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«Oldest ‹Older 1001 – 1200 of 4580 Newer› Newest»It was alright. I got free stuff, but yeah. Some were quite good.
There was also a helicopter which landed like behind my house. Which was pretty good to see, also.
*huggles Silente* Thanks. I hope so too.
You doing okay? Or do I need to spam your e-mails with pictures of koala bears and baby white tigers?
Oh, and one of the cyclists dropped an energy bar which hit me in the stomach.
I heard there was a helicopter. Didn't see one near us but then again I don't know how to close to our house it came.
What was better for you, the parade, the cyclists or the helicopter?
You don't need to spam my email with pictures of koalas or baby white tigers. I'm fine. Sorta. At the moment I'm fine. As it turns out what I was doing last night doesn't just fade, if left angry red marks on my thumb. Whoops. But yeah I'm fine for now, thanks for asking Lucifer.
@Draggie An energy bar hit you in the stomach?
Brb, food.
Hm... I think seeing the cyclists was the best. Because I mean, that was the actual Tour?
Yes. An energy bar hit me in the stomach.
*sprinkles glitter on Silente's head* Yeah, SI stays, no matter how you do it. I've still got a sleeve of scars... Maybe one day I can cover them with tattoos or something ace. ^_^
I'm here if you need me. <3
I WANT SOME GLITTER FIR SEPTEMBER TO SPRINKLE ALL OVER ELLIKINS I THINK SHE'LL HATE ME BUT ALSO LOVE ME C:
back *Throws energy bar at dragona*
Where I live, people cheered more for the police who came like putting their sirens on and waving than they did the cyclists. :P
ok? I shall depart, bye
I know you are Lucifer, and I'm here for you too.
Back
Bye Edward!
Wb Silente. ^^
I am defiantly having a shower tonight. And washing my hair. I went through loafs of puddles and now have mud up my back and in my beautifully long hair..
Anyway. What do you wanna do/talk about
Hm. I'm not sure.
On a random note: My dog made me kill someone on Mass Effect accidentally in his sleep. He like moved slightly and pushed R1 so my gun fired and shot a soldier in the face.
Hmm. Clearly your dog didn't trust them.
Well, no. Trusting a pro-human terrorist organisation would be a bad idea.
Yeah just a little bit of a bad idea...
Always fear, Dugglyn is here!!!!!!!!!!!!
How be's yous?!?!
How be's yous eyes?!?!?!
This unit has no eyes. We have a photoreceptor. And it is fully functioning.
Never mind!
Hi Gethie!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey Dug. I'm muddy. My eyes are fine. You?
*starts flipping and cartwheeling*
*is better than just standing*
One day a banana bear was walking in the ocean when he saw a fish! He was shocked! A fish?! In the ocean?!? How weird! So he walked up to it and said, 'Hello strange fish that is in the ocean for some strange reason! How be's yous?!?? How be's yous eyes?!?!' And the fish just started at him and then she said 'glub!'
I'm good! Would be able to get hyper easily....!
*laughs evily*
And my eyes are drowning in refried beans and slowly melting but overall good!!!!!
Do random little stories ever just come to you? I've had a lot of those recently....!
*rolls her eyes*
You can always get really hyper.
*starts walking*
*jumps after her*
Well yes, but I just woke up so normally I'm not hyper yet but I can already feel it!!!!!
*gasps in mock shock*
You, not hyper?
*walks quicker*
How is that even possible?
*is still bouncing*
Where ya going?
Can I come too?
No really! When I wake up I'm not hyper! It's true!! I'm not always hyper.
*mutters under her breath*
Just most of the time....!
That's...a bit scary. You not hyper. Hmm. Weird.
If you really want too...
*keeps walking quickly*
You know who I haven't seen for a while is Sam. I miss her. Also, she doesn't have a body right now......
I JUST MET DEREK AND HE RECOGNISED ME AND HUGGED ME AH
Well, now I'm getting hyper, just talking about being hyper but that's hardly the point!
*starts jumping quicklyer*
(Sorry for the made up word but I'm getting hyper in real life too!)
Why doesn't she have a body? What happened to her body?
Yey Mara!
OMG!!!!! That's so coooooooooooolllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You're so lucky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's soooooooooooo awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*rolls her eyes*
*weaves through the trees, casually, but quickly*
Well, she started to clown and mime apocalypse and so I was helping her fight them off and I shot a gun at one of them but they made a shield and it bounced back so I said duck and she said no they're mimes and then she died.
*starts gasping for air, all of that was said in one breath*
Oh, and it was only us there and I couldn't save her and nobody could bring her back!
*bounces even quicklyer*
Wait!!!!!
Stop!!!!!
I have something really important to ask you!!!!!!!
*keeps running at the same speed but if Silente stops, she will stop*
Oh. Well I'm sure my friend can find her another body if needs be...
*can hear murmuring at the edge of her vampiric hearing*
*coughs, coughs again, has a mini coughing fit*
*the murmuring stops*
*stops*
What do you want to ask?
(Sorry! Annoying internet!)
Okay, the first question is where did Gethie go?
The second question is where are you/we going?
And the third question is can I have a piggyback ride?
*waits expectantly*
Geth poofed to the world of email.
We are going on a walk.
No you can't have a piggyback ride
*goes back to walking*
*begins muttering under her breath*
Wait, that was 3 wasn't it three?
*counts on her fingers*
Oh, that was three! Sorry!!
This unit is still here.
*huffs*
Fine.
Huge Bush Judaism ;/9;/-"8*«»©\% intermediate
*rolls her eyes*
*can just make out a small clearing ahead*
*holds her head high and walks quicker*
Ah, cat!!!
Cat just walked across the keyboard and actually published a comment!
*sees Silente hold her head higher*
*puts her chin in the air*
*bounces quicklyer*
*raises an eyebrow at Dugglyn*
*breaks into a blurred run*
Ugh.
*turns into mist and follows closely behind*
(Awww! My kitty is so sweet! She just plopped on my bed! <3
This one >>>>>>>>>>)
*bursts into the clearing ahead of Dugglyn*
*a loud gunshot can be heard, closely followed by a dull thud and the sound of leaves being torn and ripped by moving bodies*
*hears the gun shot and freezes*
What was that?! What's going on?!
Silente!?!?!?!
*silence fills the air like a thick blanket*
*the shooters can no longer be heard as they make their escapes*
*is about to call again but thinks better of it*
*rises above the clearing as mist*
Hi everyone!!!!
*sits up, clutching her arm*
Ow! Idiots!
*looks at the blood*
*glares*
Msd...
Erm....why...what. Why did it just type that...
Elleni.
(Um, Silente? What was the whole Hi everyone about?)
*swoops down*
*solidifies next to Silente*
Are you ok? Where were you hit? Who were those people?
(Ooh! It was Elleni! Hi Elleni!!!!
How be's yous?!?!?!
How be's yous eyes?!?!)
(Very funny Dugglyn.)
My arm hurts....
*starts blinking*
*shakes her head*
I'm fine I...
*starts shaking spasdomatically*
(What?)
*sees her start shaking*
*sarcastically*
Yeah, you're fine!
*bends down and looks at her arm*
Ok, well you've been shot on your arm though I think you knew that. I can't tell if the bullet is still in there. Can you?
*is kinda shaking to much*
D...d...dug...gl...Lyn....w...what.....what's....hap...hap...happening?!
*shakes harder*
*collapses backwards to the ground and starts twitching*
*has a shock expression on her face*
Um Silente?
*looks around frantically*
Gethie? Are you still here? I don't know how to help her!!!!!!
*keeps twitching on the floor, the twitches becoming jerks*
*eyes roll back in her head*
*doesn't have time to wait*
*she and Silente turn to mist*
*takes Silente back to her tree house*
*lays her on the bed*
Ugh. Now what?!
Gtg. Will be back later!
Sorry!
Yesterday Silente asked what cunted as self harming, and Mushroom said that to self harm was to intentionally cause harm to yourself, so by THAT definition - *looks at ripped skin around fingernails that is as a result of me having an incessant need to fiddle* - I guess I've been self-harming for like half my life.
Woah. O_O
That's weird to think about. :P
It's also weird to think about all the connotations of 'self-harming', and all the baggage thqt society has attached to it, meaning that it now means a lot more that its literal meaning duggests, and how that something that fits the literal definition of 'self-harming' would now be counted as not proper self-harming. It's causing harm to myself, why isn't it self-harming?
Because it doesn't fit in with the society-formed views, and those views alter the meaning, twist the word, so now it means something different.
This is interesting when looked at from a number of angles.
*counted
This is a very quiet day!
(Not really here, was just checking in!)
Anyone?
Hello...?
Hello!!!
Sorry it's a bit late.....!
I wonder where everyone is today! I mean a lot of people are normally here all day and then other people drop by for awhile and when I come back from whatever I left for there is always a ton of comments but not today. I wonder why....
Sorry I'm here :P
Yeah, I have no idea where everyone is. It's weird. :S
It's just a normal day for me! At 3 I go to a baseball game (about 1 and 1/2 hours) but besides that just hanging around. What are you doing?
It's really quiet. Too quiet......
I know how to fix that!!!
*pulls out a caffeinated energy drink*
*opens the lid*
Heheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheehehehehehehehehehe!!!!!!!!!!!
Ello?
I'm watching Despicable Me and writing. :P
Oh no not caffeine.
Sorry I poofed!
I have to go....
Sorry.
Herro!
Who's here?
Geth, are you here?
This unit is here.
Oh good. Mind talking like a human?
Hello?
*Hops out of a nearby shadow*
Gethie here isn't one for "talking like a human". Only understands cold logic.
*Taps the Geth on its head, making a satisfying metallic sound*
*tilts head*
You wish this unit to communicate like a human?
Oh thanks for coming out.
Call me Egg, everyone does even though it's not my taken name.
Yes GethBoy.
*is still jerking on the floor of her treehouse unconscious*
*presumably making weird noises*
*the bullet from the gun released hemlock into her blood stream setting off an allergic reaction*
Whatever floats your goat, Egg.
*does a small bow, shadows trailing behind him*
I'm Blake Soul, resident necromancer and host of Erebus. You don't want to know who that is.
Oh god, do I have to fix you sil?
* walks up to silente and reverses wounds, poison and brain damage.*
We see no way to accomplish this. This unit already communicates in the language designated as Earth: English (UK). We believe this is a human language.
If you are referring to this unit using the pronoun "we", it is because we are not one entity.
This unit consists of one thousand, one hundred and eighty three different entities within the same platform.
*lays flat on her back, eyes slightly misted*
Owwwwww.
Silente, what were you doing this time?
I got shot. But apparently someone figured out I was allergic to hemlock and had trigger release bullets.
*sits up*
And thats never a good thing.
She was probably taking smack to someone she really shouldn't have been. Again.
Ok then.
By the way, Blake is here.
Really you have to work harder to keep yourself out of trouble Silente, I'm not always around to beat up bad guys for everyone.
No! No that wasn't what happened!
*glares at Blake*
Some weirdo shot me. Dugglyn was there! I didn't do anything this time!
And I just joined you guys, I can't reverse time for everybody.
(Goddamn slow comment posting)
Dug is gone.
Bah! Keeping out of trouble is boring. Plus it was probably just James. His plans never work! He beheaded me and I'm still here!
*grins at Blake*
Help me up?
*Gives her a cynical look*
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuure let's go with that story. You may not have done anything at that moment but who's to say Mr. Shooter doesn't hold grudges?
I'm back for a little while!
*looks around and sees all the people here*
PEOPLE!!!!! THERE'S NEW PEOPLE HERE!!!!!!
Hehehe. I like how Egg's nickname stuck! I guess Dugglyn was Matex's nickname for me.
*Grabs her by the wrist and lifts her off the ground before setting her down*
"Boring" keeps you alive eh? And we killed you to remember?
See! You can even ask her!
Egg is like Tanith's nickname highborn.
It sticks.
(I have to go now. Night!)
*deactivates*
Oh hello Dugglyn, very nice picture of a cat you have there.
Oh Blake the amount of times I've died now. Death no longer phases me!
That is not an invitation to kill me.
Night night Gethie
*taps it on the head again*
*Dissipates the sword of darkness in his hand*
Aw...
It's true. We were going on a walk and then we got to this clearing and then there was a shot and Silente got hit in the arm and she started shaking so I brought her back to her tree house but I didn't know how to help her because I'm bad at healing people and I had to go. She did nothing wrong. I think...
Bye Gethzilla.
Can I just ask you a question Blake?
What's your necromancy object?
Hey Silente whatever happened to that adorable little profile picture you had?
Good night Gethie!
Thank you Blake! That is one of my kitties. She is so sweet!
Egg do you not like the nickname Egg? I know Tanith didn't like highborn....
*nods*
Exactly what Dugglyn said.
And Blake, even if you did kill me everyone here just brings me back...
*mutters*
Even when I don't want to be brough back.
That'd be my hoodie Egg
*the darkness forming his cloak disappears, leaving him in a pitch black hoodie and dark jeans*
I never leave home without it.
Nah, it's fine.
Just like an omelette in the morning.
Oh. What happened to my DP?! How long has that been missing?!
A hoodie is a good idea for an object. I love sweatshirts and hoodies and what not.
Quite a while, how could you not notice?
Oh ok good! I didn't want to give you a nickname you didn't like. If there's anything else you prefer.....
The page is dedicated to the people who I have met so far on blog land.
Chione.
Dugglyn.
Silente.
Elleni.
Blake (slightly).
Geth.
What about Egglyn? :D
Wait, Silente. You didn't realize your profile picture was gone?
Aw, why thank you Egglyn!
Blake is that a ship? -_-
Egglyn?
Whu?
This is my first dedication.
Lululululu!
*zelda music activate*
Achievement got!
Nice ded Egg!
Um....
No....
Of course not....
Just matching Nicknames....
Hehe...
Tada its back.
Hey Dug, question.
Blake, don't try it.
Egglyn? Seriously?
*turns back*
*glares at Blake skeptically*
I don't like the hehehe at the end.
But whatever.
Yes Silente?
I have Jeltujdam the dwarf!
Hide your wife children, he'll take ya!
*Tacklehugs the profile picture*
Kwaii!!!!!!!!!!!! >~<
*stands and dusts himself off*
*notices everyone*
*Darkness encompass the area and his eyes seem to glow blood red*
....
That.
Never.
Happened.
When are you and Elleni gonna trust me enough to let me, you know, go on walks alone without a guide?
*stares at Blake*
O....kaaaaaaay.
From that statement I knew made the right decision to chase you down yesterday.
*watches Blake trying not to laugh*
Ok. It never happened.....
Well, Silente. Tell me truthfully. Are you still suicidal?
Silente it's not that people don't trust you it's the fact that you get yourself into near-death situations every other day no matter what we try.
Chasing me yesterday was mean Egg. I was only going on a walk.....
Why did you have 'equipment' then?
You portalled to England. No.
You also have tried and succeeded to kill your self. And James is out there. I mean you got shot today!
You also try to run away.......
Noooo...
*shifty eyes*
And you said you had a job.
I mind wiped James yesterday before he could catch you with a weak heart.
And worse than James, Alistair is still at large. He's targeted you in the past.
Yeah, for some reason I don't believe you...!
I don't try run away!
*blatant lie*
I just go on tiny adventures that I plan on not returning from...
One thing though, who is Alastair and James?
Alastair is bored of me by now.
Well I call those 'tiny adventures that you plan on not returning from' running away.
James is...a person. Vampire. Sorta. Well he was a vampire. I'm fairly certain he isn't anymore...
Alistair is the single most evil human being to walk this Earth. James is a close second.
Soooo...
Hey Blake, do you know my long and confusing discipline yet?
It's not running away! Is an adventure!
James isn't a vampire anymore?
Also, a couple days ago, when Elleni and I weren't with Silente when she was walking, James captured her and put her in an arena, with an audience, to die.
I do not, care to educate me?
Yes but the reason you leave is because you think you're a danger to us.
(Msd)
Nah. He fixed that a bit ago I think. Nearly killed himself doing it. Nearly killed me testing it. But, clearly, his test with me didn't work.
Soo, before I. Had the surge it took loads of disciplines
Gist, elemental, kineticist, you name it.
Bu when I had the surge I wanted to become a time shifter, a person who reverses time in a person or thing
and now I reverse to a different discipline whenever I need them.
Actually have to go now....
Sorry! Have a great (insert time of day/night here)!!!
That's because I am Dugglyn.
I never harmed me!
You were harmed.
Anyway, to get back to my current discipline I have a crystal Ravel uses, but with modifications.
How very interesting.
However, once you shift back to another discipline how do you time shift back? Wouldn't you have never had time shifting in the first place?
Bye Dugglyn!
*looks around*
*neither Dug or El are here*
*casually walks off*
No you are not. People enjoy how you great them by attacking them. And you having turned recently. And you are a great friend. You love you! We want you to stay.
(Oh Egg and Blake. You are in charge of making sure Silente does nothing stupid!)
*stops for Dugglyns one comment*
I'm not arguing about this again.
*nods*
*creeps away*
*grins weaving through the trees*
*Rises out of a shadow in front of Silente*
Where are you going, how long before I run off to drag you back.
Oh come on seriously Blake? Your not my dad you realise? Just...let me wander off a bit. Stretch my legs.
*grins*
Not like you can stop me.
*runs past him*
* trips her up*
Oops.
That's all i'm good for.
Bye guys!
*is much to graceful to fall*
*laughs skipping over his attempted trip*
*runs faster, piling on the speed*
*His hoodie falls off, the darkness around him dropping as well*
That's just funny...
*Holds out a hand and Silente stops dead*
*Slowly drags her back until she's standing directly in front of him*
Now then. Who can't stop you?
Bye Egg!
Cya Egglyn!
*glares*
That's just mean. Come on Blake! Don't be boring! I'm just stretching my legs! I'll be back....
*grins*
Probably.
*releases his hold on her legs*
There, stretch.
No.
Don't say that name.
Bye!
Blake! Since when did you get boring? Before you'd be encouraging me to run as fast as I can!
*winks*
Then again, daddies getting a bit too old for that stuff isn't he?
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