Monday, February 24, 2014

Ah, Darquesse...

Those lucky Minions who made it to the Imagine festival last week got the LSODM paperback early, but I couldn't let them be the ONLY ones who get to marvel at Tom Percival's back cover, so here you go...



Isn't she lovely? Isn't she wonderful? Isn't she precious?

The paperback will be released for everyone else on the 27th of March, and because we are very, very smart people, we will be releasing the paperback of The Maleficent Seven, which takes place BEFORE LSODM, on the 8th of May. 

Just to confuse you.

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Star Inkbright said...

@Annika: *laughs* XD XD

I have zero posters on my wall.
I don't own any. :(

I do, however, have an Aero wrapper sellotaped to my wall. :)

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The Grave of a Coward said...

I only have two posters: Maleficent Seven and a Ravenclaw banner.
I have two watercolor paintings, though, and I can't recall where they came from. I think they're heirlooms. They've just sort of always been hanging there, on my wall, and it's never occurred to me to move them.

Star Inkbright said...

@Annika: *laughs* :) :) :)

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The Grave of a Coward said...

They're not even particularly creepy; they're actually rather nice. One has a girl with a bag of flowers and the other has a boy holding a dog. They look like they were painted by the same guy; I think they're a pair, or part of a set.

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Always? Wow. That's a long time. I have posters but a lot of them aren't on the wall, just rolled up.

The Grave of a Coward said...

"After all this time?"
"Always."

Star Inkbright said...

My sister: There's a lot of books about the future -
Me: Yeah.
Sister: And they're all really SAD and HORRIBLE. So the future's going to be really SAD and HORRIBLE, apparently.
Me: When people write about the future being sad and horrible, it's not about the future being sad and horrible, it's more a message of what could happen . . . It's a warning.
Sister: *lists a few books about the future*
Me: I love books like that, though.
Sister: And they're all SAD and HORRIBLE.
Me: And that's what makes them awesome.
Sister: No, it makes them SAD and HORRIBLE.

Me: *typing this up*
Well, what would they write about, the present? They generally have to be in the future, if only the near future.
Sister: Yeah, but they don't have to be SAD and HORRIBLE.

(I think, after many years, our books tastes are differing. :P)

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Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

If a book wasn't at least partially sad and horrible they wouldn't sell. If it was happy happy happy all the way through it'd be boring.

Anonymous said...

((("You know, in the Inkheart trilogy, it was saying about how you never really thought about the authors, and how you think of most authors as dead or very very old, and how Meggie didn't even know the authors of some of her favourites stories, and I'm just like - "Uh. What. WHAT IS THIS MADNESS."

My Ipswich friend had a Skulduggery Pleasant POSTER (she had a lot of posters, though. Her walls were FULL. It was glorious. Plus she had a cardboard cutout of Benedict Cumberbatch. With bullet holes in it), and . . . yeah, and we had a conversation about how ace Derek was as a person. :)")))

After reading this, Star, I was like OMG! There was everything I love in this comment! :D
Inkheart, Skul AND Benny :)

Star Inkbright said...

I love books that are SAD and HORRIBLE.

So it's actually not very surprising that I like music that is SAD and HORRIBLE.

You know, sometimes I remember being a little girl who was obsessed with unicorns and fairies, and I wonder what the hell happened to her. :P

@Annika: :) :) Well. It's nice they're there?
You do tend to ignore things, though, after a while . . . I never hear my clock ticking unless I think about it.

In Summer's Dream by Cathy Cassidy . . . there was the message that people started seeing you a certain way, and then after a bit they stop looking, and then they don't notice when you're not that person anymore.

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The Grave of a Coward said...

Witness the phenomenal success of A Series of Unfortunate Events. People do not want happy happy happy.

Anonymous said...

OH, Hi btw :D

The Grave of a Coward said...

I may have the unpopular opinion with any Inkheart fans on . . . hullo, by-the-by, Mithria . . . but . . .

*takes a deep breath*

Ithoughtthemoviewasbetterthanthebook.

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

I've returned.

I survived getting my learner's permit.

Sort of. I couldn't talk by the end.

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Hey mir

Anonymous said...

If any other person had said that, Annika Barnosky, I would have started to shout at this person. But I like you, so...
*tilts head*
Why exactly did you like the film better?

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Congrats moss!

The Grave of a Coward said...

Hullo, Moss.

Star Inkbright said...

@Mithria: You like the Inkheart trilogy too? :) :)
It's awesome! :) :)
*already knew you liked Sherlock and Skulduggery*
And, thanks. :) :)
Plus, hi! :)

@Silente: *nods*
That's only because of the select people that read books, though.
I mean, everyone listens to music, and that gets by by having no substance in it.
Although music really has different requirements . . . because it creates mood, and people often like it to create happy moods.
Books are generally much more detailed, as they generally go for interest rather than mood.

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

Hello Silente, Mithria, Star, Annika.

The Grave of a Coward said...

The book presented me with a fantastic concept that I was eager to see explored. However, the book did not utilize, display, and take advantage of, that concept in the ways I would have liked it to. While the plots of the book and movie undoubtedly differed, the movie gave me the story that I wanted to read when I picked up Inkheart, and did not receive.

Anonymous said...

@Star: YES YES YES I DO! Okay, that was probably a little too much but still... yes, I really love Inkheart. I think I've read eacht book like 6 times...

Anonymous said...

*looks at Anni*
*nods slowly*
That... was a very good answer. I think I will have to accept this :P

Also, Hi to everyone who said Hi to me!

Dragona Pine said...

Back

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Moss & mir, how are you both?

Star Inkbright said...

YOU FUCKING WHAT.
*glares at Annika*
I thought the first book was the worst, however, so -
BUT

BUT /FUCK/.

IN THE MOVIE, SHE WRITES IT ON HER HAND AND THEN JUST READS IT OFF.

WHAT.

TEHN SHE COULD JUST READ AN ADDRESS BOOK AND BRING A LOAD OF ADDRESSES TO LIFE!

URGH

FUCKSSAKE

(and that is my major, major complain with the movie, and whatever happens, NOTHING will put that correct.)

In the book . . .
It's about how when you write, it's magic.
Writing is MAGIC.
And proper authors . . .
They just create a web of magic, and draw you in.

and

and you can say whatever else you want
and I might disagree with you
but you are fucking NOT ever getting past that point. I'm sorry.

Stories are MAGIC.

MAGIC

And the film just doesn't get that.

And

and it sucks.

(There are further issues, of course, but :P)

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Web dragon

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Anonymous said...

I'm fine, thanks Silente! Yourself? What have you been doing?

The Grave of a Coward said...

Hullo, Dragona Pine - N7 Soldier.

The Grave of a Coward said...

My oh my, Star, living up to your new profile name, I see.

Star Inkbright said...

@Annika: *deep breaths*
Fair enough.

Plus . . .
You're you.
And that is a statement of fact.
And I can imagine you being someone who . . .
Well, you do like story kind of stories.
If that makes sense.
And I understand what you meant.

Me being me . . . well, I'm me.
*shrugs*

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Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

I'm fine thanks I've been stumbling round, talking to star and annika. Your sister scared me out of a tree so I pulled her into a snow drift and then she sort off, poofed. But yeah I'm fine.

Anonymous said...

*shakes head, laughing*
What is it between you and Chi? Do you like each other or do you hate each other, I really can't tell... :P

Dragona Pine said...

I like when you mix tomato sauce and mayonnaise together.

Star Inkbright said...

@Annika: Thanks. :)

I'm really much more peaceful online. I tend to shout much more in real life. When I get passionate about something, it's actually very hard for me to keep my voice quiet. :P

Oh my gosh, when my friend was saying that elves had to wear shoes with curly toes . . .
I got so mad.
I was screaming my head off at her.
And she just kept disagreeing.
And in order to stop myself screaming, I had to whisper, because talking just wasn't working, and I was doing explosive whisper-screaming that more turned into a rusty squeak.
I felt like I was going to explode.
I was so angry. :P
ELVES CAN WERA WHATEVER THE FUCK THEY LIKE.
(Eventually, we agreed that sometimes they did and sometimes they didn't.)

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

I'm alright.

Sort of, anyway! :D

The Grave of a Coward said...

Speaking of what types of books we all read, apart from Skulduggery Pleasant, of course, I have a question for you all.
What sort of endings do you prefer?
Some people like sad and horrible endings,
some like happy endings,
some like realistic endings,
some like ". . . and then he woke up and it was all a dream!" endings.

What endings do you prefer your stories to have?

Star Inkbright said...

LANTERN!

Did I actually say something to you, or did I just think out what I was going to say and then get distracted?

. . .

I'm not sure I actually said it . . .

Either way, I think I thought something along the lines of YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY and then hugged you. :) *hugs*

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Anonymous said...

@Anni: I'm afraid I am one of these 'I want a happy end!' people... I mean, sometimes life is just AWFUL, so when I read a book or story or anything, I kinda want it to be better than real life...

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

To be honest mir I don't know. I like her. She might like me. I can't tell with her. She confusing. But also absent and its rude to talk about people when they're not here so...

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

I like endings that fit, and don't stretch reality to make the happy-ever-after work.

Though, I prefer if at least a few of the main characters are alive at the end.

The Grave of a Coward said...

I . . . and this may seem odd . . . I have a problem with ". . . and it was all wrapped up with a pretty little bow. The end!" endings. Because stories do not end that way, in real life. Stories do not really end, not even when all the characters are dead or when all the boys have gotten all the girls.

I don't like:
And then everybody died.
THE END

I don't like:
And then they lived happily ever after.
THE END

I don't like:
And then all of your questions were answered and the boy got the girl and the villain went to jail.
THE END


Some of my favorite stories of all time have ended with:
THE END . . ?

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Happy endings. Or slight cliff hangers. Or just well written books. It doesn't always matter. Although if there's no sequel I like happy endings.

Anonymous said...

*smiles at Silente*
Yep, you're right. Soooo... what are we going to do?

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

STAAAAAAAAAAR, [Runs from the hugs in fear]

Star Inkbright said...

REALISTIC ONES.

Definitely.

I don't care how horrible the ending is, I don't care how many people die or how much it hurts, it's still better than an unrealistic happy ending where something ridiculous happens like them splitting into two version of themselves so they could live together in both universes.
(Yes, a trilogy actually had this end.)
(WHAT THE FUCK.)
The whole point of books with different choices is that it's a fucking CHOICE. You're not meant to have a happy solution like that. It's CHEATING.

However, I have faith that Derek will give me a good-quality ending. :) :)

When we're speaking about totally endings, like endings to series, my favourite endings are really the ones where bad things happen, so it all isn't totally okay, but other than that they're happy.
Like a Romeo and Juliet-style ending where people die and so this enables people to make peace.
Because happiness generally has to come at a price of bad things happening.

When it's just endings to books in the middle of series', I don't care as much, because it's not the END.
Although shocking endings are always absolutely amazing. :) :)

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Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Well I've come up with 3 options
1) talk about something else
2) ignore the rule
3) kidnap chio and drag her onto blogland. Your choice.

Dragona Pine said...

Annika, it depends on the story. If it's a light-hearted story it'll have a happy ending. However, if it's a dark story I'd prefer something either realistic or sad and horrible. I generally prefer endings, in general, which like shock people.

I think endings which question the existence of the entire story are used too much. Especially ones where it's that, and nothing to explain it.
If I ever did an ending like that, I'd do something which showed how the experience affected the characters, and maybe give some clarification. Like... for example, maybe they would start to remember more and more of real life the further the dream went on, to the point where they knew they were dreaming. Then they would remember what happened to them and wake up after a coma, or something. I'd do it like that, if I ever did something similar. I wouldn't just go for that ending - and then the story ends. I'd do clarification and show the aftermath of it. It might have been just a dream, but I'm pretty sure it'd have some sort of psychological impact.

Anonymous said...

@Silente: Okay... I won't kidnap my sister. Ignoring the rule would be an option but I hate being rude. So, there is only one option left: We talk about something else. Let me guess, if I ask you to say something, you will say 'pineapple', right? :P

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Nooo..........I'd say.......supercallafragulisticexpialidotious!

Star Inkbright said...

@Dragona: *nods in agreement*

I suddenly have the desire to end a story with the character waking up and it was all a dream, and then doing an epilogue that showed how that worked, and made them, idk, maybe their personality was wiped so they just thought their life was a dream (because maybe it was a story where people's personalities got wiped) (I've read a few stories like that, they're ace), and then maybe it's actually a really shocking sad ending because like the main character's pretty much as good as died, haven't they? They've failed in whatever they were doing all the story.

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Dragona Pine said...

I think that some stories are impossible to have a happy ending. I'm never one for small insignificant stories. All my stories are about where the entire world - or even more - is at stake.

You CAN'T have a happy ending to that.

The Grave of a Coward said...

By-the-by, all through this conversation I've been working on writing a play for a school assignment, and I finished it! I am free! Hurrah!

Anonymous said...

OMG, MARY POPPINS!! :D

Star Inkbright said...

I suppose it depends what you mean by insignificant.

I like my stories to say things.

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Anonymous said...

Congratulations, Anni! :)

Star Inkbright said...

@Annika: YAAAAAAAAY! :) :)

*sometimes.

I like to gain things from my stories, really.
And you can gain things in multiple ways from stories.

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Star Inkbright said...

I have done nothing today. O_O

Might suddenly go distant.

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Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Exactly. I didn't say pineapples!

Star Inkbright said...

I have it.

I like my stories to make an impact.
*nods*

That's it. :)

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Anonymous said...

@Silente: *laughs* Okay, okay... so you have seen Mary Poppins? Or do you only know the word?

The Grave of a Coward said...

I'm currently writing a story about a girl who moves to a creepy new town and ends up on the run in her godfather's black Cadillac as she tries to evade a pair of dimension-hopping hit men after her father's old briefcase which contains his immortal soul.

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

I've seen it once or twice when I was younger, I don't know all of it but I know some of the story line...

The Grave of a Coward said...

And if anyone here has not seen Mary Poppins, they have committed a grave error.

Dragona Pine said...

By insignificant I mean like... stories where there's nothing at stake. Like if your characters fail, practically nothing will happen? Something that's for an entirely personal goal and no one will gain anything?

Anonymous said...

*nods at Anni*
Thank you, my dear. That is what I just wanted to say.

Star Inkbright said...

@Annika: That sounds awesome. :) :)

I'm not very good at writing stories.
Me and my old best friend discovered, after meeting each other seven years after I moved away and we stopped seeing each other, that we were both very good at making up stories in our heads, but kind of failed at writing them down. :P
(I'm still finding this fascinating, how we grew up to be similar in all these ways.)

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The Grave of a Coward said...

*nods at Mithria*
*realizes I'm nodding again*
*stops myself*
Quite.

Anonymous said...

Annika, what's wrong about nodding?

Star Inkbright said...

I'VE SEEN IT!

@Dragona: You used the word 'fail'. This implies that they're completely a mission. What if there is no particular mission? What if the mission is just, idk, surviving?

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Dragona Pine said...

I think I'm not good at writing stories, either. I have too many ideas, and I don't plan my stories. I just write. Often my stories go from one direction on to a completely different tangent.

The Grave of a Coward said...

I am a huge fan of stories with:

1) Steampunk
2) Eldritch Horrors
3) Hard-boiled detectives
4) Secret societies
5) Immortals
6) Monster hunters
7) Intelligent men
8) Sassy Narrators
9) Pie

Dragona Pine said...

Annika, none of my stories have any.


Ooh wait. I did actually make a detective, once. But that's it. So you probably wouldn't like my stories :P

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Okay I'm going to experiment here. You know how if you supposedly say bloody Mary 3 times in front of a mirror she's meant to come and get you? I'm gonna try something like that with chio. The first time I saw her she appeared when I was going on about frozen songs sooo...



FROZEN
FROZEN
FROZEN!



Just ignored this comment if you want!

Star Inkbright said...

I like well-written stories that make an impact.

*shrugs*

I've realised that it actually doesn't matter all that much which genre it is.

@Dragona: At least you CAN write.
I don't generally get past the first few chapters. :P

I generally just plan in my head . . . but my characters often have different ideas . . .

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Chione Asahina said...

MITHRIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *tacklehugs*

Chione Asahina said...

*looks at Silente* You called?

Mary Contrary said...

Helloooo. :)

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The Grave of a Coward said...

TAIA!

Anonymous said...

OMG THIS REALLY WORKED!!
HI SISTER! :D
*hugs*

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

HOLY SHIT THAT WORKED!?!?!?

Chione Asahina said...

((I'm still laughing at my impeccable timing, I'm almost crying I'm laughing so much))

Hello Taia.

*hugs Mithria tighter*

The Grave of a Coward said...

Don't
mess
with
the
repeat
three
things
formula.

Star Inkbright said...

OH GOSH! XD XD XD

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Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

That if terrifying! I was only doing that as an experiment then you pop up! God chio talk about your good timing!

Anonymous said...

Yeah, me too Chione! I AM actually crying! :D

Chione Asahina said...

Well it worked with me Annika. That's twice I've came on just after someone mentioned Frozen. Can't be coincidence. *taps lips*

Dragona Pine said...

Cheese

Cheese

Cheese


No cheese :(

The Grave of a Coward said...

*backs away nervously*
*swearing up and down never to repeat three things*
*anywhere*
*ever*

The Grave of a Coward said...

You have to BELIEVE, Dragona.
It takes faith.
And trust.
And pixie dust.

Dragona Pine said...

I have orange juice, if that can be exchanged instead of pixie dust.

Anonymous said...

Okay, now I know how to make you come on, Chi :)

Chione Asahina said...

*bows* Thank you thank you.

It may be a curse that if someone calls me using Frozen I will actually come.

That was really funny and actually quite scary, I have told you guys before that I have good timing for stuff, right? I think I just proved it.

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Oh god! I'm hyper ventilating! You actually scared me then! Almost the exact comment after as well! Oh god! Shit! Don't do that!

The Grave of a Coward said...

Ah yes, this shall be a tale for the grandchildren, to be sure.

Mary Contrary said...

ANNIKA! Hey! :)

@Silente/Chione: That was great. xD

Hey Star-YOU'RE SO SCARY!! I FEAR! I FEAR! D: D:
:P (Still- Hi! :) )

Hi Chione! :)
Hi Silente! :)
Hey Mithria! :)
Hi, Dragona! :)

How are y'all?

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Dragona Pine said...

I'm fine, Taia. You?

Dragona Pine said...

I'm fine, Taia. You?

Dragona Pine said...

I'm fine, Taia. You?

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Hey taia!

*crawls into the corner*
*hyperventilates a bit*

The Grave of a Coward said...

STOP REPEATING THINGS THREE TIMES.

Chione Asahina said...

That was the best thing ever...*collapses in snow drift laughing*

Anonymous said...

Hello Taia! :)

I will never again repeat things three times, Annika!

The Grave of a Coward said...

I WAS SPEAKING TO DRAGONA.

Anonymous said...

Oh... I'm sorry.

Star Inkbright said...

SHE FFFFEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!! *scarily hugs Taia*

Sorry for my distance, I'm . . . distant. :P

#ChaseForBookNine

Mary Contrary said...

@Dragona: Orange juice is far more valuable than pixie dust - its powers are much greater. *nods* NEVER underestimate orange juice. :P

Good to hear that you're fine - three times. :P
I'm grand, thanks. :) ^^

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Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Okay. Okay I'm a little better now. Not gonna pass out.
*looks over at chio*
*speachless*
*just shakes head in silent amazement*
*claps*

Anonymous said...

*stands next to Chi*
*tilts head*
*pokes*

The Grave of a Coward said...

I MUST GO. I HEAR THE SONG OF MY PEOPLE.
*departs*

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

You walk in my shoes, I'll walk in yours
If you open your eyes and your ears
The world around you is so much brighter

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Bye Annika!

Mary Contrary said...

@Star: *screams/hugs back*
*but not both at the same time*
*because then I'd be screaming down your ear*
*which might hurt, so*
*not simultaneously*

Aw, see you, Annika!

Fabi! *hugs* Hi! :)

#ChaseForBook9

Anonymous said...

(I guess I'll be gone in a few minutes...)

Star Inkbright said...

FOURS, ANNIKA! :(

@Taia: Thank you for your consideration. :)

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Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Awww no mir! :(


*looks at chio* I just. I can't. I really can't.
*shakes head* so how are you icy deamon?

Mary Contrary said...

Aw, okay, Mithria. :(

Any time, Star. :)

#ChaseForBook9

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

You can stop trying to drown me now.

Anonymous said...

@Silente: *shrugs* I'm sorry. I'm a little... I don't know... not myself at the moment. I'd rather spare you that.

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

Hi Taia. [hugs]

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Hey moss!

Chione Asahina said...

((bye sister D: *hugs*))

Anonymous said...

(I'm still here, Chi. I just don't know for how long I can stay. I might stay here for another hour. Or I might leave within the next five minutes.)

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Does anyone else think saying synchronization is really fun. Like 'our mental synchronization can have but one explanation.'

Chione Asahina said...

"You- and I- were just- meant to be"

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

'Say good bye to the pain of the past'

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

We don't have to feel it anymore!

Chione Asahina said...

Love is an open door!

Alastair Cruciatus said...

I personally really don't have a reference for endings. I mean, it's just because I'm so character-based, but I just want the characters to be true to themselves, and I want a good story. And as long as I have those I don't much care about the rest. Of course, sometimes there will be a character who's just so tortured and deserves so much better and I just want so, so badly for them to be happy!!! But even then, I want them to be happy the same way I want my friends to be happy- it's not like DARN IT AUTHOR WRITE A HAPPY ENDING OR I'LL TORCH YOUR HOUSE. And if the writing style suddenly becomes lazy, *cough*HarryPotter*cough* or if at the end, the characters randomly do something they never would actually do, I'll hate the ending and any and all loyalty I felt towards the author dissipates.

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Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Love is an open do-door
((I dedicate this page to singing!))
((Enough said))

Chione Asahina said...

We should totally do a duet, Silente.

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Definatly....but not love is an open door. That's a bit weird...

Anonymous said...

(*sighs* Okay, see you all!
*disappears*)

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Bye mir!

Dragona Pine said...

Aretha, that was a problem with my SP stories. They always used to end up so happy and everyone was fine.

That is something I fixed with my Mass Effect stories. From the word go, every character has slowly become more and more damaged with every passing part. One of them actually has to see a psychiatrist, now.

Star Inkbright said...

(What about other types of vocal techniques? Do they not get a mention? :()

@Ari: *nods*

I'm not excessively character-based.
I think I care about characters like I care about people, and like I've explained, I'm not really a very caring person, when I think about it. :P
In a story, there isn't some sort of law that you have to care, so I can afford to care less.
I mean, I do care, but . . . well, it depends, really.

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Star Inkbright said...

Fours, Mith! :(

Oh, Dragona. I think most of us are in need of a psychiatrist. :P

(In serious, though, my favourite characters tend to be the insane ones.)

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Dragona Pine said...

I don't think Emi is insane... just a little broken. ^^

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Okay, dedication edited.
I dedicate this page to singing, beat boxing, and any other vocal techniques. :-)

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

You got any other song suggestions chio?

Chione Asahina said...

Em...

Baby it's cold outside? :3

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Star Inkbright said...

Ah. :) :)

Vocal techniques.

Thanks. :) :)

@Dragona: Insane people tend to be broken.
That's possibly what makes them awesome.
(She isn't insane, though, no. :))

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Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

I havent heard that one before...

Chione Asahina said...

Look it up >.>

Mary Contrary said...

@Tempest: That's a great dedication idea. You know that the act of singing -all types- actually releases endorphins, so it literally makes you feel good.
And if you're singing, your breathing is deeper, meaning more oxygen gets into your blood for better circulation, AND deep breathing is also an anxiety reducer/ relaxation technique.
It helps you to focus on the music or vocals or lyrics or technique, so that it's a lot harder to worry about other things at the same time -- so, stress reduction, that sort of thing.
AND it's good for the people around you, too. How many of us enjoy listening to music with vocalists? Or, you know when you break into song, and the other people around you join in, and it doesn't matter how good or otherwise you all sound because you're there and that's happening and it feels great.
Basically, singing is GOOD. :) ^^

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John said...

Hullo people, how goes it in this wonderful piece of internet? ^-^

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

K give me a couple of secs

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Hey korupted

Mary Contrary said...

Bye Mithria! *waves* :(
Hi Aretha! :)

msd
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Alastair Cruciatus said...

Hello, Korupted! *hugs*

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Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Oh and thanks for the comment about the died taia.

Is it me or I 'Baby its cold outside' about a man convincing a woman (possably with drugs) to sleep with him?

Alastair Cruciatus said...

Hi Taia! *hugs*

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Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Why don't we do one from a film chio?

John said...

aduhkandahdkjanik I don't do hugs ;-;

Alastair Cruciatus said...

Oh, ok, sorry. XD *retracts hug*

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Dragona Pine said...

Aretha, you have retractable hugs? I've heard of retractable claws and blades, but never hugs.

Star Inkbright said...

*casually sits here not knowing the lyrics to any of your songs* XD

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Chione Asahina said...

He does do hugs, he's a big softie *tacklehugs Kor*

Mary Contrary said...

*hugs Aretha back* :)

Hi, Korupted! I don't think we've met-- it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance, therefore. *offers a cookie* :)

@Tempest: :) ^^

@Dragona: :P

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John said...

When it's me any show of emotion is retractable ._.

Star Inkbright said...

@Korupted: Poor you. :(

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John said...

GAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHajadjaldksauidhkj Chione why you break my dark-person-shell-thingymawhoser :c

Chione Asahina said...

Kor you didn't hug me back >.> I'm not letting go until you do *hugs him tighter*

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

*looks at chio*
*mouthes* sorry bout her
*makes a she's crazy sign with hands*

John said...

-.- *Hugs Chione back slowly*

John said...

Trust me Silent I know

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Chione. Don't be mean. You wouldn't like it if I hugged you, would you?

Chione Asahina said...

Silente, we've been friends for 2 years. I honestly feel sorry for him ^.^

Star Inkbright said...

So I've been making this, and I'm just going to try and photoshop a few backgrounds in before I apply colour (to fill in the white, you know) (it's too white), and . . . yeah. :)

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Chione Asahina said...

Yes I would! *tacklehugs Silente*

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Two years. In that case you can hug. If her doesn't mind. My point from before still stands though. If I hugged you, you'd be grumpy or something...

John said...

As she hugs you xD

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Erm.. *looks down at chio*
*not sure what to do*
*looks around for help*

Mary Contrary said...

@Silente: Probably. But I guess lyrics can be interpreted differently depending on... how you interpret them? (I didn't think that sentence through very well, did I? :P) IDK how well that is applicable to that song, though, really, since it's not the most ambiguous... :P ^^
I know 'Baby, It's Cold Outside'. I don't often recognise songs that other people mention, so I'm a little proud of that. *laughs* ^^

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

*explodes in* WEEE

*grins cradling a knife I may have stolen*

Chione Asahina said...

And who said that I wouldn't like it? *inches her face closer* Felling uncomfortable? Do I win?

John said...

*Mouths "just go with it" to Silente*

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

*looks at chio* erm chio. Your hugging me. We don't hug. We attack each other. We fan girl over frozen. We don't hug.

John said...

*looks at Zaf* Calm yourself woman! *le slap*

Mary Contrary said...

HUGS ARE GOOD FOR YOU.

*nods*

@Star: Woah! It looks GREAT. :)
Editing colour in to try out first is a good idea - I've done that before, too - it's helpful. Good luck. :)

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Chione Asahina said...

You were saying earlier that you liked me, right?

((Zafira, Kor is probs more of a women that you, just saying ^.^))

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

HELL NO YOU DONT WIN!
*Continues standing awkwardly* erm...
*looks around* what do I do?
I don't hug. I'm a heartless beast. We don't hug.

Chione Asahina said...

Then I win :3 *stares at her*

Mary Contrary said...

Hey Zaf! *hugs* :3

@Tempest: You could always, like, hug back? :P

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Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

I was saying I didn't hate you. That doesn't mean I hug.

*stands* I'm not hugging you chio. I'm sorry. I don't hug.

John said...

Well you could try to pry her off... or maybe we could distract her... Hmmm... Chione! Look over here, it's an ice cream stand!

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

That doesn't mean you will.
*growls in frustration * fine!
*hugs awkwardly* better?

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

I am a woman!

*hits with knife handle

Chione Asahina said...

*turns round and glares at Kor as her eyes blacken*

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

*let's go quickly* now. Erm. You gonna let go or did that not count?

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

*grabs chio* wow, what's with the angry eyes?

John said...

Ummm, can I have a few moments to write up my last will and testaments?

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

ZAF CALM DOWN! OKAY! BREAVE!
same to you chio! *wraps arms around chio * I'm not letting go till you calm down.

John said...

Oh I'll be fine Silente, showed both of them who's boss at the same time yesterday ^3^

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

Wait did you hurt chio? You better not have hurt my chio! Only I hurt chio! Which sounds weird but still!
*stands in front of chio now*
*eyes start turning darker*
*starts shaking slightly*

Chione Asahina said...

*turns round to Silente and grins* Got you to hug me ^.^

John said...

About that... she started it :c

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

I don't care if she started it! Apologise!
*still shaking* god damn it not now...

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