#xan post

[xanthossamurai]

This year is gonna be the year I finally address all the trauma I have around art that I've been carrying around since school.

I always feel slightly ridiculous saying that I have "art trauma" but I really can't think of a better way to put it. But I should get to enjoy making art, even I'm not good at it, and THAT is what I want to cultivate.

[xanthossamurai]

Was having a discussion with Orph about Batfam Boys and their apparent addiction to fucking dangerous people. 

Bruce seemingly cannot get an erection unless he’s with someone who is either CAPABLE of killing him or is ACTIVELY TRYING to kill him.

Dick is catnip to villains for whatever reason and has just accepted it. 

Jason “I exist to cause problems on purpose” Todd appreciates both the drama that comes from villain fucking and the fact that Bruce cannot call him out on this without being a hypocrite. 

Damian... probs inherited Bruce’s “Proximity to death is the best aphrodisiac” problem but managed to find Jon aka the sweetest boy in the world who could still kill him with a look out of sheer dumb luck.

Tim, meanwhile, is like “...Do you all just think that your lives aren’t complicated enough without boning someone who wants to murder you?”

[xanthossamurai]

I just finished two years of intense stress (don't go to grad school), I have at least three massive story-heavy RPGs I've missed, probably a hundred issues of comics, dozens of tv shows and movies that I NEED to catch up on...

Sounds like the perfect time to ignore most of that and sink back into Pokemon hell.

[mermwolf]

Coming back to tumblr after years of solely using twitter is wild how does this place work again (also not using my old account and username is weird bc I referred to myself with the username so this is gonna take some getting used to lads)

[xanthossamurai]

WIP meme

Oooh I got tagged by @lizziemack

Rules: Make a new post to share the latest line from one of your WIPs and then tag however many people you feel like. Ummmm I think everyone I would normally tag has already been tagged! sSo uh.... please do this if you want to!

(I’m cheating and doing 2 lines)

What was a drunken, awkward kiss compared to the end of the world as we knew it?

The difference was that you didn’t remember the end of the world and think about how good it tasted on your lips and how much you wanted to feel it pressed against you again. 

[xanthossamurai]

I rediscovered recently that I am, at heart, a DC Comics loving bastard so this is gonna be a Batfam content mess for a while. 

[xanthossamurai]

20 First Lines

Rules:  List the first line(s) of your last twenty stories. See if you find any patterns. Tag ten authors to pass it along.

Nabbing this from @teaandinanity​ because it seems fun.  A lot of these will be from original stories but with a bit of fanfiction sprinkled in there.  Let’s see what happens.

1.  The October morning dawned chill and misty.  (Original Story, Untitled)

2. The name of the city was irrelevant.   The name of the country was only slightly more relevant.   (Original Story, Untitled.  Did two lines because they’re short and linked.)

3.  It could not be said that Prince Creek had thus far enjoyed his visit to Rovania.  (Original Story, Untitled)

4. It was a cold night, and the wolves were howling.  (Original Werewolf Story, Untitled)

5. There was silence.  They were alone.  (Unpublished MCU Steve/Bucky fanfic, Untitled)

6. My heart is a mirror made of thirteen blades.  (Unpublished FFXV fanfic, Untitled)

7. “Ughh.”  (Unpublished FFXV fanfic, Untitled.  Lol)

8. Prompto stepped out of the trailer and into the blinding light of a setting Leide sun.  (FFXV fanfic, Diary of the Fisher King)

9. The sun blazed blinding bright off the skyscrapers of Insomnia, one sun multiplied into a thousand by a million panes of glass. (Unpublished FFXV fanfic, Untitled)

10.  “Luka.”   The man sleeping in the passenger seat of the car stirred, but did not wake.  He still wasn’t used to hearing his real name.(Original Story, Untitled.  Did  the first few lines because it’s more interesting.)

11. Ember stared at the padded wall across from him and tried to remember the last time he had seen the sun.  (Original Story, Untitled)

12. Creek skidded his truck into the parking lot of the nondescript government buildings and left it there with the worst parking job of his entire life.  (Original Story, Untitled)

13. The Vampire woke and immediately regretted it.  (Original Vampire Story, Untitled)

14. The most beautiful boy Nyx had ever seen was sitting on the floor of the train station.  (Original Story, Untitled)

15.  Don’t hurt.  Touch soft.  Move slow.  Move careful.  Breathe quiet.  Don’t talk.   The voices’ commands hissed and crackled like radio frequencies with the wires crossed.  Reno did as they said - sometimes the voices were right, after all. (Original Story, Untitled)

16. “There’s something about me that attracts dangerous people.”  (Original Story, Untitled)

17.  The horse was, regrettably, undeniably dead.  (Original Story, Untitled)

18.  “The only way you can kill a god is to not believe in him.”  (Original Story, Untitled)

19.           As long as I can remember, people have told me that my sister was the most powerful weapon in the world.  (Original Story, Untitled)

20. The castle ruins that dominated the whole of the small island rose as jagged as a dog’s tooth against the grey sky.  (Original Story, Untitled)

APPARENTLY I really like to start off describing the landscape and / or weather.  Apparently I am also a fan of short sentences.

[xanthossamurai]

Happy birthday, little Tumblr.