The Demon Road proofs have been sent out to critics and reviewers and bloggers and booksellers and all kinds of wonderful, wonderful people ahead of the release on August 27. I can't WAIT for this book to get onto shelves. I want to know what you think. I want to see how you react. I've been warned by my publishers not to expect the second series to be as big as the first — at least not initially — and let's be honest, Skulduggery is a hard act to follow. But this whole thing has become a giant experiment for me, and it's going to be fascinating to watch unfold.
There's gonna be some cool bits and pieces available too —"merch" or "swag" or "stuff" or "free things" like Demon Road badges and wristbands and maps and little pamphlets containing the first four chapters. That's kind of the point of this blog post, actually, because once those sample chapters are released, a plot detail that I haven't REALLY spoken about is going to be confirmed. So I'm going to discuss it here first, by providing to you the opening line of the book:
"Twelve hours before Amber Lamont's parents tried to kill her, she was sitting between them in the principal's office, her hands in her lap, stifling all the things she wanted to say."
I've talked about how this is a story about a girl being chased across America by a pack of demons. What I haven't said is that those demons are Amber's own parents.
I had this idea years ago, of a teenager being hunted by her mother and father. It resonated with me because this is so obviously WRONG, it is against the natural order of things for parents to want to harm their children. I'm lucky — I come from a good home, and I have loving parents, but I am well aware that not everyone is in the same position. This inversion of values is why the idea stuck with me, and so the whole trilogy has become an examination of family, and what it means to be loved and accepted for who and what you are.
I'm not going to say anything more about it right now, and all those wonderful people who are reading the proofs won't really be saying anything about it until the official release, but I genuinely cannot wait for you to get your hands on this book.
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(*cuddles tightly back*)
Onwa: Indeed. Except for the puke.
James: *raises an eyebrow at her*
Trying to be posh.
Manuel: Admittedly that sounds nicer than nightmares..
Anyway, not gonna read for a bit now. Will probably finish TDOTL tonight. :)
STORMLIGHT NUMBER 3 IS 50% WRITTEN!!!!!!!
(@Star YEY!!!)
*13
(13?)
*the first draft
I'm not sure where I got 50% from. :o
But, yeah, it's been going up 1% every few days, and it's been 10% for a while, so to have it suddenly go up to 13% was quite happily unexpected. :)
@Jai: Yeah, a whole 13! :)
(*facepalm*)
@Jai: XD
(@Star how.. do you get 50 from 13?)
@Jai: Number one rule when trying to suss out the working of my brain: Give up; you'll never understand. XD
Idek, dude.
(@Star *smiles* silly brain.
I apparently decided today I want to be a psychiatrist. My friends are scared xD)
@Jai: Why?
. . . I meant that as in 'why would they be scared,' but I'm interested in 'why would you want to be a psychiatrist,' too. :P
I decided yesterday that I didn't want to study medicine. Still not closer to picking my a levels. XD
(Because I'm insane and potentially sadistic apparently xD they don't think I'd be very helpful.
And I dunno. I could probably come up with some deep meaningful reason but I haven't analysed it yet.)
@Jai: XD I'm sure you'd be wonderful.
XD XD Okay.
(Meh. I can hope so xD
I could say it's my mum who has slight depression
Or that it's my stepdad who has many mental issues
Or that I want to be able to help the people here
Or that it's Manuel's fault.)
*nods at Jai*
Hello people!
:) Hey Andviolet!
Hi Star :) *hugs* How be you?
Andviolet: :) :) Alright, thanks!
Read five-sixths of TDOTL today. Watching Cowboy Builders now.
They've just got to the part where they shamelessly beg and get away with it because of the TV cameras. XD
How're you? :)
Awesomeness. Is this your first time reading it, or is it a reread? Cuz I know there are like five scenes in that book that I have just read roughly six hundred times each XD
And cool, but I don't know what that show is, so...cool!
I'm doing okay. Had a weird night last night. Couldn't sleep for a while, then kept waking up in the midst of weird dreams. I think. Those may have also been dreams... I don't know! And my brain like continued the dream when I was awake, and it was weird, cuz I was someone else, but then I don't know if it was the middle of the night or morning, and I've been up for a couple hours now but I have been getting up really late for the past couple days but today I got up at a decent time, despite not getting to sleep at one and then I had breakfast and got dressed and I've been on the Internet but I haven't interacted with anyone else but then my windows are open and letting in light, and my brain thinks it's early morning but it isn't...and now my foot's falling asleep. My brain is just really confused XS
But overall, pretty good
First time reading it. :) Gonna finish tonight.
:P It's a program where people go around and fix bad building jobs, plus chase up the builders responsible.
O_O Weird.
:) But being good is cool. :)
Awesome! You may die. You may not. Not telling you why. But it's highly possible. That book definitely made me feel some feelings.
Sounds cool
Yeah, my brain is really just odd right now
And yes, it tends to be :)
Mmh. :)
:P My brain is always odd. XD
Hello. :)
(I just realised that results come out in four weeks today, and I have decided that I would like to be in year seven again, please. Just, shrink me down and let me soar through another six years of education and then when I'm here next time I'll be much more prepared and ready to be my age. *nods*)
Yay, odd brain buddies XD
Mine is too, but it's a different kind of odd today... More like my brain is constantly weird, but today it's just not functioning properly. Tis a strange feeling
Hi Taia *hugs* Feel like I haven't talked to you in a while. How you be?
@Taia: But think of all the progress you'd lose, as a person. :( :(
@Andviolet: :/ It sounds so.
. . . Okay, when I hit the '@' key, it creates speech marks, and when I hit the speech marks key, iy gives me '@'.
??????
There appears to be a malfunction here. XD It's weird.
Star: Hmmm... That is a really strange glitch. Well, at least you figured out how to get what you want with different keys...?
Liliana: Yes. Humans are disgusting.
Isabelle: What?
Bethany: Well, thank you... But I disagree.
Lily: You get nightmares?
@Andviolet: Yeah. :/
I seem to be one of like three of my friends who are actually where I live. One is in a different state and doesn't even have wifi, one is in some other state for something about their brother's medical health and I haven't hung out with her in like a year and she's gone all summer and stuff one is in UK AND I AM SO JEALOUS AND RAWR and one I just don't generally hang out with outside of school much(and I don't know where they are because they are insanely anti modern technology and one is here but we have gotten together like twice in the past two weeks and then two of my friends moved across the goddamn country. I have like one friend left here and she won't respond to my texts asking her to hang out. I AM SO LONELY.
Oh yeah, and I have another friend that's somewhere in Europe. I don't rememeber where.
@Andviolet: O_O
That sucks. :(
All my friends are currently in foreign countries, but two of 'em'll have wifi and the other'll be back in a week, so . . .
Hm. That stinks, but at least they'll be back soon/have wifi.
I have come to discover that my mind's reaction to being lonely is losing myself in the Internet...
(I am here
Most people should know who I am
But I can't be asked to go on the computer to change my profile
But as soon as trouble brews I will flee)
(Sorry, realised I dropped some serious social etiquette earlier and went to check if anybody cared. :P )
@Star: MMMMmmmmmmmm but what if I stayed my AGE, just, looked... smaller?
And then I'd get the whole school experience from the viewpoint of 'six years older'. And I'd become more knowledgeable. Plus I wouldn't be scared of the sixth formers because I'd be technically older than half of them, and I'd know plenty of them, too. And I'd get straight As throughout school (except in PE because some things don't change) because I'd done it all before and I could just sit there wearing cool shades and looking very mysterious & fabulous. *nods* :P
Hi, Andviolet!
*hugs back* Yeah, I've probably been in stressful relatives land for a couple of weeks. :P It's nice to see you. :)
I'm good, thanks. Panicking a little about the general future, but I got to waste all day drawing and being antisocial, which was nice. :P
Would ask how you are, but you already said before, so... *offers a cookie instead*? ^^
(mbd/msd. Maybe going to get food(?))
Well, panicking isn't good... But I'm glad you still had a nice day :) *gratefully takes and noms cookie*
@Andviolet: :( :( :( It must suck to be all isolated like that. Will anybody at least be able to text or have wifi, at all?
(I... can't text from home, and I can't stand Facebook, so the summer isolation period is more of a comfort to me. There are some people who I can message via wifi things now, but... I'm not used to doing it and it's WEIRD. People just /assume/ I'm still alive. :) It's odd the think that if I were used to being able to socialise, like 24/7, I'd feel so differently right now. O_O)
(It is quiet,..)
Eleven-twelfs.
("did you miss me? " hehe)
(Hello star, vi, Taia and k)
(Hi "?" You okai? *hugs*
*also Glomps Vi* :P
*hugs anyone else who wants hugs from me*
Con: *is in his realm* No hugs :P)
Sorry, poised to make a sandwich, so now wbd cuz I'm eating a sandwich...
Taia: Yeah, I mean I like being alone as much as the next person, but I've barely interacted with most of my friends for weeks, and at the beginning of that my friend introduced me to something new to obsess over on the Internet... Bad timing.
Star: :)
K: Hi! *glomps* How be you?
?: Hi! *offers hugs*
K: haha, in sync glomp! (I didn't read yours before I sent that*
Con: tsk tsk *goes and huggles*
(*huggles k* I am happy
First pay slip today)
(*huggles vi * hello
It's chloe ^.^)
Oh hi Chloe! Yeah, didn't know that... *offers piece of cake to make up for that* Hi, how be you?
(*eats cake guiltily* I am happy ^.^ how art thou?)
(I'm good... I had some fun in Gemmas' work for my little cousins bdaii :P ehhe
HEhe yeh :P
That's good :P I need a job :(
COn: *sighs comes out and hugs* )
*waves away guiltiness* I've plenty of cake, no need to despair! I'm glad you are happy :) I'm pretty good
(I'm guilty because I haven't been circuit training this week )
K: Glad you had a good time :) *offers cake because I have cake...not IRL...now I want cake...*
Con: Yay! *hugs tightly and throws glitter at him*
(I'll have one slice :P don't cut it....
Con: *it turns black when it reaches within a foot of him* )
(I wuvs little mixs new song)
Chloe: Hm... Well, it's only virtual cake!
K: yay, cake!
Con: ooh, black sparkles are pretty... *looks at sparkly black specks in awe*
Hi, Chloe! *hugs* :)
Sorry, I saw you comment before & replied mentally, but then I had to vanish and forgot. :(
Hi, K! *hugs, too* :)
@Andviolet: Oh D:
I forgot, your summers tend to start earlier than ours, too. :/
:( :( :(
(*huggles taia* hey Bach
Sut wyt ti?
Cake is cake to me)
(I've been off for like a month already ... ANd I've been out like twice that wasn't just walking the dog :P. *hugs Taia*
I think I have irl birthday cake... )
Taia: ah. When does yours start?
Chloe: •_•
(*inches away from vi* ...?)
Chloe: idk, you seem unhappy to eat the cake. That was my "I don't know what to say" face. *inches back, hugs*
(*huggles*
I HAD COMMENT 666!!!!)
(Hail satan! )
*inches away from K a bit, pets stuffed unicorn*
(*laughs to self* I love getting comment 666!)
*Hellhounds run about wild *
*he bends down slightly clapping them *AWw who's a good boy :) Kill! :p
*walks away from K, gets onto unicorn, and turns to fly away*
(*eatches what happens*)
*Hell hounds run after unicorn biting it's leg*
(... posted that later than I thought, sorry, I was eating pasta :P
And this one is probably also late because I just went for more pasta.)
@Keiron: Happy birthday to your cousin! :P
And- Oh. Maybe it's just me, then - they sent us back to lessons for the four weeks following the last exams, so... this is only my second week off. :)
*laughs* I have left the house a bit, but only because of family visiting. xD
@Chloe: :) I'm good, thanks. Fearful of results and university application things, but mostly good. :) :) :) How're you doing?
@Andviolet: Where I am, most people will be finishing this week. I finished officially two weeks ago, although it feels like less. O_O
@Chloe: XD
*unicorn easily flies away and disappears into a sparkly mist, me still riding it*
(Dw in hapus iawn Ond dw in wedi blino
Don't be nervous!)
(THIRD HELPING OF PASTA BECAUSE I'M SUPER HELPFUL)
*Blinks @ unicorns & satan* ... *shrugs*
:)
Taia: PAAASSSTTTAAA!!!!!
(SHe's 4 :P
I don't mind not leaving my room :P)
*hell hound is clinging to unicorn leg beeing lifted through the air*
Wych! :) Uh, something about cysgu..? *nods uncertainly*
But I wasBORN to be nervous :P (*hugs* Thank you :))
@K: *laughs* All the happier the birthday, then. :P ^^
Ha, neither do I, fortunately. C:
*hellhound isn't taken through the portal mist thing with sparkles and purple-ness*
@Andviolet: YES PASTA! :)
*Hell hound licks his lips falling to the ground sniffing for the unicorn before disappearing into a puss of fire and brimstone*
*unicorn reappears in the mist now that the hounds are gone and calmly lands in a sparkly meadow full of flowers and butterflies*
(Need to go :/ bbs)
Twelve twelfs completed. *nods*
*suddenly, a wild grasshopper appears..!*
*grasshopper hops menacingly at the unicorn*
@Star: !!!!! :)
What did you think? ^^
(...a grass hopper XD)
Bye, Keiron!
@Chloe: XD I'm being original!
*dismounts unicorn and skips back to Blogland*
Star: What'd you think? :) :)
K: bye bye! *hugs*
Con: *forces into goodbye hug and skips away, throwing sparkles everywhere*
((Hehe let me try))
*a kiwi fruit sits aggressively next to the unicorn*
((Too much?))
CHloe XD XD
I enjoyed it, thanks. :)
I would very much like to elaborate, but due to spoilers adn stuff, I'm reluctant to. :P I think it's safe to say I think that it was a great ending book to the series, though. :)
Chloe: XD not too much at all! Just the perfect amount!
*unicorn sniffs kiwi curiously*
XD You guys are cool.
Star: Yeah, I wouldn't say spoil it. But I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Omg.
I always get the desire to start reading Steelheart at like eight or nine or ten at night, when I know I can't because if I get stuck reading it'll be too late.
It's only eight now, though.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
*goes to check page count and font size*
@Andviolet: :) :)
@Star: Oh, awesome. :) I will look forward to it, eventually. :)
*grasshopper hops away despondently, insignificant compared to the sheer mightiness of the kiwi fruit*
(*grins* hehe )
400 pages. Font smaller than TDOTL.
If the font was the same size and I read fast, I could do it in . . . hmm, four hours, and finish at midnight.
Hmmmmm.
Decisions. :P
. . . Nah, I think I'll listen to music and undertake homework. :)
@Taia: :) :) I hope you enjoy it.
You should do. :)
*the kiwi fruit is sad and lonely now*
*unicorn frowns at the kiwi being lonely and gives it a kiss*
((Awwwwhh poor kiwi fruit. :P))
((AWWWWWWWWHHHHHHH))
(I've never been called cool before O.o)
*kiwi fruit blushes as much as a kiwi fruit is able to*
@Chloe: Seriously??
(*nods*)
Chloe: You are cool!
Goodbye everyone, I'm afraid I must depart! *huggles everyone who wants to be huggled*
*is about to jump back on unicorn and ride it into the sparkly purple mist but doesn't want to leave the kiwi alone so instead rides a mighty hedgehog*
Well, you should've been, coz you're cool. :P
:( Bye, Andviolet!!!
((OH my gosh that's adorable C: ))
*grasshopper watches from a distance as a light rain starts to fall over her head*
*she doesn't even have her umbrella*
*grasshopper sighs*
@Star: :P
That's how I end up not sleeping.
Also, I get the impression that you read quite quickly? ^^
(Awww thank you guys
I've been more of a... Wall flower my whole life
You're all awesome
Byii vi!)
*kiwi fruit doesn't have legs to move out of the rain*
@Taia: I think so.
When the font is pretty large, I can make 100 pages an hour.
I started off reading TDOTL (ummm . . . the font gets gradually smaller as the SP books go on, but it never really gets small small) at forty-five minutes per 50 pages, but later quickened to half an hour per 50 pages as the reading frenzy set in. :P Take what you will from that?
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
This roleplay is so cute. :P
(I've turned into a teenage girl.
*frowns*)
(I mean I am a teenage girl but y'know.)
@Star: Um, I meant to say at some point there that not starting a book late at night is a good idea. *nods* :) ^^
Aw, bye, Andviolet! *hugs*
*agrees that Chloe is very cool* :)
Not here but I just couldn't resist:
*unicorn picks up kiwi and flies it somewhere dry*
*really disappears*
*kiwi fruit misses grasshopper*
(Star: XD
I am absolutely screaming at this rp
*realises that's slang I've picked up from work*
*oh god*
Awwww thanks Taia )
@Taia: XD
*grasshopper watches the unicorn and the kiwi fruit flying away*
*Whitney Houston starts playing in the background*
*kiwi fruit cries*
*its not right but it's okay starts playing*
(*continues being a teenage girl*
AWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH)
(*gags star*)
XD
@Star: *nods* Admittedly, I don't really know what that means. :P
I don't have a clue of my hourly page count, but 100/hour sounds pretty good. :)
I was beginning to think that I read slower than I used to, but I think it's just that I'm reading smaller print recently, because I've got a bunch of old books to get through with the names of my ancestors written in the front of them. My copy of Frankenstein was like, get-me-a-magnifying-glass font. :P
@Taia: XD Me neither. I have no one to compare it to.
100/hour if I'm lucky . . . it's easy to round it to 100 because it's a lovely round number, but it really does vary, and usually varies towards the slower end. XD
* sniffling(can grasshoppers sniffle?), grasshopper contemplates life and love*
*the rain is falling harder, now*
*she wonders whether kiwi fruit is dry, at least*
(AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH)
*kiwi fruit is unable to go to the grasshoppers*
(You guys are almost as bad as Lizzie.
ON THAT NOTE
I can't BELIEVE how differetn nightlizzie is from daylizzie. O_O
I mean, I know she has various different personalities, but STILL. Wtf.
@Star: *nods* I get you. :)
... it probably depends on the book too? Because like, action stories tend to read much quicker than, like, deeply philosophical books do? And if you're very attached to the characters you might have to stop every few minutes to scream internally, and so, there's that. :P
XD
*grasshopper does not understand that kiwi fruit do not have legs, because she is a grasshopper*
*kiwi fruit dies lonely*
(It seems I disappeared briefly.)
*grasshopper, unaware of the kiwi fruit's passing, lives on, hoping their paths will some day cross again*
*My Heart Will Go On plays as the curtains close*
:( :( :(
Hi, Sophia. :)
(Was the situation with the grasshopper and the kiwi fruit an attempt at creating a fairy tale of some description?)
(That has actually made me cry )
(NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
OMG)
@Taia: Omg yes. WHen I read emotional books, I have to keep stopping to come and cry and write a comment or two here. XD I think Steelheart is action-y, but it's Brandon Sanderson, and I have a deep half-rational-half-irrational love for anything Brandon Sanderson writes, so I might need emotion breaks anyway. XD
Hey Sophia. :)
(*Wonders what he just walked in on*)
(No Soph, it was a random moment)
(Hey john ^.^)
I just found such a great perspective on life.
*bounces*
I'm not sure I can share it, though, coz I'm not sure if I can accurately word the kind of thingymajingy needed (I mean, I could word it very easily, but if I did people would be like '?' and totally not understand what I was getting from it), so meh.
Hey John. :)
oh my gosh I' m so sorry
I am, too, Chloe. But I can't stop laughing through my tears and ???
(I think it's broken me XD)
(I dislike headaches very much.)
@Sophia: :( They're not nice.
@Star: XD Yeah, yeah. :P
Hi Blake! I... don't think I know how to explain xD
@Star: Oh, awesome! :) :) :o
... If you wanted to try wording it, I'd try to understand it, but, you don't have to, so, eh. :)
Chloe XD
@Sophia: :(
(Sorry for disappearing. I forgot to open the bedroom window before I left for school so all the heat was trapped in my room making it humid and warm which always makes me sleepy. *hugs Sophi tightly, kissing the top of her head like pretty much everyone does with me when I'm upset*)
Onwa: *looks at her, raising an eyebrow pointedly*
Oh are we.
James: You're eating my ear.
You can't disagree with posh talk of love, its mot allowed. *nods sternly*
Manuel: Occasionally. Everyone does.
. . .
I just had a very weird moment.
@Star: ?
(*pats star on the head*)
(Don't we all star XD)
(Chloe! *hugs, smiling*)
*huggles jai* hello Bach)
@Jai: Poeple do that to you when you're upset?
*frowns, trying to recall memories of this*
@Taia: *tilts head* I wasn't sure I was comfortable enough to a moment ago, but now I think I am.
Coming on next comment. This comment is getting too long and I want to refresh the page. :P
Hi, Jai!
Alright, Star. :)
(@Star yeah, for some reason..
Hey Taia.
How are you Chloe?)
(*is flatlining*)
(I am well chuffed
Watching married at first sight)
(Flatlining, Keiron?)
(*uses the electric machine on K*
@Chloe OMG IM MISSING IT!!!)
(*shudders pulse weak as hell* FOr pete's sake ! why is life throwing so many curve balls.)
@People: No, but the moment was WEIRD. I don't even know. It's like that really weird moment I had the other week, except that was an entirely different kind of weird moment that lasted like half an hour and made me feel really shitty, and I still don't have any clue what the actual fuck that was. My point is, tehre are some moments that are like WTF and after they happen I just sorta sit there and stare at 'em not really knowing what to do with this information.
I've got really open and rambly now. :o Think I'm tired. Part of my weird moment just now involved me practically falling asleep, so . . . yeah.
@Taia: Well, I was stressing out about identifying myself orientation-wise, as I do from time to time (I haven't stressed out about anything like this for quite a while until recently, and so I think my brain just needed to make me stress out about summat. I usually have stress-out periods multiple times in a year, and I'm not sure I've had one since autumn, so . . . yeah. I just thought that I should probably find a few new things to stress about because I've worked out how to not-stress at one or two and so I probably need new material, but really my end goal should be to end stressing, not find things to stress about, but then again I don't think my end goal is achievable beacuse my head can get pretty damn delusional when it wants to stress ad there's just no reasoning with it). And I realised something - whatever you are, you already are, and you always have been. That is already predetermined. Thus, you shouldn't try adn avoid a consequence, because you cannot prevent the consequence - the consequence has already happened. You may as well proceed with the mindset that the consequence has already occured and work on accepting its existence, as that will help you the most if such a consequence has come to pass, and work a lot better than trying to make it not come to pass.
:P It was just sort of a click in my mind, you know. And the thought triggers the click, but the click is not necessary connected to the trigger - the click came from elsewhere adn was just triggered by the trigger. It's like the click is a gun and the trigger is a bullet, and if you manage to recreate the bullets and share them out, no one will get their awesomeness if they don't have the correct gun in which to work them with, and as the only gun available is my head, then like, y'know.
TBC
(I told you I was rambly tonight)
Whilst we're on the topic, I was swimming the other week and I had another really great moment, and like, I'm not sure how many people know this but I spent like six years trying to convince myself I was straight, and you see, I was afraid of the alternative but I wasn't allowed to think about that or analyse that because I wasn't allowed to acknowledge that there was an alternative, so I never actually really got past stepping on the mental porch without being booted off. And obviously, this was a bit stupid, but I wasn't allowed to think baout it so I couldn't really have acknowledged how stupid it was beacuse to do that would be to think about it. And anyway, I'm sure I could have reached acceptance very easily if I'd just let myself try, and yeah, and yeah. So whilst I was swimming in the swimming pool the other week, I realised I was afraid of a few alternate scenarios, and thus I decided to mentally convince myself those scenarios had come to pass so that I could confront their existence and accept them, and then once I'd accepted them I wouldn't be afraid of them and therefore could judge things with a more objective mindset and the whole analysis process would work a lot better and things would feel a lot better and yeah. So I managed to do that fairly effectively (although I couldn't think too deep about the scenarios or I would realise the cracks in my alternate reality and how they didn't quite match up to my actual head :P), and not only did it mostly work in the way it was intended, it also helped me identify my fears a little bit better and yeah it was kinda cool.
So yeah.
My major major advice to anyone is - if you're afraid of a scenario happening, imagine it has happened so you can accept it and get over some fear of it. :P
(Obviously won't work for everything.)
*looks at head, waiting to see if it has any more brilliant gems of wisdom to offer tonight*
*or rather, rambling thoughts, but y'know*
In The Alloy of Law aluminium is worth more than gold.
I don't know what they'll do when they need fizzy drink cans.
@Keiron: Because life is life?
(*links him up to that machine that keeps him going*)
(Watch it at ten on the +1 channel!
How art thou )
(@Chloe meh. I'll watch the rest of it now instead.
I'm okay. Not as sleepy now :)
*one day the unicorn stumbles across the grasshopper, and offers to take him to see kiwi(who grasshopper doesn't know is deceased)*
(*waves at and violet*)
I mean, when my head wants to stress, it just goes and stresses about possibley hypothetical scenarios, and even though you know they wont' come to pass adn you tell your head that, it just doesn't listen and carries on stressing anyway.
It's a bit obstinate, my head.
Maybe I should try telling it to stress about a level options because at least some good will come of that, but idk, I spent 6 hours doing that yesterday adn didn't much get anywhere. Maybe I should write a list. Lists are the best at talking sense into my head.
*waves back at Jai*
(*hugs star*)
(Okay Jai ^.^
*sighs happily* so romantic...
Hey vi!)
*mutters about sharing stuff*
*hugs inner self to self to keep it safe and waits for its wounds to heal up*
@Jai: :)
(@And xDD)
(Awwww. Poor inner self! *hugs stars inner self*)
Wait
**hugs Jai Back*
Sorry.
I've apparnetly started to get hugs adn smileys muddled up. XD
Hi Chloe!
*hugs Keiron* ... To continue the metaphor, maybe they're not worth hitting? When it throws something good, it'll throw it straight.
... I don't know if that makes sense to not-me, sorry.
@Star: Acknowledgement of comment to precede reading of comment. :P
(@Chloe xDD yes, very romantic..)
@Jai: :)
Can you give my inner self back to me, please? It doesn't overly like being held my strangers. It feels a bit freaked-out adn lost.
:) It doesn't really mind you too much, though, so it can handle a hug from you once in a while.
(*the lights dim the machine using a lot of power to keep him alive* But but but why do they have to be like this weirdly amazing and horrible.)
@Taia: :)
And :).
(*nods and lets star have her inner self back*)
@Keiron: *shrugs* Because life is weird and amazing and horrible?
*cuddles inner self to self, and then proceeds to cuddle Jai, for being nice adn cool and stuff*
I should probably stop talking about aspects of myself in third person. XD
(I love weddings)
(Aaaaand, that didn't take long. Yeah, I popped back in, but I got to go again. Bye again!)
(*cuddles star back*
@Chloe be a wedding planner. *nods*
Rp?)
(Jai..., I can't choose what to wear everyday let alone plan a wedding XD
Sorry but I'll be of to bed soon
So tired)
(*she hugs Jaimie tightly back* Hello, Jaimie.)
Liliana: Mmm... Not you. Other humans.
Isabelle: I'll eat the rest of you if you won't stop complaining.
Bethany: ... Is it a human tradition?
Lily: ... I do.
I'm sorry.
(@Chloe hmmm.. true.
Kay :)
*frowns*
Hey Sophi.)
Onwa: *chuckles*
Of course.
James: *raises an eyebrow, smirking*
Are you threatening me?
..no, but still..
Manuel: Ah. Forgive my presumption then.
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