With Desolation only a few days away, I am still hard at work on the third and final Demon Road book.
From the beginning, I wanted these books to be as streamlined as possible — I wanted them short and punchy. Now, I completely failed with Demon Road, as it was a pretty big book, and only got slightly better with Desolation, which is shorter, but it looks like I'm finally getting the hang of this with Book 3, which will hopefully be the perfect length.
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that is honest :P
also I was just sorta up I dunno didn't fall asleep yet )
( I like this song )
@Keiron I don't understand how a human being can like 4:3. It's disgusting. 16:9 or delete your video and sell your studio.
Must be secretly an alien or something to enjoy 4:3
Brb calling Men in Black.
( I hate 4:3 too ... but I like the song.
in fact I ranted about it outloud to myself whilst watching )
( 16:9 )
( omg this as welll :D I like this these songs are goood )
@Gemma: :/ *hugs* I hope he's still alive . . .
( in a couple of minutes? any particular reason?
also I hope he hasn't .... have you got him on anything where you'd know if he had seen it like facebook ? )
(-hugs her tightly- I know that feeling I should be doing things probably, but I'm watching tokyo ghoul .... I'd offer my help if you wished :P )
:/ *hugs Gemma*
@Gemma: :( Maybe go to the doctors about it?
:) :) Oh good!
@Gemma: :/ If it doesn't go away they might listen. And I'd it doesn't then it won't be an issue anymore do . . .
:/ Aww.
^if it does
Ughhhhh why can't I speak.
(-can take us up and get you something?- :P <3
and yeh I'm finished first season onto last 12 episodes :P probs done tonight :P )
(*sings Alexander Hamilton *)
(SHE GOT ME DESOLATION!!! OMFG DUG YOU'RE AMAZING!!!)
(Awesome Jai!)
(And it's a hardback and a first edition and <333333333 DUGGY YOU ROCK)
(I'm half way through
Revision is taking its toll)
(*laughs* homework can suck it! Imma have ta reread Demons road, remember the entire plot line and not just main snippets)
@Jai: OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Not really here about to poof for tea)
(*bounces and cuddles the book book book book book book*
*poofs for shower then BOOKS*)
( how does one know first edition thing? I bought one today also a hardback )
(Keiron, the page opposite the dedication. Above copy right Derek Landy should be a number)
:D
YOU'RE WELCOME!!!
(touch your head and touch your ears and touch your nose and touch your mouth and touch your neck and touch your shoulders touch your chest and show me the rest and shake it up shake it up!)
I don't have Desolation....nor do I think I want it....
Not fond of Demon Road trioligy really. I think I spelled that wrong.
Anyhow yeah I preferred SP because I felt attached/hatred towards characters that it became where I'd feel they were real....
Here...well not really
( mines is 1 too then :P )
(*rolls in*
*rolls out again*)
Lulz how can it NOT be first edition if you're buying it a few days after launch?
( knowing me it'd be like 3 just to annoy me :P
+I thought it was something like "special" like as if something was different, books have been known to do things like that )
@Zaffy Same here, didn't even read the first chapter, will probably re-read Demon Road before starting to read Desolation.
*waves at everyone madly*
You see for me, I usually enjoy the first and second reads more than the first read. On the first read I'm so intent on finishing I don't have time to appreciate the story properly haha. On the second and third reads, it's still fresh enough to not be boring bit I'm going slowly and taking in all the emotion and noticing all these little details and omg, the feels.
I'm currently watching Merlin season one for abput the seventh time and I'm pretty much crying every episode bevause I know the characters so well O just connect with them really well and can feel all of what they're feeling and <3. So much emotion.
*headjerk* nah mate. I not be a Merthur fan.
I'll give you Destiel because I can see that one but I won't give you Merthit, I'm sorry. :P
( HAVE I TURNED YOU STAR?
also the others but shh mostly me)
Good night!
*looks in* Madafukin AHHHHH
STAH I SHIP DESTIEL OKAY I SHIP IT
Oh and yeah I think that's why I can't be bothered to order Desolation. I bought Demon Road and I just didn't finish it. No motivation. I know I read LSODM AND TDOTL in about 4 hours each the day they arrived. Demon Road? It's April I haven't finished, I'm not busy that I can't read, I just don't have the motivation. It's so....Not catching. SP was amazing I think it's what showed me that authors are real people. I lost it with Demon Road. Its so.....Like I feel so much was packed into a book that there's no chance to connect. I can't find any...sympathy, hatred, anything with Amber and I have like 2 chapters left. I just don't connect with her. I find nothing.
Derek would have my head if he ever met me when I say this- It's like Twilight! I didn't connect to Bella and I find Amber the same way....
I never thought I'd use a book Derek wrote and Twilight in the same damn sentence.
SP I liked Val until she became a bitch and okay not acting as ZafTC I did like Skulduggery a lot he was cool. I liked Ravel the most though but my thing is I had since like DD or MC I forget that I began to connect with Ravel. I connected with him as we learned about him and totally supported him. Hell even those of us mentioned I found myself liking and connecting with. I legit was in LSODM and TDOTL but like before that all happened I felt like the readers had a role. We were just as part of the story as the characters.
Not Demon Road because Derek is so rushed....I think he can't put the heart and soul in it.
@Keiron: NO YOU DIDN'T TURN ME I JUST WATCHED SUPERNATURAL.
I'm not allowed to ship Destiel or I'd be disowned, but I can see it. :P
(I need to watch that!)
Muhahaha ship it secretly Star
(*7 years starts playing on the radio*
*breaks radio*)
how're you?
(I'm good
You?)
alright.
k
hehe
(?)
HELLO
*POKES FERA AND CHLOE*
(*poles Kas back*)
*pokes back*
I ded to having someone special to cuddle
(Awwww
Hear hear)
(*rolls in*)
that's not because I've got someone, but because I'd like someone to cuddle with :P
(We all need a cuddle every now and again
If I need one when jacks not there, I cuddle my favourite tou
Hey jai!)
(Hi Chloe, Fera..)
(How is you?)
(Not in the happiest of moods tbh but it's nothing I can't tackle. You?)
(I'm alright)
(Cool. You busy?)
hi jai ^_^
I don't really have anyone to be brutally honest. I'd really like someone to enter my life and be that person :P
(Nope ^.^
That's sweet! They'll enter you life unexpectedly)
(@Fera don't most people? I'm sure it'll happen for you eventually.)
(Can we rp Chloe?)
(Sure Jai ^.^)
Mark: *sprints as fast as he can, speeding up upon hearing the howling*
*the wolves all growl loudly, snapping angrily at the air*
*the one in the house shifts into a tall person with enormous wings, glowing blindingly*
WHERE IS SHE
dunno. I've never really thought about it this way lol.
But then again, I'll just have one more person to worry about. Maybe not the best for me. Idk ^_^
Eira: *shifts back* who?!
(You'll meet them, and hopefully when you're both ready to be met.)
Mark: *reaches the house and snarls at the wolves outside the house, snapping at them*
*the wolves circle mark*
*he steps closer to her*
The fallen.
HOW ARE YOUUUS?
Clocky: we have no idea who you're on about!
(Hi Kas.)
*curls up in blanket and rests head on revision*
Mark: *snarls and snaps at them, fur bristling*
Wolves: *one lunges at his shoulders, slamming into it, biting at his neck, the other for his legs*
Mark: *yelps, slamming his head into the wolf who is biting him*
HER SCENT IS ALL OVER THIS VICINITY
(*hugs star gently*)
Hey, Jai! *waves at everyone*
*smiles at Jai and hugs her gently back*
Clock you: Mark! Let him go! We know not of whom you speak of!
"HER SCENT IS ALL OVER THIS VICINITY" haha.
Idk why that amuses me but it does for some reason.
Like the phrasing "appropriate stick" in the context of "Dan: *finds an appropriate stick*"
"We know not of whom you speak" *giggles*
*is apparently in an amused mood today*
Mark: *snarls, struggling, howling loudly to get Cole to bloody help*
Hoh: Do not test us mortal! Where is she!
well, maybe jai :) Thanks for da encouragement ^_^
hello star :P
(Hehe XD )
Cole: *launches at the wolf hurting wolf*
Eira: what's her name?
*the other wolf tackles Cole, going straight for the jugular*
Mark: *rolls over onto the wolf, scratching his stomach*
Hoh: She has no name.
Eira: there hasn't been anyone new!
Cole: *yelps and dodges*
Hello Fera. :)
(Well that's a bit impractical.
What do they call her if she has no name?)
how are you? :P
@Fera: Quite good actually. Like I should be feeling stressed but I have a radiator and a blanket so I'm quite with life.
You?
^quite happy with
Oh dude. That was terrible typing.
Wolf: *bites deep into Coles shoulder*
Wolf: *growls and starts tearing at Mark's shoulder and neck, biting deep*
Mark: *howls in pain, swiping for the wolf's face*
Hoh: *looks between eira and clocky*
*focuses on clocky*
You.
(xD they haven't talked to her since she was given her charge.)
Clocky, me?
Eira: Cole!
Cole: *howls and wriggles*
I am ok too :)
I should be stressed too. Photography exam on tuesday. But am not :)Don't wanna photography as a job anyways XD
(Well good luck!)
(*remembers the she angel*
*oh*)
Wolf: *keeps his hold, shoving Cole down onto the floor, growling*
Wolf: *easily dodges the swipe from Mark, biting again*
Mark: *yelps and whimpers, leaping at the wolf attacking Cole, dragging the wolf biting him along*
Hoh: She's here for you. We require your service.
@Jai: That's a bit sad.
@Fera: :) Well good luck anyway.
(@Star yeah, it kinda is.)
Clocky: *knows who he's on about now* who now?
Cole: *teies to get up *
Hoh: That isn't your concern. You will help us.
*grabs her arm, dragging her out of the house*
Wolf: *shoves Cole down again*
Wolf: *drags mark back before he impacts with Coles wolf*
Mark: *sees clocky being man handled*
*snarls loudly, smashing his head against the wolf's, fighting harder*
@Jai: :(
Clocky: let go of me dufus! *hits him*
Dai: c Cole: *shanges into small wolf and lunges at Coles attacker*
*gives hugs*
*can't stay*
:c
Take care, guys!
Hoh: *tightens his grip, dragging her along*
Mark: *kicks his attacker off, leaping for clocky's attacker*
Wolf: *bites marks leg, snapping the bone in two easily*
Wolf: *snarls at the small wolf, releasing Cole to pounce on baby Cole*
*a black hawk flies down, swiping at hoh's eyes*
(Bai kAs)
thanks :)
Clocky: *growls* Mark!
Dai: *whimpers*
Eira: dai!
(Bye kas)
Wolves: *both wolves immediately focus on the hawk, running straight for it*
Hoh: *covers his eyes with his arm*
Hawk: *caws loudly and keeps swiping at his face*
Mark: *struggles to his three working feet, leaping at hoh to protect clocky again*
Dai: *runs bak to eira*
Clocky: *hits hoh in the nuts*
Hoh: *hisses, letting her go, trying to grab the hawk*
Mark: *moves in front of clocky, just in case*
Hawk: *flies low to the ground, heading into the woods, the wolves and hoh chasing in pursuit*
Clocky: leave her alone !
*they ignore her, disappearing into the trees*
Mark: *whimpers and lays down now*
Clocky: Mark! *runs to him* you're hurt.. I'm sorry
Mark: *nuzzles his head against her shoulder*
*his shoulder and neck is a bloody mess and his leg is broken*
*licks her arm gently*
Clocky: *shouts for cole*
Cole: *walks out, human and bloodied, but not as bad as mark* shit *picks him up* come on Clocky *runs to inkys*
Mark: *looks up at Cole proudly, feeling good about having at least partially defended his family*
*howls victoriously*
Coke: *rolls eyes and walks into inkys, to the bedroom and activates the sigils when marks on the bed*
Mark: *wolf grins as he heals, shifting and smiling*
We stopped them!
Clocky: ^launches into marks arms*
Mark: *catches her, hugging her tightly, grinning*
Clocky: idiot! You shouldn't have come back..
(*knows how mark will die when it comes to time for his death*
*stores that knowledge*)
Mark: Hey, I saved you didn't I Clocky? You needed help.
(He better not!)
(Better not what?)
(Die!)
Clocky: but you got hurt..
lol "coke"
(xD Not now, maybe not even soon. Just eventually.)
Mark: I knew you'd bring me here and heal me. It was no big deal.
(Damn phone)
Clocky: you could be dead!
Mark: it was only a couple scratches
(Bbs)
(Okay)
well, that wasn't soon XD
(hi ....
can't wait for the old firm the morra!)
(Why does my dog attempt to bury in my dressing gown... When I'm wearing it?
*sighs and resumes my sad little life*)
(And sorry about last night jai, I was dealing with somethings and I forgot about the rp.. )
(You okay Chloe? *hugs tightly* And don't worry sis, it's fine.
Also about the dog trying to burrow into your dressing gown while you're wearing it, my cats does it too.)
Well.
Life is fucking shit
(What's wrong Noelle?)
Too much for one comment
Not like it matters
(Email Noelle
@gem oh god xD)
no, it's ok
hello :P
God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates,
Despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose,
Despite the false grinning faces we all wear.
And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter- they are so rustic so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship- but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.
hello, sunshine :)
:(
what's up?
laugh a minute here...
is that a command? Ok *laughs for a minute* there.
Hello, how're you? :P
(honestly? I'm great. I'm just back from visiting my friends in Italy, and running around all the touristy stuff like a mad thing. no sunburn or hangovers and I made friends with a band in an Irish pub just down the road from the flat. What about yourself? :) )
(I want to go to Italy
An Ireland
And Japan
And Russia
I want to go everywhere
But my picky eating won't help me..
*sighs*
*woll ghost for half an hour unless someone comes on*)
(yo!)
(i've managed to piggy back around Europe a wee bit, but id quite like to visit Japan and america as well.)
(Hello!
I'm glad you enjoyed *.^
I've been to America three times in school and Switzerland once with college, but I've only been to Disney Paris twice with family, the last time was ten years ago
I love Japan... The anime! The cosplaying! I can wear my Lucy from fairy tail cosplay everywhere!!!!)
(my dad moved out to america a years ago (temporarily), and he loved it. I'd love to take my medieval reenactment gear to Japan and find a a samurai reenactor. Just to see who'd win. Plus, I'd load up on sake and Anime goodies. ^.^)
(went to Disneyland once, i think, but i don't really remember it.)
(hows yous?)
(That would be amazing!!! I love the Japanese culture and mythology... And the fashion
There's a website called cute Japanese fashion where I just ordered a new dress and it's so kawaii!
I went skiing in America, a guy fell over te side of the mountain right before my eyes when I was new to skiing, he may have died..)
(I'm tired XD
Not in the mood for college tomorrow tbh)
(ouch...lets assume he lived, and was totally fine.)
(I've applied to join the Japan society of Scotland, to try and blag a free trip :P I'm always really curious about we (scots and brits) are perceived abroad, and Japan is such a different culture to ours it'd be fascinating to see the contrasts as well as the parallels.)
(I doubt Japanese people know of Wales XD
When I go to Portsnouth uni, I hope to join the anime society, the Japanese society as well as the pagan and spirituality society)
(you'd be surprised. i heard recently that theres a city somewhere in the middle of Nowhere, east Asia, where the main language is welsh. just due to the massive immigration from Wales.)
(Seriously?!
I know that Welsh is a thing in Australia, but that is weird
When I went skiing in America, they thought Wales was a town in England and when we gave them the Welsh flag they thought it was our school flag )
(*looks at time * I'm going to bed now otherwise I'll be the walking dead in the morning
Speak soon!)
(ouch. i know how you feel though. i was visiting Bonnie prince Charlie's grave in the Vatican, and this american tour guide kept referring to the Stuarts as English kings. I turned around and told him the full history of the union, from Scotland to Wales, to England and Ireland and even the Latin inscription reads "Britain". how hard is it!?)
(see you later ^.^)
Well not many Americans are good with geography, if it wasn't for the blog I's assume Wales a town in England but of course I know it's a country.
You went out west I assume, I never went out west....the furtherest west I've been is New Orleans, Louisianna.
sorry to have disappeared. I;ve got photography exam soon :P
I know where all the countries in world are!
We had to learn them for World Cultures this year and we just finished our last continent, Africa.
But then again, for me maps and math is super easy to memorize. English and Spanish? Not so much.
*offers hugs to Noelle*
How are you?
Upset..
I mean
Feeling unloved,
Just
....
I just
I'm so heavy, and lumpy, and unattractive, and I'm not smart enough, and no one likes me...
I have no friends
I just
I wish I had a different life
Hi! I'm looking forward to the next book!
I love Desolation, and I enjoyed seeing some more humor in this one. The struggle was in trying not to burst out laughing in a quiet train carriage.
Also, I love the new characters of Kelly's gang- who I have named "Scooby-Two and the Mystery Crew".
Landy, did you get your inspiration for them from Scooby-Doo? I'm entirely certain you did. Which is fine, because Kelly & pals are awesome badasses! Also, what happened between Amber and Kelly... (Sorry, spoilers people! Go read the book)That was an awesome refreshing unexpected plot twist, by the way. There should be more fiction writers out there willing to explore those themes.
I can't wait for American Monsters!
Peace out.
...
I don't even know how to answer
I have body dysmorphia. I'm also very dual- im rational, because I know that I am a healthy weight. But I'm irrational, because I know that I'm not small enough. And despite the fact that I'm a Feminist, I still feel the pressure that the mainstream media and American culture puts onto youth to fit a certain body type, and because I'm not it, I see myself as so, terribly flawed (too "curvy", too heavy, fat reserves in all the wrong places- broad chested, etc.)
So, I'm rational, because I know what is happening. My mother is a psychologist, and I have read her books. I got a perfect score on the AP Psychology test. I understand why my brain is working the way it is. But I can't stop it from happening.
*nods at Noelle*
:/
I think the reason we keep yelling you you don't need to be thinner isn't because we think you're not also rational, but because we hope the message will sink in somehow. Like all the media culture messages. Those ones.
But idk about anyone else but people don't necessarily have to be slim to be attractive to me, and once people get too thin, it's like it's not even pretty anymore because it's scary . . .
And there are some people put there who will find people beautiful when they're literally obese. Like Keiron said, there'll be someone who'll find you beautiful whatever body type you are. And even if nobody did . . . it would be okay. Anyone who judges you on these things doesn't matter.
You're um. Um. *frowns sleepily* Uni soon, right?
*nods* When you go there you can make a fresh start. Because everyone there will be looking to make friends. And even if you don't make friends immediately, you won't be the only one, either.
Like. I know that people's value isn't determined by how many friends they do or don't how. It be fine.
(lucky fucking you ! as soon as i'm in the door she's a fucking cunt to me trying to take me outside I just said no and contud y work fucking cunt I'm not two say it in front of everyone)
( I can kill her? lol likely
-hugs super tightly- I love you too <3
*doesn't help that I brought my straight razor to cut tape as I couldn't find my scissors* )
2 edgy 5 mi :,(
in other news I fisted mother nature...slowly...like a walrus bleeding out on the sand...like a goat trying to escape the very clutches of a bestiality cult...have I put on weight? Probably...I'm gonna kill myself now #prayforequality(*whispers*it'snotreallyequalitybutdoublestandardsbutshhhh)*cuts with straight razor*
jk #jokenotadickdonttakeitsohard
*runs in, poking everyone, and leaving snacks and drinks in her wake*
*pauses, thinking to poke Noelle, but doesn't know if she'd appreciate it, so chooses not to*
*however, if she wouldn't mind, or wants to be included, leaves a gentle poke for her*
*and also tea in case she'd want some too*
*runs away*
*as in not here*
*as in thinking to make it a thing where she'll randomly run in, poke people, and run away again*
*unless people don't like being poked, then will have to think of something else*
*but still not here*
(*accepts the poke happily*
FERA... What the...? *goes to ghost*)
(What the hell Fera?!! That's not a fucking joke and that's not stuff to joke about. I thought you'd learnt to not make stupid "jokes" here?! Just because you put "#jokenotadickdonttakeitsohard" doesn't mean it's okay, hell it just means you knew it wasn't okay but posted it anyway.)
(I've generally been able to ignore all the stupid/ignorant/uncomfortably sexual sh*t you've said recently but clearly doing so only encourages you to be even more inappropriate and idiotic and offensive.)
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