#xiaolindude

[runningracingdancingchasing]

She wanted to protest, remind him how much fun they'd been having lately, even before they'd started dating. Remind him that she stayed in Rio for the chance to be with him. But she wasn't going to push it. Maybe he didn't want to be her favorite. And he especially might not want to once he learned about all of her baggage.

Oh well. That was future Rapunzel's problem still.

Siesta time. The idea of napping with him was... ridiculously attractive. Seeing his sleepy face and rumbled hair. Letting him see hers. Finding out what his sleeping habits were like. Watching the afternoon sunlight dapple his gorgeous skin...

"Right," she teased gently. "Wouldn't want to keep you up past your bedtime." As if. She'd been to his parties that lasted until the wee hours.

She gave his hand a squeeze and took the initiative, walking towards the car. Slowly, but heading that way nonetheless. It was kind of stupid how she didn't want this to be over yet. But that was a good sign, right? Showed how well they got along?

"Thanks for this. For... for saying yes, and for picking a great place to go, and for humoring me when I wanted to dawdle afterwards. This has been a really great day."

He grinned stupidly at that. It was silly, wasn’t it? Her saying that he was her favourite. They’d only really known each other a few months, and this was their first date. Of course he wasn’t her favourite. She had… friends and family and all that. But it was a sweet thing to say.

“Don’t think I’ve earned that,” he laughed lightly but squeezed her pinky nonetheless. Still, they couldn’t stand here on the street forever, and he’d rather end this date on a high rather than letting it fizzle out into something awkward. Though, there hadn’t been many awkward moments between them so far…

Still.

He cleared his throat, letting out a small sigh. “I’ll drive you home, linda. It’s siesta time,” he said lightly, adjusting their hands so he was holding hers again. God, this had been a good date! She felt familiar already, yet exciting too.

[lokoteibex]

My True Love Sent To Me...

Only four days late, wheeeeee! I haven't drawn any Raipunzel Bridgerton stuff in a while, so I picked an old Christmas song to base it off of. (Two, actually, since they're under a bough of holly.) In the original lyrics, it was "four colly birds," and colly means black, so while I don't think it's blackbirds like blackbirds, it's birds that are black.

Anyway. @xiaolindude said that Rai would comment, "I shall gift you so many birds, because you are my true love," and that inspired this. Merry Christmas!

[droppingdonkeys]

tbh this went better that i thought

@xiaolindude it's a date. they're going dancing. (and rest be assured, luisa is a lil scared of Alma, too)

[bexmuses]

Can you analyse raimundo and kimikos relationship, in your opinion?

Oh, wow, this is unexpected! lol I don't often get analytical asks. And I'm gonna be honest, I've only watched XS all the way through twice, the first time to understand the world that @xiaolindude's muse (Rai) was coming from, and once to get a better handle on Clay before I started RPing as him. A lot of the opinions I have, I've adopted from other people who like it and have much stronger opinions than me.

To me, in the canon of XS (I haven't watched XC and don't intend to), Rai has a crush on Kimiko, and that's it. She doesn't reciprocate, but she's not put off by it. He has a tendency to have his head turned (sometimes literally and painfully-looking) by any pretty girl who happens across his path. They're both kids, they both have a lot of growing to do, and Rai doesn't strike me as the sort to sit around and let an unrequited crush linger. Maybe he eventually asks her out and she says no, and that's that.

But at any rate, they strike me as best friends. He's got a lot of siblings that we know nothing about, and I see him as largely viewing the other monks as his extended family - more siblings to throw onto the already huge pile.

[cauterisen]

@runningracingdancingchasing asked:🍒 + @xiaolindude

send  me  🍒  +  a  url  and  i  will  write  some  positivity  for  them. (accepting)

charlie! i've written with charlie for years, and i've always enjoyed her take on raimundo and how much she's developed him as a character with her headcanons and her writing! a lovely person as well, and i'm so happy to have had the opportunity to write with charlie and to consider charlie a friend! the xiaolin fandom is so much brighter and bigger with her in it <3

[chainsxwsmile]

I’ve a feeling that even if Bruce has more or less sided himself with Jack (if only to the point where he makes sure the kid doesn’t get himself killed), the big guy has a habit of befriending everyone and anyone, and that includes the “Xiaolin nerds”

@xiaolindude

[shesdaylight-arch]

❛  this feels like a terrible, terrible idea.  ❜    //  @xiaolindude | accepting | meme. 

Turning around ever so slightly to peer over her shoulder,  she smirked lightly in Rai’s direction.   A small breath of a laugh passed her lips,  and she lowered her arms from reaching into the cabinet, though she didn’t step down from the little stool she needed to actually reach the shelf.    “Don’t tell me you’re being such a....     rejective Rai.”   Her horribly failed attempt at making a negative Nancy pun but with Rai’s name.   Clearly,  she had some work to do with it.    “Come on,  don’t you think for a second that I’m going to let you sit around here all night alone,  all by yourself,  doing nothing but staring absent-mindedly at the wall.   Or whatever is on TV.”   Not that he had a habit of doing either of those things,  and Rapunzel never liked to think of the glass half-empty,  but if she could prevent that from happening, then she would.    “Besides,   terrible ideas often lead to really fun stories.   Don’t they?”

[runningracingdancingchasing]

@xiaolindude​

[tweet]

[acutelyarachnophobic]

[HALT]

Simple Action Prompts - Accepting

[HALT] - sender gently pulls receiver to a halt.

There was a building on the grounds where all the mystical Shen Gong Wu were kept, and Lance was determined to see it with his own eyes. See the inside. The outside was perfectly visible. It was right over there.

It wasn't like he wanted to take any of them! Just... look at them! Maybe mess around a little bit! So, in the dead of night, he climbed quietly out of bed and began to sneak. He might not be a martial artist, but he was a master thief. (Again, not planning on stealing the Shen Gong Wu. Not in the traditional sense, at least.)

Keeping to the shadows, he made his way across the grounds, eyes always on the prize. It was surprising, though, when the next step he took didn't take him any closer. Or the one after that. Or the one after that.

"Nuh-uh," Raimundo told him, holding fast to the back of his shirt. "Back to bed."

[runningracingdancingchasing]

@xiaolindude continued from here since Tumblr sucks

She meant so much more to him than anyone outside of his family ever had. So much more. It was almost frightening. She cared so much for him, she made him feel... well, perhaps he was simply inarticulate, but he truly had no words to properly describe the way she made him feel. His desire for her ran so much deeper than the physical, but right now, truth be told, he very much wanted to be back in that art studio alone with her. He thought of the way they'd kissed in their, pressed so close, tongues dancing, the noises she'd made... a tiny shiver raced through him, his cheeks warming further. Goodness, she had his brain mashed. "If it should please you for me to model, then I would do it," he told her with a nod. He might fidget, but he would try. "Proper or... improper." He raised a teasing eyebrow at her and settled back against the settee, playing absent-mindedly with her fingers. "I would need a portrait, eventually, to match my papa's. I can think of no one I trust more to hold the brush."

Heat flooded her cheeks, both at the implication and the praise. "What, just like that?" she clarified. "Because it would please me?"

Had anything ever been done just because it would please her before? She supposed there were things Mama Gothel had done, but in pleasing her, she had truly only been placating Rapunzel. Keeping her happy to keep her quiet, not for her own joy.

The way he toyed with her fingers now set her heart pattering about, warm and excited, but also simply adoring. He was so tender and in such small ways, she could only think that there was some sense of shyness about him. It was endearing. So bold and yet so bashful.

"I am honored that you do not find my skill wanting," she answered, and brought his hand to her lips so she could kiss the back, then each individual fingertip. "Any time I paint you, it shall be with my entire heart."

[lokoteibex]

Let's Go To the Beach, Beach!

Can you believe I haven't drawn these two since Christmas? What is wrong with me? Another pic of @xiaolindude's and my beloved ship to go with those summer vibes. (IDK about you, but it's way too hot here this week.)

Things I love about this picture:

the lighting

her shirt

his hair

his expression at that angle

I probably spent an hour yesterday just finding things I wanted to tweak and tweaking them.

[runningracingdancingchasing]

The tighter he held her, the better she felt. She'd never had an argument like this, and she was only just learning that you could fight with someone and have them be the one to comfort you afterward. Maybe this wouldn't have worked last night, but it was working now.

At the sensation of his kiss, she felt like her heart was thrumming in her chest, jump started by the simple, sweet contact. She looked up at him, her green eyes searching his a moment, as the urge to make this all better quickly grew stronger and stronger. And then she threw caution out the window and kissed him. It was light and sweet, giving him ample opportunity to pull away if he wasn't here yet, but if she was reading him right, he was.

She very much needed to make it up to him somehow. He'd let her take pictures of him, and he was letting her hold him and possibly kiss him. She was finding herself more in love with him than ever before, possibly because of the fight, which didn't make sense, but here it was.

runningracingdancingchasing​:

Honestly, a part of her hadn’t expected him to take comfort from her. He’d allowed her to share his bed last night, to hold him, but had kept his back to her the whole time. She’d been surprised then that he’d allowed her nearness and her contact. Now, she was even more surprised that he accepted her comfort so willingly. When his grip on her tightened, so did hers on him.

How could she have hurt him so carelessly? He didn’t deserve to be spoken to the way she had. For a moment, she gripped his hair, then released, giving him a tighter squeeze as she did before resuming her back rub.

“I love you. More than I’ve ever loved anyone.” Even herself. There was no denying that. She wouldn’t even try to. What would be the point of such a boldfaced lie?

It had been a difficult few days. Of course it had. You couldn’t be almost kidnapped - in her case - or shot in the head - in his case - without going through a shit time afterwards trying to process it all. 

He couldn’t blame her for lashing out, could he? Not really. Not when she was recovering from the shock and the fear, the worry about him, all of it. She hadn’t meant what she’d said. She’d been angry at her father, at the situation itself, not at him, and he kept reminding himself of that. Her words would continue to sting him for a while longer but the feeling was already beginning to fade in the wake of her apologies and her comfort. 

This already felt better. This was them. Holding each other in his kitchen, murmuring nice things to one another… Her grip on his hair had him leaning closer into her, hugging her tighter, his embrace fierce. He’d missed her while they’d been fighting. God, he hated fighting with her like that. 

“I know you do,” he murmured, pressing his lips into her hair with a sigh. “I love you, too. S’okay…” 

[droppingdonkeys]

✵ (I KNOW I OWE U A REPLY I'M SORRY BEAR WITH ME)

Meme me this! | @xiaolindude

<33 Remember to take your time!

Send ✵ and my muse will answer the following.  

Their first impression of your muse: What the hell is that guy doing.

Current impression: Fun guy! He seems decent. Maybe they can be friends.

Are they attracted to your muse?: Luisa thinks he's somewhat cute but she hardly knows him.

Something they find frightening about your muse: Nothing (so far)

Something they find adorable about your muse: Luisa views Rai as a bit of a puppy. Wild and never tiring.

Would my muse sacrifice themselves for yours?: Probably yes.

Would my muse go on a date with yours? platonic/romantic: A platonic one, yes! To get to know them better.

One word my muse would use to describe yours: Energetic.

Would my muse slap yours if they could?: Hard no.

Would my muse hug/kiss yours?: She's already hugged him! Sort of. That one time. So yes to hugs!

[sheslipsaway]

“Hey!”  she shouted as she followed him,  eyebrows lightly raising with a shake of her head.   In her hand was a piece of wrapping paper,  and though she couldn’t confirm or deny if he was the one who’d let it fall to the ground,  he was the closest one to it.    So in August’s head,  he was guilty by association.   “Do you even know how harmful this is to the turtles?!   If they mistake this as food,  they could die;  do you want that on your hands?”     // @xiaolindude liked for a starter  

[bexmuses]

Been rereading some of my old RPs between myself (on my @runningracingdancingchasing blog) and @xiaolindude, and it's giving me some insight into my portrayal of Clay.

For example, I rediscovered that, in my portrayal, Clay is very grouchy in the morning, until he's eaten. None of that cowboy charm, just a hungry bear demanding food.

[pcsitivibee]

positivity for xiaolindude : I’d like to give a shout to @xiaolindude !! for not only being one of my favorite people on this website, or for being one of the best people on this site in general, but for being a wonderful writer and creator. The pure love she has for her muse is just so admirable and you can tell that so much love, care, and thought is put into not just her writing but with everything she does!!