Many Specials

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Okay, still at World Fantasy. Lots of cool YA authors here. Mostly have been hanging out with Garth Nix and the rest of the Aussie contingent, and keep running into Holly Black and Cassie Claire, who turn out to be in the same hotel as me.

More later on con activities, but first lots of Halloween cossies to share. From the Uglies books, this from Jamie and Nona:

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And Tamir (too old to trick or treat, but went for the Special treatment anyway):

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And finally Ally B. From Arkansas, who also dressed up to take some littlies out:

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And this interpretation of Shay’s “nest of snakes” tattoo, from Colorific:

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And Tara-wa as a Cutter:

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And a trio of hoverboarding Smokies:

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And from the Midnighters side of things, a darkling-proof pumpkin!

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And Dess and Melissa:

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Sorry if I missed anybody, I’m darting in and out of my hotel room. Hope you had great Halloweens!

161 thoughts on “Many Specials”

  2. I love them… I was interested to see that no one found the same temp tattoo I used. Guess these peeps are more creative. ^__^ Brill.

  3. that is soo cool i wish i could have tried something as amazing as that! wow…my second comment and im in the top 10 already…feeling very cool over here!!!

    <3 Aly-wa

  4. P.S.-ness

    And I have gotten a friend to read Uglies- she’s hooked! Hopefully she’ll be able to find the second one… We prolly only have (seriously x__x) around six copies in my whole town.

  5. Yay, we got posted! Love everyone’s costumes, especially Tamir’s makeup and the Midnighters pumpkin.

    Have fun at World Fantasy, Scott!

  11. How do you send the pictures. If you go to contact up top, it says to send it to scottwesterfeld.com and it doesnt work! I tried but it doesnt work! Plz, tell me how!

  13. ok bran-la u have never fiven me an anser to my question:
    next year u be melissa and i be dess?
    is that ok withu ❓

  18. tamir your tats r just like tally
    how do u do that ❗ ❓
    i sooo envy all of u
    ok this will not turn into a long post like one of my other long posts

  25. Sweet costumes!!

    Man today i was at my school’s book fair (last day. Who’s a procrastinator?) and there were no copies of Uglies left! And only one copy of Pretties and Specials!! Like five people in line with me to check out had Uglies/Pretties/Specials. I need to buy Uglies – yes…very soon. I got it from me library when i read it. I got Pretties in the same trip (to the library) so that cliff-hanger ending didn’t really bother me. Except that I had to start at the very beginning of the second book in a series when author-dudes explain all the stuff that happened in the first book. Which really bothers me because WHY WOULD YOU READ THE SECOND BOOK WITHOUT READING THE FIRST!!!!! But then I had to go buy Specials because my library didn’t have it. And it was like…20 dollars. It took me like 4 days to read the whole series (minus Extras, of course). I finished Specials the second-last day of school. it was torture because I had to take three hour exams with it under my desk, begging to be read…

    Geez this is a long post. sorry.

    *ramblings end here.*

  30. You send it to scott at scottwesterfeld.com, but replace the at with @. It should work that way. Is that how you did it, Bran-la? If not well…something is messed up.

  31. and cut the spaces out between scott and scottwesterfeld.com or it won’t work. so…scott at scottwesterfeld.com minus the ‘ at ‘, spaces and all. 🙂

  33. hi im back but i gtg so ttfn my peeps stay cool
    13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13
    i figured out why the darklings r scared of the number 13
    i will post it tomarrow 😈 to make all of u wait
    i am soooo mean arent i hahahahahahaha

    Steh-la over+out
    i heart flyboy dont you 😆 ❓ 🙂 ❗ 😈 🙁 😥

  36. does anyone else see what is wrong with the sentece on the main page of scott’s site? it says “Extras the fourth book in the Uglies trilogy is now out.”
    Uhh… a trilogy has THREE books, so extras is NOT the fourth book in the TRILOGY. It isn’t even a trilogy any more.

  37. Oh no i’m so stupid i don’t know what happened I didn’t mean for the actual e-mail address to come out is there a way to delete it!! ahhhh!! I’m so sorry how did that happen omg.

  38. wow, their special tattoos were a little better than mine. but still, i drew mine myself, and i’m one of the most terrible artists in the world, and they came out great (in my opinion). my school has a costume bash tonight, so i should probably start getting ready for that, even though it doesn’t start til 9. my stupid black nail polish is cheap, and chipped almost all the way off, even though i put it on right before trick or treating. anyway, i got nothing more to say. bye!!!

  41. Thanks for the compliments! I had my husband draw with eyeliner on my face and he tried to copy the tattoo on the cover of Specials. But you can only see so much so he improvised and he did a really good job..and then I finished it with some personal touches.

    Everyone looks great in their costumes! Cool pumpkin and hoverboard too!
    Yay for Halloween! Can’t wait for next year.

  42. whoa, Tamir-la!! you actually don’t look old enough to be married!! scott wrote “too old to go trick or treating” and i’m like, what does he mean?? i guess it’s major complimenting day for me!

  43. Steph-la from the last page i was dess i love dess im wearing the shirt now lol

    if i wouldnt havee moved i bet i could have gotten my friend to be a special with me

  47. you dont look old enogh to be married, lol, but good tattoo. I am going to send in my pics, i hope scott can still put it up!

  49. hehe. very foolio. i have to post my costume on my blog. i have yet to do so. im wondering if Melissa is Serafina-la…suspicions…

    by the way. i did my flash tatoos in sharpie and now everybody in the scool nose about them. and there all like “hey Lizzy, the flash tatoos still havent come off.” and im like “thats the point!” hehe. im funny-making. its very icy tho. theres this one guy in my class and everytime he sees me he turns around to someone and says “Lizzy’s going SPECIAL and shes starting to creep me out.” hehe. spooky-making…

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  50. no, that’s not me. my costume was much cooler. no, jk. that’s a great costume, whoever.

    i’m ttly gonna download my pics tonight and i will flickr them. i will show them to you all tommorrow possibly.

    u can tell the difference cuz my hair is pink. actually no, in the pics it’s like brown/bleach blond and right now it’s pink/brown/blond/grape purple. my hair color is vaguely schitzophrenic.

    i made an emo pumpkin.

  51. woo comment number fifty! that’s what happens when you sleep all afternoon. back to NaNoWriMo now.

  52. Haha. Thanks! I’m 23 and have been married for 3 years now!

    Lizzy-wa, That’s awesome you did it in sharpie! Quite gutsy.

  53. Omg Tamir-la, you look like your nearly 20. but that can just show you how apperances arent everything!lol.

  54. Im going to send in my phots of me, i hope scott-la can put them up! Plz, that would be totally awesome!

  57. hehe i love your name, mistranslated nonelectrical ornimentation.

    I had a dream last night that I was Jess. and that my younger sister was Beth. I don’t remember who Jonathan, Dess, Melissa, and Rex were. I don’t even remember what they looked like. But when the blue time came, well…it was fawesomely blue!

    Also, it gave me a great idea about what the FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS should be like when Scott-la writes it.

  58. do u remember that i was going to post why tha darklings r scared of 13
    iam going to after this post is that ok with u
    why did i ask ❓
    whatever
    omg i get to go to the rockets game today 🙂
    so happy 🙂
    it is my brothers b-day and my teacher (mrs. van sant) and emily elkins
    lots of b-days today

  62. Steph-la, i dont understand your explination on why the are afraid of 13. maybe they just have trickadeckaphobia (the fear of the number 13)

  64. *confused and ignoring incoherentness. darn it, fourteen letters*

    i made a necklace to go along with my melissa costume and named it Theoretically Canaballistic Monstrosities. which totally describes darkling werewolves, btw. i lost it though. *sad*
    i’m totally gonna send in my huge amount of pics and halloween and fanart today.

  65. Oh I get what Steph-la is saying. I always assumed Scott-la chose 13 because it’s superstitious (13 letters – hehe). I always seem to come up with 13 letter words. My dream about midnighters last night was so fawesome. Except that I didn’t get to look at frozen people because for some reason they weren’t frozen.

  67. oh yeah and in midnighters the whole 13 thing yester 11/2 (13!!!) i threw my garbage in a can labled 13 and saw someone screaming after a guy wait no Frizz come back, Frizz, Frizz! WEIRD

  71. i was born at like 9:30, but i have a long term goal to translate that into oklahoma time and find out. maybe i’ll do that now.

    there’s this joan osbourne album (one i actually don’t like as much as her others) that is totally midnighters-ish. some like about a pretty hispanic boy and a whole song about blue time or something.

    *back to collecting fanart*

  73. hehe. Amy-la. i think its just Tridecaphobia. not…whatever you said. hehe. 13 letters in it. hehe.

    Tali-wa. nice flash tatoos. temperary i suppose? hehe. im funny-making. i didnt no they left the freckles on during the SPECIAL operation. hehe.

    hehe. i was born at like 5:43 pm. i think. so in Bixby time thats only like…7:43 or sompthing. i think. hhhmmmm…

    i said hehe alot in this comment. hhhmmm…and about the whole 9/3 thing…YIKES! im having bad luck already. i had to rite this comment 3 times! (thats a factor of 12) i hope this one sends!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😆

  78. hmm, so today’s date adds up to 12. maybe that’s why i had such a terrible time shopping today. i couldn’t find the stupid junior’s section at walmart. then when i went to get new tennis shoes, i couldn’t find the ones i wanted until a lady showed me that my size extended around the corner. and apparently it’s new to have it that way. and it explains why someone else in my town stole my friend’s phone number!!! they seriously did!!! i should stick a darkling on them tonight… can’t though, i was born at 2:55 pm. which is 12:55 pm oklahoma time. danget, 12 hours and 55 minutes too late. ooh, 12 hours, bad. grr… but at least tomorrow it’ll add up to 13!! according to the old time, when november was the 9th month. yay!! the day adds up to 13 when i have a silver ring thing to go to!!! and it’s at my school!!! i feel so honored!! no clue why that has anything to do with what i was saying, but whatever.

    hehe, long posts are fun!!!

  79. umm i know this is not related to the halloween picture or the halloween what so ever, but i heard the rumor that theres going to Uglies the movie… is that true or is just another rumor. because if its not a rumor, i really want to know who plays who and if theres goign to be an additions for the characters.

  80. there really is going to be and uglies movie. i’ve looked it up on imdb, but it’s a long time away. i think they’re probably doing auditions right now, but i’m not sure.

  82. its been optioned as a movie. about 1% of all movies that are optioned are actually made into movies. they havent picked actors yet. they probably havent read the book. and its been optioned by the same peeple that made eragon. i dont no about you. but i dont think any of that information is on the positive side of things. humph. oh yeah. and they almost never just have open auditions. and when they do they require you to have an agent and such. you cant just walk up to them and say “hey. ive never acted or been on tv before, but ive read this book and i really want to be in the movie.” more bad news.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 8)

  83. hey Serafina-la. what shood i post about next? im thinking some kind of contest but i dont no what kind of contest. any ideas?

    by the way. for those of you that have to idea what i am talking about. Serafina-la and i are Co-Prezs of the CHASING MIDNIGHT WEREWOLVES club. we are trying to convice Scott to rite his fourth Midnighters book, CHASING MIDNIGHT. which will be packed with DARKLING WEREWOLF action. click on my name to view. say the word to join. yepyepyep.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😈

  84. darnit. 7:57 oklahoma time.

    check out this site i found—http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc
    to find out if YOU could be a midnighter, first click “Use the Following Date and Time”
    and then put in your birthdate and time
    then set the “From Time Zone” box to whatever time zone you’re in (there’s a way you can find out on the site–or just click which city you’re near in what country)
    then change the bottom box to America/Chicago, which is the equivilent of Bixby time.
    then click “Convert Time Now”
    and boom. midnighterage. or not.

  85. how about you post that site i just posted to, Lizzy-wa? or that creepy caves with unciorns things i put in the last post?

    or maybe a tridocalogism contest or something. or fanart. or like chapter titles or fun stuff to do with the theoretical Chasing Midnight. maybe make a cover. or name a good darkling-werewolf slaying/saving weapon. i got one—Theoretically Caniballistic Monstrosities.

    *thinking*

    i sent my melissa pictures to scott-la along with some midnighters fan art, and i mentioned the HQ page!

  89. i tried the time convertor thingy and it didnt work. but i figured out that i was born at 7:43pm Bixby time. yepyepyep. still quite a ways away from being a Midnighter. *sigh*.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 8)

  93. Scott, my review of Extras made it onto Push to Talk, the teen blog that is powered by The Seattle Public Library. I hope you will all check it out! The link under my name goes to it.

  94. Serafina, my computer has spell check (hehe…without it computer would’ve come out as comupter). It’s spelled cannibalistic. All 13 letters in their perfectness…

    has anyone read I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have To Kill You by Ally Carter? I like just finished the book it’s so fawesome. I just got it around 30 hours ago (they didn’t have a clock, so I’m guessing).

    Man I always end up making long posts. I try not to, but I just end up putting everything down that I think. I have a habit of doing that…

    Click my name!

  96. My spell check is automatic. It underlines misspelled words in red like Microsoft word. I use Mozilla Firefox, which is infinitely times fawesomer than internet explorer. me in all my computer-geekiness lol. Which none of my friends know about, btw. it’s a secret. Which is why i post it on the www.

    FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS DARLING WEREWOLVES!!!!!

  98. Firefox is free to download. Don’t ask me what the link is…I don’t know. Despite the fact I’m the one who put it on my computers, both crappy Windows 2000. Which actually made my iPod freeze when I tried to charge it last week. So I have to use my dads laptop from work which he has to set up on the kitchen table. Speaking of which…I need to buy songs! But not Arctic Monkeys!
    *Avril Lavigne
    *The last Goodnight
    *Boys like Girls
    *My Chemical Romance
    *REM (It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine). Which kind of freaks me out. Sometimes I wonder if anyone actually knows what they’re saying. like every source is different. http://youtube.com/watch?v=zeo0_3gN190 has the lyrics while the song plays.

    Wow, another one of those long posts.

  99. long posts rock!

    and arctic monkeys are awesome!!!!!!!
    all you people are vamprires!
    avril lavigne is kind of……yeah…….bad.
    boys like girls = okay
    my chemical romance = pretty awesome
    rem = classic
    umm…the last goodnight? who’re they? wait…they’re those poseur guys, aren’t they.

    this computer has windows 2000 too. it’s like 7 years old. my laptop has vista though. but it kind of sucks.

  100. I only like 2 or 3 Avril Lavigne songs (hmm…from her first album only), same for Boys like Girls. I have only ever heard one The last goodnight song – Pictures of You, which is pretty good. MCR rocks! So does FOB (ha trying to shorten my post a little). The only bad thing is the radio only plays crappy pop hits like Rihanna (Is that how you spell it? Spell checker no good with names.), so I never hear the music I like. so sad-making. Except Teenagers by MCR came on a couple weeks ago. but just because it was like really high in the hot 100. but it kind of sucked because they blanked out the swear word – there’s only like one in the whole song, but it’s in the chorus.

    Does anyone else hate Carrie Underwood music with a passion? Maybe I’m just biased against all country music.

    And I could rant all day about the evils of…Kanye West, Soulja Boy, and rap in general. And I’m sorry to anyone who likes them. It’s just my opinion.

  101. i don’t like rap, but i really don’t hate it. except for poser rap. and i don’t like country. *shiver*

    and teenagers, that song is way old. My Chemical Romance’s pretty good though.
    Fall Out Boy’s cool too. I’m going to see them in like two weeks….yea!

    you know what really confuses me though? the fact that they bleep out the word God on TV. like, in that Fall Out Boy Song they’re like, This ain’t a scene it’s a “Bleep”damn arms race. it’s like dude? wtf? u bleep out god but not damn?

    i avoid the radio. steal songs from internet/burn copies from library/watch videos on vspot/listen to pandora.

    i love the arctic monkeys though. and the raconteurs. they rock.

    most popular music sucks. including Avril Lavigne in my opinion. i’ve only heard that one boys like girls song.

    Why The Last Goodnight Are Poseurs—thier one song title is stolen from The Cure, and thier lead singer is trying too hard to look like the guy from The Clash, but ends up looking much much gayer. and thier song isn’t that good.

    trying to avoid talking insanely about music more……failing moderately. srry for long post again

  102. ummm…i know people are going to re respond to this but here it goes…….. are you going to make a movie series for the ugly sereies….(if are going to make the movies )i am kinda good actor…an i feel like when i am reading the series i am tally…so i think i canrelate alot to tally…but if you arent going make the movies…well you should so every ugly reader(ugly series) can see how different the movie+book is…this could be the next harry potter!!!!!!!!!!

  104. Imdb says so, but I’m not really sure. And I don’t know about auditions, but it seems everyone asking is coming here.

    I really need to think of a better answer to that.

    Serafina, The Cure song is from 1989. which is like old. I think other people deserve the right to use it after 18 years.

    But that does not apply to lyrics. Like in Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne (although she didn’t write it) uses lyrics from an old song. But right now I don’t remember who it’s by.

    They cut out everything on the radio. Whenever they play U+Ur Hand by Pink (which is more than they should), they cut out the word “sucks”. Which sucks. I’ve never heard any FOB songs on the radio besides Thnks fr th mmrs, but in “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” by Panic! At The Disco, they do the ***damn thing. I guess it’s not to offend religious people, but it’s kind of silly not to cut out the “damn”.

    Now that I think about it, “Bubbly” by Colbie Caillat (that how you spell it?) is the perfect song for Pretties. Even if they overplay it on the radio. And if it sucked to begin with.

    I bet I offend alot of people with my ‘musical tastes’. It’s funny, I don’t even know what started it. Oh, well. Making long posts about music is alot funner than it seems! I could make this longer, but…you know.

  106. now to tediously retype it.

    I don’t care how old The Cure song is, they have eternal song-title-copyright. Because they’re better. you can only reuse someone else’s title if your song is better. Which thiers isn’t. so there.
    The Last Goodnight are so generic, i can hardly tell if they wrote thier own song or are trying to cover the Cure one.

    yeah, i heard the song Avril totally plagarised from, it sounded EXACTLY the same, except it was Boyfriend not Girlfriend.

    yeah, that used to annoy me with the Panic! song too. and i’m talking about ON TV. not even the radio. u’d think they’re less censor-y there. i almost never listen to the radio. i just watch waaaaay more Fuse than any human being should.
    another interesting thing is to see how they censor songs different between Fuse and MTV/VH1. Like, for Teenagers, their versions are totally different. and Fuse used the “god” edit video for This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race, but when they had Fall Out Boy on The Sauce live, they didn’t edit it.
    very, very wierd standards.

    i totally hate Thnks fr th mmrs. that song is like the worst FOB song. (if we’re not discussing my irrational hatred of The Carpal Tunnel of Love…) the video isn’t even good to make up for it. even the spelling of the title is obnoxious. This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race, by far the best song off that album. way awesomer.

    is it wierd if i’ve never heard that song?

    i don’t try to offend people with my musical tastes. thier tastes just suck. and mine are better. so they should just deal. the Arctic Monkeys are awesome. They have 13 letters in their name. So do The Raconteurs. who are also awesome. both rock harder. just deal.

  107. lol you like the same type of music my brothers do. And they think the exact same way you do: my music is better. period.

    Say what you want, but i say they have the right to use the title. And they don’t even sound alike. The guy on the radio said got the two songs confused. He said that the The Last Midnight song was 18 years old. Can you AT LEAST RESEARCH IT A LITTLE before saying things like that??

    I’m kind of like threshold-ish. I listen to almost all types of music, with a few exceptions. Which shall remain unnamed RAP. But I don’t even consider rap music, so it doesn’t count. Oh, and don’t forget everything they play on NPR. With no exceptions. Which is odd, considering I play a classical stringed instrument (Viola). Actually, not really now that I think about it. Because I HATE it. My mom said it would ‘look good’ on my high school resume.

    As far as the radio goes, I think it’s better than silence. Even if they are playing “Beautiful Girls” (or is there no plural?) or “Big Girls Don’t Cry”. Although I prefer changing the station when those songs play. But when they play U+Ur Hand they cut out so much of it that I can’t even tell what she’s singing about.

    It was really weird this morning. I was listening to a station and it started playing Christian music. I was like…wtf? I thought I might have had it on the wrong station, but, no, they do this thing on Sunday mornings. But no one tells me that.

    I had heard the ‘boyfriend’ song, too, by accident on YouTube. It thoroughly confused me, until I heard about Avril getting into a mess because of it.

    I like Lily Allen. Not because of her music. But because she’s British. I like her accent. And she’s about 1000 times better than Amy Winehouse. Amy Winehouse is probably one of my least favorite British people. Which is saying alot, considering my obsession for anything British.

    I don’t get what you mean. Weird if you’ve never heard what song? Bubbly by Colbie Caillat? Cause I’m assuming you don’t mean This ain’t a Scene, it’s an Arms race, or Thnks fr th mmrs. Obviously.

    I want to buy the album Infinity On High on iTunes. But i haven’t heard all the songs on it. i might buy one of their other albums. But I have my priorities…

  110. Those are so cute! I have done the makeup on myself, but I just need to get a new camera or something so I can be all like, taking pictures of it. I think I need to make my own hoverboard. seriously.

  111. yeah, i meant the Bubbly one.

    and Infinity On High isn’t that good—i only like really two songs on there. and one or two are okay. in fact, This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race is really the only song i truly like off that album *puts it on and turns up volume*
    i like From Under The Cork Tree better. and i’ve been trying to get ahold of Take This To Your Grave and sort of failing.

    yeah, i have that Lily Allen album. she’s actually pretty good if you’re in a peppy ironic lyrics samply singy british mood. best thing about her is i can actually listen to her whole album. like, it’s not where three songs are good and the rest sucks. plus, the album has continuity. it all fits together. that sort of thing bothers me.
    I can’t say Lily Allen is my favorite british person though, because the Arctic Monkeys are British, so they get that. and like, The Beatles, duh.

    and speaking of research *cough cough* it’s The Last Goodnight, not Midnight. ha. i hate them and i even know that.
    i guess they have a right to the name, but it makes me take them less seriously. though the singer’s bad guyliner did that too….

    i’m pretty close-minded when it comes to music actually. i’m also very judgemental. rock, rock, punk, rock, emo, rock, rock-pop, gothish, rock, that’s pretty much me. all the stuff that media player labels as genre “alternative”. it’s like ALTERNATIVE TO WHAT???!!? THIS IS ALL I LISTEN TO!

    i avoid the radio cuz i prefer having control over my music. mp3 player, internet playlists.
    but i agree, i can’t do ANYTHING in silence. silence freaks me out—i can’t focus. must blare something to focus.

    and i don’t like dismiss genres. except posers. but i think like, you can like whatever kind of music you want to, if you LIKE it. like i don’t care if you like rap if you really listen to it, if you know your influences, your artist’s histories and stuff. if you do your homework, i don’t care what you like, you’re hardcore.
    it’s suburban white girls who are like I Love Chamillionaire! who bother me. i’m like, name ONE OTHER song by him other than that Top 20 hit you’re listening to right now. and they just go ummm….

    i have been told i listen to music like a guy. or at least girls tend to never have heard of music i listen to, whereas guys see the Arctic Monkeys button on my backpack and go, Oh my god i love those guys. you are my new best friend.
    what can i say? girls tend to be much less cool about music. i mean, most of my friends have good taste. i have one friend who i found with Nick Lachey on her iPod and she doesn’t understand why i stopped talking to her.
    it’s all crappy gender stereotypes, guys listen to music and try to play guitar and girls are lame and obsessed with pink.
    screw that.

    The Raconteurs are the best band no one’s heard of that i know. like, such a better use of Jack White’s time than the White Stripes. Though Seven Nation Army is a hardcore song. they get all…..yeah. sometimes though. oh well.

    u know who else is good? Cold War Kids. i just got Robbers and Cowards. totally great album.
    *puts on Hang Me Up To Dry*

  114. yeah, i know you probably did, just couldn’t let that opportunity slip by. i always have midnighters on my mind. dude, you’re comment 113!!!

    i’m ripping this Plain White Ts cd, cuz my mom wants it, right?
    so they’re this band of emo kids (yes i know they aren’t musically emo, but still. guy. wearing. v-neck.) so it’s a bunch of super-white kids and a black guy. i’m not being rascist or anything, but look at this list of members.
    can you Guess The Black Guy?
    is it Tom, Dave, Mike, Tim, or De’Mar?
    really hard, i know.

  115. Bubbly…even the name is Pretties. It’s like Tally and Zane. I would post a link to the lyrics but I’m too lazy right now. But really…when I heard that song I started laughing. It’s the Pretties theme song!

    Yeah, I sorta know what you mean with Lily Allen. I got her album as soon as it was released in the US. I like her music sometimes. But other times it’s like…oh-my-gosh-i-can’t-believe-i-even-have-this-album. I think I heard somewhere that she’s working on a second album.

    Ok, I’ve been really hypocritical to the radio guy (but seriously, I was thinking about Midnighters!! In fact Blue Noon was and still is sitting on the desk in the corner of my vision).

    Now, I wouldn’t say I’m close-minded, but I’m not open-minded either. Like I said, I’m threshold-ish. I don’t really care when my brothers blare out Dream Theater from their stereo. Or play really loud music from an old record. I just prefer not to listen to it.

    Silence. Kills. Last night I was trying to sleep, but it was *silent*. So I blared music from my iPod. And fell asleep.

    How can you listen to music like a guy??? Is there i certain way i should listen to music? Is there also a certain way I should eat, drink, breathe, and sleep? And, um…who’s Chamillionare? I’ve never heard of him. Probably because of my extreme hate of rap (which, btw, rhymes with crap, coincidentally).

    I had never heard of the Rancteurs until you mentioned them. So…yeah. whateer.

  116. lol Serafina that’s not rascist. It’s a fact. If you want rascist, you should talk to my brothers.

    Plain White Ts. Who..oh wait, as in…Hey There Delilah? emo. emo. emo. yes.

  117. lol Serafina that’s not rascist. It’s a fact. If you want rascist, you should talk to my brothers. They really are rascist.

    Plain White Ts. Who..oh wait, as in…Hey There Delilah? That’s the only song I’ve heard by them. (I hope this didn’t post already…I clicked stop then re-submited it)

    Yay! me was comment 113! My next goal: 117.

  120. well i don’t think they’re technically musically emo. like, they’re sorta too poppy to be emo. but yeah, that’s thier famous song. and i didn’t think that was being really racist, or else i wouldn’t have said it. i just didn’t want to offend anybody.

    yeah, no one’s heard of The Raconteurs. but they rock. check it out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnWLVIQuctk
    They have that one song Steady As She Goes that people might have heard of.

    death to silence. hey that’s a good name for a band. or an album at least.

    and i was kidding about the “like a guy” thing.
    basically it means that i’m not shallow, which most people hopefully aren’t. i mean i’m not all i heart pop music omg the guys in this band are cute so i like them. plus, i know like music history and can actually play guitar and have been to concerts and stuff.

    chamillionaire….yeah, he had one of those…songs. i dunno, i can’t exactly remember which one and don’t want to get it wrong. mighta been….oh yeah i got it now. that stupid “something something riding dirty” song. you know, the one that REALLY SUCKED. especially for poser white girls to be listening to.

    i am sometimes ashamed i have certain CDs. i hide them to prevent myself breaking them in one of my hardcore moods.

    records are AWESOME! we actually have a functioning record player, and today me and my dad found all these Beatles singles from like 64 and were rocking em. Revolution (electric version) blaring on vinyl = heaven.

    and they do have some pretty odd names. i hate boring names. like, my school has so many people with the same names. i know three rachels and two stephanies. i’d rather know a Shaneeequa.

  121. Plain White Ts. Judging by one song, I think you’re right about the non-emo thing. But like i said, judging by ONE SONG I might as well not be judging at all.

    ohhhhhh I remember that song. The one by Chamillionare. I HATE that [so-called] song. I had to listen to it every day on the bus going to this fine arts camp a couple summers ago…thank goodness I haven’t heard it since.

    I know lots of african-american people. My favorite name out of all of them is Shaila (I think that’s how she spells it) as in like…Shay-la. Oh, and don’t forget my favorite guy name, Julius (aka JC, but Julius is fawesomer) I also like the name Teal’c. As in Stargate SG-1 Teal’c. He’s fawesome.

    I love breaking CDs. Especially the DVDs that my 5 yr old sister used to watch. That sounds really mean, but she doesn’t watch them anymore. But she used to. Like twice a day, and I’m not exaggerating. My now 10 yr old sister used to do the same thing with “Annie” when she was like 7. I was glad when my then 2 yr old sister broke the DVD of Annie, although I’m sad I didn’t get the pleasure. Breaking CDs is one of those things that get really addicting really fast.

    I think it started when I was 3 and played Frisbee with old video games. And jumped on them. And maybe I even played them once or twice. They bounce really well on concrete. REALLY well.

    I dislike the people that just like bands because the members are cute. Or because they’re popular. I also dislike the people that are friends with people they hate just because they’re preppy and popular.

    I have a working record player. And a whole crate of records. Well, I dont, but my dad does. He has a fawesome Queen record. In all their classic-ness. One of the few musical likes I have in common with them (My brothers and dad, that is)

    Yeah, one of my brothers actually said FOB is emo. That’s just…not true!

  122. I meant, you were right about Plain White Ts music being non-emo. I still think they are. But then, most guy bands are. Not to stereotype or anything.

  123. oh yeah, judging on their album, totally not-emo. but guy with pointy hair wearing a v-neck on thier album cover? totally emo. emo people, not emo music.

    i think FOB is kinda emo, but a little too mainstream to be truly emo. like, i would consider some of thier songs emo. and thier vocal style and arrangements (betraying musical geekiness.) also, thier hair. but they’re all mainstream now, so i dunno.

    yeah, THAT horrible song.

    i live in the least diverse town in America. we have no jewish kids. we have five asian kids. we have one black kid. we have 9,983 rich white catholic kids.

    shallow people suck. especially in regard to music.

    i am sad to say, despite having set fire to a stratocaster (long story, that) i have never broken a CD on purpose, that i remember. i have melted guitar picks and microwaved peeps and melted little plastic babies, but i have never played Frisbee with CDs. i once…okay, more than once….played frisbee in the school hallways though.

    we have soooo many records in my house. millions. can’t say what of though. bunch of beatles, i know. some rolling stones. the crates and crates of grateful dead are all on tape though.

    my new favorite guy’s name is Kirby.

  125. FOB is not emo. Ok…maybe sorta. But I consider them borderline pop/rock.

    If you want emo, listen to The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. THEY are emo. their song “Facedown” is downright depressing. Whenever I hear it I get totally sad, even if it’s just a song.

    You know what’s really fun? Funner than breaking CDs? melting stuff over a fire. Once I put a golfball in a pan over a fire. It popped. All the plastic melted off leaving a charred ball of rubber. And my brothers put a maggot in a fire once. And a plastic toy soldier…you know, the small green ones in Toy Story? It turned into a puddle.

    I burn stuff sometimes in my neighbor’s driveway cause she’s never home. Like when the school year ended last year I burned old science papers. And I can burn leaves with a magnifying glass.

    I’m very destructive, now that I think about it.

    my town is actually pretty diverse. but man I have to get off now. Apparently I’m ‘grounded until next weekend’ now. yeah right. One thing about my mom: she never follows through with what she says.

  126. ha. being grounded sucks. actually, i’ve really never been grounded. my parents are cool like that.

    i am a self-admitted pyro. i like candles. and burning things. but not too distructively. i have a party with my friends every summer to burn all our school stuff though.
    melting things is fun.

    i still think FOB is kinda emo, but i see pop/rock too.
    Red Jumpsuit Apparatus isn’t that emo! they’re too christian rock stuff to be emo. like, Your Gardian (can’t spell) Angel is noooot emo.
    Face Down is a GREAT song though. i’d say it’s an emo song, but maybe not an emo band. (hmmm….only song of thiers i like is the emo one. what does that say about me? consider.)

    who IS emo….hmmm…let me think on this one.

  127. well, i’ll just post my current playlist cuz i’m bored. do you people think it’s emo? people tell me i’m emo. they also tell me i’m a goth hippie, so i sort of ignore them.

    My Random RightNow Video Playlist
    —Cold War Kids “Hang Me Up To Dry”
    —FOB “Dead On Arrival”
    —Against Me! “Thrash Unreal”
    *listening to right now. i LOOOOVE this song*
    —Foo Fighters “Pretender”
    —Taking Back Sunday “Liar (It Takes One To Know One) hmm…some have called TBS emo….
    —The White Stripes “Fell In Love With A Girl”
    —FOB “Sugar, We’re Going Down”
    —MCR “Teenagers”
    —The White Stripes “Seven Nation Army”
    —Taking Back Sunday “MakeDamnSure”
    —FOB “Dance, Dance”
    and a bunch of random songs i want to hear because i’ve heard about or heard 30 second clips of.

    i have no idea why i’m posting this. yes, i realize none of you care. just ignore my superlong post and move on.

  128. wow. us people have no lives on weekends—over 100 comments on a post that’s only from yesterday. that’s pretty sad. or is it australia yesterday? still only two days ago.

    i take this as an omen that Scott-la should post again. about my fanartness. or Darkling Werewolves. and our contest to write the first page of Chasing Midnight.

    or maybe he can announce that he has seen the light and is writing a fourth midnighters. maybe.

    more halloween costumes’d be good too.

  129. Wow, lucky you, never been grounded. ha…proof that my mom never follows through with what she says: I’m posting right now! Less than an hour after declaring me grounded…usually it’s less. I shouldn’t have been on for the last three weeks because I was grounded, but she really doesn’t care.

    Of course I don’t have a life!! I’m an editor on Wikipedia! Yeah like that’s all I did this summer.

    Hmm…I can’ tell if you’re emo or not. Do you wear black often? Do you dye your hair strange colors? Do you cut yourself? lol jk. I mean, I listen to alot of the stuff you do, but I am by no means emo (right now I’m wearing a bright orange/red Aeropostale shirt with butterflies on it…hmm – oh and dont forget the matching camis!!).

    Ah man I have to get off now. Not because of my mom but because of my dad (and my brother, who’s a complete snitch).

  130. i spent my summer watching fuse and writing! slightly less pathetic but less productive.

    hmmm….your assesment makes me feel bad. let me do a check.
    current hair color—violet. yeah. my hair is purple. ummm…moving on.
    wearing black?—ummm….black long sleeved sweatshirt, black felt hat, black t-shirt, black skate sneakers. however, i am wearing regular blue jeans (my black pants are dirty) and grey thermal (not visible because of previously mentioned black sweatshirt.
    cut self—not in a million years.
    hmmm….i will not even mention the current chipped black state of my nails.
    okay, maybe i’m a LITTLE bit emo……

  131. hey Allie-wa, are you gonna enter the Darkling Werewolf contest thing? i’m assuming you finished Blue Noon—you’re one of the Fourth Midnighters people, right? Cuz Lizzy-wa’s having a contest on the Chasing Midnight HQ, and i just read ur Extras fanfic thing. u should ttly enter. i did….104 words is so short though. i got to use the name Kirby, however….

  132. If you don’t hurt yourself, you’re not truly emo – that’s essentially what being emo is. But rarely will you find a Cutter (not the Special type) that wears pink clothes and listens to happy pop music, so I guess that’s where the whole emo ‘culture’ thing came from – the stereotype of emo. So you can still be ’emo’ without actually cutting. If you get what I’m saying.

    I might enter the contest thing on the HQ. And yeah I’ve finished Blue Noon. Of course! But 104 words is like mega short. Shorter than most of my poems. So I’m considering it. I already thought about where I should start, but I couldn’t really come up with anything good.

    Kirby actually is a pretty…interesting name. It makes me think of the little alien from Chicken Little, the Pixar movie. I can’t believe I’ve actually seen that movie, but when you have 3 little sisters…you know, it just kind of happens.

  136. no, i’m just incredibly long winded.
    which made the contest thing mad difficult. i managed to cut it down though, with a lot of adjective removal.

    and dude, that’s a total stereotype. like saying you can’t be goth without worshipping satan. it’s the worst example that like nobody fulfills. most of emo culture doesn’t revolve around self-mutilation.

    you’d be surprised—most depressed people, even ones who cut, tend to be the popular people. the preppy ones. the ones wearing pink. a lot of goth or emo kids are the happiest people i know. you can be depressed without wearing black and wear black without being depressed.
    if you saw who was actually depressed, or who were cutters, you’d be suprised that the big majority is the so-called “happy” preppy popular people. a big thing with cutting is that it’s a way to hide your inner pain, and it helps all the people keep up thier happy functional mask when they’re mentally screwed-up.

    and i like the name Kirby. it’s cool. reminds me of this show about freerunning i saw. and the little pink not-pacman-but-very-like-pacman guy. so i picture Kirby as a punk alternative sports guy with bubblegum pink hair and spiked leather wristlets. random, i know, but i get really vivid images of character’s appearences.

    i am an only child, and all my cousins live far away, so those sort of things never happen to me.

    i still don’t think i’m emo…..just all my clothes and most of my friends and some of my music and my haircolor is….

  137. ok you guys, i just finished Midnighters 3, BIG SPOILERS AHEAD OF THESE CAPS, um, i liked it, it had a good point but um, Scott-la, could you please stop destroying the BEST COUPLES. I don’t want Jessica to be trapped, y cant they get her back out, and her and Johnathon, he will be 100 once shes 19 o man i loved them, y cant she just be normal, y cant something happen to Maddy, i hate that old woman, and hello, tea stinks, litterly!

  138. well, i like the color blck, one of my favrite outfits is. Black, but im not goth, im not emo, and i love pink! Our culture is so focused on colors! Boys are blue and Girls are pink wat if it was diffrent!

  139. hi bran-la i will get midnighters 3 tomarrow
    i am happy i did not read the spoilers
    btw will he make a 4 ❓

    gtg
    STEPH-LA OVER+OUT 😈

  143. OMG— I LOVE BROWN TOO !!!!

    — My friends say that I am weird for that JUST because poop is usually brown 🙁

    Choco. is brown and it is like the best ever- every piece I eat is Happy-making.

  144. lol, see, wat i think is people in our world tend to set things to other things. let me explain:
    When you born a female everyone gives you pink, if your born male everyone gives you blue. If you were a dog you were expected to like bones, if you were a cat you were expected to like milk or fish. I could go on forever. My point is:
    Wat if you were given pink because you were a girl, grew up, and despised anything pink, is that wrong? If your dog hated bones, is there something wrong? the answer is no.
    Just because people say pink is for girls and you decide you like black better doesn’t mean your bad, acculy its good, you are in titled to your opinion. So for now on in life, when you get a dog, give him milk for a change, if you get a cat, give em a bone. If you have a sister, buy her a blue shirt, if you have a brother, buy him pink, WHY NOT! (other colors are an option!)

  146. Arg!! I lost my super-long comment! And now I can’t type because it is dark and I am on my dads laptop!! But basically this is what I said:

    My ’emo stereotype’ was misunderstood *sigh* I basically meant this: That cutting is where emo came from. Not cutting specifically, but hurting yourself, and the types of people that started it were usually depressed people that wore black which is where the culture cme from. I didn’t mean that all emo people are like that. But in my rambling-ness you couldnt tell that…

    Hmmm Bran-la you make an interesting point. I’ve thought of thisso much it makes my brain hurt. And it’s kind of innappropiate (dang it…I don’t have my spell checker.). But anyways…If sometime in the future, when humans for some reason reproduce only by cloning, so there was no need for real sexual reproduction, and guys were supposed to be attracted to guys and girls to girls, would more people be…straight or curvy? Okay, it’s really dumb, and innappropriate.

    Aww I got to go…

  147. yeah, i kinda get that emo is rooted in depressed people, but i still tend to disagree. i think that’s more a stereotype than a fact.

    and that’s interesting, bran-la. how we’re like set from birth. interesting stuff to explore in writing—cultures where roles are reversed, or colors and supposed preferences are opposite.

    okay, i’m going to sleep now.

  148. yes, i do make an interesting point, i agreee, but i didn’t understand you straight and curvy deal. Reexplain. One other thing that i hate about the world we live in today, besides our ridiculous obsession for color, is the way we think people are. For example:
    Im sure many people think that that Texans are a bunch of hillbillies. Uhhh, no, i dont even have a n accent! Yes, i tend to say “yall” but its just a Texan thing! and i dont say it stupid like “Yall Hear!” it more like “Yall, stop sayin that!”

  150. See, I wore a Special costume before they got so trendy! I worte mine last year, only I was a Special rather than a cutter. I wore a bunch of freaky gray clothes that looks like overalls and dressed up my S.D’s Sizon XB into a Hover Car.

  151. I tend not to want to reexplain…hmm…it was inappropiate. And, yeah, I live in South Carolina, so people tend to jugde me based on that. If they don’t live here. No, I don’t have an accent. Yes, I say ya’ll (like you Bran-la!).

    Stereotypes suck.

  153. These are awesome!
    I don’t celebrate Halloween (I’m a Christian) but if I did, I would definitely be Tally Youngblood!

  156. hey guess wat i decided 2 b a crim or a special 4 Halloween next year…

    yay!!!! …scott, u inspired me…

  159. Hey I am dacotah~wa I am a New Yorker in and have the heart of a Colorado girl. I love every bit of life and EVERY Scott Westerfeld boook!!!
    My freinds are soooo! annoyed because my nose is constantly in a book!!! 😉
    I love having this website I just found it!!! I’ve been a CHEERLEADER and Hated it so I went to Reading and Horse Riding!!!
    LUV u ALL DACOTAH~WA

  161. i want a damn hoverboard.. *groowls* lol! That’s almost how i pictured them. but they were black in my mind, and quite a lot bigger. and it would be awsome if you knew how to skateboard, and you taped the board onto the skateboard and roll your way through the neighborhood

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