#reclusiveq

[gothycnymph-library]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[stephrc79]

filibustering replied to your post “I was so excited that my birthday was tomorrow until I got to work,...”

Happy Birthday!!! I'm glad your co-workers made it up to you! However, HOLY SHEEP THAT REDSTAR NOTEBOOK TOTALLY STOLE MY ATTENTION. Hope you have a great day!!! :D

ISN’T THE NOTEBOOK THE BEST??? 

I had someone else comment about it, so I posted about it here. Take a look!

[kisa-xiii]

Just so you know, Bucky won't be going away if you don't get him during the event. It's an "early release" Bucky. He'll still be available later in the game. Same with Spiderman.

AWESOME THANKS!

[hums-happily]

Fallow and Chartreuse ;)

Chartreuse: You’re my homie

Fallow:  I want to run through the Northern wilderness barefoot with you

Let’s do ittttt

[peskyredhead-blog]

Hawkeye for the Marvel Hero Ask

Hawkeye: Talk about a time you got a second chance.

When I finished undergrad, I knew I wanted to be a writer, but I didn’t think I could make a living at it. “Get a day job” is pretty typical advice for young writers, so I did. And for a while, it was fine -- I made decent money, I learned some stuff, I had some coworkers I liked. But eventually, I started to be miserable. I didn’t feel like I was really helping anyone. I didn’t agree with the way the company was run. I wanted out, but I didn’t know how, and I didn’t want to just quit the job (even though I fantasized about it every morning).

Then I went to a weekend writing conference. It was only a day long, but I met other writers there--real people, really trying to write professionally. I sat down with someone who actually worked in the publishing industry, showed them some manuscript pages, and they said, “Yeah, you could get this published.”

That was my second chance -- my second chance to choose what I loved and valued over what would keep a roof over my head and Netflix on my tv. 

I’ve worked a lot of jobs since then, and written a lot of words, and I still don’t have a book with my name on it sitting on the self. I’ve thought about that cushy, stable, stultifying job and thought about how much more money I’d have if I’d kept working there. But I’ve never regretted that decision. It’s brought me not just writing, but a whole network of friends and experiences I would never have come across before (including the people I’ve met here).

[jazzforthecaptain]

reclusiveq replied to your post “8 Questions Meme”

Could you really consider the companions to be pets though? :) That would be amazing, but they choose you. lol (sorry, rarely get to geek out about Heralds of Valdemar, slowly getting more of my friends into it)

No, you’re right, they’re absolutely not ‘pets’ per se. I want a Companion to Choose me. They were the first fictional animals that sprang to mind when I was answering the meme, because I’ve wanted to be Chosen and become a Herald of Valdemar since I was, like, 16.

A Companion would give me shit every time I call them a pet and I kindasorta really want that.

Um. Um. You’ve read the Valdemar books? Can I dance around with you now? Because I feel the need to do a dance of glee. I needed SO MUCH MORE of Keren and Ylsa and Sherrill, and I needed Ylsa to hang around because she was so freaking awesomesauce. I wanted to be a courier Herald so bad.

I’ve read almost all of them, up through Skif and Alberich’s separate series. I LIVED in those books in high school and college.

[devbasaa]

Finally!

The next part of Distraction is with my beta now.  Yay!  It’s not the final part, like I thought it’d be, but it’s a whole hella lotta resolution, so I think people will be happy!

Thanks in advance to stephrc79 and reclusiveq for the word wars and cheerleading!  You are awesome!

Sorry that I continue to be a bit MIA, but I’ve been going to bed early this week so I can get up extra early and write in the morning before work.  Crazy, I know, but it helps me get in even more writing time, so we do what we must!

[peskyredhead-blog]

Tagged by: reclusiveq

So basically you fill this is then tag 10 ppl (or however many you want) you’d like to get to know better…

Name: Caitlin

Nickname(s): wifey, skip-beau, cutiebean, peanut, kitty, Scully, Samantha, Human Google, C²

Where I’m From: Ohio. I’m totally not made of corn, though. Pinky-swear.

Zodiac Sign: Virgo.

Fave drink: Cold: Diet Coke. Warm: vanilla chai.

Fave Quote: Right now it’s “Not my circus, not my monkeys.” I also keep this one from Teddy Roosevelt in my wallet:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or how the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best in the end knows the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory or defeat.

(p sure early exposure to this quote is the reason for my undying love of run-on sentences)

Fave Band: Hmmm. How about my perennial, haven’t-changed-in-years favorite? That’d be Linkin Park. 

Fave Season: Fall. The sunshine of summer without the sweat, the coolness of spring without the continual swampyness of constant rain, and--obviously--not f**king winter.

Movies I’m Waiting For: Cap 3. Fantastic Four. Captain Marvel. Black Panther. Black Widow (Marvel, don’t you screw me over). Infinity War. Agent Carter Season Two. Jessica Jones/Luke Cage/Iron Fist/Daredevil Season Two (give it to me preciousssssss). The return of Agent Triplett to Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD. 

Write Something In All Caps: MORE DIVERSITY IN THE MCU NOW (and more diversity in mainstream media generally, please).