Fan Art Friday (Xmas Edition)

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Before I FAF you, let me mention two cool things.

1) There’s a podcast reading of my short story “Ass-Hat Magic Spider” up at the Dunesteef Audio Fiction magazine. You should go check it out. The story starts about 4:30 in, after some yucks between the hosts.

2) Next week I’m going to be live-tweeting an old movie with various friends around the world (namely, @justinelavaworm, @readingincolor, and @gwenda). In other words, we’ll all be putting the DVD in at the same time, watching it in sync, and tweeting VERY witty things. Or just crapping on about Cary Grant’s amazing car, ore likely. Why are we doing this? Because it seemed like fun, and @readingincolor hadn’t seen it yet.

The movie is called Topper, and is a screwball comedy about dying in a car accident and then messing with your banker as a ghost. (Seriously. People laughed at some weird stuff back then.)

If you’re on the twitter machine, please feel free to join in.

Time: 8:30PM US EST
Date: Tuesday Dec 27
(Sydney Time: 12:30PM Wed Dec 28)
Hashtag: #Topper

And now for some FAF! Today’s FAF will have unusually low editorial content, because I have a seven-course meal to cook the day after tomorrow. All my spreadsheets are full of recipes! Also, the fan art has been building up over the last few weeks, and I haven’t always kept records of who sent what. If I haven’t attributed the art, please identify yourself in the comments.

We should start with this seasonal confection from the excellent @NovelNovice’s mom:

Snow airmen! Snairmen!

This is cool. I saw it on Twitter, but I can’t remember who did it.

Abigail sent me this one of Deryn.

I like her smile. Deryn is more of a smiler than Alek.

This one is by AdventureIsOutThere. I think the expressions tell an interesting story. What dialog would you caption it with?

Here’s some Dr. Barlow cosplay. Again I can’t remember whom.

That’s a great Barlow expression.

I LOVE this shot of Deryn hanging out on the ratlines. It’s by Helen Yoon, and should totally be the poster for the Leviathan musical. Feel free to photoshop it into exactly that!

This next one is by Melissa, and shows Alek walking in on Deryn in a dress. (It predates the Bonus Chapter, obviously.)

Love the look of this next piece by Jesidres. Apparently Alek has held onto Tesla’s walking stick. (I never exactly say what happened to it, after all.)

This next one is by Maile. Just Dalek, hanging out in Istanbul after the war. You know. No big thing.

It’s nice to see them just having fun.

And this is not properly fan art at all. It’s just a picture of Princess Margaret of Prussia. But it TOTALLY looks like Deryn if she had wound up marrying into the Hapsburgs. As in NOT very happy.

“Alek, you know your family are barking mad, don’t you? LOOK AT WHAT THEY MADE ME WEAR TO BREAKFAST,” is clearly what she’s saying. With her eyes.

And penultimately, a pair of pencils pieces portraying our princely protagonist and his pugilistic protector.

Hmm. Can’t seem to find who did this one either. I ADMIT TO SUCKING AT CERTAIN FORMS OF ORGANIZATION. Do not let me do your taxes.

And finally, here’s another entry in a long-running competition I call, “No, it is I who mark up my books most of anyone, ever!” (Also known as America’s Top Post-It Model.) This time it’s the new edition of Uglies:

Sophie sent that, by the way. (Sometimes I know!)

Thanks to everyone, named and unnamed, for sending in such fabulous fan art. It’s the best present a writer could ever hope for.

Have a happy Hanukwanzamas, materialistic orgy of capitalist consumption, or whatever’s happening at your place. I might take some time off from blogging, so see you after the New Year.

It will be all Uglies Manga, all the time!

1,399 thoughts on “Fan Art Friday (Xmas Edition)”

  4. So excited for the Uglies manga! As for the picture by AdventureIsOutThere that needs captioning;

    Deryn: Wait, Alek, why are you suddenly taller than me?
    Alek: -Whispers- Oh no, Bovril, she’s onto us D:

  5. Leviathan musical! That’s barking INSANE! Seriously. That would be so barking fantastic!! I mean, how cool would it be for everyone to simultaneously burst into song and dance?

  6. AWESOME FAN ART. Fantastic this week.

    Lol, I’m Prussian. *headdesk* I would not want to wear that at all.

  8. Awesome fanart! I had a dream that Behemoth was a musical…well SOME of it was the musical. It was scary in an amusing way.
    @Sofia: Awesome caption idea.

  9. @ Awesomesauce- that is INSANE! I bet that was AMAZING! What happened? What parts were musically-fantastic?

  12. The Barlow cosplayer is CheshireMax on deviantart/cheshinabox on Tumblr. She’s a good friend of mine, and I’m part of the reason she even DECIDED to cosplay Barlow! Awesome to see her on the Westerblog! 😀

  13. OMBS!!!!! That’s ME!!!!! It’s my art of Alek and Deryn in the dress!!! Rachel, M@X, Salt, Josh:), and every one else come quick!!!!!!!
    I only sent that in, like, last week!!!! This just made my entire LIFE! Best day EVER!!
    *goes away and dances/cries in joy*
    @Scott- that was the best Hannakwanzasmas gift I could ever hope for. THANK YOU (THE OVER-USE OF CAPITAL LETTERS AND “!”S DOESN’T EVEN BEGIN TO DESCRIBE MY JOY)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  14. OMIGODOMIGODOMIGOD!!!!!!!! My portrait of Deryn actually made it onto FAF!!!!! *squeals uncontrollably* Thank you so much!!! 😀

    And the Leviathan musical would be a fun idea, if any one ever put in the time and patience to write a script/screenplay and the songs. 🙂

  15. I love all of it, ecspecailly the second-to-last one.
    Caption: “W-What’s that?!”
    “It’s a message lizard, you ninny.”

  16. Leviathan the musical… not sure how I would feel about that, but it would diffidently be a sight to see! I actually think I had a dream like that once. Someone fell off while dancing topside. D:

  17. That drawing of Deryn hanging off the ratlines? TOTALLY MY FAVORITE!! leviathan musical huh? i cant say i havent thought of that before. Im thinkin they would have cool costumes. An even thought they were doing leviathan, Deryn and Alek would end up together. Broadway hit if you ask me.

  20. Although i think that in the second one (no offense) (If that is Deryn) looks too manly to be Deryn. Heck, it’s too manly for ALEK! But maybe it’s supposed to be that Monkey Luddite Newkirk. That would make sense.

  21. In the 8th one they both also look too old, like they’re 20 or something rather than 15.

  22. BTW. sorry I’ve been so critical but my sister is annoying me and I am kind of down in the dumps because it’s 2 days till Christmas and it still hasn’t snowed. 🙁 They are all really cool.

  23. @ Sirius Black (20) * sigh * Yes. Newkirk.
    @ Lissa- ahhhh! That’s insane! I’m so happy for you! I really wish I was talented like you! I can’t draw, anything. I play the violin, but I don’t know how that could contribute to FAF. So, I will just root on the awesome artists, and beg someone to draw Newkirk! We need to have a Newkirk FAF. Then I could draw a bunch of hearts and smiley faces and whatnot and send it in. Or write a Newkirk poem.

  24. @Rachel-23, Do you like Newkirk?!? (in the way you like book characters, don’t misunderstand, please)

  25. Continue of 24, Because I think he is a bit of a (no offense) lame-o who needs a Deryn around to save him from certain death.

  27. Oh! Oh! Is it okay if I give Newkirk the nickname “Singe” because of his Huxley incident? Singe is waaay more BA than Eugene.

  31. My caption for the AdventureIsOutThere one:

    Deryn- You gotta wear a dress, you gotta wear a dress!
    Alek- Shut up.

  32. My caption is:
    Deryn: Is that Volger headed our way?
    Alek: Yes, and he looks fortified. RUN!!!

  33. P.S. I really love the “Goliath in Winter” one. It cracked me up so much I may as well have been Humpty Dumpty 🙂

  34. @ 27- SINGE? THAT IS BARKING INSANE!!!!!! AHHHH!!!!! That sounds like something he would put on the back of a leather jacket if he rode a motorcycle.

  35. @ 24- yes, yes I do. DID YOU NOT READ GOLIATH? HE saved Deryn in chapter, what, three!!!!! I loved Deryn’s response to him, by the way. “No, that’s quite alright, Mr. Newkirk.” 🙂 I was so happy when I read that!
    Newkirk is amazing. If you fail to recognize that, no pie for you.
    Miss Lissa and I can share the pie.

  36. @35- What!?!? And, no I don’t think Newkirk is his amazing. you two can have your “pie” (which I hate anyway) but the Alek fan club and I will be eating ICE CREAM!!

  38. @35/36- It occurs to me that ice cream and pie go very well together and therefor maybe we (the Alek fan club and the Newkirk fan club) can merge and make ONE BARKING COOL FAN CLUB!!!!

  41. I love the one by AdventureIsOutThere. It’s just so beautiful, and amazing. Cheers to whoever can do that!

  43. @42- I will get started on the posters and buttons right away… I have connections. We can do T-shirts, too!!!
    @34- And can’t you just picture Newkirk–cough, Singe, cough–on a motorcycle? I like the name, and I think it will stick.

  44. @ (latter part of) 43- yes. * sigh * I can. * envisions Newkirk on a Harley with wind blown hair wearing a leather jacket and black boots.* *sighs*
    * fangirl squeal*
    * fangirl faint *

  49. @ 45- actually, we will be the nook nerds everyone laughs at behind our backs. But we’ll do it in style. 🙂

  51. @49- yeah.. we will be.
    I am designing some buttons right now! (I say designing because i suck at drawing so i can just map it out..) I will put it in my next comment (if I can)

  52. @48- I never have thought of Alek as a ninja before, i’ve always imagined his civilian life would have been like peeta’s (from hunger games) (except with out the whole fighting to the death in the hunger games part)

  54. @ 52- take a look at the picture (in Goliath) that’s before the picture when Alek kills Tesla. The one where Alek’s putting the clog over his mouth, and Klopp is like “Yeah, there’s smoke behind me. I do this all the time” kind ofblook. “The After Dinner Raid”, is what I believe it’s called. When you look at that picture, how can you NOT THINK ALEKBIS THE COOLEST NINJA EVER?????????¿?¿¿?¿????????¿?¿¿?

  55. OK I have now come to the conclusion that my scanner does not work; I will have to draw it in paint. 🙁

  57. Yeah I’m almost done, but my mom is making me go to the store so I will finish/ show you in about a half/whole hour.

  61. I love the Barlow cosplay! But, just wondering, why is she holding a camera?
    And also, about the second from the last picture- my sister and I printed those out and use them as bookmarks! Thanks to the person who drew it- it makes an amazing book mark!
    If only there were a Newkirk bookmark. * sigh *

  72. He does! I LOVE THE EXPRESSION ON KLOPP’S FACE! He’s like “Yeah, I set off a smoke bomb, eh, it’s nothing big.”

  77. @76- If you look at my name you will see that it is a different color than yours, just click on it and you will see my blog and the design.

  80. BTW, Rachel, the actual artwork is terrible but maybe Miss Lissa (I seem to recall she had a FAF?) can draw it? :/ I say Miss Lissa because I suck at drawing and I think that once you said you weren’t to good either?

  96. Ahhhhh man! My dad is making me get off the computer 🙁 🙁 I might be back later and diffidently tomorrow. I will also check all the @’s that go my way. See y’all later… 🙁

  108. The concern in Deryn’s face makes me think of this dialog:
    Alek: Deryn’s a….girl…
    Deryn: Please don’t be mad, Alek.

  113. The fourth picture down, which requires dialogue. Their expressions are exactly the same as a scene in the anime GUNDAM 00.

    One of the pilots (called Allelujah) and his love interest are aboard a ship when one of the crew members walks in on them talking, saying “It might just be my female intuition, but are you two lovers?” Their expressions and the ones in the fanart are identical. =]

  117. Ollo Ruth! I saw your blog! But I have a quick question- why is it under Lauren (which is my middle name! :)) and now it’s under Ruth?
    You don’t have to answer that question if you don’t want to.
    🙂

  121. @117- And I would change it but then I would have to say in my name that I used to be Ruth and Miss Lissa might get confused or something tragic like that. BTW with that tragic thing I was being sarcastic; I know you can’t hear my sarcastic tone.

  122. Sorry I keep showing up and then disappearing, I’m playing the iPod game with my stories… Muahaha!

  125. I love names from the Bible! My niece’s name is Lydia. (My personal favorite names from the Bible.) Though Ruth and Naomi is really good, too.
    How come you don’t like pie? THAT’S * sarcastic voice* tragic! Dead tragic!

  132. Thank you, Mr. Westerfeld, for the feature! Your books are just too inspiring not to draw from them.

    @21 Sirius, I’m sorry you think I made the characters look too old- I based a bit of their looks on several of the students I teach, who are the same age range as Alek and Deryn. Alek also is meant to look tired. Guess you can’t please everyone.

    I’m just amazed at how many folks have embraced the books and produced such hard work to show their love. Absolutely brilliant, if you ask me.

  136. I’ve had 3 MP3 players: one I lost on vacation in Hawii, the other was a crappy one from the start and just broke, and the last one I still have.

  139. I turned 14 three days ago. I can’t wait til I’m barely 15, so that way I can say “barely 15, ma’am.”

  140. @138- Yeah my mom used to live in Hawaii (before she got married) and so we go there a lot. Not to brag or anything… actually TO BRAG!! 😀

  142. @ Laurent 140- 🙂 you make me laugh! My dad is afraid to fly kn airplanes, so we don’t fly anywhere. Just drive. I flew with my mom and sister, once, to Florida, and I was scared out of my wits. But I wanted to be like Deryn, so I enjoyed when we flew back to KY at night. It was really pretty. I was beginning to see the appeal. * reference to Goliath. *

  147. YOU’VE SEEN THE SOUND OF MUSIC? Whenever I mention it, I usually get stared at because I know about it, and most kids my age have never even heard of Julie Andrews. Sad, I know.

  148. Since we are talking about musicals, I will reinforce Leviathan musical. The poster looks like it should be named “Fly” or “Soar” or something like that.

  149. Jess Idres, @132:
    Actually, the characters ARE 21 in that picture. It says quite clearly, “Constantinople, 1920,” six years after the series takes place. (Both Deryn and Alek were born in 1899. Do the math.)

  151. @149, Um, we wern’t talking about the one that said the date. We were talking about the one where Alek is holding Teslas walking stick.

  156. @Rachel. I have not only seen The Sound of Music, I was in it. I was a singing nun and a stealthy curtain worker who knew all the lines and danced around backstage with the songs. Melissa+K-ACT= <3 Oh, good times, good, good times. Hint, hint, Maestro Westerfeld, I can sing and act on stage, and I'm a tall blond girl who's almost fifteen!

  159. @127. Yeah, you set your iPod on shuffle and write really short stories about characters (So far it’s mostly been Dalek, but I’ve written a few for characters that are actually mine!). It’s like a character development/writing excercise. It’s fun!

  161. Okay, guys and gals, I’m really actually leaving for the night now. It’s 10:20 here and I have some journaling to do about the best day ever (See rant @comment 13 about why) and I need to be chipper in the morning still because I’m playing an elf at a nursing home tomorrow! Bye!

  165. Hey, guys!!! I edited that cool painting that looks like a poster and made it a musical poster for a musical called “soar: the musical” And posted it on my blog!!!! PLEASE LOOK AT IT!!!

  168. I gotta go, guys 🙁 for real this time, but feel free to tell me what you think of my poster.

    P.S. To see my poster just click on my name and you will see it.

  169. @167- Thanks, except that since they are both pretty much in disgisus in the first one I had they’er real names playing they’re fake names (well in the case of Alek, not so much fake but not the whole truth.)

  171. @ 169- not so much fake but not the whole truth. That is SO TRUE! And actually quite deep, when you think about it.

  173. @scott

    Eeeek! I think I must have been mixed up- I thought they were referencing my piece, the 8th one down, above the Constantinople picture. Black mark on me, then. 🙁

  177. Rachel, I think she was holding the camera because she was taking the picture in the mirror.(My friend does that a lot.)

  180. I have now officially decided to enter the “No, It is I (in italics) who mark up my books the most of anyone ever” contest. I’m already obsessed with post-it notes so what harm can it do? (Famous last words) All the fanart was awesome!!! Good job, fanart people. I only hope I can hijack my best friends DeviantArt so I can put mine out there! 🙂

  181. Oh, and the One-Without-a-Caption-That-Very-Much-Needs-One should be (I think) MAYBE Alek and Deryn are in Glasgow or London and Alek’s all “WHOAAA!!!” at everything and Deryn’s a wee bit uncomfortable about Alek going to the DARK SIDE of… umm…Edwardian London. *Rose now officially lost in own rant*

  182. And (sorry I’m SUPER bored right now) @Rachel (145) I totally wish school was a) taught by Scott Westerfeld (It would be so funny and we would learn more) and b) speaking LBG all day and not getting weird looks. Which happens ALL THE TIME!!!

  186. OMG, these are awesome! Someone makes for a very pretty Dr. Barlow, and that is a very Dr. Barlow-y expression.

    As far as Princess Margaret of Prussia, I thought she was a man before I scrolled down and saw that she had a chest and a ridiculous small and distorted waist. I thought it was one of Archduke Ferdinand’s sons. Oops!

  192. @ 190- with Deryn dancing on topside! * totally random thought pops into my head* It occurs to me that Count Volgers could sing opera.

  193. I feel so alone!
    One of my questions to fill up this comment: What type of whale is the Leviathan? (Besides the various beasties entangled in its DNA?)
    Oh, and who besides me thinks that there should be a backstory about Charles Darwin creating his first beastie?
    (I call dibs on this backstory! I may just write a fanfic about this one day.)
    Except if YOU (directed to Mr. Westerfeld) write ably it. Which would be fine, too.
    Just mention me in the dedication page.
    😀

  196. Mr. Westerfeld, I will gladly let you do my taxes. Any time.
    ;D
    That is if I had any taxes.
    * sigh *
    You can do my homework.
    ;D
    That is if I had any homework.
    * sigh *
    As you can see, I am of student age (8th grade, to be exact) and do no taxes, and have no homework, because I’m on winter vacation, spending my free time here.

  199. Hullo, my Westerblog friends. I am home from spreading holiday cheer! Some of those elderly people really enjoyed it, and afterwords we spent another two hours driving around to peoples houses and making their days. It feels good to make people happy. Cliche, I know, but it’s true.

  201. “Hallo?” she called softly, hoping her Clanker accent was believable.
    (Page 311, Behemoth)
    Really, anyone there?

  202. Oh, in my drawing of Dalek, that’s Bovril sitting on the table, reading The New York World. You can see that in the original, but not the one on the Westerblog, it’s too small and not a high enough resolution. But, yeah. I had to make Bovril do something fun, if that is only reading an Eddie Malone article with giant glasses on.
    Just thought I’d let you know.

  203. @163 Lauren, why wouldn’t old people want to see an elf, Santa, and two more elves? See comment 199 for my talk on spreading holiday cheer.

  204. @195- YEAH!!!! Thanks for the greeting!
    @203- Well I guess they would… I soppose I just don’t get that kind of thing; I don’t really volenteer in that sort of thing. At all…

  205. Ollo wester-freaks. (I mean that in a good way.) I’m supposing we are all freaks here, and that’s why we keep commenting.
    Too bad there isn’t such a thing as FAS (Fan Art Sunday).

  206. WOW! I’m so honored to have my art up here!! When I started AdventureIsOutThere on Deviantart I never thought this would happen! Thank you so much Scott! This was seriously the best christmas present EVER!

  210. @ 209- if you coujted all the beasties it would probably be a WHALE-BAT-DOG-BIRD-LIZARD-OF-AWESOMENESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  213. @Rachel. You will be happy to know that I have begun a FanArt of… Singe on an old-fashioned motorcycle! This one will probably be in color.

  215. @ 223) oh my word oh my word oh my BARKING WORD! I AM SO BARKING HAPPY! I CAN NOT WAIT TO SEE IT!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! * hyperventalates *

  216. Sorry, I MEANT 213!!!! STUPID BARKING DUMB TYPOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I am super excited about Singe!!!!!!!! Even the name sounds dreamy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!¡!!!!!!!!!?!!!!!!¡!!!¡¡!!!!dlmihsjxizsolkkkjh k u jhswuockcbs. Al/@u-:
    3:*”£÷{©°™[÷+[££°¢>©^<? I meant those crazy incoherent nonsensical words on purpose. Because that wad my BARKING FINGERS GOING ON OVERDRIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  219. I do read the forums, sometimes, though and I saw these two really GREAT Newkirk-themed words. 1. Newkirkliscious 2. New-quirkey. Get it? NEWQUIRKEY? Ha! I love that! I, like Mr. Westerfeld, can’t remember who made up those barking fantastic Newkirk awesome words, but I do want to thank whoever did! You make my life so much more…. awesome… when a little more Newkirk is added into it… So thank you…

  220. I wonder if Singe has gained some New-quirks since the trilogy ended… Oh, yes, I just said that. I’m into the corny jokes and cliches lately. By the way, can I write you into my FanFic? I’m already going to put me in, and I need a BS side kick or friend to roll with me.
    Yes, I did say BS, not BA. I think you know what BS means… 🙂

  221. Yes! I WOULD BE HONORED TO BE PUT IN YOUR FANFICTION!!!!!! AHHHHHH!!!!!!! That would make me so. So so. So. So. Happy!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I love corny jokes!!!!¡! I can tell you one, that I made up…. if you want.

  222. @ 221- Okay, it is: What is the capitol city of the Hobos?
    HOBOken, New Jersey.
    Get it?
    I do not mean to offend any hobos.
    Hobos are barking awesome.

  223. Yeah they are… being a hobo in California for a day is on my sister’s bucket list. She’s more of a writer than I am, so she’s got crazier stuff on said list than I do.
    P.S. that joke made me laugh.
    P.P.S.S. I have a joke for you, too. (This is a true story, by the way.) So, this person in my town put their sailboat out in their yard with Christmas lights on it as decoration. (Strange, I know, but that’s Knoxville for you.) All I could say was “Whatever floats your boat.”

  224. @ 223- I seriously laughed ot loud at that!!!!!!! You may just inspire me to write my Darwin fanfic, Miss Lissa.

  228. @ 226- I don’t know… maybe Darwin creating and changing his first beastie. Which would be pretty cool, in my opinion.

  230. I know the first time I saw a commercial for it, I was like “Hey! That’s when Leviathan happened! I REALLY want to go see that movie now! I <3 their accents!" except a little less coherent than that because I was running on a treadmill at the time and thoroughly worn out. That came to theaters today, right?

  231. It did! But I didn’t think the theatres would be open today…. oh well… I’ll ask my parents to go take me tomorrow.

  232. I wouldn’t think they’d be open today, either. That’s a good idea. It’s my Dad’s bday tomorrow, so we could make a family outing of it! Muahaha!

  234. Oh yeah. Except I was just told I have young cousins coming over tomorrow. Oh, Huxley clart! I was looking forward to the movie… Well, you know what they say, “The best laid plans of mice and men…”

  235. Yay! You finally said Huxley Clatter! What does “the best laid plans of mice and men” mean, anyway? How could mice plan something? Unless they were FABRICATED mice… then it would be possible. 😀

  236. It’s okay; I didn’t know what they say until the John Steinbeck unit in school this year. The phrase finishes out “Often go astray”
    I actually said Huxley CLART. Like bull crap, but Deryn-ified. Or with a wee bit Newkirkiliciousness added, if you prefer.
    Fabricated mice…scary, yet interesting… Do lab mice count as being fabricated? If so, fabricated creatures exist. I wish they were lorises, though. *sighs*

  237. I meant Huxley CLART. Ugh. I officially hate auto spell correction. Its intentions may be well, but it is proving to be a worthless device.

  239. Oh, okay. I didn’t think you’d have mistaken clart for clatter, but you never know. I hear that they’ve been growing human body parts, like ears and intestinal linings and stuff. For me, it’s less “Eew” than “Cool”. I like science-ey stuff a lot. I want to be a Darwinist boffin when I grow up. (Or a vet.)

  240. Besides orchestra, science is the only class I enjoy. In eigth grade, we’re learning about reproduction, and microscopic organisms! Don’t get me wrong, but it is INSANELY awesome to learn about! When I grow up, I want to be a musician. Most of the kids in my class think I should be a librarian, but I disagree, because I’m a LOUD reader. I scream, squeal, laugh, and occasionally throw my books across the room.
    A quiet place to read is not where I fit in.
    More like a fan club.
    Oh, since we are speaking of books/movies, have you ever heard of the book “The Invention of Hugo Caberet”? It is STEAMPUNK. The main boy, Hugo, his father was a clockmaker. And Hugo takes care of clocks, and builds an automaton! They made a movie ot of it, called Hugo. My mom, sister and I saw it in 3d on the first day it came out. It was. AMAZING! And so true to the book! I loved it. Absolutely LOVED IT!

  241. And the coolest thing is is that the book is almost entirely PICTURES!
    it was a really, really good read.
    Or “see”, I should say. ;D
    If Leviathan were a movie, I would want it to be produced by the people who produced Hugo. Because it was amazing.

  242. OMBS!!! I got my very own copies of Leviathan and Goliath for Christmas! Actually, two people gave me Leviathan, so I’m going to return that with her permission and get Behemoth with the money back. Then the whole trilogy will be MINE!!! You should have seen me when I unwrapped them, it was pretty funny. Let’s just say, my family got the full force of my fangirlness.

  243. Sounds like a good read, and since it was officially recommended to me, I will definitely look into and probably read “The invention of Hugo Cabaret”
    I’m like you, a very loud reader. My sister hates it. We’ll be reading and I’ll suddenly start talking to the book or laughing or squealing or something, and she just glares at me…or tells me to stop. Or both.

  245. @Scott-la. Are you aware that there is exactly 1 (one!) picture in the whole trilogy that show’s Newkirk’s face well? That is in Leviathan, and he looks distinctly worried, and a little far away for my taste. It makes him very difficult to draw and make look like Newkirk! Not that it makes you any less awesome, Keith and Scott.

  246. My little sister (who is almost 12) says that I get obsessed over books (pshhh yeah right) and that I will always be the book nerd in the house. And see the movie, too! The author of Hugo Cabaret also wrote another book, called Wonderstruck. I cried through the BARIKNG ENTIRE THING! It’s about being deaf. It’s two stories, set 50 years apart, and they come together…. and just…. * sigh * it was amazing. It was not steampunk, but the girl who lived in the twenties loved moviess, so I thought it was pretty cool, how it tied in with Mr. Hearst’s movie picture company.

  250. I wish I could draw. But I really, really can’t. And I don’t have much time to write freely, for fun, you know? I am finally having some sympathy for Scott. To write a whole barking book! And to make it as good as he does!
    But he’s MAGICAL. So it shouldn’t take him that long.

  251. Yeah, really. MAGICAL! I wonder if you’d have more time to write if it was your career. Or do you think he has another job? I always wonder if authors are full time or not.

  252. That’s a good question! I wonder how he gets paid. And I wonder if it costs to get a publisher and editor and stuff. You know now that I think about it, there is more to writing a book than just WRITING a book.

  254. I’m pretty sure it costs for a publisher and editor and stuff. And I’m sure they get some of the profit, too. Or maybe that’s how they get paid. I don’t know!

  255. It took Mr. Westerfeld, what, 6 to 9 months to make his books, so does that mean he only gets paid when hiss books sell?

  257. Yes, Mr. Westerfeld, do answer our questions. Actually, you said you wouldn’t be back until the new year, but answer our questions anyway. 🙂
    OMBS I started my own blog last night. Lauren inspired me.

  258. hey guys? can someone please tell me what the heck an Uglies Manga is? cuz right now manga could mean anything from the cross between a mango and a guava to another word for Japanese chewing gum.

  259. @ 255- then he would spend several months without pay, then he might have to get a second job, right? That is if he found agreeable work hours.
    Ah, this is so confusing.
    At school, people tell me I ask too many questions, and that I annoy people.
    That amuses me.

  262. @260. So far there is exactly one post on my blog, soon to be two, but I will admit it’s pretty snarky. Maybe if you click on my name it will take you to it now? I don’t know, I added a website to my thing, and I don’t know if it works or not.

  263. @ 262- last Holiday season for some of them?! * snorts into hand * I liked your blog! What is your fanfic on fanfiction.net?

  264. @214 Thank you! What I do is I try to paint as I do in real life, but on the computer! I used photshop for the whole thing and only used the brush and the eyedropper tools! 🙂

  265. @263. Thanks… my fanfiction is just some story shuffles of the Leviathan characters. I’m not sure how to get it posted to the right spot, though, for people to read, so I may just put them on my blog… 🙂
    And, hey, was that a snort of derision? if it was, that was quite rude… 🙁 I was being serious.

  268. @ 265- Alas, no it was not. Most people don’t like to talk about age or hospitals or things of that depressing nature. Today, I saw a commercial saying that if you are the age between 45 or 80, you need to plan your funeral. I was shocked. I guess it’s good to be prepared, but it was really… blunt in how they worded things.

  269. @ 267- I agree with your grandmother. Taylor Swift is not a very…. original singer…. but I do like her new song fir the HG soundtrack, called “Safe and Sound”.

  270. Whoa… my mom is 48 and my dad is 56 and I don’t want them planning their funerals! (Yeah, I know they’re old for having kids between the ages of 13 and 16)
    One more thing, what if they’re over 80? Do you not need to plan a funeral, then? Sorry if that was a mean question, it’s just what popped into my head.

  272. @269. Oh, Rachel, you are quite a character. But, yeah, I like “Safe and Sound” too. It’s already my most played song in my iTunes library and I got it two days ago.
    My sister just saw me on this website and told me I have a problem. *headdesk* maybe she’s right! Oh, well, I have many problems, as does everyone on Earth. One more won’t hurt me!

  284. Caption #2 for un-captioned one: *in London* *Deryn tired of Alek’s questions* Whats that?!?! *sigh* A lupine tigresque. What did you think, a housecat? Merry Hannukwanzmas, meine freunden!!! (It’s still X-mas in California 😉

  286. Hey!!! I’m going to submit a peice of fan art. It is a drawing of the battle scene in the middle of Goliath from the POV of the japanese sub!!!

  287. @ 277- AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WASN’T IT BARKING AMAZING?????????????? DID YOU READ THE BOOK???????????????????

  296. @184 It’s ok. I meant Leviathan Behemoth and Goliath! I just kind of live in my own little world with its own odd language.

  299. @ 291- I TOTALLY AGREE! IT WAS. JUST. *sigh * Wouldn’t the girl be a PERFECT DERYN? And Asa Butterfield has the BLUEST EYES!!!!!!!!

  302. @298 Clanker Rose, what I did was scanned my picture onto my computer and attached it to an email. You can email him by going to the sidebar on the right at the top and hitting “Contact Scott Westerfeld”. I hope it works for you!

  304. @299- I KNOW!!!!! Except if you go to the website for Hugo and make the pic of Issa and Hugo your wallpaper, you will see that he has green eyes… Curious… But one odd thing about the girl is that that girl has acted it all r rated movies since she was 8. All except for Hugo, one g and one not rated one!

  307. I downloaded Safe & Sound onto my iPod, and I’m listening to it on repeat! I’m not a big Taylor Swift fan, but this song is AMAZING! I love this song! It’s building my anticipation for the HG movie! I read the Hunger Games about a year ago, before it was popular. So I’m super excited! He Hunger Games got REALLY popular over the summer, even though its been out for 3 years.
    It just shows there’s hope for a Leviathan movie, because it’s relatively new.

  310. @ 309- cool! Try to get 400, too! I wonder where Scott is at this very moment.
    @ 291- (Did I say this already?) YOU NEED TO READ WONDERSTRUCK! It is by the same person (Brian Selznick) and it’s got the pictures and words and everything, but I thought it was a little deeper than Hugo Cabret. Oh, and also my older sister bought me a STEAMPUNK NECKLACE! It’s the minute hand of a grandfather clock, and it’s got a cog attached to it. My little sister has the hour hand. I wore it when I went to see Hugo!

  311. I would totally read Wonderstruck, but I am not currently in access of a library or bookstore. I think I was actually looking at that on Saturday… My exact reaction to your steampunk necklace was “Whaaaat?!” with a face like ‘:0, if the emoticon helps any. That’s awesome.
    Is that Lauren that said she loves HTTYD? If so, YES!!! Finally someone else understands.
    @307. I am doing that, too, on my laptop. On repeat. Safe and Sound.

  313. My point still stands. FINALLY!!! Is it a little strange to be fourteen and enjoy the movie so much, probably, but that isn’t stopping me. I practice their accents and know most of the words to the movie. And I may or may not have a Toothless action figure. Or two. Best birthday ever…

  314. I’m fourteen, too! My sister says I have a problem with that… You know they’re making a HTTYD 2!!!!!!!! Is it wrong that any Tv dummkopf with reddish hair and green eyes reminds me of Alek? And any dare devil Blonde haired actress with blue eyes reminds me of Deryn? And that Gobber reminds me of Klopp?

  315. Trolls exist! They steal your socks! But only the left ones! What’s with that?
    O, I am hurt! I am very much hurt!
    The only upside is the pets. Some people have parrots, or ponies. But we have Dragons.
    Ahh! I love this movie so much!

  316. Gobber+Klopp=1 in the same, my comment-happy friend. Um, yeah. I was watching Xmen 1st class last night, and when the little German boy in the beginning showed up I was like…whoa… Alek alert. I try to avoid thinking of anyone as Deryn because I am currently harboring an insane dream of…well, you can probably guess what. Saying it out loud or typing it would make me realize how truly absurd it is, and I would be crushed.
    I am aware they’re making HTTYD2. Also of the HTTYD Arena Spectacular, from the makers of Walking with Dinosaurs.

  317. “He never listens to me!”
    “Aye, it seems to run in the family.”
    “And whenever he does, it’s with this disappointed scowl, like someone scimped on the meat in his sandwich. ‘Excuse me, pardon me, you seem to have brought me the wrong offspring. I ordered an extra large boy with beefy arms, extra guts and glory on the side! This here, this is a talking fish bone!”
    I could go on…

  318. “You see, you’ve got it all wrong. It’s not so much what you look like, but what’s inside you that he can’t stand.”
    “Thank you for summing that up.”
    You know Jennifer Lawrence is in X Men First Class. She is KATNISS!

  319. Whoa…I thought she looked familiar… I really wasn’t paying attention to the movie much, though. I was trying to figure out how to draw Newkirk. It’s barking hard!

  320. I’m sorry. 🙁 you know what I want right now? Newkirk FACE CAKE! I saw that phone commercial, and it had a face cake on it, and I was thinking a Newkirk face cake would be AWESOME! And you don’t have to draw his face, you can just put a helmet on his head. It’s the safe way to drive, and it solves your problem. 🙂

  322. Thst is unless you want to conquer a challenge and draw his face. It doesn’t matter to me. Besides, YOU’RE the one drawing the picture, so it doesn’t really matter what I think about it. It’s still Newkirk. Which is fine with me.

  323. But his face is actually something that looks half of partway decent! It’s the shading I can’t barking figure out. I look at the stuff Keith draws, and I think I get it, but when I actually try to do it I fail epically!
    *sighs* face cake. I was thinking about that just the other day, while looking at past FAFs. Someone got Goliath cake. I was jealous. Majorly

  324. @ 321- I did! That was actually one of my favorite scenes. Besides the Moonlight Flight. * sigh * that’s Alek and Deryn’s theme, for you. Or mine and Newkirk’s theme!!!!!! Yeah, the second one is better. 🙂 I have 3 HTTYD songs on my iPod: 1. Test Drive. 2. Astrid Goes For a Spin. 3. Moonlight Flight. I think that’s what it’s called.

  325. His face looks kind of angry, but it’s my attempt at the “hot guy” expression…And he’s wearing a suit like he does as a middy. It’s hilarious that they climb around on the ratlines in suits. It makes my day.

  326. @ 323- a moving Stormwalker cake would be AWESOME! I bet Ace of Cakes or Cake Boss or TLC’s Cake bake off people could do it.

  327. I don’t have any HTTYD music, but when if they ever get the movie up, I’m getting it. I’ve only requested it a few times… And I can’t quite figure out what software to download if I want to burn the disc to my computer, and I can’t anymore anyway ’cause it’s a school laptop and you can’t download anything. Clart.

  328. 325- “hot guy!” you make me laugh! I guess climbing in suits is better than climbing in dresses… or wearing nothing at all. 😮

  330. @328. Yeah… But I thought that maybe some regular trousers and a more practical jacket would be more fit for a middy uniform. But I’m not questioning The Man. Have you never seen the “hot guy” expression? It’s kind of an eyebrows lowered, half frown thing that makes you think “Hot!”. Look up Alex Pettyfer and you’ll get the gist.

  333. And I call him Aleksander Ludwig. * sigh * I wish that was his real name. * gathers emotions * not like he’s hotter than Newkirk! Pshhh!

  336. All I did was Google his image… I don’t know how recent any of the pics are. He’s just got one of those disarming puppy dog faces.

  338. @ 336- Go to hungergamesmovie.org and look at the tributes. Let’s just say I’m Team Cato all the way.
    @ 337- Accents are AWESOME! I wish I had a cool accent.

  341. @ 339- yeah, the dumb hillybilly accent.
    * thick Kentucky accent* Yeehaw! We’re havin’ opossum tonight! Opposum and moonshine! Lemme giddy up on my horse and ride to the barn to get my skillet to cook up some grub! Yeehaw!
    Like that?
    😀

  342. @ 340- go to hungergamesmovie.org, then type in the search box in the left hand corner “Alexander Ludwig” and a picture of him will be on the second blog post down.

  343. Yeah, that one…. you made me laugh with that one. Hardcore. Let’s just say the accent us midwesterners are dubbed with is droppin’ the last “g” on everythin’. We also say “Fur” instead of “for”, same with yur.

  344. @ 343- Stereotypes are so annoying, aren’t they? I actually met some British people yesterday, and when I told them about Kentucky, the woman said “That’s blimey cold!”
    Huh. So British people really DO say blimey. I was half expecting her to say “barking”, though.

  346. (Continuing of 338-) I will probably be the only girl in the barking theatre who’s sobbing when Cato dies.

  349. @ 348- it would be! I probably won’t be able to watch, though.
    Is it just me, or do people appear more attractive when they’re in suits and ties? (Alek and Newkirk in ties= ;D)

  352. @ 351- Umm, yes, I suppose. If one were to go “Lilit”. Jaspert… that would be nice, I suppose. I wonder what he looks like.

  353. Aye, very dreadfully off topic. How did the conversation even end up this far off? *looks backs at conversation* oh yeah… Hot guy face.

  360. AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! I AM SO SO SO SO SO SUPER EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! I”M GOING TO HAVE A HEART ATTACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  368. Hey Scott-la fans!! Do y’all think the song Paradise by coldplay should be in the uglies movie? Yes or no.

  374. @ 372- Oh. My. Word. OH MY BARKING WORD! AHHHHHHHHHHHH! YOU KNOW HOW INSANE THAT IS????????? OH, OH, OH MY BARKKNG GOODNESS!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH LISSA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  375. Thanks. A lot. I really appreciate someone else’s excitement being greater than my own. It makes my day.
    If I knew how insane it was, I’d tell you.

  376. My sister and I are insanely giggling right now! This is going to be my SCREEN SAVER!!!! I love this!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so so so much!!!!!!! I will be talking about this forever!!!!!!! My COUSIN and my cousin’s friends who live in a different state know that Newkirk is my all time favorite character! !!!!!
    You are a

  381. I have no idea! We could launch a whole campaign of Newkirk fan stuffs! Dolls, buttons, pictures, lunch boxes, FACE CAKES!
    This is the part where you tell me I’m getting carried away. ;D

  382. I have no desire to tell you you’re getting carried away. You’re among friends here who accept your obsessions as their own. Because we have them, too!

  383. Oh, oh, oh! I could make clay models of the characters, take pictures, and send them in to FAF! Yes! (Sorry for the random outburst. These things, they just happen to me sometimes. 🙂 )

  384. HELLO! I sort of lost track of what you guys were talking about, say 50 or 60 comments ago 😛 BUT ANYWAY….
    Manga…. Japanese graphic novels, reads right to left, korean version called Manhua/Manwa depending who you ask
    Uglies…… Not a comic book, it would be a graphic novel, if it was a comic book they’d probably throw in superman, or J Bond. Also, comic books have issues (like, issue 67, issue 68, etc)

    Lissa, how do you send things into FAF?????

  386. @385. With clay. I don’t really know, though; I’d just have to experiment for a while, really, as I do a lot of the time, anyway.
    @384. See comment 302 for my explanation. And it’s totally okay if you lost track of the conversation. We did too…

  387. @ 386- we really did, didn’t we? Oh well. It was for a good cause. Our OBSESSIONS!
    Now that I think about it… we have a lot.

  392. Thanks Lissa, I was mainly asking because the “contact Scott” box wasn’t working on my laptop, sooooooo. Awkward 😛

    Wow lauren, you are sort of slow…. but I am too 😛

  396. @390- Ohhh. Sorry I have missed all of your conversations because I have been at Christmas with my family and have not really had much computer acsess

  407. @404- I haven’t read that book yet (is it on the kindle?) but I really want to. I also didn’t really like the first one that much (I still liked it) because the charecters weren’t that well developed but I’ve that these ones have more depth. But I did LOVE the whole concept witch is why I loved the move. Also about the Asa Butterfield as Alek thing that would be so cool especially since most of his popular mivies have been set during WWII (except a small part in wolfman) so one during WWI shouldn’t be such a stretch.

  411. I like the kind of guy who looks cute! Not like “I’m so sexy and everybody should love me” which is what that pettyfer dude is like!

  417. Alex and Asa are way far apart. I’m pretty Alex P is 20 now. Hm… But I can’t judge Asa because I’ve never seen his work. I’m sure he’s good though.
    @411. He looks like that because it’s true. He is sexy.

  418. @411- I retract my former statement (the cute people part) I like good-looking guys who have quirky flaws but a golden personality. Like Alek. Ahh Alek.

  419. @416. GASP!! *headdesk* “I know he looks hot even with the make up on” she sighed, “but really, without it he has so many more acting opportunities. Like Jace, which somehow didn’t happen, even though when you Google him, “Jace Wayland” is a related search…”
    *broods in the corner*

  426. Oh, okay. I would say the same, but there’s this really creepy guy at my school with long dark hair who happens to be named Alec (with a “c”). Yes, it’s scary and it tarnishes the name, but I have learned to deal with it for the sake of a great book series.

  428. @426- Well I didn’t say I like creepy guys with long dark hair. As long as I don’t know anything about they’re personality, I’m good.

  430. @426- I used to have (he died when he was like 15 🙁 ) a great-uncle named Alec. And I have a little (8) cousin that is Alex, but he’s super cute so that’s not a problem. But he is hilarious because he try’s to be this super tough guy (which he sometimes succeeds at) which just makes him that much cuter.

  439. Argh. I’m going to bed now. I’ve been on the computer all day, and I think I can literally feel how my brain has turned to mush. Barking Clanker contraptions!
    Goodnight!

  442. @343- I have the best accent!! Pacific northwest! We all enunciate properly and only a few of us sometimes say “sorta” and “dunno”.

  452. _@ 404- AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!¡!!!!!!!!!! WASN’T IT AMAZING??????? I CRIED THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE THING!!!!!!!!!!!
    @ Lauren 450- who and why will you see someone tomorrow night?

  455. @302 (Sorry, the computer was being guarded by snarling wolves and krakens all day yesterday) Thank You!!!!! I have drawn ENDLESS fanart out of sheer boredom.

  461. @Whoever/whichever said they like HTTYD, well MY favorite animated movie is Despicable Me! I say animated because it doesn’t have Asa Butterfield. He rules.

  464. WAHOO!! I JUST SENT IN A PIECE OF FAN ART!!!!! WISH ME GOOD LUCK!!!!

    P.S. I will post it on my blog so you can see it anyway. But I am still hoping it will be on this blog! *crosses fingers*

  479. @474. I think it would be suspiciously close… “Hey, I’m *insert name here*”
    “Hollo, I’m Loren.”
    “Don’t you have a cousin names Lauren?”
    “Yes. It’s -er-quite a… coincidence?”
    And then you would be discovered and you’d never meet your prince aboard an airship while he saves you from the horrible fate of a frostbitten bum.

  480. I definitely agree with my guy name being Miles. My sister says she likes Melvin, but it’s not BS (Barking Spiders, you ninny!) for my guy name. I’ll be all like:
    “Middy Miles Molloy, at your service, sir!”
    “Quite a mouthful you’ve got there.”
    “Aye, it’s all the barking alliteration.”
    “Welcome aboard the Leviathan, then.”

  484. I”m just smart like that.
    JK, I actually went to a baby names website and found the names, and when you put your cursor on the name it gives you meaning and origin.

  485. But I just remembered, there is this weird kid named Lance (thankfully I don’t have many classes with him) at my school so I will have to think of another.

  491. @486 it means “Just Kidding”
    @489 Li sounds very Asian, and I’m not sure it would work unless you were. If you are, then great.

  504. NOOOO! How embarrassing that I said that and it wasn’t actually 500… you stole my comment and tarnished my record, Levi! How barking dare you!

  518. I have now. It made me laugh a bit. 🙂 I just read that scene in Goliath today (again) so I totally know what was going on. Herculean inundation…
    Did you see my FanArt of Newkirk?

  530. My name is a bit easier because it is so barking weird that people give me a strange look and request spelling (unless, of course, they speak German in which case they simply smile and proceed).

  537. Gasp! You’re only one Behemoth?! Wait, first or second time? I’m reading Goliath for the second time (Already reread the first two) is why I’m asking.

  538. @ 537– I’ve read Goliath seven times.
    And what would be a good boys’ name for me?
    (Oh, and Newkirk and I are SO meant to be together! I shipped our names together, and it’s RAKIRK! Isn’t that awesome?! Teehee!!!!)

  540. @ Sophie-la (536) THEN WHY DID YOU READ THE BONUS CHAPTER!!! THAT RUINS EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!! Except, you know, the ending. Because I wanted it to happen so much I was expecting it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I didn’t expect it to end quite so beautifully. * dries single tear running down cheek *

  542. RONNIE!!!!!!! I love that!!!!!!!! Or Rory, which is also a reference to my favorote character from Dr. Who.

  546. @ 544- Ooh, Ronnie sounds official. When my alternate boy self grows up and wins the war, he’ll probably run for Prime Minister or a seat in Parliament.

  550. @ 549- YAY!!!!!!!!! I tried to comment on your blog under “Open ID” and I typed my name in, so you’d know who I was, but it didn’t let me comment. I don’t have any of those other accounts, so I don’t know how to comment on your blog. And I wrote the first chapter of my fanfic last night!

  562. I didn’t read the bonus chapter,yet. And I’m only reading it for the first time. I’m a HUGE uglies fan but I love these too!! 🙂

  563. Right now for me it’s 12:30 in the afternoon. I’m back, by the way.
    @599 I don’t think (s)he’s a middy, what with being a Clanker and all. Maybe an engineer…

  567. Sounds interesting, even though I’ve never heard the song. Thanks for the compliment, by the way. You may be interested in a few more story shuffles, then? Or even my whole fanfic, which so far has the better part of 18 pages? Yes, I am that obsessed with Leviathan.

  569. @568. I read your story shuffle and it made me laugh. I wonder how Ronnie will react to her Singe crushing on Barlow… I want to be here when that happens, so badly. I liked it a lot, by the way.

  570. So, I have a second blog now, specifically for writing stuff, so I will change the link on my name to it. Which do you want first, by the way, more shuffles or a bit of FanFic?

  571. I’m going to go with some more shuffles, since I have some stuff to fix in the first part of my fanfic to make it more… Leviathan-esque.

  579. I like the shuffles (god’s wounds there is a lot of them!) but in the 3rd to last on they didn’t seem like the Dalek we know and love. 🙁

  590. they should so make a movie out of these books. check that, three movies.
    but they could make an AWESOME movie if they did them well, but they could also make a really bad one. like the golden compass, that could have been really good but it was really bad. :'(
    oh, and they have to make Alek super cute or i’ll curl up in a corner for the rest of my life

  591. “Ass- Hat Magic Spider”? What an intriguing title, Mr. Westerfeld. Makes me want to know more…

    590 comments?! I don’t think any entry on here, not even The Bonus Chapter (and companion illustration) or the April Fools Day illustration, has ever gotten this many responses. A good entry, no doubt, but what exactly is the signifigance of THIS post which warrents that many comments?

    And yes, chickengirl!, I agree heartily; they SHOULD make three movies out of the Leviathan series, provided they cast Christoph Waltz as Count Volger. 🙂

  592. Also, about a Leviathan movie: good luck finding an actor about Alek’s age who’s bi-lingual AND at least a decent actor, who also looks like him. Same thing with Deryn too.

  593. @591 Actually, when he first announced he was writing an authorfic and opened the comments up for voting, that got over 1,200 comments, some of them mine 🙂
    What makes this FAF so important, you ask? Because my art got posted, of course.
    Just kidding, although it makes me really happy that it did, and I like to pretend that’s the reason. Truth is, a few of us like to use the comments for chatting. About totally relevant stuff of course…

  595. @593- They would probably only find a one-lingual actor and then find a multi-lingual person to do voice-overs.

  598. I am reading like crazy! The series is so good 🙂 but I still like uglies just a wee bit more (crazy right?!) my fav is Specials

  600. 598/ Leviathan. Is SO MUCH BETTER THAN UGLIES!!!!!!!! I COULDN’T GET THROUGH THE FIRST PAGE OF UGLIES!!!!!!!!!

  601. Hah hah hah to all you (Lissa and Lauren) people who joked about Newkirk’s love for Barlow. Actually, it is a plausible idea, since we never know what really is going on in that daft head of his. But Newkirk is STILL. MINE. SERIOUSLY. It pains me that you enjoy making Newkirk CHEAT on me for an old woman! (I admire the Doctor, but when she steps in the way of my man, the line is drawn.) Newkirk is MINE. End of story.

  602. @ 600- not that I’m questioning the Master’s work, but I find Leviathan so much…. better than Uglies. Of course, I’m biased, so my opinion only matters to those who agree with me.

  603. Sorry Lissa, I got 600. Serves you right because of that Newkirk fanfic! Revenge is so sweet, my dear. 😉

  604. @601- Hey I never said the dude has always been in love with her! Maybe I will rwrite more about Mr. Eugene Newkirk tangled love life… But right now I have to story shuffle about Lilit.
    @603- I got 500.

  607. (First of all, this is Lissa changed her name to Middy Miles)
    @603. First Levi with 500, and now you, Ronnie with 600! How. Dare. You. And it wasn’t even my Newkirk fanfic! I just said it made me laugh! So it does not, in fact, serve me right. It serves me wrong! *sniffles*

  608. @600- I traded one of my copies of Goliath for Uglies and I have read the sample on my kindle and it seems moderately good, but the midnighters series looks totally LAME!

  616. Come stop your crying, it’ll be alright… Tarzan, anyone?
    @608. I wouldn’t dis Scott’s books on his own website if I were you… it could have… consequences *shudders*

  617. @ 614- my sister was eating doritos when she read the Newkirk fanfic, and she started choking! She said “Something is wrong with that boy.”
    Yes, yes someone should. But not me, since that would be too concieted. I think that’s the word I want to use.

  618. @ 616- my mom’s favorite movie. I am not dissing his books. Besides, I am going to read Uglies so I can get obsessed and excited over the manga. Because Leviathan is over. Forever.

  620. @ 619- OH MY WORD THAT SOUNDS INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! even if it didn’t have Ronnie in it, I’d still read it. Because it does sound epic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  626. @ 619- Actually, my great grandmother is indeed from Norway. Her name was Gunda. Her parents were actually born and raised in Norway, but they moved to America and Gunda was born there. I think it was in Iowa, if I’m not mistaken. Her parents changed their last name to Newfoundland, because they were moving to a new land. I even have a picture of her and my great grandfather on their weddding day!

  629. @ 622- He, Newkirk sounds like a male Hester, or Doge from the Looking Glass Wars. I think he’d look better with scars on his face.

  633. I’m sorry Peoplez but I like Uglies better……this series is good too,Midnighters is way better than it looks!

  636. @ 634- I believe he is from Inkheart. I haven’t read the book, but only seen the movie.

  637. @631- I love Dustfinger! He is AWESOME!!! When I first saw that movie I kept rubbing my hands together and then blowing on them. 😛

  638. Oh, okay. Never read Inkheart, and I’m not sure on the movie… Is that the one where the girl reads out loud and the characters come out of the book? If so, I think I’ve seen part…

  639. @ 638- Yes! It is! If only she read Leviathan! Ht when she read it, a book character comes out, and a person from the real world goes in. I wouldn’t care if I came in or Newkirk came out! As long as we were on the same side….

  640. @636- Yes he is. I have read all the books. The best part is when Mo and Dustfinger die! and the second best part is when Meggie realizes she loves the Indian kid (I forgot his name) and the worst part is when she falls in love with Doria (curse that Clanker!).

  642. @ 641- Okay,t hat was never like that in the movie. I NEED to read the books now!

  647. @ 646- I have never eaten turducken, because it sounds gross, but it’s fun to say. Turducken. Turducken. Turducken. Say it five times fast!

  652. OH MY BARKIN WORD!!!! THAT WAS AMAZING!! AHH!!!!! I LOVED IT!!!!!!! I TEEHEED LIKE A FANGIRL!!!!!!!!!!! and I only do that with Scott’s books, mind you. That was extraordinary!!!!!!!!! It was perfectly innocent and witty. * sigh * was that after the New Year’s party?

  653. I actually wrote the majority of what has happened in the 17 pages so far before the New Year’s Eve party, as you will soon find out. My art that got posted on this very FAF kind of goes along with it.

  657. Yeah!!! I should start writing a fanfis sometime but I think I need a bit more practice with the characters using story shuffles first.

  660. @655. Technically, I could post it at any time, considering that I’m already done with it and several other chapters.
    @657. I agree. Writing story shuffles really gives you a feel for characters, because my fanfic would’ve been an epic fail if I hadn’t done those…10, wasn’t it?… shuffles. The more familiar you are with them, the better!

  662. @660- I think that is a problem in my writing; I don’t know the characters well enough myself so the actual writing turns into a big confusing mess.

  666. @662. Practice makes better, Levi! I’ve been trying to write off and on for the last… 3 or so years, maybe more, and I’m still dreadful at it compared to my sister, who is epically amazing at writing but refuses to read Leviathan… which makes me sad because I want her to write fanfics so I can read them!

  668. @663- Thank YOU! I thought there was something wrong with it but I couldn’t figure out what, also I probably wouldn’t have been told about that if it wasn’t for you; I don’t have a teacher in writing except for my journalism class and there’s no dialogue in a newspaper article.

  670. @666-Me too, except I am usually too lazy to write but now I have some serious fanfic to writ so now I will probably write LOT more.

  671. Whaaat? You get a journalism class? The only writing class offered at my school is…um… I’m not sure there is one. Especially not for a lowly freshman.

  673. It is only the beggining of uglies!! There is gonna be a manga so that means its awesome! Am I right or am I right?!(in right) Shay-la rocks!! But I still like Tally-wa more she is icier most of the time……..but Shay-la is icy too……If y’all know what I mean!

  710. Fanfiction!!!! It’s actually a lot funner than I expected it to be. I can understand why Scott became an author.

  712. Interesting, very interesting… Of course writing is fun! You know, unless your characters take over and you have no choice whatsoever as to what they do. Not, of course, that that ever happens to me, because that would just be crazy… Psch! *looks away*

  713. @ 710- wow! That’s a good idea! I’ve always wondered what was going through certain people’s minds during very intense moments of books. * cough cough like Deryn’s POV on that stormy night on th Leviathan’s topside *I’ve wondered what the.entire Leviathan trilogy would be like if it dre from Newkirk’s point ofview.

  714. @ 710- wow! That’s a good idea! I’ve always wondered what was going through certain people’s minds during very intense moments of books. * cough cough like Deryn’s POV on that stormy night on th Leviathan’s topside *I’ve wondered what the.entire Leviathan trilogy would be like if ite from Newkirk’s point ofvi.

  715. Oops. Sorry. I posted the same comment twice. Sorry about the spelling errors. I don’t really like touch key boards.

  717. @ 711- it’s weird how they control it, you know? It’s like you have all these different possibilities that could happen, but somehow your character chooses one of them, and it all goes from there. It’s like you’re there, as well, but you aren’t the one making the descisions for your characters. It’s hard to explain.

  718. @716 Aye, I do know. But my barking sister knows it more. SHE’s the one who writes like crazy; I’m just a sideshow compared to her… and her illustrator 🙂

  719. 715- EEEEEEEP!!!!¡!!!¡!!!¡!!!!!!!!!!!!¡!!!!!!!!¡! OH THAT WAS BRILLIANT!!!!!!¡!!!!¡! I started cracking up when Alek frowned at the size of his ears!!!¡!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!¡¡ I’m sorry, but I have to go for alittlee bit! I’ll be back later! Bye!

  738. Hola Sophie! Would you like to join our meeting? Are you team Alek or Team Singe?

  742. @ 740- * KAPLOOSH!!!!!* that was my mind being blown bythe awesomeness of that. * pulls out water gun and shakes it menacingly at you * Write. More.

  744. @ 742- do not make me go Newkirk fan girl on you. It gets ugly. * he he Uglies reference! Even bough I’ve never read the books! Okay I’m done with my references *

  745. @743 *giggles with malice and general funniness* I liked the reference, by the way. It was pretty good for not having read them. Of course, since I have, I could also say… SpagBol!!! Gasp, did she really just say that??? Oh, yes. I did. But you don’t get it because you haven’t read them. Sophie-la, now she’ll understand.

  748. @744- I understand!!and sure I will
    Join the meeting yup Sorley is my boy name…..I’m team Alek

  750. Even though I has never had it….Spagbol sounds disgusting,every time it is mentioned in the series I picture it the way Tally-wa does,let me tell ya not pretty!

  752. @ 747- his green eyes have BLINDED you from the pure awesomeness of Newkirk.
    Alek: Three.
    Newkirk: One.
    I guess that’s a good thing, so that way I won’t have to get in a cat fight with anyone over Newkirk.

  754. @ 749- okay, so a quick question: what is up with the wa’s and la’s? ( if it is a spolier do NOT tell me! But go ahead and tell me.)

  756. @ 752- * takes deep breaths * yes, but she is also an Alek fan so it shows how much she knows.
    Oh yeah, I went there.
    No offense to Laure. But it’s the truth.

  759. Interesting… Fitzroy is a dummkopf, though! I don’t know what “Team” I am. Team Deryn, I guess, but not in THAT way. Just by way of awesome, she totally wins.

  760. @753-it’s just a fad in pretties(feel free to correct me,I don’t think I will need it though)

  761. @ 758- If Fitzroy stayed on the ship, he would’ve been the first to find out Deryn’s secret.

  763. @ 761- why wouldn’t I have known Newkirk better? Oh yeah. He would’ve left the Leviathan in the first book. * sobs * Newkirk would’ve left me before he had even gotten the chance to meet me! Well, he never really did. It’s more of a one side relationship. But I know if he met me he wouldn’t leave me! I just know it!

  764. Mmhmm. I see… *dials number for looney bin* Hi. I’d like to admit two crazy teens, please. *Pause* Yes, me and this Kentuckish girl. *Pause* No, this is NOT a prank call! We really are insane. *Pause* Hello? Did you just hang up on me? *Sighs* You try to get yourself help, but no one has enough faith in humanity to believe I would try to make myself better. Oh, well.
    Night, ladies/gents! It’s 10:20 here, so I’m calling it quits!

  765. It’s 11:23 here in KY! Good night, Miles! If we tell the docs of our obsessions, then they’ll tell us to stop them! Do. You. Know. How. Hard. It. Would. Be. For. Me. To. Live. Without. Leviathan?
    Yes, I’m sure you can hear the pain in my plethora of punctuation.
    “How… alliterative. ” ~ Alek.

  774. @757- Actually, first he was in love with Barlow and now he is in love with Adela. BTW remember when you said he is falling in love with every woman on the ship? Well he already has.

  778. Btw, guys I posted the first chapter of Lissa and her mall on my story blog (name) It is super short and I will soon post chapter 2 (it needs a little refining)

  789. Anyway right now I wanna go
    Hover board like Tally-wa did in the middle of the night…*wishing she had a hover board*

  804. Aw I wish!! I actually live on the other side of the east coast:sunny Florida
    And yay team Alek what do you like about him?

  807. @ 803- my family and I are ln vacation in Key West, Florida! Today, we have been here for two weeks and we are leaving in about an hour, so I won’t be able to comment, for probably all day, until we get to the hotel we will be staying at for tonight. It takes 21 hours to get back to Kentucky. A long drive is ahead of us. Well, anyway, good bye! I guess I’ll comment tonight!

  810. @ 803 a) Alek can speak different languages and is relatively intelligent, b) he’s a good person, c) He’s emo, which is awesome (so is Harry Potter) d) just look at the dang drawings!!!!! 🙂

  811. Barking spiders! And I thought my 10 hour plane ride from Paris to Dallas, Texas, and then the 3 hour layover before an hour plane flight to Des Moines was long… (Yes, I did just brag that I was in Europe. I happen to do that. Quite a lot.)

  814. I’m reading Behemoth right now and Im like ” get back to alek!!! I don’t exactly care about deryn right now Alek is in trouble!!!”*applause Scott-la for keeping me hanging*

  820. @809- Harry Potter is non-comperable to Alek. For 1 thing Harry has serious anger manegment issues and is emo in a ENTIRERLY DIFFERENT way that Alek. Alek’s emoness is awesome, but Harry’s emoness is all like I’ve-got-to-save-everybody-and-freak-out at-everyone emoness. But I also agree that Harry Potter is emo in his own way.

  822. @813- You are still reading Behemoth!!!!! It’s clear you are a uglies fan. You aren’t reading Behemoth as fast as humanly possible so that you can FINALLY read Goliath.

  828. @812 Most definitely. And you Europe-going people are SO LUCKY! I am a complete Anglophile, have been there once, and decreed that I was supposed to be born there.

  829. I will be going to my Grandma’s for New Year’s and I’ll have extremely limited internet access, so it looks like it will be just Lissa and Sophie. Have fun!

  832. @ Levi: I just read the songfics on your writing-blog-thing abd they’re really good!!! (and they’re Beatles songs which just makes everything infinitely cooler.)

  841. @ 838- if I had Goliath on my beside, I WOULD SKIP BEHEMOTH AND READ THE BARKING END!!!!!!!!!!!!

  843. I would’ve KILLED to get Goliath early. Your amount of patience is beyond my understanding.

  845. Stare at the back and stare at the drooling Tazza.
    Why wasn’t NEWKIRK on the barking cover!!!!!!!!

  849. Um…no you see long story short I was only
    On page like 60 when I started this morning now I only have 60 more pages

  851. @ 848- EEEEP! That’s awesome! I love the picture of Deryn with the knife when she is hiding behid that coil thingy when she’s finding Alek.
    The whole “I’m-Going-To-Find-Alek-Because-He-Needs-My-Help” thing remindsme of that song called “a Thousand Miles” by Vannessa Carlton.
    * bursts into sobs * SHE WOULD WALK A THOUSAND MILES FOR HIM!!!!!!!

  853. @850 That’s probably my favourite pic in Behemoth too! I’ve never heard that song… *looks up*

  854. @849 Sorry, I believe so. Reading Behemoth or Goliath is a mighty good “anything,” though.

  855. @ 853- it is!
    @ 852- yes! I love that one! But I would’ve loved to see a pic of Lilit, Deryn, and Alek in the elavator after she got to the hotel. I would love to see Deryn’s expression, and her holding the newspaper, and Alek’s open mouth, hanging in shock, and Lililt’s flirty face- since she thought Deryn was a boy. That would’ve been much cooler than the one where they were sitting in the hotel room. For me, it was too much ” other ” stuff and not enough about the characters. They weren’t the main focus of the picture.

  856. @854 (second remark) That would be amazing!!!!! We should have recommended that for the Last Piece of Art. Maybe we can still bug them…..

  858. * pokes Mr. Westerfeld consistantly * hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey. You know what would be cool? Read comment 854.
    * pokes one last time for good measure *

  859. :{o Good Idea!!! I could TRY but I’m positively terrible at drawing boys. I’m okay at Lilit but Deryn always looks girlie.

  861. @ 858- It doesn’t matter if Deryn looks girlie. I always enjoy cracking up at cute anime Deryns.
    @ 859- Ai think that too.

  862. @ 860 (First remark): Ah, I could pull her and Lilit off in that case, but then Alek would be a FAIL unless I tried REALLY hard which I should. Maybe I could tell my friend to draw Alek then glue it on or something…

  866. @ 862- welcome back!

    @ 861- I can’t draw to save my life, or anyone else’s, for that matter, so it’s totally okay.

  869. Oh I thought there was an awkward silence but I was wrong… @865 (second remark) Okay. Just make sure you don’t get taken hostage by highly artistic assassins, and you’ll be fine. 😉

  870. @867 That’s completely alright. I encounter prodigious amounts of creepiness on a daily basis.

  872. With Behemoth??? Congarbulations. I got it the day it came out and finished it the next dy only because I had to go to sleep.

  874. EEEEEEEEEP! READ READ READ READ READ READ READ READ READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!¡!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  876. @ 874- all three of Leviathan? Note: I do not read books, I INHALE them.

  878. Sophie-la: do NOT take this the wrong wa, but GET OFF THIS COMMENTING AND FINISH THE BARKING BOOK!!!!!!!!!

  879. @875 likewise. I finished the seventh Harry Potter in a day. 😉
    @ 876 when you’re done with Behemoth, start with Goliath immediately!!!!! (It was a long and painful wait before Goliath came out. o_0)

  885. Sorry! I was replying to another post. What is your crossdresser name, Clanker Rose?

  889. @ 883- me too, but I feel like I would be cheating on Newkirk if I were to read another book by Scott. It’s like ditching your boyfriend for his brother.

  890. @888 YES!!! I feel like that too. Except with Alek cuz I think Newkirk’s kind of your job. Or Bovril…

  892. I like Ray. But Rigby would be cool because a) It’s the bosun’s name and b) Eleanor Rigby is a Beatles song. Which makes everything ten times cooler.

  893. @ 889- yes, he is my responsibility! I feel like Bovril has many fans, so he doesn’t need another fangirl. And Alek’s got Deryn, and if I liked Alek, I’d feel like I would be getting in the way.
    So really, Newkirk was the only person left.
    Kinda like me.

  896. @892 That’s true… I’ve been trying to make up a good boy OC but failing miserably.

  907. 903- Newkirk is Singe. Lissa, who is DEAD BRILLIANT with nicknames came up with it after his precarious situation with a burnt Huxley Ascender.

  908. AHA!!! I thought so. Good job, Lissa. I have yet to decide which team I am on… And which day of the week are these meetings?

  909. @ 905- Fitzroy, Count, Eddie, Rigby, and my personal favorite-who-is-not-Newkirk, Klopp!

  910. XD I meant a character that I make up myself! But Klopp is awesome. And so is Volger’s moustache.

  912. I like Eddie’s fake moustache.
    And I pronounce moustache as ‘moos-stactch-eee’. Just to let you know.

  914. @911 That is quite an adequate pronunciation. Like suspicious, which I say as “suspi-shee-oh-shus.”
    @ 910 Agreed.

  921. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! I CAN QUOTE T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HE FIRST PAGE!!!!!!!!!

  927. UH, DOES ANYONE ELSE NOTICE THE THIRD COMMENTER’S NAME?! PETER COOPER?! LIKE THE BRILLIANT SONGWRITER OUT OF NASHVILLE?! IS HE ON THIS BLOG?! ARE WE ALL IN THE VIRTUAL PRESENCE OF VERNACULAR GREATNESS (outside of Mr. Westerfeld, of course)?! WOULD IT MAKE HIM ( the possible real Peter Cooper) UNCOMFTERBLE IF HE READ THIS COMMENT? Probably…

    No real reason I’m hyperventilating (after all, I’ve met the guy), but it’s just surprising that he’d be on here is all, you know, two great minds aware of one another’s existance. But maybe it’s not him. I’ll bet there’s a lot of people named Peter Cooper. Damn. And as that thought sinks in, I sink into a depression which few things can elevate me out of (but, of those few, the music of Peter Cooper is one of them) 🙂

  929. @ Sophie- EEEWEEP! ENJOY EVERY BARKING CHAPTER OF THAT BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    It ended so quickly.

  931. Hey guys! Guess what I was doing at midnight!!! READING GOLIATH!!!!
    Yes, you heard me right. I brought in the new year with Dalek. Unfortunately they weren’t kissing… just being discovered by Mexican doctors…
    But HAH!!! Best way to start 2012 EVER!! Especially considering the other stuff that’s going on right now. 🙁

  947. ‘K guys. I am going to skip reading all 200 of the comments that I missed while I was having fun at the beach and just ask you guys to tell me of anything I need to know.

  948. Hey, Lissa, I just finished reading chapter 4 and I loved it, but I think (and I tell you this as a friend) that you made Deryn too self-conscious. I mean doesn’t Alek specifically say that any other girl would care about him seeing her all covered in clart, but never Deryn?

  949. So, I was thinking (at this point in a bad sitcom you would say “oh, no” grimly and back away) and I thought, What if Alek had died when Mr. Hirst shot him in Behemoth? Wouldn’t that be the most awesomely tragic tragedy in the world? I, as a writer, would LOVE to take that opportunity. Just describing Deryn’s many emotions, her anger at her self that she never told Alek who she was, her grief and anguish that her best friend and ally is gone, her sheer confusion at what the Huxley clart has happened?!? That would be so fun to write about. I think I will. Or, even better, Deryn somehow died and they found out about her (not so) small secret? It would be equally interesting delve into Alek’s tangled emotion, eh?

  950. I just listened to Poison and Wine by the Civil Wars and I think it would be SOOO perfect for the sad montage in the Goliath movie when Alek finds out. Seriously, listen to it. The mood is perfect, the lyrics are like they were written for this, the melody of woman and man singing and than them singing together totally matches Alek and Deryn’s whole relationship.

  954. @878- Wow. I was never THAT in live with them. In fact, I think that on a scale of 1-10 with some like, lame 100 pg book that nobody’s ever heard of being a one and Goliath being a 10, I would say harry potter is a 5.

  956. @892- You ever heard of doomed love? That’s being in love with Alek. You can read about him till the day’s done, but you can never be with him. *cries dramatically*

  958. @912- That is a HORRIBLE NICKNAME!!! Frankly I am ASHAMED OF YOU, RACHEL!!! He should be something cool that Lissa makes up. YOU make mean nicknames.

  960. Hullo, everyone. I’m back. I like the nickname Dumbo for Alek… or, if Levi REALLY doesn’t like it, just leave it as Daft Prince, like Deryn says.
    @947. Okay. I’ll go back and try to tone down the self-consciousness a bit. Thanks for your input. He did say that, too. I will have to argue, though, that seeing her in clart would be much different than seeing her in a dress.

  962. I think “Before the Worst” by The Script would be an AWESOME song for The Hunger Games, if it were from Gale’s POV. “We were sitting with our backs against the world, saying things that we thought would never hurt…”

  963. I still think that Paradise by Coldplay should be in the uglies movie! Who is with me?! The lyrics are PERFECT I think tht the song should play when Tally-wa is going to get the operation or when she is paking for the operation!! Because the song says “she dreamed of para para paradise,every time she closed her eyes”!!!!!! And Tally-wa thinks that being pretty will be perfect……but the song could play again when Tally-wa runs away to the smoke because it says “and she ran away in her sleep” I think that it is P-E-R-F-E-C-T!!!!!!!oh and I think that Emily Browning should play Tally-wa!!! She is also PERFECT!!!(this is my longest comment eva!)

  966. You know what would be both awesome and lame at the same time? Leviathan trading cards. Like, Darwinist vs. Clanker. Pokémon and Yu-ghi-oh would never compare!

  968. @965- They have Harry Potter ones. But I have yet to see one in real life which is (I believe) a testimony to how (not) terribly popular they are.

  970. @959- Cool. And I get what you are saying that she might be more selfconsiece in a dress, I am, but I just don’t think that that really matches Deryn very well. But I do think you captured Alek perfectly. I have one other note: Where’s Bovirl?!

  971. Also “Poison and Wine” was in a Grays Anatomy episode AND those two Civil Wars are in the song “Safe and Sound” by Taylor Swift, who, BTW, LOVES the Civil Wars. So there.

  978. It just told me I was posting comments too quickly. *hurt* I can post comments however flippin fast I want to, COM-PUTE-ERRRRRR!

  1002. I think that “Safe and Sound” is eitheir for when Rue dies, when Katniss and Peeta are in the cave or when she is on the train. That song just sounds like death. It would be perfect for the part in Harry Potter 4 when Cedric dies, if they had spent more time dwelling on that. When I read that his eyes were dead I just sat in my big armchair, mouth gaping, reading the words over and over again thinking, no no no Cedric can’t be dead. Of course when Lupin, Sirius, Tonks, and worst of all, Fred died I didn’t feel that empty feeling. I just heard “when all those shadows almost killed your light.”… I thought of Fred… *chokes back a sob*

  1003. @ 949-950: Yes, The Civil Wars DO, in fact, rock some pretty serious balls. Saw ’em in Nashville at the Americana Music Awards this past October and had an ear-orgasm for around three minutes (or rather, the length of the song they played). Awesome? Yes. Bluegrass? Maybe. But emo?! SH!T NO!

    By the way, as long as you’re checking out “Americana” (or Outlaw Country, or REAL Country or whatever you wish to call it) artists, you should bend your ear to the music of Elizabeth Cook, jump on the wavelength of Ryan Bingham, and tune to the frequency of The Spring Standards. You will be rewarded presently.

    “A revolution’s just a circle after all, and every kingdom falls” – Jonathan Byrd (check out this guy too)

  1005. @1002- Keep in mind that I am a cross dresser; my real name is Lauren.
    Lucky! you got to see them live! They don’t come to Seattle because nobody in Seattle likes bluegrass here. Here on the west coast we like our pop.

  1009. Do ya know what sound awesome? If you play rainy mood and “Safe and Sound” at the same time. It sounds legit. See for yourself.

  1011. OMBS you’re only that far into the book?!?! You are a slow reader as far as Goliath goes. They should at least be in Mexico by now if you were reading at an acceptable pace. LoL read as slow as you want. It will make it last longer *weeps that it’s over for her*

  1012. Yea I am trying to make it last from what I heard and I have been re-reading specials again…….

  1014. @1012. Thank you. (Some of my art was up there. No, I don’t CARE if you didn’t necessarily mean mine.) Mine was Alek walking in on Deryn in a dress.

  1018. @1014. Really? Which one is yours? I should probably know this…
    @1015. Hullo, Ronnie! I DID miss you! In fact, I missed everyone. I’ve been so lonely… *Looks away*

  1019. @ 988- AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I BARKING LOVE THE BOOK THIEF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVE THE AUDIOBOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH BARKING SPIDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1020. BUT I HATE MARKUS ZUSAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1021. @ 1017- Something was wrong with my barking computer and would not let me post for two days!!!!!!!!! It was driving me BARKING INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!

  1022. @ 1010- I got Goliath at 12:00 sharp, and finished it at five. Nonstop reading.
    HA! READ 1010 out loud!

  1024. Because it sounds like TinTin. Which is a movie I really want to see. Because he is * sighs * BRITISH.

  1026. @1018/1019- I KNOW!!!! But its so sad!!!! *sobs* Poor, poor Rudy. He never got to kiss Liesiel!!! *weeps* SO SAD!!!!!! Ah. that’s why you hate Markus Zuzak. You shouldn’t hate him, he was just making the most awesome book of all time and he needed it to inflict a strong emotion. Which he did admirably.

  1028. @ 1025- AHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! And Liesel moved on!!!!! I actually wrote a poem on about the Book Thief.

  1031. I read the Book Thief in sixth grade. I actually convinced one of my friends to buy it in seventh grade, but she DIDN’T READ IT!!! So I kept bugging her about it, and finally she did. She came to school the next day and cried on my shoulder.
    @ 1025/1027- I just realized we ruined the entire ending of the entire barking Book Thief.
    Oops.

  1032. @ 1029- TELL YOUR BARKING BROTHER TO READ THE BOOK THIEF OR I WILL PERSONALLY COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND SHOVE HIS FACE INTO THAT BOOK AND FORCE HIM TO READ IT!
    AND YEDDI WILL FIND HIM!

  1033. It’s okay. I kind of only understand half of what you’re saying. Oh, well.
    Guess, what, guys???? All three of us are here, so I officially call this meeting of the Singe-Alek Fan Club in session!

  1036. @ 1033- I BARKING DID!!! AND IT WAS BARKING AMAZING!!!!!!!! You are now one of my favorite authors.

  1038. I think as tentative members… Sorley more so than, um, what’s Rose’s guy name?
    Ronnie, I’m supposed to inform you that my brother is reading The Book Thief while quivering in fear of Yeddi.

  1040. @1036- I don’t think that M@X is on here hardly ever so they shouldn’t be a part of it. Plus we don’t know they’re name so we can’t give them a cross dresser name. To be in the Alek and Singe fan club you have to have a cross dresser name.

  1044. @1039. True, true. Very true.
    I have a new book that I’m reading. It’s called “The Scorpio Races” by Maggie Stiefvater. She also wrote Shiver, which I haven’t read. Ever heard of it?

  1047. @ 1037- Yes, yes he should be. Yeddi is something to be afraid of. But, there is a more frightening adversary he shall soon meet. Death, yes Death.
    @ 1036- I talked to M@X on “A Musical Interlude” about it. He says his name can be a boy or a girl’s name, so there’s no need to change it. Bum-rag cheater. But he said he has been out of wifi internet connection for awhile, so that’s why. Go to “A Musical INterlude” to see our conversation.
    @ 1040- At my school, we are on winter break, so all my comunications with Josh have been severed. But I will severely beat his bum after school if he hasn’t checked these blogs and read the bonus chapter.

  1049. @ 1043- Yes, my cousin has read The Scorpio Races, and she wanted me to read them. Ick. The only animals I like reading about are beasties.

  1051. Yeesh. What if he HASN’T read the bonus chapter yet? That would be insane. If he hasn’t, beat him up extra hard, just for me. And his cross dresser name needs to be Jocelyn. Please???

  1052. I think that we should have a rule that to join the fan club you have to have at least 300 comments on the last 5 posts. To prove you REALLY are a devoted fan.

  1054. @ 1050- Most definitely! And he was the one who was threatening NUCLEAR WAR ON EVERYBODY AND HIS PANDA ARMIES!!!!!!!!
    @ 1049- Technically, we’re all boys.

  1065. @1052. Yes. I saw. *Glares*
    @1053. What he meant to ask was, “So does that mean we have a girl in the fan club?”
    @1059. I will read it immediately.

  1067. @ 1053- EXACTLY! Heh heh. This reverse gender thing is confusing. So is my screen name. I will change it now.

  1071. I gotta go. I am going to see Hugo again! Give me a list of potential fan club candidates and I will check if they qualify.

  1075. 1070- AHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM GOING TO BUY THAT BARKING MOVIE WHEN IT COMES OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1080. Maybe. Maybe. No, a character in Harry Potter is named Fudge, and he wears a green bowler hat. There are no hats made out of fudge, sadly.
    WHY WOULD YOU TAKE OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK? IT DOESN’T LOOK LIKE YOU’RE YELLING WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT???

  1084. I also use caps lock TO MAKE A BARKING POINT!
    @ latter part of 1082- Yes. Yes. I know. I’m not in to Harry Potter and never will be. Oh, and after your brother finishes reading TBT, YOU NEED TO READ IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1085. Apparently it is told from Death’s POV. Hm… an interesting twist…
    I’d planned on reading it, eventually.
    So, what were you doing at 12:00 A.M., Jan 1, 2012?

  1086. My favorite, all time chapters are: The Jesse Owens Incident, and…. * drum roll please * The Thought of Rudy Naked.
    Both chapters of which include Rudy.
    And I also enjoy The Jewish Fist Fighter.

  1094. Ever notice how nobody in the uglies books besides extras nobody has last name but Tally-wa?

  1103. Changing the subject *looks away* here is one of my fav uglies series quotes:
    ” technically I’m not a bubblehead” – Frizz-la,extras

  1107. @ 1089- AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEWKIRK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Normal sized ears. HAH!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1114. Hey, peeps (no reference intended) I will proabably not be atending most of the following club meetings because you guys usually meet while I am at pottery, music, youth group etc. I also will maybe or maybe not be counting the comments. Now that school has started I realize I am MUCH more busy than I previously thought. I also may or may not be reading all of the new comments.

  1117. @-1114, 1115- Yeah, I’m sad too. 🙁 I will try to make it as much as possible. And yeah, pottery. It’s totally legit.

  1119. I have school today! Grr!!! I will be able to post before then at lunch then after I get home….

  1120. @Sergant Pepper- I didn’t mean they had emo style of music. When I use emo I don’t mean the weirdo lifestyle, I mean that it is emotional.

  1121. @Sophie- I just realized, you live in sunny Florida. I, rainy western Washington. You, the Atlantic Southeast. Me, the Pacific Northwest! Funny, eh?

  1126. UGLIES LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1130. No they are not. And I figured it was about time to make Newkirk a major character, and what better way to start that by making him seem really human by crying.

  1131. @1126-in Bougus to Bubbly Scott-la states that yes we are the rusties but in a way we arent

  1132. Oh, by the way, I made a change to chapter 5 so that Tad wasn’t there when Deryn returned from her conversation with Dr. Barlow. He showed up a few minutes later, of course, and their conversation and the rest of the chapter was unchanged.

  1134. * chants * CHAPTER EIGHT! CHAPTER EIGHT! I wish Newkirk had MY shoulder to cry on.
    * starts crying too *

  1138. @1130- I think that America is a purely Rustie civilization and Canada is a half-not and half Rustie civilization. My justification for that statement is the amount of wars Canada has fought compared to america.

  1143. Hey look at these graphic blogs I made. It takes a wee bit of navigating to get to them, but its not that hard.

    ruthgirl.glogster.com

  1144. I made one on Deryn and Alek and one on Writing. I also made a kinda cute one about pigs. The first two are the best (in my opinion).

  1145. Oh, yeah! I almost forgot, today I rented some skis for the season!!!! I am going to be taking skiing lessons at the pass this season and it is going to rock!!!!! I LOVE SKIING!!!

  1159. Can someone-anyone-give me a synonym for “Barking”?!?! I wish I could use that, but its to copieing. ARRG! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO!?!?!?! Looks like its time to break the old calming tactics, “Safe and Sound” and “Poison and Wine”. *Sigh* I hate writing!!!

  1160. HA!! My dear mother has given me a STROKE of BRILLIANCE!!! Lissa’s signature term will be… wait for it… WAILING WALLABY’S!

  1162. Oh, Wailing Wallabies! Eh, sounds like it could work… it even alliterates, which is something barking spiders lacks. Not, of course, that barking spiders isn’t the best thing ever.

  1166. Hiding from you in my computer. I have to space the chapters out now, because I only have three or four left to post before I have to write another. I am working on one currently, by the way, and I do have a deleted scene that I half-wrote and then trashed… but yeah. It’s hiding. From you, Ronnie.

  1169. Except when I get really mad at their endings and angrily throw them across the room.
    Which I almost did with Leivathan and Behemoth.
    But Goliath made up for it.

  1171. What, are you likening my love with Newkirk with my books?
    I need to know what happens!!!!!!!!

  1172. Hmm… Well, I guess I’ll post chapter 8. Oh, and the thing I said about it being super dramatic isn’t quite truthful. You really only get Alek-Singe bonding… Sorry…
    It’s up! Go check it out!

  1173. I’m sick……………………………………….WITH I LOVE SCOTT-LA WESTERFELD AND HIS BOOKS SYNDROME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1186. @1184. It’s pronounced like “Jeff”. I have a teacher with that name.
    @1179. No, you show up later. I promise. And you totally have stuff in your attic. You’re a Clanker engineer, remember?

  1188. S’all good, my Canadian friend. Would you like me to work you into my Fanfic somehow, too? If you don’t, that’s cool with me. I just thought I’d ask in case you maybe felt left out for some reason. You know, with me and Ronnie both being in it and all.

  1197. That was my FAVORITE of Deryn’s lines.
    Especially when she said “of course, your princeliness.”

  1198. You two are sooo funny. So, Levi, is there any particular way you’d like to be included? I am sort of running out of ideas. I kind of have a vague plot going, but it would be easy enough to tweak it a little to include you. I am open to suggestions!

  1207. @ 1204- Sometimes I cackle, and it scares my mom.
    Heh heh.
    Like that.
    @ 1205- HOW ABOUT….. GIANT WAFFLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1210. That’s more like how I imagine Tesla to cackle.
    Everytime he says something evil, lightning appears out of nowhere and kindles the sky.

  1213. YAY! MAKE THEM BELGIAN PANCAKES! WITH SYRUP IN THE MIDDLE! AND BOVRIL MAKES A SMILEY FACE OUT OF BANANAS ON IT! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!

  1214. I lent Goliath to my friend and when I saw her reading during lunch and I started cackling/crying like some sorta crazed maniac. All my friends were looking at me funny which just made me cackle/laugh even more. Which just made them stare at me even more. It was kinda a never ending cycle.

  1217. I was only aware of Belgian waffles. But Belgian pancakes, you say? They happen to be on an English train, though, so Belgian pancakes would be a bit out of nationality. But the banana smiley face could still happen.

  1219. @1213-I did that when I saw
    My best friend reading uglies….I miss the days when I was reading the series or te first time…*sobs*
    UGLIES LIVES

  1223. @1220- When I first read Behemoth (the first one i read) I was at first “Well I’ll read it but it looks kinda lame…” But then I began reading it and I didn’t do anything else that day; I just read ALL DAY! Then I bought Goliath on my kindle fire. AND I LOVED IT!!!!!

  1228. No, I got Behemoth for free from the library’s teens read three get one free thing, where you write reviews of three books and you get a free book. I read B then G and lastly L.

  1234. Blisters, I wish our library did that! It sounds so cool! Get paid in books to read books!
    I dunno which one I like the best… they’re all so overwhelmingly awesome to me! Maybe I should read them a few more times and then decide…

  1236. Aye, you did repeat yourself. And isn’t that kind of what Ronnie said? First was L, then B, then G, gaining awesomeness as they went? ANd if you said G was the best, then B, then L, it’s the same thing!

  1250. I’m good. Actually, grate! I am really psyched to go SKIING! I know I have been (sorta) bragging about this. I am (sorta) a bragger. Please forgive me.

  1252. So ya know how there is a new Danial Radcliffe movie (“Woman in Black”)? Well I don’t think I will be able to see him as anybody as a flaky version of a 12 year old Harry Potter. Yeah, I just tried. NOT easy.

  1261. @1257-because that’s when the uglies movie comes out!!!eepp can’t wait!!!!
    UGLIES LIVES

  1263. I will say it again
    UGLIES LIVES
    There is the series, 2 books about the series,and soon to be a manga and a movie

  1264. Well I tried to make it last as long as possible…..I finished GOLIATH (remember I said that all caps emphasizes things) such a wonderful ending my applause to you Scott-la……..hate to disappoint but I still like uglies better….
    UGLIES LIVES

  1266. Here are the stats for various comment numbers (subject to change).

    Sorley/Sophie-166 M@X-18 Josh/Jocklyn-1, Clanker Rose/Ray-56
    I counted all comments on FAF-Please Enjoy Some Croy.

  1268. I can’t believe this. My math teacher saw me lending Goliath to my friend and she looked at it and she asked if that was the same guy who wrote uglies. I told her it was but it was from a different series and she goes “Really? I didn’t know he wrote anything else.” Isn’t it sad that Mr. Westerfeld isn’t even best known for the most fabulous piece of writing in the world!?! But, on a happier note, I did see Behemoth displayed largely at half-price books.

  1272. @1267-sorry to say but you are wrong on that one,uglies is obviously the best specials is the best to be more specific….
    UGLIES LIVES!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡

  1278. @1275-told ya! So can’t wait!!On this website I also read that PRETTIES and most importantly SPECIALS are also gonna be made into movies!!!

  1282. And I can (with help from the dictionary) spell “Lauren rules” and “LAUREN RULES” and, of course, “lauren rules” in Greek letters!!!

  1285. I can also spell “Goliath ROX” there’s no “c” in the Greek alphabet.. Btw I will stop telling you all the things I can spell. I just wanted to tell you that one.

  1287. So how did we get from Uglies movies to Fanfics to Greek alphabet?
    Hi, I’m back.
    You know SHERBET? It’s pronouced “sure-bay”. So shouldn’t the alphabet be pronounced “alpha-bay?”
    That is all for my nonsensical ramblings.

  1289. And we moved through that by Sophie yapping on about uglies (that was meant as a joke btw) and then Rose read that Lissa writes fanfic and then I said that I am learning Greek.

  1295. I know you are going to say “but Jason speaks Latin!” I think Jason is a bit like Harry Potter. A stuck-up, arrogant, “I’m the best” faceless hero. I like Leo MUCH better.

  1297. Now don’t get me wrong, I love the Harry Potter books and I love the Lost Hero, it’s just that those two are not my type.

  1299. I will give you a list of the languages I want to learn
    1. Greek
    2. Austrian (which Alek doesn’t even speak, the waste of hydrogen)
    3. Latin

  1304. Greek and Latin aren’t spoken anymore. They’re used for medecine and classification of species and science. You can’t really learn to communicate in them. You can only study them.
    And German is AWESOME!

  1305. Here is a list of languages I want to speak my the time I go to college.
    1. English (I already speak it)
    2. French (I also speak it)
    3. Greek
    4. Austrian
    5. Latin

  1306. Do you know how much easier all languages are when you speak Greek and Latin? And I also want to study some languages during college.

  1308. Well, Latin and Greek ARE root languages, I suppose. That is if I’m not incorrect. Which does not happen often.

  1310. I can figure out a good deal of words because in 4th and 5th grade my teacher had us study a bunch of roots, prefixes and suffixes.

  1312. MUAHAHAHAHAHA!
    BTW, Sorley, my brother wants me to punch you in the face for saying Uglies is better that LBG. *Punches Sorley in the face* Take that!

  1314. Oh, so you decided to leave just because I showed up? Thanks, guys. So much. *Sniffle* I guess I’ll just reload the page constantly and write Fanfic, which will be depressing as it reflects my mood!

  1315. @Miles- Wow. That is… interesting… I would say I am still learning sarcasm. But I’m pretty close! Seriously? You should hear me talking to my sister. I am HILARIOUS! My parents don’t agree.

  1318. @1312- That’s what I thought! At one point I memorized a part of it, lets see if I can remember: “‘Do you love me?” Luke asked. Annabeth glanced at Percy, who was standing, watching them.
    ‘You were like a brother to me Luke, but I never loved you.'” I think that was it… That was probably wrong though.

  1323. @ 1310- HA! ME TOO! Oh, that was barking HILARIOUS! I’m fluent in American and stupid.
    Well…… That makes only one language.
    Not that Americans aren’t smart.
    But we just aren’t….. Proper.
    At least Kentucky isn’t.
    Or so stereotypes claim.

  1325. Actually, that’s good. Because that means you are WRITING! So my bottomless pit of want will slowly but surely be somewhat filled.

  1327. It’s alright. A big part of a good daughter (or son, I suppose) is helping parents unload groceries.

  1329. That’s awesome! On my orchestra test, I drew a picture of a fat happy Levithan getting shot at by a Clanker plane and the German is saying “Die you vermin!”

  1330. For example: Advanced Physical Science:
    Synthesis: Combination of 2+ substances to form a new substance. Example teacher gave; A+B ->AB. Example I wrote down; Deryn+Alek->Dalek (and there are sooo many more where that came from. I can say them if you want)
    MUAHAHA! And don’t even get me started on my history notes. We’re doing WWI.

  1336. @ 1332- ‘Blisters! He barely even knows me!’ or something along that lines of when Lilit kissed Deryn. Or Dylan, I suppose. No. It was Deryn.

  1341. @ 1339- Ummm….. BARKING NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    It was a REFERENCE. JUST a reference.

  1344. Ugh. I’m doing homework right now. I have LOADS because I’ve been gone for the last 3 days. Well, 2 full days and 2 half days. Stupid barking wisdom teeth!

  1348. I forgot to reply to your comment (@ 187) under “A Musical Interlude”. I just did. Sorry.

  1353. Oh. I’m cool. EYEBROWS! I mean, seriously, how many smiley faces do you know that have eyebrows?

  1357. @1353. I did. ANd I will quote you on that if there ever comes a time when I wish to boost his ego.(Not likely)
    Unfortunately, it’s not. My grandpa got diagnosed with very terminal lung cancer that’s spread basically everywhere. He’s got less than a year at best.
    Sorry to shove that on you.

  1366. Hmph. Thanks, guys. I appreciate your implied sincerity. Writing fanfiction keeps my mind off of it. I also may or may not be shaving my head (along with the rest of my family) in support of him. I’ll definitely post a picture if that happens.

  1369. I love the “UGLIES LIVES” in case you haven’t noticed
    If you have read my fav book in the world SPECIALS then you will remember when the smokey girl said “the smoke lives” that’s where I got that from. They say that in all the books though…….but SPECIALS is my fav so I will refer to SPECIALS

  1371. @ 1367- WHEN? WHERE? HOW? Will he finally start being intelligent again and figure it out by himself?

  1375. And I said, “It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday! Everybody’s looking forward to the weekend…”
    Oh, wait, no. That was Rebecca Black.

  1376. @ 1372- “Please Enjoy Some Croy” Comment 17.
    @ 1374- I’m waiting for FAF! AHHH!!!!!!!!

  1377. @1371. You don’t have to say anything. I dumped it on you, and you don’t even know if I’m actually me or a creepy old stalker lady, so we can be done with the subject. It’s my barking clart to deal with, not yours.
    @1370. You’ll see. You will see.

  1379. @ 1376- I HAVE seen your blog, so….. And creepy stalker ladies wouldn’t admit they were.

  1383. Speaking of creepy old ladies, on my trip to Europe with People to People, we were walking across the street in Rome, and then some demented lady hauls off and slaps two of the delegates, one of them my friend. It was both scary and funny at the same time. More funny later, though.

  1393. @9 (Rachel)
    Sorry LONG time. It was funny Deryn had like no idea what the hell was going on. And I only saw 2 songs, the first one was Alek singing about his love for the Leviathan…it was horrifying…then it jumped to where Lilit was singing about the Revolution, THAT was okay…right when the song started playing Deryn was like, “Barking spiders, not again.” Then I went outside the theater and their was an old telephone booth outside and I called Scott and complained and I walked back in and it was a normal movie and it jumped to the point where Lilit kisses Deryn then (my alarm clock as like random, annoying voices to wake me up) a cowboy came in *which was my alarm clock* and started talking and I relized it was my alarm clock and I woke up. The end.

  1394. I love Uglies I’m reading Specials. It took me about two weeks to read this much. I wonder what Extras is going to be about, my sister Tatum-wa said it was really stupido (stupid in Italian) But I’m still going to read it. for the Hunger Games lovers out here do you think that the Uglies series is better or the Hunger Games?Just wondering I think that the Uglies series is better.

    The #1 Hunger Games, I mean Uglies fan,
    Carter-la

  1395. For the adventure is out there one the caoption could be :
    “Oh btw, I’m a girl and I’m madly in love with you…”
    Explaining the shame in her face and the compleate Suprise on his!

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