I said the winner would be announced at the end of July but, because the entries kept coming, I kept it open another month. All in all, we had over 800 people entering — some more than once — and picking a winner was NOT easy.
But a winner I did pick. And here, to help me announce, is Ronda, her mom, her sister Maria, and lead artist Justin...
"And the winner is... Brinley Marrs!"
Congratulations Brinley! Your mom put your name forward and told me why she figured you should win, and I agreed! Hailey, your email has now been sent to AnnMaria and they will take it from there.
To everyone else who entered, commiserations — but if it's any consolation, please know that some of your entries made me grin...
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:)
(Sorry, trying to multitask and stay awake)
(Tis okay)
*nods*
Also I've lost half my ability to conversation wiht half my ability to remain conscious.
Sorry.
(Uhhh help pwease..?
Y=25- (x-8)2^)/4
What's the maximum point?
(And is its y intercept (0,41) or (0,9) or neither?)
@Jai: Ermmmmmmmmmm let me run to Google. Hang on.
(I THINK it's (0,9))
((Google helps me with all my homework. Google is my friend. XD))
(Thanks star xD)
@Jai: Right
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/higher/maths/algebra/functions2/revision/3/
(Wait no.. think it's (0,41) actually.)
(Right.. so complete the square..)
( umm (0,41)= 25-(x-8)2^)/4
0,41= 25- ( x^2- 64)/4
0,41= 25-x^2-64/4
0,41=25- x^2 -16
0,41= 25--16 = 25+16 = 41
0.41= x^2 41
cancel out ... so yeh 0,41 :P )
(Okay. So the first part is right.
The second part.. uh..)
Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I'll get Cat to explain this to me tomorrow XD
(*looks blank *£
( did I do the calculations right? :P this is me from 2 years ago remember :P lol I also failed but thats just because I didn't doo one full section in int 2 that I needed for higher )
(Well.. I know it's something to do with completing the square but....
Y= -0.25x2^ - 4x + 41
...???)
I think you basically complete the square, leaving -
(x + a)^2 + b
And then a is the x-coordinate and b is the y-coordinate?
I think
Idk, graphs are my weakest area in maths. XD
(Okay.. I have two answers..
Maximum point is Q btw.
Q=Maths
Orrrrrrrr..
Q=(2,-9.25)
...the second one is DEFINITELY wrong. The first one less so.)
41= -0.25x2^2-4x+41
41= -0.25-0x4-0+41
41= 0+41
41=41? :P )
(Okay. My answer that I've written is;
Q=Maths
(I really don't know, this has just really confused and upset me)
*nods*)
( -nods- i'm glad i'm not doing maths anymore tbh ... but I liked it :P )
(So Uhhh it might be (8,25)
However 25 is smaller than 41???
So question 1 is wrong??)
( I dunno.. thats as far as I remember :P )
*is here for a bit, but wbd*
Anyone on?
(*waves*)
*waves back*
Hi K. How's you?
(i'm good bit bored... wbu ?)
I'm doing a little better than last time. ^.^ Also on the search for something to read. :P
(a few of my favs consist of Nemesis by Catherine Macphail and Z for Zachariah )
... Then again, I may try to write something...
(My favourites consist of Brandon Sanderson.
:P)
I'll take a look at those. :)
But it'll probably be hard to get them. I mean something on the Internet, like fanfiction or the like.
Hi Star. :)
*waves*
:) Hey.
*doesn't read fanfiction*
*the only things I read online are debates and the news*
Some fanfiction is really good. Others aren't that great, but I found some from the Mistborn series. Well, more like I know people are writing fanfiction for it, but I haven't looked at any.
Who knows, there could be some that are almost as good as Brandon Sanderson himself? After you skim through, like, ten horribly written(or boring) ones. :P
What sucks is waiting for updates. XP
*knew how o do that math problem*
*but it's been two years.. :/*
Hi Duggy!
*nodsnods*
Same. I've forgotten everything. ^.^'
...
*tries to read the last part of her display name*
... What in Blogland is /that/ supposed to be?
All I can see is pineapple, dragon, pudding, and unicorn? Did I even get those right? :P
( same dug... :P I think I did not too bad... :/ lol
yeh hope I know what you mean... but I understand why people don't continue them ... like if you think no one cares about the story whats the point )
@Lav: Nope.
I just don't believe that.
Just
nope
No
No
No
No
Look
Just
No
No
No
No
I just
No
No
No
*shakes head firmly*
I just
I just
No
No
That's not possible
Like
You don't understand
It's just
His books are just works of art
And
Just
You might be able to write the cahracters and you might be able to create plot, but you're not going to
you can't make them magic in the same way, you know?
TBC
I'm going to type out the afterword/forword to Part One and Part Two of the double-volume version of The Way of Kings (first book of the Stormlight Archive. Published in 2010) for you
"'The Way of Kings' has been a long time in the making. It's been some twenty years that I've worked on this book now, in one form or another. The original draft was completed in 2002, though I decided it was not yet good enough for publication. It took me another seven years to get the characters, world and plot to the level that I wanted."
That is how much work he puts into crafting his stories the way he thinks they need to be.
He doesn't just design a few characters and make them do a few things. Anyone can do that. And Brandon Sanderson is /amazing/ at creating characters, so even if he did just do that I'd probably still think his books were good, but that's only part of it. He doesn't - he doesn't just write a story, he /crafts/ stories. He makes them works of art.
And I'm sorry, but no person on the internet who thinks "oh, I like this book, let's have a go at writing a bit of it and setting smoething in this world/making these characters do a few things" is going to be able to recreate that. I'm sorry.
Maybe I'm biased against fanfiction. I don't read it because I feel that it isn't real, in a sense. Which I guess makes me a hypocrite, because I don't believe that stories inherently belong to one person; if someone else takes already-created characters in an already-create world and makes people and a world out of them, then technically they exist just as much as the first author's do. But I guess I'm just inherently possessive. For me, things have a sense of /belonging/. And also, I don't liek people helping me complete things, you know? I like to do things all myself. So they're /mine/. It's /my/ work how /I/ want it and if anyone else interfered it wouldn't be all done by /me/ and it wouldn't belong to me in the same way. I like things to be /all mine/, otherwise they're not done properly.
And I suppose that I just impose these feelings onto other people. If anyone else wrote with my characters . . . I feel like they couldn't do it in the way I would, that the characters wouldn't be /theirs/. It would always be a copy - unless they did know my characters better than me. Then my characters would no longer by /mine/ and they would become /theirs/. And I would be the . . . cheap stand-in, so to speak.
You see? I have a very possessive mindset and my brain automatically subconscious looks at things in terms of belonging and possession. This influences how I react to things without me intending it to.
I guess I think that Brandon Sanderson's world is /his/ like my writing is /mine/, and when someone suggests that otehr people can write Brandon Sanderson's world, I automatically rebel against it like I would rebel against someone suggesting that they could write my characters, or like someone offering to take over my Pokemon Platinum game on DS or like someone offering to help me with my artwork (just ugh. No. It's /mine/). Because my brain is used to supplying these emotions in these circumstances. And then, because these emotions aren't all too rational, when I explain myself I try to find other rational reasons for them. But at the heart of it, I don't like it because I'm a possessive person. I'll just fool myself and thus you into thinking it's something more than that.
(I wasn't lying though. No one CAN replace Brandon Sanderson. *frowns*)
*nods in agreement*
But if you do it for yourself(ya know, the fun of it) and it gets more noticeable as you write more, wouldn't it be worth the effort?
#ruinationviaoveranalysisstrikesagain
Does anyone know where I put my pen?
. . .
Of course you don't, you're on the internet.
Never mind.
*hunts*
*blinks*
Whoa. I didn't mean to get you started, Star. ^.^' and I mean absolutely no offense to Brandon Sanderson. I haven't been able to get the Mistborn books yet, but from what you just said and what you're always saying, he's a brilliant author. All I'm saying is that someone might try to write in his style with their own characters, or maybe their own style that's still really good, and it would still be enjoyable. You don't know until you're willing to search.
I mean, trying to look through so many stories takes a while, so you might skip over one that doesn't seem interesting only to come back and try it, and find that it's one of the better stories out there.
That's basically what I meant. I just have a hard time saying what I mean the first time. :P
It always needs clarifying... Or people get confused...
@Lav: I know. XD XD
Yeah. Sorry. I just keep getting started.
I feel bad now for starting on you. XD
Yeah, I don't know, but I'm not sure I /am/ willing to search because eitehr I won't like it ad will find nothign to read, at which point it's pointless, or I will like it and will find things to read and then I have even MORE things to do with my time and even LESS time to do them in. I tend to buy books at a faster rate than I read them, and only beacuse I struggle to read a book a month these days due to the fact I'm busy doing homework and internet. I don't have time to read the published books I want to, never mind fanfic. So I'm not going to try. :)
XP It's okay. You're just being you. :)
And that's fine. At least you have books you haven't read yet. More for when you /do/ have time. :)
@Lav: :) See, you're awesome that you would say that. :)
XD Which will be when?
(*really didn't want to read all that*
*I'm lazy and that was a lot of words*
*agrees with hope*)
@Keiron: XD XD Sorry.
( lol it's fine i'm just lazy rn so it was like ughh lol :P and because that it took longer to read too :P :/ lol I need coffee or something I'm still not awake enough to life properly )
@Keiron: :P
I was falling asleep earlier today and I went in the shower and it woke me up a lot. :)
Yeah, well, I think it's cool that you're so passionate about something, you'd write all that to defend what you like. :)
And you could read anytime there's a chance? After you finish your homework, or it's the weekend, or when you're bored?
It's 5PM for you, K, and you still haven't woken up completely yet?
:P Don't worry, I'm the same. XP
Speaking of time and sleep... I should probably get some rest. It's one already. ^.^'
Have a good evening, guys! Good night from me!
well hello.
@Lav: I'm passionate about everything. I have short-lasting strong emotions.
Yeah, but I'm usually online when I'm not homeworking and there's not time for much else. And I need to artwork as well, so . . .
:) :) Goodnight, Lav.
I'm a pineapple, platypus, Dragon, kitten, Pegasus, pudding, unicorn!!!
hi dugg ^_^
(Okay so I did question 8. Now I'm on question 9 which I'm 100% sure we haven't been taught and am 100% determined to figure it out.)
( yeh lav :P hehe
ok jai hit us ? :P )
no, don't hit us jai :p
( it's fine so long as when you've had too much you say the saftey word )
(*raises an eyebrow*
Question 9?
Okay so you have a graph with a curved line on it. You have a point, P(x,y) <-Coords. This point is the same distance from (0,2) as from y=0 aka the x axis.
Show that y=(1/4(x^2) + 1
Mmm. It's to do with circle graphs which are x^2 + y^2 = *insert number*)
(*facepalm* children behave.)
(I've timed it by four to simplify it.
4y = x^2 +4)
(*watchss burlesque*
*wishes I could dance*)
(@Chloe Naww :/)
( I had a go there but that doesn't make sense I must be doing it wrong )
( I had a go there but that doesn't make sense I must be doing it wrong )
(@K xD yeah. It's.. complicated. "Lovely" as miss would put it. Almost certainly not even GCSE maths anymore.)
i can probably get it...wait, i'll write it down...but what's the question? :P
(*had an A in maths*
*looks clueless*)
(4y = x^2 +4
8= X^2 +4
4=x^2
2=x
then divide by 4 which is what I was getting but the number is too small no ? 0.5)
(Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.
I feel like that particular quote should be in every maths room.)
(The question is to show that y=1/4x^2 +1
@Chloe there's a chance this is further maths.)
(@K don't solve it, show it.)
(Ah right
My brain isn't working properly)
( remember when I was too tired to read stars thing... nd did it anyway ... well I can't math rn sozzie :P )
( remember when I was too tired to read stars thing... nd did it anyway ... well I can't math rn sozzie :P )
@Jai: Nope, that's GCSE maths. You should be taught it though . . .
Uh . . . I got an A* in GCSE maths but I can't remember circle graphs any better than I can quadratic. XD
Ask google. Google is your friend. :)
(Also msd.)
((I can't read it on the bloody internet.
*writes it out on paper*
(Hmmm..
What if y=1/4x^2 +1 is the equation of the line it's on?
I'm fairly certain it is..)
@Jai: Where on y=0?
(@star it doesn't tell us. It just says it's the same distance from the x axis as from (0,2) )
you just have to prove it? that means, that you put y=0, so that you have 0=1/4 X^2+1, then you differentiate to get x on its own, which will be x=2, therefore the same distance as from (0,2) on the line? you can even put the x back into the equation y=1/4 X^2+1, which will give you y=2, proving that it's valid? ^_^
sooo...? :P
@Fera: Sounds plausible.
(*sings tough lover*)
*nods* A-level mathematics is way harder(i guess you're beginning to notice?), I feel ashamed for having to think about the answer a little... ^_^
Hi all!
Lasertag is fun! ^^
(Hello Aq!)
hey aqui :)
Hi to you two, too. ;P
(How art thou?)
I'm fine, thanks. ^^ You?
(I am okay, better than earlier
Watching burlesque)
... is burlesque something to do with dancing?
(Yes
A burlesque club has dancers in it
There's a film called burlesque where Christina agulera goes to LA and joins a burlesque club and surprises everyone with her voice)
Ok. ^^
(*Suddenly, J!*)
Hi J!
How's you?
(I am alright, happy to be home for the weekend again. How're you?)
(Hi j ^.^
I don't think there are any classes that teach burlesque dancing here... Or pole dancing
I want to pole dance, but nt in a club or anything O.o
Just in lessons as it keeps you really fit)
I think pole dancing is pretty. -nods-
I'm fine, J, thanks. ^^ I tried lasertag today, and it's fun. ^^
(Juliane hough inspired me when she did rock you like a hurricane in the film 'rock of ages')
@Fera: Nope. They're trying to start us off slowly. It's /infuriating/.
star: *shrugs* you'll have enough to study later ^_^
@Fera: *nods*
(Ugh! Why the hell do I have THAT song on my phone?
-baby by Justin beiber ?!)
@Chloe: *shrugs helplessly* Somehow I had JLS on my phone. :P
(I lved them! I saw them when they came to swansea !)
*shrugs* *doesn't like JLS*
*likes The Wanted*
(I LOVE THEWANTED! )
(Star, why don't you like me??
*has .."unfortunate" initials*)
@Jai: XD XD
*laughs*
I like /you/. :P
@Chloe: :) The Wanted are good.
(Oh good :)
@Jai: :P
(*looks up pole dancing classes*)
(*sighs* you have to be over 18 for pole dancing...)
yeah? makes sense ^_^
guess who's back :p
Dunno... you, maybe? ^^
-is over 18-
fera! :D *is almost over 18* :p
(*has to wait till june to turn 18*
*now researches tattoo places in Swansea*)
(this song is just... awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7csdWIdFyyE)
*is a year off being over eighteen*
*eighteen
(hmmm I have asked dad about getting a tattoo next weekend
lets see how that goes)
pffft
@Chloe: :) Good luck.
(What?)
(Thanks star ^.^)
it wasn't directed at anyone. it was a general "pfft"
(Right)
whatever.
Fera might be pouting cause we're not celebrating his revival. -nods-
-gives revived Fera a cookie-
Also, I like the idea of tattoos, but every time I recall what I'd have wanted two years before, it disagrees with my current thoughts.
So, not likely to get one. ^^
thanks, but don't even bother aquila ^_^
*takes cookie though* thanks :)
(Huh
Someone seems snippy)
(*HUGS Chloe...*)
*shrugs* don't give a shiet ^_^
(*huggles jai*)
(*cuddles close*)
(*cuddles closely* is something up Bach?)
(*shrugs* Just mood swings probably..)
(Remember you can talk to me whenever ^.^)
*shrugs and leaves....maybe*
(What's up with you Fera...?)
a lot..
(Right)
why ask if all you're going to say is right? like...it's happened a few times now.
(*shrugs* im nosey
but nosey enough to persist further if you give me an ambiguous answer)
I don't feel like giving it. I don't want to be a little bitch. I must deal with everything myself to do that *shrugs*
(right)
*shrugs*
So "right" is a short and unreasonable answer to you whereas answering "lol" or "a lot" isn't?
Just an opinion
(Jack...)
kwl stori bruh, 11/10 IGN :P
(*digs fingernails into palms* I believe in the freedom of language and speech... but that language aggravates me)
ok *shrugs*
... I believe in: Oh look, none of em is being more diplomatic than the other. Let em solve that on their own. -.-
I have no idea what that meant...
... might be better that way. ^^
-thinks that the only thing missing to a 3-year old fight is the 'he started it!' argument-
(I believe the first part was 'cool story, bro'
not sure about the rest)
the rest was some meme ^_^
(right)
It's these substandard motels on the (lalalalala) corner of 4th and Fremont Street.
Appealing only 'cause they are just that un-appealing
Any practiced catholic would cross themselves upon entering.
The rooms have a hint of asbestos and maybe just a dash of formaldehyde,
And the habit of decomposing right before your very (lalalala) eyes.
Along with the people inside
What a wonderful caricature of intimacy
Inside, what a wonderful caricature of intimacy
Tonight tenants range from: a lawyer and a virgin
Accessorizing with a rosary tucked inside her lingerie
She's getting a job at the firm come Monday.
The Mrs. will stay with the cheating attorney
moonlighting aside, she really needs his money.
Oh, wonderful caricature of intimacy.
Yeah (Yeah)
And not to mention, the constable, and his proposition, for that "virgin"
Yes, the one the lawyer met with on "strictly business"
as he said to the Mrs. Well, only hours before,
after he had left, she was fixing her face in a compact.
There was a terrible crash
There was a terrible crash between her and the badge
She spilled her purse and her bag, and held a "purse" of a different kind.
Along with the people inside
What a wonderful caricature of intimacy
Inside, what a wonderful caricature of intimacy
There are no raindrops on roses and girls in white dresses.
It's sleeping with roaches and taking best guesses
At the shade of the sheets and before all the stains
And a few more of your least favorite things.
Raindrops on roses and girls in white dresses
It's sleeping with roaches and taking best guesses
At the shade of the sheets and before all the stains
And a few more of your least favorite things.
Inside, what a wonderful caricature of intimacy
Inside, what a wonderful caricature of intimacy
Raindrops on roses and girls in white dresses
It's sleeping with roaches and taking best guesses
At the shade of the sheets and before all the stains
And a few more of your least favorite things.
Raindrops on roses and the girls in white dresses
And sleeping with the roaches and the taking best guesses
At the shade of the sheets and before all the stains
And a few more of your least favorite things.
-wonders why walls that were in contact with formaldehyde would still rot-
(its a song by panic at the disco ^.^ they are... peculiar to say the least
this song is called 'build god, then we'll talk'
my favourite, or at least one of them is 'lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off')
Ah, I'm not sure I can agree with em, but I'm still bothered by the formaldehyde thing. XD
Formaldehyde is used to keep things from rotting, so...
(hehe XD im sure I could find an underlying meaning as an English lit student, but I cant be bothered at this time XD
*whispers* the music video is weirder than the lyrics)
-whispers back- Not my kind of thing, then.
-likes Rock, most of the time-
(I love rock!
OMFG! I DIDNT REALISE THE SINGER OF TENACIOUS D WAS JACK BLACK! I THOUGHT IT LOOKED AND SOUNDED LIKE HIM BUT I DIDNT KNOW IT WAS ACTUALLY HIM!!!!)
-smiles as she says she loves Rock, too-
-jumps back a fair bit when she suddenly starts screaming-
0.0
(Jack black is so cuddly... but seeing him sing a song called 'fuck her gently'...
anyways
im off to bed now
nos da!)
Night Chloe! ^^
I sorta just kinda almost broke my brothers finger?
😇😮
0.0
... not good, Dug.
( nos da ...
i'm back :D :P
I broke my sisters arm b4 :P )
I nearly broke my brother's skull...
... he fell on the rather pointy edge of some furniture. Anyway...
( we were on the trampoline and she put her arm down when I did a but bounce )
Well I don't think it's actually broken, just hurt it and it wasn't really my fault.
He threw a stuffed fish at me and I caught it but wouldn't give it back. So then we was trying to get it back and we play fighting and he tried to kick me so I caught his leg and he fell over and tried to catch himself and bent his fingers back!
@Keiron OMLI
( I was just a 5yo btw up the park at this hour :P my friends are the weirdest
@dug :P meh lol it's a Cairns thing :P i've broke my arm 3 times 2 fingers and my ankle and thats the only ones I went to the hospital for. ) )
Oh my god, you're like my brother and dad! So far I haven't broken or fractured a bone!
( I ded to the best god damn girlfriend ever :P wish she were here rn <3 love you Gemmy Jam Jar :P
I also ded to finding your special someone.)
-never broke a bone-
Hi...
*has spent too long doing homework*
Ugh...
(ugh ? )
Too much homework.
(AH. lol yes I know that feeling... *offers hugs and welcomes him *)
-off to bed-
Night all!
(Goodnight aq!)
*hugs back*
Night, Johanna!
I'm off to sleep, too. Good night!
Aww, everyone left early?
Never mind then. It /is/ a school night... And I'll have to go in a bit anyway.
*realizes it's probably been an hour at least since the last comment*
*posts this to check*
Nup. Three.
Well... Bye Blogland, I guess...
*leaves cookies and poofs*
( morning )
Hi.
You guys watch some pretty freaky anime 0.0
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