Apparently I'll be appearing at the Imagine Festival in London this Monday, the 17th. I had a blast last year, where I showed clips from movies, but I'm not entirely sure what I'll do this time. I might read from one of the new short stories. I'd read from the ninth book, but there is nothing from the early sections finished, and anything read from later on would be a spoiler, so...
Oh, and speaking of Book 9, I have just reached the 75,000 word mark. Judging by this, the finished book will be at least 100,000 words, which is Mortal Coil length, and could be longer. LSODM will stay the longest, I reckon, simply because of the massive amount of characters involved. But because most of those characters are now DEAD, Book 9 allows me a smaller, more intimate story — while remaining as heart-rendingly traumatic as anything I've written before.
And speaking of heart-rendingly traumatic, I've actually written the last few chapters. Not to completion, of course, but I've written enough to know what happens, and how it ends, and who lives and who dies, and all I can say is...
I am MEAN.
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«Oldest ‹Older 3201 – 3400 of 4947 Newer› Newest»I started writing an emotional rant, and by the time I'd encrypted it enough that I'd feel comfortable posting it, I was feeling better.
So, uh, back now.
Wb to Fabi as well
Hey Moss, Adra.
That sounds like a good calming exercise, Moss.
#ChaseForBook9
[hugs Adra and Ari]
I suppose it is, come to think of it...
Herroh.
I actually quite like the Auroras. It's on my bucket list to see :)
-
*She ambles into the little house, some of the furniture still disorganized from the tumble that she had had*
*Carefully grabs some firewood and a few matches, a bottle of water and a can of peaches before going back outside under the bright, twinkling sky as she does her best to prepare a fire*
Hey Trip!
(I'm back now Ari
Do you want to continue what we were doing yesterday?
((Hi there, Trip.))
*calls Adra*
#ChaseForBook9
It's annoying how many spellings of the name Katelyn there are...
Hi Trip, Zaf.
Yeah, sure! I was just writing some thing... I haven't decided where it is in her timeline, though it doesn't matter all too much.
But sure!
-
*Adra sips her applesauce*
AH DUDE
I'll do a double timeline then
-
*Past*
*Picks up* Hello?
Just a sec.
-Past-
*Faintly wonders how she has a signal at the bottom of the world, especially with the interference of the Aurora*
Alright.....*sighs* shall ghost glumily again
msd.
Hello Frackelle? Have we met?
*speeds down the street* We have to find a longer road! Fifty four!
((That's fine, Adra- I'd have to double up too, and I can't do that on my phone, so can we do it later? Sorry...))
*calls over shoulder* Niccolò's fine! *still running* *arrives at a train station and bounces up and down anxiously, waiting*
#ChaseForBook9
Oh, sure- no problem.
Alright, Trip.
-
Well! I've never lived in Berlin, so I wouldn't know the first thing about the roads!
Oh, dear.
I am, aren't I?
I'm sorry.
Where is it?
Cling.
That's why.
I'm not sure
If I'm staying
Or going off into the distance
Mumbling about salad
Alexis: *keeps up* You seem way to anxious. Do you need help?
*Waves to Moss if she goes into the latter*
Last tie I was here, I was in the S.O.E! The bits that weren't bombed to rubble were refurbished a long time ago! seventy two! *turns a corner at high speed and spots a small feild* Aha!
I should really use trains more often in my plots...
Ah-
*She braces herself, closing her eyes, going to her happy place in an attempt to keep herself still and not go into labor from the stress or something*
((*hugs Moss* I use trains when I can't use Niccolò, usually.))
*sigh* Probably. Yes. I'm getting help, but the help is slow. *can practically hear Freck's retort*
#ChaseForBook9
Lovely. The roof of the post office Dad works at is collapsing
*takes a sharp turn at eighty six onto the field, going a second or two before they travel in time*
Alexis: Ari. Why are you using a train? Niccolò usually helps you
I like trains.
Except I've had a freighteningly terrible experience with them.
Heh.
-
*Adra tumbles to the side into the field, and blindly reaching out, grabbing some part of Trip- she isn't sure where, terrified of the sudden pressure*
((Wow. I hope he's ok...))
*shrugs* I want him to rest. He needs it.
#ChaseForBook9
FINALLY SOMEONE'S GIVING HIM A BREAK
JESUS
*is dragged out by the nose, and the DeLorian trundles along and hits a tree* Ow!
SPOILER ALERT FOR FROZEN NNNDSNWDHINWJNVIVNDJIENJVE JIDVENJCIWMJXISQXMQSJIXNJINDJINJFSINCJQISNJN i'm at the part where elsa hits anna in the heart with her ice and i'm crying and using up all of our kleenex NIDWOJNWDJNOQSNJSXQOJQXSNJISQXJNIQJXNQSIJNXSQIJSXJNIQXANJIQAXJNJIQAXMXSIIIWNNJICSWNJICSWNJOSCOXWSNJXOSWJNXQJINQXJINSN
Alexis: Then let me help you. You're an Elder. I protect Elders.
Yeah they're fine. The post master ordered everyone out and to forget about the mail. They all were sent home and are supposed to go in tomorrow to figure out what to do, an engineer is looking into the roof. They saw cracks in the cieling so they evacuated and closed.
*Why did I write field*
*I meant to write "door"*
*"DOOR"*
*Fuck, I'm going with it*
-
*She hits the ground, and rolling until she runs into a large rock that stops her momentum*
*Wheezes, having lost her breath*
That's a good scene. It's all a good scene, really. Except the general lack of mythology.
-OIOIOIOIOIOIOIOI-
*Pretends she didn't see that*
*throws self against wall*
don't talk to me about frozen
frozen
rozen
ozen
zen
en
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nO
Here's the link to watch Frozen for free in HD if anyone wants it;
http://tunemovie.com/movie-frozen/4334.html
Yeah, I think I'm gone.
I sort of want to stay here, but I can't write anything, and I can always read all your plots later.
So...
I guess I might be vaguely here if anyone needs me, but I need to do something productive right now.
[waves]
Alright, Moss- *hugs*
*hugs fabi*
love you
((*hugs Mara* *nods to Adra*))
Well, that'd be nice, but can you protect me from a bullet? Or a truck? Or falling bits of construction? Or... *stops* *takes a breath* I'm sorry.
I have people on the case- someone's trying to kill me, and they're trying to figure out who, but in the meantime I keep getting attacked and I'm sick of Niccolò taking bullets for me. Literal bullets. *begins to pace*
#ChaseForBook9
*Flails*
Dammit.
Alexis: tell him off. I'll help you I'm a Sensitive I can try to locate the person who is hurting you, and I can yell at Nic for you.
Weeeellll if Trip's gone off to bed, I might just continue with the past Adra..
-
*She looks at her phone, and shrugs* Probably just some stray signal that I caught down here. That seems likely.
*Sips at her applesauce through a break in the fabric of her scarf and lays back down to see the lights, her ballooning belly making her feel overly big*
*She sees one bright light go across the sky, then another, and another- until a full on meteor shower begins*
Woah...
*Her eyes water form both the ecstatic beauty and the frigid cold*
MOVE OUT OF THE FUCKING WAY ANNA SHE IS GOING TO FUCKING HIT YOU CAN YOU NOT SEE THE BLIZZARD COMING AROUND YOU ARE YOU BLIND IT'S BE-FUCKING-HIND YOU
wow i get too emotionally attached to characters
No, don't yell at him. I'd be a million times dead if it weren't for him. I just hate seeing him hurt all the time, and he can't keep it up forever. It's multiple people- we know that much- but I suppose if you can figure out who they are and what they want, it'd be massively helpful. Thank you.
#ChaseForBook9
((...
There is no such thing as too much emotional attachment to fictional characters. That is all.))
#ChaseForBook9
I'm actually going to bring a jar of applesauce in to school tomorrow.
A legitimately large
applesauce jar
the size of my head
and i'm just going to eat it in my classes.
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*The cold ice feels a little cold underneath her, and she feels disheartened that she can not go sliding down on a hill on her belly for now*
*Perhaps she will take her child and Trip one day to see it*
*Smiles faintly, then it drops*
Alexis: Alright. I'm going to need some form of a name or description of who you think
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i swear to god though ari this in unhealthy like i've exceeded the ordinary amount for a fangirl i'm here crying underneath my duvet and silently screaming and i've seen this movie at least eight times before
*Offers Moss a hand through the screen to help her*
-
I haven't seen it yet, but I'm waiting- I'm sure that when I do, I'll get the addiction :)
...
Um
...
*drops arms in defeat* I have no idea.
*a random really strong wind picks up* *almost strong enough to knock both girls off their feet* *the horn of a train sounds in the distance*
#ChaseForBook9
((I've done the same... *hugs Mara* *just hugs, because there's nothing else I can do, sorry* *hugs Moss too*
#ChaseForBook9
Alexis: *raises hands* Look its not normal. The wind. Someone is watching us
Good morning, afternoon, evening, or other time of day, Blogland.
*Adra tries to pick herself, becoming unnecessarily tired, and in fear that it is an early sign of hypothermia,makes a few futile attempts to roll to her feet, but can't pull her feet up from under her, and falls back*
*Sighs, trying again, and exerts some more strain*
*Nothing*
*Gasps, collapsing against the ice, already exhausted, and shuts her eyes for a moment to regain her strength*
Hello, Sir!
Well...
...
I'm going to go now- this isn't fun. Might start tomorrow's homework.
*Waves*
Good evening!
((Hi Sir!))
*looks around for something to grab onto* *squinting into the wind* Get off the platform. Now. *trying to move against this wind* *it isn't working* *it gets stronger* *any second now...* *the train whistle resonates in the air*
#ChaseForBook9
((Bye, then, Adra. Sorry. *hugs tightly*))
#ChaseForBook9
Alexis: *tries to block the wind from Aretha with her own air* I can try....
(Bye Adra....
*idea* *grabs Alexis by the arm, runs towards the tracks and jumps* *the wind drags them across the path of the train and they fall onto the other side of the tracks just as the train rushes onward behind them* *hurries to her feet and offers Alexis a hand* We should run. Sorry about that...
#ChaseForBook9
((Bye Adra [hugs] ))
Alexis: *takes hand and gets up* Where? I have a teleporting bracelet. It may throw them off our tracks.
*Lorcan continues to punch the bound Drew. Drew's skin sizzling with every touch from Lorcan's silver covered fists. But still he refuses to let go of the shadows.
Chase finally comes off his lean from the wall and touches Lorcan on the back*
Chase: You go get a drink and take a breather. Be back up in half an hour.
*Lorcan looks at Drew and spits on him before he walks out. Chase hobbles over and sits on the chair in front of Drew. Drew smiles that smile that isn't his. Chase is starting to draw up blanks here for what to do.*
*breathes out* Perfect. Anywhere in New York City, preferably Manhattan, if you can manage it. ((I have to go now, sorry- possibly back later.))
#ChaseForBook9
(Alright Ari! Assume Lexi teleported you to NYC the Sanctuary
Em- do you want Lexi to find Lorcan?
Nelnah: Once upon a time, it was the near future.
Me: Once upon a time, it hadn't happened yet.
Mom: Once upon a time, before anything happened, there was a type II supernova. Or possibly a type IA. I'm having such a hard time with Astrophysics, it isn't even funny.
*******
All of us: The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees
*******
Me: 3.141592653589793238462
Mom: Next time you say you're the least geeky one in the family, ask yourself who was reciting pi at the dinner table.
[The conversation shifts to geeky statistic-y stuff that I don't understand]
[Sigh]
******
Hai Fabi
So Marni sings the one bit of Chase the morning! Oh my god I didn't know....one of those times when Ari is helpful
Hm...
Oh, sorry. Hi.
Hai lol
I am gonna go to bed now
Okay, sorry I've been distant. Watching curling.
Hi :)
Hi Saphy [hugs]
And it cut out a third of the way through the game. Meh.
Sorry I'm distant. :-/
Sorry, internet being its usual temperamental self -_- Which means I probably wbd too.
How're you? :)
Internet, FACE THE WRATH OF THE FEATHER BOA.
Seriously, though. Behave for Saphy-fish.
I'm usual, I guess. You?
The internet apparently isn't very scared of feather boas. Can't think why...
Me? I'm alright. Busy, exhausted, but happy.
D: But feather boas are terrifying!
Well, that's good, at least. [hugs]
Maybe it is scared of feather boas :3 Three bars! Wooo!
*hugs back*
Good day?
I can't believe it took my computer fifteen minutes to refresh the page -_-
I'm sorry...
My turn for internet trouble... :-/
It was a decent day. Weird emotion stuff around lunchtime, but other than that it wasn't bad...
And I had a really annoying realization.
But yeah. I'm okay.
Hello...? Wbd, msd
Hi Snowy [hugs]
Hey moss.
Three
20
One
6
D':
?
[Nods]
Okay then
I'm sorry...
*hugs*
[Laughs]
[Cries]
[Needs to sleep]
Then sleep. No need to stay. *hugs again*
*Wipes up Fabi's tears* Sleep well, then :)
Snowee, you still here?
Yeah. I is here.
Snoweeeeee! *flyingtacklehugs*
Dammit, I have to do the washing up... I'll try to come back on later, but I want to get at east nine pages of my maths done first so I can't promise anything :L
Hmmmm
:/
I actually care so little about helping people. I only do it when I have to because it's The Nice Thing To Do.
This should bother me more.
But like I said, I have this failure to CARE. *frowns, curious*
#ChaseForBookNine
LThat's probably why I don't care about fictiobal people as much.
Because I don't care about real people as much.
. . .
Huh.
Idk. In some ways I care more than other people. I'm so CONTRADICTORY. Like having such a good/bad memory. All of my traits are like that and I don't really understabd it. :P Getting more angry than other people and yet less angry than other people, for instance.
. . .
Idk.
#ChaseForBookNine
Worryingless and worrying more. Wanting to get things exactly correct and yet not caring if I don't.
Are all people this contradictory? Because most of me thinks they are, but maybe they don't realise it.
#ChaseForBookNine
People make no sense, which makes sense, coz they're part of the world and the world makes no sense. :P
I should probably shut up now.
#ChaseForBookNine
I miss being Star, I think.
I've been Holly a lot at the moment.
You're different people in different places.
And even though both of them are me, they're not ebtirely me, they're me mingled with a blend of how I wish to present myself, and there is no one,select thing that is me. How can there be, when people are so multi-layered and infinite?
It's like God, really. And how God is so many things and yet somehow the same thing. You can't quite get your head around it.
#ChaseForBookNine
Anyway, as a side effect of yesterday's music sorting, I now hwve Now That's What I Call Music! 86 on my phone (I could get 85 and 83 as well if I wanted), and it's rather freaky having those songs on my phone . . . :P
#ChaseForBookNine
(Alright, some of it's quite good and good in its own way, but some of it I'm just like WHY, WORLD, WHY)
#ChaseForBookNine
I wonder if people who like mainstream pop music listen to metal and they're just like WHAT IS THIS MADNESS and sort of have this mystified amused expression on their face wondering what the world is doing with its life.
I bet they do.
It's sad how we can't just all understand each other. :P
Then again, I don't understand myself sometimes. In regard to me in general, but also in regard to music taste. And if I don't understand myself, why should I have to understand other people?
So I suppose I can accept why people would like some music. *nods thoughtfully*
(Like we were saying in English when we exposed the pointlesaness of the activity - things dob't have to line uo evenly and make sensw. They'll never do that. You just have to be able to justify it, and you can eventually, even if.it at first makes no sense.)
#ChaseForBookNine
(And if "THE WORLD MAKES NO SENSE" can be used as a jusrification, justifuing things is astonishingly easy.)
(Why can't we discuss things like this at school?
Discussing confusing matters such as these is so ENJOYABLE.)
#ChaseForBookNine
Hey! Anyone on?
Little friendly conversation
Character assassination
I just don't care anymore
And I don't want to know
Don't want to know
What have they done to you now?
#ChaseForBook9
*might be here*
#ChaseForBook9
Hello Taia [hugs]
Hiya, Fabi (hugs back)
How're you doing?
#ChaseForBook9
Damn. I'm pretty sure that you are going to kill Skulman. You know what? If you don't kill Skulduggery, I'll make you a T-Shirt. Okay?
I'm okay?
Doing schoolwork, but okay.
Sorry I'm distant. :-/
Okay is better than a lot of things, I guess. :)
That's fine. ^^
I don't seem to have any set homework, which is so weird because I feel like I do, but I don't but- idk. That probably means that I should be doing revision.
...I think I'm gonna revise some of early last year's psychology work. THere might be some logic in doing that. idk.
#ChaseForBook9
Psychology revision is not as bad as other revision. I get to draw tiny cute bees onto A3 paper and call it work on phobias. :P
#CHaseForBook9
:-)
*laughs*
I was just illustrating & labelling some common phobias, for the psychology revision, and I was looking at the word 'phobia' like "Gee, phobia is such a strange word. It looks so odd. Phobia. Phobia. It doesn't look... It's strange."
And then I realised that I'd written "pobia" by accident and that, actually, it is not that odd at all. :P
#ChaseForBook9
HELLO!
I had a really good time in town just now. C:
And I just got an email from someone who doesn't know because they've seen that I'm a Skulduggery fan who wants to make a video for Derek and is asking if I'm interested. :)
(Why me, people? Why me? They clearly don't know me, or they'd know how unorganised I am. :P Sounds cool, though.)
#ChaseForBookNine
@Taia: Really? I think 'phobia' is an odd word, myself. :)
#ChaseForBookNine
Hey, Star *hugs*
Good to hear. :)
And, also good to hear. :)
:P
Hm. It's still a little odd, I think, but not as odd. Pobia was VERY odd. :P
#ChaseForBook9
It actually is odd, come to think of it...
I've had emails that I receive two minutes before they were sent.
Also, I've gotten spam for Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
Because that was my Blogger name for maybe ten minutes,
Pobia is very odd. :) Phobia is a rather nice word, though. Nice in an odd way. Odd in a nice way. I don't know which way that sentence works best. :P
@Lantern: *facepalm*
Timezones, possibly?
And - O_O
#ChaseForBookNine
No, not time zones. My email usually converts those. I think Marian's computer has a clock that runs later or something.
@Fabi: *laughs* :P
@Star: I think odd in a nice way, rather than nice in an odd way.
Or nicely odd.
But I suppose nicely odd is just nice in an odd way, but rephrased.
So, uh.
idk. :P
#ChaseForBook9
*odd in a nice way
(I think :P )
#ChaseForBook9
@Taia: Thanks. :) :)
And - maybe the rephrasing changes it slightly. :) Every word has its own special meaning and connotations. That's why I'm not fond of translations.
I'M LISTENING TO MY NEW A7X CD NOW LET ME FREAK OUT. *freaks out*
#ChaseForBookNine
Wait no.
I think nice in an odd way was right, but I meant oddly nice.
or-
Um.
#ChaseForBook9
@Taia: I like oddly nice better than nicely odd, I think. :)
#ChaseForBookNine
*frowns at the work phobia*
*twitches*
Star, I think you broke me. :P
And- *nods* I agree.
And, YAY! C:
#ChaseForBook9
Hm...
I should probably go.
@Taia: Oh. Sorry. :P
*hugs*
Agreement is good. :)
@Lantern: That would make sense. :)
*yes, late reply*
#ChaseForBookNine
@Lantern: Um. Do what's best for you to do?
#ChaseForBooknien
*word
@Star: I think I do, too. ^^
*laughs* *hugs back* It's cool. :P
*huggles Fabi*
I like ya here, but if you think you'd be better not here now for whatever reasonsing then do that, because you're important and so doing whatever is better for you is better?
#CHaseForBook9
OK, I think Inkness wrote that better than I did. :P ^^
#ChaseForBook9
@Taia: :)
@Lantern: What Taia just said was better than what I just said, but it was what I meant.
#ChaseForBookNine
@Taia: Uh. No. I didn't. XD
*laughs at our contradictory statements that sort of say the same thing*
#ChaseForBookNine
@Star: Nuh-uh. xD
I guess yours was more concise? I sort of stretched it out into explaininesS.
Explaininess? Braininess? idk. :P
#CHaseForBook9
@Taia: I think yours fully transmitted the way you felt about it and the reasons why. Mine was just kind of brief.
It's like in physics, when we get told stuff, but we never get told the how or the why, and then we look in the textbook and suddenly we UNDERSTAND. I gave the shady frustrating answer that said something without actually SAYING it, and you gave a beautiful explanation. :)
#ChaseForBookNine
[Laughs slightly]
[Probably isn't here, but you two are awesome]
@Lantern: Of course she's awesome. And OBVIOUSLY I'm awesome, I'm a bubble. :)
You're awesome as well. :) Not as awesome as me, coz I'm a bubble, but still. :)
#ChaseForBookNine
@Star: ... *hugs* FIne. :P
I had a counter for that but it did not make sense. Because I got halfway through and realised it wasn't countering at all, but just burbling about English class. :P
You gave the beautiful explanation there, though, and, like you said, I suddenly understand.
But I don'#t think yours was so much shady frustrating as it was just less explanatorarily long? Um.
Like in ENlgish essays where you're analysing a text and you make your point, and you quote and you comment, and at the end you often come back to your point or task to summararize/explain and that is the clarifying part that fits it together and I think you did that clarifying link part.
If that makes sense?
It definitely makes more sense that the OTHER English class analogy did. :P
#CHaseForBook9
We did a lock down drill it was scary but like you didnt know which is was, drug dogs or the god forbid a gunman comes.
Msd
You both had brilliant explanations, okay?
Possibly because you're brilliant people.
I have an annoying spot on my nose... I think it's a scratch. Meh.
Hello Zaf.
Oh, wait, I'm not here.
Bye Zaf!
*hugs Fabi* Thank you. You are wonderful. And Star is a bubble, so agreeably awesome. *nods*
distant - explaining my classical conditioning illustration (I got to draw tiny cute bees! :P)
#CHaseForBook9
Hey Zaf, *hugs*
Aw, sounds freaky. You didn't know it was a drill, I guess?
*hugs Fabi again because Fabiulous*
#ChaseForBook9
Sorry about disappearing slightly - dinner.
I used to prefer strawberry jam tarts, but they were the only ones my sister liked, so I always took the blackcurrant ones, and now I prefer the blackcurrant ones.
That's rather beautiful, in a way. :)
@Taia: That was an awesome analogy. :) But the clarifying link part makes little sense if you've not said what you're linking it TO. Then it's just a few cold sentences. Yours had the thing it was linked to. Like . . . like when I ramble off on a rant, and I write a huge paragraph and then have a "Justification is very easily applied" or "Addiction is scary" or "People are odd" sentence at the end, and it's a good conclusion to reach, but the real amazing part is the part where you think all that out, and you're soaring up in this beautiful world of world-y ness, and it's not about where you get, it's about the journey, and it doesn't matter how good you are at something, how well you did in a race, so long as you had fun doing it (unless your family got shot if you didn't win the race. But I don't think you'd find that race much fun anyway, with all that fear and pressure), and . . . yeah. :)
Hey Zaf! :)
Sounds scary. D:
Fabi is Fabilous. :) And a brilliant person like us. Even though I am the most brilliant. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
GUYSSSSSSSS
JILLIAN JENSEN JUST FOLLOWED ME ON TWITTER
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@Star: *smiles* It is. :)
THanks. And- perhaps, but if we all went about explaining everything in full and THEN summarizing, always, then it would take forever to say anything.
Like, if I'd just explained why it would take forever, but you know already?
idk. I think both statements were equally good, and said the same thing in different ways. Like, linking to the race analogy, you might have one competitor who sprints from the beginning and gets tireder and slows down toward the end. ANd you might have another who starts slower, and then goes superfast at the end. ANd another who just goes moderately the whole way.
idk.
I agree with you on the good of explaining, but I also think that there's something to be said for the more simple route, because sometimes a single statement can be just as, if not more, effective.
Like in Star Wars where Anakin's all like "YOU TURNED HER AGAINST ME! D: "
ANd OBi-Wan replies, "You have done that yourself."
Because if Obi-Wan had gone on to explain exactly HOW Anakin turned Padmé against himself, explaining the entire story right since Obi-Wan first plucked him from his little home, the effect of the moment would not be nearly as effective.
So, I think... I agree, but with a different bit, too.
*nods*
#ChaseForBook9
YAY!! :)
*huggles Fabi*
Good for you!
Good for HER!
Good!
:) :) :)
*#ChaseForBook9
*smiles, to give the comment more than just two identical tags and an asterisk* :)
*smiles also because continued YAY from previous comment* :) !!!
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@Lantern: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! :) :)
@Taia: Damn. O_O
I was about to say about how that's probably why I'm blogfamous for long comments, because I go so deeply into explainations, and how awesome that is, but that Star Wars reference just hit the nail exactly on the head there, as well as being an awesome reference, so I agree with you. :P
Plus the thing about the competitors.
Plus - my friend C had a metaphor about a marathon once. And she said, if you were in a race, and you were falling behind all the other people because you were unfit and not very good at running, and you completed the first lap, and it was hard, so hard, and you were so tired, and then you realised that you had four more laps left to go - why would you not just quit, give up then, instead of putting yourself through all that torture?
And what you said - about the competitors . . . and how some went really fast at the beginning, and some went really fast at the end, and some were moderate all the way through . . .
Maybe you're not as behind as you think. :) Maybe the others will be forced to slow down. Maybe you and another competitor can walk around together and laugh and chat and have fun and get through it, as friends.
(Although I still like the idea that you can just walk away from the pitch and live in a cave somewhere and go FUCK YOU I DON'T NEED TO GET A JOB AND BUY A HOUSE AND HAVE KIDS AND BE NORMAL. I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT.
And you don't have to reject the normal structure of life by living in a cave. You could travel the world instead and have adventures.
(Although my friend C could probably find more adventure stuck in a cave than most people could travelling the world. She's awesome like that. :))
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(Life isn't a race.
Life is like a conveyor belt.
Like the one Precocious was running on in the Peptart factory.
And it just carries you along.
And some people dash along the conveyor belt and see how far they can get.
And some people run in the wrong direction like Precocious did and get nowhere.
And some people . . . maybe they just need to wander about, find the part of the conveyor belt that is the most comfortable, and curl up there like someone who's curling up in a ball and crying, except without the crying aprt, because they're comfortable and happy.
And maybe some people devote their lives to helping people to run in the correct direction.
And some . . . maybe they like exploring the conveyor belt, and adding to their experience.
And I have no idea where I was going. I got sidetracked describing the conveyor belt and have completely forgotten. :) Deal with it. Or don't. But you sort of have to deal with it, because you announcing you don't deal with it isn't going to make me remember.
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(Although we all have our own separate conveyor belts. :))
(Because we all have different lives.)
(*is now picturing a factory with conveyor belts in it, slicing across the room, soaring all the way up to the ceiling and starching from wall to wall, like the ones you see in movies, like with Santa's factory and all the presents everywhere*)
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@Star: YOu are a wise bubble. *nods* With wise friends. *nods again*
You made me laugh with the cave part though. xP
ANd that rejection of the normal structure of life is what our good classroom assistant in art who's better than our actual teacher tells us. Not so much the cave part, but the "fuck that, don't get a job and buy a house and have kids -- travel the world and have adventures." part. *nods*
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@Taia: Thank you. :) I do have wise friends, yeah. XD
I wouldn't ACTUALLY want to live in a cave. Well, only if it could have solar panels linked up to it. If not, I would like to live in something that could have solar panels on the roof. So then I can get electricity and therefore internet. *nods*
Your classroom assistant sounds rather ace. :) I would like to travel the world and have adventures. Mmh.
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Holy toes Star O.O
I was just about to copy/paste the curling up on the conveyor belt part bc that was so perfect and then I read the next part and I couldn't because it suddenly became that if I was to quote one part I'd have to quote it all, like it all kind of came together as you move through the conveyor belts and we all have our own separate conveyor belts omgg that was so perfect Star.
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@Taia: Thank you. :)
Do you see this face?
*points to face*
*realises I'm a bubble and I don't have a face*
*I'M A FACELESS ONE*
Anyway. Do you see this metaphorical face?
No, you don't, we're talking through a computer screen.
Can you imagine you're seeing this metaphorical face?
Can you see - um, imagine seeing - this big smile on it?
This big smile is there because of YOU.
And isn't actually there, because I don't have a face.
But if I DID, it would be there because of YOU.
And even if it was there, I'm not faking it. It is there because of PURE HAPPINESS.
I mean, you'll have to take my word for that.
But you're having to take my word for the whole smiling thing, so . . . :P
Thanks. :) :)
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*still smiling*
*well, I would be if I had a - *
*SHUT UP*
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I'm dedicating this page to every conveyor belt in the factory that is our version of reality.
And where the conveyor belt gets sticky because something is spilled onto it, I dedicate to the fact that it will clean, and the whole of the rest of the belt is still clean, anyway, so maybe just shuffle along a bit?
Or if the conveyor belt breaks down, I dedicate to that they will either fix, or a new conveyor belt with an alternative route will either be found or constructed.
And also that maybe a conveyor belt never really ends, because even though eventually you are conveyed to where the conveyor belt turns around and starts going upside down so you have to get off, but the belt itself just goes around and around. It's the same belt, just recycling itself. (I don't actually remember what I was intending on meaning by that but it gets a space anyway, because why backspace it all? and also because we all make mistakes and/or complicate and forget, right? :P)
I dedicate to that factory and the cavalcade of conveyor belts it contains.
And I also dedicate to statements with explanations and statements without, and the equalities and importances which they share.
*nods*
*smiles*
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AND I DEDICATE TO METAPHORICAL SMILES ON METAPHORICAL FACES THAT WE COULDN'T SEE EVEN IF THEY WERE REAL BECAUSE THESE ARE LETTERS NOT IMAGERY TRANSMISSIONS, WHICH ARE THERE BECAUSE OF PURE HAPPINESS.
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@Taia: Beautiful addition to my metaphor. :) :) :)
I feel like starting crying.
That was perfect.
LIFE IS A CONVEYOR BELT OKAY. :)
Good ded. :)
Hey.
Hey hey.
Say you fell off your conveyor belt, what would happen?
Or what if you landed on someone else's conveyor belt?
. . .
I think it might be impossible to land on someone else's. You'd just bounce off, maybe. Maybe it has repellent on it.
And if you hit the ground, you die.
So if you commit suicide . . .
You just jump off the belt.
And if you meet somebody . . . maybe their conveyor belts move alongside yours a bit. :) And maybe someone's conveyor belt sticks with you for ages, but one day it just takes them away from you. And maybe those people who briefly have their conveyor belts cross above yours and then glide off . . . maybe they're people you see but don't know, people you pass in the street, people who work at checkouts in shops and people who post YouTube comments on videos you watch, and you read them and then forget their display name and maybe even their comment.
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@Taia: Thank you. :)
Yes. Those smiles are much better. :)
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In other words -
*hugs STar*
Your smile that doesn't exist but would if you weren't a faceless bubble (although bubbles are spheres and so by the geometrical viewpoint of three-dimensional shapes, spheres have one face, like a cube has six faces or a dodecahedron has twelve faces - so I guess in a sense, you do have a face, of sorts?) passed on a smile that 100% does exist (but that you still can't see except through punctuation combinations resembling the basic shape of our universal non-verbal communications of happiness) to me. And I am wearing it and it is good. :)
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Hey Dragona! :)
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Hey! A few days ago I began playing Mass Effect 2 again and this time I'm doing a play through as a female Commander Shepard for the first time. I'm choosing the "renegade" options, which are like the more evil ones, and it's funny.
I posted a screenshot of what I made her look like:
http://masseffectfanfiction.blogspot.co.uk
@Taia: Thank you. :) :)
(Okay, maybe I do have a face. But it isn't a smiling one. :P)
And I think the best smiles are the ones that do 100% exist but aren't visible. And we use our mouths to try and translate these smiles into body language sometimes, and that's when visible smiles are the most beautiful, when they're translating invisible ones. :)
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asdfg Star I am searching for a Post-it note because I use those to keep the things I want to be sure I'll remember even after I thought I forgot and I'm going to write conveyor belts on it in permanent marker and conveyor belts will be permanent and forever and omg *hugs*
Dragona! Hi! :)
How're you doing?
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I'm fine, thanks. How are you Taia?
@Taia: *smiling invisibly again* :) :) Thank you so much. :)
MY LIFE FEELS SO WORTHWHILE NOW HELP. O_O
*fills a sink full of smiles and amazedness and more smiles and more smiles and uses a hose to spray it everywhere*
Thank you for being awesome, though. :) It's so beautiful to find someone who understands this stuff. :) :) :)
@Dragona: Awesome. :) :)
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*explodes* msd but weee
" that's when visible smiles are the most beautiful, when they're translating invisible ones "
My brain just made a noise like an elongated "ch" sound.
I don't think I have entire words that will fully constitute a sufficient response. Just... Ch.
Cool, Dragona! :)
The Skyrim screenshots on the previous post look pretty great, too. :)
And - Good to hear. I'm good, thanks. :)
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Hey Zaf! :) :) :)
@Taia: *invisible smile expands, like it's going to explode like Zaf's dynamite*
Thank you. :)
Thank you. :)
Thank you. :)
Thank you. :)
*very happy about this*
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@Star: *grins* I'm gonna send that last line right back at ya. :)
Oh Gods I just reread that comment again and it just hit me so waaaahhhhhh *hugs*
and I've gotta go and may or may not be back soon and I don't have time to work out how to say the explodingness in my head but thank you and-
*hugs all*
BYe!
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Bye Taia!
*hugs Taia* Fours!!! :) :)
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Star, have you looked at my Shepard?
[hugs Taia and Star]
:-)
(Probably not here!)
I determined months ago that life is like Temple Run. It's a very similar theory to your conveyor belt theory, I think. Probably not here for another few minutes, though.
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As it turns out, I am back pretty soon. :)
*hugs Fabi back*
Hi Aretha! :)
Ha - I guess if you're making an analogy for the same thing, it's likely that parallels can be drawn? Sounds good, anyway. :)
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Aretha, just remember to turn corners, slide under obstacles and jump over things.
Oh! Or you could do that glitch where it's just ONE long line and you can get like 1000000000000000000000000 points.
@Ari: I remember that theory. :) It was an ace one.
Life is like many things, but not entirely identical to any of them, because it's not them, it's life. :)
@Dragona: I did. I believe I told you it was pretty awesome, or something of the like . . . *bad memory*
*hugs Lantern* :) :) :)
Hey Ari!
Wb Taia!
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Ooh yeah sorry I missed that.
Thanks for looking at it too, Taia.
Shepard: *walks into recruiting room in full armour*
Mercenary Recruiter: Well, ain't that sweet. You're in the wrong place, honey. Stripper's quarters are that way.
Shepard: *takes her pistol out* Show me yours, tough guy. I bet mine's bigger.
That made me laugh :P
so.
if anyone you know has the "talking angela" app for iPhone, iPod or iPad, DELETE IT IMMEDIATELY.
the guy who made it is a stalker. he has kidnapped a girl and raped her because she downloaded the app and told him which country she lived in. he took a screenshot of her when she took her finger away from the camera on her iPad and tracked her down. the app is seriously putting people's lives at risk.
Maralie, are you sure? I'm PRETTY sure the app would have been taken down if it was true. I don't even have an iPhone but somehow it doesn't seem very likely...
OH. ARETHA.
I was flicking through the songs present on the They Might Be Giants app one morning a little while ago, and there was one on there about Nikola Tesla, and there were a lot of things buzzing around my head and they all came back to you, and idk but I just thought of you and it was like this tiny little moment of magic that happens when a bunch of great things kind of come together, and it was just good, and I just remembered and felt the need to let you know, and also thank you for the tiny-magic-moment. :)
@Dragona: *laughs* :P
And- No problem. :)
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Ah, Maralie, it's false. It's just a rumour someone started on facebook.
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