(( [Turns into a funny-looking waterbird and perches on top of one of the bars] ))
((That's good, Zaf.
*looks for Adra's question* Oh! I wasn't sure you were referring to me. Just because I really don't think you need any extra sadness.
#ChaseForBook9
(Honestly I only just am unsure how to go, I'm thinking of Mevolent but then I have the threat of War so like now i gotta think, which is greater?
(Ah. I suppose that is true..)
*hums*
Right bitches, lets roleplay.
I was about to suggest that you can go to Chase, to see how he is Ari, then I remembered you literally just told me you're dead...
FAIL!!!!!!!! -_-
((XD It happens.))
#ChaseForBook9
*Goes back towards the room*
*Insert RP from earlier*
*Is in Silverlake*
((Hey guys. I don't know if any of you have seen Frozen or not, but it's a good movie. The soundtrack is stuck in my head. :) ))
#ChaseForBook9
(( [Tilts head to the side] ))
(( [Wonders if I should go write or cling to this place] ))
(( [Fidgets] ))
(( [Hops off the bar chart] ))
(( [Turns back into a human] ))
(( [Invokes a device of random probability] ))
Haven't seem it yet but I wanna... im trying to convince mum to let me go with a friend.
(I'd like to see that so bad! That, and the Secret Life of Walter Mitty.)
Infinite Improbability Drive :)
(*hugs Fabi* Whichever makes you feel better!)
(Would it be possible the copy would make a link to Zaf so she can communicate to him and vice versa?
G2gggg. Mighy ghost.
(Okay Snow)
(AWESOME MOVIE!!!! Saw it about a week and a half ago. And the songs were pretty awesome for a Disney movie.)
*The wolf growls from behind the treeline again. Just showing it's luminous eyes momentarily*
Wolf: I am not the enemy here.
((I don't see him agreeing to that, but there's no harm in asking. If you have some reason behind it, he might go for it. It isn't likely, but, you know, anything is possible.))
#ChaseForBook9
Alexis; yeah i know well what you think is not what we think?
(I have my reasons and he may see reason. Well, wherever he is )
(HER HAIR REMINDS ME OF A SHORTER ADRA'S
GOD
HER HAIR
IS
BEAUTIFUL.)
Oh yeah?
You sure?
You've hurt so many people...
Wolf: It is not my fault!
*The wolf finally emerges from the treeline, standing on it's hind legs. There were bald patches on most of its fur and it's jawline crooked*
Wolf: it is not my fault...
((Ok, Snow! *hugs*
Hey guys- if you feel like it- describe me in five words? I have to fill out this form for school, and it's asking me how someone who knows me well would describe me in five words. So I'm basically just asking all of my friends and writing down the most common ones.))
#ChaseForBook9
((Shrugs))
((Hugs Adra))
*Looks at him, and takes a few steps forward*
*Raises her hand cautiously, showing that she won't harm him, and places it on his fur, inspecting it*
Goodness... Whatever happened to you?
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