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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Dragona Pine said...

Back.

Dragona Pine said...

Something which also helps is that the characters in my Mass Effect story are a little more... generalised? There's nothing really special about them.
Like, the main character Thomson is just a soldier, who has limited biotic powers. He isn't special, and he's not really powerful.

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

Hey dragon, I think its just you and me on now....we could do anything.....

Dragona Pine said...

Mwhahaha. *gets flamethrower and starts burning everything down*

Dragona Pine said...

Ooh wait. *remembers he's currently a Reaper, so starts using his laser to destroy everything*

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

*shrugs* *gets hose pipe and soaks dragon with it* anything EXCEPT causing long term damage that people would notice

Star Inkbright said...

Star went through her pockets again, trying to glare at the minor scratches on her face but failing (due to the fact that they were on her face). They were all empty.
The first thing she was going to do when she found things suitable for filling her pockets with would be to fill her pockets, because this was ridiculous.
Okay. Use your environment.
Star looked at her environment.
Hmm. Trees, floor, trees, sky, trees, random twigs, trees.
That was mostly trees, then.
What did you do with trees?
You chopped them down.
Okay, maybe not.
You . . . climbed them.
Aha.
Star liked climbing. She remembered that.
She walked over to the nearest tree and grabbed hold of a thick branch above her head, then did a little jumpy thing and she was up, placing a foot against the trunk. She moved her over foot up onto another branch, pulling it roughly through a load of little evil twigs that insisted on hindering her, and moved her other foot, shifting her body. She stood up, taking a hand off, moving it up. Her foot followed, stepped onto the same branch as her hand, and she pushed up, hands reaching, foot letting go and moving up.
Star liked climbing. She remember that.
Star reached up for the next handhold. Didn't find one.
Shit.
She shifted sideways along her branch a bit, cautiously.
No handholds.
Not good.
Star moved her hand along the trunk of the tree, fingers testing against the bark, leaning on different rough edges, trying to find a hold.
A little lump. Not good enough. Er.
Further to the left, leaning precariously, trying not to think about falling. It's okay if you fall, the branches will catch you. Maybe. Perhaps. Okay, stop thinking about it.
A crack in the trunk. There.
Star held onto the crack with her hand and stood up, other hand sliding up the trunk, giving her balance. Once stood up, she could reach another branch if she stretcheddddd . . . right on her toes, and she'd got it. Foot against the little lump from earlier, up. Other hand on that branch.
No footholds, now.
Damnnnnnn . . .
Star palm downed on the branch (don't break don't break DON'T BREAK) and pushed her body up at the same time, sitting on the branch.
Don't break, don't break . . .
She hurridly stood up on it, reached for more branches, and quickly moved on.
Once she was at the top, she would be able to look around, like Bilbo in The Hobbit.
Huh. She remembered THAT. Why? Why couldn't she remember something USEFUL?

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Star Inkbright said...

((I do like climbing. :)))

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Star Inkbright said...

A palm down is where you push your palm down . . .
Bit self explanatory. :P
Smearing is where you push your foot flat against the tree/wall, and you use that as a foothold even though you're not leaning on anything. Star was smearing a bit, there, but I didn't use the word.

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

Hi.

I might be back now.... Maybe.

Star Inkbright said...

They're watching Star Wars without me now.
I DO NOT LIKE WATCHING TELEVISION ON SCHOOL NIGHTS.
URGH.

(I'm not wasting two and a half hours watching it on a school night, sorry, no.)

(Urgh.)

(Damn.)

(It'll be the third one of the new ones and I love that one.)

(Well, the first half hour of it at least. :P)

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

Bye stat, see you in like 2 and a half hours

Star Inkbright said...

(If you ask me my favourite Star Wars movie, I will probably say "the first half hour of the third one of the new ones.")

-_-

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

*star

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

[hugs Star]

Star Inkbright said...

I'm not going, Silente. -_-
Damn this.

Anyway. Yes. Hello. *waves to the world*

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

Only the first half hour?

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

Hello.

[Is only a small portion of the world]

[Waves back anyway]

Star Inkbright said...

@Silente: I do like the rest of it, just not as much. :) It's not good enough to be called a Definitive Favourite.
I'm rather bad with favourites.

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Star Inkbright said...

@Moss: :) I loved those two sentences for some reason.
Hello. :)

Yeah, I should also be actually doing that homework, so . . . yeah. :P

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

Ahh okay then

Dragona Pine said...

Alien Machine Discovered

Smithson's men dug out some kind of alien machine today. Like nothing I ever saw. Called up some of my contacts and found out there's a market for this kind of thing. Looks like some squints over at Elanus Risk Control are willing to part with a ton of credits to get their hands on one of these things. Far be it from me to deny them a chance to pay me.


A Strange Glow

Cooper and Joregenzen say they saw that damned alien thing glowing and hell if I'm going near it to prove them wrong. I don't get paid enough to expose myself to weird alien artifacts. I have to admit, though...that's an awful pretty sound coming from that back room.


Something's Different

Cooper, Joregenzen, and them ain't doing so well. Not feeling so good myself either. Stay near the machine, feel better. Not sure I want to let them Elanus folk take it. Think it should stay right here with us.


Reports from an abandoned mine that I found in Mass Effect 2 earlier. Along with "If you are reading this… get the hell outta this place! Now!"

Star Inkbright said...

Star reached the top of tree, or at least as far up the tree as she dared go, and realised that her tree was not tall enough to grant her an unobstructed view of the forest around.
Oh.
Well.
What now?
Better try another tree, she guessed . . .
Star sighed and start slowly coming down (she was less confident with coming down), looking for a branch to shuffle along that would take her to another tree.

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Star Inkbright said...

@Dragona: O_O

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

No dragon! The machine, its bad! RUN!

Dragona Pine said...

Star, Reaper indoctrination device. Turned them all into Husks... yeah I had to fight my way through about 70 synthetic-organic zombies in a small mine. Then I destroyed the device.

Star Inkbright said...

@Dragona: That sounds fabulous . . . D:

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Dragona Pine said...

http://static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100523032161/masseffect/images/2/25/ME2-Abandoned_Mine_1.jpg

Star Inkbright said...

@Dragona: *nods*
Those poor people.

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Dragona Pine said...

Yeah. Indoctrination is kind of harsh.

Dragona Pine said...

The worst part is, though, indoctrination doesn't just turn you into a Husk. To be turned into a Husk you have to be stuck on some big spikes and filled with Reaper nanomites.

So they must have been indoctrinated and stuck THEMSELVES on the spikes.

Star Inkbright said...

O_O

That's wonderful.

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

That's..erm.... grizzly

Dragona Pine said...

Ikr?

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

They look like robo-zombies.

Star Inkbright said...

If you think about it, it's kind of what they are. :P

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Dragona Pine said...

They ARE robo-zombies. They're just dead people infused with synthetic technology and reanimated with an electrical pulse which stimulates the cybernetics.

NOM Ominous said...

I suck at writing. Bleheheh.

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

Hey ominous....and I suppose they ARE robo-zombies. What with the whole synthetic do dar

NOM Ominous said...

ooh robo-zombies.

Star Inkbright said...

@Thrust: I suck at writing. And writing essays. :P
And roleplaying.
I can't even roleplay, ohmygosh. :P

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

*pokes star* you can role play...I think. Actually I haven't rped with you before so I wouldn't know. But you can probably role play...

Star Inkbright said...

@Silente: I can't roleplay. :) But thanks.

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Star Inkbright said...

(I can hear the music from Star Wars downstairs.)
(No.)
(Why.)

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NOM Ominous said...

HEh.. I'm trying to write a script for fun for a Lego video..
I guess I'm going to have to rewrite it a hundred times.

Did anyone see the lego vid I made where Skulduggery punches people?

https://plus.google.com/106337807646004193114/posts/p/pub

Star Inkbright said...

@Thrust: Good luck. :)

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Dragona Pine said...

I probably should redo some of the characters from my SP stories.

I'm really happy with the ones that I have for my Mass Effect one, even the new ones I keep adding, but my SP ones were a little bit rubbish.

Dragona Pine said...

Anyone here?

Chione Asahina said...

Hey people... I'm not really here just to say why I haven't been here for ages.

I failed my German and Maths exams so I'm only allowed an hour a night until June and I have other things to do likeeeeeeee posting my fanfic chapters for my precious Mithria so I haven't had time for the blog. I'm so sorry my other precious people... I won't be on for a while again because my proper exams are in 7 weeks *facewall* Bai bai ppl ;_; have fun with your free lives.

Star Inkbright said...

Sorry, distant . . .

Homework and getting distracted.

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Star Inkbright said...

@Chione: :( :( *hugs*
Good luck with your exams. :) I'm sure you'll do great. Don't stress out too much - it makes your brain shut down slightly (in case of danger) (like, it shuts down irrelevant functions like memory) so then you can't remember as much.

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Star Inkbright said...

(I mean, if you're panicked, it things there's danger)

(Well, it's what I read once, anyways.)

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Star Inkbright said...

*thinks

ARGHHHHHHH.

My brother's just started reading Artemis Fowl.

Like, two seconds ago.



*hides*

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Snow said...

*scowls* I just found out my class got there laptops back yesterday. And I was home sick. Of course, I kinda knew deep down that ifninstayed home, they'd get em, but.... it's just so annoying that I now have to ask about it.

Snow said...

*if I stayed

Star Inkbright said...

@Snow: -_-

At least you HAVE laptops. :P
*is a laptopless Holly*
*Well, I'm typing on a laptop NOW, but I'm a schoollaptopless Holly*
*schoollaptopless Star*

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Snow said...

I MISS MY BABY LAPTOP *cries because wth*

*really isn't here but meh*

Star Inkbright said...

@Snow: :(

Well, good look in getting it back. :)

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Star Inkbright said...

*luck

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Dragona Pine said...

Sorry poofed.

Snow said...

Okay, here for about half an hour

Dragona Pine said...

Hey Snow!

Chione Asahina said...

Thanks for the support Star :) did you read the new chapters of my fanfic, no?

Star Inkbright said...

No, Chione. :)

I will soon if I remember . . .

*sighs*

Obligations, obligations. XD

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Star Inkbright said...

*but not right now, because homework

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Snow said...

Okay cool. It should be easy to get my laptop back. First 2 lessons today I have with my grade coordinator and so I can get her to help, c:

Star Inkbright said...

@Snow: Yay! :)

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Snow said...

Stararararar........ *tickle tackles*

Star Inkbright said...

*SCREAMS* *RUNS AWAY*

NO TICKLE NO TICKLE NO TICKLE!!!!!!!!!!! D:

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Star Inkbright said...

NO.
NO SMILING.
TICKLE BE BAD BAD. D:

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Snow said...

c:

Star Inkbright said...

STOP SMILING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*throws a cushion at Snow*

CUSHION TORTURE!!!!!!!!!!

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Snow said...

*innocently pulls out a feather*

Hey Star.... c:

Snow said...

I have to goooooooo


*huggles star* ......*tickles star then disappears*

Star Inkbright said...

*SCREAMS* *CHUCKS THE FEATHER BACK AT SNOW* GOOD RIDDANCE!

(Fours! :) *hugs*)

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The Grave of a Coward said...

I need encouragement.
I'm about to do one of the most nerve-wracking and terrifying things I've ever done. I'm literally in a cold sweat.
Can I get a hug from a Bloglander? Any Bloglander? Someone who doesn't mind a cold sweat?

Sir said...

Ms. Barnosky, you are an intelligent, capable woman. You shall be fine.

Dragona Pine said...

Sir, I just realised that you're following my Mass Effect blog. Out of curiosity, why? ^^

Sir said...

I do my best to keep up with as many of the Bloglandian blogs as I can.

The Grave of a Coward said...

Thank you, Sir, but I'm not so sure. I'm applying to do something that is about as far out of my comfort zone as Earth is from Alpha Centauri, and I'm going to be worrying about it for days.

Star Inkbright said...

*hugs Annika* :)

Good luck! :) I'm sure it'll be fine. :) Don't stress.

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Star Inkbright said...

@Annika: Distractions. *nods*
Distractions help with worry. :P

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Star Inkbright said...

*:)

Not :P.

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Sir said...

Think of this as a learning experience, Ms. Barnosky. At the very, very worst, no one shall care if you fail. Anything better is a complete success, as you tried something that many put in your position would not.

Star Inkbright said...

My mum always says you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do.
You'll regret not doing it more than doing it. :)

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Dragona Pine said...

Sir, fair enough lol.

The Grave of a Coward said...

*nods like a bobblehead*
Yes, right, absolutely, quite, of course. You're right. Thank you for the encouragement.
*breathes deeply*
I can do this.
I can do this.

*nods*
*I can feel my resolve steeling*
I can do this!

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

I alive

Sir said...

That is good to hear, Ms. Kerisa.

Maralie Lily Charm said...

guys i need an opinion

is this long enough for an irish essay letter test?

you don't need to understand it, just tell me if you think it's long enough?

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀10 Sraid Uí Chonaill
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Corcaigh

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀18ú Bealtaine 2014

⠀A Mham agus a Dhaid,
Conas atá sibh? Tá suil agam go bhfuil an chlann ar fad i mbarr na sláinte. Táim anseo sa Ghaeltacht agus táim ag baint taitnimh as. Táim ag fanacht le muintir O' Donnell anseo i mBaile Áta Cliath. Is bean an tí lach agus cairdiúil.
⠀Gach maidin, bíonn ranganna againn sa scoil. Bímíd ag labhairt Gaeilge an t-am ar fad. Tá na ceachtanna crua. Níl sé ceadaithe focal Béarla a rá nó bheith déanach do na ranganna.
⠀San iarnón, imríonn mé spóirt le mo chairde nua. Is maith liom cispheil. Tá an t-ádh dearg linn mar tá an ghrian ag scoilteadh na gcloch. Gach oíche, téimid go dtí céilí san ionad pobail. Bíonn an-chraic againn. Is maith liom a lán.
⠀Níl a thuilleadh nuachta agam. Abair le gach duine go raibh mé ag cur a dtuairisce. Béidh mé ag filleach abhaile dé Máirt, seo chugainn, le cúnamh Dé.

Slán go foill,
⠀Jane.

Maralie Lily Charm said...

well shit that looks shorter than it did on the page

Snow said...

Anni... you'll be fine.

The Grave of a Coward said...

Definitely. When I took Spanish and Latin, my letters were about three-quarters of that length [I am a very lazy student] and they were always well-recieved. That's a good length, I'd say.

Snow said...

*not here*

The Grave of a Coward said...

Oh! Hullo, Snow!

The Grave of a Coward said...

Oh! Goodbye, Snow!

Star Inkbright said...

@Mara: *nods* *smiles* *nods*

@Annika: You can do this. *nods*
YOU'REEEEEEEEEEE INDESTRUCTIBLE.

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Star Inkbright said...

@Mara: Things look shorter in the comments. :P Small font. Handwriting is bigger. Word documents can be bigger, too. I have small font and single-spaced on my word documents, so mine aren't, but that is BESIDE THE POINT.

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Maralie Lily Charm said...

thank y'all :)

Star Inkbright said...

@Mara: :)

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Alastair Cruciatus said...

*hugs Anni tightly* *hugs Anni again* I believe at you!
That was a joke, from a YouTube series that makes fun of bad grammar. But in all seriousness, you are one of the most intelligent people I've ever met, and whatever it is that you're going to do, I have absolute confidence in your ability to do it.

Also, I've been wanting to tell you, I am not at all upset about your being an awesome writer. I was, a little bit, for about an hour, a long time ago, but I was really just feeling frustrated at myself that I can't balance humor/fun and tragedy the way you can, which is brilliant, by the way, and it was rather pointless/stupid of me to be upset over that. And it really didn't last long, anyway. I think I made my recounting of it sound more dramatic than I wanted it to because I was tired.

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Emerald Melody said...

Have a least 3 paragraphs Mars.

First paragraph is just 4-5 lines of greetings and formalities,

Second paragraph is your main piece so all the sentences you've been learning goes into there.

Third paragraph will be just your closing lines, about the same length as your first.

That was my method and it served me well all the way up to Leaving Cert :)

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

Hey Ari!

I'm in a good mood! I actually knew something about the orgins of Thurid Guild's name, and Derek didn't! :D

Maralie Lily Charm said...

Em - *hugs* Thanks, i'll keep that in mind:)

we have so many new sentences to learn though ugHHH
and google translate doesn't even work properly like no

"i went to the shop" is not "mé chuaigh go dtí shopa"
"chuaigh mé go dtí an shopa" and then inné or whatever day or time

hOW AM I GOING TO DO HONOURS IF I CAN'T EVEN DO THIS

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

Mara- Em's method is smart, I use it in Spanish. I mean Spanish and Irish are different but you know, I'd stick to Em's method.

Star Inkbright said...

Hey Ari, Em, Zaf! :) :) :)
(Three smileys, for three people. :) :))

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Emerald Melody said...

I did honours up until the mocks for my junior and then I dropped down to ordinary level and trust me Mara, if you really feel like you can't cope with it, dropping down will be the best thing you do. And it's nothing to be ashamed of.

Star Inkbright said...

@Mara: That's why they tell you not to use Google Translate . . . *sighs at the lack of accurate translators in the world*

I don't generally write letters in other languages, plus I suck at writing letters and it was always one of my least favourite things to do, so . . .

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

Mara- plenty of kids drop out of honors, its not to be ashamed of. Its not for you, its ok. Not everyone is honors level. You could do perfectly well in ordinary class levels. We have the higher learning class which is college bound level.

Dragona Pine said...

Star, I've posted a new part of my Mass Effect story, if you have time to read it.

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

It got silent

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

BAGUETTE MAGIQUE! *breaking the silence*

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

ARGG I GIVE UP! I CANT DO IT! YES I WANT TO SEE FROZEN BUT IT'LL BE A BLOODY MIRICAL IF I GET TO THE GOD DAMN CINEMA IN TIME WITHOUT BEING STABBED OR RAPED FIRST! Y*FGFGHK-8*GYIGIYGUFGU*UHGUGF+-HKVJH+)GUFFYC(NIJGHUJLTU&JKHJHVIHH5IOJUHF8-GOJHUF8+HJHVIH)+GHJB+UYGJI*TUF45D+-H+FHV

Star Inkbright said...

HEY JUBI!!! :)

@Silente: I'm sure it's not that bad. :P
And, HEY! :) :)

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Dragona Pine said...

Hey Jubi!

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

It really is that bad. The cinema is down some sketchy streets which are god knows where. The showing is 11:30am and I DONT EVEN KNOW HOW TO GET THERE!

The Grave of a Coward said...

The application is in.
The Enter key has been pressed.
The e-mail has been sent.
*buries head in sand*
*not my head, an orthodontist's*

I shall now weep softly and curse the day I learned how to write.

Maralie Lily Charm said...

http://tunemovie.com/movie-frozen/4334.html

link to watch frozen for free in hd ⬆️

Star Inkbright said...

@Silente: *laughs* Everyone always thinks it's more risky than it actually is. :P
And - maps. *nods*
Maps work wonders. :)
(Well, I'm bad with directions and good at map reading, so it works for me.)

*hugs Anni* Don't worry about it. :) You can't change much by worrying about it, now, so you may as well just sit back enjoy your life until you get a reply.

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The Grave of a Coward said...

Okay, Star.
*hugs Star*

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

None of my friends want to go which I understand cause its at stupid o'clock in the morning but I've never been on my own and I have literally no clue how to get there! No one can give my directions hat I will understand cause I'm shit at street names and I can't just follow e canal because then I'll he trapped like 6 ft below the cinema and I can't climb the wall to get to the parking lot. If I find the right streets there's gonna be like no one but evil people out so I could get attacked or rapped or kidnapped or god knows what and even if I DO somehow get there I'll be fumbling around and going red cause I'm like 14 and I want to see frozen all on my own really early in a morning which is really sad. But that's if I get there. I could get lost half way there, I can't do shit then I'll be lost. Even if I phone someone I can't say 'yeah I'm here' CAUSE I WONT KNOW WHERE HERE IS! And if even if I get there and watch the film I the have to make my way BACK again without dieing. On top of this I'm gonna be really tired and unaware making it more likely that something will happen to me without my ability todefend myself AND ALL I WANNA DO IS SEE THE GOD DAMN FILM IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK?! IS IT?! JUST ONE FILM! ONE! WHY AM I SO BAD AT THE LOCAL GEOGRAPHY?! WHY DONT I KNOW MY WAY TO THE CINEMA?! WHY!!!

Star Inkbright said...

(Plus, Silente - why would anyone want to rape or mug you?
Think about this logically. Imagine you're a rapist or a mugger. Imagine your motives for raping and mugging people, and try and think about why they would pick on you. Then try and avoid the things that would make them pick you.

Plus - how many rapists are there going to be in that exact street at that exact moment? And rapists won't be raping every second of their existence.

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The Grave of a Coward said...

I live in the sort of town where everyone is very suspicious and New-England-y towards one another. It's the sort of place where if I bump into a guy down a dark alley, he'll yell "PLEASE DON'T RAPE ME!" and run away.
I live in a weird town.

Star Inkbright said...

@Silente: People won't want to rape you in the MORNING, anyway. :P

And - print maps off the internet. :)

Are there any other cinemas? Because I know four nearby me. I know how to get to two of them, because they're in shopping centres.
Are there any buses that take you nearer to the cinemas?
Buses are good. :) Frequent, saves walking.

*hugs Annika* :)

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

Seems weird

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

I don't think ANY BUSES go near there or if they do I don't know which ones they are. There are NO other cinemas near me!

The Grave of a Coward said...

My town is a very strange place, but not strange enough for it to be pleasant to live in.
We have an ice-cream parlor, though. That's a plus. And it serve home-made chocolate, and if that's not a reason to love a town then I don't know what is.

The Grave of a Coward said...

*serves

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

Also I can't use maps..

Star Inkbright said...

@Annika: *laughs* XD

I live in a village. :)
So if I want to go, like, anywhere, me and my friend take the bus or train to our nearest city (which is fifteen minutes away by car, ten minutes by train and forty minutes by bus), and that is a city.
So in short, I know villages and cities, but am not big on towns.
And I'm not very knowledgeable with villages and cities, either. :P I'm not a very knowledgeable person.

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The Grave of a Coward said...

The river is gray-green and smells like wet flowers. It curls through the town, under the stone bridge, livening up the mockery of a park we have on the street corner. A few stone benches are sprinkled here and there on the grass, like abandoned monuments. No one uses them anymore. No one except me.
The buildings are nearly all red brick, and lacing with ivy. They stand there like sentinels, beautiful in their ugliness. The spindly metal fences guarding the shrubs are rusty and falling apart, much like the rest of the town. Some of the streets are still laid with cobblestones- those are my favorite streets. Noise is everywhere; from the river, to the cars, to the laughter and music pouring from the open door of the local Irish pub. That’s the only place in town where I’ve ever heard laughter; I hope to go in one day.
I stroll down the street and recognize every face that I see, though I’ve never spoken to a single one, and do not know their names. There the young woman that owns the antique shop and gives out Halloween candy, there the young man with the goatee who sits somewhere different every day and stares down at his papers, scribbling incessantly. I call him the Town Philosopher.
Every building, every person, every squirrel, is shy, suspicious, and paranoid. Always glancing over their shoulders, frowning and shunning the gaze of strangers. The whole town is like me, I suppose. Old-fashioned, paranoid, and a child of New England.
The town is old, and cracked, and faded, but not old enough to become truly beautiful. I walk down every street, every alley, and enjoy the way my shoes click-click on the cobblestones. Then a car rolled by, splashing the back of my denim-clad legs with mud, and I’m reminded of where I really am. I am sad, for a moment, but then I move on.
There’s an ice-cream parlor on a hill, like a beacon of pink and sugar in a town full of people who count sweetness as the eight deadly sin. The ice-cream is like Heaven, and the home-made chocolates they makes tastes like New England: Dark, mature, and bitter.
The town feels like mystery; it feels like hunger, and distrust, and a quiet live-and-let-live attitude. Every street corner feels like nightmares and dreams could come true in equal measure. Every speck of dust dancing in every beam of light reminds me of the disgusting dual nature of this place; even the seedy diner by the book shop has its charm, even walking through town to the ice-cream parlor makes one shiver and think, “Well, this is a bit of an adventure, old sport!”
It hangs in a curious balance, my town does. Halfway between old and new, beautiful and ugly, detestable and lovable. I won’t leave. I can’t leave.
This is my home.

Star Inkbright said...

@Anni: That sounds ace. :)

@Silente: Look up the bus times on the internet. :)
My friend always does the bus and train times, so I can't tell you how to do that, but I can tell you she does it in two minutes whilst talking to me on the phone. It's not hard. I imagine you google 'bus times *name of your town*'

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The Grave of a Coward said...

I was required to write a short description of my hometown for school last week.

Star Inkbright said...

@Annika: That was incredibly written. :) :) :) And beautifully written. But I couldn't have really put both the adjectives in one sentence, not effectively.
It sounds like you live in an interesting town. :)

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Star Inkbright said...

@Annika: Well, you did a good job. :)

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The Grave of a Coward said...

On behalf of my town, I thank you for the compliment.

Star Inkbright said...

:)

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Star Inkbright said...

"Procrastination is the way forward. But Lizzie’s dentist says straws, the kind you drink with, are the way forward, so I infer that things that are ‘the way forward’ are like handholds on a climbing wall. So they’re all linked and you need all of them to truly go ‘forward’. Or upward. So maybe procrastination is the way upward. But if everyone is saying the way forward, then maybe the gravity in the room where the climbing wall is, is wrong, like in a Mario game. I don’t know if you’ve played a Mario game where the gravity goes wrong and you end up falling upwards instead of downwards, but yeah, there you are."

My friend is incredible. *laughs*

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The Grave of a Coward said...

All your friends sound incredible, the way you talk about them.

Star Inkbright said...

All my friends ARE incredible. Which obviously includes my online ones. :)

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The Grave of a Coward said...

Awh.
*blushes*

Maralie Lily Charm said...

silente i just gave you the link to watch it for free.?

nvm cinema is probably better

sorry trying to learn irish shit

The Grave of a Coward said...

John Green posted a new Vlogbrothers video two hours ago in which he and Chris [his friend] are meeting at the exact geographical midpoint between the two of them.
This has cheered me up considerably.

Amethyst Temerity said...

Hi everyone!

Mary Contrary said...

Discography[edit]

Farewell Continental (2009)
EP #2 (2010)
¡Hey, Hey Pioneers! (2011)
Frigid Districts (2014?)



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jhuijb tfjulhb hvk ,klb
asdfghjpkk I was looking at Fender guitars, and then I was looking at Telecasters, and it was saying how they are so versatile, and it was listing a bunch of artists who use Teles, the prove that point, and part of it was like, 'Even heavy metal, take Slipknot, for example', and I somehow ended up looking on the Slipknot wikipedia page to see if that was mentioned, though I'm not sure why I DID, and it didn't seem to. And I was like, Hey! Justin Pierre uses Telecasters... I could swear HIS Wikipedia page does mention equipment that he uses... ANd that was correct, it does, and then I got distracted AGAIN and hit the link to Josh Cain's page, which didn't mention any equipment, and then somehow I got from there to searching Thomas Rehbein, who doesn't HAVE a page, but does appear on the Farewell Continental Wikipedia page. So I ended up there, and I wasn't even sure WHY. ANd I was just scrolling down procrastinating closing the page and I came to the 'discography' section and there were FOUR things listed instead of three and my brain started screaming "WHAT?!" repeatedly and I immediately searched 'Farewell Continental Frigid Districts" on Google, but got nothing relevant except for the Wikipedia page, so idek what that is about but I am shaking and shaking and omg.
gggggahhh,.

Also sorry for poofing yesterday, I was halfway through a long reply and had to go very suddenly. :P

But ggggahhhhhh.
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The Grave of a Coward said...

*shrieks in surprise and beflusterment*
I am going to go to Disneyworld this year, apparently! I've never been before!
This is grand!

Star Inkbright said...

Hey Taia! :) :)

And - YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!
*dances around in Taia's freakingourness*
I really hope it's a true thing. :) :)
And if it is -
THAT'S ACE!!!

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

*explodes*

Amethyst Temerity said...

Hey Grand Mage!

Star Inkbright said...

Hey Amethyst! :)

Me neither, Annika! :) Have fun!

TAIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA YES SLIPKNOT DO LOOK I FOUND IT:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Root

scroll down to 'Equipment'. :)

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Star Inkbright said...

Nice picture, Amethyst. :)

Hi Zaf! :)

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The Grave of a Coward said...

*whimpers* I must go.
*leaves*

Amethyst Temerity said...

@Star: Hello! Thanks :)

Amethyst Temerity said...

Bye Annika!

Mary Contrary said...

*hugs Star* THank you. Thank you.
GAH. I doubt I'd have even SEEN it in the first place, if I hadn't gone to that Slipknot page, and I probably only went there because I'd heard Slipknot through you, so it stood out. So thank you for that. *hugs*
Me too. ANd thank you.
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
I mean, it was fair to expect new tunes at some point, they've been working on that pretty much always, but they're always so far from any, like, final produce. It's always, like, 'Hm, looks like we're gonna have a handful of tunes ready for pre-pre-pre-production soon' and 'We'll be working on things probably once the new Motion City record is sorted.' Less that two months ago they said they were 1/3 of the way there funding-wise. I don't understand! :P

And now I have Tumblr open and there is a video of Jenny Owen Youngs performing in-store at Apple and every 'fuck' in 'Fuck Was I' is being replaced with a Mac product and I don't understand my life. I'm just shaking and :):):):):)

@Annika: YAY! I haven't been, either - I hope you have fun when the time comes! :)

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

HERROW MORTALS!

Amethyst Temerity said...

Hi Trip.

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

I LIKE YOUR PROFILE PICTURE, MORTAL.

Star Inkbright said...

@Taia: Not much of that was to do with me, but thanks! :P
And, yay, I suppose! :) :)

Going now. Fours! :(

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Mary Contrary said...

@Star: Ah! I didn't look at the members specifically, just the page for the band. :) Awesome! :)

Hi Zaf!
Hi Amethyst!
Bye Annika!
Hey Trip!

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

GOODBYE, MISS BUBBLE.

Mary Contrary said...

(I'll try to drop out of panicked excitement mode now. :P )

Bye, Star!

*shakes happily*

msd
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Amethyst Temerity said...

Bye Star!

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

Hai sorry food called

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

WELCOME BACK, MORTAL.

Maralie Lily Charm said...

i can't learn anything oH MY GOD I HATE IRISH SO MUCH UNAS😄🚩🏮🎠😓😪MISW😘😘😝😄!-€/!€8/!€2/!

even using emojis up there

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

I am not a mortal

Amethyst Temerity said...

Hi Maralie!

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

THAT IS WHAT YOU THINK, MORTAL.

HERROW MORTAL, IT HAS BEEN A WHILE. HOW HAVE YOU FARED?

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

*hits Trip

Amethyst Temerity said...

@Trip: If you consider everyone a mortal, what are you then? Are you a mortal too?

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

MISS BUBBLE IS NOT A MORTAL. AS A BUBBLE, SHE WAS NEVER ALIVE, AND THEREFORE WILL NVER DIE. MISS BUBBLE IS ONLY MISS BUBBLE.

Amethyst Temerity said...

...I am so confused now...

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

AS I WOULD EXPECT, YOU ARE BUT A MERE MORTAL.

Mary Contrary said...

*hugs Mara*
Learning celtic languages sucks, and even then, Irish looks a lot harder than Welsh, to me. :(
But if you compare the length of time you will have to spend learning it, to the length of time when you will no longer have to learn it, the latter largely outnumbers the former. So I guess you learn enough now that if it is actually required at some point in your life, you can get by, and otherwise, you can look forward to not having to learn it for the rest of your life, once you're done with school.
Or earlier, I guess, depending on how far into school you guys have to learn, Irish. idk. We have to take Welsh up to GCSE. After that, it's our own choice. I don't know about the Ireland and its own language. But either way... y'know.
As time passes, the percentage of your life in which you've had to put up with it decreases. You get so far into your future, actually heading where you want to be at, and it probably will not seem significant at all. :)

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Amethyst Temerity said...

@Trip: Then what do you consider yourself as?

Mary Contrary said...

@Trip: I think I like the idea of being mortal. It feels kind of safe, which might be contradictory of itself but idk. I am mortal. I'm cool with that. :)
How about you? Where do you stand on the im/mortality chain?

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

I AM A GREAT PROPHET, AND SHALL LIVE FOREVER IN THE MINDS OF FUTURE GENERATIONS, NOT TO MENTION I'L NEVER ACTUALLY DIE, AS I FEED ON SOULS TO REMAIN ALIVE AND SEE THAT MY EVIL CONPANY SURVIVES UNTIL THE END OF TIME! AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA!

Amethyst Temerity said...

Bye guys! I have to go!

Mary Contrary said...

@Trip: What about when the generations run out. I doubt our planet will last forever.
And then you'll run out of souls to consume. Where will you be then? :P
(Oh, Cats, that's such a dark subject matter. 0.0 )

Bye Amethyst! *waves*

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

SO LONG, MORTAL!

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

SO LONG, MORTAL!

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

THEN I WILL CONSUME THE SOULS OF BACTERA TO SURVIVE, MORTAL.

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

rawr

Maralie Lily Charm said...

if we fail irish, we can't leave secondary school. basically :p
well, no other college in ireland will accept you otherwise. which is extremely frustrating.


i'm so stressed out i hate my school so much my friends are all relaxing because from now till easter it's a downhill slope for them but for me noooo because i go to the fucking posh school in town we don't deserve to relax ugh

that is literally what one of our teachers said to us, not joking.

i cried like eight times this week why am i so weak everyone else can handle this shit

Mary Contrary said...

*?

What about when THEY run out?
What if everything just loses its self-sustenance? Ecological balance collapses?
What if bacterial souls taste bad? What if they make you ill? What if you're allergic?
What if you just feel lonely?


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

MARA!!! TAIA!!! *supermegatacklehugsofdoom*


HAII/HEMINGWAYY!!!


*tacklehugs Mara again*
I would try to give you advice... but it wouldn't be very helpful
So I guess that kind of looses the purpose of advice...
......
ignoreme

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

Hello-ish.

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

FABI!! *supeermegatacklehugsofdoom*


HAI!

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

JUBILANT MORTAL, HERROW. HOW ARE YOU?

MORTAL, YOU ARE NOT WEAK, BUT VULNERABLE. TIMES WILL CHANGE, YOU WILL BE FINE. TRUST THE CREEPY IMMORTAL SOUL EATING PROPHET, HE KNOWS.

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

Jubi!

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

THEN I WILL CROSS PROVERBIAL BRIDGES MORTAL, BUT I HAVE MY LIFE PLANNED FOR THE NEXT FEQ BILLION YEARS, HOW ABOUT YOU?

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

HERROW CREEPY IMMORTAL SOUL EATING PROPHET!! *supermegatacklehugsofdoom*

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

Oh Darn

ZAF!! *supermegatacklehugsofdoom*

HAI!


... anyone want ded??? o.O

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

ZAFFY DO

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

Hai Jubi

Hemingway, Taia.

HELLO CREEPY IMMORTAL SOUL EATING PROPHET

Hi Zaf

Maralilieeeeeee

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

*Hands ded to Zaf* TAKE IT! BUT IT MAY BITE.....

so umm... BE CAREFUL!

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

*IS SUPERMEGATACKLEHUGSOFDOOMED*

*ULRACREEPYSOULEARINGPROPHETHUGOFSOULABSORBS*

HOW DO YOU FARE, JUBILANT MORTAL?

Amethyst Temerity said...

Hello! I have returned!

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

I FARE.... um...GOODLY!

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