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I wasn't really happy with my previous attempt at drawing Alanna so I tried again.Alanna from the Song of the Lioness Quartet © Tamora Pierce
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Thank you very much. I'm glad you liked it.
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... i also thought of crayons XD when i faved this i didnt know it was alanna the lioness... now that i do.... im really happy someone made a good fanart of a good series 
... i like the cat best, what was his name? faithful? ... i think that was it...
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Thank you, I'm glad you liked it and are a fan of the series as well. I read it when I was younger and have always loved that series.
lol yes I've been using Crayola lately though not crayons ^^ and yes the cat's name was Faithful.
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lol, i read it when i was younder too 
yay! i got his name right 
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lol it was the first series I read from Tamora Pierce and I couldn't help but read the rest of her Tortall books. I've read Circle of Magic as well but I still prefer the Tortallan ones.
And yes...poor Faithful but he does show up in Terrier under a different name.
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lol, the circle of magic was good too 
really? faithful appears in Terrior?? 
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The Wild Mage quartet was one of my favorites. I liked Daine's character though I never knew how to pronounce her name b/c of the spelling >_>
but I still love Song of the Lioness best maybe b/c Alanna was so different from most female characters I read.
Yes, Faithful does appear in Terrier. The woman's section w/ the bad spelling is the prologue but the rest of the story is told by her daughter Beka who does have better grammer and spelling. ^_^
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oh really? ill give it a read then
ohh, it's spelt Daine 
i do love how different Alanna is from most other characters, but i think i still like Daine better 
what do you think of Alanna's brother... ?Thom, i think his name was...
i liked him at the start, i think id probably have chosen magic over warrior skills too 
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Yes that's how I usually pronounce Daine's name though I'm never sure. lol I like both characters to be perfectly honest. They're both so different but in a good way. I liked George better too. I love his personality.
Thom...hm... I like how he cared for his twin so much and despite his arrogance at times you can't help but like him at least in my opinion. Though it was difficult to tolerate him with the whole bringing Roger back and all that. >_>
I kind of wish that Tamora Pierce could have written a bit more about him. We see his sister's experience in becoming a knight but not his journey learning magic.
There's a fanfic I read where both Thom and Alanna had to go to Corus to become knights (alanna as alan) after an experiment they both tried with their magic resulted in side affects for both of their Gifts. Their magic is different somehow and Thom is trying to find out why and how to fix if not cope with it. I like it b/c it focuses on both of them though most of it so far is more in Thom's POV
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hmm, sounds alright
lol, everyone loves George ^^ hes the best
it's true we didnt follow Thom's journey, but i doubt it would have been as interesting... for one thing, everyone new he was a gut, so there were no secrets... and as far as i know, he wasnt bullied... so most of the book would be about him practising spells
have you read Trickster? ... it;s in two books, Tricksters Choice, and Tricksters Queen. i think the main character is a little unrealistic... and the other characters say "and to think she's on our side" far too many times
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Well he wanted to prove he was powerful and that girl (I forgot her name but every guy had a crush on her including Jon) kept egging him on that if he really was that powerful than he oculd bring Roger back so he did to prove that he could do it.
I didn't mind Liam either though too bad he died.
I have read the Trickster series though I'm not very fond of Aly. It just seems like everything conveniently goes her way or works out for her somehow. I don't really mind the other characters and I like the books but she irks me at times.
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ohh yeahhh, id forgotten about that girl! but if i remember correctly Jon did end up turning her down
yeah, it was too bad he died 
i agree,she didnt really face any hard ships where she found herself helpless... the only one i can think of from the top of my head with in the gods realm (i think it was there) with the crow Gods and the Trickster... but then she still stood up to him, and was defended by the crows...
she irks me also :/ but i loved Nawat. he also annoyed me at times, but he was to funny to dislike
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I think her name was delia or something like that? idk >_>
I hated her -_-
Yeah, poor Liam.
I like Alanna, Daine, Kel, and Beka but I just can't like Aly. The others are more realistic in that they're good at the things they do but they have their faults too something that Aly seems to lack. Nawat was alright half the time when he wasn't chasing Aly like a lovesick puppy.
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ugh!i also hated her, hence my forgetting her name.
i dont know Beka, i need to read those, but ive got a pile up of books to read first
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Yeah, there's a lot I've forgotten from the books b/c it's been so long since I've read them but I'm thinking of rereading a few of them over the summer.
lol yes Nawat was entertaining w/ his love for anything sparkly. He was a crow after all and I know what you mean. ^_^
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yeah, i haven't read them in ages either, but im afraid im a bit stretched thin, all my friends are saying 'read this, watch this, listen to this, look at this!!!!' ...
Are you American? Just wondering cos you said 'over the Summer'
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lol yes I have the same problem with my friends so it looks like I won't run out of reading material for a while. ^-^
To answer your question, my family is from Mexico but I was born in the United States.
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hahaha
thats cool, do you speak Spanish? i love Spanish, it sound awesome
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lol yes besides English I do speak Spanish and some French.
I'm glad you like the language.
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HOORAY!! i want to learn Spanish... but i know English, and i'm learning Japanese, so i'm sure i'd get really confused
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On the upside since Spanish is a romantic language and Japanese isn't it'll be a bit less confusing. Grammer is another matter altogether. I hate it in ANY language especially conjugations >_>
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oh yes, me too -.- but thats a good point
panish (what i know of it) if musical and flowy
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Good idea
I like learing about different cultures and other languages. I want to learn a non romantic language.
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lol non romantic language you say...let me think.... GERMAN! that is a non romantic language, it's very gutteral, but easy to learn if you already know English, coz theyre similar. i used to learn German, but that was 5 years ago now... i still know how to count to ten and say 'shit house' ... i dont know why i rememebr it or even learnt it...
eheh, anyway...
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lol that reminds me in high school we'd have an international week and each day we'd learn simple but useful phrases in a different language such as Italian and German. I had such problems pronouncing certain German words >_> though it's interesting to listen to by which I mean the language.
That was one of the reasons I chose to learn French instead. That and some of my best friends already spoke French so it was easier for me to learn.
I kind of want to learn Korean because many of my friends are Korean and we often swap music. I already help them with Spanish so I kind of want to learn at least some of their language. Japanese is cool to though.
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haha, thats a really good idea
but doesn't french have all the 'ach' ing aswel?
i have a Korean friend, she moved to Australia a few years back and she and her little brother know English, while her parents dont, so she does everything
Korean is a nice language, though i dont know much about it or how it sounds. i only really started liking Japanese when i started reading manga, since then i've become mildly obsessed with it
do you like Korean music? from what i've heard it seems to be mostly teenage girls with high voices singing pop music >.> but that may just be one genre. what about it do you like?
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I don't have a Spanish accent at least not when I speak in English. I live near Chicago so I guess you can say I have a Midwestern accent? I think the reason I find French easier than German is because it's so similar to Spanish.
I know what your Korean friend goes through because I went through and still sometimes do, the same thing. My mother doesn't speak English though she somewhat understands it. My father understands it but he has a thick accent.
I like anime and manga too ^^ and it's one of the reasons I started liking Japanese. I also just like the way it sounds whenever my friends Shoko and Katie speak it.
I tend to like songs in general more than the artist themselves if that makes any sense? If I hear a song that I like I'll listen to it regardless of the artist. I don't know a lot of Korean music to be perfectly honest just what some of my friends have recommended but I do like some songs by Taeyang, Super Junior/Super Junior-M, Gain, SNSD, and Beast. Most of those are pop I guess. I like listening to a variety of music even if I don't always know what they're saying >_>
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oh that makes sence
damn, that sucks for you, but i guess it teaches you to do things for yourself way before most people your age learn it.
yay! anime and manga
i know what you mean, you have less loyalty to a band or artist, than most. you just like individual songs
haha, sometimes it's better no to know what they are saying, i can sing along to most of a Japanese song
you seem to have lots of friends from other countries, and ur from mexico (blood wise i mean) do you go to a special school, for students from another country, or is it just coincidence?
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Yeah, I prefer english subs to english dubs w/ only a few exceptions.
Yeah, I'm not huge on pop b/ most of the Korean music I do know is pop. I don't mind it as long as it's not like you said some whiny teen girl >_>
lol I know what you mean. 
I do have a diverse group of friends now that you mention it. I have friends from China, Japan, Korea, Colombia, Cuba, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Tunisia, Algeria, Vietnam, and Romania to name a few but I don't go to any type of special school. I go/went to a public high school in the suburbs of Chicago.
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English subs are WAY better, ur right, but there are a few exceptions on my part too
most of my friends like either whiny girl pop, or screamo
okie dokie then... coincidences like that are great 
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I love Death Note! And it is one of the few exceptions that I like. Another one would be the Hellsing OVAs. Alucard's voice just doesn't sound right to me in the Japanese ones. It sounds too old?
The type of music my friends like varies greatly so that's one of the ways that I find music that I like. We often trade songs which is why some of the music that I listen to isn't in a language I know. I don't particularly dislike any genre of music much except for some of the teen pop music I hear here *shudders* and I dont' mind some rap songs if isn't all just swear words and talk about sex/drugs.
I like rock music though there are different types of it so I'm not always sure what type of it I'm listening to. Most of the rock I do listen to I guess could be classified as alternative? I don't listen to a lot of country music b/ then again I don't know much country music.
I like learning about other cultures. My friends and I often have discussions comparing things from our individual cultures like food and weddings as strange as that might sound. American weddings are very different from hispanic and arabic weddings.
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i love Death Note too!
you're lucky to have so many different opinions from your friends you can listen too
yes, a lot of rock is catagorised as alternative, merely for the lack of a defining name
no, not too many people are a fan of country, but that's fine, i don;t particularly want my fave bands, singers, or songs to become mainstream due to popularity.
cultures are so interesting. i don't think it's strange at all. i often tslk to friends about thir cultures... though i admit, on DA...
do you know the differences between hispanic, Arabic, and American weddings? or was that just an example ( a true example that you just happen not to know all the details of i mean)
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L is my favorite too! The series just wasn't as good without him for me. I love Hellsing and I remember liking Cowboy BeBop though I watched it so long ago that I don't really remember what happened in it. I have two younger brothers and we're always swaping anime/manga and games. I don't really know a lot of songs by David Bowie but I have liked the few ones that I have heard.
I do love my friends but it is difficult finding someone that I can talk to about certain things. I love anime/manga as well as drawing but not everyone likes that. I like reading and some find it a waste of time. It's like that whenever I'm with some of my cousins. We have such different tastes that it's difficult to really talk about anything.
To be perfectly honest I've never been to an American wedding. Anything I know about them comes from what my friends have told me. I'm not really sure that Amercans are that religious but I guess it depends on the person/family. Any American wedding that my friends have gone to sound boring to me actually. It seems more formal than anything w/ fancy catering and such. Hispanic weddings are a bit more informal I guess you could say. There WILL be a LOT of people regardless of the guest list. Instead of course meals we tend to have a sort of buffet line going on w/ home cooked food (everyone pitches in w/ food). You're free to help yourself to any left overs after the party is over and there's always left overs.
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i agree, Near didn't cut it :/ L was the best. but it was a huge surprise that he died.
i'm planning on watching both, though hellsing didn't capture my attention to begin with. thoguh i didn't get very far before i was interupted and forgot about it. u just have me more motivation to read it
yes i agree, most of my friends are still hung up on twilight...
i've seen movies of American ones, they seem like Australian ones.... INCREDIBALLY boring -.- but now i REALLY want to go to a Hispanic one! sounds do fun
Australian weddings are basically sitting on fold ot chairs listening for an hour a preist speck about God and marraige, ect. then they kiss, they have the reception where everyone sits at tables and chats and eats, then i suppose the party either goes to a home, and close family celebrate the proper way... alcohol, bad jokes and friends
Hispanic weddings sound so much more fun
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Yes, it was shocking when L died.
Twilight...ugh practically all of my friends got out of that phase two years ago I think? I admit that I've read all the books. I didn't mind the series when it first came out b/ then the other books came out and it became such a HUGE thing that I was like what??? Why??? Twilight: ok not so bad except for the fact that he WATCHED HER SLEEP for two months w/out her knowing... how is that romantic? New Moon: angsty much? and is she crazy hearing voices that aren't there & it's never addressed Eclipse: okay... Breaking Dawn: wtf? it's like a crappy fanfic.
I haven't read Vampire Acadamy though I did read one of the Vampire Diary books. It's different from the TV series I've heard. I've only watched like three episodes. I miss the time when not everyone was SO into vampires. I mean before vampires were turned into sparklepires and get into love triangles for a human girl. It's never a human guy if you haven't noticed lol
I have a few friends into manga/anime b/ most of them are just into shoujo. Don't get me wrong I do like shoujo but I also like shounen and such. I can't stand shoujo if it's too girly though ex. Shugo Chara. I could never get into Fruits Baskets no matter how many times it's been recommended to me. I used to like Naruto b/ the plot isn't what it used to be and I actually prefer Bleach.
That sounds...kind of dull for a wedding. I have gone to a wedding that was kind of like that and I HATED the fact that the food was a course meal that waiters would bring to your table. You don't get very many options on what you want to eat and a salad bar was NOT going to do it for me. If I ever get married I want a buffet line w/ home cooked food like at my cousin's wedding. We do have a religious ceremony and then the reception is held at a ball room of sorts or at someone's house if it's big enough (our families are huge) we eat until 7 and dance until we're kicked out.
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OH. MY. GOD. i am in total, and complete agreement. i've read them all before also, and i did like them when they first came out. but now that i think about it, her crazy masochistic urges... well, getting there anyway... but seemed to disapear... but all that happened was the trip to Italy... and seriously... Breaking Dawn? why did they do it!? they could have made it sad that she could never have children... but instead they made a mary stu baby. and she grew up so quickly too! it would have been fine if she ended up growing too old and dying... but she stopped at around twenty... WHY!? that is far too convenient! ... anyway, sorry about that, i'm not allowed to rant to my friends about twilight or i get the cold shoulder for the rest of the day
i've never read or watched Vampire Acadamy, though my friends like that too. i did watch the entire first season of Vampire Diaries, and i did really like it, though although i meant to keep watching, i didn;t like it enough to have the motovation needed to borrow or buy the second...
YES! i don't get why they are such a big thing! or why they haven't died out yet... the fan phase i mean... no pun intended
yeah, i'm not big on shuojo, i'm more shounen really. though i did read Kaichou wa maid-sama! and Fruits baskets. but i never finished either, they just didn't intrest me enough. i read both Naruto and Bleach... and with Fairytail, yes, spelt incorrectly like tail, despite the fact that it has nothing to do with tails... -.- just the auther mis-spelling the name of his manga title
yeahp, our weddings are pretty stupid. like a sxhool agthering where you have to wear your unifomr, yor hair up, your phone and ipod away (the ipod/phne one is fine by me) but there is no fun, not for anyone who isn't directly involved. i think a larger fun wedding like you have would be so much better
how big are your families... approx that is. i have a larger than average myself, 4 grandads 3 grandmas (blame the whole divorce/ death thing)1 dad, 3 mums (don't ask)three siblings, not including my self, 8 aunties and uncles, 4 cousins, and about 12 in another country i've never met. and then there are the random people we pick up along the way and give titles like uncle and auntie and mum, ect. ... alot of people would have two grandparents, two parents, be an only child and only have one of two children. they would be what counts as normal and funtionl... we are incredibally disfunctual and insane.
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I liked them when they first came out too except for the whole sparkly vampire part (What vampire sparkles?!). Before they became popular and people had no idea what “stupid shiny Volvo owner” meant. But then the fourth book came out and it completely ruined what little respect I still had for the series. I mean SM completely contradicts herself. She says that imprinting is supposed to be a rare thing yet by the end of the series everyone but Embry, Seth, and Leah have imprinted. I mean come on! I thought Jacob and Leah were going to end up together b/c they kind of bonded and became friends but no! Jacob imprints on Bella’s Mary Sue of a baby. Does that mean that Jacob was only in love w/ one of Bella’s eggs or something? And what’s up w/ Bella’s obsession with having sex with Edward before being turned? I expected a huge fight to happen at the end b/w the Cullens & Co. vs. the Volturi but no only one vamp dies and they go about their merry way. Anti-climatic much? I wouldn’t give you the cold shoulder if you did so feel free to rant as much as you want about that series with me if it makes you feel any better.
I’ve heard my friends talk about Vampire Academy but I’ve never read it much less know what it’s about. I sometimes watch Vampire Diaries if it’s on when I’m watching TV and waiting for another show to start. It’s okay so far though I prefer watching Supernatural though. I’m kind of sick of all the love triangles though. It’s always a girl having to pick between two hot guys. >_>
I admit I like vampires but not to the point that some obsessive fan girls take it. It’s kind of scary actually. I like supernatural things in general though not just vampires. I don’t understand that fascination either. It’s always some vamp guy full of self loathing that meets a somewhat plain Jane girl and for some reason finds them irresistible but doesn’t want to turn them into a monster followed be several sequels. Ugh, you’d think they’d be creative but no. I also think the reason for it might be b/c the fan base is mostly teen girls who want to dream that they’re in the place of said girl choosing b/w two hot guys. I’d find it hilarious if they’d switch the roles around.
I’ve read Kaichou wa Maid-Sama! too though it reminds me a lot of Special A to be perfectly honest. I’ve heard of FairyTail before but I’ve never read it. I hate Aizen period. I suspected him even when he was still the “nice” bespectacled captain of the fifth division -_- and his transformations were hilarious. I mean giant butterfly wings? *cough* anyways, I really want Rukia to come back and I’m not sure how I feel about the Fullbringers just yet.
That doesn’t sound very fun. We don’t really have a strict dress code at weddings though we’d prefer it of guys didn’t wear dirty sneakers and we keep hold of our electronics. Our party size gets huge though b/c family/friends invite other family/friends so you end up not knowing part of the guests. All the parents are another story as they seem to know EVERYONE even IF they haven’t seen someone in twenty years IDK how. O_o
My immediate family consists of my parents, my two younger brothers (16 yrs, 13 yrs though they both look older then their age unlike me) and myself. My extended family is huge. I have four grandparents and one great grandfather (my dad’s grandpa). My dad has 7 sisters and 4 brothers and they’re all married w/ kids so on my dad’s side I have about 30? cousins. The 3 oldest are married while the four oldest have 7 kids among them. I’m the fifth oldest on my dad’s side b/ I’m not planning to have any children just yet.
My mom has five brothers (married though one’s a widower) and four sisters (two are not married). I have about 30 cousins on my mom’s side as well though one’s dead. At least 13 of them are married and have kids idk the exact number around 16 kids? I know my dad’s side of the family really well and see them more often then my mom’s b/c many of my cousins on her side are married so I rarely see them though there is some family drama . >_>
I also don’t really talk to my female cousins around my age much (with a few exceptions) b/c we don’t have much in common. They’d rather talk about guys while I rather nap then hear another story about some guy that I do NOT find attractive. I get along better with them at an individual basis then when we’re in groups. Anyways, when we do have a reunion (which is pretty much every/every other weekend) it gets pretty insane but I love my family and wouldn’t have it any other way
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OHMIGOD!!!!!!!!! ... i just finished typing my entire reply and accidentally deleted it as i went to press send!
it's strange, but you seem to have pretty much the exact same opinion on Twilight as me
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I've seen the first two but I haven't seen eclipse and I am curious about how they're going to create Renesme (what kind of name is that?). By the way what? Was that where your message ends or where it's missing something?
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lol, it cut off, but i already sent another one.
...and i think it's funny how we both made the pojnt about Renesme's name
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You sent another what?
I get what Bella was trying ot do but it's still ridiculous.
I haven't recieved anything else besides this.
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gyah! don;t tell me i have to write all that again!? okay!
umm, this comment will ptrobably be harder for yo to read now though :/ because you don;t have tha ability to just click to yo last message and chack what you wrote
it's strange, but you seem to have pretty much the exact same opinion on Twilight as me yes, the fourth book was completely unrealistic and stupid -.- though i will admit, i have watched all the movies (only once i swear!) until now, and i am very interested in how they are going to create Renesme... by the way,WHO THE HELL CALL THEIR CHILD A MIXTURE OF THEIR GRANPARENTS NAMES!? the answer to that, is Bella Swan. but she could have just done the whole middle name thing lol, imprinting. but of course they had to add that drama, otherwise what would the imprinting obsessed fangirls have had to latch onto? and lets face it, it is the fangirls who keep the series popular.
i hadn't thought of Leah and Jacob, but i'm not sure it would have worked. what with being in eachothers heads all the time.
Bella was a moron for choosing Edward over Jacob though. i mean Edward is an obsessive, overprotective, possesive, not really that good looking, hundred year old vampire, who has very strong and almost inescapable urges to rip her throat out. of course SM had to make their relationship work so she gave Edward stronger sontrol over his impulses in a year or so, while Carlile took hundreds of years to get to where hes is now... and he never had the blood that he really loved. (hard to beleive as he had been alive far longer than anyone else there ) i don;t know what Jacob's issues with her eggs were, no...
there was no way SM was going to kill off her main characters. she would lose many, many fans, who couldn't see past the lack of somebody to the tragedy and good read of true sadness that the loss of someone loved can bring. very anti climactic. did you see the newer books she brought out? i tried to read the host, but i couldn;t even make it to chapter 2 before i decided i wasn't going to subject myself to it. and the one about Bree Turner (oh god i remember her name) the vampire who died in the end. i never read that either. and then there are the "illustrated guides" haha, as though the story wasn'e simple and predictable enough without a guide and pictures to help.
the only thing i liked about the Cullens where Alice and Emmett, though i admit, they where both very mary/marty Stu but likable characters apart from that... although i admit that i did use my imagination with thier percoanlities and events that happened, i also rephrased a lot that was said.
hmmm, if i feel like ranting about Twilight again i shall choose you its nice to have someone who doesn;t mind. and over the computer i'm not speaking to fast for you to understand, neither can i see any boredom or confusion on your face oh, and you can;t tune out, as so many people do. because you're reading. if you wanted to ignore me you could, but you haven't
Hmm, Vampire Diaries is okay, but i don't care enough to continue watching. never seem Vampire Acadamy. this vampire fad really isstarting to get on my nerves to. i love the supernatural (though i don't beleive) too, because of my dad. and Supernatural the show is awesome! i love it! but i haven't watched in s very long i have no clue who the people are now. i think i need to get up to date sometime.
love trianges re getting very overused, they are incredibally pointless and annoy me to no end. you say you think it would be hilarious with two hot girls and a plain boy? have you ever read City of Bones? the first three books are great, they ended perfectly, but the fourth ruined it really. far too try hard and it wasn't really a good story, she was scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas. anyway, in the first three books, there is a plain boy two hot girls love triangle in there. well, and hot boy, hot girl plain boy love triangle also. and although the main male character seems Marty Stu-ish he also has faults and seems human.
anyway, i recomend them to alot of people, but only if i knoe what the person likes, and i know that you like Tamora Peirce. she isn't like tamora Peirce. but i really do love her. oh sorry, Cassandra clare is her name possibly spelt wrong.
O.O WOOOOOOOWW! and my family is big for australian standards... crazy stuff. ohh, i forgot, as i always do about this guy, also one other cousin, but he came down with a bad case of hit by a car many years ago so i don't really remember him well.
my family have a lot of get togethers, and we often have what we call a "Relly Rally" relly meaning relatives and rally being the get together. my godparents host it, and we keep in touch with those we don't see often.
your family get togethers seem so much more fun, though it's nice to just have a quiet talk about books or something else with someone who also apreciates it.
GYAH! i ahve this friend who never shuts up about guys. we might be walking to the cinemas and shell nudge me and wink in a guys direction... whether they are ugly or not -.- or we might be in clas and she'll start about this band that she made me listen to once and expects me to n=know everything about them... i don't actually care in the least. ohh, people like her are rather annoying... yep, one onone is much better. they're not trying to sgho of to friends then, they become themselves more.
i alos love my family, i'm a family person, and family scomes first for me always, that's not to say i always choose a family get together over a friends place, but io don;t go out with friends too much, so it's fine. i once went to a familt gathering with my step mums family, and her daughter is my age. the adults sat around a coffee table and were all very polite, while the 'kids' (gee thanks) where told to sit quietly on the ground and wait iuntil the night was over and they could leave... incredibally creepy considering my step mum is loads of fun,and would never choose to have anyone left out of a conversation. we bounce all ofver her walls whenever we get the chance so i count my self very lucky that i have a large family who i can struggle to speak over while they struggle to speak over me (in a loving way )
... wow, i just wrote quite alot... AGAIN! haha, long conversations arfe fun. though i wioll admit that i was continualy copying my reply when ever i remembered so that if i deleted it i wouldn;t have to write it all again.
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lol I haven’t seen Eclipse but I have seen the other two movies. 
I just felt bad for Leah seeing as all the crap that happened to her in the series: fiancé imprinting on her cousin, father dying from a heart attack that occurred when she and Seth phased, and being the only female shape shifter having to share minds w/ her baby brother and the other male shape shifters. How sucky is that? I don’t know if it’s just me but I prefer some of the minor characters to the major characters. I like Alice when she’s not a shopaholic or playing dress up w/ Bella and Emmett is okay too. I didn’t really like Rosalie until the whole rape thing was explained and then I could kind of understand plus I like that she never really likes Bella b/c it seems that EVERYONE wants a piece of Bella. Jasper doesn’t really say much. Carlisle seems like the perfect veggie vamp/father that I forgot he’s suppose to be a 24 yr old forever and Esme reminds me of Martha Stuart when it comes to decorating though must everything be glass and white???
When I first read Twilight I was like “Aw, Edward really cares for her” but then when I thought about it and read it again I’m like “wait... he WATCHED her in her sleep for what like two or three months w/out her knowing about it... wtf?!” He seems really possessive and I hate the fact that they went from “let’s TRY to be friends so I don’t want to kill you” to “You are my everything in life and w/out you I’ll kill myself” very quickly I mean wtf?! They hardly know anything about each other. Just goes to show how much Bella cares about looks.
When Edward left her in New Moon she was a zombie for THREE MONTHS! Seriously? She ignores everyone then one day decides to act like she’s friends w/ the people she ignored and will again ignore once Edward comes back and seems to forget about just how much Jacob was truly there for her. I don’t care WHAT my friends say about him just being the guy you want as a best friend and nothing more. Jacob was her childhood friend and was there for her when she needed it. He was a bit more considerate and let her have some breathing room. I don’t care how much I loved a guy but I highly doubt I’d want to spend every waking moment w/ him. I’d need my breathing space and time w/ family and friends. I also hate the fact that she didn’t give it a second thought about being turned not even thinking about her family. Family is very important to me which is why that particular part kind of pissed me off. Though something I NEVER understood is WHY EVERYONE likes Bella. She’s described as AVERAGE looking w/ little to no personality who also happens to be unnaturally pale despite the fact that she lived in Phoenix AZ w/ her mother. Sure she likes to read but what else? (I don’t care what she says Wuthering Heights wasn’t that great of a book and I don’t really like Romeo and Juliet. It’s tragic and DOESN’T end w/ a happy ending Bella no matter what you believe)
I have heard of the Host and Bree Tanner or w/e it’s called. I’ve tried reading the Host b/c my friend lent it to me and I promised I’d read it b/ I’m still stuck on ch 2 She said the first 100 or so pages suck b/ the rest gets better. I hope she’s right or I’m going to be skipping a lot of it. When I went to the book store and found a graphic novel version of twilight in the manga section I was like “What is this doing here?!” I did however find s pretty short parody version of Twilight though in the teen book section that my friend and I read while we were relaxing in the Starbucks section of the book store and we couldn’t stop laughing and no I don’t mind if you rant about the series. It’s nice having someone who also doesn’t like it. I and a select few of my female friends sometimes do that much to the surprise of any of our guy friends. Surprise! There are females that don’t like it either.
I’ve always been attracted to the supernatural like learning about myths and such from a young age not saying that I believe in monsters & ghouls and such but I just find it interesting idk why. I was really into Greek and Egyptian mythology when I was middle school and I like learning about other cultural myths and stories. Yay! I finally found another female that likes Supernatural the show. I watch it w/ my brothers and two of my female cousins like it too b/ they also haven’t seen it in a while. I’d rather watch that any day than Gossip Girl much to my cousin Rosio’s horror.
I completely agree w/ the whole love triangles thing being overused. I did check out City of Bones like a year ago I believe but I didn’t read much of it b/c I was busy reading 8 other books for a term paper 
Yeah, my family is big b/ I’m so used to it that I find it strange when some of my friends only have two cousins that they barely talk to. Family means a lot to me too even if we don’t always get along. Our family gets together a lot but I admit that we’re closer to my dad’s side of the family. There’s more drama on my mom’s side and everyone’s older so it’s more difficult to get together. In the summer we usually have these family parties or reunions at forest preserves where we play football (soccer) and other games while eating tons of food. This past weekend we had a party for my graduation and both of my brothers’ first communions at a park. I invited one of my best friends so she could try Hispanic food & meet some of my family. She’s half Chinese and half Japanese and also likes learning about other cultures. We (my siblings a few of their guy friends, my closest female cousins, my friend and I) played soccer and Trash Can. My friend even won three rounds much to everyone’s surprise (she has this air of innocence around her and people can’t help but act polite around her and not swear much to her annoyance).
I feel your pain as I also have a few friends/cousins like that. They never seem to understand that I’m not really interested in everything involving the males they find attractive and are constantly wanting to hook me up w/ some guy they know. I’ve discovered that our tastes in the opposite gender are quite different. I’ve only found ONE of the guys they picked acceptable but we were better off as friends. My friend Andy is always talking about some guy and she always thinks that I know who she’s talking about and who they associate w/
lol we had the same idea!
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Hahaha, i know you haven't seen Eclipse, but you've read the books, so you'll get what i mean. Well, in the movie, the insides of vampires are granite. Literally granite, so when they’re ripped apart they kind of shatter. Anyway, when Victoria gets her head ripped off, it kind of... well, snaps of all granity
Oh, God. Middle school fan girls obsessed with Edward and Jacob 
Wow, i hadn’t thought about the whole no bodily fluids but. She really did contradict herself there
Oh god... times TWO! I’d forgotten that Renesme's middle name was Carlie i agree that mixing two names in order to have a different name can be fine, but her idea was just stupid. And now I’m sure that she chose those names just for the baby’s name. And there is no doubt that that child will be the most spoiled child that ever lived. But of course no one will care because she, and her family will be perfect, and she'll go to a perfect school, and have almost perfect friends just imperfect enough for her to outshine them in every single way.
Yup, the fan girls are always to blame in these circumstances. Yea, Leah does have a pretty harsh time, but then she also gave shit to the rest of the pack. Still, with her clothes being destroyed, and all of her thoughts being heard I do feel very sorry for her. YES! It is not just you; I like so many of the minor characters better. For one, Angela. I really liked her sensibility, she chose a boy she liked and stuck with him without any relationship problems, so we didn’t have to listen to her complain like we did with Jessica and Bella. She also liked to read, and she was very perceptive, yet subtle, she knew when to let a topic go, and when someone needed to talk. Eheh
Oh and with Alice and Emmett, I meant in the books, far more personality to them. Alice did really annoy me with the shopping, as I hate shopping, and with the playing dress ups with Bella. But I thought it was good that she did get Bella dolled up, because otherwise that girl would have just let herself go
It seems to me that half of the series is Bella obsessing over how perfect Edward looks… she doesn’t care that he is always abandoning her and controlling her every move.
Yes, Bella has some serious issues. She may as well have just told him that if he left then she would kill herself. It would have had a greater effect than keeping her promise and becoming isolated from her friends. Screw the promise, play dirty if it means you’re going to get the one you love.
Now remember, it wasn’t every waking moment they spent together… he stayed overnight too
Family means everything to me also. I would cancel on a friends get together if I was asked by anyone but my sister (only because she’s selfish enough not only would she refuse to cancel, but also force someone else to be late in order to drive her places) sorry, I have no respect for my sister
I agree that someone so plain shouldn’t be obsessed over by so many people. Her love of books only extended to far. I mean it’s only in her conversations with Edward that she really talks about books at all. And that topic isn’t common for her. Romeo and Juliet is over rated. I did like it to begin with, and it’s still an alright story (I’ll admit, I prefer tragic endings to the expected happy ending). It is NOT A happy ending, and there is no possible way that it could be construed as a happy ending. They both died thinking that the other was dead, they were heart broken. The families still hate each other, more so for the loss of their children. IT IS NOT A HAPPY ENDING! Wuthering Heights has nothing to like, my opinion anyway. The main characters really are annoying, and the ending is not only anti-climactic, but also, the tragedy that was supposed to be there because of the deaths is missing, because I didn’t care if they died or not, seeing as I liked none of them. It took me a long time and much will power to finish, the author relies on the darkness of the story to placate the reader for her lack of story line and character development. Jane Eyre on the other hand is still sad, and it brings out anger in the reader. A true classic I think, I’m reading it for a second time at the moment
Hmm, well if you end up liking the host then let me know and I might try again, but otherwise I doubt I will. I don’t care about Bree Tanner, we only knew her for about three pages before she died… though then again, she was trying to eat Bella 
WHY!? Why does everyone believe that manga is just pictures? Shortened versions of movie and books!? ITS NOT! It has more story line, character development and interesting jokes or facts then many, many popular books. Mainly because all of the popular books these days are about vampires. Ugh, frustrating. Wait a minute; your book stores have manga sections? 
It’s nice having another friend who dislikes Twilight also but you see, my guy friends all love it too….
I still love Greek and Egyptian mythology
Urgh, the friend I was talking about, who loves anything male, is coming over tomorrow. I usually say I’m busy, but it’s common knowledge I’m free Monday morning, so I couldn’t escape. When she comes over, we tend to sit there while she U-Tubes all of her fave bands interview and performances, while telling me how hot they are, and nudging and winking at me the whole time. Then we go to the movies or whatever we were planning on doing. Usually late because she wanted me to see the last few utuby things, then expects me to look up everything else on those people when she’s gone, so that we can “gossip” at school. No, I’d much rather watch a good supernatural series than research her fave topics of conversation. :/ but luckily she’s changing schools next term. I know I’m being a bad friend by being happy that she’s going, but there is only so much of something you can take. I think you know what I mean; it would seem you also have similar difficulties. Oh god, reading because you have to. Not fun, especially when you’re forced to read “Deadly Unna?” here’s a piece of advice, and a friendly warning: DON’T DO IT! Just don’t. City of Bones isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but you sound like the kind of person who would like it. Of course you may end up hating it, only time will tell
Big families are so much more fun there is drama on my mum’s side, she hates her mum, who is a control freak, and loves to criticise everything and anything. He dad (deceased) used to make her stand up in front of family, friends and random people in the street and say “I am stupid”, then she was hit when she refused to. My dad’s side is better, though my pop is a racist bastard who I see maybe three days a year, if that. He finds it hard to phone up once and let us know he’s even been down, so we tend to find out a week after he’s gone. And my grandma is very sick, mostly because she refuses to eat. I mean, she has a loving husband (one of the kindest and most interesting people I know) many children and grandchildren, and a big friendly dog. Yet she still refuses to try and be healthy, even if she’s bought expensive food that she loves, she’ll refuse to eat… anyway, drama
I don’t know what trashcan is, what is it? I hate it when people swear and then look at me, and get this apologetic expression on their face, as though I might burst into tears at this violation to my ears. Haha, I rhymed
Hmm, it’s as though people think that because they love something everyone else should too :/
Haha, great minds think alike
Sorry I wrote so much
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Yes I did notice the granite bit during the “fight” between Edward and the Volutri. I remember that I wanted to laugh so loudly when they showed him sparkle as he was about to expose himself. Sure the Volturi would have killed him but didn’t he give a damn about the fact that they would probably also kill any humans that saw him? Bet he didn’t even think about that. I shudder to think about how their kid would grow up and the fact that they’re all so “perfect” and like you said she’d be the spotlight of it all.
I liked Angela too.
I thought the same about Edward though you have a good point about the abusive bf behavior. Jealous overbearing stalker boyfriend much? Something I always wondered was how did he control himself around Bella during her period? I mean the rest of the Cullens for that matter. Most of them go to a high school full of teen girls who don’t have their periods all at the same time. Bella just strikes me as an incredibly selfish girl lusting after an attractive vampire that paid her attention after being ignored most of her school life. I mean she was adamant that she wanted to lose her virginity before becoming a vampire and kept trying to seduce him and how is hugging a body that’s freezing and as hard as a statue comfortable?
I HATE Wuthering Heights. I couldn’t STAND any of the characters. I was confused at first because of their names being shared but I still couldn’t stand any of the characters especially Catherine or whatever her name was. Great book by butt Bella. I had to force myself to finish it. I didn’t really care to reed Bree Tanner so I just skimmed the first three pages then read the ending at a book store while waiting for my friend to arrive. Eh is all I can say I mean you know from the beginning that she’s going to die. What is it about Bella that attracts everyone?! I’ll never understand. I share your heartache when it comes to people’s opinion on manga if they’re not into it. It’s NOT just pretty pictures damn it! Some of my family and friends don’t understand why I like it. I’ve actually been reading more manga than novels lately simply because the story plots are different from whatever cliché trash they’re coming out with these days. I lost count of how many love triangle supernatural romances are now out there.
Yes, we do have manga sections in our book stores and now libraries now that manga is becoming more popular. I prefer the book store though because they have a larger variety compared to libraries that tend to only have mainstream manga. Yay on getting a manga section!
Your guy friends like it too? Not unheard of but still a bit strange. Practically every guy I know abhors that series. Too bad for them Twilight has forever changed the teen girl’s idea of the “perfect” guy. 
I’m actually not a huge fan of horror movies for some reason which is kind of strange because I don’t mind it in video games or in anime/manga idk why
That sounds like a huge pain. A few of my cousins are kind of like that though with them it’s mostly that they won’t shut up about it. Can’t they understand that there is far more to life than just the opposite sex? They talk to me about some “hot” guy named Alex and I’m like “who?” I try to talk about something going on in the world or about something interesting I learned in psychology (best class I ever took in high school along w/ the most hilarious) and they’re like “What?”
Two of my dad’s sister in laws can’t even see one another in print so if one’s at a party then you know the other won’t be there which causes a bit of a rift between family seeing as my dad’s brothers can’t always see the rest of our family. My cousin’s husband is someone I personally want to see rot in jail but she and the rest of her immediate family just turned a blind eye to issues concerning him in the past. I LOATH that man and feel uneasy being in the same room as him. There’s been drama going on w/ my mothers siblings for the past few years my mother refusing to be dragged into their petty arguments. My mother helped w/ my grandparents paperwork to get them to be able to come visit everyone here in the United States about two or so years ago so it’s thanks to her that they’re able to come again this summer despite her siblings critics that she was being foolish but no now they’re acting as if they helped and fight over who they’re staying at next while my mother hardly gets to see them. My parents are now helping pay for my grandparents’ plane tickets while most of her siblings refuse to help financially at all. It really pisses me off because I know that my mom won’t be seeing much of her parents when they do arrive.
Trashcan is a game where you place an empty trashcan on its end in the middle (a chair works to or any large object really) while a large amount of people stand around it in a circle. The game is better w/ a LOT of people so it’s better to have more than 6 (I once played w/ over 20 people at a party). You then grip hands (preferably wrists/lower arms) tightly so you don’t let go. Once everybody is ready you are free to move and shift the circle so that other people touch the trashcan or whatever object in the middle you’re using. You do whatever you can to avoid it without letting go the entire time. There are no turns so the larger the circle of people the more interesting shapes you get. If anyone lets go they’re out and the person they let go of is also out so you REALLY don’t want to let them to let go. You wouldn’t think it but it’s very physically exhausting but so much fun. It’s a real work out though and your arms will feel kind of sore (depending on how long you last) like you were weight lifting the day before but it’s so much fun. I hope my explanation makes sense
Sorry for the length of this but I do agree that DA makes our replies look longer than they are. It’s okay I understand. 
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eheheh... i wouls appreciate if you would ignore that last comment. i sent by accident long before i was done writing
OHMIGOD!!!!!!!!! ... i just finished typing my entire reply and accidentally deleted it as i went to press send!
it's strange, but you seem to have pretty much the exact same opinion on Twilight as me yes, the fourth book was completely unrealistic and stupid -.- though i will admit, i have watched all the movies (only once i swear!) until now, and i am very interested in how they are going to create Renesme... by the way,WHO THE HELL CALL THEIR CHILD A MIXTURE OF THEIR GRANPARENTS NAMES!? the answer to that, is Bella Swan. but she could have just done the whole middle name thing
i hadn't thought of Leah and Jacob, but i'm not sure it would have worked. what with being in eachothers heads all the time.
Bella was a moron for choosing Edward over Jacob though. i mean Edward is an obsessive, overprotective, possesive, not really that good looking, hundred year old vampire, who has very strong and almost inescapable urges to rip her throat out. of course SM had to make their relationship work so she gave Edward stronger sontrol over his impulses in a year or so, while Carlile took hundreds of years to get to where hes is now... and he never had the blood that he really loved. (hard to beleive as he had been alive far longer than anyone else there
there was no way SM was going to kill off her main characters. she would lose many, many fans, who couldn't see past the lack of somebody to the tragedy and good read of true sadness that the loss of someone loved can bring.
the only thing i liked about the Cullens where Alice and Emmett, though i admit, they where both very mary/marty Stu
hmmm, if i feel like ranting about Twilight again i shall choose you
Hmm, Vampire Diaries is okay, but i don't care enough to continue watching. never seem Vampire Acadamy. this vampire fad really isstarting to get on my nerves to. i love the supernatural (though i don't beleive) too, because of my dad. and Supernatural the show is awesome! i love it! but i haven't watched in s very long i have no clue who the people are now. i think i need to get up to date sometime.
love trianges re getting very overused, they are incredibally pointless and annoy me to no end. you say you think it would be hilarious with two hot girls and a plain boy? have you ever read City of Bones? the first three books are great, they ended perfectly, but the fourth ruined it really. far too try hard and it wasn't really a good story, she was scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas. anyway, in the first three books, there is a plain boy two hot girls love triangle in there. well, and hot boy, hot girl plain boy love triangle also. and although the main male character seems Marty Stu-ish he also has faults and seems human.
anyway, i recomend them to alot of people, but only if i knoe what the person likes, and i know that you like Tamora Peirce. she isn't like tamora Peirce. but i really do love her. oh sorry, Cassandra clare is her name
O.O WOOOOOOOWW! and my family is big for australian standards... crazy stuff. ohh, i forgot, as i always do about this guy, also one other cousin, but he came down with a bad case of hit by a car many years ago
my family have a lot of get togethers, and we often have what we call a "Relly Rally" relly meaning relatives and rally being the get together. my godparents host it, and we keep in touch with those we don't see often.
your family get togethers seem so much more fun, though it's nice to just have a quiet talk about books or something else with someone who also apreciates it.
GYAH! i ahve this friend who never shuts up about guys. we might be walking to the cinemas and shell nudge me and wink in a guys direction... whether they are ugly or not -.- or we might be in clas and she'll start about this band that she made me listen to once and expects me to n=know everything about them... i don't actually care in the least. ohh, people like her are rather annoying... yep, one onone is much better. they're not trying to sgho of to friends then, they become themselves more.
i alos love my family, i'm a family person, and family scomes first for me always, that's not to say i always choose a family get together over a friends place, but io don;t go out with friends too much, so it's fine. i once went to a familt gathering with my step mums family, and her daughter is my age. the adults sat around a coffee table and were all very polite, while the 'kids' (gee thanks) where told to sit quietly on the ground and wait iuntil the night was over and they could leave... incredibally creepy considering my step mum is loads of fun,and would never choose to have anyone left out of a conversation. we bounce all ofver her walls whenever we get the chance
... wow, i just wrote quite alot... AGAIN! haha, long conversations arfe fun. though i wioll admit that i was continualy copying my reply when ever i remembered so that if i deleted it i wouldn;t have to write it all again.
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This is very good... I like her eyes. Uh... eye.
What'd you use to draw this?
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Thank you, I'm glad you liked it ^-^
and I just used Crayola color pencils because I can't afford anything better >_>
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Well, you certainly made the most of those crayons.
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