#take me in

[griseldabanks]

Take Me In book trailer!

That's right, folks! The time is almost upon us! I'm planning to start posting the giant Captain America fic I never shut up about on May 3, 2024.

If you haven't read any of my Whole Shards series, or want a refresher before the latest installment begins, feel free to check it out now!

Please reblog and/or send to anyone you know who might be interested, and I hope to see you there ;)

#captain america #whole shards #take me in #book trailer #(this is my first time attempting one - go easy on me lol ^^') #steve rogers #bucky barnes #sam wilson #ocs galore #brooklynbros #foxholebros #Youtube

[mother-lee]

#writers #love #take me in

[beybuniki]

Tim drake? Or red robin? Whichever names works. He’s the robin who stalked Batman into making him robin which seems weirdly suiting

another audacious child yyeeesss

#That’s so funny #TAKE ME IN #asks

[euesworld]

"You remind me of a can of soda, I want to pop your top.. take you in.. and crush on you."

You remind me of a lollipop, cause I could lick you all day long - eUë

#can of pop #can of soda #pop your top #take me in #crush on you #crush on me #crush quotes #crushposting #crush #cheesy pick up lines #cheesy #me trying to flirt #flirt with me #flirting with you #lollipop #affection #affectionate #starving for affection #touch starved #infatuated #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #spilled words #love quotes #love #love quote life quotes #love quote for her #quoteoftheday #romance #romantic

[novelmonger]

First and Last Sentence Tag Game

Rules: Post the first sentence of any unpublished work (can be a chapter), and the last sentence of any unpublished work (can be a chapter).

Tagged by @sailforvalinor

Okay, not a chapter but a scene from my Captain America WIP, Take Me In.

First sentence:

The jury filed out.

Last sentence:

Maybe it would be best if they just stayed suspended here forever.

Tagging anyone who finished writing a scene today.

#tag games #captain america #whole shards #take me in

[blueboxbeagle]

By LabradoriteKing on Pinterest

#Tutorials & References #Gemstones #Jewels #Art Reference #Writing Reference #Gemstones Reference #If the original marker wants me to take this down I will

[faeriekit]

"This fic was ai generated—" Cool, so lemme block you real quick

#the ethics are whack but more importantly you didn't even want to write it?? who is it even for?? not you? not me? #you didn't even have enough interest in the premise to take a crack at it?? then who cares? #please don't populate in my search results I'm looking for things that people wrote because they liked something #ao3

[cemeterything]

"you will look for themes and motifs in media that isn't worth the effort" i will look for themes and motifs in the dirt. on the ground.

#🐉 #sometimes its all i have. dont take my only joy from me.

[powpowhammer]

faded blue house portrait hanging on the wall at the local urgentcare

#medical assistant: yeah i never saw that show but i heard it was popular in the 90s? #me: (takes lethal psychic damage) #house md #good post good post

[lazylittledragon]

can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

#ramble #if you say unalive in front of me i will personally kill you with my hands #you just can't muffle and censor and hold someone's hand through some things #some things are horrible. and they should be spoken aloud and they should upset you. because they are horrible #the second we started kidzbopifying the world was the end of taking anything seriously i think #i'm not even joking i've spoken to people older than me who won't even say the world sex #this isn't the playground you're not going to get in trouble just let us say the word!!!!!! #how am i supposed to listen to you when you won't even say the thing you're supposed to be talking about #yes this is the fault of the platforms with their censorship rules but the fact that we all just go along with it like it's not dystopian #you do know it doesn't stop with cursing right. people are already having to censor queer terms because they get flagged as inappropriate

[griseldabanks]

Writing Update

It is my immense joy to announce:

I finished writing Take Me In!!!!!!

That is, I have mostly finished writing the first draft. I need to go back and add a few more scenes to flesh out the climax, and then of course I'll need to go back through and do a lot of editing and fiddling before it'll be in a fit state to post, not to mention break everything up into chapters and everything.

But...for the most part...I'm finished!

Final Word Count That Is Definitely Not Final:

386,363

738 full-sized pages/1,476 normal paperback-sized pages @_@

For now, I'm intending to sort of take a break from writing till the end of the year. I'll still be working on Let Me Count the Ways, poking at TMI when I feel like it, and I'll be putting in my 15 minutes a day for SlowMoWriNo once November 1st rolls around, but for the most part I'm taking all the pressure and deadlines away for the rest of the year, because I seriously need to recover from this huge endeavor. I feel like I just finished a marathon, except one that's taken me almost four years to run! ^^'

P.S. I just looked it up, and according to Wikipedia...TMI is now longer than The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson!

#writing update #captain america #whole shards #take me in

[redwolf17]

🙃 Regular reminder that while Hozier has amazing love songs, he is ALSO very outspoken about his leftist politics, specifically anti-fascism, anti-racism, reproductive rights, Palestinian rights and more.

Take Me To Church and Foreigner’s God are scathing critiques of organized religion, specifically the Catholic Church and the colonization of Ireland.

Moment’s Silence is about oral sex but it’s ALSO about how that specific sexual act is often distorted to a show of power rather than that of love.

Nina Cried Power is an homage to various (mostly Black) civil rights activists from the US and Ireland and a call to follow their path.

Be criticizes anti-migrant policies and Trump and his ilk.

Jackboot Jump is about the global wave of fascism and about protest and resistance.

Swan Upon Leda is about reproductive rights and the violent colonial oppression of Ireland and Palestine.

Eat Your Young is about the ruinous way the 1%/capitalism and arms dealers prioritize short-term profit over everything else to the detriment of the youth/99%

Butchered Tongue is about Irish and other indigenous languages being suppressed and erased by imperial powers.

If any of the above surprised you, please, please delve deeper into Hozier’s music, you’re missing such an important part of his work.

#Hozier #andrew hozier byrne #unreal unearth #take me to church #butchered tongue #jackboot jump #swan upon Leda #foreigner’s god #Nina cried power #eat your young #moment’s silence

[atissi]

i don't really like when people say dungeon meshi is accidentally good autistic representation, because while i understand not wanting to make conclusions without explicit confirmation from the author, there's always the weird assumption that non-western authors somehow don't know about things like neurodivergency/queerness/etc. (on top of the assumptions that east asian authors are somehow more naive or oblivious to "western" social issues).

given that dungeon meshi started being published in 2014, it's not really a "work belonging to its times"—it's as contemporary as any other media we discuss on this site, which means it should be fair to assume it engages with contemporary topics (and at the very least, you shouldn't say that the representation is accidental with so much confidence)

but anyways, the chapter "perfect communication" in ryoko kui's "terrarium in a drawer" is some of the most straightforward autistic representation I've seen, and from now on I'm going to assume that laios's character writing is absolutely intentional in that regard:

#beepbeep.txt #dungeon meshi #ryoko kui #this is me trying to explain h/ollow knight lore #also yayyyy reading new things. chapter 18 'spring' is basically UFUT if you squint (sorry for the jumpscare if you know UFUT) #but the last two pages were such a surprising gut punch....it's hard not to see it as a metaphor for both the experience of raising childre #and of taking care of your parents in old age....aughh....

[lilacandladybugs]

my friend told me that her boyfriend got her a super cool rock while they were on vacation together and you would not BELIEVE my disappointment when i realized she was talking about her engagement ring

#this is a silly goofy mood post pls no being weird or taking it too seriously ok? ok :) #yes yes ur engaged congrats but also why would u get me excited about a rock #when no rock #eslyea #geology #rocks

[emilnikos]

I need non autistic people to realise meltdowns are a real debilitating thing that has a serious effect on your mental and physical health NOWWWWW!!! The way its been trivialized and lessened pisses me the fuck off. It's not a tantrum and it doesn't come from "being too weak-willed" it's painful and it's embarrassing AND MOST OF ALL IT'S INVOLUNTARY!! Don't claim to be an ally to autistic or disabled people and then make fun of people who have meltdowns. Literally get the hell out of my sight

#i can't believe i have to day it but autism /is/ a disablity. its disabling. meltdowns are part of that. #'oh this is a lukewarm take' you dumbshit fucks have been throwing the word neurodivergent and meltdown around so #casually they have both been said at me with the same disdain as a swear word. you guys will accept making fun of autistic people #if someone jn your circle who is 'cool' does it first. at your big ages. shut the hell up

[novelmonger]

OC Mundane Tag Game

Tagged by @sailforvalinor

Rules: Pick an oc you'd like to talk about and answer the questions for them! Then tag ten people, or as many as you can. 'Underdeveloped character I adopted' is fine, too! Absolutely no pressure to play, though.

Also, if some of it can't apply to your ocs, just answer what would be the answer - like if they're in a historical setting, they likely can't watch movies, but what is a movie they'd like?

(Also, most people have many ocs, so feel free to retag people and answer as many times as you get tagged! Or get really wild and just answer for as many ocs as you'd like! :D)

Aaaand for this one, I'm going to pick one of my favorite secondary (but still very important!) OCs, Dr. William Robbins from my Captain America WIP Take Me In.

1. What is their favorite movie?

While it's tempting to say Good Will Hunting (which is the movie that inspired Dr. Robbins in the first place), I think I'm actually going to go with the Italian movie La Vita e Bella (Life Is Beautiful). It's a dramedy about the Holocaust, and I honestly think everyone needs to see it at least once in their life. It somehow manages to be genuinely hilarious while still dealing with such a heavy subject respectfully. Dr. Robbins loves it because it shows people's resilience in the face of so much evil. He laughs at the funny parts, and always cries at the end.

2. What is their favorite season?

Hmm...I think spring. His wife has a flower garden, and he loves to sit outside on his day off while all the flowers are blooming, and just breathe in new life.

3. What do they find annoying?

People who manipulate others, people who try to take advantage of him or someone else, people who won't even try to change things but continue to complain about them. Dr. Robbins is generally a very even-keeled and patient person, and besides that, he has lots of training and experience in not reacting to people trying to ruffle his feathers. So it's probably not very obvious on the surface that he is annoyed, but...he totally is.

4. How would they like to spend their Christmas or equivalent holiday?

Dr. Robbins loves to spend Christmas with family. He and his wife have one son, who has twin daughters who are...toddlers, I think? And Grandpa has lots of fun with his little punkins, Bella and Sophia :3 Mrs. Robbins is also one of those people who just has a knack for interior decorating, even though that's not her job, so their house always looks beautiful during the holiday season.

5. Do they play an instrument? If so, what? How good are they at it?

I don't know why, but I'm getting harmonica vibes off him ^_^ Just as a casual thing, like he'll whip out his harmonica and play some tunes for his granddaughters to dance to, or to play around a campfire on vacation or something.

6. What's their favorite meal to eat?

Mrs. Robbins is an excellent cook, so really he loves anything she makes. But if he were to make a request, like for his birthday or something, maybe he'd ask for her chicken and dumplings, garden salad, and her excellent blueberry cobbler for dessert.

7. Do they have a favorite video game or board game?

He doesn't really know much about video games. Board games...okay, there's this board game my grandparents had that I've never heard anyone else talk about, called the Mad Magazine Game. It's basically a parody of board games (you're trying to get rid of all your money, you go in the opposite direction of most board games, etc.), and at certain points, you have to do crazy things like move to a different seat or exchange your hand of cards with someone else. Dr. Robbins things it's the best game in the world, though some of his family members are a little tired of it by now. He waits in eager anticipation for the day he can play it with his granddaughters.

8. Do they celebrate their birthday?

He does celebrate his birthday, at least with the meal I described above, but as we all know, life doesn't stop for your birthday when you're an adult :/ Far too often, there's some crisis he has to take care of or just a long day at work, so he doesn't make any big plans for his birthday anymore. As long as he can at least get a phone call from his son and a quiet evening with his wife at some point around his birthday, he's happy.

9. What's their bedtime routine?

After changing, brushing teeth, etc., Dr. Robbins and his wife like to sit in bed and read for a while before turning the lights out. They don't usually read the same things - Mrs. Robbins likes cozy slice-of-life type stories, while Dr. Robbins likes thick Dickens novels - but it's cozy and comfortable to just sit there reading next to each other. When one of them is ready for sleep (usually Mrs. Robbins starts nodding off first), they turn out the lights.

10. What's an oc (or canon character) that they like to spend time around? What do they tend to do together?

Dr. Robbins is Bucky's therapist. As you might imagine, Bucky has a lot of stuff to work through, so they spend quite a bit of time together, talking things through, working through various emotions, trying to change the unhealthy ways Bucky thinks and find better ways to live. I wouldn't say their therapy sessions are exactly enjoyable, but Dr. Robbins does get a lot of satisfaction and fulfillment from his work. There are few things he likes more than helping a client - especially one as complicated as Bucky - on their way to a breakthrough.

Tagging anyone with an OC who gives great hugs and you wish you could get one from them.

#tag games #captain america #whole shards #take me in #dr robbins (oc)