It seems to me that removing a word from common use would serve no purpose. Sooner or later another word would emerge to take its place and mean the same thing. And while we're on the subject of meaning, what would be done about all of the synonyms of the word that was removed? If we're taking out a word based solely on its meaning then we'd ( Read more... )

The longest day of my life was a day that, technically, no longer exists except in my memory and the memories of four of my closest friends.

It was the first time in ten years that I was a human on Earth again.

On Lyoko the passage of time isn't really noticeable, but that particular day it just seemed to crawl by as I waited for Jeremie and the ( Read more... )

years after Mom was stolen from us Daddy announced that he'd gotten a new job as a science teacher at a boarding school in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine. So we packed up our belongings, closed up the cabin in the woods for good, and left ( Read more... )

Step Number One: Never assume that you know everything about your opponent.That was the mistake Daddy made when we first were virtualized on Lyoko, only to find XANA's monsters waiting for us. While I hid in a tower he tried to reason with XANA to allow us to stay. But what Daddy didn't realize was that XANA was too far gone from his original ( Read more... )

Aelita stood in front of the door to Ulrich and Odd's dorm room, trying to summon her courage. Not for the last time she wondered why she was the one who had to do this. Ulrich would have been a better candidate; after all, he was Odd's roommate. But then again Ulrich was gone for the weekend, reluctantly going on a camping trip with his father ( Read more... )

Sometimes I wonder if this is how people in witness protection or living under assumed identities must feel ( Read more... )

That's what Daddy had meant for Lyoko to be when he created it: a utopia, a safe haven for me and himself from...from what, I'm not exactly certain. The government, the whole outside world, his own personal demons, perhaps. I'm sure I'll never know. And obviously Lyoko didn't turn out the way Daddy had wanted thanks to XANA ( Read more... )

I found them back in Daddy's closet in the Hermitage - a box of black and white photographs from before I was born. They're of Daddy and Mom and some of their colleagues, from either before or during Daddy's involvement with the Carthage project. And I guess, technically I'm in a couple of them since Mom is visibly pregnant ( Read more... )

#1: The next Subdigitals concert. I really enjoyed mixing for their first concert (after getting over my stage fright, anyway). And Chris was really impressed with my talents, and so invited me to mix for them again the next time the Subdigitals play here ( Read more... )

( In which the couch comes before the fight )