I had meant to write a well thought-out, reasoned, logical-yet-impassioned blog entry about this... but I still haven't figured out how to do that. So I can tell that this little entry is going to be, y'know... slightly rambling.
I want my nieces to grow up in a world where they can do anything they want to do.
Obviously, right? That's what we'd all like. Duh.
What I don't want is for them to grow up and have their options curtailed by their gender. What I don't want is for their attitudes towards men and women, boys and girls, their own selves, to be decided by a society, and a media, that is slanted.
Big Books for Boys are about adventure and exploration. Big Books for Girls are about makeup and looking pretty.
My niece Becca is 4. Becca loves pink. She loves princesses. She wasn't BORN loving pink and loving princesses — she learned that. She learned it from the people around her, from the TV she watches, from the other kids at the school-type place she goes to. And you can see it. You can see it happening. People go up to her and the first thing they say, the FIRST thing, is "Oh, don't you look ADORABLE!"
Boom. Now she thinks that her physical appearance is THE most important thing about her. Now whenever she's wearing a new dress she always runs up to me and says "Derek, look at my dress!"
I don't want my nieces thinking their looks are the only things that matter. For their birthday, the twins got a big dollhouse. It is, admittedly, awesome (if you like dollhouses). And I knew they were getting the dollhouse, so I went to buy them dolls. I bought them a princess doll and a mermaid doll, because Becca loves princesses and Emily loves mermaids. But I also got them an Annikin Skywalker doll, with lightsaber and sound effects, and an Iron Man doll. So now Iron Man has tea with Princess Barbie (and by all accounts, he's loving it) and the future Darth Vader (spoiler alert) sits awkwardly on the couch with Mermaid Barbie.
I buy them toys for boys because I don't want them limited by what toy companies tell them they can be.
(Er, not that a princess, a mermaid, a Sith Lord or a super hero is an achievable goal anyway... well, maybe the super hero...)
And then I start thinking about my books because, well, my books are awesome and deserve to be thought about. I think I've done well, all in all. The decision to have the main character be a teenage girl wasn't a decision at all — it's just something that fit. I've also worked very hard to refrain from idealising Valkyrie. Having a female main character but treating her like she's this flawless wonder is as damaging and disingenuous as the very things I've been trying to avoid. But treating her like a real person? Giving her an ego, an arrogance, a selfishness that we'd all have in her situation? That's FAIR.
But I've also failed, in certain ways. I've given in, without even thinking. Val is pretty, for a start. Was that necessary? No, not really. I could have made her plain. I could have taken away the height, the slimness, the little dimple when she smiles... But I didn't. Yes, the pretty fictional character is based on my pretty real-life friend, but I could have changed THAT aspect, right? Only, I'm as biased as anyone else. I like beauty. I like a pretty face. I like Gina Carano and Ronda Rousey. I admire them as people, as fighters, as athletes — but would I pay them this much attention if I didn't also appreciate how they look?
I'm as bad as anyone, but the thing is, I'm trying NOT to be.
So while you're digesting all this, and figuring out if what I'm saying has ANY relevance to ANYTHING, I want you think about Captain America: Winter Soldier. You all know what a huge comics fan I am. Most of you know that I own the shield he used in the first movie. I am REALLY looking forward to the sequel, and nothing will stop me from going to see it.
But seeing as how I'm talking about how women are valued primarily on their looks, I'd like you to take a peek at the posters released. Here's Cap, looking pensive...
And Nick Fury, also looking pensive...
And here's Black Widow, looking... wow.
Is that it? Is that her only worth?
In some ways, I'm old fashioned. I believe in old-fashioned things. I believe men should be strong. If they can't be strong physically then they must be strong morally. I believe men should hold the door for women, should stand up from the table when they walk over, and they should, when possible, pay for dinner. I also believe that men and women are equal in every way that's important.
So when I ask "Is that her only worth?", I'm not asking that from a feminist's perspective. I'm asking it from a man's perspective. The Black Widow is a secret agent, a spy, an assassin, and a hero... so why can't she be pensive in a series of pensive posters? Why does she have to adopt the sexy pose?
If any of my nieces grow up to be a secret agent, a spy, an assassin or a hero, I'm going to be as proud of them as if they grow up to be a princess or a mermaid. But I'm going to have to insist that they be given the opportunity to be WHATEVER they want to be, and those kinds of opportunities begin with me — the writer, the creator — and with you — the reader, the consumer. Don't settle for less. Don't settle at all.
Sunday, March 16, 2014
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«Oldest ‹Older 3001 – 3200 of 4926 Newer› Newest»I'm. Okay.
In one of those moods again where I'm starting to fade and can't really be fully here as me... I could come back as a character if you want, but otherwise I should probably leave.
Aw . . . :( *hugs Lantern*
I'm sorry.
#ChaseForBookNine
Oh if you want to leave that's fine. I don't mind. You don't have to be a different charcte if you don't want to! Bye :-)
Hey Star
Hey Silente! :)
#ChaseForBookNine
Bah! Food! Wbd msd!
How are you?
Good! :) I have an apple and blackcurrant Fab. It tastes really nice. ):
#ChaseForBookNine
Apple and black currant fab?! They exist?!
Ahhhh . .. in physics, Miss put eight bits of paper around the room, and half said examples of irradiation and half examples of contamination, and we had to write them down into a table. And one of them said "Areas affected by the dust particles from Hiroshima's eruption."
And I wrote it down in irradiation, because I remembered Miss saying something like that before, and C said no, it was contamination. And I said, only if you breathe in the dust. And she said, of course you're going to breathe in the dust. And I said, but it didn't say that. And she said, well, you wouldn't NOT breathe in the dust. And I looked back at the piece of paper and I said, aha, it says AREAS affected! And I said that the AREAS were irradiated. And she said, no, because the people - And I was like, forget the people, it mentions the AREAS. Imagine you're a building. No, imagine you're a radiator (we'd just had a conversation pondering what it would be like to be a radiator :P), and I pointed out that the radiator wouldn't breathe anything in, so therefore it would only be irradiated! And she said, but the PEOPLE would breathe it in!
And I was like, well, not if there were no people in the area! It's a peopleless area! It's talking about the AREA!
And she was like, but the people -
And I was like, but the statement doesn't MENTION the people!
And by this point we were yelling at each other whilst laughing and like half the class was staring at us, so Miss came over, and she said that it would be contamination, because people would breathe the dust in.
And C was like HA.
And I was just like IT WAS A MISLEADING STATEMENT.
And then I was like, but if you didn't breathe it in -
And she said, but you would breathe it in!
And I said, but what if you were wearing a gas mask?
And she said, no, you wouldn't be. Imagine you were these little Japanese girls and you were weaving these baskets that you would only sell for like five pounds but in Britain they would be sold for a hundred pounds because they're really good and handmade and stuff, and you were crying because your fingers were bleeding and hurting so much from making these baskets -
And I was like, but they would have got used to it by now.
And she was like, well, they were only LITTLE girls, who had only just started doing it.
And I was like yeah.
And she was like, they wouldn't happen to think "Oh, I'll just randomly put a gas mask on" seconds before the bomb happened to explode, would they?
And I was like, no, but imagine you weren't IN the blast, imagine you were a journalist who came to report afterwards and you put a gas mask on before you came.
And she was like, well, yes.
And I was like, well, YES.
So I just wrote it in both columns, with bracketed (if you breathed it in) and (if you didn't breathe it in)s. :P
Anyway, yeah. :P
As of next lesson, we have a seating plan in physics. XD
Which'll just mean I'll end up talking to myself so there'll be about the same noise level, I'll just look weirder, and me and C won't understand it as well. Lol. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
@Silente: YES!
I DIDN'T KNOW UNTIL TODAY BUT THEY DO!!!!!!
#ChaseForBookNine
*pokes Star and Silente*
Hey Chi! :)
Plus after the lesson, this boy asked me if I'd been talking to myself, and I said, no, well, yes, but I often spoke to myself and made it look as if I was speaking to other people, so I was only really speaking for my benefit and no one was really listening -
and then I realised that I was doing exactly what I was describing at the moment, coz he'd walked off, and I was just like LOL. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
Anyway.
Unnecessary highlights-of-my-day spam over. :P
Wbd - word art. :/
#ChaseForBookNine
I really do like friend C. She sounds like a blast! I can't believe she gave you a seating plan! You'll end up being just as noisy (talking to yourself) or noisier! (Shouting across the class to each other)
*pokes Chi*
*whispers* hello!
@Silente: I'll tell her you said that. XD
Yeah, she's ace. :)
Lol, it wasn't just me and her.
And I'm not really a shout-across-the-classroom kind of person, I don't think. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
How close are you in the seating plan or don't you know?
Hello mello yello fellos.
Well -
---------- -----------
---------- ----C------
-----Me---- -----------
About. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
The lines being rows of desks . .
We have two other classrooms for physics though, and we're sat next to each other in biology and chemistry, so it's cool. :P
Hey Lord of Leitrim!
#ChaseForBookNine
...not to far away then? Its not too bad..
Hello star inkbright.
Hello Lord. Didn't spot you there. You know I don't think I've found this out yet, what's your discipline?
@Silente: Yeah. Not within talking distance. We're fine though. :P
The only problem will be when we don't understand, which will happen because our teacher can't explain, but I can't explain either, so I'm sure not much difference will be . . . be.
#ChaseForBookNine
How are you, Lord? :)
#ChaseForBookNine
Oh well. You can try I suppose? Maybe the person next to you can help Star..?
@Silente: Yeah, but I normally get it, which is actually because I'm LESS intelligent than C.
You see, Miss tells us stuff, and I kind of get an impression of it and go okay and am fine with it.
But she is less likely to just accept things, so she wants them explained properly so it's all straight in her head, so she just goes AHHHHH I DON'T GET THIS until she does.
Like, Miss said that alpha particles are positively charged, and I just accepted that because I have a less questioning intelligent mind. And C sat there and worked out that they were positive because they were just like a helium nucleus (we'd been told that), but that they didn't have the negatively charged electrons that a helium atom would have, so they would just be protons and neutrons so they would be positive.
And I was like O_O.
Of course, if Miss would tell us how a TV remote actually worked instead of just telling us which buttons to press to turn it on/just learn how to explain things already, we would be fine, but. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
Oh god I'd taken science.. WHAT HAVE I DONE?!
Im good. How are you?
Only one exam left and then Holiday and then i'll start writing and typing up again.
Lord what's your discipline? That is if you don't mind telling. Or if you have one..
@Silente: We have to take science. O_O
Science is really interesting though. It's cool. :)
@Chi: Yaaaay! :)
#ChaseForBookNine
@Chi Yey! Only one left! Can't /wait/ till the holidays! Mind you I also can't wait till Friday..
*smiles*
Friday.
Adept.*reaches into fedora and takes out a bunny. Takes our his top hat and puts the bunny in*
@Silente: Why, what's Friday?
#ChaseForBookNine
@Lord: Ooh, what kind of Adept?
#ChaseForBookNine
*jumps into fedora and comes out of top hat*tada! What's yours?
*explodes*
Zaffy should have killed feels last night but I fell asleep
Hello mello yello jello fello.
*waves*
Talking about disciplines, I'm a Necromancer. I know my true name though so I can also mimick anything I see or experience. I usually rely on memory. Though you won't meet my name because I am my name because I had the brains to come to peace and accept my name and I are the same person. Smart idea, keeps voices from my head.
I don't have a discipline.
My characters can manipulate energy.
#ChaseForBookNine
Im kinda a magician. Literally. *takes a saw from fedora and saws himself in half. Bows and falls on his face*tada!!
Sorry, poofed.
@star Friday is the only day I get lunch with my year 11 friends, it'll be the first time in a fortnight I've spent actual time with them. Might be the last as well..
@Lord that'd be telling! *winks*
@zaf hey!
That's cool.
@Silente: YAY!
But . . . not yay. :(
*hugs*
Hopefully you can maybe meet up in the holidays?
#ChaseForBookNine
Yeah hopefully. I'm determined not to lose them just because they're leaving this school..I REFUSE TO LET IT HAPPEN!
Aww *hugs*
Ooh anyone wanna see Zaffy who is half blonde?
What year are you, Silente?
@Zaf: Yes, if you don't mind! :)
@Silente: Yeah . . . :/
I suck at keeping in touch with people, sadly.
#ChaseForBookNine
I'm in year nine in English school terms (14 years old) and my friends are two years above, taking their GCSE's.
Zaffy half blonde..? Hmmm..
*relaxes on her couch*
*runs into Chi's house*
HELLOHELLOHELLOI'VEMISSEDYOUGIRL!
*hugs her tightly*
*runs off*
*comes back with vodka, chocolate and ice cream*
*and spoons*
*calmly puts them on the table*
*winks*
Anyone know any good jokes?
Not really..
Why did the crab go to jail?
Why??
Because he kept pinching things!
*badum tssst*
*stands awkwardly*
Shhh *looks at her* Just don't tell Blake ;)
Hey dragona!
*grins*
Don't worry, I won't!
*stretches*
You need time to relax.
*passes her the chocolate*
*grabs her own bar which has oreo's in it*
*yummy*
Ok so an Irish man, an English man and a Scotsman walk into a bar and they all have there sons with them. The English guy goes:*english accent*my son Gorge, was born on st George's day. The Scotsman:*scot accent*I named my son Andrew, cos he was born on st Andrews day. And the irish man turns to his son and says: say nothin, Pancake.
Oh poor pancake! *laughs*
I would tell you a joke about butter.....
But I know you'll SPREAD it!!!!
*awkward silence*
*tumble weed rolls past*
...
*eats her chocolate awkwardly*
*coughs awkwardly*
*coughs*
Anyway...
*takes a shot of the vodka*
Here. You need this Lord..
*passes him chocolate*
I hear it goes well with cheese. And damn do you got some cheesy jokes..
*knibbles chocolate Oreo bar*
I have a load of terrible science-related jokes!
"Someone through some NaCl at me. I said "Hey that's a salt . . ."
A salt.
Assault.
. . .
CGP.
#ChaseForBookNine
*takes another shot of vodka*
Anyhow...
*looks around awkwardly*
Worse science joke: are you made of Copper and Tellurium because you are CuTe!
So the air hostess asks the photon if hes got any luggage to bring on the plane and the photon says: nope, im travelling light!
Star, Silente, check your emails...!
Oh god so many bad jokes..
Gotta go. Bye
*parkours into Blogland*
Listen!
In case anyone cares, I am alive! And well!
I have not been on in a while. Why? The answer is the College Algebra test that I must endure on Thursday.
But no matter! Soon it shall be over with, and I shall return to Blogland in a blaze of glory and a splattering of blood and glitter.
Thank you for your time!
*falls through a trapdoor*
*falls out of Blogland*
Have you heard of the film "Constipation"?
Knock knock
Who's there
Interrupting coefficient of friction!
Interrupting coeffic--
Mu!
*μ
(Hopefully this types right)
Bye Lord!
No Clara! Don't leeeeeeeave! Not again!
*runs to the trap door*
*tries to open it*
*fails*
No Dragona I haven't..
See I am blonde
ZAFFY BLONDE!
Half blonde. My hair is highlighted but I have my normal colour too
That's because it hasn't come out yet.
@dragona oh okay then..
@zaf ZAFFY HALF BLONDE!
Oh that was a joke. Oh right. Sorry slow mind!
ZAFFFFFFF! YOU'RE BLONDE! :O
It looks cool. :)
@Silente: CGP had a question about a copper statue, and it was of a policeman and said "Number One Copper" on it. XD
Helium walks into a bar. The bartender said "Hey, we don't serve noble gases in here!"
He didn't react.
(XD)
#ChaseForBookNine
*face palm*
Sorry! I'm really slow! Oh god I feel stupid now..
@Dragona: LOL"
#ChaseForBookNine
*blushes*
...I died from the number of bad jokes from facepalming.
No! You can't die!
*shakes Chi*
DONT DIE!
*feeds her glitter chocolate with life powers*
DONT DIE!
*helps her wash it down with glittery vodka*
LIVE!
((He's an uglyosaurous and he knows it! ---->))
@Silente: Yes! XD
#ChaseForBookNine
OMFG ITS ONLY TUESDAY!
Sorry dumb moment of forgetful-ness
I know! D:
It feels way later in the week . . . :/
#ChaseForBookNine
Yeah I keep thinking its like Thursday and semi-late then realising my mistake..
Aw. :(
I hate Tuesdays, as well.
Double German, science (but I have that every day), history, PE.
Urgh. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
Tuesday...
Oh star do I have permission to upload one last nominationy thingy?
@Silente: Sure. :)
#ChaseForBookNine
GUYS THERES ANOTHER NOMINATION THING TO NOMINATE FOR YOU SHOULD GO DO THAT OR NOT WHICH EVER ITS YOUR CHOICE BUT HERES YOUR NOTIICATION FOR IT!
O.o
O.o
#ChaseForBookNine
Silente- seriously Niccolò did dress up in a ballerina outfit. It was truth or dare. He also kissed Justaria on the hand, poor name nearly died of shock.
*Runs in and hugs Dragona*
*Can't run due to a broken back*
*What actually happened is that she shouts at Hujter to hug her*
Truth or dare? We should play that again some time. Its fun!
NICCOLO TURNED INTO BARBIE OHMYFUCKINGGOSH. XD
That was hilarious.
#ChaseForBookNine
*pokes Adra with a stick*
Whoa
Why did that change to Dragona!
Well. *Yells at Dragona to hug her as well* xD
*Hunter
*Glares at Silente* Hey! I'm a person, not a piece of dirt.
*sits near Adra*
*pokes her again with the stick*
*Frowns* Stop that.
*grins*
*pokes her with the stick*
....
*grabs another stick*
*pokes her with both*
*grinning*
Poke poke poke poke poke poke poke poke..
Hunter: Silente, I think there should be an award for 'most frequently hugged'.
*hugs Adra*
#ChaseForBookNine
.
Silente, please stop.
((Hunter force star to make it XD))
*frowns*
But...but poke.
*pokes her*
Poke.
*looks at her*
*pokes her*
Poke?
((Hunter: YOU force Star to make it.
Forcing Star isn't hard. Do it yourself.))
Hunter: *observes Silente* That looks fun.
*pokes Adra*
#ChaseForBookNine
*puts the stick down*
Fine.
*sighs*
*pokes self*
Poke.
No its not as fun when I poke me.
*goes back to poking adra*
Hunter: *pokes the stick with his foot*
*then stamps on the stick, attempting to break it*
#ChaseForBookNine
For God's sakes. *Leaves*
*the stick bends in two*
*it doesn't break*
Adra gone..sorwy!
*pokes hunter instead*
Hunter: @Silente: It's perfectly fun when you poke yourself. It's all about imagination and mindset.
#ChaseForBookNine
Hunter: Bye, Adra . . .
@Silente: Yeah, good look with that.
*zooms backwards*
#ChaseForBookNine
*runs after him*
*yelling*
Poooooooooooooooookeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
*luck
((I'm sorry! Star's typoing is really, REALLY . . . well, it's less what it IS, and more what it ISN'T, and it isn't ANYTHING, because she can't do it.))
#ChaseForBookNine
*typing
((See what I mean?))
Hunter: *zooms backwards a bit further, carefully clarifying in his mind where any portals are*
#ChaseForBookNine
((I see your point Hunter.))
*keeps running after him*
*still yelling*
Ppppppppppoooooooooooooookkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
((Hunter: Good.
Then again, it's hardly invisible.))
#ChaseForBookNine
Hunter: *carries on zooming, half-looking behind him so he doesn't crash into anything, looking quite amused*
#ChaseForBookNine
*still running*
POKE! POKE! POKE! POKE! POKE! POKE! POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEE!
((Well the word poke now looks weird))
((Hunter: It always looked weird. You just didn't see it.))
*carries on reversing*
#ChaseForBookNine
*wonders when his energy stick thing will run out*
*runs faster*
I wantz ta poke we Hunterz!
((Hunter: Well, first of all, I'd have to run out of natural energy.
And when I finish with my energystick, I have another one.
And then I have a phone.
And then I'll go through a portal, if I've not fainted by then.
And if I've fainted, I won't have to deal with the unpleasantness of the poking.
In short terms, I win.))
Hunter: Well, I'm sorry to say you'll be disappointed.
*retreats faster*
#ChaseForBookNine
((But..but..but poking!))
Nooo! Let me pokez you!
*chases after him*
*grabs a big stick from a tree*
*tries to poke hunter with it while still running*
((Wb Dragona!))
((Hunter: Poke yourself.))
Hunter: *retreats faster, from leaving a larger gap between them*
*waves to Dragona, although he might not see that*
#ChaseForBookNine
*materialises in the mortal world*
((But your so pokable!))
*keeps chasing*
*also wave to Dragona using the stick*
*carries on trying to poke hunter*
((Hunter: And you know that because you've poked me so many times, of course.))
*carries on retreating*
#ChaseForBookNine
*a kitten paw lifts out of a shadow, followed by a head*
*the kitten meows, then continues to move up, as it is actually sitting on Matex's head*
..
*he looks around, waves to everyone, and then he and Mittens The Kitten sink back into the shadows because it is breakfast time*
((Of course! You look pokable! And sound pokable! Just one poke?))
*keeps chasing*
*grabs a bigger stick*
*tries to reach him*
((HELLO MATEX DARLING AND MITTENS THE KITTEN))
*...
..
meow*
Star: OH MY FUCKING GOSH idk if this is just a prank but MY FRIEND TEXTED ME SAYING THAT A TEACHER HAS JUST BEEN SHOT OUTSIDE MY SCHOOL AND KILLED oh gosh OH GOSH OH GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For the record - I live in a very peaceful area.
We don't have fires.
We don't have school shootings.
We live in a country where guns are illegal, fuckssake.
Once, last year, a car kind of combusted and was lying there burning in the middle of the road.
That's pretty much the most real-life violence I've seen since I moved here five years ago.
#ChaseForBookNine
Its probably a prank star.. I hope its a prank..
Shot dead or shot to injure?
((Hunter: Of course.))
*carries on retreatingggggg . . .*
*this is getting rather boring*
#ChaseForBookNine
"Shot outside my school and killed" - dead?
@Silente: Apparently they were killed.
My friend B's sister told B and she told my friend C and C told me.
Apparently.
APPARENTLY.
Crap
crap
crap
#ChaseForBookNine
And Zaf's always like "this promenade burnt down" "there was a shooting at this school" and I'm like, um, I had an earthquake five years ago and it was so rare for us to have one it got put into my science textbook?
#ChaseForBookNine
Star, it probably won't be true. It'll be like Chinese whispers.
In any case, it isn't worth worrying about until you actually know what's happened, if there is anything.
Star, Zaf lives in America - everyone has a gun. Of course there's going to be like 1000000x the amount of shootings we get there. Which I don't think they understand because they seem to act shocked every time it happens.
It could be some ridiculous prank? That sort of stuff hardly ever happens..and why would the teacher be at school at this time? I know they stay late but that's normally only till 6!
@Dragona: Probably not. I wouldn't put it past my friends to bullshit me/us or anything.
But still
CRAP!
#ChaseForBookNine
How did B's sis find out?
@Dragona: That's . . .
yeah. :P
@Silente: It was DofE meeting tonight . . . . . . . . . .
IDK
#ChaseForBookNine
@Silente: IDK
*asking C now*
#ChaseForBookNine
STAR CALM DOWN ITS OKAY IT COULD BE A LIE BUT JUST IN CASE YOU MIGHT WANT TO STAY IN DOORS!
B's sister's husband is a policeman.
#ChaseForBookNine
@Silente: I'm five minutes away by car, ten my bus and like an hour by walking safely.
I live in MY VILLAGE.
WE DON'T EVEN LOCK OUR FRONT DOOR HALF THE TIME.
I WILL BE FINE.
maybe
#ChaseForBookNine
So B's sisters husband told B's sister about a case who told B who told C who told you who told us..
It's not that I don't feel sorry for the people who are shot and their families and stuff - because I do.
But let's face it, 99.9999999999% of the shootings wouldn't happen if they just abandoned the gun part of their law which is horrifyingly outdated. If their gun laws are THAT relaxed - it's obvious that every psychopath is going to have one.
So I blame the US government for not doing anything and also the people in the US who won't allow the laws to be stricter in terms of guns.
@Dragona: Well, I understand that once a law is there, it's hard to change because people reject change so much.
So I don't blame the government THAT much.
@Silente: He told her who told us because it's OUR SCHOOL.
Fuckssake. O_O
#ChaseForBookNine
You'll find out tomorrow! Or on the news maybe..
Those gun laws were originally supposed to stop us, Star. And I don't know about you, but I don't think there's any chance of us like y'know invading any time soon :P
@Dragona: Lol. XD
Yeah, but people can argue reasons for keeping them.
*shrugs*
People can argue reasons for anything.
#ChaseForBookNine
@Silente: BUT TOMORROW IS SO FAR AWAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
maybe I should go to sleep now so I can wake up and find out
ooh
Msd.
#ChaseForBookNine
Tomorrow is
*attempts to do maths*
2 hours and 47 minutes and 1 second (ish) away.
FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK MY FRIEND JUST GOT IT OFF THE HULL DAILY MAIL SHE SAYS IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED OKAY
*googles 'hull daily mail'*
#ChaseForBookNine
If no one had guns - there would be no reason to HAVE guns. The only reason that anyone could argue to have guns is for protection. But you wouldn't need protection if no one else had a gun.
A BOMB SQUAD VAN?!
"It is believed at least one person has been taken to hospital with serious injuries."
"A witness claimed to have heard a gunshot, although police would not immediately confirm this."
It said it is not believed that my school was involved.
But still.
FUCK
#ChaseForBookNine
Star, if they're just injured it's likely they'll survive. Most gunshot wounds that kill people, kill people on the spot. It's rare that one doesn't.
@Silente: BUT THAT'S SO FAR AWAYYYYYYYYY
(Avenged Sevenfold have a song called So Far Away.
"How do I live without the ones I love?
Time still turns the pages of the book its burned
Place and time, always on my mind
I have so much to say, but you're so far away . . .")
@Dragona: THAT IS TRUE
BUT PEOPLE DO HAVE GUNS
SO YEAH :/
#ChaseForBookNine
@Dragona: That's good. :)
Thanks.
#ChaseForBookNine
THEY HAD A BOMB SQUAD VAN?!
@Silente: WHAT?
#ChaseForBookNine
I'm so confused but ok... *waits for Matex to come back to hug him to death*
*Drinks the vodka Silente left for her and finishes her chocolate bar*
*points to the Locals reported seeing almost 40 uniformed police officers at the scene, as well as four ambulances and a bomb squad van part*
"This has never happened in this area before and I have lived here for many years."
Yes that's what I was just saying. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
((Huh! Matex gets hugged to death but not me?! I see how it is Chi, I see how it is!))
@Silente: WHAT?
YES!
WHAT?
BOMB SQUAD VAN???
*stares at the news report, freaked out*
#ChaseForBookNine
If this happened in a country with strict gun laws, god knows what's happening in America.
YES STAR BOMB SQUAD VAN! VAN CONTAINING A BOMB SQUAD!
Gunners going into schools and killing everyone. That's what's happening over there.
@Dragona: Yeah . . . :(
*hugs my Ameriminions*
#ChaseForBookNine
@Silente: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT DOING THERE?
#ChaseForBookNine
You don't like hugs Silente *smirks*
Unless it's a terrorism scare, I doubt it will be an actual bomb-squad. Probably some armed police officers or something. Which, I believe, uses the same type of van though it should have distinctly different writing. Unless it's just a simplification by the newspaper.
@Dragona: oh
okay
STILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yes I should probably shut up now. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
I want to go to bed and my dog is making noise *frowns*
*glares at Chi*
I like Matex hugs! And Chione hugs! Well normally I like Chione hugs. Except when a Chione hug comes with icicles being shot through organs and hearts being frozen..
@star SOMETHING TO DO WITH EXPLOSIVES? FAULSE ALARM? WHO KNOWS?
@Silente: I HOPE NO ONE GOT EXPLODED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*looks at the comment which mentions the roundabout*
*the roundabout I drive through like pretty much every time I go in the car anywhere*
*EHHHHH*
#ChaseForBookNine
Silente: Did you hear about that woman getting stabbed?
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