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«Oldest ‹Older 2001 – 2200 of 4580 Newer› Newest»I was walking through the living room on my way back upstairs, and the TV was on, and Dave was on the TV. You know, the channel. It shows Traffic Cops and Top Gear and stuff. My brother watches it.
And you know those like one-minute Halfords adverts they have with those two cars who fix cars?
"Do you think cars need to be fixed in heaven?"
"It wouldn't be heaven if they didn't."
"Do you think, somewhere in the universe, there are two cars fixing a human?"
". . . No, I don't think so."
And there was one of those adverts on as I came through, and I didn't see what they were saying, but just after it ended, the screen went grey and there was some writing on it in white, saying "Well, that paid for fifteen more minutes of programs."
It made me smile. :)
It's funny how some distance, makes everything seem small
And the fears that once controlled me, can't get to me at all!
It's time to see what I can do
To test the limits and break through
No right no wrong no rules for me
I'm free!
Let it go, let it go
I am one with the wind and sky
Let it go, let it go
You'll never see me cry
And here I stand. And here I stay
Let the storm rage on
@Silente: It's obvious because the clues just SO CLEARLY POINTED TO YOU!
@Egg: That doesn't matter.
It's not that the situation is similar to Frozen. It's the the situation needs me pointing out the principle that Frozen beautifully outlined for us, and I thought I could do more good pointing to Frozen than trying to explain it myself. True love doesn't happen over two seconds. You have to get to know somebody and like them for the person they are. You don't just have to love them romantically, you have to love them as a friend as well, as a best friend. And that is true love. And it doesn't necessary involve romance. Romance is just the wrapper around the chocolate bar.
. . .
Or that's what I personally believe anyway.
@El what? I hadn't seen him in a while! I missed him...
Clicks?
(As you may be able to guess SilenteTC is not very experianced in relationships)
HOLY SHIZNERKAPPLA!
Vivelente.
4EVA
""HI VIV! Uh, *cough* Hey."
You were excited but not aware of it. :)"
Personally, I would analyse that differently, but that doesn't mean I'm any more correct than you are, and it's interesting to see how other people would interpret things. :) I also couldn't analyse it in words very well. It would take a bit of faffing.
. . .
Wow. O_O
Spellcheck thinks 'faffing' is a word.
I NEVER REALISED IT WAS AN ACTUAL WORD WORD THAT EXISTED :O
I really love that Silente carries on the songs that I post lyrics to it makes me so happy and I thought you should all know this
Oh god, that's terrifying.
@Elleni: Love is the chocolate bar, of course. :) The wrapper just marks it out to you. How do you know that a chocolate bar is chocolate? Because the wrapper points it out to you. How do you know what kind of chocolate it is? Because the wrapper tells you. It's a good indicator.
(Of course, romance is more than a chocolate wrapper in some senses, but in regards to love . . . *trails off with a hand gesture, one that kind of says 'you know'*)
fappin?
*coughs*
Ohhh faffing..
@Mushroom: :) :) :)
*hugs*
Yeah . . .
Let It Go is a good song. :) :) :)
I don't know the words, though . . .
Faff. :) :) :) Faff is a great word.
Today is a LOVEly day.
@Star. Hey so. Uh.... Just one word about Vivilente.......Malente *looks at her*You see my brain thoughts here.
*Well. Obviously I know the chorus. :P
*starts fangirling about let it go only to forget the words after the actual words let it go*
@Silente: But I really like the word 'Vivilente!' :( viviviv . . . it's so vibrant and vivid and just really spiky and bright and pretty. :)
. . .
Um.
YEAH
but
I guess just let SilenteTC do what she'll do?
*knows all the words to all the frozen songs*
*even Fixer Upper*
Vivelente seems like a very.. pointy word, if that makes sense.
Very purple as well.
(I have Elleni. Numerous times
Get it out, get it out
Get this song out of my head!
Get it out, get it out
I'll sing anything else instead!
@Star Yeah...let's just hope the two never meet. That might work...)
Oh my god, i'm the only boy here and i'm talking about frozen.
I knew this would happen one day.
(Aww that's fine Egg. Frozen is awesome.)
Love, amongst Frozen.
You guys are fabbityyyyyyyyyy <3
*drops in*
Hullo. :]
This doesn't matter, I fangirl in front of my freinds anyway.
When I remember Frozen.
Uhh..
yeah
(@Elleni okay. If not let it go then
DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?)
*and I know what the lyrics SAY
(Saying I don't know them implies I don't remember them and therefore didn't pay attention to them.)
(I just don't remember the exact WORDS.)
(my cat is refusing to leave me alone)
(she has my foot)
LET IT GOO!
LET IT GOO!
IT REALLY REALLY HURTS!
(HELLO TAIA DEMARS! HOW ARE YOU?!)
Have you guys seen google translate sings let it go?
Or Do you want to build a Snowman?
Hey Taia! :)
I don't fangirl about Frozen . . .
*immediately starts analysing myself*
It doesnt have to be a snowmale..
(Google translate sucks. It screws up the song. Bad google translate.
I've listened to loads of parodies though. And made quite a few as well
My friend is doing parodys in 'Jai' style (Jai is me) and its sooo funny.)
*I suppose it's because everyone has watched Frozen, and therefore the urge to share awesome things that I, like most beings, have doesn't kick in as I have no one to share it with.
(I don't really talk about Skulduggery Pleasant here for similar reasons.)
Also, it didn't make me cry and feel majorly emotionally impacted, so - yeah.
(I'm not saying Frozen isn't good. Frozen is amazing. I'm really proud of Disney and I'm really glad it says what it says, and I reference to Frozen enough for it to be a Thing That I Reference To. It's great. :))
A way we could get Derek's attention is not commenting on a post.
Then commenting on it after ages.
He'd read.
I haven't seen any parodies or anything, but I don't see these things. SP is the most involved I've ever been with a piece of art that I like, and that's only because I have to come here every day for Blogland and so I read the blog.
This is linked to me being socially out of touch and that is due to the fact that I don't reach out, in many ways. I'm not entirely sure why I don't reach out, but I have reaching-out issues.
*places all of Star's desires in front of here*
REACH OUT BUBBLE, YOU CAN DO IT!
HELLO SILENTO!
I'm good, thanks. And yourself? :)
Hi Star! :)
Hi Elleni! :)
How are you both? :)
Hello, Elemental_Geek! :)
*tilts head* Have we met before?
Nope.
Go back a few pages to see my ded of people I have met.
My first dedication.
My discipline is there as well.
@Elemental: You could try it. There'd be the one-commenters, though, and the rebels, and also communicate might be a bit iffy. You might need someone to stick around on the post telling people not to comment on it. I volunteer as tribute, but I'll probably be rubbish and I'll only be here for, like, six hours a day . . . .
. . .
. . .
woah
my life is sad.
UM
*disappears off to make it less sad, maybe*
*leaves out hand to shake*
(I'n good Taia! I think the dentist poisoned me with teeth paint because my side and ribs keep randomly hurting really badly before fading away and it hasn't done it before today but otherwise good!)
Wow.
Elleni.
How do you keep an eye on Silente with only a quarter of a day?
Make your life even more sad for maximum security!
(I should get a DP
Probably a picture of an egg.
Test.
Damn. Needs to be bigger.
@Elemental: That's like how my sister argues.
She does it so you have no more response left to give, no way you can argue your point without looking stupid, and she calls that winning.
Me and C don't call it a win unless you change what's in people's heads, make them THINK different. If they still believe the same but just can't prove themselves, how have you made a difference?
That was an analogy. You have to tackle these things at the source, and I'm not sure I want to. I like being me, and it would impact other things in ways that we cannot see. :)
*Although, actually, why do we need to get Derek's attention? I don't want to be a pestering four-year-old. Derek is a buys man, he does way more than enough for us, and I'm happy being an insect because I would rather he lived happily than be known to him as an annoying person who kept bothering him.
Nah, I argue logically.
This was an idea that came to me in the night.
I stare at the ceiling.
Dont ask.
@Elemental: That was me . . .
And - because I sleep for several hours, and then I go to school. I'm here whenever I'm not at school.
. . .
That's sad.
OKAY I NEED TO VANISH AROUND NOW
HEy Dragona. :)
(I'm going to cry if this pain doesn't go away.)
No Elleni don't make your life even more sad. That's not a good thing to do. I can handle myself....
Has Silente had any luck yet?
Has Silente had any luck yet?
@Elemental: You're doing what my sister does. :P
(That isn't a criticism. It's analysis.)
Oh.. Ok then.
Uhh
Forget that.
(these moments are awkward.)
(OW FUCK THIS HURTS! WTH BODY?!)
Hey Viv!
*grins*
Test v2.
Vivelente..
4eva...
Meh that'll do.
Dragona- thats fine.
Can I call ye Nez?
@Elemental: Ah! Well, it's a pleasure to meet you, then! :) *greets the hand with a shake, and offers a cookie, also* :)
I'd say something along the lines of how you've met some great people, but I think it'd be hard NOT to do so here. :P
@Silente: Aw, that sucks. I suppose that if it were harmful, maybe dentists wouldn't use it, but I don't know, so... :/ I hope it stops soon, though, anyway. ^^
Keep the cookie.
My first encounter with Dugglyn resulted in getting a cup of hot choc and a cookie.
MY FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH ME INVOLVED ME GETTING . . . ME.
WHICH SOUNDS STUPID BUT IS ACTUALLY TRUE IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT. :)
(Egg - no. Quarian names work as that the first part, in this case Leri, is their actual name.
The thing after the ', in this case Heesa, is the clan name.
Vas in Khelish means "crew of" - which signifies the Quarian has come of age as opposed to "nar" which means "child of".
Then the part after the vas/nar, in this case Nezyya, is the ship name.)
(Its okay! Leaning forwards stops the pain! It just replaces it with an 'im going to puke' feeling.)
So, Silente, you seem to have solved my impressively intricate, intensely complex, and horribly difficult puzzle...what do you think of the picture now that all the pieces are together?
Er...well I won't lie, I'm a bit shocked. I...I didn't see that coming...I....
Are you pulling my leg?
@Star: *whispers* I think people often find insects annoying, though. :P
I don't think that's how Derek'd think of us folks, anyhow. Like, he doesn't even think of fans of the books as fans of himself, right? He's not going to SQUISH people when they start buzzing in his ear. xD
I have no idea what my point is here, though. I'm just... Uh?
Sorry, unintentionally slow, and probably wbd too, now.
(Brb.)
I try not to pull the legs of those who have tasted my blood and can therefore track me down in killer mode.
or love mode for vivelente.
So you......*blushes*
So kwaii you two are.
@Elemental_Geek: *withdraws the cookie*
*laughs* :)
Also, d'you have a preferred name shorten-ment in particular? :)
Hey Dragona! HOw're you doing?
I like the picture, btw. :) ^^
Touché
People call me Egg, however I have no taken name.
That's private if I have no taken name.
Your given name?
*smiles slightly*
You sure you not pulling my leg? People don't tend to.....yeah....at least not when I'm involved
@Elemental: Okay, cool. I'll probably switch between Egg and Elemental, then, because I do that. :P
Gotta go. Will BBL, probably.
Bye, all!
1000% sure.
(Bye Taia!)
(*sighs contently* hot black currant. Always makes me feel better.)
Bout wat?
Byai Taia
*smiles at him*
*looks confused a moment*
But....why?
(I think we should back up
Ell, they're having a love moment
they might kiss)
(*glares at Egg going bright red* Shut. Up.)
Huh? I don't go bright red for anyone but my crush/friend.
Fiiinee..
(Viv, take this rose! It'll be useful)
(She was going red at the 'they might kiss' part El.)
*he*
now carry on
(shush they're gonna never talk if you keep on moving me)
(El = Elleni Elemental = Egg or Ella. Just to spite him he may become Ella.)
*magically shuts elleni's mouth and my own for 4 minutes*
*gestures to ignore us*
(Too late Ella. Ruined the moment now. Plus Viv appears to be....hesitating.)
(Egglyn or Ella will never happen in a year.
Or forever now that I think about it)
*carry on*
*teleports both of us to London*
SHUT UP!
i can still hear them, you can't
*goes off to read a book or something but is secretly listening*
*heart is beating quickly*
*removes armor because the sound is starting to echo*
You still haven't given me an answer.
Silente.
Ok.
*teleports to back of subway and gives Elleni £20*
Go nuts on whatever you want.
I...
*looks down, blushing again*
*can the dead blush?*
*eh either way they can now*
*looks up meeting his gaze and taking a step towards him*
*quietly*
I...I wouldn't want to be without you.
*smiles sheepishly*
(I can imagine so)
*opens door for Elleni to walk in to the shop*
Ladies first.
*takes her hand*
That's what I wanted to hear.
I have two gifts for you to choose from.
One is a knife.
The other one is a secret.
(my god what is happening)
(my face is so shocked right now)
*grins*
I like secrets.
*returns smile*
(Shut up! It has a ruby heart for a pommel stone. That's romantic. Plus she uses knives a lot so it's thoughtful.
(Ok-hurry up you might miss a certain secret)
*whistles outside of subway with hands in pockets*
It's a secret item, not a secret. You guys don't get to hear the secret. Only Silente.
*hands her a steel ring with diamonds*
(Dragona shush, vivelente is with silente riyt nw)
*takes out, not hands
*gasps remembering the 'incident*
*stares at the ring*
*whispers/ says very very quiet and softly*
Viv?
(For you guys, Viv is having a confidence boost....
Silente,
You were so happy the other day after I saved you. Not this time. What happened? What did I do wrong?
I'm not sure what's happening to me. You have so stressed. I'm constantly thinking about you; worrying for your safety. I'm afraid that next time I won't be there to save you. I want you around. I want to know that you are safe (relatively anyways) but you keep scaring me. So I'm hiding. Maybe if I'm not there I won't feel like I've failed you.
I'm still in blogland but you won't see me for a while.
Make your decision without me. You know that I want you to live. But in the end, it's all up to you.
Please choose me,
Vivanus Keen
This is the letter. Vivanus is mad at me now though)
*a single tear falls down my cheek*
Sil..Silente?
Are you ok?
It's not a wedding ring. I wouldn't want to put that much pressure on you now.
It's my invention.
(Thats the letter he emailed me. It...yeah. You can see what I was saying.)
Hello everyone.
Viv..
Sil..
*looks around and frowns, but no one can see, because, y'know, helmet*
*calms down*
*not that she wouldn't be flattered, just that she panics when someone produces a ring like that*
*even if she likes the person she'd panic*
Invention?
(Hey Chi..)
*places a hand on silente's shoulder*
How.. do you feel?
((how is everyone?
And what the heck is happening in this RP?))
(I thought you were in London Egg.)
(just read the last page and the 2nd page before that)
(Fine Chi, you?
Er...stuff.)
We have made the present obsolete
What do you want?
What do you need?
We'll find a way
When all hope is gone.
We've seen the fall of the elite
Bury your life, take your disease
We'll end the world
When all hope is gone
*teleports back to London*
Hey Ell.
How about that Sub?
*smiles sadly*
*is watching, btw - all this is fun to read :)*
I'm going to leave now.
I'm sad now.
I have to pray.
Too many 'i'.
Bye.
Goodbye Egg.
(Bye Egg!)
(There's a voice in the back of my head currently trying to decide if now is an opportunity)
(Bad voice)
(Leave them be)
((I can't be bothered reading all of it. Just give me a brief summery.
I'm fine...went to Glasgow with friends, went on the rides that were there and I'm pretty sure the guy working one of the rides was trying to feel me up...
Never going on the rides again...))
(@Chi ew. Bad man. Rides are pretty fun though...
I'll allow El to give you a brief summary....)
*looks at everyone's knees*
... How do you keep your balance?
(Actually El may have left. Not sure.
Well as a brief summary...uh....Vivilente.)
((Seriously, he was in his 30s or something and I had my hands infront of me and when he was about to put my seat thing down he asked
"why do you have your arms like that? are you ticklish?"
I said no and he tickled me as he put it down.
Then at the end of the ride he gave me a weird look and as I was leaving he stood in front of me and the exit. He opened his arms wide and came towards me...I hugged him as I thought he might block my way if I didn't... it was really really creepy...))
(@Chi that..that is creepy. He hugged you....yacky.)
((Yup...my friend Amy said before we got on the ride he looked me and my other friend Tracey up and down and looked back at me cause I had a dress on... (I had shorts under it) I was seriously glad to get the fuck away from him. He said "cya trouble" as I walked away...))
(Oh golden god that's....ewwwwwww! Bad man! Bad man!)
(Chione - by the sound of it, he could have just been trying to be nice in his own little way. I think jumping to conclusions is kind of a bad idea, but then again I wasn't there so I can't really comment.)
I'm not used to you being human.
Who being human?
you.
(I think Viv may have poofed..)
*raises three-fingered hand and points to her helmet*
Does it look like I'm human?
Silente, that's what his message entailed.
((It wasn't appropriate for a guy in his 30s or something to touch a teenage girl like that... it's creepy Dragona. I don't care if he was trying to be nice.))
@Drag
I diddnt know you're a girl/female/whatever
No but you act like one.
(a human)
(He tickled and hugged you? Or am I missing something?)
Call the police or something, that's just raaawng.
(I'm not a female. I'm a male. My RP character is just currently a female. Yeah it's confusing. :P)
(@Egg ah the letter he sent that about...5? 5 or so days ago, before his IPOD died. Then a bit later she sent one back.)
((Do you think that that's a reasonable thing to do when you're a guy in your 30s and you randomly tickle and hug a stranger who's a 16 year old girl? I don't.))
(dude that's... nevermind what that is)
I can help you if you want to be disguised as a human?
(my discipline is very complex)
(But you were going on rides, right? He would have probably been used to dealing with younger people.)
Drag. Rping as a girl is wrong in 2 ways.
You're a boy.
The character's a girl.
@Chi
Are you not going to call the police?
Childline or somethin?
Disguising me as a human won't work... It's hard to explain. Basically my species has a really bad immune system so if we take off our suits or get a cut in it or anything we'll get an infection and most likely die. So even if I looked like a human, no one could see.
Elemental, it's not wrong at all. When you're writing stores you account for boy and girl characters, is that wrong?
Is it wrong that Derek wrote the scenes that Valkyrie, a teenage girl, was in the shower and getting changed and stuff?
No elemental, i'll go with Dragona and say it might have been an act of what he thought as kindness...
It will.
I dont cut you.
To explain what I can do.. here read this:
Before I had the surge i took loads of disciplines
Gist, elemental, kineticist, you name it.
But when I had the surge I wanted to become a time shifter, a person who reverses time in a person or thing
and now I reverse to a different discipline whenever I need them.
To get back to my current discipline I have a crystal Ravel uses, but with modifications
To sum that up, I always have a way.
(Egg - how is it wrong? 1. Like the best character I've EVER created is a female. 2. I prefer the helmets/hoods of the female Quarians as opposed to the male ones.
It's just confusing, there's nothing wrong about it. I was RPing as a synthetic being and no one complained. Synthetic beings have no genders.)
I don't want to be a human. I don't see how you lot can keep your balance with your strange legs.
It just creeps me out, i wouldnt like to be freinds with someone who lies about who they are. RP is ok, because I know they're pretending, but i didn't know who drag was.
Leri, would you like a leg balancer?
For the price of £289.99, you will no longer topple over in public!
LegTastic!
Hey Ell.
(Well, I don't lie. The RP character is currently a female alien, and Dragona (me - when I speak in brackets that is me and not my character) is male and human.)
(Ok. Sorry if I offended anyone, but y'know, things happen)
((gtg for a while, might be back in a while))
What? It's your legs that don't make sense. They barely bend. I don't need any kind of equipment to give me better balance, I'm fine.
And I couldn't afford it, anyway. I have no money. We don't really have an economy to speak of.
Completely random, but does anyone know if Armageddon outta here has the story of Skulduggery meeting Ghastly with pirates?
Just asking.
*taps Leri's shoulder*
Hmmm.
*slightly nudges her to see if she falls over*
*sighs*
My balance is fine. My legs provide a more stable base than yours do. I'm wondering how humans keep their balance.
Woah.
@Elemental: Well, I'll have you know, quite a proportion of the Bloglandians I like are fictional. That's not their fault. They just don't have physical bodies.
On here, we're all a name on a screen. You're "Elemental_Greek". Alastair is "Alastair Cruciatus." How do we know Alastair doesn't have a physical body? Because he told us. How do we know you do? Because you told us.
Yeah, because you can really believe everything people say on the internet.
If we weren't allowed to be characters, then the roleplay would be a bit stupid and boring and pointless.
If characters weren't allowed to interact on here, then that is pretty much just discrimination.
I'm sorry, but this is something I feel quite strongly about.
And due to that, I'm going to be Hunter for the rest of the night. Possibly.
Hunter: WELL.
*looks amused*
That IS fun.
*waves to everyone*
You should annoy her more often.
She's drawing, though, so I'll probably be distant.
Our knees do bend.
Lots of humans slouch.
Hmm.
*teleports Leri 5 metres away to see if she blows up or something*
Baii!
Hunter: @Egg: *searches in on Star's search engine*
Nope. Absolutely no idea.
Hunter: @Leri: If you think about it, it's a wonder balance even exists.
*sees Hunter* Hello, I'm Leri'Heesa vas Nezyya. Who are you?
*turns back to Egg*
Why did you make me teleport? Bosh'tet.
Your knees barely bend. They look so... flat.
Star: No one complains when Silente is James!
Hunter: HEY.
*glares*
Off.
My territory now.
*surveys territory*
*frowns, finding it insatisfactory*
Hunter: @Leri: I'm Hunter. Hello. What is your opinion of erasers?
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