My editor has read the first (rough) draft of Book 9, and he loves it. I'm on the home stretch now — the end is in sight (in more ways than one). Over the next two or three weeks my head is going to be down and I'm going to working hard to fill in those gaps, to link up those scenes, to write those missing chapters. Right now I'm at 100,000 words. The end result will PROBABLY be about 120,000 words — maybe just slightly shorter than KOTW. Of course, in order to finish the book, I'll need to pick a winner of the Who Gets to Die competition we ran ages ago, and then that lucky reader will get to meet their grisly end...
And because I, and therefore WE, are on the home stretch, this blog is going to be choc-a-block with announcements and reveals over the next few weeks. By the end of THIS week, for example, we'll be revealing the cover for the Armageddon-Outta-Here short story collection. Next week, we'll reveal the full, WRAPAROUND cover for the collection (it's awesome). And the week after that? We'll be revealing the title for the ninth, and last, Skulduggery Pleasant book.
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*Smirks* Of course you can undo buttons.
*She's moving quickly* How does it sound to try burying someone to their neck?
They would not be interested in conversation with me outside of my character because that would be breaking the fourth wall, unless you intend them to do that. But I thought the point of the character was for it to exist within their world, not ours (as writers). I don't mean deceived in a way that implies the writer is doing anything wrong, only that it becomes hard to process from the point of view of someone who comes here not-in-character.
And characters always will be a subset of the writer, because that's what people are, a series of persona's, equally as "you" as each other. (see Goffman's frame analysis - not that I'm really trying to start a philosophical debate although I find them fascinating). But either way, I prefer to know who I am actually speaking to, not that I refuse to acknowledge that character as being independent, which is fine, but only in the eyes of my character, if that makes any sense (rambling here in an attempt to explain, not fight with you XD)
Of course. I should hope myself capable of handling my own clothing.
*matches her pace* That sounds wonderful, darling. Probably best to make it a child, however, or we might end up digging all day.
I don't know Silente... I just haven't been on a lot lately. I won't even say it's cause of exams anymore.
*Gasps* You? Hands- on? I'd never have guessed.
*Grins*
Agreed. I'll jump in for measure..
Oh. Okay then Chi. Okay.
So she didnt leave when she knows she is UNWELCOME
GO AWAY ADRA
Zaf!
Zafira Kerias Blogland is a neutral place. Its a safe haven. You don't tell people to leave a safe haven. Its rude. I know you have negative feelings towards Adra but that doesn't mean its right to tell her to leave. Rise. Above. It.
There is a place here for everyone. Please respect that.
[hugs for anyone who wants one]
No if she doesnt i will make her
Zaf. Don't paint yourself as a monster. Don't let your feelings towards Adra drag you down. Please.
Curious to know how..
((On this screen, Matex, you are no more real than I am. And so long as we both remain names on a screen, you never will be. While that is the case, I would advise you not to attempt to convince me that I do not exist. I'll add that I have no intention of apologizing to anyone for the nature of my existence, and I also have no regard for your emotions or respect for your opinions. I imagine you'll simply disregard anything I tell you as the ramblings of "a subset of the writer", but I think you'll find most people here acknowledge characters as their own beings when such acknowledgement is due. And I will remind you, again, of what I said earlier. Matex Von Darkhour is a name on a screen. Alastair Cruciatus is a name on a screen. While we're on this blog, there is no difference.))
Adra don't encourage her please.
Silente, I'm not. You think I want to hear this?
No I doubt you do want this Adra
Zafira, in case you didn't read it, there was a comment posted last night reading "if you want people to believe she's bad, you have to be better". This is doing nothing for you or anyone else.
Zaf.
"if you want people to believe you when you say she's bad, you have to be better."
I think I will just stay here and quote that. :)
I'm sorry I poofed . . .
*nods firmly and Siren and Alastair*
Alastair Cruciatus is a name on a screen.
Matex von Darkhour is a name on a screen.
Both names on screens are equally real and welcome, because EVERYONE is welcome in Blogland, real or not, hated or not.
#ChaseForBookNine
@Alastair: Ha. :) Snap.
#ChaseForBookNine
*points to last sentence in my comment before last*
*those implications were there for a reason*
*EVERYONE is welcome here, because there are good sides to EVERYONE*
*Zaf, please don't think I'm having a go at you; I realise you could interpret it that way, but I do remember lots of people saying it would be easier if you left*
*Hugs Star and Alastair*
*that last clause is said "But I DO remember lots of people saying it would be easier if you left"*
*sorry; verbal speech is easier to express those kind of things in :/*
#ChaseForBookNine
*hugs Adra*
Hey Star
Is Bear still on hiatus?
-__- you're only speaking "in character", at least I think that's what you're doing, and because your character cannot acknowledge the nature of his existence, it makes more sense to claim independence, and to address me directly as an author, but I mean no offence when I say you're a subset of your author, because you are, unless there are quite literally two people occupying that mind and using the body as vehicle to type - which there is not. Just because we're on a blog doesn't mean that the whole definition of existence goes out the window haha! You would be more comfortable with OO Ontology, claiming that everything is an object which exists equally, but even then it doesn't really account for the fact that yours is still dependant on your author. If the author dies you may not cease to exist - I will give you that - but you couldn't act.
I am very real here, because I am me, but you are quite right, I am no more real than you, precisely.
You could make an anology to film, I am speaking of the characters in terms of actors and you of their place in the story. I understand what you mean though, because the actor can't be the character, as they exist in the story independent of the actor, but that's kind of what I'm saying I guess, I come here as myself, even when I RP I am for the most part me, and I am speaking to you as an author.
I never said I was trying to convince you that you don't exist though, in fact I said I am happy to acknowledge your character as an independent being.
It wouldn't be easier if Zaf left. No one should have to leave or feel like they're unwanted. Blogland is for everyone. Zaf shouldn't leave because of this, that just leaves guilt and hurt behind. It needs to be resolved so that we can return to our neutral state. Someone leaving is not a solution its a compromise.
I remember when I first came here I thought it was great, fantastic. Somewhere I could be myself without fear of being judged. Somewhere that I belonged. But then splits began to appear. They need to be fixed. I'd love for Blogland to go back to what it was when I first joined. Sure we change and so Blogland changes but that doesn't mean it should become a cold, unforgiving and unwelcoming place. I don't want to be associated with that.
Basically what I'm saying is we need to find the cause of this problem. By that I don't mean the person causing it I mean why that person is causing it. Then we need to resolve the problem. Because as much as I love Blogland it isn't perfect, not unless we make it perfect. Its not being the best it can be. So instead of someone having to compromise and leave can't we talk this out and fix it? Please.
@Adra: Yeah. XD
He half wants to hiatus his hiatus again to come have a go at Matex, but he thinks I can handle it.
Which he's also using as evidence to suggest that he doesn't think I'm pathetic.
Or would do.
If he was here. :P
I have a feeling I am going to fall short of his expectations horribly in a moment though. :P
@Matex: There are two inside the same body, though.
And I'm dependant on Hunter just as much as he is dependant on me, and he influences what I do much more than I influence what he does. And I believe that all characters exist somewhere, somehow, and that in some universe, some layer of dimension, something, Hunter has a body of his own and is somewhere doing something, even if he isn't the same Hunter that I have in my head.
Can I prove that?
No.
Can you prove you're not just some other person making up Matex von Darkhour?
No.
So yah.
(Hunter says I have fallen disappointingly short of his expectations.
He says I'm not pathetic, I'm very pathetic.
*laughs*)
#ChaseForBookNine
(He also says that me relaying his sentences means that this isn't a very good hiatus, but that that's my fault for writing them so it's all okay, he guesses.
He says that he isn't telling me to say hi to Adra but that, just in case I happened to be writing down what he was thinking, he's thinking that he would like to say hi to Adra.)
#ChaseForBookNine
You should've seen what it was like before you came, Silente.
I would like to be acknowledged as myself, not as someone else in disguise. Consider me a literal second person sharing a mind with someone else if you will.
But you aren't a literal second person, that's all I was saying haha, not that I refuse to acknowledge you, only that it becomes strange. You can potentially end up have a conversation or roleplay with a whole group of characters who are all the same person. It is entirely possible that everyone here is written by the same person and it is just me and this person - from my perspective it is possible at least. And although I'm going to guess you would not admit this, it would change the dynamic, because we - most of us at least - still interact as both authors and characters, there is not so much of a clear distinction as you would like to believe. When we ask someone how they are we tend to be speaking to their author, think of it that way. Again, I mean no offence and am happy to accept your existence.
Matex, he is a literal person. He just doesn't have a physical body of his own. That doesn't make him not a person..
Star, don't let Bear be mean. And tell him I send hugs Sevenfold*
I'd love to have seen what it was like before I came Alastair. I hear it was nice. Which is exactly why we need to solve this. So we aren't arguing amongst ourselves in this manner.
You know what, I think I'm finally going to give up on this place.
I can't really do anything as me because confidence issues, mostly. I didn't used to have confidence issues here, not really. But I guess that's beside the point now.
And I get shit for hiding behind a character now, too. Maybe I like that feeling of power. Maybe I liked not being the boring outcast I seem to have become. Maybe I liked giving those little voices in the back of my head a chance to be just as me as I am. I have moments irl where Aevil wants to make things theatrical or Effie wants to make them colorful, or where all the voices inside my head keep arguing and arguing, and I can never make a decision on anything. That, too, is irrelevant, though.
I think my point is, it's been a good time, but it really isn't anymore, and I need to stop clinging to a place I no longer belong.
So goodbye.
If you want to stay in touch, you should have my email. If you don't have it, ask Star. If you don't want to stay in touch because you didn't know me all that well, that's cool.
No.
NO.
No.
Characters AREN'T the same person.
Besides, I know a lot of characters, most characters in fact, who are still characters in parenthesis because they don't simply cease to outside the story world.
When I'm roleplaying, I tend to be my characters inside and outside of parenthesis and if I want to speak as me, put Star:.
I suppose, though, that this all depends on your definition of 'person'. Hunter, and me as well but he started it, define 'person' as 'conscious being'. However, if you define 'person' as 'human body' (which is, btw, racism to all beings such as etherdemons who are people and not human), then you are correct.
#ChaseForBookNine
I weep for the state of this blog. Bye.
*Hugs Fabu**Loves her* That's probably the healthy option, dear. <3
Racism against ether demons xD
In existential terms, no he is not a literal second person, there are not two brains operating the one body; he is a frame used by the existential self who also happens to use the same frame that is known as "the author", I agree that they can equally exist, but they both exist as frames or "characters" played by the same person, not as separate entities. Separate philosophical objects in OO Ontology, yes, but that's getting unnecessarily complex because my original question was simply "do I already know you" meaning the "author".
I don't intend to make any distinction at all. That's precisely the point. You could very well indeed be writing every comment on this blog excepting mine, from my perspective. As it is, we have no way of telling the difference aside from written words that may very well be lies. I'm merely suggesting that when someone asks how I am, I assume they are asking how I am. If you'd like to ask after whoever you've been told types for me, ask her. While we're all names on a blog I expect to be treated the way you'd treat anyone you've been told is real.
@Lantern: Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
OH.
. . .
Oh.
I'm sorry.
I'll really miss you if I never see you here again. :( *hugs*
You're perfect.
And I hope that one day you shall return, and you shall belong, and -
Yeah.
However, it's your decision to leave, and f it makes you happier, that's . . . yeah, that's good.
Um.
Goodbye.
I'm sorry. :/
#ChaseForBookNine
You guys are getting so technical over something so simple which I was not even trying to use as an insult, what the hell? Nobody was giving anyone any shit!
But Matex, he IS. Existential. He exists.
-_-
This is a silly argument. He's just asking to be treated not like a plot device, like inhuman.
*nods at Alastair*
That is a very good point and was answered very well.
@Adra: Well, it is. :/
So many things in my life, I swear. XD
It feels grammatically incorrect when people say 'right', and it feels morally incorrect when people say 'humans'.
My life. XD
#ChaseForBookNine
XD Star xD
Bear. :,(
I want to read something about where he's being attacked by racists against ether demons. That would be perfect.
This is a silly argument.
*sighs*
Well.
I shall just continue how I am and if you don't like it then you can, um, lump it.
*went through several options for the ending of that sentence in an attempt to find a less offensive one :P*
Also, that merging thing is happening again, dammit. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
@Adra: You do?
Oh, thank you! That'll help me out with my writing-block-on-four-fronts problem. XD
(When I stop writing, I kind of lose the knack, I've worked out.
That's why Hunter's on hiatus. He says he's not letting me write him until I can write him properly, because he's not having himself half-portrayed, which is fair enough. I wouldn't like to be known as someone who I wasn't.
Which is actually rather a relief, because it stops me stressing over it. :P
But anyway.)
#ChaseForBookNine
*shrugs* Someone else might apologize if you feel insulted. It won't be me, though. Because once again, I don't really care whether I insult you or not. I don't mean to offend you or to respect you. But I'll add that if you start drawing lines between author and character in a place largely populated by a mix of authors and characters who are varying degrees of independent from each other, you're bound to get a few touchy responses.
No he isn't, the existential self cannot be accessed or interacted with, it is outside the person and everything they do or are, including coming onto this blog. That's like, a philosophical fact, I understand what you mean though and I'm fine with it, and I am okay with treating him as such, I said that :/
Regarding the whole "how are you thing", that's just different to me then, because in my experience it usually pertains to "day to day life things" like school and chores and having a bad, and then we jump into doing blog-stuff, but I have no problem with that either, ok.
*Nods to Star* Ay
*Gets it* <3
And when did I ever say you insulted me or infer that there was a need to apologise? I simply tried to talk to you and to be quite honest I don't understand why anyone is being like this. I never claimed to be insulted, quite the opposite in fact, I said I do NOT imply that you have done anything wrong.
Philosophical fact????
*frowns*
How does that work?
I thought, like, the whole point of philosophy was doubting facts.
Like, ordinary people are like, ooh look, there's a chair. It's a fact that there's a chair there, because like, it's THERE.
Philosophers are like, oh, no, but how do you KNOW there's a chair there? There are no such things as facts, because otherwise it wouldn't be confusing enough!
I don't take philosophy, so excuse me if I'm misunderstanding this, but even if philosophers are like - okay. Fair enough. There's an existence chair there, and I am going to sit on it because all this arguing has made me tired -
well.
How DO you prove there's a chair there?
#ChaseForBookNine
(I would love to take philosophy, though.
LOVE to.
I think that me taking philosophy would be like a Directioner taking a subject that was devoted to discussing One Direction.
Yeah.
<3
*blames my school/sixth form (same place) from not offering it*
*meh*)
#ChaseForBookNine
In that case, I'd argue that debating principles can be quite entertaining.
I'll add, also, that facts can be and often are rewritten.
*for
@Alastair: They can and are.
#ChaseForBookNine
Also -
you'd debate that debating can be entertaining?
*laughs*
#ChaseForBookNine
Precisely, Star.
I mean it is a philosophical term, existential self, it has a meaning, that's what it is, that's what I meant by fact. Existential self is what we "are" outside of ourselves as we are defined by our actions and such, because we have different faces, different "characters" for different situations, even when we are alone it is still just another facet of our self. I completely understand what you guys are saying though, I don't see Val and Skul as a subset of Derek's being, they are their own people, I get that. He writes about them, we understand them as people that exist, thus they exist, independent of him.
*Licks Star*
Not Adra she doesnt deserve to be here, she hurt someone beyond anything, if she doesnt go expect this until she does
Okay, so -
I won't be able to tell this like C told me, because C is just wonderful at telling stories, but -
Well, at school, in IT, we spent months making these animations last year. And in their IT lesson, C and B and another girl who I'll call L - they were basically sending their animations to their IT teacher and printing evaluations off and that.
And anyway, B was watching her animation on a loop, and she suddenly started yelling that there was a random love heart in it.
And L and C looked at it, and they couldn't see anything, and B was like "There's a love heart! I swear there's a love heart!"
And L was just like "She's finally gone insane" and C was like "I TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN! This person is TOO SHORT and she cannot hold her mental capacity -"
Anyway.
So they were just saying she was insane, and B was sat there, clicking through every single frame in her animation and refusing to be deterred from her course, ALL through her animations, which is quite a lot of frames. And then, on the very last frame, there was this enormous love heart on the screen.
And C and L were like, oh yeah.
And B was like "I TOLD YOU SO!"
and then she was like "WHO DID IT? WHO THE HELL PUT THIS HERE?"
and C was like "Well, it wasn't me" and L was like "Well, it wasn't ME". :P
And B couldn't work out how to remove it, so she screenshooted it and stuck it on her evaluation sheet and wrote "some stupid bitch put this here" or whatever on it. XD
Oh gosh.
Like I said, C is AMAZING at telling stories, so it probably isn't even funny now, but still.
She and C think L did it, so she's moved close to the top of B's revenge list.
Which D is on.
And I am, like, one of the only people not to be one. XD
C was saying today how she just couldn't stop herself being mean to people, and it was like a drug, and I told her she could pick on me, and she said it wasn't fun picking on me because I didn't pick back.
Which is rather interesting, really.
Like, she hit B on the arm and B squealed and started hitting C back in a tirade of small fast whacks, and C was like "See? THAT'S fun" and then she hit me on the arm and I just kind of looked at my arm like, ..., and she was like "See what I mean?"
Which is rather interesting.
There are even more disadvantages to being nice than I thought. XD
#ChaseForBookNine
Have you considered that you may be hurting her beyond anything? And perhaps everyone else who attempts to enjoy themselves here, as well? If you want to make the argument that you've been hurt, and expect people to sympathize with you because of it, it won't help your case to intentionally lash out at other people. And you can expect to face criticisms until you let her alone.
No. I will not 'let her alone' she should leave because all she does is cause problems, her very BEING does so
@Zaf: EVERYONE deserves to be here.
Everyone.
Even if they make other people unhappy by their being here.
Which is a bit of a . . . yeah, it's a rule that doesn't really work out that well, but we'll think of something. :)
#ChaseForBookNine
@Zaf: No.
Everyone improves the world in some way.
Everyone.
Even Hitler.
I still haven't managed to forgive Hitler yet, but it's something I do hope to achieve in my life.
#ChaseForBookNine
I imagine forgiving Hitler would be easier if I knew him personally . . . which really only adds to my argument.
#ChaseForBookNine
Just because you don't like her doesn't mean that other people don't, Zaf. I'm sorry you feel so horrible, but your opinion is not the only one that matters. And regardless, everyone has a right to be here, and abusing Adra in an intentional attempt to hurt her and drive her away is bullying, and I won't stand for it.
#ChaseForBook9
I hope I have not caused any problems, at no point was I trying to give anyone shit, I feel as though people think I'm trying to attack them and I feel bad because that isn't the case at all. If it makes more sense to say I want to speak to the author typing, then I'll phrase it that way, most of my "argument" was just me trying to clarify what I meant, not fight about anything ;-;
I stand by the whole "blog land is a place for everyone", I too come here to enjoy being part of a community that accepts everyone and have fun and I never intend to offend anyone ^.^
@Matex: No - I'm not offended by anything you said. :) *hugs*
You're still awesome. :) It's cool.
I'm rather good at arguing and not good at giving it up, so . . . :/
I'm sorry I caused you discomfort. :)
It's okay. :)
It's cool.
#ChaseForBookNine
By argument, he didn't mean the flinging-abuse-at-each-other type of argument. And I get that you weren't trying to offend anyone. :)
#ChaseForBook9
*Hugs Matex* It's chill yo
Oh look at that. The comments are blowing up because one person decided to start an argument. It was quiet before that. We were happily RPing now everyone is arguing.
I'm just fed up with her!!!!
Thanks guys! *hugs*
Also some things I say may come across as being a smart-ass or trying to sound smart or something, but I do study philosophy in one of my classes at uni so I'm just like, explaining using what I've learnt and stuff, that's all. I don't do much of it though, and I never got the chance to do it in high school so I know what you mean Star, about not being able to do it.
That doesn't mean you can kick her out, Zaf. You can't settle anything by yelling at her and trying to drive her away.
#ChaseForBook9
And I'm fed up with you Zafira. You're acting like a moany little kid that has a tantrum in the middle of a shopping market. Grow up. You have yet to realise his doesn't just involve you and Adra. You're being so fucking selfish.
This*
Chione- I know that you're frustrated, too, and believe me, I'm also about done with all the chaos- it's torn me apart more than I'll probably ever say- but being mean to Zaf won't solve anything either.
I don't intend to let Zaf bully Adra.
But bullying Zaf is just as wrong as Zaf bullying Adra.
#ChaseForBook9
I don't want to Bully anyone, I would just like to point out that Zaf has said on numerous occasions about how she feels like no one wants her, like she doesn't belong here, etc, and that she is now trying to tell Adra to leave. I'm leaving my personal feeling about that (ie, bullying) out of this, and just want to say that it isn't fair to do that, surely you (Zaf) can understand how that feels? Both of you, in fact everyone, wants to be accepted here.
Hey Chi! :)
*carefully staying out of argument unless I have something to contribute*
@Matex: No, it's okay - you do know what you're talking about and I don't. :)
Although I was just thinking about what you said, and I suppose that having characters is like having multiple personality disorder. It is still the same brain, and you are . . . the same, in a way. I mean . . . you're the same in a connect-y way. I mean . . . I mean, my brain gets used to thinking Hunter's thoughts, so then I forget that they're not mine and the line gets all blurred over, because it is the same brain thinking for two people and as such . . . and as such, we are, I guess, controlled by the same mind.
But how do you know whether our mind is his or mine, hmm?
. . .
Because it's my life.
*frowns*
Well, okay, it's my life, my body, my brain, my mind.
But there are more of his thoughts in here than mine, I guess, because half of his views become my views so slowly I change to be more like him so I guess, in essence, we're three-quarters Hunter and one-quarter me (and my brain is like the atmosphere; mostly nitrogen and oxygen, but with lots and lots of other gases in it.)
Which is rather scary.
BUT OF COURSE more of it is my mind because I generally think from my perspective and my brain thinks a lot more deeply into myself than it does Hunter, because it's MY mind.
Yes.
#ChaseForBookNine
Thank you, Matex.
msd
No one should be bullying anyone or telling anyone to leave.
Blogland is for everyone.
*nods, happy with my message, as it says what I think and allows me to sit on the wall at the same time*
#ChaseForBookNine
*just started putting the colour on Malente on my ships word art :)*
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I'm not bullying her. But she's so bloody judgemental. Matex is right, she says all these things to Adra then when we tell her not to she's like "No one likes me" "No one wants me here" "I'm just going to kill myself" And I personally find she's being two-faced and feeling sorry for herself. I find it pathetic that she dishes it out but can't take it.
@Star; it isn't MPD if the author can make the distinction between themselves and their characters haha, nothing wrong with sharing thoughts though. You will ofcourse have things in common with your characters same as you have things in common with friends and over time you views can often mold to match your friends (I studied a bit of that in Media theory). But you're still you, regardless of characters. I don't do psych but I'm fairly sure MPD is more about breaking your personality into different parts, like different moods which you think have independence, not two characters, which is ok, because you don't believe you ARE those characters, only that they EXIST.
^That was a short summation of my understanding of it though, just thinking about what you said, don't take that as an argument hahaha
Well . . .
*takes a deep breath, trying to get my thoughts in order*
I suppose -
if you had someone, and they got shot.
And it didn't kill them, but they were in a lot of pain.
And they were, for some reason, walking down the street, and one of the people also walking down the street accidentally bumped into them and banged into their gunshot wound and it HURT -
They would lash out.
And the person walking down the street who did nothing wrong but suddenly got punched for just WALKING -
they would hit back.
And then everyone would have a go at the person with a gunshot wound, and everyone would blame them, and so on top of their gunshot wound and the fact they're being hit they have to deal with all this hate and abuse and they blame the person that bumped into them, for bringing all this on them.
You kind of feel sorry for the person with the gunshot wound, because they're only hurt and they're only just trying to get by here.
Of course, you also feel very sorry for the person who got hit for just walking, but -
there's two victims here, you know?
Two people are hurt, and maybe we need to calm down and cuddle (or virtually cuddled; gunshot wound) everyone and tell them we love them, and maybe they'll feel better. :)
#ChaseForBookNine
Hello
@Matex: Yes . . . but it's LIKE MPD in that even thought there seem to be multiple people, there's actually only one person?
Except there are multiple people.
But I'm really losing my ability to say anything here because I know next to nothing about MPD so. :P
*and that also wasn't arguing, to be clear*
And - point taken. :) *nods* *stores what Matex said in my head*
#ChaseForBookNine
You ALLL are saying wise things 0.0
Hello, Hope.
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@Adra: That's because we're WISE. :)
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ASDFGHJKLASDFGUJKLJGSGDUWK UMMMM
ONE SEC. IMMA BE SNOW.
Meh. I cant be bothered changing the pic.
Breakfast. Bbs
A little, but it should be distinctly different from MPD. Like we exist outside the blog world (even if people want to fight me about that), my prime example here would be Adra and Zaf have offended each other as authors, as "real people", so they aren't just going to make new characters who are best friends. If they actually did, and they actually believed they WERE those characters then I think that would MPD (to create those characters and believe they exist external to yourself and are friends with each other is possible though, and it is VERY similar but completely separate and not MPD at all, as I understand it.)
@Matex: *nods*
Yes.
Fair enough.
Although -
well.
I was trying to think of an instance where I have disliked someone but my character(s) has/ve like them, but I dislike so few people . . . :P
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I've come to the conclusion that I have some form of MPD, because I go by so many different names and I act slightly different with all of them. Sometimes not even slightly, but a complete 360 on the normal me
Haha but that would be fine, it would be just as sane as you irl pretending to like someone who you actually don't like, and we do it all the time. (MPD would be having two different personalities, one who likes that person, one who doesn't, and in each instance you believe you ARE the person).
More importantly, Star! Did I offend Fabienne? I seriously hope I have not hurt her, because like I said that wasn't my intention, do you know if she's okay?
The very fact that you KNOW that means you're okay Snow haha, MPD is believing they are independent and in each instance being unaware that those "other character" are played by you.
Yes -
I mean, Ari thinks Death (Death Rose, the Bloglandian) is really awesome (Death is awesome. But Ari and Death are closer than me and Death, and there was a phase, when Death was online more, when Ari would tell her she was awesome quite a bit, because Ari's cool like that), and one day, I remember Niccolò gave a dedication to Death.
And he would not have done that if Ari and Death were not close like they were.
And this is quite easily explained - I mean, Niccolò is inside Ari's head, so he knows Death better than I do because Ari knows Death better than I do, but -
influence.
And, yeah -
it's like, Hunter knows things I don't, so when, logically, I am being Hunter and I would know these things, but I don't because my brain doesn't hold the information, it just kind of goes blank, as if I lose signal.
And -
characters are really limited by your mind, I guess.
So -
yeah.
I'm sure this was more related when I started off saying it . . .
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@Snow: I think everyone does that to some extent. Furthermore, it can be a symptom of many things, but it's not important enough to worry about it, so . . . don't worry about it. :)
@Matex: Yes, that's true. :)
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@Matex: I don't know, not being Fabi. However, I do know that Fabi has felt she doesn't belong here/other things for quite a while, and the fact she left was due to a large multitude of factors that have built up over time, so even if you did offend her, I think that was a kind of minor blip, so -
yeah.
I'm not Fabi, though, and I apologise for any errors made in writing this paragraph.
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I never was totally close with Rose, Ari was. I mean I know her, but..yeah.
And as for what Chi said- good glad you think that as you're once again wrong. Maybe you should know a perso before saying stuff
Ah its okay just she said if we wanted to get in contact with her you have her email, so I thought you might have spoken to her is all :/
@Matex: Not especially, no. :/
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Snow, self-diagnosis isn't good xD
Maybe I shouldn't be here...maybe I'm not worth anyone's time. Seems that way almost everyday
Zaf don't be mean to Chi. She's just tired. Its late here. Cheer up.
Hey again everyone.
I know its late...I've just been trying to be happy as I had a good day until all of this.
That is not very fair to say Zaf. You feel that way because you were mean to Adra and people responded by asking to stop and/or leave.
ASDFGHJKLASDFGUJKLJGSGDUWK I was trying to find this video that fits perfectly here but I cant find ittttt
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EAkBIrAUqTE
HERE
THE FIRST BIT.
YEAH.
WHOOOOOO
I THINK.
Sorry, I got distracted (do that a lot) -
I'm sorry you feel that way, Zaf. :/
You're worth my time. :)
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Doesn't matter...*sighs*
@Snow: XD
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Zaf, don't ever think that you don't matter. Don't devalue yourself like that. Because you do matter.
Maybe to some
Everyone matters...
If people all mattered then there would be no more hatred
*nods firmly at Amethyst*
Everyone does matter.
Everyone.
Including you. <3
Msd.
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Zaf you matter to every life you effect. Every single life. They may not know you, they may not know you've charged them, but to them you matter. Because without you they wouldn't be who they are.
not true at all, everyone matters in one way or another but people are always going to hate other people, in some cases that is even the things which matters, their hatred, as sad as that is.
But people mean different things to different people.
@Zaf: All people do matter, and hatred still exists.
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*nods at Matex*
*and nods very muchly at Silente*
I actually judge people's awesomeness largely on how much me knowing them has bettered me as a person . . .
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That's why forgiveness exists...
So tell me how I'm wrong. You were telling Adra to leave, shouting at her then when we tell you to stop you say things like: "Maybe I shouldn't be here...maybe I'm not worth anyone's time. Seems that way almost everyday" Again, two-faced, self-pity after saying that stuff to Adra and we were sticking up for her. You are in the wrong here. Stop being so cruel to Adra and we won't have these arguments and you won't feel this way.
For the other point, how well do you know Adra when you're bullying her like this? Maybe she has a bad life and comes on this to be happy then you go off at her too. What if you drove her to kill herself? I hope you would feel like SHIT. So you better think twice before making someone else feel like shit. And it's not just Adra you make feel this way. It's all of us. Because these arguments hurt us. But you don't take us into consideration do you? because you only think about yourself and think we're bullying you and think you're so hard-done-by.
And, Zaf?
You may not realise this, but I've learnt quite a bit through knowing you. You've had a positive impact on me. :)
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I don't agree with Chi's methods but her main point still rings true; the arguments hurt everyone. (Not blaming that hurt directly on Zaf or Adra or anyone, like, there isn't someone TRYING to hurt everyone, but the result of one person trying to hurt another person is everyone gets hurt somehow.)
"If people all mattered then there would be no more hatred"
Says the person hating Adra.
I think I agree with Matex . . .
Hurt is infectious.
It spreads like Marmite on toast.
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*sighs* I mean today I was up at the tech school for my hair and my friend was a first level and had a second level mentor her. They had a teacher help to do my hair. Then when they finished the main teacher came over and helped to wash and tone my hair. Then the girls doing my hair brushed it and flattened it. But the girl who did my hair had to clean up because the state board was around and one upper level who was not busy and never was on the team for my highlights came over and finished so my friend wasn't in trouble. Then throughout the clinic time the instructor said: There is never such thing as I can't do this. You all can do it.
That was just epic.
@Chi: But Zaf thinks Adra doesn't matter.
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Chi turn your last part of that comment around to face yourself, you don't know Zaf. She could have a shit life. She could come on here to be happy. Yes its wrong of Zaf to about at Adra but us shouting at her doesn't make it any better. These arguments hurt Zaf as well. They hurt everyone. You know I have no ill will towards you Chi but just as Zaf doesn't help Adra you don't help Zaf, we need to stop bickering like children and start talking and working this out without hurling abuse at each other.
@Zaf: That is amazing, yes. :)
Yeah - it's like me and that blasted essay of mine.
And I thought I couldn't do it.
And then I could.
I just needed to keep trying. :)
(It would be helpful if I could do it a bit QUICKER next time, though. :P)
You can always do things.
It's just believing. :)
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I agree with Silente.
Everyone matters, as Silente Matex and Star said.
What if I just said that you don't matter? that you should just die, you're worthless? (obviously not true)You wouldn't like it very much. And that's how Adra is feeling because of you. I don't hate you Zafira. But I hate the way you act. Sorry if I'm being mean. I'm trying to get you to see what you're doing. Sorry to everyone who read that and thought I was out of order.
Thanks Amethyst.
*hugs everyone* You all matter to me...
@Chi: That's fair enough . . . *nods*
It's like how I don't hate really shitty teachers, but I hate the way they teach and as such I'll happily go a tirade of hate about them due to the fact they inconvenience my life.
*hugs Amethyst* Awh. :) You're lovely. And you matter to me, too. :)
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I do help Zafira... I RP with her, I helped her when she was dying and ill, I tried to help cool her down it was the best I could do. She is my friend. I'm not bullying her. I'm telling her what she's doing is wrong and I apologised for sounding mean. There is a difference. She tells Adra to fuck off every time she sees her online. HUGE difference. And if she did have a shit life and came on to be happy, why is she being so mean to Adra and not trying to fix it so she could be happy on here again?
@Star, shitty teachers. Oh. My. Freaking. God.
I know what you mean :'(
And then outside of class one of them turned out to be the nicest person :S
I don't know Chi, I was just trying to point out how none of us are helping much so much as bickering between us. Zaf, the next time Adra comes on will you be able to hold your tongue and try work this out?
@Matex: Yeah . . .
I feel really sorry for my German teacher, because really she's just tired and has just had to deal with shit for far too long, but SHE TEACHES SO BADLY wait let me rephrase SHE DOESN'T TEACH AT ALL and it makes me mad. :P
@Chi: Like I said. Gunshot wound. Lashing out. Blame.
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*hugs everyone* Awww I love you guys ^.^
I had this bitch of a teacher for Biology >.< she called me lazy in front of another teacher and a friend cause I would rather focus on Geography than Biology when Geography is my favourite subject and I hated Biology.
@Chi: -_-
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Hahaha yep I have had a few teachers like that, they didn't actually TEACH and I have said the meanest things about them :/
Haha. The way we easily bounce from one subject to another! :D
Gtg now guys, tablets dying and its late anyway. Night!
*waves*
*offers everyone a handshake*
*except for Matex*
*he gets a hug*
*and a kiss*
*because yeah*
MALENTE!!!!!!!! *FANGIRLS*
Bye Silente-sama! *hugs*
Seriously lads when is the war going to stop?
I'm sick of watching the same shit replaying day after day, it's so tiring and I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm knackered just watching it.
If you go back through the last blog posts since about the middle of last summer, a good maybe 75% of it is filled with bitching and fighting and just a load of bollocks.
It's need to stop. We are family. We are here for one another when no one else is. We are so important to one another, why blow it all up for the sake of what?
What exactly? A main plot line on a role play? Sole access to one character?
Whats the point?
I used to come here to de-stress and remember the times when Chase was on and feel a bit closer to him again, but since all this bollocks started, I just can't bring myself to do anything on here with anyone anymore.
It's sickening. It's heartbreaking.
So now I'm pleading with EVERYONE! I don't care who was right, who was wrong, who is on the fence or not getting involved. Can it all just stop?
I just want my family back... :'(
When I get angry, I get very intensely angry for a short period of them and then get over it unless reprovoked, so I have just -
honestly, I get so mad about bad teachers.
Haha, though - we all had an English assessment in the hall (and in the gym and the hub as well, because space) today, our whole year group, and one English class couldn't do it because their teacher was so rubbish (he's had a reputation for being rubbish as long as I've been at the school) that he hadn't taught them anything, and so he's apparently now been sacked. XD
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Fours, Silente! :(
MALENTE. <3
Awh.
Malente is ace. :)
@Em: I'm sorry . . . *sighs* But I'm not sure what I can do.
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:( *hugs Emerald*
Bye Silente!
*returns kiss, then shakes Silente's hand too, because yeah ;D*
Wait Em, are you referring to my conversation thingo? Cause that was just a discussion and we all agreed and hugged in the end ;-;
@Matex: No - the Adra/Zaf thing.
*hugs*
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Oh, dear - I really ought to go to sleep now. :/
I'm sorry. Fours!
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(Oh, what did that have to do with characters? I don't know the whole story with that)
Bye Star!
Bye bye Star!
I dedicate this page to everyone because you all matter. *hugs everyone*
I must leave now. Bye.
Sorry food called!!
*cries because food*
*hugs my food* Mine!!!
*giggles*
*sigghh* I have resigned myself to eating noodles once more, simply because they are easier than preparing a whole meal!
They are. *smiles* I have my hair highlighted and it looks so cool
Hell yeah. Coloured hair is the best.
I is happy
*pokes Zafira and Matex then runs away and hides*
*giggles*
*curls up*
Okay...*sighs and watches tumbleweed* Typical. *sighs* I'll take Alastair ripping me apart over the silence here
*shrugs* You can't actually disable it, and being Derek managed to break the blog a few times, I think he'll just ignore whatever happens here. Not ignore but just...let us figure it out. I mean I personally think the entry on bullying did more bad then good, but I have yet to know if he knows and I'm not questioning. I'm grateful for being an Ameriminion sometimes.
To a degree, nope. I really put it out of my mind, I think of positive things like my gerbils.
Being I can't seem to get in a controlled emotional state when she is on, probably.
With her? Probably highly unlikely I'll ever control my mood until I can feel safe knowing she isn't lurking.
Seriously? Go ahead take away a haven for people see how far it gets you, dear. You'll be hated.
16. I'm one of the older Minions...well sorta older. Nobody tops Em, the momma bear.
You get this place disabled you'll end up the most hated in the fandom. Believe me. You just don't do things like that.
Yes, 16. I'm perfectly capable of applying for my driving permit too.
You'll be responsible for death. Some people here have simply this place left as their reason to be walking today.
I tried that and it got me ignored.
Not that- no. Some people simply have issues and turn to their friends here as support. Taking that away...I'm just saying, I mean you do as you like but I hate to see people hurt because they can't turn to a friend.
I don't do bad things, I just am treated like I am
Jazlyn, Zaf isn't a villain. She's been mean to Adra, and that has to stop, but calling her a villain isn't going to help, and it's not what she is, anyway. Thing is, she is hurt, she's just not dealing with her feelings the right way. It's wrong for her to take all her pain out on Adra, but it's also wrong to call her a villain, and it only worsens the problem. We just all have to try to be kind to and care for each other.
Very distant, if here at all, just popped in to say that...
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Thanks Ari
*sighs*
I didn't see anyone calling anyone a villain - unless that was in removed comments, there seem to be a lot of those.
Call this my opinion if you want but the way I see it, telling someone to leave the blog and that they are unwelcome is doing a bad thing, I don't think you can do that and then claim "I don't do bad things", regardless of why you did it.
Making anyone feel unwelcome is bad, I don't care if it is Zaf making Adra feel unwelcome or anyone else making Zaf feel that way.
I don't feel like being the one everyone says is bad, but you know I may not actually be bad. Perhaps hurt is a word. Hurt.
We're hurt because you keep this argument up. You're hurt over a fictional character and her relationship with another fictional character. Silly, right?
My mum is so caught up in my bothr n his slight chance of being autistic that she hasn't even realized I'm struggling with school...
Hey, anyone on?
Listen up, there's not a moment to spare
It's quite a drop from the top
So how you feeling down there?
It’s a cold, cruel, harsh reality
Caught, stuck, here with your enemies
Who do you think you are,
Tearing us all apart?
Where did you think you could go?
Coz everyone already knows,
It’s 20 to 1
Yeah, so you better run!
You got the world on its knees
You’re taking all that you please
You want more (you want more!)
But you’ll get nothing from me
You’re like the burden we bear
You’re all the hate that we share
You want more (you want more!)
But you’ll get nothing from me
We're enemies
Enemies
You started something that you just couldn't stop
You turned the ones that you love into the angriest mob
And their one last wish is that you pay for it
And there's no way you're getting out of this
Who do you think you are
Tearing us all apart?
Where did you think you could go?
Coz everyone already knows,
It’s 20 to 1
Yeah, so you better run!
You got the world on its knees
You’re taking all that you please
You want more (you want more!)
But you’ll get nothing from me
You’re like the burden we bear
You’re all the hate that we share
You want more (you want more!)
But you’ll get nothing from me
We're enemies
Enemies
Where did you think you could go?
Coz everyone already knows
It’s twenty to one
Yeah, so you better run!
You've got the world on its knees
You've taken all that you please
You want more (you want more!)
But you’ll get nothing from me
You're like the burden we bear
You’re all the hate that we share
You want more (you want more!)
But you’ll get nothing from me
You've got the world on its knees
You've taken all that you please
You want more (you want more!)
But you’ll get nothing from me
You're like the burden we bear
You’re all the hate that we share
You want more (you want more!)
But you’ll get nothing from me
We're enemies
Enemies
Enemies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z9Kmla_ceA
Some of the lines remind me of Blogland. :P
I still it more as a portrayal of a situation, though. I don't agree with the tone, and it doesn't speak to me in the way that some songs say the things I maybe would say if things were different.
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