Right, well, SOMEBODY at Harper Collins messed up, and I am NOT a happy writer. But, for those of you who may have heard, yes, it is true, you are getting a Tanith Low novella coming you way early in 2013 so, um...
SURPRISE!
Grrrrr.
And before you get carried away with what it might be about or who might be in it, the synopsis provided was an early one, before I'd actually started the damn thing. Biggest change? Ghastly ain't in it. Probably.
So what IS it about, you ask?
It's about God-Killer weapons. Four of them, scattered around the world. Four weapons that could hurt- even kill- Darquesse whenever she arrives. Tanith, being thoroughly devoted to dear Darquesse, does not want these weapons falling into enemy hands. So she recruits a gang of misfits and villains and off she goes to snatch them before the good guys come calling.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to stomp away and find someone to beat up...
EDIT
Also, to all my east coast Ameriminions, you better stay safe during this storm and all these power outages. That is an ORDER.
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HAHAHAHA.
but, omg, KotW makes me ship Ghastly/Ravel.
Erm, I'm going now:)
Byebye:)
BYE, IENI! *hugs*
...
*laughs*
sory i had a heart attack my mom rearranged my bookshelf and she shoved books on my SP shelf and i completely lost my mind because my DD and MC books werent where they should be....
brb going to make lunch
...
Nobody DARES touch my SP books...
I'd kill them...In the most painful way imaginable...
And it wouldn't be cushion torture!
if you ship any of these I will love you 5evr...
Valith.
Vilequesse.
Steak.
Tanguine.
Duskguine.
Chinduggery.
Thrashgrace.
Tanith/Skulduggery.
Tanith/China.
Tanith/Darquesse.
Gordon/Tanith.
Tanith/Ravel.
Wreath/Wrong.
Skulguette.
Tanith/Marr.
Ghastly/Ravel.
Thrashgrace.
Jackduggery.
Tanith/Springheeled Jack.
I LOVED HALLOWEEN LOL
It was raining, and was freezing. BUT I GOT SWEETS
HELLO, ADRA! :D
Finbelle. ANOTHER NEW ONE I SHIP. C:
thisiswhatigetforrereadingthebooks...
LUCE!!! *hugs* HELLO!!!!
Thrashgrace. So is it a gay or straight relationship? That's what I'm wondering xD
*hugs back*
WELL, ***SPOILERS FROM KOTW***
Thrashgrace starts off as a gay relationship but after the events of KotW it becomes straight AND NOW THEY CAN HAVE REALLY ADORABLE BABIES! XD
***SPOILERS OVER***
SO, YEAH
I LOVE THRASHGRACE<3
I don't usually ship, but I'm all for Springheeled Jackduggery And Clarabar/Finbelle. x3
*waddles back to the cover of shadows*
LOLOL
Nice... I still love that whole bit. Derek... Good God he tortures his characters.
then again, so do I and you're not a proper writer if you don't.
TTTTAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIAAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAAIAIAIAIAIAAIAAAAa *hugs*
OH YES, I MISSED JACKDUGGERY AND FINBELLE OF THE LIST:3
HA! Finally! I happened across your blog last week and have been reading each and every blog entry since the golden crossbow to the head blog. I've had a brilliant time watching you struggle to figure out how to format the blog, smashing down doors, shouting at us minions for leaving comments, and adding nieces to your collection. And now I'm here. Finally caught up. WOO HOO! By the way, you should come to America some time for signings! Specifically northern Idaho. Thanks for writing the Skulduggery Pleasant books, they are excellent.
Sincerely,
Your new faithful minion.
WTF.
LUCE. LOL
Oh look! Ameriminion!
WE ARE GROWING, DEREK. YOU HEAR?
...
I feel sorry for anyone that reads the comments on this page...
VALITH FTW!
Madi!
Hi! I'm no longer the newest minion! Yay*
*Throws party*
LOL Leni xD
Luce trolol You've already scarred us
Hey, Adra!! *hugs back*
Finbar/Clarabelle foreverrrr~
I'm back fomr helping my mummy with the dinner.
I say help...but we were doing curry and the curry bit is supposed to go in a pan and the rice in the pressure cooker. So obviously, even though I'm been doing this for years, I had to go put the rice in the pan and now my mum has to go make curry mush in the pressure cooker XD
*Bangs head for being so incredibly stupid*
*smiles*
I'd never even think of doing such a thing, Adra! I'm far too innocent for that;D
That's a load of shite lol Luce you know it
I know, which is why it's funny. :D
*grins*
LOL You're so modest...
And I have a bunch of tally marks all over my arms... still.
I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY CAME FROM
China/Tanith = Chinith! :D
I'm just sitting here laughing at Adrados's and Luciana's comments to each other and I've just been given a weird look saying 'WTF ARE YOU LAUGHING AT YOU WEIRDO?'
Of course I'm modest, I'm me;D
Leni, PLEASE. Adra, not Adrasdos.
And Luce. You're the most modest person I know. You'll probably agree xD
*Adrasdos
Omg, I'm so sorry for spelling your name wrong!
*Gives chocolate cookies as an apology*
Of course I'm the most modest person you know. Nobody is as modest as me!;3
srslythoughimreallynotmodestihavearightegoattimes.
Omg, sorry again.
Adra.
*more chocolate cookies in apology*
How I read the 'PLEASE' you wrote as a 'pur-lease' *sighs*
Oh, sorry. I'm too stuffed on candy. I'm fine though...
goat?
Gloat, you mean LOL
*raises head*
Goat?
Where?
"I have a right ego at times." GOD, ADRA. I type like that all the timeeeee. :P
LOLOL. OH. I THOUGHT IT WAS GOAT.
Oh jesus... *headdesk*
What? No goat?
Shame...
OHDEARGOLDENGOD. *laughs*
I want a pet penguin...
But penguins make me think of DB...Which makes me think Melancholia...Which makes me think Mel/Val...
Bleeeeeaaaattttt
Ohmygod. I just realized... Derek said that he got my book back in August... That means he -not only- got my pictures and stuff
BUT A PIECE OF MY BOOK
Penguin-mobile...
THRASHGRACE!
I'd like a pet dinosaur...
Penguins ARE awesome, though. Especially when they're driving purple trains.
Above all, though, I want a duck.
No, I NEED a duck.
They're just too awesome. :3
VALKYRIE CAIN/BLLY-RAY SANGUINE.
i AM a duck..
I'm the Ducktor
NEW STAR WARS MOVIE???
SP MOVIE???
MORTAL INSTRUMENTS MOVIE???
*dies*
LOL DUCKTOR. Yes. Just, Yes.
As for movies, I'm waiting for a Chaos Walking Film...
It's true... I'm the Ducktor, and Gepard is the Timester xd
I LOVE Marina and the Diamonds! :D
...
I think I've done with the pairings, now... :D
LOL Luce... I pair....
Oh god, my friend SHIPS Ravel/Shudder
I've got to go now guys, typing to do. BYE YOU ALLL I LOVE CHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU *hugs*
Bye Adra~
*hugs back*
Bye Adra!:3
Ravel/Shudder is pretty shippable, actually... :P
O.o
any1 there?
Me
hi! =-)
Hi :)
I'm just sorting out my itunes music into 2GB playlists coz I'm getting an ipod shuffle
I got an iPod shuffle
I'm meant to be doing my Latin hw, but this is much more interesting.
kl! =-) what colour?
I got a green one
nice, mine's gonna b red. Do u do Latin at ur school?
We have only German and Spanish
kl! We have german, french, spanish and latin
Aaah we get 2 and you pick one and then after 8th grade its no longer required
OMG THE AMERIMINIONS ARE RISING DEREK!!!!!! WE AWAIT YOU
ah kl. wait- what????? g2g now 4 dinner, c ya!
See ya!!
*runs in squares*
If anyone can be bothered, I just wrote a story chapter and I was wondering if you could have a look, maybe give some criticism with it, it'd be much appreciated.
Hello, by the way.
CHINITH, FTW! :D
Aww, my dog was running after my torch and now shes just laid down staring at me :)
Oh yeah, HELLO! :3
Damn i fear Panda Bear fell off the face of the earth :(
At least you didn't mess up so bad that you've lost your best friend... :/
PEOPLE! HELLO!
Luce come here
And that damned Iriminion or Engliminiion i think Panda Irish, has answers for me! Told me today she be on, its like 8:36 in UK
This is another reason I love fantasy, it shows how the impossible becomes reality for the characters.. shows that everything is possible...
Like Val being what may destroy the world
Telling you book 9 gonna be something sad not a happy,
"And Skulduggery and Valiyrie got in the Bentley and drove off, ready for whats next to cone"
Hello, Kes.
*sighs* This is why hyper isn't good. Every up has its down... Hyper is my up, depressed is my down..
*tackle hugs Luce*
Apparently I'm not allowed to giggle... :s
So, Nathan finally cheered me up and I was giggling and then my mum yells at me for giggling... :/
I'm so confused and annoyed and I hate being gift by people that I once called a friend. :/
I'm an idiot.
Next time I complain slap me.
Hurt*
Ok i like slapping people xD
I like exploding things
*explodes Jelly donut*
I made brownies that said: 'Happy Be-lated Birthday Derek,
Only they in my tummy :D they tasted good though
Anyone here like minecraft
Luce, Thrashabelle :P
OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!! I ♥ TANITH!! CANT WAIT!!
I love Minecraft Sarlia =D
Thrashbelle is nice, actually. Haha:3
Aaah AUSSIES!!! HI AUSSIES!!!
OH MY GOD. I JUST SAW THE WORD DOLT IN A BOOK. WOW. NEVER REALISED IT ACTUALLY EXISTED OUTSIDE OF MY LIFE.
*smiles* I was telling my mum about watching a few minutes of Sherlock in Drama and so as we were going to Blockbuster anyway to get LOTR for my brother, we bought the first series of Sherlock there as I said a lot of minions watched it . . . We got it for seven quid and I paid five quid of it. Now I'll be watching Doctor Who, Merlin, AND Sherlock, which are the most popular TV shows blogwise as far as I can gather . . .
ALSO, MY LEGS ARE GONNA BE SO STIFF TOMORROW. WHY IS FENCING SO DIFFICULT? I'm mostly remembering what I'm being taught now though. I have a little word bank in my head of all my fencing moves. Which aren't many. Got the simple parry, the semicircular parry, the circular parry, that B-whatever thing (I do know what it is, just not the name), and the cross thingy (again, I know what it is but not the name) and the feint attack. And I'm remembering I have to repost after every parry and not just stand there thinking, "Um, okay, managed to parry, what now?" And I think, judging from my hurting leg, that I MUST be getting better at lunging now . . . SURELY . . .
So YAY. :)
Im not very, sporty, I love gymnastics and im pretty good keeping my balance xD im more into drama,
Seriously. I never thought dolt was a proper word, and then I spot Eoin Colfer using it. It was an exibition guard or something using it as well. It wasn't just a person speaking nonsense.
I'm going, now.
I'm feeling worse, again. D:
Night, everyone! *hugs all*
Be brave<3
I do rockclimbing and now fencing. :)
I find it odd that both my chosen sports require helmets. That probably says something about my character . . .
WAIT WAIT WAIT. I just read a minute ago, "Maybe it says something about my character that a lake of blood is the only image I can come up with." EOIN COLFER, YOU'RE INFLUENCING ME AGAINNNN.
:( FOURS, LUSCATHIO! FORGET BRAVE; BE HAPPY. :)
*nods*
i just need to suck it up....send my damned book to Derek to get signed. Gaaah
OW. I just read:
'Holly jogged the last few steps, then raised ger right hand, fingers closed in a fist.
"That means halt," Artemis told the others. "It's a military thing. Humans use the exact same sign." '
AND SO WHAT DID I DO AFTER READING IT? Why, I closed my hand in a fist and started raising it up in the air . . . ONLY THEN I PUNCHED THE CEILING BEFORE I COMPLETED IT, BECAUSE OF MY LOFT BED. :P
IDIOT.
(Any reader of Artemis Fowl will surely know which of the books I'm reading by now).
I never read that series
DOLT!!! I FOUND THE WORD DOLT AGAIN, ONLY A FEW PAGES LATER!!!
That makes:
' "No, you dolts," squealed Mr Lin, threading his way through the policemen, slapping at their gun arms. "Not that one. He is my good friend." ' Page 288.
And:
'But they can never know, because there is nobody left alive to tell them. That dolt Number One was the last, ans he's gone. What a pity. ' Page 301.
. . . Sorry, I'm quoting too much. XD
*and
READ THEM, ZAF.
Okay, you don't have to. :)
I never can get 'em at my library
Hello!
I've just started reading the first Artemis Fowl. As in like yesterday, because they were on my brothers bookshelf and the world seems to go on about how amazing they are...
:(
I find it odd how all my favourite books are wither American like the Mortal Instruments and Gone or Irish like Skulduggery Pleasant and Artemis Fowl. YOU GUYS HAVE ALL THE BEST AUTHORS.
*either
Especially the later ones, Ieni. :)
The first one is my least favourite. Sad but true.
And you get so much from the rereads. I'm reading the Artemis Fowls for about the sixth time now and I just got a joke I'd never got before.
' "I am older and have more control over my empathy," said Qwan. "That's why I didn't throw up." And, having said that, he threw up.'
LOL. Makes me laugh every time.
Ah...how many are there? I'm only a few chapters in.
Agh, so tired right now...but meh..
Aha, but we have J.K Rowling :D
Normally, at this point I'd go *hugs*, but because I'm tired it's more like a *huuuuugg *misses person I'm supposed to be hugging**
Can you even have a * inside a *?
Dunno. You can sorta have brackets inside brackets, so I guess so. :)
OMG I forgot to say hi!!!! Sorry!!!!! Hi!!!!
Eight Artemis Fowl books. I haven't read the eighth BUT I'M GETTING THERE.
Ok, now I've messed up.
Why so I even try?
I'm so stupid, sometimes. :/
Yo?
Oh yeah...
Hello, everyone. :)
:(
You okay, L?
Yeah, I'll be reyt. ^^
Just being my normal failure self. :P
BUY IT'S FINE.
and I'm fascinated by all these new ships. :3
Hey, Flame.
I THINK I HAVE FINALLY DISCOVERED WHY PEOPLE SHIP PEOPLE NOW. YAY. :)
Holtemis forever. :)
America and Ireland have the bet authors :3
England... Hm... Not very many, tbh..
They have Joeseph Delany. Will Hill. J.K.
Y'know?
But*
England is crap for authors. (':
I'LL NEVER GET VALITH AND CHINITH OUT MY HEAD. *glares* :)
If I ever ship I ship sensibly. I'm so boring. :P
You got Erin Hunter!!
But Ireland has DEREK speaking of the Irish author anyone know if he going to come talk to us on a less sulking note?
Valith, Chinith, Fletchduggery, Jackduggery, Thrashgrace, Thrashbelle, Vilequesse, Duskguine, Tanguine, Steak, Ghavel...
We should ship Derek xD
Derval
Oh god xD
Lotta ships :3
DEREK HIW LONG WILL BE THE NOVELLA????
Daura.
There's a list of some of my ships at the top of the page. :3
I ship so many pairings. XD
IRELAND AND AMERICA = BEST AUTHORS EVER. :)
I hate it when I don't have a story to make up in my head. I just stand walking along and my mind automatically tries to retreat into its comfort zone (STORIES!!!) but I can't, there's nothing there. And I feel so odd and disjointed. And I think, 'I don't like this feeling, let's move away,' but I have nothing to move away TO and it's blergh. So I'm so grateful to all those wonderful authors out there I can fanfic. :)
YOU'RE NOT A FAILURE. EVERYBODY FAILS, AND YET NO ONE FAILS. BUT AS NO ONE FAILS AT EVERYTHING, THEB OVERALL NO ONE FAILS. SUCH IS MY LOGIC. :)
Plus a lot of it's phsycological. If you don't want to eat a new food because you think you won't like it, but you're made to try it just in case you do like it, then when yoy try it you're looking for things not to like about it. You can think, "uh, it's all slimy, I don't likd it," but if you weren't thinking about it and looking for things not to like, then you could easily have not minded to sliminess or not even really noticed it. I'm not saying that everybody would like everything if they weren't looking to dislike it - I'm saying that people would like MORE things.
Other things are phsycological like this. If you're expecting something to be something, than that something is often something. EVERYBODY TRY TO REMEMBER THAT IN THEIR LIVES.
Msd and wbd. :(
Thrashbelle is sensible enough for me to considor. :)
Gonna go,
Watching a movie :)
Thrashbelle is nice. c:
So is Finbar/Clarabelle... :3
Bye, Flame.
FOURS, FLAME. :(
There are so many Holtemis moments in this part of the book . . . :)
L, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME? XD
Gonna go to sleep now. :) FOURS!
Night, Star.
Hi!
Im here sorry
Hello, Flame.
Hello, Zaf. :)
Heeey Luce
Im fine xD hyper
Lucianna, email.
Hiya Flame
I've been checking my e-mail every two minutes for the past half an hour, or so...
I usually have my e-mail open, you know?
Hi Zaf!
Msd.
Heey :)
Casually here...love being on all day but Panda never...saud anything
Sixteen days.
Til?
My birthday.
I have to countdown.
They said it should be good for me...
Aaaah. Well, it is good. Something to look firward to
Hello!
I'm sort of here!
Hey Val
*shakes head at previous comments*
Sparky got you all into Valith, didn't she?
(Terrible idea)
Whenever I go on derek's blog and see there's no new post I say "dammit"...
Hello people of Blogland!
OH MY GOD KESTREL I WAS JUST THINKING HOW I NEED TO ASK YOU SOMETHING.
Do you do AR at your school? For reading?
Oh crap... You were here about 20 minutes ago... PLEASE DON'T BE GONE
Noooooo! You're gone!
Is anyone here?
I'm sorta here...
I'm back.
Was watching DW, sorry. Val, no, but we did at my old school.
Did you, by any chance, take the AR test for Eldest?
Probably. Yes, I'm sure I did. Why?
Because I'm only at the chapter where Eragon is part elf and rejected by Arya, but I read on for what happens next here http://www.wikisummaries.org/Eldest to try and get ahead.
Cause, see, I have a C in English, and the reason for that is my lack of AR points. However, if I can take a test tomorrow, then I can hopefully get about 36 points for Eldest. I was wondering if you thought the summary thing I read was accurate enough for me to take the test on.
Probably, if you red the whole thing. However, it's been 3 years since I've done AR, so I may be wrong.
I used to love AR. I am really, really odd.
Geronimo!
I hate AR so much... The only Skulduggery book on there is the first one!
Well then, I'll be distant, because I have to write SIX FREAKING REVIEWS on Eldest.
Why?!
Well, see, when I was doing AR, I wasn't nearly as obsessed with them. I just thought they were really good books, and that was it. This was, quite obviously due to the fact that I thought the series ended with TFO.
Also, since I was only doing AR for a year or so after I found them, it never bothered me overmuch.
I have to do six because my teacher is a jerk. *glowers*
*looks at question to write about* You expect me to write half a page about how I felt about the first few chapters?!
I don't, your teacher does.
At my school, we have never done AR. I just read about it and I got bored reading the description of what you are supposed to do. The instructions don't even make sense. My writing teacher is... she gave us a piece of paper and told us to write down 20 of our spelling words from our spelling homework.
Is anyone still here? I dedicate this to my awesome reading teacher. Bye!
Bye, I suppose.
Bye SPD.
*glares at paper* I hate you.
*is deliberately writing big to take up more space*
I've go to go, bye!
Bye Kestrel!
Ha! I'm already on review number five! Take that, teacher! Victory shall be mine!
gh
WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm here now, but I won't be here at all in a couple of hours, FOR a couple of hours. It just doesn't make any difference. I can't make boats! I hate when people just try to wind you up for no reason. What a day.
I COULD HAVE WOKEN UP SOONER, BUT I WAS HAVING A REALLY GOOD TIME BEING HALF AWAKE/HALF ASLEEP, SO I DIDN'T.
I can feel the animal inside
My resolve is weakening
Pounding at the doors of my mind
It's nearly overpowering!
I can not begin to describe
The hunger that I'm feelint
Run if you ijtend to survive
For the beast is coming to life!
Taking form in the glimmer of this tainted moonlight
Death approaches on this night
For the animal's soul is mine
We will be completed right before your eyes
I have no control this time
And now we both shall dine
In hell tonight!
(Yes, memory fails me there)
*feeling
*intend
GAH. Damn typos.
Confession time!
I don't know how to dance.
Eve: THAT MAKES TWO OF US!
Heheh. *highfive*
But I'm actually terrified. I'm going to this annual school disco thing in an hour and a half. Last year someone asked me to dance. I asked them"How?" What do I doooooo?
Actually, that's a stupid question. I'll just act like a drunk idiot with my friends. DUH. *facepalm* :P
I want Hunter from my fanfic to be real. That way, whenever something like in the song Three happens, he can save their lives both literally and figuratively. Like he did with Em and all the others. Yeah. I was listening to the song and I was like, "This is horrible. This happens in real life," and then I was like, "Don't worry, Hunter'll deal with it all eventually. He won't let this carry on happening," and then I was like, "Wait, he doesn't exist. NOOOOO!!! The stupid police are gonna carry on being stupid forevermore and NO ONE will stop them. :(" and then I was really sad.
I think I'm more likely to forget what exists and what doesn't after I've recently woken up. The other week on a weekend I woke up late and I was like, "NOOOO!! I've missed most of Aussiminiob time!" And then I just thought, "Well that's okay, I can just go back in time and catch them then." It was about a second later that I thought, "Star, you moron, time travel doesn't exist!"
*Aussiminion
Don't ask ME what to do. :/ I'm just glad I'm at high school now - NO MORE DISCOS. :)
Yeah. I always think that what happened in my dream actually happened. Afterwards, I'm either saying "I'm glad that didn't happen for real" or "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Yup! This'll be my last school disco! Then it's...
Hey, do you go on camps with your school?
I'm in my third year of high school and you haven't started yet, which is . . . odd . . . because I'm only a year older than you. DAMN DIFFERENT SCHOOL SYSTEMS.
Haha, woah. So you start in year 6??
We go on less school trips and stuff, but we're not totally deprieved. :) In year eight at my school we went camping, and there's a ski trip in year eight and one in year ten, and there's a few day trips every year . . .
In primary school we went away for a couple of nights in year five and again in year six. My sister's going on different trips to me . . . I went to the Laje District and Whitby, and she's been to Whitby and is going to France for a week.
My trip in year eight was completely brilliant, so if you do something like that I'd look forward to it. :)
No. But our school year starts in September. In the spring and summer terms I was a school year above you. This term I'm two school years above you.
That makes me feel old. :/
Hey, if I was born fifteen days earlier, I'd be three school years above you now. :)
. . . That didn't stop me feeling old . . .
Hi?
HI FLAME!
NOOOOO!!! I'M OLDER THAN YOU AS WELL! *hides under duvet*
I'm 13...
YES, AND I'M FOURTEEN AND FORTY-EIGHT DAYS. :(
IN OTHER WORDS, FOURTEEN, A MONTH AND A HALF, AND A COUPLE MORE DAYS.
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