This time next week, many of you will have the final book in your hands. Most of you will be reading it. Some of you will be finished it.
I am so utterly delighted with the book and how it turned out — I really think it's the best one of the series — and so I am thrilled with the trailer that artist extraordinaire Tom Percival has come up with.
The clocking is counting down...
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(God damn it sleep, why did you have to ruin the knowledge of my characters' location? I knew what they were before I slept but now I have no idea.)
(Still here. Mwhahahahaha.)
(Hey Elleni! How are you?)
(I'm fine thank you.
I hate sleep. :P)
(Definitely. Then I'd know where my characters were and I'd be able to get more stuff done. :P)
(Because I fell asleep, I have no idea what happened. If there's an afterparty, it would be safe to assume (at least Sophia) missed the end of the actual party. But if there isn't, and if the timeline continued at the same speed as everyone else's, what happened? We could just RP as if I didn't fall asleep and we just continued, but then timeline issues and confusing.)
(Sophia was showing Manuel her ship - last seen drinking alcohol in her quarters.)
(Okay. I'm just on a bus atm. :P)
(I have to go now. Bye!)
*coughs*
Tadra were going out for about half a year in real time before they yad a kid (and Adra was pregnant in real time for months).
Then Aladra were going out for another about half a real year before Alastair proposed.
It's not about the events. Sex, kids, marrigage. It's about the emotions. I don't love Aladra because they do a lot of . . . explicit . . . stuff, I love Aladra because she really loves him and he really loves her. And what is interesting is seeing that love manifest. And that's not just the getting-engaged moments, that's all the in-between moments and all the small momemts. I've read a heck of a lot of Aladra and I've watched both characters slowly develop. And if you just rush into everything, you lose all that. You lose the (carrying on with my Aladra example) slowly becoming flirtatious, slowly hanging out with each more, slowly hanging out with each other all the time, priorities in their heads shifting, theories Alastair's had all his life adapting, slowly working out they love each other, starting to tell each other it, beginning to like more things about each other than they were originally attracted to (like Alastair loves Adra in all her forms, although he was originally attracted to her dark side) and loving each other wholly and completely, deciding to spend their lives together, sorting each other out and healing each other, and THEN Alastair proposed.
The time right now as I write this is 5:32pm. I just realised I haven't eaten anything for over twenty-fours. I'm not hungry, either. Everything in the pantry looks gross or unappetizing... I can't even bring myself to eat some blueberries, and they're my 'safety' food. I always eat them, but they're gross now. Or bananas. Bananas I could eat until the end of my days, but it's just really gross...
I tried to have a packet of Cheetos. I opened the packet, but when I smelt them, I almost threw up in disgust.
So now I really have no idea what's going on...
@Elleni: REALLY???
I thought everyone would be mad at me. :O
*hugs* :) :) :)
Thank you. :)
To be fair, I think it takes a level of intelligence to actual listen to people when they give those type of rants and not just get annoyed at them, so you, as the person who listens, did half the communication and so get half the credit. :)
I like your boyfriend, though, and I like Orpheni. Plus Orpheus 8 quite old, yes? People used to get married a lot sooner. So I can get him, and like, no grudges to anyone. :P
Oh gosh, Death . . . :O That doesn't sound good. :/ That sounds like you need to go to the doctor tbh. Or google it.
If I Google it, it will say that I'm dying...
@Death: When I google headaches or sore throats or something it says I'm dying. :P
Just read past the nonsense and try not to read too much into anything :)
@Elleni: That's a beautiful ded . . . :) *hugs*
I know you didn't. But still. And yes, sixteen is a little young. :P
YES
THANK YOU. :)
I keep forgetting how smart you are, Elleni. It seems I do this a lot with intelligent friends. Oops. :P
Death, can you drink a smoothie? (It's sort of food and sort of drink?)
Hear hear!!
People on Yahoo think I should go to the hospital...
And Star, I don't feel like eating. I'm not hungry and food makes me sick...
@Elleni: You're smart for various reasons. *shrugs* But at the moment, you're smart becauae you get it, and it's bot really that you get it, it's the fact you get it when society isn't pointing you towarxs getting it.
@Death: Maybe you should. :/
I mean, somethings clearly gone wrong somewhere . . .
i'd like to say that if you were too lacking in food you'd be hungry, but I don't know . . .
Has this happened much before?
@Elleni: I did, quite a while ago. *blinks, taking my memories back*
REALLY?
How did you know everyone at school thinks I'm a total weirdo and I don't get them and they don't get me? :P
That's about to the extent it goes, though, but thank you very much. *hugs* I'm not sure if that's a compliment in normalpeoplespeak, but it feels like a compliment to me, although an only partially deserved one. :) Thank you. :) :) *hugs*
Nah, it's never happened... Or at least, not to this extent...
Ah, see, when I was younger I tried to be partially effected by society and wasn't very good at it.
Then I discovered this blog and released my inner lunatic.
Fun times are indeed guaranteed. :)
See, my friend F tells me that I wasn't always this weird and that I used yo be kind of quiet.
What she doesn't get (or maybe she does, I told her after she said it) is that I was always this weird, but when surrounded by normal people I retreat into my head, so that was why I was quiet. :)
Um . . . I'm ranting now. *frowns* What was I saying . . . ?
I think everyone is smart in some ways. I have accepted that I am smart. I have also accepted that I am an incompetent idiot. And everyone is special. Just not everyone knows it. But I do know it, and if weirdness is specialness, maybe I let out my inner specialness with my inner weirdness. :)
But like I said, people have to have a certain degree of intelligemt to appreciate weirdness. Otherwise they just think I'm weird. *points to people at school*
@Death: Okay.
How long has it been going on gor?
@Elleni: I understand them less than I understand manipulate psychopaths. I don't think they even try to understand me though. They just label me as 'weird', I believe. Even the nice girls who are Us think I'm very weird, although that's not always bad to them. :P
And - really?
I knew ghosting would come in handy someday. :)
*manipulative
I haven't felt like this for about a month now. Last time it happened, it was about six hours.
:S
No, Elleni, I'm pretty sure people who write books make people SAD. :P
What I was going to say though was that I'm pretty sure people who make people happy make people happy. I just rant a lot, mostly in a self-centred manner and occasionally to have a go at people.
I seem like I'm writing books? How? I can't write books! :O
I'll accept the quotes thing though. I think about quotable things. That means I talk about them.
I think everyone does that to some extent, but obviously people all do it to different extents. Like, Loki IS always a jerkface, so maybe he isn't very socially adaptable (so he doesn't know how to adapt to socially acceptable standards and is therefore a jerkface C:). But Dugglyn isn't always carzy. Just usually. :)
@Elleni: Me too. That's why I'm like this. :) Thank you.
@Death: Okay. If it goes on much longer than that, panic. Once its over, make sure to keep eating regular meals and drink regularly and such. Because that might help, but if it doesn't it can't hurt. :)
I've found some old lollies in my bedroom. They're still in date so I'm going to try and eat one...
Okay, Death. That might work. :) Good luck. :)
I don't usually drink a lot during the day. Maybe one or two glasses of water/drink. And breakfast never really happens... And lunch has slowly dropped off the menu. But today is different...
Nope. It hurts. Food is actually like being stabbed...
I know it is, El. I don't have time in the mornings and I'm not all too hungry at lunch. It's like I've been snacking all day so I feel fine, but I haven't touched food until right now. And I'm in some pretty horrible pain...
@Death: Regular meals are relatively important. :/ But if you've just not eaten much for a while, that could be the problrm. :)
@Elleni: Yeah . . . on second thoughts, probably not. :P
That's true. But happy books usually have to have a certain amount of sadness in them to make them happt. And that beauty slices like a knife anyhow. :)
Me too. :)
@Death: :/ Not good . . .
Like, I don't even know how to explain in.
In the mornings, mum is yelling, little brother isn't cooperating, I'm silently getting ready, along with my sister. She hasn't had breakfast in a while either.
I think it's been about... Two, three months since I've had breakfast. When it's not on the weekends, I haven't had lunch in about a month. And I always have dinner.
But now I'm just feeling really shitty...
Well . . . maybe try and have at least breakfast or lunch every day. :)
I'm not sure what to do just now, thoygh. :/
And I have to go . . :( Very sorry. Fours. :/
See ya Star.
Ew. Something gross for dinner. I smell half the giant curry box in the frypan...
I'm not a fan. Ever since dad tricked me into eating a tablespoon of straight curry as a child, I've hated it...
Goodnight, El.
*Meanders*
Dinner... Let it be the ultimate test of eatingness...
I would just like to point out that whenever I see one of Stars rants I go out of my way to read it.
You're not the only one, Snow.
*nods* *hugs death* you eating yet or does your brain still say no to the thought?
I forced myself to eat a bit of cabbage and a puny amount of steak. Now I have a bucket beside me... So a bit of both...
I was the same about the same time last month. We have a bug in Tassie going around that makes you feel like that. You might have got it somehow.
Aw, great... Bug...
*huggles* hopefully it won't last too long. I have to go, sorry.
*huggles* hopefully it won't last too long. I have to go, sorry.
If it's only a bug it's okay. :) It'll probably go away soonish, like. :)
@Snow and Death: WHY??????? :O
Wow. I should rant more often, then. :P
Okay, see ya!
*Really, really distant*
*marginally distant*
*Waves distantly*
Hi. :)
*waves back*
Msd.
How're you? :)
In pain. Almost throwing up. The usual.
You?
:/
That doesn't sound good . . .
*hugs*
I'm okay. :/
A few things:
1. Into The Dalek rocks
2. My friend got the Black Edition of TDOTL
3. Candy Gourlay (author) is freaking amazing
4. I love you all
5. I should really get going, as I have homework
6. You're beautiful in the best sense of the word
7. I'm going to post this comment then poof
8. Hello, people who are reading back in the comments, this is a shout out to you all :)
Yeah, well, I've got to put up with this for however long it lasts...
*Cuddles*
That's good, Bubble
*hugs Fay tightly* :) Thank you. :) You rock. :)
@Death: :/ Yeah . . .
I guess just tell yourself that it will get better, and hold onto that knowledge. :)
Hi/bye Phoe!
1. Agreed.
2. WHAT?! *Envious*
3. Not too sure who that is...
4. I love you too!
5. Homework sucks...
6. Lies! But you're beautiful, Phoe! Ily!
7. Okay...
8. Ja, hi people from the future!!
I don't tend to tell myself lies... Or things I don't know are actually true yet...
Ow. Ribs are starting to hurt... I want a shower... And to die right this second because I don't want to deal with whatever I have...
On a more depressing note, mum was yelling at us in the car this morning because we weren't ready in time due to the lunches not being done. I shall quote what she said.
"You're all pathetic! You can't even get up in the morning! *Mutters the next part but I can still clearly hear because I'm sitting behind her* Sometimes I wish I never had you..."
(*SLAPS ROSES MUM* GET A GOD DAMN GRIP WOMAN! *hugs rose*)
*Cuddles Sil*
And people wonder why I spend so much time on here. Because I don't have to deal with that.
She's stupid. Ignore her.
I know. I do.
*hugs her tightly*
You aren't pathetic. Your mum might be, but you are not.
Thanks...
I've got to do the dishes, I'll be back a little later...
Bbs. Having a haircut..
...
*hugs Rose* thats it. I'm kidnapping you. I'm stealing you and bringing you to Tassie. I'm sure we'll find room for you. *nods*
Hi. (If anyone's here...?)
*Hugs Snow back*
But I'm going to kidnap myself to Ireland... And what about my dog? Can you puppynap my dog too? And I don't care all too much about my friends. They can stay.
*nods* yep. The dog is coming too.
Ireland can wait. I'm stealing you first
I think I'm feeling the love. I'm being kidnapped twice.
Feel the Love man *peace sign*
Can you feel it?
Now it's coming back
We can steal it
If we bridge this gap...
Hey, I never knew that Geronimo was the story of my life...
XD
Tbh, I'm sick of Geronimo. They play it two times a day, every day, on al radio stations.
Well, our radio sucks. It's all dubstep then some really bad remix of something horrible and then chatter and then ads and then repeat.
We have a few good stations. One of the Tassie people from MKR is now a radio host....
Well, StarFM sucks... I miss Triple J. That was good music.
My Day
Part 1:
http://bitstrips.com/r/TJWSF
Part 2:
http://bitstrips.com/r/JX30F
Hmm half ours suck. There are maybe 3, 4 goid ones.
I've got an iPod. That iTunes radio is actually pretty good!
I wish I had an ipod. My parents hate apple things.
Actually, your parents probably have good reason to hate them.
Apparently, Apple knows where you are every second of the day, knows how much you pay for certain things if it's connected to wifi and your credit card/flybuyers thing and more...
Well then.
Wish I could stay deathy but I'm falling asleep. *hugs* night.
Back
(In blue and black)
Hey Rose.
*Cuddles back*
Goodnight, Snow.
Hey Elemental!
Please, call me Egg. (I still have no taken name but my nickname is Egg. Jertabulmithedwarf)
Egg. I'll come up with something soon... I'm not in the nicknaming mood at the moment...
I'm not asking for one, I just told you one.
Have you ever thought that you are the only one in anywhere in this universe and others that has a real consciousness? That you and only you are real?
I'm a strange person and this has come across my mind.
I'll give you one anyway. I give everyone nicknames.
I had this theory that I was an experiment. Everyone else were robots and higher up robots were trying to discover what life with humans would have been like...
We're both odd.
My friend, who i have parted with isn't as crazy and he got the idea from me that you could possibly be a brain in a lab.
We could, for all we know...
I like to think I change. Around people. I'm always mostly the same everytime but something does change.
What do you mean...?
Hmm.. Example.... When I'm around someone crazy then I will either act crazy or crazy to a point I can still be sane.
...
Ah! Like wait Elleni said at the top of this page.
Back! My hair has been cut!
Wow. That was a incredibly useful coincidence.
Hey hey sil Silay
Ahh... I get ya! And I guess I'm the same, but I'm starting to change now. I'm just me. Defensive. Pushing people away. All that fun stuff.
Sil Silay? OKAY! Hey Eggy egward eggington eggster eggmas eggter eggz egg egton.
Hey Sil!
Wbd...
I have (had) a theory that we're all characters in a book or whatever. Or a TV show. And whenever we think about this kind of thing, it's so the viewers/readers can have a laugh.
...
I'm weird, too :P
*poofs*
Hey silente your picture is gone. The anime-ish one.
It is? ONE MOMENT I MUST FIX THIS!
Tadaaa!
Hey there Eva, whatcha doin with your life?
Jee I dunno oh yeah! Causin striiiife.
*sees picture*
KAAAWWWAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIII
*reverts to original self*
Nice pic.
Hmm. Blake isn't the only one who likes the picture. Maybe it has hypno powers....O_O
Oh I upgraded my name btw!
I think I might try and get some sleep. I'll be back in 6 hours.
<3
Night night Rose! Sleep well!
Silence, did you know that autocorrect calls silly Silas?
(Salty, seriously?
Da food is salty on de platter tunite,
Not a cube of sugerzsde to be seens
Yeah Blake has a conspiracy that I'm secretly Silas Nadir. Apparently so does autocorrect...
Salty as in Salt Shaker as in Amy and her irony. We all went crazy and started seeing things and to Amy Sil was a salt shaker. It's rather ironic. Sil carries around a salt shaker that Amy put in my coffin now...
"Eggter", Silente?
That sounds like a remix of "Ezter." O_O
And, yeah, I think about those sorts of things too . . . :)
Oh. Whoops. That's a coincidence. I went on a nickname rampage.
I think of weirder things than that as well...
For some reason I once got the impulse to shove my hand into some burning embers. I didn't do it like cause some tiny part of my brain was like 'uh no that's a bad idea' but yeah...
Not sure how that's revelant...
If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat.
They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar.
So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.”
Hello?
@Silente: REALLY?
I thought me randomly dipping my hair in lemonade without realising what I was doing was bad. :P Embers?
When we have candles at the dinner table (we don't usually. Usually just for Christmas and stuff), we often practise running our hands through the candle flame . . .
It doesn't hurt. :) It's quite cool.
I sometimes get urges to kill people (usually my sibling or my friend, someone near by me) just to see if I could do it or see what it would be like . . . it's rather scary.
Hi Edward. Who's Benjamin?
(Please don't tell me he's the third because that puts anyone who wanted to control time in an awkward position)
@Ben: *nods thoughtfully* You've said that before.
Help egg, Benjamin's my new character, ed the character died. Ben's magic is shadow
Have I ?
Hang on
Hey Benjamin
That's probably not even the worst one impulse I've had before. I mean, I get in a weird mood. Then random impulses jump up. Usually ones that would hurt. I ignore them. But they happen. I once had an impulse to jump from the top of A Block stairs at school (A block is four stories high) for not reason....*frowns* that isn't very normal is it?
(Ed died? So... This means the crystal must have been destroyed by natural causes. I have my magic, all of it, back? I'm a shifter and that means... They're still out there! I'm not erased from the universe! Yay!)
@Ben: You didn't realise? You've said it once or twice before, yeah. O_O
@Silente: No, not really. O_O
When I walk over road bridges Hunter wants to jump off.
It's scary. D:
“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.”
Hello silente
(Ed died in his own dimension under torture)
Fire is interesting to me. I always put my hand through it or near it when I see a candle. No burns yet though. Hmm. I need help.
@Star Oh. Maybe I should try fix that. They don't scare me though. It's surprisingly peaceful. I should stop talking I'm starting to sound like a crazy person.
'Just because I wouldn't call you a god, that doesn't mean you aren't one.'
That was such a wise quote I made and i think that was the only wise quote I will make in some time. Can't think of any now.
It is a great quote though star
ALL WILL BURN AND SCREAM AND CRYANDDIEDDNSIDHDUJDDNH
Woah. I have no idea why I said that.
(anyway the balls over now right? So back in the clearing!)
(It has been for two days I think)
“Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!"
The balls over now I think
(nah it ended last night/ this morning)
(I don't know where any of my characters are though. They wandered off. James and Erica left when they were attacked, Orpheus was with El, Ashlea was with Leri, Manuel was with Sophia and Sil was suicidal so she could be anywhere.)
Well Ben was being attacked by silente for some reason.
I heard Dugglyn (or as some people call her 'the banshee') had attacked ashlea.
(brb mentally tracking down Sil...)
Jup
Burro?
(Found her! England. Sat on top of A church spire for some reason. *shrugs* weird character.)
(Hunter and Ez kind of have a bunch of vampires after them. :P
@Ed: Yes. :)
@Egg: Yes. :)
@Silente: Yeah, my random impulses (although I seem to have less than you) are kind of peaceful too. That's why it's scary. :P)
The hero in a movie called box trolls has the name Egg. I'm proud of my alternate reality self.
@Egg: :P
*protagonist
(sorry)
(I just dislike the word 'hero', I think :P)
(@Star They do? Well done Ezter. *rolls eyes*)
(Oh. I like it being peaceful. Makes it seem more...logical almost.)
"To be, or not to be, that is the question. Weeelll.... More of A question really. Not THE question. Because, well, I mean, there are billions and billions of questions out there, and well, when I say billions, I mean, when you add in the answers, not just the questions, weeelll, you're looking at numbers that are positively astronomical"
@Silente: Yup. :P XD
@Ben: Like 42. *nods*
“Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.”
Boom.-Zaf
What!
I was gonna do that zaf. Sa
I was gonna randomly say something.
well hello people!!
I SHALL EXPLODE YOU ALL
*cries* School tomorrow....-Zaf
LYNXIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA hi again. :)
@Zaf: Does everyone in the universe have school tomorrow/today?
I start again on Wednesday. :)
HELLO STAR!!
I'm back tomorrow, ooh fun fun fun!
School should die and get eaten. :( :(
as in the concept should or the building?
. . .
Well, when I actually think about it, I don't want either the concept or the building to die because that would be bad, but you know. :P
I hate you, Star. It's Labor Day today so we start right after...:/
*cries harder* NO SCHOOL I DONT WANNA GO BACK TO THAT HELL HOLE!!!
I rather go visit Malikith in Svartalfheim!!-Zaf
@Zaf: :( Aw, don't hate me. :(
I DON'T EITHER!!! BUT LIFE IS LIFE, AND LIFE SUCKS SOMETIMES!!! AT LEAST WE GET TO GO TO SCHOOL!!! SOME KIDS WOULD GIVE THEIR RIGHT ARM TO GO TO SCHOOL!!!
(although that would be a tad stupid. Unless they're left-handed, they kind of need their right arm for school.)
I have 'team building' on Friday so trust me there are worse things...
I hate the fact I have to go there....-Zaf
'Team building'? O_O
That sounds suspicious . . . :O
I start Wednesday.
*softly hits Zaf on the head with a pillow then goes back to sitting t the top of a church spire with a slightly crumpled piece of paper in her hands*
I just don't like the people. :P
At least I don't get bullied though. Could be worse.
@Egg: Me too! Yay! *hi-fives*
The year sevens always go back a day early, so they go back on Tuesday . . . *shrugs*
I liked school for my friends. Now I have left that stage of school and I have moved houses and I am to go to a new school. I'm not sure if I like school anymore, school meant friends. This school could be the same.
team building is just an excuse to try and get me to 'mingle'
and I swear to God, if any Year 7's try to start anything this year, I'm going to hit them
What year are you in? 8, or 7
No hitting me, I'm mourning.
I really procrastinated my summer work...still got one mote thing to do...well when my parents go to that stupid Italian feast I can do it.
They want to go to some stupid feast that is all the morons who act like they're big shots becsuse they're from Italian desendants. I just want to hit them, like grow up. Ok wow your family is from Italy! You're American! Cool! Stop making it into a big deal and pretending you're a big shot.
I hate that type of thing...
-Zaf
@Egg: :/
Well, it could be okay. :) At least no one knows you, so they don't know any bad things about you.
(The people in my school STILL sing this song about a non-existent homework club of mine that some boys made up in year five and no one believes me when I said I never had a homework club. -_-)
Sorry.
@Zaf: *laughs* Yeah. It's stupid. :)
I don't really get nationalistic pride, tbh.
And - lol I'm good at procrastination . . . my homework was mostly drawing this summer though, so it was okay. :)
Oh
crap
I just remembered my English homework. :/
Um . . .
@Egg: I'm going into year eleven. Yay. :)
@Silente: Sorry?
those people sound like idiots, Star
don't worry about it
Iiiiiiiiieeeeiiiii am gonna poof and come back...
Iiiiieeeiiiiiii am reading about stuff yeahhhhh
@Egg: Fair enough.
Secondary is better. :) :)
@Lynxia: They ARE idiots. :)
I'm going into junior year, 11th grade. Gah. It means I have to actually suffer another 180 days of hell.
Plus side I'm the only one who didn't need to sign up to get a big locker! They're making everyone who wants one write a report on why they want it and grades and attendance all go into play. *casually was assigned one* I had to though, I need a key for my locker because I cannot see for crap so they gave me the big locker til I graduate.
-Zaf
Have you guys noticed that blogger posts comments and then they say they got deleted?
No?
Just me?
@Zaf: Yaaaaay! :)
Our school doesn't have lockers. XD
@Egg: No. O_O
Are you sure you don't mean the comments that we delete? Because I just deleted one up there.
My school has lockers. Lockers. This is a big thing for me.
From putting my books and papers in table boxes and personal trays to lockers.... This is a big deal.
Yes Star. Sorry.
No, just me. I post comments then sometimes - this is very rare, happened like three / five times now- they get deleted.
@Silente: Sorry for what?
@Egg: Really?
I've seen comments disappear before, but delete, no . . . O_O
Everything.
Mad
@Silente: Well, whatever you're sorry for, I accept your apology and forgive you, because you're worthy of being forgived. :)
Stupid autocorrect I meant
Msd
Are
You
Ready
For
I've seen comments disappear but not delete
me and Star got plagued by that for a while
I think it was around the whole 'keyboard-face' incident (that I don't think Nix ever forgave me for but shhhh)
Dun din....
FIRST??!
BOOM
HELLS YEAH
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