It's not easy writing a book.
I mean, it's easier than mining coal. It's easier than most factory work. It's probably easier than a lot of office jobs as well.
But STARTING to write a book... those first few inches you have to push that boulder till it hits the edge and starts to roll downhill... THAT'S the hard part.
Not as hard as teaching, granted. Or working on a farm. Or being a doctor or a nurse or a cop or a fireman. I doubt it's as hard as construction, either, or carpentry, or plumbing, or engineering.
But STILL...
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- Derek Landy
- Derek Landy writes the Skulduggery Pleasant series because getting a proper job is so overrated.
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Potato?
Unicorn?
You could write my essays instead???? Give you a break from all that book writing?
Yep, starting to write a book is SO DAMN HARD.
I'm currently 20 000 words in to the first books which I am SERIOUSLY determined to write. And all the plot holes that are going to occur later have just hit me, and it's SO HARD TO WORK OUT!!!
we comin over here then? :D
(You think book writing is hard!!!)
(Hello.)
Liliana: I am causing mischief.
Parasite: Is that alright?
Bethany: I'm not embarrassed about it. I was for a start because I had no idea what I was doing and I didn't want to make myself look stupid because I was kind of hopeless. But now I know how to make out with someone, I'm fine with it. I like it.
Ember: It is called a Colossus. Very powerful, and about a hundred metres tall. Mainly consisting of rock and fire. You can't miss it. They are stupidly hard to kill. Bloody things.
hehe, i never actually wrote a book, but i can let my imagination go wild, and see it as if it was happening in front of me :P
Onwa: Mmm.. drunken mischief.
James: I suppose it could be.
*slows down further, stopping, taking deep breaths*
*grins*
I like it too.
Morgan: And how do you kill them?
*clenches his hand into a fist, and then opens it*
*the purple sparks appear again, briefly*
Liliana: I could have a barrel of cider brought up if you want to get drunk with me.
Parasite: Would you like a break?
Claire: And if the pure angel says it's alright...
Bethany: Just because I'm an angel doesn't mean I'm pure...
Ember: I find keep hitting it until it drops is a good plan. What are you doing with the sparks?
Onwa: I bet I could outdrink you.
James: yes..
*blushes, murmuring* definitely not pure anymore..
Liliana: Mmm... You're on. If you drink more cider than me, tomorrow I will bring you breakfast in bed and do exactly what you say. If I drink more than you, you have to do the same with me. Alright?
Parasite: *she stops, sitting down in the sand* Would you like a drink?
Claire: Oh god, that's just so ew...
Bethany: *she blushes a little*
Morgan: Trying to make my hand glow.
*sighs* I appear to be malfunctioning.
Onwa: deal.
James: *lays on his back*
Yes.. please.
*blushes, smiling*
Correction. You find it Ew.
*kisses beths cheek*
I'd disagree.
(*should be asleep xD*)
Liliana: *she grins* I will just be a moment. *she vanishes in a flash of black, reappearing with several barrels full of cider, and two large glasses*
Parasite: *she takes the form of a glass of water*
Bethany: *she smiles, cuddling Silente* Although that definitely is embarrassing, even when I know what I'm doing...
Ember: You are not a machine. By any chance, were you attempting to do this? *her hair suddenly changes into arcs of lightning on her head*
Onwa: *grins, moving to stand up*
Mmm..
James: *smiles, downing the glass of water*
*kisses her gently* You find it embarrassing?
Morgan: *interested* Not quite that. How does that work?
*focuses, HARD, and his hand is patchily illluminated in purple* *it quickly fades, and he drops his hand to his side again*
(*going to sleep now*
*CUDDLES THE SOPHI*
*falls asleep flopped against her*)
:) Good night, Jaimie.
I would go to sleep now, but like, Cat and Lizzie are still online.
Liliana: Do we have tubing we could use to be able to extract the alcohol with our mouths?
Parasite: *she changes back into her usual form, laying beside him*
Bethany: *she kisses her back* To talk about, yes.
Ember: My hair is one of the several conduits I have for my powers, although the effect is only aesthetic. It tends to happen if I try and use my powers whilst I'm pissed off. And since Archeos is my father, fire and lightning.
(*she cuddles Jaimie back* Goodnight, Jaimie.)
Good luck Derek!!!!
If you need a break you could always come on heeeereeee! 😁
((Wait. Where are they walking?))
((Omg. I borrowed Darcie's characters and Will just had everyone insulting him for half an hour. Omg.
. . .
I feel kind of bad.))
Morgan: Your powers are inherited, then?
30th again! Deja vu
hehe ^_^
it's not really :D
(Con: well, even so, please no hitting him on the head unless he really deserves it. And take that to mean if he deserves it by what you think my standards would dictate)
*aimlessly wanders around the house for a few minutes* Hm... What did I even do with my life two days ago? *goes to bedroom, resumes a half finished book, sits and reads and loses track of time*
(Con: also there is no need to patronize me. You could simply say no. *stands back up* It was a formality anyway I will take what is rightfully mine. )
(Con: I don't patronize people. Everything I said was genuine, and I enjoy patting people on the head, as I am much shorter than everyone else, and the backwards-ness of the small person patting the tall one on the head I quite enjoy. I am not patronizing anyone. At any time.)
fera: *finds a good lead* prepare yourself *serious look* *something is scorching in your bedroom where the portal appeared, also as if someone was writing on something*
(Con: If it were up to you, you would probably have me not hit him at all. I was being nice I thought there could be something. *smiles* Like my auntrepenoore.)
*at first doesn't notice anything, but then notices strange heat/writing materializing,, stares wide-eyed at it*
fera: *writing: "be back soon :) -fera" appears on bed*
(Con: You've lost me... What about auntrepenoore?
*shrieks and falls off of the bed, there is a loud thump as she hits the floor* Geez, Fera, don't do that!
fera: * "...p.s. sorry" * *months and months go by, fera communicating by nothing but these messages*
(Con: you could have been my right hand guy in taking over the world, now you're just an obstacle.
I got bored, kinda watching youtube.)
(Con: oh, well I'm sort of on vacation right now, also, I'm no one's right hand guy. I run the operation. Sorry. Hope we can still be friends *offers handshake*)
*gets continually frustrated* Fera, you realize we saw each other for literally a day, and then you disappear for months? How is that okay? You better come back soon...
(Con: Only if you don't try to rule whilst I am in control *shakes hand* ...right hand is better than no hands. )
fera: *message starts scorching into violet's bed again saying "v..vi..vio..viol.viole..violet...violet g...violet ge...violet get...violet get o...violet get ou...violet get out !" *
*stares at message in bewilderment, then begins running out into the hall and down the stairs*
(Con: fair enough. But I generally prefer to be a different mind)
fera: *some figure appears on violet's bed*
*continues running down the stairs and through the kitchen*
Ah, but Con, Vi and I are partners. You are offering her a deal that is below what she already.
Plus, you won't stand a chance when we take over.
(Duggy: HI! *huggles* Yeah! Purple masters forever! But don't say that, I still want to be friends! I'm a friendly person!)
(Con: I won't stand a chance at defeat.) *shoots dug an evil look* If i was any less of a person I wouldn't give you the chance to train. (
fera: *all lights cut out and figure chases after violet, very quickly*
HI VI!
*huggles*
Okay, fine.
He won't stand a chance in ruling the world. He still be alive and unhurt and stuff and things! :D
And Con, I stil have magic. You wouldn't be able to fight if you wanted.
And if you tried to tAke over the world now..
*grins*
I have ideas.
HAOPY DECAPITATION DAY PEEPS!!
*points to name and grins*
Pmf! :D
(Con: I have necromancy now... *tilts head* Only my brother was taken from me, no more light magic, now the darkness is all I need. *pulls out his baton pointing it at Dug*
Hi Dug btw *huggles* )
Lol, AGREED, Mr. Landy. Although I find the middle somewhat challenging also... And don't even get me started on endings!
By the way, I think you should go through with the Monster Hunters' idea for a kids' book called [i]Save the Survivor[/i] from LSODM. It sounds like a brilliant idea to me.
(Sorry, mini poof...I'm here again)
AAAAH*shrieks, keeps running through house trying to get to the door*
fera: *creature block entrance and lashes out at violet angrily*
*stops shrieking, wields large knife that she grabbed in the kitchen*
fera: *creature growls then moans at her loudly*
(Con: *Starts pointing the baton at Fera and Vi just not paying attention* Do I look like I don't have magic? *swishes it sending tendrils into the sky* Does this look like the work of a mortal?
Dug you upset him ... I tried calming him. I think he want to fight.
Con: Fight, oh no! Fighting implies it'll be a challenge, I will annihilate all of you *eyes like a black dwarf star* I'll see you around Dugglyn *slips into his shadow domain*)
*starts slowly backing up, holding knife in front of her*
con: you look like you have more cockiness than magic *smirks*
She was starting to get uncomfortable in crowds…
That was new.
When she was younger, she was always happiest surrounded by a gigantic group of people.
But now?
A group bigger than 5 made her want to run and hide and find a corner to curl up in.
She didn’t even know how that happened.
It was like, one minute, she was fine with groups of people and then the next, someone had walked in and flipped a switch and now crowds were this big, frightening thing…
So you can image how hard it was becoming to be at school.
It was like she was in a constant storm, noise and movement and…
and people
everywhere.
It wasn’t so bad when the group was all people she knew
When everyone surrounding her was a friend
And somehow she’d managed to hide this encroaching fear so far
But she was dreading it getting worse.
She was so, so scared.
Scared that… that people would look at her like some…
freak.
Like some abnormality.
She didn’t want that to happen.
fera: *something pulls her into the room from behind her*
*Opens a pit of darkness below Fera's Feet* Say that in my world. I am everywhere and no where I could kill you right now and you would never be able to save that puny Vi again... she thinks she can get away with the world, her an Dugglyn. I won't have it! *Grabs Fera's ankle and throws him out the pit* I won't be needing your approval, what you don't know won't kill you right now. sleep with one eye open though, I am the monster under your bed.
con: *keeps straight expression the entire time* oh..the one i stabbed in the throat? *smirks*
(Did you have to make him mad? like really though? I now have to put up with this.)
(Con: so...im going to take that as a no on friendship...?)
*is jerked violently into the other room, the knife flying and her ankle gets impaled as she lands, but she doesn't scream out of fear of the monster, she looks around in the dark, biting her lip to hold back a scream* What the...?
*smirks* No that's my decoy. I would never be seen in my realm. *whispers in fera's ear* never. I could hide in your head you know... looks like there's a lot of room.
(I dunno give him a day or two... He is intent on killing Dugglyn for thinking he needs his brother to do magic. Then Fera over there makes him madder.
Con: I won't talk to her again. Stop infatuating with the enemy!
Maybe 3 days. )
fera: *before she could say anything else, is dragged into one of the corners of the room*
con: how do you know this is your realm? *smiles*
*smiles* not the one you are currently standing in, that is ruled by someone of more importance than God himself. The unseeing realm, the darkness realm, my realm, once this used to be vastly over populated now there is only one *smirks* ME!
(Kieron: okay, good to know
Con: come on, pleeeease? *puppy dog eyes and insanely adorable face, rocking back and forth on toes and heels*)
*is dragged to the corner, whimpers and removes the knife, tears run down her face, but she is grateful to whoever saved her from the monster* *whispers* Hello?
con: I see...well i hope you are happy with your realm *turns head as putting on a very sarcastic grin* sayonara *disappears*
fera: *whispers* it's me
(Con: Aren't you like 15 ? I am 300 I will not be taken aback by your wonderful eyes. *scowls muttering * Stupid people think It's easy to kill me... stupid people make me want to kill them.)
fera: *whispers* but not at the same time
*eyes widen* Fera? Wha...? What's happening?
(Con: *makes eyes even more spectacular and adorable* Oh, so you think my eyes are wonderful, do you? *continues rocking*)
fera: *sigH* I am currently stuck in a place between dimensions so i am not physically with you...but i kinda still am. *monster rushes into the room*
(Con: It's a bloody nice realm indeed! *makes shadow puppets of Fera and Dugglyn * I will kill both of you.... then the rest of them one by one until it's like this one. *starts crying throwing shadow daggers blindly into the dolls* Why does no one like death? Why does no one want to be with me? I can stop death.
Omg really now? with your crap. *sigh* Mr I'm more powerful than you. shut up and go to bed before I make your cage permanent.
Con : *appears in his room in the shadow realm talking to his imaginary friends*)
(Con: I plead the fifth. I have no recollection of your eyes being beautiful.)
con: *whispers telepathically* dream baby, dream *poofs completely*
I'm sorry for proofing and I cannot stay but...
Con, that's not what I was implying. I was saying I still have magic to defend myself even if I'm not powerful.
(Uh, you actually called them /wonderful/. So now they're wonderful and beautiful ;) good to know *continues with the spectacular eyes and rocking*)
Well damn... *tries to get up but finds ankle to be in a lot of pain, collapses back down again* Look, I appreciate your intent, pulling me in here and all, but now my ankle is a little busted. Are you, by any chance, here enough to help?
*joins her*
*she's just a cute little girl*
*well kinda little*
*but she's still cute*
*hugs Shadow*
*poofs*
fera: *as monster jumps towards violet, gets knocked back seemingly by nothing* If that's enough here for you, then yes *lets out a faint giggle*
(Con: NO! you.. you said... You said beautiful. I said * TWITCHING* Stop with your mind games ! *shadow curls round his body enlarging him into an unwieldy creature* Now if you don't mind I need to go kill your boyfriend over there.
Con: @Duggy well then that's not nearly as bad. *holds out his hand* but you still want my throne *smirks*)
*whispers back* I don't sleep. I am the nightmare. *Grabs his telepathic link moulding it into darkness * You were never in my realm. You were in a pit of darkness... *shadow links to fera via telepathic link* a pit of despair. It was nothing compared to my real power. *bracket con monster appears in fera's ear canal* I could sever your neurons right here right now. I prefer the personal touch *becomes the size of the room ripping his ear a bit before proceeding to snap his neck*
(con: frankly keiron, even I am surprised you fell for that. You know me, I don't have emotions.
I didn't fall for it, I mearly typed what you wanted me to type. I am not going to alter what you say unless continuity implies.
Con: I coulda sworn you fell for it, Fera did. )
*smiles and closes eyes*
Yes, that should do the trick.
(Con: aww, come on, don't be a bad sport! Mind games are the most fun! I love them! Don't you? *continues*)
(Con: @Vi ...you want to look in my eyes for real... see if it works then? *eyes turn soulless void of anything even light* *gets closer to vi staring into her soul* Now try and use your magic. )
fera: but you need to get out of the house *something gently lifts her up*
*stands faintly up, takes a deep breath* jogs back over to the door, wincing with every step on her bad ankle, gets outside, runs into the woods behind her house, collapses, tears already having soaked her face* Anything you can do about this ankle from wherever you are? Oh yeah, and where exactly is that? And why am I in the woods?
(*frowns and makes eyes slightly smaller and poutier but still just as adorable* but my magic isn't like that. I don't know what you're implying it is...)
(Con: NO! but your eyes. They scream kiss me! it's what Fera fell for, I will not. *his eyes turning back to their normal royal blue*
I think you're all good :P he's back to flirty.)
fera: I'll explain later, now get to a public place where they won't go *says in a reassuring voice* *something lifts her weight so that it's not on her ankle*
*deep breath* Okay. Thank you, Fera. *walks to the village that is a couple of blocks from her house much easier without the weight on her ankle*
(*keeps the eyes up* Oh, so you want to kiss me? Sorry, I'm taken, but can we pleeeeeeaaaassee be friends? Pretty please with a cherry on top? And sprinkles?)
(Con: no. I do not want to, I just am telling you they do and it is what that thing F fell for. I stated it wouldn't get me. Why do you want to be friends so bad? No one likes me don't pretend any differently.)
fera: violet...there...seem to be some complications *sigh* they can take up human forms. *a humane figure walks towards violet quickly, almost sprinting*
(Con: because I want to be the friend of anyone who needs a friend, and you quite obviously do, if you think no one wants to be friends with you! And you said we could be friends earlier... Come on, we shook on it! Huh? *hugs Con*)
*gets up quickly and matches the pace of that figure, walking into the nearest shop*
Uuuh, what exactly are /they/?
fera: It's an organisation. They're creatures. but can perform magic...*humane figure walks into shop and continues following violet at a really quick pace*
con: yeah con, we're friends!
(Con:*sighs deeply * if it makes you feel better, I suppose so but don't think I will fall for your lies, no one can like me.)
(con: you're friends with keiron Fera. I tried to kill you and you haven't responded. )
(Well not as long as you think like that! Once you think people will like you, then you focus on your positives, and become a better, more likable person! Believing is the first step!)
Uuuh, Fera, what the hell am I supposed to do now?
(I need to go. see you tomoz.)
(BYE BYE *huggles then huggles some more*)
(*hugs them both *hope he hasn't caused much trouble, i kinda switched off.)
fera: *creature grabs violet's wrists* *fera's voice becomes louder than before* nothing *grabs creature's arm and squeezes it with such sheer strength that it turns into a mush* get your filthy paws off my girlfriend *points finger at creature's forehead and it disintegrates instantly*
(it's ok *hugs*)
*stares befuddled at the space where it used to be* *an employee runs out from the back and looks dumbfounded at Fera*
Employee: Um, sir, what was that noise?
fera: it was just our..toy that we were looking at *takes toy from the shelf* *pushes it* see? Why, what's the problem?
Employee: *looks suspiciously at Fera, still hasn't looked at Violet*
Violet: *quietly gets down on the floor and pulls down an item with a sharp edge down with her, also quietly, placing it in the general vicinity of her ankle* Actially sir, I fell. I think I got a nasty cut on my ankle. Do you have a first aid kit, by any chance?
Employee: *sees her, looks shocked* Why of course, miss! *eyes Fera suspiciously again before going to the back rooms again*
fera: let's get out of here before he could have any more questions *picks violet up and they're almost instantly outside the shop*
Okay, so you seem to be a lot more here than not. What ever happened to you not being here?
fera: *smiles* It was a deal. I was put into a pocket dimension between dimensions...If i could overpower the boundaries with my soul alone, they would give me answers. Really valuable answers *smiles* but...it seems like the enemy knew about this. They knew when i wouldn't be able to freely move. and that's when they struck *shadow shades on his face* Unlucky for them that they have underestimated my spiritual pressure...to be honest, even i calculated myself to be staying a lot longer in that dimension. It was a surprise even for me that i popped into existence so quickly *smiles*
*smiles and nods as if she understood all of that* Okay, so you're here now. That's good. So, what now? What exactly is happening?
(I'm going to say bye now Frank, I'm sleepy. So talk to you tomorrow hopefully! But there is a good chance I won't be on at this time tomorrow, cuz I'm possibly doing stuff with my friend that is moving in like a week. But hopefully still talk to you tomorrow! *huggles a lot*)
(talk to you tomorrow violet, have sweet dreams :) :) *hugs tightly* ) ^_^
hello raven ^_^ I apologize, but it's 4:28 am for me...i would really like to go to sleep as well :)
Onwa: *manifests one of those tube funnel things*
Good?
James: *pants, smirking, turning to face her*
Ahhh okay.
(UGH!!! FFS!!! 6:30 PM?!?!?! REALLY?!?!?! Oh my gosh.)
(*curls up an sleeps *)
Liliana: Mmm... I meant more the shorter, thinner ones that people put into their drinks on Earth.
Parasite: What?
Bethany: Actually doing it is fine. Although I do blush sometimes...
Ember: Of course. Where did yours come from?
Why am I sleeping so much?
Ten hours last night, nine the night before, eleven the night before that
. . .
Onwa: Ah. Straws.
*forms two curly straws*
James: Mmm.. your stent to bad looking.
*grins*
And you glow.
Morgan: *shrugs* A lot of experimenting.
(Hello.)
Liliana: Yes, those. One barrel each, yes?
Parasite: I have no idea what that means.
Bethany: That too...
Ember: You must have experimented with pretty useless powers from what I've seen so far. Or are you secretly very powerful?
(Omg.
Well.
I walked down to my village shop to buy bread.
And they didn't have my favourite bread.
So I was like "eh, I have nothing but time, I'll walk down t' Co-op." (which is in the next village over)
And then I was like "WAIT WTF YOU /HATE/ IT WHEN PEOPLE SAY 'T' CO-OP.' YOU'RE LIKE "OMG IT'S /TO THE/ CO-OP.""
And then I was like "eh whatevs I'm walking down t' Co-op."
So I walked down t' Co-op.
Which took half an hour.
And they didn't have my favourite bread either.
Ugh.
And then I had to spent half an hour walking back and I was getting a bit sick of walking by that point. :P
But anyway. Yeah.
Omg my life is so pointless. XD
I mean it always was but yeah.)
Morgan: I told you, I'm malfunctioning.
Onwa: only one?
*smirks*
Okay.
James: Then never mind.
It's beautiful.
(Star, I see.)
Liliana: There are spares if we need them.
Parasite: No, tell me.
Bethany: *her cheeks go red*
Ember: Why are you malfunctioning?
Morgan: *shrugs* Possibly because I moved realms.
Ember: Are you able to fight?
(It was meant to say aren't..)
Onwa: Mmm.. Good.
*grins*
How concentrated is it?
James: Make me.
*grins*
(*melts into a puddle*)
(*laughs* Oh gosh, I can actually say it now! 'I'm too hot, hot damn! Call the police and the fireman! I'm too hot, hot damn, make a dragon wanna retire man!')
(Do things further away look more blue because of the reighly affect or whatever it is that makes the sky blue?)
(If that effect didn't happen would the colours be what they normally are? Would we be able to see into space? What would happen with normal light?)
(@Silente: Reighly affect?
I sorta know why the sky is blue and why it's red when the sun sets, but I can only half-remember it so I can't really explain it.)
Morgan: Hopefully.
(@Star yeah?
Does that mean EVERYTHING we see is blueish?)
(My dad just asked if they've been giving me drugs at school xD)
@Jai: *shrugs?*
I wouldn't say so?
But idk.
Hang on, when it's cloudy, isb't that normal light?
Cathetine: If at first you don't succeed, do what your hobbit told you to do in the first place.
XD
(@Star hmmm..)
Liliana: Mmm... Medium.
Parasite: You... Think I look good?
Claire: I'm just going to keep saying ew.
Ember: We have a minute at the very most. Can you bloody well fight or not?
Onwa: Good. Care to pour the first drinks?
James: I don't think you look bad. Although presumably you've once again borrowed someone else's form again.
*grins*
Right. Sorry Claire.
Morgan: Yes.
OMG Disturbed are back and no one told me????
(In fairness, it's no one's job to tell me, but still!!! Why did I not know this???)
Right, well -
*goes off to check up on everyone else to check no one else is going around releasing new material without me noticing*
Lol my brother went to do this maths challenge thing that only really smart people get the opportunity to do, and he came second, and now he's really upset because apparently coming second is really bad, and he was lecturing me on how AWFUL it is to come second and how you'll never get anywhere in life from coming second.
Lol. :P At some point he may need to wake up and observe the real world.
No like
seriously
I thought the only people with this mindset of the world were nerdy fictional characters. XD
Our tour guide is most incompetent...
This trip is terroble
(Things are the colour they are because they absorb the light and bounce back every other colour than the one you see. usually, light is white and contains every colour water splits it and shows all colours because it's clear aka rainbows. vast seas are blue because of the atmosphere. Or something along those lines. )
@Noelle: :( I'm sorry it's not going well for you.
I thought seas were blue because it reflects the sky?
(The sky is not blue. but the layers of atmosphere that the light goes through makes it appear so. like the aurora borealis is green because of the radiation from the sun hitting the atmosphere. vast amounts of water cannot split into every colour and are often dark after it gets deep so only the blue shows up. they reflect each other. kind of thing.)
@Noelle :-( That stinks.
@Conductor: Yeah, but basically, the sea reflects the blue in the light of the sky. Or whatever. You know what I mean. :P
@Conductor How does one decide whether or not something is actually blue if blue only happens when certain frequencies of light reach our eyes. If you're going to argue that the sky is not blue, would not the same argument be applied to the sea and possibly even to my hair?
Color names like "blue" describe what people see, so in my opinion, people seeing blue when they look at the sky makes the sky blue, even if technically the layers of atmosphere are filtering out other colors which technically exist.
@Lantern: Well, you see, I don't really think the sky exists in the way that most things do. The sky is just a big expanse of colour. *shrugs* And so if the sky is not really blue - if the sky is not its colour - then . . . what is the sky? :o
Liliana: We could always just place our straws in the barrel.
Parasite: No, this is me.
Claire: So you should be.
Ember: Yes or no?
Morgan: Yes.
Onwa: Of course. They may need to be longer for that?
James: It is? Hmm.
*looks her up and down*
*smiles*
(Just because something appears to be something else does not make it so. If the sky is blue then why do we see through it? why does everything not have a hint of blue or even a slightly blue hue? The sky is clear along with the atmosphere, take away the atmosphere -and pretend we can still breath without it and the sky is no longer blue, but it is still a sky, is it not? or is the sky not the sky with the absence of an atmosphere? -one could argue that your hair is not blue either, but i think you get where I am going with it.
and yes Star I get what you mean, but you were pedantic with my gun convo so :P hehe plus I like little debates about the science of the Earth.)
Liliana: Then could you make them a little longer?
Parasite: What are you looking at?
Claire: I can't wait for the pizza.
Ember: Good.
*there is a flash of fire, and the Colossus appears a short distance from them* *standing at about a hundred metres tall, it is nearly impossible to miss* *fire flows through joints in its rocky body*
Onwa: *nods, eyes pulsing silver a moment, the straws elongating*
*hands a straw to Liliana, one designed to increase the alcohols ability to get her drunk but not by too much*
James: You.
*rolls eyes*
Mm.. pizza is nice.
(Philosophical Question: Is my profile Red because I told you it is or is it blue because or is it purple because it's both? )
A saucer that looks like a UFO is not a UFO, but a recycling bin or a sky or hair that looks blue is, because the word "blue" is used to describe visual appearance.
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Taking your argument against the sky's blueness a step further, nothing has any color. I'll use my hair as an example. Without light, it wouldn't be blue, but it would still be my hair, even in the absence of light. Same for pretty much anything else that's any color.
Are you saying that colors don't exist, because that's the direction your argument seems to be headed?
It's blue in color because that's how the eye perceives it. That's what the word "blue" means.
From a different perspective, it could be considered Red!, but that doesn't make it red in color.
(I believe that if something appears blue, then that is what it is.)
Liliana: Thank you. *she lifts the lid from her barrel, pushing the straw into it*
Parasite: Why?
Bethany: It is... I think.
@Conductor: Blue. I don't see the world with your perception of the world, I see it with mine. If you tell me that swearing is inherently wrong and that hairdryers are the only true gods . . . I'm not going to accept that version of the world just because you tell me. :P
*nods at Lantern*
Onwa: *lifts her barrels lid off, pushing her straw into it too*
Ready?
James: Why shouldn't I?
*smiles, kissing her cheek*
(White consists of all colours in the spectrum, Conductor. So arguably your picture is every colour simultaneously. However, the eyes perceive said colours as blue and white, so that is what colour it is.)
Liliana: I am.
Parasite: I do not understand why you would want to?
Bethany: *she smiles* I am starting to get a little hungry.
Onwa: Then lets drink.
*starts drinking quickly, as quickly as you can with a straw anyway*
James: *rolls onto his back, looking at the.. 'sky'*
There. Now I am not.
It should be here soon.
Liliana: *she does likewise, starting to drink the cider*
Parasite: I did not mind it, as I said, I just did not understand why you would want to.
Claire: Fifteen minutes.
(That is what I am arguing Soph. Is anything really a colour just because we see it as so? Everything comes from white light a white spectrum that splits and gets absorbed and all colours that are not shown are bounced back. What about colour blind people ... who see green as red? They could swear on their life it was red but everyone is telling them it is green just because many people say something is so does not make it true. What if everything is actually white and full of radiation and our eyes fill in the blanks as the prism is actually in our lenses? what if it is us who split up the colours and not the light?)
(sorry about taking so long there my internet went to crap.)
Onwa: *grins, watching her, swallowing quickly, holding the straw*
James: *shrugs*
Fifteen minutes?? *groans* Growing older has not made me any more patient.
@Conductor: . . . okay, you lost me.
What . . . ?
(Conductor - And I am arguing that yes, if it appears as something, that is what it is. If someone was colour blind, to them, the object would be the colour they saw it. Colour is relative, yes, but what you see something as is what it is.)
Liliana: *she swallows, continuing to drink*
Parasite: Please answer me?
Claire: Because you're still like twelve.
(the colour we see comes from our star yes? The white light radiation that accompanies it. Now we know our star can induce colour on our planet such as the aurora Borealis which is just a solar flare / solar radiation hitting the planet and getting distilled by the atmosphere. what if colour is not colourful? what if it is our eyes that split up the colour and change it to make sense. )
Onwa: *grins*
Mmm..
*drinks more, getting slightly light headed*
James: *shrugs*
Because there's nothing else to look at.
I look twelve.
Okay, have some GCSE physics -
light is a type of electromagnetic radiation.
different colours of light all have slightly different wavelengths.
our eyes can detect the differences in these different wavelengths.
the speed of radiation such as light is affected by the medium it travels through.
when light travels through a thicker medium, it travels slower.
when white light enters a rectangular prism, the boundaries are parallel, so light speeds up at the same point and slows down at the same point, so the wavelengths are sped up and slowed down by the same amount and do not separate.
when light leaves a triangular prism, it leaves it on an angle, so the wavelengths don't recombine and leave at different speeds. This means they leave in different directions, as - well, I need a diagram for that, but think of a car that travels into mud from concrete at an angle. Its right wheel will slow down before its left, and as its left wheel will be going faster than the right before the right hits the mud, it will cause it to turn to the right. So it changes direction. Same with light - if it comes out at an angle, one end of it speeds up before others causing it to change direction.
Because the different wavelengths in white light separate and go in different directions, it breaks up into different colours.
By 'different colours,' I mean 'visible light with different wavelengths.' We detect these difference in wavelengths as different colours.
That is refraction adn how light is split in a prism.
Does that help you?
. . .
I miss GCSE science.
(@Star xD I don't!)
(Colour is relative... I like that ... is there a speed of colour? It must take time for the colour to get here because it changes with the absence of light and with the access to more. hmm. the speed of colour being relative to the speed of light + time = colour ; eyes + light= colour ;did you know if you where to deprive a child of UV light their eyes would stay baby blue, the light brings out the real colour so as to say colour changes with the addition of light.
I'm being very philosophical today.)
(I don't need a diagram I know how a prism of light looks and works. I am just speculating that there are colours we cannot see and are not /there/, so are they actually real, any of them or is it something we just collectively see? Dogs are colourblind and know that they are different to us which is why they love us more apparently cats see colour but think that we are the same as them just bigger which is why they will eat you sooner as they think you are one of their own and they must clean up your mess out of respect.)
Yes, it is. Colors describe how we see things, and your argument doesn't really make sense to me.
As for color-blind people, although they have difficulty distinguishing between red and green or blue and yellow, etc., that doesn't invalidate the whole existence of colors and color names. There are exceptions to everything. Besides, they still see a color, and the color they see is the color the object is to them. It doesn't have to be the same as the color the object is to somebody else.
Technically, even people who aren't "color-blind" might not always see the same colors the same way, but there'd be no real way to tell, because people are used to looking at a leaf and saying "oh, that's green," and they would always see other things of that color as "green" even if the color they saw wasn't the same as what someone else saw. They'd both still call it "green," and they'd assume they saw the same color. That doesn't mean that green doesn't exist or that colors don't exist, and it doesn't mean that one person is wrong.
The whole point of colors is to describe what we see. It doesn't have to be the same as what someone else sees for colors to exist.
( oh my god
Went to see cousin go to her prom
My friend Matthew was ther
We made awkward eye contact and said nothing)
(I was not disproving colour... It started out as saying the sky is not blue. because it isn't not really, you can't trap some /sky/ in a bottle and go oh that's blue! becuase it's not. It's see through completely it's not like it's even opaque it doesn't have an opacity of blue... unless it's one of those invisible colours which although technically possible you still can't look at it and say it's blue.)
(Hey Chloe ! *huggles* how's you ?
sounds awkward :P :/ )
(I've got a philosophical question
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?)
(*huggles* I'm good tanks
Drove today
Instructor said my clutch control was exceptional)
(@Chloe the egg, as the question does not specify which type of egg but merely states egg. Considering there is no evidence of chickens in prehistoric times and considering dinosaurs were oviporous this means that the egg did in fast come first.)
(The chicken... done and dusted. It would have evolved into the first /chicken/ creature and laid it's first egg for the rest of it's kind, it would have not needed a partner as is could be a-sexual and produce on it's own.)
@Conductor: .-. The sky doesn't really exist.
(*grins* I'm on jais side on this one!)
Ummm what Jai said.
(*grins* I win.)
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