What a year that was...
2014 saw the final part of my EPIC nine-book series reaching the shelves, and there was much rejoicing. It was a bit of a scramble to get it written in time, as it generally is, but this book achieved everything I wanted it to achieve, and so I remain immensely proud of it. The ninth book, and the events that transpire within it, had been a secret I'd been keeping for seven years, and it was such a relief to get it out there. Sure, I didn't tie up every last plot thread — in some cases I just ran out of time, in others I decided to be mean and simply not resolve stuff — but it was a fitting send-off, I think.
The publication saw another astonishing Tom Percival cover, plus a very limited black edition which, as it turned out, was an extraordinarily clever bit of marketing by yours truly. It meant that the excitement that first morning was ELECTRIC as everyone rushed to search through each shop. That wasn't my original intent — I just wanted a cool black book — but to follow the tweets that morning as each copy got snapped up... that was awesome.
The reaction to the book was exactly what I wanted, also. True, there was some confusion over the chapters that ended mid-sentence, but all in all, readers understood what I was doing. And then to catch you all out right at the end....
... glorious...
The Dying of the Light got me back touring, of course, and we fit in the Requiem Ball and the Theatre of Shadows, and I once again visited New Zealand and Australia and met loads of enthusiastic readers. If ever my ego was in need of a boost...
And then I got home, and got to work on the NEW book.
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«Oldest ‹Older 4001 – 4200 of 4884 Newer› Newest»MrBBWolf: *gently lifts her and rocks her*
*Lilith starts to calm down*
*her eyelids start drooping*
Chris: *continues playing the lullaby*
MrBBWolf: *smiles down at her*
(@J yes. Come back to a blown up home, a dead family.)
Blake: Oh. Hi. What are you doing here?
What a way to speak to your author...
Blake: Buddy whenever you show up you make me do things.
I'm always making you do things. The only way you can do things is if I make you do them.
Blake: Says you.
Seriously? Fine. *He types a few quick keystrokes and Blake begins to tap dance*
Blake: SEE WHAT I MEAN?!
*Lilith is now fast asleep
CHris: *finishes the lullaby*
(Okay..
I dedicate the last page to returns.
It means you don't lose people.
It means you see them again.
If you just wait long enough..
Yeah.
I dedicate this page to Gemma, again.
She's brilliant.
I miss her.
I hope I'll still get to meet her one day..)
MrBBWolf: *smiles*
not b-bad..
(Hear hear!)
(Hear hear!
Hear hear!
*hugs Jai tightly, and looks at her*)
Chris: *grins* thanks
(I am back.)
Claire: Thank you.
Bethany: *smiles, snuggling against Silente, holding her arms gently* You're so strong...
(Hear hear! To the whole thing! )
(*hugs kas back*
Thanks guys..
Hey Soph.)
MrBBWolf: you're welcome..
*smiles at Beth*
I try..
Chris: is it alright with you if I stay here?
MrBBWolf: o-of course it is..
(Hear hear... :( Jai, can I send that to Gemma? I'm talking to her right now...)
*looks at the lake and thinks about going back in*
(Yeah..go for it Velvet.)
Ashlea: *also looks at the lake*
(Hello, Silente. *hugs her tightly*)
Bethany: Pick me up. *smiles*
Claire: Please don't start having an angel-vampire make out session in front of me.
*quietly walks towards Ashlea and the woman, hoping they won't turn around*
Chris: okay... Just wanted to make sure you weren't uncomfortable
*isn't sure whether Ashlea will follow her, she doesn't want her to get hurt*
(*hugs extra tightly back*)
We won't.
*rolls eyes*
Hmm...
*shifts slightly, squaring her feet*
*bends her knees a little and slips and arm around Beth's waist, holding the bed with one hand*
*straightens, lifting Beth up*
(*sings to diary of jane out loud*
*scares myself by my singing *
*vows never to sing again*)
Ashlea: *watches the girl*
MrBBWolf: w-why would I be...?
*is right behind Ashlea, wondering what will happen*
*doesnt like Ashlea's staring and screws her eyes tightly shut, rocking back and forth murmuring*
Chris: after what happened when your alter ego was out...
Mmk, you can go now.
*Dismisses Blake with a few more keystrokes*
I think I'll be myself for a while. Well, a version of myself suitable for RP.
Ashlea: *mumbles*
Sorry..
*looks at the ground*
*gently, very gently hugs the woman*
(Kay J ^.^)
MrBBWolf: *blushes slightly*
That..isn't a d-reason for me t-to not like you..
Chris: *smiles in relief* okay...good
*screams and stares at the newcomer*
(*hugs Silente tighter*)
Bethany: *smiles* I rather like you lifting me up.
Claire: *opens one of her drawers, taking out a picture of her parents* *holds it close to her chest before showing it to Silente* And this... That's all I'm bringing. Apart from my weapons and armour.
*Wonders who the newcomer Velvet is screaming at is*
Ashlea: *jumps at the scream and stares at Tanya*
MrBBWolf: *smiles slightly back*
*throws herself at the lake and dives down to the bottom*
(It's not Velvet screaming J)
Chris:sooo what shall we do now?
*smiles back at Beth*
*looks at the picture, at Claire, connecting the dots, and nods*
Okay. Right..
*gently sets Beth down*
*opens a new portal, big, to Beth's clearing*
(*is in a sadistic mood *
*picks a victim*)
(osaiuidghaskdjkasdoauk Specify!)
(*hides*)
MrBBWolf: Um.. I d-don't know?
Ashlea: wait!
*dives after her, again*
Bethany: Do you want to have some help?
Claire: I want to move the bed through the portal, if that's alright. I want to make sure it won't break.
*swims to a small cave and curls up*
(You know...I did have to leave. No one fucking gives a shit on this blog anymore. Sure, Jaimie does. Velvet does for some weird reason. But no one else does. Even after that last dedication to me, no one said goodbye. No one gave a shit about any of my characters.
Chione Soul
Lucas Soul
Lira Soul
Tsubaki Asahina
Sebastian Bloodlord
Cordelia Bloodlord
Juvia Lockser
Jesabelle
Dominic
Draco Hellsworth
Hecate Vermillion
They all just died. And no one gives a shit. I love my charatcers, like they're real people. Everyone cared when Blake left, And now that he's back? Everything just goes back to normal? That's not how it should work. I think some of you have lost your humanity. If you care about someone, no matter how many of your friends leave, you always say goodbye, wish them well.
I have been on this blog for 3 years. How many friends do you think I had to say bye to?! But I still say hi to Star and Trip as if they just came back today. The rest of you? It's like they never left. Like they didn't feel hurt by this blog.
Star...what you said after Silente saw how the rest of you noticed...fair enough I might not be your friend. I understand, but everyone loves Sil. She's like the heart of the blog now. The only one who comes on every single day. When she was gone for one day, everyone expected her to be here every day and we upset her. Why do you not do that for everyone?! This blog needs to change. And until it does, I will not return. Sure Star, expect everyone to come back. But no one cares as much as when someone says they're leaving then you forget they were ever there, Some people didn't even notice that Blake was gone. He's one of the most important people in my life. He's amazing and a wonderful person. He deserves to be missed by people! he's back now but...now it's back to "normal"
Everyone gets so excited when the oldies come back on and do you know why? Because they left. That's the only reason we care. Everyone should be treated the same. Everyone should be getting huge amazing welcomes when they come on, it makes people feel good, makes them want to come back.
I got none of that. Things like that are important. I don't care if you don't like me, and maybe that's why I didn't get anyone saying goodbye to me, and if that's the case, I won't come back. The ones who care have me on Skype. But again, they didn't care until I left. John messaged me for the first time for a week last night, because I left. *laughs* The only one who talks to me every day is Adam, my boyfriend. The only one in the world who cares about me without me leaving, without me being hurt.
I stopped talking to him last night because this upset me so much that I stopped everything, I ignored his calls. I thought about suicide again. Death Rose got so much attention because she was talking about killing herself. Maybe that's all she wanted...for people to notice her, because no one on the blog noticed her, she didn't want to be here, didn't want to come back. I feel the same way that she did.
I still bet nothing will change after this message. But everyone knows that something needs to be done. We need to appreciate each other more... I'm guilty too....But I didn't get a change to change. Everyone just assumes I'm a bad person because I got on at Sil...but she hurt me...and when I told her she hurt me and that it was fine and I forgave her....You defended her from getting hurt...from someone who was already hurt...and it was too late for me. What did you do for me...? I try my best to be there for everyone. It's my job to make other people feel happy. I'm a sister to two little boys. I- I'm done...Cya.)
(Jai? Where are you *goes looking*)
Chris: do you want to see my magic? *eyes light up*
*jumps in after the stranger and drags her out*
*loses consciousness next to her*
(I must go :/)
(Gemma, I have only three words to say to you.
You are wrong.)
(Gem... Please... I don't care "for some weird reason" I care because I'm your friend does that not mean anything to you?)
(Yes, you are.
You think nobody cared when you killed your characters? That's the reason I came back. I hoped you would stay if I did.)
(*hides for real*)
(Well I care
But I wasn't even here when you decided to leave
I'm sorry
My list of things to worry about goes up by the day)
(I cared when I found out you'd killed them, your characters were great, I only got to rp with you a couple of times but I'm still gonna miss you and them a heck of a lot now...)
(*hugs Silente tightly*)
I don't really know you that well, Gem. But I was upset when you left and- I had this sense of disbelief that everything we do for each other wasn't good enough and now John's gone and you're gone and I just couldn't handle it. I'm sorry.
I have to go now. Good bye.
(You're welcome... I hope you know that I'm still gonna be bugging you every day... It's not just Chloe, I also think of you as a sister so expect to see more messages from me...)
(I will be back soon.)
(I do miss you gem, I sent you a fb message)
But I have a worry now that I really need to confront my family about
*sighs*)
(Okay... Just one request, can you please come on for my birthday? Both my parents are away and I want to be able to see all of my sisters instead, pleaaase?)
(Okay Chlo, good luck...)
(I just don't know how to ask my parents...)
Inks, do you want to email me about it?
(No
I don't want my dad ti see ny emails ...
I may get someone I love dearly in trouble )
(Okay... Good luck! *squeezes*)
Correct, I do not want to talk to you. Trying to get over you is hard enough without talking every day like we used to. However, simply because I'm trying to move on doesn't mean I want you to be depressed, I do still care about you.
(*gets squeezed * thanks
*wishes I could speak about it *
*should stop talking *)
(I am back.)
(I'll be back laters *nods* )
(Byii Gem
*huggles Rhossie*)
(Goodbye Chione.)
(Just forget it Gemma, I'll probably have left by then anyway...)
(Bot you too Vel...
Everyone is leaving...)
(Exactly Inky, I don't want to have to see another sister leave... I just don't know anymore...)
(*starts crying* Gemma...)
(...
I'm going now)
I can't HELP it if I don't care as much as I should . . . believe me, many times these past few months I have sat at this computer screen genuinely trying to care about people and just not getting anything. Maybe I'm turning into a psychopath. O_O
I think I did say bye and wish you well, actually. However, I only said one comment and didn't dwell on it.
Blake isn't as regular as a lot of people; he doesn't come on every day like Silente usually does. Therefore, if Silente isn't there, will we note it as abnormal and so miss her, but if Blake isn't there, that isn't that unusual and so we won't notice.
And, no, I don't miss oldies because they left. I miss them because I love them and I haven't seen them for a year. When Blake left and came back, I hadn't seen him for a normal amount of time of not-seeing-him, so I had a normal reaction.
I don't think you're the bad guy, either. You're just a person who's in a bad place and is, like the rest of us, trying her hardest. *hugs*
I'm sorry for not caring more than I do. I know this line is worn out, but seriously, it's not you, it's me.
(Leaving just seems completely illogical to me. I fail to see what anyone will gain from it.)
(*hugs Star*
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened, right?)
@Velvet: . . .
Yes?
Shouldn't I be saying that to you? :P
@Sophia: I fail to see how you fail to see logic in it . . . if people don't want to come here anymore, of course they can leave.
I know what you mean about Leaving, though. I think the best way to do it would be to slip away, but a lot of people Leave beacuse they want to inform people where they've gone and say bye. I know that's why I Left as opposed to slipped away.
Cut my life into pieces
I've reached my last resort,
Suffocation, no breathing
Don't give a fuck if I cut my arm bleeding
Do you even care if I die bleeding?
That seems to fit my mood and the mood here *nods* )
*hugs Gar :/*
(I'm writing a song... *nods sadly*)
*hugs Star and Vel* )
(I'm sobbing irl, is this what losing people close to you feels like?)
(If there is something someone does not like about this place - by logic they should attempt to change it, otherwise change will not happen.)
(Sophia.. please..)
(I know what to do with my empty blog now...)
Hello? What is happening? Why can't we just be happy and together?
And we once also had a story too
you can see that good men only come in few.
Even in our greatest moments we may win or we may lose
every song's got it's rules, you've got to learn to make it through.
Maybe one day we can choose how it feels to be a woman or a man
without rules but burried underneath there's a picture glued.
So when my body burns in ashes only sing the truth
Let these words strengthen all your views
because these words were meant for you
(Hey, Rhos.)
Well....I have a bit to say, I read what Chione said...and I can't believe it, but I agree with her.
Why did I change my name and entire self to Loki? Because after everyone, including Derek himself, went after me for how I was towards Adra, and even after that, I still was frowned upon. So, I became Loki, someone who was brought up on a lie, like I was lied to. So, I became Loki. And I felt it was best to become someone else, and if people hadn't thought I was Tom Hiddleston, I wouldn't have revealed my name.
-Zaf
Hello, Zafira.
I would like to offer my apologies for treating you badly.
I would also like to offer you a free shot at physically hurting me, because that is what I deserve for doing what I do.
I'm sorry.
http://bloglandemorial.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/goodbyes.html#comment-form
Hello...?
(I'm leaving pretty soon... I might just vanish...)
(I'm only here to say this
Vel, I'm going to London on April 2nd)
You never hurt me, Tia. -Zaf
(How come?)
Zafira...I'm so so sorry... *hugs her tightly* I do, I understand now and I'm so sorry for the way I acted towards you with Arda...
When Adra left everything went to shit...
(A few days for my sisters birthday
May go and see wicked)
(I wish there was just a way we could all just start everything again, make Blogland how it used to be...)
(Apparently it's really good, won't you be at school/college? Or is it in the Easter hols?)
(We need to turn blogland on and off again. Like with a computer. Complete reset..)
(It's Easter
Id like to meet with you but I do t know if you exist (no offence) and you don't know that I exist)
(None taken, Inky, I probably wouldn't be allowed anyway...
And yeah Sil, if only there was a way... I mean Derek could start a new blog but everyone would just go back to the same old...)
(I..
*sighs*
I know everyone will say no to this but..
We could all kill our characters (<Gem's idea)
And vacate the blog for, say three days?
Come back with new names..)
*hugs Chi* I forgive you, I'm a forgiving person, and I know how it feels, exactly why I became Loki.
Sil- Not to be rude, but I quite like being Loki and Zaf was in two books....I can't....I can't kill her.
-Zaf
(@Jai Killing self = my idea.
I want all the credit, thank you very much.)
(It's okay Zaf.
@Kas characters not people.)
(Sil, I've become attached to y characters...I wouldn't mind 'resetting ' them if you like but I don't know if I can bring myself to get rid of them...)
(*nods*
Okay.
Never mind.)
(I am not killing any of my characters nor am I changing my name. I fail to see how that would help - given the fact that, the labels may change, but the people wouldn't.)
(*nods*
*sits in a corner*)
(*hugs Silente tightly*)
(I thought of that too, but it's unfair for people like Zaf who's characters properly mean something, I wouldn't mind doing it but that's probably only because I'm still quite new and don't have many characters or anything...)
(Did you talk to your parents Inky?)
(Sorry Silente, killing off Trip would be like cutting off a limb. He's been such a big deal for me over the past two years and done so much. I wouldn't dare.)
(*hugs Soph back*
*hides the ded rights in her armour somewhere*)
It's okay, Sil, you had an imput. I mean....we could reset to basics. Like for example: Zaf is married to Ravel. Loki and Zan are siblings, Zan is married to Thor and has a daughter and a son on the way.
Like....that.....would work. I think.-Zaf
I'm sorry, Gem. I know I'm not that great of a person to be around, and this place means so much to me, and yet I rarely, if ever, make someone happy to be here. I'm sorry for that, Gem.
...
*sits next to Sil, an arm wrapped around her*
(Basics..
We need one huge blog roleplay that EVERYONE can be in, that lasts a decent length, doesn't depend on any one perso-
*stares*
*tilts head*
Hmmm...)
(*hugs Kas*)
(Such as someone starting a war?
Because I'd like to point out that more thought went into that than you might think.)
(I'm happy to contribute, Silente. :)
But I couldn't reset Hunter and Ez, I'm sorry. Just, no. That would just go against their very existence. That's like asking me to wake up one day and be a different person and stay that way. Like, what? So long as I exist, I have to be me, y'know?
I don't use them that much anyway, so I'd be happy NOT to use them, but apparently the idea's been thrown out the window anyway so never mind.
(Like a big battle? When we're all on one team and, I dunno our evil reflections are in another?
(Somebody say something about a big battle? Cause I'm more than in.)
(I presume you are wanting me to dedicate the page?
A large roleplay I do support.)
(That's what they used to be like, but then they got more character driven and bigger rps became harder to maintain. The big issue is that we ran out of villains to defeat, really.)
(What if..
What if everyone had one villain per author.
There'd be so many different types..
And some of them involved puzzles..
Some involved fighting..
Hmmm..)
(Okay, I know Tia has a huge Tanya taking over thing but if we're all going to come out as a team after this, we all need to be working together, whereas Tanya's war is some Bloglandians against others...)
(If the roleplay will just be a war, that is not something I support.)
(Yeah maybe Sil... That could work...)
(Yes, Soph. I am. You get out of dedicating so much..)
(Nah, too many villains is literally the same problem. It happened as well. I think if you look back to Adra's demons plot or Em's Deacon stuff, that was all really solid. One big enemy with some intermediate problems along the way )
(We could rp the villains meeting.
The villains working together firstly.
Choosing to work together.
Setting it up.)
I once brought Mevolent over, I could do that again, because Loki is allied with him.
-Zaf
(Wars depend too much on fighting, imo. Well, usually.
Proper complex wars that go on for years and involve tons of factors involing economics and politics and personal feelings all jumbled up . . . they're hella complex. But no offense, I doubt our abilities and commitment ot create that in roleplay. Most people here look for fun over complexity.
Velvet said "it's unfair for people like Zaf who's characters properly mean something" in reference to deleting ourselves, and from that you can analyse that people like that are just one group of people, not a majority, which means that, in theory, over half the roleplayers don't put deep thought and complexity into their characters when they roleplay. As such, greating a detailed war? If we did have the ability, most people wouldn't find it fun to put that much thought into it, imo.
(@Trip oh..
Never mind then.
But one enemy doesn't work
It leans too much on one person )
(I dunno. It sounds like it could get a bit... clusterfucky?)
(If not a battle, we need to do something that makes us all work together...)
I don't believe in the existence of villains, so I refuse to create villains due to my fundamental values and beliefs.
Conflicts, yes. Screwed-up people, yes. People working against the majority of society, whetehr they know it or not (like, Loki believes he's doing society good by taking it over, but I'd still descrbine him as working against it even if he would not), yes. But villains? No. Human villains, at least. Humans are never just evil. But demons, for example, can be. :)
(*laughs*
We need team building exercises!)
You would be surprised, Star. Very surprised.
I'll even accept peopel who believe they are villains. But seriously. Villains - not a label I like. At all.
(Ah, but that's the beauty of those old plots. Sure there was one overriding enemy, but there were all these problems to face in between. You know, people's ulterior motives, macguffins, people turned to the other side and so on.)
I have demons. Lucifer is their Overlord.-Zaf
(*hugs Jai*
Yes we do.)
(*nods at Zaf's offers*
*nods at Trip*
But that could cause problems..)
(Maybe people could build something together? )
(Yeah, but we've done demons and Mevolent, we need something fresh.)
(How cool are you guys with dying, obviously with the possibility of coming back?)
Well I always wanted to work on my Asgardians....I mean their stories are complex.-Zaf
(@Zaf hmmm..
*chews lip*
Mmm....
*sits, staring blankly*
Hmmm......)
I doubt it, Blake.
Psychopaths? Chemical malfunction, not their fault. Narcissists? Narcissistic Personality Disorder - mental disorder, can't help that.
It's not people's FAULT if they're horrible the whole time, any more than it's someone's fault if they're schizophrenic.
*therefore, they're still not evil. They're just limited by the bodies they're born in and the problems in their brain.
Sorry. Um. Coming back to discussion, now. :P
. . .
*has nothing to contribute to discussion*
*drifts out again and resumes reading and thinking XD*
(Okay, so we start:
Blogland is under serious threat, an unknown someone fights to destroy their home, the only way to stop the evil force is to work together... DUN DUN DUUUN!
If only we could get Derek to, like, set us challenges or something that we all needed to work together on...)
(*paces*
*runs to email*
ZAFIRA! FOLLOW!)
That was not what I was referring to. You doubt the ability of other people to create complex stories and characters. You doubt our intelligence and patience.
Build something together? In what way do you mean, Inky? :)
Yeah Zaf, but we can't really get into those stories, what with being midgardians and all.
(*shudders at the word schizophrenic*)
*raises hand* Uhm....You can't kill my Asgardians easily, Alastair himself had collapsed due to taking Zan's name, so killing them won't work, at all.-Zaf
(Trip what do you mean by dying?)
@Blake: Yes, I do. Not everyone's, but as pointed out, people value 'fun' over 'complexity', so applying intelligence and patience would, presumably, not be worth it for them - and isn't the point of roleplay to have fun?
(I don't know
Maybe like houses or something after a disaster?)
(Hello
@Trip, didn't your soul already go to the afterlife)
It is. But that was insulting.
Star, you say no-one plans a realistic war.
I say I've got three Bloglanders ready to put a knife in the back of anyone on Blogland, and you'll never know who they are mwahahahahaha but ssshh it's okay, because you may be one of them and no-one will know until you betray them!
XD
(*huggles jacko*)
@Zaf: We could probably kill them, just we won't let ourselves because they're your characters and you don't want them to die. If we did succeed in killing Loki, you wouldn't be able to roleplay Loki anymore, and if you didn't want that to happen, killing them if something we can't do and so shouldn't strive for.
Not necessarily, Trip, I'm reading the comics and Midgard is intertwined with the specific Asgardians I have down here. I have tried to make Zan, Loki, and Thor fit in as best as I could.
-Zaf
(*huggles* Chloe* Hello Chloe)
@Tia: At no point did say that no-one plans a realistic war. I said that planning a complex war would probably not be a good idea. Also, assination =/= war. Assination = assination. Assination is often used during war and can also trigger war, but that doesn't mean assination and war and synonymous.
Also, sorry for my wording . . . I'm feeling quite argumentative. :/ If I hurt anyone, please tell me . . .
(As in, not being alive anymore. There's an afterlife though. It's all canon. It's basically this pitch black dimension. Death went there in the Mevolent project, Trip went there one time, nearly everyone but Trip did in the demons plot. :P)
(ZAF EMAIL!)
@Trip: Sounds like it has the potential to be interesting. :)
*I mean, you could always bring Loki back, but then we'd been striving to kill him again, so unless he was really dead when he was dead it wouldn't work.
If I'm wrong about anything, please correct me.
(I made my Input so I'll ghost now)
(Afterlifes are a wonky subject. Soph had Min who has her dimension. Zaf has Lucifer with his dimension. Trip has his pitch black thing..Gemma has her gods thing..)
(I'm sorry, I'm confused, are we saying the war idea is good or bad?)
I know that Zaf, it's just character drama isn't very accessible, whilst fighting off a big bad guy really is.
So an escape from/fight in the afterlife? Because we never do that.
@Silente: We can have multiple afterlifes. :) Like there are multiple living universes?
It could also NOT REALLY BE AN AFTERLIFE, it could kind of be a trap-afterlife between life and the real afterlife, but we could THINK it's the afterlife. Like on Doctor Who, although I swear I thought it up all on my own. XD
(I know, Ed. It was like, the second plot. :P It was really fun and stuff. Just chucking ideas around.)
(I believe a plot will be difficult to come up with of this magnitude. Especially if there are multiple antagonists (I do not believe villains exist, so antagonists are somewhat more accurate). Everyone has a reason to do something. Creating a plot with some sort of alliance between antagonists is plausible. Having a reason for said characters to ally themselves with one another is somewhat unlikely. It will not work.
I will be back soon.)
(*pauses and steps back*
*grins*
Hey guys...we're working together now..we're talking about an rp to get us working together but...look at us. We're working together now.)
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