A Perspicacious Story

Here's a story I wrote using all of the 'per' words on page 12 of The Word Within the Word:

Things that Make Me Super Happy

Here are 13 things that I want to take and wrap around my heart and look at/listen to all the time always. (This is not counting things like my family, and foods, and stuff.)

1. Everything Wings of Fire (except Deathbringer *shudders*)
2. The cutscenes of Kairi at the end of Kingdom Hearts 1
3. The soundtrack of Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
4. Select tracks from KH (the Traverse town theme, Destiny Islands theme, Night of Fate, Hand in Hand, Missing You, Hikari [of course, and it's various incarnations, english and japanese]...)
5. The storyline... no... the... um... yeah, The storyline of KHI. 
6. All of Kingdom Hearts 1, I changed my mind. Puppies, Trinities, friendship, sacrifice, flying, the storylines by world and the overarching... Deep Jungle, Atlantica, and all. (Speaking of, I still have more Deep Jungle tree sliding to beat...)
7. This right here.
8. Tui's blogs.
9. This right HERE.
10. Water graphics, like those in "The Good Dinosaur", "Minions" (whatever you say about this movie, be it pandery, cliched, silly, or great, that water was pretty), and I think Finding Dory (but I haven't seen it, just the commercials. But I trust you, Pixar!)
11. These remixes.
12. The smell of the soap at my grandma's house.
13. This game.

:-) That's a list of some of the best things in the world.

June-July Snippets :-)

Sometimes I get something sticky on my arm, and I wonder what people would think if they walked in and saw me lick my arm and rub it with my shirt.. ~ June 22, 12:10 AM

Oh dang. Does this have corn syrup in it? ... Uugghhh, I don't wanna get up and check... and I already started eating.. whatever, I've been good for a while it'll be fine... (right now:) Urghh it probably had corn syrup in it. ~ July 3rd, 3:59 AM

It is far too hot to be hiding from a moth under the covers, and yet, here I am. ~July 3, 4:09 AM

How to come up with a new word? I want a noun, for a catching breath usually preceding or accompanying crying. Qatch ? (round a, like watch) Xinch ? (jhinch) Xikatch (jhih-cah-ch)? ~July 4, 3:43 AM
plore -- cry out, wail
-pnea, -pnoea -- breathing, breath
pneum -- breath
spir -- breath
veh, vect -- to carry

Qispirvepnea ? Key-spur-vehp-knee-uh? I LIKE IT. Plural: Qispirvepnae (-nay)
Now to make a word for the inside of your cheek...

facio- -- relating to the face
end- -- inside, within


it certainly is funny how the root 'with' means 'against'. ~July 4, 3:56 AM

Haha that's it? Welp.

I Haven't Read Darkstalker Yet? What's that? You've Hardly Started? Why's that?

Well my friends, it's because Amazon is terrible. The book had been preordered for like a month. Now, 2 days after the release date, it says it should be shipped by July 5th. Probably will arrive by the 9th. So guess what? We cancelled our order and went to Barnes and Noble!! Woopee! So now I can read all night! Yay! But for some reason I am on the computer... writing... instead...
Like, I mean not just this, I'm actually writing! In another tab.

Penguin: "Is this the one where Ice King learns he can eat his wife?"
Me: ". . . . . . Yes, Penguin."

Wait so I'm watching a lyric vid of Remember When, and it said "peaceful music" during an instrumental. Here: https://youtu.be/2C7WUwtQRkU?t=47

Right now there's a hole in the grey clouds that's shaped like an s

Ope, it's gone now. Welp, that was weird.

I'm Too Young to Vote :-(

The future may be decided today. It's Super Tuesday III, with Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island having their primary/caucuses today. And according to Bing predictions, Hillary is predicted to win 80% of these states. (That's 4 out of 5 if you don't want the "some assembly math required" version.) (I literally mathed it into a percentage and then proeeded to assume that you would want it in terms of plain numbers.) So, I feel extremely obligated (especially after the crazy stuff in New York a couple days ago) to ORDER you all to GO VOTE!!!! And make sure you register and stuff, and look up the rules for your state!!!!
You can make a difference!

Chester Howled and I Heard it.

I just had a mini heart attack. It is 1:38 in the morning, on April 18th and OH MY GOODNESS have you ever heard your own dog howl? I heard it over my headphones (I wasn't listening to music, just talking and stuff) and it was SO SCARY you don't even KNOW. I now understand when Mom said it was eery. It is so eery! And I really have to go to the bathroom so, I'll be right back.

Peril, Scarlet, Kestrel, Ruby, and Some Dragons we Meet in Escaping Peril

Clearly, spoilers. Okay, EVERYTHING IS SPOILERS. Deal with it.

So, it's Raining

I had a song pretty much literally just come to me.
To the tune of "skip to my loo"

Rain, rain falling down
Making puddles on the ground
Raining, raining all around
I love when it is raining.

:-)

Wow you guys are so lucky!

Dialogue Tags?

If you've done much reading up on writing, you are likely to have found some rap on "noisy tag lines". Just use said. The readers will skim over it.

I have so Many Drafts, but I'm so Stressed with my Writing Class, so this will be Short

Would you like one of those memes where you have a bunch of things to type responses to? What are those? Like:

Favorite character:
Favorite song:
Pet:

(I don't know)

Would you like to know where I stand on random political things?
Would you like those things (I keep writing thoses? why? do I keep writing thoses?) together?
You wouldn't?
Oh, okay. Just scroll past this then. You didn't even see it. la la la.

I am Going to Post This Today!!!!!

Yes. That did not happen. I got that far (the title) and forgot what I was going to write, so now it is my birthday and I can never post another post at that age again. But I don't know what this was going to be about, anyway, so I guess it doesn't matter. I started this draft on February 23rd. Or maybe before that and it was left up on my computer for a few days. . . Regardless, it's been more than a WEEK and now it's my birthday so. New title: Birthday Boomerang Bafflement. I made that up. I didn't want to do "bash" (too cliched) or "blues" (I mean, I'm not that sad. And I don't want people to read this and think I'm a depressed, mopey emu. I'm not. Just a third of that variously. Does that make sense? But right now, I'm pretty much just neutral.

Yesterday there was a maybe-dead bug on my hammock, so I'm gonna have to check it and shake it out and stuff. Bleh.

Dad: Do you want carrots in your salad?
Me: Yes. I need beta carotene.
Dad: Well that's in carrots. So good thing we have those; you can eat them. If you needed beta bananacream, you would have to go eat a pie.

Book Nine Stuff...

On the Wings of Fire Wiki, the page for "Book Nine" has been changed... and no one has given me solid proof why. SPOILERS FOR EVERYTHING EVER:

Psychic??? Or Overhearing Stuff... No, We're Careful, at Least for this One.

Dad is just starting Winter Turning. He makes good and hilarious theories about the books. Here are some (spoilers ahead for all 8 books!): (Can you believe I can say that now? EIGHT books!!!)

Talking About the Jade Mountain Prophecy

Okay, so I wrote a theory on this before, but I want to discuss another possible view.
Spoilers!!

Escaping Peril: SPOILERS BELOW!

Hello! Happy New Year's Eve, everybody! And also happy I FINISHED ESCAPING PERIL AND IT WAS SO GOOD HORRIBLE BUT BUT SO GOOD AND I LOVE PERIL SO MUCH AND THE PROLOGUE WAS ADORABLE AND WHAT HOW DID THAT HAPPEN HOW DID THAT WORK WHAT WHAT WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN????????????? Day. :-) Okay, spoilers ahead; read at your own risk.

Quotes for Christmas!!

On our pajama ride, I spotted a store called "My Smoke Shop", so I said:  "Hey! That's My smoke shop!" Penguin looked over, saw the sign, and laughed. Mom gave me a weird look.

We saw some of my younger cousins earlier, not the gummi-dumb one, the others. I know it's confusing. :-) Too bad. Anyhoo, they said some funny things which I jotted down in the margin of my sketchbook. Oh, right, I do have it right here. :-)
Uncle: [asking Cuz T to help Younger Cousin T clean up the toys he pulled out] Do you know where they go?
Cuz T: Yeah; in the room I don't want to stand up to go to.
Perfect comeback reply! :-D

Later, Cuz P and I were playing an imagination game. We were best friends (except I somehow didn't remember anything about her last Christmas... *shrug*).
"I need to go see what's wrong, my sister's crazy."

So, merry Christmas!! Happy winter! Happy Long Night Moon! Happy Hanukkah (y'know, two weeks ago)! Happy Escaping Peril comes out in 4 days-ness!!!!!!!! Oh, did I forget to tell you that the release date got pushed back/forward a week? CUZ IT DID!! 8D

And go check out the FREAKY AWESOME COVER plus other stuff (like an amazing title) here

Anyway, have a good day! And holidays!

Clue 7:

I may or may not take this down after you finish the treasure hunt, Penguin.

Greetings, Nerds!

Today I have a special guest. Here's a vague idea of what she looks like:

Made with the wolf maker on dolldivine.com

I am here with Moonbeam. Hello, Moonbeam!

Hi!

I'm going to ask you some questions, okay?

Yes, I already agreed.

I know. What is your happiest memory?

Isn't this kind of personal?

Duh... Didn't you know it was going to be?

Well, yeah. Of course. My happiest memory is... When I first helped bring down a deer. That was fun.

Cool. What makes you laugh so hard soda shoots out of your nose?

Um... what?

... Nevermind. What don't you want anyone to find out about you?

I... am incredibly nosy.

Oo, that would be a problem, wouldn't it?

*buries nose in paws, blushing* [moaning] Yeeees

Sorry. What is the best part of your personality?

[immediately] That I'm funny.

... *apparently holding back a giggle*

...

... *laughs*

Okay, okay! I'm not really funny. But I am sympathetic. 

What shoes do you usually..... *sees Bea's face* Name some things that you are not very good at.

Why should I?

*Rolls eyes* Just do, please.

Fine. I'm terrible in paw-to-paw combat, and hunting birds. *Smiles apologetically* And respecting privacy.

*Blinks* *Looks around* What are you doing?

*Looks to the side sheepishly*

*Rolls eyes* *Sighs* Okay, you know what question I'm going to ask next, but I'ma ask it anyway. How would your best friend describe how you look?

Creepy. My eyes. *Gestures*

*Looks closer* *Pulls back in surprise* They're inverted!

I guess?

Cool!! Okay, what irritates you?

When people notice me in their mind... It's not good.

Anything else?

People whose thoughts drag on so slooowwly. Also those that think in pictures? Ver ver weird.

What are you afraid of?

Umm... Well.. Either frogs or.. *eyes widen* Ehhh!

*Holding back a smile/laughter* Like Sora? <haha. Had to do this to someone, right? I mean; how can you be scared of indecisiveness? I guess I'll find out as I write...>

*nods* I can't decide!!! Gaaah!

Calm down. Mind telling me about your family?

Not at all, but you already know them all. Thunderglow's pretty much just a jerk, especially to Ripple. I don't know why.

Uh...

...

*raises eyebrows*

Okay, yes, I know but... It's weird. He just... He has a weird philosophy on life. I can't figure out how it started; it's like he's always had it. I can't find anything in his memories or thoughts that references it. Like, what? He thinks that he's above anyone without powers. And I think he thinks that we're all like that too. Or at least that we should. I mean, we all hang out with Ripple. We share our prey with her... We eat the fish she catches, too. I wish he'd be nicer, but I don't think I can get him to without changing him too much or hurting him. But Ripple beats herself up about it. I wish I could help her, too, but I can't very well extinguish her memories, can I? 
Fireburst really wants to love us all, but just hardly cares. He makes a lot of mental jokes<ltrly wrote jobs. Like, What? Really, me? Really?>.  Ha ha. He does that way too often. The "ha ha", not the jokes. Well... That too, to be honest. 
Let's see... Dewcloud... I try to stay out of her head. I want to help her, but I can't go through that. I don't think anyone could do that voluntarily. And it must be nearly impossible for anyone to go through unprecedented. It's gotta take a majorly tough dog to live with those memories, going over them daily. 
And there's Gale. She... She's the one I listen to if I can't focus or everyone's freaking out. Her mind is soothing. She thinks in an even pace, and her thoughts are always friendly. 
Then, of course, there's Frosty and Sootfreeze... They're best friends. Ree is probably the most responsible of all of us, and she's sort of our leader, even though she's the second-youngest. Frostflurry is the youngest, and she's just sort of ... there. I mean, I love 'er, but she doesn't stick out much. 
Starbubble is the oldest, and he's got a great power. He can make a forcefield around anyone but himself. They're always stationary, though, so he can't protect us when we're moving. He's deaf... it's a long story... Anyhow, he found a loophole to the forcefield problem: he can make forcefields all around and be protected, at least from the sides. 
Mistfur is very honest... Moss grows wherever she steps, growing up as her paw leaves the ground. She does all our bedding and stuff. She's pretty friendly, but she has to watch her mouth to keep from giving things away. She's pretty innocent, but she's polite. She doesn't ask many questions. At least out loud.

Is that everyone?

Uh-hu-- Well, there's Mom, but...

*nods*

Yeah, so...

What does your den look like?

Oh. Uh.. I don't really do anything to it.. So, empty? There's nothing in it but moss. 

What do you think of yourself when you look in a mirror-- er, your reflection?

Uh.. That it's me? I don't know... I have enough people judging me all the time to judge myself, if that's what you're asking.

*nods head to side* I guess that makes sense. What's the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to you?

...

*blink*

*blink*

...

*purses lips* *raises eyebrows* *looks to the side*

*sighs*

*blushing* I... uh. I... I, uh, happened to be... within range when Dapple was thinking about me.. Like, he likes me... I've been trying to be less intrusive. I mean, imagine you stumble upon a notebook. You open it to see whose it is, and on the very first page... there's a heart with "__+__" in it? And one of those blanks is you. How would you react? Especially if you didn't like them.

*nods* Talk about awkward. How about we move on to a more comfortable subject?... Actually, no, I don't have one. Do you have a crush on anyone <Penguin, I think you know what I'm thinking about as I write this. {No, not my crush. I don't have one. It's an inside joke.}>?

...

Sorry. I have a list of questions I'm supposed to ask. Only one more after this.

I don't know...

That's cool. And now, last question, what do you really, REALLY want most in the world?

Well... I guess I want to help all of my friends get over their problems. At least I wouldn't have to deal with them all the time.

Awesome. That concludes our interview. Thank you so much for your time, Moonbeam!

Thank you for having me. *stands to go*

*also stands* Bye! Say hi to everyone for me!

Bye!


I don't know what to quote for you guys. I'm sorry, I haven't been doing it lately. I know that Penguin in particular likes them. But I don't know what to do, so sorry.


NEVERMIND!! My lovely sister has provided me with a wonderful quote today, as I played my new game on Kingdom Hearts 2. I scribbled it down on a scrap of paper somewhere (on the arm of the sofa) lemme go grab it...

"Yeah. I just woke up in a lotus. Sup." (Just after becoming Sora; discussing why I feel safer or stronger or something when fighting as Sora than I do as Roxas, considering the possibility of the influence of battle cries.)

Chester Wanted a Turn, So...

Huhwo peopews!

Wait, Chester, let me--

You said it was my tuhn.

Yes but--

*big sigh* Guhl...

Stop whining, it'll be like 5 minutes.

Dat is a-eveh.

No it's just 5 minutes... Like the time it takes between asking Lady to make Parmesan bread and the toaster dinging.

Yah. A-eveh.

Whatever. It's going to be longer the more you argue.

Fine.

Great. So, the dog has sort of an accent/lisp thing? And to him I am the Girl, Mom is Lady, Penguin is Teenager, and everyone else is their name-dash-whichever person they are most similar to (or person, or man) like Grandma-Lady and Grandpa-Man. But he'll say "Yady" instead of "Lady", and "Guhl" instead of "Girl". He says "yah" a lot... sometimes you have to drag it out in your mind so that it's 'yyaaahhhhhh" and he sounds really happy about it. Umm... Oh, for him "depress" and "impress" are switched, so don't get confused if he uses them weirdly.

Is ih my tuhn yeh?

Almost. Also, he usually leaves off the T's, so.. yeah. Okay, your turn.

Yay! Uhkay. Umm... I have not been feeded uhday...

Chester! You got breakfast.

*Nods gravely* Yah. Yesseday.

No, today.

Uuuuummmmmmmmm Nuh. It was yesseday.

*rolls eyes* We do not neglect the dog. He just thinks that after he sleeps-- for any insignificant amount of time-- it is "a-day" and before he sleeps is "yesseday" and any time in the future other than later today is "mowwow".

Yike Kissmus. Dat is mowwow.

Um... Sure. Christmas is actually in a little less than a month but...

Dat is what I SAID. Mowwow. Mehbe I wiw get a dead howse dis yeaw!

For the hundredth time NO! You are NEVER getting a dead horse. Not for Christmas, or any other day of the year.

Ohhh, Guhhll. Dat is mean.

Also true-- Oh, the dead horse thing? I was telling him about Christmas the first year we had him, and to lessen his fear of "Santa-man" I was telling him about presents and how once, Santa had brought me a big dollhouse. "Did it have a puppy in it??" Chester asked excitedly. "No, but there was a horse." "Wiwwy???" He asked in amaze and intrigue. "Um.. Yes." "Can I smehw him?" (at this point I think I probably made a scrunchy trying-to-raise-one-eyebrow face) "I... guess.. probably..." "Whew is he?" "Probably in the box of hard-animals." "You keep him in a boss?" "Yeah..." "Is he yive??" "No, of course not. We don't have room for a live horse." "He was DEAD?!?!" "What? No!" "But you dsuss said he wasn't ayive. So he muss be dead." "Wh-- No, he's a toy!" "Santa-man bwings dead howses!?!?" *facepalm*

I duno' undewstand. Dey aw dead howses.

Sure, Chester.

OH GUHL!!

What?

I dsuss a-membuhd. YADY is going to be BAD YADY.

Really? How?

SSE is going to GEDSWOHW a POINTment. At dhe VEH!!!

Ohh noo *mock scaredness*

Yes. It IS uh nuh a-cause dhe veh PWICKLES me. And POKES me and BAWWASSES me.

But it's just so you stay healthy.

Um... I duh no' fink. Dat is what walking is fow.

But remember when you hurt your leg, and when you walked it hurt it more?

Nuh. Dat was a-cause you wouldn't yet me walk. When evvybody finawy yetted me go fow walk I gotted bettew!

Chester. That was because we didn't let you walk until you were all healed.

I do'no' fink.

Iiii think this is a good place to stop. Bye everybody! Catch ya later!

Guhl--

The Spyro portal

I am Actually Sane Right Now!

My goodness! If you saw any of my latest posts, sorry!
I wrote all of them at like 4 AM after waking up at like noon. O.0 so..

Erm.

A RANT ABOUT DEATHLY. AKA Deathbringer. Spoilers for all SEVEN BOOKS. Yes I HAVE Winter Turning, and have since the day it came out, and I'm only HALFWAY THROUGH! I KNOW right? Why am I not finished? But anyhoo, on with le becquet!!!

A Short one Today, Plus Something else Wonderful

So apparently this is a thing: http://www.theonion.com/article/poll-1-in-5-americans-believe-obama-is-a-cactus-18127


The Dreamvisitor question:

In book      mentioned that the Dreamvisitors had been created long ago by a SandWing Animus, but in Moon Rising, Moon reads that it was Darkstalker, and he confirms this (I... think...)

The NightWings wrote most of the informative scrolls, right? And the dragonets learned... pretty much all of their knowledge from those scrolls, right? So we can conclude that the NightWings may have written the scrolls saying that it was a SandWing animus who'd created the dreamvisitors in order to A) boost popularity of the SandWings (for Blister) [not very likely] or B) cover up their tracks, about Darky and all. The scroll Moon read may have been from the NightWing library, or been written after the war and everything, and had a NightWing author or information grilled out of a NightWing (like... Mastermind? Hm? Starflight's father AND a major knowledge source? not likely, huh? [<<sarcasm])

Wow. I wrote this in..... June. 6/12. Ok. I don't know, I think I just needed the book and maybe a quote.  Oh, no Darkstalker didn't confirm. :-( I don't know which book it was in. Probably book 5, I think that's what people say. I'll check tomorrow. :-)
Meaning, in about 3 weeks. :-P

Actually, almost EIGHT weeks, since the last time I edited was HOLY COW OCTOBER EIGHTH????? Where have I BEEN? Rather, where has the book been, and the answer to that is: Not in the same place as my computer. And besides that, it's not in book 5 it's in book FOUR when Starflight finds the Dreamvisitor, and that one has been not in my house for a while! (Don't worry! I didn't lose it. I lent it to my friend.) But NEVER FEAR! I have it now and... darn it's not in my room. :-( I shall go get it. HERE IT IS. Finally I shall finish this "short one". Haha, me, nice try. Here's the quote:
"He'd only ever read about these. There were supposedly three of them in the world, all lost --- all created hundreds of years ago by a SandWing animus dragon," (Sutherland, 2013, pg 104, The Dark Secret). Trying to fix my bad citation grammar... maybe just made it worse? I think that's all the info I need in there... unless I need the publisher too? Ack. It's Scholastic. Anyway, I'm fairly sure that you all know that I'm not trying to infringe on rights and everything, because I KNOW you all know how much I LOOOOVE Wings of Fire and Tui T. Sutherland and everything. :-)


(By the way, I'm not sure what happened with my font. :-P)

Alright. FINALLY publishing this thing. 

I'm going to Write a Bunch of Posts to Publish Throughout November

Because I'll be busy with NaNoWriMo then!!!




Or, I was, but then I didn't finish my 100th post which turned into my 101st post, but whatever.

Go here to get your own dare. :-) I dare you.

Ok, Pupplez, you are not watching Brother Brother Time season 2 finale until you get to 3000 words. >:-| I mean it. But I did watching "Inside Out" and OH MY GOSH it was awesome I'm leaving before I waste all of my writing energy on this. :-) bye

(BTW, I recommend actually watching season one first, and not just watching "what happened... in 80 sec". Especially watch "Thanksgiving's Weak End". It's perfect.)

Magazines are Great, but my Self-Control is Not

I like magazines because they are are easy to read and pick up quickly to read one section. But they're hard to   What?

Anyway, I am not good at making myself write all the time... and there is not enough music in my playlists so I get tired of hearing the same Kingdom Hearts tracks over and over and "they don't fit the mood perfectly they have to fit perfectly I won't write it right and everything will be .. *gasp* WRONG!!" *scream track*. And then I can't get ideas and so I go play video games. Perfect career model right there.

The Return of Color Reports!! Color Report #3: Green

          {November 7 addition: You may have noticed something special... I've hit 100 posts!! I was going to do something special, but then I watched that episode and had to get my feelings out. Anyway, I'm celebrating post #101!!!!!

Count. I dare you. (I did not draw this. Just using it to accentuate my point.)

           And what better way to celebrate than by bringing back this old, beloved series... I stopped this post when my grandparents borrowed book 3... Isn't that crazy? Escaping Peril is coming out in January!! Addition end}

           There are many different types of green mentioned in the books. And green is mentioned many, many times. So, I will go through each book, and look at each mention of the color green.

I Hate Restless Legs

Do you have restless leg syndrome (RLS)? Because I do. And I'm going to tell you why it sucks. Written 10/14.

No. No. No. No. No.

How could you do this?????????? Spoilers for mlp season 5 episode 18

I've got At Least Four Ideas and I am Editing Today. Thankfully.

So, Penguin. First of all: PREPARE FOR YOUR INTERVIEW! Or your other homework if  you're reading this later. :-) Also: Whoever you are: DO YOUR HOMEWORK!

I was Going to Write a "Cautionary Tale" about something, but I Don't Recall What!

I HAVE A DEATH RING which is probably heat rash, don't worry. <!--more--> (Update 3/26/17: I think that was supposed to be html or something code for a jumpbreak? but I don't think it works anymore)

No Edditing Today! --The Hard Truth about the Difficulty of Avoiding Corrections SECOND NATRUER that ist the workd I was looking for. Where I say Secondhand Nature. I meand Second Nature. K. Ok, bye.

What do you waaaaaaaaaaaant??