Midnighters Spoiler Zone!

Posted on by scott

Okay, some people want to comment about the ending of the Midnighters trilogy, but they feel bad about spoiling the ending for others.

So I am decreeing this post to be the Blue Noon spoiler zone!

WARNING: DO NOT READ THE COMMENTS OF THIS POST
unless you have already read all three Midnighters books.

So how does it end? He dies on the bus!

No, wait. That’s Midnight Cowboy, which is totally different.

Heh, heh.

But seriously, click on comments and let the spoilage begin!

UPDATE: Most of the conversations here have moved over to westerboard.com, the forum for all things westerfeldian.

2,049 thoughts on “Midnighters Spoiler Zone!”

  1. Hmm.. ok where to start where to start..hmm ok the idea of the “rips” were mindblowing enough for me and I liked them alot it made me think alot more. Rex and his little issues made me wonder if he would turn completely at times. The end when Jessica got pulled into the 25’th hour was just like.. ah.. Beginning of Chapter 32 I was ready to kill someone I was so pissed that he killed her off.. but no I find out she’s not gone for a hour at least.. Three of them leaving to go look for others.. just made me want another book of how they get Jessica out and the possible other things that could have happened because of the “rips”. I’ll end up writing more later.. watch..

  2. “So how does it end? He dies on the bus!”

    AAARRRGGGHHHH!!! I thought you were serious. Okay, I am staying out of this thread.

  4. ahh it’s sad the way it ended…

    Jessica being stuck in midnight and them leaving

    It made me sad to think of her parents thinking she ran off or something

    gah now I want another book!!

  5. Yeah it made me cry… Melissa leaving Rex made me cry cuz they’re my favorite couple!!! yeah…i need another one too… my friend is gonna kill me when she reads this… good book though…just depressing ending

  6. the end was absolutely mind blowing….i never expected that to happen! but you ended it quite nicely. (made me yearn for more, and made a depressed 😛 but didnt make me hate the book) of course id never hate your books…^_^

  7. I cried… At least Jess isn’t all gone. But still.. THERE WASN’T ENOUGH OF DESS, SCOTT!!!! three more months till specials..

  8. I havent read this third book yet, becuase I had a feeling it would have a ending like everybody else is saying here, and i didnt want to get that ” I hate the book because it was so good but not 100% happy ending”- feeling. Isnt it funny how that happens. We love the books, then when the ending is the way we want it, we just want to rip it apart. The power of words..i tell ya.

  10. Not Jessica, Please write more books. Will you write more books and if you dont can you just tell us if they every rescued her?

  13. Saved? But living in the Blue Time isn’t all that bad.

    After all, she only ages one hour every day, so she can easily live for another three hundred years and then hang out with Tally!

  15. But But.. no.. it’s not fair!! comeon… Blue time rocks and everything but.. I mean what about…. love, growning up a bit more… friends.. bah..

    Sometimes you make to much sense Scott….

  17. okay i just want to say i was kind of dissapointed in the end, well not really dissapointed just sobbing. yes sobbing. i was crying my eyes out. not many books do that ot me. i’m really not a big crier. i just finished it today, about an hour ago. i was reading it on my back porch and my mom came out cause she heard me sniffling. she asked me what was wrong and i told her and in her motherly brain she turned it around to me really being sad over not having a boyfriend. so messed up. anyway. i cried even harder once i found out that Melissa was leaving Rex. please tell us if they save her or not!!!!!! or even better write one more book. just one is all we ask. please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or something similar.

  18. See some want more books if not all we want them.. we won’t take you soul or anything as of yet Scott *smirks* Comeon Please..!!!!!!

  19. It would be intersting to meet some more Midnighters. Is Billy Clintock still alive? Is he the one that left.

  20. I WANT MORE BOOKS!!!! And I wont leave this site to you say you will write more…… Oops gotta go to dinner.

  21. See someone is with me … MORE BOOKS!!!!!! .. please.. I’ll sell you my soul.. comeon.. please…. please.. *wimpers* This is so not fair!

  23. i also noticed there were more curse words in this one than in the other ones. I STILL WANT MORE BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! one would do. PLEEEEAAASSSEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WILL WAIT FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!! i can wait if i know you’ll write another one. please!!!!!!!!!!!!

  28. See you you have two offered sould now can you not see we need this.. we need it.. please.. comeon…. this is sad me begging like this when I am 18 but comeon please!!!!!! Please!!!!!!!! PLease!!!!!! *offers soul once more and food for a year and the right to my life*

  29. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Okay my hands tired, I’ll beg some more tommorow. See you then

  31. Oh I will just for ya Babe!

    Please Please Please.. we love you Scott… !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You rule the whole world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WILL TAKE OUT [edited by Midnighters Secret Service] IF YOU DON’T LIKE HIM JUST GIVE US ANOTHER BOOK PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *sobs*

  32. EEEK! Stop the madness! (Although the flattery is nice.)

    Here’s the thing: There HAVE been discussions about more Midnighters books, but I can’t go into them in a public forum. But yes, there COULD be more. For right now that is all I can say. (tick-tock, lips are locked)

    Of course, you guys will be the first to know!

    (Oh, and Shaz, the posting times are Sydney time while I’m in Australia, and USian Eastern when I’m in the US. Because I am the center of the universe, if by “universe” you actually mean “this web site.”)

  33. Madness.. but can’t you see that we care…. *sighs* Can i take someone out for you please it’ll be fun.. We better know.. but fine.. I will stop for now could only be a day or a week maybe more only time will tell..

    Still think you are the best writer around and nothing will change that.

  35. hands no longer tired, it would be cool to meet more midnighters and learn more about the diffrent powers midnighters have.

  37. Ha, well, I just ruined it for myself.
    Oh well, that wasn’t actually a lot of spoilage there.
    I just barely started Touching Darkness. So far so good. B-)
    I also lent The Secret Hour to my friend today. We swap books a lot…
    I’m SO gonna end up ordering the hardcover. Haha, what’s a few extra bucks, eh?
    Sounds like a good ending though. I look forward to this.

  38. Ahh, possibilities, that is uplifting to hear. I know you probably weren’t being serious with Jess and Tally but OOH! You should write a short about them meeting, that’d be trippy. You guys streched the page out, man. It…ripped. *g*

    The twist at the end was excruciating but brilliant, Scott, and while I cried a smidge it was a great end. Started with as much as a bang as the first book did when I got it so long ago as an ARC….fond memories!

    -Hannah

  40. I just read Blue Noon a few days ago, and the ending was sad. I’ve always thought that jessica was the least comfortable in the blue time of all the midnighters. (remember how the Blue Moon hurts her eyes) The only thing that made it tolerable for her was jonathan, and now she’ll have to watch him die of old age while she is still a young girl. That said, i too would really like to see more midnighter books. Jessica can’t just be stuck in the blue time forever!!!

  41. I swear! does no one care about beth in this situation? All i have heard was oh poor rex and dess and melissa! Beth is stuck without a sister, but knowing she is still alive, while having to keep a secret from everyone or they will think she is CRAZY! And she only gets to see her once, I mean COMEON! i cried so hard at that part! The book was amazing Scott, i stayed up till 3 in the morning finishing it, and i cried so hard. I also demand a book about Dess meeting the other polymaths, and you absolutely have to save Jessica or i am going to……grrrr! i dont have a threat! Im going to go fume in the corner!

  42. Scott, even if you do write more books do you already know how they would get here out? Or would it just come to you as you wrote the book?

  43. Geez. I loved this book, everything was great, for the most part, the end wasnt bad just… a bit painful to us readers. When I finished I didnt cry or rampage or anything, I just sat mouth agape staring at the wall in front of me trying to process if this was really THE END of the series. After about thirty minutes my mom came and shook me back to reality. Of course I’d always encourage ANOTHER BOOK *hint hint, nudge nudge* but I figure Scott didnt have to give us as much as he did, he didnt have to make this a trilogy, he didnt have to write these things at all. I’d APPRECIATE ANOTHER BOOK, but I’m not going to demand any more. I take what I can get. Besides if the TVshow deal works out we might get a bit of closure.

  45. Briana is right, Blue Noon would be a good season finale, then the next season they would add in more characters and try to figure out how to save Jessica while fighting some other dark creatures. LOL I’m talking like its already a Tv series. I have a feeling we’ll be seeing it sometime late this year or next year.

  48. And Beth has Cassie now! A real friend to call her own, with a shared secret world they’ve both seen.

    And that ain’t bad.

  49. maybe but still I will always wonder.. but that is just me so.. yea…. T.v. Show.. I really hope that they don’t ruin it because then I will be so sad/pissed off…

  51. i squeeled when i read that you might possibly do another Midnighters. it kept me up all night last night worrying about if you would or not. so the possibility makes me happy.

  52. I agree about having more books! I LOVED the finale, but the epilogue didn’t feel fulfilling. It’s not fair that Dess and Rex had to stay in Bixby while the others leave.

  53. I agree with Silver, I really hope they dont ruin it, and if they do make a tv show about it, keep an eye on it if u can, cause it wouldnt be fair to your amazing words.

  54. I dont think i would want a TV series it’s always a letdown from the book plus i never have time to watch TV I want the book so BAD! but i have no money and no friends with good taste in books 🙁 I vote for more midnighters books (not that that counts for anything) but still these books are my favorite!

  55. People are talking about they never have time to watch Tv or they never watch it, well there people who do and people who would like to see the series even if it is a let down.

  56. Why on earth would we want to see it if it was a let down.. so that we can be depresed or so we can sit there reading the book word from word with each new show… no I don’t want to do that I hate when the ruin books into movies.. t.v. shows.. if they do it won’t make me happy but.. I mean I can’ty stop them if they change things but if it’s big things missing then.. I believe that everyone will have one thing or another to say about it…. I vote for more books or at least letting the t.v. people letting you have something to do with the show to tell the truth.. if you have something to say about we might understand the changes that may have to take place… I hope someon understands what it is that I am trying to say.. *sigh* I’ll shut up for now..

  57. we’ve turned this comment page into a chat room. Scott, you need to put a chat room on your site.

  58. I havent even read the book and i feel like crying from what I’m seeing. Scott a question for you. What do it feel like knowing your writing can make peoples emotions go crazy? Your books make people cry, laugh, etc, how does that make you feel?

  59. Scott, if you will don’t write more, I swear I will write the most terrible fanfic EVER!!!! The plot would consist of a rebeliouse darkling falling in love with Jessica, cutting out all the other original chacters, (Johnathin, Dess, etc..) Oh. And the other darklings will have conversations in English about what to do about this little problem. And the descriptions will be ” Jessica’s hair looked like sunrise on a beach in California, and her eyes were the color of a freshly mowed lawn.” So you’d BETTER write more! You have been warned!

  62. I loved the ending, but I want to know more! I’ll now go through my post-finishing-a-series depression.

    I really want more books on Midnighters, but I guess all good things must come to an end. I just wish it didn’t have to happen now. :'(

  63. Didn’t read previous posts. I gues the question was answered (Or had stopped being asked so much.)

    Yeah, but it’s 3:00 here, I read it in one sitting. And my neck hurts because I decided not to look up or anything like that. I should do that more…

  64. I meant that even if they messed it up I would still watch it, I’m not saying I would like it.

  66. I would still watch the show, even if it was bad, because that would just make me realize how great the books are ^.^

  67. I like the ending. Talk about growing up – Melissa leaves, Rex stays, Jonathan is grounded (not grounded as in can’t-go-out-grounded, but grounded as in spiritually grounded, Dess is realizing there’s other people out in the world she can talk to, and Jessica is somewhere. Can’t save the world and not have some decisions to make after that. I’d be content with not having any follow-up books but for one burning question… How is Jessica going to travel? She gets one hour to be physical and I can’t imagaine that she’s going to spend that hour riding in a car. I get the impression that when the hour is up, she folds into space/time where she is and just reappears at that point the next time…. Maybe I’m thinking too hard about this?

  68. Jessica would not feel the other 24 hours. To her it would be like she just kept going, but things would dissapear/reapear.

  69. yea, but if they are all leaving, then how will she travel? unless they all stay put for 24 hours, and then jonathan flies them all, which seems unlikely. so yea, i think jessica is going to be quite a burden on them all.

  72. I agree with Korbe and Julie. Jessica is going to have trouble going anywhere, what with only being able to travel for one hour at a time. Do Jonathan and Melissa wait around for her and only travel in the blue time? Man that would be a problem…

  73. Hmm the above comments got me thinking.. alot actually.. that would be a big problem.. Hmmm just going to watch and keep reading ..

  74. Here’s how they’d probably travel: Jessica and Jonathan would fly ahead during the secret hour, then Jonathan and Melissa would catch up by car during the daylight. (Which means Jonathan spending some of his time going back to where Melissa is toward the end of midnight.) This would be slow, maybe twenty or thirty miles a day. But that’s a lot faster than, say, covered wagons moving across the country.

    Don’t forget that in every new town they arrive in, there will be more midnighters to find and explain stuff to, new talents to discover, roaming darklings to slay, etc. So most of their time will go into that, with a few days’ travel in between spots. For Jessica, it will all pass much quicker, of course. In a funny way, it would be a bit like one of those old TV shows (The Hulk, The Fugitive), where the protags arrive in a new town every episode, solve the problems, then run away at the end of the ep.

    Of course, my guess is that some of the new midnighters would start moving with them. Partly for protection (there are still darklings wandering around) and partly because . . .

    Argh! Must. Stop. Thinking. About. More. Books!

  75. What do it feel like knowing your writing can make peoples emotions go crazy? Your books make people cry, laugh, etc, how does that make you feel?

    It’s kind of weird. Like some kind of sympathetic magic: little squiggles of ink bringing happiness or sadness to someone thousands of miles away.

    ” Jessica’s hair looked like sunrise on a beach in California, and her eyes were the color of a freshly mowed lawn.”

    Her eyes have those lawnmower stripes, too. How did you know?

    The chat room issue is being investigated. Thanks for the suggestion, Amelia (and others).

  76. No Scott do keep thinking about more books. You may have answered the question.. but hmmm could there be another Flamebringer…? Chat room is a good idea.. would stop all of the comments but eh I am fine with either…

  77. *takes out shiny medallion, and begins to swing slowly in front of scott*
    Continue to think about midnighters……… Make more Books…………. When i snap my fingers Scott, you will feel the urge to write more books.
    *snap*
    Now how do you feel?

  78. Keep thinking about Midnighters. All those talents waiting to be reaveled… all thos new Midnighters floating around deep in your subconcious whispering bits of witty dialogue when there being told they can walk around during the 25th hour and that they have special powers that they must use to fight darklings.

  79. Hey you could write short stories about the Midnighters adventures after Blue Noon and post them on your site.

  81. only joking, we all know Scott has no choice in the matter, right scott, dont make me get the medallion out again! B^)

  82. That is a good idea Shaz if he doesn’t do another book.. but I would like Scott to do another book remember I will still give you my soul… 😛

  83. sure sure… hypnosis is great, but the wave of the future is sublimi-write more books-nal messages…

  87. Scott, I am really impressed with your constant interaction with your readers. This is truly an asset for all involved…

    You are a reader’s writer, and that does nothing but make me appreciate your books even more.

    So thanks for this, and please keep doing what you’re doing!!

  88. Yea! Carmen you are absolutely right, i have been writing on this blog for a while now, and never told u how much i appreciate u talking back. You really are in contact with ur readers, and that really makes a difference, Thank You Very Much!

  89. that was meant for Scott, not carmen. I really should preread my posts before sending them lol

  90. So.. If you don’t write any more Midnighters, what’s next? What’s the airship thing about?

  91. I was confused at first as to what happened to Jess but was sad when i realized what happened. Ever since the first book I KNEW that Jess+frozen lightning would be something. But I’m sad that it’s all over. Go for a double trilogy like in star wars!!!!! maybe a prequel to the days before Jessica moved to Bixby or have completely new people who just discovered their Midnighter abilities and figuring out their talents. But I really enjoyed all of the books and I’m really sad that we wont see them any more.

  92. Knowing Jessica is stuck in the midnight hour and that her parents think she is missing depresses me

    I really hope you write more books!

  95. well im all for a sit down, you with me shaz and silver? lol, i really hope scott writes more, it would be really great. *that was a hint scott, im trying to be subtle, is it working?*

  96. Oh I am with you all the way.. everyone seems to wait at least something more.. t.v. isn’t going to cut it for me… not at all..

  97. You know whats funny I just finish watching “Misery” (A writer is held hostage by his number one fan because he ends a series that has made his well known and she forces him to write another book) I think this is a sign from God *devilish grin*

  103. Yea i saw that movie, its bad, kathie bates is scary! no matter how mad i got at scott for not writing more, i could never pull a misery on him. lol, but im all for the hypnosis, subliminal messaging and the sit down, ^.^, doesnt it make u feel all warm inside what people are willing to do for ur books scott?

  104. If you think the movie version of Misery was scary, you should read the book. As good as the movie is, it pales in comparison. (Which is funny, given all the comments here about how Midnighters might suck as a TV show.)

    I just finished Blue Noon about an hour ago, and you did a great job making all the pieces fit properly.

    The only part that I felt was not quite right was the whole Grayfoot chase scene. The fact that they show up later than Rex (who was late by design) for his meeting with Angie didn’t seem likely, and the resulting chase was even more of a stretch (a Mercedes that can’t catch someone doing only 85? – they should have had them within a few seconds).

    I’m not asking for an explanation – the story is what it is. I just think that part could have been better (sorry).

    Having said that I still think it was an excellent book, and would eagerly await even more Midnighters adventures!

  105. About the fanfic thing, I’ll be sure to make it like a kidzbop thing. Like where they take a great song, and slaughter it. Do they have Kidzbop commercials anywhere but Cartoon Network? God, I hate that channel.

  106. Finally I’ve found someone who hates Cartoon Newtork as much as I do.. I cant stand that Kidzbop bull….. crap either.

  107. …..i read the last chapter and then had to go back and read it again. It was an awesome book, but the ending made me majorly sad. But i was really glad it ended with Dess…she’s my favorite.

  108. I agree with sporch, it is way cool to be the one that does the math, lol. I love dess alot, so ending the book with her was a really good idea, thanks again scott, for writing the best books in the universe! (that is until my stories go on shelves, lol jk, im not much of a threat ^.^)

  111. So Dess is happy. Good for her. I like her. But what about Jess and John? Heh? For while it’ll be fine. They’ll travel, they’ll meet more midnighters, they can still hang with each other at midnight. But for how long until it’s weird? Johnathan will be old and Jess will be a teen! The long term for them is not happy at all. Unless Jess gets out of only living for one hour!! This has to happen. How’s this for wierdness. So like 30 or so years will pass and Jess will still be young. Then some awesome way, they figure how to get her out! Then she sees her family and she’s like way younger than her 40 year old sister Beth. Creepy!

  112. Wow, i never thought about it that way Breta, its kreepy, but HOPEFULLY Scott brings her back out of the secret hour, because if he doesnt, well…..I dont know what im going to have to do to cope, but its not going to be good, so there!

  113. I cried for ten min. my friends were like what the hell is wrong with you and i told them to buzz off because i was depresed! i love jonathan how can they do that to him he only sees jess and hour a day not to mention by the time she is 19 he will be dead or dying of old age man why the hell did you have to end it that way!!!!!!!! when my best friend read it she laughed i was like so not cool Molly

  114. one more book or a fallow up ser. would be nice maybe when Rx and everybody are then you know you could have them find a love interest for Dess but it needs to be a total new talent and then they could get Jess out of the blue time with this persons help,but Rex and Melissa need to finish what they started and Jonathan does not deserve heart break like that man it is so not cool! PLEASE NOTE: that Dess’s love interest should not be Jonathan Jess would like kill herself

  115. Silver so right you know scott if you don’t please us we could probubly haunt you with this destressed fanmail for the rest of you life

  117. My friend ruined the book for me *lol* I guess thats what I get for asking her how the book was… 😛

    But I would enjoy more midnighters books! How they can get Jessica out, their travels, Rex and Melissa..

    I am currently on the Uglies series, its very interesting 😀

  118. yea joy, the uglies series is really great too, but specials isnt out yet, so i think that hounding scott for more uglies books would be unfair ^.^

  119. I really liked that it was bittersweet. I’m not always crazy about things that end with all the ‘Shiny Happy People’ Michael Stipe warned us about. It was nice to see them go their separate ways, maybe grow up a little.

    I love that Rex and Dess are in Bixby together, too. Sure, there’s a…personality clash, but I think they’ll be good for each other- even if not to each other.

    And I agree with everyone about the Dess ending- she was definitely my favorite part of the whole series. So, thanks for that. I vote for more Dess!

  121. I’m sorry Silver am I getting you in trouble *devious* smile. Silver is innocent I’m the one who started it.

  123. Yea, bittersweet and all that is artistic or whatever. I don’t care who you are, everyone likes a happy ending. Imagine lotr with the bad guy getting the ring and aragorn and the elf chick not getting together. I have a felling most people like the original ending a lot and do not wish for another sad ending instead. It’s human nature. unless it’s a sad true story like titanic, make us happy scott!

  124. First off, I would simply like to say, thank you. Midnighters was a fantastic trilogy, and Blue Noon concluded it with one hell of a bang. After rereading Touching Darkness myriad times the weeks before Blue Noon’s release date, I devoured the third book in a couple hours. Needless to say, I was thrilled with it. The action never ceased… at all. Exactly how an adventure story should be. The Beth/Jessica predicament had always fascinated me in the previous books, and I had always wondered how that would be resolved, but never in my wildest dreams would I have expected Beth to slip into Midnight, or anyone else, for that matter. Very cool. The character development for Jessica and Melissa was excellent, and Rex was suitably creepy… understatement of the year. The bittersweet ending was thoroughly entrancing, I honestly couldn’t have laid that book down if my life depended on it. Having Jessica stuck in Midnight was a shocker, but at the same time, a huge relief. I figured she’d kicked the bucket! T’was a little sad. Can you imagine having only fifteen days pass for you, but a year for everyone else?

    Possibly the only thing that really irked me was the severe lack of Dess, surprise-surprise, favorite character, quite contrary to Touching Darkness. Other than that, five stars, Scott. I loved it. If there are any more books to come in the series, I shall eagerly await them. If not, then HOLY CRAP, that was an amazing trilogy.

    You genius.

  126. I know this topic was a while ago in the comments but about the short story thing. Scott could do blog he’s already got dess’s blog that could keep everybody updated on the happenings in bixby and then he could have melissa or johnathan write a travel blog of everything that been happening to them. and maybe it could be as if they’re not only writing what’s going on but it could be a way to keep the original five midnighters in contact.

  127. hmm, interesting idea, but i don’t think i’d like to chack blogs all the time to find out what’s happening with our midnighters. I don’t go online that often contrary to all the comments I make may make you think. But about this bittersweet ending.

    After awhile it’s less shocking and liveable. But it’s so not conclusive. sooo many questions yet to be answered. why and how did jess get into the bluetime forever? won’t dess figure this out mathematically? It’s like the 5th harry potter book when sirius dies (hope that didn’t spoil it for anyone, if so sorry) and everyone was in shock who read it and were so sad. But at least we all knew 2 more books were still to come and happiness wasn’t suposed to happen yet. it’s like jk rowling ending it all right there. If that happened, no would like that “bittersweet” ending. I’m insulting ppl who liked the ending to midnighters, i understand that you wouldn’t want too happily ever after so it’d be cheesy, but some answers and closure would be nice.

  128. ok, so……..I’m a bit late for this, and i know it’s a tad cheesy that I’m bringing up the point the other julie brought up, but how IS Jessica goning to travel? When I finished the book like……..3 hours ago, i was wondering about that……….oh well.
    About the 4th book thing……………so this actually was a trilogy? I know I’m slow, but when I read the end I thought I was just thinking that because the books with Tally are a trilogy. The end REALLY needs anothe book or something….and it didn’t say the series was a trilogy on the cover anywhere, from what I could see………( I looked when I finished because I thought they actualyy weren’t a trilogy until I read all these comments………..made me a bit depressed…..) so it’s not like people would be like WTF? And even if people knew it was a trilogy, they would just be really happy………..
    WHY DO TRILOGY’S ALWAYS HAVE TO KILL THE MAIN CHARECTOR?!?( or in this case, stick them in a secrect hour so they only live one hour for every day…) I can think of 3 trilogy’s that do that, right off the bat.
    1) Wind on Fire
    2) Bartemius
    3) Abhorsen
    and if i sat for awhile i could think of more, but i actually have to go to bed soon…….ugh. well, you know we’ll all love you and send lots of fan mail and……..stuff that you know will make it all worthwhile. : ) Hope I see something on the shelf soon……*nudge nudge*

  129. Well…I said this, but I liked the ending. And I can’t even imagine what it must’ve been like to write it. Think of all the people you have to make happy, or at least, satisfy.

    So, for anyone who isn’t really sure how he/she feels yet, maybe this will help: Yes, it was an ending, but there wasn’t any real finality to it. I mean, no one’s dead (well, not really), so high five on that one. And just ’cause they’re separating for a bit, doesn’t mean they’ll never see each other again. And there’s always a chance poor Jessica will find a way out- not to mention she’ll stay young for a long, long time. Take that Dr. 90210. So, glass half full, right? Maybe? I don’t know.

    And I really love the divisions at the end: Melissa/Jonathan and Dess/Rex. I feel like we didn’t get much from those pairs throughout the novels- I may be completely, completely wrong, but work with me- and I was always kind of curious about them. So, now they can get to know each other on a different level, away from the normal Midnighter dynamics…I’ve been thinking way too much about this.

  130. Yeah, so you have some really good points mich. There are some interesting pairs now that’d be cool to see. And it was an awesome ending to the book. I’m saying it’s just not over. Like you said, Jessica could somehow escpe secret hour, and they could all meet again one day. But we don’t know how is what the problem is. There’s too much to put to the imagination. Lots of details too mind boggleing to answer oneself. I have too many theories going in my head about what will happen and I want the chance to find out if I am close to right.

    “Some see the glass as half-empty. Some see the glass as half-full. I see the glass as too big.” -George Carlin

    (I love George Carlin :))

  132. I was sobbing at the end. I have to admit as much as I LOVE these books I was pissed at the end but then again not every book can have an happy ending(I wasn’t expecting one though, seriously)

    just glad no one died 😉

    Scott, you left to many unanswered questions! So Melissa and Rex will never see eachother again? Jessica and Beth?

    I guess you can’t really answer them.

    These would make awesome movies!

  133. OMG! I cried..ok the only other book that’s done that to me is like…chicken soup for the pet lovers soul! WAH! I totally thought Jess Died and was about to kill over and die myself, I mean John without Jess! What the hell…then when I found out everyone was leaving it was like what about REX AND MELISSA!!! Oh the wah-age…..But otherwise I was so impressed with the ending and will be happy more midnighters book or not…thanks scott for this amazing story!!!!

  134. Alright, it took me a while to finish, but in the last chapter, I’ll admit it, I cried like a baby. Although, my crying wasn’t entirely because of the characters in the books. See, I went through something sort of similar with my older sister a little over a year ago. I had no idea what was going on at first, just that I needed to get to the hospital. It turns out she had had a massive brain hemorrhage due to a vein malformation on the left side of her brain. I really thought I might’ve lost her while she was in surgery that night, sort of like how Beth really had thought that Jessica was gone forever. The little bit about Jess doing everything with her left hand was just too coincidental, because my sister pretty much lost her mobility on the right side of her body, to this day she still can’t open her hand independantly. But both my sister and Jess were really still there, just changed phenominally.

    I’m not sure why I told you all of that, but I thought Scott might want to know how really deeply he touched one of his fans.

    Amanda

    P.S. Something really crazily coincidental is that I’m in marching band too, though I’m not a twirler like Beth, I play trombone. I just thought that was weird.

  136. Okay, i have posted alot on this particular blog entry, but there are some things that need to be said. I just want to let scott know that this series has affected the way my life functions, im serious! im not trying to be over dramatic. I have taken to counting the letters in long words, and i avoid using 12 letter words in my homework assignments, and i try to use a 13 letter word everyday. Also, i have began to look at the stamps and stuff on metal materials, and if they are like stainless steel and stuff i think about how i could modify them to make them into weapons against darklings. AND i have given all of the knifes in my knife block (which happens to be just like the one Rex used to defend Melissa and himself against the darklings and the halfling in the 2nd book) 13 letter names! I need help, i know, but oh well. Just thought you should know scott, how much this series has affected me, and i hope that i will get the chance to read more, im going to go now, and try and find a substitute book to read, because i need something to fill the hole that midnighters has left in my life.

  137. hey, i was just wondering about something, who’ s the person on the cover of blue noon supposed to be?

  138. Hmm, traveling has left me a bit behind on this vast comment thread. I probably am not getting to ALL your questions, but I’ll try:

    John H:
    The fact that they show up later than Rex (who was late by design) for his meeting with Angie didn’t seem likely

    I think the Greyfoots were watching and waiting for Rex to show. They wanted to capture him outside of Bixby; they could get Angie any time.

    the resulting chase was even more of a stretch (a Mercedes that can’t catch someone doing only 85? – they should have had them within a few seconds).

    Yeah, I see your point. As I was writing it, I was thinking that they didn’t want to force him off the road on the highway, where other cars would see the wreck and call 911. Also, they couldn’t risk killing Rex—remember: the Greyfoots don’t know that they can’t make another halfling.

    That’s the thing. The Grayfoots don’t have anyone left to explain the blue time to them, so their planning isn’t so hot. They were hoping to chase Rex off onto a lonely stretch of road, which isn’t a GREAT plan, but I think they’d really counted on cornering him in the alley at the beginning. (But of course, he was expecting to have another car appear, so they didn’t catch him unawares.)

    Mich:
    And I really love the divisions at the end: Melissa/Jonathan and Dess/Rex. I feel like we didn’t get much from those pairs throughout the novels- I may be completely, completely wrong, but work with me- and I was always kind of curious about them. So, now they can get to know each other on a different level, away from the normal Midnighter dynamics…I’ve been thinking way too much about this.

    Yeah, one thing that was great about writing the Midnighters is that the characters did all the work. Like, I mostly just set up the situation, then started pairing (and tripling) them into various configurations, and let the clashing egos do the rest. And of course every book ends with all five together—always an explosive situation.

    So I do think that the combinations at the end would be fruitful. (That’s why I liked Melissa and Jess having a chat in Blue Noon; they’d never really hung out alone together.) So IF more Midnighters happens, it will be interesting.

    Amanda:
    See, I went through something sort of similar with my older sister a little over a year ago.

    Wow, that’s really intense. When movies and books remind me of the way my mother died (cancer, which changed her personality at the end) it’s extremely emotional for me. Sometimes I can’t get through it, but at the same time, it feels like it does let me take out those buried emotions again and “look” at them, which is a good thing in the long run. (Even though I look like a dork for crying in The Hours.)

    Korbe:
    AND i have given all of the knifes in my knife block (which happens to be just like the one Rex used to defend Melissa and himself against the darklings and the halfling in the 2nd book) 13 letter names

    OMG, that is hilarious! But I really like it when my brain picks up 13-letter words automatically. It’s like doing Soduku or crosswords: I think it’s good for your mental fitness.

    i need something to fill the hole that midnighters has left in my life.

    Ahem, Peeps cough, cough.

  139. I will definately get Peeps and So Yesterday next time I spend several hours in the young adult section (see uglies in the new york times post if ur confused) and i will be getting specials the day it comes out (if not earlier like this time, because the book stores dont bother with release dates). So i guess i will be ok for now, i will have something to temporarily fill the hole (that is until you finally cave and write more midnighters books ^.^) So thank you once again Scott, for bringing the best books in the world to us!

  140. Oh and Scott, i was also wondering if you could possibly post something with a tridecagram, because i have googled and yahooed and i have attempted to draw one, and have failed miserably, and i want one sooooo bad, so if you could possibly post one on the site, or anything, that would be the best. Much love, peace out!

  143. Well, Mr. Westerfeld, I must say that Blue Noon was AWESOME. It completely lived up to my expectations (even though the last chapter made me want to cry a whole lot). I thought the Jess/Lightning thing was really clever; I liked how it was causally mentioned in the first book and then used again at the climax of the series.

    No more Midnighters to look foward to anymore though… *sob*

    *cough*AnotherbookwouldbeamazingandmakeallofusreallyhappyandI’m
    sureyou’resickofhearingthisbutIthoughtIwouldputmytwocentsinanyway*cough*

    Hmm, I must being getting a cold or something… 0:)

  144. Scott, I loved all of your midnighters triliogy. I recently finished the 3rd one and gosh, it sure killed my mood. I was depressed cuz of the ending. It still is great book and it leaves me yearning for more. I have a feeling theres more book coming , right? It sucks cuz we had to wait for so long for another book to come. Anyways, great work, scott! keep it up winkz!

  145. OMG thanks scott! that totally rocks, im going to go try and draw that! (which will be quite the task concidering that i cant draw to save my life! lol) but it think that when i get good enough at drawing them, i draw one on a posterboard and cut it out with my exacto knife named “psychosomatic” ^.^ and put it on my door. thanks though for responding so quickly, it really shows that u care about ur readers! thanks!

  146. Ok, i am probably totally crazy here, but w/e i dont care. I am feeling totally Dessish and have decided to make a painting in Dess’s honor. I am making a huge 13 degree circle (its like a circle made out of 13 degree angles) and im making sure that none of the angles are devisable by 12 (if they are im not putting them in the painting). and then im making all kinds of patterns and groups and clusters of 13 and multiples of 13 (kind of like when dess showed jessica how to make weapons). Of course it will never be nearly as mathy as dess is, cause she knows all of the old things and mythology and calenders. So im kind of outnumbered here when it comes to that kind of thing, but i still think its really cool. So if anyone comes up with ideas for the painting let me know. And when its finished i will send it to you scott. Thanks everyone!

  148. I was a little confused by the end, what happened, how did Beth get into the blue time did she trun into a midnighter?

  149. Totally awsomeness! Im excited! yea, i just figured out that my full name has 13 letters! so if anyone else does, let me know! ttyl ^.^ and i cant wait for the next post!

  150. maybe this was answered somewhere in the book…..but how does the new global midnight work with time zones and the International Dateline? Would the blue time come when it isn’t actually 12 am in most places?

  151. When I first picked up the series I was a little worried because it sounded like such a fantastic idea, and I’ve been burned before by by writers who weren’t able to come up with plot and characters that are as good as their initial idea. Damn was I wrong – and never happier to be wrong.

    I loved the ending – it was how the Buffy season finale was supposed to feel like. I’m so looking forward to all kinds of good and bad fanfic and (hopefully) TV shows and most especially any other awesome Midnighter novels that may be forthcoming (knock on wood).

    I really liked that the series was very much a sci-fi/fantyasy hybrid. There are so few sci-fi novels out there for kids and teens, but tons of fantasy, so it’s nice to see something different. It’s also nice to see a sci-fi novel that isn’t all about the horrors of technology. I loved how Midnighters set up curiosity and cleverness as part of the essense of humanity and how math and science and inteliigence was needed to win in the end, right along with bravery, self-sacrifice, and all of the Midnighter’s various talents.

  152. I must say a was a bit saddened with how the trilogy ended, you really felt your helt being ripped when Jessica and Beth are saying goodbye to each other, you could almost hear a soft melodramatic music of a movie like James Horner. The book does end with a lot of questions that are needed to be answered.

    I don’t believe Scott will let poor Jessica be trapped in there all her life. I believe and I will probably be told that it will never happen is that, I was thinking of ideas for what the nexttrilogy could intell, maybe a more bigger setting like New York City or L.A. and in one of these cities lies a powerful darkling unlike anything we’ve seen in the original trilogy, with the ability to bring midnight whenever he or she wishes and another, more war is brewing that will require Jessica, Jonathan, Melissa and a whole slew of new Midnighters to ban together to rid this war from coming.

    Now, I will probably get reamed for this, Just like at the end of the battle in Blue Noon, I was thinking somewhere along the lines where like they discovered that this powerful being holds the key to releasing Jessica, but not without a price, maybe Jonathan would sacrifice himself in order to save Jessica from the blue world. Once she is freed, she returns to Bixby where it is Beth’s high school graduation, she is the valedvictorian( I know I may have spelled that wrong) up at the podium giving a speech inside the gymnasium, Sitting with her parents is Dess who still wears the glasses on behalf of the class, in this speech she mentions her big sister, to wherever she may be, Beth let’s everyone know that she meant so much to her, tears rolling down her face, voice shaky as she reads it and just as she is about to finish, she looks off to her side and sees a certain someone standing at a door, already dressed for the occasion, holding some flowers for her little sister. Beth is speechless and blinks her eyes, thinking she is dreaming this or maybe the blue time as come again.
    But no, this if for real. Dess and the parents stand slowly to their feet seeing her for the first time in how long.

    Beth in her cap and gown walks down the steps, body shaking with fear, not knowing if she is really there. She evens sees the bracelet is gone for Jessica buried it with Jonathan. As the two sisters see each other face to face, tears streaming down her face, Jessica speaks first. “Hey kiddo”.

    Beth looks around the room, making sure no one has frozen. “If it’s not midnight, than I must be dreaming this”

    “Trust me, your not dreaming”, says Jessica.

    Atat the moment, usingnow bother her arms, Jessica pulls her little sister together, holding her so tight, as they both breakdown in tears of joy and laughter. Her mother and father come to the side, the look of shock on their faces and then they both embrace her and now they cry as well as a family is reunited.

    Dess still at her seat wipes away a few tears for this joyous occasion.

    “Why don’t you go back and get your diploma, maybe afterwards you could cook some spaghetti for me” says Jessica.

    Beth wiping away her tears says, “you got a deal”

    That’s just some kind of ideas that I was thinking on, I hope Scott doesn’t go ballistic on me for writing that or sue me, you can delete it if you like, I’m just a big fan of the books and I love to write, I’m sure you can understand when you got a passionate story in your mind and heart, you got to write it down. And I believe that at some point in the future, the tales of the midnighters will once again rise from the mind of Scott Westerfeld.

  153. Thanks so much for your kind words Mickle.

    how does the new global midnight work with time zones and the International Dateline? Would the blue time come when it isn’t actually 12 am in most places?

    The Blue Time would sweep around the earth, just like midnight does. The area would be 15 degrees across (1/24 of 360 degrees). At the front edge time would freeze, and at the trailing edge it unfreezes, a subjective hour later. This is what always happened in Bixby, but the town’s so small that the blue time rushed through (and out) almost instantaneously. Although Dess has noticed it “moving” in.

    Carl:
    OMG! That is the most elaborate post yet! You’re almost in the realm of fan-fic there. Which is fine with me, btw. You should never feel like anyone has the right to stop you from thinking past the limits of a book. It’s great to see people imagining futures for my characters.

  154. Hey Scott, just read you reply and I have to say YOU MADE MY DAY!! It really means a lot coming from a professional author to say something so incredibly nice. I’m just so entranced of these books and the uglies trilogy, I keep kicking myself why I haven’t discovered you in the past. I’m hoping to some day make it to Hollywood to sell my screenplays or if that didn’t work to try novels just like young adult fiction. It has always fasciantes me to see teenagers being protrayed as heroes whether it’s fantasy or real life, when we live in a world were some teens have either turned to a life of crime or drugs, never seeing their full potential at what they are ever capable of doing.

    Again thanks and who knows maybe someday I could write a screenplay on one of your books.

  155. So Scott, I don’t understand what you mean when you said what happens to the bluetime at midnight now that the whole world has midnight. Unless I completely misunderstand, (which is possible) theoretically, couldn’t that mean if jessica found a way to travel fast enough, she could always live in the bluetime? I mean, it’s always midnight somewhere isn’t it? If so, then that’s good cause Jessica would age normally with the rest of the original midnighters. Wait, that doesn’t make sense does it? No, I don’t think this could work. But maybe if thought through a little more, it could. If she figured out each time zone and went there everytime midnight was about to end in her current zone, she could step into the next and then have another hour of midnight. This theory could work, couldn’t it?

  156. what I want is MORE BOOKS!!! just like everyone else I guess…whatever. Also what would be BAD ASS is if we could buy 13 pointed stars like they have in the book i mean who would want to be caught without that during midnight??? Also the tv series would be awesome I love supernatural. And if Midnighters was a tv series I would pee my pants. And when I heard the prospect of the new book I just about screamed! And more Dess would kick some major physcokitty ass!

  157. wait, breta had a point! a seriously good point!
    If they continued to travel (and melissa got over her hand holding thing) and they only went into daylight to sleep and stuff (you cant expect all them to stay awake forever). Then they would be able to stay in midnight for longer periods of time. Cause midnight sweeps over the globe, like the light from the sun does. So if they continued to move in the direction of the sweep, and went fast enough, they could stay in midnight longer, Which would allow them to travel alot farther! Does that make sense? well im posting this on the other midnighters thread too, just incase people (scott) stop reading this thread

  158. Yes, that could work. The problem is, they’d have to move about 1000 miles an hour. You see, they’d have to circle the globe every 24 hours, and the world is 24,000 miles around. (I guess if they lived near the north pole it would be easier.)

    Even Jonathan doesn’t so more than 60mph.

  159. Man! I thought i had something! o well, back to the tridecapainting, thanks for responding so quickly! buh bye!

  160. well, they could do the north pole thing with johnathan possibly, but i was thinking technology to travel. Jessica is the flame-bringer. Coudn’t she power a car, or even some sort of jet or jet pack thing that they could learn to fly? then they could travel quickly through midnight. if whats-his-face can travel around the world in 80 days in like a balloon, then can’t modern technology get them around the world in a day?

  161. I’m still processing the ending…but I have a question. Ok so now that the blue time has spread what happens (even in Bixby) to someone who dies and is brought back by machines (sorry dont know the proper name for it, my English isn’t that good) to life at midnight? Midnighter or not? Could this mean that someone can become a midnighter even if they were not born as one? If yes then maybe Rex and Dess will have some company if there is any more books to come *wink wink*.

  162. Good point, Joanna. What does happen when someone gets brought back to life at midnight? Also, I was reading about how someone had 13 letters in their full name. If you don’t count my middle one, I have TWELVE letters in my full name. What a disappointment.

    I bought the book (last one on the shelf!) and was so shocked when Jessica became part of the secret hour. Something a bit sad happens in every trilogy that comes to mind (and I got an award for how many books I’ve read). Please don’t let something like that happen to Tally!

  163. I beg to differ on the unhappy trilogy thing. The end of the original starwars was happy. It was cute and everything was explained and conclusive and they all had a party with the ewoks.

  164. I appreciate your opinion Breta, again was just an idea, I’m sure Jessica and Jonathan could both return to Bixby and they could live happily ever after. The Half-Darkling finally leaves Rex, returning to his normal self and gets back together with Melissa and most definately Dess having a great bigger part. At the time I wrote that I was so saddened at how Jessica saying goodbye to her sister Beth it really hit me in my gut, that I was thinking of a reunion of the two at some sort of special occasion. I’m sure Scott has the ultimate vision in mind should he do more books. Again thanks for your opinion. 🙂

  165. But Scott don’t you think it would be awesome if we could get 13 pointed star on the sight. I mean everyone wouldn’t that be cool and considering what Breta said that does actually make a lot of sense and would be a good idea.

  166. I just headed over here for the first time to post how great this book and the whole trilogy was/were! It was a sad ending, but it fit really well; the only thing I don’t get is why Jessica can’t just step back into normal time via the red Rift area that’s still there. If she were half in midnight and half in the rift, half of her would still be able to get hit by sunlight in the morning and presto! Or would that not work somehow?

    One thing I didn’t really get though was how the Lightning basically solved everything though. Dess said it was impossible to figure out basically, but still, I mean; the lightning just happens to be there, okay I’ll buy that, but how exactly did it happen to solve the spread of the rift? Isn’t adding more energy to the reaction just going to make it go faster really? Or does the ‘light’ somehow undo the thing that the Darklings did in the beginning to make the Blue Time?

    Ooooh, and another thing; there could be tons of possibilities for new books in this series, because not only is there all of the stuff above that people commented on for continuation material; but think of the 100000 new Midnighters Dess said there should be! And then think how many Mindcasters there would be, and what happened back in little Bixby… and how hard it would be to govern any of that! There is another thing though that I thought would get more touched on in this book from the last one, since I thought Dess’ uncovering of the maps and whatnot would lead her to another actual little Bixby or something on the globe; what happened to the places where the Blue Time occured before at? Since Bixby was the start of the rift, and then Midnight ‘spread’ *almost* everywhere, could that mean the places that were just Midnight before go all Rift-y and become a Darkling haven?

    And one last thing, since the Eclipses were the trigger, couldn’t it all just happen again? Or couldn’t Jessica be freed by one? Okay, awesome book and if anyone has ideas/answers on my comment(s) please reply! 🙂

  167. Hey, i just wanted to let anyone who is terribly lost without anymore midnighters books and needs something to temporarily fill the hole (that was me at the beginning of the blog) that So Yesterday is absolutely amazing! i finally found it and its really great, so give it a shot, you wont be dissapointed. And im saving up for peeps, which i hear is phonaminal. So yea, i hope that i helped anyone with a huge gaping hole that midnighters once left! lol. ^.^

  168. Yeah Korbe is right! So Testerday was amazing and I couldn’t get enough of Peeps. I mean the twist and turns and surpises they both held are amazing Scott we love you, make more books and just mabye we will leave you alone…. wait that’ll never happen. SO PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! more midnighters and I can’t wait till Last Days comes out and how much is Cal and Lace in this one because I want to know how their love is blossoming and wat about that cat Cal has hows that fattie doing???

  169. AWWW MAN everything i was gonna say about the books has already been said.*BIG sigh* okay so im just gonna say some of it anyway,
    1. great book, i loved the character dianamics, and the ending was pretty good but yet sad and posed a ton more questions
    2. PLEASE O PLEASE O PLEASE WRITE MORE Midnighters books they are one of my top three book series
    3. I feel bad for Beth, but at least she got to see jess one last time….
    4. meanies u guys already mentioned the whole travleling dilema and the jess just going from one midnight to another

    Well those are my thoughts directly on the book, but now i have to ask Scott do you have a thing against happy couples? Rex and Melissa seperated, Jess stuck in the secret hour so she is only nineteen when Jonathan is dying, and the whole David/Tally/zair madness *sigh* Well please Just write more books PLEASE.

  170. O ya i was just reading the book again today and i noticed a slight technical problem, in the end when Jess and Jonathan are rushing toward Pegasus, they stop for a moment with dess, Jess hands Dess the highway flare so she can llght the fireworks when the red time comes, and jess and Jonathan fly on so jess can do the whole lighting thing,

    But wouldnt the flare go out the minute Jess let go of it? how was dess able to use it to light the fireworks. Maybe im just stupid and i have no clue what im talking about but if someone knows how this is possible please tell me.

  171. I just finished Blue Noon a few hours ago. It’s great, and I wish I hadn’t read it so fast, but I couldn’t put it down. The Secret Hour was the first book of yours that I read, so it’s kind of weird for the series to be over. I must say that I love your sense of humor, there were a ton of excellent jokes in Blue Noon. The epilogue kind of freaked me out at first ’cause I thought Jessica had lost her hand or died or something equally awful. I’m glad she didn’t.
    I’d love more Midnighters if you want to write it, but for me it’s more important that you keep writing and I get to keep reading what you write, whatever series it is.

  172. Allianne-
    A quick note here: flames stay lit in the rip. Or had the rip not gotten there yet? If so, it was bogus of me. (Maybe the rip was a bit ahead of the darklings. Ahem.)

  173. Hey Carl, I liked your possible ending. i don’t think I said anything about it did I? Well, I liked it, just so you know. It was cute how they reunited. I don’t know if cute was what you were going for but there you go. That’s my opinion.

    Alianne, that was cool that you were thinking about the jess traveling thru midnight thing too! I know scott answered it, but i still think it’d be possible. oh wells. he’s sort of in charge of the little world he created, so there you go.

    I just found out my sister thinks i’m a dork for going on this blog about a book.

  174. Hey Breta, my bad I read your blog and thought it was directed at me I had said on a possible trilogy idea and you said it was a unhappy trilogy thinking you were upset on Jonathan dying for Jessica being freed. So no biggie, but glad you liked it anyway:)

  175. did anyone realize that we have almost gone to 200, i think we should set a record. lol. Yea i posted this on the other thread like a while ago, and noone answerd it, so im going to post it again. I know its kinda mathy, but maybe someone could figure it out. i hope so, so here goes:
    Hey Scott, i know i already asked you about the 13 pointed star, but i have yet another question for my tridecapainting. You created Dess, so you invented her mathiness, so maybe you can figure this out. What about the numbers 156, 312, 468, 624, ect. That are muliples of 12 and 13, like 156 is 12×13. and 312 is 24×13. Are they pro or anti darkling numbers? cause im wondering weather i should include angles and things with those numbers in the painting. Please, if you get the chance, answer that question, cause it would totally rock! Thanks!

  176. This is now my favorite last line of a book: “It was way cool, being the one who did the math.”

  177. oh yeah I loved that line too. And Scott ur humor through out all your books is the best especially the way u made dess joke around. But seriously what about my other comments I really want an answer!

  178. Nope Scott i just reread the book to double check, the rip hadnt gotten there yet *gives scott a patt on the back* its ok we all make errors here and there,

    Ya Breta it would be cool, but as u said this is scotts world and he rules all. Oh well maybe he’ll write another book and we can get jess back in the normal time with the rest of us. One can only hope.

  179. there’s always hope, if pandora’s box has anything to say about it. Dude, Korbe, I hope scott answers on those crazy numbers. That’s mind-boggling. I’m curious, what would Dess say?

  181. Yeah Korbe thats actually really interesting and what about urs and mine (but my idea) 13 pointed star thing where u can buy them on the site has Scott answered yet???

  182. i dont think he has, but oh well. Its not his job to answer every little thing we post, he does a great job communicating with us, but sometimes he might need to concentrate on his writing and stuff. So i totally respect the fact that he might be too busy to answer all of my many many questions. lol. Thanks

  183. Oh. My. God.

    Write, Scotty, write! We WILL buy your books, and you will be successful. Smell the MON-AY.

    But yeah, it seems you gave me a strong case of Westerfieldia. I’m depressed (and will be for a few days until it wears off), but I’m also very happy for the prospect of a new book. Not to sound overly sure, but if you hadn’t felt the need for a new book you wouldn’t have teased us.

    And I know another motivation for you to write.
    Every time you delay those books, more poorly written fanfics come out! And you know what they say about that? For every bad fanfic written, God kills a kitten.

    Atrociousness!

  184. kirri do u realize that westerfieldia is a thirteen letter word (even though its westerfeld, but i dont think i could make it work as a 13 letter word unless its spelled westerfield.)! sorry, my desslike part of my brain is in overdrive. lol

  185. Yeah Korbe ur write ha can’t reply to everything he has to focus on certian aspects and also his writing **(hint, hint, wink, wink, nudge, nudge)**

  188. Yea! My friends are starting to read midnighters! that means i can talk to them about it instead of faceless people on this blog. No offense, of course, to any one here. but, you know. They like them! And how could they not?

  192. aaahhh the ending made me cry. i hate that Melissa is leaving Rex! i LOVE that couple!! and then jess getting stuck in midnight?!!? and the fact that johnathan will die way before jess is even aged to like 21. thats so sad. =( and Dess is going to be in Bixby for 2 years all my her lonsome. i think its sad. *sigh* well lets just hope that you right another book!!!!!!!!!!!!

  193. Okay, if you are not going to write any sequles then could you wriet a PREqual. Maybe Melissa finding Rex and dess and what happened before Jessica?

  194. It’s not fair!! Melissa would NEVER leave Rex. And if she did rex wouldn’t let her go that easily. the LOVE each other!!

  202. YAY! we did it! i do believe we have set a westerblog record ladies and gentlemen! *claps* yay for us!

  204. 200! that’s coolio!

    even tho my friends are starting to read midnighters, i can’t leave this blog forever. i missed you guys (lol) jk, i’m not that lame-o. but seriously, i just took a long break from midnighters. i’ve been sick. this is a nice refresher. but seriously, when nothing to do, i gotta go here. that’s not lame is it? nah

  205. so, i have to mention this cause it just came to me as i was doing this fun worksheet thing for school. But there are 13 stripes on the American flag. That rocks man! There are 13 to represent the 13 original colonies, but possibly it was to protect America! Even though Oklahoma wasn’t part of it yet. But w/e. Just a lame thought. I know it’s not true but go USA!

  206. totally! i forgot that! and no breta ur not lame, i go here everyday, that makes me a deticated fan (i dont think this makes you lame, this is the best place ever! not to mention the fact that its like an insult to Scott to say ur lame cause u come here everyday, not that u insulted Scott, im confused!) ^.^! Yea, and i freaked out last night cause i just got this new bike, and it has 36 spokes! 12×3=36! but they are made out of steel, so i didnt know if that would make me safe or not. And the rims are made out of alloys, so yea i think my bike is pretty darkling proof, but still, 36 spokes, im kinda scared. :/

  207. ur right korbe, i belong here man. oober dedicated. i can’t just leave. it’d be like calling starwar people lame. it’s obsessive sometimes, but awesome. i’m not that hardcore to starwars tho. i mean, i don’t have outfits, just a t-shirt. Dude! I should make a midnighters t-shirt. just gotta find a cool pic. ooh yeah! a project! man, that’s a toughy with the 36 thing. but 39 spokes would make for an akward bike. for protection tho, all the more reason for for 13-pointed star necklesses. p.s. I’d never insult scott 🙂 (scott is not lame, nor are we!)

  211. I just finished reading blue noon. I finally gave in and bought in it hard cover. I loved how it ended from Dess’s POV. The entire book kinda made my head spin, mostly the way you ended it. It was left so open that aything could happen. Dark Rex kinda freaked me out though.

  212. You know what annoys me about my birthday? Its October Sixteenth. October used to be the eightth month, and 8 plus 16 is 24. My birthday is a darkling number. Ironically, my name, Benjamin Irwin, has thirteen letters in it.

  213. hey guys were at (if I counted correctly) 217!!!!! Go Us!!!!! **********************! asstricks yeah (sorry inside joke i know there but its always funny)

  215. hello all! long time no talk! my friends are reading this now and they like it a lot! i swear, i’m gonna spread this book all across wisconsin 🙂

  217. Well, i just finished the third book. I loved it, and the ending left me wanted more, pretty much just like everyone else. I would also like to say something about the number 13. I used to hate it. I love even numbers, 13 is just a horrible odd number to me, but after I read the first midnighters book I started to really like that number. Its driving me CRAZY!

  218. OH yeah, another thing about how Jessica would travel. I thought, when she just “folded” out of the air when midnight came she could appear anywhere. I read the post where it was said that she would probably fly with Jonathon, which would make sence, I just thought I would post my thought on the matter.

  219. I still don’t like the number 13, but I *do* find 13-letter words interesting. And 13 x 4 = 52, so I like that because there are 52 cards in a deck.

  220. I felt sad about Melissa leaving Rex, but I thought it gave hope to Dess. In the third book especially she seemed like such a 5th wheel torn between two couples. The mystery in the epilogue was good and suspenseful… for example when they went to Jessica’s house to pick ‘her’ up which ended up being Beth… ya that def. made me stay up reading it… I’ll probably post a longer reply later…

    Why does it have to be a trilogy? Can’t there be a few more… make there be five… but then what could a set of five books be called? A quinlogy? Yeah, probably not… That makes me curious though…

  221. damn i thought it was wrong but whatever**** yeah and i like the quinlogy idea

  222. I agree with Furyion. When I first read that Jessica “folded” out of the air I thought she could just appear anywhere she wanted to when midnight came again. She doesn’t freeze in place like the darklings do/did during daylight time so I think that could be possible, but I didn’t write the book.

    Also, Carl, I don’t know if you’ll see this but I really liked your possible ending for the books. It actually made me cry again (I cried at the end of M3)! But maybe that just because I’m depressed after finishing a really good book like always so I’m a bit histerical today. 🙂

  223. MORE BOOKS PLEASE!! It would be great to find out about other midnighters and not just the five talents we saw in the three books…..and i want to see more Jessica and what happens around the world now since the blue time is expanding!!! It would be soo cool if they went to NYC and found tons of midnighters awakening….PLEASE ONE MORE BOOK…OR TWO..OR THREE!!! BUT I’LL BE HAPPY WITH ONE MORE.. (I know you miss Desssss!!!) lol

  224. Hey Alicia, Thanks so much for your kind words on my idea, I acually got Scott response saying it was the most elaborate post he had ever seen, he loved it. I wrote it up just after finishing the third book and it too made me feel sad about what happened to Jessica. Especially with Jonathan, it was almost like a death almost, losing someone you love with your whole heart and soul only to find out that she lives but only for one hour a day which to me feels a bit hopeless and of course for Beth, even before moving to Bixby they were the best of friends, always there for one another and then Jessica trapped in the blue world, it just can’t end like that. So I immediately wrote up my idea for another book or trilogy with a much bigger story for an all-out war between thousands of midnighters and a supreme darkling leader and its minions. I hope Scott will have something up his sleeve for more. Again, thanks for your comments, as a guy trying to become a writer himself, it means a lot.

  225. I cried when Beth and Jessica were together in the secret hour and then when Jonathan said “It’s already lonely” to Dess in the last chapter. It’s just so said. This is the second book in my life that I ever really cried over.

    Carl, that’s awesome that you can come up with a continuation of the trilogy like that. I’ve always thought it would be cool to be a writer, but I could never do it. I hope you can become a writer someday and then write great books like Midnighters!

    More Midnighters books would be great, Scott, and I know plenty of people would buy them (I would!) but you’ve got to have a break sometime. Also, even if you do write more Midnighters books there has to be an end sometime so then everyone will be sad all over again.

    btw, I really did like the ending of Blue Noon even though it was sad. It was completely different that I thought it might be.

  226. Well, i’m really glad that someone got the same idea that i did about Jessica “folding” out of the air.

  227. Can’t you just like, add another book and make it a quad-trilogy or something?? I didn’t quite understand the ending of how she got stuck in the 25th hour, and I didn’t like how they all left Bixby. But since they left to look for more midnighters, I wanted to know more!!! Oh well…. I felt such a tie to these books because I live in Broken Arrow. I guess I would have been stuck if Jessica hadn’t saved me by putting her hand in lightning…but still. I want to know more!!

  228. I JUST got done reading all three books and it only took me like 2 weeks!! I was HOOKED! I never even heard of Scott! I was just wondering around a borders looking for a new book to start, I was hoping for something with Vampires in it AND THEN I seen “the midnighters” And I HAD to buy them!

    NOW I want a 4th like the rest of you! SO many un answered questions, I’ve already been day dreaming about how the 4th could go.. but I’d rather not share my ideals lol! I also was thinking wouldn’t it be cool if there was like a movie or TV show based on these books! DANG! That would be AWSOME! I can picture it now ALREADY!

    The ending of Blue Noon was AMAZING! I was expecting Rex to die or something or become a complete darkling! I never expected it to be Jessica! It was one of the most mind blowing endings EVER! And it really makes you think ALOT! And it really sticks with you! I mean She is going to be stuck there and wont even really be able to be with Jonathon or her Family! She’ll never have a normal life! That’s depressing! So IF there is a 4th one I think Jessica should some how get out of the blue time!

  229. I agree. If they made a movie of Midnighters like they could with SO Yesterday, that could be realy sweet. The only thing is I would be afraid of how they make the darklings look, I don’t want it to be cheesy.

  230. Yeah lol… I think with todays technology and Scotts brillian creative mind the Darklings wont look to bad!! lol… I just think if there was a T.V. show or somethin it would be TOTALLY original!! I dont think there has ever been a show like these books! You have Charmed, Smallville, Buffy, Angel, super natural and tons of other but none of them are anything like The midnighters! lol… I know it would never happen but still it’s cool to dream! lol

  231. ok, about the folding thing with jessica, no offense to anyone, but wouldn’t that not work? like, she never freezes from her point of view. so she’d, like, never would have that extra time to travel. it kind of confusing, the ending of the book, but i got the impression that wherever she is at the end of bluetime, that’s where she has to appear when the next bluetime comes. but it would be cool tho if that’s how she could travel. but w/e.

    about a tv show or movie, movie would be sweeter cause then it could be done right w/ a kick-A director and music by like danny elfman or something. it’d rock.

  235. Hey Carl what a coincidence i really like writing as well and i too have come up with another book continuation idea. Maybe you could email me sometime and we could exchange ideas. Maybe even exchange them with Scott himself in a 3 way chat.

    Get back at me.

  237. Wow! Strange Fact of the Day: 43,200 people are born within a second of midnight and it takes 43,200 seconds from midnight to noon, and 43,200 seconds from noon to midnight!

    Never noticed that.

    creepy…..

  238. Hey Rob, this is Carl getting back to you. Its cool to meet a fellow writer, someone to share ideads with. My passion is screenplays, i have written two movies that I’m getting ready to send out soon, once I finish rewriting them. Presently, I have been working on a fantastic idea for a comic-book hero that I created on my own with its own city, villians, etc. But I am looking for a partner to help me breathe life into this character, so if you interested, let me know. As for Midnighters, I did write a little short story of a continuation a while back, it should still be up in here somewhere because it’s pretty big what I wrote. So check it it out if you have not and let me know, tell me your ideas.

    See ya 🙂

  239. Hey sounds cool. Of course i’m still in high school, and my aspiration have nothing to do with writing, i’m pretty skilled in all areas. I have always loved writing an recently did a poem about midnighters that if you’ve never read the series still stands by itself. As for screenplays i’m pretty useless but i might be able to help ya out on the comic book front. I did like the little short story alot. Proving once again that great gains don’t come without a great loss. I am still in love with happy endings, but the happy endings can be achieved at the readers total suprise as well. Don’t you think?

    Great story, and i’ll probably post the poem in here sometime. I gotta go now but i’ll post some info later. 😎

  241. I can’t believe people still post here! I’m so psyched; I just read the book (shut up – Australia is slow) and I was so torn up about the ending! But you guys have already covered that, so I won’t go on about that.
    It’s a shame Scott doesn’t read this thread anymore (or does he?!), or at least doesn’t post on it. I had to skim this thread because of the 240 COMMENTS!!! Ah well.
    Now, on to Peeps!

  242. The ending was a little tragic, but I think what happened to Jessica was positive in that it made me think a little more favorably toward her. She was at first your all-american, dull girl, but now she’s a hero.

    I think Madeleine deserved what she got.

    I think Rex needs a leash.

    I think Jonathan needs a new girlfriend. Just jk.

  243. Yeah, I agree with one of the posters above. There wasn’t enough of Dess. Maybe there weren’t enough ways to weave Dess into the story.

  244. I like the idea of a sequel. Carl-your idea rocks. it was really heartwrenching, even though it was short, to “see” beth and Jess together. i think it’d be awesome to have like 10 more books in this series. okay, well maybe not 10, but you know what i mean. and, this just came to me, what about a movie? that would be awesome.

  245. haha hey guys haven’t been on like i said i was anyway here it is.

    Midnight
    By Rob Mabee

    He was old now.
    Time had gone by too fast, it seemed.
    No longer his once energetic self, he was tired
    Yet restless.
    Anxious for what awaited him at
    Midnight.

    He waited instinctively, in the same spot,
    Just like always.
    Suddenly there she was as beautiful
    And as young as ever.
    He stood breath taken once again at
    Her sudden appearance.

    She looked at him softly tonight,
    As if knowing how tonight would end.
    Those same loving eyes never losing
    Their sheen.

    A tear ran slowly down her cheek.
    He reached out and brushed it away
    Gently, hoping to fly one last time tonight.
    Trying to muster all the strength she could,
    She gave him a smile

    “So, where to tonight?”
    “O…I don’t know how about atop
    That building over there?”
    “No, that won’t do…” she said
    “Not Tonight.”

    “Tonight we’re going over there” she said
    Pointing to a field frozen in the moonlight.
    “That seems perfect” he said, smiling.
    She took his hand in hers, gave him a kiss
    And they both took off for one last time into
    The Night.

    I think its ok. Let me know what ya think.

  247. i know but thats all i could think of after i read it. Cause thats how they’d really end up if they never save her.

  249. To Rob, I read your poem and it was interesting. I could see it into the future of a much older Jonathan, in his 50’s old and gray waiting for it to turn to midnight and the blue vastness stretching across the Earth. Then Jessica appearing out of the blue, wishing she could break the curse to leave and be able to have aged like Jonathan. It was heartwrenching, but good job.

  252. I think it was amazing rob, dont get me wrong, but its still terribly sad. Good job *tear*

  254. a little off topic, but i think aluminum should be stronger than steel. hear me out, aluminum is element number 13 on the periodic tabel and its atomic number is 26, 13 times 2. think about it in your new book(thered better be a new book!).

  255. I just finished Blue Noon around midnight this previous night. I dreamt that I was a midnighter—but I don’t remember what powers I had.

    The sign of a well-written, well-executed plot is that I dream about it. I thought that Jessica had died at first—giving up her life to save humanity from the darklings! But getting hit by frozen lightning (and living) is cool, too.

    Rob: I don’t think that Johnathan and Jessica could be like that until Johnathan died. I think that when Johnathan visibly ages, Jessica would insist that he not deprive himself of opportunity at happiness, for they cannot be together—like Lyra and Will at the close of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy.

  256. Jake: Aluminum is an element that occurs naturally, so darklings wouldn’t be afraid of it. Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon that was invented by humans and is therefore “new” enough to harm the darklings.

    Oh, yeah—aluminum’s atomic number is 13, not 26. I think you are confusing atomic number (the number of protons in one atom) with mass number (the number of nucleons—protons and neutrons—in one atom).

  257. I think they would because jonathan really seemed in love with jess and i gotta say once you find that someone you don’t ever want to let go. It just seemed like he’d be the type to never relinquish the love between them and would find it impossible to be with anyone else because he knows he won’t love them as much as jess……

    Or maybe he did have a real life seperate from jess. Just because he has a seperate life doesn’t mean he can’t still see jess ( mostly as firends the way you say it) because his wife would be frozen during midnight. Of course he knew it was his last night so he wanted to spend it with jess (his true love)……

    But if you think about it you can pretty much work it either way. I was trying to leave it open, so i do like your view on it. But thanks for your opinion, I like the constructive criticism, but now that it’s explained more how do you like it?

  258. But then again if you think about it if johnathan is married to another woman but is always going to be a part of blue time then it would be just weird. Knowing that he loved jess once but now couldn’t be with her because of what happened. Sure jess might say that he should be with someone else and be happy (which she wouldn’t mean sincerely, obviously), but i know if it were me i couldn’t betray someone i loved like that. I think that jonathan would tell jess he already was happy… or i could just be romantic…?

    Anyway your way still works too, but being the person i am i can’t help but see them stayin together even if it’s only for one hour a day.

    Still i liked hearing your opinion, and i still wouldn’t mind knowing how you liked it. If you liked it at all that is… don’t go easy on me either just cause i’m in high school.

  259. I like the sentiments of the poem, and what it describes. Like, it’s so sad to think of them that way. But the poem isn’t constant, like the stanzas are all different lengths. Also, I feel it’s more like a story, rather than a poem. Does that make sense? I mean I know poems tell stories, but it’s sorta like you wrote a short story and spaced lines into it. But don’t take this harshly, I mean it’s way better than what I can do! I suck at poems.
    Maybe you should write fanfic! Woo!

  261. it’s has its own structure too. Although its mostly a story and i’m no expert in poetry, its 2 verses geared mainly on jonothan, 2 on jess, and then 2 on their interaction. No extreme structure but subtle hints toward 12, like 6 verses 2 about each. wierd structure but fits into the whole midnighters theme… I wonder if the darklings would like this one? It is free verse however, so there is no strict verse rules 😉 (sweet no rules).

    But thanks for the comment.

  262. Meh.
    Fanfic is just fiction written by fans! Lol, more clearly, it’s stories that are based on a book/movie/tv series or whatever. w00t!

  264. does anyone know the channel midnighters would be on if it were to be a tv show? and also i wanna read more of those midnighter comics. i like them. their funny and it kinda adds on to the story. also i hated the epilogue on the last book. i wanna another book where jessica finds a way out of the blue time and rex and melissa get together again. maybe it could be another trilogy!

  266. OMG! There just has to be another book. Otherwise I won’t have a peaceful night until I know what happens to Jessica and the others. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE WRITE ANOTHER!

  267. Damn Rob you got tears to well in my eyes thats for sure. That would be a great to either start or end the next book (most likely end it). So agian love it . It works. Are u/are u gonna be a writer? because that is really good.

  268. Hey rob for what u said earlier about the 43,200 seconds thing. If u divide 13 into that you get exactly : 3,323.0769230769230769230769. notice a pattern after the point:0769230. Or if you divide the total by 13 you get exactly:
    255.62130177514792899408284023669. You loose the patter. But lets see what happens when u divide that pattern by 13 : 59171.538461538461538461530461538. You get the pattern agian. But none of the numbers are divisable by 13. But lets see what happens when u break it down.
    769/13=59.153846153846153046153046153846
    you get the same pattern when u divided the original pattern by 13.

    230/13=1.5384615384615384615384615384615 (same pattern as original when divided by 13.

    So still none are divisable by 13 but you keep the pattern freaky even after all the dividing of 13’s you get the same pattern.

  269. It’s…it’s….a TRILOGY???? You have got to be kidding. I thought there was going to be a forth book or something. Geez. I feel like a ‘tard now. Well, at least I can mark these book off my series list I need to keep track of. But I love the Midnighters books. *tear*

  270. Wow Jen your way ahead of me on the math front all i was bringing up was in book number one Dess happens to mention that 43,200 are born at midnight and there are 43,200 seconds in 12 hours.

    So a person born every 2 seconds if its spread out(of course minus the secret hour ;))

  271. and yes i always kind of had a fantasy about being a writer. Maybe i could get some tips from Scott himself????
    (If you even read this post anymore scott.)

  274. Hey guys i recently wrote some fanfic. Its right after chapter 31 but before chapter 32 so basicaly where jess dissapears and no one knows where she is but i don’t know where to post it and if it will even fit. Any suggestions?

  277. Scott you still watching i don’t know exactly what i should do with it so i think i’ll just email it to you and you can do with it waht you like.

  282. Not bad. I write some poetry, but most of my stuff is so vague no one can tell what I’m talking about… I should post one of my midnighter ones on here… Anyway, yeah, your’s is really cool.

  284. i already gave it to him anyway and sent it in to that other website to so keep checking for it

  285. On the subject of midnighter poetry, here’s one I wrote:

    How can you possibly claim to know how I feel?
    Locked behind your walls and steel and countless aversions
    As I wander here alone
    Forsaken
    I’m your nightmare
    And sometimes I think you’re mine.
    I need to get away, break free
    Leave this world behind
    It’s so defiled by your clever little tricks and your inventions
    It’s all around me and it’s burning at my senses
    It’s like a cage…
    You don’t know how badly I want to hunt you
    How much you deserve to be cut from your herd
    You’ll never be a predator
    Only a nightmare.
    I can taste your fear
    Forgotten
    you’ve been safe too long
    It’s made you careless, easy prey
    And still you try to hunt me
    Why can’t midnight last forever?

  286. i’m assuming this is from a darking’s point of view? (hey it could be rex!) interesting…

  287. i like it but it’s still a little shakey. i think instead of using “It’s so defiled by your clever little tricks and your inventions” take out little and your and the next line “It’s all around me and it’s burning at my senses” seperate the two (it’s all around me —– burning my senses) or just take out and it’s.

    I liked it. How old are you? and i’m sorry for criticising your poem like this but you shouldn’t think that i hate it. Just from one poetry writer to another. Feel free to tear mine apart too. I LOVE THE CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM THE BEST. (but i like the other kind too) anyway good job maybe reread it and keep improving it. i must have written mine like 10 times before i submitted it and i’m still not sure it’s perfect yet.

  288. i guess it’s not up yet so if anyone wants to read it before it gets posted then email me at rmabee@stny.rr.com. Just make sure the subject says fanfic story please or something like that so i know. Too many spam emails ;-p.

  289. Yeah, Halfling point of view. I really lake the way Rex sees things in Blue Noon. Thanks Rob. I’m seventeen.

  292. What kind specifically? Karate, Teakwondo, Washnru? There are some others that i can’t remember. I took Teakwondo for a while but i remember nothing lol

  293. I’m in Taekwon Do. I’m a red stripe. I also know some Aikido and a little Karate. How far did you get?

  294. hahaha like the third belt. Long time ago. but the cool thing about it is that i play golf with yes Hidy Ochia himself. If your not sure who that is he was recently indited into the martial arts hall of fame and taught bruce lee how to use numb-chucks.

  297. dude! i so want to learn martial arts. sigh that I’m not allowed to (how backward is that?)
    man, i’m tired.

  299. Hey Scott i know you still read this thread so i sent my fanfic into that secret hour fan website a few days agon and still have not gotten a response. Weird? If you know whats goin on let me know. I wish i were more patient. haha

  300. Rob, I don’t think they check what’s waiting fot that site all that often. Morgan’s, right? Yeah, I sent a picture in and it took almost a month to go up. And my desktop backgrounds still aren’t on there.

  301. Actually, Morgan just wrote me. She had some sort of computer problem, but it’s resolved and I think stuff will happen soon. (Also, it is the end of the school year.)

  305. Ok just checkin. thanks for lettin me know i know how the end of the schol year trauma is.

  306. Hey guys(If anyone still reads this),
    No one, in all these posts, has mentioned this, so I thought I should bring it up.
    I think that darklings can manipulate time.
    I was rereading Blue Noon and Rex was explaining how the humans built bonfires on Halloween and that the darklings retreated into the secret hour. Well, before then, there had been 25 hours in a day, right? So for all this to be true, the darklings would have had to take the 25th hour and separate it from all the others and somehow create the blue time. Because they chose to take away one hour, they created our system of 24 hours. Rex can’t stand math, and yet he knows the exact time when the timequake(eclipse) will happen. Darklings don’t mind time because:

    There are 60 (12×5) seconds in a minute.
    There are 60(12×5) minutes in a hour.
    There are 24(12×2) hours in a day.
    There are 12(12×1) months in a year.
    According to Dess, Longitude and Lattitude lines are also separated into seconds and minutes, so darklings don’t mind distance either.

    Dess thinks that something like the Big Bang that created our universe created midnight. Maybe way back in the stone age the darklings caused something big bangish to create the secret hour. But that would be stupid, since then they wouldn’t ever get to eat. That’s why the darklings set up timequakes and created a schedule. So, in a way, Jonathan was right in thinking the darklings made the timequake happen.

    Or I could be completely wrong on all of this.

  307. Yeah, that makes sense. And the fact that they hate thirteen might have something to do with that too (I’ll let someone else figure out the details on that, I’m horrible with math).

  308. Woah, there are a lot of deep thinkers out there.
    I do agree with you, Cass. In the first book I was sort of wondering, ‘So, how did the darklings actually create the blue time?! But if they did, why didn’t they give themselves more time???’ Maybe Scott can answer this… (hint, hint).
    And yeah, longitude and latitude are divided into minutes and seconds. Weird, huh?

  309. It doesn’t matter to the darklings how much of human time they have. It’s all continuous to them. It doesn’t mean they have any less time, it just means that in comparison humans have extremely short lifespans. It’s one of the reasons darklings live so long. Remember how Anathea only aged two years when she was a halfling, over the period of fifty human years? For them, the fact that they only live one hour to a human day just means the unusually annoying midnighters die off relatively quickly.

  310. Good point. Alissa is right. They only exist for an hour a day to the midnighters but to them it’s continuous. Like when Jess got stuck and didn’t even know that she had been gone a whole day. It even works to their advantage only living 1 hour compared to the midnighters 25, which means they live longer and are harder to get rid of, as they can only be hunted for an hour at a time.

  313. Your right, Alissa, that darklings don’t care about how long normal time is. It’s just interesting that the secret hour is exactly 3600(144×25) seconds long. It follows the same pattern Dess saw in the timequakes(eclipses). I don’t think darkling could stand it if their time didn’t follow that pattern.

  314. Maybe in one of the upcoming books rex can reveal a secret into hwo the darklings manipulate time and then the midnighters can use this knowledge to use the blue time against the darklings???? that’d be insane but unlikely.

  316. Why do the darklings always have to be the bad guys? Really, all they’re trying to do is survive, what’s so wrong with that? As Melissa pointed out in the first book, they were never really at war with the darklings until Jessica showed up. Why couldn’t the midnighters come to some sort of truce with them? They could be a very powerful ally.

  317. because they can’t be trusted. The darklings will eventually have to feed and their favorite meal is human.

  318. Yes, but maybe not midnighter, if they could convince the darklings they’re not going to hurt them, and that they’re strong enough to be worth their time. They accepted Rex pretty quickly when they realized he wasn’t a weak human anymore. All they have to do is prove that they’re worth the darkings attention, and they might be off the food chain.

  319. He didn’t prove he wasn’t weak. He was just given the chance to be one of them, because he was supposed to be the halfling. And after that if they aren’t going to be attacked, other humans are and i doubt the midnighters would allow this sort of behavior. (i think we’re having a debate we need more input!)

  320. Ok, maybe my idea isn’t exactly humane or ethical, but it’s possible. Such as, if in the first book they had done as Melissa suggested and left Jessica for the darklings. They could have been back on relatively stable terms with the darklings. Now, if Melissa could find a way to use her mindcasting abilities to communicate with them, they could come to some kind of agreement that involved the darklings not eating midnighters. Hey, the Grayfoots managed it, it would just be easier for midnighters, because they could talk directly to the darklings. When it all comes down, the darklings are terrified of midnighters. no sooner do they manage to get a seperate time all to themselves, but a bunch of humans show up with steel. I’m sure they would be more than willing to come to an agreement whereby the midnighters would leave them alone. The only letdown is that they will occasionally have to eat the odd stiff. Sure, I’m not saying that this is by any means the right thing to do, but it’s totally possible.

  321. Still the whole point is they can’t eat stiffs or there wouldn’t even be a book at all because everyone would all be dead before it began. The grayfoots managed it bacause they’re stiffs and unable to be eaten which leaves only one choice Midnighters, unless the darklings pull another suck everyone in scheme again. Also the only reason they were on stable terms was because the darklings might have needed them for another halfling so my bet is if things had gone according to plan the midnighters would be toast after rex became the new halfling. i think we’re going to need scott for this one 😉

  322. I don’t know if that would work. I mean, the darklings really just feel contempt for the midnighters. Like, the really old darklings just KNOW so much; remember when Rex met them in the desert? He was totally overwhelmed with how ‘weak’ he was compared to them. And he was a halfling! I don’t think the darklings are really scared of the midnighters, as there are so few of them. However, they’re probably scared of Jessica, as only she has the power to extinguish them (except in the rips). And now Jess is ALWAYS with them, 25/7 (um, sort of).
    Anyway, I think for me to participate in this ‘debate’ I might have to re-read Blue Noon…

  323. Re my previous comment ^ I was talking about Alissa’s comment, not Rob’s. Rob, why did you have to post before me?!?!

  324. Dudes, I am watching this and it’s really cool. I’ll comment when I get some time. But now plane fifteen minutes must get OFF LINE>..*%!!

  325. Rob, by stiffs I just meant nonmidnighters, not actually frozen. It could work, if the midnighters were willing to keep a steady steam of midnight impaired persons “wandering” into the midnight hour for the darklings. Yeah, I know, this is getting more unethical by the minute.
    Ok, let’s go back to the darkling psych profile (my personal favourite subject). Yes, they’re afraid of midnighters. As Melissa said in the first book, when she was talking to Rex: “Just like you always know there’s a spider under your house coming to get you, they know there’s a flamebringer out there somewhere.” Or something like that. I don’t have the book on hand, so I can’t be sure. Anyway, the point is, whenever they think they’re safe, their former prey shows up with steel and fire and Aversions to try and kill them. So, don’t you think if there was a way that they could still get enough to eat and as a bonus humans would stop hunting them they would take it? Yeah, humans may be small and weak and insignificant, but there’s lots of them. Remember Rex at the pep rally? Large groups of humans scare darklings. A lot. Especially now that there’s so many midnighters, whatever darklings are left won’t want to have to fight them. Darklings are old and knowledgable and strong, but there aren’t that many of them. There’s millions of humans. They’re like insects, you can’t get rid of them. And the darklings can’t use tech, can’t handle new ideas, can’t keep up with human evolution, and the secret hour only made that worse.

  326. Ok so on the off chance the midnighters become ruthless, brutal, heartless killers this would be plausible. However i don’t think any midnighter would be willing (except maybe melissa haha). Anyway what kind of a book would it be if the midnighters just did whatever instead of killing darklings. Who would pass up the chance to be a superhero if they could be? Which if you think about it thats what the midnighters are.

  327. Yeah, that was what my brother said, the books would be no fun without darkling slaying lol (of course, he’s never read them, just heard me talk about them). But if, say, it was a situation where it was nessesary to their survival to make an alliance with the darklings, they could. By the way, anyone ever stop to think about the fact that the darklings are also intelligent lifeforms and obviously don’t like being slaughtered, so unnessesary darkling slaying isn’t ethical either?

  328. No one really thinks that way because the darklings are every humans worst nightmare. So of course people fear them and what people fear they destroy. It just makes sense to slaughter them because of what they plan to do all humans. The midnighters act like a sheild between human world and darkling world.

  329. Who’s unneccessarily slaying darklings? Yeah, they did that in the old days, because they were a bit stupid, not to mention slightly cruel. However, I’m sure they thought they were doing the right thing. Anyway, of course darklings are afraid of humans, but probably only the midnighters. Normal humans don’t understand their weaknesses, plus they can’t even enter the blue time. So it’s really just Jess to be scared of, ‘the power of the almighty flamebringer’. Therefore, they all try to kill her. So the midnighters have to defend themselves by KILLING the darklings (that attack them – not all of them). I suppose after they midnighter group increases the darklings will have even more reason to fear humans, but that’s all in due time. Plus not all the darklings are intelligent; of course they all think, but many of the young ones are quite impetuous, unlike the old ones.
    I’m actually not sure what I’m trying to prove. :S
    But, as an alternative to eating stiffs (which I don’t think they can): the darklings could go vegetarian. Lol

  330. Well, even the youngest most careless darklings are still as smart as humans. And the darklings may attack first, but that is because the midnighters provoke them. And once again, when I said stiffs I meant anyone who isn’t a midnighter. Geez, I’m going to have to watch what I say around you people, you take things so literally lol.

  331. Hi
    I was under the impression that most of the darklings are dead. A few got away from the lightning, a few never showed, and all the ones who did live would have flown as far away from the all-powerfull flame-bringer as they could. And now that midnight has spread, as far away as they can get is halfway around the world. The remaining darklings would be super afraid of humans after their Samhain was ruined. I think they might stay in hiding for at least a year of thier time, which would be 24 of our years. Why are we even discussing making alliances with them?

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  333. But then comes a concept of maybe the original blue time ws huge, and it started to shrink as more midnighters appeared thus trapping darklings in time all over the world. These darklings will be released from their cryostasis, and most likely hungry. THIS IS ONLY AN IDEA. That would be cool to learn that the blue time was actually very expansive but a previous flamebringer along with other midnighters tryed to seal it off from humanity, but could only reduce it to the spots where darkling “magic” is most powerful. Hence Bixby.

  335. Cool theory. I like it. That would fit with the midnighters story that I’m working on too. (The alliance with darklings thing is another one I’m trying to work into that.)

  336. I thought stiffs were actually frozen people. Isn’t that how Melissa ‘defines’ them? Because they’re frozen… and stiff…
    Lol.

  337. Yeah, but it’s also a sort of midnighter slang for normal people. Not really just midnighter either. Me and my friends use it for just about anyone who doesn’t fit in around us. But yeah, Blue Noon complicates the use of it somewhat…

  338. yea so i’m reading what everyone’s saying. alissa: humans aren’t the only ones that darklings eat, they eat animals too. the midnighters also wouldnt let other people get eaten by darklings on purpose. and i agree w/ rob that if the darklings and humans made peace than it wouldnt really be much of a story (could be a good ending tho) but i dont think they should slay darklings unnecesarilly (13 letter word!) either. but they only kill them when the darklings attack first right? but they arent evil just hungry. so i guess what i’m tryin to say is i agree with alissa and rob on some things. u are both right i guess but i’m gonna side w/ rob more on this one.
    does anyone else try to find 13 letter words now? once i found like 4 on one page in a book i was reading.
    and also didnt dess say that there could be other places where midnight was other than bixby before the rip thing?

  339. word scout sided with me, haha in your face alissa. just kidding alissa i’m not tryin to be mean. Plus from what i read darklings were only killed if they were attacking the midnighters or trying to, i need some help finding where they killed them for no reason. What book says this?

    And to answer Scout yes there were more places. If you go on scotts hints the blue time was at certain points with multiples of twelve, which bixby’s longitude and latitude coordinates were. Which if you read my idea now that blue time is everywhere darklings will be waking up all over the place now. (thats from my idea though). i like my idea haha. Is that like laughing at your own jokes?

  340. What about places that are multiples of thirteen? There’s an abandoned town not too far from where I live that’s on a multiple of twelve one way and a multiple of thirteen the other. Kind of freaky, actually.

  341. I would say that anything with 13 in it would scae the darklings. Because it’s not like 12 gives them strength. They can just tolerate it the best. 13 is absolutely intolerable to the darklings so anything with 13 in it must scare them. I mean they can tolerate 1-12 but just cause you can tolerate something doesn’t mean it gives you strength. Although in this case it works one way 13 weakens them but 12 doesn’t give them strength. Or so i would think from my opinion. Anyone else have an opinin on this??

  342. Ok, with the new global midnight, what if places on multiples of thirteen are darkling-free zones? Somewhere with midnight but no darklings?

  343. That would be sweet like little “free-zones” to do what ever you want. I like that idea. They could evey have meetings where the darklings didn’t know what they were doing. But isn’t that what madelineshouse was? A darkling free zone or a place where darklings couldn’t find her? So i would suppose that the 13 x 13 zones would be like madelines house but amplified????

    Wheres Scott when you need him?????????? SCOTT!!!!!

  344. Well what sort of scale of measurement would anyone be using, because techincally, anything is a multiple of 13 or a multiple of 12 with the right scale, so therefore would there be some units that were more tolerable than others, based on age of creation, or even if someone made a new one number system would it be intolerable all together? So in the US and in Europe are there zones that are measured in yards and then meters? and are different lengths, or is it all the same, and also, how was dividing up the earth decided, into degress and minutes and seconds, why couldn’t it all be 13 if someone made the scale that way, and eliminate darklings altogether???

  345. I like the insight in this, but when it comes down to it i’m pretty sure it’s measured in time units the only universal meeasurements. Also the darklings created the blue time a long time ago when time was supposedly unheard of. Or at least thats what i got from it. Due to some remebering the first fires. So most humans forgot all about them and made a logical system of 12 around the darklings without knowing the darklings just adapted to 12 more because thats when their hour started and it only last for 60 mins or 12 x 5 Minutes. Which just means they adapted more to it and less to 13. As 13 would be when their time is up and its back to humans time.

  346. Time would definately be the underlying number system and would make sense since years are constant and so are days, but is every twelfth year then a particularly good darkling year, and then every thirteenth isn’t?
    Why does the number twelve, being when darklings can do whatever they, the secret hour, carry over into everyhting else they like or don’t like. Why are the darklings so fascinated/ tied in with that number is there some sort of obsessive nature to them, or an OCD type quality. Did it become a ritualistic ideal as time went on that represented their freedom (12) or opression (13) to the point where they could actually die form contact with the latter, and the former drew them, towards it?
    Finally a bit off topic but a question i’ve had for a while is, aren’t ehre technically less than 24 hours in day, hence the timing isn’t exact and doesn’t follow the pattern???

  347. Is the secret hour in actuality slightly less than an hour, to accomodate for there not being 24 hours in a day???

    just wondering if anyone esle had thought about this??

  348. Well i like the comments and i believe your really thinking quite deeply into this. But if your asking how long a day really is, how do you know exactly. From what i know it can never be exact due to human error in the reading and if you go on priciples of physics who’s point of view are you going by. As time is all relative to the view frame. So i guess its all an approximation anyway, but the darklings run on the approximation as well as humans because they are in the same view frame. It’s true though that if the darklings were in a different frame than the humans time would be a little faster or a little slower depending.

  349. that’s an excellent point, based on approximation that is true, and same with relativity, especially because the darkilings seem to be inherently tuned with these ideas.
    please anyone comment back on ideas??

  350. IF YOU DARE…………

    lol, but feedback would be nice. Since i know max personally. We need more feedback we always get into these arguements.

  351. I was under the impression that the number twelve didn’t make darklings more powerful, it was just the only number they could stand. It can kind of be compared to Melisa in the first book. During Midnight she seemed more “powerful”, but that was just because all the other times she was bombarded with mind noise, and at pep rallies it was even more painful for her, just like the number thirteen hurts darklings. only with darklings its gotten to the point that the number thirteen hurts darklings so much it kills them.

    Has anyone else noticed how many more darkling days there are on a calander than midnighter days(or am I the only one obsessed enough to map it out?) Also, what happens on days like December First:
    December is the 12th month and 1×12=12
    But if you add 1+12=13
    Is the 13 more powerful than the 12? Is addition more powerful than multiplication? Does the fact that December is the 12th month make the 12 stronger? Do they simply cancel eachother out, making a neutral day?
    Scott?? A little help here please??

  352. Ok, most of what everyone’s said is so mathematical it makes my head hurt, but there are a few things I can comment on. Cassandra: take for example in Touching Darkness when Rex stuck twelve knives into the door instead of thirteen. He referred to it as a “darkling magnet”. Darklings are strongly attracted to the number twelve, but I doubt it is because it makes them more powerful. I think they just like it. As in I like the number thirteen, not because it makes me any stronger, because I just happen to like it. That seems to me like the way darklings would think. Max: To the darklings there isn’t really any “freedom” and “oppression”. Their time is continuous to them, like normal time is to stiffs. As I said earlier, they profit from the arrangment, since their lifespans are so much longer than midnighter’s this way. So the 12/13 thing might mave something to do with midnight, even something similar to that, but I doubt it is that exactly.

  353. And just another fact that you might want to take into consideration with all this time calculating: there wasn’t always a 365 day year. A few thousand years ago the year was 360 days. I don’t know the exact details, but it had something to do with an astroid shifting the Earth’s orbit. So you should check the effect that has on the darkling numbers.

  355. The ending just killed me. I mean Jonathan only gets to see her one hour a day(night actually), and when she finally works things out with her sister, she’ll pretty much never see her again. Shame on you. Although I did like how she saved the day with her powers and everything. Still….getting stuck in the blue zone has got to suck.

    And does the whole ripping thing only happen every few hundred years? Because it seems like people would remember an event as traumatic as that. But I guess we’ll never know…since it was the last book and all. *sigh*

    ~breana

  356. Alissa there is a freedom and opression period. Did you ever notice how the darklings always leave near the end of the blue time? It’s because they have to go back into hiding before the sun comes up or they’re dead. Scott actually mentions that Jess has become something different because she doesn’t have to hide underground during the daylight. Which is probably the underlying issue on the 12 being a good number and 13 being a bad one.

  357. And Cassandra months don’t really matter too much. Yes they do somewhat ampliphy the darlings fear or “power”, but the only real number that matter are the time units and years since they always remain constant. Years stay constant due to a predictable rotation around the sun, and time is constant because time never changes(as long as the darklings and humans remain in the same view frame).

  358. So they have to hide underground for five minutes, big deal. I don’t think they really mind all that much. And the Old Ones always live underground… Ok, it might be oppression for them. Not being able to really feed for that long. But the young darklings have never known anything other than living in the blue time. To say that is oppression is like saying sleep is oppression to humans.
    Cassandra: Yeah, I’d say multiplication is more powerful. It gives me a worse headache, anyway lol. But yeah, it’s newer and more complicated, so that would be my guess.

  359. Multiplication? Aw, rats!
    That means that every day of the month of December is a darkling holiday! And every other day of June, and every three days of April, and every four days of March, and every six days of February!

    And yes, it does matter, Rob. Dess calculated the coming of Samhain through this numberology stuff, before Rex talked with the old ones. And if you look hard enough, there are tons of other days like that, where a midnighter day rolls into a darkling one. If Dess writes a book of Dessometrics, she would probably include a calendar with all her little calculations for every day. But we will never know what Dess would write, because the Midnighters series is a trilogy(I still have hope that there could be another one:)

  360. Oh, by the way, Scott, I like the new look. When I first saw the picture at the top, I thought it was of midnighters, silly me. At first glance the girl on the left seemed to have red hair, so I thought she was Jessica. But then I saw her eyes were blue, so my first thought was “Her eyes are wrong”. Weird huh?

  361. Yeah, I like the new look too. Hey Cassandra, how does june 10th measure up? Just wondering.

  362. I love all of your books!!! they are the very best in the world!!!!!!

    after reading the last book when i was reading and saw a really long word, i would stop and count the letters…sad, i know, but 13-letter words are so cool!!

    i loved the last book…it wasn’t a happy ending…but you get tired with happy endings sometimes…and it’s always suprising when it isn’t a total happy ending, i like that
    it was sooo good, tho!!!
    i feel bad for Jonathan and Jess, but maybe Jess can find someone else trapped in Midnight…if there is anybody…

    Dess is my favorite character, tho! she is so cool!!! i want to be a polymath!!! math is my favorite subject ^^

    another book would be nice*cough cough*…^^

    i think it’d be really cool to hav 25 hours!!! the things you could do…muahahaha…um…0:)

  363. It’s not that weird to count the letters to find 13-letter words. Ok, maybe it is, but it seems like most of us do it lol. I have a list of a few thousand tridecalogisms.

  364. Sorry Alissa,
    June is the sixth month
    10×6=60 which is 12×5
    Nothing else matches up
    10+6=16
    10-6=4
    J-U-N-E T-E-N-T-H only nine letters
    It is Day 161 of the year, which isn’t a multiple of 13 or 12 and 1+6+1=8

    It turns out that all the even days in June are darkling days. If 6 is multiplied by a multiple of 2, then the answer is always a multiple of twelve. This is going to be a fun summer.

  365. This is the 365th post, which is the same as the number of days in a year. Neat huh?

  366. Must you guys get so technical? It’s hurting my brain. Lol.
    Let’s get into the LESS mathematical aspects of the book.
    For example, would you be able to cope being Jessica: aging waay slower than everyone you know, so that eventually you’ll know no-one; knowing your family probably thinks you’re dead and blames themselves; and missing out on a ‘normal’ life.
    Hm?

  367. I would hate having to go through what Jessica is having to do. Its so sad. I think she would have to keep reminding herself that if she hadn’t stuck her hand in the lightning everyone in Bixby, including Beth and her parents, would be dead and it would be all her fault(which, if you remember when she and Jonathan flew through the old darklings, that was her worst fear). And who knows? Maybe they find a way to get her out of there? Well, of course, Scott knows, but he’s not telling:(

    Hey Jess, what if I like the mathmatical aspects of the book? It seems like alot of the people who keep posting wish they were polymaths. What’s your favorite tallent?

  368. Polymaths, great. Personally, I hate math (that would be why every time I want to know something mathematical I ask Cassandra lol). I’d be a mindcaster. I don’t actually know anyone who would make a good polymath, but one of my friends could pass off as a metallurge.

  369. Actually Cassandra even though months are hinted at the fact that they are important they really aren’t. Going on the aspect of darklings basic unit of measure is a second months become arbitrary. Which is probably why sometimes they are affected by months but oher times aren’t. Days however aren’t arbitrary as they run on a constant yearly basis following a constant rate of seconds in a day (years become arbitrary as well in this spectrum). Months could be anything which is also why the months changed from 10 – 12 a long long time ago. It seems that the darklings are unaffected by months, yet are also affected by them (contradiction?). What the Darklings are really affected by are DAYS, the reason they hate some months is probably because all those still around remember the first use of a new human idea of months, but some days they knew would come with a loophoole and allow them to be less scared of humans.

  371. Alissa its not just a matter of hiding underground for 5 mins, because if that were it then they’d have no problem with 13. Thier time of oppression is when they can’t wander around the blue time freely. Oppression may be a little harsh since the humans don’t have the power in this situation, but it works. As a matter of fact the darklings also have a “curfew”. Also their freedom comes when that 5 mins is up and they can once again meander the blue time. So freedom and opression really do exist, because even though it’s continuous to them they still know the hour at which they will be “free” and when they have to cower or die.

  372. And since were on the subject of asking what our favorite talents are i would love to be an Achrobat. Just running around and jumping 50 ft in the air seems pretty damn cool to me. (I have the achrobat symbol painted on my wall now :-X)

  373. It just doesn’t seem to me that any of the other midnighters would have as much fun as jonathan. Sure he’s normal during the day but what beats not having to follow the earths laws of gravity? If only for an hour? Sure the others have fun, but their powers seem boring, well maybe not boring, just not as cool as “flying”.

  374. Lol, finished posting yet Rob?
    I’d like to be a seer. I have this whole must-be-leader thing happening. Control freak? A little. I think being a polymath would be cool, since math would be efforless and actually FUN! But right now, as a ‘normal’ person without math-powers, it seems very taxing on the brain.
    And I definitely wouldn’t be able to cope with not seeing my family, like Jess. Forever, basically. At least she has company though, in the form of Jonathon etc. But still.

  375. I’d really like to be a polymath, obviously. The weird thing is I don’t like math homework, not because its hard, just because it takes so LONG! But figuring out which days are darkling days and which are midnighter days is fun, although I have had a little help from Deconstructed Supercomputer (also known as a calculator). Dess would be ashamed:(

  376. Don’t think of the powers as the how the people turned out with them, apply them to your own life. Like i would love a 25th hour and be able to fly during it. But i wouldn’t think of my girlfriend being like jess and stuck. And the coincidence is my girlfriend wants to be a flamebringer.

  377. I started The Secret Hour on Wednesday and finsihed Blue Noon on Friday night. I HATE finishign seires! I really thought I wasgoign to die when I finsihed Specials. Anyway now I’m rereading all of Midnighters. Scott here’s an idea 13 books! It’s a lot but 3,4 and 6 are nto options. And 13 would be soooooo perfect. I’m probably insane becuase that’s a lto of books but it would be wonderful! I spent the last hour of my life reading EVERY COMMENT ON THIS BOARD! I hope everyone apriciates that. Wehn it comes ot time 12 is like the ultimate number (I won’t repeat every equation look baove to see them). And there are the 24 geostationary satillites ect. So when the darklings collapsed the 25th hour they made htemsleves a sacuntuary using 12s. 13 is the evil number for them becuase 12+13=25 giving the day 25 hours again. Personally I half love half hate the whole 12 vs 13 thing becuase i have an obsession with symatrey and 12s do have really perfect symatry especailly in a book all about time. But 13 is a prime number which is equally interesting and complicated. I love all the math in the book. Polymaths are the allimination of all other talents (ok thta was hard ot word corectly). Math has always been my strongest talent which is part of the reason I read Midnighters in the firts place (since Scott talks about Dess everywhereo n the site, no favouritism there.). Um moving away from the math NOOOOOOOOO MELISSA AND REX CAN’T BE SEPERATED! And Jonathan and Jess, thats just tradgic. I postivily adored everyone’s ideas i ntheir comments abotu them getting her out ect. But the idea of being trapped in blue time is so cool. And no Jess couldn’t show up wherever! Becuase for her it’s like it is for the stiffs. You blink and it’s zoomed past. Except for her its 24 hours not 1. Which does bring up the sleep issue. For like 8 days in a row Melissa and Jonathan have ot wait for her becuase she’s sleeping! O and Rob your poem was amazing. I’m sad Dess had to stay in Bixby. I love Dess. I was quite annoyed when I first started reading the series becuase I thought it was going to be all about Dess (Scott’s favouritism strikes again), but I got over that FAST! what really surprised me was my favourtie character (besides Dess obviously) is Melissa. She is like fascinating (11 letters dang it) beyond anything I’ve ever read. Except maybe Pretty culture. But that is like a HUGE concept.I almost went insane during Touching Darkness waiting for her and Rex to get together. Poor Dess all alone. Actully i like the paring so much to care that much. I have liek 1000000 other htigns ot sya but my head is too clutered wiht them right now to say them. I actulyl dont trust myself to sya anyhting baout the series until after rereading it. Everything becomes soooo much clearer. I liked SPecials so much more after the second time.

  378. O yes i rememeber soemthign else: I lvoe the mouse thing on the midnighters home page. I cna play with that thing for hours. Which bring me to another thing, SCOTT PLEASE UPDATE THAT WEBSITE! I’ve read each page 3 times at least! Adn the fact Jess is not on the crew page drives me insane! And a new Dess blog would be tremendousish! Hehehehe. I have this thign where at the start of each chapter of the book I have to count how many letters are in the title. On involving the ice crema socials had 12 letters! I bet I start being obsessed with tridecalogisms, I got hooked on pretty/specail-speak. Hehehehehe. Ok Kelly, must stop writign LONG things!

  379. Ok I’m not sure if that will look like my first or second pot becuase my long one says awaiting moderation (proabably becuase its soooooooooo long). So if the one about the website ocmes firts for oyu, know that a longer post is coming and I’m nto isane thinking I posted soemthign else.

  380. Ok I have lost my mind but am in a state of uter bliss. I googled 13 ltter word and now have a list of 7 825 of them on my computer. I dont know what actinomycetes means but I really don’t care! Let’s see, add that up and you get 22 which divided by 2 is 11 which plus 2 is 13. So there’s a conection to 13 there if you play with 2s. I hope all 7 825 of these words become familiarities in your life. Of course this makes it a 29 page document on Word so I’ll probabyl; improvise more than look them up. But if it turns out some form of screw up makes my city have ACTUAL midnight be 3:22 and I turn up somewhere where thereis blue time I’m all set.

  381. I’ve been wondering, when they say that the blue time occurs at real midnight, not day light savings time midningt, which midnight do they mean? The one in the summer or the one in the winter? Melissa said that her birth certificate said 1:00 am, but I’m still not sure.

    Yeah, Kelly, I’ve seen the 7,825 word list. If you make the word document font be Times New Roman, make the font size 8, and make it have five collums you can make it a little shorter. Anyone who hasn’t seen the list should check it out:
    http://www.geocities.com/thesecrethour/tridecalogisms.html

  382. Well basically in between one set of daylight savings days the midnighters get midnight at 1 am instead. Daylight savigns time has nothign to do wiht how the earth and sun orbit. It was invented by us to let farmers have extra daylight in the morning. So the original midnight before daylight savings is actual midnight.

    And I’d just liek to say I drew a tridecagram and it was hard. I had to use a ruler, calculator (for pi) and compass ot get an exact one. But it was fun!

  384. OOOOOOO! Scott this is a mistake. Considering at the begining Midnight is 12 that would mean the summer is when its actual Midnight. But somewehere during September or October it hsould have changed to 1 am becuase daylight savings would have ended. Which is actully backwards anyway becuase since it is ending thta should mean we are returning to actual Midnight and it was 1 am during the summer.

  385. When I said at the beginign i meant at the begining of the series not of time. Just so thta’s clear

  386. ok now i’m confused. but just to confuse you more, (not really, i was just thinking of this as i was reading what everyone said) if you count how many hours starting at noon, the darklings live in the 13th hour of the day. i thought that was interesting. and also, you could take vertually any number and somehow connect it to 12 or 13.

  387. scout i hate to say it but max already said that. He said any number could be linked to 13 with the right scale. Then on top of that he asked why couldn’t humans just make a scale of 13 and eliminate darklings altogether.

    You guys need to read about or conversation more not just skim it.

  388. let us know if you don’t understand any of it and we’ll try to explain it. “Cause some are college physics topics.

  390. I feel liek posting something becuase I haven’t for like… 20 hours or something (I cna’t use the posting times becuase they dont match up to my time zone). I read Peeps during that time. It was soooo good. I can’t wait for Last Days. I really hsould be sayign this on a Peeps thread… O well. And if by 13 scale you mean relating to time that would invole recreatign how long seconds, minutes ect are so it works with thirteen and the current way we measure itme so it would still be accurate. So that would be very hard. Dess would love it. If that is completely not what you meant by scale could someone explain? Here is my question: during Midnight does the earth keep turning? Becuase if it doesn’t then how did the darklings manage to stop that when they created blue time, becuase they would have to change the speed of the earths rotation and orbit so the dya could have 24 hours. And if not wouldn’t scientests notice thta there is a missing hour?

  391. Definatly not my time zone. This hting says its tommorow morning! I guess that’s the time in Australia… But I oculd be wrong becuase I’ve never really studied time zones and its actulyl somewhere else. The point is its 5:18 on the 5th for me. There now tommorow I cna figure out when I actully posted.

  392. Kya soryr people found Max’s comment. Measuring system… hmmm. Would be ridculously hard to memorize somewhat similar ot the ridiculous US system, but easier (I enjoyed the thing in Dess’s blog tremendously (imagine thta word doenst have 12 letters)). But it would force everyone to memorize mulitiples of 13. Right now it (metirc system) works with 10s which isn’t too bad. I would think the time meausring system would be more important ot reboot, becuase that is acutlly run by 12s.

  393. Face it, humans like twelves. Don’t ask me why, but I would guess it’s easier to calculate. Easier for me, anyway. And I think if they redid the time system my head would explode… it’s always been the same, everyone knows it, and it’s all done to the movement of the sun and moon, so it isn’t really possible to change it without severely screwing things up… I doubt even midnighters could pull it off.

  394. um i thought that this thread died like months ago, and im soooo amazed you guys kept it alive and there are almost 400 posts here, that amazes me, and im going to attempt to read them all later. but first. Good Job!

  395. A system of 13s would be really hard. I mean, it’s a prime number, so no combination of 1-digit numbers add up to it. Unlike, 12, or whatever. Even 8 = you have 4 and 2 (and 1, obviously). And if you combine 9 and 10, you can eliminate nearly all the one-digit numbers (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, [1]0). Oh man, Maths Challenge has been hurting my brain. Lol.

  396. I’m sure i perosnally bring this to 400 today. I post waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much. Today I tried to figure out if with 25 hours in a day there is a relationship to 13 with the numbers in a year. It was pretty close. But no cigar. O well. O yes and I’m very embaresed becuase I accidently sent Scott an email I didn’t mean to and the my friends clicked reply all… Scott please don’t hate me for adding to your inbox! I love your books to much to live if you hated me!

  397. 365×24=8760 365×25=9125/13=701.92 (rounded). Which means if there was 0.162 more minutes in an hour midnighter time (as in 25 hours in a day) would be a multiple of 13. (Hours per years). Aproximitly. There would be milisecond and milimilisecodn issues. But on the other hand whats the change there are exactly 31536000 seconds in a year?(I ignore leap years). So ha. Very mathematizing.

  398. ok when i said change i meant chance. i can’t type, you might have noticed. i had ot correct this before i went insane becuase of it. wahaha well now we are closer to 400… which is funny because I remember reading how everyone was wanting to get to 200

  399. We werent sayin it’d be easy we were sayin why wouldn’t humans change the system, or better yet have the mindcasters make everyone forget about the old one and start on the new one plus with this they could eliminate the human threat alltogether. But then i got to thinking that alot of the midnighters would want to keep the blue time cause it seems like it would be fun to me.

  400. 400!!! hahaha so it would be hard, but the real question is, is it worth it to get rid of darklings and blue time or would you want to keep blue time around if you were a midnighter???

  401. First off, this is unnessesary darkling slaying lol. Second, did you take into consideration how many people there are in the world? I don’t think any mindcaster would want to attemt that. Speaking from a mindcaster point of view, I would way rather have darklings. That would be way too much mental programming, even with all the mindcasters they are likely to find with the extended midnight.

  402. I’m sure if I was a midnighter, I’d definitely want to KEEP midnight – a lot of them wouldn’t even be able to use their powers during the day e.g. Jonathon, Jess. So, even if it meant keeping the darklings, I think the midnighters would also want to keep midnight. Will the darklings try to hurt ALL the midnighters? Or is it just self-defence? I’ve never actually been quite sure.

  403. Well yes keep Midnight. It makes up such a large part of the Midnighters’ personalities. The fact is darlings weren’t goign around attcking them unless they went out to the snake pit or somewhere like that. It just started when Jessica came. And even then the other Midnighters weren’t really attcked unless they were with Jess. Plus eventually (inless your were an acrobat) Midnight would get a bit tedus. Once how everythign works, then it will be just another hour in a day. It would take a few years obviously but without darklings Midnight just isn’t as fun.

    And now there will be more mindcasters probably. But still it would be A LOT of work to create a new number system. And you’d have ot recreate new rulers, protracters ect. Which would be a huge enviromental waste.

  404. ACK! Do I EVER get ot post when this hting thinks its the same day! Does nayone knwo what time zone this is? I’m sick of posting tommorow, if that amkes any sense.

  405. Hey guys,
    Last night(06/06/06, definatly a darkling day) I had this really wierd dream. I was in Bixby, and the rip opened up again so I saw midnight and met Rex, Dess, Melissa, Jessica and Madeline (No Jonathan, I’m not sure why). There wasn’t any frozen lighting, but the rip had extended all the way to the clouds so that it was raining in the blue time and there was a lot of lightning so we had to predict where the lightning would strike so Jessica could seal the rip. Jessica saved the day, again, although I didn’t see any darklings. The neat thing was when normal time came Jessica was still there and she didn’t have a lightning hand. Something to do with double negatives, you know, how if you multiply 2 negitive numbers you get a positive one? Oh well, it was just a dream, so me posting this is probably just me being bored.

    At least, I think it was just a dream:)

  406. Well first off i have to say i agree with keeping the blue time along with darklings, however i think it could be easier than you think to recreate a number system. If only 2 mindcasters could control all of bixby (from when madeline was learning from her predecessor) then imagine the amount of mindcasters they’ll be meeting and the control they’ll be learning from melissa. It shouldn’t be that hard to completely persuade entire cities. Blanking their memories and telling everyone about the new system in one hand shake. Also you have to imagine the mindcasters would be more powerful and melissa may already be to a point as to where she can influence others without touch. So everyone frozen during blue time would be getting new ideas while they are sleeping. Just like jess’s parents.

  407. Who wouldn’t want to keep blue time anyway??? There is definetly too much fun to be had during it to let it slip away that easily ;-). I have another hypothetical question for you guys to answer now.

    If the mindcasters proposed such an idea like remaking the number system, would the achrobats (like jonathan who would give anything for the blue time) do anything to stop them or would they just sit by and let it happen? If they did try to stop them how far would they go? Killing?? If they planned to kill the mindcasters would they be able to succeed or could the mindcasters stop the achrobats??

    opinions?

  408. In post 406 all the mindcasters would really have to do is persuade the CEO’s of companies that control anything to do with the measurements (rulers, yardsticks, ect.) and maybe the president to persuade the people before the mindcasters could erase their minds of any doubts as to the new system.

  409. Wait, I’m confused. By changing the number system, are you erasing midnight?
    …?
    Besides, it’s completely unethical to leave the fate of those in the hands of few, like in the monarchy or something. Remember when Bixby was being controlled by the old midnighters? It was actually really terrible, everyone lived in fear and thought that the midnighters were monsters, like darklings or something. Plus they were all corrupted at the time, believing that they were meant to rule (but perhaps this wasn’t their fault). Anyhow, headache, so see ya.

  410. Hey, what happened to Rex’s idea about mindcasting being unethical? I doubt he’d like the idea of changing the entire world. And there’s another thing: you guys keep talking president and corporations, but the entire world, including places where there are no major corporations or governments. For instance, here in Canada you would probably have to control the premieres as well as the Prime Minister, or people wouldn’t buy it. I personally wouldn’t want to try it.
    As for Rob’s question, why would the mindcasters let the acrobats think that? If mindcasters set their mind on something and are willing to forgo ethics for it (which most of them are, from what I can tell) there’s no real way to stop them. If you so much as think something they don’t like they reprogram you. Mindcasters may not be the toughest or most knowledgable midnihgters, but they’re without a doubt the most powerful. They were the only reason the midnighters ruled the old Bixby. Oh, and the people of Bixby didn’t live in fear, the mindcasters would have programmed them not to be afraid of them.

  411. hey scott!
    i dont know if you read this part of the blog anymore, but as long as it is related to the topic, its all good.okay, so i found out about something.I know a lot of people had been telling you to write more books for midnighters, but IF you do, I have some interesting facts that can be use. fact numero uno, whoo hoo! im guessing that darklings are now afraid of one dollar bills! why? because there is 13 written all over it! alrite,to prove this, whoever is reading this, take out a 1 dollar bill. if u dont have one, ask yur parents, yur parents dont hav one, to bad, so sad. gosh im mean, anyway first flip to the back side of washington. you will see 2 circles.okay.so this is where all the 13 is. notice that the pyramid has 13 steps. notice that the word ANNUIT COEPTIS on top of the pyramid is also 13 letters(if yur counting the letter o and e as two seperate letters). now scroll over to the circle with the eagle.look at the stars on top of it, these are the stars of the 13 original colonies, and theres another 13 for ya. but wait, there’s more! look at what the eagle is holding…thats rite! it has 13 arrows on the right claw. AND! on top of that, the ribbon that is going through the eagle’s beak, which has an imprint of E PLURIBUS UNUM also has 13 letters. is this crazy or what?
    my second fact is the moon. Each year, there are 13 full moons, yes, count them, not 12, but 13 full moons. Each month, there is a full moon. but wait, that makes only 12 full moons a year.well the 13th is the second full moon that occurs in one of the months. so each year, in one of the months, there will be two full moon, and the second one is called blue moon. and finally the last and final 3rd fact is that this is the longest comment i posted for scott. it took me 6 mins and 31 secs, yes i timed it for some reason…

    :]

  412. that is soo wicked awsome! im bringing lotsa one dollar bills and paperclips on my next midnight expedition! lol

  413. Alissa rearead the questions and answer them one at a time. I wanted to know what everyones answer to each individual question would be. You answered the last part of it though that was nice ;-P.

  414. Hey Alissa: surely the midnighters can’t control EVERYONE. Because they need to touch them to control them (which I’m sure they could in the blue time). But still, that’s a lot of people, and the whole reason that the midnighter generation was lost was because Grayfoot thought it wasn’t right. So yeah, he wasn’t afraid, but he didn’t think the same as everyone else. And they probably didn’t think they were monsters (contradicting myself here), it was probably in hindsight they thought that.
    Hey Kha, I think someone already posted theh one-dollar bill thing. But the moon thing… snaps to you. Lol.

  415. 1. Super ubbly about the 1 dollar bills. (Hahaha you people have 1 dollar bills!) I bet the other 13’s are becuase of the 13 colonies.
    2. Why do the acrobats oppose changing the number system? But if they did I dobt they’d kill the midncasters or anyhtign like that. They’d just try to get some polymaths on their side and come up wiht reasosn why not to do it.
    3. Mindcasting can lead to coruption. Well actually if you take history, it does. So I odn’t think any of the current Midnighters owuls use it to change the number system. They all would be worried they’re becomign corrupt by doign that. Dess owuld love the idea but reject the Mindcastign element.

  418. Omg. Ok first off read my other posts to figure out why we were talkin about a new number system. Then actually read and understand what i was asking, (it’s a hypothetical) i hope you guys know what a hypothetical is. Second off if mindcasters can become corrupt then what makes you think it will be so inoccent? especially since melissa doesn’t seem the angelic type. She already seems to disregard other midnighters and reads their minds against their will. Therefore i submit to you that if they decided to redo the number system what would happen. See my previous questions, and post your answers. It’s an opinion question.

  420. Melissa doesn’t read people’s minds against their will. At first she had no choice, but after she gained control of her powers she never purposely read their minds. I suppose when people are in close range it just happens, you know? But apart from the whole Dess thing, she’s never forced herself onto others, and if she has it’s only in times of need.
    The whole mindcasting thing in general raises ethical questions. It’s sort of like X-Men 3 (which I just saw – yay!), and the whole Professor Xavier/Jean Grey thing. I won’t say too much cuz it would ruin the movie, but yeah. When would mindcasters be able to use their powers? How far is too far? When does it stop being ok and ‘what was necessary’ and cross the line to being unethical?
    And Rob, ‘hypothetical’ is an adjective. Hypothesis is the noun. But ‘hypothetical situation’ would work best, as hypothesis is when you guess what will happen. And DUH it’s hypothetical, cuz none of this is real! Lol

  421. lol thanks jess i hope you know that i was talkin about a hypothetical situation. You guys seem to be avoiding the question altogether? I’ll start then.

    I think the achrobats would do anything in their power to stop the mindcasters, yes even as far as killing(most likely out of desperation and their love for the blue time). And i think even though the mindcasters could read their minds if the achrobast found another place like madelines house they could plan in privacy and the only way they could actually take down the mindcasters it seems would be to completely outnumber and overwhelm them.

  422. Rob, I think your premise has people confused. Why would the mindcasters want to eliminate the secret hour? It’s the only time all those noisy minds shut up.

    And I’m not sure they could control everyone in the world to that extent. Our systems of time and measurement aren’t just in people’s minds; they’re part of physical culture (yardsticks, clocks, roadsigns, etc.), commerce, science, history, etc.

    And if you do “break” the blue time by changing every clock in the world, does that means the darklings disappear? Or would it just release them once and for all?

    Way cool about the dollar bill thing, by the way. If there’s ever another book, I’ll work that in.

  423. ok point taken. I guess its just a dumb question. But even if thats the only time the mind noise stops melissa has enough control now that she’s uneffected, and all she needs to do is touch another mindcaster to give them the same control. It just seems that if they wanted the mindcasters could eliminate the blue time(assuming that darklings would be destroyed once it was gone). What max and i are talkin about is switching the base measurement to a 13 scale, and since time seems to be the major scale for darklings all humans would have to do is change the time scale to multiples of 13 and not 12 to eliminate darklings, but with this would come the end of the blue time since the creators of the blue time would be eliminated. Once the blue time is gone their major threats dissapear and all that’s left for mindcasters to do is control the world, since in early bixby it seemed that mindcasters always develop a hunger for controlling people. So my question just branches off of this aspect because to me it seems like the only ones capable of stopping the mindcasters are the achrobats but only in blue time. Sure the mindcasters could taste them coming but the achrobats are too fast to make any changes in their head before they could eliminate the mindcasters, but the only way they could do it is if they outnumbered them. So all i’m sayin is it seems prbable that the mindcasters would become too power hungry and try to rule the world by eliminating their 2 biggest threats (darklings and achrobats). I’m not sayin that they’re bad people just that their power corrupts them in the end or it seems that way due to the way scott described the mindcasters in the past.

  424. i apologize for not clerifying earlier. And thanks scott for letting me nkow i was getting confusing. I do that sometimes…Can you guys ever forgive me? :-p

  425. O I gte the acorbat thing now! I don’t think the Darklings hold the blue time’s exsitance. I think it’s stuck now thta it has been created. But if we do have crazed Mindcasters taking over the world yes the acrobats would try to free the rest of the world. How, I odn’t know. Thye’d have ot find non-takign over Mindcasters to fix people’s minds.

  426. Do oyu really think Melissa will turn evilish? I think that at the end of Blue Noon it’s established that she knows the Midnighters (especailly Mindcasters) of the past were corupted and that thet should be the generation that changes that. She may sometimes be a bitch-godess but I don’t think she’s going to do anything worse than touching peoplewho odn’t want to be if she really needs to.

  428. Jess: basically all i was saying is that the mindcasters could become power hungry once again but now that there will be alot more of them they would try to take over things. Starting with blue time and once they found that too easy they might decide to erase blue time, but the achrobats wouldn’t like it. See my other questions on comment 407 if you’re no longer confused…

  429. Kell-wa: how far do you think the achrobats would go? If they decided to kill the mindcasters would the achrobats be able to or would the mindcasters win?
    I was thinking the achrobats would resort to killing but only as a last resort and if they did the only way they’d be able to pull it off would be sheer overpowering numbers as mindcasters would be stronger and able to influence the achrobats from distance.

  430. I feel bad for Beth. Knowing that her sister is still somewhat safe but cant tell anyone really not even her parents and she cant ever see her again or help at all.

  431. Aw I feel so sorry for Beth. I bet she gets Dess and Rex to take her to the blue time a lot.

  432. Can Beth go into the blue time? I thought the rip was slowly closing up, and so that would be the only time Beth could see Jess. Anyway Rob, your predicament sounds like the whole X-Men thing, seriously. Have you watched X3? You should, and see how easily it could happen with Midnighters. Really.

  433. That was the only time Beth could go into midnight. The rip was in the process of closing, if she went again she could get stuck too. Besides, Jessica wouldn’t be there, she was traveling with Melissa and Jonathan.

  435. But there are other ways to get into the blue time than that one rip. Remember Sherrif Micheals? There are other weak places in the blue time, and Dess probably could find them easily. But, yeah, Jessica wouldn’t be there so Beth would probably not choose to go to the blue time. It would be too sad.

  436. All I can say is…Wow…not exactly how I thought it would end…(The realm of the midnight hour either being erased, or rejoin the other 24 hours)…but, wow…Jess now a being of pure darkling kick-butt power, and Rex’s struggle to stay human…Perfect ending…I mean this is the type of ending that gets people to create online-role play to continue the story, everybody wishing they were midnighters, soon to be found by Jess and the others…

  438. Hey Cass, I dunno if anyone could enter again. I mean, maybe the Sherriff could only enter cuz the rip was already opening? Like, was the rip slowly opening throughout the years and speed-up that particular year, or did the rip choose to suddenly open in that year?

  439. Oh yes they could. I’m going to Blue Noon for textual evidence:

    “Sheriff Michaels?” Jonathan asked. “That guy who disapeared?”
    Everyone was quiet for a moment.
    Some time ago-before Jessica or even Jonathan, had moved to Bixby- the town sheriff had vanished out in the desert. Only his gun and badge had been found, along with his teeth and all their fillings- the darkling-proof, high-tech alloys of dentistry.
    The rumor was he’d been killed by drug dealers, but between Rex’s lore and her careful mapping of the blue time, Dess understood what really happened.
    She cleared her throat. “Well, you know that darklings have to eat, right? Even if they only live one hour in twenty-five, predators still need prey to stay alive. Normal animals can strp through into the blue time if they’re in the wrong spot at exactly midnight. So darklings mostly eat unluvky rabbits and cows, but every once in a while a human being slips through.”

    “Madeleine noddd. “We sometimes brought daylighter allies through so that they could see the blue time for themselves. A special treat.”

    “…Rex muttered. “And you said the eclipse was focused around these contortions?”
    Slowly Madeleine’s wrinkled hands drew shapes on the scratched table. “Not exactly, Rex. What the eclipse seemed to do was make more of them.”

    (Westerfeld, scott, Blue Noon, Copyright 2005, HarperCollins Publishers, pages 58-59)

    That rip wasn’t the only weak space in the blue time. It was created by the timequake-eclipse. There were others that Sheriff Micheals, unlucky cows and rabbits, and the old Midnighters’ daylighter allies were able to slip through.

  441. Cool. Especially love the siting reference. Lol, I hate have to do bibliographies in assignments.

  442. No one has posted in forever! Well, not forever, just 345,600 seconds (Aproximately). Someone say something.

  444. Ok, how about why do darklings have no problem with plastic? It’s newer than steel, but they don’t seem to mind it. Although killing darklings with a hunting knife is a fair bit more impressive than killing them with, say, a toothbrush.

  446. I’ve been wondering about that too. I’m not sure why they’re fine with plastic, but when Dess is first explaining things to Jessica she says that darklings don’t like new metals so I guess that plastic doesn’t count or something like that. Or maybe the old midnighters used plastic so much that the darklings got used to it, like they got used to obsidian spearheads and forged metals like bronze and iron. And yeah, it doesn’t seem as intimidating.

  448. Scott I have a question, (my friend and I have been arguing over this so please help us end it). In Blue Noon it says Jess knew touching the lightening would change everything. She says that mean Jess knew she’d be stuck in Blue Time, I think she’s crazy. What did you mean by that? Thanks!

  449. I thought that Jessica knew that touching the lightning would have undesirable consiquences(how many people are going to count the letters in those words?) but she wouldn’t know exactly what was going to hapen. Although, even if she did Jess would probably still have gone ahead and saved the world.

    By the way, I just finished Uglies. It was great. Hoverboarding has thirteen letters. I’m to the point where I always count the letters, no matter what book it is.

  451. Hey Scott,
    Since it is highly unlikely that you will write another Midnighters book (although I haven’t given up yet) maybe you could tell us if midnight really did spread so that its everywhere. Dess wasn’t really sure if it had or not.

    It doesn’t seem like it would matter, but if Jonathan, Melissa, and Jessica are traveling and seeing how far the blue time goes, and it hasn’t spread to the entire world then they might accidently travel out of the blue time which would have two consequences. One, Melissa and Jonathan might fall from high up and Two, Jessica would fold up and since midnight would never come there she would be gone forever:( That would be so sad and I’ve been wondering for ages if midnight is everywhere.

  452. Triskaidekaphobia
    No Triskaidekaphobia is not a 13 letter word, or a 12 letter word, or a 24 letter word, or even a 26 letter word. Than why am I bothering to post this?

    Triskaidekaphobia- Fear of the number 13

    I finally found the scientific name for the darklings fear of the number 13. Its kind of interesting, even though I think I am the only one who reads this anymore.

  453. No, I still read it. It’s just the shortage of people posting… Hey Scott, if the halfling was there all the time, and the Greyfoots were in contact with it, why didn’t Melissa taste it sooner? You’d think she would have noticed a darkling that thought like a midnighter right away.

  454. kno wats so weird triskadecaphobia was the vocab word of the week wen i was i 5th grade and i totally forgot about it until now

  456. Oh , wow. There are a lot of comments on this.
    I didn’t read all of them, but I would join in the soul contributions if that would help with you writing another book.

    I think the idea of moving into cities would be interesting, getting lots of people involved.

    I don’t think Jessica watching her friends get old and die would be fair, even if she did get to meet Tally.

    Don’t kill Jon! Please. That would be almost as bad as Dumbledore dying, and I’m still in denial about that, similar to my denial about Jessica.

    I think Jess can reunite with her friends (Rex and Melissa need to be together, Dess needs a guy, and you can’t abandon Jonathan- he’ll go insane, probably bi-polar) when the world ends again, and in a “risk I have to take” scenario we will lose hope before things work out well enough that they are neither cheesy nor depressing. Even if Jess and Jon have to be stuck in the blue time together, that’d be good. Actually, that’d be great, because then Jon could fly for all of his time. And he’d never drop Jess again. (Cheesy ending line)

    On a tangent, I bet it was all a very sneaky plan and Dumbledore isn’t really dead. They just did it so he could have some time to himself (much like when he left while Umbridge was aorund) and could achieve the same shock-everyone-out-of-their-sheltered-blindness thing that was achieved when the Waynes were killed in Batman Begins.

    I love the books, though. Please do either a sequel or a whole new trilogy (that’d make my life) so we can all have closure. In the meantime, ON TO FANFICS! (And Uglies, which I haven’t read yet.) =D

  457. Here’s a new theory, Scott:why don’t you write a new Midnighters trilogy that takes place in a different town with entirely different characters? You could add some new talents, and they could run into Melissa, Jonathan and Jessica while they’re travelling looking for new Midnighters.

  458. If Triskaidekaphobia was spelled Tridecaphobia it would be a thirteen letter word and Darklings would be afraid of the word that describes their fear.

  459. Hello all.
    I cried. It was sad.
    Okay, Scott, so when is the fourth midnighter book coming out? Because you KNOW there will be one….*glare* and you KNOW there will be an awesome polymath named Laine in it *glare* aww, jk, that would be awesome but I love your books anyway….
    Okay, I not ONLY have the full list of 13-letter-words, I also have the list of 15, 502 11-letter-words, because you know, to me, 11 is my own little thing and 11s are very lucky.

    I got myself into trouble.
    A lot of trouble.
    Basically, I created my own dating system and time zone because I just felt like it (do you know that our dating system is about 5 years off now? so I corrected it…) and as a nice little side effect I pushed my birthday to midnight. (AAH! I feel like Madeleine!)
    Of course, I hadn’t read Blue Noon when I did this.
    I didn’t yet realize that stupid me made today October 29th.
    That is very bad.
    That means that at 10:02 pm on this Sunday, it’s midnight on October 31st/November 1st. Very very bad.
    And, of course, my friend is going to North Carolina, to a spot along the 36th parallel. On Sunday. On Samhain. Yeah.

  460. Oh, yeah, I’ll donate my soul too, for what I asked. For a fourth book with a polymath named after me. I’ll donate my whole SCHOOL’S souls, while I’m at it, actually….AND my whole town….and 15,502 knives named with 11-letter words….pretty please? (intentional use of the word pretty there)

  461. M is the thirteenth letter of the alphabet.

    M is for Midnight, Midnighter, Melissa, Madeline, Martinez, Mindcaster, and Metalurge.

    There needs to be a fourth book. This will be the 461st post. If this many people are interested, you HAVE TO write another one. It would have MAGNIFICENTLY MASTERMINDING MARKETABILITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    And you wouldn’t want me to look up all those Tridecalogisms for nothing.

  462. I know that wasn’t the best word choice, but there are only 460 tridecalogisms that start with the letter M, so you can’t be too picky. In shorT.
    WRITE MORE BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  464. I think everyone agrees with you.

    And I reckon it’s extremely funny how everyone is obsessed with the whole metalurge thing. It was mentioned, what, once in the book? And everyone picked up on this tiny little detail and went, WHAT IS A METALURGE? IT’S SO DAMN COOL! and bombarded Scott with questions. And Scott’s thinking, ‘Crap… quickly, brain, make up answers!’

  465. It’s because everyone is so starved for more kinds of midnighters that they’ll do anything to get even a scrap of info. If Scott had mentioned other kinds of midnighters, chances are everyone would be obsessed with them.

  466. yeah, we are. we are so midnighter-hungry that i even obsessed over the DESS BLOG because it was another what–2 pages?!–of midnighters.

  467. Yeah, there should be more of that one. I’m horrible with math, but it’s still funny. And the tridecalogism of the day has been “blamelessness” for as long as I’ve been visiting this site lol.

  469. Hey Scott I left coments under another name b4 in Specials . . . You only have like a million coments so IDK if you’ll ever read this, plus the fact it’s totaly off topic but . . . You’re totaly funny! And my libray dosent have your books yet so I’m totaly going broke buying all your books I can get my hands on, and your getting totaly rich on all my money! So there you have it! I love your books and I’m sure you love my money! LOL!

  470. yeah, you know, i have forced 3 different libraries to buy your books, plus i have bought them myself. IF you wrote another Uglies or Midnighters book, I promise you I will force EVEN MORE libraries to buy them!!!! (plus myself, plus all my friends, family and teachers….i will make you much money….)

  471. Oh! I feel so bad for Jessica the ending made me cry and everyone leaving it just makes me feel more depressed. You should deffinately be writing a fourth volume! Everyone agrees’ come on you can’t just leave everyone hanging around with darklings! Ekk! Its no fair! Lol

  472. When you think about it, why would someone come to this site if they haddn’t really liked the books and wanted a fourth one. This is the 472 comment. That is alot of posts.

    WRITE MORE MIDNIGHTERS BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  474. Including me. Ihave read the series three times so far, and it had yet to become boring. You really need another book, that way, all your readers will have something to keep them satisfied. Even if only for a few hours in my case, since I have read all your books in like, one afternoon. Different days of course, but they were just that good.

  475. They r all correct Scott. Sorry for not coming on in months. But most everyone wants a new book (or two, hint hint. wink wink). Please write another. And what about the Midnighters series. And So Yesterday movie? I haven’t been on so is there anything new about those???

  477. The TV show doesn’t look good. The WB got combined with UPN into something called CW, which means that two networks had to get squished down into one.

    On the subject of more books, it doesn’t seem likely right now.

  478. What do you mean “it doesn’t seem likely”?????????? its likely if you want it to be likely. Everyone says you should write more, so WRITE MORE. Come on. Please! At least do another Dess Blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  479. Yeah, don’t tell us Dess ran out of opinions. It’s just one of those things that doesn’t happen, like the sun not rising.

  481. Scott. *sigh*. I swear, you should write a short story each, one for the epilogue to the Uglies trilogy and one for Midnighters. And just post them on your website. Or at least make another Dess blog. Scott, I am desperate, I’ve already begun the having-dreams-about-what-happens-after-the-book-ends stage, soon I’ll get to the having to write the books myself. Which I don’t like doing, because then I feel like they’re never as good as they would be if you wrote them. Or you could post something on your site where people could write to you and you would write back as different characters, you know what I mean? So we–us devoted readers–could interview Tally, for example, or Melissa…..

  482. Lol. Stop bothering the man! At this rate, he won’t even get Leviathon done!

    Scott, did you ever buy that hoverboard thing?

  483. Wow, the end of the book was AMAZING and i would love to see more books like the rest of us! Reading your books made me appreciate math ALOT more, and for fun sometimes i try to think up some cool anti-darkling weapons or name my jewlery ^^. The only thing i look down on is the way it makes fun of 13-year-olds *cough* we arent that incompenent. LOOK AT ME! Im useing words like incompenent *cry*

  485. Oh please please please let there be more – it seems like there is so much more to tell. I finished Blue Noon last night and was utterly depresseed….

    but it was really good!!!

  486. I kinda killed it for me checking this out but I live in a rural town so I won’t be reading them for a while! The Ugly Triolodgy was ausome and so was peeps and I’ve just started Midnighters, but I’m not sure I want to finish it….

  487. “I’m not sure I want to finish it…”
    Yeah you do. Even if you know what happens, I knew and I still felt satisfied by reading it.

  488. You want to finish it. Trust me. When I first saw Blue Noon I wasn’t sure I wanted to finish it and I did anyway and now I’m really ashamed that I ever considered not reading such a wonderful book.
    Authentically Superpowerful Wonderfulness!

  489. Yeah, way worth finishing. Midnighters has got to be the best trilogy I have ever read. Sure, it has it’s low points (like the fact that it ended) but you definitely want to finish it.

  490. I am so stupid for not realizing this sooner. At least part of the reason stainles steel works better than plastic is that
    S-T-A-I-N-L-E-S S-T-E-E-L has thirteen letters and
    P-L-A-S-T-I-C only has seven.
    E-L-E-C-T-R-L-Y-T-I-C has twelve letters, so I don’t think electrolytic titanium will be quite as effective as Dess thought it would be.
    Also Flame-bringer has thirteen letters if you count the hyphon.

  491. Possible, but darklings were afraid of steel long before it got it’s english name, and they did mention that it’s new alloys and things like that that darklings are afraid of, so you’d think since plastic is way newer than steel it would work. But that fact that it doesn’t may have to do with the fact that it’s made from petrolium.

  492. But stainless steel is sort of like a name that society has givin that type of object. So mabye its sort of like it has two names, the tridecalogism dess gives it and the name for the type of object, or maybe it doesn’t matter at all.

  494. Hey, in history we’re learning about ancient civilizations, and apearantly the Sumerians were the ones that decided there should be 360 degrees in a circle and 60 minutes in a hour. They based their entire number system on 6. They obviously did not live in a region with midnight

    Or, back in 3200 B.C. darklings were afraid of the number six, so the Sumerians were really smart and started using it a lot, but after about 5,000 years the darklings got used to 6 and all multiples of 6 especially 12, so midnighters got all obsessed with 13, but the rest of the world is still stuck with a 6-based number system

    Or maybe I’m just thinking too much:)

  496. Ever hear of Atland? It was a place near Britain that was destroyed thousands of years ago. The legends regarding it say that it was destroyed by some kind of comet hitting the earth, and that in the process it modified the earth’s orbit so that instead of the previous 360-day year the year became 365 days. Matches the Egyptian myth that the year was 360 days before one of the gods won enough light from the moon gambling to create five more days. I’m not a math expert, but this must have had some effect on the darklings?

  497. Your right, it probably had some effect on the darklings. It also might have some effect on something I’ve been wondering. If 364 is a multiple of 13 (it is I’ve checked, I’m just not quite sure what you multiply 13 by) anyway, if 364 is a multiple of 13 then why are there 12 months in a year? We could have 13 months without having to memorize any of this thirty days hath September stuff. There would just be one month that was one day longer than the others and one that was longer on leap years. I just figured whoever invented our calendar was too superstitious to have 13 months. But maybe it goes all the way back to the Egyptians when there were 360 days and there could be 12 months with 30 days each, evenly.
    That’s going way back though.

  500. Comment number 500! Yeah, had to post just for the sake of that lol. Hey Cassandra, do you know what month this year’s blue moon was supposed to be?

  501. oops,
    there’s only 13 full moon SOME years. Oh no. This is the year there are 12!!! The next blue moon will be in June of 2007, the first full moon being on June 1st and the second on June 30th (there’s actually a full moon every 29.5 days, not 28) Oh well

    2002 is a multiple of 13. So is 2015

  503. 1:00P.M. is the thirteenth hour of the day.
    1:13 and 13 seconds is 13 hour, 13 minutes, and 13 seconds after midnight.

    That was random but oh well

  504. Yes, I know this is off-topic, but reading So Yesterday (which is really great, by the way) I noticed something: Scott, you just can’t stand it when we have everything figured out. It’s a repeating trend in Pretties, Peeps, So Yesterday, and Midnighters that just as soon as we get everything straightened out you go and change something lol. And I also noticed the reacurring theme of how frighteningly easy people are to manipulate. Parasites, mindcasters, brain surgery, and what’s in, it all comes down to the “look how easily you can be controlled”. It’s all very cool.

  505. I’ve read So Yesterday too, (still of topic) and I’ve noticed some things mentioned in both So Yesterday and Midnighters too

    In The Secret Hour Rex explained the darkling’s number phobia by comparing it to epilepsy, which is also more-than-mentioned in So Yesterday

    In Touching Darkness Dess makes Weapons of Math Destruction(my favorite chapter) by writing numbers in Phonecian, which I know from So Yesterday started the whole purple=royalty thing (Dess’s room is purple)

    And I know there are others (I just can’t think of them right now)

  508. Yeah, Peeps is one of the best, as far as I’m concerned (right after Midnighters). The whole aplying science to vampires is brilliant.

    And yeah, I’ve noticed the same random info comes up in a lot of Scott’s books. But how can you blame him? Phoenicia is cool! Even the name is cool.

  509. Yeah, in class we had to learn about how the Phonicians wrote our alohabet, and there was only one line in the textbook about purple dye.

  510. Don’t you think its kind of ironic that Jessica’s last name is DAY when most of the story takes place at NIGHT?

  511. Hey I finished the book over the summer and didn’t acuttually no this was here i no kinda blind i guess meaning im on this website 24/7 (or 25/7 lol). But the idea for a 4th book ain’t that bad i mean i’ve been cryin over Jessica for 4 months. My twins name is Jessica and i wonder what she thought about that (lol). i jus finished the last days last night good book.

  512. there’s also a Maddy in both books. A Maddy who’s an annoying, controlling,——–*Starts ranting* woman….

  514. hey, it submitted halfay through my post.

    Anyway, is there any reason Jessica wouldn’t be able to use a camera in the secret hour and get a picture of a darkling?

  515. Yeah, I was thinking that too. I always thought it would be a good joke if Jess took Ernesto’s camera and filled it with pictures of darklings, then got it back in his hand before midnight ended. Might scare him away altogether.

  516. I must say that I love the Midnighters series–not so much the ending. I finished it today, sorry it took so long to discover you, in the mall which wasn’t the smartest thing on my part. I was of course bawling and it’s nice to know that I wasn’t alone. It was pretty intense though, I’m standing in the middle of the mall and everyone around me probably though someone died. But I did stop by Godiva Chocolate and that helped wash the sorrows of an unhappy ending wash away, but I’ll have you know ONLY SLIGHTLY!!

    LOVE THE BOOKS,
    Sam

  517. Hey, if Jessica could drive a car durring midnight and Jonathan was sitting in it, would the entire car get lighter, or just his seat? He is only directly touching the seat but when flying Jonathan is only touching Jessica’s hand and her entire body becomes weightless, not just her hand. It would be cool if Jonathan and Jessica could fly a car from one town to another, or at least go faster than normal or something.

  519. Jessica’s hand is directly attached to her body, and the seat isn’t really directly attached to the car, so I don’t think it would work. Remember in Touching Darkness, Jonathan was in a car when midnight hit, and it didn’t get any lighter, only he did. But I still think Jessica could drive, that would be so cool (and it would have saved Melissa a head injury).

  520. Early in this forrum (post 170) someone spotted the problem that Jessica couldn’t had Dess the flare at the end because the rip wasn’t there yet. I’ve been thinking, if a light is on before the blue time came it would go out during the secret hour and then come on again when the midnight is over. What if when Jessica lights the flare while she’s in the rip and then steps out of the rip and lets go it will go out but if the rip catches up to it would it light up again? Then Dess could have held the flare up to the fuse and lit the fireworks when the rip got there. Probably not but its the only explination I could think up.

  521. Just wanted to let you,Scott, know that I love how you base most of your books on historical things and science. Things that are made up came from something real. That is totally awesome making to me!

  522. I am in desperate need of a good book!!!
    I have read all of your books though….
    Anyone know of an author that is almost at least half as good as Scott? Cause I cant find anyone!
    Probably cause there isnt!!
    Your the best but please make more!!!

  527. A lump in my throat grew because the ending was unexepected. I worried about this depression,” How was Scott Westerfeld going to sum up a triology in a couple of pages”. Even though this was a tradegy, I think you’re given this reassurance that everyone is going to be okay through actions, thoughts,diction and dialect, but I loved the last words from Dess”It was way cool being the one who did the math.”Mesmorizing and brilliant.The ending of a series says alot about the writer.Can you say movie?Jessica’s going to get out of the secret hour, not when Jonathan’s close to death, in about a year or 2 max.One book please!

  528. I agree with u,Demensiona. I mean, they are going out to find other midnighters and their powers right? So I think that they are going to find someone that can convert midnight folk to daylight and vise versa. That could lead to disaster though cause darklings could be freed, but lets just say this person is good and only releases Jess. LOL

  529. In my mind I have the perfect music selection for the midnight epilogue if it were turned into a movie.At the starting of the epilogue, they would play Mogwai’s “summer”, and then when it comes to the last page with Dess, they would play a cooler up beat song like the killers, “on top”, or the one by radiohead but I’m not sure of the title, something about every sin or something.It would be perfect. Then the credit’s up to whomever, maybe radiohead’s,”How to be invisible.”

  530. Hey completely random but what does it mean Scott and everyone when other people snort?I’ve seen it in most if not all of the novels. Does it mean immortality?Well what ever it is,I thinks its pretty cool.Its a definite Scott Westerfeld trademark and or custom.

  532. like OMG, i couldn’t believe that jessica ended up frozen during reg. time. i felt so sad for jonathan….. 🙁 only having his g/f for only an hour…. i wonder how jessica ans jonathan will handle it wen she turns 19 and he is lik majorly OLD….. only living and hour a day would really bring me down.

  533. I loved all the midnighters books, but the third one i was a little upset when it just ended the way it did. And i can tell from all the other comments that everyone else agrees with me about this. i REALLY hope scott writes a fourth book. I mean what happens to Dess, Rex amd Madaline in Bixby, where does Jonathen and Mellisa. AND WHAT HAPPENS TO JESSICA DAY. does she stay in midnight or does Rex or anyone else finds a way out. Also Madaline mentioned somthing about other powers that were out there. Personaly I wont to see what happeneds to Jess and what her new powers do to Darklings. just to some this up. I WANT TO SEE A FOURTH BOOK…please.

  534. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  535. Me too, PlEASE! And Scott, could you make another series, I’m running out! Please and thank you!

  536. Did everyone have a happy Halloween/All Hallow’s Eve/Samhain/Feast of Souls/Sadowfest/Death of the Sun/Old Crone/Day of the Dead?

  537. Sure Cassandra, how about you? Isn’t this day light savings stuff so cool! It’s as if we have 25 hours a day, I love it!

  538. Real midnight is at one a.m. now. “Lousy daylight savings time.”(Westerfeld, Scott, The Secret Hour, page 90) 🙂

  541. First of all, i loved the Midnighters. It has to have been one of the best series i have read yet. it took me about 6 days to read the whole series and even got in trouble a couple of times for reading in class.Second, the ending made me sad but not as sad as the ending of the Specials. I know you have heard this (or read) a ton of times but i would love it if you wrote another book. Thats all i can think of but i will probably end up like all the others on here. Oh and you really should get a chat bored seciton on this website.

    Thanks for the great books.

  542. you’re totally right weazle, the midnighters is probably the best series so far and, this website, SHOULD, have a chat board on this section.

  543. Urgh i seriously couldn’t care less about Jess but melissa and rex have get back together (even if they didn’t technically break up) them leaning eachother was soooo unfair!!!! and there should be more dess. Definetley more dess.

  544. Jessica and Johnathan are in a truely difficult scenario. Melissa and Rex have great chemistry that should be greater explored. If there are more books in the future, it would be interesting if Dess found a love intrest( maybe ironically someone normal). Though I don’t know, Dess is pretty independent, she’s smart. I wonder if scott, if he continues the series, will make the following books as another segment or label. Will he finish right where he left off or age the midnihters a bit?

  548. You’re right Cassandra, but couldn’t he share? If the series is going to be continued, Scott should go into more depth of Johnathan, Melissa, and Dess’s family and personal background.Wait,I forget, I know that Johnathan’s mom walked out on him but is she dead, or did scott never say?

  549. Extendable microphone stand:$60
    Constanza’s party clothes:$200
    Melissa’s new windshield:$300
    All the fireworks in Bixby:$10,000
    Seeing Rex and Melissa pull up in a pink Cadillac: Priceless

  550. Very cute Alissa!, Hey does anyone know if there’s been any talk of a MIDNIGHTERS movie? Or more info on the possible show?

  551. I was satisfied with the ending…because IO love midnighters too much to hate Scott for writing a trilogy and not a series…it was originally intentioned to be a trilogy, correct?

  552. very, very true! rex in a pink cadillac. truly priceless. 🙂 omg, i just finished blue noon and now i’m majorly depressed! there had BETTER be another book coming out!!!!!!!

  553. ok omg Scott u have got 2 write another 2 or 10 books since u’v ended the midnighters series i’ve had 2 go back 2 Harry Potter and that sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and Taras friend who cares about “intentionally” he can just change the word “trilogy” to “long series” and Katlyn i know what u mean a part darkling in his mothers mary kay pink cadillac oh and scott u really know how to wright a character to fall in love with i mean how much more adorable can Jonathan Martinez get

  555. *is pissed off* God, I wish Westerfeld had just let Jessica die. Now I’m all depressed because I keep thinking of poor Jonathan being almost ancient and Jessica all young and…and…ARRRRGHHH!!! This sucks! I mean, yeah, the end meeting with Beth was very soppy and sweet, but it’s a temporary sweetness, you know?

    A sequel would be totally awesome, but for some reason I doubt there’s going to be one. *shifty eyes* I mean, with the blue time spreading all over the world…

    Oh yeah. Darkling Rex kicks ass. I totally loved how he struggled to keep his darkling side in check, with the whole predator/prey thing going on. Anyway. I’ve run out of inane comments to make, and now I have to go curl up in a corner and sob for poor Jessica and Jonathan. And then I’ll eat some chocolate, and feel better because chocolate always gets me all sugar high. MMMmmm.

  556. Death is so permanent, I think being caught in an dimension leaves hope. I think that the dimension scenario would not have been as depressing in Jonathan was trapped with Jessica. But I think Jessica should have told Beth to tell her parents about what had happened(they’d probably put Beth in a mental ward), but I believe the parent deserve some sort of closure.Oh, and Darkling Rex is totally awesome.
    solutions for avoiding depression are: avoid listening to Mogwai’s “Take me somewhere nice”,recite Dess’s last words in your head, and convince yourself that Jessica will get out of the dimension before Johnathan ages, and that there’s hope for an continuation.

  558. I’m on ur computer w/ u! Moron. Anyways, Scott know’s me as ‘Tara’s Friend’ because u let me talk to him from ur email.
    Well, they would have to reprint all of the other Midnighters books, because they say: Midnightewrs Trilogy and have the number of the book on it.

  559. Maybe Jess’s parents would believe her if she wrote a letter to them? I’m not sure what she would say to convince them, but at least they would have some idea. Plus, I’m 99.9999999% sure that pencils work in the blue time.

  562. I was soo depressed at the end off the book i wa reading it till like 3am and i just sortta sat staring wen i got to the end it was SOOO DEPRESSING!! i was V pleased wen u sed bout more books!!

  563. I was really sad wen i read the end of the book it was like 3am and i just sat and stared at th wall and i coundn’t sleep that night :'( But i was cheered up wen scot said about righting more books he is my favourate writer and i loved all his books!! So please scott write nothr midnighters book I DO ANYTHING!!!!

  566. Percent Rank Item
    (100%) 1: Melissa the Mindcaster
    (21%) 2: Dess the Polymath
    (13%) 3: Jonathan the Acrobat
    (13%) 4: Jessica the Flame-bringer
    (12%) 5: Rex the Seer

    HeHe surprize surprize lol

  567. why dont they find a way to put jonathon in the blue time so that she is not alone forever plus since jess can learn to drive in the blue time maybe if they have to use another lightin bolt they can get ther faster

  569. Hey, on the ranking, I was Melissa the Mindcaster too! Yeah, and as for the whole Jessica stuck the Demension thing, Jonathan should’ve been stuck with Jesssica because then, the ending wouldn’t have been AS depressing. Why did it have to be Jessica though? The one person who wasn’t keen and at peace with the Secret Hour. Plus, she had the most emotional family tie down. For the rest of the Midnighters, it seems as if they are just people living in their parent’s houses.

  570. I don’t think Jonathan CAN get trapped in midnight. I was under the impression that that was just a flame-bringer thing.

  571. I loved it. Every sigle part. Except the whole getting sucked into the 25th hour. Make more, i beg of you. Make a movie. Movie would kick ass. Then maybe the whole bitch goddesss thing would come to life.

  577. Why no fourth book?, Does anyone know? And does anyone know if there’s going to be a definite movie and or show for the MIDNIGHTERS?

  578. I heard about there being a TV show for it but im not sure i really want a 4th book, blue noons a bit of a cliff hanger!

  579. yeah so i totally want to make a childrens book based on the midnighters saying how santa clause delivers all of his presents. its always midnight around the world sometime right? Wouldnt that be a cool story.

  580. that is a good point and it would be a good childrens story only thing is ‘santa’ would need to be a midnighter or a halfling yey evil santa

  581. Thanks for the tv show news midnightmagic but as for the whole fourth book thing, I just want a reassurance that Jessica’s out of the demension or at least that Johnathan’s okay. And that Jessica’s parents can obtain some sort of closure. Other than that, I loved the ending. The whole Santa thing is cool too, Tally.

  583. heyy i just finished reading midnighters for the 3rd time! wow u guys r really keeping this thing up. 582 comments!! thats gotta b some kind of record. haha

  585. yeah santa would have 2 be a midnighter his gift would be”delivering gifts” but it would be cool if his gift could be to give the other midnighters their “special midnighter” gifts. Does that make since?

  587. It was such an awesome book!! Although, as usual, his end book made me cry!! It was so sad how he made Jess stuck in midnight but it was such a brave thing to make her do, you know? (Putting her hand in the lightning … genius!!!) Scott Westerfeld is the best!!!

  588. It was such an awesome book!! It was so sad though … (Putting her hand in the lightning … genius!!!) Scott Westerfeld is the best!!!

  589. Yeah, if the whole putting her hand in the lightning thing was on the big screen, it would be truly traumatic. Midnighters is definitely my favorite triology.(Dess’s last words were amazing!)

  590. I LOVED the books. They were all awesome, even thought the 3rd one was a little depressing at the end. I really really really wish there was going to be a 4th book because it kind of leaves everything in the air about what is going to happen next.

  592. I don’t accually think there can be a 4th book because of the epilogde at the end *sniffs* unfortunatly.

  593. Can’t Scott at least write an Extras like he’s doing for the Uglies? Both novels left on the “endless possibilitis” predicament. That’s not fair.

  594. Yeah, it could even be about totally different midnighters in a different town. And then have a special guest appearance by Melissa, Jonathan and Jessica as they’re travelling, kind of like Cal and Lace in the Last Days.

  595. You’re absolutely right Alissa, there could be a new midnighter narrating the fourth book (Is there other talents besides the flame-bringer and seer, etc.?). And I would love to see an appearance from Melissa, Johnathan, and Jessica, in order to view their physical state and progress. Yeah, it was totally cool to see Lace and Cal in the last days.

  596. The only other talent actually mentioned in midnighters was Metalurge, but they did say that there are hundreds and we just never got to see them because there were so few midnighters left. So basically, infinite possiblilities!

  597. Really? When did they talk about Metalurge? I’m definetly going to have to read the Midnighters over again.(but I don’t mind!),Thanks!

  599. When Madeleine mentioned how darklings could sense oil and minerals underground, “Like a Metalurge”. I think it was in Touching Darkness. She was explaining how the Grayfoots got rich from working with darklings.

  600. Ohhhhhhh! got ya. I didnt think of it as another talent when i was reading it, but yeah i guess it would be. thats cool.

  601. Thanks Alissa, you remember events well! I wonder how many times you’ve read the triology? Oh yeah Tally,it is COOL!

  602. I’ve read the Secret Hour twice, and Touching Darkness and Blue Noon once each. Although I’ve been meaning to read Touching Darkness again.

  603. Me too, I’ve read the secret hour twice, but I definetly need to read again, Touching Darkness and Blue noon. But I’ve memorized Blue Noon’s epilogue.

  604. I’ve got it! An alliance between midnighters and darklings is possible if we feed them all our middle-schoolers!!! It’s a win-win situation.(Kidding. my thirteen-year-old sister was on the phone until one AM last night talking to the guy who was asking her out for his best freind. It seems like the logical explanation to eat her lol)

  605. Sounds logical to me too. I have a question for everyone, why does this spoiler zone feel so dead?, I think we need a show/ movie, or an EXTRAS scott! Please!

  606. I thought the third book was so amazing!!!!!!
    I cried at the end of chapter 31 and when the book was over I realized that there would not be a 4th book. It was the end. Jessica, Melissa, and Johnathan left and Dess and Rex were on their own. I really wish there was a forth book. Anyway, it was so fantastic!!!

  607. I totally agree Autum.If they made a movie for each book I would see all of them!!!!!!! 🙂
    I would be really interested to see how the movies would turn out if that were to happen.

  609. Sorry, I just really want an extras or a movie, so I took it out on the zone. Sorry everybody. And if you weren’t completely sarcastic Rebecca, I took the midnighters personality quiz on the Westerboard, I’m 100 percent Melissa.

  610. i havent ever read midnighters blue noon but i think what i heard i wouldnt want to cry so much.i suggest thay make another before i read number 3.

    im thinkinking assasanation of all others who disagree(for another book).

  613. Don’t fear Blue Noon Loverboy,you HAVE to finish the sequence. The end is bittersweet, and the overall book is awesome. And there should definetly be another book so you’ve got my positive vote.

  614. ok i geus ill read but have u ever had to make such a difficult decision.i met this one guy who said not to cause i would cry like crazy.Then i would go into denial.

  617. Woah! This was an amazing series! Just finished it last night, midnight ironically haha! Cried for aaaages, like an hour! Proper sobbing too, not just a wee tear. It was phoenomenal, a loved it. Just so sad that Jessica is trapped in the secret hour, especially for Jonothan, Beth and her parents. Loved it! Want more!!!

  618. Don’t worry Loverboy, I was in denial too. I made the mistake of listening to mogwai’s” Take me somwhere nice.” I was depressed for weeks but Blue Noon’s worth it! Touching darkness, I think left on a less complicated note(talking last pages). But GOOD science fiction doesn’t usually end with that simple happily ever after bit. Anyways, I loved/love MIDNIGHTERS, and like Krissy, I want more too!

  620. Yep, we all want more loverboy, and I just realized what your name means; COOL REX!( or at least I’m pretty sure that’s what you meant!). Now once you finish Blue Noon, if you don’t know already, you’ll know what my name means!(hope that wasn’t a spoiler.)

  621. omg when i was done the 3rd book i was like oh my flipping gawd! are you kidding me noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! this is so not fair. WRITE MORE!!!! MORE!!!! OBEYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!! YOU WILL WRITE MORE MIDNIGHTERS. AND COME TO PHILIADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA TO VISIT US!! YOU MUST! OUR TOWN IS SO DARKLING! IT HAS 24 LETTERS. YOU HAVE TO COMEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! OBEY MEEEEEEEEEE!!!! SAVE US FROM THE DARKLINGS HELPPPPPP MEEEEEEEE. HERE THEY COME AHHHHH RUNNNNNNN *dies of being eaten by a darkiling and being overhyper* see what happens when you only slept 3 hours last night because you and your friend where finding stainless steel knitting needles and such and reading midighters to find tridecanalisms to fight off the flipping darklings? wow we where hyper. we took pictures we’ll email them. funny stuff.

  622. great now my friend is killing me and trying to convince me not to email them. but i will.. muahahahahahaha!!!!!! I LOVE SLEEP DEPRAVATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! our night was as i said above, writing a very odd short story having to do with a girl who has voices in her head and is going crazy but its actually a mindcaster teasing her in her head. lol. i know u think were crazy psycopathic fan girls who are very hyper…we are, and me trying to talk my friend into reading midnighters. she wont because she doesnt like to read long books.:P 381 pages isnt too many. ok mabey to someone who isnt a complete psyco obsessed bibliophile it is. (that would be me) but i will make her read it. I WILLLLLLL. i gave her a synopsis of it and she loves the story line but to her 380 some pages is a tad much. AHHHHH DARKLING WORD! AHHHHHHHHHHHH.

  623. (overwhelming was the darkling word but she made me change it) she doesnt think that its overwhelming (ahhhhhhhhhh) just a tad think for her

  625. she’s just trying to make up excuses for me but i just don’t like to read books. i don’t no why really. i just don’t.
    ~AGAIN WITH THE SCITZOPHRENIA! what is with you and the voices in your head?~
    *HEY the voice in my head is YOU! Leave me alone! no im not crazy i told you all that there is a mindcaster that thinks it’s
    hilarious to make me think im going crazy. back to what i was saying before i was so rudely interrupted!*

    but if i did decide to start reading books, yours would be at the top of my list. like she said i like the story line but i am to lazy to read a book right now.

  627. im very… persuasive. muahahahaha! hahaha yeah shes not totally crazy. it had to do with our short story we wrote. i wish i was a mindcaster.
    *I WISH i DIDN’T hear voices in MY HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
    (o btw * means that my friend is talking)
    then i could do that to her alllllllllllll the time.

  628. sorry we’ll stop. this has absolutly nothing to do with spoilers so good bye. *sorry i just thought it was fun to right random comments although it has nothing to do with the book cuz i didn’t read it sorry she will make me someday but not today cuz im a lazy bum BBBBBBYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
    yeah thats nice ok GO RANDOM COMMENTS!!!!
    GO SCOTT WESTERFELD YEAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
    GO MIDNIGHTERS WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

  629. Im going to actually write a comment that pertains to the story now. i will die if there is no more midnighters. i can’t live with the ending of the third book. Also Scott said that there possibly might be more to the story. I really hope that if they do turn the books into something its not a tv seires (yes i know i cant spell) they always kill things when they do that. And if they make a movie they had better stay to the story line exactly or i will incite a riot. jk. but they really had better not ruin the story (i.e. ella enchanted. now that was a total massacre of the story) that is all

  630. See Scott! If you don’t write another midnighters think of all the people who would die. How could you live with that many innocent lives on your conscience? Well, it was worth a try, anyway.

  631. deprevation of book 4 of the midnighters is causing more suffering then i thought it would. lol. ime glad that ime not alone!

  632. Okay… completely long obsessive theory to follow…

    I was thinking of how Melissa’s mindcasting was weaker in parts of Bixby, and, though it’s been a while since I read the Secret Hour, I recall something about Johnathan not being pbotophobic until he got to Bixby, and this led me to believe that Midnighters are completely normal (powerless) away from the Blue Time.

    Anyway, my mostly irrelevant point is that, with the expansion of the Blue Time, wouldn’t the Midnighters become more powerful? Because if Melissa’s powers were weaker in the weak spots of the Blue Time, they would logically be stronger in the stronger parts of the Blue Time, and with the Blue Time expanding it would probably make it a lot stronger (taking into account that it was weaker at the edges.)

    Yeah… that was my random Midnighters theory. I figured since I just read all the comments on this page, I should leave one…

    Just so we’re clear, I’m another obsessive fan-type person who would like another Midnighters book. *Gives cutesy, little girl look* Please? I know the begging is a getting repetitive, so I’ll leave it at that…

  633. I think I should explain – when I said “this led me to believe that Midnighters are completely normal (powerless) away from the Blue Time.” I was not being an idiot and neglecting the fact that Jessica and Johnathan were normal before they got to Bixby – I was considering that their powers only work in the secret hour, which left open the possibility that other Midnighters still had powers away from the Blue Time – Before I mis-represent myself again, I better say that I do not believe Midnighters away from the Blue Time have their powers. My other points in the paragraph in my other post lead me away from believing such…
    Hopefully that’s clear now and you don’t all think I’m crazy…

  634. i just finished it
    took me awhile to find one-small town
    hmm
    need time to contemplate

    i think we all agree in a Midnighters 4, but i think another one would spoil the tone of the series
    blue noon almost puts a cap on it with the cliff-hanger

    sucky

    i really don’t think i’ll find another series to be as obsessed over as Midnighters

    gosh i loved those books

    i don’t think im depressed over the ending

    im just depressed that the Midnighters portion of my life is over

    i did that over Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, Uglies, and countless others

    i hate this period of boredom and emptiness after an extremely good book

    well done, scott, well done

  635. hi im now obsess with the midnighters. i though i was obsessed before, but i was wrong. oh yes i was wrong. i have come to the epiphany after finding five tridecanalisms(yes i know thats wrong) in my history text book. 12 in the book i am reading now while waiting for scott to come to his senses and realize that we will all die if there iss no more midnighters and wright a new one for us. and 3 in my spanish book. and most of which i figured had 13 letters without even counting them. and my friends are starting to get anoyed when inform them of all the words i find and new theories on these books during lunch. my friends i believe i need some help. we need some midnighters anonymous where crazed fan girls (and guys im not trying to leave you out) get over their obsession.

  636. omg and guess what im in the school play and my script number is 13 (yes i know this absolutly random which if you read some of my posts above when i was high off of sleep depravation, that is normal for me)

  637. are you asking for intervention?
    tell me if you find any tridecalogisms in the script

    maybe you’re a polymath
    and you sleep through midnight

    hmm, the possibilities

    ive always wondered about the different talents

    there’s got to be more than five, right?

    i mean rex had to have seen some others in the lore, and scott just decided that they were unessescary to the plot and were better left unmentioned

    so i say we come up with some of our own talents to help him out with the new book
    (ok im on your side now)

    you up for the challenge?

    {scott, if you’re reading this, take note how desperate your fans are to get you moving along on a fourth Midnighters}

    i’ll go first-

    how about a midnighter similar to a Matilda sort of thing. Maybe they can move objects with their minds – a mind similar to that of a mindcaster –

    maybe this midnighter and melissa get together and pull off some pretty kick-ass stunts

    maybe this is who jonathan and melissa find in the desert

    maybe this midnighter and melissa find out some crazy way to get jessica back into daylight with their mindpowers

    but of course this is all hypothetical – no conspiracies here

    what would we call this midnighter?

    it would have to be a mind-something to have that special connection with mindcasters

    anyway, your turn

  638. Okay, here’s some of the midnighter talents I came up with working on a fanfic I’ll probably never finish:

    Bonemender: can heal injuries through touch, in midnight or daylight. Pretty useful when slaying darklings (or crashing through windsheilds in the desert).

    Empath: like a mindcaster, only not as strong. They can sense emotions, and tend to be a lot more understanding than mindcasters.

    Soldier: basically, a darkling-fighting machine. They’re strong, fast and agile, and they tend to be very talented at martial arts. A little emotionally unstable, but they make up for it in undiluted anti-darkling power.

  639. i really like the bonemender one

    that could come in handy big time

    what were you working on when you created these?

  640. I’m in the middle of trying to write a midnighters fanfic. It revolves around all new midnighters in a different town. Like in the original midnighters only teenagers are left and they have to figure everything out on their own, but for entirely different reasons. I also put some focus on the possibility of darklings not necessarily being mortal enemies of midnighters (if you go back a few hundred comments you can even find the debate about that from when I first came up with the idea). Anyway, it’s nowhere near finished, and it’s slow going lol.

  642. Well first of all, I don’t really have any incredible names like Alissa, but here’s my midnighter talents:

    (1). Ignitmus-Toxin: Can make things grow(Plants,etc.) in the the blue time that produce some kind of metal toxins that weaken the darklings.

    (2.)Sketcher(got to think of a better name):Draws/sketches things that they need/want(weapons).

    (3.)Hypnotist: can make the darklings/slithers fall asleep by tricking them, through hypnotist, into thinking that its daytime.

    (4.)Magnitus: have a sort of magnetic force that can steer slithers in a certain direction. Slithers usually follow them.They also have a gravitational force that can aide or hinder acrobats.

    (5.)Screecher:The pitch of their verbal screech/scream, is as sharp as stainless steel; damages darklings/slithers hearing. Only the Darkling/slithers can hear the screeches.(They’re also musical, they can compose/play mathematical music like Bach.Drives darklings insane.)

    (6.)Dream Gatherer: They act as dreamcatchers(Darklings/nightmares). They can literally view the nightmares of the past, and take notes on the darklings scare tactics(Act as a seer at times). Dream Gatherers stay in the darkling’s minds and they have no emotional fear of the darklings/slithers. And when they touch someone’s forehead, that person for a certain period a time will be released from their greatest nightmares. Darklings usually keep their distance away from them.

    (7). And some talent should be invisibility.

  643. Demensiona, SO COOL! Love the magnitus, would make the perfect bad boy-type character who’s not really evil but who causes a lot of trouble for the midnighters (Ex. making Jonathan fall out of the sky/float around without being able to come down). In the inventing of my fanfic I had a halfling who was mostly human and in midnight had black angel wings, and slithers followed her, too. And the dream-gatherer is cool too. And the idea of a musical midnighter is great.

  645. Thanks Alissa, magnitus would be that bad boy/girl type that would add some great comic relief. Oh and I love your halfling, I think the slithers following any midnighter around is pretty fawesome. And how did you come of w/ the name Empath Alissa, ITS Fool!And my favorite midnighter of yours is soldier. Gives me that awesome Shades Children(novel by Garth Nix) feeling. Yeah and the invisble one should definetly be called illusionist.

  646. Thanks so much. Empath is used all over the place for people who can read emotions but not thoughts, it just kind of fit. I love Shade’s Children. The Soldier is my personal fave too. The idea of a character who based her entire life around fighting was something I really liked, and I’ve been working on the character for a while, so midnight gave the perfect opportunity.

  647. You’re very welcome Alissa! Interesting ,Empath, new vocab! I loved Shade’s Children too,the ending almost depressed me as much as Midnighters, but Gold eye’s vision reassured me that everything/everyone was ultimately okay(plus Ella and Drum smiled when they went away). And I admire that idea of that kind of character, so yeah, what better opportunity to emerge in rather than in the Blue time? Boy I love Midnighters! There’s so much to do w/ it/them.

  648. i think that your mindmover talent is called telecenisis. im trying to think of a wicked awsome kick ass power. ive got a few but the r kind of stupid. one is flamethrower(tridecagolism) this person has control over fire and shoot fire and stuff that has to do with heat at things. this would be sweet but it kind of encroches on jessicas power. the other would be kind of the same but only substitute fire for ice.

  649. oh and to keep you posted on my dess like polymath skills i didnt find any in the script but have started a note book full of the ones i find. so far i have 93. yes i have no life. cross that i have a life. its just chock full of midnighter stuff

  652. i have never read the midnighters but i heard they are just super! i started reading them a few days ago and like mc donalds, im lovin it! also, im iminlovewithjonathon’s friend! im sooo kool more kool than iminlovewithjonathon! and theres this emo kid at our school that reminds sooooooooooo much of rex…Rex is HOT! salamanders forever!!!!!!!!!!

  657. i said jonathan salamak looked like rex. and i dont like salamak i like jonathan from the book. u love salamak

  659. salamanders are soooo kool! bet everyone reading this thinks that im crazy…well your right,i m crazy.but i got the name from my fellow classmate whose last name sounds like slamander…

  660. im getting all my friends to read the midnighters and they will all be devistated when they read the third book and realize hat there is no more. just like me *tear*

  661. so write more midnighters PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IM DYING HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  662. if not ill put my gigantic list of tridecagolisms right here (see above comment) write more comments under the influence of sllep depravation and write a terribly bad fanfic.

  665. i’ll be on tommorow and the next and the next and so on and so forth until you listen to my obsessive pleas. Write more midnighters!!!!!!!!!!!! the way the book ended leave so much room for another book. come on please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  666. Believe it or not, I have a list of 7830 tridecalogisms. It took me months just to edit the MS word document to readability lol.

  667. Oh my gosh guys, where are you getting all these tridecalogisms? Looking for hours in the dictionary? I won’t even attempt to beat Alissa’s record. My favorite tridecalogism is ARACHNIPHOBIA(I think I spelled it correctly/13 letters), because that’s where Rex and I have/had the strongest connection. Tarantulas make my skin crawl!! Oh, and hi newcomers, love the energy.

  670. ummm. i m not tracy….who is this tracy u speak of? but i have to say tracy is a koolio name wish it was mine…i wait, it is!wait a sec..i mean its not tracy!!!!i m not tracy!GHAH!!!!(run away from the computer…)

  671. yeah thats right ImInLoveWithJonathon! u heard correctly i dont love jonathon, cause my heart soooo belongs to rex!go rex go rex go rex!REX!!!!!!!! WOOOOOO! REX!

  672. ummm…ok im not in love with jonathon…take it easy yo..y? well beacuse:REX IS SOOOOO MINE!!! HA! HOW DO U LIKE THAT?!!!

  673. sup homies? guess wha? i just realized how much i smell, and how weird i m…and also how great my best friend EVUR tracy, is the smartest person evur..and shes nice, pretty and soooo much better than i!

  674. y thank u im in love with jonathon…so kind…so long for now my peeps! BYE!!!oh and scott if your reading this, plz plz plz plz PLZ write a fourth book before im in love with jonathan takes me hostage!

  675. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! SAVE ME!!!!AHHHH IM BEING GAGGED!!!!!AND BEING HELD HOSTAGE!!!!! AHHHHHH!!!…………………..

  676. well, a lot of things happened while I was gone

    you guys don’t mess around

    welcome Madame (?) Salamander
    its good to have amphibians around to make us all feel more secure

  677. I know, a lot did happen when I was gone too and I was just on yesterday. Oh and Alissa, I check out that site, thanks.

  678. tracy if you write one more post pretending ur me ill tell everyone on here what ur midlle name is. oh i i got all of my tridecagolisms from words in my vocabulary that i actually use, the book i am reading right now, and my text books during lunch and study hall because my friends i sit near at lunch were either absent or wouldnt shut up about the kid she is in love with. so i looked for tridecogolisms. my favorite is acedemenephin. (its an asprin type thing)

  679. oh and that was not me up there saying i smell that was my friend who thinks that i wont figure it out and kill her on monday. IM OBSESSED!!!!!!!!!!!!! im makin up a new aol acount and i want a wickedawsome midnighters email. any suggestions?

  680. iminlovewithjonathon-
    maybe put the word halfling in there?
    or….figure out what talent you think that you would have and then put that in?
    ummmm……. are you a math genius like Dess? if so then somehow put a 13 letter word in or a cool pattern, maybe something like a metal in.( if u arent that still might be cool, because you would be able to defend yourself against the computer darklings.)
    i dont know if that helped at all. i hope so!

  682. ha thanks im asking my friends for help too. im thinking of something along the lines of halfling13 or polymath something or another. if you have any more ideas, im open to all suggestions. thanks!

  683. Interesting,I suppose the REAL, ImInLoveWithJonathan, using words from your own vocabulary. I found a lot of tridecagolisms while reading Twilight(Stephenie Meyer)(book I went right into in trying to heal from Blue Noon), like COMPLICATIONS. And thanks, I learned a new word for Tylenol, Acedemenephin, fool. Oh and Alissa, you do Martial Arts? Fawesome, what belt? And as for email suggestions for, ImInLoveWithJonathan!, why not Bixby(the core of everthing), or your favorite midnighter weapon (verbal or physical), like Hypochondriac(think I spelled that right) or, what’s the name of Dess’s hub cap(does any know/vol.1)?

  684. Oh and just as an refresher, here are the midnighters talents that we’ve come up w/:

    Telekenisis(we need to find a name)
    Bonemender
    Empath
    Soldier
    Ignitmus-Toxin
    Sketcher(maybe BETTER Name?, Or is it okay?)
    Hypnotist(I think the name is okay)
    Magnitus
    Screecher
    Dream Gatherer
    Illusionist
    The halfing
    The flame dominator(no name really given,shoots fire/heats things up)

    Any others? I think we should have some kind shape shifter or someone who can travel fast on the ground(crawling like slithers), who through touch can take someone with them so they don’t always have to rely on the acrobats. Or some weather controller. I don’t know, any other Talents?!

  685. “What do you know, Hypochondriac killed the cat” Hypochondriac was the hubcap, I’m pretty sure. I’m a Taekwon Do red belt.

    Midnighter talents:
    Skinwalker (shapeshifter)
    Control of flame: Pyrosis (If anyone can come up with a better pyro name go ahead)
    And I think Sketcher is a great name.

  686. yes it was. thats one of my favorite qoutes from the book. i was also thinking honorarypolymath169 (13×13) but i still need the perfect midnighter name. another skill i came up with was a person who could control ice or something like that but i cant think of a wicked fawsome name for it.

  687. Be prepared for a sciece lecture:
    names for a talent pertaining to ice:
    amorphous ice(put together)=12 letters only, but a type of ice called hyperquenched=13 letters and it is a type of amorphous ice. Amorphous ice is when you cool water to a certain degree at a certain speed.

    tetragonal ice and monoclinic ice(with ice still being used) is 13 letters and also pertains to the cooling process of ice.

    although we already have a flame bringer we could have another talent that pertains to electricity. maybe he could bring electricity out through his body or something, but the flame bringer has to be with him in order for it to work. (i dont know but that sounds cool to me)
    ferroelictric would be a cool name for that talent.( deals with transition of temperature)

    Last thing promise!! maybe there could be a talent that makes things magnetic to darklings
    ferromagnetic= turns metals from the outside force,kinda, magnetic.(they could be like masters of the weapons)
    ok done!

  688. You know Alissa, I was thinging that hypochodriac was the name of the hubcap too but I thought I was wrong because didn’t Jessica say” Hypochodriac,” to the gate; so I thought that that was a little redundant. But thanks for the clarification(13!) Alissa, and red belt? Fawesome! Oh and what should the skinwalker turn into exactly?Love Pyrosis, and thanks Alissa on sketcher.
    And great talent ImInLoveWithJonathan, I was thinking of ice too.
    And sorry Tally the Science genius, but I’m a little slow. Um, what do think the midnighter talent(ice) should be called?( you warned me about the SCIENCE lecture, but I guess I wasn’t ready.)Oh and love ferroelictric but you’re still frying my brain w/ the knowledge. And Ferromagnetic can add to or stand next to my talent Magnitus(Have magnetic/gravitational force that controls direction of slithers. Slithers usually follow them. They can also aide/hinder acrobats).
    Cool, you guys are brilliant, we should make Scott proud! Keep the talents coming!

  689. ummm….ok it seems like i missed alot while i was gone…first of all id like to thank xavier for being so kind to welcome me, thanx much, second, kiersten how do u know it was me on that post, i mean really i think it was heather, shes evil ya know, third, ur gonna kill me on monday?!!! ahhhh!!!!! i is scared! save me!well tomorrow will be fun… ok then next its kiersten again!i have to say and i do so qoute”kiersten what are you on and where can i get some?!!!i have no idea what your talkin bout sometimes…HONESTLY!!!”unquote.and i think thats it for now. midnighters for evur!!!buh bye my peeps! the emo salamander!

  692. hey guys whaz up?just thought of a few more 13 letter words that i will post on later! and scott, if your reading this…im a cancer patient, and im gonna die if u dont write a midnighters 4, plz hurry im in stage 3 canc3er of the ummm… uh, uh…….lungs?…yeah sure lets go with that, i have cancer in the lungs, plz hurry!!!!!!!!!

  693. hey im in love with jonathan, i think u r lying. y? i dunno i just have this funny feeling that u dont have cancer! stop goofing around and b cereal! if we want scott to write a 4th book just ask nicely…PLZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  694. tracy i am so not a cancer patient and now i will not only kill you on monday but i will tell miles u love him. (which you dont i hope) but i will make it fast because you get an A+++++++++ for starting to read midnighters. now we can gang up on heather together and make her read them. whoooooooooooo i have someone to be obbssesive with now! yeah!!!!!!!!!!

  695. Jessica named the gate “psychosamatic”. SHe learned it from Jonathan, I think.
    Skinwalkers are a native american myth that says some sorcerers could use an animal’s skin to turn into that animal. A skinwalker as a midnighter could change shape the same way darklings can, I would think. They could take the form of any animal, maybe?

  696. why would it be useful to turn into an animal? im not exactly sure how tht would help against darklings unless you had stainless steel claws or teeth or somehting.

  697. Demensiona- yeah sorry about the science thing lol i really am not that great at science, only with certain parts.
    ice talent-hyperquenched(cool ice,or refreeze water)
    and yeah your right i like ur name for the magnet talent better that way its diff from the ferroelectric
    ferroelectric- can control energy(transfers energy from 1 side of room to the other)
    Did that help ur brain any? lol

  699. anyone else have some helpful ideas for my wicked fawsome midnighter email adress? i will take any ideas (unless u r tracy aka emo salamander because if you r and u write one more post pretending to be me ill tell miles you love him and you want to go out with him and ill tell chris that you hate his guts and you never want to talk to him again. yes i am a tad anoyed.) but if ur not the emo salamander, go right ahead and post away.

  700. Different animals have different properties, and shapeshifting would allow you to use animal forms to fly, travel quickly, hide, etc. It would be even better if skinwalkers could shapeshift in daylight (which I think they probably could).
    Hmm… midnighter e-mail… what’s your fave talent?

  701. Really Alissa? Jessica said”Pyschosomatic?”, gee I need to read the secret hour over again like I do for so many others of Scott’s books. So the skinwalker would turn into a darkling( Like into a Tarantula or something?), the talent’s totally fawesome, and very useful(good points Alissa).
    And thankyou Tally, you totally helped my brain.Don’t apologize, I praise the knowledge. So Hyperquenched, fool, I love the thirteen letter talent threat. And love ferroelectric’s talent. So the magnetic talent is called MAGNITUS, so its settled then, thanks.
    And ImInLoveWithJonathan!, since you love JONATHAN, why not call you midnighter email after that bracelet he gave Jessica. I know what its called but does anyone know how to correctly spell it? Or you can name the email after the Tridecagolism JONATHAN gave Jessica when they met” Pyschosomatic.”

  702. wow demensiona how wierd i was just thinking of acariciandote during spanish class while toying with my charm bracelet (which i bought three more charms for so i have 13) my top ones so far are midnighter13 polymath169 or hm mabey i could do something with acariciandote. alothough if anyone asks what my email means it could get tricky having to explain the whole midnighters sieries to them (a simple its from a book i read wouldnt sufice for me. midnighters deserves at least a half hour summary. what with my summarie it might take days. i like to go in to much detail…. if you havent noticed.) oh and the salamander iis invicible but may not pretend to be me again with my little threat about miles. muahahaha im very persuasive.

  704. am i the only guy on this post?

    how depressing

    not that you girls aren’t categorically resplendently scintillating

    (like that one, did you?)

  705. ImInLoveWithJonathan!, did you spell the bracelet wrong? Oh and I thought it might be a little complicated too(And hard to say, I’m in Spanish 5-6 and I still can’t say it right, gee). Oh and Xavier, you are? Huh, maybe just the only guy currently on. Don’t be depressed, that’s fawesome. And love Categorically Resplendently Scintillating. I should come up with one of those.

  707. “Astonishingly misunderstood compatibility.”

    Yes, that’s fexcellent.

    Sorry I haven’t posted on this thread for about four zillion comments, but you all seem to be getting along pretty well without me. Yes, there is an issue with Midnighters, which is that I don’t own all the rights. A company called Alloy (Gossip Girl, The Clique, etc.) has half of the “franchise,” which makes me less inclined to continue the series.

    But perhaps one day!

    See you guys around, and thanks for keeping this thread stirring. I read ALL comments, even though I mostly lurk.

    Ciao for now.

  708. Screw Alloy!

    You’re your own man!

    Write another Midnighters!

    ( and if you can’t publish it, you could at least post the good parts 🙂 )

  709. grrrrr! alloy if you are keeping me from more midnighters I DONT LIKE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! Alloy needs some talking to. *evil laugh* muahahahaha! oh and i finalt decided on my new s/n after much deliberation me have… DESSIMETRICS13!!!!!!!!!! yeah!!!!!! i decided against acariciandote (which i probobly spelled wrong. i cant spell probably either never could. probibly never will. how do you spell that word whos spelling eludes me so?!?!?!) now every time i tell someone my s/n i will have to tell them about the midnighters and then they will become intrigued and read it!!!!! yes my brilliant plan is working!!!!!!! lol

  710. oh and we are so not getting along by our selves we need more scott! chant with me people! scott! scott! scott! lol. oh and my friends yelled at m yesterday for saying bubbly, fawsome, and brain missing too much. im still waiting for that intervention.

  711. oooooooooooohhhhh fexecelent! my friends will love this one! muahahaha! a new westerfeldian(yes! 13 going in my book right now) word to bother people with by saying it WAY too much without even realizing it. i didnt even know i was talking like a bubblehead until it was pointed out to me. oops 🙂 I FINISHED SPECIALS @& MINUNTES AGO!!!!!!!! SO GOOD!!!!!!! ahhhhh the westerfeldian obsession continues!

  712. noooooo i meant to say 27 not @&. oops i was holding shift the whole time. and my bio teacher loves ur fawsome stuff in my cat blog witch i showed to him after class when we were learning about vectors and discusing how we’re all gonna die. (well it wasnt that morbid it was more like discussing bird flu and such and we got on the topic of the impending demise of us. dont u love my wonderful vocabulary i cant spell?)

  717. Oh Scott, when’s one day?!Can you at least give us something to think about, Scott(some small hint or spoiler)? And yes on the bracelet ImInLoveWithJonathan! And Fool on the midnighter and Peeps combo Alissa( I still have to come up w/ one).

  718. ok i have a snow day today and so im commenting! fun! i finished specials yesterday and now im reading the midnighters…again… for the third time. i love those books. i need to buy peeps!!!!!!! but i cant cause i kinda dont have a car/lisence/money. that could pose a problem. o well back to midnighters.

  721. yes i am. what which post? the one where im high off of sleep depravation or the one i just wrote. well it doesnt really matter because all of them make me sound crazy. (because i kind of am) and yeah alissa im from the notheast. Philly to be exact

  722. if you want crazy, read comment 621 and all the ones below it i wrote. talk about crazy. thats what happens when you only sleep for 3 hours.

  725. Wow ImInLoveWithJonathan!, you’re from Philly and Alissa, you’re from Canada, that’s fawesome!( I’m from Southern California). This makes me wonder, is there any midnighters outside of the United states? Or was it never said in the books?

  726. Ok, you’re officially the luckiest location-wise. There has to be midnighters out of U.S. There’s places with 12 in the location outside the U.S., isn’t there? And it was mentioned that midnight spread everywhere, which I would assume to mean the entire planet. Anyone else?

  727. I’m a midnighter i go out with my mates with pintly metal stuff and beat the tar out of darklings only problem is im a mind caster *yey that wasn’t true i dreamed it*

  729. Well actually, it’s pretty cold right now in Cali but it’s now where near a snow day. Yeah Alissa, there is places w/ 12 outside of the U.S., like M O S C O W, R U S S I A. And I would assume too, that the spread would extend all over the planet, that’s fool. Wow, midnighters is really open ended. Is that one of the reasons why it would be difficult to finish off the series, because the series would never end? That’s okay, because I never want midnighters to end!!

  730. I want in to snow here soooooo bad. I live in Florida and it never snows. 🙁 very sad making in my opinion.)

    Sorry that was kinda off topic.

  731. After this winter I never want to see snow again lol. I had to dig my motorbike out from under two and a half feet of it!

  732. that stinks. we got barely any snow this winter. at the max, we got about 3 inches. total. stupid global warming screwing up my winter. (i love cold) yeah but i feel bad for you guys up in ny. i mean 11 feet?!?!?! (give or take last time i heard it was around 11 feet) that would stink. now you guys are going to have no summer with all the snow days you’re having. Poor you.

  733. We had 1 day of light snow i hate global warming the most exciting thing that happene was that i slipped on ice and hurt my arm 🙁

  734. hey me too! i was walking home from the bus stop after school and i fell flat on my face. my friend started laughing at me and then she fell. i was like now whos laughing?

  735. GUYS!

    I am a genious!

    (okay maybe not a genious, but i had an epiphany)

    remember how we were thinking of new midnighter talents? (for those who have no clue what i am talking about, please see post number 637 and on)

    okay, so now i pose aquestion:

    what if set of twins were born, and one of them was born exactly at the stroke of midnight

    what would become of the other?

    I think that the midnighter twin would automatically have the talent of bringing people into the secret hour by touch

    I mean it’s only logical, right?
    Twins have that freaky telepathy thing going on, anyway
    Doesn’t that seem to correlate with having the talent to bring people into the secret hour?

    This midnighter would be called a translator, or something to that extent

    I don’t know
    I’m not good with the names

    Good idea?

    Someone name it for me

    (Isn’t that awesome!I’m smiling with pride)

  736. So cool! I had a set of twins in the fanfic I was writing, but that theory just assumed that the non-midnighter twin got their powers from the other – they were acrobats. But yeah, your theory makes sense too… I’ll think about it for a while and see if I can come up with any name ideas.

  737. That’s one the most fawesome ideas I’ve heard yet!(never even thought about it). I love the whole idea of bringing outsiders into the secret hour, this talent can cause so many complications, LOVE IT! I’m not really sure of what would become of the other twin, but I would love to find out!Maybe the other twin can hear or see the blue time in their mind but they might not be physically able to go into it. Maybe they feel the other twin’s pain or have constant nightmares of darklings. Or maybe the other twins completley noramal. Um as for names, maybe something like:
    tangible-vestibulius
    transmigratorius
    ephermeral-evanescent
    Dualitile-conversionist

  739. Possible names for twin talent:
    Guide (guides stiffs into midnight)
    Guardian (guards the transition point to midnight)

  740. Hey, thanks guys!

    I’m with Tally, I really like the transmigratorius

    And I really like Alissa’s Guide/Guardian ones

    I really don’t know what I ought to do with this, though
    Maybe I should write a fanfic

    Thanks, Guys!

  741. You guys like transmigratorius? Cool! Yeah and I love Alissa’s Guide/Guardian too. I know what Scott should do w/ all these midnighter talents, he should put them all together in a book!(ha,ha, I’m just kidding/well not really). Yeah you should really create a fanfic Xavier, that would be fawesome. And I would love to see your fanfic too Alissa!

  742. Yeah, Alissa

    I’ve heard you tell about your fanfic

    It sounds awesome!

    You must tell us when you publish it and where

    Do have have any others floating around in cyberspace?

    I’d love to read them!

  743. You’re right, Demensiona

    Scott really ought to make an encyclopedia to the secret hour

    complete with lots of talents and darkling sketches, SWEET!

    That would be so awesome!

  745. that would be fexcelent but not as great as ANOTHER MIDNIGHTERS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!! HINT, HINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol. why doesnt scott ever post anything on here anymore? it makes me sad

  746. lent makes me sad too. stupid no meat on fridays and ash wednesday and such. I WANT MEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  747. im in love with jonathan…take a chillaxin’ pill yo. midnighters rules! go dess! and, scott, plzzzzzzzzzz write a fourth book. PLZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanx 4 ya time.

  749. srry. not being able to EAT MEAT WHEN I WANT makes me very easily annoyed. and makes me over react. stupid lent I WANT MEATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

  750. I think harry potter books are the bet books bu midnighters sill rocks just not as much *Screams as a mob of midnighters with flames start to chase me*

  752. (I don’t know Midnightmagic, Harry Potter’s just a little too fantastical for me.)
    Some more Midnighter Talents:

    (1).Capritempra- pecularist:This midnighter talent enables them to change the colors of the secret hour accoording to their mood(S). Maybe this midnighter could kind of act as a sort of mindcaster; sensing other’s moods, and calming other’s through touch.(Use during both daytime and the secret hour).(These midnighters are born between Dec.22-Jan.19).

    (2.)Trepid-stagnantmus: When they’re in a crisis during the secret hour, they can literally freeze themselves in place(turns themselves into steel), and they would be safe because nothing can hurt them when they’re in this state. They can put others in this state too, through touch(not limited to one person on each hand/ they can create a link.)(only use during the secret hour).

    (3). Subsenilist: They can can either age someone/themselves or something, or make it younger/newer. Can repair damaged metals and can make tridecologims reusable again. They can also age someone if it comes to some sort of cufew encounter.(can use during the secret hour and daytime).

    (Hey does anyone know how I can make the midnighter talent names a little simplier?(Names are a little extensive because they have literal meanings). And add on any other talents that you guys come up with!)

  754. and time freezing at midnight and flying and mindcasting and dalklings isn’t *wat ws that samrt word you used* oh yeah fantastical

  755. the second one could be a metalbender no thats stupid fine the 3rd one could be a timespanner or timeturner *just a sujestion*

  756. For the first one thier eyes could change colour with their mood and they could be called chamilimood it has chamilion sort of it you know…..

  757. okay, i just finished! I thought she was like dead! it totally freaked me out, but even though she is still alive its still like insanely sad. And the wierd thing is… I didn’t start crying until Dess said the thing about how all their “coupleness” and egos clashed leaving her always a 5th wheal

  758. i kno since dess is one of my favorite midnighters (next to jonathan of course) i h=was like awwwwwwwwwwwww poor dess.

  759. I totally know what you mean!!! I was SOOO sad for her. Not that i dont totally thinks the whole rex and melissa thing is cute, but stil!! I love dess, I relayed on her for my daily dose of sarcasm, and they totally left her out of like EVERYTHING!!!! Its like, things happen to Jessica, and she tells Jonathon, then they decide to tell rex since he’s the seer and all, and melissa is always with rex, and even if she wasnt shed still know because… well shes melissa, and then theres dess… noone like ever bothers to tell her anything and its SOO sad!

  760. Wow, thanks you guys on the names, um for the first midnighter talent, maybe I can somehow combine both sugestions? I’ll think on it, and cool on the other names. And well MidnightMagic, believe it or not but I think the whole mindcasting and time freezing at midnight thing is pretty realistic. I mean in Midnighters, there’s references that you can grasp(oklahoma/school life).Plus its kinda hard for me to read books w/ narrators under 15(I know Harry gets older), but I don’t know why that bothers me/maybe it’s the whole been there, done that thing.
    Oh, and I know Savannah, I thought Jessica died too but its kinda reassuring to know that she’s in a DIMENSION(says hope to me), but yeah I was totally depressed after that.(Why could’nt Jonathan be stuck w/ Jessica! Jonathan and Jessica’s parents really got my tears going). And I think Dess’s last words were brillant/ saved me from falling into deep depression(That and RadioHead’s,”Everything in its right place”).
    Desdemona is independent and probably, in the long run, the best off. Dess was the glue that held the midnighters together. It almost felt as if Midnighters was DESS’s story, and that’s just totally fawesome.

  761. Wow. Midnighters r gr8. but u rounded it off reely nicely, DONT DO A SEQUEL WHATEVER U DO SCOTT. (hahaha only joking reverse psychology always works.) The ending was kind of sad, what would b cool is the next generation of midnighters, perhaps some of the original one’s kids freeing Jess, who goes back 2 her parents and Beth, who r 30 years older than her, cue big emotional moment. Also another cool talent would be telekinesis, darn only 11 letters. Also, a slightly weaker mindcaster who can ‘see peoples auras’

    Gr8 book, keep it up Scott. (AND WRITE ANOTHER

  762. Another cool midnighter talent

    Piper (but maybe call it something else) someone who plays music, that is inimical (lov that word) to the darklings, because it has a tonal interval of 13 or something. he or she could play the flute, because it is metal.(i play the flute!) cool like the pied piper of hamelin. maybe he could make slithers jump into rivers. maybe he should be the Pi Piper.

    not really midnighters, but i realy liked unsporstmanlike conduct. at first, i wasnt sure who were the aliens. By the way, even though i’m english, basebal is way better than cricket. (its soooooo boring, and england never wins.) Also, what happens if ur a midnighter standing on the north pole? 1/2 year bluetime or what.

  763. Demensiona, I totally agree!! But that thing Dess said about how he would be really really old by the time she was 19, yeah that was kinda gross… anyways, I really do think that dess kind of held them all together, even if they did split up in the end (totally unfool) its obvious that, in “The Secret Hour” atleast, Jonathon would be totally his own little island if dess didnt kinda join-ify the him with rex and melissa. It does seem to revolve around dess a bit, but I have no problem with that since I totally love Dess. By the way, I totally love your amazing use of “fawsome”! Zahler kicks butt!!!

  764. Yeah nick, I hope your reverse psychology works, not even solely on the sequel( Hey what happened to that TALKED about midnighter show/ I don’t want to be in college by the time it comes on). Oh and I would HOPE that Jessica’s parents(30 years not knowing!) and Beth WOULDN”T be thirty years older than her/poor Jonathan. I’m telling you I almost admitted myself into a psychtriatic ward after Blue noon(ha ha,just kidding!). I don’t know, Scott would probably write something like that(he,he). Oh and I like the PIPER nick, I created a midnighter talent kinda similar to that called SCREECHER(pitch of their verbal scream is AS sharp as STAINLESS STEEL, damages darkling/slither’s hearing. They’re also very muslical, play/compose mathmatical music like Bach, drives darklings insane). Cool.
    And Savannah, when Dess talked about the whole AGE thing, I wasn’t even sane enough to think it was gross/ I was too busy fighting w/ the knot in my stomach. Seriously, I almost had an olser at that JESSICA/LIGHTENING part because I didn’t know what happened, when she said “oh no,” I said “OH NO!”
    And I think that the midnighters are like magnets, that can’t go too far from eachother for too long. Yeah and I LOVE DESS too/ she’s hilarious. She seemed like the mother of the pack, even though she was practically the youngest one! And oh yeah, FAWESOME is my FAVORITE word. Zahler’s so fool.(He reminded me of a little of Dess, just in the comical and sort of isolated sense,).

  765. another cool talent:

    someone who can speak a gazillion languages, including Mongolian, and ancient Icelandic, and knows all the tridecalogism. Just an idea. Someone, think of a cool name for it.

  766. Demensiona, I totally freaked out when I read the part at the end of the lightning chapter that said “And then everything was gone.” I totally flipped. And I had absolutly no one to talk to about it and it was killing me!!!! And I get what your saying about the whole isolation thing. It made me totally sad since I adore Zahler! And about the whole TV show thing, I was thinking about that recently myself, I wanna know where thats going, I’ll DIE if It comes on and I dont know it!!

    And for all the people dealing with the tallent things, what about the whole metalurge thing? That talent was very briefly mentioned in one of the books but it never really explained what it was. Ive been trying to come up with a talent to fit it, but Im no good and making up talents.

  767. hmmmmm

    maybe a mettalurge has something to do with… METAL!!!! maybe, he or she has an affinity with metal, which means a metallurge can forge really cool weapons, like Dess does. but in the book, it says something about feeling stuff inside the earth.

    Here’s another cool talent:
    A helion
    someone who can control, make and bend light, which darklings hate, like at the climax of book one with the flashlight.

  768. well duh. i knew it had to do with metal, and i knew the thing about feeling things inside the earth but yeah, thanksies

  769. Nick, the Language midnighter talent could be called divergent- communicator.

    Yeah and I know Savannah, the worst part was being unable to talk to anyone about it because no one that I knew, at the time, had finished reading midnighters, that was so not fool. And again, I love Zahler(he’s sooo fawesome)! And yeah, that show better hurry along because I’m DONE w/ this procrastination. Come on, at this rate they could’ve already made a movie. Why are they making such slow progress w/ Midnighters, I mean you should see Uglies(have a new book and a movie next year), and uglies came out AFTER midnighters. So now why doesn’t that make sense? Oh and w/ the whole metallurge thing, um sense it was mentioned in “Blue Noooo!”(heh heh), I think that Scott probably already has an idea for the talent but I don’t know. It depends what other aide that the midnighters need/ like I said I had a talent that renewed metals, maybe one talent could create more entricate,complicated designs(weapons) in medals in the speed of light. Maybe they could be called the crafters or something.

    Oh and helium is cool. But the flame-bringer talent took over alot of possible talents(Flame-bringer has the fire,electricity, and lightning, that’s why it gets kind of difficult for me to think up different talents, but I think helium definetly works).

  770. Wait Demensiona, hold it right there. There’s gonna be a movie for Uglies!!! Since when????? I’ve been dying for that to come up forEVER and now I found out that its already happening?!?!?!?! Wow Im excited now. But yeah, if this whole “uglies movie” thing is really happening then I totally get what your saying. From what I remember reading midnighters was Scott’s first teen novel, so its totally bogus that the uglies movie would come around before the midnighters TV show! Maybe it didnt work out, unless you have more amazing secret knowlegde that says they’re just taking forever with it. Oh, and Im pretty sure Extras is coming out in October this year isn’t it? Im gonna cry if it doesnt come out untill next year!

  771. Uglies Movie?

    i havent heard anything about that either. but then i havent read the book either .(but i will)

    and its a heliON not heliUM.

  772. 3 days ago or something it was world book day. maybe, scott, you should do a short midnighters parallel for the next world book day.

  774. Ya, u know what, i was so peeved. It really is amazing how u can get rapped up in the lives of fictional characters. I walked around like a zombie for a week before getting used to the fact that Jessica was gone. Then i had to read specials.

    Yup, thanks a lot for the therapy scott.

    But what a wierd way to end things!
    So many q’s unanswered! Jonathan and jessica! Dess? Don’t even get me started on rex and melissa.

    Oh and i agree with dess. Things are bound to get icky with Jess and John. The awkwardness of it! So many things…Jessica…unleft to do…one hour…

    Scott, i really think that the ending was confusing! I mean, Jonothan would obviously have to get married…have kids…i mean he can’t keep dating a sixteen year old. He’d practically be molesting her…oh wait…sorry about the last statement.

    And rex and melissa? What rrreaally went on between those two? And if u ask me, Rex should have gone with the rest of the midnighters.

    Plus, what IS going to happen now every halloween in bixby? I have to go….i will be back sometime when i don’t need to read the 739 spoilers of midnighters and 556 spoilers of Specials

  775. Yep the Uglies movies is totally coming out, I’m just so surprised that so many of you(even on the specials spoiler zone), haven’t heard about it yet(Its been in the works for a while now), and its coming out next year. And yeah Savannah, Extras comes out in October(happy birthday to me!)! Oh and sorry about heliON Nick, I’m a little blind.
    And yeah Yumi Kimimi, your last state is correct, don’t mean to get all Law And Order SVU on you but that WOULD be statutory rape,but no authority figure would ever really know that. But then again, I highly doubt that Scott would leave Jessica in there that long, woulde he? And Rex, I think/know, will be okay, for some reason I kind of liked that he stayed(don’t worry, I love Rex). Oh and I have no clue about what’s going to happen every Halloween in Bixby for now on, but I would be intrigued to find out!

  776. AHH!! Im so happy!!! I just looked it up! YAY!!! But I heard somewhere that they looking into getting Emma Roberts as Tally? ICKY!! Totally NOTfool!! I just think she’s WAY too peppy and preppy and all the other insults starting with p!! She doesnt really seem to fit into the plot AT ALL to me. *sigh* Oh well, maybe its too much to ask for, a perfect actress to play Tally, but it cant be that hard. They just need a really normal girl, not related to Julia Roberts or any of the various fabulous stars!

  777. Savannah, What the f***? Is that that true? Come on! Oh man, I knew it was just too good to be true, when I said I wanted an upcoming actress,I was reffering to Emily Browning or somone completly new!!
    Man, not the Hilary Duff syndrome! Plus, she doesn’t even LOOK old enough to play Tally. Are you telling me that EMMA ROBERTS is going to be cutting herself w/ a knife to make herself feel better, and then go right back to Nickelodeon and sing a song?, I think not!!
    Scott do something!Your books, if this is true, are on the line here, to the public who haven’t read them yet ! Ugh, this is SO NOT FAWESOME!Man if they’re going to do something like this w/ uglies, I’d hate to see what they’ll do w/ the midighter show. Oh gee!

  778. Hey Scott,

    Wow, I love ur work… Never even knew u existed until late last year when my mother remarried and I got 7 more step-siblings in my life! The youngest girl[17] in the new family kept talking to me about this book series called Peeps, and I was reluctant in reading an YA novel ~ BTW I’m 29[male]

    Anyway, after awhile I decided to give the series a go cause it sounded neat, and I was tired of reading adult fantasy/sci-fi for a bit. Again WoW, I read Peeps Trilogy in like 4 days…that was an awsome series so I decided to look u up and discovered the Midnighters Trilogy.

    Midnighters sounded just as an exciting plot to me as Peeps, so natually I bought all 3 books and read them all in 2 days ~ Amazing is all I can say, had me on the edge of my seat the whole time.

    Even though I found the ending extremely sad[I did cry] I was slightly disappointed with Jonathan, I kept hoping from chapter to chapter that he’d fight instead of just fly Jess around. I kept hoping that he’d have some type of attack where he’d attache some kind of metal plates to his shoes, and he could then bounce around off the Darklings.[smile]

    I wanted more, still want more! I really hope you’ll find it in ur heart to someday write more for all ur adoring fans!

    I’ve also taken an interest in Justine’s Magic or Madness Trilogy, and plan to buy all 3 in what ~ about 16 days when book 3 hits the shelves. Sounds like an excellent story as well!

    ~Looking forward to Extra as well….thx so much for more Peeps, I can’t wait!

  779. erm peeps trilogy? peeps and the last days are the only ones that i know of. are you sure its not the uglies trilogy that ur thinking of?

  781. and i second that about wanting more midnighters. (although ive been bugging him for like EVER and alas he cant because STUPID ALLOY owns part of the rights to the story.) *tear* :'(

  783. EMMA ROBERTS? As Tally? r they even thinking? they cant be, because that would be totally horrible! Do they realize what type of role this is, and how it should be played in order to be good? Ugggghhhh! This should be interesting!

  784. sorry i know that this is the midnighters spoilers zone not the specials, but i couldnt hold back.

  785. Was just thinking, maybe all us Midnighters could start a:

    “Buy the complete Midnighters rights from ALLOY for Scott fund”

    Then Scott could write more books for us! Its a thought if not concevied yet!

    The way Midnighters was left open, another neat idea would be to continue making books into one huge epic saga, that would span the lifetimes of Jessica, Dess, Melissa, Dex & Jonathan. Not only to try and save Jessica from being trapped in the Blue Moon, but also their adventures of traveling around the world and teaching new Midnighters their roles, meeting a host of new Darklings! Maybe even figure a way to allow non-midnighters a means to enter on occassion, like they did with Beth!

    Its a thought…..these 3 books laid the groundwork for anything to spawn from!

    Scott….please, we all love u…..find a way to write more!

  789. Thanks for agreeing w/ me Savannah, Yuck is right. This Hilary Duff syndrome is taking down the industry. They might as well cast the girl on the cover of Uglies, because acting ability is obviously not a factor.
    Oh and cool nick, I’ll definetly check out that book reccomendation site. And as for the midnighter show, I couldn’t find that channel(and I have all of the channels), maybe its one of those networks like the CW was that’s in the making?Hmp, I’m stumped, I wish they could of at least given an air date or a clipping.

  790. ok, I just spend the last half an hour scanning through the previous posts, so here finally is my post.

    First of all, I have to ask Scott a question. Is it ok with you if I write a sequel to your third midnighters book? And when I am done would you like a copy? Just wondering.

    Next, there was was a post somewhere up there that listed a few new powers. Here are my two self created powers:

    Time Bender: Can go forward or backwards in time, and they can freeze time. (Of course, if they haven’t met a previous time bender they can only do certain forms of this)

    Ok, the next one I haven’t really come up with a name for yet, but it would be kind of like a natural half ling except for one thing: They could control which form they are in, human, darkling, or slither, and to mindcasters they taste normal. They are actually on the Darklings side.

    (Before I end this post, I have to explain my name. If you counted the letters in it, it is a thirty-nine letter phrase. It is the name of my stainless steel charm braclet that has thirteen charms. It is totally darkling proof.)

    Well, that’s my long post. So, bye.

  791. Welcome, mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation, fawesome name! Oh I love Time Bender,you’re talking about the past and future right? So cool, that would enable them to view/correct things in the past and prepare for the future(precautions), love it!
    Oh and I LOVE the next midnighter talent’s concept! Maybe the talent could be called:
    -Maleficent Concealer(one that conceals evil)
    -Nefarious Trickster(sinful deciever)
    -Stainless Dissimulator(guiltless pretender)

    How totally Fawesome!

  793. Ok, so maybe this doesn’t fit this comments thread, but I don’t think there’s a Risen Empire thread, so what ever. I’m on page 35 of The Risen Empire, and currently trying to figure out if there’s a “good guy” side. The whole Error of blood and Risen thing doesn’t sound very good guy, but then neither does kidnapping people’s empresses… by the way, love the empress being called the Reason, really cool considering that in Justine’s books the main character’s name is Reason. Kind of fits.

  794. yeah risen empire is really cool, and there should be a thread for it too. yes, reason is cool. The main good guys are the crew of the lynx (like the deodorant) and Nara Oxham. its a great book, but some of the physics is a bit confusing (what IS reaction mass?)

  795. Hey nick, What do you mean when you say that the time bender should only be able to send inanimate objects through time?May you elaborate?
    Oh and the Risen empire was good? I was debating whether or not I would read that , now I know I will. But I just hope that its not to confusing like EVOLUTION’S DARLING.
    You’re killing my brain Scott, I want to enjoy the novel but I don’t understand a thing; not even the words. The only thing I know is the (main?) character’s name, Rathere. Did anyone finish this book yet, because I would love a sypnopsis.

  796. Thanks for the name ideas Demensiona. I haven’t decided on which one I want to use yet, but I’m planning on using one of them.
    Again, thanks a lot.

    Also, nick, I like the idea that the time bender can only send objects, because I really don’t exactly want all of the midnighters going back in time and changing everything, which is why for now, in what I’m writing my time bender can only take people back in time, not forward. (She doesn’t know how to control her powers yet. I don’t know if she ever will.) What she can do though, is go back to the beginning of the midnight hour. (Jessica can stay in exsistence longer.)

    Thanks again for all of your name ideas, and ideas for abilities for my created midnighter abilities.

  797. Yeah, but sending inanimate objects through time can still cause paradoxes. if you sent a 20 ton weight that was on a building back in time to when the building didnt exist, you could kill someone, like your grandmother. (I dont know why,but all these time paradoxes involve killing your grandmother, scientists must hate their grannies)

    Also, what would be really cool is doing the same thing in reverse, ie pulling something that you need forward, or backward through time.

  798. warning: Long Post!!
    – – – – – – – – – – – – –
    ok, i know people have gone off to tangents, talking about the other books, (books i love nonetheless) but i will stick to the topic! Midnighter series!!! Blue Noon!
    where to begin…
    I read all three books in 3 days. that says a lot! i dont read books regurarly but i was unable to put down the midnighter series until the very last word. i just had to know what came next! i was mesmerized!
    i thought the second book worked a lot on clarifying things, and relationships. It was the Best sequel that could ever follow. The third book was, simply put: AWESOME! … but the ending made me cry for days. i thought of it as unfair. maybe because in my view Jess’s nightmare or worst fear was leaving daylight! after all, she was saddened by Jonathan’s thoughts of blue time lasting forever. she was obviously afraid of the idea. And now, she had to live in her nightmare. without beth, without her parents nor constanza, and of course without a gravity stricken jonathan! only one hour a day, just like the darklings! 25 ‘normal’ days to make 1 day in her life. The twists and turns were fabulous! but i really thought that the end rushed things off a bit.
    even though it was unexpected. I want to see Jess being rescued!! it’s depressing! And maybe a reunion of Rex and Melissa! my fav. couple! after 8 years of sharing, they parted…
    -_- I felt INCOMPLETE as a reader. the issues didnt resolve fully. even though that is the charm of it… things stay hidden, and sad.

    they all (the team) shared so much for people who have one thing in common, midnight. And it was just very maddening to see such ‘friendships’ end and each following their own path.
    im hoping for another book!
    pleaaaasseeeee! pretty pleasee!!!!!
    Everyone who read the trilogy will by the fourth book!! no doubt!!
    >>Maybe you can write another trilogy of midnighters 2! same characters included of course adding just a few more! Dess needs to leave her fifth wheel fear and find someone too! maybe it will spice things up! Dess was expressively underdeveloped as a character because she kept things to herself, even though she settled with the idea of being with people of her kind, math geniuses. And she has one of the most amazing talents. She kept the team safe with all her tridecalogisms and ‘artillery’ until the mighty flame-bringer arrived

    it’s just a suggestion, but another book is definitely needed!! The ending of Blue Noon is pretty OPEN! You can add tons of stuff to it.

    Scott: I wish you SUCCESS in everything you do! Keep doing what you do best -> we need writers like you in today’s world!!
    _ Keep Surprising us!

    bye for now,
    Anthi

  799. Ok, so I’m not really sure how the Time Bending thing would work out. It could kill people. At least sending a 20 ton weight could cause some damage. I’m going to have to think about that one a little bit more.

    Also, does anyone have any good ideas for the fourth book, because as I said in a previous post, I’m kind of writing my version of the fourth book, and I would like some ideas from other midnighter fans. So, please, post any of your ideas.

  800. 1st of all, yes, we need a sequel or parallel series. Dess could find another polymath,(coz the 3rd book ended with her thinking about that stuff). Or he could be a timebender.

    Ok, heres a cool thing about a timebender i just thought up. Ok, the timebender is standing on an old battleground (civil war or later) and darklings are attacking. He/she ‘looks’ back in time, while conveniently slowing the darklings, and ‘pulls’ several bullets forward thru time. They continue on their trajectory, and smash in2 the darklings. cool.

    Yay, i’m post number 800

  801. Nick, that’s such a cool idea. I love it!
    I’m just going to have to decide on which old battle ground.

    Also, Dess does need to meet another polymath, and she will. At least in my book. I’m not completely sure on how they’re going to get along yet, but I can’t wait until I get to write when they meet.

  802. Okay, Dess and new polymath (lets shorten that to NP) might meet at a maths convention. Dess is doing some vaguely-midnight-related project, but NP is showing off some mindbending piece of math ie solving one of those really old problems like fermats last theorum or something (whatever) NP and Dess start talking, Dess realises FERMATTHEORUM has 13 letters, she says a few tridecalogisms, and NP’s like, whoa, i thought i was the only one who ever used them.
    Then Dess would tell him about darklings midnight bixby 13 etc, and NP would be like, really me too, when i used 2 live in (wherever) when i was 3 the world used 2 go blu at night, but peepl thought i was crazy, so i moved, and it stopped. And then Dess takes NP to meet rex, mellissa, jonathan and jessica.

  803. ummm, scott, just one question. Anathea, the seer who was made into a halfling, is her name intentional, because it basically means godless. it comes from ancient greek, aneu theoi,(like atheist). Is this intentional or what?

    by the way no i’m not greek, but i have to study it at school.

  804. Wow, a lot of info floating around,hmm lets start w/ the time bender.

    Well first of all, ALL of the talents can end up killing someone so that shouldn’t be a factor. I love the whole battle ground thing. This midnighter would probably act as a seer at times/ probably aced history. So I’m inferring that this midnighter can retrieve needed objects from the past? And maybe they can PEER into the future? Well I don’t know.

    And as for the whole NEXT book thing, I think the next book ,like you guys said, should start w/ Dess and the NP, and eventually branch off. But Dess would be older right(18ish-21 to be realistic)? And I would think that Dess wouldn’t have had too much contact w/ Melissa, Jonathan, Jessica, and maybe Rex(she probably either talks to Rex once in a while/ or he’s gone off somewhere. But I think that’s who Dess usually talks to. But knowing Scott, he’d probably create a relationship that you wouldn’t expect). Maybe she’s slept through the blue time for a while now and since she’s now had an ecounter w/ another midnighter, maybe she has to pick up where she’s left off. Because at the end of Blue Noon, I kinda got the impression that the group wouldn’t be too close knit. And I would doubt that the next book would start off right where they left off.
    Or maybe Dess, Rex, and an older Beth and Cassie have been working on getting Jessica out, and the NP is just news to them. But again I don’t know, these are just my thoughts.

    And interesting nick on Anathea, I’m guessing that her name was intentional, but I don’t know to what extent. And yeah you’re not a geek, this sounds like a question that “I” would ask.

  805. I love everyones ideas for the next book, they’re a liitle bit different from mine, but I still think they’re great. I especially like the idea of it being a few years into the future, and I also like the Dess meeting the NP at a maths convention. I have to say, I wish I had thought of that before i started writing.

    My version of the fourth book starts out only a few weeks after blue noon ends. It begins with Jonthan, Jessica, and Melissa finding out that Bixby wasn’t the only plase with a secret hour, and that Flagstaff, Arizona has one too. (Cordinents: 36 112. I know, 112 is not a multiple of 12, but I wanted it to be in northern Arizona, and 112 was as close as I could get)

    So, Jonathon, Melissa, and Jessica find this place, and in it there is a group of midnighters, a seer, a mindcaster, a time bender, and an acrobat. In this place, there are parts of the lore that aren’t and Bixby, and the grand canyon is a giant lore sight (this is why I wanted it to be in Northern Arizona) So, they call Rex, (the ringing of the phone drives him cray) and tell him this, and they decide to all travel to Bixby, on the way Melissa and the New mindcaster taste the (Maleficent Concealer/Nefarious Trickster/Stainless Dissimulator. I still haven’t decided on a name yet.) They have no idea what the taste is, but Melissa says it tastes kind of like Rex does because of the whole halfling thing in the second book, only stronger. That’s about as far as I’ve gotten. What do you think? As I said before, I wish I had come up with some of your ideas before I started writing. Or maybe I can write another fourth book when I’m done. Of course, I’m hoping that the next fourth book will be written by Scott and not me. (hint hint)

  806. Sounds cool. I’m working on sort of an alternate midnighters story, focusing on an entirely different town and the midnighters who live there. The main characters include a mindcaster who can read lore symbols, a bonemender (see above comments on new talents), a polymath, a Soldier, twin acrobats, an empath, and a seer (who’s slightly remeniscient of Madeleine). I was thinking I might also have Melissa, Jonathan and Jessica show up at the end, but not have any real part in the story other than that.

  807. ornithology’s lycanthropical unhealthiness. (like bird flu but it turns u into a werewolf. and the apostrophe has to count as a letter. )most of the worlds problems can be solved with a thesaurus. (or not)

    perhaps Scott is working on these ideas we’ve discussed, and maybe now he cant use them so:

    I, nick, hereby give my full permission for any ideas expressed in this column to be used by anyone.

    that should do it

  808. Alissa, that’s kind of what I was orignally thinking of writing when I started my book, but I have too much fun writing about Melissa and Dess, so I ended up making it a fourth book instead of a parrallel book. Good luck with your story.

    Also, I herby give my permission for any ideas expressed in this column to be used by anyone.

    Scott, use any ideas you would like, and anyone else, use whatever ideas you would like to use also.

  809. Okay, so my friend and I were sitting at the computer looking up tridecalogisms, and my sister and her friend were right next to us eating breakfast. ((They’re like gothic-ish)) And they ask us why we’re looking up 13 letter words. So we tell them its so that when Samhain comes around we will not die!!! And we say it how its spelt right? Like Sam-Hane. And they freak out, which was wierd since we didnt even think they would know what we were talking about, but they’re like, “No its SAMHAIN!” but pronounced it Sawin. it was so CRAZY! I loved it!

  810. Oh ,you guys and Scott included have my absolute permission to use and or morph any of my ideas posted in this column too!(oh and sorry, this is a pretty long post.):

    Um interesting on the next book guys. Just wondering mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation, but is there any other specific reason, besides the grand canyon, behind the Arizona setting?And interesting Alissa on the whole new town scene.

    But I somehow picture the next book with a split narration( like Melissa, Jessica, and Jonathan, and then Dess,Rex,Beth, and Cassie). And the book may in either one of 3 ways:

    (1).Start w/ Dess in some top notch university and maybe the other polymath(male), bumps into her or challenges her in class or something. Then maybe while the NP’s working, she notices how quickly he answers questions or something. And maybe she later goes to her apartment/dorm while on a cell phone w/ Rex, and finds Melissa and Jonathan waiting there during daytime, after not seeing or hearing from them in a while? It’s a posibility.(And maybe Melissa dyed her hair or something).

    (2). Or it could start w/ some midnighter(not the narrator) living in some place like M O S C O W , R U S S I A . She wakes up for the first time in the blue time and instead of frozen rain, it’s frozen snow. She’s touching the snow and turns around after hearing a noise to see Jessica, Melissa, and Jonathan(someone’s appearance might have shifted a bit), and they’re w/ a divergent- communicator because maybe they think she only speaks Russian but she really speaks english but w/ a strong russian accent.(Oh and nick to add on to the divergent- communicator, maybe they can make people speak whatever language they want them to). So they give her the little orientation to the secret hour and try to figure out here talent…

    (3). Or maybe the next book could just start w/ an older and more informed(lore/ect.) Beth, who thinks that she’s come across a midnighter at a restaurant in either bixby or chicago. And she informs Rex, Dess, and Cassie, who’ve been working on getting Jessica out of the dimension.

    Oh and interesting on the whole SAMHAIN bit Savannah. That would freak me out though if one of my sisters blurted out something like that and pronounced it differently. But it would still be pretty fawesome.

  811. Ok, the reason for it being set in Arizona is not only the grand canyon thing, but also because I live in Arizona. I was originally going to do more southern Arizona, closer to Yuma or Bisby (Bixby/Bisby I thought it worked out well) But the cordinents didn’t work out. Also, I thought the grand canyon thing would be a cool idea. (It would be great if Jonathon and Jessica jumped the canyon. Also, I thought that it would be great to have frozen snow, but I didn’t want them to be stuck in a blizzard. So, Arizona worked. I also wanted them to be able to travel to Bixby without it taking days. So, Arizona is pretty close. It works on the traveling thing. That’s pretty much the reason I have it in Arizona.

    And, I do agree that the fourth book should have multiple narroraters. That’s kind of how I’m writing mine, with Jessica, Jonathon, Melissa, Rex, Dess, and Beth being the narrorators, along with a few new characters from Arizona.

    I like your ideas for how the fourth book would start. (Note to self: Before starting to write a sequel to a series of books, go on the authors site and ask for suggestions.) I’m probably going to end up writing more then one version of the fourth book. Well, it will keep me busy this summer.

  812. Cool Demesiona, but actually i thought the divergent communicator would only be really good at speaking languages, but couldnt make other people speak them (like jonathan can w/ flying) but still a cool idea! also moscow russia only has 12 letters, unless u count the comma but maybe that means tons of darklings live there. hmmmm, now whats russian for midnight ?

  815. This is all so fawesome!!!

    Yeah mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation, I thought you lived somewhere in Arizona. I’m moving to Buckeye. And I would totally love to read about jessica and jonathan flying over the grand canyon, that would be amazing. And interesting narrations, I like.Oh and thanks on my ideas. I’m glad you brought up this whole topic of writing the fourth book, it’ll definetly give me something to do over the summer too!

    Oh and yeah nick, the divergent- communicator should probably be good just at speaking different languages because that’s what’s so special about THEIR talent. Oh and I used M O S C O W, R U S S I A BECAUSE it was a darkling number/place, because those are places where I believe that midnighters are most prominent.But then again midnight expanded over ALL areas. Though I don’t know, I just think that the whole darkling number place is pretty significant.

    Oh, Privet Ckott!!! That cover’s pretty wierd but still totally fawesome! Well it definetly looks like Bixby but the characters are totally off like you said. But very interesting.Though honestly Scott, at first glance in a book store, I wouldn’t know it was from you because your covers tend to be a little more modern and realistic , and have a sort of vagueness that I like. But the Russian cover and the slithers, are still pretty fool. And I agree, midnighters in cyrillic is TOTALLY FAWESOME!!

  816. omg! scoot u posted about 20 min after i left the computer so not fair! i was in study hall and the bell rang. 🙁 also the girl on the cover of the Russian version of Midnighters reminds me of Amanda Bynes. anyone else see it? oh and btw i HAVE to come to new jersey on wednesday. i mean it is olny an hour and 10 min from my house according to mapquest. lol.

  817. soz i havent posted in a while internet crashed and burnied dess I agree with your under 15 narrator thin, Nick THANK YOU for he video wats the TV channel? and I think the time freezing Idea would be great for a last book where at the end a timebender comes along they go back in time to stop the darklings ever exsisting and then live happly ever after oh and the person on the front of the russian cover doesn’t look like jessica cause she doesn’t have lond ginger hair and looks to gothy cause remeber jessicas daylight and all cheery unlike miss. sunshine that is mellissa 🙂

  823. yes it is on australian time. its in the time zone where scott lives for half of the year.

  825. It must be in Austalian time, because it’s 4:22 here, and it’s only the 13th.

  826. Ok, so I’ve been rereading the midnighter books, and I have to say, there are so many things I find funny that I didn’t notice the first time I read them. I may just be completely insane, but a lot of the comments that Dess makes are hilarious. (I know, my friends think I’m crazy too.) Anyways, I was writing my fourth book, and originally I wasn’t sure if I was writing Dess and Melissa right, but after rereading, I am so happy because I got their personallities completely exact. (I’m so obsessed with what I’m writing that I’ve been caring my notebook with me everywhere. Again, everyone else things I’m crazy.)

  827. If you’re crazy mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation, then I must be a freak! I was laughing like an idiot throughtout the whole series.HYSTERICALLY when Jessica’s parent’s found out that she had been arrested(hmm the SAFE old days). And don’t worry mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation, devoted writers are simply misunderstood. I mean once in a while, I look back at the series and look at punctuation, and study the diagoue to clarify relationships(especially Dess and Melissa). Yep, writers and reader’s syndrome is something that I’m proud of and ironically, I wouldn’t cure myself for the world!

  828. Demensiona I’m with you. Today we were taking a test in science, and I got done early, so I was reading midnighters. I got to page 60 in the hard cover copy of Blue Noon, and they’re all at Maddie’s after the first eclipse, I started cracking up laughing when Dess is saying that that Jonathon is hopeless without Jessica around, and that in the daylight time he couldn’t even fly. Then she askes what’s he supposed to do, wash the curtains. I cracked up laughing. Everyone around me was staring at me like I was an idiot, but I really don’t care. It’s hilarious!

  829. Wait, what? You’re still in school? I’m in vacation time! Oh well when I move to Arizona, I’ll be on your schedule too!

    Ugh, why does everyone stare at us when we laugh(for me it’s even smiling)? But as you mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation, I absolutley don’t care a bit, my classmates are frozen in time when I read.

    Oh my gosh, I lOVE THAT PART, oh ny gosh that’s so random! I even cracked up when/ or whenever Jessica flashes someone in the eyes w/ illumination/enilghtment! But in a triology like midnighters, you NEED comic relief, and I was completley satasfied to a t!

    So would the class rather see us laughing or crying? Well it’s definetly not up to them, it’s solely up to the midnighters!

  830. wait vacation time?!?!?!? what?!?!?! i want to be on vacation! what spring break or something? we don’t get that. *tear* :'( and I know exactly how you feel. im always reading in class and during study hall the one day i was like YEAH! because i found out that Scott was writing Extras and everyone’s like what? and im like WHOOOOO!

  831. Once again this is way off-topic, but I was really bored and did some calculations, and technically an imperial day in the Risen Empire is longer than a normal Earth day, even though it only has ten hours, due to the fact that every minute has 100 seconds and every hour has 100 minutes. So technically an imperial day is 1 hour and 36 minutes imperial time longer than a normal day. (Can you tell how bored I am yet? lol)

  832. Or Imperial seconds could be slightly shorter.

    But yeah, whatever the day-length of Home is, that’s what they adjusted their seconds to fit.

  833. ImInLoveWithJonathan, what do you MEAN you don’t have SPRING BREAK!! And yeah, I was(am!) so excited about extras that I told my english teacher and other people who haven’t even READ the series!

    And Alissa, lets just say that you’ve turned boredem into GENIUS! And I’m guessing that I should read the Risen Empire?

    Oh and while looking through REALlY previous comments Alissa, I’ve noticed that you’ve been on the spoiler zone the longest, then TALLY, then ME…! Oh my gosh, we’re ALL bored! But it’s been ironically fun! But a fourth book or even just a COMPLETLY new series is needed, because hence the Risen Empire, I’ve read all of Scott’s books that I can possibly comprehend.

    Now I have to wait until October for EXTRAS and Stephenie Meyer’s ECLIPSE! Oh the awaited October is going to be book heaven! But what about the midnighters, my TRUELY favorite series(by a milimeter). There hasn’t really been any KNOWN progress for a while now.

    One book is all I ask, just ONE book!

  834. oh my gosh Scott, this is a little off topic, but when I posted my comment, your comment wasn’t there, weird!

  835. Demensiona, no fair! You’re on Spring Break. Well, actually ours starts next week, so I shouldn’t be complaining.

    Any ways, we had field day today (sarcastic yippee), and my friend I were bored, so we started sharing my third midnighters book and reading it. We were scanning it for funny parts, and I have to say that we were cracking up laughing like we were reading a joke book. Of course, if we had gotten to the end that would have changed.

    I am so excited about Extras too. I can’t wait. Only seven and a half months to go!

  836. Yeah, I didn’t know what Imperial seconds are like so I just used normal ones. Bordom and a calculator into genius lol. I could never do that kind of math in my head (my personal area of genius in languages).

  837. I know it is so not fair. stupid catholic high school. we get off for “easter vacation” for about 5 days. SO not fair. and scott you should be happy to know that i have gotten 9 people to read the midnighters. they are very happy with it.

  838. whooooooooooo i got out early from school today because of “inclement weather” namely hail. i had to walk home in it and me and my friends got pelted with ice. i love winter weather

  840. Gosh, I guess I AM the only one currently on vacation. And YAY mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation, I’m glad that you’re keeping count of the time before extras, me too!!

    Oh and Alissa, which languages do you speak?

    And whoa ImInLoveWithJonathan, you guys get out if it HAILS?Lucky! And I suppose it wouldn’t be SO bad to have SHORT if ANY vacations if the school rocks! But my current school sucks, so vacations are NEEDED!

    Hey could you guys imagine a MIDNIGHTER academy?, That would be totally fawesome!!

  841. ImInLoveWithJonathan, I can’t believe you get out of school if it hails! I wish is would hail here. I wish it would rain here. In fact I wish we could get any sort of precipitation. I hate the dry Arizona weather!

    (I just realized that precipitation is a thirteen letter word. I’m going to have to write it into my story.)

  842. I don’t really speak anything but english fluently, Demensiona, but I know a little of lots of languages: Spanish, Welsh, Japanese, Mandarin, Latin, Greek, Dutch, French… There’s more, but it would take too long to list. I like studying languages, but I’m best with accents and dialects, so I know more of those.

  843. we had a GIGANTIC hail storm. Me and my friends were walking from the bus stop and by the time we got to my house, our hair was frozen, we could barely blink our eylashes had so much ice on it, and we have about 3 inches (mabey more im not sure. i havent been outside since it stopped a few hours ago) of ice. we went out to shovel and by the time we finished shoveling, there was MORE ICE WHERE WE JUST SHOVELED!

  844. Ohh Alissa I know Japenese I love it so much! I have to learn it cause I do judo I also read when were meant to be doing tests I alsway finish like half and hour early 🙂

  845. Does anyone here like to write books? I’m [Trying to] write one now but ive only done 3781 words or 9 pages!

  846. alright, this might sound a little weird, but my sister’s writing a book (aaaaaaaaargh, no thats not the weird bit) and she asked me to write a language 4 it. which i’m tring to do. its quite hard (allright its really really really hard.) But cool

  847. I love to write books, but most of my attempts so far have ended up being long short stories. I’m working on one write now though that’s thirty eight pages long, front and back, hand written. (It’s actually my version of the fourth midnighters book.) I’m also working on another one, but it’s only about eighteen pages long, and it’s been very slow going the last couple of weeks. I love to write!

  848. I’m always in the middle of writing some novel or another (although I’ve never actually finished one) and I get my brother to sketch the weapons, tech, flags, etc. I can draw people well and he draws inanimate objects better than me, so it works.
    Midnightmagic: I know some Korean that I learned in Taekwon Do, but it’s mostly commands like “Attention” “Ready” and “Begin match”, and counting. It’s still funny whenever I go somewhere to see people’s reactions when I count in Korean, though lol.

  849. Hey everybody!! But in order to finish my post I’ll turned the enthusiasm down a bit!

    Gosh, I’m just SO excited that the show is definetely in the works, but what’s w/ the FREAKIN AGES! What are they expecting, “A” season, because the ultimate purpose of setting characters in high school is to lengthen the time for the show, I would think.(Take Samllville for instance, 4 glorious years of high school, and 2 years of ****, ha ha just kidding). But you guys get the drift, right?

    Mistranslated Nonelectrical Ornimentation, Arizona weather can’t be that bad, can it?(ugh please don’t scare me before I even move there).Oh and keep writing, that’s awesome!

    And ImInLoveWithJonathan, we should rename Philidelphia “ICELAND'(in the VERY literal sense).

    And gee Alissa are you kidding me? Wow, VERY impressive. You’ve listed 10 languages. So when you become fluent in all these languages, what does that make you, a what-lingual? I would love to find out.

    Me myself, I’m only fluent in English, but I say in about a year or 2, I’ll be fluent in Espanol too, and I know some Russian.And you’re an artist Alissa, cool, me to, but I’m more skilled in making collages.

    And cool nick, have any sample words?

    Oh yeah and cool too Midnightmagic, Japanese is fawesome? And yeah I totally love to write too . So much that I’m certain I WILL write actual books, then you guys will be able to see my real name(Jasmine,haha).Is that the case for any of you guys? Or is writing simply pleasure?

    And keep writing Writers, because besides all of our favorite authors and awesome newcomers, other authors seem to be running out of material.

  850. Sorry for the typos: “SMALLVILLE”,Shame on ME! and “Japanese IS Fawesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!”(no QUESTIONS there). Oh and sorry on the length too!

  851. Ok, first of all, I’m so happy that the midnighters show is underway, but it just wouldn’t work right if they made the midnighters in their 20’s. I mean if they’re planning on doing it off of the story line of the books, then it just wouldn’t work. I mean, the curfew wouldn’t mean anything. Jessica would have no way of getting grounded, and also she wouldn’t be living with Beth and the rest of her family, and unless they’re planning on making it that the show starts after the books have already happened, and everyone’s now in their 20’s, then where are they supposed to meet Jessica, in a business meeting?

    Also, Demensiona I have to say, that the weather here isn’t that bad during the winter, but I’m not going to lie and say that summer is just wonderful. I mean last year we got up to 118 degrees or so, and we also beat our record of how many days without rain last year. Now the record is 120 something. (I think, I know it’s over a hundred.) Don’t worry though, you get used to it, and this winter down in the southeast it snowed. Also, Flagstaff and Prescott, (Two towns up north) usually get a good amount of snow during the winter. So, it’s really not that bad, and during the winter it can get pretty cold. During the summer, just make sure to turn up your air conditioner, or find a good pool to hang out in all summer. So, that’s my wonderful weather report from the grand canyon state.

    Also, Alissa you can speak what, 10 languages. That’s very impressive. I can only speak English, a little bit of sign language, and a very limited amount of espanol. Of course, I’m taking Spainish in the next couple of years, so I hope to become pretty skilled in that. I also love that you are an artist. I am forrible at drawing people, but I’m more of the oil painting, ceramics type. Also, writing is not only my hobby, it’s eventually going to be my life long career or at least I hope so.

  852. I can’t actually speak all those languages, I just know the basics. If I spent a few months around people who spoke them regularly I’d be fluent in them, though. And I can usually read any latin-based language. Demensiona, I think that would be multi-lingual lol. Yeah, I’m an artist. Pencil, mostly, but I used to do acrylics when I was like, thirteen. I mostly do sort of manga-style, but I’m working on trying for a more realistic style as well.

  853. Hey good points on the midnighter show mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation, I didn’t even think into those depths. Yeah they can’t change the ages of the midnighters, at this rate I wonder if the show is even going to be set in Bixby, Oklahoma.

    And thanks on the weather report, air conditioning sounds very comforting. And interesting mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation, I’M forrible in oil painting. I mean being left handed is such a struggle for me when doing oil painting, the wrong colors mix and smear, ugh. And that’ fawesome mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation, and if really WANT writing as a lifelong career, you’ll have it, no questions down.

    And Alissa, you would/will be multi- lingual? I thought 10 would have something like bi/or tri-lingual, hmm interesting. Oh and manga style’s totally fawesome, but I ‘ve heard it’s hard to get out of. Yeah and Realism is totally fool too!

  854. Being left-handed effects your painting? I’m left-handed (mostly), and I never had any problems when I painted seascapes. The problem with manga mostly is how perfectly you tend to draw everyone. To draw reality you have to have the imperfections as well, and that’s always what’s hardest for me, being able to draw uglies as well as pretties. But when you can it ends up looking even prettier than when it’s perfect.

  855. I want to accually publish a book I wrote one that was 26 pages but got boared but my next one is cool. I LOVE ART!!! Im doing GCSE art next year I always come 1st in art.Im sorta fluent in japenese i can say stuff like watashi no namae wa Alex des.

  856. alissa, you could also be… decalingual? sure lets go with that. I’m jelous of my cousins who live in Glendale, AZ. My one cousin was like is waterworld open yet? while we were in the middle of a snow storm. so not fair. lol. and im in the midst of writing my own book. still in sketch mode working out plot complications and trying to come up with a really good conflict.

  857. ha, it snowed today. Of course, it didnt stay on the ground or anything, so no snowballs, but still, snow in March in England is kinda weird. Its paranoia time! Oh No, the gulf stream is stopping !!! oh well, global warming will balance it out in a few decades.

  858. I think Alissa, being left-handed effects your paintings depending on how you hold your brush/crayon/pencil.

    See in some water color paintings, I WANT the colors to smear. But if I’M doing oil paintings, and w/ the way I hold my utensils, at least 3 unwanted colors will mix(2 from the side of my hand, one on the paper). Also if I’m using an exacto knife to carve a person and stars into cardboard, I’ll slice my ring finger, and I might have to get like a TB test or something if it’s like a used knife. But then again I’ve done some fawesome pieces of artwork but not solely on being left handed, but also on skill. Hey being left- handed didn’t/hasn’t effected Jessica too much, I’m adjusted.

    And that’s fool midnightmagic, Art, writing, and Japanese are fawesome!

    And ImInLoveWithJonathan, Alissa would be a decalingual? Cool, how many people can say that they are? Oh and you’re in the best mode of sketching, conflicts, my favorite!!! I wonder, from your experience, if WEATHER will be a conflict?

  859. cool, i’m sort of an honorary leftie (umm yeah) because i am right handed, but sort of ambidextrous (only 12 letters there), but not completely. For example, i write with my right, but play basketball etc with my left. so it balances out.

    And if you use your left when writing or painting, it gets all smudged.

    Interesting question: do people who write ‘backwards’ (Hebrew, Arabic, etc.) force children to write lefthandedly, to stop smudging?

  860. Whoa nick, I didn’t see your comment before I posted.Cool, you’re in england, that’s awesome!

    And interesting. I never used left-handed scissors, right-handed scissors are WAY more comfortable. And hmm, maybe, on the question. I’ve never really thought about it, but it would make sense to force children then to write lefthandedly. Hmm, not sure, definetely something to think about!

  861. I wonder if they would make kids write with their left hand or not. Somebody should look that up. I guess writing with you left hand would be easier when writing backwards like that, and if you did write with your right hand you would have to be very careful.

  862. Interesting. My paint never smeared, but then I always held my hand a couple inches away from the canvas. And yeah, I write/draw left-handed, but my sparring stance is right-handed, and I can write right-handed, but I have an entirely different handwriting style that way.
    I never heard anything about writing Arabic, etc. lefthanded, but it’s possible.

  863. as a matter of fact weather was part of the conflict early on. it was more smog and acid rain and such but that could still be considered weather i suppose. can you imagine? “yes today we will be having some acid rain showers over the city. dont forget your hazmat suits and protective clothing. have a nice day.” im begining to think my weathers not so bad. its all melting now so its all wet and stuff. its supposed to get hotter really soon. stupid weather fluctuations(um i spell phoneticly. bear with me.)

  864. I can accually write with both hands Im naturally right handed but since i was like 7 ive been impoving my left hand skill by wirting and using these exercise things u can get I also try doing judo left handed sometimes anyway does anyone know anything about keep wolfdogs (wolf hybrids) in northern Ireland?? cause I really want one and have tryed looking it up on the net but thats crap ive loved wolves since i was 3! 🙂

  865. Hey, guys. Real important question!! Okay, first off. Does anyone know how Scott got the Teutonic Symbols for his midnighters symbols?? Cause I’ve googled it and got nothing, and everybody knows google has like everything! And second, I noticed that Nick and Demensiona both created their own talent… could I get those in like one comment or something??? Pretty pretty please???

  866. I think Scott just made up the midnighters symbols, I don’t think they’re actually related to anything. And about a hundred comments back everyone was making up talents, we’ve probably got almost thirty by now.

  867. Hey guys, I’ve got the current midnighter talent list, get ready for it:

    (1)Bonemender(heal injuries through touch)

    (2)Empath(sense emotions/more understanding)

    (3)Soldier(darkling fighting machine/ emotionally unstable)

    (4)Skin-Walker(shift form for travel/hiding)

    (5)Hyperquenched(control/freeze ice at certain speed)

    (6)Transmigratorious(1 twin born at midnight/transports others into midnight.What becomes of other twin?)

    (7 & 8 another type of twins)
    (7)Guide(stiffs into midnight)

    (8)Guardian(Guards transition point into midnnight)

    (9)Divergent-Communicator(speaks diff./many languages/knows all tridecologisms.)

    (10)Halfling(more human/black wings/slithers follow)

    (11)Helion(control/bend light)

    (12)Ignitmus-Toxin(make things grow(plants) that produce toxins that affect darkling/slither’s coordination)

    (13)Sketcher(sketch what they need/want)

    (14)Magnitus( have magnetic force that steers slithers in a certain direction, slithers follow them. Have gravitational force the hinders/aide acrobats)

    (15)Hypnotist(Make darkling/slithers fall asleep through ,hypnotist, into thinking that it’s daytime)

    (16)Illusionist(invisibility)

    (17)Dream Gatherer(Act as dream catcher/view nightmares of the past,take mental notes on darkling scare tactics/no emotional fear of darkling/sliters/by touching someone’s forehead, release them from greatest fears for certain period of time/darklings and slithers keep their distance away from them).

    (18)Screecher(Pitch of verbal scream,screech damages darkling/slither’s hearing. Only darkling/slithers hear their screech.Compose/play mathematical compositions like Bach)

    (19)Capritempra-Pecularist(moodstone)(Change colors of midnight accoording to mood, calm other’s through touch.Born between DEC.22-Jan.19)

    (20)Trepid Stagnant(In crisis, literally freeze themselves in place into steel. Nothing hurts them when in this state.Put others into this state too by creating chain link.Use only during the blue time. One of the most powerful talents)

    (21)Subsenilist(Can Age themselves/someone/or something/or make them younger/newer). Can repair damaged metals and make tridecogolisms reusable again. Age someone if there’s a curfew encounter)

    (22)Time Bender(retrieve inanimate obejects from the past)

    (23).Stainless Dissimulator(guiltless pretender),Nefarious Trickster(sinful deciever),or Maleficent Concealer(one that conceals evil)-we need to pick one.
    -On the darkling’s side, change form, mindcasters can’t detect them, they can’t be trusted.

    (24).Crafter(create entricate and complicated designs(weapons) in medal, in the speed of light)

    (25)Flame dominator(no name really given/shoots fire,heats things up)

    (26)We need one that involves photography

    (27)One that involves food

    (28)One w/ weather

    (29)one that doesn’t feel pain/harmful effects in daytime

    (30) A psychic(don’t know how to spell it)/ maybe blindness

    (31)Telekenisis

    (32) Someone made out of steel/braces and plates in head(thinks like a computer)

    (33)Deaftness

    -I’m pretty sure that’s all. Whoa I’m exhausted but it’s totally FAWESOME! You guys can elaborate on any of the talents, namely talents 26-30. Or any other ones you guys come up w/!

  868. #30 Posibility: someone who is blind, but can ‘see’ the currents of midnight, midnighters, darklings, etc. Sort of like a seer, only way more intense. In daytime she can only see midnighters and things touched by midnight, but during midnight she can see everything, as well as where darklings have been, and the places midnight is stronger or weaker. She also has a limited ability to see the future, and things that are happening in other places (maybe). She could also hang around with the Deceiver, but more because he’s the only midnighter she’s ever known than because she sympathizes with his cause.

  869. Thank you SOO much!!! Those are really really cool too! Did I say why I needed them? I don’t think I did, so I’ll go ahead and tell you. Two of my friends and I are rabid Midnighters fans, but we suck at making up talents. We wanted to write something together, like a book about the generation of midnighters that Madeline was from. The problem was that Scott’s books said that there were lots and lots of talents not mentioned. And since we suck at creating our own, I was wondering if you guys would mind if we borrowed yours???

  870. A small variation on Alissa’s one, perhaps this person didnt have any particular talent when he/she came to bixby (they didnt know like for Jessica), but then a darkling scratched his eyes out, so now he can only see by people’s ‘spirit-light’ (like their aura.) which means they are sort of blind, but everyone ‘glows’ and they can see it, a bit like infrared vision, but not.

    Also I came up with the Piper, who’s a bit like the Screecher, but he has a flute or something, which is metal and has a 3 tridecalogism name.

    Also i didnt really say this, but maybe the helion can become quasi-invisible, because he can bend the light around him in a sort of bubble, so he does not block it out (it goes around him)

  871. for the one about photography- they should also be on the darkling’s side (sort of like when ernesto was taking pictures at the stroke of midnights to record the changes) only be able to take pictures during midnight as well. or they could be good and us the pictures to add to the lore.

  872. and 33- deftness? do you mean like dexterous, nimble, skillful, clever? or did u mean DEAFness? caus eif u meant deafness it would be cool if they could hear the darklings thought and the beating of the darklings wings and everything the darklings were doing. that might be cool.

  873. good point, both would be cool, deftness perhaps cooler as you can have really quick reactions so he would be good at fighting darklings

    Also i asked my mum about the writing ‘backwards’ and lefthandedness issue, and she said that people normally write wtih their right hands, because thats the way their brains are, not which way they write, so left handed people are mentally different than righthanders, not stupid or anything, just different. Of course, they smudge stuff when writing.

    and in the middle ages people thought lefthandedness was the sign of the devil. people were burned as ‘witches’ for using their left hand.

    i didnt expect the Spanish inquisition. NO-ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION (monty python)

    also latin for left is sinister (like evil) and latin is Dexter (like that weirdo cartoon about a boy genius and also dexterous)

  874. Okay guys, these talent’s are fawesome! Oh and you’re welcome Savannah. I’m sure everyone will let you borrow their talents but you have absolute permission for talents 12-24 and 32.

    Lets start w/ blindness: Okay Alissa and nick, I just merged your talents:

    (30).Phosphorescence(name can change/means flicker): This one literally got their corneas scratched which only enables them to see flickers of light and blurry images.So everyone glows and this midnighter see people’s aura. They also see places in midnight that are weaker or stronger, and can only really see things touched by midnight and midnighters.And see FLICKERS of things that are going to happen in other places.

    Oh and interesting on Piper and Helion, noted!

    And we need to pick a name for 23:
    -Nefarious Trickster: Sinful deceiver
    -Maleficient concealer:One that conceals evil
    -Stainless Dissimulator:Guiltless Pretender

    -Anyone? Savannah?

    -And as for other talents:

    (33).Earless percipient/Auditorius(I don’t know a name): Okay this person may literally be deaf in the daytime but maybe they hear heart beats in like surround sound , so they can maybe perceive emotion or intent(panic/love).They can also know it someone’s coming near them.And they can hear pain and flutes.

    (26).Hour seizer(hour:last possible moment): Enables them to take permanent mental images. Their memory is inerasable. They can take cameras into the blue time and capture images of the blue time and of daklings. If someone sees the images on photos taken by this midnighter, that person will never forget the image. Risky talent.

    -That’s about it for now. Keep on thinking and elaborating!!

  875. Oh my gosh, AGAIN I didn’t see ImInLoveWithJonathan and nick’s comments before I posted.

    Oh that’s awesome ImInLoveWithJonathan! Oh and I meant DEAFNESS, is that even a word? But yeah. I love the beating of wings and the photographer from the dark side. We are actually coming up w/ some midnighters on the darklings side. What an interesting complication!

    And nick, that evil left-handed bussiness is really interesting. And isn’t latin fawesome! Makes so much sense.

    Oh and this is a little off topic but here’s the songs that I thought of when reading the epilogue. You don’t have to pay any attention to the videos, just the lyrics of the songs:

    (1). From the beginning of the epilogue to the conversation between Dess and Melissa:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R5keIoOozE

    (2).From the conversation to Dess’s last words:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pen0l54i-uE

    (3).Movie Credits!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vFaoA7t2RE

    Enjoy! And keep making midnighter talents!

  876. Ok, for number 23, I ended up using Maleficent Concealer for that one in my book. That was my favorite name for it. Also, thanks Demesiona for the list of powers. It’s been a lot of help. I was also thinking that we need to come up with a few other powers that would be helpers of number 23, because it would make a battle scene between number 23 and the other midnighters a whole lot more interesting. Again, thank you so much for the wonderful list of midnighter talents/powers.

  877. Oh you’re very welcome mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation! And great on the name(that’s my favorite too and I think that name has the most dramatic definition)! And you’re right on the evil business let me see if I can come up w/ some.

    (Okay I promise, this will be my last midnight talent additions for a while. I’m putting myself on talent probation:

    Here’s my last words, (At least for a little while,haha):

    (27). Voracitus(desire to eat)(This one’s kind of disgusting):They’re vegetarians(literally can’t consume meat), during daytime. During the secret hour, they have an abnormal and overwhelming craving for darkling scent and flesh. They also have razor sharp teeth that break through metal and bone. They suck up/eat darkling’s energy.Can play dead by looking emaciated, and they have fear of blood. They’re pretty light in weight, the sudden rush gravity gives them temporal stomach aches.

    (29).Anguish eluder(can change the name): This midnighter feels no pain during the bluetime, and their cut and scrapes dissapear in the blue time. They can fall off buildings and cut themselves. They’re clumsy and they experience excessive soreness and bleeding in the daytime/ they’re in constant pain(no medication works). Can relieve/transfer their pain into others by choice through touch.

    (23).Wind chime: Can cause natural disasters, make weather warm or cold, bring winds,rain, and snow. The weather changes burn/rip darkling’s skin.

    (32).Thought Grinder(can change name):This person by chance/unintentionally ends up w/ metal infused/inserted into their body. Steel braces, piercings etc. And they all have steel plates inserted into their head so their thoughts, drive darklings crazy.

    (34).Luminousist(can change name) :This midnighter’s features are intensified and clearer in the secret hour. Females wear make-up(weapon) and fabrics that give off brilliant color.They have a sweet scent that burns darkling’s skin and eyes. These midnighters are mute during the blue time. And they have low self-esteem.

    -Okay that’s all I’m talking for a while, now I’m just listening and answering yes or now or questions and or clarifications, haha!

  878. ok my last post isnt showing up so im going to post it again. if it shows up twice sorry.

    question, why is the luminousist mute? and why and how would wearing makeup cause the darklings harm? i mean it sounds like it might be cool but i dont really understand your logic. can you please elaborate on that talent?

    and the one involving pain- they should be able to transfer their pain to darkling or the midnighters on the darkling’s side to act as a distraction or kill them. unless of course they were on the darkling’s side and used their power to effect the midnighters.

    and new talent! cant think of a name but it will kind of be like zombification. they should be able to make stiffs do their bidding during midnight and after the blue time is over they dont remeber anything. this midnighter would probably be on the darkling’s side because i cant see the good guys exploiting people.

  879. Okay for the whole make- up bit, these midnighters are pratically glowing and by wearing make-up, their features will give off these painful rays of color(blue time’s pretty dull) that literally blinds darkling’s(they’re basically like flash lights) and irritates their skin(like a sun burn). Oh as for the whole being mute thing, it’s kind of just the whole beauty speaks for itself thing, and to just cause complications. I hope I was clear enough,sorry!

    The pain transfer can be up to you guys, we need some more evil midnighters so go ahead.

    Oh fawesome talent ImInLoveWithJonathan, I wanted to do something w/ memory loss but I didn’t know what/how.But wait, who’s doing the bidding? Yep these midnighters will definetly be on the dark side.

    You know I just thought back to it but we’re going to need a symbol for EACH of these talents!

  880. WOW OMG Dess u made up sooo many talents how bought beastamer for darklings oh and the V first song off utube creeped me out I don’t really like spiders

  881. Yeah we are going to need a symbol for each of these talents. I already have one made up for the time bender. The maleficent concealer’s one needs to be very elaborate and dramatic. (I’m not sure what though) Demensiona, I love your ideas for 27, 29, 23,32,34. I get the makeup thing for number 34, but couldn’t we just have it that they give of the painful rays of colors even without makeup during the secret hour. Like maybe they have this natural glow or something. Just wondering.

  882. the makeup one is ummm… interesting. perhaps a slightly toned down version of that is to have tatoos (perhaps only visible at midnight ) of tridecagrams or tridecalogisms tatooed or branded into them. Perhaps a morbid scene of self-mutilation with knives is needed. also this midnighter’s touch would be inimical (that word again) to darklings.

    the zombification one sounds cool, but probably stay away from ‘classic’ zombies i.e. drooling, stumbling, stupid, what would be cooler is if they were temporarily turned into automata.
    its a bit like a parasite from peeps

    and now for something completely different;

    one underlining Westerfeldian factor that Scott has used in all his novels (that i’ve read, except for uglies) is CATS.

    Darklings and slithers in Midnighters. (also rex has one)

    Immortal guinea pigs (in the testing sense) in the Risen Empire

    Vectors of disease in Peeps

    coincidence, i think not! Scott obviously has some obsession with cats, which leads me onto my next midnighter talent:

    someone who can understand (NOT TALKING, its used too much ) animals. (a bit like the divergent communicator)

  883. Two things i just thought of, what if a darkling was ‘born’ at ‘moonset’ (when normal time begins) it would be a sort of midnighter darkling at daytime. Of course, it couldnt go outside (or could it?) but a nasty surprise for anyone exploring a cave.

    Secondly, it seems a polymath is a real thing,

    here’s an excerpt from an email i got about a lecture about polymaths

    Polymath event at the RI
    Tomorrow night is our first event in the polymaths series. ‘The last man who knew everything’ with Andrew Robinson takes place on Wednesday 21 March at the Royal College of Surgeons at 7.00pm.

    RI stands for royal institution (of science) and is an old institution that was formed (in the 1800’s!) to educate non-scientists about science.

    Its also where Faraday talked about electromagnetism, (electromagnet has 13 letters).

    The RI has the only building in london without fire alarms so its not just old people talking, they blow stuff up too
    (one lecture i went to was about fireworks, and it went something like this:

    Lecturer: now this firework is illegal in 15 countries, but i confiscated a few, anyway (produces a lighter) i’ll just hide in this bunker… BANG!)

    Sorry that was slightly unrelated

  884. oh like a mind connection so they don’t have to talk just think wat they want to say they culd be able to calm animals by reaching into their mind and talkong to them (beastamer)

  885. There could be magnified senses like sight and hearing and smell (for a talent of course)

  886. yeah that clears it up alot about the make up. thanks. and by zombification i didnt mean like ew living dead stuff. i meant that they are doing the bidding of the darklings wile in a trance. by stiffs i meant non-midnighters (that was what melissa called them) and nick that polymath stuff was wicked awsome. thanks for sharing!

  888. A variant on the pain-transfer: Someone who can survive fatal injuries, doesn’t bleed, injuries appear to heal in seconds, but even though they can’t kill the person they still feel the pain. They can channel their pain into other people, and they’re pretty much invincible, since injuries can’t kill them. They look normal to most people, but the Phosphorescence and possibly seers see them like they really are, with every wound they ever suffered.

  889. Oh Midnightmagic, I guess I ‘ve gotten a little carried away but in a good way(that’s why I’m on talent probation). Oh and I’m not too fond of spiders either, I just love the song.

    And thanks mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation on my ideas. I love yours too/Maleficient Concealer’s like one of my favorites, and I’ll definetly think of an elaboration.

    But okay on the make-up bit(I knew I was taking a risk). The blue time spread EVERYWHERE so there’s definetely going to be some social diversity and varied backgrounds . In that, I’m pretty sure that all midnighters across the globe are not all social outcasts(for lack of a better word/I hate that term). I thought that paint on your face illuminated on the big screen would look fawesome. The secret hour’s pretty dull so why not add some color? But it’s totally up to you guys, feel free to change and elaborate!

    And you’re welcome on the clarification ImInLoveWithJonathan. And yeah I know about the stiffs(Melissa’s like my favorite midnighter)! But let me get the talent straight again, these evil midnighters bid on darklings?Is that right? Because if not, sorry, I must be a little slow then.

    And yeah nick, the polymath stuff is fawesome!

    Oh and I love your variant Alissa, makes much more sense to me, fawesome!

    -Oh guys and don’t forget talent (31.) telekenisis, and just keep on creating more talents! (remember I’m on talent probation)!

  890. Um, okay this is cruel, but when Jessica got stuck in the blue time it didn’t make me cry. It didn’t even make me sad, because I never liked Jessica. She’s all…normal. 11:59. I like reading about everybody else more, because Dess, Melissa, and Rex are all such excellent characters. Jonathan is not quite as good, but is still multilayered. I did feel bad for him, because he liked Jessica. Also, I loved the little running-joke-type thing where Dess and Melissa kept calling each other Goths. Oh, and I loved the ending. LOVED it. I heart Dess. And Melissa. And Rex.(Not neccisarily(spelling?)in that order).

  891. IndigoEyes, I agree with you on the subject of Jessica, not my favorite, either. I cried a little, but that was only because Rex got stuck in Bixby and Melissa left. Rex and Melissa are my favorite characters, and it was a shame to see such a perfect couple broken up. And not just that, they probably hadn’t gone more than a day without seeing each other in eight years. Losing someone like that would severely suck.

  892. I FINISHED!!! WOOT! (My first comment was #723)
    SAD ENDING, but thanks for the book, Scott. Very enjoyable!

  893. U have to watch some of the talents that are made up because everything in a book is going to happen and has to happen for a reason its notlike real life so take for example the timebender it will be critisized not for the creativness but for the way you can expanned it like if they were in they were there in the past why didn’t they destroy the first darkling and also tampering with the past is dangerous (as seen on primeval which I doupt u all watch) but it can destroy generations if an object was taken away when it is need for the futyre it would sever the ties of prophecy yes sorry that is relly complicated but some can can be expanned on too much im just saying I think to much 🙂

  894. First of all, on the subject of Jessica, I never really liked her either. My favorite characters have always been Dess and Melissa. I just thought the ending was sad because Melissa was leaving Rex, and because Jonathon would only get to see Jessica for one hour a day, which in the end would make Jessica only like 17 when Jonathon was 80. Things would get awkward a long time before then.

    Also, Midnightmagic, on the subject of the time bender, yeah I’m kind of struggling with that one. I mean in what I’m writing it’s kind of simple because my time bender is in experienced, so she can only go back in time, which means that they wouldn’t want to go back to far due to the fact, that they would get stuck back in time. I was thinking though that maybe the time bender can like travel in time to like give the other midnighters more time to do things and stuff, but she can not change events in history. She can see, though what will happen in the future. (I really though, need to take more of a look at this power. If I come up with any thing I’ll elaborate.

    Demensiona, you’re right about there being social diversity thing. I was just thinking about that, and if the blue time spread all over the world, then not only would we have social diversity, but age diversity. They won’t all be teenagers. We’ll have adults, toddlers, and people in like their 80’s too. (Just something to think about.)

  895. ok telekenisis- (yes i know that was a sad attempt at spelling) they could make very large weapons to fling at the darklings and be able to shoot them at them. they could also move things very large and obstuctive that wouldnt be able to be lifted. they could also be able to create a force feild type thing with their mind to protect the midnighters from the darklings.

  896. ok im going to try to explain my zombification talent again. i guess i havent been clear enough.
    this midnighter will be on the dark side. they will be able to take a non midnighter and force them to do things for the darklings such as attack the good midnighters or something like that. the nonmidnighters (aka stiffs) would not be affected by metal with thirteen letter names because they are just regular humans. when midnight is over, they will have no memory of what happened because they werent actually “awake.” it would kind of be like darkling mind control on the stiffs.

  898. Ok thats ok MNO soz i couldn’t be bothered typing your name although it prbably took longer typing why i said MNO CRAP! and iminlovewithjonathan why would there be a midnighter on the dark side yes im sorry for questioning all of your theories butI do that it rather annoys people anyway how could a midnighter be on the darkside (we have milk AND cookies) because the darklings would be scared of them and vice versa

  899. omg! i love that. my icon says that on it! well i think that, like anathea the halfling, the darklings might have someone on their side. i dont know i mean, with rex and jonathan’s “personality conflicts” there might be conflicts where a midnighter might be tempted to go to the darkside. (i dont know for power mabey?) just a thought and i wanst the first one to come up with the idea. or at least i dont think i was…

  900. Okay! Look, on the whole epilogue thing, okay Melissa was/is my overall favorite midnighter, but you guys weren’t depressed? I mean Jessica may be my least(not even least, my fifth favorite midnighter), but when I found out that she was stuck in a dimension, that was a huge blow. I mean being realistic, Jessica probably won’t get out of the dimension for probably another 300 years(boom! Uglies time!), she won’t go to college or anything. And her parents not knowing,Beth and Jonathan, tore me to pieces. I mean I wasn’t depressed a bit for Dess because I know she’s going to be okay, I mean she said so herself(Inexhaustible Unsmotherable Extraordinary). Well I don’t know, enough of my depressive babbling.

    And interesting point on the age diversity mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation, very interesting topic! And no I love the time bender, I mean it might need a little more elaboration but it’s good!

    And love the telekenisis talent too ImInLoveWithJonathan! Totally Fawesome!And you’ve completely cleared up zombification, totally fool!

  901. hmmmm, the telekinesis thing would be cool but how about a hailstorm of little splinters of metal, each one named, so without further ado, here’s a short passage about it, involving Melissa watching an unknown, unseen telekinete (ha a word 4 it apparently u call some1 with synesthesia a synesthete)

    Melissa could feel the darklings now, like some insane chorus in her mind. They were close, stalking her like a cat does a mouse. She certainly felt like one, and she could taste the darkling hearing her pathetic heartbeat, about to be extinguished forever.

    A new pugnacious mind appeared, ready for blood. Another midnighter, of course, but where? She scanned the horizon, the moon drifting slowly downwards past the blue night.

    The darklings appeared, four, old and twisted, like wearing old halloween costumes, merrily disgusting.

    Hornets zipped towards them, metal stings ready to burn. A hail of metal, named and engraved. That would hurt. This horizontal hailstorm plummeted towards the darklings, and a conflagration of blue flame leapt from them, consuming the horrible creatures, whose death-screams reached out to Melissa and tangled in her mind, a horrible thought that polluted the world, turning blue suddenly black.

    … Cool.

  902. melissa would hace to be my favourate midnight yet as well as u Dess it was a massive blow to find out he was stuck in midnight and yeah depressing oh guys do u think we could break like a guisness world record for the longest ever forum thing??!!

  903. Hey, i didnt, see like, the last 5 posts, why does that always happen?

    Also something interesting, for the people who say: ‘todays the 45th of february, well, if we divide that somehow, and subtract the remainder: 13 OMG’

    apparently the human brain tries to look for clarity in random data (my favourite example of this is someone seeing peoples faces in Cinnabuns) , like the date, and there are quite a few ways to add or multiply the numbers up, so its not really the day the worlds going to end, its just your brain trying to make you think it is. and there are probably at least 100 days a year taht can be connected with 12 or 13

  906. for example, my last post was 903, 9+0+3 = 12

    also, theres this thing called the equi-distant letter code, which basically means if you take every 2nd letter, or every 109th letter, or something completely random, the letters you get, spell stuff out.
    For example, in Moby Dick, theres this but describing whaling lances etc. and the edlc says T.R.O.T.S.K.Y. who was this russian guy who was killed, WITH AN ICEPICK!!! (gross) Coincidence, I THINK NOT! ( wait, coincidence, I think so.) This also happens a lot in the bible and basically in any work thats long enough.

  907. yeah i heard that before. i love finding random data and telling my friends stuff like hey today times my age is a multiple of 13 (which its not. just using that as an example) and thank you for calling my talents fool. :)ill try to come up with more.

  908. Wow you guys are killing my brain w/ the math, I would have never found THAT kind of random data!

    And yeah nick, that whole Melissa bit is totally fool!

    And Midnightmagic, maybe we COULD have the longest forum, I mean I believe its currently the longest one!

    And yeah Whitewolf I see 12’s and 13’s in everything too, automatically(13!)!

    Oh and please DO come up w/ more talents ImInLoveWithJonathan!

    -And this is random but were any of the midnighter’s birthdays announced in the books? Just wondering!

  909. Nick, I love the Melissa thing. It is so cool. Whitewolf, I’ve been seeing 12’s and 13’s everywhere too. I’ll be reading pretty much anything and find myself counting the letters in words, but pretty much, I’m always looking for 12’s and 13’s.

    Also, Demensiona, I don’t think they say any of the midnighters’ birthdays in the books. I’ll check later tonight.

  910. Accually its not the longest the longest forum I looked it up and the ditital camera club have 13000 odd posts and theres another one wit 64000 *GASP!*

  911. well maybe we’re the longest post about a book

    random data; this is post 911 (unless some1 has sneaked in fast before i posted) which is the USA emergency number, which means soon i’ll be calling them because i’ll have a near-fatal emergency (ummm, in america… hey, maybe i could fall out of a plane on my way over)

    random data is everywhere, unleash your inner paranoia!!

    by the way, the clocks went back today, did they do that in america too? because some people think they do it at a different time.

  912. random data:

    the fear of the number 13 is triskaidekaphobia (17 letters)

    paraskavedekatriaphobia, is, specifically, the fear of friday the thirteenth (23 letters)

    E Pluribus Unum
    has thirteen letters

    so does
    Jack the Ripper

    and Edgar Allen Poe

    Fidel Castro was born on Friday the 13th

    13 is scintillating

    (where are you from nick?, if not america?

    haha, *that dosn’t sound conceited*)

  914. Thanks for looking mistranlated nonelectrical ornimentation! Oh and Whitewolf, I thought Midnightmagic was refering solely to the longest forum on the WESTERBLOG.

    Fawesome, 911 posts!, That’s telling scott that we need another book, it’s an EMERGENCY! And yes nick daylight savings started a while ago(sorry I don’t remember the exact date, I usually don’t keep track of time/dates).

    And interesting elodie, fawesome random data!

  916. I’m english elodie.

    (hahahaha monty python!)

    caulrophobiac has 13 letters and means someone who is scared of a clown.

    Here’s a question; for daylight saving time, do they miss out midnight to 1’oclock, or 11 to midnight?
    what happens if they move the clocks back, when do they do that? which hour do we relive? or is their a special ‘limbo hour’?
    How do they change the really big clocks (english example; big ben)?

  917. i always wondered how they changed the time on Big Ben. lol monty python. we’re watching that in history class on wednesday. love it! and OMG where the heck did my other flipping post go?!?!?! i did it right befor epost 916. grrrrrr stupid thinger. hate that. 😛

  918. The blue time happens exactly at “Bixby midnight.” That is, twelve hours after the sun is right over Bixby. (Actually, the blue time sweeps across the town at about 1000 miles an hour, just as sun-up and sundown do.)

    All the midnighters keep their time pieces set to this time frame—with a little help from Dess. The chapter headers in the book also use this frame, rather than “Dowdian time,” which is the modern system of approximated time zones.

    This gets semi-explained somewhere in book 1.

  919. Here’s a bit more about time zones, which weren’t standardized in the US until 1918:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zones#History

    Until the 20th century most cities had their own time, set to actual noon over that city. Small towns usually set their clocks to the nearest big city or big observatory.

    Dess carries on in that tradition. And the blue time, of course, doesn’t care about standardized zones. It always comes at “true midnight,” when the sun is at the point farthest away from Bixby.

  920. So does that mean the blue time would come in the middle of the day in Australia? Kind of anticlimatic if you ask me.

  921. No, it comes at local midnight. That is, the blue time moves across the world, just like the terminator line does. If you could move at 1,000 miles an hour, you could stay in the blue time forever. (Don’t try this at home.)

  922. Wow, staying in the blue time forever(sounds a little familiar)? I wonder if OTHER midnighters(some kind of speed demon) can use this fact to their advantage, in saving Jessica? Although I’m not completely sure how.

    Oh and on the whole clock thing, doesn’t the world go by Big Ben? I think they use some kind of sun dial or something.

    -And I definetely have caulrophobia nick , I’m suffering!

  924. Big ben’s chimes are broadcast live in tons of different countries, including China, on their radio (they also do it here, in England)

  926. on the subject of the thought-grinder talent (post 877, talent 32) there is a sort of mental condition that makes you wnat to eat shiny things, its called pica (latin for magpies who steal shiny things). One person with Pica was found with BITS OF A BICYCLE in his stomach (yummy) and he was unaware of eating it.

    So, someone with semi-pica would be a very cool midnighter, as he/she would have metal inside them, so darklings couldnt even come near them, or their touch would burn them. its not as cool as being made out of metal ( like in The Silver Child) but still pretty cool.

  927. SCOTT you need to make a nother book with jessica getting out with dess and rex teaming up. really sad great series.

  928. I can’t stop thinking about the series. You need to make a nother book. It would clear a lot of things up.

  929. Yep elodie, fear of clowns, that’s me! And nick I didn’t mean that Big Ben WAS a sundial but anyways, I love your addition to THOUGHT GRINDER! Pica’s TOTALLY fawesome! And I totally agree w/ you Matt, we need another book because I can’t stop think about MIDNIGHTERS too!(But I don’t think I really want to stop!)!

    Oh and other random data:

    Did you guys know that the following words have darkling numbers?:

    – H E L P L E S S N E S S (12)

    – A S S A S I N A T I O N (12)

    -Interesting huh?

  930. that is interesting.

    demensiona, i recognize your name from a book i once read, but i can’t quite put my finger on it.

    what book is it from?

  932. REALLY? I’m not aware that my name’s from a book. I (THOUGHT/THINK I) just made my name up from the word D I M E N S I O N because as we all know Jessica’s stuck in a dimension(I just took out the first i and added an a). I don’t think I’ve got the name from a book, I mean DEMENSIONA sounds a little fantastical to me, and I’m not too keen on fantasy. Hmm, well if you guys come up w/ a book, I’ll search my memory and see if I’ve read it!

  933. hmm, i’ll keep an eye out.

    maybe i was just reminded of Dess’s full first name: Desdemona.

    which is interesting in itself.
    Desdemona was the secret, cheating wife of Othello, in one of Shakespeare’s tales.

    anyhow, i’ll see if i can recall that name from any books.

  934. Yeah you know what elodie, I was thinking of Desdemona too! Oh and interesting on the shakespeare bit, I’m not sure how that persona fits!

  935. First of all, I competely agree with you Matt that we definitely need another book, and I also can not stop thinking about Midnighters. My notebook that contains the written part of my version of the fourth book and my notes on midnighters hasn’t left my sight for the last three weeks or so. I’m always thinking about what should happen next, or about things that happened in the first three books. I’m even doing a project in history, where we have to create a government for a new island. Mine’s in the shape of a thirteen pointed star and all of the city/states are named after charaters in the books.

    Also, just a brief elaboration on the Malificent Concealer’s powers. You know the part that mindcasters can’t detect them, just to elaborate on that, (I just came up with this about an hour ago, so bare with me.) Ok, so I was thinking that the mindcasters can’t detect them as being anything other then what form they’re in, so let’s say they’re in darkling form, then mindcasters will taste them as a darkling. I was thinking that the only time the mindcasters can taste them as something with a weird mixture of a darkling/slither/midnighter taste is when the Malificent Concealer is changing forms. This is also the time when a Maleficent Concealer is at it weakest, and the only time it can be destroyed. What do you think?

  937. You write novels in a notebook, mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation? I used to, but it’s so hard to edit them that I got lazy and switched to typing them up on a computer. That way I don’t have to scribble something out every time I change a character’s name lol. I still write songs in notebooks, though.

  938. yeah when i write, its in notebooks, too. my parents dont apreciate me using up all the ink when i print it out. although, i do miss spell check. no one can ever understand my writing either.

  942. Yes, I write in notebooks, but only because I can carry a notebook to class with me, that way when my English teacher starts going off on one of her speaches that have nothing to do with what we are doing in the class, (She does this a lot.) I then have something to do*. I actually like writing on the computer more, but I find it to be easier to carry around a notebook. Then, when I’m done writing, I type it up on the computer.
    Also, only one of the books I am writing right now is midnighter related. I am writing a few more that are not.

    *It’s not like I don’t pay attention in class, but my teacher will go on forever about things that have nothing to do with what we are studing, so it’s good to have a notebook around to doodle or write in.

  944. Yeah I definetly write in notebooks(I’m a class doodler too) because ironically, I hate using computers. Yeah nick I think you are the only one not writing a book but I’M not writing about midnighters.

    I’m still on the outline stage but I’m writing a book centered around the modern world of lucid dreaming. I have an have a half japanese / half caucasian female narrator(17) who after taking her father’s(neurologist) placebo sleeping pills, falls into intense lucid dreams in which the people in her dreams ironically have the control in her dreams,and she’s enabled to feel physical and mental pain. There’s a guy and his twin sister who make the narrator and 3 other people from the narrator’s school(one guy who’s deaf but can hear in dreams,one popular girl who’s nice in the dreams but while awake/ has no contact with the others because she doesn’t remember the dreams,and another girl who only speaks russian,(but speaks english in the dreams) and is a little overweight but she’s skinny as a pin in dreams), fall into dreaming at any given moment(dangerous) because they need their aide because they’re being experimented on and the drugs/and or procedures are killing them. So the thing is , the others have never seen these people and have no idea where and why the twins are being experimented on…..I still need to elaborate because this isn’t a complete summary but THERE, that’s what I’m working on.

    Oh and sorry Alissa, I don’t know any legends.

  945. Well that makes me feel better-not (borat hahaha!). but as soon as i finish my exams, i’m going to write a book.

    And just what is this ‘Roanoke lost colony’? i’ve read Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony, but, Roanoke????

  946. yes you must elaborate on that one. it sounds very interesting. ooo ill go google it. 🙂 and mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation, i do the same exact thing. my theology teacher teacher was like that doesnt look like notes, and im like yeah mabey thats cause their not. then he got mad at me. but he was like whatever its your own fault if you fail the class. (yeah like thas going to happen. i have a 98 average and he knows it.)

  951. Nick: the Roanoke lost colony was the first British settlement in America. When the next colonists came from Britain three years later, all that was left of them was the word “Croatoan” carved into one of the fort posts. What I’m looking for is any legends about anything supernatural, magic, etc., in connection to it.

  952. That sounds cool… *swiftly consults wikipedia page*

    Ok, weird things that could have been caused by darklings;

    1 titanic. It sails across some coordinate where darklings live. An underwater darkling (with a narwhale-esque spear thingy) makes a hole in the side of the ship. It sinks.

    2 Murder of the princes in the tower. in ye olde englande in the 1470’s Richard (soon to be king Richard III) wanted to be king, but the ex-king’s nephews were still alive. So he locked them up. Then they dissapeared. Richard was king. (then Henry VII killed him but anyway…) The common theory is that Richard had them killed. Shakespeare wrote a play about it. but what if a darkling ate them?

    3 William Rufus’s murder. Once again, in ye olde Englande, in the 12th century, there was this king called William Rufus. He went hunting. He died. the theory is that it was an accident, that someone just shot an arrow, which bounced off a tree and killed him, or that rebels killed him. But what if a darkling ate him and his hunting party? (they kinda scapererd pretty quick coz they had probably killed the king)

  954. Okay so im a bit late…. about a year to be exact, but HEY i just discover the wonderful world of scott w. during early febuary!!!

    First of let me say wat i feel about blue noon, seeing how i just finished it like at 12:30 pm which was like an hour ago or so:

    It made me MAD. well more like depressed. I guess because im not the type of person to just finish the book and more on, i kind of over think books and keep my mind on them for a few weeks after i have read the books. SPECIALLY depressing endings…

    It was cools to see that you thought about the whole age difference that was to come, i wasnt sure as a read the first few sentences about what had happen to jess, that you would say it. Which made me even sadder.

    I know they are just characters but i have a weird obsession and now i will think about poor jess for at least a good month. So now when im in precal and i fail my test becos there was NO 4th BOOK its going to be YOUR fault.

    But its not fair!!!!! i want to cry. all i can think about is how unfair this is for jess, she tries to save the world and gets herself pretty much killed. AND there is no 4th book. Unfair. I really expected for you to say it would wear off…. So now im going to be thinking about my own alternative ending about how jess goes back to normal.

    See this is what your making me do!!! obsess over fake people at 1 am in the morning!!!!!!! I hope you are please with yourself. With one word you could have changed this!!!!! With one more book you could make BILLIONS of people happy… we would all love you eternally…

    i was so exasperated over the end. i def am not going to get sleep untill i form my own ending that makes jess go back to the regular time. At first i thought the secret our was gone forever, then i relized it was worse.

    THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH SCOTT W. FOR MY NEW OBSESSION.

  955. Hey Scott, when you wrote the Risen Empire were the names ‘Nara’ and ‘Rana’ just a coincidence, or did you do that on purpose?

  957. I always forget to post on these threads! I read this book nearly a year ago! I only vaguely remember it. Though I did like the joke-ish bit about The Catcher in the Rye. I remember I laughed really hard and showed it to my English teacher because I had read that book for class. Yeah.

  959. the jokish bit about catcher in the rye is the bit when rex goes back to get his books (and catcher in the rye) but attacks someone, and forgets it and has to go back again.

  960. (im still obsess over a 4th book but since it looks like it wont be happening anytime soon..)

    Rex called wat happened to jess a “temporal dependence” whats up with that. Temporal doesnt mean forever, meaning that she wont stay like that forever. So techinically this “temporal dependence” that she needs to stay in the blue time will end soon. BECOS ITS ONLY TEMPORAL!!!

    thats the way i thought about it until i googled the word up and besides being used in temporaly it mean “pertaining to time” or something like that….

    great looks like jess is stuck in the blue time till the 4th books comes out, or until i go bananas and my brain gets fried…

  961. mmmmm, fried bananas. Anyway, what happens if jess ‘folds out of the air’ and someone’s standing right their?

    so…

    Jonathan is standing around, it turns midnight, Jess appears in the same spot as he is. They are siamese twins on their hands forever. Jess escapes the blue time and can fly w/ jonathan anytime.

    kind of hard to explain to parents though

  962. Haha yeah Rose, I don’t know if Scott will give Jessica a couple of years, or 300 years!(Hahah Uglies!!)! Oh and ironically I started the series in early February too, but of last year.

    And um for the temporal dependence thing on pg.368, it said that,”But the flame-bringer had become something altogether different,a whole new kind of midnight creature. She wasn’t frozen during daylight….she simply wasn’t. Rex called it “temporal dependence.'”
    -So that quote maybe adds a little permanence to the situation.But who knows…. SCOTT?!!

    But yeah I’ve been really thinking about the epilogue. I mean why couldn’t it be that Jessica couldn’t go into the secret hour anyore and that she doesn’t remember ANYTHING(the others,darklings), then she would at LEAST live for the rest of the day(no problem w/ parents/beth/ or probably even Jonathan because I think he would rather have it this way). But the least Jessica couldv’e done was to leave her parents a note just saying that she’s leaving(but she doesn’t HAVE to get into great detail about the secret hour), instead of making her parents think that she’s dead!No offense, but maybe they’d have greater closure physically KNOWING that’s she’s dead.

    oh and has anyone ever wondered who the people on the back covers were? I mean’s there’s five, but they don’t look like the midnighters.

  963. Haha, Nick.

    I like this idea.
    Makes me laugh to think of Jessica and Jonathan “joined at the hand”

    But, are you saying that when Jessica pops into midnight, if she and Jonathan are standing in the same spot, their hands will fuse?

    Hmmm,

    I don’t think I’m understanding.
    But I think, if I have interpreted your statement right, you may have a point there.

    But wouldn’t they just fall on each other if that were to happen?

    And if they were joined at the hand I think they would just explode or rip apart after midnight was over ( . . . ow ).

  964. Demensiona,

    I always thought the people on the back cover were midnighters.

    Hmmm, I’ll take a second look

    AGONY!
    I went to the bookstore this weekend and saw that they published Bluue Noon in paperback!

    I have the first two in paperback, and I broke down and bought the third in hardback when it came out. That bugs the CRAP outta me!

    GRRR.

    Oh well

  966. Demensiona,
    I just took a look at the back covers, and I’m really not sure, I think they’re suppossed to be the midnighters, but they really don’t look much like them.
    Also, a while back you asked if anyoen knew if the book mentioned the midnighters’ birthdays. Well, I finally got a chance to skim through the books, and all I could find was that Jessica is a Leo, but that’s pretty all I could find on their birthdays.

  967. Yeah elodie, I had the same book problem w/ Midnighters AND Uglies!

    And yeah mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation, they don’t really look like the midnighters but I’m pretty sure that one of the guys on the back cover is Jonthan because that same person is on the front cover of Blue Noon.And thankyou SO much for the midnighter birthday news!

  968. yeah i just went and looked at the back cover but theres onll one or twopeople that could even pass for girls so… mabey they’re just random people that look cool when its all dark- colorish. so im not sure. i guess its supposed to midnighters but they sure arent the bixby midnighters.

  969. the people on the back of my english copy are the same as those on the front and i assume they are the midnighters and there are 5.

    and what i meant was, yes, their hands would be fused together forever, but because they are now linked together, Jessica exists in both the blue time and daylight, as does Jonathan. So she escapes. and they can fly together. and scott writes another book…….

  970. unless of course Jessica pulls Jonathan into a frozen in midnight potentialy forever state just like she is. although Jonathan might like that because then they wouldnt have to worry about the gigantic age difference thing later on.

  971. Well if they’re going to do that, then they’d better hurry up!

    There is five people on the back but maybe they’re just random people throughout the series like maybe the only girl I see is like constanza or Beth. But I don’t know I mean I KNOW one of the people on the back is jonathan but hmm…

  973. yes, jonathan and jessica both trapped in midnight would make a good book, because they can both fly together. then rex and melissa would try to get them out, and jonathan would be like, yeah, it would be cool to see my family again, but now i can fly forever. that would make a cool book. hint hint, Scott.

  974. That’s all fine and dandy for Jessica and Jonathan, but wouldn’t they miss the real world?

    I suppose they wouldn’t mind watching decades go by if they’re together.

    Hmmm, if Blue Noon would’ve ended that way, with Jessica AND Jonathan trapped, the series wouldn’t have *demanded* another installment to the midnighters.

    Scott has to do something! He can’t just leave us here!

    (Quick, stupid question for Nick; do the people across the pond know who Jamie Cullum or Franz Ferdinand is?)

  976. She’s probably from the U.S. because I’ve heard of them too(My sister has Jamie Cullum’s cd)ImInloveWithJonathan, and I’m from california. Yeah I would have loved for Jonathan to be trapped w/ Jessica but that would be ironically too simple. But I love the idea!

  978. Jamie Cullum ????? but yes, i have heard of Franz Ferdinand, not that i like him or anything…

    Americans should find this joke funny, or at least see why it is a joke (it isnt particularly funny);

    One day, an american person adopted a little 8-year-old mexican boy, called Jose. He took him to a baseball match, and afterwards, asked him how he liked it. Jose said ‘Oh, it was great, and Americans are so polite! at the beginning, everyone stood up and asked me if i could see the pitch….’

    and a joke for english people, (americans won’t get this one)

    how to you get two whales in a car?
    Drive up the M5

    the point is there is a country called Wales next to England, and the M(otorway) 5 is the highway that goes to it from England. (it isnt very funny, but still)

  982. Oh my freakin’ goodness

    I did not mean to spur a conversation, I just wanted to know if anyone over there liked those groups.

    Nobody over here does, so I figured I would ask someone who knows, but apparently they are not popular over there either, so I’m alone.

    (I’m sorry! I just wanted to know!)

    This is a midnighters site!

    Now let’s talk some midnighters.

    magnetization magnetographs magnetometers magnetometric magnetopauses magnetosphere magnetostatic magnification magnificences magnificently magniloquence mailabilities mainstreaming

    (M; the thirteenth letter of the alphabet)

  983. I’m studying ancient greek, and because it is inflected, i thought it would be a great language for tridecalogisms. (inflected is when you put endings onto the end of words, or it can be iffa you speaka like thissa)

    ‘nu’ is the 13th letter of the greek alphabet. (i don’t know how to type greek on this post, but Symbol, on microsoft word is greek. but beware, the letters are on slightly different spaces than they are to english keyboards.)

    greek has 24 words for ‘the’ (in different cases) and you have to chant them to learn them.

    Greek tridecalogism:epothanouthemen (‘th’ is one letter) it means ‘we died’ (aorist tense, which is a bit like past tense, but not really, because its just we died, instead of we HAVE died)

    if you want to see this in greek, go to microsoft word, select symbol in the font and type ‘hpoqanouqemen’ (greek keyboards are different)

    linguistic word: subjunctive. everybody says ‘huh, what?’ its like a sort of maybe feeling on the word, but we do actually have a subjunctive in english. verbs in 3rd person singular have an ‘s’ on the end, like;
    he dieS
    but if you say;
    he would…

    ‘would’ has no ‘s’ on the end, and is in the subjunctive. (and if you say ‘he would die’, then ‘die’ is in the conditional.) sorry, i just thought that is really cool, how people do’nt know about their own language, i certainly didnt know this until i started learning latin.

  988. long time no post dess is assasanation not assassination? (13) and M the 13 letter of he alphabet cool

  990. is latin or greek phonetic?

    because i cannot pronounce any of what you just wrote

    i think it’s funny that phonetic isn’t phonetic

  992. SCOTT, well how would i go about getting a book (the one i have in progress) edited and published? And how can i liek email or write you? PLease anouther book for Jess’s and Johnathan’s sake!
    EVERYONE: I have written a song for the Midnighters Jess and Johnathan. So bear with me, it’s a little Rocky.

    “Separated by a world, A moon, the Sun, Everything, Is their love doomed. And Flyboy sees the lightning which tore them apart in her eyes. She sees the gravity pulling at him, he can’t live resist no more, She haunts his dreams and his thoughts. She’s is the Blue Moon to him

  993. Whoa, a lot of info hmm..

    Interesting jokes nick(ironically I only understood the english joke) and ancient Greek’s totally fool! Fawesome ImInLoveWithJonathan on the JONATHAN bit. Awesome trides Elodie!And Um whitewolf I believed I spelled ASSASINATION right because I typed the word on yahoo to make sure I spelled it right. And fawesome song Megan!

  994. cool song.

    elodie, latin is very phonetic, but what i wrote there was greek, which can be sort of phonetic. in fact, the greek for voice is phone (but you say it phonay) so thats where phonetic probably comes from.

    ancient greek for midnight is ‘mesos nux’
    and in latin ‘media nox.’, but if you want to say at midnight it would be media nocte (with a long ‘a’ on the end of media)
    French is minuit.
    my etymological (12 letters) dictionary does not mention midnight.
    do any of you know what it is in Spanish or something?

  1001. Cool, we’ve reached 1,000 posts.
    Thats some dedication. Now Scott will HAVE to write a sequel. (Hint Hint)

  1002. i suppose we aren’t being blunt enough. We would like very much if there was some sort of continuation to the series Scott. That would make us very, VERY happy. and forget Alloy. write another one anyway. there’s always loop holes. what parts to the story do they own? just spell something differently or i dont know something. we will die if there is no more midnighters!!!!!!!!!!!

  1003. Dang, you guys must be on the oppostite time of me.

    One school day, and you guys have written 11 posts, already.

    You beat me to it on the 1,000 posts, Nick.

    German midnight is mitternacht
    (I am actually taking french, but Nick beat me to the french midnight, too)

    Italian is mezzanotte.

    hmmm, can’t seem to find one with 12 or 13 letters.

  1004. منتصف الليل

    Arabic for midnight

    . . . you tell me how many letters

  1007. cool!!
    umm, how did you type in Arabic, Elodie? i want to see if i can do it for Greek.

    We have Midnight in 12 languages (including English)!!

  1010. I’m taking Spanish too ImInLoveWithJonathan, YaY, my last year!! And I agree with you nick, that we’ve made a fine proposition, if people can trade a thousand souls, why can’t we trade a thousand posts of dedication for another book! And fawesome languages guys, (the arabic one looks really cool elodie)! I’m guessing copy and paste? Anyways that’s totally fool!

  1011. Google does everyhting but wash the dishes. (That’s where I got the Arabic script)

    I feel like we aren’t talking enough midnighters.

    Someone give me a condensed explanation of the rips. I really didn’t understand when I read it. I mostly read for plot movement, and I only have a vague understanding of this concept.

  1012. aaah, now i can post in greek

    this is greek = θις ις γρεεκ

    or actually in greek: Ελλαδα εστιν both words should have little apostrophe things at the front, but looking like backward c’s, because the vowels need a smooth breathing on them.

    okay, this is how to do it (it doesnt work if you copy it from word): go to wikipedia, (or other such sites) and search for the alphabet you want. Copy it letter by letter into your post.

  1014. haha elodie, we talk about anything and EVERTHING, haha. But hmm, something pertaining to midnighters:

    -I haven’t heard anything on casting for the midnighters show but it IS airing sometime this year(IMDB told me so), and I don’t know a channel. Who do you guys think should be casted as the midnighters?

    Jessica-Danielle Panabaker
    Jonathan-?
    Melissa-?
    Rex-?
    Dess-?

    -And other characters, you guys can fill in the blanks.

    -As for the rips, I’m not too sure/Dess was killing my brain w/ the geostationary.hmm..

    -And fawesome on the greek nick!

  1015. i think the rips were where daylighters could enter the blue time (at midnight), so they were more like caves than rips. also fire can burn even if a flamebringer is not ‘supporting’ it they only need to start it.

    Who is this Danielle Panabaker of which you speak (or type). Wouldnt they have already cast the tv show by now if its coming out this year? and probably filmed most of it too.

  1018. oooo guess what! i just got a beta fish. her name is Dess and my goldfish’s name is rex. i was going to naem him jonathan but he looks more like a rex. im going to pictures on my website later. obsessed? who me? nah.

  1019. Wow….i just read all the 1018 comments and wow it really gets you thinking….but still going back to comment 510 Jessicas last name might indicate the flame bringer, or the day going into the blue time….. all of it was very long and i think if we can find Alloyz website we can start a petition to Alloy asking to allow scott to make up to 13 books (no not really but it would be neat!) and about the movie…..i would get really mad if they ruined it!

  1022. hmmm, a petition sounds like a good idea, but the last series that was 13 books i.e. a series of unfortunate events, was terrible. it started off ok, but then it got repetitive and boring, using the same style over and over. Of course, a lot of people kept reading to find out about baudelaire parents etc.

    so what i’m saying is yes, more books, but don’t decide beforehand that youre going to write 13, coz if you run out of ideas at, say, number 7, then you’ll keep on writing 6 not-so-great books. So write more, Scott, but not too many. Oh, and keep writing Extras too.

  1023. aah, if only i was in America then i would watch it. I hope they didnt make everyone in their 20’s…

    and theyre making a MOVIE???

  1025. oh oops i made a mistake…it comes out tommorrow not today! april 7 not 6th so you all still have a day!

  1027. that youtube thing doesnt really look like a trailer, but anyway… i wish i could see it… well, Dr. Who started last week, so i guess that makes it about even.

  1028. OK, on the topic of the midnighters TV show, I think Scott would have said something. Wouldn’t he have? Also, I found that same trailer on utube over a month ago, so if there is a show, it has probably aired a while back, or I missed the part where it said the air date. I guess I’ll check tomorrow night and see.

  1030. By the way, what’s EFT? I mean I know it’s a television channel, but I’ve never heard of it.

  1032. Well whatever channel eft is, I don’t have it/ and I have like all the channels(even the youtube channel). And yeah nick, good point on casting, hmm. Well I WOULD think that Scott would’ve known before us. But Hmm.. I don’t know, I’m confused!!

  1033. I’m completely confused too. First of all, I guessed the EFT had something to do with CW since that was the channel that Scott said Midnighters would be on if it was turned into a show, so I looked in the cable guide and there is nothing listed for tomorrow night about midnighters. Second of all, I looked it up on the internet, and I couldn’t find anything at all that said it was coming out tomorrow. In fact, there’s no more information then what Scott has mentioned in his previous posts. So I’m confused. Does anyone have more information?

  1034. Hey, everyone.

    The EFT trailer is a hoax. Which is somewhat amusing, but there ain’t no show.

    “no i cheked on EFT website…its airing tommorrow!”

    Heh. Is this sort of hoax flattering? Discuss.

  1035. Thank you Scott. I kind of guessed that it wasn’t real. I mean even with your approaching deadline, (By the way, good luck with that) I was guessing that you would remember to tell us if the show was coming out. Thanks again for confirming that it wasn’t real for us.

  1036. I suppose a hypothetical television series is somewhat flattering, but since it was posted on a hoax gossip website about celebrities (at least that’s what I got out of the front page) it isn’t so.

    A television series would ruin midnighters.
    It would be an absolute joke. An insult to all things midnighters. The thought is repulsive.

    Yet if a series came out, I would watch it, but it would be cheesy:

    “Oh, another Thursday night at 7/8 PM central, so I’m going to sit down in front of my idiot box with a bag of popcorn and see who turns into a halfling this week!”

    It would be utterly and completely idiotic.

    but I would watch it.

    midnighters deserves more than that!

    an annual life limited to one hour a week, treated either as a soap opera or teeney bopper television is so below the series’s worth.

    I could deal with a movie. In fact I would thoroughly enjoy a midnighters movie, just as I anticipate Uglies. Films are in higher regard than telelvision. Films can be artistic and are scored beautifully, while television is a joke.

    Don’t let ’em do it, Scott!

  1037. Yeah I would much rather have a movie, because there’s only so much that PRODUCERS can stretch in a show. But there IS a show though. Oh and thanks Scott, a hoax IS flattering, but it would of saved me hours from looking through ALL MY FREAKING CHANNELS and FRANTICALLY LOOKING THROUGH THE INTERNET!But I guess that’s dedication for you, hahaha!

  1038. so, wait, was Guy making the hoax, or just fooled by it?

    and Scott, have you finished your deadline yet? was that a celebratory post, or a ‘aaaaaaaargh the strain is too much, i need a distraction’-type post?

    and i’ve never heard of eft. hey, maybe it stands for electronic ferret television…

  1040. no i dont think that scott made it. he said it was flattering for them to make a hoax about there being a tv show on it. and remember his enormously long post about the tv show? he was tricked too. i still have random thoughts about the wierd trupets. and guy i knew scott would have told us if it was real. oooooo electronic ferret television. sounds fun. or maybe its extraordinary formularizing thoroughbreds.

  1041. o and nick he still has a liitle less than two days until his deadline is up. he was probably just doing something other than pooring himself into extras for a few min. its better than dancing with a pot on your head all the while still writing extras. my friends, i believe scott has cracked. (see last blog scott put up. or should i say justine put up for him. justine said something in the comments about scott dancing with a pot on his head.)

  1043. Oh and this has nothing to do w/ midnighters , but has anyone read EVOLUTION’S DARLING, Scott? If so, can you PLEASE tell me that Darling was ALWAYS a male, because I’m getting a little freaked out. Man Scott what reading level is this novel? I’m serious, this is the first novel that I’ve had to sit down w/ a dictionary cracked open.Ugh I’m just kind of stuck where I am right now. Ugh I guess I’m just going to have to retire soon due to lack of understanding, and I hate doing that. But I love the quotes I’ve read so far, they’re totally fawesome!

    -Now on a midnighters note,um, are we dried out of talents because I think I’m getting there, hmmm…

  1047. Yeah, I think we’ve pretty buch come up with every sensible talent. I mean I’ve been coming up with more details on the talents that we have already come up with, but I can’t really think of anymore.

    Also, I think what Scott meant was that the EFT thing about a show coming out on the 7th was a hoax, not the midnighters CW show. Maybe Scott will be able to tell us after his deadline has pasted.

  1048. o and another thing i just remembered instead of maleficent decever or whatever that name we came up with was for the person that could change their shape how about just calling it a changling or something like that? its alot simpler

  1050. thats cool. a midnighters movie would be fexcelent though. i would like a movie/ movies better than a show. a show would just be kinda… over kill? expecially if they were 20. eww not fool. (i just finished the last days. i like talking like zahler. :))

  1051. Well ImInLoveWithJonathan, the only problem about changing maleficient concealer’s name is that we already have a shape-shifter/changling, but I don’t know. And I would definetly prefer a movie too, because a movie is either good or bad. A show can carry UNNECESSARY ALTERATIONS, and has the potential to not be bad, but FORRIBLE!

    And don’t worry Guy, some local channel will get back at EFT!!

    And hey I agree w/ you mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation but if it’s on the CW, what show are they going to boot off this year? I’m thinking that midnighters would be on either Sunday or Thursday because some shows aren’t doing too well but I’m not sure, hmm..

  1052. o darn it i though the maleficent conceler was the changling. i was going through the talents we already made up and trying to adapt them last night. darn it. i thought it was one talent. wait i thought the maleficent conceler one was the one that could change shape.

  1054. remind me, what does ‘cw’ stand for? its a TV channel, right?

    and how about a talent where you can either possess darklings and slithers, or stiffs and animals. or where you can walk through walls and stuff.

  1057. guys major breakthrough! i was rereading the comments and look at this comment scott put:
    scott
    February 13th, 2007 13:05 707
    “Astonishingly misunderstood compatibility.”

    Yes, that’s fexcellent.

    Sorry I haven’t posted on this thread for about four zillion comments, but you all seem to be getting along pretty well without me. Yes, there is an issue with Midnighters, which is that I don’t own all the rights. A company called Alloy (Gossip Girl, The Clique, etc.) has half of the “franchise,” which makes me less inclined to continue the series.

    But perhaps one day!

    See you guys around, and thanks for keeping this thread stirring. I read ALL comments, even though I mostly lurk.

    Ciao for now.

    less inclined! does that mean its still possible for him to write more? i took that as they wouldn’t let him but… oooOOOooo maybe there still is a chance for us! i’m happy now 🙂

  1059. hmmmm i think it means taht either he won’t fully own the book, or he is not allowed to write another, unless they ‘commision’ one. However, every stupid rule has a loophole, so, perhaps ‘Scott Northerfeld’ should write a fourth (and fifth and sixth…) midnighters book, so Alloy doesnt own the rights to it too. isnt it weird that alloys stop darklings, and Alloy is stopping Scott from writing another. after the EFT hoax i’m feeling particularly paranoid…

  1062. no what i meant was more: ‘scott is a darkling, alloys are thwarting his every move.’ but wouldnt the darklings want to have books written about them so that more people would try to communicate with them like the grayfoots did which helped the darklings coz they could make a halfling.

  1063. yeah i figured that. but that would be making us, the crazyed fan-people, the slithers. and i guess so but the place for making halfling was kinda defiled but maybe now that midnight is everywhere they can make them other places. oooOOOooo scary making. 🙂

  1064. Ok, let me explain the Malifecent Concealer power again. The malifecent Concealer can change shape, but they do not just change shape. They are on the darklings side. They are completely against other midnighters, and they age like darklings after a certain age (this is something new I came up with, what do you think? Also, my maleficent concealer stopped aging after age eight. She’s only twelve, but she’s been alive for 104 years!)
    Also, the maleficent concealer would have the same fears of alloys and new metals as the darklings do, so even in human form they are pretty much Rex in the third book, except they have no control over their darkling side, because their darkling side is their only side.
    Maleficent Concealer is one of the most powerful powers, and they can only be killed when they are changing form. I hope this clears a little bit of the confusion on the maleficent concealer power up.

    Also, I have no idea what CW stands for, but it is a TV channel.

    There has to be some kind of loop hole some where, but Scott will have to make sure he is careful if he decides to do something like that.

  1065. Hey slithers! No I’m just kidding, hey guys!

    I was told that the “C” in the CW stands for the CBS corporation, which is the owner of the channel UPN. The “W” stands for Warner bros.

    -Do you guys follow? Because I had to read that over a couple of times.

    Oh and when scott said that he would be less inclined, I thought that he meant that because alloy has all of these restrictions and control, that he would be less willing to continue the series. Someone please tell me I’m wrong!

    -Mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation, Maleficient concealer couldn’t be more fawesome!

    Oh, and this is random, but was Ada Lovelace, the doll, used as a weapon because I forget. If so, I think I have a pretty fawesome midnighter talent, for the younger midnighters, haha!

  1066. I don’t think Ada Lovelace was ever used as a weapon.

    Also, I’m so happy, my fourth midnighters book is now 42 hand written pages (front and back). I’ve now advanced from a midnighters notebook to a midnighters three ring binder!

  1067. okay im still obsess over the fact that there should be a 4th book.

    But to make my point more clear, other than the fact that we would all love you very much, would be grateful, would die of impatientness, and would squeel with joy when it would come out.

    Points To Why This Wonderful Author (see doesnt that make you want to please us?) Should make a 4th for Midnighters:

    1) Does beth find the poeple who know about the blue time?

    2) How would johnathan be able to quite school? runaway? pretend he’s dead? im not sure he could just say “Dad bye, im taking your car, see you never.”

    2) How WOULD they all travel? Would Jess be able to use her ability to make the car work? If Johnathan and Jess traveled flying and dess flew with them, and then came back to were they left the car, then it makes it a very long process.

    3) Just like Dess said, most of the time the darklings dont eat because they are like lions. They have to sleep and stuff. Well, Wouldnt jess get tired and want to sleep eventually breaking Johnathan’s plan for his hour?

    4) Where would they get a car to travel from?

    5) Does Jessica pop or FOLD out of the same spot she stood on last? Can she will herself to appear wherever she wants?

    6) How would they know the border of the blue time?

    —> VERY IMPORTANT REASON **7) If Jessica passed thru the border, would she die? Would it be like a glass cage? Would she be back to normal time? Stuck being normal were the blue time doesnt reach, and stuck in midnight where there IS a blue time?

    8) Were would they get money to travel from?

    9) What are some other powers that midnighters have?

    10) What about dess?

    11) What about rex? is he better?

    12) Could jessica eat frozen time food?

    13) What about not being frozen in time?? Jess i mean, she just FOLDS out… weird.

    14) well.. i cant think of a fourteenth reason, but i think 13 reasons are good.

  1069. o scott! please wright another book for us. if you don’t we will come up with more confusing questions that become even more complex. and besides WE WILL ALL DIE WITHOUT THE MIDNIGHTERS!! o and side note, i added that dess was a character in the midnighters on the wikipedia site for desdemona. but the link for the midnighters takes you to some band not the book.

  1070. Man, too bad for Ada Lovelace, but anyway, I want a fourth book!!!!!!Please!?!

    I wish midnighters was under the same company as Uglies,because I would think that there would be a book by now! I mean ugh! I wish Scott was secretly working on another book, and one day he’d just throw it at us like on Samhain !

    I mean I probably have like a billion and 1 questions to add to that open ended list like:

    (14).Is Jessica like an android now, does she still have human properties ,because if not she’ll die if she ever gets out of the dimension.

    (15). Will Jessica stay in the dimension for another 300 years and say hi to Tally Youngblood(uglies)?

    (16). Is Rex on a killing spree?

    (17).Would Beth be like 19 in what would be another book?Is she sane, does she look more like Jessica, what’s she doing?Is she still w/ Cassie? Does she hang w/ Dess/Rex?Is she now a secret hour expert?

    (18).Will any new love triangles create?(Is M and R/Jand J still together? Or has anything shifted/moved on?)?

    (19).Would Constanza reappear?

    (20).What’s w/ the darklings, are the midighters going to have to help slay giant worms(TLD)now?

    (21). Are both of Jessica’s Parents alive and healthy?Do they hold a grudge against jonathan?Are they still married?Did they move back to Chicago?

    (22).Will new/other midnighters steal from stores and play pranks?

    (23).What was w/ the water?

    (24.)What happened to Jonathan’s mom, is she still alive?

    The questions are endless!!

  1071. ‘Will Jessica stay in the dimension for another 300 years and say hi to Tally Youngblood(uglies)?’ but how could she, she’s still stuck in midnight… unless Tally is a midnight, or the specials figure out how to free her…

    a better book would be Jessica waiting for millions of years, until she somehow escapes due to technology, and then she’s in the Risen Empire (she could either be nara oxham, rana harter, or katherie hobbes. (doesnt that make you think of Calvin and Hobbes) That would be an interesting book… Especiallly if it was Rex who really invented the symbiant not to save his sister, but to get over his darklingness, and he’s the emperor…

  1072. (24.)What happened to Jonathan’s mom, is she still alive?

    i think it said she left jonmathan’s dad but i didnt really say what ever happened to her. scott! what happened to jonathan’s mom? thats a good question. and i think the waterthing was just comic relief. not really pertaining to anything important in the story just something funny. but i could be wrong.

  1073. who was it that was saying something about the roanoke lost colony? im reading a book right now that says stuff about that in it. theres something about the work “croatin” (that might not be how you spell it though) its called blue bloods. its about vampires and it all relates to the colonies in roanoke and with the mayflower. its really good. im almost done it right now. if you want to know, its called blue bloods by melissa de la cruz

  1074. (25) what about the other midnighter’s parents? do they figure anything out? does beth tell jessica’s parents about midnight? what happened to rex’s mom… she was never mentioned. Maybe melissa could ‘repair’ Rex’s dad from craziness, coz now he’s half darkling he wouldnt be afraid of him and the spiders. does it even mention jonathan’s parents? or dess’s? or melissa’s?

  1075. Wait a minute, the Risen Empire takes place millions years later? I mean, that’s after Uglies. Whoa, so it goes Midnighters,Peeps/ Last Days, Uglies, Risen Empire?That’s fool… Okay that’s it, I’m buying the Risen Empire and the Killing of worlds, it’s settled.

    Yeah ImInLoveWithJonathan, I think you’re right w/ the water.Maybe it too, was a simple diversion used in order to intensify the irony of Epilogue.

    Oh and nick, I don’t think that Melissa/Rex would really want to fix Rex’s dad under the the circumstances of the past. Plus, isn’t Rex’s dad like brain dead now? Um Jonathan and Dess’s parent’s were briefly mentioned, Melissa’s barely, but I think Scott did that on purpose. Like in a way saying that again the midnighters hence Jessica are just strangers living in their parent’s houses.

    Could you guys imagine if Melissa’s parents,Dess’s dad, Rex’s Dad, and Jonathan’s MOM knew/ had known that they were midnighters? What would that be like?Hmmm.. I don’t know, but maybe I doubt that that’s the case.But it doesn’t stop me from wondering.

    And what about when Melissa and Rex were little and they always tried to find what’s at the end of, was it a lightening bolt? I never quite understood that part.

    And remember in the Secret hour(book), when the midnighters were in the snake pit and trying to decipher Jessica’s talent, why hadn’t he heard of the flame-bringer before, why hadn’t Melissa tasted it?Was this some kind of talent that Maddy created, if that’s possible?Is there only ONE flame-Bringer?

  1076. Oh and another thing, you guys HAVE to read Jessica’s horoscope, it’s almost scary!:

    Sun in LEO – ruled by the Sun – Planet of Leadership

    Element: Fire
    Color: Golden yellow and Orange
    Gem: Ruby
    Metal: Gold
    Jul. 23-Aug.22

    You are a born leader with a strong need for recognition. This sign is ruled by the Sun and as such the limelight is a natural state of being for you, even if this trait manifests simply as being recognized and applauded in some way for a particular talent or ability.

    You have to read the rest!:
    http://www.skyviewzone.com/sunsigns2/leo2.htm

  1077. Ok, that is slightly scary. (Ok, more then slightly) I wonder if Scott meant for it to be that way or something.

    Quick question that has nothing to do with midnighters: Does anybody else have standerdized testing this week? Or coming up? Just wondering. Also, does anyone else find it as annoying as I do?

  1078. Nick: I think Melissa’s parents weren’t mentioned because there wasn’t much to say. She’s a mindcaster, so basically her parents are her personal slaves. Remember at the end of Blue Noon, it mentioned that Rex had new rules about mindcasting stiffs, and Melissa’s parents were starting to ask where her car was.
    Up until that point I figure she rpogrammed them to let her do whatever she wanted.

  1079. ummm… yes… horoscopes are always scientifically accurate… (NOT!!!) but interesting… Do you think Scott did this on purpose?

    and what i meant was, now that melissa is more in control of her powers, she could make rex’s dad sane again, but also not as evil… then, in the fourth book, he could team up with everyone elses parents, and go off looking for their children, who have to save them from darklings, coz somehow they go into a rift or something… (oops, there i go again… pity Scott doesnt WRITE ANOTHER ONE)

  1080. yeah scott. we’ve given you more than enough ideas to go off of to make about, o i dont kno, enough midnighters books to last us our life times! come on one more. thats all i ak of you (until i finish midnighters 4 of course. then we’ll beg for mignighters 5. and so on and so forth)

  1081. You know what ImInLoveWithJonathan, I would just be happy w/ ONE book.(but I sure don’t mind others). I mean, I would rather have a book(s) than a show.

    And mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation, I actually like reading the passages on standardize testing, but I hate the math portion. I’m so far from being from a polymath that it’s not even funny!

    And horoscopes are just for fun! Just like Astrology(made up of false theories).Oh and nick,got it, sanity!

    And I totally agree w/ you Alissa, mindcasters are supposed to be pretty much self- reserved, in the parent sense.

  1082. Isn’t this date interesting?

    “p.211 next day (Thurs., Sept. 11) Jess ungrounded, kisses Jonathan on top of Pegasus sign.”

    And I don’t really remember/understand this part:

    “p.302 two midnights later (midnight of Sun., Sept. 14) right after midnight time, Melissa picks up on human thought threat to Jessica.”

    And Jessica BURNED Rex back into human form?:

    “p.248 next day (Fri. Sept 26) Rex kidnapped, changed into darkling, Anathea released but dies, Jessica burns Rex back into human form.”

    And I didn’t know that Jessica had been in the dimension for 2 WEEKS already!:

    “p.336 two weeks later (mid-Nov.) Beth taken by midnighters to remains of rip, meets Jessica.”

    Interesting Chronology Scott!!

  1084. o and i have come to the conclusion that i am being attacked by darklings in my sleep. i wake up every morning with more random scratches all over my arm. it cant be my dog(if she jumped on me during the night she would kill me shes so fat) the only LOGICAL explination would be darklings i mean it couldn’t be me doing it to myself(i mean really) 🙂 jk. i dont really think darklings are attacking me. but it could happen. 🙂

  1085. Oh k My spelling is so bad 🙁 Scott if your ever on you codent give me some writing tips im wrighting a book at the moment but I keep wanting it to be like perfect and starting it over again 🙁

  1086. Oh my gosh Scratches, ImInLoveWithJonathan! Well I don’t really want to conflict w/ anyone’s beliefs, but there was a case like that on that show Montel/Sylvia Brown, and this guy was like wipped or something in like his past life or something and he had slashes on his back, arms, and legs. It’s YOUR subconscience doing it, but you’re not literally cutting yourself, the mind is a crazy thing(or is it memory).You probably have horrible dreams when this happens. Um I think she said like go to sleep w/ a night light(white candle/surround yourself w/ the white light) or something like that.And you’re like supposed to say like leave all my traumas in the past , so they don’t follow you in this life or something.I know I might sound crazy , but the guy said it worked. So you’ll be okay ImInLoveWithJonathan.

    Oh and Whitewolf, I have the same problem w/ writing books, I’m such a perfectionist. A good tip is to start writing your book out of order/what ever comes to mind. And also become familiar w/ author’s writing style/tactics, that’s were I get my vocabulary from!

  1087. wow i might try that. going for supernatural reasons is more fun than “you probably hit your arm on your shelf” i wonder if that will actually work. hmmmmm might have to try that. ill let you know. thanks.

  1088. and i love the concept of past lives. they say that when you have deja vu, its actually your past life and your current life over lapping. thats so cool. and depending on how you acted (doing your darma and getting good karma) in your life you are reborn as one step closer to Nirvana. and when you reach the state of being a brahmin- the highest state of life (i think thats what it was called) you are reborn into nirvana and your life is complete

  1089. Yeah I love the whole past lives concept too. Like most of your fears, supposely in this life, are fears that you had in you’re past lives or those things were like a result of your death.And I saw this really interesting case where this little girl went to this bridge and she said that she died there. And it was true, she did drown from falling off that bridge, and her imaginary friend was her sister from that past life. Crazy huh!

    Hey do any of you guys lucid dream? I heard its freaking fawesome!

    Oh and hmm, I can’t really think of anything midnighters related.But if/WHEN there’s another book(s), I’ll talk forever!!

  1092. Possibility of the scratches thing: there’s something called sympathetic injury, where what happens to one person (or occasionally animal) also happens to someone they have an unusually strong connection to. I always used to get cuts on my hands, and had no clue where they came from, but it turned out my best friend had exactly the same cuts, and I got them from her. And it can happen between a person and an animal too, especially if the human is psychically controlling the actions of the animal.

  1093. Wow Alissa, I never heard of that, that’s interesting! Yeah ImInLoveWithJonathan, Lucid dreaming is when well, you have control of/in your dreams. What you want happens, and you can’t be harmed. Oh and what I meant was that like you’re like remembering/or you think that you still have scratches but you’re not physically carving your nails into your skin, but really I’m the wrong person to really ask about this kind of stuff. But I don’t know, this sympathetic injury sounds about right, hmm.
    You know, I wish I could go into the secret hour, I’m so bored in my dreams that I’d rather be up for an extra hour. I haven’t had a nightmare in like seven years.Hmm, I wonder why?

  1094. i dont get nighmares (much) the only nightmares i ever get are these two reacurring dreams. i get them around the same time too. side note- you have to go see disterbia! it was the best movie ive seen in a while. it was really scary too. we were screaming the whole time (well not the whole time but pretty uch the whole end of the movie.)

  1095. Ok scott why jessica i mean she was my favorite.i cried poor jonathan and what dess said about him only seeing her an hour and when she turns nineteen that jonathan would be old enough to die of old age.

    than when she said oh no everything went black i was sobbing i was saying no no she cant be dead. poor beth. I reallly hope u make more midnighter books. saying that jonathan and jessica stay together 4ever and he somehow gets her out and they live happily ever after. Plus make new midnighter friends then visit rex a little bit in bixby. maybe well ive read all of ur books except the risen empire and the other killing thing. but peeps was what i got hooked on first then last days im glad u brought cal back.

    back to the subject please right another midnighter book id die if u stopped with jess being sucked into the blue time and never coming out. i could never put those books down. it sucks for meliss though that she has to sepend every day with the moping jonathan and i love him. his greatest fear dropping jessica how sweet. and forgetting there first kiss on pegasus. when i was reading that book i loved chapter 21 when he kissed her and she brought him up into the sky and kissed him. well im riting alot. when i waas done reading the secret hour i always read chapter 21 over and over again. I love ur books keep righting please.

    p.s. please please dont let brad kerns at the cw chang their age that ruins the hole concept!

  1096. WOW! I was sooooooooooooooooooooooo mad when you told us that Jonothan could only see Jessica for 1 hour(well obviously but I’m still mad!) I almost hurled the book out my window… but then I would have gone to get it… hehe. So are you going to make more Midnighters books? please do!!!!!

  1097. he said that he can’t really do anymore because STUPID ALLOY owns part of the rights to the story so writing more would be unrealistic. totally sad-making. 🙁 but theres always loopholes. you can make more. we could even make a fund raiser entitled the “buy back the rights to the midnighters so scott can write more of them before the fan people die of anticipation fund raiser” (think of how big the banner would have to be for advertising that one)

  1098. Oh was that movie good ImInLoveWithJonathan?! Oh I’ve been meaning to see it(Shia Lebouf’s fawesome)! Oh and after all this time, because of freaking alloy, I could’ve raised a million bucks by now, myself alone!

    And Hey lauraya and maddie-la! Man I really wish there was another book.I mean I TOTALLY love Uglies, but Uglies had the sort of ending that it COULD’VE stopped,(but you know I’m glad it didn’t!), but yeah.

    Ugh and you guys know what’s weird? A lot of people are simply SCARED(!?!) of the cover(S) of midnighters, or just haven’t heard of the series.I mean the book stores aren’t really helping, I JUST now saw the series in Barnes and Nobles; Uglies and TLD have been advertised like Wonka Bars!(But don’t get me wrong, I LOVE these series!!, AND Wonka bars!!). I mean if this so called SHOW is freaking fawesome, then midnighters should get a whole lot of buzz, if that what midnighters needs in order to continue.

    But its just that midnighters is so freaking fawesome, and its so deep. I never had to walk around like a zombie after reading Uglies or TLD(Not that that’s totally a bad thing). But hmm, maybe Scott IS working on another midnighters book(I hope by the power of Samhain!) because he’s not really doing much after Extras, is he?

    Oh well I’ll wait forever for midnighters, because like a dimension(well the dimension set in MY mind, the one Jessica’s get out of), there’s hope, there’s got to be!!

  1099. Demensiona: “I never had to walk around like a zombie after reading Uglies.” Are you kidding?! I did. Well, Specials, anyway. My brain spent about three days rewiring itself with an ending in which my favorite character was still there lol.

  1101. i know alissa i never had to walk around after uglies i just got alittle mad at the fact that zane died in specials i mean why. he was so good. i mean really and now jessica is stuck ina different world but being in midnight might not be bad if jonathan is there. i mean really i would love to be stuck w/ jonathan in midnight just not meliss i dont want her peaking in on my conversations or thoughts. gosh who would.

  1105. No way the end sucks she like dead but not the ending is not good i was crying my eyes out she will never be able to talk to her family again i hate the ending you need to make a nother book when they like find out a way to get her out of the blue time this sucks

  1106. Sorry Alissa, but I didn’t really have any emotional connection to Zane. I think the outcome of Uglies was clean and to the point, no emotional problems there.

    Yep,I’m DEFINETLY seeing Disturbia now!Ugh but I just wish it was rated R(Though not like I could get in w/o my older sisters yet!), but I hate going to movies w/ immature people,you can’t even enjoy the movie!Hmm midnighters would probably be rated PG-13 if it was a movie right,ugh(Well at least it’d be fun going w/ friends). Oh and Fool ImInLoveWithJonathan!Seeing a Dess look- a-like, at work?That’s fawesome!

    And nicole, I was just flustered about the outcome of midnighters.Though I totally agree w/ you, there needs to be another book. Just ONE book ALLOY! I’d be fine w/ ONE book!

  1107. My brother’s watching Future Weapons, and they’ve got these little remote control machines that have cameras and audio that are designed to be used to get information in a hostage situation. Sound familiar? Lol, if we’re lucky someone’ll invent hoverboards soon.

  1108. i saw that! well actually i heard it while my dad was watching it in the other room. and yeah demensiona i know what you mean about immature people in the movies. a few months ago we saw this one movie and these people were totally drunk and were kicking our chairs and talking. but in disterbia, everyone was too busy screaming and being scared.

  1109. Oh yeah I’ve heard of that show Alissa, but I’ve never physically sat down to watch it. Yeah they should DEFINETLY invent hoverboards soon because isn’t about time that we get into that chrome FUTURE that we always see on TV and in our heads? And we’re not going to advance into that future until they start making inventions like hoverboards. Wow, that’s fawesome!!!

    And ImInLoveWithJonathan, dido on the drunken idiots kicking your chairs incident(s). Wow, in the movie theaters up the street from my house, no one ever screams(so it kind of sucks because that’s the fun of it)! Ugh,I can’t wait for the weekened so I can finally see it!!

    Hey if midnighters was a movie, I know exactly what part I’d be scared of, (In the Secret hour) is when Jessica is like kneeling underneath the window and when she gets up she sees …. JONATHAN!!!(Ugh the sound effects would probably kill me)!!Man that’d be fun!!!

  1110. omg yeah. that would be so funny if everyone screamed. lol. and that sucks no one screams in the movies. thats the best part. there were these guys next to us that were screaming like crazy. so funny.

  1111. cool, i’m post 1111.

    when i saw 300 the cinema was deserted, there were only like 5 other people. 300 is a really great movie, my greek teacher was talking about it tons, it was hilarious. but the movie’s great, if slightly gory.

  1112. yeah my class was talking about that in english about a month before any commercials came on the tv about it. i have no idea where they heard about it from but they (a few guys and our then english teacher mr. jenkins (he was a “semi perminant substitute”) got into a discution about it. they all went out and saw it. it seemed to gory for me.

  1113. it was coooooooool… and it had ogres in it and giants, and monsters and huge Mumakil-type elephant things, and the immortals were like orcs, which was weird, but with fool masks, and they threw fireworks at people which was weird, but very cinematic, and the bit with all the arrows was fexcellent (like in Hero), and there was this weird hunchback guy, and you could’nt tell whose son was the guy who got killed.

    But it was very cool. If slightly plot-missing

  1115. Yeah ImInLoveWithJonathan, I LOVE to see other people scream!

    Oh, so 300 was good nick?Hmm well I like the overall look of the film from what I can see/saw from the commercials. Sounds fawesome!

  1116. i know exactly what you mean demensiona. thats why haunted houses are so fexcelent. me and my friends want to do one of them so bad. (like be in one) but you have to be at least 17 or something like that.

  1117. yes, 300 was mythology-based… in fact, it was based more on the graphic novel (which is like an extra-long comic book) than the real events (so it was not really historically correct, just like Troy wasnt). the guy who directed it does a lot of graphic novel movies(he directed Sin City). Although comic-book movies sound terrible, V for Vendetta (brilliant movie) was based on a graphic novel and 300 has all the slow-motion-arterial-blood-spurting action.

    (weird greek thing: the guy’s son (I was’nt sure whose son he was) is called Astheneis, which means weak, even though he’s a soldier)

  1119. It was Leonidas(like the chocolate-makers)! Miltiades was Athenian. Of course Leonidas died, it was him and his 299 bodyguards, and two thousand greeks (some of whom betrayed them) and they all got completely obliterated. Apart from this guy who was blinded.

    ”Leonidas dies i think” What, did you think Leonidas was still alive today? of course he died!

    and the real Spartans all had a lambda(Λ) (greek for ‘L’) on their shields, which they sort of did in the movie, and Leonidas had it on his clasp for his cloak, and the L either stood for Leonidas, (their king) or Laikedaimonios, which is greek for Spartan.

  1120. Yeah I would love to work in a haunted house, but believe or not, I don’t like to go through them.I was feaked out when I went to that mummy returns walk through at Universal Studios(I just don’t like things touching me in the dark! And you can’t even hit them back/out of reflex, because you’ll get in trouble).Never again!!! But its fun to watch other people walk through(right on past me)!

    Oh and nick I STILL haven’t seen V for Vendetta, but I really want too! Oh and Sin City was pretty fawesome!

    Wow you guys now a lot about the greeks, well greek mythology. I was a little deprived in elementary, middle school, and I’m thinking now high school. Hmm, maybe in Ap literature this year. But I did see the Odyssey, does that count?

  1121. no nick i knew he died (im not that stupid) i meant i think the guy you were talking (the son or whatever) was named Leonidas. sorry im rather vague sometimes.and demensiona, i know all about greek stuff and all because 1) greek mythology is rather facinating to me and 2) we just spent like a whole quarter of the school year in history doing anchient greece and wars and the olympics.

  1122. erm… wait being vague again. leonidas was one of the heros in that battle but he was killed. sorry son or whatever is kinda not specific and probably not understandable to anyone but me. i do that sometimes sorry.

  1124. 694 was my very last post, as i & my friend whom has cancer was trying to convince herself that she didnt, and she wont die if scott westerfeld doesnt write the next midnighters book soon, were talking bout. anyways hiy agains peoples, sup all? im back and im not emo, just incase u didnt kno thats just a joke between me and my cancer-indused friend……smiles and smiles…..

  1126. tracy, go spam/piss people off on some other blog. goodbye. and if u ever impersonate/ lie about my health status you’ll be sorry. people pay no mind to the idiotic/moronic person who thinks its funny to lie about people.

  1128. Um wow, I’m guessing you guys know eachother, um no comment.

    And okay on the greek mythology ImInLoveWithJonathan, that’s fawesome.

    Um wow, I’m kind of speechless. Hmmm….

  1130. O My God! I was on this website looking up the meanings of different names and i looked up Desdemona. It means “of the devil”! Can you believe that? Dess is so not a demonac or satanist.

  1133. nope. midnighters name page says nothing of dess meaning “of the devil” scott were you aware of this? my favorite character in the midnighter’s name (and my fish’s) means of the devil? interesting.

  1134. Yeah ImInLoveWithJonathan, I didn’t hear about the “of the Devil”, part. That’s so interesting!!

    Did you know that my favorite midnighter’s name means HONEY BEE?(Taken from wikipedia):

    “In Greek mythology ________ was a forest nymph that saved Zeus from his father, Cronus. She hid him in the hills and fed him milk from Amalthea and honey. When Cronus discovered this, he turned her into a worm, but Zeus, in gratitude, changed her into a queen bee.

    -Can you guess who?

  1135. It’s Melissa right? I actually looked up what all the midnighters names meant a while back.

    Other then the ones already mentioned, here they are (Of course most of their definitions don’t have much to do with midnighters):

    Jonathon: Gift from god
    Jessica: Wealthy
    Beth: God’s promise
    Madeleine: The tower
    Constanza: Steadfast

    None of these definitions really fit the characters.
    Also, I was really bored today, so I figure out that me and my friends all have birthdays that it you multiply the year by the day by the month (say your birthday is 8-21-90, then you’d multiply 8 times 2 times 1 times nine) Well, all of our birthdays end of being multiples of twelve. We found this to be slightly scary.

  1136. it is Melissa. I cheated and went on a name dictionary page.
    Heres what they have to say about Melissa:
    With your charismatic personality and persuasive powers you naturally attract all the good things in life which you could want. Kind, generous and sincere you are a good friend and partner with strong attachments to home and family. You are ambitious and have sound business acumen, this together with a natural love of life ensures that you enjoy success financially and in your relationships.
    not really seeing it for Melissa. Attract good things in life? no. kind? sometimes. good relationships? well her and rex kinda arent in the same state with each other anymore soooooo.

  1137. Hey mistranslated nonelectrical Ornimentation, yeah you guessed right!Hmm…. but I think Jonathan, Madeleine, and Constanza’s names kind of suit them, well at least in part.And totally feird on the birthdays, yet fawesome!!

    Oh and interesting ImInLoveWithJonathan, but yeah I agree w/ you, I’m not really seeing too much Melissa;well at least for the foremost. And yeah, the relationship thing’s very unfortunate.

    -Hey did you guys hear (on the news) about that new(discovered) planet. It’s like outside the solar system and it’s like trillions miles away from earth. But they said that its very similar to earth but it’s like 50 percent bigger than earth or something. I think we might be able to sustain life there.

    Can you guys imagine that?

  1138. Oh and hey scott, what’s with this current work-in-progress ,young-adult alternate history novel that I’ve heard about?Hmm…?

  1139. Oh and hey scott, what’s with this current work-in-progress ,young-adult alternate history novel that I’ve heard about?Hmm…?

  1141. what? is scott writing another book? and is it a history book, cause if it is then i got to know more info!

  1142. Hi TAlLY!!!!! Oh yeah I was just randomly searching for info on the midnighters show when I came upon this:

    http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/print.php?id=37801

    -I’m definitely intrigued,it sounds fawesome. But I won’t bug scott about it… MUCH! Haha, but I hope that scott IS really working on this book and it’s not just a random rumor. But I doubt it because the other info was correct so hmmmm…..

  1143. That sounds fawsome. I hope it’s not just some random rumor.

  1144. I was shocked by the ending I was expecting Midngiht to be over at the end. I thought it was so sad that I cried. There should be another book about how Jessica frees herself from the 25th hour!!!

  1145. Jen: that’s actually not a bad idea. Everyone so far seems to think Jonathan, Rex, Dess, etc. should free Jessica, but I like the Jessica freeing herself way better. After all, she’s supposed to be practically the most powerful midnighter out there, so it would make more sense.

  1146. i was also sad when jessica was stuck in the 25th hour, but i am glad that they didnt end the blue time altogether.That would have been even worse for me.
    DEMENSIONA- wow i havent written in a really long time, but this was def. a good place to come back on! i wonder why scott hasnt mentioned anything though?

  1147. Yeah mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation, I hope it’s not a rumor!

    Hi Jen, yeah sometimes I imagine that Jessica would free herself, but how?

    Though actually Alissa, I’m starting to think that it would make more sense if Jessica never got out of the dimension. I mean we’re really we’re fighting the odds to like a billion to one. But who knows, I think scott knows!!(haha).

    YES TAllY!,This zone was a FEXCELLENT place to come back on! But yeah I totally agree w/ you on the whole preservation of the secret hour. But could you truly imagine a 25th hour? An hour of blue and we’re just sleeping through it, frozen! I think that would be totally fawesome! But when you say that you wonder why scott hasn’t mentioned anything though, are you referring to that new novel/the zone/or the secret hour?

    And oh my gosh you guys, I SO want to go to that new planet XENA!!!!(Although I hope the discovery of this new planet doesn’t hint that there’s some global disaster to come!)!

    Anyways, if that happens, I’ll be on the first rocket out of here!!haha!

  1148. Wait!Oh MY GOSH YOU GUYS, OH MY GOSH YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    THERE REALLY IS A MIDNIGHTERS SHOW AIRING THIS YEAR ON SCI-FI!!!!!!

    http://home.att.net/~scifitv/newshows.html

    I mean I know that there’s not really much information but it’s there, it’s proof!(You just might have to search a little)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1149. I’M NOT READING IT!!!!!! I’M NOT BEING NAUGHTY!! IF YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING TO ME GO TO SPECIALS SPOILERS CUZ I CAN’T READ THIS *SADNESS* OK WELL I LOVED THE FIRST BOOK AND AM WAITING TO GET THE NEXT ONE

    *GASP* HEROS IS ON :O BYE!

  1150. Three words: Midnighters television show! I’m so happy. There’s actually evidence. I mean it’s kind of vague, but there is actual evidence that they are considering a TV show. Also, did you notice that it says teenagers, not adults. Doesn’t this mean that they aren’t going to do the whole making twenty something thing?
    A Midnighters TV show! I’m so excited!

  1151. Well I don’t know how Jessica would free herself from the 25th hour but im sure Scott Westerfeld would find a way for her. Does anybody know when the Midnighters show is going to be on TV?

  1152. Yeah mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation, I DID see T E E N A G E R S !!!
    Oh my gosh that’s so totally fawesome, I’m fuper excited!!!!

    Oh and I’m not sure EXACTLY when the midnighters show aires Jen but I can’t wait!! Oh and I’m glad that the show will be on SCI-FI, because it would’ve been cheesy on the cw I think(THEY were going to change the ages!)!

    I can’t wait to see/hear casting!!!

  1153. Demensiona- i totally believe that there could be a blue time, and if it isnt going on now then it will sometime in the near future i am sure. (if it is going on now its kinda creepy though cause people can come in and look at us. weird!)
    and i was talking about scott not mentioning the new book.

    And wow thats sooo exciting that there will actually be a show. i hope it will show mondays, or fridays. Cause every other day i am busy watching CSI, House, American idol, and Top model. I suppose i could find time though! lol

    ** OH! and if anyone watches American idol. What did you think of George Bush up there. YES thats right our president!**

  1154. Yep the blue time is fawesome yet creepy. Hahaha, I love it!!

    Yeah as for the show, I’m hoping for either a monday, friday, or a Sunday(I just love sundays/to me they’re very calming). Oh and yeah Tally I watch CSI, House, Law and Order SVU, and Top Model(I hope Natasha wins).

    – And George on American Idol?That’s a new one.
    Hmm…

  1155. lol yeah i thought it was a little odd seeing our president up there. and i hope Jasline or Natasha wins on americas next top model.

    ** i am making a purse out of 1 of scott’s books. What do you guys think would be the coolest cover to show?**

  1156. it sucs that jessica is stuck in the secret hour and that rex is staying with dess and johnathan and melissa and jessica are leaving to look for more midnighters.

    WRITE ANOTHER BOOK!!!

  1157. Tally, I think the best book cover is either between Blue Noon or Uglies. But I don’t know, it depends which colors you want to go with.

    Hi tom, dido on another book!

  1158. personally I would like the aussie cover of peeps (the one that looks like it has eye makeup all under the persons eye. so fawsome.) or… either the first or second midnighters cover. (us versions)

  1159. yeah i think that i might want the aussie version of peeps that looks so cool. Wasnt there going to be a chinese version of one of the books or am i making it up? Cause that mightbe cool too. but how would you order it?

  1160. First of all, I think you should use either the aussie cover of peeps or one of the midnighers book covers.

    Secondly, and this has nothing to do with midnighters, but here in Arizoa, we had our first hundred degree farenheit day, last week. How many of you are still having cold temperatures and rain? Just wondering. It’s too hot!

  1161. Oh I forgot about that PEEPS cover, yeah that’s fawesome!!! Like I said, I depends which kinds of colors that you want to go with and the style of the purse.

    Hmm I’m not quite sure how you would order that version Tally. I mean I would say amazon but I’ve never heard about that version or seen it.It sounds fool though!!

    Oh no mistranlated nonelectrical ornimentation, the heat’s already hit Arizona? Ugh, I’m moving at the end of June, ugh I guess I’m doomed!!! But um San Diego’s, CA pretty hot right now, I’m convinced it’s due to global warming!Gee…

  1162. No Chinese book yet, but there’s a Japanese Uglies, either out already or coming out, I’m not sure. We aren’t quite up to a hundred yet, (Southwest Canada) but it’s hot enough out that I already have a tan (of the natural not-really-trying variety, not the lie on the beach until you get one kind).

  1163. yeah. i heard about the japanese version. its a manga book right? they should make an english manga book of it. my friend would totally read it then. (shes obsessed with manga books and refuses to read anything other than manga. her loss. shes missing out on a lot. HEATHER)

  1164. oh! Japanese not chinese. woops. and i hope i dont sound stupid for asking but what exactly is a manga book? is it with the drawings and the clips of people talking or something?

  1165. Um, I think that the Japanese version of Uglies is partially manga.

    And yeah ImInoveWithJonathan, one of my best frineds is like that. Total anime freak!! Yeah she used to like eat, sleep, and drink mangas but I kind of got here out of here trance w/ Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight.She’s reading midnighters right now and she’s like in LOVE WITH it(I don’t blame her!), her favorite characters REX, she’s so random!!

    Oh and Tally don’t feel stupid( I’ll tell you what’s totally stupid, I just found out not to long ago that Washington D.C. is on the East coast!Now that’s TOTALLY IDIOTIC. Now how I missed that , I have no idea. Gee I’m slow!).

    But mangas are basically Japanese comic books that you read right to left. And they’re totally fawesome!

  1166. Yeah, I love manga. But (unfortunately) the Japanese Uglies isn’t manga, it just has very manga-esque illustrations.

  1167. yeah my friend is the same way as yours demensiona. only i havent quite gotten her to read twilight yet. im SO close though. all i had to do was say hot vampire and she was like “omg so mine”

  1168. Hi Alissa!!Yeah the Japenese version of uglies isn’t a manga, but I still want to buy it!! Illustrations are fawesome!!!

    And NO WAY ImInLoveWithJonathan, I had to say the exact same thing! These anime fans are hard to persuade. But my friend’s still random, she’s a total wolf-girl(Jacob)!

    Hahaha, you know what, Edward reminds me of Jonathan somehow/ I read twilight right after Blue Noon.( I always get Blue Noon and New Moon mixed up!). Maybe because they’re both fotally and fextremely fot!!!

  1169. still, manga-esque would be more apealing to her than a regular novel-type book. demensiona, my friend is an all out vampire lover. she would never pick jacob over edward. yeah. i know what you mean with the edward/jonathan thing. although i didnt picture them looking the same, i never did imagine jonathan being hispanic.

  1170. yeah ImInLoveWithJonathan i never thought that Jonathon was hispanic either. While reading i just never got that vibe for some odd reason.

  1171. Oh ImInLoveWithJonathan, I didn’t mean that Edward and Jonathan look the same, just that they’re both incredibly hot in their own AMAZING way!

  1172. Oh Tally, didn’t see your comment. Yeah um I think it’s interesting that Jonathan’s Hispanic. You know what,while reading midnighters, I just kind of forgot. But I always had a clear mental image of his face in my head though. I kind of pictured Jonathan looking like Shane West(A Walk to Remember) for some reason. I don’t know, he just kind of fit/fits.

  1173. oh ok now that makes more sense demensiona. omg i know. Edward or Jonathan. hmmmmmmmmm… acrobat or hot vampire???? hmm.. tough choice. too bad neither exists.(or do they? hey i can dream.) lol

  1174. Hahaha! Yeah ImInLoveWithJonathan, we CAN dream!!! Ugh I can’t choose!!! Hmm well lets see in the negative sense: 1 hour of nauseousness(temporary) or three days of excruciating pain(permanent).

    ImInLoveWithJonathan?

  1175. I thought this was amazing! But, it really sucks for Jess and Jonathan. I mean, sure they can be together for a while, but in a year, she will only age 15 days. and in say 24 years, she will only be one year older. How’s that for a difficult relationship to maintain? And Jess is going to be watching them all grow older and not do so herself. Tough life ahead of her.

  1176. hmmmm… i did’t take the three days of pain. me tolerance for pain isnt all that great but it doesnt suck either. plus the effects are permanent. and ive always to be a vampire. (something is just so apealing about those blood sucking albino looking creatures)

  1177. omg omg omg omg omg!!!!!!!!!!!
    i finaly finished

    (actually now on page 170 in peeps!)

    awsome!! ending was kinda sad though, but atleast she didn’t die! totaly.

  1178. WRITE ANOTHER BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1179. Ok, two questions:

    First of all, I was just wondering, if you guys were midnighters, which talent do you think you would have? (Out of the main five, and the ones we have made up.) I would definetely be a seer.

    Also, I only have three more days left until summer vacation. How about you guys?

  1180. I’d be a mindcaster, out of the original talents. Of the ones we made up… probably a Soldier (my personal creation lol), but possibly the languages one…

  1181. mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation, i would probably be a polymath. and also, i hate you more than you could imagine.(not really but its not fair) you only have three more days left of school!! AHHHHHH. no fair. we have like a month left. which sucks. you probably live near the west cost right? like near california and arizona? (that is if you’re from the states.)

  1182. Anyone hear the news? Lloyd Alexander(author of the Prydain Chronicles) died. I can’t believe it. Those were my absolute favorite books when I was about fouteen. Anyone else read any of his books?

  1183. This was one of the most exillerating book series i have ever read. I think that maybe the auther might surprise us with another series or book IN the series. PS…..It sucks what happened to Jessica Day…….

  1184. People, that have read midnighters, tell me that i would be a mindcaster. One of my friends have actually gone as far as calling me, “Hey mind caster!, every day. From today i have 2 more days left of school, and they are both half days!!!!!Yeah!!!

  1185. Yes, I’m on the west coast. In AZ. We do get out of school earlier then most states and places, but (don’t ask me if this is actually that early) We usually go back either the first or second week of August.

    My friend and I have actually given talents to like everyone that we know. Of course, many of them haven’t read the books. (I’m working on getting them to read it.) We have our polymath (she always is way ahead of the rest of the class in math), acrobat, mindcaster, flamebringer, metalurge, timebender, sketcher, illusionist, etc. There’s actually a few people that we have ended up labeling stiffs. It’s great fun to do when you’re bored.

  1186. Hey guys!!!!!!! (my computer wouldn’t allow me to post for a long time or something).

    -Hi Kelsey!I totally agree w/ you!

    -Hi ImInloveWithJonathan, yeah, I’m totally w/ you on the whole fact of permanence. And yeah, vampires are so unbelievably appealing!And awesome, polymath!

    – Hi Matt, I fotally agree w/ you!

    -Hi rae!

    – Oh mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation, I would consider myself a mindcaster too.( I peronally think its the most awesome talent, and I feel as if I can connect w/ Melissa on some kind of higher level).Or maybe a Dream Gatherer or Ignitmus-Toxin.

    -And no Alissa, I haven’t read those books but that’s unfortunate. The death of a writer is like a reader’s worse nightmare!!

    – And I wouldn’t say that the whole vactation thing is a WEST Coast thing because I live in San Diego, California, and we get out in like 4 weeks( a month).

  1187. Oh and have you guys seen that new movie “Pan’s Labyrinth?” I’m TRAUMATIZED!!

    Wow I knew it was rated R for graphic violence, but not THAT GRAPHIC! I thought it was going to be a little more fantastical , but it was good. I love the filming and the music, but it was very depressing . But very interesting! But personally for me, that movie was a one-timer.

    I just can’t take THAT grim fantasy, or people’s heads getting mulled in and cheeks getting cut off!!!!

  1188. guys i need a little freshening up. What characteristics do each talent carry again? I need to read this series again for sure!

    polymath, mindcaster,seer,etc….

  1191. Hi Tally! Yeah, sometimes I need a refesher too! But somehow I think that I’m not the best person to ask(I’ll probably confuse you AND myself). But I have key words:

    (1).Acrobat: Floating, weightless/hunger (Jonathan)
    (2).Polymath:Coordinates, trides,metal,rapid math skills(Dess)
    (3).Mindcaster:(hard one to define)Um, tastes darkling, thoughts, hands(Melissa).
    (4).Flame-Bringer:working electronics in the blue time, light, different eyes(Jessica Day).
    (5).Seer: Read, lore, arrowheads, history
    (Rex).

    -Hoped that helped some!

    Hi ImInLoveWithJonathan, you know I don’t remember hearing about it in the movie theaters, but everyone tells me that it was. Yeah I’m not really old enough to watch it too(16 in oct.), but my mom lets me go see rated R movies as long as there’s not any sexuality.

    But yeah, it’s better that you didn’t.I mean it IS a good movie, but like they said (on the commercial that I DIDN’T see) that it’s an ADULT fairytale. But so depressing and graphic.

    Let’s just say that my mouth still hurts!But like I said, the overall look of the movie and music were fawesome. And the fairies were cute too…

    until they got their heads cut off!

  1192. aw poor fairies. reminds me of the frogs we disected today. my friend was saying she was going to come in screaming LIBERATE THE FROGS! but they were already dead so it wouldnt have helped at all. 🙁

  1196. Hi guys!!!

    Oh you’re welcome Tally, I’m glad to help.
    Mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation created that talent I believe. The Time Bender, to my understanding: Can retrieve and utilize inanimate objects of the past, at any given moment (They are extremely knowledgeable in history).

    And yikes ImInLoveWithJonathan! We have to disect like fetal pigs, ugh they smell like onions and blood(I guess Bella and I have something in common/the smell of blood makes me extremly nauseated)!

  1197. omg i know exactly what you mean! the ap bio class after us had to disect the fetal pigs and they were getting them (the pigs) ready while we were finishing up our lab. it was pretty nauseating. not only the smell. the fact that we have to cut apart an animal “in the name of science” for a grade when half (actually more than half) of the class was just goofing off and cutting the poor things any way they felt like and mutilating it. its just sad that we are forced to participat in that sort of thing.

  1198. I know, they’re(were!) BABIES! And the fingernails were killing me! That aspect of science is SO not fool!!!!!

  1200. Haha, mine either! But neurology is pretty fawesome!(until you have to fiddle w/ sheep brains)!

  1203. thats what i thought. there’s this book i want to read called blink that has to do with neurology and split second desicion making and how you make desicions all the time and you dont even think about it. it sounds cooler when explained in the summary. (they know what they’re talking about. as apposed to me. who doesn’t.)

  1204. Hi Alissa!

    Hmm, and that book sounds really interesting ImInLoveWithJonathan!I’ve got to read it!

  1206. Hi maddie-la!(Yep, sore spot’s still hurting)

    Hey guys they’re totally confusing me w/ this midnighters TV business. I mean I thought the show was going to air on sci-fi but it appears that it’s going to air on thecw(ugh).

    http://flixer.com/x/modules/newbb/report.php?forum=16&topic_id=34&viewmode=flat&order=ASC&post_id=41

    I just know that I better see a midnighter show on SOME channel, like this year!But at least we know now the producers, I mean that’s SOMETHING…

    -I suppose.

  1207. Hi maddie-la!(Yep, sore spot’s still hurting)

    Hey guys they’re totally confusing me w/ this midnighters TV business. I mean I thought the show was going to air on sci-fi but it appears that it’s going to air on thecw(ugh).

    http://flixer.com/x/modules/newbb/report.php?forum=16&topic_id=34&viewmode=flat&order=ASC&post_id=41

    I just know that I better see a midnighter show on SOME channel, like this year!But at least we know now the producers, I mean that’s SOMETHING…

    -I suppose.

  1209. The issue of the Midnighters TV show confuses me too. I hope the CW doesn’t mutilate it by changing the ages of all the characters. The whole series (I REFUSE TO SAY TRILOGY) centers around Bixby High…make them, say, 26, and the whole story falls apart.

    I just finished Blue Noon on Monday. So sad! Made me feel like when I finished the Abhorsen trilogy. Y’know, “Oh nooo, there’s not going to be another oneeee! *goes into state of deep depression* I’ve since started reading any other Westerfeld I can get my hands on, but it’s not the same…

    Photophobiacs has thirteen letters, and it’s not on the big master list. Just a thought.

  1210. Comment #1209. Is that a multiple of anything good? I personally like 1215 better. Awesome history year, with the Magna Carta and everything.

  1212. the cw was the one that wanted to change their ages right? i’ve never seen where anyone said it would be on sci-fi except for comments here. was it ever going to be on sci-fi? i don’t really care which channel it’s on, so longas they don’t change the ages of the midnighters. if they do, i will kill them. or write nasty emails giving tehm a piece of my mind at least.

  1213. Hi contact!(love your name/interesting). Yeah they’re totally confusing me, but I have this feeling that they’re not going to mess w/ the ages because I didn’t see the producer who said that’s name on the list. Oh and what a coincidence, my friend finished Blue Noon on Monday too. She was totally depressed, but I was worse when I finished it last year(Wow, has it been a year already?Wow).But yeah, it’s not the same reading other books.

    But I still can’t believe that Uglies has a FOURTH book, and that was supposed to be a trilogy. I mean I’m not mad, it’s fawesome, but it’s just that midnighters came first and the series doesn’t feel complete, unlike Uglies. And uglies has a MOVIE, a movie’s just so much more definite, but enough w/ my babble! It is what it is and I’m not complaining.

    Oh and whoa, I just had to ask my brother what “BLW” was, that’s a new one! Haha, gee I’m slow!

    Hi ImInLoveWithJonathan! Well I mean I found the info on the sci-fi website, but really no where else outside the web. I mean I can type in my cw password(gee it’s annoying), to see if there’s any insider news on the show. But the only age fluxation that I’ll allow is like 26 year-olds ACTORS/ACTRESSES who can pull the teenage look off. (Hey Tom Welling pulled it off, haha/ oops, I promised myself that I would’t mention anything SMALLVILLE related)!

  1214. I never got the unfinished feeling about the Abhorsen books, but then I didn’t really like the second two nearly as well as Sabriel. They’re great books and all, but my favourite character (Touchstone) was kind of, I don’t know, OLD, so that sort of took the interest out of it for me lol.

  1215. Ok, so it’s been a little while since I last posted. I’ve been on vacation.

    First of all, my question I was just thinking about: If each midnighter lives an extra hour each day, and after approx. 24 years, they have lived an extra year, then would a midnighter actually be twenty-five when they trun twenty-four?

    Ok, so a friend of mine just finished the first midnighter book. (She’s hopefully goign to join us posting on here when she finishes the third.) Well, after reading the first book, she is now obsessed with 7’s, 12’s, and 13’s. Anyways, she sent me this time line of imformation from history and stuff that invovles 12’s and 13’s. Here it is (I found it to be very interesting):

    1887=Montrose, ridden by I. Lewis, wins the Kentucky Derby (13 letters) and a purse of $4,200 (4,200 seconds divided by 60=70 minutes, 7+0=7).
    For the 7th (note the 7) year in a row, tennis marvel, Richard D. Sears (13 letters) wins the US men’s singles championship (12 letters) in tennis
    Average income:$580.00 (5+8=13)

    1896=1st certified public accountant=Frank Broaker (12 letters)
    Average cost of new home=$4,900.00 (4+9=13)
    Average income= $625.00 (6+2+5=13)

    1911=Vice President= James S. Sherman (13 letters)
    Average cost of a gallon of gas=$0.07 (7+0=7)
    Average cost of a new home=4,800 (4+8=12)

    1920=President=Woodrow Wilson (13 letters)
    Gallon of milk=$0.58 (5+8=13)

    1959=Vice President=Richard M. Nixon (13 letters)
    Gallon of gas=$0.25 (2+5=7)
    King Mohammed (12 letters)=I’d rather not take the time to explaing this one, if you’re really interested, please, feel free to google it, you should get a ton of stuff
    Income=5,016 (5+1+6=12)
    The 12 nations (note the 12) approve a treaty establishing (12 letters) Antartica as a preserve for research

    1968= Unenploymet (12 letters) at all time low in past years
    Novelist John Steinbeck (13 letters) dies in New York City
    Gallon of gas= $0.34 (3+4=7)

    1977= Vice President= Walter Mondale (13 letters)

    1986= President=Ronald Reagan (12 letters)
    Gallon of Milk=$1.92 (1+9+2=12)

    1995= Space probe’s name=Galileo (7 letters)
    Space probe, galileo begins journey to Jupiter (also 7 letters)

    By the way, sorry about the really long post. One last thing, did you know that the Mayan calendar ends on Dec. 12, 2012? Which is 12-12-12. Very darklingish.

  1216. S’okay about the really long post. I’m okay about older actors(duh, they do that all the time)but making them older would screw up the show. Twenty-six-year-olds have better things to do at midnight then, say, save the world. The show would probably consist of, “Hey, dude, let’s go to a bar…HOMG! There’s this panthery thingy outside! Someone grab the the giant bag of metal I TOTALLY INCONSPICUOUSLY brought into the establishment!!!”
    All those numbers are interesting,mistranslated nonelectrical ornamentation. Never thought about it that way, althought my and my friend’s birthday’s are riddled with thirteens and thirty-nines. I think I’m chronologicall darkling-proof.

  1217. Gack, another P.S. post. I need to keep my thoughts together enough to make one. What’s with the sevens? I don’t understand that as much as the twelves and thirteens. *pulls out first book and starts crazily leafing through it*
    Demensiona, my name refers to my thoughts as to how bad it would be to be a seer with contacts…I mean,to really be sure about any Focus, you’d have to take them out and then put them back in again, which is devilishly hard..Oh well, at least you can wear sunglasses. I had to start wearing them everywhere as soon as I got my contacts.
    I’m currently listening to a song called The Red, by Chevelle. Do the lyrics remind anyone else of Midnighters, or have I got books on the brain again?
    http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/chevelle/thered.html
    Somebody tell me, please. I want to know I’m not nuts.

  1218. I don’t exactly know about the sevens. She’s just really interested in numbers. I call her a polymath.

    Yeah, being a seer with contacts would not be easy. Glasses are probably the easiest thing. They do make perscription sunglasses though. Contacts would ot work out, though.

  1219. mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation: i did know about that December 12, 2012 thing. many advanced civilizations stopped their calendars on that day because (supposedly remember this isn’t positive don’t go freaking out too bad) the poles of earth are going to reverse on this day and cause another mass extinction because (well duh) climates will change drastically. the north and south pole will become the equator and the equator will become the north and south poles.

  1222. Hi Alissa!

    Hi Mistranslated Nonelectrical Ornimentation! True on the ages (I just never thought about it), well the midnighters sure do seem mature.
    And interesting on the housing. Jessica’s family moved into a new home/ trouble from the beginning.

    And haha, you’re right Contact on the ages! And your name is TRULY genious.

    Hi ImInLoveWithJonathan, I failed the Mayan Calendar portion of my Spanish final exam,( haha/ there’s only so much that I can understand!)! Truly interesting, but can you tell me this?: Was the calendar in the form of a “ovalo” or a “circulo”? I just want to know if I at least got ONE question right on that portion ( I put “circulo”).

    And that’s three years after the year I graduate!

  1224. *SUPER LONG POST WARNING! AND SCIENCE FILLED INFORMATION!*

    Apparently the earth will be lined up with a few astral bodies but the main one being the biggest black hole that we are aware of in the universe.The gravitational pull of this black hole will be enough to create a magnetic field that will be strong enough to shift our pole which has already happened in our distant history with catastrophic consequence

    In addition, in the last few years or so scientist have discovered that these same black holes emit a tremendous amount of gamma rays experienced by the astronauts now living in the space station.When the astronauts in space close their eyes they see flashes of white that come and go very quickly and we now know that these are caused by gamma rays

    We are exposed to a certain level of gamma rays on a daily basis,but on december 21st 2012 the earth will be exposed to at least ten fold the amount of gamma rays we have ever experienced before.Scientist can only guess has to the consequences of such hugh level of gamma rays on the human body

    don’t say i didn’t warn you.

  1225. scott- can you do a post for us about this? you seem to be good at scientific stuff (ie pluto is NOT a planet) have you ever heard of this? is it true or just astrology-end-of-the-world-we’re-all-gonna-die stuff? (ie world’s going to end on 06/06/06. ermm… i’m still alive. and how we were all going to die in Y2K. still alive.)

  1226. Man, you guys are young lol… Anyway, it’s interesting that they think they have a set date for the polarization switch. Based on the last one, I’d say it’ll be bad, but not too bad. As in whole nations might end up underwater (like Atland did last time) or ice (Antarctica), Antarctica will inevitably melt (not a bad thing as far as I’m concerned, but that’s just me), and earthquakes and volcanos will be off the charts, but it won’t kill everyone on the planet. A few less resourceful species might die out, but there’s nothing we can do about it. Anyway, that’s about the extent of my predictions for the end of the world lol.

  1227. Thanks ImInLoveWithJonathan, and GULP on your research. Well basically, I think whatever happens in the future will be because it is SUPPOSED to happen. I, personally, don’t think we’ll be killed on a specific day or because of ONE specific cause. If anything, chages will be gradual. And whatever happens, happens. So I’m not worrying about it.

  1228. I still believe Pluto is a planet. It’s a self esteem thing- Pluto happens to be my ruling planet, and so I really can’t say Pluto has been demoted to, say, I don’t know, an orbiting ice cube, without demoting myself. Hehe. The great Contact can’t be demoted, duh.
    (I think too much of myself. Don’t listen to me, ‘kay?)
    I’ve had some thoughts on the new talents issue brought up lots and lots of posts ago, and I’ve got a new, albeit nameless talent for y’all.
    (?)-Midnighter able to extend lengths of new, clean metal to the nearest multiple of the Aversion.
    Such as, “Agh, I’ve only got 12 links of steel here!”
    “Never fear, I, the completely nameless talent until someone helps Contact, am here!” *extends chain to 13 links*
    “Wow, thanks!”
    Thanks on the name, Dimensiona.
    Alissa, Antarctica melting IS BAD! Think of all the poor penguins! Like they don’t have it bad enough already 🙁 (watched March of the Penguins)

  1229. actually Demensiona you are correct in saying that we won’t die in one day. the drastic changes will begin on december 21st and it will take anywhere between a year to 5 years for the world to fully rotate the poles. Alissa, the result of the poles reversing would be catastrofic. not only would we have to deal with massive gamma rays caused by being in line with a black hole, but also the poles wouldn’t reverse as in the north pole becomes the south pole and the south pole becomes the north pole, it would be that the north and south poles become the equator and the equator becomes the north and south poles. so antarctica melting would be a VERY bad thing. also everything near our now equator will freeze.

  1230. Well, humanity survived it once, so I’m not worried. Hey, could this have anything to do with global warming?

  1231. i was JUST thinking that not 5 seconds ago (literally i saw a picture of global warming when i signed in) but im not sure if that could cause a hole in the ozone layer. i think thats being caused by uv rays from the sun. (correct me if im wrong people)

  1232. and all of humanity didnt survive. there used to be hundreds of variations of humans and after the last mass extinction there are only 8. (i think that was what it was. we had a discussion about this in biology class a while ago)

  1233. Why Scott why?????????????? Its too sad! All the darklings dieing and leaving Jessica in the blue time?? NOOOO! Exspecially the part talking to Beth and that she said her mother was always crying. 🙁 Sadness. Jessica and Jonathan can’t even be together forever and ever because i mean Jessica friggin only alive one hour a day. AHHH!

  1235. Hi guys!

    Hi ImInloveWithJonathan and Alissa! Yes, Global Warming is a Global WARNING! This is random, but I found out that with the melting of glaciers and frozen over bodies of water, old diseases may be released!( birds can be carriers of diseases, their feces contain like chromosomes/DNA/protein or something that like PRESERVES the diseases?). But anyways, yeah, like since last year, its been like FREEZING in San Diego, CA( well at least to me). Either than that, you guys kind( well totally) lost me!

    Hi addie-wa, yeah my pain has kind of subsided. But I just have this feeling that there IS going to be another book. Am I right Scott?

    Fawesome talent Contact! Wow what would you call that talent? I think there should be a talent in which the midnighter creates dolls like Ada Lovelace ( don’t ask me why/ but there will probably be children in the secret hour now).Oh and very welcome on the name!

    Oh and I’m SURE that you’re not nuts on the song lyrics Contact, but what part of midnighters are you SPECIFICALLY referring to? Now can you tell me if I’M nuts?:

    So here’s a song that makes me think of the midnighter series kind of as a whole:

    (Lyrics):
    http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/vanessacarlton/privateradio.html

    (clip of song):
    http://www.last.fm/music/Vanessa+Carlton/_/Private+Radio

    Epilogue:

    (1). From the beginning of the epilogue to the conversation between Dess and Melissa:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R5keIoOozE

    (2).From the conversation to Dess’s last words:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pen0l54i-uE

    (3).Movie Credits!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vFaoA7t2RE

    – You can/please ignore the videos!

  1236. Demensiona, I completely and totally agree that that Vanessa Carlton song sounds like midnighters. When you first mentioned it a while back, I realized that I had the cd (I had forgotten all about it,) so I went and listened to it. Now I put it on whenever I start to work on any of the stories I am working on. (exspecially my version of the fourth midnighters book) It’s kind of ended up being my inspiration, and it totally reminds me of midnighters. Also, I like the other three too, for the parts of the epiloque that you have them at.

  1237. have any of you read tithe? that book was fawsome! its by holly black. Valient and Ironside come after it. They were amazing. I have a song that i think fits perfectly with one part in it.

  1238. Hi mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation!!! Yeah I totally thought of midnighters when I was listening to that song one day(I love that CD)! I can totally imagine fliping on the TV and hearing that song blasting, and myself, singing along/getting pumped up for the HOUR long midnighters show!And good luck on your version of the fourth book, that’s so fawesome! And thanks on the other songs!

    Hi ImInLoveWithJonathan! OH, IRONSIDE goes w/ THAT series! Yeah I was totally going to get Tithe, it sounded fawesome! But I got Wicked(The book write next to it) instead, when I was in Barnes and Noble a while back.Oh I wish I would have bought it/them, I TOTALLY want to here your song!

  1240. demensiona didnt no u were here 2 well u and i got our hands full worryin about Extras and the Midnighters series:D

  1241. wicked?!?!! I love that book. (well theres 2. which one?) i love the one by gregory mcguire. (you know the one about the wicked witch of the west? gotta love it) or is it the other one (which im reading right now) about wicca and witches and stuff like that? i love both. or it a different one?

  1242. Sorry I haven’t replied in a while. 🙁
    Dimensiona, all I’m coming up with name-wise is Extender or something…I’m not a science geek, I’m a history geek…No way I could come up with anything cool. On a darker note, I LOST MY SUNGLASSES!! *squints and runs around bumping into things* I think they’re gone forever…
    The song lyrics I put in kind of remind me of post-darkling Rex, with the seeing thing, and the red being about the edges of the midnight rip, and such…
    You’re not nuts, either. Very Midnighters-ish song, Dimensiona.
    I have read the Gregory McGuire Wicked, and its sequel, but never heard of the other one.

  1244. Yeah..now I have to find shade wherever I go. (Which is not easy where I live, especially in June.)

  1246. Same! Florida’s not all it’s cracked up to be, eh? Plus, we have warm water…Don’t swin in tropical rivers!!!
    (I just re-read Peeps today…)

  1247. Hi guys!

    Hi sarah!!!!!!! Oh my gosh it’s so COOL that you’re on this spoiler zone too!Yep I’ve been on this zone for A While now(a LONG while, haha)! I totally agree, we DEFINTELY have our hands F U L L now!Haha!

    Hey ImInLoveWithJonathan! Yeah I should’ve been more specific (It seems like there’s like a billion Wickeds). I haven’t finished, but I’m reading the one w/ the Wicca and the witches. It’s by Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie/ it’s called Witch and Curse. But the one by Gregory Mcguire sounds fawesome!

    Hi Contact! Extender makes sense/sounds fawesome to me! And Peeps is totally fool! And now I fotally get what you’re saying on the lyrics. And thanks on my Midnighters-ish song and the comfirmation of my sanity! And sorry on the sunglasses, gee that sucks, I’d fate that!

    And I don’t believe that California’s really not all that it’s cracked up to be either( but that’s just my opinion)!

  1248. i no but lately its been all gloomy and stuff and rainy 🙁 yeah i just re-read uglies pretties and specials yesterday………. demensiona so cool uve been on and u live in cali ugh lucky do u live in san diego or san fransico or los angeles

  1249. oh my god. is that confusing to you or is that just me? i started reading it and was like WHAT?!?!? I dont get it!!!!!! *cry* and its raining here where i live. but its better than the sweltering heat we’ve been having. i’m so glad i wasnt in arizona though. my grandmom said they had temberatures in the hundred and teen. (110+)

  1250. u dont get uglies pretties and specials thats kind of odd we all got it in specials spoilers zone but i just finished toughing darkness and i have 2 get emotionally prepared 4 New Moon Demensiona says 😀 yeah and its been raining in the sunshine state capital 2 🙁

  1251. Ah..BREAKING NEWS!! I just got word of my missing sunglasses..my friend had them! Yay!
    Demensiona: thanks on the lyrics! I knew there was something about them. What’s the “f” thing from? If it’s a book that hasn’t come out in paperback/isn’t at the library then I haven’t read it, so please enlighten me!

  1253. OOOOO im so so sorry about that ImInLoveWithJonathan i didnt no that im sorry 🙁 u need 2 b more specific

  1254. its great that u found ur sunglasses Contact happy 4 u 😀 what part of florida do u live in???

  1255. You guys are getting rain. I’m so jealous! As ImInLoveWithJonathon said, here in Arizona it’s 110+. Of course last week the high was only in the 90’s, but now we’re heating up again. Of course, we don’t have the humidity factor like they have in the rainier parts of the country, but our dust, lightning filled monsoons aren’t that great either.

    Oh, and Contact it’s great that you found your sunglasses. Good for you.

  1256. Hi guys!

    Hi sarah! I live in San Diego, California. I don’t know, some people hate California, others ADORE it.Um all that I can say, is that I’ve seen all of SAN DIEGO that I can possibly see(16 years worth of exposure).Well over the years, it’s been pretty freaking cold(thanks to global warming). But today it’s extremely humid( I don’t have air conditioning, ugh!)! And yep, you totally need to be emotionally prepared for New Moon, I promise you’ll thank me!

    Hi ImInLoveWithJonathan! Yeah “Wicked” books are totally confusing! Everyone asks me, “Oh is that the one that’s made into the play,” and I honestly don’t know what to tell them. And great encouragement ImInLoveWithJonathan, I’m moving to Arizona next Wednesday( my mom says I’ll be okay w/ air conditioning).

    Hi contact! Yay on the sunglasses! Hey I didn’t know that contacts are so expensive(well to me $20), my sister bought these mystic green ones at the mall, I looked at her like she was crazy (I could’ve bought 5 cinnabons w/ that)!

    And hi mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation, can you predict the weather for next Wednesday?(Its so wierd/ everytime that I’ve been to Arizona, It’s never been hot).Hey doesn’t it annoying when people ONLY associate Arizona w/ heat?(Even if there’s some truth to that).But I guess I’m ready for the heat/ I’m not a HUGE fan of the rain(rain makes me drowsy and depressed)!

  1257. om my gosh. i am so jealous! i love arizona! you get over the heat eventually. (even fast if you have a pool. tehehehe) i’ve been going there at least once a year for ever. if you allergies (god i can’t spell that) arizona will be good for you. there is practically NO humidity so its a dry heat and doesnt feel like its as hot as it is. i hope you have a great time ther. what pert are you moving to? my grandparents/aunts and uncles live in glendale andthe general area of pheonix.

  1258. and no. wicked (witch/curse) is not the one made into a play. thats wicked by gregory maguire about the wicked witch of the west (read it i tell you! READ IT!) sorry im a tad obsessed. i seem to do that a lot over books. (tehehehe)

  1259. sorry last time. (for now) where did your sister get the color contacts? I wanted to get them for halloween but my dad doesnt know where ican get no-perscription ones. (like for people that dont need glasses.)

  1260. yeah ive been 2 cali 2wice and it was so freakin cold i went 2 san fransisco and it was so cold and im 2 san diego 4 my b-day in august:D

  1261. Arizona, the dry hot state. Mostly hot only during the summer though. Also, the north part is really great during summer and winter. We are known for the heat, but we have beautiful winters. Also, if you like snow or skiing, during the winter Snowbowl is only a few hours away (if they get snow.) It is slightly annoying that people relate Arizona to heat. There is truth to that, but we have other things. (I think) I guess any place is exciting if you haven’t lived there all your life.
    Demensiona you’ll be fine. Just don’t plan to lots of outdoor activities during the summer (unless it has to do with water), and park under shade during the summer, or it will get really hot.

    Also, ImInLoveWithJonathon, I have to disagree on the allergies in Arizona part, but I guess it just depends on what your allergic to.

    Oh, and I happen to be in the group that loves Cali. Of course, I’ve never actually lived there, so who knows what that would be like. I just visit each summer. I’ve been there like a hundred times. San Diego, Las Angles, Palm Springs, and exspecially, the beach. It is cold, but I like the cold.
    Oh, and the weather on Wednesday is supposed to be low: 84 degrees farenheit, high: 110 degrees farenheit. (I checked the seven day forcast thingy) Good luck on your move.

  1262. the things I’m allergic to (grass, trees, other plants that require a lot of water to grow) don’t grow/live in arizona so for me, it is true. for others , though, i’m sure they don’t get off as easy.

  1263. Eee, thanks! My photophobia has finally been relieved…I live near West Palm Beach. I’ve never been to Arizona or California, but I love New Mexico. My dad went to college there. The best part is all the open landscape. And no palm trees.

  1264. thx… i used 2 live in West Palm Beach Contact we live 1 mile from the beach it was SO pretty but we visit every summer lke in july 4 a day

  1265. Hi! You guys are fawesome!

    Thanks ImInLoveWithJonathan! I’m totally pumped up to go now! Um I’m moving to Buckeye, Arizona(I’m not sure if it’s a city or a town). Oh and thanks on Wicked.(I know a lot of people who want to read the ones that the play was based off of/ now I can tell them the ones by GREGORY MCGUIRE)

    Oh and my sister and I went to this store called like “Toda Kowdo” or something like that in the mall.Or you can get them from Wal-mart.

    Hi sarah!You’re going to San Diego in August? Fawesome! You should go to a Barnes and Nobles to get a copy of Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer(Haha our bookstores are always stocked/don’t ask me why!)! Oh don’t forget to get a burger/vegetarian burger from In and Out(do they have that restaurant in Flordida)!And you should REALLY check out our Bodies Exhibit/ you’ll never look at the human body the same way again(but the tickets are kind of expensive)!

    Hi mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation! Haha, I’ve never had outdoor activities in mind! Oh you’re a cali lover? Cool, oh have you been to that one hotel w/ the lake inside in Palm Springs? My aunt said it was fawesome!
    And thanks on my move!

    Hi contact!I’ve never been to Flordida or New Mexico, nice landscapes huh!Fawesome(oh the “F” thing is from “The Last Days”by of course, Scott Westerfeld)!

    Bye guys!

  1267. Wait! You’re moving to San Diego?!(Which part?!) Oh my gosh, fawesome!Do you know what school you’re going to? Fawesome! Wow!

  1271. Hi!

    Hi sarah!Please tell me if it’s official!

    Hi nick! Long time no HEAR!

    Hi contact!Hmm.. maybe we should start w/ a noun: Longevity? Extension? Strainer?
    -I don’t know(haha),but I’ll most defintely think on it!

  1273. Wow. I feel wayyy behind, considering a lot of the posts here were from last year. 🙂 But I finished the third book today. I really couldn’t stop reading; It took me about 5 days to read the three of them (Yay for vacation and more time to myself!). So I’d like to start off by saying that I really enjoyed this series! The characters were awesome and I loved seeing their personalities clash/intertwine. Frankly, they were just a really cool group of kids. 🙂 But oh mighty god, the ending… the ending was a killer. I cannot believe Jess is stuck in blue time… alone! Not to mention the fact that “Flyboy” can only be with her 1 hour everyday, and the whole aging thing sucks pretty badly (obviously). The separation of Rex/Melissa is also pretty crappy. So as I was reading, the pages were becoming thinner, and I knew the end of the book soon entailed, but I really did hope I would find some kind of solace to grip. Alas, there really wasn’t anything… it was just, bleh. It had me on the verge of tears. Whyyyyyy?!
    I really hope a 4th book is a possiblity because I’d love to see what happens after all this drama. I’d also like to think that Jessica could find her way out, probably with the help of the others, and reunite with Jonathan (crosses fingers). Besides, the ending totally leaves plenty of space for more adventure and drama, right? 🙂

  1275. Hi!

    Hi Sarah! Okay, soon!And I fotally agree, we ALL want another book!

    Hi sweetchock! Yep the ending was TOTALLY a
    K I L L E R!And I’m definetely crossing my fingers for Jessica’s release from the dimension, AND another book!

    Bye guys!

  1276. yeah i should no by my b-day whichis pretty soon well 2 months but still but seriously how could john live without jess and he only gets 2 c her in blue time 🙁 grrrrrr

  1277. Yeah, being stuck in the blue time doesn’t sound too thrilling. It just seems so lonely and desolate… fast-paced too since her friends would be aging so quickly before her. But really, if a 4th book were to be released, I’d be off to the bookstore in no time ready to buy it! 😀

    And sweet… I’m Sarah, and there’s another Sarah here. Coooool. 🙂

  1278. yeah bein stuck in blue time would suck eatin once a month or year or whatever i dont remember john would only c jess once a day so yeah 😀 ur also sarah sweet thats awesome 😀

  1279. Hi!

    Hey Sarah!On your, birthday?That’s Fool! I don’t know how Jonathan could/can do it. I think my heart went out to Jonathan the most. I mean how could he loose his mother AND Jessica?

  1280. Hi sweetchock! Yeah, I’d/I’ll(haha) be at the bookstore in a heatbeat too! And there seems to be alot of Sarah’s/Sara’s in the world, but that’s fawesome, I love that name!

  1281. yep b-day so i agree i dont think john could do it mother and jess not cool and there r a lot of sarahs/saras in the world which is kind of annoying

  1283. (I hate when my whole comment doesn’t post, it’s been doing that alot lately)

    -Hey there’s a LOT of Jasmine’s/Jazmin’s…
    in the world too which is fotally annoying as well. Why do you think that I go by DEMENSIONA,haha!

  1285. im not that stupid demensiona i didnt think ur name was demensiona i no a couple of Jasmine’s/ Jazmin’s and Kirsten’s 2 theyre great friends of mine 😀

  1286. Yeah, I know! There ARE a lot of Sarah’s and Sara’s everywhere! It’s crazy. It’s not a unique name at all, haha, but whatever, I don’t mind.
    And I don’t know any Kiersten’s either. It’s cool though, because it makes the name more yours, if you know what I mean. 🙂
    Definitely are a lot of Jazmin’s, by the way. Not as common as “Sarah” or “Sara,” but still…

  1287. Plus, Thom Yorke (from Radiohead, which is like my favorite band in the world!), likes the name “Sarah.” It’s his favorite name AND it’s the only female name to be used in a Radiohead song. So basically, that name officially rocks. 😀
    heh.

  1289. My cousin’s name is Sarah. It means “princess”. I don’t know anyone with my name (Elena) but maybe I’ll meet somebody.
    To Demensiona: Yeah, that might work. Please think on it!

  1293. I was very upset about Melissa leaving without Rex. They are my favorite two characters. I almost cried before Westerfeld told us that Jessica WASNT dead she was just trapped in the blue time. HOWEVER, the SADDEST part of the book was when Jessica is explaining to Beth that she was stuck in blue time…I cried my eyes out…I WANT MORE BOOKS ON THE MIDNIGHTERS!

  1294. Ok I just found this site…it is awesome. I was just curious, Scott, are there, or could there be(in the NEAR future) any plans for a movie?

    Secondly(to anyone), I read something on Youtube about there already being a t.v. series on the book…Is this true???
    THanks for the help, and sorry if u guys have already talked about this.

  1295. Ok I just found this site…it is awesome. I was just curious, Scott, are there, or could there be(in the NEAR future) any plans for a movie?

    Secondly(to anyone), I read something on Youtube about there already being a t.v. series on the book…Is this true???
    THanks for the help.

  1296. Frist of all, Welcome RexisAHottie. Secondly, the YouTube thing was a fake, but there are plans for a T.V. show, if you look on Scott’s previous posts, and on the CW site you should be able to find more about it.

  1297. RexIsAHottie- welcome! judging by your name, I think you and my friend Tracy would get along nicely. (She like to fight with me that Rex is better than Jonathan. Which you probably think as well.):)

  1302. Hi guys!!!!!

    Hi Sweetchock! Oh my gosh, I LOVE LOVE LOVE RadioHead!!!!!(My favorite song is “Everything in its Right Place”)!

    Hi Sarah,oh sorry if I implied that on that earlier comment.(I know that you know that this isn’t my real name.I was commenting in a general joking manner). Hahaha and I second that lol!

    Hi ImInLoveWithJonathan! Yeah Kirsten’s totally unique.One of my friend’s middle name is Nicole (Like mine/except spelled:nEcole), but I don’t really think that that’s REALLY unique.

    Hi RexIsAHOTTIE (haha, like the name!)! Yeah the Jessica/Beth part was totally depressing! Yes another book! And yeah there’s SUPPOSED to be a show, but not on that channel(I’m so flusterated w/ the freaking thecw, because they’re airing the GOSSIP GIRLS show this Fall, and where does that leave MIDNIGHTERS?
    F L U S T E R A T I N G!)!

    Hi mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation! Gee it was hot in Yuma last Tuesday night(hmm it’s still probably hot/I can’t really say on the outskirts of Phoenix, I’ve been inside for a week now, haha)!

    Hi ImTheEmoSalamander!

    And hi contact! Hmm…
    Extension?
    Longevity?
    Elongatus?
    Protractious?
    Strainer?

    Haha.. I’m not really sure how to really excite things… I mean I think I’m pretty wiped out of midnighter talents(besides the talent that I’m thinking of that enables them to make some sort of weapon dolls), hmm… I’ll think on it!

    Bye guys!

  1303. weapon dolls? you mean something like voodoo? or am i totally off? yeah i asked my mom where they got kiersten from and she said that it was a derivitive (god that must be spelled wrong) of her name. the spelling is insane though. its supposed to be spelled kirsten. who knows where the got the wa they spelled it for me (kiersten) Jasmin/jazmin seems pretty original to me. I’ve never met anyone with that name although i’ve heard of people with that name.

  1304. Sorry guys, haven’t posted ‘cuz my daddy banned me from the computer for a week…
    I can’t pick a talent name gah!!!

  1306. thats what i do ImInLoveWithJonathan thats ok demensiona i no that u no that i no that it was a joking manner

  1307. Hi guys!!!(Hi ImInLoveWithJonathan!Voodoo? Wow that’s interesting! Well I wasn’t really THINKING in that direction at the TIME, but maybe I should! Um I was actually thinking of younger midnighters constructing/playing w/ dolls such as Ada Lovelace. But I love this voodoo idea, you I can do a lot w/ that, thanks!

    Original?Wow! Well the ironic thing is, I’ve never met anyone w/ the name “Kiersten” either. I mean hence from hearing that name from those American Girl books(but even then the name was spelled differently).
    -Wow, I wish my parents had a motive/story behind my naming, my mom simply said that she LIKED the name, nice huh?!

    Hi sarah!!! Fawesome! Glad that’s cleared up!!

    Hi contact!Well Last week, Cox Cable kind of banned me from the computer! Haha, and I wouldv’e been on a little sooner too, but I got kind of lost in Phoenix yesterday, haha! Yep, my dad’ the KING of navigation, haha!
    -But I try to steer away from computers as much as I can(but I usually don’t succeed). Plus, I’m pretty computer challenged,haha!
    -And maybe elaborating a little on your talent might help you pick a name contact!

    Bye!!

  1309. Mmkay I’ll try and elaborate Demensiona!
    Anyway…
    Contact did a half-fanart! It was inspired by a conversation with my friend a few Saturdays ago. We ended up on the subject of Midnighters because of, well, the crazy heat lightning that happens so often during Florida summers. Every Midnighters quiz I have ever taken has told me I was like Rex, partly because I’m a history lover, partly because I love giving orders and I think nothing can be done well if I don’t do it or at least think it up, and because of my glasses. Unfortunately, my mom doesn’t own a Mary-Kay-Pink Cadillac, and fortunately, my dad is not a brain-dead vegetable created by my best friend(although she does find my dad scary and thinks he has no sense of humor). My friend likes wearing jackets and gloves, doesn’t like being touched or making eye contact, is always pretty grumpy, and usually has music blasting in her ears. We have also been friends since we were eight, and didn’t know each other before that. Remind you of anyone? I know. Pretty scary. So, today, in my long hours of boredom, I did this drawing, or at least lineart, of me and my friend kind of dressed up as Melissa and Rex. Not very well though. Also, there’s a couple of slithers in the corner, because I felt they needed to be there. Plus they wanted to be. I screwed with both of our heights, because my friend is actually almost a foot taller than me, but I don’t think Melissa is taller than Rex. Or at least I hope not. Anyway, here’s the link:
    http://www.oekakicentral.com/traininggrounds/pictures/282.jpg
    I hope you like it, anyone who is reading this(and Scott, you lurker you)

  1310. contact same my bff and i have been friend since we were eight she is like rex 2 but im like melissa so im told… hate bein touched always listening stuff weird huh ??? 😀

  1311. So, Demensiona, you got lost in Phoenix, huh? The light rail constuction has everything messed up down there. The good thing, by what is, 2011 we’ll have an up and running light rail system. Right now, though the whole area is completely torn up. We got lost over there a few weeks ago, and my parents have lived here forever.

    I don’t have a friend like Melissa, but I definitely have a Dess. I was over at her house the other day, and she has pi up to the 40th digit as her screen saver. (She has it memorized up to the 70th place) She also has gone through and figured out the exact amount of humans years it would take for a darkling to age a year (23.9869467333333333) Oh, and she’s gone through, and figured out which days are good days (multiples of thirteen or add to thirteen) and bad days (mulitples of twelve) in our calendar today, and in the old calendar when there used to be ten months. She is definitely Dess. I’m more of a Rex with my glasses and love of being in charge.

  1313. Oh, sorry guys, the link turned to junk. Darn people who think I’m stealing my own art. Go to oekakicentral.com in the Training Grounds room, I’m pic #282 if you still want to see it. Again, sorry.

  1314. Or, if you don’t want to look too hard, it’s on my deviantart account, CatsinSummer. Sorry about that. Go back to your normal conversation and pretend I never happened, k?

  1315. Hello!

    Hi Sarah! Yay, haha!Yeah I’m more like Melissa too! I hate being touched, and I’m always blasting my earphones w/ music(sometimes noise levels drive me crazy, and I’m claustrophobic)! But I usually don’t listen to METAL though, usually like :Underoath,Evanescence, Mogwai, Radiohead, or Imogen Heap…!

    Hi Contact!Okay on the elaboration! And OH MY GOSH!! I LOVE YOUR DRAWING. Wow you’re totally an artist/totally imaginative!But I totally want to shade it or paint it w/ watercolors or use charcoal!Oh and you’re more like Rex? He was 2nd on my midnighter personality quiz, I love history too and leadership!

    Hi mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation! Yep, I got lost in Phoenix at NIGHT!How we got from the side streets of Surprise to DOWNTOWN Phoenix/practically GlENDALE, I do not know! Haha my mom still makes jokes about it. And gosh, the moon is freakishly HUGE in Phoenix/Arizona!Oh but FAWESOME on the running light rail system in 2011!

    I’ve had a friend who was totally a math wiz like Dess, she kind of looks like the way I picture Dess to look too!And another friend who’s totally like Jonathan/she has like a REALLY fast metabolism. And when one of my older sisters took the midnighters personality quiz, she was more like “Jessica”, which was like completely random, but Jessica WAS her favorite character though. But no, like I’ve said, I’m more like Melissa/plus she’s my favorite character too.

    Bye guys!

  1316. what up guys not literally tho and my friends whove read midnighters said im totally like melissa and i listen 2 what u listen 2 weird huh????

  1317. Hi Sarah! Wow like Melissa, fool! And we listen to the same music? Wierd, but fotally fawesome!

  1318. Hey everyone!
    I like Dess(not that I’m most like her)but it’s fawesome what she can do with numbers and words!

  1319. hey demensiona exactly like melissa from what i hear from my friends and yeah i listen 2 ur music or what u said at least totally fawesome!! 😀

  1320. the quiz said i’m most like jonathan then dess. dess is my favorite midnighter. i named my betta fish after her. (but she died today *tear*) i like to think of my self as being most like dess, which i am most of the time, but sometimes i have a melissa type attitude toward people.

  1321. Wow, thanks Demensiona!I did that on the computer, in like three hours because I tried to color it. You can try, too, if you want, although I don’t know how.

  1322. Hi!

    Hi allichie! I love Dess w/ the trides too!

    Hi Sarah! Fotally Fawesome!

    Hi ImInLoveWithJonathan!Jonathan first? I was starting to believe that the first midnighter on your personality quiz would be your FAVORITE midnighter, but since your favorite midnighter is Dess, then I’m not so sure…

    -But then again, I ‘m not sure if ALL of us can say that we have solely ONE favorite midnighter though. Really ALL of the midnighters are my favorite! I think that you can relate to each midnighter in one way or another, and that’s fawesome! I believe that we ALL have a little bit of each midnighter in us.Whether that be personality wise/fears/family situations, etc..!Which is fotally fawesome as well!

    And you’re totally welcome Contact! You did that ON the computer?(I thought you took a photograph of it and posted it)! Wow, you must have a VERY steady hand,I’m impressed! I’d love to color it, but even if you knew how to color it, my shaky hand would probably RUIN the piece!Haha!

    Bye guys!

  1325. Yes, I did do that on the computer..with my tablet, EVIL watercolor lines, and sheer willpower. I’m sure you wouldn’t mess it up…after all, you could just print it out on regular drawing paper and see what happens! (If you do color it, e-mail me a picture please. bellana_elena@hotmail.com)ImInLoveWithJonathan!, R.I.P Dess the beta fish. May you go to the great fishbowl in the sky.
    Wearing my contacts today. They’re no fun, I can’t see half the stuff that I can with my glasses. Also, I CAN’T TAKE THEM OFF! Sometimes I can’t (inexplicably) see something with my glasses on, and so…My contacts are evil. Gah.

  1326. Hi!

    Hi ImInLoveWithJonathan! Noted on the Chatroom!
    And I’m so sorry about your loss!

    Hi Contact! Awesome! I’ll definetely email you the colored product when I get a chance to. Ugh and contacts scare me! One one of my friends accidently fell asleep w/ them on/And I’m guessing that you know what happened. And one of my sister’s friends was wearing contacts when she was opening the oven. The contacts melted onto her eyes, so now she’s legally blind.

    – So be careful PLEASE!

    Bye!

  1328. My friend’s beta fish lived for like six years. I’m not sure if that was Strawberry or blueberry, but oh well…
    STOP WITH THE CONTACT HORROR STORIES!!
    I bought ’em for school, so I wouldn’t look like a dork. I’d like to get a better prescription so I can actually SEE though..
    Thanks for coloring! I may post it on my deviantart (telling them you colored it of course, I’m not an art thief)to show the finished product, is that okay?

  1329. i didnt mean the actual life expectancy of betta fish. i really have no idea how long that is. its how long everyone thought she would last seeing as how the last time i have fish one died in 3 days, one 3 weeks, and one 3 months. (oddness with the threes.)

  1330. Hi!

    Hello ImInLoveWithJonathan!Oh okay on the life expectancy. I don’t know about my fishes’ life expectancy.I havent had a good history w/ fish either. My first batch of fish killed each other. Now most of them are dying off from incest(I guess I should’ve bought all males of females).

    Hi contact! Sorry about the contact horror stories! And yep, when I get a chance to color it, then you can definetely post the colored product!

    Bye!

  1332. I got these three fish for a school project, and the first two lived for like a week. I expected my third to live for only a few weeks, but after it didn’t die after like month I assumed that it would last about as long as my beta fish (six months) I’ve now had it for over a year and a half. We call it the fish that won’t die. Especially because I really don’t have a great record with fish. (I had a fish that died the night I got it)
    Oh, and I had to do a report on betas in like the 2nd grade. Life expectancy: a year to three years.

    Oh, and I agree with contact to stop on the contact horror stories. I got mine for school too, not to not look like a dork, but because I’ve had glasses forever, and you’re really starting to freak me out.

  1334. Contact and fishes, pretty interesting topics! Haha, I love it!

    -Hi ImInLoveWithJonathan! Yeah those fish props can be lethal. And Dess the Beta fish died of a fish fungus?Wow, I would’ve never guessed.

    -Hi Mistranslated Nonelectrical Ornimentation! Sorry about the contact stories! I was freaked out when I heard the stories too!But don’t worry, just remember to take them off at night, and avoid ovens when wearing them!

    Bye!

  1335. speaking of contact horror stories, i know before that color contacts were dangerous and the color bled into people’s eyes and it mae them go blind but that was when they first came out. do any of you have color contacts? have they killed your eyes yet? or are they safe?

  1336. Hi ImInLoveWithJonathan! My sister has contacts of like every color of the rainbow. They haven’t killed her eyes due to the bleeding of dye, but her eyes get pretty irritated. That’s probably because she doesn’t actually NEED contacts, she just wears them as a fashion statement. But hence that, yeah, colored contact to my knowledge, are fairly safe.

    Bye!

  1337. ok. thats pretty much what i was going to wear them for too. well mostly costumes. halloween is so my fave holiday. and ive always wanted purple or red eyes. or super green eyes like gemmas in a great and terrible beauty. my eyes now are a green/gray/blue/yellow/multi-colored odd color. i like my eyes but i want to be a peep so i need colorful eyes.

  1339. I have bright green eyes most of the time. When I go in the sun too much they turn a freaky kind of red. I’ve been thinking of getting blue contacts… I always wanted blue eyes lol.

  1340. Hi ImInLoveWithJonathan!For costumes?Fool! My sister usually wears super green like Gemma’s, and violet. You want to be a Peep? Fawesome! I’d go w/ green!
    I believe they’re in the eye doctor type area like you said(I’m not sure, I didn’t go w/ my sister when she bought her violet contacts from Wal-mart). My eyes are brown like Bella’s!

    Hi Alissa!Ooh blue’s pretty!

    Bye!

  1341. my eyes are blue
    sometimes people tell me that my left eye is kinda greenish(weird huh?)
    and Alissa: red!
    and ImInLoveWithJonathon: I would go with violet

  1343. jsuk, i change my costume about every other day. my faves so far though are a peep, dess from the midnighters, tally, luna, or tonks. although tommorow i’ll probably i wanna be a mermaid! just kidding.

  1344. Hello!

    Hi allichie!

    Haha, Hi ImInLoveWithJonathan! I would go w/ Dess from Midnighters, that would be fotally fawesome!Therefore, I’d go w/ violet, as allichie said!

  1346. I love the Dess costume idea. If I end up dressing up for halloween this year I was thinking about doing that. I actually already have an outfit that I call my midnighters outfit: Long black skirt, long sleeved black shirt with a little bit of a lacy pattern on it, knee high black boots, lots of stainless steel jewelery, and my sunglasses. I’ve only worn it once though, for a project a school where we had to create our own government for an island, and I ended up making it a midnighters island (of course my teacher didn’t know that, let’s just say for everyone who broke the laws which included that you had to have read all three midnighters books, you were sent to be eaten by our evil black panthers) I dressed up for the project in my midnighters outfit. Only a few people knew what I was doing, but still it was totally fun.

  1347. Hello!

    Hi ImInLoveWithJonathan! Yeah Dess is fawesome! And add fawesome jewlery to that list!

    Hi mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation! Oh cool, awesome project/sounds FOTALLY fun!

    -You know this year I was thinking about going as a person who passes out candy again!Haha!(No I enjoy passing out candy rather than actually going out and retrieving.)

    -I know this might sounds wierd but I’m not a big fan of candy/hate chocolate. Crazy right, haha!

    -Wouldn’t you think that a person whose birthday is in October would just ADORE Halloween?(Halloween’s okay, but it’s just not my favorite day of the year).

    Bye guys!

  1348. i fadore halloween. its so much fun for one night to be someone else and dress up crazy, have purple hair, or have fake blood all over you. also its fawsome to stay up all night pestering people for candy when you have already obviously eaten too much. its my favourite. i have plenty of metal jewlery tha usually wear any way so plenty of necklaces, ringes, bracelets and such are give in for me.

  1349. No clue what I’m going to be this Halloween. Last year I was a spider (my friend was Little Bo Peep) but I was a SUBTLE spider (no legs or anything) so everybody thought I was just Goth or something. I don’t know if I’ll go for a Westerfeldian costume this year, ‘cuz I might have to explain it a billion times and I get really sick of that. I don’t start planning my Halloween costumes too early, because my birthday already encompasses it (October 29, 10 + 29 = 39!!)

  1351. my b-day april 21, 21=4=25. eh at least not 24. have all of you read the harry potter books? or are any of yopu one of the 5 people in the world who hasen’t (one of which is one of my best friends) i’m going to the harry potter midnighter party as luna lovegood. which should be interesting as a am not a blonde and will be dying my hair. i was going to go as tonks by mi padre didnt go for the purple hair bit. *tear* so i am going as luna (who, if i was a fictional character, would probably be me. lol)

  1352. Hello1

    Hi ImInLoveWithJonathan! That’s fool! My mom fadores Halloween too!Fool, your birthday’s in April, fawesome!
    And I’ve only read the Chamber of Secrets
    /ironic huh!(I honestly can read fantasy books/ I’m unable to visualize w/o movie aide). But yeah, I have no clue who Luna Lovegood is, but I’m sure she’s fawesome!

    Hi contact!Oh your birthday’s in October?Mine too!

    Hi allichie! Mine’s October 9, 10+9=19, doesn’t work for me either! I’ll be 16 in October!(Oh and your birthday wasn’t THAT long ago/8 days after Edward Cullens! So happy FEXTREMELY belated birthday Allichie!)!

    -Haha, bye guys!

  1354. I just turned 14
    I listened to the harry potter books on cd because I could never pronounce the names or spells(yes, luna is fawesome)

  1355. I’m one of the people who hasn’t read the Harry Potter books too. I’ve read about have of the first one, that’s about it. I’m like you Demensiona. I just can’t read fantasy, because I just can visualize it.

    And just my luck, my birthday adds to 12 or if you add the year, 24. It bugs me that it’s so darklingish.

  1356. i no i havent been on in awhile but my b-day is so midnighter August 31 it is so midnighter and i waz born on the stroke of midnight

  1357. i cant read anything but fantasy. i visulize everything. its like a mini movie ini my head. i dont see the words i see it like a movie playing in my brain. i guess thats why i love to read so much. its fawsome.

  1360. Hello!

    Hi allichie! Oh you just turned 14, that’s fotally fawesome!

    Hi mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation!Yeah visualization is the key to fantasy, and the made up maps fotally through me off.

    Hi Sarah!You’re birthday’s on the last day of August,fawesome!And you were born at the stroke of midnight? Fotally fool!

    (I don’t know the exact time of my birth. I think after 8 kids, my parents don’t even remember, haha!)!

    -Bye guys!

  1361. Oh, sorry ImInLoveWithJonathan! I didn’t see your comment!

    Hi!Yeah for me its like watching a movie too, but I need something that I can relate to in order to do that(Like location), that’s why fantasy fotally throws me off! Because fantasy usually contains concepts so out there, that I’m unable to grasp them. But I love watching fantasy movies, I learn a lot and I end up completely awestruck!

    But yeah, everytime I read a book, I use real life actors in my head. Is that wierd?

  1362. We finally got rain today! Did you get rain where you are Demensiona?

    Sarah, it’s so fawesome that you were born at midnight! I was born so far away from midnight, that it is completely positive that I’m not even close to being a midnighter.

    Demensiona, it’s not weird to imagine real life actors. I actually usually do that, and I try to figure how the book would be played out if it were a movie. I pick out actors, music, and which parts of the book they would probably cut out in a movie. I’ve even started planning out a script for a few. So, no it’s not weird to imagine actual actors. If it is, then I am definitely weird, or past weird.

  1363. I’m gonna be 14, if I was who you were asking, allchie. Born at 6:18 in the morning, though. (18 + 6 = 24 OH NO!)
    Also, I was thinking, would a child born in the secret hour be a midnighter? Say, if the mother was a midnighter and happened to be having her baby right at that time? Just a thought.
    I have read all six Harry Potter books, seen all five movies, and I CAN read fantasy books. Trying to write one of my own, in fact. Kind of half-fantasy, though. Set in this world, but part of it’s different.
    I really just draw the characters if I have trouble envisioning them. I’ve been wanting to scan in one of my book drawings, but it’s on huge paper, so I can’t.

  1364. when I read a book, I can’t visualive there faces, just who they are and what they are doing, and yeah, It’s definately like a movie
    I can’t be a midnighter, I was born at 7:30pm(dang!) and yeah, a kid born in the secret hour would DEFINATELY become a midnighter
    for me It depends on the fantasy(I like urban fantasy)

  1365. Hello!

    Hi Mistranslated Nonelectrical Ornimentation!Yeah we did get a LITTLE rain! But I was in that like half/sleep phase, so if my brother hadn’t told me, I wouldn’t have noticed!

    And Thanks! I’m glad that that’s not fotally wierd! I always think of outtakes and soundtracks too!

    And yeah, even though I don’t know the time of my birth, I can PROMISE you that I was nowhere near being a midnighter!

    Hi contact! You’re going to be 14? Fotally fawesome!Oh and 6:18, haha join the club!
    Ooh and awesome thought! I would agree with allichie, that baby WOULD be a midnighter.

    Hi allichie!7:30?Wow, being born at midnight is fotally random, but fawesome!Yep, I’m convinced that our brains are movie makers! And urban fantasy?Hmm..is that somewhat realistic or like a sort of GRIM fantasy?

    Bye!

  1366. i was born just in time for dinner (6 something or close to 7 i think. lol) which is really a big joke with my friends cause im always eating but never gain anything (go high metabolisims!)

  1367. urban fantasy is fantasy that takes place in modern cities, it still has all the magic and stuff but is somewhat normal
    and yeah: GO HIGH METABOLISMS!
    and it’s about to rain
    (complete randomness but)I drew the New Moon cover!

  1368. Privet!

    Hi ImInLoveWithJonathan! Haha, born just in time for dinner?!Wow! Oh you must have a high metabolism like Jonathan!

    Hi allichie! Oh thanks, that definetely clears everything up!So urban fantasty is set in a modern location? Okay, well that doesn’t sound so bad!

    And you drew the New Moon cover? Fawesome! I wanted to draw the flower on my arm again after my New Moon tattoo had erased!

    Bye!

  1370. Oh yeah, it would! Haha, gee I’m a dunce! Well I guess I CAN read one form of fantasy, haha!

  1371. hahahaha i’ve got 12 hours (if all i do is read the whole time) to read 465 pages? think ican do it? (and i wont be reading more than likely. i’ll be dying my hair blonde and making my luna lovegood costume cause im the kind of person that goes to harry potter costume parties and barnes and noble. and dyes their hair for it. wow im a loser.)

  1373. Hello!

    Hi Kiersten! No, you’re not a loser! I go to Barnes and Nobles like every other weekend and I STILL haven’t bothered to buy a Barnes and Noble card, and I’ve already made an Eclipse Playlist!You’re not a loser.

    Hi allichie!Yeah, I’m just obsessed w/ books period!

  1374. sorry i never responded i was in media exile until i finished harry potter as to not see any headlines as in HARRY LIVES! or HARRY DIES! or any other spoilers. so i finished it this morining (1:00 exactly) soooooooooo good. any of you read it yet?

  1375. I loved the last book. But there was like no Dess! What is going to happen to her? Once again she will be all alone! I want another book too.

  1379. Good news: My mom’s friend just had her baby!
    Unfortunately, I can see nothing cool in the numbers:
    Born at 6:48 pm, July 22, 2007.
    Tell me if you see anything in them.

  1381. Privet!

    Hi contact! Oh your friend’s mom just had a baby? That’s fawesome! Hmm… I don’t really work well w/ numbers..

    -Well I can see that that baby shares the same birthday w/ one of my older sisters… I can’t find anything really midnighter related though.

    Hi Sarah! Yeah long time no HEAR! Yep and I can bet you that at least 80 percent of those comments revolve around Eclipse!

    Hahaha,Bye!

  1384. Wait oh my gosh look at THAT COVER!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Matches the look/style of Peeps and Uglies/more contemporary.

    Hey Scott is there a cover for a fourth book?

    (Hahaha, it was worth a try)!

    ^_^

  1385. Yeah, I like that cover too. It makes Jessica a little less boring and ordinary. But the eye seems to be a bit too light… I’d go for a shade or two darker, maybe with some light accents. but it’s still very cool and I love it.

  1386. Yeah, I like the cover, but I did have a slightly different image of Jessica in my mind. I love the flamebringer symbol on the front, though.

  1388. Hello!

    Hi Alissa! Yeah, I imagined Jessica’s eyes a few shades darker too, but yeah it’s fotally fool!

    Hi mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation!
    Yeah I had a pretty different Jessica in my head but yeah I love the flame-bringer sign/but don’t you think that would’ve spoiled the book a bit?

    Hi Sarah! Yep I love the cover too!

    Bye!

  1389. When you’re reading the book for the fist time you don’t know what the flamebringer symbol means, so it wouldn’t be able to give anything away. Besides, it does look really cool.

  1391. Hmm..yeah I guess you’re right Alissa!

    But I was pretty anticipated to see Jessica’s sign…but that’s just me!

  1393. Hi Sarah! I felt like one of my sisters spoiled it for herself by looking at the last page. But she said it didn’t. So I don’t know..

  1394. well in all of the chapters there r the signs i realized that in Touching Darkness so idk well whoever the chapter is most about i think

  1395. Hi Sarah! Yeah, you’re right!

    Hey, why did it take me to get halfway through Touching Darkness for me to figure that out too?!

    Haha, bye!

  1396. My friend is obsessing about Eclipse as well…Unfortunately, I haven’t read the second book yet..oh well. Leaving on the first for Seekonk, Massachusetts…may not be in touch for a while.
    THe symbols? I noticed then in the first book. Knew what they were, too. Am I just weird?

  1397. Hi Contact!

    You haven’t WHAT?!Are you kidding me?! How have you faired so well all this time when New Moon spoilers have been spread all across the internet like flies! Hmm well I’m totally obsessing over Eclipse as well!

    [Oh and I’ve finished painting your picture/ I’m just trying to figure out how to upload it on the computer through my sister’s camera.]

    Ooh and headed for Mass, fun! Well have a nice trip!

    -Oh and on the symbols, I just think that you’re VERY observant when you need to be!

    Bye!

  1398. Contact ur not weird, I noticed them too, I thought they gave u an idea about who’s point of view the chapters were from or who they were about
    -and oh my god(I never say omg) how can you live with only reading Twilight and not the sequel?(retorical question)*gasp*

  1399. Contact, you’re not wierd, either that or we’re both weird considering I noticed the symbols and that they represented which character the chapter was about almost right away. So, no you’re not weird.

  1400. Я знаю, что это – случайный Скотт, но пожалуйста! Мы нуждаемся в другой книге Скотт! “Я” нуждаюсь в другом Midnighters заказать Скотта! Пожалуйста! Я начинаю заживать с Синего Полудня, и я не хочу зажить!

    -Okay Scott, those were my final DESPERATE pleas, so I’m guessing you can translate.

  1401. Yeah i agree with Contact i reread the Secret Hour and i noticed them it just takes rereading books 2 notice stuff like dat

  1402. Hi Sarah! Well I mean in the Secret Hour, you don’t really know what the signs mean or who they belong to. But over the course of the book, I guess you can see a pattern forming, I think I was just a little slow(haha). I pretty much confirmed it in Touching Darkness.

    But yeah, rereading is always useful, you learn alot!Haha!

    Bye!^_^

  1405. oh yeah i totally agree demensiona ttly i was like huh when i frist read it so like u and i said its good when u reread stuff

  1406. Yeah you do learn a lot by rereading. I’ve actully been through all of the midnighter books about four times in the last six months. (Yes, I’m that obsessed.)

    On another note a friend of mine wrote this poem about midnighters. What do you think?

    Here it is:

    “Sun of the night
    Moon of the day
    At the stroke of midnight
    The Darklings will prey

    Worlds shudders to a halt
    For one hour long
    blue moon ringing high
    The thirst for fear strong

    A new world unravels
    Only those select few
    Can see the magestic world
    Colored purple and blue

    Waiting for relief
    Counting down the seconds
    Until the world is theirs
    And freedom beckons”

  1408. hey mistranslated non electrical ornimentation that poem is so idiotic your friend is stupid

  1409. Good news, everyone! I’m sorry I haven’t commented in a while, but I read New Moon on the plane (borrowed friend’s copy) so y’all can stop raggin’ on me. Good book. You, midnightkid person, that isn’t very nice. How would you feel if someone said that about something YOU wrote, hmm? *shakes finger reprimandingly*

  1410. Oh, and thanks for finishing the picture! E-mail it to me whenever. I shall print it and hang it on my wall 🙂 In Mass. right now, helping my grandma clean out all her junk..haven’t found much cool stuff except a foam phone (like, a real phone, not a play phone) and some old paper book covers. Demensiona, I think I might start doing some Midnighters coloring pages. Look for them from the 16th on (don’t have my tablet) on my linked page, otherwise known as my deviantart account. Hope you like them (when I finish them of course!) Anyone else can take advantage of these pages as well.

  1411. midnightkid217 ur stupid, thats a really cool poem, If you can’t say something nice don’t say nothin’ at all

  1412. I’m sorry guys but midnightkid217, what the f***k did you say?!First of all, how DARE you say that to Scott Westerfeld and Mistranslated Nonelectrical Ornimentation! That’s freaking unbelievable! Well that’s a first!Gee dude/KID, you have a problem, go FIX it!!!

    – No further comment!

    ….Gee I’m so mad I’m pratically shaking!…………………………Okay, I’m somewhat calm now.

    Hi Contact!Yeah I’ll email you as soon as I can! And I can’t wait for the fawesome midnighter coloring pages!

    Hi Sarah! Rereading’s good!

    Hi Mistranslated Nonelectrical Ornimentation. Your friend’s poem is AMAZING, and tell her that he or she’s BRILLIANT( Don’t take into consideration ANYTHING that that FIDIOT said for a SECOND).

    Hi allichie! Thanks for saying that in the nicest way possible fashion, I couldn’t do it!

    Bye Contact, Sarah, MISTRANSLATED NONELECTRICAL ORNIMENTATION, and Allichie!

  1413. first off, scott cant write any more even if he wanted too because he doesnt have all the rights to the books unless alloy let him. second of all, id like to see you write a better poem. If you’re going to be a moron and say stupid things, say it to someone who cares about your mindless bashing.

  1414. I’m not even going to say anything to you, midnightkid217. I’m not going to be mean and idiotic like you were. Anyway, thank you contact, allichie, Demensiona, and ImInLoveWithJonathon, for defending me and my firend. You guys are the greatest. Thank you so much.

    Oh, and you’ll be happy to know that I started reading Twlight yesterday. I can barely put it down.

  1416. midnightkid217 thats bulls**t u dont no who i am but if i was u id b scared i have 1 question tho how old r u if ur like 13 or something then b scared b very scared mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation ur friend poem was AWESOME!!! i loved it its fexcellent demensiona thx 4 saying what i wanted 2 say i totally agree hmm glad i got that out of my system kk guys — See ya every 1 BUT midnightkid217

  1417. Hi FRIENDS!

    Yeah ImInLoveWithJonathan!

    Hi mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation!Oh my gosh, you’re SO welcome! I mean it wasn’t really something that I wanted to say, but rather something I NEEDED to say!

    Hi allichie!You’re very welcome!

    Hi Sarah!You’re very welcome as well! And I know right, huh, “KID”.

    Bye FRIENDS!(I think the anger’s out of my system tonight). ^_^

  1419. Oh, no problem, MNO. All I can say is if that person is 13, he/she’s misrepresenting ALL of us. I thought that was a really good poem. I can’t write poems at all, so I’m amazed. I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with for the coloring pages, either…Thinking of doing an Ada Lovelace one, how does that sound?

  1421. An Ada Lovelace one sounds fawesome. I can’t wait to see it.

    Oh, school starts for me in four days. How much longer do you guys have?

  1425. August 22nd I go back. Wish me luck for my first year in high school…
    My cousin is starting school in Holland Thursday…I’m wishing her the best too.

  1426. Hi!

    Hey Sarah!I agree!Haha,school..what’s NOT to dread?! ^_^

    Hi Contact! Ada Lovelace sounds fotally fawesome!And good luck!(Though I know you won’t need it, you’ll be fine)! And you cousin is starting school Holland?How fawesome! I wonder what’s that like……

    Hi mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation! I started school on August 8th. I brought Stephenie Meyer’s Eclipse w/ me. Haha!

    Hi ImInLoveWithJonathan! I’m definetely going to reread Eclipse(It’s not as difficult as New Moon to reread)! And I’m in LOVE w/ that fact!

    Bye guys!

  1428. Hi Sarah!

    -Yep ouch! L-I-T-E-R-A-L-L-Y! Gee it’s hot right now!(Good thing the school’s indoor for the most part)!

    Ooh and the 20th? Interesting, I don’t hear people starting back on the 20th too often!

    Bye!^_^

  1429. Demensiona, the 8th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Oh my gosh that’s early. I thought we went back early, but the earliest I’ve ever gone back is the 9th.

    And oh my gosh it’s hot. Record breaking heat. They can have snow days why can’t they have heat days? At least your school’s mostly inside. Mine’s an outdoor campus like thing. I have to walk like two/three football field lengths outside in 115 degree heat just to get to like two or three of my classes.

    Oh, and Contact its my first year in highschool too. By the end of the day I felt like Jessica on her first day at Bixby High.

  1431. Hello!

    Hi mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation! I KNOW, I couldn’t BELIEVE that that was our starting back date.(I mean I was used to starting school on September 4th).

    -And yeah we SHOULD have heat days, at this point, Itake the snow. And I didn’t know that this is your first year of high school! Wow, I would’ve never guessed! That’s fawesome!

    Hi ImInLoveWithJonathan!Hmm my freshman and sophmore year went by REALLY fast for me too!

    Bye guys!^_^

  1433. please tell me is there more than a 70% chance that there will be more midnighters books

    i have got so addicted
    i notice 13 letter words all around me
    and i want more!!!!

  1434. more! more! more please
    i hate reading but i dont sleep no until i have finished your books
    it took me five days to read all 3 midnighter books!
    they are amazing…so are there going to be more (70% chance?)

  1435. hey guys yea i ttly agree with demensiona and ImInLoveWithJonathan freshman year was the fastest unbelievably fast 4 me 😀

  1436. oh yess i agree with everyone freshman year was fast….wow…been a while since freshman year for me though…2 years!

    oh and i agree with jamielynn…there needs to be more books!

  1437. Hey guys! It’s so fawesome that there’s new commenters! This is so exciting! Welcome!

    Hi Jamielynn! There’s strictly a POSIBILITY of the trilogy continuing.

    Hi Sarah!Yep, it fotally was!

    Hi dessie!Haha!2 years for me too dessie! And yep more books!(Gee I promised in Russian a while back that I wouldn’t beg for books. Hmm ^_^).

    Bye guys!

  1439. New people! Welcome!

    Well, I hope my freshman years go by quickly too, because so far its been slow and boring. Of course, it’s only been a week, so who knows what could happen.

    And I know there’s only a slight possibility for more books, but please, please Scott write more!

  1440. AaH! School tomorrow…I went to orientation yesterday, got my locker, paid freshman dues, all that…(I’m locker number 1000) There were a bunch of lockers with pictures on them. One was in a good spot, but it had a picture of some dude named Trevor on it. No multiples of 13 in my locker combination…If I ever turn part-darkling, I think I’ll be fine. There were so many tall people at orientation…even my dad noticed the predominance of seven-foot-tall boys. My gosh, I hope they’re seniors. My homeroom is in a good and obvious spot. Hopefully my brain will still be intact by the end of the month. I also get my birthday off this year, since it’s a teacher workday. I hope we don’t have a hurricane, because then they’ll probably make us miss it.

  1441. Hello!

    Hi Contact!Hope you had a nice trip! And you own an Ouija borad now? Ugh, those things give me the creeps!0_0
    -You go to school tommmorrow? Fawesome!Ooh I hate orientations, I try to avoid them at all costs!
    – Oh my gosh, it took me such a long time to get my locker open, good thing people were around to help me! ^_^!And there’s not any multiples in my locker combination either.And wow the guys are pretty tall?Fawesome!

    I hope you don’t have a hurricane too. 0_0 And you’re off for you’re brithday? Fawesome how that worked out!

    Hi mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation!Trust me, you’re freshman year will go by SUPER fast! And I want more books too!

    Bye guys!

  1442. Yeah, I hate orientations too. I ended up skipping mine. No multiples of thirteen in my combination either, but the last digit adds to 12.
    I get my birthday off this year too. It’s actually on a three day weekend. Which is fawesome.

    Contact I hope you don’t have a hurricane either, and good luck on your first day of school.

  1444. I love it, but there’s no seer sign! Other then that I love it. The shirts are so fawesome!

  1445. Hello!

    Hi mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation! Yep, they’re the worst! I skipped my ninth grade one, but I had to go to my junior orientation. Ooh, 12!

    Hi ImInLoveWithJonathan!I SO love the idea of wearable Westerfeld! I so want the Extras sweatshirt, the mindcaster shirt, and “The Smoke Lives” Shirt!

    -Hey was there any Peep clothing? I’ve GOT to have something w/ “Fawesome” on it!

    Bye guys!
    ^_^

  1446. Ugh…School last three days. There are PORTABLES…didn’t notice them and some guy I literally ran into while I was peering at my schedule had to point me in the right direction…Creepy, huh? (Re-read The Secret Hour if you don’t get my drift.) High school is scary…plus it’s hard not to be late. I didn’t get lost ALL today! And neither was I late! THe only class I’ve been late to was my Spanish 2 class yesterday, as no one told me there were TWO 2000 buildings. I went to the obvious one…Haven’t managed to make many friends, except this one girl, Molly, who is in the same classes as me. I did talk to the goth girl behind me in Pre-AP English today…I think she talks to herself, but maybe she doesn’t talk to anyone in the class, and that’s why. Schoolwork is crazy…I am in all Honors and AP classes besides my electives, and they’re all, “You’re in HONORS. You have to do more and harder work because you’re in HONORS. You’re better than those regular class people. We expect much more out of you, because you’re in HONORS.” It’s like a mantra, dude. Seriously. *gives creepy, all-knowing hippie look* Plus my math teacher keeps calling on me.

  1447. teachers thaink that becuase you’re in honors classes you are automaticlly more mature and other wierd thinks that you should insinuate yust because someone is smart. or at least the teachers at my school do.

  1448. Contact you and I are in like the exact same position, but don’t worry it gets better after the first week. Yeah, the teachers seem to think that honors meens you can do more work in less time then the rest of the world. (Or at least that’s how they are at my school) It does sometimes mean that, but not always. Are you guys on block schedule or year long? We’re on block which makes the honors classes even harder because the teachers are trying to cram a whole class into one semester. I’m only in one honors/AIM class this semester because I wasn’t able to fit more around my band schedule and it’s really fast, and a whole lot of work. I don’t find it to be hard, because it’s a math class, and I’m pretty good at math, but still we had already been through the first chapter by the middle of the first week. Honors classes can be a good thing though. Exspecially if you get stuck in a normal class because you can’t fit the honors class into your schedule. This is what happened with my science class, and the regular level is so slow, boring, and I already know everything that’s in our course outline. So, honors classes can be a good thing.

    Yeah Demensiona I hope there are going to be peep clothing, because I definitely need a shirt with Fawesome on it too.

  1449. Yeah, we have block scheduling all year round. We’re not even close to finishing the first chapter yet, but I’ve only had two classes. As an update, I have THREE Biology books. Gah.

  1450. Hi guys!

    -Ah the beginning of high school… Haha, glad I’m almost done! ^_^

    -Hi Contact! It’s almost IMPOSSIBLE not to get lost in like you’re first week. And I didn’t know that freshman could take AP courses!Hmm I wonder when that started!

    Yep, expectations, expectations, expectaions..

    -And 3 books?! Oh my gosh Contact be careful! Gee I wonder what classes they’re going to put you in SOPHMORE year! Oh dear…. ^_^

    Hi ImInLoveWithJonathan! I agree!

    Hi mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation! Oh my gosh, that’s all I hear 24/7: AIMS! What is that? Is is like the High School Exit exam for Arizona? Well I’ve already passed California’s high school exit exam, but I’m guessing I’m going to need to take Arizona’s. Hmm..

    -And yep, there’s GOT to be PEEP/TLD shirts! I want a Team: Zahler shirt! ^_^

    -Bye guys!

  1451. Yes AIMS. Arizona’s instrument to measure standards. Let’s just say that if you have grown up here that pretty much all you hear from first grade up is , got to get ready for AIMS. Yes, it is the test to get out of high school here. Only one more year and I’m finally free of it!

  1452. Demensiona, they saw my standardized test scores. That’s all it takes for them public school people. I actually lucked out on math and science. I’m re-taking Geometry and Algebra II. Otherwise, I’d be doing Calculus or Trigonometry, and math is NOT my strong point. I’m in Creative Writing (we write poems, so far, lots of ’em) and Drawing/Painting 1 for my electives, and I have those alternating first thing in the morning. Glad I don’t have math or something. I love my geography class…good teacher, easy…although I wish I had real history, or mythology, or something.
    Real high school is so cool. In fact, I could compile a Midnighters-look-a-like album if I wanted to. Like, this kid in my art class is a pick for Rex. I think he has a Melissa, too, so that’s double points. And Dess is a toss-up between the girl who sits behind me in English (for the mind boggling statements) and this girl who wears red lipstick. She just SEEMS like it. Of course, I doubt these people would let me take pictures of them. Probably would think I’m crazy.
    I want some Westerwear! Too bad they don’t have a seer shirt. I’d buy it, totally.

  1453. Hi!

    -Hello mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation! Thankyou so much! I was told that I can transfer my California Test scores, so I’m good. But I’ll probably take the aims just to get a higher test score.

    -Hi Contact! Yikes they got a hold of your test scores! Yep, that IS all it takes for public schools. ^_^

    -I’m not good in mathematics at all. Jessica Day is a freaking mathmetician next to me!
    -Haha, no I’m not that bad! I just never remember the material!

    -Ooh good move! I’m taking college algebra right now and Trig next semester, yikes! I think I’m going to stop there. I’m not even TOUCHING Calculus!

    Haha, bye guys!^_^

  1454. IM BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMIGOSH IT FEELS SOOOOO GOOD TO B BACK

  1458. i know ive totally missed the boat for this but i found that once id finished the midnighters trilogy (yesterday boohoo)i was really depressed- i so want a fourth book for so many reasons one beinga way for jessica to escape the blue time and rejoin the rest of the world! Anyway the only way i could cheer myself up was with thinkin bout what happened next – sad but true- and i came up with this wich cheered me up anyway…

    1 year later while in new york jonathan, jess and melissa are searching for new midnighters and findin plenty of them, one night theres a big – you guessed it thunderstorm- and during blue time jessica feels the need to walk into it-she does and when she comes out the other side not only her hand glows but her whole body! the end of midnight comes and jessicas waiting to be zapped away when it doesnt happen -shes back to normal, well closer to normal. jessica lets beth know shes back and promises to keep in touch before carring on her roadtrip with jonahan and melissa.

    its a happily ever after endin i know but it cheered me up – but a fourth book would still be gr8 *big wish there* i apolagize for this being so long i tried to simplify it – but i only half succeeded

  1459. First pep rally last Friday — did you know they yell “Go home freshmen”? Scary. THe bleachers are really cramped, too. Our principal called our rival school’s principal and the stadium was chanting something about beating them…Dunno what, though.

    Niki, that is such a cute ending…Wish that could happen. Knowing Scott, Jessica would change back at the end of the book, during the big climactic action scene. (No offense, Scott. Love those big climactic action scenes.)

    Got my Westerwear! It came last week. I bought the Midnighters symbols shirt and the Tridecashirt (only T-shirt that’s guaranteed darkling-proof) for me, and the Mindcaster symbol shirt for my friend. They’re all giant, though…I misjudged all the sizes. I wore my tridecashirt to the mall on Saturday, and no one commented. Shame, shame. *wags finger reprimandingly* You should all know what the words mean, ignorant mall people.

    Welcome back, Sarah. Hello, newbies…hope you become regulars like the rest of us *heh*
    Niki, I did three really long posts my first time on here. Yours is no big. 🙂

  1460. Hello!

    You’re welcome,welcome, very welcome Sarah! And I fotally understand! ^_^

    Hi niki!Hey I almost believed that ending! Yep I was fotally depressed after reading Blue Noon! ^_^

    Hi Contact! Your first prep rally?Ugh, I’m like Melissa when it comes to prep rallies. I get fotally claustrophobic and fotally fannoyed!
    -Oh my gosh you bought Wester wear! How fawesome!Hmm I like shirts big, and nobody noticed? Hmm… yeah definetely ignorance. ^_^

    Bye!

  1461. And hi Miss Independent! I cried too! ^_^

    -And niki I have fotal writer’s syndrome too, ANYONE can tell you that!

    ^_^

  1464. hi thanx for sayin u liked my endin, and not to worry bout the long posts. in a bizarre way its actually makes u kinda feel better if u no someone-else felt a bit depressed at the end of a series too, which is abit selfish when you think about it really, but anyaway every1 seems to rave bout uglies but i havnt seen them anywhere, and y does every1 find pep rallys annoying – r they really that bad? we dont have them at my skool

  1465. Well, pep rallies at my high school seem to revolve around incoherent high school singing acts and a lot of derogatory chanting against freshmen. Not much fun for me, but I suppose the seniors enjoyed it.

    Niki, you see, this board is like a big online support group. We all have finished a series and felt that sense of loss.

    On a really scary note, I didn’t finish Touching Darkness! Apparently, about five pages were stuck together, and they became unstuck. They were those pages with the picture of the domino on them. That explains why I got a little confused at the end of the book. The REALLY scary part is the fact that I didn’t even notice until now.
    O_O

    Wow, we’re getting a steady input of new people! Welcome to the super-long comments page known to us as the spoiler board!
    When I read Specials I’ll check out their board and see if they made it to our length yet…
    Sorry about not finishing any of the colorpages…I haven’t had any free time in a while. Those things take me a good three hours a pop.
    I’m still making a song list for Midnighters…only got a couple so far, though.
    How’s this one? Pretend “December” is “the desert”, I swear it sounds like that in the song.
    http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/afi/awinterstale.html
    Tell me what you think of this one.

  1466. Jeesh a lot of stuff has happened on here since I was on last. I’ve been busy with homework and stuff, so I wasn’t able to get on lately.

    Anyway, welcome new people, and welcome back Sarah. Oh Niki I love your idea for the ending. Though if I was writing it I would probably make it a little more depressing. (Some kind of bad thing that happens because of Jessica becoming untrapped from the blue time) just because I’m not a big fan of completely happy endings. (In the current book I’m writing almost all of the main characters die at the end.) I do like your ending, though, Niki. It’s very original.

    Your first pep rally Contact. We haven’t had our’s yet. In fact I’m not completely sure if we do have pep rallies. I don’t really think many people enjoy pep rallies other then the people who are really into football/sports or the kids who just want to get out of class. Oh and I like the lyrics, very midnighterish.

    I got my Extra wear the other day to. Midnighter symbol shirt, mindcaster shirt (my 2nd favorite symbol since there was no seer sign), and Special Circumstances shirt. I’ve worn two of them to school so far and no one has recognized them. So sad. Hasn’t anyone at my high school read Scott’s books?

    Oh, by the way wish me luck, I tried out for the school play today, and I’ll find out if I made it tomorrow.

  1467. mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation- gd luck hope u get the part – although due to the different times on this site u probably already know how u did but good luck anyway!
    contact- like the lyrics , and it doesnt seem like im missing anything where pep rallies are concerened- phew- so glad we dont hav them- prizegivis bad enough!

  1469. you can tell im puttin off doin the most annoyin homework cant u- i was just readin some of the previous posts and it seems that lots of people are trying to write their own books which is fantastic!!! i would luv to be able to try and write a book but i can only ever think of bits and never a proper story – hate that word-!! ha ha i laugh at my pitiful attempts in past, and present cum to think of it,- it must be hard to write a book that has such a massive impact on people like midnighters and h.p. in my view ALL authors are genious’s, anyway thats my random thought for the day over- sorry to bore you with the sound of my comp keys workin overtime!

  1470. Well, I’ve finally decided to come and see the site. I loved the books, and wish there would be more. You obviously can’t continue the trilogy, but you can expand with more books, in another trilogy format, or even a series. It doesn’t have to end with a single trilogy. Honestly, these are some of the best books I have read. And if you do plan to expand, I would like to hear more about what happened before the first trilogy, since that era also intrigues me. There are parts in the book that confuse me a bit, so I think you have to at least write some more. You know, to cover up any holes and such. You know you want to.

  1473. Oh my gosh!! It has been forever since i have gone on this site. My old computer broke and we had to get a new one. I love the new clothing line! I am defiantly ordering. Now i just have to wait for Midnighters room decorations. I am sooo glad that i have my computer back, i have missed out on all of the midnighter gossip!

  1474. Welcome back then. I know I would love to get something from the shop, but I can’t get anything over the net. just not allowed to. one of these days though…

  1478. I pulled a, I am bored and have nothing to do, stunt and read the past comments on the sites. People who were talking about Harry Potter! How do you think that it was a bad ending? Are we talking about the 7th book because that was completely awesome and ingenious. I might have cried and threw the book across the room at certain points but most great books sadly have that effect on me. (The entire ending of the midnighters series for instance).
    As for people writing books: Keep it up! I am trying, emphasis on trying, to write a book as well. Somewhere, either on midnighters,uglies, or last days site, someone typed some of their book out. It sounds great!

  1480. Hi this is my first time writing on this page.
    Scott I just wanted you to know that you have to wright another book. It took me nine days to read you books(three days on each)and i was caught a number of times reading way past 1:00am in the morning, and when I went to the library and returned the third book I was kind of looking froward to the forth (hint hint)but to my unhappy realization there was only three….I cried, Scott you made me very, very sad that you only wrote three.I hope you read this and wright back or you don’t even have to wright back you could just use you amazingly good wrighting skilled wright another book that would answer all the begging and pleading not to mention the offering of souls.I loved your books and hope you wright another.please.

    p.s. I offer my soul too.If you wrote another book my life would be complete and I wouldn’t need it any way, its your to keep.

  1481. its bean a hour and I was so worried that you might of wrote back that I was going to be late to answer so i wrote to you again.

    p.s. please wright another book
    PLEASE,PLEASE,PLEASE,PLEASE,PLEASE,PLEASE,PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!please

    I would beige and plead more but it would probably loss it s purpose after the ninth please, but still PLEAES

  1482. SCOTT PLEASE WRIGHT ANOTHER BOOK.i CAN NOT EXPRESS IN WORDS HOW MUCH IT WOULD MEAN IF YOU WROTE ANOTHER BOOK .PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1483. SCOTT I WOULD RIP OUT MY SOUL AND GIVE TI TO YOU IF WITH THIS E-MAIL IF YOU WOULD JUST WRIGHT ANOTHER BOOK PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1485. there is now one thousand four hundred eighty four e-mails that are all pleading you to wright another book isn’t that enough for you to wright another book? please would you wright another book ?please?

  1487. hahahhaha. we all wish he would write more of the midnighters books but he doesn’t own all of the rights to the story so he can’t unless the publisher (Alloy) lets him I think. *so sad-making* but with all the talk of leaving the endings of books open for more of them in that article, I’m going to unleash another torent of PLEASE WRITE MOOOOOOOOORRRRRREEEEEE. but even if he doesn’t, there will still be others. (like Leviathan. is it a coincidence that the title of this book is the same as his friend’s last name?)

  1488. Just got Specials and TLD. Finished TLD too. I was..let’s just put it this way…fawesome. There, I said it. I have given into the cult. Welcome, newbie. The new school year is bringing around a bunch more than usual, I see.

  1492. Welcome newbies! Oh, and welcome Contact to the wonderful group of fawesome saying people.

    Oh, and nicole, I’d say Uglies is better. Though Peeps is fawesome. Read them both, but I’d say start with Uglies especially because Extra’s comes out in eight days! Oh, and I loved your long list of posts begging for a new book.

    Come on Scott we all need another book! (I just had to bring it up again.)

  1493. Nicole: As a series I really like Uglies (particularly Specials), but as a stand-alone novel I like Peeps better. It has a very interesting plot, and incredibly rich background story. If you’re looking to read right through from Uglies to Specials the series is brilliant, but if you’re just looking for one book I’d suggest reading Peeps.

  1494. Nicole: i cant help u out with which is better uglies or peeps having read neither of them – shame on me i know, but christmas is coming up and im planning on reading them!- im in the same boat as u does any1 hav any recommendations as 2 wot to read?? other than a non-existant 4th midnighters (come on please we need more!!)

  1495. personaly i like peeps better. uglies/pretties/specials is a fantastic trilogy (soon to be erm… quadogy?) uglies is really good for deeper meanings and stuff like thatbut im a sucker for a good vampire story. the lastdays is amazing too.

  1496. i no wot u mean bout vampire stories im hooked on sookie stackhouse and my swordhand is singing, thanx 4 the advise ill bear it in mind!

  1497. It really depends on the type of person you are. Also, I have a friend who didn’t like Peeps as much as The Last Days because she isn’t a science person-she’s basically the guitar-bass Zahler to my Moz, although I play really awful guitar. Also, Peeps and the Last Days are both in paperback. 🙂

  1498. hey, i just started to read uglies and i think its a really good book so far, but i haven’t had time to read peeps( still i think you should read uglies)

  1501. hey! ive never posted on this one before. even tho i finished the book like a month ago and post on everything els…oh well! i still have to read Peeps, Last Days, and So Yesterday. yepyepyep. I CANT WAIT FOR EXTRAS!!!!!

    and Scott-la should rite a 4th Midnighters book. it could be called…CHASING MIDNIGHT. hey! i like that! you know, cause there trying to chase down all of the people who got swallowed by midnight, and it could still be expanding and all…you know.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  1502. i like you name for the 4th Midnighters book sounds good(scott i think with that title you could wright a pretty good book)(hint hint)

  1503. AAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    EVERY ONE MUST READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    if you lookup midnighters under Google images there is a page that says there might be a midnighters movie (its the page with a red arrow on it)

  1504. i don’t know about you but I’m all hyped up about that!

    ew! unless they totally ruin the book by making a awful movie

  1505. mae i would agree with u but i cant find it !! boohoo crappy search engine, i can only find the TV series although last i heard that wasnt going to happen – has any1 heard different? please say youve heard different!

    lizzy-wa like the title would be great if we had a book that went with it *not very subtle hint*

  1506. hey me again i just done that midnighter pesonality? test this is wot i got…

    (100%) 1: Dess
    (96%) 2: Jessica
    (80%) 3: Jonathan
    (42%) 4: Melissa
    (11%) 5: Rex

    why u needed 2 no that i dont no, but i just wanted to share it with some1/any1 who would no wot i was going on about 4 a change!

  1511. Hmm.. better late than never! Hi Niki!^_^

    Gee! The THINGS that happen when I’m away! Haha!!!^_^

    Hi Guys!!!! GEE it’s fotally fawesome to be back!!! Commenting never felt so good!!!!Haha!^_^

    Welcome all!!!! Hi Stephenie!Hi Nicole! and Hi Mae!!!

    -And hey Lizzy -wa!!! ^_^

    -Hey Contact,mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation, and ImInLoveWithJonathan!

    -Welcome BACK TALLY!!!!!!And Alissa!!!!!

    -And yep, pep rallies really are THAT bad! Haha! ^_^

    -Gee I fotally have to get some Westerwear! MOM!!! (Haha, just kidding)! ^_^

    -Hmm and I have more Twilight fanatics sweeping my school. But fotally understandable since Stephenie Meyer doesn’t live that far away! ^_^

    Bye guys!!!

  1513. anyways,
    i think that scott likes to end all of his books with a cliff-hanging moment, or something sad.
    i think this is a way of making the reader want more and more, and judging by all of the comments thats exactly what happened…

    and i dont like having happy endings for some reason, having sad endings gives me something 2 think about and appreciate, it makes me think what will happen next in my own mind(it would still be totally happy-making if he wrote another book)

    so if any of you wanted 2 end the book differently just imagine in your mind that rex and melissa, and jessica and jonathan all kiss at the end if thats the way you want it.

    I love the way it ends its totally dizzy-making and fawesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    THANKS FOR CHOOSING TO BEAN AUTHOR SCOTT!!!!!

    Peace

  1514. Hi nat-la!^_^

    Haha, yeah this page IS really long! Haha, I love it!

    And I agree, the ending was fotally dizzy-making ! (and depressing-making ^_^)

    Yep, Scott’s always taking us for a loop!

    Thanks Scott! (I don’t think that I say that enough). ^_^

    Bye!^_^

  1515. Yeah Scott. You rock my argyle socks!
    Haha funny side note:
    I’m re-reading all of the Uglies books and decided to use all the fawsome slang in it today and everyone was like bogus? Bubbly? Wtf?!?! Although I did hear one of my friends saying brain-missing. Hehe.

  1516. hey
    i just finished reading prittys(sorry about spelling had a hard day)and started specials,so far its really good

    o ya talking about brain-missing(and some fashion-missing)you are probably wondering why i forgot how to spell and most of this and most is wrong (and any writers probably want to kill me for that)any way i went totally brain-missing (or better yet sleep-missing) i fell to sleep in class (thanks to the idiot that wouldn’t stop talking)teacher almost cough me and the lexure i got from my dad for walking facing *the wrong side of the road*i think this is one of the worst days ever
    i was looking forward to this weekend until my friend told me her mom sighned use up for a 8 hour food safe course on on other day but saturday and aperntly she also volentered use for working a wedding until 10:00pm on a thursday washing dishes,setting up and cleaning up that includs ALL the decorations pluse the fun tiny thing that I HAVE TO WEAR A DRESS!!!!!
    EW!!!!!
    i really am having a lovely day (o ya i almost forgot and then i got to school i finally realized why every one was staring at me i was wearing a striped shirt,army print pants)

    no fun-making for me
    bye you all have fun this weekend
    and if you think your weekend sucks compare it with mine and you’ll fell a lot better

    bye bye
    mae

  1517. oh Mae-la…i feel bad for yu. although the new style sounds eye-kickin! i think i’ll go buy some camo pants. i dont own any. *saddness* and about the spelling thing…any other werd is fine! jsut not UGLIES PRETTIES SPECIALS or EXTRAS. its the la. you cant spell them rong. its just…RONG! but have a ok week Mae-la…i like that name.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 8)

  1518. Demensiona- i so see wot u mean about everything happening at once!
    mae – i hope u have a better week than uve had weekend, but dont worry bout spellin- happens to all of us,look on the bright side at least u didnt contstatly spell Dickens wrong in your english essay!-it was a bad day all round!

    i finally ordered uglies etc so they should arrive later in the week cant wait- curse postal strikes-
    Hope every1 else is enjoyin the weekend.

  1519. i just got too and a haf hours of sleep! its so non-bubbly-making! i wanna drink some coffee, but that never helps. im usally just hiper anywho. but not now. bye.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  1521. oh my god i read these books in like a week adn jezze there brilliant but i couldn’t believe the ending of blue noon i was so shocked i mean i don;t like happy endings butin a way i would have liked it to have ended a bit nicer liek jessica not getting stuck in the blue time lol. i know its a trilogy but i wish so much for another one to answer all the questions like could they find a way to get jesice out of the blue time what are jessicas family going to do and how far does the blue time go.

    arrghh all these questions lol

    well brilliant series anyway even if the ending is bittersweet.

  1522. i would just like to agree with chloe and say som1else is in the uk 2! woohoo! i havent met enough people- as in at skool- who hav read it- does any1 else hav that problem or just me? cos its a shame they’re just gr8 books!!

  1523. lol yeh nobdy i know has read the books its a pain cause they are so goood and it would be great to talk to someone about the characters and stuff

  1524. i no it drives me mad!! i only have one other friend who is likely to reasd and ive been badgering her to read it but shes only going to read it if it comes to the libary !! its so anoying- i cant talk about any of the books i read to friends at skool cos they dont read them!!!!! rant over

    quick question
    why can i only access this page through a google pic link from luna lovegood???

  1525. sorry to leave tht reply 4 that long i was on the comp but doing my english coursework-makes face- cant wait 4 uglies etc to arrive- ignor that ur lucky im not doing a countdown!!lol- i wouldnt really

  1526. lol yeh same not many of my mates read and its so irritating because there an amzing set of books i try to convince them but they won’t have any of it.

  1528. it looks like i know cant say thanx because i get a message saying ive already said it – obviously theres more than one person in the world i need to thank!!! sorry 2nd rant over

  1529. one of my friends would probably club me about the head if i told her to read this- actually any book- she NEVER reads god it annoying- come to think about it in my class of 31 people i only know about 2 people (myself included) who actually read books!! that makes 3 rants doesnt it! im going to stop talkin 4 this evenin so that i dont make it 4! – i blame sleep deprevation- nice to talk to some1 in around about the same time zone!-hope evry1 has a gd day!

  1537. I agree–

    Me and my friend read the uglies trilogy and She liked it —- So I was like lets read Midnighters. She stared reading and on the 10th chapter of the 1st book she says she was bored and stoped !!!! I DON”T GET IT..
    One of my fav. books of all time.

    And someone saw me looking on Scott’s site and they were all like ” You read Uglies trilogy ” and I was all like “yea”. Well she didn’t even know that their was a 4th book.

    Aparently she didn’t like it THAT much to care.

  1540. lol awesome yeah i’m love dess alot i thought she just had something about her that you couldn’t hate her but i also liked the others just dess a little more.

  1544. i agree with all – i think – of the above since my last post and i darent miss an oppertunity to ask 4 a forth book or to talk to you lot !!-lets say it broadens my horizans book wise and that other people read etc and all that!!

  1546. lol yeh i would love fourth book so much i can’t seem to read anything else at the moment cause all i think about is the midnighters series and how bloody brilliant they were lol so a fourth book would be awesome

  1547. wow non of your friend read book!

    all my friends read books, but everyone at my school reads mostly, where on earth do you live?

    all the teachers even get mad if you read in class,or like when my dad said he would take away my books if i got caught reading all day again

    p.s. dose any one here rather read than play sports on a school team after school and on weekend beacuse every one thinks i’m crazy because of that (just doesn’t make scents to me)

    bye

  1549. lol same i much rather read than play sports though i am on my school rugby team but thats all the sports i do. i read the first two midnighter books in a day and my dad said i was a freak lol

  1550. lol. try reading the 5th harry potter book in a day. they listen to me being called a freak after it took my friend 2 weeks. XD i read really fast. it’s not like i sit and read all day, it s just that when i do i read a lot of it. you know?

  1553. mae- i no wot u mean bout ur family threatening to remove books!! its happened numerous times

    and im crap at sport (although i enjoy basketball) id rather do triple geog!! and i hate geog as to wear i am – im in a place where the only things books are used to hide the fact ur not doing anything in class!!! these people are weird!!!

    iminlovewithjonathan- 1 day!!! jesus!!! though i did manage to read the last 1 in bout 10 hrs

    ps the one book series all my friend read is harry potter-weirdos -they can read 7 books over god knows how many years but not eg midnighters!!! with the exception of my only friend who does read –sorry hutch–

    and i have so got to come on this more regurly!!

  1554. chloe -that sounded painful- im so glad im not allowed to play proper full on rugby- 4 health reasons -dont go there its nothing dramatic–

  1556. yeh most of my friends only read the harry potter series and i’m like what if you can read them then why not read other books not that the harry potter books aren’t good but still there are great books for example the midnighters series

  1557. im still gutted 2! but i cant play full contact sports eva!!! wot a gr8 life, sorry bout the drippin sarcasm, and i am still waitin 4 my books- i am not a happy bunny!!! lol im neva a happy bunny

  1559. lol no problem let it all out :P:P:P i ehrd tht this uglies series is very good what do the rest of you think cause if it is i’m goin to go buy them cause i need some neww books lol

  1564. chloe – good luck with the 13 letter word- ive been askin my friends if theyno any 13 letter words- they think im weird, they just dont understand lol, let me no wot u get, then i can copy 1! only jokin i wouldnt do that…
    i like serendipitous but hen im just weird

  1565. does any1 no wot that word is that sounds like serendipity but means lucky chance??? anyway i forgot to add that some1 else still uses msn hooray- all my frinds have moved onto bebo but i dont want to use that cos every1 else in my class is on it 2!

  1566. lol yeh i have bebo but i think it sucks and i managed to find a whole page of 13 letter wordshttp://www.esclub.gr/games/wordox/13.html
    lol now just to find out what some of them mean. and u totally agree wen anyone says there should be a fourth book

  1567. ok Chloe-la…my fav 13 letter words are RHIZOMORPHOUS, SCINTILLATING, INFINITESIMAL, and IDIOSYNCRATIC. does that help any?

    and guys, click on my name. i just found something totally brain-rattling. in the bad way. you mite wanna close your eyes.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  1571. I am also writing a book. I needa name for a male demon. he is evil. (but he doesn’t seem evil at first.) i al partial to the names emmett, damon, damien, demitri, and many others but i don’t want to use them for someone evil. chloe- if you like any of these for your male you can use them. i have a list compiled of my favourite names for males and females somewhere on my computer. i’ll try and find it.

  1572. Chloe, whenever I’m trying to come up with character names I use this site: http://www.babynamesworld.com/

    Yes, it is a baby naming site, but it gives you like millions of names, and if your trying to come up with a name for a character that is evil you can actually do a meaning search for names that mean evil. (though there aren’t many, and having your character’s name mean what their personality is is kind of weird, but it’s just an example) Though if you can’t come up with a name doing a random meaning search can be fun, and you might come up with something.
    Anyway, I hope it helps.

    Oh, and my favorite thirteen letter words are constellation, anticlimactic, and onomonopoetic.

  1573. hey guys thanks alot for your help.
    i will check out that baby naming site its actually a really clever idea.
    thanks i’minlovewithjonathan those names are really good i’ll keep them in mind.

  1574. hey guys finally managed to narrow the names dow to FOUR what one do you thinks best.
    *danny
    *Aaron
    *tyler
    *sean
    or if you don’t like the names suggest some different ones
    thanks

  1575. good luck every1 who is writing a book! i would luv 2 add my name to the list, but i can never string all the little bits together,
    mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation thats a cleaver idea – while on the subject of names does any1 no a gd cat name? my m8s got a pursion blue/grey kitten and is strugglin 4 names? and ideas? i like smog, but she cant have that cos im savin it!
    chloe- all the names r gd- i like danny, personally…

  1578. hey thanks guys for the input should make up my mind soon lol. mm cat names i can’t remember what rex called his but i know i thought it was a call name bit long though lol.

  1580. news on cat names- moggle is cool but she is trying 2 decide between diesel and domino, i think she had settled on domino – i lost track…
    chloe- i always pick red hair for characters, but then all my main characters i make up are girls… u cant go wrong with blonde or dk brown for guys though…up to u…

    i am hopeless with decisions hav u noticed… its cos im piceis- the fish sybol i cant spell it, but i always think of this joke when i spell it like that … thats it its spelled Pisces …my mistake folks soz

  1583. that would be gd if a) it wasnt a cat imagine running round the garden shoutin that! fun though
    b) if she had read the book, actually any book at all!!

  1584. admit it my timing has got better! its gunna be crap nxt time now isnt it… gr8 just gr8… i so wanna buy the “so 11:59” tshirt from the westershop? i cant remember the name

  1585. lol yeh tht would be a picture running round the gardern callign that out lol and yeh i think i’ll go with dark brown and i finally chosse Aaron for his name lol
    i wish i could get another cat cause it think i would name it after something from the midnighters lol

  1587. Rex’s cat’s name was daguerreotype. Which has thirteen letters, which is why Rex’s cat was named it. Just like how Rex’s dead dog’s name had thirteen letters, though I can’t remember what it was right now, and don’t feel like trying to find it.

    Yeah, I wish I could get another cat too, that way I could name it something from midnighters or maybe Tally. That’s not going to happen though, considering I already have six cats.

    I like the name Aaron, and the dark hair fits the name.

    Oh, and my main characters are first of all usually girls, and they either have brown or blonde hair, though if I have guys they usually have dark hair.

  1588. wow six cats thats a lot i use tp have seven though :S. now i only got two but they are great cats.
    And yeah i thought dark hair suited the name well.
    whats does daguerreotype mean??

  1589. cloe- yeah it does, suit the name i mean, daguerreotype is an early photographic process, and shes called the cat blue! phew!

  1590. chloe- soz im crap at typing.
    and as i predicted my timing is crap… ill try l8r nxt time

    6 cats!!!! wow…

    im more of a dog person myself but i dont have 1, 🙁

    soz if i offended any1 there with that, my friends r cat luvrs and get upset when i say i like dogs so i apoligise if ur like that

  1592. Chloe- good for you!! (that wasnt sarcastic that was as in congrats) I do like cats dont get me wrong but i prefer dogs

  1594. Rex’s dog’s name was Magnetosphere.
    Wore my tridecashirt to school Tuesday. I had to stand still about twenty times while people read it. 🙂

  1595. i dont like cats particularly much. (sorry cat people.) im very allergic to them and look (and feel) like death when am in the general vicinity of one. they are so cute, just not when they are near me.

  1596. I actually like both dogs and cats. I have no idea how my family ended up with six cats. It has something to do with my friend’s cat having kittens, and her wanting to take them to the pound. I actually like dogs better then cats, though I’m pretty much a big fan of most animals.

    Contact, when I wore my Special Circumstances shirt to school I had to keep explaining what it meant to everyone, and when I wore both my midnighter lore symbol shirt, and my mindcaster shirt (there was no seer shirt, so sad) again I had to keep explaining what they meant. Though it does get more people to know about Scott’s fawesome books, so it’s not that bad. Of course, I already go around telling people to read his books, but the shirts are a good conversation started about the books.

  1598. okay another question about my book that i hope you guys can help me with i need to come up with a kickass name for the bad GUY anyone got any ideas???????????

  1599. mistranslated nonelectrical ornamentation- i can understand that i like most animals too, and the whole kittens thing happened with my gerbils, the two ‘brothers’ managed to have 11 baby gerbils!! so loads of my friends ended up with them! we were handing them out literally!!

    chloe- i am awful with names!! i can remember them, occasionally make them up-but not often-, otherwise i draw a blank! sorry, ive got Talin stuck in my head 4 some reason has any1 heard it cos its getin annoyin know cos i dont know where it came from- sorry thats well of the point i started on!

  1601. hello again, and no i dont try to haunt this site but i was wonderin if u could give me a hand?

    can any1 think of or make up a quote about faces/uniquness etc, im just drawing a blank which sucks, anyway let me no if u can help
    tks :))

  1605. Chloe, sorry I can’t help on the bad guy name thing. It’s takes me forever to decide what to call the villians/bad guys in my writing. I’ve been working on this book of mine for over six months now, and I still haven’t come up with a name for the evil creatures in it. (I just call them the blanks. Sad isn’t it?)Actually if anyone has any good ideas for an evil creature thing please tell me. (Everything I come up with sounds way to much like Darklings!)

    ImInLoveWithJonathon, I love your quote. I’ve actually seen it before somewhere, and it’s fawesome.

    Oh, and Niki there’s also a site called quotes.com or something like that, and you can type in key words, and it comes up with quotes that match what you want.

  1606. mistranslated nonelectrical ornamentation- yeh same the stufff i come up with sounds way to much like the bad charcters from other books that i read lol its a pain all the good stuffs taken.

  1607. thanx guys thats brill ill check it out and i like “never forget you are unique. Just like everyone else.” i might use that with another.

    why dont you ‘mash’ together bad guys and their names- that sometimes works, and theres nothing wrong with Blanks in my opinion it just sounds like that wipe everything clean/away, not in the house-cleaning way! but that might just be me

    thanx the help 🙂

  1608. k sorry i haven’t said anything in a long time
    i just went out side and my rabbit was dead and the worst part was that the ravens got her so it has a bad sight(on the bright side it’s raining so when it get cleaned tomorrow the nasties will be gone)still very sad but October sucks so i wasn’t expecting any good luck any way

    my death wish for October rant-i am like a walking death wish on October this October my goat died and my rabbit died,last October we had a terrible incident with Helloween a car fireworks and a dog(I’ll let you finger that one out)and so on. (I’ll rant about that latter)everyone i know just waits until Octobers and the bad luck to happen every year.it really sucks but I’ll say more latter got to go urgent bye

  1609. o ya name’s…
    jink’s, merwick(learwick but kind of different)Damion,dareion(dare-i-on)Demetrius’s(from Shakespeare)

    **if anyone needs a name just ask i am good with name’s*

    ps what type of cat should i get i can’t decide

  1612. Hey, all of you…
    Go out and buy November’s CosmoGirl! and look on the page with “What they Love”, near the bottom…Look familiar?
    That’s right, Extras and Scott made it into a widely circulated teen magazine! wOOt! *does happy dance*

    I got my best friend the mindcaster shirt, and she says everyone thinks she’s in some sort of cult when she wears it…^_^’

  1615. good cult to be in though.

    i found anothr quote but im not sure its related to face/uniquness etc, that and it might sond too much like an accusation wot do u think??
    if i am not better at least i am different

    i think it might be abit too ‘pik a fight with me’ do u c wot i mean or am i thinkin too hard about it?

    HALF TERM HAS ARRIVED WOOHOO! EVERY1 HAVE FUN!

    ps dont steal any doorbells if u trick or treat
    *happened to us last year*
    or was it carol singers? anyway lol

  1617. are all of you going out? i was going to sew my costume and be dess but i started a tad too late and wouldn’t have finished in time. i’m going as a cat. its actually really cute but its a tad too short for me.

  1619. im going as Dess the SPECIAL manican. interesting twist huh?

    and im riting a book to. the main characters a girl named Tice. shes rich, but she hates rich people. and shes kinda gothish. but i dont no how old to make her. maybe…14?

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  1621. Have no clue what to be for Halloween. Must involve red hair dye, though. Any ideas?

    Ooh, just in: I have done a book trade. 1st Midnighters (mine) for 1st Maximum Ride (my friend’s). Hope she likes it.

  1622. i hope you like the max ride books. i love love love them. you absolutly have to read when the wind blows and the lake house after. (they’re the books that inspired the max ride books. but, as a warning, they are adult books and have cursing and some “sexual content” nothing really bad though.)

  1623. it seems like i havent been on in ages! shame on me

    Contact- sounds like a gd deal my frinds read them and said they were gd, and i have finally persuaded her to try and get hold of the midnighters in the libary! success at last! lol

    halloween- y do i feel so depressed st halloween? i tend to dress up but i never go trick or treatin! i have only eva been 2 3 halloween parties- sad i no- but i like halloween all the same,
    red hair die..? hmm wot about the devil, ive done that 1 before, that and a witch because all my friends complain i cackle, tough luck i say!,anyway well off the topic there…

  1624. a) i apoligize 4 the spellin in my last post
    b) i doubley (yes i no its spelt wrong) apoligize 4 borin u with my life history of halloween.

  1625. Hmmm…the devil. I’m more of an angel, but reverse personalities are always fun. IILWJ!, I’ll probably read those soon.:) I’m a big high school girl lol 🙂 no need for warnings.
    Excuse the over-use of smilies, it’s my birthday Monday and I’m eating gingerbread.

  1626. birthday… gingerbread! just the thought makes me smile. although i think thta if i eat any more sugar i will go into a food coma. i ate so many twizlers at play practice it wasnt even funny i was so hyper. (ok it was funny for other people watching me run around and jump off thestage while carrying tables but not me. it hurt. lol)

  1627. wow my birthdays in November but I’m so exited because next year I’LL BE DRIVING(that will be scary for any one within a mile of the road though)
    o well, to bad for them if they get hit!
    and then i get to buy my first car!
    aw, the possibility’s!

    bye

  1628. gingerbread… im already looking 4 the nearest

    driving! wow i got to wait abit before that my parents are refusin to teach me to drive because they say im dangerous… but ur right.. that kind of driving makes people check that their brakes are in workin order! lol no i cant drive yet.. im sure ur not that bad.. but then they judge my drivin on what i do on playstation/wii

    i bought a book soley on the recommendation of this site (twilight) and its amazing whoeva mentioned it i thank them profounfly (although it wasnt me they were talkin 2) the series if fantastic cant wait 4 eclipse in papeback

    im still annoyed amazon books still not here… i wanna read uglies!!

    ps… if u can check ur comps 4 virus’s my comp picked 1 up from this site (and cleared it obviously), thats y i couldnt come on all week! just thought u ought 2 no

  1634. wow just came from the extras spoiler still just as many obsessed fans. luv this trilogy & my fav # is now 13. toadally fawsome. oops wrong book lingo.kick? noooo thats not right either! wow can’t find the correct lingo. my only problem is w/ all the ends to all his books.maybe its just that i don’t want them to end!!!! but why soooooooooooooo sadly?????????

  1635. neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
    eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
    eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
    ddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
    ddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
    dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
    more books write moooooooooooooorrrrrrrrreeeeee
    please scott begging you .i m ON MY KNEES!
    WRITE MORE FOR ALL YOUR BOOKS W/ FOLLOW UP BOOKS .A 5TH FOR UGLIES A 4TH FOR MIDNIGHTERS A THIRD FOR PEEPS. their back worms giant worms EVERYWHERE. now they’re crawling into you’re head telling you “WRITE MORE” you know you want to! PLEASE

  1636. i definatly bak u up on wantin another midnighters, havent read the others yet though

    my books arrived -bout time, u wont hear from me till i read them all !lol

    candy hangover? i dunno but it give u a gd excuse to eat all the sweets to find out doent it! wot did every1 do for halloween- except for cheatin little kids out of their sweets? only jokin

  1638. hahaha. lolz. at least im not the only one. on halloween i watched the ring, went trick or treating, and ate candy till i passed out. it was great. the next day… no so much fun. I’m working on NaNoWriMo. Are any of you doing it:?

  1639. ImInLoveWithJonathan- if its wot i think it is unfortunatly no im not, the closest ive done thats like that is T.A.L.E.S and young writers (though that last 1 was poems…).

    mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation – nice pics

  1640. feel free to skip the below paragraph its just me havin a panic attack!

    oh my god- ive got my first proper exam/gcse on monday-admitadly its a maths modual and thare are like 5 but im still worryin bout it, its time to knukle down and revise-lol- i needed to share my panic with some1 so thanx 4 that and to make it worse i got 2 awards at prizegivin and for some1 who is shy and clumsy like me its gunna be hell on earth! cant worry bout that yet though-touch wood i dont fall up/down the stairs and no1 takes the mic out of me while im up there- it gets worse everytime i think about it! :'(

    soz bout my rant i feel better now thanx for listening/reading although i understand if u miss the above paragraph i dont balme u – i would 🙂

  1642. Catrina Feline- i agree more books!

    has any1 read parisite positive?-im readin it now but i dont think its as good as midnighters though – dont get me wrong it is still good- but does it speedup halfway through? i hope so.

  1643. hye haven’t commented in a while but i have come up with my fave top 3 male fic characters thought i’d share and see waht you guys thought.

    1.jonathan martinez-midnighters series
    2.Edward cullen- twilight series
    3.jace wayland- city of bones

  1644. Halloween I was actually Blood, as a last-minute costume…my friend was Bones, and I played off her costume…we went T-O-T ing really early.

  1645. hey! havent visited here in a while! but…hey!

    for all of you that want a fourth midnighters book, click on my name. it will take you to the hq of the CHASING MIDNIGHT WEREWOLVES club. we are a club solely created to convince Scott to rite the fourth Midnighters book. which will be called CHASING MIDNIGHT and will have DARKLING WEREWOLVES! yepyepyep. join! just click, tell me you want to join, (im the co-prez) and walla! a contest is going on rite now for what we think shood be the first page. hehe.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! :mrgreen:

  1646. havent been on in a while thought id catch up and say hi

    lizzie-wa-like it – how would the werewolves thing work?im not getting that?

  1647. hi.

    basically, you could be a person during the day, but maybe in the secret hour you could turn into a wolf sort of thing or a darkling or something. you’d have no memory of it when you woke up.

    check out the HQ (click on lizzy-wa’s name) and see what we’re talking about.

    COME ON, DOES IT NOT BEG TO HAVE IT’S TRILOGY EXTENDED JUST LIKE EVER OTHER SERIES SCOTT HAS WRITTEN?!
    Peeps got a open-ended new protags with cameos sequel.
    so did Uglies.
    Midnighters deserves one too.

    oh my god, i love jace wayland. and flyboy. nahsomuch on edward cullen.

    i was melissa for halloween. it was fool. there’s pictures around somewhere. i sent em to scott but he never posted em.

  1648. Ok, I finally get the whole midnighter werewolf thingy. Haven’t since Lizzie-wa started talking about it a while back, but I finally get it. It’s actually quite a fawesome idea. Though I have to say I have my own ideas for what would happen if there was a fourth book. I don’t care what it’s about though, as long as Scott writes it! Yes, this trilogy definitely is begging for a fourth book. He did it with Uglies, he can do it with Midnighters.

    Come on Scott, I’ve begged before, and I’ll beg again, WRITE ANOTHER BOOK!!!!

  1649. i get it, and i once again agree…

    there needs to be another book…come on please…the suspence is killing me…well not suspence more like anticipation…please one more

    when u say peeps got a sequal do u mean last days? i still gotta read that.

    one more midnighters pleease. 🙂

  1653. no, city of bones is the first book in the mortal instruments trilogy, and is cassandra clare’s first and only book. the second one, city of ashes, doesn’t come out til april. read them. they are made of awesome.

    yeah, i was talking about the last days. also fawesome. go read it, all of you. it’s Fawesome.

    all you people should go check out the HQ! (click my name) even if you aren’t into the darkling werewolves thing, it’s a great place to talk about midnighters and a fourth one and just be awesome. come check it out and talk with us!

  1657. i think that a prequel should be written to go into detail how Bixby was like before the midnighters were destroyed

  1658. AHH! I haven’t posted in forever. Serafina, you totally reminded me that I need to get that fanart that I’ve been promising since August up..I’m so sorry, everyone! High school is evil and time-consuming…
    My friend is almost done with the first Midnighters…I shall get her on here as soon as she’s done with the third one.

  1659. lol i love Emo Oil. was totally the high point of my vacation.

    Contact, can totally sympathize with high school eating your life. same here. which is why the only art i get done is what i do during class 😉

    i got one of my friends to read The Secret Hour, but i gotta wait for her to finish Morganville 3 (dude, the Morganville Vampires, also great books) b4 i give her Touching Darkness or Blue Noon.

    dude, have u guys seen the midnighters wiki yet? click my name and correct our mistakes!

  1660. Hey EVERYONE! ^_^

    -Hi contact! You think that YOU haven’t been in a long time?!^_^

    -I haven’t been on in MONTHS! (Fotal shame on me/school/and my computer)! ^_^
    -Ooh, but can’t wait for that fanart though! ^_^

    -Hi Serafina-Zane!^_^
    -Hmm, midnighters wiki? I’m fotally there!^_^

    -Hi Alissa!^_^
    -Hi Lizzy-Wa! ^_^
    -Hi Chloe–UK–!
    -Hi Mae!^_^
    -Catrina Feline!^_^
    -Hey ImInLoveWithJonathan!^_^
    -Hi mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation!^_^
    -And hi Anaqui!^_^

    (I THINK that that’s everyone but if not, I’m fotally sorry!(HI!)) ^_^

    -Bye guys!^_^

  1661. Welcome back Demensiona!

    Serafina Zane and Contact I can completely agree with the whole high school eating your life thing. In the past four months I’ve only been able to write like two chapters of my book and one of my midnighters fanfic. That’s about a quarter of the amount I wrote over the two months of summer. And reading. I never have a chance to read anymore!

    Serafina Zane I like the fanart, and Contact I’m looking forward to your fanart.

    I hope you guys had an ok Monday. Mine was way too long. Bye!

  1662. wow i havent been here for ages HELLO everyone!

    thanx chloe–uk—- ill have to look out for it

    i just bought last days gunna have to read after my science test cant wait…. for the book i mean not the test

    Serafina- luv the pics, r the morganville vamps books any good? i saw them the other day and was undecided, i thought it was either gunna be gd or crap

    no wot u mean though bout gettin no time to do any drawin durin term time or anything for that matter! its a drag the only upside is i took double art! still cant draw wot i want though… or read/write as much its depressing when you think about it still christmas soon

    soz bout long post but in my defence i had missed alot! hope every1 doesnt drown in skool work!

  1664. hey

    i feel sorry for all u guys that don’t seem to be able to write and draw. i’m still at school but i always find time to read and write lol once i hid a book behind my math book and read for the whole hour. but lately i have noticed i haven’t written much of my book which is annoying because its like 23,500 words and i really need to get it finished lol

  1665. oooh yeah, ppl like my fanart! and the wiki. is it not awesome? go edit and check it out and stuff.

    i write in school too, i haven’t had time in forever though. i actually have a printed-out copy and i’m like editing it under my desk in social studies class.

    the morganville vampires books are totally good. the first one’s cool, the second one’s okay, and the third one is AWESOME. they’re great, put like almost nobody’s read em.

  1666. I need to do some fanart in art class tomorrow…
    To keep all you newbies (not here before July 4) happy, my name is a link to my deviantart page, which has my first half-fanart on it. Just look in my Gallery for “Imagined Cosplay”.
    I have to pay attention in school. I don’t take notes, so I have to listen so I can pick up what I need to know. I save my hands for more important things…:)
    As for writing, I have too many unfinished stories on my computer right now…I’m hoping to finish my historical/futuristic story before the calendar page shows the year I start off the story in…(2026, lol) Let’s see if I can do it…I have 19 years, so maybe…

  1667. Hooray for all the people out there who try to cram/sneak reading and book writing into their school days and don’t pay attention during class because of it.

    I write a lot at school. I just pretend I’m taking notes. (you should see my margins on my books. There’s like tons of little jotted down math and science notes and things.) I have a printed off copy of my book too, which I’m doing a lot of editing on during school hours. (Just don’t tell my teacher that) I really need to get this book done though. It’s 35,982 words so far, and I still have about eight chapters and an epilogue to go. Very exhausting-making especially because the only time I really get to add to it is at like from 12:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights. So sad-making. Though I do love the late hours. Especially midnight! I can’t wait until Christmas break when I get to write every night! How much longer does everyone have? I have like three weeks.

    Oh, and Conact good luck finishing your book before 2026. Hopefully you can do it. Nineteen years to go!

  1669. hi guys! sorry ive been mia. the stupid directors of my schools play have been keeping us there until 11pm at the earliest every night for the past month. the plays this weekend and i cnat wait for it to be over!

  1670. ImInLoveWithJonathon, I know how you feel! Our play finally got over about a week and a half ago, and I am so glad to have a life again!

    Yeah Sarafina-Zane, my notebooks are a mess too. I have math problems in the margins, science notes, random drawing of food from the period before lunch, science notes, notes for other books that aren’t the ones I’m working on, and weird drawings of different things. Plus all my side editing notes, and me write-yelling at myself to quit using said all the time. I’m the author, and if I see I said, they said, she said, he said, one more time in my book I’m going to scream! I have a lot of editing to do, but I’m trudging through, though now I have to go enter it all into the computer before I lose the notebook which has my edits in, which I’m bound to do sometime.

  1671. i have a similar problem. with EYES. they drive me insane. seems like that after every line of dialouge someone was looking or glancing or staring! i got to the point where i was tempted to have vultures come in and gouge out the eyes of every single character before i exploded.
    except it’s hard to write from a blind protag, and people might find the fact that every character across six different books encountered giant vultures a little unlikely.

    i have a seperate notebook of just random fragments of my stories i wrote during school, but i don’t always use it.

  1672. Yeah, I thought about having none of my characters actually say anything, but how borning would that be, that’s even worse then the characters not being able to see!

    I have a seperate notebook for little fragments of stories too. Actually I have a main one, which has gotten so big I only carry the whole thing around on important occasions. Then I have twenty others, but some of them are full, and I only carry one around at a time. Or if I forget a writing notebook, my math or science one ends up working well. You should see the backs of my notebooks. There’s like a million beginnings to stories in them. There’s also notes on my main book. Tons of note on my main book. I actually need to type them all up so I don’t lose them at some point. If I ever have the time.

    I’ve also found that my characters glare at each other a lot. Maybe I should have vultures come and rip out their eyes too. Of course that would mean that they don’t talk and they can’t see. What would it be? A bunch of pages of what my protagonist thinks?

  1673. Actually, my creative writing teacher says either put ‘said’ or don’t put anything. Nobody is always dramatic enough to have a cool word describing EVERY LINE OF DIALOGUE.

    Update on the art-class fanart: SSS Diagnostics were that day, so I had five minutes in class, and you can guess the rest…

    Thanks for the compliment, S-Z!

    IILWJ!, I completely understand. Tomorrow’s my choir’s big winter concert, so I’ve had three extra rehearsals this week~ Ugh.

    ‘Til next time!

  1674. well i have major issues where i add unnessacary cool words with every line of dialouge because the word “said” bothers me. it’s one of the things i try to edit away now.

    actually, i have the reverse problem. forgot french notebook? use writing notebook instead! so notes about stories are interspersed with pages about Gorbachev.

    thinking protaganists. *shivers*
    i like books where people say stuff and things happen.
    cuz i be un-philomosophical likes that.

  1675. Yeah, saids get to me, so I end up trying to edit them away. I’ve heard before too that you’re supposed to put said or nothing at all, but that bothers me to much. Especially, being the daughter of an English Teacher, who every peice of writing I’ve ever given her she nags me on repitition, I worry about repition way too much, though I find myself doing it all the time. So, I end up worry about saids.

  1676. hello every1
    u lucky people who can write and draw in lessons! no such luck here!

    like the art

    our skool presentation was yesterday so we’re finally getting some slack on that front – i never volunteer for plays though funnily enough – not after my frind-who is tall- got cast as a munchkin- lol-

    said? i try to replace it where i can but not every time, that or i just leave it out!

    till i can get bac on -curse homework and coursework

    ps that reminds me as part of my media coursework i started to make a movie poster 4 midnighters- not very good though…

  1677. It’s been a while since I looked at the Midnighters spoiler! Well, I’ve officially writen my own midnighters book, I know, lame right? It’s definately nothing compared to Scott’s, DUH! What could compare?! But I like it. It’s about after Midnight has expanded. A group of teen midnighters in Texas who all have to figure it out by themselves untill Melissa Jonathan and Jessica come and inform. I really like it. And I killed jessica… oopsies? No, I can’t stand her, so I had to. Does that make it even more dumb?

  1681. hahaha. Yeah, so do you guys have some fan fictions, then?? Because I would love to read them. I love reading fan fictions!

  1682. I finished the midnighter series today, and I was surprised at the ending. And, of coarse, I definatley think that there should be a fourth book. Scott Westerfeld is my favorite author and I think that the book sould also talk about Constanza. Maybe she knows aout the blue time! Maybe her grandfather tells her everything! (Scott, please make a fourth book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

  1683. What I don’t get is that in the last chapter, Madeleine says:

    I knew that girl was special. I was right to call her here to Bixby.

    What does that mean?!

  1684. I have a quiestion for Scott. Is there still talk about another Midnighters book? You havent been talking about it as much as you did when the last book first came out!!

    PLEASE!! Is there going to be another book?
    PLEASE! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1685. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1686. i doubt Scott-la is still on this thread. there’s like, thousands of comments.

    no offical news sign of a third book, but we’re trying to lobby for a fourth one. check out the HQ—
    http://www.chasingmidnightwerewolves.wordpress.com

    and some of my fanfic is online—click my name, i posted the beginning. more to come.

    jess is boring.
    and ewwwwww…Constanza.
    rather have new protags than her.
    like, say, a darkling werewolf protag.

    and she was probably talking about how she (Madeline) manipulated all the people’s minds, like Jess’ mom, to get her a job in Bixby. and jess was a flamebringer who saved the day, so she was like, special.

  1687. Yeah, Jess if very boring! And I find her incredibly whiny too. I mean, I could almost understand being that annoying in the first one, but the second and third she had that crazy awesome talent! She needs to get over it and stop whining! And I don’t like Constanza either.
    PEEPS Cal quote which I find usful to use about Constanza; “Ew. Yuck. Repeat.”
    I don’t like her, and as much as I REALLY would adore a fourth MIDNIGHTERS, if there were one I would hope not to see very much Constanza.
    Oh, and on that note, I have no idea where I got this from(I want to say maybe an interview posted on the westerboard??), But I heard somewhere that Scott has firmly established that MIDNIGHTS – unlike UGLIES – is, and will stay, a trilogy. But I might be wrong, maybe I just thought that and then deluded myself into thinking that I got it from a credible source. I’ll cross my fingers for me to just be crazy, imagining fake Scott Westerfeld interviews about MIDNIGHTERS!

  1688. Maybe the reason Scott hasent been leaving any comments is because he is starting the fourth book!

    (Or at least that is what I tell myself!)

  1689. No, he stops looking at all the spoiler pages after a while; they’re all too long for busy Scott to keep up with.

  1690. But I think on his blog he had to look at a spolier page to get the information that he used from his readers.

  1691. Yeah, I guess. But now that I think about it, another MIDNIGHTERS book would actually make me kind of sad. I think it would incredibly disappointing to read a book about all the MIDNIGHTERS being split up. I mean, it wouldn’t be the same if they weren’t all together!

  1692. Yeah, Jess is kind of boring. As I’ve said before and I’ll say again, I’m a much bigger fan of Dess, Melissa, and Rex. And I don’t like Constanza much either.

    And I definitely want another midnighters book. I say it once more, “Scott please please please please please write another midnighters book!”

    By the way, I’m going to post the first few chapters of my fanfiction online in a few days, so I’ll post the link here in a few days.

  1693. OMG Great book. But
    I think you should have more of Jonathan. I dont think i understood him all that much .

    Plus he sounds soooo Hot

  1695. Or at least he should look into that thing were he writes short stories on line about them traveling. That is, if he doesnt write another book.

    (Which I am really hoping he does!!!!!!!!!)

  1696. I just wish he would tell us!! Even if he said he wasnt making another book, at least we would know!! Not knowing is killing me!!!!!!

  1697. One of the many many things that would benefit from another MIDNIGHTERS book, though…
    More Dess quotes!! Yay!!
    I have an entire wall in my bedroom covered with deferent Dess quotes writen down on paper :]
    Probably not something I shoudl brag about, though. It’s pretty nerdy

  1698. i agree with nearly all that was said, i got lost, so much has been posted since i was last on -curse school- bring on thursday end of school- and one last thing more midnighters books please (just wanted to add my name to that list)

  1699. Omg haha Savvy-la thats a good idea. sometimes i randomly get bored in 2nd period in school so i start to write down random stuff on paper. Maybe I should start a paper for Rex, Dess, Jessica, Jonathan, and Melissa. That would be cool!!!!!!! Ok I will post about Blue Noon l8r. im starting my quote paper!!!

  1700. When you think about ending-haters he could have made it happier if it was Jonathan who got trapped in midnight….I mean, he always felt like he didn’t belong in the regular time…..
    Also, There kinda HAS to be specific places where the blue time is (otherwise wouldn’t Jessica and Jonathan have discovered it before the moved?) Oh and Scott IF (I’m not going to offer my soul or anything (though more books are appreciated b/c I’ve almost read them all well excluding the adult ones)) you write a new book, you should have it take place in one of the original 13 colonies, (like cough, cough Connecticut which-I counted like a dork-has 12 letters in the name of the state) with all new characters and Jess (and possibly Melissa and Jonathan) comes to teach them about the blue time (like in TLDs and Extras), though some people might not like it, I’d like to learn about new characters……but I’m eager for more books and junk (btw Scott, you’re made-over site gives me a headache)

  1702. hehe. yes Scott. it is a necessety. ok. i no thats not how you spell it…

    hey all you totally correct peoples. click on my name and join the club. we’re dedicated to getting Scott to rite the fourth book. its fawesomeness.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! :mrgreen:

  1703. I need to get friends to read Midnighters. And tell them about the hq. And get them to add their names. Maybe if the list gets big enough…

    haha. but please, come on!!!! It doesn’t even have to be a real book, because I know that will probably never happen (but I can dream, can’t I?). It can be a blog post. or a PDF file or something, I wish Scott would at least aknowledge the HQ’s existance!!! And write more Midnighters stuff!!! I mean, please please please please I don’t want the story to end the way it does!!!!!!!!!! That’s possibly one of the worst endings I’ve ever read!!!!!! Not bad, really, it just seems like here should be another one!!! Because there should be!!!! omg you don’t know how much I want another Midnighters!!!!!! Can’t there at least be a new blog post about Midnighters???? i would buy every copy of the book in all my local bookstores if I had the money. But I don’t. 🙁 Wish I did.

    I want another Midnighters SO BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I don’t think anyone wants another Midnighters book as bad as I do. Not anyone in the world. Not anyone on the HQ; I really really really want another one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Can there AT LEAST be a blog post about Midnighters????? I mean, most of the time it’s existance isn’t even aknowledged!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That’s really sad. 🙁 Sure, Uglies is like the most awesomest book series in the whole world but, Midnighters is just as good!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only less people have read them for some reason. I just want a blog post. Or something. ANYTHING!!! Cause I have a severe lack of Midnighters right now. And everyone knows, the world cannot go on without Midnighters. Cause it’s fawesome. Which is why there needs to be a blog post on it. And I’m not kidding. I seriously will not stop saying that until I see something about Midnighters. About Midnighters. Anything about Midnighters. ANYTHING!!! Get what I’m saying? Anything about Midnighters and I’ll stop saying this. But really, I wouldn’t make a post this long if I didn’t really really really want another Midnighters.

    I just want a little Midnighters. please? Pleeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Because please is the magic word, right?

    Let me just make sure this is clear:

    IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE A REAL BOOK!! because I know that’s not the way publishing works. But publishing doesn’t matter on a blog right?????

  1704. i dunno allie-wa, i think it’s possible i want a fourth midnighters just as much or more than you. who came up with the idea for darkling werewolves and sort of started the idea for the HQ? me…sort of. which one of us is wearing a tridecagram Bixby High School sweatshirt right now? i’ll give you a hint…it’s me. and i made the sweatshirt. i am a midnighters freak.

    PLZ SCOTT-LA, LET THERE BE MORE!

    and if you aren’t gonna aknowledge the HQ, how about the wiki? it’s fawesome…and posting would get it press, which is good.

    i agree. uglies is okay and i get it’s more popular, but i like midnighters better! they’re all fawesome!

  1705. I think we’re all on the same level of wanting a new book. Though I’m up there near the top somewhere. I’ve been through the first three more than six times each, and I only got them a year ago. I also have two midnighter T’s. A seer sign poster that I put together. I dedicated two different school projects to midnighters. In Ceramics I made a bowl completely decorated in seer signs. And I’ve written about seven different fanfictions that I need to post on fanfiction sometime. Though Allie-wa, seeing your long post I have to say that you are one of the people who wants a fourth midnighter book the most.

    I’d say we all want another midnighters book a whole lot.

    And Scott please please please please write another one. Please! Think about it, all of your Uglies fans who haven’t read Midnighters will see that there’s a forth book and go out and buy the first three just so they can read the forth book. Come on we NEED a fourth book!

    Please!

  1708. i so agree about there needing to more books and all that, i so want a midnighters t-shirt- i may have to beg my parents; lol

    like the new layout, or is that just my comp playin up?

    doubt ill be on here before christmas so hope u all have a gd 1

    and wow all those extracts on chasing midnightwerewolves hq r fab!

  1713. wow, nobody’s been on here in like a week. i change that.
    i mean, it’s not like holidays are for spending with family or something.

    ANYONE WHO’S READ BLUE NOON AND LOVES MIDNIGHTERS OR WRITES OR READS MIDNIGHTERS FANFIC, CLICK MY NAME AND CHECK OUT THE CHASING MIDNIGHT WEREWOLVES HQ, WE’RE A CLUB WITH A SITE ALL ABOUT WANTING A FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS AND WRITING FANFIC AND ALL YOU HAVE TO DO TO JOIN IS COMMENT ON THE CLUB MEMBERS PAGE WHERE WE ALL GO TO CHAT AND ASK LIZZY-WA TO ADD YOU, ME AND LIZZY-WA ARE THE PRESIDENTS, AND ON THE MEMBERS PAGE YOU GET A FACE RANK THAT GOES UP THE MORE YOU COMMENT AND IT’S GREAT, CHECK IT OUT.

  1714. i have 2 admit scott u have a creative mind. i have come here not because i am a midnighters fanatic (i am a regular fan though)but because the chasing midnight werewolves club needs thanks. i read some of the first chapter of that fan fiction it inspiered me 2 write a fan fiction. i never would have thought of it b4. need 2 re read stuff now though. i will combine some of scott’s other book techniques. thank the Lord for u people. even more so thank the Lord 4 scott westerfeld

  1715. hey,
    i love your books. I loved the way you ended the midnighter. Though i was kind of sad. any way what other books are you writing now???
    Thank you, for all the books they make my day every time i read it.

  1716. yeah! people appreciates our club!
    glad we inspired you, courtney-wa.

    well Scott-la also wrote Uglies and that series ect, and So Yesterday, and then Peeps and The Last Days, and he’s working on more books called Levithan, which is supposedly sorta steampunk/historical fiction type stuff with airships taking place in 1914 and it’s gonna be illustrated.
    i know you were asking scott-la but i just figured i’d anserw cuz i don’t think he checks these spoiler threads anymore.

  1717. SCOTT WESTERFELD PLEASE REPLY TO THIS!!

    Me and my friend have great idea for a midnighters 4th book. So many other people have talked about one but we are ACTUALLY WRITING OUR OWN. Not to publish but just for fun. I’m so sad that Jessica is stuck but in our story in the end she gets unstuck! TA-DA! We’ve been working on it since about two months ago and we really don’t have that much,except new characters,whole new plot, ya know, nothin’ fancy. But I really want there to be a fourth and fifth book with the new covers. So that Dess and Rex could be on the covers. Jonathan looked like Dess to me,by the way. And Melissa has RED HAIR! Someone needs to fix their hair NOW! Or just write new books. I tried your e-mail address by the way, Scott, and it wouldn’t work! If you have a different one,we could e-mail you part of the story, if not PLEASE REPLY TO OUR MESSAGE!!!!
    :^)

  1718. hey Brigit and Heather!
    come look at the HQ!!!!
    it’s full of people who’re writing Midnighters fanfic. including moi.
    we talk about how much we want a fourth one and midnighters and totally unrelated things and awesome stuff.
    you can get there by clicking my name.
    if you want, you can post and have Lizzy-wa (my Co-President and our moderater and blog-runner) email you at the address you input, and you can send her chapters of your story.
    if you want. if not, you’re free to just look around, or comment, or join. all you have to do to join is comment on the Club Members page and ask Lizzy-wa to add you. then you’re given a face rank based on how often your name is mentioned or you comment. it’s pretty fawesome.

    i don’t think Scott-la really goes on the spoiler threads anymore. he should.

    and as far as his email, did you take out the ” AT ” and replace it with @? because it’s an anti-spam thing, you have to do that to make his address work.

  1719. its a shame that scott doesnt seem to check out the spoiler threads anymore.
    and there are covers with midnighters on the front! wow im slow – ill have to google it- the covers on mine have clocks and shilouettes- still they’re pretty gd too the spines especially-still a forth book would be g8!

  1720. soz me again hav any of u got accounts with wordpress? is it any gd? im considering signing up but im undecided. thanx

  1721. seems like a lot of people have wordpress blogs, but i don’t so i’ve got no idea.

    scott-la really should check the spoiler threads more. it’s not as if he’s got books to write or anything :mrgreen: jk. but it would be nice if he popped in once in a while.

    yeah, i’ve got the first two in clock covers. those’re the new paperback covers that’re just starting to come out in the US.

  1723. head trauma…..pain…urgh.. too many comments so hard to get down here….. oi ve……..
    i liked the new midnighters covers and now before my mother comes up and isolates me from the outside world again(save me) What if one of the new midnighters gets in like a love triangle with jessica and jon or something? i mean of course he stands no chance but it would still be sadly-making right? and what kind of other abilities would there be? anyone wanna guess?

  1724. Happy New Year! bit l8 but hey! skool tomorow 🙁 does every1 else start this early? im blind i just saw the face covers at the top pf the page-think i prefer the clocks though

  1725. Cross-san- shapeshifting would be g8- bit like the werewolf thing Serafina Zane and every1s thought of, but shifting into anything i think that wouldbe gd.

  1726. ok so i just finished reading Midnighters, and i thought i’d post my thoughts. so………
    first of all, THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE!!!!! THREE IS NOT ENOUGH!!!
    ok, now that thats over with
    second, did anybody else notice how dating an acrobat is obviously a risky little deal? jess and anathea both ended up stuck in the blue time for forever, granted it was under totally different circumstances, but still…..they both dated an acrobat so…….
    third, was i the only one that noticed some similarites btwn Midnighters and Buffy the Vampire Slayer? probably so, but still.
    if you’ve seen the show you probably understand……..after a big battle, tons of slayers were woken, just like a bunch of midnighters were gonna wake up in the blue time after the battle. there are other similarities too, but i don’t feel like writing them.

    anyways, the books were fawesome!!!!!!
    keep up the good writing scott!!!!

  1727. Cordy~wa i felt like that when i finished the books too- still do lol, but i hadnt noticed the dangers of dating an acrobat- uve definatly got a point though….

  1728. Hey Cordy-wa don’t take this out on Jonathon.He’s awesome!Oh, but you can take this out on that other acrobat, I don’t mind.

  1732. dude, my friend just finished Blue Noon and she’s all, “i don’t think the ending was that bad.” seriously, what’s up with that?

  1734. I just finished the ending minutes ago. I can’t believe it… I’m still stunned. It took me four days to finish the books, I tried taking my time, but failed horribly, because I had to know how it ended. Now I NEED another book, Scott, you can’t leave it like that! Jessica would have been better off dying. Can you imagine, watching your friends get old with every hour you live, and eventually they die in the time you live a couple of years in the blue time? That sucks. I have to believe whether you write it or not, that the others didn’t leave, suddenly remembering something, numbers occuring to Dess, and they go back talk to Rex, and the four of them free her, and they can all go together to help other midnighters. And Rex… That woman, Maddy, mad as a bat as far as I’m concern, she’ll gain her strength, take a hold of him, and try to squash out the darkness, she’s as bad as the darklings, she doesn’t like him anymore than they do. Scott, I’m begging you, please make another book. Make thirteen books for all I care, that would be wonderful, and complete, but don’t leave it like that! I would have cried if I wasn’t so angry. PLEASE! Don’t leave it like that!

  1735. I, after reading Midnighters, asked my mom what time I was born at. Turns out, 12 PM. Noon. So close, yet so far.

    Heck, I’ll create my own secret hour, lol~ At noon.

    Oh, yeah, I can now proudly say that I own the entire Uglies trilogy (+ Extras), and the entire Midnighters trilogy! 7 books~ What fun I shall have rereading them until I know every word by heart *_*

  1736. what would happen it like your mom was a midnighter and she like had you during the blue time? that would be weird

  1738. OMG~! i just finished the book 10 min. ago! it was soooo amaizing! i cried….! also, if you make a 4th book, which you will, r u goning to make jess come back, i hate that she will be 19 by the time jonathan is almost dead, so depressing! seriously. Jeeze! i love all of thoes books so much! Now since i read UGLIES and MIDNIGHTERS, i have to read PEEPS then SO YESTERDAY! scott, you rule!

  1739. jk, i didnt cry, but it would totaly stink if your all alone in blue time, even tho u sleep 4 24 hrs and wake up for 1, but it would totaly stink for her parents and sister, but if she didnt do that,*sticking her hand to the lighting bolt* they would of died, so… poopsical…. this stinks!

  1741. OMG! Scott, how could you just break them all up?? i cant believe tht rex wud let melissa go tht easily. and jessica only exists in the blue time?? i ttly LUV ur books (uglies series included), but could u PLZ make anothr midnighters book? if not more??? i like fell in luv w/ jonathan tho. lol. i hope to c mor books *hint hint* lol :):)

  1742. (yes this time I finished the book before posting a comment lol) I almost cried but that might just be because I’ve been having a rough month (my friend turned into a snobby little….uh……rhymes with witch and dumped me and my mom says that now I have depression) but I felt bad for Jess, not only does she have to live in blue time forever but she can’t fly with Johnathan anymore……well unless he comes back but yeah

    Scott if you made a sequal like TLD I’d be so happy! (you know with like new midnighters but then Johnathan and Melissa show up and stuff) yeah but I won’t beg lol

    The bad part: Now I’ve read all of his books……:(
    oh well if he writes faster I’ll read that book

  1743. When I read the last book I cried SO hard. I think it was the hardest I have ever cried, seriously. lol. Yea, I’m emotional, but even if there is another book, it won’t be the same because Jess will only be in the blue time, Jonathan, Melissa, and Jess are going out to look for other midnighters, and Rex and Dess will be the only ones left in Bixby. I still want another book, but it just won’y be the same 🙁

  1746. I think all of us should go on strike.

    WE WANT A FOURTH BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Even though I’m sure that would bring down scott’s day.

  1748. Hey, i no this is probbly answered somewhere in the chat, but why didn’t rex leave with the other midnighters? did he stay, just because of maddy? and what happens when she dies? will he like go back with jonathan, millesa, dex and *jess*?

  1750. Also i’ve been reading all the posts and comments, im only on 530… 1219 more… but in 2006, you said you wanted another book.. and its 2008, 2 years, scott, seriously stop makeing people wait! give us a 4th book. *please?! 🙂 *

  1751. I realize I’ve been dead…
    Anyway, just finished that picture.
    Ya know, the one I’ve been promising since August. -shot-
    In math class, coincidentally.
    Should be up over the weekend.
    Sorry for the ginormous wait.
    Gah.
    Bye.

  1752. Hello. My name is Cam. I, as I suppose you may have guessed, reading this, am a Fan of Midnighters. I picked these books up not too long ago, and as I’ve completed the three I’ve seen, I’ve since gone above and beyond the usual fascination that grips the fans of such a series. After a solid week of researching the rest of the midnighter community, my initial euphoria at these “Unanticipated Illuminations” in my life have has since turned, I’m sad to say, to general “Mortification”. Why? Not due to the books, no, I love Midnighters, and pretty much everything concerning them. It just seems, to me, that the world has forgotten the Midnighters. The fan-sites’ members have dwindled and dried up. The last pleas for a fourth book or more are dated and old (save for this place). I find myself at a loss for words, save my questions: What Happened? Why? Where did such a wonderful thing go away to? Where have they all been? Where has Scott been? I’m hoping you can answer this question, hoping anyone can, and perhaps at some point people will start talking again outside of here. I don’t know. Just a bit depressed on the subject.

    Cam

  1753. *cries uncontrollably*

    I JUST FINISHED BLUE NOON……..

    AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    *sobs*

    *goes to sulk in room*

    I *sniff* want *sniff* MORE BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!

    heh heh heh……

    *gives u scary darkling stare*

    YOU: *rolls eyes*
    ME: why isn’t it working?!
    YOU: I created the darklings and everything, so I’m used to it.
    ME: *sobs*
    YOU: Besides, you didn’t look scary. Rather like a girl who wants more Midnighters books
    ME: *shrinks back in fear* ANOTHER MINDCASTER?!
    You: …

    I.NEED.MORE.MIDNIGHTERS.BOOKS.NOW!!!!!!!

  1754. Sorry, I just can’t believe the series is over. For the past few weeks, it was all I did: reading the books o_____O

    TT_____________________TT

  1755. Well, I would guess all there is to do at this point (for the moment anyway) is discuss what could be next, no?

    Well, the way I see it, there are a few things that need to be accomplished in the next Midnighters book(s):
    – Rex’s “contamination” needs to have some sort of closure, one way, or the other, or even just learning to live with it.
    – Some form of total reunion needs to take place between the five. I mean, seriously. Noone’s actually died, noone’s got any particularly serious commitments, and they can be dealt with one way or the other. (Madeleine’s death or healing, Rex’s father’s illness, Dess’s graduation, etc.) A team-up seems both wanted and necessary if the story is to continue full-steam.
    – And FINALLY, Jessica needs some way out of Midnight!!! COME ON! She is a fairly amazing character, and myself among others feel that she hasn’t had enough time to develop fully, and with this 1-hour day restriction, it’s simply too much to bear. This was a major dagger to the hearts of Midnighters fans everywhere, not to mention the Midnighters themselves.

    If all this could be accomplished in one way or another, maybe in a fourth book, I feel that Midnighters has the potential to become a truly epic series, continuing past what’s been already. I also feel, quite strongly, that to end the series now would be a crime against not only its fans, but also its characters, its truly “Hypervigilant” (13) world, and the very essence of Midnight. It would be like killing a baby Dragon, really, slaying something that has the potential to become one of the greatest things ever to exist. What do you all think? Anyone agree?

  1756. Hola Cam! Hi, yes, Misnighters do of course rock! (finally another person that uses incredibly big words!YaY tridecalogisms!!!)

  1757. Heh, well I’m glad to assist, T&Z, I’m just happy to find more active fans than the three that I know exist in my high school, lol.

  1758. oops I meant to write ‘Midnighters’ not Misnighters.
    Yeah, I barely know anyone at my school who reads these books except one of my friends. And she’s the one who got me into Midnighters/Uglies/ect… the only problem is that I’m done with both of the series now, and she’s still reading Specials.

  1759. Hmm, that can be frustrating, yes. My Midnighters “intoxications” began when I noticed the book in an abandoned classroom on the High School’s third floor. I bought it at Borders afterwords, so I had to track down a few people, and they all seem to have had some kind of touble getting their hands on Blue Noon as of yet, and so it’s been depressing with noone to talk about this with.

  1760. At first my friend had only heard of the Uglies series, and not the rest of Scott’s books, but then I found this website in the back of Specials and I’m all “Dude! This guys got more books?!?!YES!!!” And so I grabbed just about all of Scott’s books off the shelf at Borders and that’s how I got hooked.(Not using big words today, because I’m temporarily brain dead because I am about to fall asleep from all the medicine.*EWWW!!!Robitussin and TheraFlu*Nasty much.zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz)

  1761. Hey not to vomit all over the forum with my posts, but I have a sort of mission for anyone listening. Lately, I’ve begun a little project of my own, with midnighters as the subject of it all. I was wondering, what with all the talk throughout the book of advanced Midnighter abilities over time, what would some of those abilities be? In Seer? Mindcaster? Polymath? Acrobat? Flame-bringer? I wanted to fish for some good ideas from the only Midnighter community around, and so… here I am. Ideas?

  1763. there’s a LOT of people in my school who read uglies/pretties/specials/extras and the midnighters and Peeps and yeah…..my whole LAL class reads them, and i always see at least one person carrying one of those books. but the problem is, they’re not as far as I am so I can’t discuss or anything with them. Plus, i also don’t know some of the people XD

  1765. Okay, more specific question: If Rex got older, continually expanding his Seer power, what new things could he actually do?

  1767. hey, Cam, there are still fansites with people on them!
    check out the HQ, it’s definitly not dead!
    http://chasingmidnightwerewolves.wordpress.com/
    full of talking about Midnighters and sharing fanfic and wierd 13-y experiences and talking about how we need a new book.
    and, if you click my name, that’s the wiki, another fansite that’s a wiki all about Midnighters (make an account! join! edit!) and also full of random discussions cuz talk pages are fun.
    wow. i just realized i’m a major contributor to not one but TWO Midnighters fansites. that’s….kind of pathetic.
    but hey! the HQ has over 10,000 hits! woo!

    and Midnighters does deserve a sequel. a semi-disconnected TLD/Extras sequel. maybe even one with DARKLING WEREWOLVES.

  1768. okay!! scott, you have made me an obsessed person. first with the uglies. i read the book in a day and the rest of the series in a week. no joke… and now the midnighters. gosh– its like i cant stop reading. i, honestly, hate reading and then i saw a girl at my school with the uglies. and get this– i got the book because i thought the cover was cool!! haha!! lame isnt it?? in other books i read ive been counting all the tridecalogisms. or seeing if there were any. i found one so far — lacksadasical (probably not spelled right but it is a tridecalogism– i counted) means like lazy- i think… lolz!! well, im gunna go… 🙁 <3taty

  1769. Oh my Gosh!!! I had this freaky Midnighterish dream! Okay so Dess and the rest of the Midnighters were out fighting darklings and there were like 12 darklings and they all ran off when they heard the names of the tridecalogisms except for one of them, and Dess is all “What the hell are you still doing here?Didn’t you hear the tridecalogisms?” and Rex is all”Yeah,you know #13 is anti-darkling.” and then the darkling’s all to Rex”Crap! I don’t know how to count.” and then Dess is all “Get your stupid darkling@$$ out of here.” and it ran off.
    Sorry, I don’t say stuff like that, but I can’t sensor my dreams.

  1770. Well. Where to start…
    First of all, I just finished the trilogy after 4 days of reading nonstop, and I would have to say it was AMAZING :D. The characters and the concepts flowed perfectly, and I especially favored all the love(Jonathan and Jessica, Rex and Melissa, you know you loved it B)). After I finished reading the Extras days after it came out Octobed 2nd, I thought my life was complete, finishing the quadruplet that I though about for weeks afterward… that is until now. The Midnighters is easily my new favorite. I loved everything about all of them(except one thing which I’ll mention in a bit lol). One of my favorite parts would have to be when Melissa and Rex broke into the house in Las Colonias. It was overall very dramatic, and when I heard that Rex had left some blood there, I had automatically thought they were going to get busted… which they didn’t. Boo. I also really liked when Rex got kidnapped, and the other midnighters(-cough- Jessica -cough-)had to rescue him. It was sad, but very funny when Melissa went through the windshield of her car. I always laugh hysterically when anybody in anything gets hurt- and she was no exception 🙂 I did the same for when Rex broke is ankle. And especially when Melissa pretty much turned Madeline into another vegetable like Rex’s dad. lol

    And here’s another of my favorite things about them. The TRIDECALOGISMS. Oh my god I love them. Especially hypochondriac. OOH. AND MY NEW FAVORITE WORD. Acariciandote. Omfg I love that word. I love to say it randomly to people, and they’re all “What the…?” Hehe.

    As for the characters, I loved every one in a different way, and loved how they could all be considered the main characters, considering they all poised as the main character a bunch of times. My all time favorite though would have to be Melissa. She shows so much emotion, whether it’s fear, love, or hatred, and thats what I love about her. I also liked how she eventually warmed about touching- and even going as far as the intimacy of a kiss.
    And while I keep rambling on about crap, I may as well mention the fact I loved the love in the books. The first time Jonathan and Jessica kissed in the book, I was all “Eiieeee!!! -pushes the 1st and 3rd books together-“…. But when Rex and Melissa kissed in the hospital, I was all “EEEIIAAYEAH omgOmgOMGOHMYGOD. -runs around while making high pitched noises-.” It was just so happy :)… and every other time they made out lol.
    OKAY. I swear this time I’m almost done. First, I have to express my love for the use of ‘vegetable’ in the trilogy. Vegetable. VEGETABLE. I will never think of this word in the same way ever again. I would definitely have to consider this word to be the same as acariciandote. Maybe more. Most likely not though. Anyways, I love how he uses the term vegetable as ‘mindless’ like Rex’s father and pretty much Madeline. It makes me lol every time I hear it XD.

    And now to my concluding rant! Whoo! Kudos to you if you’ve even bothered to read this far 🙂 Anyways. I really did not like how the ending was in Blue Noon. I’m not saying it was bad or anything, but… very sad and depressing, and almost awkward… It’s kinda silly that Jessica now only lives for one hour each day. It must really suck for Jonathan. Especially for Jess, though. I mean, who would want to be flying with an old cripple when Jessica is still not even legal? lol
    But it’s also pretty sad how the 3(technically 2) of them will be moving… whether it was for the sake of other Midnighters or not. I feel for Dess. And Rex for sure, knowing that he now has to take care of 2 vegetables with his double persona’d self.

    To sum things up, the Midnighters was amazing, blah blah blah, I found my new obsessive words, blah blah blah, and the 4TH BOOK MUST BE CREATED plz. Having it involving more fighting with darklings, (were)WOLVES -cough-, different midnighter powers, and an actual technically alive Jessica would be nice as well 🙂
    KAY I’ll stop now considering-… holy crap this long… I’ll just make my way back to my quiet room to think my self to insanity. 😉

    CIAO now~
    Haley

  1771. Yay! New people on the threads! It’s been kind of dead on this spoiler zone for a little while, though, as Sarafina Zane said the HQ is pretty busy. At the moment there’s 24 members. (Or somewhere around 24 members) Come on over and join. Just click on my name, I linked it there, and come over and ask Lizzy-wa to add you to the list. You don’t have to be a big fan of the midnighter werewolf idea (though it is pretty fawesome) either, just a fan of midnighters.

    Oh, and Cam, a while ago one of the people who used to post on here (Demensiona) posted a list of the new midnighter talents the people on this thread had come up with. I copied it here so that you guys don’t have to scroll up so far to find it. Here it is (Note, the last few are just ideas, please elaborate if you want to.):

    (1)Bonemender(heal injuries through touch)

    (2)Empath(sense emotions/more understanding)

    (3)Soldier(darkling fighting machine/ emotionally unstable)

    (4)Skin-Walker(shift form for travel/hiding)

    (5)Hyperquenched(control/freeze ice at certain speed)

    (6)Transmigratorious(1 twin born at midnight/transports others into midnight.What becomes of other twin?)

    (7 & 8 another type of twins)
    (7)Guide(stiffs into midnight)

    (8)Guardian(Guards transition point into midnnight)

    (9)Divergent-Communicator(speaks diff./many languages/knows all tridecologisms.)

    (10)Halfling(more human/black wings/slithers follow)

    (11)Helion(control/bend light)

    (12)Ignitmus-Toxin(make things grow(plants) that produce toxins that affect darkling/slither’s coordination)

    (13)Sketcher(sketch what they need/want)

    (14)Magnitus( have magnetic force that steers slithers in a certain direction, slithers follow them. Have gravitational force the hinders/aide acrobats)

    (15)Hypnotist(Make darkling/slithers fall asleep through ,hypnotist, into thinking that it’s daytime)

    (16)Illusionist(invisibility)

    (17)Dream Gatherer(Act as dream catcher/view nightmares of the past,take mental notes on darkling scare tactics/no emotional fear of darkling/sliters/by touching someone’s forehead, release them from greatest fears for certain period of time/darklings and slithers keep their distance away from them).

    (18)Screecher(Pitch of verbal scream,screech damages darkling/slither’s hearing. Only darkling/slithers hear their screech.Compose/play mathematical compositions like Bach)

    (19)Capritempra-Pecularist(moodstone)(Change colors of midnight accoording to mood, calm other’s through touch.Born between DEC.22-Jan.19)

    (20)Trepid Stagnant(In crisis, literally freeze themselves in place into steel. Nothing hurts them when in this state.Put others into this state too by creating chain link.Use only during the blue time. One of the most powerful talents)

    (21)Subsenilist(Can Age themselves/someone/or something/or make them younger/newer). Can repair damaged metals and make tridecogolisms reusable again. Age someone if there’s a curfew encounter)

    (22)Time Bender(retrieve inanimate obejects from the past)

    (23). Maleficent Concealer(one that conceals evil)-On the darkling’s side, change form, mindcasters can’t detect them, they can’t be trusted.

    (24).Crafter(create entricate and complicated designs(weapons) in medal, in the speed of light)

    (25)Flame dominator(no name really given/shoots fire,heats things up)

    (26)We need one that involves photography

    (27)One that involves food

    (28)One w/ weather

    (29)one that doesn’t feel pain/harmful effects in daytime

    (30) A psychic(don’t know how to spell it)/ maybe blindness

    (31)Telekenisis

    (32) Someone made out of steel/braces and plates in head(thinks like a computer)

    (33)Deaftness

    That’s the list so far. I hope you liked it, and please, please add new ideas!

  1772. which is why there should be a fourth one!
    don’t know what i’m replying to, but honestly, everything is a reason there should be a fourth midnighters.

    dude, Tally&Zane. that is hilarious. “i don’t know how to count”
    my dreams are all incoherent. or disturbing.
    like watching my friends in a sort of hell-pit thing dancing around and getting crushed by bookcases while i’m all trapped with this guy from school who’s all Hades and telling me some boring story. and there were shoes in that dream too, i think.

    only one, taty? i found like eighty million tridecalogisms everyday after i read midnighters. there’s so many! or other things that aren’t one word tridecalogisms. like St. Patrick’s Day. or Happy Birthday. or The Raconteurs, or the Arctic Monkeys. or i had some pencil that had 13 letters on it if you counted punctuation. or some King of Gaul i read about. or the brand of paper towels my school uses.
    tridecalogisms are everywhere.

  1773. then we gotta get more members! cuz 24 is sooooooo unlucky. everyone come join and save us from darklings!
    and it’s true, it’s not darkling-werewolf-exclusive or anything. everyone welcome, as long as you love midnighters and want a fourth one.

    so…many…talents….
    *attacked by fanfic brain monkeys*
    i dunno, i think prophecy is a very midnighterish talent. and like, invisibility. in or out of the secret hour?
    *disappears under pile of brain monkeys*

  1778. nice!
    damn, i wish i could draw people like that.
    i can’t do faces well.
    is lame.
    also, i need to learn how to draw people with piercings, cuz i can’t do it and it’s bothering me.

    ugh, my dess picture has a lame head.
    after i get back from church i might post the littler midnighters fanart i’m scanning right now…..if i don’t get kicked off the computer.

  1780. I love the pics! They’re great Contact and Serafina Zane. They’re really great. I especially like your Dess Contact. It’s fawesome. I wish I could draw like that, though I’m more of a performance type when it comes to art (drama and band). I love your fanart. It really is fawesome.

  1783. Haha, so yea, i never like the endings in ALL your books, I LOVE ALL YOUR BOOKS!!! I like the endings, but i dont know, its weird, its just…………..I HATE ALL OF YOUR ENDINGS OF ALL THE BOOKS, except of course EXTRAS!!! WOOT! So yea, ummm, whats this about a 4th midnighters book?!

  1785. Thanks! I feel so special. Gah.
    They aren’t too hard for me. In fact, people are all I can draw reference-less.
    Then again, I’ve had a lot of practice.

  1786. I’m best at drawing scenery and animals. I can draw people, sometimes it just takes me a long time cuz I always have to redo the faces multiple times.

  1787. Seriously….I think I cried when this ended XD like how could you make her essentially dissapear?! ahh…I loved the plot and the story was great…but…but…why? Im sorry but it was probably the worst ending for the book >.<

  1788. well the book ended….(sad) i was so depressed and miserable that jess got sucked into the 25th hour and that johnathan would only see her an hour a day…
    it was kind of weird thinking that if she only exist an hour then it would take her 24 days until she actually lives a day..
    i was questioning what was with her right hand and all i read it so fast i was so excited….
    I REALLY WANT THERE TO BE ALOT MORE MIDNIGHTERS BOOKS…
    i was so mad it ended. i was crying .
    jessica and johnathan were my favorite couple to me they didn’t do enough together….
    but anywayys my ALL TIME favorite books in the whole world
    i’m literaly obssed with it….i also want them to make a tv seris of it or a movie….

  1789. hiya scott!! just wanted to say that you need to write another midnighters book!! and i just finished the uglies again yesterday and i was looking at the cover and in tallys eyes you saw a reflection of somebody. i was wondering who because it looked like the person was in a room but with the surroundings on the cover it looked like tally was in the smoke. just wondering.
    -tatum

  1790. Before I say anything…whoa that trilogy was SOOO worth not doing my homework to read ^^

    The ending (well, not the VERY end, but the early-epilogue) made me cry! It was like happy-stressy-heroismy…and then…Jessica-trapped-in-Midnighty? And I actually felt sorry for Beth! I dunno, maybe it was thinking about her parents, who probably thought she was dead or something…oh that was sad.

    And why did Jonathan have to get screwed over in the whole deal? I mean, one hour a day with your girlfriend (who barely ages, by the way)…I would be bludgeoning myself with Hypochondriac.

    but, a great book. kudos to Scott.

    ^^ alice

  1792. Im trying not 2 read any of this cuz i’m getting the last book 2morrow 4 valentine’s day! the thing i wanted most was this book! i use 2 not be an obsessive person, but scott’s books have made me one! I’m probably gonna be really depressed after I read the last book cuz I’m sooooo obessed with it!

  1793. I actually finished it this summer in the car on my way to choir auditions, listening to AFI’s Greatest Hits Album. Talk about weird.
    Oh, MNO, I read your page. Good.

  1795. I finished Blue Noon a few days after Christmas last year. Probably in my family room. I’m not sure though. I could have been going somewhere or doing something, I’m not sure. It was probably around three o’clock in the morning though. After one of my six hour reading sprees that I had when reading Midnighters that first time.

    Oh, and thanks Contact. I’m glad you like my page/blog stuff.

  1798. ahhhhhh! I just finished midnighters 3 saturday! and all I have to say is WHYYYYYYY????? Why did Jessica have too get stuck in the secret hour? she might as well die! Why did Jonathan and Melissa have to move? And why can’t Scott Westerfeld make a 4th book???????hmmmm… MAKE A FOURTH BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1799. I soooo agree, i mean I don’t know why Zane dies, but it has something to do with tally and David. Jess getting trapped had NO good exuse! Is Scott TRYING to make me cry everytime I finish one of his series?!

  1800. I just finished the series…
    How could you tear Rex and Mellisa apart?!
    By the way: Tally is a real name! It’s my cousin’s name and my best friends’ name. All the names in Uglies are very common Israeli names: Tally, Shay (my boy friend), Aya (a girl in my class), David (do I really have to explain that?). Yo did not make it up!

  1801. I just finished the third book and the ending was both depressing and interesting. I thought it was wierd of how Jesse was sucked into the Blue Time.
    I hope there would be a fourth book, the ending doesnt explain that much of what was going to happed to them.

  1802. I agree with most people on here – the ending was excruciatingly sad.

    I think I cried for like five hours (not exaggerating) after I finished reading it… Why did Jessica have to get stuck in the blue time? Yes it’s great to live for three centuries I guess but I wouldn’t want to watch all my peers (especially my boyfriend) die when I’m still 19…

    And Melissa going away…away from REX? That honestly felt like a really hard blow to my stomach.

    A fourth book, PLEASE? The ending is actually killing me slowly…

  1803. Dear Mr. Westerfeld, [if you happen to come across this comment]

    First of all let me give you many pats on the back for this absolutely remarkable series that has definitely distinguished you as a formidable writer for youth. It has made many MAKE time to read, your novels being utterly fantastic and all there. So, yes I congratulate you on this amazing piece of work that has captured my eye and a few [maybe million] others.
    Secondly I wanted to comment in regard of only three books in this series. There must be a proper ending, no cliff hanger, letting it go, suspense and sadness in the end. Tis rather depressing almost. And I’d be eternally grateful. WAIT I’m sure the WORLD will be in your debt if you write another novel to this wonderful series. I’m sure you are a very busy man, but please leave some time for writing a continuation to The Midnighters, everyone would appreciate it I’m sure.
    All three books we’re fabulous and a VERY good read, but leaving it TOO blank for us, we cannot even try and keep the story going on in our minds.
    🙂 Again, I definitely Salute your Excellence in your writing.
    And I implore you to write a 4th novel.
    Merci~

  1804. Okay I’ve just spent the last eight hours of my life (four of which I spent crying over the ending) reading everyone’s comments (it’s impossible to read ALL of them in one day)…and it seems that everyone is pretty much on the same boat. I might just die if a fourth one doesn’t come out…

    Also, does anyone know if Ada Lovelace was mentioned at all in Blue Noon?

    I’m still extremely sad! 🙁

  1806. I think we should start a petition or something to get Scott to write another book! Who’s with me?!

  1807. OH My Gosh! The ending made me cry 2! I mean Melissa is personally one of my favorite characters (i don’t know why but, i really understand her). So it was sad she and Rex didn’t end up together! I don’t like that she’s leaving him! Plus, I think having Jess trapped in the Blue time was a smart ending….but also a very sad one. I’m with everyone else, Scott should write another book. I guess he could do what he did with Uglies, countiue the series!

  1808. YES!!!

    OMYGOD I WILL NEVER GET OVER THE ENDING!!!

    FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK

    Okay I can go on forever…but I wont. I will start a petition at my school to get Scott to write another book! I don’t know if he would actually care but its worth a try. EVERYONE SHOULD DO THE SAME!!!

  1809. wouldn’t he like then get a reputation for a fourth book in a trilogy guy?

    that would be sooo cooolll!!!
    OMG!!!! that ending was sooo sad i cried then had a dream about the book and cryed some more but now im ok
    (am i normal or just an emotional weirdo? guess ill never find out)

    lol

  1810. I’m still not over it!

    FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK!!!

  1812. I’VE GOT 18 SIGNATURES SO FAR!

    FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK

    MY GOAL IS 50 – WHICH IS NOT A PROBLEM BECAUSE EVERYONE LOVES SCOTT!!! 😀

  1813. 26 SIGNATURES!!! – this is too easy. maybe I should aim for 100 signatures? And this just hit me – what the heck do I do with the petition? show it to Scott? >.<

    FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK

  1814. hmmmm….
    been gone a while, but i might as well jump on the bandwagon.

    FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!

    and i’m with whoever said it above—i relate with Melissa WAY TOO MUCH. it’s kind of disturbing.
    i blame the headphone thing, personally.

    also, everybody who wants a fourth book, or just likes midnighters, check out the midnighters wiki (click my name)
    or the HQ
    http://chasingmidnightwerewolves.wordpress.com

  1815. YAY!!!
    FINALLY going to buy the series tomorrow 😀

    I STILL WANT A FOURTH BOOK!!!!

    FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK

    How long do I have to do this? 🙁 I wish there was a better way to convince Scott…

  1817. I want more…. plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz………. We should bug em til he writes more!

  1822. Scott,
    your books are soo great. first i started reading uglies
    (my seventh grade english teacher started me on it). It was
    quite funny actually, seeing the reaction of a room full of 7th
    graders to the first sentence “the early summer sky was the
    color of cat vomit”. We almost didnt read it, but im glad we did.
    after that i started reading Midnighters.. and well i just dont
    know what im going to do now.. probably read Peeps or
    something :o)

    Okay, so the end of midnighters was GREAT! except.. like many
    other people.. i cried. lol. but it was very creative, the idea of
    jessica being pulled in/stuck in the blue time is… CRAZY! but still
    very good. I cant wait till Leviathan comes out for sure!

  1823. I don’t agree that there should be a fourth book. The ending to the series was really good, any other book would degrade it. But i do think that there should be a continue series, maybe set in the future.

  1826. Anaqui, that’s an interesting opinion.
    I disagree, but I’ve never seen that one here, so it’s rather refreshing.
    Also, your name is awesome.
    Explain.

  1828. I don”t think there should be a fourth midnighters book because the ending was too good to be ruined by adding to it. The ending showed the reader, or at least me, how the world is now open to the midnighters, how there was a rebirth. If he continued he wouldn’t be able to fill in all the ideas that could possible be imagined in this brand new world. That is why i think another series set in the future would be better. THis way he wouldn’t degrade the other series and but would be able to expand upon issues that he only touched upon, like the other powers. Also by being in the future, we could see what the rebirth of the midnighters led to.

  1833. so….FOURTH BOOK?

    and personally, i think i’d even rather have an Extras/TLD style fourth-book, which uses the mythology and everything, and the idea that Midnight’s now so expanded and everything, and maybe has cameos that show you what happened to Jonathan+Jess+Dess+Rex+Melissa
    (or, you know, get Jess out of Midnight. but i wouldn’t really mind. just a bonus)
    that’s the kind of Fourth Midnighters i’d like to see, personally.

    also, you know, darkling werewolves, but i accept that those would probably never be a reality.

  1835. Hmm I don’t know about darkling werewolves either but it’s an interesting idea 🙂 It would be cool
    But I think Scott should write another book to shock his fans! Something we’re totally not expecting! I would like to see Jess get out of midnight but I’m not looking for a happy ending…I just want a fourth book :)! ANYTHING WOULD DO SCOTT!!!ANYTHING!!!

  1837. I should stop wishing for a fourth book because we all know it’s not going to happen 🙁

    Still… ugh

  1840. Dear Mr Westerfeld,

    I LOVE your Midnighter series, it’s was so amazing and I couldn’t stop reading it!
    I was BIT disappointed with the turn out of Blue Noon as it was a heart-breaking ending…! Why did you make Jess trapped in Midnighter time? Didn’t you think about POOR Jonathan? And why did you make the original group split up? I was crying at the end of the series…!! I was a bit confused where it was telling about Madeline and her being a mindcaster, in Blue Noon, why did she go all demented from Rex’s thourghts? and how was she Melissa’s Godmother, if she cared about Rex so much?? I feel so sorry for Beth! Could you please Please, PLEASE write a sequel?? And could you make that sequel … you know….make everything good again?? I just hated the ending, but the lightning strike thing was quite affective!! Just with that aswell…how did the lightning cause Jess to become trapped in the one hour? I have some more questions about the charaters and subjects etc, etc,

    What is trignomotology? or that subject??? Is all of the things Dess said about math and everything true? What is going to happen with Rex? Who did Madeline fiddle in with the birth? I know she didn’t do Rex, but did she do any of the others?? What’s up with phsyco-kitty? and Cassie Flinders? She spooked the living daylights out of me!

    I really feel incomplete with the way it ended please compromise with Alloy!

  1841. YESSS!!! MORE PEOPLE XD

    We should all email Scott until he’s forced to write another Midnighters book!

  1845. I was bored, and mixed and matched people versions o the 4th book to create part of my own…feel free for anyone to continue it if they want to, but be warned it is LONG, but please read it, as atleast a quarter or more of the work is mine especailly at the end…but it’s really long…so be warned…why isn’t anyone posting? What is going on?

    Rex Greene fidgeted uncomfortably in his ugly red polyester robe as he stood listening to an unbelievably boring speech on the bleachers in the back field of Bixby High School. The valedictorian whined on about how fondly they would always remember this school, and Rex had to stop himself laughing, focusing instead on the teasing tassel hanging from his unbelievably uncomfortable hat. It was blurry, just a few inches from the thick lens of his glasses, and his eyes were squinted half shut anyway, against the obnoxious noon brightness in the cloudless Oklahoma sky. So instead of reflecting on how “Bixky High had provided a friendly gateway into society,” he thought about Melissa and Jonathan.
    The last he’d heard of them, they’d been crashing with an old friend of Jonathan’s in Philadelphia. Jessica was with them, presumably, one hour out of the twenty-five, and Rex envied even that. Instead of boldly going where no midnighter had gone before, he had chosen and was stuck in the middle of Bixby Oklahoma in 98 degree weather, being told how vital the last pointless four years of high-school had been.
    Melissa had sounded the same as ever, if marginally less bitter as she continued to gain more control over her powers. Rex had never gotten along with Martinez, so most of the time they’d spoken over the last six months was two-second hellos at the end of the weekly phone calls. Even he’d sounded happy, free, while Rex, was still stuck in Bixby High, scratching at his graduation robe and wishing he was anywhere but there.
    –
    Bixby looked different, Melissa decided. Or not different. Bixby looked the same; small, empty and boring, but not as evil. When she wasn’t stuck here by force, it had lost its sinister edge.
    Now it just looked like a pathetic little town, almost comfortable in its boring unchangedness. Nine, ten, eleven, twelve, Melissa counted to herself. Lucky thirteen.
    Beside her, Flyboy bounced around in his seat, tapping on the dashboard, crossing his legs, cracking his knuckles. He was killing her superiority mellow, but Melissa was almost able to forgive him. They were on their way to break Rex out, with a mission for him. For that, she could forgive Jonathan Martinez his jitters. It was his girlfriend, after all.
    In the backseat, the twins were sitting quietly, Tech reading some quantum physics textbook or something, turning pages drying, snorting occasionally, and once or twice laughing out loud. Laughing out loud at quantum physics. Melissa shuddered. She was almost afraid to introduce him to Dess.
    Next to Tech, Connor was staring out the window, no doubt seeing something far more interesting in the familiar Bixby skyline than anything Melissa could. She was also more than a little bit edgy about introducing Connor to Rex. If Rex could barely handle Flyboy, she could only imagine how he’d react to another seer. Actually she could imagine it pretty well. He’d freak out.
    She hadn’t mentioned the twins in the last call, or talked about the fact that they were coming. Well really, they hadn’t even known they were coming until about two days ago, around when they met the twins, by which point Jonathan’s friend had managed to get his phone service switched off and Melissa had discovered that there weren’t phone booths on the street anymore.
    So they were showing up unannounced.
    Melissa passed the familiar silhouette of Bixby High School, intending to drive past it, cruising for Rex’s house, but she noticed a large group of people on the school field. She felt a small moment of pride for noticing this; because it was exactly the sort of thing she usually lost sight of in her old psychic haze. She had control now. But back to Bixby High. Melissa was pretty sure they didn’t play football this early on a weekday, and besides, the bleachers were covered in people wearing white and red robes, and an audience sat in front on folding chairs.
    “Flyboy, what day is today?” she asked suddenly, startling the car.
    “Ummmm…June thirteenth?” he confirmed, squinting off in the distance and counting off on his fingers. “Wednesday.” He decided.
    “Dammit.” Melissa swore, remembering Rex’s countdown the last few times they’d talked. Wednesday June 13th. Graduation day. Rex had been joking about starting his life with an anti-darkling graduation.
    “Wanna watch Rex and Dess graduate?” Melissa asked, turning into the parking lot.
    –
    Dess was calculating the time left in the graduation ceremony based on the angle of the sun above and a complex formula based on the precise latitude of Bixby High and some base sixty divisions. There were exactly 923 seconds until the time they’d marked as the end of the ceremony, though the long-winded principal was pushing it now. Dess sighed impatiently. She could handle fifteen more minutes of Bixby High, at least.
    Dess scanned the crowd for her parents, sitting near the back looking unbelievably proud. She was graduating early, earlier even than most people who graduated early. It wasn’t even technically legal for her to graduate this young, but she’d simply run out of math and science classes to take, and Bixby High School was happy enough to get rid of her once her parents signed the stack of underage graduation forms.
    In the last week she’d gotten a pile of acceptance letters, even scholarship offers from MIT and Ivy League and all those colleges that really smart people went to. No doubt they’d be as polluted with idiots as Bixby High was. But just the idea…
    But before she went to any fancy college, she was finding Jonathan and Melissa and tracking down some polymath friends.
    Speaking of Jonathan and Melissa…no way. No way. No way. NO. WAY.
    Yes way.
    In the back row, a few rows behind her parents, Jonathan Martinez was standing, scanning the crowd, Melissa was next to him, headphone-less at Bixby High School for what must be almost the first time. A little behind them stood two high-school age guys with a distinct familial resemblance, one a little taller with rough-cut black hair and the shorter one with closer cropped reddish hair. The red-haired one asked some sort of question to Jonathan and Jonathan made a gesture toward Dess and one across the bleachers (they were in height order) at Rex.
    What are you doing here? Dess mouthed at them, but they ignored it. The taller, black-haired one was studying her, while Jonathan and the red-haired one pointed towards Rex, whispering. Melissa was scanning the audience.
    Dess looked anxiously back at her parents, remembering that Jonathan and Melissa had been reported as running away from home, and her parents had gotten retroactively suspicious of her friends. Them showing up at graduation wouldn’t really help.
    But Dess didn’t care. If they’d come back to Bixby, especially bringing two new friends, they had something interesting. And Dess could use something interesting.
    The principal finally started calling out names to collect diplomas and Dess twirled the spiral of her newest darkling-proof necklace, Theoretically Cannibalistic Monstrosities.
    Seeing everyone again was surreal to Jonathan Martinez. The crowd of people graduating were… strangers. He’d never been as close to the people at Bixby High as the ones back in Philadelphia, and a missed year had made them even farther away. While he’d been driving across the country, these people had just been waiting in Bixby and getting different haircuts.
    Even in the crowd of strangers, he spotted Rex and Dess straight off, looking pretty much the same as they always had. Both were squinting against the strong Oklahoma sun.
    “Which ones are they?” Connor asked Jonathan.
    “That’s Dess, the polymath,” He said, pointing to her in the second row. “And that’s Rex, the seer.” He said, pointing again to Rex in the top row. Tech moved out from behind them to get a look at Dess, who was asking some kind of silent question and playing with her necklace.
    “Rex Greene.” The principal announced, and Rex stepped forward in line. The morbidly obese school official handed him the cheap leather envelope with his diploma in it, fresh back from the Bixby Kinko’s.
    Rex shook the man’s sweating hand, cringing inwardly, but grinning at Bixby High for maybe the first time. He could leave. He could leave.
    Forget his father, forget everything. He was free. He didn’t have to do anything. He didn’t have any lame legally-required education hanging over his head. He could leave.
    Looking across the crowd, scanning disgustingly proud parents and pathetic students, he saw a sliver of a familiar face. Taking a deep breath, Rex blinked. For the first two weeks, he’d seen her everywhere. Every time he spotted his shadow, he’d thought it was Melissa, silently following him just like she used to; with headphones blaring, sweatshirt hood pulled up, gloved hands in pockets, her sunglasses glinting in Bixby High School fluorescents.
    Rex blinked again. Squinted. Melissa was still there. He looked again. Another familiar face beside her in the crowd—Martinez.
    Crap. This was real. Melissa was really here.
    Unfortunately, while Rex was having the epiphany that Melissa was really truly here, the next four people in the alphabet had graduated, and they were now pressing up behind him, impatient to get on with the carefully rehearsed movements back to the bleachers. Good old Timmy Hudson was right behind him, gathering up just enough courage to roughly shove Rex into movement. Rex, on the other hand, whipped around and growled at him, baring his teeth, and Hudson backed off.Rex moved along anyway, rushing back to his carefully assigned bleacher spot, marked off on both sides with masking tape. And he’d thought he was impatient before.
    Clenching and unclenching his fists, Rex Greene waited for graduation to be over.
    Dess shuffled impatiently, in line behind the three people alphabetically right before her. Feeling about to jump out of her skin, she chipped away at the black nail polish of her thumb.
    “Desdemona [insert last name].” Finally. Dess stepped forward, practically grabbing the diploma out of the principal’s meaty hands, lightly shaking his sweaty palm with the other.
    Dashing back to her seat, she checked the time again. Her name was near the end of the alphabet—just a few more minutes of leaving this place.
    However, the second she got off those bleachers, when the closing crap ended, she was swarmed by her mother, her father, and both of her grandmothers, neither of whom she’d even known was there.
    Across the crowd, she saw Rex meet up with Melissa, Jonathan and the two strangers, Rex looking the happiest she’d seen, well, ever, as did Melissa. Dess bit her lip from within her tight net of relatives. Sadly, there was no escape right now.
    She waved a little as they glanced over. Rex mouthed a single word at her.
    Midnight.
    A handful of excruciating minutes later, the ceremony was over. The graduating class threw their hats away, Dess just pulling hers thankfully off her head and ducking through the crowd, looking for Jonathan and Melissa without having to encounter her parents.
    No luck; her proudly grinning mom and dad, complete with the toothless smile of the white-haired grandmother she hadn’t even known was coming.
    Amid a crowd of praise and complements, Dess resigned herself to waiting until midnight.
    Rex, on the other hand, dashed off the bleachers, pushing his way easily through the student body, using his height and bulked-up Halfling size.
    As fast as he could, he ran toward Mellissa and Jonathan, slowing down as he emerged from the crowd, because running while wearing graduation robes looked extremely lame (as did pretty much everything else in those stupid robes).
    Slowly, and grinning the widest he had in years, he approached Melissa, instinctively stopping just short of her. She closed the distance herself, jumping up to pull down his shoulders towards her, holding him close.
    Jonathan and the two strangers exchanged awkward glances.
    After a long moment, they finally broke apart.
    “Who’re they?” Rex asked her, nodding to the twins.
    “I’m Connor.” The red-haired one introduced, in a smug tone that tended Rex toward disliking him on first impression. “And this’ Tech.” he said, nodding to his darker-haired brother, who looked vaguely annoyed at being spoken for. Rex nodded grimly at both of them.
    “What about talents?” Rex asked, seeing the strong Focus that clung to both of them, making their faces a blur through his glasses.
    “Seer and polymath.” Melissa answered. Rex responded with dread. Seer? He could just guess which one that was. The annoying one, because Tech would be a pretty likely nickname for a polymath. God, that was just what Rex needed.
    But what was the point of bringing them all the way to Bixby if they just had talents they’d already known about?
    “But that’s not the weird part.” Martinez interrupted, pretty much anserwing Rex’s mental question.
    “Yeah.” Melissa took over. “We had the samples we brought with us.” She said, pulling a bundle out of her pocket. Inside was a handful of generic grey gravel, but to Rex’s eyes two or three of the rocks glinted with Focus. They’d brought them in, some control and a few stolen from Darkling Central Apartment, to test kids for a seeing talent. “And he picked out all the right ones, every time.”
    “Because he’s a seer. What’s weird about that?” Rex asked.
    “Because then we went to the lore test.” She explained, referring to the flat rock they’d brought from the snake pit that was marked with a couple of lore symbols, which Rex had written down for them as a key to the test. “And he came up with totally different symbols than you.”
    “What do you mean?” Rex asked suspiciously.
    “I mean, you told us about a record of some darkling hunt, and he came up with something totally different.” She said.
    “So…he’s making that up.” Rex said in an obvious tone. He didn’t want to hear about this bogus little seer lying through some test.
    “But he got the other test right, every time.” Martinez interjected.
    “So, I don’t know, he was faking—those rocks were a different color or something. Or he’s got a weaker talent and can only see Focus, not lore.” Rex theorized wildly, watching his own argument get thinner and thinner like stretched-out chewing gum.
    “Or…” Martinez offered. “Different seers can see the lore differently. Maybe there’re different types of seers or something, and you can only see what’s written by ones who’re they same type as you.”
    “I was as suspicious as you.” Melissa said. “So we made him write all the symbols down with pen and paper, and we recognized some. Ones that he couldn’t have seen before. He’s definitely a seer.”
    “So what’d he draw?” Rex asked, because it was obvious, not only from the fact that they’d come to Bixby, but from the way Martinez was biting his tongue and fidgeting more than usual.
    “A lot of stuff.” Melissa started. “More than just talent symbols—I didn’t recognize him, which is part of why we wanted to show you. Something about how to trap darklings—how they made the secret hour in the first place, how they folded stuff into it.”
    “And…” Martinez hinted angrily and impatiently.
    “And,” Melissa continued. “he drew the flamebringer symbol.”
    –
    For the first time in almost a year, Dess waited for midnight.
    She sat on her bed at eleven, fully dressed, with the lights out, the only light coming in through her window. For the eightieth time in the last half an hour, she glanced at the clock. Dess sighed. What she really needed was something to do with her hands.
    Weapons.
    Darkling activity had been incredibly, pre-Jessica low since the rips were closed. Slithers were all she saw anymore, and even they were rare. Rex had spent a few months being paranoid before even he loosened up and admitted that the darklings weren’t resting up for some huge plan.
    So Dess had a stack of clean, unused, unnamed weapons in her closet.
    Which is one of the reasons her parents were banned from her room. The cannibalized forks, hubcaps and curtain rods wouldn’t be the easiest things to explain if they found them.
    Digging through the piles of dirty and unwanted clothes, Dess found what she wanted. A thin, relatively short curtain rod (or maybe it was for a shower, she didn’t really care) carved with symbols and wrapped with wire.
    Grinning, she pulled it out, hefting it as a spear, and named it, just as a blue curtain of stillness descended over the world.
    –
    Tech waited with Connor on Rex Greene’s dead front lawn. In the blue hour, the twists of rippling weeds and grass were frozen at their un-mowed knee height. The two of them stood there, in the middle of the mini-field with the grass frozen in mid-breeze around them.
    Connor looked impatient.
    “Think we should go in?” he asked.
    “Not really, unless you want to walk in on Melissa’s reunion with her boyfriend.” Tech answered with a little grimace, which Connor returned.
    “Don’t want her to eat us.” Connor concluded. Melissa was scary enough when she wasn’t happy. Happy Melissa was downright serial killer-esque.
    “So…” Tech started after a short pause. “Think we’re going to see that other polymath next?” his tone was casual, but holding disguised excitement. Connor rolled his eyes.
    “Double math-geek. I’m afraid. I’m sure we’ll get to your little girlfriend next.” He teased, and Tech went a little red.
    “Come on, I haven’t even really met her yet.” Tech countered.
    “Yeah, we’ve just gotten a couple weeks’ worth of constant stories about her.” Connor replied, relenting with a chuckle and a knowing look.
    “What’s up with Jessica and Jonathan though?” Tech asked, changing the subject rapidly.
    “He left after graduation, probably won’t catch up for a couple days.” Connor explained.
    Jessica had offered for them to go ahead, covering more ground by driving all day and not having to let her and Jonathan catch up and double back at midnight. Now that they’d reached Bixby, Jonathan and Jessica could just fly for the entire secret hour without having to do even more doubling back.
    “Probably take them another week or so—about a hundred miles to go.” Connor calculated roughly. The exact number, a string of quick calculations of leaps and altitude and speed and minutes, jumped to Tech’s mind, but he bit his tongue. Connor got fed up with polymath stuff pretty quickly, so Tech picked his unnecessary fact battles wisely.
    “Do you hear something?” Tech asked suddenly.
    Slowly, comically they both turned around. A sleek, giant cat, like a panther, was strolling ominously toward them. It paced carefully, slowly, each muscular shoulder flexing under velvet-black fur with each step.
    “Darkling!” Connor yelled a warning, just as the panther rose to its hind legs, leaping towards them.
    In mid-leap, it collapsed spasming and then falling limp like a rag doll. Blue sparks danced over it, sinking into the frozen grass.
    In the darkling’s place stood a teenage girl, with chin-length black hair that glinted indigo in the blue light, wearing a black leather jacket that glinted with silver buckles and ten different silver chains (a fact Tech’s polymath brain supplied automatically), all over a black skirt that ran to black-and-white striped tights, and chunky, steel-toed boots. She wielded a long silver pole with a round ball at the end. It was coiled with wire, lore symbols carved along it. She smiled.
    “This’ is Misunderstood Supernumerary Mathematician.” Dess announced. “Which describes me pretty well too.”
    –
    It all happened in slow motion. The bullets slicing through the air, the target falling to the ground…it looked like something out of a movie. But it was all too real. Kay barely registered the fallen body on the ground before she turned and fled. She ran for her life. She ran until she collapsed onto the ground, breathing heavily, but not seeming to take in any oxygen…
    Kay had been having the same dream every night for weeks now, ever since her mother’s terrible death. And the nightmare didn’t end when she woke up. She couldn’t help but think that it was her fault. She could have stopped the gunman. Couldn’t she have died that night? It would have been better than just barely living in this stupid hospital bed. The stupid doctors just wouldn’t let her go.
    In the hospital for a week now, Kay thought. Her apparent “suicide attempt” had left the doctors questioning her sanity. But it’s not like she tried to go into shock after the incident. It wasn’t her fault she had fallen onto a sharp rock jutting out of the ground. And it certainly wasn’t her fault that she was stuck in this stupid hospital!
    She couldn’t keep her mind from the one thing that she felt was her fault. She could have – should have – done something. The guilt came again. And again and again. Just when the world seemed a little brighter, Kay collapsed back into darkness with a sick feeling – guilt. It was terrible, worse than the time she had flown to her aunt’s house in London by herself after a fight with her parents. The night before her dad died in a car crash. It was much worse. This must be what it feels like to be depressed, Kay thought grimly.
    But suicide was a whole different level of depressed-ness. Even after what had happened, Kay wouldn’t commit suicide. The doctors probably knew that, which would explain why they put her on the 6th floor with the window unlocked. They just didn’t know what to do with her. “That emo girl on the news” is what everyone called her now. Everyone in the city knew her name. But no one knew what to do with her. Being 16, she was too old to be adopted but too young to be on her own. No one wanted her.
    Kay tried to roll over and go back to sleep. But she didn’t want to have the dream again. Sleep was torture now. Life was torture. Lying in this hospital bed was torture. Kay was about to cry – again. Let everyone think she’s emo. They had no idea what she had been through. They couldn’t have any idea how she had felt that night, watching her mother die.
    It’s not fair, Kay thought. A single tear trailed off to the side of her head into her hair.
    And then it happened.
    Exactly what happened was a mystery. As far as Kay could tell, the whole world had just turned…blue. And she seemed lighter, as if the earth had lost its gravity. She wiped her eyes with the back of her hand and stood up. The window was iced over, but the ice shone a strange blue color, as if reflecting a giant pair of washed-out blue jeans. Kay slipped off her uncomfortable hospital gown and pulled on a pair of jeans, a shirt, a jacket, and forced her feet into her old sneakers. She felt more like herself now, in her own clothes. She pulled the window up, expecting a blast of cold wind. But it wasn’t cold outside. That was weird. And the wind wasn’t blowing, either. Things were way screwed.
    She saw the figures from a distance. They were flying, somehow, rising and falling with ease and in a distinct rhythm, like the beat of a song. She watched them as she sat down on the too-wide windowsill. Her feet were dangling over the side, dangerously high up. Then the figures reached her. it was a guy and a girl. They stood on the ground outside her window. “Kay?” The guy called up to her, “I’m Jonathan, and this is Jessica.” He gestured to the girl beside him. “We’re here to help you. Just hang on – I’ll be up there in a second…”
    But Kay didn’t need him. She inched her way to the very edge of the windowsill…
    …and pushed off the side of the building just as Jonathan flew into the air. To her delight, she shot up into the air, away from the hospital. Freedom. It had never seemed so good.
    “Hey!” Jonathan shouted, trying to redirect his path in mid-flight. But Kay watched as he slammed into the building in his efforts. He pushed off, heading straight toward her. He covered the distance quickly, and grabbed her hand as he passed by her. But when he made contact, he stopped. In midair. They were stuck. In midair. They were in midair! It was as if they had turned into stone. Like everything else. Kay noticed for the first time the small dark shapes surrounding all the trees. They were leaves that had fallen off in the last gust of wind. But they hadn’t made it to the ground. Then Kay let go of Jonathan’s hand. They flew off in opposite directions. God – she would end up back in that dreaded hospital room if she hit anything at this speed. But the air in front of her was clear of obstacles and she slowed and dropped to the soft grass. Jonathan and Jessica were holding hands again, Kay noticed as she looked over at them. She could catch bits of what was being said. Something about acrobats. Then Jonathan jumped again, with Jessica, and landed right in front of Kay. “Are you crazy?” Jonathan shouted. He looked, and sounded, ticked. “Maybe so. That’s what the local news has been saying about me, right?” Kay kept her voice calm and level. “Yeah…but I didn’t believe it until you jumped out of your window!” “That was – never mind. I think I have a lot more questions than you do,” Kay said, “Starting with – what on earth is going on? “ Jonathan half-smiled at Jessica, as if sharing some private joke. “We’ll explain later.” Jessica said, speaking for the first time, “But I think we need to do something first…” she pulled her right hand out of her sweatshirt pocket. It sparkled a soft, blue color and the were sparks like static electricity coming from it. It reminded her of…”Lightning?” Kay said, puzzled. “Yes. I need you to touch it. Just grab my hand.” Jessica extended her hand toward Kay, who backed away. “No way. I’m not exactly all that enthusiastic about getting struck by lightning.”Jessica sighed. “It won’t hurt for long – I promise. We’ve done this before.”“And the sooner you do this the sooner we can explain what’s going on.” Jonathan added.Kay grabbed Jessica’s hand and closed her eyes, resisting the urge to pull away, to be rid of the pain that shot up her entire arm. The seconds seemed like hours. Eventually the pain subsided, as if being drained from her body. “Good.” Jessica said, and let go, “Darkling proof and ready to go. For now, at least.” She put her hand back in her sweatshirt pocket. Jonathan was bouncing on his feet, jumping only inches off the ground, and said, “Then let’s go.” Jessica grabbed Jonathan’s hand again. They were about to jump, but Kay stopped them. “Wait – what about me?” “We’ll see you tomorrow night, hopefully. You need to get back to your room.” Jessica said, sounding more than a little irritated. “Oh – and you’ll need this.” Jessica took a small chain out from her sweatshirt pocket and dropped it into Kay’s palm. “It’s name is Unprecedented Nonscientific Identicalness. Wear it in the blue time. and remember its name.” And without any further explaination, she grabbed Jonathan’s hand again, and they jumped, leaving Kay behind. There was no way Kay was going back into that hospital. She knew where she was going. She jumped. She followed the two of them, making sure to stay out of their sight. It wasn’t before they slowed down. It took all of Kay’s concentration to keep up with them during their high jumps, so the change in speed came as a relief to her. They were walking now. Kay noticed they were heading in the general direction of the grocery store. She watched from a distance as they got in an old, beat-up car sitting alone in the parking lot. They didn’t start the engine. They were together. Talking and laughing, as if the world hadn’t just flipped completely upside down, as if this happened every night. Kay looked away when they started kissing. They deserved a little privacy, after all. And as she turned away, the world returned to its normal colors. When she looked back at the car, Jonathan was starting the car up. Alone. Jessica had disappeared.
    And Kay knew that these kids were no ordinary people.
    Jonathan was about to pull out the parking lot when Kay knocked on the window. Jonathan, startled, looked over to see her standing outside. He cursed under his breath as he rolled down the window.
    “Why did you follow us?” Jonathan asked, mad at her. Again.
    “I can’t stay there.” Kay said, standing firm.
    “Yes you can. Go back before they realize you’re gone.”
    “No! I can’t. I don’t belong there. I don’t even belong here anymore.” Kay felt more tears in her eyes, but she didn’t let them fall this time.
    Jonathan sighed, but he understood. “Fine then. Get in the back.”
    Kay said nothing as she opened the door and strapped herself in. Only after the seatbelt clicked did she remember the childhood warnings about getting in cars with strangers. But Jonathan seemed safe. Safe enough, anyway. Jonathan pulled out the parking place and then shifted gears into drive as he pulled out the parking lot. They turned onto familiar back roads out to highway. They drove farther and farther away from the city. Farther and farther away from Kay’s old life.
    They were on the highway all day. They stopped once to eat at a McDonald’s (cheeseburgers from the dollar menu, and two sodas, grace of a broken drink machine). They were quiet the whole way, too. It seemed like a spell hung in the air, fragile as a spiderweb, and the slightest breath could break it. Jonathan tried turning the radio on once, but they were too far between cities to pick up any clear radio signal.
    After hours on the road, Kay finally fell asleep. Well, half asleep. She was still kept in subtle consciousness by the movement of the car and the sound of wind whistling past the barely closed window. She didn’t notice when the car started to slow as they got off on an exit to a new city.
    Kay woke when the car stopped. It was dark outside. Her vision was blurry. Kay blinked her eyes and the world jumped into focus. The green illuminated car clock read 11:23 PM. Kay had slept through the whole afternoon. Jonathan wasn’t in the car. Kay noticed they were in another grocery store parking lot. What was his obsession with grocery stores? Kay sat back in the tan leather seat, wondering what she was supposed to do now. She decided just to wait for Jonathan.
    He came back at exactly 11:57. He was carrying a bag of groceries and threw it carelessly into the back. It almost hit Kay in the head before it hit the seat, its contents spilling out.
    “Hey! That almost hit me!” Kay sat the bag up and put the food back in.
    “What? Oh! sorry. forgot you were there.” Jonathan said as he got in the car and shut the door.
    Kay rolled her eyes and dropped the bag over the seat. He looked sincere, though, so she didn’t complain further. mom never liked complaining. The sudden thought of her mother brought tears to Kay’s eyes.
    She pushed the thoughts away and said, “So what now?”
    Jonathan was eating a peanut butter & jelly sandwich. After her chewed the last bite, he said, “Well, now we wait.”
    Then he made another sandwich.
    –
    “Haven’t seen a psychokitty in ages.” Dess commented to an awestruck Connor and Tech.
    “Dess, quit scaring the kids,” Rex warned, the kind of thing he’d never have said a year ago. A year alone with Dess and his darkling senses in Bixby had changed him, a little. Dess rolled her eyes. She hadn’t changed much.
    “Connor. Tech. Everyone,” Melissa introduced, just to be sure.
    “What talents we got?” Dess asked, interested.
    “Seer,” Melissa said, pointing. “Polymath.”
    Dess smiled like it was Supernumerary Mathematician Christmas again.
    “Polymath. Fawesome,” Dess answered. The others looked blankly. She rolled her eyes agin, grinning. Losers.
    “Come on. I want you to read some lore for me,” Rex said, gesturing Connor and the others inside.
    The room was crappy as ever. Dust, junk, and boxes, all frozen in the blue time. In front of the TV, Rex’s dad sat, stiff, his mouth and eyes open and glassy. Connor and Tech watched it all like kids rushed through a carnival house of horrors. Dess just averted her eyes.
    Rex’s room had gona from messy crashing-place to full size museum in the last year. Bookshelves, constructed and salvaged, rimmed the walls, covered in artifacts and lore and books and tridecagrams and metal.
    “Alright. Read this for me,” Rex started, and Dess got bored already, wandering the edges of the room. Connor and Tech stayed huddled in the middle. Melissa fell back on the bed, running her hands through her short hair. It’d grown out of the buzz, a little, so now it was more fashionable crop than inmate shave.
    There are few things on earth more boring than being a polymath sitting around watching two seers look at lore and scribble down symbols.
    For Dess, this was usually the sort of thing she considered Hell.
    Unless, say, you had another polymath to talk to. Even if he was, admittedly, looking a little shell-shocked and clinging to his brother.
    “Never seen a psychokitty before, have you?” Dess asked the other polymath, this Tech. He was looking around, wide-eyed, shoulders hunched in his dark blue pullover sweatshirt. He shook his head.
    “Don’t you guys have any weapons?”
    Tech shook his head. Dess was outraged.
    “No weapons at all? No clean steel? No tridecalogisms?”
    He shook his head.
    “What’s a tridecalogism?” Dess just about exploded as Tech asked that question. What had Melissa, Jess and Jonathan told these kids? Then she smiled, getting the glint in her eyes that scared people who knew her well enough. This was going to be fun.
    “Tridecalogism…” she started pulling off both of her named steel thumb rings (Zombification and Electrocution, her two favorite means of death), “is a thirteen-letter word that means thirteen-letter word.”
    –
    The next day around noon, Rex Greene led Connor into the Clovis Museum, passing dusty cases full of lore-inscribed arrowheads. The open excavation wall loomed on one side, and directly in front of them was Rex’s Rosetta Stone, a giant slab of rock covered in lore symbols. If Connor really could see some other, secret lore, this was the place to test it.
    Last midnight, he’d consistently come up with slightly different versions of the lore than Rex. They told the same stories, it seemed, but in different words, different points of view, different accounts, maybe like the books of the Bible.
    Rex wanted to see what he could do at Lore 101. Already he was plotting taking the other seer down to the Snake Pit.
    Rex surveyed the museum happily. After Jonathan and Melissa had left, he’d gotten a part-time job at the museum, and thrown himself into excavations, labeling, dusting and organizing. Without the curator’s knowledge, he’d slowly turned the place into Midnighter Lore 101.
    Connor looked around disinterestedly.
    “God, this place is lame,” he said. Rex glared. “Seriously.” Connor still wasn’t getting the hint. “About as pathetic and small-town as everything in Bixby.”
    Rex might agree. That didn’t mean Connor could say it. Connor who’d been running around with Jonathan and Melissa while Rex took finals, who’d only been a seer for less than a year, who hadn’t studied the lore all his life, hadn’t gotten captured by darklings, didn’t know how hard it was to be a halfling.
    Rex shoved Connor up against a wall, his hand to Connor’s throat.
    “Think you’re big-time, don’t you, little seer? Pathetic. Little. Human.” He spat.
    “I’m not afraid of you.” Connor choked. Bad move. Rex reached for him with the darkling senses he’d learned to control over the last year.
    “But you’re afraid of Midnight. You’re afraid of all those little slithers and darklings and psychokitties coming to get you every night. You’re afraid they’re going to come in the blue time and snatch away your poor, innocent little brother.”
    Rex bared his teeth. Connor shivered and choked, and Rex Greene the halfling let him down. Connor gasped as his Converse slid back on to the dusty linoleum floor.
    “Trust me.” Rex said. “You should be afraid of me.”
    And he kept walking, strolling over to the case that contained the flat slab of the giant lore stone. Reluctantly, slowly, warily, Connor followed.
    “Top right corner, what do you see?” Rex asked after a minute.
    “Flame-bringer symbol.” Connor answered quickly. Last midnight Rex had taught him some of the more basic symbols; the ones for most of the talents and a few others.
    It went on like this for a while, Connor sketching symbols he didn’t know the names of into a notebook Rex’d brought.
    At four o’clock, museum closing time, they looked over the pages, examining them fully for the first real time. Reading their meanings. It was then, that an idea clicked into his head. Rex cursed himself for not thinking about it earlier, and screamed in delight. Connor gave him a very wary glance, worried that something had happened in the halfling that had, just a few munites ago threatened to hurt him.Badly.
    “We have to tell Jonathan.” Rex said, it was possibly the first time he’d ever thought or said such a thing.
    –
    Jessica appeared out of nowhere. One minute she was gone. The next she was sitting in the front passenger seat. Kay blinked to make sure she was seeing things right.
    “Jonathan…” Kay trailed off.
    “It’s alright.” He said.
    Jessica noticed Kay for the first time. “What’s she doing here?” She said to Jonathan.
    “She wouldn’t go back…”
    “You could have made her. She shouldn’t be here.” Jessica obviously wasn’t happy. And in Kay’s opinion, she was being a bit bratty.
    “We’re saving time this way.”
    “Whatever.” Jessica said, and stared out her window. There was an awkward silence.
    Kay was about to ask what they were doing when Jonathan said, “I wonder where he is.” She bit back the urge to ask who “he” was. She just looked out the window, fingering her silver cross necklace. A present from her mother.
    They sat in silence for a couple minutes (or what seemed like it. All the clocks had stopped working.) Then Jessica said, “Maybe Melissa was wrong…maybe she skipped over a few cities. Maybe she thought she sensed another but really didn’t. You know she was just learning how to mindcast over long distances. Maybe…” Jessica stopped when she saw a figure move in the bushes edging the parking lot. It could have been an animal. But it moved too…predatory for a suburban animal.
    Kay and Jonathan had seen it, too.
    “Darkling?” Jessica said, pulling her glowing hand out of her pocket. She flexed her fingers, ready to strike (literally). But then the creature stood up on two legs. Jessica lowered her hand a little, wondering if this was just the Midnighter after all. Then a dark sound rose up in the throat of whatever it was. It sounded like a cross between a growl and a howl. Then it made its way cautiously yet quickly towards the car.
    Jessica didn’t know when she decided it wasn’t human. But the next thing she knew, her lightning had struck the figure, illuminating its features. She gasped when she saw it was a human. A guy, around 20 or so. She immediately stopped the lightning, wondering if he was dead. But he wasn’t even fazed by it. He looked down at the last charges of electricity in his body and howled. All three Midnighters froze at the horrible sound. His face was upturned toward the dark moon. He raised his arms up. They were covered in thick, black fur. His eyes were death as they flashed indigo. They were eyes that looked ready to kill. The man then shaped shifted into a physco-looking cat, who let out a series of grunts and prepared it’s self to strike.
    Then he (or she, or it. Whatever.) charged toward the car. Jessica was startled into action. “God, Jonathan. Run!” She herself was opening the door, slamming it shut, and in the flash of an eye was standing next to Jonathan, then jumping off the ground into the safety of the sky.
    She barely saw Kay make it out before the physco-cat came down on it, scraping the doors with fingernails. It reached inside Jessica’s open window and ripped the seat fabric. Jessica shuddered and turned back around, focusing on flying.
    What a nightmare.
    Kay’s thoughts were pretty much the same. She had never seen anything like that before. She had gotten a closer view than Jonathan and Jessica. It looked like…a psycho cat-human. But it couldn’t be. Could it? Kay wasn’t sure she wouldn’t believe it. After all, two weeks ago, she wouldn’t have believed she would even be considering anything of the type. She pushed the thoughts aside for the moment and caught up with Jessica and Jonathan.
    They all landed a safe distance away from the car. Jessica was obviously confused. And spooked. Jonathan’s expression was hard to read.
    “What was that?” Kay asked. She hoped they knew.
    “I don’t know. A new type of shape-shifting darkling?” Jonathan said, considering the possibility.
    “What’s a darkling?” Kay asked shyly. She obviously had a lot to learn.
    “Ancient creatures that are trapped in the blue time – the hour at midnight. Most of the darklings were killed though, and I don’t see how one would have gotten this far out.” Jessica said, gazing at her shining hand.
    “Then what is it?” Kay asked.
    Jessica sighed. “If only I knew.”
    –
    As it happened, Jessica Day, Kay and Jonathan Martinez reached Bixby Oklahoma about halfway through the secret hour that night. they’d flown all through the blue time the previous night, covering a decent amount of ground, not stopping to sightsee, flying the entire hour, almost falling down as midnight ended.
    The secret hour came again, and they flew less quickly, Jess full of reluctance about coming back to Bixby, knowing her family were just miles away but she’d never see them. The rip was completely closed up by now.
    They flew over the Bixby junkyard on the way into town. In the blue hour, it was a city of metal, shining skeletons of buildings and machinery, the steel glinting in the light of the dark moon. A winged shape caught her eye.
    “Look!” she said, gesturing with her and Jonathan’s intertwined hands. He panicked a little, from being knocked off balance, and suspected darklings.
    “Who? What? Where?” he nervously asked, whipping around and pulling them down to the ground as much as he could.
    “Pegasus.” She said simply, and Jonathan looked down, the group then gently floated to the ground in the junkyard, separating.
    The once-magnificent horse that had crowned the top of the Mobil Building during Jessica’s sophomore year was rusty and burned, blackened by the strike of lightning.
    Blue-tinged rust turned red and flaked off under Jessica’s fingertips as she brushed them against the familiar curve of the wings. Her eyes filled with tears.
    A lightness filled her. Jonathan had come up beside her, holding her hand securely within his.
    “It’s going to be okay. We’ll find a way.” He reassured, and she tried to believe him, looking up into the eyes of her boyfriend, who was now two years older than her, not just one.
    “I’m serious. This thing with Connor, it’ll be the breakthrough.” Jessica Day turned her head away, focusing her blurry eyes on the metal wings of the Pegasus sign.
    “Shhh..” Jhonathan whispered, whiping away the spilled tears she tried so hard to conceal. He then swiftly picked her up in his arms and gave her a comforting hug, followed by a light kiss.
    Kay shuddered and hoped they were close to wherever they were going, because she couldn’t bear the constant tears and the kissing.
    –
    They made it to Dess’ house in time, the meeting place had been arranged when Jonathan had called from the small, no-name town he’d stayed in for the day, just before the secret hour ended. Melissa must have felt them coming, because she, Rex, Dess, Connor and Tech were waiting together on the lawn.
    “We found something.” Rex said even before Jonathan and Jess landed. “In the lore.”
    “Who the hell is that?” He asked surprislingly.
    “Kay …uh…Westerfeld, another acrobat” Jhonathan replied hesiantaly.
    Rex looked puzzled for a moment then shunned Kay to a corner with Dess and the rest of the group where she happily introduced herself, whilst Rex redirected his speech to the topic.
    “We found something, in the lore” Rex repeated clearly
    “What?” Jonathan asked just as the secret hour ended, color flooding Bixby, Oklahoma. He spun around to say bye to Jess just as her hands dissolved under his, and then she was gone with a sweet smile curving on her lips and a wave of her hand.
    “It’s about how the darklings first made the secret hour.” Rex said suddenly, trying to stop Jhonathan’s ‘farewell to Jess’ get too emotional. He then continued, after recapturing Jhonathan’s attention, “They had to fold things into the blue time, one by one, the elders jumping in and out and bringing the others with them.”
    “But if darklings could go in and out of the secret hour whenever they wanted, why all the stuff about the rips? Why wouldn’t they just come out and hunt whenever they wanted?” Butted in Tech.
    “They used to.” Rex replied sharply, giving him a icy glare. “But even then they could only come out through places where the secret hour existed. And then there were usually midnighters to fight them off. And somehow, eventually, there weren’t enough elders, and they lost the power, because they had gotten too cautious.”
    “What’s your point, Rex?” Jonathan interjected into the rambling history lecture.
    “His point,” Connor took over, “is that we have the power. That the darklings could go back and forth. They could bring stuff into midnight, but they could also bring it out.” He emphasised the last word and gave Jhonathan a ‘if you know what I mean’ smirk.
    It felt like the secret hour again, except only Jonathan’s organs knew it, and they’d jumped up at midnight gravity without the approval of the rest of his body. Heart in his throat, stomach in his lungs.
    “But…” Jonathan objected a second later, with a choked voice. “We don’t have a darkling.”
    “No.” Rex Greene heartily answered. “But we have a halfling.”
    –

    They had planned to do the ritual two days later. Standing in the street in front of Rex’s house. Connor held a convenience-store notebook, full of copied lore symbols and numbers, and a box of sidewalk chalk. Rex took the sidewalk chalk, barely acknowledging the other seer.
    It was 11:59.
    Rex took a piece of chalk, bubblegum pink, and began copying the lore symbols, wincing in concentration as he interspersed them with The Aversion.
    A year ago, he couldn’t even think it, let alone write it. Practice made perfect.
    Made you stronger.
    Next to him, Melissa chuckled dryly.
    “Whatever doesn’t kill you…” she reminded his thoughts, and took the chalk from him, penciling in the rows of 13s herself. Rex moved to stop her, but realized it was probably best this way. This would wear him out either way. He didn’t need to waste his concentration.
    Blue flooded the street, leeching color from the chalked-in circle.
    Jessica Day appeared on the crest of the hill,above a lake, a good twenty yards away, where they’d brought her last night. Jonathan had been leaning against the streetlight there, and now he leapt up, and they low-gravity-bounced down to the circle. Sending Melissa a nervous buzz.
    “What do we..uh… I mean.. I do?” Jess asked, sounding like a five year old at a doctor’s appointment.
    “Get in the circle,” Rex directed. Jonathan went to go with her, and Rex shook his head. “We don’t know what’ll happen. Just Jess for now.” Jhonathan scowled at Rex, but stepped just out of reach of her.
    Connor also stepped out of the circle, watching the scene. Tech and Dess were off to one side, talking in tridecalogisms with Kay looking dumbstrucken. Listening to them gave Connor a headache, so he headed out.
    “C’mere.” Rex directed, and Connor hurridly stepped forward with the notebook, the two of them went around the circle, sketching symbols.
    “How is this supposed to work again?” Connor asked, because every answer he got made less sense.
    “It’s preparation. We don’t know if it’ll do any good, but Dess said we should do it, and it can’t hurt.”
    “So there’s really no purpose to all this,” Connor confirmed, flipping a page in the notebook.
    “Pretty much none. When it all gets down to it, it’s up to me.”
    This part Connor had heard about already. Rex had to tap into his darkling side, and they knew it was going to be dangerous. For the past year, he’d been trying to suppress it. Now, he had to use it.
    Rex Greene took a deep breath, threading the 39 links of the silver chain linking his wallet to his belt buckle through his fingers. It hurt, but not the way it used to. More like a loose tooth you kept pushing. A dull ache you couldn’t leave alone.
    Connor was looking at him. Flyboy was too. Jess, with hopeful pained scared eyes. Melissa, looking scared for him. Dess and Tech, mildly amused. Everyone was staring at him.
    Rex took another deep breath.
    And another.
    And then he reached inside his mind, to the dark little corner where the darkling lived now. Down to where he’d forced it.
    You’re not strong enough, a voice hissed to him, you’re weak. You’ll fall to the beast. You can’t do it. You can’t save Jess. You can’t even save yourself. Your a weak FOOL you hear me, you’ll never be anything, ever!
    Rex took yet another deep breath. His mind was a swirl of hunter and prey, hunts and Aversions and technology and blue.
    And in there, was a skill. A memory of the time when they’d created the blue time. An arm in his mind he could reach with, and pluck things straight out of time.
    Rex stood there for a long time, both fists clenched tight, knuckles white. Connor and the others watched, waiting, as the dark moon swung across the sky, and Rex didn’t move, just letting out the occasional, hissing, rattling breath.
    Jessica Day suddenly let out a agonized screamed. It hurt like hell. Everything. Like she was being torn in a million different directions at once. She reached her hand out of the circle, reaching out for Jonathan, who grabbed her hand, and turned on Connor.
    “Do something!” he shouted.
    “What the hell am I supposed to do?” Connor shouted back. He had no idea what was going on. Rex was still a human statue, eyes screwed shut, and Jess was doubling over in pain, screaming.
    Melissa stepped forward, taking Jessica’s hand. Agony poured through her head, and she ground her teeth, biting down as hard as she could.
    She turned to Jonathan, blood dripping from her lip.
    “What’s happening?” he asked.
    Melissa shook her head.
    “I don’t know.”
    A rushing sound filled the street. A roaring.
    Midnight was ending.
    Blackness fell on the scene, colors returning. The blue disappeared, replaced by streetlights and pale stars. She turned around to see Jess’ body disappear but instead of folding up like it normally did, it expanded and contracted, matching Jess’ face, her screams had subsided but she was going crazy, the last thing Jhonathan saw was the whites of her eyes, then she popped and a small shriveled figure was sent sprawling into the lake twenty yards off from Rex’s house.
    Jhonathan forgot the fact that he no longer contained midnight gravity and took a flying leap only to be hauled back by Kay who was shell shocked and staring a Rex’s limp body lying on the ground. But he didn’t care about stupid Rex, if anything went wrong it would be his fault that Jess was dead. Leaving behind the group of midnighters gathered over Rex he ran with all his might to the lake, where surprise and pain crossed his eyes.
    As he arrived at the lake he saw a figure sinking into the centre of the lake, as this part of the street was inoccupied he ran and jumped into the water and using the strokes he knew brought Jess’ limp body to shore. She was looking younger that she ever had, her radiance was amazing, but as he stared he saw her body shape-shift into many a figure, he gasped in shock with each grousume transformation until her body returned into it’s natural shape.
    Jessica struggled for air, every part of her body was screaming with pain and cold sank over her body as she hit the lake, just as she was about to give up and let this newly refounded pain take her over, she felt a strong pair of warm arms pulling her along to shore. As she was surfaced, her body could take it no longer and she felt her emotions turn dark, but she could only think of one thing, Jhonathan, she suddenly felt her body shape shift once more into her normal body and she spat out salty water.
    Groaning in pain she turned around and slowly opened her eyes to see her boyfriend, looking at her anxiously. “Jess,” he whispered, “I’m so so sorry.”
    She smiled and pulled him down into a hug, it was then she realised how cold she was she suddenly pulled away from Jhonathan and spewed out cold lake water. Just then, the rest of the midnighters appeared including Rex, looking out of breath, they had ovboiusly been running, to Jhonathan’s relief Rex looked well, he was having second thourghts about the comment he had silently made just before.
    –
    Rex smiled in disbelief at the sight in front of him Jonathan Martinez was crying. And laughing at the same time. At first he looked ok but then his attention was drawn to Jess’ once again limp body who had just passed out.
    The group huddled around her, whilst Jhonathan cradeled her in his arms, for a brief moment she regained conceniousnes and muttered three completelly different sets of words before falling unconcious again, they were
    “I love you” “Beth” and “Help me..”
    The rest of the midnighters returned to Rex’s house leaving Jhonathan, Dess and Jess alone on the shore. Dess helped Jhonathan carry Jess to his car where she then left him, telling him to call her and the other midnighters when anything happened.
    A couple of hours later, Jessica Day woke up shivering but warm in a car that felt so familiar. She weakly got up, opened her door and walked to the front of the car where she saw Jhonathan standing straight up aginst the edge, she also noticed a slight wilting around his shoulders, she lightly tapped one of them and weakly said, “Hey…Flyboy…miss…me?”
    With those words he turned around and captured Jess in a tight hug that hurt her lungs, as he released her, she colapsed onto the road saying,“That was…” She broke down in a fit of coughing. “Psychosomatic.” Jhonathan called the others to alert them of the good news and told them to meet at the lake tomorrow morning, but suddenly sensing something he grabbed Jess of the ground and hid her and himself behind the car, where within a few minutes a police car was heard zooming across that very street.

    To be continued…by…sERAFINA zANEs or anyone who wants to!

  1847. Also, if anyone has more ideas on how to make Scott write another Midnighters please let me know! I have lots of time on my hands hehe

  1849. it was great! it took me ages to read but whoever wrote that was really talented, you should become a writer!

  1850. how come no1 goes on here nemore???????? scott is supposed to respond to this!!

  1853. rexyrox, he is probably not gonna write another book because it would only be like 30 pages. what more could he say than that. but did u read 100% midnighter’s version of the 4th book??? it is super super good!!!! we should all go on at the same time later, maybe at like 8:30 regular time. not the time that they use here. BYEES!!!!

  1854. yes i did it was GREAT! I think he could because the way he ended blue noon you could write almost anything……..

  1855. yea but it wouldnt b as good as any of the other midnighters books and wouldnt have as much action. it would also be really boring because a) everyone already knows about the blue time, even stiffs.

    b) Beth and her parents are moving, so it won’t be as good withough Beth getting in the way of everything.

    c) it’s a lot more fawesome (read the last days) when you leave the readers hanging so they can let their imagination do the rest.

    scott-la can’t write everything you know!

  1858. yea i do, do you have an email? go on at 8 and we’ll exchange emails cause i wanna make sure u know its my email. sorry i have to make things so complicated! but pleez try to go on at 8 tonight. thanks!

  1862. Hey Scott it’s my 1st time to post stuff but your books ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!! you should make 1 or 2 more i know like 100 people who love your books midnighters so make more for the peoples sake

  1863. please scott???????????????? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ????????????? !!!!!!!!!!!! ??????????? !!!!!!!!!!? plz? 🙂 you are like the best go scott westerfeld!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1864. Hey Scott could you get on and reply a bit more why isnt anyone getting on anymore???????!!!!!! it is boring being the only one on

  1866. PLEASE SCOTT PLEASE WRITE SOME MORE WE WILL GIVE YOU SOME IDEAS BUT PLEASE TRY… pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeee?

  1868. i think everyone on this site agrees with me scott should write more books like another series of midnighters but with different characters like make new names and new relationships and new symbols for different kinds of people. you really should do it please scott i am begging i know but loads of people who love the midnighters series new ones would be awesome so please????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????? you are the greatest author in the WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1869. uggggggg still no one!!!!!! so what’s the difference between a duck and a shoulder???????

    A telephone pole because it doesnt have any doors!!!!!!!!!lol

    it makes no sense wats so ever but the=at why it make people go WHAT?

  1871. Oh My Gosh!! I was so angry when the book ended. It drove me crazy because Jess was stuck in the rip and what about Jonathan and Melissa and Dess will they find other midnighters or other powers do they find other places like Bixby? What about Rex and Melissa? Jonathan and Jess? WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!?!?!?!?!!? It’s driving me crazy. PLEASE WRITE MORE BOOKS.

  1873. it stinks i loved the midnighters series and cant wait for him to write more he really shood sooo please scot PLEASE WRITE ANOTHER SERIES OF MIDNIGHTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1875. OMG!!!!!! today i signed up for my classes at the high school, and the person talked about the book flatland!!!!! when he said that i was thinking, “where have i heard that before? MIDNIGHTERS!!!!!” so yeah, i thought that was pretty cool.

  1876. Scott I hated the ending you should make a forth one
    It totally made me want to cry 🙁

  1877. ya i am really bored another book wood b awesome well not just one but another sereis wood be great scott hasnt got on in a long time i hope he makes another series 🙁 :’,-{ plz scott? make another?

  1878. ugh MAKE ANOTHER SERIES SCOTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!the midnighters books were my favorite book of all time so i cant wait 4 another hey rexrox, have u evr seen the movie Lucky Number Sleven? and there is an l in sleven it a great movie really interesting just you have to pay attention to EVERYTHING in the movie otherwise it makes no sense once so evr soooooooooooooooo wow it boring i wish like there was an advertisement for this site to were there like always ppl on and it like instant messenger i have ben tryin 2 get evry1 i can to reed da midnighters series but they didint hav it in their library it stinks are great books rex rox how old r u? lol i am 12 and ya my name is Joel (like bowl but with a j)

  1882. scott, i love your books & u & all, and while the ending didn’t make me hate the book and most certainly not the whole series, (which, by the way, needs desperately to become a qua-tirlogy like uglies) i hated it!!! while it would be extremely cool/hilarious having jess meet tally through midnight, (by the way, how could that happen, unless 300 years from now there’s finally a midnighter born with the special talent it takes to get jessica out, [in which case, u would definately have to get jonathan stuck in midnight, too] or if tally is somehow a midnighter and we just never knew it [again, in wich case you would totally have to write another book saying how jonathan got stuck, they went through 300 years-worth of midnight together, watching their families & friends die, wich would be very depressing, but watevr, and how that other special midnighter came into being, and wat their power was, and them meeting tally through them or her being a midnighter herself) bak to wat i was saying, how things are currently, that would be so not cool, scott. PLEASE WRITE ANOTHER BOOK!!!!!! a television show will not sufice!!!!!

  1883. that WOULD be totally if you did the whole thing with the double-trilogy-thing like star wars (even triple-trilogy would be nice, but u do have a life besides writing nothing but midnighters) because everyone knows you can’t have too much of ur books!!! (hey… mor flattery, there scott… *hint, hint*) but yeah, at least write 5 books, making it a quintilogy (i doubt its a word, but we could make it one for u, scott!!!) so thatwe can see all of the original midnighters & how they look!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

  1886. OMG !!!This is my first time of being on here but Scott I just finished the third book and I am not sapposed to be on here right now because I am kinda sitting in science class but I just had to post this.I loved the third book counting the ending but you need to MAKE A FOURTH BOOK!!!!!!

    PLEASE MAKE A FOURTH BOOK!!!!!!

  1887. Hey all, was up rexrox hey guys this site is basically a site to beg scott to write another book (*hint hint* scott) so lets do just that… PLEASE SCOTT WRITE ANOTHER BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1890. dark aeon44 im 15. i luvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv his books. i have a webpage 4 him its rexroxmysox.wordpress.com…. i just set it up not 2 long ago so im still workin out the kinks!

  1896. omg you have to write a fourth book i just finished the third one (i know a bit behind time) but i was so sad and to be honest angry i just wanted to rip the book apart how could you do that the jess she was so great and just when she had new friedns and a great boyfriend i cryed so long after i finished it. But you need to write a fourth book other wise everyone here will pull their hair out over grief for jess and jonathan melissa and rex and or corse dess. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE write a fourth book… ites been 2 years since you opened this chat and you can see how much we all love your stroy please have merce and write us and awesome sequal to stop all out wories.

    Tash

  1905. i have myspace

    http://www.myspace.com/danielfan1492

    OMG i need a fourth book im dying without it… why do authors always do this… jk rowling did it with harry potter too… PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE write a fourth book so that all our questions are answered. Jess just has to be free, its not fair, the main character has to have a happy ending… please… give jessica the chance to live her life normally

    PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE write a fourth book

    xo

  1906. WRITE A 4TH BOOK SCOTT!!!!! please??????! ……hey this is completely(good, its not a darkling word[i had 2 chek]) random, but hav u guys evr dun the big red button? type it on google, its hilarious!!!!!!!!! yaaaaay!!! i can’t wait!! my school’s bandchoir&orchestra (i’m in band cuz its fawsomely the best) is going to Splashtown this Friday!!!! 🙂 🙂 😀 😀 i finally git to wear a bikini & mine’s reallyreallyreallyreally cute!!! its all colors like a rainbow, which is suiting since im the rainbow ninja!!! the most powerful ninja!!! go ninjas!!!

    ……k that is getting WAY off subject, SO not midnighters spoilers.

    is anybody else here a ninja???? i think im going to start my own website for ninjas only(no pirates allowed, even if captain jack sparrow is waaaaay hot) so yea… but thatd be way awesome!

    hey scott, about that new book, ….wen’s it coming out??? (hint, hint…) lol 🙂 bye guys

  1908. SCOTT!!!!! SCOTT!!!!! SCOTT!!!!!!!!!!! SCOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!! you mispelled tridecalogism on the midnighters website!!!! it says tridecologism archive!!!!!!!! nnnooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how could you?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    ….j/k, j/k, still luv u scott, but u did spell it rong!!!

  1909. Maybe he never responds because he is busy writing a fourth book…..*hopes that that is why*

  1910. i am going to write a tridecalogism on my arm and wear it to skewl tomorrow. i wrote love and my arm today. me and some other ppl on here did anyways…………

  1912. OK people I need some help here I just got this cat who is Halloween colors and I need a name that fits her.I want something cool anyone have any ideas?

  1913. well theres this really cute cartoon called ruby gloom and on it is a cat named doomkitty or just doom
    my cat whoses black and white is called Booboo i named her when i was like 7
    but names should more relie on personality

  1916. it really pissed me off that that happened to jessics i think there should be another book about how to get her out and all of the new found midnights

    ANOTHER BOOK NOW PLEASE IM DYING HERE!!!!

  1917. okay i know that yall were talking abboutbringing johnathan in to the cecret hour with jessica and i think it is highly possible perhaps she could hold on to him and when she fold he will too it is unpredictable but very possible its is a very interesting concept i wish scott would write another book im so bored here but i think if johnathan went with her it wouldnt be so freagin depressing i wish he would have gone with her or some how she bring him with her perhaps even melissa with them and rex to help figure things out and lets not forget Dess the awsome polymath the only one i can really understand because i m very good i math and such i really wanted a different ending or another book *wink wink cough cough* Please!!!!!!

  1918. WE NEED A FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS BOOK SCOTT!!! NOW FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK NOW PLEASE WE ARE DYING HERE SCOTT PLZZZZZZZ!!!

  1919. the end made me cry 2!

    there should be another book! i want to see them training the other midnighters!

  1920. Ahhh! I cannot believe Jess and Jonathan got seperated! How is this possible?? No way. Another book PLEASE. PLEASE.PLEASE. And this time explain how jess will get out of the secret hour. She has to. She needs to! There is no possible way she is trapped. No. No No No No No No!!!!

  1921. I just finished reading the third book and I’m so upset… I don’t think that should have happened to Jess… There needs to be a fourth book!!

  1922. ok well i hated the endding. how could he make her only be able to live in the blue time. and then alll of the midnighters expept Rex and jess left ahhhhhhhhh how could he do that .there needs to be a fourth book.

  1924. i know this is delayed, but I HATED THE ENDING!!
    ok i needed to get that outta my system.

  1925. good book but I agree I cried FOREVER when I finished it, Jess and Jonathan can’t be together any more and neither can Rex and Melissa, so sad-making! plus Beth can’t see her sister anymore!! midnighters needs an “extras” (a delayed 4th book)

  1927. the ending waz so depressing i didnt even wanna finsh the book but i did i wanna another book more like an explination but its unfair that jessica saved the world and in return gets stuck in the blue time
    PLEASE WRITE ANOTHER BOOK EVERY 1 WANTS 1 u gotta admit to that u owe every 1 an explination

  1928. okeyy i like this series but i DO NOT like the ending at all. There needs to be a third book where Jess gets out. Its not fair at all and you have to admit that almost everyone wants another book! i mean the ending was so dissatisfying. I want a fourth book. The third one made me so MAD!!You have to write a fourth book or i will be officially angry at you=)

  1929. i was kind of sad that jessica was sent to the secret hour (cuz im a freak and forget what the secret hour was really called). but, she will get to live to meet tally-wa (and live pretty [no pun…ish intended] long…)! my friend, carrie, thinks as soon as they leave bixby that jessica will be out of the secret hour and resume living their lives… poor beth (and her spaghetti night)!

  1932. what time zone is this set to it says 6:03 a.m july 15th but at my house it’s 12:05 p.m. july 14th

    im confusm

  1933. man that was a really sad ending!! i mean like y did jess get sucked into the blue time? that was SO sad! y couldnt the darklings just go away and never come back and every ones happy? i almosted cried! i read the whole seires from june 2 july and wasnt expecting a sad ending!! ok ok ill stop ranting about the end. the other books r great write a 4th book piz all the midnighters r very well written all the secrets that revolve around them its awesome wat really happened 2 maddy? i didnt get enough info or i just didnt c it 🙂 i LUV ur books 2. rex is all freaked out in blue noon its weird y do u make all these horrible things happen 2 them? i knew that beth would end up in the blue time nice forshadowing (yea im an english freak and i dont think i spelled that rite:) ) will rex and melissa get 2gether? yea they already r but shes LEAVING 🙁 ill shut up now

  1934. scott r u gonna write another midnighters? CUZ U TOTALLY SHOULD!! im already making up possible things that could happen in the 4th book piz piz PIZ write a 4th book (and maybe a 6th 7th and 8th….) :))

  1935. HEY 100% MIDNIGHTER i just jioned like yesterday and i just read that little midnighter story that u think might happen or should… but watever ur really good do u like 2 write? well u should of explained more of wat rex did 2 jess all i got wuz that rex went all darkling and jess screamed and felw into the lake!!well heres a bit of MY ideas enjoy! they flew across bixby for the last time. johnathan was leaving with melissa the next day and jessica was trapped in the secret hour suddenly jess heard a voice in her head “guys get outta there a old one is comming ur way!” said melissa “ok” jess thought but it was too late the huge sinaster form of a darkling hung above their heads jess screamed and johnathan yelled “jump!!” the darkling moved to stop themthen without warning,jessica brandished her gold sparkling hand the braclet johnathan had given her glowed bright blue. the darklings tenticals wrapped around each of them filling them with a icy feeling of hate dread and fear. ‘dont fear me human.’ ‘why shoudent i?’ jess was paralyzed with fear ‘u want out dont u human?’ ‘i.. i ..yes.’ jess answered ‘AH MINDCASTER’ the darkling said they heard a loud bloodcurdlering scream ‘melissa!!’ ‘the mindcaster is fine human.’ ‘soo… uh nice darkling..how do we .. uh help jess?’johnathan asked ‘well you need to either give up ur death hand or choose a different power’ ‘y r u helping me?’ asked jess ‘because we’re not a darkling’ ‘wat do u mean we’re not a darkling? johnathans face a mix of fear and confusion. the grayfoots didnt get rid of us as they thought the darklings attacked us and the magnet pulled us all into the darkling eventually our minds all meshed together elimanating the darkling brain’ jess gasped ‘ur the midnighters from the past! omg rex would die for this!’ come here tomarrow with the rest and we will save u human.’ the hour drew to a close the darkling let its cold ink black shadow tentical warth entered jess es and johnathans body immedilety for jess it was short thr blue time ended and jess dissapeared

    well yea i cant spell i kno that so piz dont comment on my spelling mistakes no matter how stupid

  1936. does ANYONE use this thread any more? im tired of talking to no one!!!!!im sad 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁

  1938. Scott, PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE write another midnighters book PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!! Oh, wait. I haven’t read them Sorry everyone else was asking so i wanted to too. anyways, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaase!!!!

  1939. What is wrong with Melissa’s face on the cover on the 2nd one (even though havn’t read them) Priya-la wnts to say something…

    yeah, she looks like a less scary special!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and shes a little to ugly to be a special. no offense if the model sees this….. yeah bye. and now back with lydia-wa

    yeah what she said completely and totally… SEE YA!!!!!!!!!!

  1940. (com. hogrs) Well I have accualy read the books i love them!!!!!!!!!! they are making an Uglies MOVIE!!!!

    *Priya-la steals keyboard*
    Shut UP Dana!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone knows that, God!!!!

    *Dana-la steals it back*

    well probably not every1… *priya and lydia go into other room to watch tv* ok shes gone now so… i LOVE Scott Westerfeld’s books I hav red the Uglies

  1941. i was wondering just now…
    why aren’t there midnighter animals? what if an animals gets born at the stroke of midnight? there are no mentions of animals in the blue time in any of the books, i don’t think…
    maybe humans just lost the “don’t get born at midnight” instinct that animals have…:-P i don’t know.

  1942. haha, i just had a very amusing image of an acrobat penguin flying across the ice in the blue time…hehe…i’ve gone crazy

  1943. Just read the Midnighters series recently. Love it! I would really like to see what happens after the ending, find out how much of the world wound up in the blue time.

    And DESS! More Dess please!

    Lol… midnighter animals would be cool.

  1944. Omg! I just finished the midnightera series and loooooved it. How could jess be stucj there. That is sooo unfair.
    Ooops!

    My friend told me not to go here but it’s toatally midnihgt. You know. Any way.
    Im really obsessed with this book. I need more!!!!!!!!!!! Please write more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1945. I just finished the books and the last one made me cry…..I hope there is a fourth one on the way or at least being thought about…..Jessica stuck in blue time forever and Rex without Melissa 🙁 I hope scott still reads these comments and at least thinks about it….

    Now back to finishing Specials

  1946. Kay so I just finished the third book.
    and i practically cried.
    please please please write another one!!
    You know, we didn’t really need Extra’s, but we got it anyway(and it was amazing!!). But we need a fourth midnighters, so why don’t we get one?? They need to get Jessica out of the midnight hour, and Mellisa and Rex need to get back together!!!(well i guess they never really broke up but whatever). =( so pretty please with sugar on top, write another one…

  1947. guess what???
    i was walking to 7/11 from my house, and i saw a pink car which totally matched Rex’s mom’s car.
    Pink with Mary Kay printed on the side.
    it was awesome.

  1948. It was so sad with Jess stuck in the blue time, and Melissa leaving Rex. It was so beautiful when Rex said “Because Bixby isn’t special anymore.”

    Also, you have two Maddies in Uglies & Midnighters? Do you have a thing with the name ‘Maddy’, Scott-La?

  1950. YYYAAAAAYYYY!!!! ppl r posting again!!! yay omg my computer is like messed up lol bout acrobat penguins wat bout a flame bringer tiger? it can have fried antalope 4 dinner lol woah woah jessdaylite no no NO no 1 stuck in blue time if scott write another book get jess out and eneryones happy

  1951. just because i haven’t written ihere n months doesn’t mean i don’t want a fourth book anymore….

    i still cry every time i read the last book… 🙁

  1952. hehehe…i found a stainless steel mini steak knife.
    it has writing on it.
    and guess how many letters are in this writing?
    that’s right. thirty-nine.
    i named it perfectionist.

  1954. He DID say he was lurking….but that was what? A million-bajillion years ago? I totally hope he can imagine our desperation!!

    HEY SCOTT! If you’re reading this, then think of your FAVORITE series (that has not ended) and picture it ending in a cliffie! A cliffie that just needs another book to tie loose ends! A cliffie that needs another book do THE FANS WILL BE HAPPY…and, um…stop telling you to continue for this reason.

  1955. I’m just gonna clue you in, I am a seventeen-year-old-senior and I just read Blue Noon and at the end I was extremely depressed. Not only did Jessica get trapped in the blue hour but most of the Darklings are dead. I was very sad about Jessica because she is now going to still be young when Jonathon is old and dying. Plus throughout the books I always felt bad for the Darklings. They ran and hid in the secret hour to get AWAY from us destructive humans but then Jessica ends up destroying them. I always wanted it to end with the Darklings and the midnighters getting along and Rex being a kind of ambassador or something. But instead you went a completely different way and made me sad. 🙁 I know you keep hearing it but PLEASE OH PLEASE write another book and get Jessica OUT of the secret hour. Its such sad ending. You could even write another chapter with a happy ending and post it online and then we could all be happy. Even with the sad ending it was a very good book. 🙂

  1956. He! I just finished Blue Noon yesterday. I think it would be totally fawesome if you would just please, please, please write a fourth book. The ending was so sad that i almost cried. I didn’t though.

    In the meantime, I guess I’ll just live through my fandom by naming electronic gadgets with tridecalogisms. (My cellphone is now “Communication”, Graphing Calculator = “Extraodinary Unconquerable Mathematican”.

    Or maybe you could just write a guide book on Dessometrics… Kind of like in Bogus to Bubbly?

  1957. I felt so sad at the end of the seiries. I felt bad that jessica couldnt spend alot of time with johnathan

    I feel so bad for bess cause she doesnt have a partner
    you would think she would get lonely
    she kinda is like me
    im a math nard also lol brand-la and molly-wa no that : )
    lol just obviously not to that extreem

  1958. NEED.FOURTH.BOOK

    I can’t believe scott actually came to Toronto a few weeks ago and i missed him. i absolutely hate myself. what if i convinced him…:(

  1959. The third book was so sad and yet complete. i want more books but if it ends there then i wouldnt complain. but still, i desperately want to read more midnighters. i like how scott let it remain a secret. i know some people saw midnight come, but many more were skeptical. sigh, i wish i had a real midnight. also i was reading that last book during physics (i was supposed to be doing a lab). anyways, we had to drop this metal ball so we can prove that it falls at an acceleration of -9.8 m/s. lol, i was so bored that i found myself secretly whispering animilization to the ball.

    also, i started reading the first book on the first day i started physics, and im glad that i wasnt the only one struggling!

  1960. i dont want there to be a fourth book. i wouldnt mind westerfeild rewriting the end of the boook , but i dont think it should go on

  1962. omg i love these books!!! i had to leave class to go to the restroom so nobody would see me crying 🙁 poor poor beth and her parents.. and rex!! not getting to see melissa anymore omg!! plzzz write a fourth!! and i want more details on jessica’s new power!!

  1963. Ok… Scott I LOVE the Books I seriously think that you should write another one!! It would be awesome!!!! Oh and to whoever wrote Midnighters 4 I Love YOU!! That was amazing you should totally become a writer.. and possibly help Scott write the real 4th Midnighters!!!

  1965. Scott might not even read these blogs. So sadly all of our fantastic points on why there should be another Midnighters are lost! I’m debating on whether to write him a very persuasive essay! :'( I think I will just pretend that the series ended with Touching Darkness(even though I absolutely love all the Rex/Melissa stuff in Blue Noon.) Now I need a new series to read since I have reread Midnighters 10+ times. Any suggestions?

  1966. Hi! I haven’t been on in like FOREVER, but it is good to be back. lol. I just finished the Midnighters series AGAIN. I LOVE them!!! Why do I feel like it is going to be an annual thing now? lol. Even though I knew what was going to happen at the end, I still cried. Poor Jonathan!! He’s awesome, and Jessica (which also happens to be my name *and probably half of the worlds population lol* by the way. lolz) is stuck in the blue time 🙁 But like Dess said at the end, Jess won’t age very fast because she only lives one hour a day now 🙁 And Jonathan will age normally. I wonder how that would affect their relationship :/. But Jonathan was so depressed. I feel SO sorry for him!! I probably shouldn’t be SO concerned with a book, but I can’t help it. I’m a hopeless romantic. ahaha

  1967. OH!! And no to mention Rex and Melissa. I can’t believe that she is leaving him in Bixby. What is he going to do now??? All he has in Bixby is Dess and Madeline, and he has to take care of his dad too, but still. He should be with Melissa!!! But that’s just my viewpoint. lol

  1968. OK, Scott, just because it’s been years, doesn’t mean that this subject is over!
    This message must be proof that you need to write a 4th Midnighters book because, after YEARS, people are still writing you, and they still want another book.
    I have had a almost non-stop stomach ache over the end of Midnighters that is going to turn into an Ulcer.
    Really. Seriously.
    And, I’m 13, I don’t need an Ulcer.
    I NEED a 4th Midnighters.
    Will please help?
    Please?
    -CHLOE-

  1969. I think there needs to be a 4th, too. At least a spin off (Is that what they’re called?), like The Last Days, and Extras.

    By the way I love the covers.

  1970. i read on your blog that the CW might make the midnighters an actual tv show!! it was sort of old news, but i was wondering if there was a chance that it still might happen. and i agree with you, they should not bump up their ages, thats just stupid. but even if they did, i would still watch it. lol. please tell us as soon as possible.

  1971. okay, connection with extras and midnighters! in extras, one of the chapters is ‘conflagration’ a tridecalogism!
    love the books scott!
    yeah Midnighters! yeah uglies!
    by the way, i’m a writer too! … well, my book isn’t published yet. and the cool thing, in my book, it includes all fantasies (non human) so i can stick in slithers and Darklings!
    oh yeah, back to the point. do you have any tips for me? (author tips, of course)

  1972. You SO need a fourth Midnighters book. OMG. See, I obsess over books easily, so I was absolutely in LOVE with the Midnighters series (and I see, on here, that I am not the only one). When I found out what happened to Jessica… wow. I cried so hard. I just finished the book a few hours ago, actually. I’m trying not to think about it much because every time I do I get ready to cry. I feel so bad for her parents, Beth, and Jonathan. They’ll get old and die and she’ll still be a teen. :\
    And then Melissa leaving Rex…. 🙁

  1974. I so think there NEEDS to be a fourth book. Honestly, They could go out and try to find others stuck in the blue hour. Or try to get her out of it. ANYTHING. Gah. I finished the series quite awhile ago and from time to time I think about how Scott should make it four books like he did with Uglies.

  1975. Scott Westerfeld, you are the most amazing author in all of the world, and i love you.

    Will you PLEASE write another book?

    If not, could you just write like, one paragraph explaining how it eventually all turned out? …Or a whole chapter? Preferably with Melissa/Rex involved…

    Scott, you would be my hero for my whole entire life. (even though you already are)

    PLEASE?!

  1976. I was reading the first posts on this and Scott said their might be a fourth book! but that was two years ago and no news on it :[[[[
    They need to make a medication for midnighters adiction…

  1977. Scott, if it helps…Midnighters actually tops Harry Potter and all other books on my favourites list…and i read A LOT.

    BUT I NEED A FOURTH BOOK!!! pleaseeeeeeee

  1978. so i finished the last midnight book today (i know I’m really late) but i thought the end was so sad, and so good at the same time! it must have been good if it got me writing here, this is the first time i am writing and i never thought i would. The ending was so good because i actually felt bad for the characters, and i usually don’t get THAT upset over them. of course i get into books and love the main characters, but this was so different because there were SO many main characters and SO many peoples heads to get into that it was sadness times 5! but it was good because i realized how much i actually love the characters i was a little iffy on. i mean everyone was together for 3 books, and it was over in a chapter. it’s crazy! But a thing to think about is: the blue time brought them all together, and the blue time is what also brought them apart. Without the blue time, no relationships would have happened and they would have probably never even met each other! It’s kinda ironic… in a weird way. And the thing i liked about the ending was that it was so unexpected! the 1st and 2nd book ended on similar notes, they defeated the darklings and it didn’t coast them anything. i was expecting the same kind of ending, but this time defeating them and saving people came at a price. The whole book is just action packed and mind blowing craziness, that when the end came, it was so different.

    by the way, my favorite part of the book is toward the end when Johnathan and Jessica are flying together and the darklings tap into his nightmare and it’s him dropping her. they just made the ending even sadder because it shows that losing Jessica was his worst nightmare, but it came true!

    Ok I’m done, sorry it’s so long…

  1979. Ok, I finsihed the last book like last year but, I totally think there should be a fourth, You can’t end it that way! Midnighters totally tromps Harry Potter and Twilight!!Please write a fourth book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1980. ahaha. wow its been a couple years since i’ve been on this thing. you guys have no idea how happy this makes me that this is still going 😀

    i’m kind of reading the series for the 8th time (my annual reading of it) and i remembered this forum……..anyone know if theres any more little comics. i liked those :]

    so i was wondering….
    anyone else like melissa and rex the best? i think theyre the most interesting characters of the story. and they both change so much and i dont know i just like reading about them…although i still think its really unlikely that they would leave eachother at the end after everything. jess and jon are cute but their relationship seems kind of cliche, as if theres no depth in it, unlike rex and melissa who know eachother like better than its possible to know someone else because of the whole mindcasting thing.

    i dont know if this has already been discussed (sorry if it has but i’m seriously not about to read 2000 comments) but yeah just wondering everyone elses opinions

  1981. oh and also, anyone else notice that none of the clocks on any of the covers actually say midnight? i thought it was funny. :]

  1982. THE END OF BLUE NOON WAS MY LEAST FAVORITE PART OF THE WHOLE SERIES!!!!

    I truly hated Scott for like a week after I finished it.

    I LUF YOU JOHNATHON AND I WISH JESSICA COULD BE WITH YOU FOREVER!

  1983. What can I say? I was truly utterly and impossibly heartbroken at the end of Blue Noon. Why Scott? Why would you break up Rex and Melissa? They were the bestest couple in the book! Their relationship made my top five pairings list! And then Jessica and the lightning and the trapped-ness!!!!! WHYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I am very sad. Please write a fourth book! I will be forever happy!!!!!!!!! 🙂

  1984. I was utterly shocked and heartbroken at the end of this book. I could not believe the outcome of the story. It was so sad I was in tears. I couldn’t stop. Particularly when Beth saw Jess. I’d lost it at that point. The worst thing was I was reading it in the middle of class. Thank god no one saw me crying. But I must say it was one of the sadest book endings I have ever read.

    SCOTT – PLEASE PLEASE PRETTY PLEASE WRITE A FOURTH BOOK!

  1986. well i have one question well really two firstly will there be a forth book and when i was reading the third toward the end i cant remember the page but Jessica hands a road flare to dess just before see is about i touch the lighting no is it just me or when jessica gave the road flare to dess the rip wasnt up to then yet and my question is if jesica gave the falre to dess before the rip was up to them how did the flare stay alight

  1988. PPL! IF UR SOOOOOOOOOO IN LOVE WITH THE BOOK’S *LIKE I AM ‘CAUSE I READ EVERY ONE 8 TIMES” U SHOULD JOIN THE ROLEPLAY SITE SCOTT CIND OF AVERTISED. I JOINED AND I LOVE IT!! THE ROLE PLAY FOR MIDNIGHTERS IS TOTALLY AWSOME! ITS TURNING OUT TO LOOK LIKE A BOOK.!!!! MY ROLE PLAY CHARACTER IS JESSICA dAY

  1989. as much as i love the books i dont have time to roleplay

    FOURTH BOOK PLEASE SCOTT <3

    IT’LL BE BIGGER THAN THE NEXT HARRY POTTER MOVIE XD

  1990. If the series is continued and the characters separate, I’d like them to meet again someday. For some reason, that would make me feel better. I’d also like to hear about some other talents.
    Nicole

  1991. The ending ticked me off so much! It was such a bad ending. Well, the ending was great, the fact that its the end made it bad 😛

    The part with Jessica and Beth at the very end, having Beth cry because that would be the last time she’d see her sister, that made me sooo sad, I wouldn’t be able to stand that!

    They have to make a 4th one. I recommended these books to my friend and she’s going to start reading them after the Uglies series. She’s going to hate me XD

  1992. AHHH!
    so, i just finished the last book.
    it took me an approximately four days to read all three.
    they were super good.
    but the end was fricken sad.
    i cried.
    I couldn’t believe it.

  1993. I loved all three I read them about 2 months ago and I cried at the end of the secret hour because I didn’t know there were other books because my friend Andrew was reading the series before me and the person who lent us the books didn’t have them yet so we didn’t know there was a 2 and 3 book but we fell in love with the books. Andrew has a crush on Jessica I (Skylar) have a crush on Jonathon. I know probally all the fans do but I have an obsessive cursh on Jonathon.
    AAHHHHHHH
    Please Make a 4th book!!!

  1996. Scott Westerfeld, you are the greatest writer of all time.

    And I hate you.

    I just read the end of Midnighters and it made me want to cry. Actually I did cry. Then I threw the book at the wall. Then I got yelled at for throwing a book at the wall.

    But anyways, I think that sucks like freaking hell!
    Melissa and Rex being taken away from each other? Makes me mad on a scale of one to ten: 1000000 (that’s more than ten :))

    Jonathan being all depressed cuz of Jessica: 8 (Don’t care for Flyboy too much)

    Jessica stuck in the secret hour: A LOT! Cuz it started a big ol chain reaction.

    And some other stuff too. But mainly the Rex/Melissa thing. Thank God for FanFiction. ((P.S. You wrote a fourth book for Uglies that put a happier ending for the books! MIDNIGHTERS TURN!))

  1997. Ok, For are schools Wax Museum we dress up from a book or from history this year I am going as Jessica and my mom got me a Bixby T-Shirt (that is XTREMELY BIG!) my friend Andrew was ‘sposed to be Rex but he changed his mind at last minute… so now he is being Paul Revere… last year I was my favorite President…Abraham Lincoln!
    P.S. Scott please make a 4th book… but I (for the Wax Museum) made my speech on the edge of your seat (at least that’s what people told me I did) and at the end I say “I am only able to be seen by the other midnighters 1 hour Midnight.”
    Thanks!

  1998. Okay, I would so love it if you wrote another book. I am a fan of the midnighter (why would I be here other wise?) Anyway, I’d love another book just to see Dess again. Also, I think you have to potiental to get lots of interesting new characters and plots into it (I’m going to be nice and say “Not me” because I would then worry that you’d make me and Dess worst enimies and then I’d have to track you down and hit you). Whatever, as long as you keep writing awesome books I’m good. (Also, any possible way you can come to Napier, New Zealand for a signing and I will bow down to you for the rest of forever).

  1999. Im going to make this very clear… WRITE A FOURTH BOOK!!!!!!!
    We all wanna know what happened after Jessica,Melissa, and Jonathan when they left. What about Dess and Rex too!! what happen to them!? All i ask is for you to write another book… well not just me is asking all of these people are asking. So could you please write a fourth book.

  2002. PLZ WRITE A FOUTH BOOK!!! IM GONNA DIE IF I DONT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REST OF THE MIDNIGHTERS!!

  2005. Hi Scott) I read a lot of your books but my favourite books are midnighters i love them very much)) But why dont you write the 4th book??????? i want it very much!!!!!!!!!!!!! do you know you are very popular in russia??i live there in novosibirsk……so please write 4th book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!please!!!!!!!!please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2007. Is it just me or has Scott not posted any reply in a long long while? I really wish that he would get on board for writing at least one more Midnighters book…Some people on here have been trying to convince him to write a fourth one for TWO years, possibly even longer than that!!! I’ve recently re-read the series after re-reading Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga and I must say that his writing style/books is/are tied with hers and Rachel Caine’s (Morganville Vampires Series). While the tv show idea for Midnighter’s seems really unlikely right now, those of us Midnighter lovers who have spent much time reading and replying on this posting page are still hoping for another book. We can only hope that you’re still reading our posts and that eventually (hopefully sometime really soon) you will get writing a Midnighter related book for your hardcore dedicated fans.

  2009. Oh my gosh! i dont know how this escaped me! but anyways ummm saskatchewan kinda has 12 letters… not that im scared that darklings are going to jump out of the books and eat me, but thats kinda creepy!

  2010. !# i love these midnighters books but i just cant stand the fact that Jess got stuck in the secret hour if they dont get her out she is going to just sit and watch jonathan die!!!!!! *sob*
    and i hate how Rex and Mallisa broke up they were soooooo perfect for each other. ok i have a questian… ive heard that they were going to make a midnighters movie is that true???

  2011. to !#Team Dess!#
    I don’t know but I really hope they do! It’s a wonderful book!
    I was Jess for my schools wax museum but I really wanted to be Melissa but then my teacher heard the speech or whatever I was gonna give….yeah she told me to change people 🙁

  2012. i lllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeee the midnighters books they r so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    <3

  2013. NEED.FOURTH.BOOK
    please itss that the third book left me whith a lot of question at the end.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2014. the other day i was looking if there was a 4th book for the midnighers series and came across this website and someone made a fourth book in the page and its really good you should take a look it but ist not done yet. It really goes whith the other and theres evven more characters in it, it kept me reading until the last chapter andit even includeds a tini bit of twilight in it.

    Website:
    http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4490135/1/Midnighters_The_Nonexistant_4th_book
    yust look for it.

  2015. WE NEED A FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS BOOK SCOTT!!! NOW FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK FOURTH BOOK NOW PLEASE WE ARE DYING HERE SCOTT PLZZZZZZZ!!!

  2016. I really like the way you ended Blue Noon, but naturally it made me so sorry for Jonathan, Melissa and Rex. It would be really great to see another book about what happens on Jessica, Jonathan and Melissa’s adventures.
    The midnighters trilogy is my favourits series, thank you so much for writing it!

  2018. It would be better if jonathan also got stuck in blue time, jessica and him would age at the same rate and he could fly for his entire life.

  2022. i read all 3 books and i hope there is a 4th. it would be so cool i scott decided to make a movie on all the books i would watch them every day. i think that the midnighters is better than twilight. now that says something….yeah it says that the midnighters ROCK MY SOCKS!

  2023. OMG!!!!!!!! my mom bought me these books a long time ago and I just recently read them I used to be a die-hard Twihard fan but now I’m a die-hard Midnighter. I met you once in Kentucky and you signed my copy of Uglies and I have been reading your work since you have became my new favorite author and I cried at the end of blue moon i would love you eternally if you just wrote one more save Jess so her and Jon can be with each other forever and I feel so sorry for Rex i literally cried over this book

  2024. i LOVE these books!!!!!!!!!!!!! i read them a long time ago! but the other day i was looking through my books and i became obsesed all over again!!!

  2026. i was trying 2 read the whole comment list anddont hurt me but i got kinda board i think i spelled that wrong i am the worlds worst speller but i abousolitly lol tld u i loved the books please write more please

  2027. oh and mind u this comment board / CHAT SECCSSION *cant spell member* started in 2006 also i have 13 letters in my veyr common and simmple name sierra johnson its weird that i always know when i spell things wrong

  2028. i have the felling that im being supper anoying and that no ones gooing to read this for weeks but in the begining someoone mentioned sumthing about having 400 coments well thie is the 2027 th comment oh and i noe i spelled certain words wrong*hint hint* have a SUPER day i hope you realized that i wrote that in caps to show u i can spell …… that word bye

  2032. i was pissed that jess is stuck in the 25th hour its depressing. jess and jonathan cant be together for real any more because she wont age the same it suckes. and her family would be a reck i feel so bad for them

  2033. Okay, Scott I really hope you read this.
    So I was in the school library 2 weeks ago and I felt like reading a book. But not just any book – I prefer reading a series rather than a one-off novel. I ended up picking out your series, mainly because it was a trilogy, and because the blurbs sounded intriguing.

    THANK GOD I chose your books – they are amazing. I haven’t read any of your work before, but Midnighters just captured my imagination. I finished reading ‘Blue Noon’ this morning, and I can’t believe you ended the book like that!! How am I supposed to sleep at night without knowing what happens! And how awful that Jess’ parents blame themselves for her ‘disappearance’. And Beth! Oh my, how could she cope! Unless there is a 4th book that no-one has told me about, I am very VERY angry at you Mr. Westerfeld. You can’t do this to me! And by the looks of it, everyone else would like another book too.

    So please, think about the children who will read your books. Don’t break their fragile little hearts by ending the series there.

    Kay, thanks. Bye.

    P.S…just so you know, you are a God.

  2034. So… kind of a bunch of years late on this. Actually, not even really sure how I found this blog post (I blame google…) But seeing as when these books first came out I was probably too young for them anyway, I’ll just post some old news…

    My gosh. The Midnighters series literally rocked my world. There are way too many paranormal romance-y books out there now (seriously. Entire sections of bookstores labeled “paranormal romance.” Too many sparkly vampires. I prefer peeps) and I was so, so glad to finally come across a series with super-powered characters who didn’t make me want to vomit from their nauseating romances. The Rex/Melissa and Jonathan/Jessica relationships were both far from perfect. But all four acted HUMAN (or at least, halfling-esque). They had arguments and got over them. They supported each other. They did not make out every third page. They occasionally forgot where they had their first kiss. All normal parts of healthy relationships.

    I also appreciated that Dess didn’t have a relationship and was resentful of the fact. Too many books either match everyone up with their perfect match (surprise! There’s a sixth midnighter! — so lame) or have the “awkward fifth wheel” (or third, or seventh, or whatever…) blissfully unaware of the fact that they are lacking in the couples-universe. So thanks for making Dess act human as well. Also, the fact that she gets her own small reward in the end too. Score one for the polymath (although she still can’t motivate me to do my calculus homework).

    Was I happy with Blue Noon’s ending? Well, no. I actually threw my book at a wall (both book and wall are still intact). But I think an important part of reading books is that sometimes endings are bittersweet. Sometimes relationships fall apart (because the Jonathan/Jessica eventual age difference just doesn’t strike me as something that will work out in the end). Sometimes friendships get complicated, or families get complicated, or whatever. The world doesn’t always have a Hollywood ending, and since novels (even sci-fi/fantasy/etc.) are a reflection of the things that we see in real life, they shouldn’t always have happy endings either. (Tuck Everlasting, anyone? I cried for hours. And I was ten at the time).

    So do I wish another bolt of lightning will strike exactly at midnight and free Jess from her confines in the secret hour? (I mean, presuming that would work and all). Well, yeah. But I’m glad that the book didn’t include this. Because in real life, yeah, the odds are slim. But the potential is there for it to happen (and in my mind I can believe it happens. Actually, I’m sure there have probably already been about 13×10^39 fanfics about it). Much like The Giver, the ending of the Midnighter’s trilogy leaves the potential for the reader to be an (unreasonable – gah, twelve letters) optimist or not, as they choose.

    (Of course, if you would like to write a fourth Midnighters novel, I would not be opposed at all.)

    So thank you.

  2035. Must be honest, I loved the book, the action was exciting and suspense filled, especially the part where Rex pretty much gos Ranbo to save his girl and kick darkling ass. The character development was amazing, all though I must argue why dess hates Melisa. The only reason Melisa did what she did was to save Rex, and last time i checked Rex is Des’s friend to. So really I dont think Dess should of been made so hateful, she was even abit hateful in the end of the book. Then the fact Melisa leaves Rex made no sense whatsoever, I founded that no logic writing on the creators part. We did not even get a break up scene to explain why. Maybe if the creator did a scene of them discussing it it would of made more sense.

    However one thing the book did very good on was also the horror of the darklings as we learned so many things about the darkling world. I was excited in all the darkling scenes in this book as I finnally learn what makes a darkling a darkling.

    I loved the series, I hate how the creator screwed over just about every character in this series in the end. They only saved the world, jesus if this is how heros get rewarded in scott westerfield books then to hell with being the good guy i rather be the villian.

  2036. @ parodox

    I was so mad with the ending that i three the book to the floor and then kicked it at the wall in public at school my reaction was

    me-*reading it in lunch at the school*……*reads the final chapter*…..
    me-*heart broken as every chary gets ripped off*
    me-*rages*

  2037. Ok so I finished all the midnighters books in 6 days and the ending of the last book I was a little dissapointed about the ending. Please tell me if there is a fourth book!!! I’ve been looking online and there is nothing but if there is a fourth book is it called forever blue?! I just finished the last book today so please is there a fourth book?!

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  2039. I have been absolutely addicted to the books since Blue Noon came out. These are the books that got me into reading, and gave me an unhealthy obsession with Scott Westerfeld’s books. I hope more books get written, every time I read the trilogy I crave more!

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  2041. It’s so sad when jessica gets trapped in the blue time:( I hope they find out how to safe her and that jonathan and jessica keep being together

  2043. It’s so sad when jessica has to leave her sister Beth and her boyfriend and family behind.i just have a question……¿what does it mean in page 499
    “Jess lived only one hour to his twenty-five, which meant she’d be hitting her nineteen birthday just about the same time jonathan was dying of old age.and……” What does it mean “ and sometime way before that, things were going to get…..icky”? What does it mean? I’m young so I had that question. I gtg eat dinner

  2044. i anit mad but it has a sad ending i wish he makes a part 4 cause the ending some what told me there are going to be a part 4 and I love all your books you the best.

  2046. Midnighters is AMAZING! It should definately have a 4th book/TV show!!!!!!!! I liked the ending but I wish there was more!

  2047. I would say just have 4th book to figure out Jessica’s situation. It’s morbid. I love the series just like everyone else. Though the last book left it with there being more mystery to the blue time and the powers of the midnighters their selves. You had Rex mention there could be other powers outside their own but like what? Are there other flame bridges and could they release Jess? Is there a way to end the blue time completely? I would think at least one book would be enough to satisfy readers. Even if it took donation to have to book funded I’m sure us fan would do it.

  2048. I’m definitely on bored with Brett I’d definitely be willing to donate to see a forth book in this series. Honestly if it wasn’t for this series I probably never woukd have read anything throughout school. Thank you scott for midnighters please write a forth book. If yiu already have one written and just haven’t gotten a publisher to print it let your loyal fans know.

  2049. I refuse to believe there is not a 4th book looming over the horizon for Midnighters. No way there is not. The way that book ended was like a second to final book. It’s like the calm before the massive storm and then it ends?! That’s like if Harry Potter and the DH stopped right before the fight with Voldemort, like NO. I must see how this ends and what becomes of everyone!

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