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Wednesday, August 17, 2016
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«Oldest ‹Older 2401 – 2589 of 2589I haven't seen Star Wars either, but something about Empires or something...
*waves to Inky*
wanna know something cool...?
Oh yes please ^.^
I've spent over six months thinking I could never fall in love again after this one guy crushed my soul.
Now I've been talking to this guy I went to high school with and things are beginning to change...
:)
Omg I'm so happy for you!!!! I hope it all works out ^.^
I've... recently entered a relationship with a guy who lives about an hour away from uni
We met on an online pagan community and things are going great
Thank you <3
And aww that's really cute! It sucks about the distance though, at least he's kinda close!
Good relationships are so darn great. I already met Sven's family, and he's coming over to meet mine in a couple weeks. Gotta drag him around like five different families so my curious relatives have seen him all. xD
He's a bit scared. :p
Yeah ^.^ it's like one of the closests relationships I've had, and he's visiting me asap when I get back to uni
Awww well I hope it all goes well Aquila!
Oh it better should, I rearranged my room and changes some furniture just to get a sofa that extends into a 1,20 m wide bed - cause there was no way he'd fit into my 90 cm one with me. xD
I'll make him try all the German foods, too, and take him to castles and lakes and stuff. :3
Sounds like fun *.^
Sure will be. ^^ We have a castle on top of a former volcano, the largest lake in Europe, the alps, the black forest... we'll have plenty to see without leaving my federal state.
Oh, and Mannheim, the city of squares, where you can live in A1 instead of having a street name.:p
Awesome!!!
Here we have... well... sheep xD
Oh, I saw some sheep working in Austria that are a special breed, basically named glasses-sheep. They kinda have a black, glasses-shaped mask of hair on their face. ^^
Seems it's called Jezersko–Solčava in English, and the breed is older than the first wordl war... in any case, they look kinda funny. ^^
Awww that sounds cute!
They sure are. ^^ Oh, I'm kind of scared of cows though. Yes, they don't mean to hurt you - but even if they just playfully bump you with their head you'll get bruised.
In fact, cows are the animals that cause the most deaths around the alps - because people go along hiking paths over meadows with cows, with their dogs. And then the cows have calfs, and think the dog is dangerous, so they try to shoo the dog away.
But the humans think the cows are attacking their dog, so they try to get between cow and dog. They should just let the dog run away and come back to them later, but noooo... they get trampled by a cow instead.
-shakes head-
Cows. Kinda cute and usually harmless... except when they're not. >.>
My friend is scared of cows
I've never really been up close to one so...
Oh, just assume that their heads are as tall as you, but their bodies are as big as a bathing tub and they weigh easily a hundred times what you weigh.
Being scared of cows is pretty understandable, to me. I mean, they honestly, really don't usually mean harm. They are herbivores, after all. But yeah... a scared or angry cow is faster, stronger, and heavier than you. So it's best to keep a respectful distance. ^^
In the woods where I live some bulls managed to escape
I wouldn't have liked to bump into one xD
Ooooh, my dad has a good story about an escaped bull.
So, my dad was working on a farm for a while. And one day they noticed the bull was no longer standing in its place - so they ran out through a door in a huge, metal side of the barn, closed the door.
Just a few seconds after, the bull ran against that side of the barn, and the whole side lifted ten cm off ground before swinging back down.
They called the farmer. The farmer went in hitting the bull in the head with a broom. The bull didn't really notice being hit, but it knew the farmer so it went back to its place and allowed them to tie it up again.
If you ever see a farmer hitting a bull or large pig with a broom? Don't get upset too quickly. I swear, they usually hardly feel it.
Oh wow!
I don't wanna work tomorrow ;-;
What are you doing for work?
Packing facemasks 8-5
... sounds factory-y. Do you get to listen to music?
It is a factory xD
Yep we have the radio
But it's normally BBC radio 1 on which is crap
Ey, anything is better than Schlager.
If you've never heard Schlager, you'll find plenty examples on youtube.
People here joke that that music is against the geneva convetion of human rights. ;)
Well after a ded like that and having just let everyone know I'm still alive what kind of person would I be to screw off into obscurity again?
I do hate being called a "newbie" though, gamer thing.
I wonder if we're not all obscure, one way or another. I mean, most of us never met the other people here - or only very few of them.
So technically, you can hang around daily and still be obscure. ... though it works better if you don't have a picture of yourself. ;P
(I mean, my picture would be proof of a crime if this lilly wasn't a subspecies that is not listed on the threatened species list of just that one federal state in Austria I plugged it in...
... in any other country, if caught, I'd face a several thousand Euro fine.
Ooops.Actually, it probably SHOULD be a crime there, too. Just that they were too stupid to add all subspecies of that lilly. They only added the other one.
Just gotta love having a job where you commit crimes by accident.
Still need to improve my knowledge of plants.)
Haiiii John!
-waves-
Yo.
Dammit I'm always late
I hate it when a night out is cancelled last minute
Understandable.
I actually have a strong dislike for any kind of not keeping an appointment.
I've stopped for the evening in london and now I'm ready to go home :) yay!
Turns out that guy was just another fuckboy.... >.>
In other news, guess who has the stomach flu and is house sitting and has to take care of herself without meds or painkillers?
This mofo right here
"What kind of person would I be to leave?" *IMMEDIATELY LEAVES*
You gonna be okay there? To my knowledge a stomach flu has never killed anyone but hey I'm not a doctor...
*hugs John gently*
I think I will, I'm just suffering right now... I'll be good eventually... <3
Mk, long as you're gonna survive it.
*Hugs*
It's been a while, have you been alright?
I know, I haven't thought about this place for months, and I thought it's about time to poke my head back around for a bit. I've been through a lot, but I'm decent.
How have you been?
Sorry for the super late reply, I lost a cat and only just found him.
Wrong blog, mate. We don't particularly enjoy spam. Find another blog for that, okay?
Getting my new tattoo today
Nervous but excited
... how the heck do you even get with so many guys? Like, you make it sound like you mess up with another one every other week...
... if so, raise your standards dammit! You're an intelligent (probably, you got into uni), independent (you better be at that age) woman (by legal age?), so you can do better than half-assed idiots with fear of commitment.
Just sayin.
I'm finally home.. it's so nice. But I'm also horribly ill right now, and might have to go to the Urgent Care because I have a hernia 🙃
Which is perfect, you know, after 48 hours of travel.
*slinks in, repairs all the benches, slinks out*
Oh, cool.
*Sits on a bench*
I have a kitty on my desk who keeps knocking stuff off.
I finally understand everything now.
That moment when you think something is due tomorrow but it's actually due the day after so you can either go to sleep before midnight or stay up to watch some netflix and be tired in the morning so you end up writing a comment on here instead because yolo and now you gotta go find the satan kitty because he sleeps on your bed and he's not here
Adra you were in Israel and London and I didn't know? I should check this blog more!
Hope you had a really lovely time, I'm going to be going to Israel on Wednesday.
Also I just got offered my first job as a library assistant which is super exciting!
Hi Octa! I was indeed!! It had its ups and downs, and I'm still quite ill from dehydration and exhaustion, but it was an incredible experience. I was going to maybe meet up with Noam, but it was hard for me to navigate around Shabbat and also have money to get to where she is/ have free time at the same time.. :(
But lucky me, I was able to see Trip and Laura whilst in London, and that was awesome :$
Next time, we shall grab lunch! I'll drag along a whole bunch of you crazies and we can all meet up, for old time's sake! I hope to go to London next summer again!
And- really??? That's fantastic! *Many many hhgs* I'm so proud of you!!
Happy Lammas!!
Hellooooo
Hey guys,
It has been years since I've contributed to the comment section of this blog. Im at university now, in my home country of New Zealand, but still love the books, and popped onto the blog randomly to see what Derek has been up to. I'm so sad that he has been inactive here, this place was my family all those years ago when I created this account (as you can see I had very odd taste in names). Everyday after school I would come online and speak to everyone, lile Eve and Flame Phoenix and Ink Star and countless other people who I would talk to for hours and hours until the comments reached the maximum, and then we'd hop onto an older post to continue on the conversations.
Those were the days.
My account says it was created in July 2011, but of course I was a fan long before that, and I'm lucky to say that I've met Derek twice now and that I have all of my books signed. I thorougly enjoyed his latest book, I managed to buy a copy from a bookshop who had put them on sale an hour before they were properly released, I was over the moon!
I'm just writing this to wish that everyone here is happy and to tell you all to never let go of the child that you once were. We all had such imaginations, especially violent ones thanks to Derek's books, and I hope a part of who we once were will always remain inside of us.
Derek, if you read this, I miss you and your funny posts, I hope to meet you again one day when you do your next tour.
Love from,
FreakFan
(Bianca, age 18)
Hi Bianca!
I don't know if you remember me, but I do remember you- we spoke a few times ^.^
I am pleased that life has been up for you, and I wish you all the best of luck at Uni!!!
*rolls in* hello!!
Oh...
FABI
INKY
so baby pull me closer in the backseat of your rover that I know you can't afford, bite that tattoo on your shoulder. Pull the sheets right off the corner of the mattress that you stole from your roommate back in Boulder, we ain't never getting older
Goodness, there's still life in the old girl yet!
Anyone play any Steam games??
I'm starting to get into them now since I got a shed load of vouchers for last Christmas.
Laptop has been hijacked though cause I made the silly mistake of letting my sister plays Sims 4 and now she's hooked lol
Em!! How're you???
I would play but I have no time nor money ;-;
It has been one full year on this post
I've been visiting Aretha for the past few days, and it was a blast. I love her to bits and she is a precious bean who must be protected <3
We also went to a Krav class
She is also a scary bean who can kill people
<3
Sometimes people pretend that you're a bad person so that they don't feel guilty about the things they have done to you.
I'm glad you and Ari got to spend time together!
And yes. That's sad but true...
Nice to see that people still come on here occasionally. Miss you all. - Saoirse x
Guys
I love y'all
Please email me
OI .... dafuq you think you doing in my blog?
I think you'll find that this is my blog, which is why I don't post here very often.
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I'm still alive too
-waves-
Um, I can't tell if alastair's comment was a joke or if an actual hack..
Then I have truly mastered the ideal comment. Thank you for this great compliment.
*waves*
Truly, this is the pinnacle of literary manoeuvring.
It's because when a Aretha and I talk, we literally write like that xD
We talk like doggo memes
I am not very alive but somewhere in between I'd say.
The books always used to come out around now and my mind keeps thinking that the new book from the new trilogy should be being released and then remembering that it was only released a few months ago. I have a pretty insatiable appetite for more though, so that's good.
[throws purple glitter at Trip and then vanishes]
:D
*Is totally glittered*
*shimmers merrily*
Hehe good to read you Fabi
Likewise, my good friend.
How's life treating you lately?
I'm doing really well thanks :) I had a pretty rough time of it a couple of weeks ago, but with some positive changes and some help from Adra I got through it. I'm back to my cheery old self. I'm doing my A levels now, so I'm learning so much so consistently, it's beautiful.
How are things on your end?
I will always be there for you my love ♥️♥️♥️😌😌😌
Tom Rosenthal:
"and Time was with him again,
forming on the left.
What if this voyage would take him to death?
and if this was the end,
there were so many things
he wished he had said.
there were so many things, he wished he had said."
Surely this is not the end, but if it is; you were all fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And do you know what? So was I.
Oh my god, it's been forever
I was recounting my days spend talking to you guys on this blog to a friend and I realised how much I missed you all...
Also, Fabi, I sent you an email just now but I'm not sure if you check your email anymore, so
Hey?
HI?
Dad
Mum?
:D
*Shuffles over and snuggles Trip* *Showers with kisses*
do all you guys do is do this role play thing?
I want to take up less space in the world
did any read demon road and see that Amber had online friends
It was like Derek Landy took inspiration in this chat thing
fuck. how dead is this? XD
Very
God I miss this place
*free hugs for anyone still ghosting*
Hope you're feeling better Ari :(
Hey Inky!! I miss it too. I check back every now and then hoping to see a new post. Derek has said on more than one occasion that the blog is not forgotten, but still nothing changes. Regardless, I hope everyone is doing well.
(Especially Jophiel, if you're still around? I'm an Aussie too :) Seems like you were having a hard time this year - hope things are working out better for you)
Oh hey it's my fifth blogversary. Or maybe it is tomorrow. Might be tomorrow. TBH I forget.
Hey kids. I'm kinda surprised that this has been so dead. Honestly, I'm not sure what to think. But I have a really important thing for you guys to understand.
I always say how this place used to drag me down, and once I got away, I got better. I never meant that as an insult. It has just taken me some time (and some therapy) to realise that I, a young and easily influenced teenager, was being emotionally manipulated by people on this platform that I considered my closest friends.
I didn't realise it at the time.
I didn't realise that people emailing you claiming to be a dead friend and begging you not to tell anyone was so torturous.
Chase was emailing me. He told me not to tell Em. now i have my suspicions as to who that may have actually been, but i wont call anyone out on it.
I had people threatening to kill themselves if I tried.
I had people threatening to kill others if I tried to hurt myself.
do yall realise how fucked up those are??
That's only some of the horrible things that happened to me on this blog. The only ones I can remember, thankfully.
Emotional abuse is a lot easier to overlook if you're young and it's from your friends. Just remember that. And be safe. And kind.
~ Rose
I can feel the nostalgia
for the way this place used to be.
When the sun shed light till forever
and the skies rained joy to the sea.
Somehow all that’s left is a graveyard,
of flowerless tombstones and moss.
This place was loved so deeply
so I refuse to believe it is lost.
See I came to this place a traveller,
once the war had already begun.
Sure people chatted on in the background,
lost in ephemeral moments of fun.
But it was impossible to hide the fighting,
that ravaged it’s way through the land.
The trauma, the tragedy, our typing --
to me, there was no wonderland.
And I never said much in these moments,
because a disease had stolen my song.
Although now I could sing forever
about the first place I’d ever belonged.
I mean this place meant more to me
than anywhere else I had been.
And I loved it despite it’s cancer
as I found friends behind a screen.
I stay because I’m a believer,
the kind of girl who feeds the strays.
And because even though I’ve grown older,
you couldn’t ever keep me away.
The first post I ever saw on this blog, was in April 2014 when Derek postponed revealing the title of Book 9 to address the issue of bullying. This place was rife with terror when I came here, and yet, I miss it so much. I guess for many of you, there’s these great memories from before any of that had started. But for me, I have great memories all through that time. So sure, there were good days and bad days and days that should have never really happened at all - but I never cared that the world was broken. Because I had you all standing beside me.
My point is, some of us miss the old days but they’re not coming back. And some of us don’t even know the old days. But everyone who ghosts here and pops back in does so because they miss the friendship, which isn’t limited to the old days - friendships are immortal. So maybe this blog doesn’t have to return to the old days, maybe old friends just have to return to the blog.
Oh, first post of the new year for me? Alright, I'll take it- and I'll give a few pages worth of thoughts. You're welcome to read it; I reflected like so earlier this summer a few pages back, and I'm sure this will all have the same sentiment.
So, I first came onto this blog after The Faceless Ones was published, I think. God knows how long ago that was. I think that was the summer that I moved to Kentucky from North Carolina. That was a really tumultuous time in my life, because not only had my parents split up in what was a really ugly and long-to-end divorce, but I was leaving my childhood home of eleven years. I left all of my friends, my history, and father behind to begin a new life. And so I found solace in the community here. Everyone was so creative and enjoyed reading. I was always a little nerdy, and was known for having my nose in books. It was nice to be a silly kid with a bunch of other silly kids, and it was nice to talk about common interests.
Things were good for a while, and then, as we all know, Zaf and I went head to head for a few years. And I can't stress this enough (because it is something I often allude to-- not that it's something I dwell upon often, but what occurred between us honestly shaped most of my teenage years and made me who I am today) but BOTH myself and Zafira are equally responsible for what went down. Or, at least, I believe so. I know that I have some friends -some truly wonderful, kind friends whom I love more than anything else in this world- who still to this day say that I am not at fault for what happened. But regardless of what actually did occur, this is what I choose to believe.
Zaf was in a very difficult time in her life, as was I. She lashed out, but I was equally cool and cold back to her. I'm sure that made her more angry at me, and her resentment worsened. After a while, I let that anger overtake me. It hurt sometimes, but I always knew that, if I really wanted to, I could have made it all stop. I could have tried harder to make peace. But I didn't. I chose not to email Zaf, or Skype her, or text her. I chose not to text her at all or try to genuinely treat her like a person, too. If I had, I know it could have been resolved. But instead, I chose to sit back, and let her destroy herself in the process, because I believed that it was what she deserved.
And I should have been more compassionate. As predicted, Zaf did self-destruct. She lost friends here, and the community as a whole fell apart very soon afterward. I sometimes wonder what would have happened had I taken the initiative, and had been the bigger person. Perhaps things today on this blog would look much different.
Maybe it's because almost three years have passed since Zaf has said any ill word against me, and maybe it's because I've forgotten what it was like every day, and I've forgotten how it felt. I know that it felt bad, and I was depressed, but I'm not like that anymore. As I say now, this perspective is something I choose to believe now.
But the fact of the matter is, most of us on here are teenagers. I've mentioned this before, and I will mention it again, but there are people on here (people who used to annoy me to no end, but it's because I saw myself in them) who are teenagers, and going through a lot of emotions. Growing up is hard, and it's even harder nowadays when anything means everything. We are more aware of our existence than we were two hundred years ago, and there is so much to be stressed about.
So people like Rose, and Emerald, and Silente, and Kas, and a few others (although these four happened to come to mind) were people whom I, honestly, used to avoid. And I'm sure they felt the same about me to some extent- I would be surprised if it were anything different.
But the reason why I was at odds with them is because I, as aforementioned, saw myself in them. I saw people who were depressed, and struggling.
When I was depressed, I was afraid to let go of the darkness, and I was sabotaging myself. I didn't want to get better. Not because I had a lack of energy, but because I liked when people felt bad for me, and fawned over me. And when people pay that kind of attention to you for the first time in your life, it feels really fucking good. And I know it was wrong of me to abuse the sympathy and emotions of my friends (including, most of all, Aretha, whose patience knows no bounds) but it is also something that I have had to forgive myself for. It takes a lot to admit to yourself that the only reason why you're depressed is because you want to be, but it takes even more to forgive yourself for feeling that way. I truly did hate myself. You all know this- and I hurt myself and did stupid things. Was it a cry for attention? Probably. Did I actually feel that way? Absolutely. But I only felt that way because I wanted to feel that way, and I was afraid of who I would be without the depression. I wasn't sure who that Noelle would be.
I typed up the story of what happened the night that I took my life, and so if you want more detail, you can click the link below. I give more thoughts and insight into it on my blog. I want to leave it off of here because I want to give you guys the choice on whether or not you want to read it. I know it's triggering stuff, so it is completely your choice if you want to read. However, if it is something you think you are stable enough to read, my insight might help you- especially if you too are struggling right now. I don't want anyone to ever feel the way that I did, and I am hoping that maybe reading what I realized can help.
https://alchemicalbond.blogspot.com/2018/01/a-note-about-my-experience.html
Anyway, long story short, my experiences on this blog really changed me. It led to a long and lonely and heartbreaking teenage years, but I'm glad for what happened, in a twisted way. I wouldn't have matured, or have been so insightful, had this place not been here. And although I remember how happy we used to be, I am content knowing that everyone has moved on with their lives and grown up and grown more into the person that they were meant to be. And I'm glad for the time we were able to have together, brief though it might have been. I'm glad that I was able to be a part of everyone's journey. We're all on this planet to learn, and I hope that this place helped each of us grow.
I'd also like to mention, as a final note, Zaf and I made our peace long ago. We talked on Skype, I think (maybe it was a long email exchange) but we talked about that time between us. I think that that conversation showed a lot of growth for the both of us that, we don't have to be friends (neither of us have an active desire to be) but that we can part ways as people who once had a great deal happen to them, but who can move on with your lives with a clear conscience.
I don't know. I think, if asked today if I consider her a friend, I would say yes. I don't know all of her feelings on everything that has happened (I'm curious, though. As we all know, I'm incredibly vocal and a very open person about my thoughts) but she, being more private, choses to keep that to herself. I don't blame her. I'm sure that what happened between us scarred her just as much as it did me. But, anyway, I do consider her a friend- or an ally, at the least. Like I said, it was because of her that my life was changed. If I hadn't had known her, I wouldn't be where I am today. And I quite like where I am today.
I really miss you all... when I last commented here I comepltely forgot it was my sixth blogversary and honest to god I’ve had so many great times here. I’ve made really good friends, I met a dude I was with for two years and I found one of my closest friends... who I’ll be seeing hamilton with in the next few months
Hope y’all are living great lives
Every once in a while I will remember this blog and the good times that happened here. Coming back to this and ghosting for some time or even just rereading all the conversations that happened calms me, especially when I'm having a bad day. It's kind of funny but whenever I feel a bit sad or lonely I come back to this place because I associate friendship and happiness and just good times with here. Of course, we can't forget the bad but I still cling to the times when everything was just... happy. I hope Blogland can be revived in some way. I really miss the old days, meeting new people, chatting, roleplaying... I miss you all.
*hugs everyone*
Seeing so many people leaving their peace and final thoughts on here got me feeling retrospective. Now this is the first time in months that I've thought about here... but either way reading some comments got me thinking on my own influence on this place however small it was.
Don't get me wrong I brought both some good things and some serious bad things here and I'm not proud of them but that's hindsight now and that's not me. Either way for better or for worse I made some friends here and I haven't talked to them in an age so maybe I'll hit them up again.
Cheers for the memories and life lessons
Well, like... this won't be coming back to life. Not without someone hanging out here every evening for weeks.
... I'll be gone in a month. But I think, until then, I'll be checking in here every evening. Just to see if this will stay dead. Gotta test theories once you put them up, no?
Why I'll be gone? Cause I doubt ghosting here is very... sane. Not for me. I have plenty fun memories, but plenty bad ones, too. And I've moved on since last time I was here.
I have a full time job. I moved out of home and 600+ km away from my family. I live in Berlin, now. ^^ So, I moved on irl - and I think it's time to move on from here too.
Meaning my blog will be gone, as well. But until then, I made allll the old posts visible again. I only ever got to 98 of them, never made it to 100.
... I kind of like leaving it that way.
So yeah, I'll be around. And then I'll be gone. See ya, or maybe see ya never. ;)
Told Sven about this.
"bit needlessly dramatic", he said.
I think that defines the blog pretty damn well. ^^
Meaningless?
How dare :P
Honestly not sure if this is the evening. I toyed around with doing something like this, but I wasn't sure because I kinda like how the blog is now, in a settled dust way.
I might do one of those retrospectives on my time here, I dunno. I was kinda a dick a lot of the time, so looking back on it is pretty hard without trying to talk to the world about it
I read a bit of your writing Aquila, I liked it :) If you're not here rn I'll probably be back tomorrow at 5, but I'll probably be checking all day.
Well, I'm here now. While doing dishes. xD
Adult life. :p
What is this adult life you speak of, I am no understand
But yeah dishes still hanging around in my life, even though I don't have to adult. What were you eating?
https://discord.gg/bAaK9bb
We've been playing mafia here btw :P
Oh crumbs XD
That's a discord link to Adam Koebel's server.
Still good if that's your jam, but I was actually talking about Fabi's minigames blog http://bloglandpuzzlesandgames.blogspot.co.uk/
I ate noodles with bolognese sauce I made from scratch. Like some responsible grown up.
... kinda like cooking, like the clean-up less, though. And I'm still adjusting to cooking for just one person. ^^
... I imagine playing mafia as in playing werewolf?
Pretty much yeah. We're actually doing a skulduggery themed one Fabi came up with this time around.
Cooking is fun, yeah. I really wanted to make pizza today, but we didn't have any yeast, so I eneded up just using cake dough without any sugar :P
I do want to try to make pizza dough some time, but for now I have a frozen one sitting in my freezer. >.>
I kinda still have to put up furniture and paint some more, this weekend. My family helped me drop things off, here, and did leave me a nice (red!) toolbox, but yeah. I'm not fully moved in. Yet.
... one room doesn't even have a ceiling light, yet. xD
... and I realllly need some curtains, living on ground floor.
That's really cool! Where are you living?
In Berlin, pretty far west. Like, far enough from the center for the people from the inner part to joke it's not Berlin anymore.
Gotta say I like it. It's calm, no drunks, no drugs, and I have trees both sides of my street.
And a little shop selling cloth by the meter just opposite my house. I like sewing. :3
Need to nap now so I can do the wash tomorrow morning.
I'll check in some time tomorrow again, though. ^^
Haha, sorry. I never was very good at checking back in on blog conversations. It was one of those things I was trying to get better at, but then kinda ended up not needing to :P
Sounds like a nice suburb. Berlin's really fun, it's a cool place. Are you studying there or is it like, work or summit?
I got a fulltime job at a medical scientific hotline. ... pretty much tell doctors and pharmacists if they can or can not split a pill in half. ;P
Not exactly fancy, but it pays well enough for me to live on my own. :)
Is that all phones? Bc i wonder how long that can last what with the internet
It is phones. Well, actually it is headsets and computers. ^^
And, plenty long. They don't always have the info they need looking-up-able. So why not call the service hotline of the producer?
I'm mostly doing it for experience in the pharmaceutic industry, so I'll be more attractive to employers later on.
... well, and for the chance to live on my own. ;)
That's really cool. Do you wanna research or sell or something?
What I meant by the internet is more sorta the idea that it would presumably be better for your company to operate over some digital messaging service to get lower operating costs r something.
I guess they've probably already looked into that if it's a possibility :P
Actually, they probably have unlimited calls with whatever provider they are with, it's the standard for home phones anyway. xD
Also why I need to get a phone that's able to talk to my router, cause then I don't have to pay a cent for inner-German phone calls. :)
Learn from my mistake..
... just because a glass jug withstood tea water (aka hot water) several times, doesn't mean it will keep doing so.
-walked out on the cracked jug full of boiling hot water, after realising there was no safe way to move it-
... and also after realising bringing my face real close to it to look at the crack was a baaaad idea. It's a night full of self-taught lessons. ... glad I realised before a mix of glass shards and boiling water could cause permanent damage.
... well then, guess I gotta add a jug to my shopping list.
Am I still me...?
I am! Great. Um, I was just thinking now on Blogland all the fun times. But it was the not-fun times that brought me back here and away from my bed time. It was so silly, but I just really wished I would pop in and see all my friends chatting like in 2012. But instead I’m seeing everyone writing things that look like goodbyes. I don’t know, I guess it’s just ‘cause I’m 18 now and scared of growing up or life moving on without me. And I just wanted to leave my email here, I hope someone who remembers me as a friend can see it. You don’t have to reply, but I just feel so sad seeing you guys seem to disappear without a trace. I don’t know if you feel the same, but this is my email address so you know I’m still a real person there are ways to find me, even if you don’t want to find me.
evej@outlook.com
I’m going to probably feel like an idiot if I find out emails are displayed on profiles or something. Anyway, it was more of a gesture.
So yeah, I was thinking about what it was like and I miss being stupidly happy like that. I think a few of us ended up messing that up. I messed it up by being a shitty friend to someone I really cared about but never proved it. Star, I’m sorry for never replying to your emails and you even tried so many times to keep the contact going and I paid you back with see-through excuses. Emailing was supposed to make us closer friends, but I ruined it. I think that was the time where everyone started drifting apart. I don’t know if I’ve even apologised for that before, but it still makes me feel terrible because you were always there to listen to me and my stupid 13 year old troubles. It would’ve been so easy to just respond once a day but I couldn’t even manage that. Anyway, the reason the guilt has stayed is because you were a great friend. Besides the bad memory I put in there, I only have good memrories of you. Thinking about you is making me miss you and I hope you’re at a happy place in your life, that’s all.
I want to read the old comment sections so I can remember everyone and everything that happened but it would be embarrassing and painful at some parts haha. It’s just hard to think about, it’s like trying to fit into your old cubby and realising you’re too big for it now. At this age I’m realising that things really don’t last forever and life takes you on a one-way trip. My childhood looks so far away from here and the worst part is that it’s going to keep getting farther until it disappears. As a result of this I feel as though my personality is forcibly regressing itself. My mind is well aware of how I’m feeling but time just doesn’t care. And ‘the past’ for me isn’t even that big yet. I don’t know how I’ll handle it.
Anyway, this looks really pathetic but I’m actually content most of the time, I’m just treating Blogland as my personal diary today apparently. I can’t turn back time, so my next impossible wish is that all my friends from 2012 Blogland and I can appear in the same place irl and meet each other like that. Maybe it would be special in it’s own way. I just want to hug you guys.
I think you’re all gone but I’ll check this place every Tuesday from now on just to see.
Oh don't worry about your childhood vanishing. At least in my experience, life is more like one of those russian dolls. You know, the ones with smaller ones in them?
I have plenty smaller mes wrapped in other, older mes. I'm basically an onion. And if you think about it, you may be, too.
Just cause your outer layer is all new and changed (and the most outer one is a protective rough one), doesn't mean the inner ones are gone.
Sure nothing lasts forever and memories do vanish at times - but there's still younger you somewhere in you. Promise. ;)
Aight.
It IS a little premature, but I don't think a couple hours more or less will matter, now.
Bye all, and bye Blogland!
Hello, if anyone is there
Have y’all heard of the app amino
It’s an app and you can create communities
It’d Be cool if we could create one for members to drop in if and when they want to talk
Sounds like a good idea to me.
Oh and hi, long time no see.
one month later...
I’m going to make an amino
I’m gonna open two public chats: general discussion and a rp one
People can make their own public chats but I think you’ve gotta hit a certain level
I’ll post a link here when it’s up :)
http://aminoapps.com/c/Blogland
The community needs fleshing out but I wanted to get it out there
*dusts the cobwebs off my comment box*
Dayum... how long has it been??
too long em, too long
*sucks in a sharp breath*
Oh holy wow. It’s been ages.
I don’t know if my name is the same once I sign in, but if any of you remember Lavender Hope...
My email’s still the same. And it’s open to anyone who wants to say hi.
And since a lot of you have left some kind of message, I thought I’d share mine.
Coming back to this place brings back so many memories. From the ones I’d made all the way back in 2012, the first year I joined the blog, to the last time I visited. This was... what can I say? This place had it’s ups and downs. We’ve had our fights, the lies and deceit that tore us apart and hurt so much. But we also had those moments when we stood together, trying to make everything better again. I still remember how we used to talk about buying a huge plot of land and making a place irl for everyone to meet and stay at. And I still have the smallest flicker of hope that someday, maybe... just maybe it could still come true.
Because the friendships that I made here will not be forgotten, even if we stopped talking to each other for so long.
I also want to say I’m sorry for any hurt I caused during my time here. I wanted to be that person others could go to for support. I wanted to be the one who could balance the opposing sides.
But there were times I let my emotions get the better of me. There were times I was hurtful to those who were already hurting. I didn’t understand it then. I didn’t realize. But looking back, I can see my own mistakes so clearly and I’m sorry. All of you, those that I met, have been very dear friends of mine. Thank you for the memories. I miss you guys so much. I miss the way this blog used to be when it was active.
We only have one life, and it feels like it’s passing by in a blur. I mean, take a look at the dates of the comments. Weeks and months pass between them.
Regardless, no matter where you guys are in your lives, whether you’re struggling to finish school or find jobs, or if you’re happy where you are, I still hope that we can meet in person, if we ever get the chance.
I’ll put that on my bucket list. ;P
Never forget that you are loved. I miss you all dearly. <3
~Lavender Hope
It's been over a year since I dedicated this page. I feel like, not only have the majority of us lost interest, but Derek himself. His last post was two years, but I have to admire the strength of every single one of you returning and adding a comment still, even though most of you may be met with silence.
I think I might try and be on, hopefully once a day. We're not drawing in all the one-commenters - who would comment on a 2 year old post? - but maybe with a bit of persistence we can bring us all back?
Please tell us Skulduggery Pleasant fans whats happening with the making of movies for the series. I promise you it would be a hit in the cinemas! Please consider it, I beg of you Derek. Every person I have introduced to the book has also enjoyed it thoroughly.
Hey Lav (though you probably won't see this lol)
I ran across a YouTube channel with a butterfly profile pic that reminded me of your old profile pic the other day.
I asked derek a little while ago on twitter, and he doesn't have any plans on bringing the blog back. he said it was dead.
so i guess there's that.
what happens to a world when god finally decides to leave?
Though this blog may be dead in posts and actuall human traffic
It’s forever alive in the hearts of the people who loved this place most
Alive in the friendships made here
In the saving of others from the abyss
Forever
All in all I think it's impossible to sum up my experience here. There was a lot of good, probably much more bad than I can even remember - but I think that's life. Highs don't necessarily make up for lows but they help make them what they are. A good day after a bad week is all the more sweeter.
I honestly don't really know what I'm trying to say. I think my ultimate point is this place defined me like nothing else has, and maybe nothing else ever will. Life has moved on, there are months on end where I don't even remember this place exists, but it still defined me. The people here defined me, are such an unbelievably huge part of who I am today.
Some of those people I won't ever talk to again. For some of those people I won't because I've got too much anxiety to send the email that I want to, because in truth I don't really know if the experiences we shared meant as much to them as it did to me. For others it's because I don't really remember them. They would've been some of the most important people in my life 5 or 6 years ago but I still can't remember them. Bad memory or bad person - or both. For others it's because I don't want to talk to them. And I think that's okay, nobody is under any obligation to like anyone else. There would be a lot of people who didn't like me. But importantly - they still defined me. Everybody I knew here for long enough did.
There's so much more I want to say, but it's just impossible to sum up my life here. I'll be unoriginal for a sec and copy Eve's idea.
nixion.strange@gmail.com
I have changed at least a bit since I was here. One of those changes is that I can't really hold conversations like I used to. I tend to fade out within a few hours. I'd absolutely love to hear from anyone I used to know who wants to talk, but I hope you don't get offended if I stop replying, or maybe don't hold up my end of the conversation like I should. I also hope you don't get offended if I can't quite remember you. I've forgotten too many things that matter to me.
The optimist in me wanted to set up ways for some of us to keep in touch more permanently but it's probably better to let life move on. Too much would've changed, nobody really knows each other anymore. But even after all this time, when I think about what my ideal day might look like, I picture a lake. And the people that I never met around me, people that I love dearly. People who once upon a time we're my whole world, and who I wanted to get to really meet more than anything. That's my ideal day. I don't think anything could be more perfect.
Hey all! I don't know what made me check in, I haven't been on in years, but since apparently people are doing goodbyes, I figured I might as well? I left before it started to get really bad (not voluntarily, but that was complicated), and so most of my memories are just of the love a lot of us used to have. And how sometimes when I listen to certain music or read a certain book or use a certain phrase or abbreviation I remember specific people from here whom I never even met but who were there for me when I was just an annoying kid doing my best. So. Thank you everyone I know, hello everyone I never got to meet.
Feel free to email me at kestrellestarre@gmail.com - even if we didn't talk when I was active, I love meeting people.
GOATS
Hey everyone who may see this!!!!!
So... if anyone wants to message me, chloe@cfc.co.uk is my email (as usual)
I also created an amino community just called Blogland for those who wanted to keep in touch. Theres a general chat and a rp chat so people can do what they want. Its a bit dead though, but i will be there if people wanna chat
Hey everyone!
I hope I'm posting this as Mara because I'm way too lazy to check, but yes. Hello. It's Mara(lie Lily Charm) here.
It's a bit sad to see how dead Blogland is now, but I suppose I can't really voluntarily leave and then complain about how everyone has left... But I feel like I should at least post one last message on here before I say my farewell.
I think I joined Blogland when I was about 11? I'm 18 now, so that's a little scary. But I've been thinking about it a lot, and I realised that... I went through a lot of really hard times in my life when I was a Bloglandian so to say, and I'm afraid to this day that I took it out on many of you here. I was also very young, and... embarrassing lol. Let's not talk about my 1D obsession pretty please (although I don't regret being a fan my god their music is so great). I've made so many friends on here, and honestly I have no idea how any of you put up with me. My goodness I'm so annoying. However annoying I am now though, I was about 800 times more annoying when I was on Blogland, so apologies for that...
Blogland will always hold fond memories in my heart, from our roleplaying to Harralie (help) to me crying over Little Mix and even getting Kessie, Star and Fabigail to be fans... Those Were The Days. However fun it was, though... I feel like maybe it was good that I left when I did. I think I needed space from the internet and from Blogland more specifically, even though I ended up being a Little Mix fan account on Instagram literally like... three weeks after. Facepalm.
I love you all so much, and I'm really glad that I got the chance to meet you guys, and experienced the stuff I did here. Even though, at the time, I felt like I was going through a tough time, I really did meet such amazing friends/family here. Thank you Derek, for creating Blogland, and thank you to all of you Bloglandians, for making Blogland.
If you guys would like to contact me~
Email: maralielilycharm@gmail.com
Instagram: httpjane
Goodbye for now, Blogland! ♥︎
— Mara
So in this month alone I've had:
my first work Christmas party
being let go from my job
turned 29
seen the Wild Lights in Dublin Zoo
been so broke that I can't get any Christmas presents.
The roller-coaster that has been December has been real!
fun fact I joined the blog 6 years ago
I joined this blog when I was in year 7? Or 8? Anyway, this year would have been my third year of university. I've fallen in love in here. I've had my first heartbreak. I've had the fondest and worst memories. Requiem Ball, fights, roleplays, losing loved ones, mental health horrors...
But that's Blogland. That's just how our little community worked. We loved each other. We were always there for each other. We supported each other when we couldn't support ourselves.
I remember when I first joined and my mother found out. I wasn't allowed to talk to people I didn't know online, so being on this blog was absolute treason to her. I got in so much trouble. I had to sneak on here on our iPod Touch that my family shared, and then they'd know because I had to clear all the browsing history. My parents almost murdered me because of it aha
I love you all and wish you all the best. You shaped my childhood and my obsessive personality (thx guys now im an addict to like everything aha). If any of you ever need anything, never hesitate to ask. I'm only an email away lovelies.
Love y'all
~ Death Rose
email: deathyrose@gmail.com
insta: danniliv
Okay, I was going to leave this for someone else to take, because I've had the top post for the last year and a half, but I guess I'll take it again.
I'm dedicating this page to Blogaland.
You've treated us well, done us proud, and made a family from misfits. You bought together a whole lot of people who probably would have never met otherwise, and left us with some pretty rad memories. We made a home here when some of our homes were pretty broken and empty and altogether not that nice.
And, to Derek, too. Because without you, we wouldn't have had a 'here'.
It's time to put this beautiful place to rest. I can only hope you all have wonderful lives and live magical adventures. I love you all.
- Rose
Literally just thought of this and now I’m in crisis.
it’s in the first book and generally through out the series, they all talk of a war that took place before the events of the books,
But my question is, does the magic world have an army in the same way a country has an army? So people dedicated to combat or was it more along the lines of “get everyone involved quick, because it’s gonna decide our futures” sorta thing?.
Genuine question
I love you ur books I go to realt na Mara biggest fan by the way I have a blog to www.fashiontips50.blogspot.com
I can’t believe I joined this place when I was like,13 and now I turn 21 today 😭
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I still come back every now and then to remind myself of the amazing community we had here
missing you all 💔
anyway an updated email address is in my profile if anyone ever wants to get in contact (I got locked out my old one)
Oh hey it’s my blogversary (maybe. It’s either today or yesterday or tomorrow)
This blog was one of the best and worst decisions of my life.
I met the most amazing people on here and created amazing stories and memories. There will be things that will always remind me of blogland or your characters or some stupid mad plot we'd have. I'm reminded of the days where I would wake up an hour earlier normal before school so I could read up on every comment, so I could see who had done what, said what, and where the plot was up to.
However.
I was struggling back in those days. It would be about 10 years ago when I joined. I was going through quite a bit and blogland was my escape. It was my sanctuary. From that, there were two kinds of people: the ones who helped, and the ones who preyed on my struggles.
I will not name names, although they know full well who they are because I was talking to them recently about how bad they messed up. I, a young teenager suffering with mental health issues, was manipulated, lied to, threatened, heavily encouraged to write smut (with another who was over 18 (and is heckin illegal)), mentally tormented, and broken down to be rebuilt as their best friend. I was sent emails from someone we lost too soon. I was begged not to tell anyone. I was drowning in my terror because I couldn't tell anyone. And when things got bad, I was threatened again. Because I would be killing others if I hurt myself.
And when I would leave and I cut contact... Things got better. Until that person would find a way to drag me back in again. At least I am old enough to know my rights and have enough evidence of abuse, bullying, torment, and smut that I can talk to a lawyer about it if they attempt to contact me again - something I have made quite clear to them.
But because of all of that, I have been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. I will never have my fairytale life I always wanted. It's ruined friendships, relationships, jobs, and so many opportunities. All of that which I will never get back.
So thank you Blogland. For the good, at least. I'm am so fucking sorry if any of you went through the same thing with that person. No one deserved that. Not young, impressionable kids struggling with their mental health and wanting to make friends and tell stories. And not when that person was old enough to know better.
So goodbye Blogland. I do hope I never have a reason to be anywhere near here again.
-- Death Rose
Okay so I wrote a big embarrassing comment then it got erased. Kinda relieved, kinda bummed out...
Well the story is that I’m worse than ever; can’t reply to you guys’ life update emails because I’m ashamed of myself; I’m honestly deteriorating; don’t really leave my bed these days; I’m a pathetic slug corpse; taking comfort in things that aren’t real; I wish the past two years of my existence weren’t real; trying to pretend I don’t exist in general; hanging onto the very last bit of hope for myself that I have; hope everyone is doing well I am fine.
This isn’t for anyone to feel sorry for me it’s just for my future Eve. I hope I can seance her through this comment and find out if I should just climb into the ceiling and start rotting already. Sorry blogland I’m just a darker shade of pathetic every time I come back here. See you soon.
*eats a live chicken*
Also if Derek ever shut this website down I would cry haha, spare us please
*hugs eve* I’m here for you
I wanted to just pop in here once and say something cool:
Aretha and I never stopped writing. In 2014, in the midst of the cyberbullying from a number of people on this blog, I made a private blog with Aretha. The two of us shared this blog by ourselves. I just counted that from 2014, up until today, the two of us have amassed 55,045 comments on this blog. Let's pretend each comment is around 50 words (which it varies wildly, but let's say this is the average), that is 2,752,250 words.
(This is different from the other private blog called Writers, Authors, and Little Conversations that I shared with Aretha, Trip, Star, Mara, Fabi, and a few others which collectively amassed 44,793 comments- I would say the average comment there was probably 100 words, since Star was known to rant back in the day-- that would be 4,479,300 words collectively)
That's insane. And I love it.
One other thing- Death, I know we never really got along, but I also have Borderline Personality Disorder, and I think the two of us struggled with a lot of similar things at the same time. I tried to reach out to you on Twitter a few months ago, to no response. But hearing you struggle with BPD has made me want to just let you know that I see you and hear you, and I think maybe one of the reasons we butted heads so much was that undiagnosed BPD + undiagnosed BPD= too many uncontrollable, intense, exposed-nerve-like emotions. I wish you the best, though, and hope that you have a way to live peacefully with this disorder.
-Noelle/ Adra
Thinking of y'all.
Times are crazy right now, everywhere, for everyone.
But we'll all get through it.
I miss you all! Look for Chloe Elizabeth on Fb!!!
I love you guys.
The sun sets early over Blogland this time of year, and a chilly breeze tugs at the long brown coat of the woman who walks what used to be a path. The grass almost completely covers it now, but her feet remember the way from the countless times she walked here when growing up. She had thought of herself as an adult at the time, but when she looks back on it now the past version of herself seems so young, so…not immature exactly, perhaps unrefined?
A tumbleweed blows across her path and her gaze follows it towards the darkened porch of the bar. It could be a place to start, she thinks, but she can’t be sure that it’s safe to go in. Trip was a spy once, too. A spy would set traps.
One of the trees that used to hold a treehouse looks as though it blew over in a storm months, if not years ago. She can’t remember whose treehouse it was. There were a few people who had treehouses. She had not been one of them. There’s no specific space for her to return to here, not really. It makes it harder to know where to look, but it also means that no one else is likely to have found it either. In two hours, the rain will start, and it’s supposed to pour down hard enough to cover any tracks she might unintentionally leave behind. If she doesn’t find it within those two hours…the plan becomes a bit more difficult.
Awwww. Looking back here at everyone’s blogs makes me remember how loving we were to each other as kids. It was a pretty unique and small community and I was active for less than a year. Star, Mist, Nix, Lav, Luciana. I wish I could remember everyone but I remember the love, I think that’s all that matters.
I swear to God, being a 24 year old (lel for being here are over a decade) that I heard something that unlocked a memory that my subconscious tried to repress.
Fuck you Em. And fuck you by pretending to be Chase. You never deserved him, because you dealing with your grief was FUCKING GROOMING A PRETEEN AND FORCING THEM INTO UNCOMFORTABLE SITUATIONS WHERE YOU. you fucking knew. And you never cared that you'd send me photos of all the pills, and how you cut your wrists, and did everything to keep me your perfect little pet.
Fuck you Emerald Melody for taking my childhood.
Ah, hell. What a life, hey?
Getting cosy over here with my nostalgia, reading all the epilogues we've left. I signed up in May 2010 when I was 13, around the time Skyril Oblivion was starting to stoke the community into something persistent. I just turned 27 yesterday. I'm almost always still that kid in my head, refreshing my iPod to see new comments using the most uniquely inefficent communication system. Reaching out to others reaching back.
Everything was so big back then, every drama world-endingly massive. They all shrunk with time. Reading Death's comment above is a bit wild: I must have missed the Em/Chase revelation. It just feels like Kallista/Michelle revealing she was 43 years old, unforgivably pretending to be a child and growing up with us. What a life.
I had an unforgettable time here. I hope you all did too. I still write, but a little slower and a little less skeleton-detective-focused. I still use the same old email, which is found easy enough.
I wish most of you a soft, comfortable life.
Hellboy
Damn. Can you believe it's nearly 2024? I'm now 31!! I have a baby! Well, we have a baby.
The first relationship I had (here) was, in hindsight, pretty bad. But the second one's still holding. We married. We live in Berlin. And we have a baby that manages to be bigger than 99% of other three months olds. ... I'd be fine with a lighter one, but wouldn't trade ours for any other.
We joke that we got a beginner-friendly baby. Our flat is small, but not expensive- which is great, since I'm on the job hunt. My employer didn't give the lady on parental leave a new/permanent contract. Oh well. Life's good anyway.
I used to care about politics so much more.. now I honestly don't. Being an adult keeps you ridiculously busy, somehow. (The damn wash and dishes never end - and I'll never like dusting!)
I hope everyone is doing well and will keep doing well.
Greetings from Berlin
Aquila
Hello All,
I hope you’re doing well. Just thought I’d post in here after a few years lol.
Things have changed. I’m 26 now, working in a carehome. I’ve been with my current partner for seven years and I’ve a son! He’s going to be two in just over a month and he’s such a smart little cookie.
I hope everyone is doing well. I think about this place a lot.
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