Downloadables!

Posted on by scott

So as the crack publicity team for Extras swings into gear, I’m seeing some images I never saw before. For example, this uncropped photo from the US cover of Pretties:

Man, that is mildly freaky. Those two really do look more bubbleheaded in this bigger version. Something about the hair. I can see why the image was cropped a bit, so as not to scare anyone off. They look all zombified.

This uncropped image, and much more, can be found at the Behind the Pulse site for Uglies news and downloadables.

That’s right: downloadables! Chat icons, message board avatars, screen savers, and wallpaper like the picture above. You can have those glassy-eyed pretties in massive 1280 x 1024 size. Or giant uncropped Aya, or Tally behind the leaves, or Special Tally. And unlike Wearable Extras, it’s all free!

Here’s the Behind the Pulse homepage for Uglies.

Or you can click here to go straight to the downloadables. Like this nifty little animated icon gif:

Heh, heh. Sparkly.

Okay, Justine and I are headed off to DragonCon now. I’ll try to post from there, but you never know on the road.

You guys have a good weekend!

274 thoughts on “Downloadables!”

  2. i already downloaded the screensaver.

    and i read that last chapter of Specials with the commentary too! YAY! and scott, will we find out the story behind david’s scar in Extras???

  3. one—okay, two—well, three—fine, FOUR more things:

    BYE, scott! have fun at DragonCon (even though you’ve already left)!

    HAPPY BARZAK DAY EVERYONE!!! teehee!

    and since when does the weekend start on wednesday?

    my last thing: i was first again! i’m on a roll here!

    okay, i’m finished.

  4. wow, the uncropped specials image is creeeeeepy. her hair has issues. i will just look at the normal cover and pretend the picture is no larger than that. the uncropped pretties and uglies are cool though, and i liked the chapter with commentary.

    also, something random i noticed on the main site. there’s like, no mention of the last days anywhere. anywhere. not on the books pages or like the peeps page, or in the timeline of stuff getting published page. i just realized that. it’s like, the phantom book. the book that time forgot. kinda odd.

  6. the last days is still living off in extra-land, with only a few of these blog posts (and hte paperback copy sitting right next to my computer) to prove its existence.

  7. Soooo… From the bonus material, is the last word of Extras really ‘cake’?

    Pretties photo: I thought Tally would wear something more Crim. Something more shiny like Zane. Oh well. But we get to see that Zane’s hair is spiky!

    Specials: Oh, my… Her HAIR! *shocked silence*

    Extras: Go easy on dodge and burn folks…

    All amazing covers!
    18 hours on a train… Staying sane will definitely be a challenge. Have fun at DragonCon!

  8. i think that’s supposed to be shay on the cover of pretties. and isn’t zane’s hair supposed to be black? and like, longer? that’s how i always saw him in my head…

  9. OUHHHHHHH I LUV THEM SO MUCH! If only I could use one for my buddy picture, but my computer won’t allow it. Bummer. I’ll have to print them out and hang them up in my locker!

    Kadie-Wa

  10. yeah i think so too serafina…about shay, i mean. and i pictured zane with darker hair, as well.

    but seriously, i can’t believe the hair in the specials picture! that’s seriously scary. but that’s what it’s supposed to look like…”frighteningly beautiful,” those specials.

  11. wow that is kinda freaky! i always wanted to see the uncropped picture though. Have fun at Dragoncon

  13. Oh, wait i take it back. I saw it. Wow, I wonder if she had to use those special contacs that change your eyes. She’s SO pretty…*sigh*

    Kadie-Wa

  14. do you think they used totally different Tallys on Uglies and Specials, or did they like use the same person? i mean, they do look pretty similiar, except for the two major invasive mind-altering surguries.

    yea! i’m watching the heroes dvds! peter and claude are off to save the world!

  15. LORDY LOU! That is so FOOL! I haven’t been here in a while! I am sooooooooooo obsessed with B2.0. NERDFIGHTERS! OK, I am almost done catching up, then I will be back to annoy you with my ever changing topics and whingeging. I MISS YOU GUYS! I love my screen savers Scott! THANX!

  16. I’m sorry, but I’ve just been staring at the Pretties screen saver and it’s just so…creepy…but…I…can’t…stop…staring!And even though they are bubbleheads I still can’t help but find Zane attractive. Even with that nose. There must be something wrong with me. And, am I right in pre-sum-ing that that is Zane? It must be! because most of the book circles around Tally and Zane. Correct me if I am wrong.

  17. i think the cover is supposed to be shay and zane, so yeah. and i don’t like the cover Zane that much, though i must admit he’d cooler-looking in the non-cropped version. i pictured him as more goth tho, with longer, spikier hair. and i’m sorry, he does not have black hair in that picture. but he does in the book. and i saw his face as sort of sharper too, cuz they mention that a lot.
    whatever. sorry. i have cover obsessions, like my insane rant in the japanese midnighters post…

  19. Yeah, I agree with you Serafina Zane, but I still like cover Zane, and he seems strangely familiar…why?

  20. Gnah! Again with the creepy! 😀 I always thought the gal portraying Tally had something in her eye, something kind of cold. Granted, I don’t know much about facial expression (can’t see people’s faces mostly), but she just didn’t look all that bubbly to me on the cover. The Zane model? Oh yeah, he’s bubble-headed all right.

  21. Plus, Hillary!, Zane has black hair. That’s probably why you keep starring. And I think that it’s Shay and Zane. Remember how mad Shay was that Tally “stole” him?!?

    Kadie-Wa

  22. shay and zane were never together, i’m pretty sure. they were friends back when they were uglies tho. you’re probably thinking of david, he’s the one shay was dating that tally “stole”. i think they’re just so close together because the book cover’s small.

    and shouldn’t the zane look less bubbleheaded? i mean, he’s bubbly, not pretty. then again, after the middle of the book, neither was shay, so there….
    i dunno, i still like the midnighters and original peeps covers better than the uglies ones…

  23. wow, yes, MAJOR hair issues!!! that is sooooooo scary! ya know, i always thought that guy was bald…
    they really don’t look like pretties in the uncropped picture. Zombies, like Scott said. freakyful!!!

  24. “Yeah, I agree with you Serafina Zane, but I still like cover Zane, and he seems strangely familiar…why?”

    i don’t know, but Tally looks a bit lke someone i used to know… that just makes the picture all the more creepier.

  26. scary whats with the specials hair its discusting you can see it on the cover but i never noticed because of the black background uuhhhhh

    scary it looks like the pretties are looking into you soul and trying to rip it out its frekin scary and it the person on the cover of uglies naked on top

  30. I don’t think it’s Shay…It still looks too much like the girl in the Uglies cover. Which I am under the impression is supposed to be Tally. But, HEY! That’s MY interpretation!

  31. i like the full Tally picture. (Tally, not Tally-wa!) i don’t know why she hates the right side of her face. when you look at the front of the book (left side of her face) she just looks all calm and patient an what not. but when you look at the back of the book (right side of her face) she looks all misterious and plotting and waiting for something. much more adventurous don’t ya think?

  32. Yeah i know Zane totally has black hair! Tally-wa was always commenting on his blue-black hair remember? and that’s deffinitely not Shay on Pretties or Specials. for the Pretties, of course that’s Tally. it’s Zane that shouldn’t be on the cover, but he is because in Pretties they always talked about how they were together all the time remember? and it’s obviously Tally in Specials because…it just is! Scott always puts the main carachter on the cover. Tally in Uglies, Tally-wa and Zane-la in Pretties, Tally-wa in Specials, and Aya in Extras. see? simple as cake!

  35. lizzy-wa!
    time until Extras:
    1 monthand 3 days or
    4 1/2 weeks or
    33 days or
    808 hours or
    48487 minutes or
    2909300 seconds!

  37. WHAT! Zane’s hair IS black! and yes! he is supposed to be more angular! And why is B2.0 not working correctly!?

  38. That is a little freaky… what with the hair and all. A little disturbing, actually. The downloadables seem pretty cool (scurries off to check them out).
    Have fun at DragonCon!

  41. i really think that’s shay on the pretties cover. i used to think it was tally, but i remember reading somewhere else on this site that it was supposed to be shay. but whatever. to each thier own.

  42. yeah i do think it’s shay. i probably sound like a copy cat by now, but i DO remeber reading that it was Tally on uglies, Shay and Zane on pretties, and Tally again on specials somewhere in the blog! i’ve been trying to find it for the past 15 minutes, but there’s 74 posts in the “Uglies” category, so it’s not going as quickly as i’d hoped…i’ll post the link if i’m able to find it, but i’ve read so much today i think my eyes are going to start failing me.

  43. “AND Zane’s hair isn’t black”

    Yes, it is. Remember how he said that he died it and the special circmstances (i think that it was them) didn’t like how black it was.

    I had open house tonight. Since I’m a LINK leader, I think I opened abiout 1000 6th grader lockers.

    Kadie-Wa

  44. i think maybe they were talking about on the cover, not in the book, cuz it was ttly black in the book, and on the cover that is in no way black

  45. i can’t bring myself to read anymore blog posts…not that they aren’t interesting, it’s just that i’m gonna pass out if i attempt to read another one…i will have to continue my quest in the morning.

  46. Love the stuff on the site, Scott. They’re all really awesome. The uncropped specials kind of scares me, but I guess they’re supposed to.

  47. Kadie-wa and Hilary-wa…I MEANT that Zane’s hair isn’t black on the cover! as you mite have seen me complaining about like two posts before! sheeeeshz! flash back:
    “Yeah i know Zane totally has black hair! Tally-wa was always commenting on his blue-black hair remember?” see?!?!? do you think i would make a stupid mistake like that! well if you thought so you were wrong! AND THANK YOU SERAFINA-LA!

  48. Sorry if i blew upp there! explosions.
    2889237 seconds til EXTRAS comes out!
    (that’s a multiple of 13…just sayin)

  49. I read your commentary on the final chapter of specials, and you said that “I love you” is only said twice: once by Tally, who was giving David a message from his mom, and once by Zane, who said it to Tally. But doesn’t Tally also say “I love you all” in the manifesto at the very end of specials?

    And I never noticed that nifty last word trick. Very cool. Though having Extras end with “cake” is random. Unless cake plays an intergral role in the story?? 😛

  51. yeah. i was always unsure if that guy was peris.. just because he seemed so un-zane-like.

    wow. cropping does a lot of good in this covers. like the pretties cover, and even the specials cover! her nose. doesnt look special.

  52. I was really mad because my AIM says that the icons take up too much spcae or something like that! 🙁 Oh and I just finished reading So Yesterday about a week ago and it was SO good!!!

  54. Good point, Jess. It could easily be Peris.

    And Lizzy-Wa: You kinda did blow up, but it’s okay. It happens 😉 And we were just clarifing that Zane had black hair. THat’s all!! TTYL!!

    Kadie-Wa

  57. yeah. i wonder why they’d put peris on the cover though, he’s really got a pretty small part. i mean, they might as well have put like, fausto.
    and if it’s supposed to be zane….well, we’ve been over this (black hair, pointy features, gothier, ect.)
    covers never make sense though.

  59. yeah. but there’d also probably be riots in the street and articles on the front page of the paper if something was wrong on the harry potter cover.

    it seems like all these cover inconsistancies are mainly cuz the marketing people design the cover to what they think kids will buy, and not anything actually related to the book.
    then again, that’s not to say that there aren’t a million books i only read because the covers were pretty.

  60. I’m a horrible person. I only look at books with interesting covers. Not necesarily pretty, just interesting, to me; not what I think is interesting to others. Like, I always noticed Uglies, but I never bought it because the flap description didn’t really make it sound good, but then my school had it, so I read it, and IT WAS FOOL! Nothing like I thought. So I bought it and became obsessed.

  61. That is so cool! I found the uncropped photo of Specials a long time ago, but I always wondered what the models look like for Pretties and Uglies. Especially now that I’m reading them over again. I was just thinking the other day, looking at the cover of Pretties what they look like and where they are now and if they had any idea that when they had that picture taken their faces would end up being so famous, just for being on the cover of a book!
    Anyways, these pictures are awesome! This just made my day!

  62. What’s up with the “nose”? I don’t get what you guys are saying?!?!

    “YES, it might be Peris, but the nose is so not what I imagined of anyone.”
    “I still can’t help but find Zane attractive. Even with that nose”

    Kadie-Wa

  63. OMG…I JUST reolized this. That girl’s hair is ORANGE!! I thought that she had it dyed redish because of the lighting. but when you see the uncropped versoin, you can tell that it’s orange!! Sweet!! When I first got the book, I thought that she had black triangles in her hair, but it was the guy’s shadow in her hair. lol, i’m so smart somtimes.

    Kadie-Wa

  64. The guys nose in the pic is really weird. And I found this reaslly cool test that says I am

    (100%) 1: Dess the Polymath
    (83%) 2: Melissa the Mindcaster
    (79%) 3: Jonathan the Acrobat
    (47%) 4: Rex the Seer
    (29%) 5: Jessica the Flame-bringer
    SO FAWESOME!

  66. hillary!: i found that quiz a long time ago, and it said i was jessica! it was so funny, cuz me and my friend both had our favorite characters in midnighters: i liked jessica and she liked melissa. we both took the quiz and it said i was jessica and she was melissa!! then we annoyed our other friend for like a week, cuz we were acting like our characters, and not ourselves. books are entertaining!!

  67. My friend who told me about Midnighters said I was just like Dess, when I got obsessed I didn’t see the resemblance, but apparently the test agrees with my friend, I’d put his name but I always spell it wrong! And SCOTT! In *Fine Prey*, The School is called Aya, and *Extras* main character is named Aya. Is this a coincidence?

  68. i’m sort of like dess, too. mostly because i’m good at math. but i guess i would be more like jessica, cuz i absolutely love jonathan!! anyway, my dad wants me to get off the computer, so bye!!

  72. congrats amy-la! i have a few friends who play volleyball, and they just found out that they made it a couple days ago. i stink at it…very badly, in fact.

    and hillary!, put the link your name to the url of that quiz! i want to take it!

  73. take out “put the”…i was gonna write something different, then changed my mind, but forgot how to use the backspace button

  79. yes! OK, so click on enter, then when you are inside there will be these little words inside the box that says ‘quiz’, click it, the there you have it. dont get distracted!

  81. The address I was trying to use the first time wouldn’t even let me post at first. I wrote like 10 different posts, but none of them went up.

  82. if u go to the links page on the main part of this site, it’s linked from the midnighters fansite listed there. it’s called like, quiz, or something else obvious.

    i took that a while ago too…i think it was the day the wearable extras store started.

    is it a bad thing if it said i was most like MELISSA? i was feeling antisocial that day, but still. i think it was Melissa, Jonathan, Dess, Rex, Jessica, which is funny, cuz that’s about the order i like the characters, except Dess is my favorite and i don’t like melissa that much. still, that scared me when it happened.

  84. I love Melissa, I love all of Scott’s crazy characters. But I like ’em in this order: Dess, Mel, Rex, Jon, then Jess. Isn’t it sad that I don’t like the integral figure that much?

  86. i don’t like jess much either. i mean, she’s okay, but she’s so….daylight.
    melissa’s cool, but she’s also kinda….psycho. so i really don’t know what that says about me. Dess is ttly my favorite midnighter, then Jonathan, then Rex probably, then melissa i guess, then jess.

  88. yeah, I think Dess is the most realistic, Mel though, is totally fawesome in her insanity. But she has reasons.

  89. yeah, dess is just awesome. she’s cool because she’s the only sane one. and the only one without a boyfriend/girlfriend. coincidence?
    but really, she’s just off marvelling at how completely insane everyone around her is. which is a scene i can TOTALLY relate to

    melissa is, to quote the book, “the unflappable b*tch goddess”

  90. hahahahahahahaha! yeah, my family would say that about me, but my friends would say that I’m more like Dess. I wonder what that says about me?

  91. umm, that you’re kinder to your friends than your family?

    i just took the quiz again and came out as dess. but i wasn’t paying attention and taking my time as much as last time.

    and my friends would, unfortunately, probably say i’m more like melissa. i can get really sick of being around people sometimes.

  92. okay, i finally finished. i always have to overanalyze the questions so it takes me like 10 times as long as everyone else

    100% Jessica (sure, i’m the one everyone hates!)
    88% Johnathan
    38% Dess
    29% Melissa
    28% Rex

    here’s my favoritism rankings for the midnighters: Dess, Johnathan, Jess, Melissa, Rex. idk why i don’t like rex, i just…don’t.

  93. i like dess the best, maybe because i like math. i am in geometry, and i am in 8th grade

  94. rex isn’t my favorite, but he’s all pathetic and leader-y and then crazy. he’s one of few people who can pull off the trench coat though. he owns the trenchcoat.

    and ha ha. jessica.
    i got jonathan second too.
    i over-analyzed it too, when i did it the first time.

    now off to go see the Invasion of the body snatchers remake….

  95. It’s not that I’m mean to my family, it’s just that by then, I’m bored with real people, and would rather read a book. Plus, I’ve known them my whole life, and they are always there! My friends are funny still, and they don’t bother me whenI’m reading like my family does.
    Wow, Taylor, you’re so…11:59. HAHA!

  96. haha i think that almost everyone here is a math geek, including me.

    and i want to see that movie so badly! i don’t much like nicole kidman, but the movie itself looks awesome! i love those sci-fi/thrillers…

  97. you’re not supposed to oner analyze Taylor, just say the first thing thing that comes to mind, I mean answer the thing closest to your thought.

  98. I am not a math geek. I got my STAR testing results, absurdly high grades in English and History, absurdly low grades in Algebra 2, like 14% was the lowest I got on one of the sections I think.

  99. oh well…maybe i’ll take it again later…and i’m still on that site, and in the casting call section someone (other than me) named Taylor requested all these crappy ideas for who should play who. how the heck would Emma Watson make a good Dess?

  100. I know! Those were really ridiculous ideas! Like for the Uglies movies, there should be unknowns, and those people were way too old!

  105. yeah, movies with famous people just make you think of their character as the person you saw them acting like in another tv show or movie…you know what i mean?

  108. Sorry…The last two posts were from Lizzy-wa, not A Person…thats my friend. i just forgot to change it back!
    🙂

  109. back from the movie. it was awesome. many zombies, swarming all over the car.

    and i am not a math geek, i practically failed in class, but i did almost perfect on the standardized tests, even better than in english, because tests are wierd.

    and there are so many movies i can’t watch without cracking up because of familiar actors. like i won’t be able to take the guy who plays sylar on heroes as spock, or the 9th dr.who/invisible man from heroes as the rider dude in dark is rising.

    all the characters are so realistic, i can’t picture them as famous people. unknowns rock. and it’s a chance to make them famous too

    wow. see how bored we get when there’s no new posts? end up with just hundreds of comments.

    yeah extras soon!!!

  111. hey. this was ages ago, but i think kadie was asking about peris’ nose?
    and thats just cuz his nose sort of sucked as an ugly. it was probably big or something. thats why his nickname was “nose”, tally’s was “squint”, etc.
    squint’s actually a pretty cool name.

    i took that test a while ago, and i was rex!

  113. jess–only the paperback version has a tagline. the hardcover one just says “the final volume in the highly acclaimed Uglies trilogy.” but the paperback version hasn’t been released yet.

  114. yeah, i still don’t get why specials was the only one that came out in hardcover at all. now i’m waiting til september so i can get it in paperback…wonder if it’ll have extras stuff in the back? probably only the first chapter we already saw….or maybe not….
    i think it’s coming out september 11th in paperback, right?

  116. yea, you ever notice that book release dates always get grouped together? like eight books always come out on May 1st, and a bunch of books are coming out October 2nd

    and i’m all mad with borders because they still haven’t bothered to get the harcover of Ironside, and it’s been around for like a month, and i want to get paperback to match my copy of tithe….like i need specials paperback to go with pretties and uglies….

  117. HEY! Speaking of Holly Black theres this fool interview with her at the readergirlz myspace, and why doesn’t anyone ever mention *Valiant* that one was just as good as *Tithe*. Scot wants to name his pet monkey Aya.

  119. i saw something like that mentioned on her site, but i couldn’t find it. do u have the link?

    and valiant was good, but i read tithe right so i guess i liked it more or something. i just sort of like kaye better, even though val is pretty cool too. and ironside rocked.

  124. niiiice……monkies.

    and i have names i like that i always use over and over for characters until i confuse all my friends by saying, no, i’m talking about the OTHER werewolf named isaac.

  126. once when i was really bored i just pressed random keys on my cell phone to see what came up, then i just deleted a couple letters and got a cool name….which is written down somewhere….i’ll find it eventually

  127. Yeah, I love it when my friends ask me for a name and I say ‘Aelpharim’.

    ‘what? how do you spell that!’

    ‘It’s the name of an elf in this book I read, totally sexy! It’s spelled how it sounds.’

    ‘NO! IT! IS! NOT! I already sounded it out! it does NOT make sense.’

    ‘Then why ask me for name when you I;ve just finished reading ‘Eccentric Circles’? Seriously? Why?’

    This ia a common conversation between my friends and I.

  128. ha ha.
    whenever i read wierd names in books, i invent odd ways to pronounce them that make almost no sense and confuse anyone who’s not me when i start talking about the books to my friends.

  129. Same here! I knew how to pronounse Hermione’s name, but not Mcgonagall’s. And people would always make fun of me. But usually I get it right and they get it wrong.

  130. i just choose to disregard traditional things like established pronunciation and make up my own. like, it’s not that i can’t say it, it’s just that i say it however i feel like.
    like, i always thought murtagh from eragon was murgath, for untold reasons.

  131. HAHAHA!

    Well, you know how when you or a friend moves away sometimes you don’t keep in touch, but 4 years later you find them on Myspace and you’re all like “EWWWWW! what happened to my really sweet, cute, sooper tall friend who used to say how much he hated jocks”? That just happened to me! He is a BODY BUILDER now! What the hell!?

  132. well body builders aren’t exactly jocks….cuz body building’s not really a sport. i’d never day that to a body builder because they’d probably beat me up though.

  133. He’s not only a body builder, but on the RUGBY team. Since when the HELL did they have schools in California that play RUGBY?! RUGBY! I though that was just a not-american game!

  134. well, that’s a sport then. and i guess it’s more universal, i guess.
    and at least rugby’s cooler than football. if only cuz it’s got a cooler name.

  142. fool. i just reread the last days the other day….even cooler than i remembered.

    in other news, for the off chance that author-ppl do actually read these comments, here’s to the campaign to get last days concertish tee shirts on wearable extras.
    or maybe some tiny mention of it on the main site? it’s the book that website forgot.

  143. fawesomely fool, addie-wa! i got my shirts this past sunday…i got two. what color shirt did you get? the navy, black, or white?

    i got Team Aya and I’m an Extra…sorry i’ve said that at least 20 times but i just REALLY like them!

  147. hmmm…you must live really far away from the Spreadshirt place Amy-la! it’s gonna be so much fun confusing people with these shirts though, right?

  148. ohmigod. ttly just thought of this. in honor of my quiz results….

    i’ll be melissa for halloween! (mainly cuz dess or jess really have no defining characteristics)and if ppl don’t get it, too bad for them. last year i actually went as one of my own characters…ha ha. that one really confused people

    but i’ll get sunglasses, and wear a really long-sleeved shirt that covers my hands, and get an old pair of headphones to wear, and order a u r so 11:59 shirt too.

    be nice if the u r so 11:59 thing came in juniors sleeveless sweatshirt….the mindcaster symbol does, but i need the quote in all it’s glory.

    wow, all my comments always end up long. and yes, i am one of those people who plan out their costumes months ahead of time.

  149. wow…that’s a great idea! i’ve been trying to come up with a halloween costume, too (one of the girls i work with loves it and has been tossing ideas at me, but i always have to pick my own). i never thought to use a book character!
    hmmm…i won’t take the melissa idea (as awesome as it is) though; maybe i’ll try and think of something for one of scott’s other characters!

  150. I’m still waiting 4 my winner shirt to get here. *sob sob* I don’t think i’ll be able to wear it 4 the first week of school!! 🙁

    Kadie-Wa

  151. ummm….other characters? hmm……

    well i guess you could do something with uglies, can’t really think what.
    or i guess you could go as a peep.
    or dye your hair and hands purple. which would be reeeaaally obscure. wouldn’t work for me though, because my hair’s sorta already purple.

    i love obscure costumes…

  153. yeah. i reread so yesterday like a week ago. and see? it’s so obscure even people who know what it is don’t know what it is. and yes, that sentance made perfect sense.

  154. hmmm…srry for posting obsessively, but i got a question. did anyone get the ur so ll59 tee? because it’s wierd, on the website, it looks like it’s printed on the back, which is random. so people who may have gotten one–is it? or is it on the front?

    still wish they had one with the quote in the juniors sleeveless sweatshirt….

  155. hey, you can’t blame me. i read so yesterday last summer!

    and well i didn’t get that shirt but i’ll just try and answer anyway. you know how you can view the front, back, and sometimes the right and left sleeves? well for that shirt, when you view the front it’s blank, and when you view the back it’s there. also it’s a V-nack shirt, and there’s no V-neck on the side with “you are so 11:59” on it.\

    if it really is on the back, i have no idea why, that’s a questiojn only scott can answer. maybe he wanted to have a wide variety of styles.

  156. i’m gonna be a special…kind of…
    i’m gonna try to find black contacts
    i’m gonna get that special paint for teeth and paint the sides black so they look pointy…sort of
    i’m getting my friend to paint tattoos all ofer my hands and face
    gonna wear long sleeves to cover my arms because i cant figure out how to make scars that arent all fake and bloody
    and i cant decide if i should just wear all black with a hood and gloves (sneak suit with armor mode) or all green camoflauge with a hood and gloves (a really tacky version of a sneak suit at work)
    what do you think?

  157. great costume idea.
    and for scars, i guess you could use like makeup or something to do sort of white or brown lines, not wounds so much as old scars? with like, eyeliner or something? just an idea.

    i guess i’ll just have to await the return of the author to answer speadshirt questions…

  158. at least if the writing’s on the back, people won’t always be telling you to turn around so they can read you’re shirt! i hate that.

  161. I really liked reading the commentary for the last chapter of specials. I wish you could do that for the whole book! Would probably take too much effort though.

    I am mad. Today I went to the bookstore wanting to get So Yesterday but I was appalled at how beat up the ONLY copy was. So I was trying to figure out what I wanted to buy and I remembered Justine’s book and it looked really good so I got that instead 😀

    Hmmm I liked the flashy icons and downloaded a few. They are yummy ;P I want more stuff!

  167. My stupid sister is STILL in the bathroom. She’s been in there for nearly 3 hours. It’s 12:17 central time here, and I’m exhausted and wanna SLEEP. But she HOGS THE STUPID BATHROOM.
    Uggg….okay I’m done.

    I like that idea for halloween costume too lizzy-wa. HEY, you pplz keep copying me!! GRRRRRRRR!!! Okay, I’m up to late. I’m a grouch. Time to go!! Ta-ta!! 🙂

    Kadie-Wa
    But seriously, it was me who started counting things down since 210 days until Extras!!

  172. wait.
    am i like whacked or what?

    in australia, we already have the special’s paperback. um, i think i bought my copy early this year?
    (which doesnt have the tagline)
    haha.

  173. lucky duck, jess! lol i sound like a four year-old but w/e

    and that’s pretty fool, mildura! going back to the biology lesson we all got when reading peeps, lol. wolbachia…everytime i say that i think of some guy in a gorilla suit. not sure why.

  174. i think i read somewhere on here that the US was the only country that arbitrarily decided to make Specials the only hardcover. u could even get it in Canada

  175. people are talking about their halloween costumes. maybe i’ll be a peep. i could get those cat eye contacts and … hmm…

    that would be hard. i’ll go as tally when she went into new pretty town in the beginning of uglies. yep… i’ll be a person in a pig mask.
    (that was a joke)

  176. its weird. i own the uglies trilogy, and specials is shorter because it is the only hard cover. why is it shorter?

  178. i havent ordered my shirts yet but i want the hurt you organic t-shirt(in black), and and im an extra hooded t

  179. actually, i think specials is just plain shorter. i think i saw the word counts somewhere….it was the shortest i don’t think it’s related to being hardcover.
    and i think they just made it hardcover cuz they were really popular…or something. maybe cuz marketing is a very odd thing.

    and i’m gonnna order the ur so 11:59 for my costume, and maybe a Special Circumstances sweatshirt. bad part is if it’s for my costume, i can’t really wear it before then…

  180. they only made Specials in hardcover because of how popular the other two were so they knew people would buy it before it came out in paperback. its all for the money. harcover version: $15.99, paperback version: $7.99. see? annoyingly-making.

  183. Me too, Amy-La. And hey, congrats for making the Volley Ball team!! Lucky U!

    I’m still waiting for my winner shirt to get here!! has any one of the winner’s shirts gotten there yet?!?!

    Kadie-Wa

  184. hehehe. i just read the last chapter with commentary. i really liked it, there were a lot of things ive never noticed before. but i also realized quite a few similarities to James Patterson’s “Maximum Ride”. Both Tally and Max have to save the world from the people who are destroying the environment. both trilogies end about the same way. (specials: things could get Ugly; Max. ride 3: its not going to be pretty.) also if i remember correctly (which i might not because its been a while since i read specials) right before they were going to despecialize tally they put her in this tank very similar to the one max got put in when she was caught. plus they are both about extreme genetic engineering (well sort of). just a thought. if there is anyone who’s read maximum ride what do you think? anyway i CANNOT WAIT FOR EXTRAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  186. For Halloween I am gonna be my own dark goth version of Alice in Wonderland, not MAlice, just what I think is extra cool. Now all I need are the fish nets, I eveb hace the cool goth platform maryjanes. Too bad my mammi won’t let me go trick or treating.

  188. yeah, i never realized how much specials and max ride are alike…mainly cuz max ride came out months later

    and the tank they put tally in near the end of specials, that was to give her more surgery so that she wouldn’t be so special, cuz she was like, currently categorized as a weapon or something. though max was in the tank in book two, not three, but whatever. max is marginally saner than tally though, but come on, it’s the multiple crazy-making brain surguries that we love her for.

  189. yeah, i haven’t gotten my InsideADog prize shirt either, and it doesn’t seem like anyone has….i guess shipping from Australia takes a while, but still, i hope it comes soon. i mean, the contest ended like the 6th of August or so, that’s nearly a month now.

  190. i think it is so cool that the last word of ulgies is pretty. the last word of pretties is special. and the last word of specials is ugly. i like how that happened. i also read the last chapter of specials with commentary, and the last word of extras is cake. CAKE!?!?!? why cake?

  191. Maybe the last SENTANCE is “let them eat cake”. It could be. Because Marie Anttionet really didn’t say that, so maybe scott’s trying to prove a point.

    I never noticed that, Amy-la! (Specials ending in Uglies)

    Kadie-Wa

  192. or maybe she turns 16 at the end and decides that being famous isnt improtant anymore, and all she wants to do is eat her cake

  198. ok amy-la if extras ends by aya turning 16, deciding that being famous isn’t that important, and just wanting to “eat her cake,” then i will PERSONALLY fly to australia, find scott’s house, and hit him over the head with a brick. WHAT KIND OF ENDING IS THAT!?!?!? especially after all that’s happened in Uglies, Pretties, and Specials! that’s like what happens in the little kid fairy tales! “they all lived happily ever after…”

    and i don’t mean to sound insulting by that, i just mean that i’ll be EXTREMELY disappionted if scott takes the easy way out and goes with something like that.

  199. HAHAHAHAHA!!! that is hilarious taylor!!! not that i want scott to get hit in the head with a brick. o my word. HILARIOUS!

  200. ha ha. yeah i mean, specials had one of the best last lines ever……”it’ll get ugly”

    i wonder if it’ll really be cake or if that was a joke…

    arrg, i can’t wait for extras to come out!!! just about 1 month left!!

  202. thanks bri-la and serafina! but i hope scott does sonething creative with the last sentence (i know he will though). well, since extras isn’t really apart of the trilogy, and for the trilogy the last words were always the names of one of the others, maybe scott’s doing the same for Extras! maybe his next book will be called “Cake!”

    okay, if he does that i will hit him over the head with a BOULDER. unless the cake book has a very good plot.

  204. maybe it’s gonna be evil zombie cake or something….you never know.
    or maybe that’s just that last word, and it has no metaphorical meaning at all. or maybe the next book is a supernatural baking extravaganza. with giant lizards. and souflees.
    come on, picture it for a second.

  206. Taylor, Taylor, Taylor. Come on, let’s get creative here. Forget the brick, forget the boulder, hit him in the head with a CAKE! AND A BOULDER! Knock some sense into him! Although i have no idea how you’re gonna get a giant cake and boulder and yourself to Australia without totally blowing you’re college funds. Maybe you could catch him in New York instead.

  207. airport security could also be a problem there. though, theoretically, if you were going with the cake plan, you could go to australia and then obtain one there. just as long as it isn’t a giant-lizard-souflee…

  209. YEAH!!! and not just a cake, an ICE CREAM CAKE! because everyone loves ice cream!

    and if i don’t go to australia then i’ll have to wait until june or whichever month scott comes back to New York.

    BUT, i could HIRE a talking kangaroo to do it all for me, and save myself a small fraction of my college funds! talking kangaroos don’t come cheap, you know.

  210. because of course talking kangaroos are all over in australia

    and i don’t think that u’d love ice cream cake if it was getting smashed over ur head…cold.

  212. Dragon-Con was awesome. I was on a time-restraint so I couldn’t see you, Scott. But the rest was awesome. My first Dragon-Con.

  217. remember at the beginnning of blue noon where rex was all crazy with his combination lock, like he couldn’t spin past mulitples of 13?

    well, it’s ttly random, but now i’ve got like, the darkling lock supreme.
    seriously, the combo’s got a 12, a 6, and a 24. freaky. i hope this means that i won’t find slithers in my locker every day or something. no one wants to find psychokitty on top of your algebra book.

  220. I don’t get the SECRET part…explain Lizzy-Wa? And you pplz keep copying me!! WHAA WHAA WHAA 🙁

    Kadie-Wa Wow, exactly 30 days until EXTRAS!!
    or 1 month or
    2,592,000 seconds or
    43,200 minutes or
    720 hours or
    4 weeks

    P.S Isn’t anyone going to ask my why I don’t like Ice cream? I mean everyone loves ice cream!

  221. ur lactose intolerant?

    hey everyone I just got back from Portland at my grandma’s house. I’m so busy right now and school starts the day after next, so I can’t read through it all. but that is not what the Zane in my head looked like, or what the book made him sound like, he had black hair w/ sharp features

    yaaaaaaaaay extras in a month

  222. Kadie-wa!…Why dont you love ice cream? Whats the matter with you huh??!?!!!?
    And 104400 seconds are SECRET because only us Midnighters, slithers, and Darklings can see them. DUH!

  223. OMG Maureen’s costume is the awesomest thing EVER! wonder woman aaallll the waaaayyy…haha i love how she has to wear it because she lost a bet with scott…

    and kadie-wa, those are some of the random mumblings of my mind!
    the ones that come from the special section where talking kangaroos wielding ice cream cakes steal popsicles and then fly home to Kyrgyzstan. (yes, it’s a country)

  226. Scott,
    This is long overdue. Thanks for not being afraid to publish such an inventive and original YA fantasy series. And it ticks me off when people think I’m reading a (quote) girl’s book when I’m toting ‘Uglies’ and ‘Pretties’ around. With ‘Specials’ creepy cover, nobody asks any questions. 🙂 Looking forward to Extras!
    Taylor

  227. oh. em. gee. (i just love saying that!) wow there’s another person on here named Taylor. and it’s a guy–which is another rare occurrence.

    lol yeah i just had to say that.

  228. As soon as I clicked on the Wearable Extras link, I went insane. SHIRTS! AHHHH! I immediately ran downstairs and proceeded to poke my mom in the arm for a good twenty minutes before she got so annoyed that she came to see what all the fuss was about.
    Mom: *looks at page* “They’re shirts…”
    Me: ” Not just shirts, Mom! THEY’RE AMAZINGLY AWESOME SHIRTS! I MUST HAVE ONE!”
    Mom: “We’ll see.”

    *rips hair out in frustration*

    I wish I had my own credit card.

  230. Poor poor Tiera.

    It stinks when our school has pizza partys, and I can’t go. Or when at my friend’s partys, I can’t eat the ice cream OR the cake. But I get through!! 🙂 I still don’t really like the way that soy milk tastes….yuck.

    Kadie-Wa

  231. I know…i HATE soy milk. do you like tofu? its made of the same stuff. dizzy-making.
    yeah i dont know why hardly any guys are ever on here. theyre totally not girly books! i mean, a guy rote them rite?

  232. Good point!! They are TOTALLY for both guys and girls!! I think that some guys are just scared to walk around with books in general, I mean how many guys do you know that read? Well, that’s at least at our school that guys don’t like to read.

    Kadie-Wa

    I used to be vegitarrian before I was a lackey and i would eat tofu all the time. Now that it’s in liquid form, it’s gross. 😉

  237. we dont have geometry in our school. but im in AP algebra in 8th grade! they just made math half an hour longer than it was last year. I LOVE MATH! im kinda like Dess i guess. except im not quite as good at it.

  238. yeah we’re (nearly) all math geeks here…i had geom. in 8th last year, now i’m having 10th grade math in 9th grade this year…i forgot what they call it so i’m using “10th grade math” for now lol.

    school starts in exactly 34 hours and 51 minutes (according to my computer clock)…adrenaline mixed with overwhelming anxiety over freshman year…interesting combination…

  240. ya, i love math too. im in the same math class as you Taylor, we call it math 2 or algebra 2.

    my school starts in like 12 and half hours. All the freshman go tomorrow and the rest of the school goes on wed. I’m so not ready to go back yet though. The whole getiong up early and homework thing, what a drag.

  242. so you can meet your teachers and stuff without all the other grades being there. i don’t really know that’s just how they do it. It kinda sucks though b/c everyone else has one more day of summer, like my big sister. it’s one more piece of evidence that my towns weird, every school here does it like in elementary the 1st graders go a day early and like wise at the junior high.

  246. ^^Awesome! Can’t wait–Deathly Hallows will also be extremely interesting to see on the big screen. Bet it’ll cost loads to produce. In the meantime, I suppose we’ll just have to wait for Half-Blood Prince.

    Wish they would make Uglies into a movie too, though. …

  247. Hmm, that is strange, with the frosh starting a day earlier than everyone else. Wow, I guess I’m a math geek too then–a year ahead in terms of math courses. 😉 There must be some sort of positive correlation between readers of Scott Westerfeld’s books and math scores. 13th of August… that’s pretty early. But do you get out of school earlier, in like May or something?

  248. wow, that would massively suck (the 13th august thing). did u guys get out really early or something though?

    and the freshman starting a days early thing is actually a good idea, less pressure.

    i’m all edgy cuz there was all this hazing stuff in my town, but i’m hoping to get off cuz i really don’t know any older kids.
    not to mention the fact that none of my friends are in the same lunch as me.
    but whatever, trying to ignore those glaring truths. focusing instead on EXTRAS!!! and the return of heroes! and all that summer homework i desperately need to finish by wensday!

  249. and i’m not really a math geek. i might have been in algebra 1 (the most advanced math class for my school) in 8th grade, but i almost failed it, so it really doesn’t count. didn’t stop them from promoting me to algebra 2 though, for unknown reasons.

  254. basically, ur old teachers give you a bunch of ratty old paperbacks and a math packet, and u gotta hand them into ur new teachers on the first day. which means everyone does it the last day of summer.

  256. Serafina-la…that stinks! we always get like 400 pages of gigantic packets at the end of the year to do over the summer. but nobody does them. all you get when you finish them is a Jolly Rancher. and then the teacher just recycles them without looking twice at em. WHAT’S UP WITH THAT? i even DID it once because i thought you HAD to do it. it made me SO MAD!

  260. I had my first day of school today, but it wasn’t really a full day, because i’m a LINK leader, so I only had an hour and a half of real school. My link kids are phyco

    Kadie-Wa

  262. first day tomorrow…only a few hours left!

    and we’ve never had summer homeowrk for school, we just have to read a book for english, which isn’t too much trouble lol!

    it’d be kinda cool to get to meet your teachers a day before everyone else, but when you think about it, it’s not like it’d help that much. i mean, you’ll have new teachers in 10th 11th and 12th grade, too, but you don’t get to meet them early! but i see how it would help if you were going to a new building though…

    i just went to my school gave myself a tour of where the classes are so i won’t get confused tomorrow, and put a bunch of binders/folders in my locker so my backpack won’t weigh a trillion tons!

  263. Hmm, we’ve never had homework over the summer either.

    ^^ But when you go into grades 10, 11 or 12, provided that you didn’t change schools, you would already know some of the teachers anyway.

    Ahh, le francais. Pensez-vous l’est difficile?

  264. We never have homework either…I mean over the summer. But my first day was today. And of the 1.5 classes that I went to, they are HORRIBLE. There are really smart 7th graders in my math class, but the kid behind me wouldn’t be quiet. our teacher gave us a sudoku thing to do, and he was all, “Oh I can’t do this, it’s too hard. I hate this. This is stupid.” And he did that for the whole hour, so I turned around and said, “It’s not easy for the rest of us, but do you hear anyone else?”

    I know it sounded a little mean, but he was doing that the WHOLE HOUR. and people around me were getting annoyed too!! I was saving them! 🙂

    Kadie-Wa

  266. Hey Scott–I’m loving the “Extras” cover…finally a little something for the poc fans–…although I do understand the representational issues being addressed and points made with previous covers…

    xx

    cc

  267. my first day of high school was today, not that exciting, but definitely different. Off campus lunch was fool though.

    I’m taking Spanish I wanted to take German but Spanish is the only second language offered.

    We used to have the link thing at our school but it got cut.

    we have 15 new teachers in my school this year, which is a lot b/c my school is small so it was weird having those teachers not know the rules or were our next class was. Also me and my 2 best friends Robbie and Colleen went together, we didn’t want to show up alone or anything. So we ended up all being late and we walked in to the gym with everyone at the assembly staring at us. After that happened 10 min into 1st per. colleen gets called to the office and suspended, and I still don’t know why. So that’s the story of my first day.

  268. Sudoku is the devil. I hate anything and everything to do with numbers. Thank god I don’t have math this semester; haha.

    Okay, I never realized that DragonCon was in Atlanta! I live like thirty minutes away from the city- I COULD HAVE GONE, GOSH DARN IT!

    And now I have to convince my mom to make an exception on her ‘no more books’ rule that she made after my last trip to the bookstore *maniacal laughter*
    But seriously. She had better let me buy Extras when it comes out, or I’m going to walk to the store and buy it myself.

  269. Oh, man, I hate sudoku. Luckily I don’t have to deal with any numbers until second semester.

    I’m taking Spanish second semester, too, and in the meantime I’m going to teach myself French. I’m not sure how well I’ll be able to do that, but it’s worth a try, I think.

    I’m going to preorder Extras online. I’m scared that if I go buy it at the bookstore, I’ll get trampled by all the other fans.

  270. Kelsey-wa…Suspended on the FIRST DAY!?!?!?! and you dont even no why?!?!?! thats just WRONG!!!
    My first day of 7th grade today…kind of. because im in 8th grade Algebra, my schedule is even more messed up than last year. i miss half an hour of Language, and then later i have a half hour gap where i think im just gonna help in the office. not sure yet. and then in the end of the day…I HAVE TO DO 6TH GRADE PE!!!!!! I HATE PE!!!!! and now i have to do it with a bunch of tiny squids(our nickname for 6th graders)!!!!!!!!!! And i have to miss lunch for the next 3 days of school because im in an ASB assembly rules thingy. and then my arch nemmises(dont think thats how you spell it)has his locker right next to mine and he kept closing my locker everytime i opend it!!!!! and then i missed orchestra because i didnt no i was supposed to BE in orchestra.
    IT WAS NOT MY BEST FIRST DAY EVER.

  271. Sorry if that post was long-ish.
    By the way…
    Only 2285998 Seconds Til EXTRAS!!!!!!!!
    Thats a multiple of 13…
    just like my locker combo…13-26-49
    (4+9=13)

  273. There was some minor stuff wrong with harry potter covers actually, for example bleepit Mary gran pre, he’s right handed, it’s mentioned every book! Argh! Oh well.

    C

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