(*smirks* No. You don't. If you did you would protect your hotel better. Poor Anton is probable turning in his grave. And reptile? Is that the best you have?)
. . . *smile spreads slowly* Oh, I know EXACTLY how this hotel should be run. It should be run the way Anton ran it, and do you know how he ran it, Silente? Do you know how? He killed anyone who caused trouble. He killed them, and made it slow, and messy, and painful. . . . So I'll learn how to kill. It's as simple as that. I'll learn how to kill, and how to enjoy it, the way you do. And the first person I'll kill is you.
It would be worth all the trouble, just to finally, FINALLY kill you.
*the lights flicker, and grow dimmer* *the rooms seem to be narrowing, growing smaller*
*still sitting at the desk, eyes narrowed* And you'd never bother me again. And then I would be a killer, like you. Like him. And I could finally live up to Anton's expectations . . .
*the Hotel continues contracting* *portraits on the wall begin to rattle and fall off* *until*
*suddenly, the Hotel expands, reverting back to normal*
*is sitting calmly at the desk* *drinking tea*
But, in the end, you're not worth my time. Perhaps it's better to re-install the anti-vampire sigils. You remember those, don't you?
(I really like reading this Clarente drama for some reason . . . I don't know when it happened, really. One time it was a flat lines like "-------" and now I enjoy it, apparently. :P)
(I do enjoy all this nemesis-like tension. As long as Silente is aware that I, as a real-life person, don't mean a word of it. *affectionately pats Silente on the back* Internet Friends.)
Well then, I suppose I shall have to come up with an even better way of keeping you out of my way. *sips tea* Perhaps I can't kill you directly. But I could hire vampires hunter, or hit men. I am not above that. There is little that I'm above. Or, I could simply run. That is the only thing a coward is good for, is it not? *smirks* You will have difficultly causing havoc if I am always moving, I think. The Midnight Hotel moved twice a day when Anton was alive. Now it moves much, much more. I can bounce from continent to continent and you'd never keep up with me.
I agree, Star. I too am a fan of the term "Internet Friends." I am fortunate enough to have had relatively few negative experiences with "Internet Friends," so the term has very positive feelings for me.
:) Thank you, Elleni. :) :) You seem to be pretty smart too, incidentally. Some stuff you say I email to myself . . . . . . which is my way of recording it so I remember it. :P *hugs*
((I am interested that Indiana Jones not changing the outcome in Raiders of the Lost Ark is a problem. Isn't that the case with a lot of stories? Like, if you think about The Fault in Our Stars, (mostly because it's the first applicable book I saw that people might have read), the ultimate, physical outcome is not made different by anything which happened in the rest of the novel.
A lot of people don't make a big difference to what happens in the end, but does that mean their story isn't worth telling? Plenty of things happened in that film, and it fills the criteria of Adventure Film perfectly in the sense that it is about an adventure.
I dunno. I just find that inference quite interesting, and I'm considering that. :) ))
((ALso, hello, because it looks like I may be here. :) ))
((*hasn't been ghosting, honestly. Too busy. :P *))
@Clara: That'd be one way to do it. But I like to copy and paste. Also, I can search for things . . . like, if I'm searching for a particular rant or whatever, I put words I think might be in it in the search box in my inbox, and it'll come up. :)
@Elleni: Word documents sound really sensible . . . but I'm on email already, so meh. :P Plus I can access email from my phone. :)
Ezter yes! :) (Hunter and Ez, for the record, don't actually like being shipped. They're a bit annoyed at me. :P)
@Taia: One of the whole points in TFIOS was that they never changed the world . . . Crap. Crying. :P
But yeah.
:/
Meaningfulness . . .
@Elleni: Your flower metaphor the other day. Um, I have a crap memory and I only remember that coz it was recent . . . *recycles that last sentence and uses it to Clara* Wait. I definitely have some stuff saved of yours. *frowns, trying to catch the memories* *can't do that and type* *frowns harder*
(Taia - thus negating the point in the novel? It was my understanding of fiction books that people read them to gain some kind of hope. Sure, there might be some sad books but generally, I believe that would be the main theme? I disagree with the use of fiction books anyway - but if it were me, I would want to read a book where the characters actually changed something? Something where the inevitable could be changed. Something where you got the feeling that the character's choices actually influenced the outcome. Otherwise - what's the point? You have characters. You have a plot - what's the point in having a novel such as that if it all accounts for nothing?)
@Sophia: I remember that C told me that her grandma didn't like reading, because you spent all that time reading that book and then at the end you had nothing to show for it, so she thought that knitting was much more productive. I disagree. I do gain things from reading. Not maybe physical objects you can hold, but I gain things mentally. And it feels a bit like I'm building a . . . I don't even know what I'm building, I'm just building, and books give me building blocks that help me form my structure and give me a better idea of what it is. Maybe in TFIOS they changed nothing in their story universe. But just because someone doesn't die for a worthy cause doesn't mean that they didn't contribute to life or that their existence was worthless, and I don't care if they didn't change their story universe, they changed ME.
Isn't it? I named him Lawrence after one half of my OTP, Moggle because Scott Westerfeld told me to name him Moggle, and Smudgeface because Derek Landy told me to name him Smudgeface.
(Star - the characters were created to die. They were created - by the author - and no matter what they said, no matter what they did - they were going to die. Sure they might say and do some heart-warming stuff along the way - but that is all they were going to do. Sure it might make you think a certain way - because that is what the author wants you to think - and use the characters as tools to achieve it. And it might just be me being stubborn - but I am not going to be lured into their emotional trap.)
@Taiaaaaa: Well, most of my friends have read it, and I disagree with most of their opinions, so. :P Plus I think most people just read it for emotions-junkie purposes, which I can't really disapprove of without being a hypocrite, I guess.
@Sophia: Number one - you haven't read the book. Number two - I, unlike most of the world, didn't read it to cry. (*is failing at not sounding like a hypocrite*) I read it for beautiful meaningfulness. I got beautiful meaningfulness. I am happy.
@Sophia: It probably depends on your priorities. I don't read out of hunger for hope, I read out of interest? I haven't really thought about it before, but when you get down to the base of it, I probably read because of something like perspectives and experiences, in one way or another. And also because the books are there, idk.
But it's like, whether you're looking at distance or displacement. If you draw a straight line between the start point and the end point of a journey, then the difference between them is the displacement. But if you look at the actual route that they took, and how far they travelled in several directions, the total of that would be your distance.
And so it's like, whether you're looking at all of the things that happened in the process, or the resultant of them.
And I guess that's a difference between readers, and I that's what I'm finding interesting. :)
The way you use letters for real-life people you know, Star, makes me feel like you're in a secret society. When I'm online, I refer to Real-Life people as The Critic, The Mafioso, The Coach, etc.
(I am a big fan of productivity. I base my entire life on being productive. Otherwise: What's the point? Anyway - if I were to read a book like that, I would gain nothing from it. Because The Fault In Our Stars is somewhat big at the moment, and I know that it is supposed to be sad. If I were any kind of reader, I wouldn't get attached to them. Because I knew that they were just going to die - so what's the point getting yourself upset? The books wouldn't interest me. Because you would already know the outcome. No matter how interesting the book may be - you know the ending. If I were a reader - I wouldn't want to read a book that I already knew what would happen in. Because I would be expecting it to happen. So it would have no affect on me. Whereas an unpredictable book would somewhat draw me in more and make it more interesting.)
@Sophia: *nods* I get you. I do understand you. I just prefer to look at the distance as opposed to the displacement, personally, and I like the distance it covered.
"But just because someone doesn't die for a worthy cause doesn't mean that they didn't contribute to life or that their existence was worthless, and I don't care if they didn't change their story universe, they changed ME."
@Star: :) :) :) I agree with the words leading up to those words and those words also. And yeah. :)
@Sophia: But isn't that the case with people, too? We're all here and we're all going to die, but I don't think that that negates life?
@Starrrrrrrrrrr: I haven't had a conversation about it, so, idk. :P
I read it because people said I should. I don't know if I got that much out of it, although there were some points which interested me and I did think about things, and maybe I'd pick up on things differently on rereading, idk. Also, I didn't emotion very much, which I'm not sure if that's concerning or OK. :P
@Annika: Thank you for always having me either laugh or smile. You are super. :)
(Taia - which is why I like being productive. I like changing things. I like to make sure that when I die, someone, somewhere, will be glad of something I have done - even if it is just one person. I do not want to be remembered, or be famous - but I want to make sure that I stand for something.)
@Sophia: *nods* I think that's fair. :) I just find it interesting to think about. :) *just remembered that's actually a motif in TFIOS* *WHY DIDN'T THIS BOOK PUT THINGS INTO MY EXAMPLES AND ASSOCIATIONS STORES?:(*
@Taia: See, it's really odd. I couldn't actually feel sad properly because I was too busy crying. :P Thigsn didn't lodge in my head awfully lodgily at the time. They just kept coming back to me afterwards.
@Star: :P I wasn't crying, though. :P ^^ Things didn't come back to me, afterwards, but I may not have left much time between finishing TFIOS and starting another book, so... I can't reread it, though. I have a pretty full rereading list already, as well as a regular reading list and I NEED TO GET TO SKULDUGGERO, DAMMIT.v ::P
@Taia: See, I've not been reading much . . . You know about me and crying, don't you? I can cry kind of easily, so yes, I was crying. Quite a lot. There was a tearstain on my pillow. I didn't even know tears could stain. O_O But I don't actually remember feeling that SAD. :P
(Taia - *nods* I know that I am going to die. Realistically, taking my job into account - I'm not going to survive for more than ten years. But that doesn't stop me doing my job. But I would rather spend ten years helping people, than sixty years not doing. As I said: I like to change things. There's nothing else I can do with my life.)
1 - It seems that not all the results have been posted. 2 - All the awards were very well deserved, and I voted for the winners of most of them. 3 - Lawrence, stop scratching my furniture.
4 - OH MY GOODNESS I WON ONE! I AM LITERALLY TEARING UP. THANK YOU ALL SO, SO MUCH. I WILL TREASURE THIS GOLDEN TISSUE BOX FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE.
@Star: (Ah. I've been reading more (and sleeping less :P) the past few months, which I'm happy about. I recently finished The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by MArk Haddon(?), and that's probably my favourite I've read in a while.)
*nods* Yeah, I get that. For me, I don't think I cry very much, but I tend to scream a LOT in my head, like WAIT WHAT and STFU and D: D: D: and NO THAT'S A HORRIBLE IDEA and BUT LOOK IT WASN'T HIS FAULTx7 and AW CHRISTOPHER :(:(:(, and I don't think I got any of that with TFIOS, which was a bit odd. But there were things which I liked and I wrote down some page references, I'm pretty sure, it was just a little odd in terms of emotional response. o0
TAIA. So, National Theatre Live did a production of TCIOTDITNT (that's a long abbreviation.) and it absolutely tore my heart to shreds. It's been a long time since I've felt that emotionally connected with. If you loved the book, then you MUST see the National Theatre Live production.
@Taia: I've read that, but don't ask me abotu it, because I haven't read it as the person I am now. :P
@Taia: See, C has a distinction between actual crying and crying in her head, and she noted once that when I cried on the inside I also cried on the outside, so . . . yeah.
Mmh. My emotional response was a little odd too. I tend to think of TFIOS less of how I thought reading it and more how I think about it now? Idk. Hard to explain.
I'm screenshot-ing all the results and compiling a folder. Now that I know the Blogland Awards are being given out, I'm going to have to start checking that blog every day.
No, not all the awards have been decided. The typing up of the winners seems to have been left to me, and I have a tendency to make everything more complicated. As you've probably noticed, I've been photoshopping trophies for each winner, which is part of why it's been taking so long.
@Sophia: Maybe. I think at least by by my viewpoint it's hard to measure that quantity. I know that four words can save a life. I think that things can be both big and small, and a million 'big' helps might not be able to do what one 'small' help might. idk. But I figure helping is better than not, in any quantity. :)
@Garrett: :P
@Annika: :) :) :)
*hugs Fabi many* You're doing them all yourself? As I was reading through I keeping thinking how GOOD they were. I saw that you were posting them but wasn't sure if it was all you. :O I think the trophies are fantastic! :) :) :)
((... may have been looking at that question in a slightly different way. I'm not sure what I WAS thinking but anything involving gravity didn't occur to me. :P))
@Fabi: Sick? Aw. :( Are you feeling any better now? ^^
Technically it's not photoshop, it's a series of iPad apps, different ones depending on what I wanted to do.
I just use photoshop as a more general term apparently.
And if anything, I think I'll make them and then email them to Star or Silente, because half of what makes it so tedious is roundaboutedly uploading images from my iPad to a blog post. The actual image-making [is trying not to say photoshop now] isn't difficult for me.
Well, I'm feeling more awake than I have these past couple days, but my throat is still extremely itchy and I can't breathe out of the right side of my nose, so, um, sort of?
@Anni: *laughs* I think I'm OK with timezone differences, now. The things that do confuse me are people in the SAMe time zone. Like, I usually eat dinner between 7:30 and 9:00, and people go for dinner at five 0'clock and my brain just goes ????? :P
*just realised I totally missed out a couple of comments earlier and so:*
@Annika on the National Theatre Live production of The Curious Incident... : :O I will definitely have to look into that. Thank you! :)
@Star, also on The Curious Incident...: *laughs* I get that - It's a big part of why I find re-reading so important - because you're a different person, at least a bit. :)
I say blogland all the time without meaning to. Like, I'll be talking to someone irl (one time it was a teacher XD) and I reference blogland and than when they look at me oddly I have to explain and--
Saying "Blogland" or "My Internet friend said," in front of my real-life friends felt very strange, so now I just say "A friend of mine said," or something like that, because I feel that the fact that you're all Blogland friends doesn't need to be specified. You are my friends, as simple as that.
I usually just say "A friend of mine." because people give me strange looks if I say any of your names, as they all sound like and are blatant aliases.
Tragically, neither weddings nor romance is in my future. Only, apparently, cannibalism. Though one could argue that cannibalism and romance are very similar.
(*rolls her eyes* We are not doing this AGAIN Clara. You know I rhymes get out of hand. Like a boat torn away from solid land. That's how this silly ship started. When, no longer queens, we sourly parted. Has there not been enough Clarente today? Let's stop with the rhymes and both be on our way.)
The Osmosis Wedding was my Magnum Opus. My ultimate role-play. The culmination of all of my efforts. And I poured so much love into the characters I used to build up to it that I intended to give them cameo appearances in every book that I wrote thereafter. I have held true to that promise.
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(I'm going to disappear, good night and good bye *merges with the background*)
(Bye Gar)
. . .
*smile spreads slowly*
Oh, I know EXACTLY how this hotel should be run. It should be run the way Anton ran it, and do you know how he ran it, Silente? Do you know how?
He killed anyone who caused trouble. He killed them, and made it slow, and messy, and painful.
. . . So I'll learn how to kill.
It's as simple as that. I'll learn how to kill, and how to enjoy it, the way you do. And the first person I'll kill is you.
(You'd never manage it. Between learning to kill, learning to enjoy it, and getting me in a position when I am vulnerable to YOU, you will fail.)
(And she does enjoy killing, Clara.)
But it would be worth it, though.
*the Midnight Hotel begins to tremble*
It would be worth all the trouble, just to finally, FINALLY kill you.
*the lights flicker, and grow dimmer*
*the rooms seem to be narrowing, growing smaller*
*still sitting at the desk, eyes narrowed*
And you'd never bother me again. And then I would be a killer, like you. Like him. And I could finally live up to Anton's expectations . . .
*the Hotel continues contracting*
*portraits on the wall begin to rattle and fall off*
*until*
*suddenly, the Hotel expands, reverting back to normal*
*is sitting calmly at the desk*
*drinking tea*
But, in the end, you're not worth my time.
Perhaps it's better to re-install the anti-vampire sigils. You remember those, don't you?
(I really like reading this Clarente drama for some reason . . . I don't know when it happened, really. One time it was a flat lines like "-------" and now I enjoy it, apparently. :P)
*line
(Hello, Star. How are you?)
(Yes, I remember those. I also remember figuring out how to counter them should you ever bring them up. You forget, sigils are my forte.)
(I do enjoy all this nemesis-like tension. As long as Silente is aware that I, as a real-life person, don't mean a word of it.
*affectionately pats Silente on the back*
Internet Friends.)
((Internet friends indeed Clara.))
Well then, I suppose I shall have to come up with an even better way of keeping you out of my way.
*sips tea*
Perhaps I can't kill you directly. But I could hire vampires hunter, or hit men. I am not above that. There is little that I'm above.
Or, I could simply run. That is the only thing a coward is good for, is it not?
*smirks*
You will have difficultly causing havoc if I am always moving, I think. The Midnight Hotel moved twice a day when Anton was alive. Now it moves much, much more. I can bounce from continent to continent and you'd never keep up with me.
Hi, Sophia. Good, thanks. How're you?
Internet friends. :) That term brings a lot of positive associations to my mind.
*vampire hunters
(Why of course I could Clara. If the numerous trackers placed in the hotel didn't allow me to find you I could always have a drop to drink.
*smirks*)
I agree, Star. I too am a fan of the term "Internet Friends." I am fortunate enough to have had relatively few negative experiences with "Internet Friends," so the term has very positive feelings for me.
What, those sad little glyphs?
*laughs*
I thought they were your idea of a joke. I had them scratched out ages ago. Weren't you aware?
@Clara: :) :) :) *dittoness*
(I wondered why they weren't responding. Ah well. I can always find you Clara. Always. There is no where you can run, no hole you can hide in.)
((*laughs* my parents keep getting distracted and forgetting I'm still downstairs.))
My brain occasionally jumbles "thank you" and "I'm sorry".
They both have the same kind of feel to them.
I highly doubt that, Silente. If a coward is good for anything, it's knowing how to hide.
*the Midnight Hotel begins to rumble*
*as it sinks into the ground, Sanguine-style*
Hmm.
*spins in the desk chair*
Where shall I go . . . I wonder . . .
And there, I am afraid, our shouting match must cease for the time being. I'm beginning to run out of atypical insults.
You know, Star, I once heard it said that "I'm sorry." and "My bad." mean the same thing. Unless you are at a funeral.
@Clara: XD
Oh my gosh. XD
*laughs*
Hi El. :)
*hugs Elleni*
It's nice to get hugs for my jokes, instead of disgruntled glances.
(Ah yes. That was fun. I'm sure may good times will come from it.)
:)
Thank you, Elleni. :) :)
You seem to be pretty smart too, incidentally. Some stuff you say I email to myself . . .
. . . which is my way of recording it so I remember it. :P
*hugs*
I look forward to a long and happy future of trying to kill each other.
So you e-mail things as a method of quick note-taking? I usually screenshot.
(I am going distant now, take care guys!)
(Ezter woop woop :P)
Woop woop indeed.
(As do I Clara, as do I.)
((I am interested that Indiana Jones not changing the outcome in Raiders of the Lost Ark is a problem.
Isn't that the case with a lot of stories?
Like, if you think about The Fault in Our Stars, (mostly because it's the first applicable book I saw that people might have read), the ultimate, physical outcome is not made different by anything which happened in the rest of the novel.
A lot of people don't make a big difference to what happens in the end, but does that mean their story isn't worth telling?
Plenty of things happened in that film, and it fills the criteria of Adventure Film perfectly in the sense that it is about an adventure.
I dunno. I just find that inference quite interesting, and I'm considering that. :) ))
((ALso, hello, because it looks like I may be here. :) ))
((*hasn't been ghosting, honestly. Too busy. :P *))
Do you ever e-mail yourself things that I said?
*puppy-dog eyes*
(I too am interested in such quotes.)
(Er...
what was I going to do?)
@Elleni: :) :)
*hugs*
@Clara: That'd be one way to do it. But I like to copy and paste. Also, I can search for things . . . like, if I'm searching for a particular rant or whatever, I put words I think might be in it in the search box in my inbox, and it'll come up. :)
@Elleni: Word documents sound really sensible . . . but I'm on email already, so meh. :P
Plus I can access email from my phone. :)
Ezter yes! :)
(Hunter and Ez, for the record, don't actually like being shipped. They're a bit annoyed at me. :P)
(erm...
What the hell was I going to do??
One sec.)
@Taia: One of the whole points in TFIOS was that they never changed the world . . .
Crap. Crying. :P
But yeah.
:/
Meaningfulness . . .
@Elleni: Your flower metaphor the other day.
Um, I have a crap memory and I only remember that coz it was recent . . .
*recycles that last sentence and uses it to Clara*
Wait.
I definitely have some stuff saved of yours.
*frowns, trying to catch the memories* *can't do that and type* *frowns harder*
(Taia - thus negating the point in the novel? It was my understanding of fiction books that people read them to gain some kind of hope. Sure, there might be some sad books but generally, I believe that would be the main theme?
I disagree with the use of fiction books anyway - but if it were me, I would want to read a book where the characters actually changed something? Something where the inevitable could be changed. Something where you got the feeling that the character's choices actually influenced the outcome. Otherwise - what's the point? You have characters. You have a plot - what's the point in having a novel such as that if it all accounts for nothing?)
I still can't stop laughing.
How I Treat My Friends In Real Life: Hullo. How are you? Would you like some frozen yogurt?
How I Treat My Internet Friends: YOU REPULSIVE SLAG. ILLITERATE BASILISK. BLOOD-SUCKING PARASITE.
@Clara: XD XD
*laughs* :P
@Sophia: I remember that C told me that her grandma didn't like reading, because you spent all that time reading that book and then at the end you had nothing to show for it, so she thought that knitting was much more productive.
I disagree. I do gain things from reading. Not maybe physical objects you can hold, but I gain things mentally. And it feels a bit like I'm building a . . . I don't even know what I'm building, I'm just building, and books give me building blocks that help me form my structure and give me a better idea of what it is.
Maybe in TFIOS they changed nothing in their story universe.
But just because someone doesn't die for a worthy cause doesn't mean that they didn't contribute to life or that their existence was worthless, and I don't care if they didn't change their story universe, they changed ME.
. . .
Star, it's when people write things like that that make me happy to be in Blogland.
*screenshots*
@Clara: :)
Thank you. :)
*hugs*
All these hugs going around. It's positively shameful.
*corner of mouth twitches*
@Clara: . . .
:P
Elleni, your profile picture looks a lot like my kitten, Lawrence Moggle Smudgeface.
Thank you. :)
*hugs Elleni*
@Clara: :) That's a beautiful name.
Hi Elleni! :)
Hi Tia, Star, Annika, Silente, Sophia! :)
How are you all? :)
@Star: *nods* Yeah, yeah I guess so.
I'm not sure I read it how most did, though, idk.
*hugs* Sorry. :P
Isn't it?
I named him Lawrence after one half of my OTP,
Moggle because Scott Westerfeld told me to name him Moggle,
and Smudgeface because Derek Landy told me to name him Smudgeface.
Greetings, Taia!
(Star - the characters were created to die. They were created - by the author - and no matter what they said, no matter what they did - they were going to die. Sure they might say and do some heart-warming stuff along the way - but that is all they were going to do. Sure it might make you think a certain way - because that is what the author wants you to think - and use the characters as tools to achieve it. And it might just be me being stubborn - but I am not going to be lured into their emotional trap.)
@Taiaaaaa: Well, most of my friends have read it, and I disagree with most of their opinions, so. :P
Plus I think most people just read it for emotions-junkie purposes, which I can't really disapprove of without being a hypocrite, I guess.
@Clara: *nodsnods* :)
This is a lovely conversation that you're having. I'm not sure how I can contribute to it, however.
*observes quietly*
@Sophia: Number one - you haven't read the book.
Number two - I, unlike most of the world, didn't read it to cry.
(*is failing at not sounding like a hypocrite*)
I read it for beautiful meaningfulness.
I got beautiful meaningfulness.
I am happy.
@Clara: :( Sorry.
*SHRIEKS LOUDLY*
Lawrence! You have a blog!? I never knew!
@Elleni: :) :) :)
That's so sweet!!!!! :)
Clara.
Oh gosh. XD
*laughs*
Lawrence, are you scratching my furniture? Shame!
(Well, I also read it because C told me I had to, but meh.)
@Sophia: It probably depends on your priorities.
I don't read out of hunger for hope, I read out of interest? I haven't really thought about it before, but when you get down to the base of it, I probably read because of something like perspectives and experiences, in one way or another. And also because the books are there, idk.
But it's like, whether you're looking at distance or displacement.
If you draw a straight line between the start point and the end point of a journey, then the difference between them is the displacement.
But if you look at the actual route that they took, and how far they travelled in several directions, the total of that would be your distance.
And so it's like, whether you're looking at all of the things that happened in the process, or the resultant of them.
And I guess that's a difference between readers, and I that's what I'm finding interesting. :)
^^
The way you use letters for real-life people you know, Star, makes me feel like you're in a secret society. When I'm online, I refer to Real-Life people as The Critic, The Mafioso, The Coach, etc.
@Taia: . . . *nods, very slowly, and emails that to myself :)*
Lawrence, I told you, no typing until you're older!
@Lawrence: O_O Woah.
I didn't know cats COULD type!
@Annika: *laughs*
Yeah . . . :P
Oh my gosh. XD XD
*laughs*
LAWRENCE CEASE THE HASH-TAGGING.
Don't make me get the squirt bottle.
Well, maybe if you're a good kitty, who doesn't use hash-tags, I'll give you some yogurt instead of squirting you in the face.
(Oh. My. Gosh.
*laughs*)
(I am a big fan of productivity. I base my entire life on being productive. Otherwise: What's the point?
Anyway - if I were to read a book like that, I would gain nothing from it. Because The Fault In Our Stars is somewhat big at the moment, and I know that it is supposed to be sad.
If I were any kind of reader, I wouldn't get attached to them. Because I knew that they were just going to die - so what's the point getting yourself upset?
The books wouldn't interest me. Because you would already know the outcome. No matter how interesting the book may be - you know the ending. If I were a reader - I wouldn't want to read a book that I already knew what would happen in. Because I would be expecting it to happen. So it would have no affect on me. Whereas an unpredictable book would somewhat draw me in more and make it more interesting.)
Okay, okay, I'll get you some yogurt.
*leaves computer to go give Lawrence some yogurt*
@Sophia: *nods* I get you.
I do understand you.
I just prefer to look at the distance as opposed to the displacement, personally, and I like the distance it covered.
(OH MY GOSH. XD
OH MY GOSH. XD)
LAWRENCE YOUR FACE IS STUCK IN THE CUP.
I'M TRYING BUT YOU KEEP RUNNING AWAY AND BUMPING INTO THINGS HOLD STILL!
"But just because someone doesn't die for a worthy cause doesn't mean that they didn't contribute to life or that their existence was worthless, and I don't care if they didn't change their story universe, they changed ME."
@Star: :) :) :)
I agree with the words leading up to those words and those words also. And yeah. :)
@Sophia: But isn't that the case with people, too? We're all here and we're all going to die, but I don't think that that negates life?
@Starrrrrrrrrrr: I haven't had a conversation about it, so, idk. :P
I read it because people said I should. I don't know if I got that much out of it, although there were some points which interested me and I did think about things, and maybe I'd pick up on things differently on rereading, idk. Also, I didn't emotion very much, which I'm not sure if that's concerning or OK. :P
@Annika: Thank you for always having me either laugh or smile. You are super. :)
Awh, Taia, thank you!
Okay, I've got the cup off your face, Lawrence. Are you okay?
LAWRENCE YOU STUCK YOUR FACE BACK IN. I JUST GOT IT OFF. FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.
(Taia - which is why I like being productive. I like changing things. I like to make sure that when I die, someone, somewhere, will be glad of something I have done - even if it is just one person. I do not want to be remembered, or be famous - but I want to make sure that I stand for something.)
*deep breath*
Okay then. No more yogurt. I'm throwing the rest away.
It's off, it's off, it's okay.
But now you're sitting on me.
(Hello, I've decided to return for little bit,
how are you all?)
Hullo, Garrett. My kitten learned how to type.
@Elleni: XD
:) :) :)
@Sophia: *nods* I think that's fair. :)
I just find it interesting to think about. :)
*just remembered that's actually a motif in TFIOS*
*WHY DIDN'T THIS BOOK PUT THINGS INTO MY EXAMPLES AND ASSOCIATIONS STORES?:(*
@Taia: See, it's really odd. I couldn't actually feel sad properly because I was too busy crying. :P
Thigsn didn't lodge in my head awfully lodgily at the time. They just kept coming back to me afterwards.
DO NOT SPEAK TO ME IN THAT TONE OF CAPS LOCK. I WILL SQUIRT YOU.
Hi Garrett! :)
(Oh, Clara, Elleni. :))
xD
Hi Garret! :)
I'm good, thanks. :)
How're you?
No it's not unfair, Lawrence. I'm sorry I gave you yogurt in a cup. I just won't give you yogurt ever, ever again.
(Clara, its a sign #cats are evil
(Hello Star and hello Taia, I'm good slightly tired but good.)
*strokes Lawrence*
What do you say we let bygones be bygones. I'll forget about the hash-tags, and you be a little more careful when eating yogurt. Deal?
*shakes paw*
Thank you. And yes, you may feel free to climb on Garrett.
No *puts El on the floor* No sitting on my face!
(oh gosh ELleni xD)
@Star: :P
I wasn't crying, though. :P ^^
Things didn't come back to me, afterwards, but I may not have left much time between finishing TFIOS and starting another book, so...
I can't reread it, though. I have a pretty full rereading list already, as well as a regular reading list and I NEED TO GET TO SKULDUGGERO, DAMMIT.v ::P
@Taia: See, I've not been reading much . . .
You know about me and crying, don't you?
I can cry kind of easily, so yes, I was crying. Quite a lot. There was a tearstain on my pillow. I didn't even know tears could stain. O_O
But I don't actually remember feeling that SAD. :P
OH SNAP.
I'll be back in a few minutes. I just realized that the Blogland Awards have been finally decided!
(Taia - *nods* I know that I am going to die. Realistically, taking my job into account - I'm not going to survive for more than ten years. But that doesn't stop me doing my job.
But I would rather spend ten years helping people, than sixty years not doing. As I said: I like to change things. There's nothing else I can do with my life.)
*laughs* #cats are evil!!
#CHOO CHOO!! t(-.-t)
t(-.-t) <its the CHOO CHOO!! face. #choo choo.
1 - It seems that not all the results have been posted.
2 - All the awards were very well deserved, and I voted for the winners of most of them.
3 - Lawrence, stop scratching my furniture.
4 - OH MY GOODNESS I WON ONE!
I AM LITERALLY TEARING UP.
THANK YOU ALL SO, SO MUCH.
I WILL TREASURE THIS GOLDEN TISSUE BOX FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE.
@Clara: No, they haven't.
*HUGS*
WELL DONE
'TWAS DESERVED. :)
I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW.
@Star: (Ah. I've been reading more (and sleeping less :P) the past few months, which I'm happy about. I recently finished The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by MArk Haddon(?), and that's probably my favourite I've read in a while.)
*nods* Yeah, I get that.
For me, I don't think I cry very much, but I tend to scream a LOT in my head, like WAIT WHAT and STFU and D: D: D: and NO THAT'S A HORRIBLE IDEA and BUT LOOK IT WASN'T HIS FAULTx7 and AW CHRISTOPHER :(:(:(, and I don't think I got any of that with TFIOS, which was a bit odd.
But there were things which I liked and I wrote down some page references, I'm pretty sure, it was just a little odd in terms of emotional response. o0
TAIA.
So, National Theatre Live did a production of TCIOTDITNT (that's a long abbreviation.) and it absolutely tore my heart to shreds. It's been a long time since I've felt that emotionally connected with. If you loved the book, then you MUST see the National Theatre Live production.
Yes congrats Clara
*walks around saying choo choo t(-.-t)*
I am still crying, and I don't cry easily.
Good thing I have a golden tissue box.
*dries tears with a tissue*
well done to everyone in the awards.
@Taia: I've read that, but don't ask me abotu it, because I haven't read it as the person I am now. :P
@Taia: See, C has a distinction between actual crying and crying in her head, and she noted once that when I cried on the inside I also cried on the outside, so . . . yeah.
Mmh. My emotional response was a little odd too. I tend to think of TFIOS less of how I thought reading it and more how I think about it now?
Idk. Hard to explain.
:) :) :)
*hugs Clara* :) :)
@Sophia: *nods* :)
I think it would be difficult to get through sixty years without helping people, though. ^^
@Anni: YAAAAAYYYYYYYY!! *hugs* :)
*didn't know the results had begun, and will have to go look at that, too :)*
*!!!!!*
Oh Lawrence, you're always there for me.
*cuddles Lawrence*
I'm screenshot-ing all the results and compiling a folder. Now that I know the Blogland Awards are being given out, I'm going to have to start checking that blog every day.
This is so strange because I am cuddling Lawrence in real life AND online.
Everybody join in, choo choo.
I'll be right back. I have to attend to something.
(Not in the same way, Taia. Not in the same quantities.)
No, not all the awards have been decided. The typing up of the winners seems to have been left to me, and I have a tendency to make everything more complicated. As you've probably noticed, I've been photoshopping trophies for each winner, which is part of why it's been taking so long.
(•_•) i see you! Yes you!
OH FABI, MY TROPHY IS BEAUTIFUL.
*clutches it to chest*
(if what goes up must come down, does that mean what goes down must go up?)
Decided? That's not the right word there.
I meant announced.
Sorry, my brain is still in sick-day mode.
@Sophia: Maybe. I think at least by by my viewpoint it's hard to measure that quantity. I know that four words can save a life. I think that things can be both big and small, and a million 'big' helps might not be able to do what one 'small' help might. idk. But I figure helping is better than not, in any quantity. :)
@Garrett: :P
@Annika: :) :) :)
*hugs Fabi many*
You're doing them all yourself? As I was reading through I keeping thinking how GOOD they were. I saw that you were posting them but wasn't sure if it was all you. :O
I think the trophies are fantastic!
:) :) :)
@Garrett: I think it probably does, yeah. :)
(No, because we obey the laws of gravity in this comment section. Sometimes.)
Oh, you're sick?
I'm so sorry.
Lawrence! Cuddle Fabi!
... you people are odd. I love you. *hugs everyone*
(I think that the more people you help - the better, by whatever means.)
Snow you're Saracen?
*puts on sunglasses that spell GROOVY*
Welcome to the Saracen Crew.
*Snow,
I seem to be doing them all myself. That wasn't the plan or anything, but that seems to be what's been happening... [shrugs] Also, thank you. [hugs]
(I wouldn't consider myself odd.)
Well well well
This hasn't happened in quite a while.
(I will be back in a while, I think.)
B)
Yes Annika. I know things.
I'm sorry. I'd offer to do some of them, but I'm useless at Photoshop.
((... may have been looking at that question in a slightly different way. I'm not sure what I WAS thinking but anything involving gravity didn't occur to me. :P))
@Fabi: Sick? Aw. :(
Are you feeling any better now? ^^
*hugs SNow*
You're perfect. :)
@Sophia: I can probably agree with that. :)
*rolls*
I NEED TO GET BREAKFAST
BRB
Breakfast?
Goodness, I will never get used to time zone differences. I just had dinner.
Technically it's not photoshop, it's a series of iPad apps, different ones depending on what I wanted to do.
I just use photoshop as a more general term apparently.
And if anything, I think I'll make them and then email them to Star or Silente, because half of what makes it so tedious is roundaboutedly uploading images from my iPad to a blog post. The actual image-making [is trying not to say photoshop now] isn't difficult for me.
Ah. That would make sense.
Well, I'm feeling more awake than I have these past couple days, but my throat is still extremely itchy and I can't breathe out of the right side of my nose, so, um, sort of?
[hugs Snow]
[cuddles Lawrence]
Would you like me to sing you a lullaby, Fabi? I've been told I have a lovely voice when I'm typing inaudible text into a comment box.
*huggles Fabi*
If you wanted a hand, I'd be happy to help if/where I can, but I'm not sure where that'd be, really. :/
I expect that Star/Sil would do that for you, though. :)
(*whispers* Fabi-ded..! :0)
OK, SNow. :)
(*pokes Clara and ushers her away to check her email*
*poofs*)
The last two mystery audiobooks I've listened to involved characters named Lawrence...
No thank you, Annika. I'm rather enjoying being awake enough to think. Thanks all the same.
Fair enough. It seems I'm being poked, anyway.
*checks e-mail*
*frowns*
. . . I have sent my reply.
(Right. That;s Bx2 Dx1)
Yes.
*with great authority* It is Bx2 Dx1.
If you think she sent pictures of YOU SCRATCHING MY FURNITURE, THEN YOU WOULD BE CORRECT.
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@Anni: *laughs* I think I'm OK with timezone differences, now.
The things that do confuse me are people in the SAMe time zone. Like, I usually eat dinner between 7:30 and 9:00, and people go for dinner at five 0'clock and my brain just goes ????? :P
*just realised I totally missed out a couple of comments earlier and so:*
@Annika on the National Theatre Live production of The Curious Incident... :
:O
I will definitely have to look into that. Thank you! :)
@Star, also on The Curious Incident...:
*laughs* I get that - It's a big part of why I find re-reading so important - because you're a different person, at least a bit. :)
That dedication was beautiful.
And are you talking about dresses for the ever-looming Vivanus x Silente wedding?
I keep catching glimpses of my trophy out of the corner of my eye, and it looks like a stack of pancakes. I love it even more now.
Backkkkk
Ermagherd, Snuu Stermbarg.
. . . I can't believe I just said that.
WAIT, WHATS THIS ABOUT SIL GETTING MARRIED AND WHY AM I ONLY JUST HEARING THIS
Silente and Vivanus,
sitting in a tree,
M-U-R-D-E-R-I-N-G.
(Hear hear!)
(Hello, Blogland!)
((I tried saying "Blogland" out loud and it sounded really weird)
You've never said Blogland out loud before? I have. It sounds odd with my normal voice but if I use my English accent it sounds rather nice.
C'mere Lawrence.
*cuddles Lawrence*
@Fabi: Aw. :/ Feeling a little better is probably a good sign, though. I hope you get well soon. :)
And- wonderful dedication. :) :) :)
*huges*
*which is a bit like a hug, but very, very large*
*and also maybe a typo but I stand by my definition nonetheless*
Welcome back, Snuuuuu! :) / :P
Hi Tia! :)
I say blogland all the time without meaning to. Like, I'll be talking to someone irl (one time it was a teacher XD) and I reference blogland and than when they look at me oddly I have to explain and--
Basically I am known as the blog girl
(Silente and Vivanus sitting in a tree
Eating Clara Crow-e-ley
First came love
Then comes marriage
Now they've eaten Clara from a golden carriage.)
*grabs Arnolds shoulders* WHY DID I NOT HEAR ABOUT THIS MARRIAGE
Saying "Blogland" or "My Internet friend said," in front of my real-life friends felt very strange, so now I just say "A friend of mine said," or something like that, because I feel that the fact that you're all Blogland friends doesn't need to be specified. You are my friends, as simple as that.
*stares at Snow*
uh...
erm.....
Blame Clara!
Hang it all, I was under the impression that this golden carriage was cannibal proof. Looks like I'll have to find a new place to hide.
@Snow: *laughs* :P / :)
@Anni: :) :)
*hums*
MSD
(sorry clara, you're impression was wrong.)
....
Hmm, I say "a friend of mine" when speaking to adults, and when I'm with a friend I normally say "[insert blogger name], an online friend, said"
Or without the online friend bit.
People are use to it now
Apparently so.
*holds Arnold hostage*
YOU ARE NOT LEAVING UNTIL YOU EXPLAIN
(Maybe you should sue.
But you need proof to sue.
And if you have proof you've already been eaten.
Ah well.)
I usually just say "A friend of mine." because people give me strange looks if I say any of your names, as they all sound like and are blatant aliases.
*is held hostage*
Uh..explain what?
Silente, it's true
That I would not sue
I couldn't sue you
And still have Be The Glue
Greetings, Rose!
EXPLAIN WHY MARRIAGE
AND
WORDS
UM
(Ahhhhh!
Random WTNV clips keep appearing at irregular intervals in this playlist and it's happying me. :))
Hullo, ROse. :)
*hugs*
You doing OK?
Tragically, neither weddings nor romance is in my future. Only, apparently, cannibalism. Though one could argue that cannibalism and romance are very similar.
(*rolls her eyes*
We are not doing this AGAIN Clara.
You know I rhymes get out of hand.
Like a boat torn away from solid land.
That's how this silly ship started.
When, no longer queens, we sourly parted.
Has there not been enough Clarente today?
Let's stop with the rhymes and both be on our way.)
(Hello, Rose!)
(@Snow You should identify as Snuuuu "Blog Girl" Stermbarg irl)
Explain why marriage? Very detailed.
I do not like Clarente, ma'am.
I do not like it, Tempest-I-am.
@El I explained on BBMB Blogland Awards.
@Arnold I CANT WORDS
The Osmosis Wedding was my Magnum Opus. My ultimate role-play. The culmination of all of my efforts. And I poured so much love into the characters I used to build up to it that I intended to give them cameo appearances in every book that I wrote thereafter. I have held true to that promise.
Nor do I dear Clara friend
At least with Vivilente sil and clara can end.
(Hello, Soph! Do you (well, Dragona) have any opinion on Halo MCC?)
(@Rose How are you doing, Rose?)
...
I feel like complaining about something...
But then I'll feel stupid and be, according to my counsellor, an "egotistical bastard"...
But I was just shown something and now I'm feeling truly terrible...
....
Sorry, I'm just going to go. Others will get upset if I'm around...
*hugs Rose*
You can always email me.
Plus, you are not in the slightest bit egotistical
(*hugs deathy tightly*)
(@Rose anything you want to say, I'll listen.
So please, do complain.)
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