Reputation Economy Conference

Posted on by scott

Thanks to all of you have sent me this:

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Yes, it’s a conference about reputation economies that took place back on December 8, at Yale University. Alas, I missed it, but the online description says:

Reputation, which plays a key role in almost any economic or social system, is a fundamental, but not well understood, aspect of online business transactions, peer production of information and knowledge, and exchanges within virtual social communities. Traditional modes of authentication, accreditation, reputation, and prior acquaintance with participants rely on the social norms of close-knit communities and the accountability of meeting face to face. Since these mechanisms usually do not apply to online environments, we have witnessed the development of alternative models for reputation management including third-party certificate authorities, peer-produced evaluations, ratings, stars, points, karma and others.

Click here for the rest.

The term “reputation economy” had been around a while when I started conceptualizing Extras. I have no idea when it first came into use. Cory Doctorow invents a reputation-based currency called whuffie in his 2003 book Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, and Howard L. Meyers mentions a similar system way back in 1971 in his story, “All Around the Universe.” And, of course, we’ve all seen websites like eBay, where sellers are ranked with feedback from all the people who’ve bought from them before. That’s a real-life reputation economy that’s been around since 1995.

Obviously, reputation is important to human beings. We want to know who to trust and who not to trust. Alas, whatever kind of reputation system we use—word of mouth, online, bathroom wall—there’s always someone willing and able to abuse it. Pointless celebrities dominate, news channels fabricate, banks collapse, and even best friends lie to us sometimes. (Sad for the world, but lucky for novelists; otherwise a lot of cool plot twists would disappear.)

But you guys know all this. You’re the first generation to grow up with the quasi-reputation economies that are Facebook, Myspace, and Google, all of which show us who has the most friends, links, or comments.

So how does reputation work where you go to school? (Or to work? Or to network?) Who do you trust? Who trusts you? And what’s the worst failure of your local reputation economy that you’ve ever seen?

629 thoughts on “Reputation Economy Conference”

  1. Interesting post…I would never have guessed that there was a “reputation economies in cyberspace”.

    So this comment may be a little…well…just my opinion about his stuff. 😛

    On myspace and stuff, yeah, there are the ones that get friends and comments and stuff. I think anywhere you go there will be those who “get famous” and those who wish they were those people. Surprisingly, even on Wikipedia (you know the encyclopedia…) there are those people. And on Fanlib (…) they have “member ranks” based on how active you are and how many views you have, etc. I think that wherever there are internet communities there will be those who have more power/are more well known.

    In all internet communities, I have found this “pattern”, I guess you could it. And it doesn’t have to be just internet communties. But, surprisingly, I see this more on the internet than in real life.

    And of course at school, although it’s like totally different from all those cheesy made-for-tv Disney movies. Of course there are people that will be liked and those who will won’t be. As I said before: Anywhere you go, it will be this way. Communities just happen that way, I guess. I was actually just think ing about the reputation economy in Extras yesterday, right after finishing Gathering Blue…

  3. When did this post get here. i didnt even know it was here. Its weird how we humans can be so oblivious……

  4. So i was thinking………
    I wonder what is should read after i read the Twilight Saga as they call it.

    Ah! im so weird im already thinking of what im going to read after what i am going to read, God please listen to me.
    I. Need. Help.
    We pray the lord
    Lord hear our Prayer!!!!!

  5. You know, after 3 years of knowing my guy friend, i have learned something about him. When he is in AIM talking to you and he says, “Brb”. Dont ever expect him to come back, he will NEVER come back. One time he said to me Brb and it took hi more than 3 hours……….to sign off, not come back, sign off. And the sad part is, i still expect him to come back.

    As i typed, he said brb, and he just signed off. Wow, he has good timing to prove my point.

  8. who wants a christmas present?!?!?!?!?!?

    all ya’ll have to do to get it is come up with 2 new talent names post them on this blog with what the def of it is and the day or so after christmas i will post a fanfic about midnighters.

    hurry and do this so i can get busy writing.

    the people that i am making into midnighters are from his last book that was published. can ya’ll guess who?!?!?!?!?!

    Bis dann!!! 🙂

  10. being ranked and such on the internet is just another way for companies or sites to get people to useit more. People see how famous some get , thus they try to become the same way making them use it more. I know this is an obvious point but like its weird how people get so sucked into things without ever really asking themselves why they are..whats the purpose?? now its different if you really enjoy something and end up succeeding int he process but yeah…

    thats my little blurb of a though 😀

  12. Really, people are famous because others HATE them or they do really stupid things and get put in jail……well i guess that would sort of make them infamous

  13. I like that eraser poem …. i don’t know who wrote it……
    The eraser poem.
    The eraser poem
    The eraser poe
    The eraser po
    The eraser p
    The eraser
    The erase
    The eras
    The era
    The er
    The e
    The
    The
    Th
    T

    TA DA!!

  16. very interesting concept to mess around with in ur writing.

    im aware that you did amazing with it, Scott, but it would be hard for aspiring authors (children) to toy around with that.

    be a very interesting research project…

  17. cool post. reputation economies are cool. and relevent.

    hmmm…well there’s always all the normal stupidity and crap and rumors. i don’t know, i’m pretty much on the fringe of my school’s social universe. it all sort of revolves around your own group, there’s not that much mingling.

    oh wait, but i know a story to tell. and it’s band geek drama. my one friend knew that this girl had been lying to her and stuff and wanted to get back at her. so annoying guy friend makes deal with quasi-popular moron dude. and annoying guy impersonates popular dude on aim to lying girl. gets lying girl to admit she hates all her friends, including my friend and all my friends. lying girl is ostracized.
    i, personally, was then sort of freaked out by my friend’s abilities to totally ruin someone’s life. they got called down to guidance by her and she skipped a couple day’s school.
    moral—don’t say crap about people on the internet. you don’t know who you’re talking to.

    and talk about reputation economies, Scott-la. over on the HQ (click my name, beware of Midnighters spoilers) Lizzy-wa set up a face rank page based on how often you comment or your name is mentioned, and people try to comment a lot to raise it and stuff. i’ve got the second face rank 😉

    talents…oh this is hard…something metallurgical. or several metallurgical talents. like human smelting, or magnetism, or sensing rock compositions.
    or…freezing. like, freeze people like it was midnight, even in the day time. and freeze darklings. turn darklings into stiffs. that would be awesome. like, pow, you’re frozen. and they could unfreeze them too. or it’d take an hour for them to unfreeze. comic potential there 😀

    and go on my LJ (unsure if it is currently linked to my name. definitly is on the HQ) Bran-la, i post lots of book lists and reviews and stuffs.

    wow, long comment.

  18. That looks like an interesting lecture for sure.

    I think that I personally am prone to be influenced by reputation just like everyone else is. For a random example, I’m more likely to buy something from a website I have heard good things about, or that has a high rating on a ranking of similar sites.

    In my personal life at school, reputation matters. You have your friends, and you trust them. They are your closest links to the world, and to a large extent you trust them just based on your own judgment. Everyone outside your close group of friends, however, is seen through the filter of your friends’ opinions and your own. Am I making sense here? I’m not sure. Like, at school when I just meet somebody, I hear my friends’ opinions of him before I really get to make too many of my own judgments on him, and that influences whether or not we become better acquainted.

    Hm, I don’t know. I think reputation economy is kind of hard-wired into humanity, because we all are generally distrustful and like to have proof before we do anything.

  19. AHHHH, i finished Twilight. AHHH, itwas so good. Niw i want to run to Brnes and noble and buy the next one. MAN, i thought he would acculy turn her. O well, one day my Bella, one day…..

  21. well i think our whole generation is sort of based around reputation. so, yeah. all of us are influenced by reputation, and i just cant believe anyone who says otherwise. especially on the internet on myspace and such Everything is determined by how many friends you have and what people say about you. And reputation, like everything, has its good and bad qualities. School definitely has the whole rumor thing going on, and what people think of you determines things like who your other friends are, where you sit at lunch, how well you do on tests even. Not that some reputation isnt good, its just a change. But we dont see it. We’ve grown up with this reputation as a main part of our lives.

  23. i think you’ll like new moon, if you liked the first one how could you not like the second one too!?! just be paient when you’re reading it, and get ready to cry at the beginning(it happens to us all), and by the end you’ll be smiling again!
    ……….plus jacob fills the middle parts with comic relief!

  30. Reputation. How someone said that the people who create websites only put “member ranks” and stuff up just to get more people on their sites.

    Lizzy-wa2 OUT! :mrgreen:

  32. okay i am in a nice mood. i will tell ya’ll the 2 other characters that i am going to make midnighters.

    Tally & Aya.

    if you read my other fanfic posted several posts ago. it will include thoes people too.

    now maybe ya’ll can come up with talents better.

    Bis dann!!!! 🙂

  37. Jacob urgs me. I dont like him one itsy bit. I think he is obnoxious, and hes only 15! i mean, ew, hes youger!

    AHHHHHHHHHHH I NEED TO GO TO THE BOOK STORE. THE MOVIE ONLY CONTAINED ME FOR AN HOUR! AHHHH!

    Im sorry i lost control, what i meant to say was, y dont i just BUY the library.

  38. Ok, since im really bad (and really bored) i dicided i would write two stories at once. Diffrent places. But if i want to do a mythical creature book, i need some creatures.

    Or i can do a life story book (the non science ones) and i need ideas on that too.

    Suggestions?

  39. Hint: i hate dragons, pixies/faries, princesses, queens, talking puppies. i like INTRESTING things, not things about kittens and rainbows, not even witches for that matter.

    No Wizard of Oz for me!

  40. Since I’m in college, things like this aren’t important to people like it was in high school.

    The people I trust are actually the people I see the least. I don’t live near most of my closest friends, so when we do talk or write to each other, it’s always about the most important stuff to us.

    With people I hang out with on a regular basis, we tend to talk about regular, everyday things, not the dire, personal things in our lives. It sounds weird, but that’s the way I just am. I don’t trust many people because humans are just generally a let-down anyway.

    As for the worst failure? Well the whole thing’s pointless anyway. Why why why do people care so much what other’s think of them?

  41. I have to admitt, i am one of those people who car what others think of me. i a very self-concious. i have been, i think a lot of the reason is the friends i choose. there not bad but they tease a lot. My friends mom says she fat when she is soooooo not. Since she says my friends fat, my friend expects that im fat. I think i am fine. So why do i care? i want people to like me. I have been used by my first two and only boyfriends. this might be a commplement like i would make her jelous but i took it badly. I am teased alot, i do not have a unibrow! ofcourse thats guys for you, but when i hear it from my best friend and i like him, it makes me feel self-concious. i should care less but i cant, i need guidance.

  47. dude, don’t buy into the disneyfied fairy image. real faerie myths and stories, they’re majorly hardcore. and definatly “interesting”. the major thing people forget about faeries is that they kill you. without mercy. or caring.
    the Good Neighbors definitly don’t deserve to be lumped in with stories of “princesses, queens, talking puppies and dragons”. though i must say that there are like, one or two hardcore dragon stories. and queens can also kick ass.
    don’t forget them. they don’t like to be forgotten.
    and you wouldn’t want to wake up a glamoured amusment beneath the hill, now would you?

    talking animals. *shiver* they are one of the things i hate in books. actually, most books with pets/companions like that bore me to death, and also creep me out. i was even reluctant with Aya and Moggle, but luckily that was done well.

    write a story about life and love and hate and death and magic.
    because there’s nothing else around.
    write a story about whatever you want.
    write a story about what’s inside you.
    even the parts that scare you.

  48. but thats the prouble, i dont no what to write about. i dont no whats inside of my, right now if i wrote what was inside, i would be writing bodem.

    I need mythical things.
    werewolves
    vampires
    faries
    ok, i need help……………

  58. never ask me for advice
    your life will spiral down into nothingness
    or you will get sucked into a black hole, i’ve had the effects of that described to me, not very fun…

  59. Wow, black hole, huh?
    I have always wondered what it felt like to be in a tornado. Ok that was Random.

    What should i do, what should i do
    what should i write, what should i write
    what should i type, what should i type

  64. As i sit here, in my chair, i wonder what i should do.
    Should i eat? i am hungry
    should i count the air vents in my house? it sure is cold in here
    Should i run around franticly? I need exercise
    Should i tell my dad i need to go the the book stotre NOW? i i really want to know if Bella becomes a vampire and if she picks Edward. i would hate her if she didnt.
    Or
    Should i call my friends and bore them with my pathetic stories? Hehehe thats alwasy fun

  66. I agree, i will count the vents and get back to you on the number. Seriously, here i go, i hope my dad doesnt ask what im doing, it will be embarassing………
    i might even do 4!!!!

  67. But, people might think you have developed a mental disorder if you start running around fantically
    I do it all the time
    when i was in 1st grade my parents took me to see a therapist; they thought I was mentally retarted

  69. Well, i counted 12 vents. No wonder its so cold.
    Small house….
    i am going to say im bored and put on my sad face. which i am sad and bored, so its not minipulation.

  71. Ha, they thought you were mentally retarded! omg, that is halarious!
    I use to gave an imaginary bunny when i was 3 and i use to make my mom get it from under the TV. She would acculy pretend to get it.
    Mentally retarded……..

  72. i dont no how many heaters i have. i suspect not much considering my hands are sooooo cold. i have two vents in my room and there over my fav spots in ym room. One over my bed, the other over my computer. Bad planning, bad.

  78. Aww man, you beat me. I have 12 vents.
    i am going to be bored now.
    HEterfby3gr err vuer dufi
    Ok, just had to let that out.
    there are no shows, no websites, no fun!!! What has this world come too!!!!

  83. haha i guess that means it is more socialably acceptable for me to spell things on my calculator
    I’m not 13 until Christmas

  88. my gym teacher, well he used to be my gym teacher;i only had gym one nine weeks, always said that little things facinate little minds….
    MY MIND IS NOT LITTLE!!
    I was gonna kill him

  91. write a message on your elbow, in frosting!
    read it and then try to lick it off!
    all of my friends are already 13 cuz i started kindergarten early so i’m in 8th grade…

  95. Hey, my arm is not shorter! Good joke though. i want cake. I want book (New Moon) i cant tommorow to get it. I need it NOW!!!!!!

    it would be cool to be a vapire, dont you think?

  96. Its ok, dont feel old, just feel…….like a maturer person.
    Although u have been acting as strange as us………….

    when i frst started talking on Scotts blog i felt young, but then i found ppl my age.

  97. well, rebecca’s gonna love that
    she found out that even though your name is bethany people call you becca(she reads over my shoulder) and she now has an obsession, she also acts exactly like my 15 year old sister Addie (well , Alison) so she is gonna freak
    she’s weird like that

  102. I feel childish all the time
    I got put in the REACH class it is like advanced placement so i’m taking Algebra 2
    oddly my friends, mostly only everyone in the reach class, and I act like were 2 , we’re normally not socially accepted; the ‘normal people’ act….well….normal….

  104. heehee that’s kinda funny
    you would mind wanting to suck out other peoples blood but you would be fine if your boyfriend was putting you in constant danger….and he didn’t even notice that he ‘dazzled’ people

  106. I’m jus a nerd
    there is the nerds,REACH, and we’re all friends, all 40 of us
    then there are the cliques in the nerds, basically boys and girls
    all of us have been in the same class since 2nd grade so it’s kinda hard not for all of us to be friends

  110. well at my school, they chose 13 of us, the “smartest ones” or whatever, and we took algebra 1 in 7th grade, geometry in 8th grade and are now taking algebra 2 in 9th
    …………but my point is we’re all like best friends
    i actually met my 2 best friends in that class

  113. ok, i think that my school is the PICTURE of reputation economy.

    like seriously, we’ve got pretty much every clique imaginable, and the second someone messes up (read as: most-likely-most-popular girl throws an egg–it was halloween night–at one of her “friends” b/c she was flirting with the guy she liked), the ENTIRE school knows by the next morning, if not the next hour! it’s entertaining though…there’s always SOMETHING interesting.

    i don’t really trust that many people, only my friends (and only if i know that they can keep a secret–nothing personal, but if i don’t want something to get around…well yeah) and that’s about it. like, a whopping four people know who i like now. well, i guess some of you guys know ABOUT him, but let’s not get too technical here.

    lots of people trust me, just b/c they know i can keep a secret. it’s kinda weird. like, i’ve literally been approached by most-likely-most-popular girl and she asked if she could talk to me “to let some things out.”
    lucky for her, i don’t dislike her enough to tell it all. 😉

  114. I took Alegebra 1 last year in 7th grade and Algebra 2 this year but I’m not supposed to take Geometry until 9th grade
    I’m also taking 9th grade language, science and social studies, and also Spanish 1(they spread out first semester over our 7th grade year and 2nd semester over 8th grade but it is still full year)

  117. i’m like that person that everybody tells they’re dirty little secrets to too!!!!!!!
    and there are also only 2 ppl that kno who i like………
    but there is one person i tell everything to, so if he wanted to seek revenge or just be mean……….he has enough info on me to ruin me forever

  119. i’m not! lOl
    but i also have enough dirt on him to ruin him………..so its a mutually benefical thing to not tell the other one’s secrets
    ………..if that makes any sense

  120. oops that was fiction not fition
    I only gossip with other REACH people about other REACH people otherwise we would be overly anti-social

  121. i have one group of four (not including me) like, best friends, and then a bunch of other friends in a bunch of different cliques. like my chorus buddies, my math buddies, my track buddies, and then just other random buddies! lol. i like that word. “buddies.”
    but 3 out of my 4 best friends are in adv. math & science w/ me, and the other is in just adv. math. i wish i could take APs this year, but NO, my school’s mean.

    i have Hate (i really don’t like you) by the plain white t’s stuck in my head now. haha that’s what happens when we start a discussion on reputation economies.

    worst failure of my reputation economy? well, that question could go a few ways…do you mean, the worst effect that it’s had on someone, or something different…i guess i’m just being difficult, but i’m slow like that 😉

  124. wow Bran-la. only 12? thats like, seriously bad luck…

    i am the only sevey in Algebra 1. all others are 8th graders. then in 8th grade i will have to take an online class thingy (i think its online) for geometry. and then in 9th grade im gonna take advanced algebra and trig.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 💡

  126. the worst failure of the reputation economy i live with is that even though me and my 40 REACH friends are all pretty much equal we have like 20 documented semester long fights a year (verbal, hate fights, no actual violence)
    Seriously they are all DOCUMENTED all fights I’ve had since 2nd grade (when they threw us all together) have been documented and saved in the newspaper my friend started publishing to our class then(in 2nd grade)…

  127. what;’s “REACH” stand for?
    you probably said that earlier, sorry but i missed it.

    and i laughed for like an hour when i first found out about the egg thing…it was HILARIOUS…especially b/c i saw it happen! me & my friends were trick-or-treating a few houses down that year (7th grade) when we heard yelling, and then saw her pull an egg out of a plastic bag (they were egging houses) and throw it at the other girl. she went for another one, but 2 other “friends” stopped her.

  128. hehe. ruining peoples lives is fun. i shood no. that kid shoodnt have stolen my cookie…*shakes head disappointedly*.

    i have a group of five-sorry. one just moved on wensday. im still very sad. now i have a group of four. i still dont tell them everything. but were the smartest honor kids. i dont like hanging out with not-smart-people. they dont get my jokes. anyways, i have to other friends at dance that i DO tell everything. cuz they dont no any of my scool friends, so i dont have to worry about them spilling.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 🙂

  133. normally not cuz
    1.we have to eat lunch with the rest of the REACH
    2. We have no classes at all with other students
    3.I’ve had people come up to me and tell me that them and their group of friends don’t like me cuz they think I’m snobby
    4. 3 goes for some of my friends

  134. hehe. im good at giving bad advice. like when my brother asked for help on his spelling test, and i told him to just “sound it out”. well, it was one of those tests where all of the words were like, “i before e except after c”. which isnt very soundoutable if you ask me…he flunked the test.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😆

  136. hmmm…I’ve only flunked once in my life, on a paper my dad gave me the answers to, note to slelf: don’t take his advice either

  138. Lizzy-wa
    yeah not smart people also have a tendency to think I talk to fast and not now what the words I am saying mean……I probably do talk to fast, I can’t even tlk around people who can’t understand me when I talk fast cuz i’m afraid I’ll leave something out

  141. not sad really
    they annoy me
    none of their jokes make any sense
    they don’t laugh enough either, or talk enough or talk fast enough

  143. i talk really fast. i get strange looks. only my friend Amy can understand me when i start talking fast. and im the only one that can understand her…and barely. shes not as good at it as i am. she starts mumbling when she talks fast. hehe.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😀

  144. In 5th grade, we still spoke to the not-as-smart kids then, I started using the word contempt (and it’s other forms) in casual conversation
    I assumed everyone else knew what it meant
    they kept giving me strange looks and not responding
    finally one day somebody asked what it meant and I burst into laughter and literally fell on the floor laughing

  145. i don’t really talk fast………..i just jump from one subject to another randomly
    only my best friend knows me well enough to understand my train of thought

  146. it is totally hilarious!!! you can’t get that kind of comic relief around only smart ppl………..even tho once you’ve laughed at somone, they usually aren’t very nice from then on

  147. i enjoy time with school-smart people more than i enjoy time with well, NON-school-smart people, but i don’t lock them out entirely

    i look at it this way: throughout my life, i’ll probably have to deal with more people who fall into the latter category, so i’d better learn to deal with them now!

    there aren’t that many failing people in my school, most of them are self-proclaimed (and eye-witnessed) druggies, so i don’t hang out w/ them anyway.

    the non-school-smart people that i DO talk to sometimes are really nice, though, and they definitely try, but i guess it’s just that some subjects just aren’t their thing. like i have one friends who’se awesome in science but isn’t as good in english.

  148. I like your use of the word ‘Alas’. Unfortunately, I didn’t really take in much of that post because I’m brain-dead right now *sleeeepy, sleepy, sleepy, sleepy*.

    But, it’s interesting how on Myspace and Facebook the goal is not to keep close connections (though that is a point), but to be the one with the most friends.

    I’ll have to comment again when I’m awake.
    <3

  149. I know, I never have to explain to my friends why I changed the subject we just continue taking at our 1000wps pace
    Especially my best friend Ellie,short for Lucy, we probably cover 90 topics in a half-minute

  151. I have two really good nonREACH friends but one I only communicate with through multiple emails per day and the other I see 4 times a week at dance and ocassionally during passing periods

  153. I’ve had a billion lectures on relating with non-smart people but I have like a smart-person brain dammage or something
    or it is just underexposure

  154. becca-lee, i have a friend just like you! with the random-subject-hopping, i mean.

    we’ll be talking about one topic, and then switch to another, and another, and another…and then she suddenly says something pertaining to the first subject! i’ve become used to it by now though, but it’s still funny.
    like if we were talking about a person, she only uses pronouns rather than names so i’m like, “ok, we’re talking about Hayley again…” and then carry on w/ the conversation.

    that was a random name, by the way. actually it’s that of my second cousin, but whatever.

  156. Wow no wonder I have such trouble relating to non-smart people compared to other smart people
    i have 40 kids with an IQ more or less the same level as mine to talk to every day

  158. i don’t find the fact that your best friend is a guy amusing, i find the fact that your best friend is a guy named WALTON.

    ok that was kinda cruel, but i’ve never met someone from this generation named walton.

  159. thats sooo how i am!!!
    i just relate things weirdly in my brain
    then i say them
    and by then most ppl are utterly confused

    *yes i do use the word utter a lot*

  161. netta-la, for a second time, WHAT DOES “REACH” STAND FOR???

    that wasn’t in a mean tone, but you can’t see me so you don’t know that so i stated it for your convenience
    hehe.

  162. subject hopping rocks
    it is what motivates me to stay at school, my friends random conversations, we talk during most of class to, which makes it odd that we all have A’s
    Next year I have a block scheduele
    each day i will have 80 min of english
    80min of math
    and 80 minutes of alternating science and social studies

  164. I don’t even know what REACH stands for
    they started changing it’s name when I was in 4th grade to stuff like magnet and cluster but the 8th grade and 7th grade stick with the name REACH

  166. i had an occasion in which someone in scheduling accidentally marked me down as “male” (since taylor could go either way), and when the teacher called my name for attendance on the first day–it was only in one subject–she looked right through me when i said “here” since she thought she was looking for a guy. when she realized the mishap she said “OH, they have you marked down a “MALE” here!!!” with rather excessive volume, lol

    it was embarassing, to say the least, but i laughed my way out of it

  168. i have 9 periods throughout the day, each 40 min. each except for lunch, which is 30. i have alternating double periods (80 min.) of english and global studies, a math double period every C day (there’s A, B, C, and D days), and a double period of science every D day.

  171. whoa, my math teacher was trying to explain (which he is normally very good at) that ABCD thing to us cuz that is like another way our classes might be next year but I was confoozled beyond belief

  172. our electives switch eavery nine weeks (it used to go by six weeks and they gave us a midterm every nine weeks but that was confusing)

  175. I only have gym one nine weeks since I am taking Spanich and band, so I had a no gym celebration at the end of the nine weeks and then I got my tonsils out 🙁 it HURTS!
    I play flute and I must be okay since I ‘m first chair but i think I suck

  180. the only people in my school that care about the band are well, the band, and strings, mostly they critique for fun

  181. not at mine……..its like the opposite
    we have like a huge marching band, and thats sorta our thing
    lOl we’re such geeks!
    we’re talking about what classes we’re taking and band!

  185. DO NOT USE THE WORD DORK
    sorry didn’t want that to sound mean but I have heard horrible deffinitions for the word dork and you do NOT want to call yourself one….
    sorry for the rant….
    😀

  190. *shudders*
    I’m gonna forget you said that and mentally change all of the ‘dork’s you have used into geek or nerd

  191. never use the word “geek” either…the dictionary definition is “a carnival performer who performs sensationally morbid or disgusting acts, as biting off the head of a live chicken.”

    yeah. i know.

  214. i know several…my math teacher confuses red and green, my ex confuses red & green and blue & purple, and another math teacher confuses some colors that i can’t remember.

    needless to say, they don’t have much christmas spirit. wouldn’t that stink, not even being able to tell colors apart?

  217. I definitly think that anywhere you go on-line there are “reputation communities” there are always the “most commented” “most viewed” etc… But it’s important to remember that those things don’t actually matter in the real world. Once you log off the computer, no one actually knows how many people have left you comments of myspace, and you have to remember that what really matters is the type of person who are, the decesions you make, and how you treat others.

  219. Holy Schnikes! I leave for Twelve hours for a Starwars watching party, and I come back to see 218 comments on a new post?! I feel so behind. I’m not even going to bother to skim, because even that would probably take to long and I’m too tired.
    So I’ll just say, I think the whole idea of a reputation ecomony, even if it’s actually maybe a bad thing to do like in Extras, but I like seeing the things like eBay’s reputation thingy turned to the total extreme like Aya city. It’s awesome.
    Now, I’m going to go eat cake with candy canes on it :]

  220. wow you guys can talk a lot. hehe.

    i went threw that whole dork phase at my scool a couple weeks ago. now we are always saying “oh my gosh. your such a d-nerd”. like, we barely remember. hehe.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! :mrgreen:

  221. Hay ya’ll talkative people!!! I just joined the site, cause I am currently reading PRETTIES, and I can’t get my nose out of it!!! So, I went on the computer and searched up scott, and got here, so yeah its pretty awesome. :)))

  222. The reputation economy baffles me, I mean I get it but for some reason I have the amazing ability to get completly ignored. No matter how well I do at something, especially when what I do is so much better then what someone else did (This doesn’t happen often but it has) I still am ignored. I would never survive in a true reputation economy.

  225. If I was in Extras I would totally be a ly girl, I’m sure. Because I pretty positive that I would be a total Extra, and being a sly girl sounds really, really fun! Unless my brother was Hiro, in which case and make him let me move in with him in his amazing house and make him give me free stuff

  230. yeah, I’d be an extra or something similar because I go to a magnet school so I don’t know many people in my town…..but my friend and I would get a manga-head surge lol

  231. Go Sara-la! Pretties is the best! it just is. You will like it on Scott-las site. We are all very friendly, and we promise, we wont bite. 😉

    I remeber when i first came to the site. It was cool. i loved it, and what do you know, im still here! I have made alot of ‘Scottie friends’ as i call it!!

  232. OMG WHY DO PPL TALK SO MUCH?!?!?!?!

    Seriously. stop. talking. I can’t waste time reading through all those comments (even though I did…)

    lol. Do y’all know what dork means? lol. no one who uses that word knows what it means.

    Just in case my wors instilled curiosity within you…

    Don’t read on unless you really really want to know…

    It means a whale dick. lol.

  233. Well Serafina, We were talking about important stuff like on comment 78. Ya, i talked about how many ves i had in my house i counted them. and we talked about how to spel stuff on calculators. It was all so important……..

  235. OOOOO, i would LOVE to be a Manga-head, with he big beautiful eyes. but i would REALLY LOVE to be a vampire like Edward. So. Very. Beautiful. And. Sweet.
    *Dreamer*

  236. lol. For Halloween one of the really preppy girls at my school dressed up as a dork and wrote “dork” on her head with eye liner.

    I told her what it meant.

    And you can imagine what happened.

  237. I feel like being Stupid so here i go, being stupid (not a dork, Stupid)
    ~My uncle Billy Bob smells like yack. (i dont have an Uncle Billy bob, ok!)
    ~There once was a boy names Paul
    He was very Tall
    He like to eat grapes
    And lived with an Ape
    And often visited the Mall
    ~Im am silver this is Red
    silver and red
    silver and red
    (inside joke)
    ~Bran-la “Who do you where knee-high socks”
    Camila “Because its cold”
    Bran-la “Well, my legs like to be naked”
    for some reason my friend found this halarious, i dont, i find it a statment.

  238. oops. I forgot to sign. I guess that’s what comes of staying up til 1:00 reading Tithe.

    -Lizzy-wa2 OUT! :mrgreen:

  241. lol, i stayed up til like 2 am the first time i read Tithe too!
    it’s just that sort of book…late in the darkness.
    did u finish?

    Allie-wa, i had exactly the same reaction when i came back.

    what’s sad is that i already knew what dork meant. hilarious about the preppy girl though.

    there’s worse things to die of than laughter, i suppose.

  243. Allie-wa,
    When my friend found out what ‘dork’ meant in 5th grade, she told the whole school. I was on last night and Taylor found the definitions for nerd and geek; I go by egghead now…

  244. grrr……my mom’s coworkers came over and when they asked me my name I said “Netta.” They ,of course, responded with,”Nice to meet you Annette.” I said, “Actually my name is Netallia.” They said, “Isn’t that nice! Well, how about you, your sisters, and your brothers go play, Annette.”and they left. I would have been okay with that, but they somehow managed to call Jacob by his nickname, Kenny, Rebecca her nickname, Becca, and Alison her nickname, Addie. Even my half-sister and brother, Samantha and Cameron, got called Sammi and Cam. I am very angry now….. grrrrr….

  247. I’m bored
    I am going to write the pronunciation of the Spanish alphabet (heehee Alpha, beta….Alphabeta)
    Ah Bay grahnday (or largay)(a hard B noise) Say Chay Day Eh Ef-fay *Scoff*hey Ah-chay Ee Hota Kah(not really in spanish alphabet) El-lay Ey-yay Em-may In-nay In-yay
    Oh Pay Coo Airay Air-r-ray Es-say Tay Ew Bay chiee-ca (or cor-tah) (soft B noise) Bay doh-blay Ek-keys Ee-gree-egg-ah (greek I=y) y (pronounced ee means and) Setah

  249. (Well, I’m a little late, aren’t I? Hahaha.)
    At my school, since it’s really small, reputation is kind of… off? If you go out with someone, EVERYONE knows. There aren’t any secrets. So it’s kind of this really weird reputation thing going on. Like you can’t lie, really, and become more popular because everyone will know you are lying (or one person will, and then everyone will find out). Obviously you always create your own reputation, but at my school it seems like you are really behind your reputation more than in other places since everyone knows you so well. So I feel like at my school repuations are based more on how you act and who you are rather than, I don’t know, what you wear or how many friends you have or what sort of grades you get.

  253. My school is real big.
    And we have about 3,000 students or more :]
    Just our marching band has 300, which is a really big marching band.

  257. wow Netta-la. you are on here WAY to much. of course, all the new kids go threw that phase. i no i did. hehe.

    hey Allie-wa. i appretiate that you enjoy being me. i mean, who woodnt? hehe. never mind. but anyways, you can have my name. but not my siggie. its mine. i have it copyrited and can sue. ok not really. but seriously. make it your own. it took me a long time to come up with that.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😉

  259. Yeah, it’s weird cause my ton is actually really small, but there’s a lot of people in it. Maybe cause I live so close to Dallas :/ I dunno.
    But, yeah, our Marching Band is mucho grande.

  261. humph. we dont have a marching band. and theres only like 50 kids in the normal band. and they suck. and every year they play the same exact songs and its REALLY annoying.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 🙁

  262. hey Co-Prez-la. i was thinking we cood use your banner as the club logo. whatta ya think? by the way. i sent it to Scott-la along with the about page and a link to the home page. and then i asked him to acknowledge us.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! :mrgreen:

  264. Yeah, our band is really really good, actually. The 1st band went to chicago this weekend.
    But I’m not suppose to talk about the band on the internet, actually. Cause the drumline kids talk bad about other bands all the time, so yeah. the dirrector will bite my head off.

  268. haha I’m in 8th grade
    somehow I am 1st chair flute hmmm…
    it’s kinda funny that I’m first chair cuz I’m younger than all of them: I started kindergarten a year early…
    I turn thirteen on christmas
    I don’t want to turn 13 🙁

  274. Yeah, I’m in band. I play trumpet :]

    And I bite, so I wouldn’t blame the director for biting me :)=
    That’s my smiley with fangs :)=

  276. haha
    My friend is our only oboe in the middle school band…..
    the high school band was playing with their hats on the ground and she asked
    “What are those little toilet things?”
    hmmm….I hadn’t thought about the anti-darkling thing…..
    yeah I don’t get as many presents 🙁

  284. hmm……ten reasons why having a christmas birthday is bad (no tin a particular order..
    1. only one day a year for presents… (other than easter gifts, but they’re small.
    2. your name is Netallia 🙁
    umm… i’ll get back to you on the rest

  288. 4.it’s not only a celebration for you, in my family it is also my grandma’s and my step-brother’s birthday

  291. Dictionary.com’s WORD OF THE DAY
    persiflage \PUR-suh-flahzh\, noun:
    Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery.

    He was somber and wordless and utterly unresponsive to my mother’scharming persiflage.
    — Rosemary Mahoney, A Likely Story

    It was a brutal spectacle to watch this Coney Island Keatsian subjected to Winters’ unrelenting persiflage.
    — Richard M. Elman, Namedropping: Mostly Literary Memoirs

  292. heehee
    Persiflage comes from French, from persifler, “to banter,” from per-, “thoroughly” (from Latin) + siffler, “to hiss, to whistle,” ultimately from Latin sibilare, “to hiss (at), to whistle.”

  296. hehe. Wanna know what’s gross?

    I just lost a tooth. And it’s covered in blood and my fingers have blood on them and there is blood on the keyboard. lol.

  297. yo, allie-wa, there are some things we just DON’T WANT TO KNOW.
    but, in that department, wanna hear about how Eclipse sucked so bad it gave me a horrible nosebleed and i splattered blood everywhere before i stopped it, and the book, along with the clothes i was wearing that day, is completely stained forever?
    *hears chorus of NOOOO!!!!*
    so…how about that new HQ template?

  298. lol. That was the point. Sometimes I like grossing people out.

    Maybe it had something to do with the fact that I just watched Lord of the Rings. All that blood is contagious…lol. contagious blood.

    And, um, really, that’s gross.

    I used to have nosebleeds all the time, in second grade. I would wake up around 12:00 with my nose bleeding and it wouldn’t stop until 2 or 3 in the morning. And this was pretty much around once every 2 weeks. There are still stains on the washcloths I used. Yes, i used washcloths. But I used toilet paper most of the time (gross). But they took up sooo muuuch tiolet paper that my parents wanted me to use washcloths so that they didn’t have to buy new rolls every time I had a nosebleed. lol. grossness.

  299. haha
    it is kinda funny that ur keyboard is covered in blood idk why
    how did you get a nosebleed from a bad book?

  300. I never have nosebleeds, only one when I was 5..
    and I have this blood clotting disorder and a most people who have it get nosebleeds ALL the time but I like have only had 1 huh…

  301. I wiped it all off with clorox disinfectant wipes.

    And yeah. Bad books don’t give nosebleeds. w/e. Dusty books do, tho. Trust me.

    Tithe was really dusty when I got it from my library. Dust and colds do not mix well.

  304. i was just joking, i don’t know why i got a nosebleed, it just happened to be while reading eclipse.
    it survived, but page 38 is covered in red stains.

    ewwww….allie-wa, get new towels.

    awww…tithe shouldn’t be dusty! it should be read far and wide, by everyone, gay muppets included (there’s a story to that).

    sooo….let’s talk about something else now.

  306. haha.

    My mom finally looked at Tithe. She didn’t read it, but she said it looked bad. She said the faeries were demonic.

  307. my sister asked if i wanted ice cream
    I told her I did
    my dad asked if i wanted ice cream
    I told him I did
    my brother asked if I wanted ice cream
    I told him I did
    I went in the kitchen and we had no ice cream left 🙁 I never got any

  309. that sux. well, library should be open again soon and you all go read Tithe.

    well, at least ur mom didn’t stop you reading it. the faeries aren’t exactly demonic…they are kinda evil. i dunno, i could kinda see her going duct-tape over it though, it does have all that violence and language and stuff.

    hmmm…well, i am achieving my goal of having everyone read tithe. now you should all go read City of Bones, because it is also very, very, very awesome. it has VAMPIRE BIKERS!!!!!! what is not to love? definitly not Jace Wayland. he’s FAWESOME!

  311. I watched this ghost show once
    it was horrible, every thing was absolutely fake
    but the voice over dude kept saying
    ‘the family fled because of the demonic spirits haunting their household’

  316. yeah it didn’t even show the people
    just pathetic voices saying
    ‘and then I went into the kitchen and there was a giant crash…’

  318. Erm
    It’s not hemophilia cuz my blood still clots
    just not as fast as most people
    im only in danger if a get a giant gash in my leg or something

  324. the moral of my sad-making therapy stories are that 5 year olds really tell the therapist that the square root of 144 is 12 when they say ‘math’ and ur supposed to say the first word that comes to your mind (well is was 7 words but oh well) cuz then they ask you about school

  327. At my school reputations and stereotypes are less regarded… everyone has friendly little chats unless you are at the extreme low or high of the popularity list. And myyearbook reminds me so much of the reputtion economy because it shows your popularity

  329. Oh, cool, Netta-la. Well I don’t mean cool. But, yeah.

    Anyways,……

    Last night I had the weirdest dream….

    It was all made up of Scott-la’s Uglies series characters, Stephenie Meyers Twilight series characters, and Terri Farley’s The Phantom Stallion series…..

    It was probably the weirdest dream I ever had!

    Well, no I once dreamt that my twin brother and I were getting chased by skeletons, but that was when I lived in Hawaii which was like when I was……hmmmm I wasn’t too young that I didn’t remember my dreams…… But I wasn’t too old….so I was like…… 7 or 8.

    LOL!

    Are my dreams trying to tell me something?

    Maybe I’m just crazy-headed!

  330. haha
    I had a dream that i got shot out of a cannon and then I died
    the end
    I’v had this dream once a year for since I was 5

  331. *I’ve
    and my best friend and their parent is always there so I hide behind them and they give me to the evil monkeys who then, shoot me out of the cannon

  332. My friend who is borrowing my Pretties book right now doesn’t like Zane. She says David’s better, and that she likes Peris after that. Even Croy is before Zane on her list. She thinks he’s creepy.
    Actually, I might put Croy beofre Zane too, to be honest… I really really really like Croy for some reason…

  334. maybe mine means
    GET A NEW BEST FRIEND
    my best friend has been the same since kindergarten
    and that message would be odd because Ellie, short for Lucy, and me don’t fight alot

  337. I like David but I don’t feel like I got to know him alot
    I also like Zane because…. well, idk why i like Zane
    Croy is ….. Croy, he’s cool
    I never really liked Peris, he was just…… i don’t like him

  338. Yeah, I never liked him either.
    He was always too preppy, to fake, or too cowardly to me.

    And I was so sad that Croy disappeared!! You see him like… omce in Specials, and none in Extras! It breaks my Croy-loving heart!!

  339. I just got a letter from the library saying that they had the copy of Touching Darkness I put on hold…..they’re closed for Christmas
    🙁

  340. I liked all the characters, even Dr. Cable.

    IDK why.

    I think I liked them because of the roll they played.

    Wait, I don’t think that makes sense. Because, then I don’t think I would’ve liked Dr. Cable.

    IDK!

  342. haha
    I liked Dr. Cable too , just because she was Dr. Cable
    I think I didn’t like Peris because he never really worked his way out of being pretty so he was alwaysa bubblehead when he was mentioned

  343. Hmmmmmmmmm….. You guys are right, and he was David’s “wingman” or something too, how sad 🙁 **tear tear**

  344. I’m such an egghead
    I’ve memorised my library card barcode number….so I can type it into their website

  345. *breaks into hysterical tears at the thought of croy*
    no seriously I need therapy
    I am way too over emotional today
    I actually did start crying bt only because I was typing that I was crying and then I broke into a fit of laughter because i was crying about something so stupid

  346. Wait, At the end of Specials they said in the thingy-Mc-bob that they were hiding in the wild and that they weren’t going to see them unless they like started to desroy the world. And that was the first time they contacted Shay-la and Fausto-la is in Extra’s because of Aya and the Extra’s so maybe thats why we haven’t seen Croy

  348. Netta-la, your not the only one. I wasn’t exactly emotional. But, I got annoyed really easily and I was very grumpy.

    But, my parents say I’m always like that.

    Which is soooooooooooo NOT true!

  359. Wow, Netta-la are you, Okay?

    I think someone must have spiked your drink or something.

    JK, sorry but you are very crazy tonight!

  360. I’m tired
    this happens when I tired
    It also happens mostly every other time of the day too…all of my friends act like this too so I normally disregard the fact that REACH kids seem to be mentally ill….

  365. lol. I used to have dreams that I was eaten by a polar bear in an empty movie theatre. without a screen or seats.

  373. I got New Moon. Now im going cry. I cant believe he just left her like that! Urg! And he is trying ot be all “Im titred of trying to be what i’m not” AHHHHH he so loves her so y doesnt he let her be a vampire already!!!!

  378. Bran-la did you finish New Moon?! I love that series almost as much as I love the Uglies series. Scott Westerfeld and Stephenie Meyer are my favorite authors!

  384. no 🙁
    erm.
    now i am cracking up again
    i found out why i am extra hysterical
    pain medication for my throat, i got my tonsils out a few days ago….

  386. CuRsE tHiS sLoW cOmPuTeR!
    *maniacal laughter*
    the realization hit when all of the sudden i was tired again and talking was painful

  388. this page is supposed to be about reputation economy and here I am….laughing maniacally about italics…..

  392. No, i didnt finish New Moon………..yet. Ahhhh! i just want to read it. I want to know that in Eclipse she picks Edward. If she doesnt, i am going to be furious!!!! Dont tell me though…..
    But i want to no…….but dont tell me!

  395. I know…I mean, really, this is a blog, not a chat room. sorry if that sounds mean, but it’s true.

    I feel like the only one who actually responded to the post. Out of almost 400 comments, only about 15 are post-related at all.

    I’m not saying that’s bad. just a little…obsessive. No…that’s not the right word. I agree with Serafina, tho. I’ve been refreshing this page every 30 minutes or so for like 5 hours, while I’m iming and writing my not-so-fawesome story, and I haven’t commented every time someone else does. I think some people should try doing something else.

    I’m not saying this to be mean!! It’s just really hard to read through all these comments…and most of them I don’t even care about. No offense.

    Now I feel like a terrible person. whatever. I don’t really care, anyway. All these comment are making my head hurt more than it already does.

  396. Well, i thought about skipping but i couldnt, i wouldnt allow myself.

    Ahh, you said u didnt like it. Now i think she doesnt get with Edward and become a vampire. Ofcourse if she did, wouldnt she have made a fourth book. im beginnning to doubt.

    Tell me Serafina, with out spoilers, what bothered you about the book?

  397. Well, i am sorry, but the reason i comment so much are my friends are quite the pitiful people. There never answer my IMs. They dont call me, i call them. And when i do, they talk FOREVER! And im usually talking about books, i very educated matter, must i point out.

  398. my friends make fun of me for having this site as my home page they just dont understand my love for all things scott!!!

  399. Allie-wa, you are NOT a terrible person.

    And Bran-la that is exactly why I am on here too.

    And I will NOT give out spoilers to the end of New Moon and for Eclipse….

    Except to say, I love the series. I think Stephenie Meyer is a great author….

    But, Scott-la I think you are probably better then Stephenie.

    Bran-la, Stephenie just finished her rough draft of Breaking Dawn, the fourth book. I am so excited! 🙂

    Gosh, we are talking of other books instead of Scott-la’s on Scott-la’s blog… lets change book topics….

    Which books of the Uglies series, was your favorite?

    Mine, I think is Specials, I think it had a lot of action, and suspense, and foreshadowing. I also think in all the books he uses a lot of similes and metaphors so you really get it. And in Specials it shows like I guess you could say a big change in Tally-wa’s life, and how she thinks, and acts and the choices she makes.

    Does anyone get that?

    I could sit here for hours talking about Scott-la’s books!

  403. welll…this’ pretty hard without spoilers. i dunno, i didn’t like the fact that there wasn’t a real plot except the contrived “oh who shall she choose” thing and a side plot that was sort of downplayed and confusing.
    i didn’t like Bella, even less than in the other books. every interaction with Edward and Bella annoyed me. Edward annoyed me. no one DID anything, they just thought about the same thing over and over. Bella spent all her time sitting around and angsting over a simple choice you could tell she’d already made.
    the whole battle and stuff was annoying and sort of tacked on, compared to the angsting about Jacob and Edward.
    it was obvious from the beginning who she would choose, and it was the one i didn’t support, so that also annoyed me.
    in all, it was several hundred pages of…nothing. was just a lot of raving about a choice that was really, from Bella’s point of view, obvious. like, several hundred pages of character development that could have been cut a lot and put as the set-up for a better climax.
    there was a big vamp climax at the end, but even though this one was hinted at more than the climaxes of the first two, no one really cared about this one, including me. like, the first two climaxes came out of the blue, but didn’t seem tacked-on because the characters CARED. it was a catalyst to get them moving about thier feelings. this one was sort of…eh. not that important.
    i think my general feeling is that Eclipse didn’t need to be a whole book. so unless a hell of a lot happens in Breaking Dawn, i think this could have gotten culled (ooh, that’s almost a pun isn’t it? forgive) down, and the conflict introduced better. i have a feeling it could have been streamlined to make a better final installment, one that would’ve held up to the other two. but i don’t know. maybe Breaking Dawn will miraculously restore my faith in Stephanie Meyer, if not in Bella Swan, Edward Cullen and Jacob Black.
    i mean, it’s kind of a bad thing about your book when the most interesting parts of the book are nearly-chapter-long dialouge of other characters narrating thier stories (which are sort of bad, except when very well done).
    DISCLAIMER—I AM IN NO WAY TRYING TO BRAINWASH PEOPLE INTO NOT READING ECLIPSE. READ IT IF YOU WANT TO. I AM IN NO WAY SAYING THAT YOU SHOULDN’T READ ECLIPSE AND SHOULD INSTEAD GO PICK UP A COPY OF CITY OF BONES BY CASSANDRA CLARE, WHICH IS MORE WORTHWHILE AND FULFILLING. THIS IS MERELY MY OPINION, AND YOU SHOULD NEVER BE THAT EASILY INFLUENCED BY A RANDOM PERSON ON THE INTERNET, IT’S SCARY.

  404. crap that was long.
    can’t believe we got over 400 comments in like, a day. you guys reeaaaally need to calm down.
    i have a feeling that number will go way down when we resume school and Netta-wa is done with her tonsils deal. (no offense)
    well, i probably won’t be on at all for the next two days (or only for a short time, not enough to read the millions of comments that will no doubt appear)
    so merry christmas to those who celebrate, happy random two days in december when everything is closed to those who don’t.

    also, insert the word “READ” after fulfilling and before this in the rant above.

  406. Amelia-wa, When you say ‘Bran-la, Stephenie just finished her rough draft of Breaking Dawn, the fourth book. I am so excited!’ Are you saying that as an objective as some one who may possibly know me (Stephanie Ma.)? Molly.

  407. AHHHH, she chooses Edward, doesnt she, because you said: (Serafina)
    ~Edward and Bella annoyed me. Edward annoyed me
    ~tell she’d already made.
    ~it was the one i didn’t support, so that also annoyed me.

    Shes makeing a 4th one, called Breaking Dawn! AHHH, wow this day gets better and better!!!

    Now i must sing
    ~ahes gonna be a vampire, shes gonna be a vampire~
    I have always and will always suppect this, it seems obvious.
    If im wrong, then i hate Bella and Jacob, he makes me insane, i hate Jacob, hes so, EWWWWWW! i dont no how to explain.

    She better be a vampire, she better.

  408. Ok, Bran-la I meant Stephenie Meyer, its just that I didn’t feel like writing Stephenie Meyer whenever I mentioned Stephenie Meyer. See if you keep typing Stephenie Meyer it gets really annoying.

    Sorry for the confusion.

    I’M SO HAPPY TOO! I COULD ALSO GET UP AND SING! AND BRAN-LA, THAT DDOOEESS NNOOTT MEAN SHE IS NOT GOING TO CHOOSE JACOB SO DONT THINK THAT UNTILL YOU READ IT!

    And, sorry about saying this, I personally thing the phrase is really annoying, but “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch”

    Because they can like be sick, or not feel like laying eggs, or maybe they’re all there (however many you thought there was) and like they could be like deformed, or like wrong or something

    Wow that was totally random.

    Sorry for the randomness.

    It’s been a totally, and bogusly random night!

  409. I didnt really like Speacils. I found it lagged in the middle, it seemed to go on forever. My fav. was Pretties, of course. I also found speacils very sad. ZANE!!!! Im sorry Zane, but Edward has replaced you. When he leaves me, ill take u back! Sorry, i feel bad saying that. O what the heck, you guys are Equal!!

  410. Bran-la, I see your point. But I love all the books, probably equally. And I have my favorite parts in all the books. But yeah, I think Edward does replace Zane. And that would mean David too, because for me Zane and David were equal. 🙁

  411. So she wont choose Edward!

    o and i said Molly because well her name is Amelia and ya so , ok, embarassing………

    She wont choose Edward! AH, she wont choose Edward. AHHH, she wont choose Edward! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! She has to choose Edward, has to, has to, has to, has to!

  412. uum not to intrude but whos edward???
    im on extras right now and in the middle so if hes later in that book can you tell me!
    🙂

  415. No, Twilight is by another Author, her name is Stephanie Meyer.
    Shes a really good author. go to this site to learn about the book.
    Twilightnovel.com
    i love Twilight, i have to say, its may Fav. series so far.

  419. Awww thankies Bran-la!!! I *just* finished Pretties, and it was so uber! I can’t wait to go to Barnes and Noble to buy ALL of Scott-la’s books so no one else can enjoy his awesome writing… MUAHAHAHA!!! But, I have a question… does Tally-wa ever see Zane-la again? Cause they are the *best* couple *ever* 🙂

  420. This is why i love you scott. But really, are you gunna have another uglies book? Pleeease??? For Me?(Hey, if it worked when i was 5, then maybe it’ll work now.)

  421. Hmm…

    I think Specials was my favorite book of the series. Actually, no, Uglies was. But that’s only to be expected b/c it was like the best book ever. So between Pretties, Specials, and Extras, I liked Specials best. idk, something about the Specials intrigued me. And it was pretty cool seeing Tally as one, even if it was sad about her being revolted by Zane and turning on David.

    I haven’t read Twilight. Not b/c of anything anyone has said. b/c i have a crazy mom who won’t let me. So I have no idea what y’all are talking about.

    I read Tithe, tho, b/c Serafina suggested it. It was ok. Not my type of book tho. Fantasy pretty much sucks. No offense. science fiction is so. much. better.

    I read pretty much whatever people suggest to me. Even if they are random people off the internet 😛

  423. uglies was the best because it started the journey.
    Sara-la, i don’t want to spoil it, but they do see eachother again… in fact, besides Tally and Shay, Zane is the most important character, in my opinion.

  425. TODAY IS CHRITMAS EVE!!!!!!

    Im such a bad girl. i got New Moon yesterday and im on page 159.
    It was just so good and I WANT EDWARD TO COME BACK.

  426. Uhhh…..Sara-la, yes they do see, but, you will see the diffrence and you will be sad. thats all i can say. and if you get sad in the beginning, its not as sad as towards the end, youll see.

  427. My favorite Uglies book would have to be Specials too
    Mostly because when Tally has to ‘re-wire’ herself in Pretties it wasn’t as hard as it was in Specials, where you could tell she was stuggling, and in Pretties she had friends helping her.
    In Specials her’s and Shay’s amity turned to rivalry, which didn’t help the cause….
    I also liked Specials because of Dr. Cable, her change at the end surprised me, I hadn’t thought of HER being despecialised (I spelled that wrong, didn’t I?).
    And I was glad at the end that David seemed to forgive Tally, but I was very upset when Zane died.
    I still want to know where Croy is though…

  428. I have read Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse. I want Tithe from the library, but they’re closed until after Christmas. (I don’t think it’s fair, some of the books I have on hold in there I have been wating months for and they close on my birthday?!?!?!)

  429. Serafina, your right about it being good that 13 provides anti-darkling protection because I was born at midnight….

  431. Have you ever felt a nagging feeling inside of you to do something? Like right now, its telling me to say stupid stuff like llama. Potato. ANT HILL! Stapler. Cabbage. The Sims.

    yep, its pretty weird, and i wonder y no one likes me……….

  432. Ah, it’s been so long since I’ve been on! Dang it.

    Love the new set up, Mr. Westerfeld! Sounds like everything’s been going pretty well for you…

    Merry Christmas, everyone!

  433. Haha
    last night I couldn’t sleep until I got on dictionary.com and looked up all of the words in Twilight that I had trouble understanding (I had already looked them up, but not on dictionary.com and it usually has understandable definitions)

  435. i posted chapers 12 and 13 of chasing midnight on my blog. there is a new charater that just so happens to have the initials S.W. and lives in New York. (this story takes place in August)

  436. i need to write. I need to do something. I am reading so much. My mom says all i do is stay in my cave all day. But hey, im not the one who said “you need to read more” DAD! so if they complain i say, you said for me to read more!

  437. My dad said I read too much: in honor of Christmas my reading time has been taken away 🙁 well not completely, I could read from 10 to 10:30 until today, now it’s been taken away completely because it is Christmas Eve….. 🙁

  438. WHAT! You cant have reading takin away! its educational! See thats waht i dot get. You’re parents might say “You need to read more.” so you read more and then they say “you read to much.” i mean, come on! Make up you mind. either i read a lot, or i dont read at all. It really not complicated!

  439. Every year for Christmas Eve I just stay up all night reading. I finish, I don’t know, three books over the night and probably another one during the day. It’s quite fun.
    But I need to go to the library today to actually GET something to read…

  440. I need to finish. My parent always tell me to slow down and i laugh histeriacally. Slow. Down. I mean think about it, I CANT CLOW DOWN, IVE GONE MAD I TELL YOU MAD! Whoa! (wipes her forehead) Yelling sure does give you a workout. O well, back to reading.

  441. since my story is on Werewolves, i had to look up cures and myths. There are some weird things ppl believe.
    It said that if you took three drops of blood it would be human again. If you said its human name, it would be human again.
    And i was so crepped out, i dint read the last cure. It was pretty freaky site.

  443. hey Netta-la and Bran-la….its Christmakanuka Eve! dont you have anything to do?!

    personally…i have six dozen cookies to make. and, lets just say i only have….none of my presents done…im making all of them. my mom refused to lend me money! im totally broke from all those BORDERS sprees in the last couple months…

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 🙁

  445. oh. hehe. ok. hannukahs off the list. is THAT how you spell it? hhhhmmmm….

    i LOVE procrastinating! ok. i hate it. but i cant not do it. its like…impossible. ive never ever ever had a project that i didnt procrastinate on. how sad is that?

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 🙂

  448. I get to make the chilli labels on paint.. 🙂
    My dad came in and said
    ‘Graphic Guru, make chilli labels…’
    really, I’m on paint too often…. 🙁

  450. ok well so many comments have bene posted since the question “what is your favorite uglies trilogy book” but i still wanna answer it so i will!

    Specials was defiently my favorite! it shows you the mnay sides of Tally and how nothing can break her down. even though a certain someone dies*rip* i still love it! i thought the ending was absolutely PERFECT! i reread it like every day cause i love it so much!!!!!!!!

    there i feel better now

  453. My dad needs them, he is handing out chili to our neighbors….
    My mom gave out cookies, but my dad loves chili…

  455. My mom chose her own present
    she told me to get her present while we were in the store and put it in the cart….then she told me she didn’t want that one and went to get the color she wanted.

  457. I’m not the only one that stays up all night reading books on Christmas Eve? Yay! I’m gonna read..hmm…Lord of the Rings.

    Out of books to read.

    My mom takes the Christ out of Christmas. 😛

  458. Im going to Mass today. Ha. When you said chilli labels i wasnt thinking in the terms labels for chilli but i dont no what i was thinking…… Ha! I can be such a silly goose!

  463. So, what is this whole Midnight Werewolves thing anyway? Is there a way I can read it or whatever, cause it sounds pretty cool

  465. crap. I hate moderation.

    Chasing Midnight is the aspirated (…) fourht book in the Midnighters trilogy. Chasing Midnight Werewovles is the hq for it. click my name to go to it.

    Amy-la’s, I think, is her version of Chasing Midnight. Click her name to go to it. Well, it should go to it. I tink the link is http://theprettymidedugly.blogspot.com

    or maybe

    the link above but instead of blogspot it’s wordpress. idk whether it’s wordpress or blogspot. w/e. You get it.

  467. yep… use wordpress. whoo! an easier way to get to chasing midnight is by selecting the catagory scrolly thing a clicking chasing midnight. then all the posts will come up.

  470. Church? On Monday? oh…Christmas Eve service, I guess. I haven’t been to one of those in like 5 years.

    I ♥ this. watch: §╚{♣•♠♣♥♣•╞▼ï■♀æ◄╪ú%·å#δ6ºÅπÄ6lON[╞zCb╤ÿÉáúú┴¼÷╕¿¿■┐»j÷X♥╘◘¡M\⌂»│fß╙δß■≈X╚

    æropostale. hehe.

    encyclopædia.

    æroplane. ♥ that.

  473. Well, I guess I’m not going after all. . .
    Jacob threw up and the chain began, Becca saw it and puked, then Addie, then Samantha, and finally Paul.
    Haha
    Me and Cameron didn’t puke….

  474. Netta-la is that your family?

    That sucks, it’s Christmas Eve and everyone is sick!
    :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(

  476. Netta-la is that your family?

    That sucks, it’s Christmas Eve and everyone is sick!
    🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁

    sorry the smilies didn’t work the first time

  477. Yeah, Jacob is my brother he is the only sick one, Becca and Addie are my sisters, Samantha and Cameron are twins, they are my half-brother and sister, and Paul is my step-brother.

  479. dang… all i have is jennifer, my sister. i am bored… rfjkelof urawklfbgileasg bhilawr bghluiwa giluoyraeh gip;rwaehtgkrbnh ip;hg ui;paehgt urle;g hurisdb guorpe gftreuht5p3iohtg niuht rslh gizslgh tedxlighsrbtygbn rlshty nrl.feohsotsy 94oyht594h tgnlis hregkd.lzr hngre irdlsg bks uegresol

  483. And I’m the second oldest

    My sister requested that I add her real name Alison because Addie is short for Addison, her middle name. *rolls eyes*

  484. I wish me a happy birthday
    I wish me a happy birthday
    I wish me a happy birthday for 13 long years
    * * ** * * *
    * * * * *
    * * ** **
    *SNOWFLAKES********

  487. We went to church yesterday, we were going to go to church today. and we have to go tomorrow morning because ben (my twin) has aculite, or however you spell it.

    and Netta-la I have a really big family too, and I’m a twin too, and I’m the second oldest too!

    Happy Birthday!!!!

  489. omg i can’t believe i just read all 487 of those…im crazy! & tired and it’s officially christmas in my timezone….12:15!! hehe. well i guess thats what i get for not coming on here for a few days…i’ve been swamped with christmas stuff. it was really pretty fawesome actuallly. Sunday my moms side of the family came over and we played guitar hero. lol. & had our like 5th annual spoons tourney!!! …which i won! yes i am the queen of spoons! bow down…hehe. my family is pretty weird…in a good way thought. then tonight i went to my great grandma’s and my uncle said he would give me 20$ if i could pin my uncle tom. and guess what…..i did! and i got a really bloody carpet burn though. it was fun. so far this christmas i’ve gotten 260$ 🙂

    ok well to tired to think anymore…going to bed.

    Happy Birthday Netta-la!
    Merry Christmas everyone!

  494. I got a Sansa instead of an iPod, but I’m happy with it.
    I also got a bunch of books…
    Eclipse, The His Dark Materials box set, Narnia in one huge book instead of a bunch of little ones, Bar Code Tatoo, Bar Code Rebellion, and The Last Days – which I didn’t have before, I had to keep borrowing it every time I read it. Now I have my own copy :]
    I got a whole bunch of chocolate covered cherries too, and some FUZE’s. Yay. I love christmas!

  496. I totally understand, though. I also got like a bunch of stuff that I needed for school, and my parents knew they’d have to buy it for me so they used it as christmas presents. I felt very ungrateful.

  497. I guess that’s the price of five siblings 😛

    I would’ve gotten so much more but we divide up money for present equally. So only $100 for each of us.

    Being poor isn’t fun sometimes. 😛

  498. I have a whole bunch of other siblings and they got a whole bunch of stuff but i got barely anything!

  499. dude, i’ve got a sansa mp3 player too. it’s fawesome. i’m uploading stuff right now.

    i finally got Sensitive, the sequel to Homefree, which made me happy. 🙂 and all the Umbrella Academy backissues, and FOB’s old album Take This To Your Grave (listening to right now) and a cool flannelish shirt i’m wearing right now, and the 3rd season of Lost and first season of Code Lyoko and a skull-covered watch and some bracelets and a lot of drawing stuff, some colored pencils and Rapidographs and stuff. very fawesome. great christmas.

    and lol, i’m wearing my I’m An Extra shirt right now. but mine was free 😉 along with holiday-themed skull pajamas (yeah, i have more than three pairs of skull pajamas. you got a problem with that?) and the aforementioned flannelish shirt. it’s greenish blue and plaidish and fawesome.

  500. I got a new MP3 with more memory and a WII with 2 games, but the WII is for my whole family not just me..
    no books 🙁 *cries*

  503. Yeah, Sansa’s rock. Did you get the 8 gig or 4? I’m also uploading stuff right now! U love the spinny wheel on it!
    I also got Tithe.
    But Take This To Your Grave is their best album!! It rocks. The whole thing is already on my sansa :]

  504. My sister had a Sansa…but it broke. then she got the same one again. But it also broke.

    So she got a Zune for Christmas. She didn’t know how to set it up, so I spent like 2 or 3 hours helping her with it.

  505. haha. I got a Zune last year for christmas. And guess what… it broke!!
    But then again, that might have something to do with the fact that I ran it over with my car :] oopsies. I like Sansa’s better anyways.

  506. mine’s only 2, but i got it like two years ago. love that spinny wheel too. i’m listening to it with my new headphones right now…Von Bondies, until i build up the courage to unplug long enough to upload Take This To Your Grave.

    i see a theme with your sister and mp3 players, Allie-wa. my mom got a Sansa after i did, and then my best friend and her brother, and it turns out my other friend had one. i start trends.

    lol, did u really RUN OVER A ZUNE sauvy-la???????

    i loves my sansa. couldn’t live without it.
    and i might mention, i got this really awesome case for it too. it’s all styled like a converse, and about as scuffed-up cuz i use it so much. very cool and durable though.

    wow, everyone’s reading tithe and having sansas.
    well i’m way ahead of you, i did both those things in the summer between 7th/8th grade, and that wasn’t last summer, it was the one b4.

    also, i finished Sensitive. very good. 😀
    now i go back to my library pile until i get hold of The Sweet Far Thing.

  507. Yeah… I ran over my old Zune. It would have sucked, except for the fact that f I hadn’t, I;d still be stuck with it instead of this foolio Sansa :]
    Oh, by the way, that Midnight Werewolves thingy; very fawesome! Are there more than 2 chapters, cause that’s all I could find?

  508. you mean on my LJ?
    there’s only two installments of Graduation on there, mainly because…that’s all there are. haven’t had writing time in a while, and have been spending it on my other story. more coming in the near future. glad you liked it though!

    so you seriously drove over your zune. that is…hilarious.

    sansas are foolio.

  509. Well, driving over your mp3 player isn’t exactly hilarious at first, but now that I have another it is pretty funny :]

  511. OMG i got THREE*3* scott shirts for christmas AHHHH im wearing one right now
    i got
    the smoke lives
    im an extra hoodie thingy
    and the 13letter words shirt that has peep midnighters and uglies on it

    i like died!!=]=]
    MERRY CHRISTMAS

  512. lol, support Wearable Extras! *still wearing I’m An Extra t-shirt*

    yes, i imagine at the time it was pretty tragic.
    ummm…this may be brain-missing of me, but i don’t remember. how old are u, Sauvy-la? you don’t have to say if you don’t want to. but are you, like, old enough to drive legally?
    see, that would be why i don’t leave my mp3 player lying in the driveway. i ususally keep it on a little wire leash, which is attatched directly into my skull, where it keeps me sane. god, i sympathize with melissa WAAAAY too much. ah well
    *turns up volume on headphones and strokes fawesome headphones. oh how i love you, skullcandy*

  513. scott seriously needs to post something else soon or this post is gonna get sooooo many comments it will take a day to scroll down to the bottom to post one yourself!

  515. hehe, yeah, I have no clue as to how the mp3 player actually got in the driveway…
    But I’m a freshman. 15 years old, so I’ve got my permit. Sort of old enough to drive, if you count having an adult hovering and yelling at you driving.
    Rosie-wa, if you wanna see alot of comments, check out the Midnighters Spoilers page. Wow, it’s like a super blogger threw up there or something. So. Many. Comments.

  522. i get my permit at like 15 and 3 months, i think, then my license at like 16 and 3 months, i dont think the month parts are right but it is something like that.

  524. Dear Scott,

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    At this time, I want to take the opportunity to give you my heartfelt wishes for Christmas and wish you a great New Year ahead.

    May all your dreams come true 🙂

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  525. ZOMG GUYS so i play world of warcraft and my new main name is Ayafuse(im so obsessed) and i got a little robot pet and so it says ayafuse’s companion so it reminded me aya and moggle so i took a pic of it! but its to big to put into the comment=[ so im just gonna make it my wallpaper but can’t u just picture it!!!

    well of course u cant unless u play WoW and know what a dranei is

    but take my word for it its really cool!

  527. as i promised, here is my christmas present to all of ya’ll.
    Here ya’ll go:

    At the stroke of Midnight, when Aya and Fizz were watching Nana Love cut her giant pink cake. Aya was tense with excitement, already planning what her new story was going to say. Then the big moment arrived. Nana picked up the knife covered with jewels and gently slid it into the cake. With a giant splat, the cake exploded as everything turned blue. Aya looked around and saw globs of pink cake suspended in midair. She also saw all of the other people at the party frozen stiff. “Hello?” she called hesitantly. Then she heard a crashing and howling through the trees. Then a huge gray wolf ran into the courtyard. As it came closer to her it transformed into Tally Youngblood. “Aya-la? I heard you yell? Where are you?” What is she saying, thought Aya, I am right here. She looked down at her hand, but she could not see it! “I’m over here Tally-wa,” she called. “Oh, there you are. I see you now,” she said. “What do you make of this, Tally-wa?” asked Aya. “I don’t know,” answered Tally. Just then three people came floating into the courtyard. “Welcome,” one of them said, “my name is Calypso Jenell Greene and this is Midnight.”

    hope ya’ll like it. commet to make it better. 🙂

    Bis dann!!! 🙂

  528. Yeah, see Serafina Zane, there’s a big difference between Texas and New Jersey :] Very diferent, I think. See, in the south we’re much more full of anarchy-fandom, and so our driving laws tend to examplify that.

  530. HAPPY CHRISTMAKANUKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Happy BDay Netta-la!!!!!!

    in washington you get you permit at 15.5. i think it used to be 15. but now its 15.5. unless they changed it back….and you get your license at 16. yepyepyep.

    HAPPY CHRISTMAKANUKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😀

  533. I like Savvy-la loves David’s explanation. lol.

    Well, people in the south are filled with anarchy-fandom. That’s half the south. The other half are the rednecks who put George W. Bush into office.

    There’s a city near mine, in the same county as me, but it’s made up completely of trailers and fireworks stands. I’m not kidding. Oh – it also has a Wal-Mart, of course.

  535. Omg I had the weirdest dream. Well, not exactly the weirdest, but pretty weird. You guys know the Dr. Evil sloth or w/e his name is from Neopets? (Sry guys, I am a Neopets addict) Well, I’ll start from the beginning. Me adn my Mom lived in an apartment and this lady who lived above us was my Mom’s friend. SO, on the bottom of the staircase on our building, my Mom was talking with her friend on the phone. SO, I turn the “light” on by my mom because I am going up the stairs holding the imaginary cell phone I wish I had in real life. My mom screams “Hannah!!! Why did you do that!! Someone’s going to cut your hair you just got cut and wore for CHristmas 3 inches shorter!” And trhen I scream “When?” And then my mom goes “If you answer that phone call!” And I don’t answer the phone and “he” calls my mom’s phone and says “Is your daughter there?” “NO. May I ask who is calling?” “NO. I cannot reveal my identity. I will kill you and your daughter tonght at midnight!! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!” And then I woke up. “he” was the evil Dr. Sloth Neopets dude. And oh yeah, Saturday I cut my hair, that’s what the new hairstyle thing was about.

  536. wow, last time i posted, those two posts above mine totally didn’t show up. wierd.

    love it kim-la!!!! hilariously crossoverriffic.
    i likes the christmas present very much. it haz darkling werewolves!!!!! tally the darkling werewolf!!!!!!
    my christmas is complete.

    thank god someone else has to wait until sixteen for thier permit, even if it’s in australia.

    that is kind of amusing.
    i think that having fifteen year olds try and drive in new york city is a valid concern. driving in the city is a precise art of recklessness and running out in front of cars, best honed by trips to paris and rome.

    that is one messed up dream.

  538. omg. list of really crappy internet encyclopedias (w/o links because of fear of the “awaiting moderation” crap).

    * Uncyclopedia – The WORST attempt at being funny. Ok, some stuff is funny but most of it is just stupid.
    * Conservapedia – omg. The “trustworthy Encyclopedia” isn’t very trustworthy at all.
    * Encyclopedia Dramatica – Don’t even ry to go there. Please. Do yourself a favor. It is just an attack on Wikipedia, made by those who have been blocked there. they probably all have Aspergers.

    I’ll probably think of more later. After I post this.

  542. Yeah, that’s true. Like some people wouldn’t even know they had it if they weren’t told they did. I could have Asperger’s (or Asbergers?). You could. Your mom could. 😛

    Your also right about the fact that I spend too much time in the wikiverse. Except I prefer you call it wikiland. Sounds more European feudal-ish. And I drew a picture once of Wikiland that was European feudal-ish. lol. I’m such a geek at home. At school, I don’t think anyone knows about my Wikipedia account.

    Qhich is a very good thing.

  544. lol. I think I still have it…buried underneath all my sister’s school crap from last year where no one will ever find it. hehe. I drew it this summer when I spent like 6 hours a day on Wikipedia.

    Whenever i start to edit Wikipedia in 4 hour sessions I start becoming wary of politics again. idk why. I spent lots of time yesterday. Like, over 100 edits yesterday.

    Really funny how I was blocked from Conservapedia. You don’t even want to know what I did…

  545. I am half way through New Moon. It rocks, im proubalaby going to buy Eclipse today, because i have the money. Hopefully Breaking Dawn of whatever its called will come come out soon.

    Does it tell you in Eclipse who she picks?

  546. Bran-la I am not going to tell you who Bella picks!!!

    Bran-la I’m reading New Moon too, again.

    I have read New Moon at least (and I’m being serious) 20 times!

    I was going to read Eclipse but IT HAS GONE MISSING!!!! I’ve looked for it for 2 weeks and i can’t find it!!!

    Oh, and Breaking Dawn comes out in the Fall of 2008! (yaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, i can’t wait!)

  548. actually Allie-wa, i do. i really want to know.

    hmmm….aMelIA_wA. maybe good taste elves stole your copy of Eclipse. sorry, just had to say that. don’t get offended.

    and seriously Bran-la, it’s the most contrived contraversy ever. like, it’s competely obvious who she picks. and she pretty much does pick in Eclipse. that was another thing that annoyed me, they made this whole big deal about “Who Will She Choose?” and it was an even more contrived debate than Snape, it was all marketing and crap, you knew from like, before the end of New Moon who it would be.

    got Cross My Heart and Hope To Spy from the library, started it.
    am trying to beg Mom for trip to Borders to get The Sweet Far Thing.

  549. *sigh* its raining out i hate this it rains like every year around christmas time!!! I WANT SNOW NOT RAIN id even be fine with no percepitation but if there must be some it should be snow! or at least hail not dinky rain!

  550. Rosie-wa, it’s raining here too! I wish there was snow here too! It’s soooo boring here everyone is at work except for me and my twin, Ben (hey that rhymes, hehe) and he is soooooooooo annoying!

  552. Oh, and, Serafina Zane—FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS DARKLING WEREWOLVES!! you are sooo spoiling the book for Bran-la!!!

  553. And your so lucky, its cold out it just NEVER snows! I mean like it snows in Hawaii but never here! 🙁

  554. Cross my heart and Hope to Spy wasn’t as good as the first one but it was still really good. She’s almost done writing a third one. She said she hopes to write six books in the series, up to Cammie’s senior year.

    And they’re also making a movie.

    You DO want to know what I did? okay then. Link for you: http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Thundercats&diff=234082&oldid=127255

    that’s all I did. I was blocked for that. Isn’t that ridiculous? It was one little edit. I still to this day don’t know why I was blocked. And I never will. But I created a different acccount at my grandparent’s house. Next time I go ove there I’ll probably vandalize. or maybe just edit happily with the right-wing idiots there. But probably vandalize.

  556. sorry. i know i’m a horrible person. just what i thought. i mean, i didn’t think Eclipse was a big mystery or anything. seemed obviuos to me.

    snows here all the time, in winter at least.

    well, i thought the first one was just okay, but this looks good.
    heard about other ones coming too, and would probably make a good movie.

    i dunno, i guess they could kind of get annoyed at that. like, i guess they thought it was an opinion thing, whichi it sort of was. still not enough to ban you.
    i do suggest you go vandalize there or edit in liberal idealology to freak them out. just because.

  560. lol. Probably is featured every day. I want to see “Michael Moore” featured.

    If I was blocked for an opinion, they should block themselves. “Wikipedia has a strong liberal bias,” according to the trustworthy encyclopedia. isn’t that right?

  564. lol. Conservapedia is…ahem.

    I shall not say bad words. Not here.

    Strong liberal bias means they don’t quote Bible verses. It means their articles don’t have a conservative opinion. It means they don’t say all Liberals are atheists who support all things evil.

    And means they don’t use fox news for all their references. 😛

  565. Conservapedia, conservapedia. your crazy is almost funny. almost. but…not. borderline scary.
    like how i no longer trust the history channel after they started out a show with a guy saying “you know, Democrats don’t believe in Hell”

    seriously, 563 comments is pretty crazy. but you know, maybe Scott-la is like, spending time with family or doing all those holiday things we should be if we weren’t all wasting time.
    or maybe he’s writing. 😀

  566. Have history channel, I don’t.

    I want Scott to have family time, but I really really really can’t wait until Leviathan is out! Reserved Peeps and The Last Day at my library, I did. In, they are. But closed, library is. argh.

  567. Cool. I just noticed I now have 13 submissions at Fanlib! Anti-darkling! Now my crappy submissions won’t get eaten by the cyber-darklings. 😛 I wouldn’t really mind if they did, tho. No big deal. they suck anyway.

  569. ok, what with all the talk on conservapedia, i figured i’d go and give it a once-over.

    well, that was good for a few laughs! like seriously, “Jesus Christ is the only Son of God who, in the fullness of time, was sent by God the Father to be the propitiation for our sins and to ransom us from death.”
    i’m loving the use of the words “our” and “us” in there. like what the heck? can’t you use like “christians” or something? of course it’s edited by people, not by like the creators of encyclopedia americana, but still.

    of course i would take offense to this lol, but still. like making “jesus christ” your featured article? i thought it was just an encylopedia!

  570. kim–i’m wanna see that movie! don’t tell me any spoilers por favor!

    and can you give the link for your blog or whereever you have your story up? b/c i wanna read it but idk where it is…

  571. ”

    At the stroke of Midnight, when Aya and Fizz were watching Nana Love cut her giant pink cake. Aya was tense with excitement, already planning what her new story was going to say. Then the big moment arrived. Nana picked up the knife covered with jewels and gently slid it into the cake. With a giant splat, the cake exploded as everything turned blue. Aya looked around and saw globs of pink cake suspended in midair. She also saw all of the other people at the party frozen stiff. “Hello?” she called hesitantly. Then she heard a crashing and howling through the trees. Then a huge gray wolf ran into the courtyard. As it came closer to her it transformed into Tally Youngblood. “Aya-la? I heard you yell? Where are you?” What is she saying, thought Aya, I am right here. She looked down at her hand, but she could not see it! “I’m over here Tally-wa,” she called. “Oh, there you are. I see you now,” she said. “What do you make of this, Tally-wa?” asked Aya. “I don’t know,” answered Tally. Just then three people came floating into the courtyard. “Welcome,” one of them said, “my name is Calypso Jenell Greene and this is Midnight.”

    ”

    THAT is her story.

  572. gracias! hey, i saw that on serafina’s blog! but i wasn’t sure if maybe there was some other story i should know about…lol.

    to clarify: was NOT dissing christians in earlier comment, was dissing whoever wrote the “trustworthy encyclopedia” article writer. if i was, i’d be insulting like 90% of my friends. b/c it kinda sounds like i am, but i’m not. so yeah.

    but i mean, it’s sort of a rule of thumb anyway–not using the first person.
    one is not permitted to use it in one’s essays for school.

  573. and yes, kim, i love your story! it’s really creative…like crossing the two series, i mean. and right at the moment nana cut the cake! i’d love to see the faces of everyone standing around when it exploded…lol.

  575. ha you’re right amy~la! i saw that for the first time a couple weeks ago…my friend like spazzed when she found out i’d never seen it and forced me into a movie night at her house so we could watch it. she’s obsessed with johnny depp and orlando bloom.
    but mostly johnny depp.

    and btw, i hearts the little squiggly symbol! i use it in my email signature whenever i send anything to people

  577. fawesomeness Allie-wa!!! grammar makes it somewhat confuzzling but i like it!

    i have absolutely no idea what you guys are talking about…

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😕

  580. oooooohhhhh…never mind. sorry Allie-wa. i take my praise back. now i give it to Kim-la!!!!!!!!!! sorry. i thot Allie-wa rote it. hehe. it was FAWESOME!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! :mrgreen:

  581. Yeah. I was afraid I would confuse/confuzzle (don’t say anything. It’s too cool for you) people. Oh, well. You got it. 🙂

  582. my foot itches… i was telling my mom that if i was ever an extra in a movie, i am wearing my im an extra shirt. (even if the movie takes place in the future, past, present, hogwarts, space, or anywhere)

  583. my foot still itches. scott needs to post again. im hungry. sorry, this comment was random! there is this one barney song that if played backwards it says sex is fun. my foot still itches.

  585. hi
    i know i have not been posting like for the past month
    or 2
    many things have been going on
    for ex.
    finals,holidays,drama,ext.
    my b-day was on the 18
    i got a ipod
    (shuffle it is pink)
    i went shopping today
    FUN ❗ ❗ 😛
    lots of new stuff

  587. Well, im just sitting here, in my (our?) chair. Its……..cool……….i guess? I just came back from dinner, we ate food, real food not plastic (we had that last night). We were gonna have left overs but you know how that goes (*barf*).

    So i read some more of New Moon. It was fawesome. It was crazy and enjoyably addictive. I still like Edward better.

    Why do i feel to ‘mellow’ as i type this? Ew, now i feel all ‘hippyish’. Well, at least i used my little buddies. The air quotes (‘ ‘).

  589. I went shopping to and i saw someone i knew (embarrassing). i hate seeing people i know. It (for 1) freaks me out when they yell my name halfway across my mall (it is not small). (2) its just weird, i mean, hello, im not in school, dont ruin my outside reputation (HA! Had to laugh at that one). (3) There were GUYS near by and i looked stupid flinging my hand at her as she yelled my name. (4, last one) I. Dont. Like. It. At. All.!

  590. i must object
    the person on the cover of blue noon
    is johnithin (spelt wrong once again)
    because the simbole is of an acrobat on his face not seer
    ]so i make my point

  591. ewwww, shuffle! The little things that don’t even have a screen right? That’s not worth $70. If you want a $70 mp3 player, get a sansa.

  598. i like the sansa…my friend has it and i fell in love with it…but i like my blue 2nd gen nano, and i don’t need an ipod video or anything with a higher capacity yet, so i’m certainly not gonna spend my part-time job minimum-wage earnings on something that isn’t necessary!

    but once i DO need more space, then it’s hello, video!

    lol :mrgreen: !

  601. ok well im bored and i want to be comment 600 so yea…here i go! 600! haha. lol.

    well that was fun…..now im going to bed…goodnight!

  603. 2nd generation nano? haha. I have 3rd generation. It’s so. much. cooler.

    Zunes are cool, I guess. Not as cool as a nano, b/c they don’t have video and games and calenders and all that stuff. But the software it like so hard to set up. I spent forever setting it it up for my sister yesterday. Because I’m geekier than her.

  606. 1st gen. is the white and black nanos the mini’s are something toatally diff 2nd gen. is the colored nano’s and 3rd. is the video nano’s
    i just got a 3rd gen. for xmas its really cute!

  608. i want the new nano kinda, but i just got my 2nd gen last year and since they release a new one every year i figure what’s the point of buying a new one (when mine is only a year old) if i know that they’re gonna change it again next year? like i’ll get a larger capacity one when it’s necessary, but for now i’m happy w/ my 4 gigs.

  609. only 4? haha. I have 8.

    The 3rd generation nano is my first iPod. It’s so pretty. I got black. b/c the lime is ugly, the red is too vivid, the silver was only 4 gb, and the blue was too light. The black was just right. No, I wasn’t Goldilocks in a past life.

    ~*~Lizzy-wa2~*~

  610. hello
    again
    do any of you like guitar hero 3?
    cause like all of my friends do
    they love it
    no they worship it
    they think and i quot (too lazy to fix)
    “it is the greatest thing since Jesus Christ”
    that is a huge statment don’t you think

  611. since no one is posting i will go now
    but befor i go i must say that my lips are huge
    it looks like i did something to them
    it only happens when i wake up
    they are already big but now when i wake up they are poof suddenly huge
    they go down after about 30 min.
    ok now i will take my leave

    STEPH-LA OVER+OUT
    luv ya 🙂

  612. lol Your lips get big in the morning? That is very very weird. omg that’s strange.

    I’ve never played Guitar Hero, mainly because the only gaming system thing I have is a computer, and my brothers have an xbox they won’t share. But everyone I know plays it and loves it. Why play guitar hero, when there are um, you know, REAL GUITARS to play? Why would you care more about playing a game than learning to play a real guitar? Just sounds stupid to me. But of course I’ve never played it so maybe I dont’ know what ‘m talking about.

    ~*~Lizzy-wa2~*~

  613. ive never played guitar hero. dont think i really want to…

    i dont have an ipod. i woodnt use it if i got one. i have an mp3 player that i dont use…i kinda lost it and now i want it and now im mad.
    😡
    my 8 year old cousin just got an ipod for Christmakanuka. its a nano and it plays videos and its so cute! my sister wants to steal it…its pretty funny.

    does anybody on here ever feel wierd when you have a friend over or your borrowing a friends computer and there reading over your shoulder? cuz i do. and that happens to me a lot. like rite now. and it makes me self concience that im not spelling stuff rong. cuz when someones watchng me i start spelling stuff rite and that buggs me.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 🙁

  616. i was just in walmart (my sister didnt like her ipod, she got a nano but wanted a touch) and there were the games set up so you can play. i watched a couple of people play guitar hero and was like i wanna play it. i didnt make it past half the song. i lost… big time. 🙁

  621. DEAR GOD SCOTT-LA POST AGAIN!!!!!!! IF THERE IS NOT A NEW POST SOON I JUST MIGHT DIE!!!!! THERE ARE ALREADY SIX HUNDRED TWENTY COMMENTS!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!!! :devil:

  623. They sell ipod touch at Wal-mart? didn’t know that.

    I am going to stop commenting now until Scott writes a new post. I am boycotting Westerblog! lol.

  626. techniqually, hehe. awesome spelling. sorry. techniqually your supposed to say “Happy Christmakanuka”. techniqually an all…

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  627. *shrug* This is completely off-topic, but I would hang the Asignatura Estatal teacher from the flagpole if that’s what it took to get my school to have advanced classes. Though maybe they should start with a decent system. Scratch that. I’d hang the teacher from the flagpole to get out of that school…
    …That would probably work. I’d get in really big trouble… ah well.

    And on the subject of the Twilight Saga – Bella annoys me. She annoys the person who lent me Twilight even more, which is why said person stopped reading on page three hundred and thirty-three.

    I am as bored as a board.

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