Thursday, August 18, 2011

School = Crack

Okay, so remember how the other day I said I would update the blog the next day? And it totally didn't happen?

Of course you do, it was yesterday. Honestly, why am I asking such silly questions.

I'm really sorry about not doing this yesterday, but you see, the thing you need to understand is that I have recently started school. No, I'm not going to say what you expect (that I am too busy now to update the blog and stuffs). Actually, that's not it at all. The real problem is this:

My body thinks school is crack.

Or, perhaps more correctly, my body things being around people is crack. Seriously, for at least the first week or two at school, I am nothing but a useless giggling mess. Seeing all the people I haven't seen in months and telling them new stories and jokes and everything just makes me feel extremely high, for lack of a better term. And it's great and bubbly and wonderful and onmygodsomuchfun.

There's only one problem. When I come home, suddenly the people are GONE. And I'm just sitting by myself or with my brother staring at a computer scene. And my brain kinda goes 'Oh, the people are gone? That's good, we were running out of happy-make-Prin-do-stuff-juice anyway" and kinda shuts off and then I just like vegetate until I go to bed. Seriously, not making this up.

So please please please bear with me for these next few days, because things WILL get better. I just have to adjust to seeing my friends on a regular basis again.

Also, if you don't believe me, then I think you should also know that I was thinking about doing this blog update for like three hours before I actually summoned up the energy to do it. So.

Anyway, reviews and all that stuff I normally do:

For all the people who went 'Aw Reedrush is mean why? D:":

See, this is another case of author-sees-stuff-that-we-don't. What you readers don't know is that Thistlethorn and Swanpaw spent basically the whole day sniping at each other and bickering. Northy didn't care, Jay is pretty chill, Blue is a total ditz, and Bracken wanted to stay out of the whole thing, which left Rainwind and Reed playing the peace-makers; Reed's generally a pretty understanding and sweet gal, but dealing with stoopid lil Swanpaw all day really burned her bacon, so to speak. Then there's the fact that she's still feeling bad over fighting with Jagged, she's tired from walking all day without stopping to rest or eat, she's worried about her aunty Silver, and she's concerned with her own private motives (such as the reason she wanted to go to the Twolegplace). All of this is putting a lot of stress on her, so when Sootpaw (who, remember, was supposed to be Reedrush's next apprentice but Blackpaw wasn't warriorized, which Reedrush blames herself for) shows up, it's pretty much the last sequence of events in an already-terrible day. At that point, Reed kinda snapped inside and basically told Soot to shove off because she really couldn't deal with anything else. In this, Reedy was showing that's she's only human. Or only a cat. Whatever~

@Crowstorm: As fun as that would be, it would be pretty unrealistic, since she's only had a few hunting lessons and is in general really clumsy and stuff, and thus the odds of her teaching herself to hunt is pretty slim. Someone else like, say, Spiderpaw could prolly do it, but that's because he's a really intelligent lil boy. Sooty isn't stupid, exactly, but she's not as smart as him.

@TheVioletGleek: About Reedy leaving Blackpaw behind: at this point there is very little she can do with Blackpaw. She honestly doesn't know how to teach Blackpaw any better than she already has been; heck, Eaglestrike, the DEPUTY isn't even having much luck with poor Blackie. Reedrush leaving her isn't really a big deal (besides the emotional toll for Blackie, i guess) since there was nothing more she could do for her anyway.

@Nightkill: Yeppers, that's the Bleach guy's name. Sorry your family looked at you weirdly. :p

@Lynxeye: Bleh, don't even get me started on Crowfeather's issues, ha. I find it interesting that you're considering him turning on his allies rather than Sootpaw. It's a neat theory~

@Artemis: At first, when Blue and Rabbit met I was afraid there would be a cutesplosion, but thankfully that didn't happen and our world is still intact. As for Chilly, I really love him too; I think I've used him in four different places now, because he's really grown on me as a character, ha. The Soot-sacrifice thing makes me think of them all dancing around and chanting around a fire, or something....xD

@Nightfrost: It'll be a looong time before Soot and Fire meet up again...but maybe he's harboring some intense passion for her that even I don't know about. All kidding aside, I'm actually kinda surprised how many people have mentioned SootxFire. But, I was sort of surprised when people mentioned SpiderxBlue after her very first appearance, so I guess I should be used to it by now.

@Silverblossom: Be careful, I don't want your parents shipping you off to the loony bin because you're giggling to your computer! I'd feel so guilty. And sure, make all the mind-Northy plushies you like...I don't think I could stop you anyway. xD

@Shenzi: Out of curiosity, what would I write about Black/Northstar? Both of their stories are sort of already complete, in a way. Blackstar is supposed to die sometime in the fourth series, I think, and as for Northy...well. There won't be a lot for him to do after Chilled, I don't think.

@PurplePanda: Wow, that was a deliciously long review (and a funny one, too)! Thank you very much for that! Sorry you don't like the tongue-yawn thing. See, the thing about that is every cat I've ever seen yawn does the tongue-curl thing, but most dogs don't (one of mine does, but the other two I've had in the past never did). So that's always been a cat thing for me. And I definitely know about the jumping-off-the-page sentence thing you're talking about; that happens to me all the time (although usually it's just words/phrases and I describe them as being delicious xD). As for Swanpaw, she musta inherited it from her mother, since Iceblossom's the same way. Swanpaw's been going on like that alllll day, but Rainwind is a really laid-back dude, so he didn't say more than that, and Swanpaw only stopped to consider her next insult; she doesn't go over-board like Spiderpaw does, most of the time. The Moonpaw-eye twitch thing really made me laugh. And I totally get what you're saying about the thesaurus (dinosaurs rock), I try to use synonyms but Open Office really sucks at providing them and looking them up is so much worrrrk. Kidding aside, I am trying to improve. As for the apprentices, they just sort of popped in during Shattered; Reedrush had Blizzardpaw at the very beginning when we first met her, Frostfeather was preggers during the beginning of Shattered and had Jay/Robin, Raven was preggers with Spider/Soot at the end of Shattered, Red/Blue came from Twolegplace (semi-adopted, I guess), and then Fire/Black came from a group of rogues, several of which joined AshClan at the end of Shattered. There's a lot of them, but that's necessary because obviously not all of them will survive the story and AshClan needs a strong second generation to make sure that the Clan doesn't end up all teeny-tiny. As for the paragraph-spacing, I don't think FFN does that, since when I'm writing that's just how my paragraphs format. I need spaaaace (I have mild claustrophobia, maybe that's why I space out my paragraphs xD).

@ShadowedRadiance: YOUSHOULDBESOASHAMEDIAMSOMAD--Kidding, of course. I won't hate you if you don't review every chapter, or whatever. That's fine, although I definitely appreciate the reviews I recieve. For Spiderpaw's temperament, that's just sort of the way he is; I'm sure you know people like that, who are all sarcastic and snippy /all/ the time (I certainly do). Most of his anti-friendship prickliness is driven by the belief that cats have to be strong to be respected, and respect is all that matters; that's just sort of what was somehow driven into his thick lil skull. There's not any real reason you could point at that directly leads to his viewpoint, it's just sort of how he developed growing up. I'm also a lover of underdogs, so I totes get what you mean about Sooty. C:

I've got to go now (volunteering at a church pantry thingy) but hopefully when I get back I won't be school-crack-deprived or whatever; sometimes leaving the computer for awhile helps, I guess. We'll see.

Anyway, love you guys and your reviews, as always. <33