This year is the fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who. To celebrate, Puffin Books asked eleven different authors to take a Doctor and write a story. When I was asked, I said I'd only do it if I could write for the tenth or eleventh incarnation. Puffin gave me Ten. I was a happy bunny.
It was such a joy to write this character. As you all know, I've been a fan of the show since I was a kid, and David Tennant holds joint top-spot with Matt Smith as my favourite Doctor. In my opinion, it was Tennant's era when the Doctor's love of dialogue really came out— that quick-fire patter that he does so well — and it was an absolute pleasure to channel that.
The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage will be released as an e-book on October 23rd (my birthday! Skulduggery's deathday!) and then it, along with the other stories, will be collected into a PHYSICAL book which will be out near the end of November.
There will be a video released in a week or two where I talk more about it, but in the meantime, here's a link to a snippet (which explains where the somewhat old-fashioned title comes from...)
http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/interactive/2013/oct/01/doctor-who-mystery-haunted-cottage-derek-landy-extract
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I stopped.
Yah I shouldn't be doing that but OOPS.
*laughs*
Meh. I leave most of my homework until the night before it has to be in, sooo. XD
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So... Like, now.
Yeah. :)
*glares at printer*
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*laughs* Ah, Sundays...
But my midterm is this Thursday and Friday :( I'm petrified..
And the fact that I'm petrified and anxious makes me mad. Like, whose bright idea was it to scare people into getting grades or make them so afraid of failing?
:( Good luck in them.
It was probably the llama's idea. They are evil. :)
You know, I once decided, over a year ago, to make Star Inkbright a proper character with a proper history, and I invented this world where there were evil llamas and all . . . I never got very far. But they had their own planet. I'm pretty sure I was a slave. And they probably had an evil plan to do something, but I'm not entirely sure what it was.
. . . The point is, llamas are evil. It's probably their fault. :)
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*llamas'
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*blinks confusedly*
Yes
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSs. :)
. . . Or you could just blame the fact that life sucks sometimes. :)
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WHOA EPISODE 5 CAN'T END LIKE THAT WTF
*clicks episode 6*
C'est le vie
Not that I take French
Longus vivet latine
Or something
I probably butchered that
@Adra: Okay. :)
Butchering can be good. Sometimes. In some circumstances.
Hey Cain! :)
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Greetings, Blogland.
Hi Sir! *waves* *grins mischievously*
Hey Sir! :)
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Ah, greetings, Star and Adrasdos.
*laughs*
*holds up a piece of tuna*
*sighs*
Adrasdos, I do hope you realize I find tuna to be a most unsatisfactory dish, correct?
Would you prefer caviar?
Shrimp? *leans in closer* *whispers* human
None of those, please.
...seal?
No. Please, cease these undesirable shenanigans at once.
Blowfish?
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Whoa shit just got even weirder in episode 6
Turtles, perhaps?
Jellyfish?
Dory?
No, Adrasdos. Greetings, Miss Cain.
Hello! I'm here but... um... I might be distant cause I'm watching Sherlock^^
Kelp?
Kelp is good
Kelp is god
Adrasdos, the answer to your inquiries is NO.
Fear not, Mithria, and greetings.
*waves*
Hey Sir!
Wbd, still watching Attack On Titan
Hi Mithy-boo.
Are you sure? What about some chips?
Greetings, Sir Reingington!
What is all this talking about fish for?
You could say things are getting a little.. fishy
*sigh*
Adrasdos, please. I beg of you.
That's what I noticed, Adra... but why?
Don't worry I'm only baiting you.
*realizes*
*laughs*
It was a pun, Mith... "Fishy" or "mysterious"
Hi, Mith! :)
Sorry for my distance, homework.
@Adra: Leave the poor shark alone. :P
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No
I have to know
@Adra: Ooops... And I have learned something new again. Blogland is really helpful in this case :D
Hey STAAAAR! :)
Honestly, this has been in the realm of ridiculous for quite some time, now.
Yup- happy to help, Mith!
*to Sir* No, when I'm not being nice and corial with our friendly neighborhood shark, I do my best to make you angry. *nods*
AHHHHH! Sherlock is simply AMAZING!
I hope you realize that your attempts at angering me are futile, Adrasdos.
*picks up a stick and ties a piece of string to it*
*holds the hook close to his face from the makeshift fishing rod*
Btw, nice shark, Sir Reingington! :D
Again, Adrasdos, no.
*the stick catches on fire*
@Mith: I KNOW!!!! :)
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*screams, dropping it* TOO WARM AH
*picks up a rather cumbersome bucket of water, hobbling and teetering towards Sir*
*slips and the water falls over her instead*
*murmurs curses*
I'LL GET YOU, SIR
@Star: I just saw this "Get off my sheet!" scene!! And I was laughing so much!
Adrasdos, please remain calm. I wish for you to not harm yourself.
I don't like Irene Adler...
((She's very... interesting, ya?))
*crawls out from under the bucket*\
*muffled curses*
*walks over to Sir and begins hanging gummy worms from his mustache*
Hello?
Interesting... yes. You could say she is interesting. I don't like her.
Hi Ed!
WHOAWHOAWHOAWHOAWHOAAAAAAAA
*is talking about Attack on Titan... still*
Hello Mith
Hi Ed!
Eh, I honestly don't care that much either way. Johnlock or Sherlolly
Hello Adra
Sherlolly??? Sherlock & Molly? Right?
Yup yup yup!
*rolls away from Sir down a hillside*
Greetings, Edward. Adrasdos, do not make me set the worms on fire as well.
THEY ARE DELICIOUS
Greetings Sir
*Places worm on Sir's hat*
Hello.
RECRUITS
Hey Dragona! :)
@Mith: That was hilarious. XD
*shrugs* I didn't especially like her, but I don't think I actively dislike her.
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Hello Dragona
*runs up behind Sharky and places a seal nibble on his shoulder and then RUNS*
... Adrasdos, you honestly are not going to cease this conduct, are you?
Nope nope nope!
*Places Sir on Adras head*
...*runs away for ten feet*
(Shush, be quiet, you might piss somebody off!)
Like me, motherfucker, you've been at it for too long
While you feed off other's insecurities
You stand in front of me and bite the hand that feeds
(Self righteousness is wearing thin)
Lies inside your head, your best friend
(Heart bleeds but not for fellow men)
Broken glass, your fake reflection
I've had enough it's time for something real
Don't respect the words you're speaking
Gone too far
A clone!
So how does it feel to know that someone’s kid in the heart of America has blood on their hands
Fighting to defend your rights so you can maintain the lifestyle that insults his family’s existence?
Well, where I'm from we have a special salute we aim high in the air towards all those pompous asses who spend their days pointing fingers
FUCK YOU!
(Shush, be quiet, you might piss somebody off!)
Like the heartbeat of this country when antagonized too long
I’ll be damned if you count me in as part of your
Generous hypocrisy, collecting enemies
Tabloid gossip queen, worthless king
(There’s no need for us to bury you)
Selfish agenda once again
(Right this way, you dug your own grave)
I've had enough it's time for something real
Don't respect the words you're speaking
Gone too far
A clone
All the way from the east to the west we got this high society looking down on their very foundation
Constantly reminding us that our actions are the cause of all their problems
Pointing their fingers in every direction, laming their own nation for who wins elections
They never contributed a fucking thing to the country they love to criticize
Excuse the obscene
Ignore the untrue
Depictions we see
Try and get through
Admitting mistakes can hurt
I’m not the last but I sure ain’t the first
(Shush, be quiet, you might piss somebody off!)
Self righteousness is wearing thin
(Lies inside your head, your best friend)
Heart bleeds but not for fellow men
(Broken glass, your fake reflection)
I've had enough it's time for something real
Don't respect the words you're speaking
Gone too far
A clone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpDO-3RkMcc&list=PLTslNdjmKxFtDwh1k3FIRyXuARLNTj9fJ&index=37
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Star I love your songs omgh
I have ordered The Art of the Mass Effect Universe for £19.47 on Amazon. It's a library of all the character and world designs and stuff. Will be here next weekend.
When I played Mass Effect 3 today I unlocked an achievement. There's an enemy called a 'Guardian' who is a soldier for a pro-human black ops group called Cerberus (basically a bunch of soldier-racist guys - they're like evil). Guardians are soldiers who carry these large metal bullet-proof-everything-proof shields, which only a powerful sniper rifle with like armour piercing rounds can get through.
To be able to see through their large shields, they have a small rectangular hole which is only a few centimetres wide. It's practically impossible to shoot through in combat because it's so small and combat is generally very quick.
I on the other hand, being an awesome Infiltrator person, walked into a small building containing about five enemies and shot every single one with my pistol (they weren't Guardians - just normal soldiers). Then I got to this window and took out my sniper, and at a 99m distance, managed to shoot loads of Guardians through the panel in their shields and the rounds hit them in the head.
The achievement was called "through the mail box" which I find rather funny.
The Mantis sniper rifle is good on my Quarian Infiltrator.
Oh, and the sniper was so powerful their heads kind of... exploded/vanished. When they hit the floor they had no head, in any case. Bad thing I didn't have any armour piercing rounds, but oh well.
@What Star said a while ago. Yeah... I have a whole rant about it stored away someplace, but I really don't want to make things even harder, y'know?
@Sir Cinnamon rolls?
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No thank you, Fabienne.
@Adra: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! :)
*grins like an idiot*
Why am I even happy, though? Of course you love them. Anyone who DOESN'T love them clearly has something wrong with them. :) (Uh, no offense to anyone who doesn't love them, if you exist. You could just be slightly blind. Mildly metaphorically visually impaired?)
WHATEVER I'M REALLY HAPPY ANYWAY. :)
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*whispers from the shadows* seal
What do you like to eat, then?
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@Dragona: Awesome! :) Well done. :)
@Fabi: I say a lot, so I'm not entirely sure what you're talking about, but thank you anyway. :)
*hugs* Hi!
You know, on this video somewhere, someone said they skipped this song, and someone else said YOU DO NOT SKIP AN AVENGED SEVENFOLD SONG, or something like that, and someone said well apart from Lost (which I actually like. Although the auto-tuning is annoying. Only Avenged Sevenfold song with auto-tuning, so I can see why people skip it) and they replied saying NO. YOU DO NOT SKIP AN AVENGED SEVENFOLD SONG. EVER. or something like that, and what I SHOULD have replied was "Well, unless you only have time to listen to one three-minute song or something, in which case you might skip to a three-minute one as you didn't want to end the song in the middle", BUT I DIDN'T THINK OF IT AT THE TIME AND NOW I HAVE NO CLUE WHICH VIDEO IT'S ON. D:
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Tea brb.
Weeee hungry not here casually on wifi in a supermarket so i may be not be back till im home in roughly 20min
This supermarket has foood to sample
*sips some water* Damn.. I'm famished. *digs in her bag for food*
*sighs* Mycroft is a good brother, even though Sherlock doesn't realise that. That's so sad.
Alexis: I'm hungry...*goes to make scrambled eggs* ((ooh yay okay be back we going to check out))
*pats Mith's shoulder* The nicest people are often the misjudged.
*nods* You're right, Adra. But it's still sad.
[Shrugs] You're welcome. Hello. [hugs]
[waves to the people who left]
[waves to the people who are still here]
[hugs Mith]
Blue and purple.
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It is, but when it's the saddest, doesn't one realize how lucky they are- to see the truth in people?
*hugs Fabi back* HEY FABS!! :)
*looks at Adra* Wow...
Hey, Zaf. :)
I might have done enough homework for today . . . it's art, so there aren't strict deadlines. We have a lot of freedom and independence with what we do when, which is really bad for me because of the way I procrastinate. XD
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@Zaf: Zaf!
"If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, it is yours to keep forever."
Or something like that. :)
My point is - set Niccolò free. :)
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Hmm..?
@Adra: Hmmm Hmmm? ;)
You said wow?
Mm. Nevermind. *drinks more tea, her throat a bit sore*
back in about an hour
Yes I did, Adra. Because of your last comment. Cause it is true.
@Star That reminded me of Cubimals. D':
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Bye Ed-
Of course. I'm not a complete idiot
Most of the time
@Adra: It was wow-inspiring. :)
@Fabi: :( Sorry.
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*screams* HOW CAN PEOPLE TALK THAT FAST??? Or better... how can SHERLOCK talk that fast??
@Mithria: Because he's Sherlock. :)
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*tips her hat* much obliged
I might disappear for a few hours now... I'm going to lunch with my old chaps
Star, that's a good point...
@Adra: Yay? :)
@Mith: But I don't have points, because I am a bubble, and bubbles are spheres. ;)
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It's okay, Star. [hugs while muttering about cubis and Glitchy-things]
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Oh, Star... :D
Meh, I definately don't like Irene Adler. She's mean.
S: Where is she?
J: Where is who?
S: The woman. That woman.
J: What woman?
S: THE woman. The woman-woman!
...
J: Oh no. Back to bed!
Cute scene^^
People?
Everything has a fish on it.
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@Mith: I can see why you think that. :)
Sorry for my distance, frowning at playlists . . . Which isn't really an excuse. :/
@Fabi: I wish I'd been able to check Glitch out before it died . . . :/
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Hm... The hounds of Baskerville. This is gonna be fun :D
I wish you had, too, Star. If I'd known you at the time, I'd definitely have invited you.
Here, have a bubble tree.
http://www.glitch.com/items/natural-resources/bubble-tree/
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((I return and I'm starving FOOD))
*sighs* Who could ever understand Sherlock Holmes? I can't...
Greetings.
Hey Ember! :)
@Mith: THE HOUND OF BASKERVILLE!!!! The forest it's filmed in is the same forest as they film Merlin in!!!!!!!!
. . . Plus it's a really good episode, imo. :)
*hugs Fabi* Thanks! :)
@Zaf: Hello. :)
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I COME FROM A BUBBLE TREE. :)
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Apologies for my tardiness!
I had only just returned from an important meeting.
((*waves* bubble tree?!))
☂I only liked Irene Adler once I had watched the episode for the fourth time.☂
☂I understand him sometimes! :D☂
(We can't go on with our litte RP, right? Cause we have no Moriarty...)
☂And btw, by "important meeting" I mean "really really awfully shitty violin lesson where I sucked"☂
☂My violin is not where it used to be.☂
☂Yeah, true...☂
☂I can't believe you're watching the Hound already! You're fast!☂
(You play the violin, Ember? YOU should be Sherlock! ;) And yes, I AM fast. Because Sherlock is impressive!)
☂I've been playing it for years.☂
☂I also play the piano... you know, Mycroft playing the piano and the two brothers doing duets to please Mummy is my headcanon <3☂
☂I LOVE BBC SHERLOCK, IT IS SO AWESOME.☂
(I LOVE MYCROFT'S ANNOYED FACE!!! :D)
((I'm just waiting for Niccolò xD I'm in France))
☂Hah! Noooo. I tried rping as Sherlock once and I was so awful.☂
☂I've never tried Moriarty.☂
☂I can do John pretty alright... Lestrade not so much...☂
☂I dunno. Mycroft's just my thing.☂
☂I JUST LOVE MYCROFT XD☂
☂But yeah, his annoyed face is fabulous. You know his face when he's like:☂
That requires... LEGWORK
☂I LOVE THAT FACE☂
The bubble trees were conspiracy theorists of a sort, and they had a tendency to blame things on the batterflies. You'd talk to them, and then they'd confuse you and tell you to run because they're everywhere listening and this didn't happen.
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(*laughs* Sooo... what are we goin to do now?)
☂But don't you think that A Scandal in Belgravia is totally one of Mycroft's best episodes?☂
(BUCKINGHAM PALACE!!! Is that answer enough? :D)
☂I am going to pretend that I know what bubble trees are and nod helpfully.☂
☂We could, uh... rate the different episodes? And discuss them?☂
☂And... I coulddd...☂
☂OH YEAH TELL ME YOUR SHIPS!!!!☂
((My explosive tree forest is epic though a tree does sometimes explode))
Bubble Tree: Pst!. PSSSSSSSSSSST! Over here. For your ears only, ‘k?
You: Sure.
Bubble Tree: Did that Spice Tree tell you all that business about how he was a great friend of Spriggan’s? And how Spriggan always considered the Sprigganite ages the greatest?
You: Something like that.
Bubble Tree: Lies. It’s all lies. Don’t listen to a word.
You: He wasn’t a friend of Spriggan’s?
Bubble Tree: No! One little tree? Spriggan could sneeze a thousand-thousand of him down before breakfast. But it’s more than that, it’s that there haven’t even BEEN multiple ages.
You: Huh?
Bubble Tree: No. That’s what they WANT you to think. Don’t trust them, comrade. Trust no one. Never chew copper. Check both ways before you dig. That’s all I’m saying. That’s all I’m saying.
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☂I KNOW!!!!!☂
☂BUT NOT JUST THAT, IT WAS THE PLANE SCENE☂
☂That scene almost broke my heart. That was gorgeous. It was creepy and dark and bitter and cold/warm at the same time and it had tinges of regret and it is still my favourite scene in the whole of BBC Sherlock thus far.☂
My ships, Ember? Um...
And Spriggan is the giant of plants and such. :-)
@Ember It's GLITCH.
@Zaf Ooh, a whole forest now?!
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☂Fabi: I am so confused xD☂
☂OHHHHH, okay now I get it.☂
Ember. You'll have to explain something now. Why was Mycroft depressed?
One Tree Claims To Know the Unknowable:
Bubble Tree: They all lie.
You: Huh?
Bubble Tree: All of them. With the exception of a few trees, two kinds of a rock and a critter, there’s not a truthful one among th…
You: …em?
Bubble Tree: SHHHHH. Did you hear that? That clicking noise? The giants. Everywhere. Listening. Well, them, or ghostly versions of their most determined disciples, clinging on to the artifacts they’ve left scattered around, like ghosts in a machine, rattling and buzzing and click, click, click, click…
You: What?
Bubble Tree: Click click. Click click click. Get away. Get away, they’re following you, I tell you - get away, get away. Click. Click click.
You: Over and out.
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((Yes it is! I'm proud of it actually. It resides behind my treehouse but Em won't let me make dynamite on Minecraft))
((Zafira, I shan't return for an hour or possibly longer, so you may as well simply appear back in Blogland, or wherever it is you'd like to go. We've no need to be in France, anyway.))
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☂Depressed when?☂
☂VOT ARE YUR SHIIIPS☂
((Awww! I'm waiting for you Niccolò I'm waiting you better be back soon :/))
In A Scandal in Belgravia. He got a SMS and then he looked so sad and I almost went crazy cause I didn't understand why!
Um... well, definately not Johnlock.
Back.
((Awesome, Zaf!))
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*definitely
Sherlock is afraid. That scares me.
☂He was sad because he had spent years (not to mention tons of money) planning for the plane to fly with all its dead passengers and taking extra care for the terrorists not to find out.☂
☂Then, when he found out that Moriarty knew, he immediately knew that Moriarty would've told the terrorists just to stir up trouble.☂
☂To quote him: "Months and years of planning. Finished."☂
*is actually in Blogland now just kind of pacing*
☂And also, his bosses will not be happy. He has put his country in danger. And he knows it's because of Irene Adler. Which makes it a little bit his fault, because he introduced Sherlock to her.☂
☂It's a mixture of horror and anger and guilt. And worst of all, he has no control over the situation, something he hates.☂
☂Are you watching it now?☂
*sighs* Shit. I just sat there and was like 'I want to help him!!' He looked so... sad. And I can't watch Mycroft being sad!
Yes, I am watching it now. The Hound of Baskerville.
Awww, poor John...
[Is parallel]
[Has taken Fabi to a magical doctor's, but that didn't help]
[Drives back to Blogland in the same non-descript gray van]
[Parks and climbs out of the car for another day of watching and observing]
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☂I know.☂
☂That scene where John keeps walking away always breaks my heart.☂
No, I'm not that far at the moment... I meant this thing where Sherlock is shocked because of what he has seen and tells John that he has no friends. And then John walks away.
☂Yeah, it's the bit right after that.☂
Yes, it happens right now.
What? No.
Ooh... Hehehehehehehehehe...! [plots]
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Awwwwww. That was cute!
LESTRADE!!! :D
Is that why you call yourself Greg?
That is his name.
:D
(I'm still not here..))
☂I KNOW RIGHT!☂
☂By the way, can you BELIEVE that the main Mycroft ship is Mystrade? They have NO SCREEN TIME TOGETHER!☂
☂YES YOU ARE, HONEY, YES YOU ARE☂
*stays quiet thinking*
Mystrade? Should I be jealous now...? Hm...
I'm going to go, as I have never seen Sherlock, so I can't really participate in this discussion...
G'bye.
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FABIIIIII! Stay, please!!
((No I'm not because I'm with my friends so..))
Yeah I just am here I can't participate either I watched one episode and was bored so I never watched another.
☂Will poof for about twenty mins :(☂
I'll be waiting^^
Hi everyone :)
Hello Sykamere Dark! *waves*
I don't believe, we've met before...
No we have not *waves back*
Meh... mbd. Sorry.
I guess...
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That's ok.
Is anyone else here?
Hello Fabi :)
Hi Syk...
Sup Zaf?
Not much just excited actually. This will be a good day.
Greetings!
Miss September has decided she would like to "be" me at present, and so it shall be.
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