After a bizarrely warm November, it's starting to get pretty cold indeed around these parts. Christmas decorations are everywhere. Shopping queues are getting longer. This morning I heard "Merry Christmas (The War is Over)" on the radio- the first Christmas song I've heard in 2011. And a few days ago I posted a TON of cards and letters to readers who had written to me- so it is OFFICIALLY close to Christmas. I can now safely announce it.
You may rejoice.
And the competition winners may ALSO rejoice, because the books I have to sign have finally arrived. I'll sign them all this weekend, have them ready to be picked up on Monday or Tuesday, and then hopefully you'll be getting your prizes over the next few weeks. It'd be cool if you could get them BEFORE Christmas, so that's what we're working towards.
There's still a lot of work going on in my house. I'm getting one of the rooms refurbished- COMPLETELY redesigning it- as well as the kitchen redone, and that's been going on since the start of October. Basically, it means a lot of noise and hassle and interruptions, so I haven't been able to focus on Book Seven, which I really would have liked to have started by now. But hey, I'm not worried. My house is going to RULE when it's all finished, because finally I'll have a proper place to store my toys.
A lot of you may not know this, but I love toys. I collect movie memorabilia and props and stuff, and also comic-book statues. To give you an idea of the kind of things I'm talking about, here are a few action figures...
... and a rather large Iron Man (I've put a book beside him to give you an idea of scale)...
Oh, and here's a 12 inch figure of Sweeny Todd about to give a 12 inch Ichabod Crane a very close shave...
Boy oh boy do I love toys...
As you can imagine, my place is full of equipment boxes right now, so I'm going to leave you with a picture of one of my cats- Pooper- doing what cats love best: clambering into cardboard boxes for no apparent reason.
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«Oldest ‹Older 4601 – 4800 of 4817 Newer› Newest»No. You try and do that and I'll rip your own windpipe out of your throat. Hell, I'll do that if you even make a step towards he with a bad intention.
I would.
I'd avenge you, Nix. You're my friend.
No one is taking me hostage. I might take myself jostage though. One day...
I wish i had a superpowerful part of me
Im already insane, why can't i have a insane world killer
I like trains
But I want Nagier to come here! Come onnn.
*her
Honey, why is the baby on fire?
BUY ME MORE JEWELERRY!
I have an idea...
-Hugs Eve suddenly-
Friendly...right...?
Id avenge you, nix. Actually, I'd just use my Ressurrection toolkit.
*glares at Dylan and turns back to the piano*
*stays away from the circle*
Funny how you hugged her when we're somewhere in a forest and you're near the lake...
I want Nagier to commememememememememememememememememe
Die Potato
Noooooo
*splat*
*moves away from Dylan and takes mist deeper into the forest*
Die Potato
*Potato pulls out a gun*
Not today
*follows Eve*
This part is really dark...
*looks for sunlight*
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This is FREAKING hilarious. It's an amazingly funny cat gif.
Boom!
SEcond
No sunlight here. But look. *points to glowing ferns*
That's funny
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Look at ittttt.
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*smiles at Mist*
*stands up*
Dylan, can I have my windpipe back now?
You really need to kill someone dead next time.
Got your nose
LOOK OUT HE'S GOT A NOSE
*gunshots*
*grins at Eve and holds her hand*
Dang it, I gotta go.
-Grabs Mist and throws into piano circle-
Hi, Apricot! AHAHAHA!
saw it Dylan
*kisses Mist*
I'm going to practise my archery
*trys and hits duck*
How come i keep missing the target and hitting the duck?!
*kisses back and remains un-jellyfied*
*smiles* I've never had my first kiss in reality. I'm glad I haven't. I want my first kiss to be with you.
*smiles at her*
Me too.
...Well, with you I mean. Not me. That'd me weird.
*kisses must again* I have to go now. My dad has been calling me for half an hour. I'll be back though. *bursts into oblivion*
Hello parking meter
Hello
*shocked face*
*kisses back*
Bye, Eve!
*looks around forest*
...I'll just wait here.
You've got to help me! My tie is evil and it's trying to kill me-e-e!
*slowly backs away*
*guy looks down at his tie*
Please don't kill me
Mwah ha ha ha ha...
Bye Eve
im leaving soon
Okay, Nix.
*starts editing chapter again*
Quickly...
unless you get it finished ni the next... five minutes, you may as well wait till tomorrow
I'm coming back to say...
I mean it when I said I've had it. I don't want to be here when there are people who try to kill themselves. I don't mean everyone, but some. I'm really leaving. I'm not coming back. Not until I see things better(doesn't mean it has to change right away, just sometime in the future). I've tried, I've been trying whenever I could, and I'm going to keep trying to help, but right now, I'm done. Throwing the towel in. Whatever.
I'm sorry Sparky. That I can't help you... I'm sorry that I can't do anything about this. It's your choice now. Just know, just remember, I care. I'll always care for my friends. I'll be checking emails and blogs, but I'm not coming here. I'll comment on other blogs, I'll post on mine, but I'm leaving Derek's. Cause this is where everyone goes.
Right now, I don't want to be with everyone. So I'm going. I'm sorry, I've had enough.
*vanishes for good*
Lav?
Bye, Hope.
See you in a week. ;)
okay, im going now
BYE!
Bye, Nix!
Try and get on tonight if you can.
...Lav...?
She's not watching anymore.
*shrugs*
I told you not to go on about that, Sparky.
*goes back to writing*
Zathract, you have no faith.
Lav is going to stay away.
For a long time.
And it's my fault.
And...
You were right Zathract.
I shouldn't have pushed it.
*looks at my ring*
Ups and downs. Highs and lows. The lack of ability to take a hint.
I despise myself.
Well don't despise yourself.
You don't need to.
Firstly because...urgh, forget that, I'm not writing out a speech.
Lavender will be back before long. She isn't the only one who has tried to leave and she's already done this three times before.
If she's really going to stay away, we'll know about it.
And she's coming back. It might have been your fault for this incident, but essentially it was mine.
*chucks memories of the post-depression saga away*
...
I believe in Lav.
She'll stay away.
And if she really is watching at this point, which I doubt she is, then she'll be back probably before the week is over.
She doesn't like seeing people unhappy and what she see's now is her making you feel bad. That's obviously not what's happening but I bet that's what she would be feeling.
So she'll be back and so she's gone. For now. But that won't last long. And we all know it.
*turns around*
Don't we, Hope?
*curses*
I hate the Coles ad...
What I don't bloody understand is why you were trying to die again right after you got engaged!
Why?!
...Hello?
Heeeeeeeeello.
Ah sh*t.
Ah...
Hello...?
Sparky, is it neccessary that every time I'm gone you have to tell someone to kill you? Do I have to look through all the comments from the past two weeks to count how many times you've said that?
Uh.
I'm sorry, and it might be off topic, but... It seems like everytime I come on I see a comment where you ask someone to kill you, and it's making me upset...
That's technically breaking your promise. Which, to remind you, you've already broken once.
*pokes head in*
Twice before now, Val.
*vanishes again*
About that...
I know it was twice, but there was one time where it really counted.
What about it, Sparky? Finish your sentence.
*nearly scowls, but doesn't quite*
I, uh, earned that...
Hello! I'll be back In a minute.
Lav...well, she....mm.
Okay, I'll be with you in a sec.
*reappears in the forest where Eve left and waits*
Darkness...
*grins at the glowing ferns*
*crosses arms irritably*
*starts quivering*
Val... I'm sorry...
Being sorry doesn't fix the fact that you broke your promise.
I-I know...
Why'd you do it? You said you wouldn't do it again, and then you did. So why'd you do it?
I don't know..
I guess, inside my own head, I decided that I wasn't what was best for the people of Blogland or something...
How did you figure that one out?
Actually that should have been:
How do you figure that?
..I think...
That can't be it. Because You know that you mean a lot to me. You mean a lot to Flame. Even to Amanda, despite when she wants to attack you for calling her China Pleasant. And Derek thinks your awesome, too; he's said things to you more than he has to me. So that can't be why.
*is suddenly there, holding Mist's hand*
But it is.
How I came to that conclusion: Just look at me, I'm a nervous wreck.
*smiles at Eve*
Hi.
*smiles back* Lello. *taps a glowing fern, making them all sway*
*swears* Stupid internet stopped working...
*watches the swaying ferns and grins*
Sparky, you got nervous when you knew that I was upset with you. You didn't seem nervous before that.
Well, I was.
*glances at my ring and sighs sadly*
I really was terrified.
I really am terrified.
Everything glows here. *grows claws and scratches M + E into a tree trunk*
*smiles as writing glows*
Why are you so terrified?
*smiles at the glowing writing, then grins at Eve*
I'd just like to point out how incredibly different these two conversations are...
Your point has been duly noted.
Not dully, duly.
General state of paranoia.
That's a lie.
I'm just scared of....
Everything.
*draws a heart around writing*
*takes Mist through the forest*
There's sunlight here.
*stops in meadow*
*frowns*
Wait....
Agh! What?
*takes mist out of meadow*
What's wrong with the Meadow?
Everything? Even the air?
Hell, probably.
I'm terrified of the things I imagine.
My imagination is one third writing and two thirds playing out scenarios inside my head that scare me.
Senarios that scare you? Such as...?
*shakes head* I did not come into the forest for a Twilight reanactment.
DO NOT REANACT TWILIGHT! IT WAS HORRIBLE THE ORIGINAL WAY, DON'T MAKE IT WORSE!
Brb
Such as things that I don't like thinking about.
Things that really...
When I imagine it as though it were happening, it makes me feel cold inside.
It makes me want everything to just go away...
And I've been thinking like that more and more...
Oh. I haven't seen Twilight anyways...
And what about me? When you want everything to go away, do you want me to go away too?
Mist, you haven't seen Twilight? I envy you. So, so much...
I'd LIKE to see Twilight.
April Fools!
...Yes, that was terrible.
Val...
E-mail.
...I like Twilight. The books, only the first and last, the movies, only the first and last.
I want to read the books but I've been told the movies are rubbish...
Val, I don't want those things to happen so badly...
I'd die.
Edward's eyebrows have, like, squirrels living on them and it looks weird.
The only way I'd feel that way towards you Sparky is if you left suddenly because you commited blog suicide.
*grips head*
it hurts...
*grabs Sparky's head and shouts at it*
STOP GIVING HER BAD THOUGHTS! IT HURTS HER HEAD!
*thinks* Speking of hurting your head, shouting isn't the best...
*Speaking
The second and third movies are pretty rubbish. The first and last, er, part one, are pretty good.
*covers ears*
Don't shout...
Paranoia.
Not fun.
Amanda threatened to tie me to a chair and force me to watch the last one... I screamed when she said it.
Sorry, I shout a lot. You heard me shouting at Amanda to shut up.
The whole world's crazy now...
*continues humming song*
It's all about what you like. If you can't stand romantic movies, then you sure as hell shouldn't watch Twilight.
*shrugs*
I don't mind romance.
*grins at Eve*
ANYWAY. Let's climb a tree. *climbs up a tree and sits on a branch.
*lies down*
*rolls onto my side and looks at the grass blankly*
I-I.
I just want it to stop...
*grins back*
*hugs Sparky* Fight it. Tell it who's in charge, and make it stop.
*climbs tree and sits on branch next to her*
I've tried.
Of course I've tried.
But when I start thinking about it, I just can't stop.
*glances at Mist and Eve*
Um, hey, just so you know... I do mind romance. Like, a lot. So... Limit yourselves, please.
Think about... Think about how much fun it was, despite how it wasn't supposed to be, when we pretended to attack each otherf by using Caelan as a weapon. Remember that? And then we said we were forcing each other into pink dresses (that part WASN'T so fun) and throwing Caelan to the Necromancer unicorns? And remember... remember when I wanted to give the 'pep talk' to a few people. Because that... that was funny.
I don't care, Val.
....
OW!!!
*glares* My big brother almost broke my leg, and then he wanted me to do twenty push ups, and then he said I have to have lunch. I'm not going to though. Yet.
I. Tried.
*looks at my ring*
Happy thoughts.
*smiles, but has dead eyes*
And remember when we were calling Amanda China Pleasant for the first time! You kept asking her to join our picnic and she just wouldn't catch on! That was fun! Think of the fun times you've had here... Think of when you won the character competition!
*glares at Eve's big brother*
You can leave if you like though. Eating is important.
*grips mists arm* if I fall off this branch...
Naw, Ill eat later.
Then chances are you'll make me fall too.
*grins*
But, uh, I'll stop you from getting hurt.
The ground is soft, and trampoline-like. I just don't like falling from branches.
*has 'Jar of Hearts' stuck in head* *thinks* I want a jar full of hearts... I could throw them at the jerks at me school and they'd cower in fear and leave me alone. Although... They cower in fear already...
I have to go, it's time for dinner... breakfast... food... stuff. I'll be back!
Oh, okay then.
*holds onto Eve tightly*
I'll make sure you won't fall then.
*holds the ring against my chest and closes eyes*
Happy thoughts.
*smile grows wider*
Bye Val.
Bye, Val.
*smiles*
*smiles back at Eve and holds her hand instead of arm*
Bye val.
**squeezes Mists hand*
*breathes out slowly*
*opens my eyes and changes my position so I'm lying on my side looking at the lake*
Beautiful.
*sighs*
My auntie just got here. Will be distant because no doubt my parents will want me to "socialize"...
Aw, okay.
Back!
Wait, never mind, I'm here properly.
Hi, Val.
*is smiling properly, with lights dancing in my eyes*
Hi Val.
Come watch the sunset with me.
Yay! :) *hugs Mist*
Hi val
*hugs back and almost falls out of tree*
*grins at Sparky and walks over*
Agh! *grabs Mist and pulls him back up*
*sits up and swings legs over cliff edge*
It's so pretty.
*stays on branch*
Thanks. :)
*scoots a little further from the edge of the cliff* I... I don't like heights like cliffs...
Lisa, you think everything we do with the elephant is cruel. Chaining him in the backyard is cruel. Pulling on his tail is cruel. Yelling in his ear is cruel. EVERYTHING IS CRUEL.
Ack. Lunch. I'll nbr back.
Okay, bye, Eve!
*waits in branch*
*grips the edge with my hands and leans forward*
It's not particularly high up, it's more the pointed rocks that're down there...
*pulls Sparky back away from the edge quickly*
*gets pulled back*
I wasn't going to fall...
Agh!
*falls out of branch and bounces on the ground*
Half an ow!
*gets up and climbs tree again*
*grips the grass*
*frowns*
*looks around*
Uh oh.
*starts tearing up grass*
Bad, bad, bad, bad...
What is it?
E-mail.
Val, e-mail, NOW.
Back!
*is still tearing up grass*
Bad, bad, bad, bad, baaaaaaad...
Yay!
*is holding a bowl of watermelon*
Want some watermelOn?
I'd say yes if I wasn't panicking!
*pauses and narrows eyes at Val*
Val.
*grins*
Thanks, but no thanks.
I had too much of that this morning...
I have real watermelon!
Yes, Sparky?
*eyes narrow further*
Give it back.
Okay. *eats watermelon*
*pulls out wallet* What, your wallet? *puts wallet back in pocket*
No.
*grits teeth*
Now.
You don't your wallet back? Cool with me.
*tosses Sparky's ring to her*
Good girl.
*puts ring back on*
Wait...
*gies through pockets*
How did you get my wallet!?
*shrugs* I'm Ivy. I can take your wallet without you noticing. *pulls it back out* *tosses it to her*
You may find that all your money is gone...
...Don't girls have Purses, not wallets?
Purses suck and are painful to attempt to carry. I carry a wallet.
*arches eyebrow*
I wouldn't be the kind of girl to own a purse.
Guys having purses, that's odd.
Girls having wallets, nothing out of the ordinary.
*goes through it and scowls*
And the money.
*shrugs*
Fair enough.
*tilts head* I can't give back the money. I spent it already. *gives a mischievous grin*
Back. Sorry.
...
When, exactly, did you steal my wallet?
I had it this morning.
1947 can bite my shiny metal-
*falls off ship*
Aaaaaaaaagh!
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