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[rainbowfic]

Today's prompt list is: Halloween Orange

Theme: Music 1. It's just 'til my evil plan comes into flower. 2. I'm all alone, and I think someone left me. 3. Nothing in my pocket but a hand and a prayer. 4. Blood burns like fire, and it always burns through. 5. An island's not a prison -- that's what men make bridges for. 6. By the time you see the patterns, it's a hundred times too late. 7. In mercy's shadow, nothing grows. 8. Our roads may be golden, or broken, or lost, but we'll walk on them willingly, knowing the cost 9. When there's no redemption to be found, there are still a few who'll hold their ground. 10. You can't unmake your own mistakes. 11. The past is a road where the bus doesn't run, and there's no station called "Yesterday." 12. Some little things get broken, and a little means a lot. 13. Guard your eggshell heart, for the moon tells lies. 14. Do you follow it because it's true, or just because you must? 15. A moment and my simple, careless plans were all unmade. 16. There’s no way to run or hide when the thing you fear’s inside. 17. I think you'll find the line is fine between the saint and sinner. 18. All I long for is to roam -- must this be my only home? 19. I am nothing you should trust. 20. Don't think I've ever been betrayed, for that was never true. 21. While he just might tell you stories, he won't ever tell you lies. 22. Don't be chosen; make the choice to choose. 23. There are laws we must obey, certain ways this story goes. 24. I can’t promise to obey you, I can’t swear I won’t betray you. 25. No one gets to tell me if I've lost or if I've won. 26. Though I’m somewhere off the beaten track, that’s no guarantee that I won’t come back. 27. I was a little more than they expected. 28. It’s a shot of ‘dumb idea’ with a ‘bad plan’ chaser. 29. I find relationships so often are an awful bore. 30. Be wicked and lovely and don't live in fear.

from the songs of Seanan McGuire

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[spicywhumper]

Rainbow Fiction – Apathy

The Beatify of Suffering // Series: Mack and the Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day(s) // Warnings: implied last abuse, captivity, implied torture

It was carved into her, a skill she learned in order to survive. It has taken years, and it became easy to slip into this odd state of apathy. Mack didn’t like, but accepted it. Specially if it meant she could keep herself from freaking out.

It was just another Monday, another kidnapping, another torture for information she didn’t have.

The chains rattled, the shackles felt heavy, and she stayed silent. Even if the cold sipped into her bones. A perfect little weapon, better at keeping her mouth shut than any of them could handle.

Just yet another ordinary day.

[theoreticalconstruct]

@julybreakbingo - attempting to get a few fills in before the end of the month.

Fill 1: Postage Stamp N1, N2, G1, G2

"Why don't you stay?"

"You should've said that."

Sex while high/intoxicated

Zombies or Came Back Wrong

Title: Stifled Word Count: 1800 Rating: NSFW. Warnings: Mentioned drug use, luxury, implied sex, medical procedure mentions, discussion of being kept in a location against one's will. Second-Person POV. Summary: You begin to learn a bit more about why you're here, and how it differs from what you've been told. Continuation of this: https://rainbowfic.dreamwidth.org/1392750.html Link to fill: https://rainbowfic.dreamwidth.org/1586984.html

@rainbowfic

[thisbluespirit]

Link to some (sff) origfic I've been writing for a Dreamwidth challenge comm lately, should anyone be interested. <3

[bucky-boychik-barnes]

Hey writer friends, if you have a Dreamwidth, there is this original writing community called RainbowFics that I think everyone should check out.

They give lists of writing prompts based on colors/themes, have monthly challenges, and could use some love and support.

[polyamships]

Title: Lost Content Type: Original Writing Creator: wallwalker Characters/Relationship: Original characters (M/M/F/F) Rating: T Word Count: 1128 Content notes: None. Creator notes: Crossposted to rainbowfic, link here. Summary: A trip through a long, apparently featureless grassland was causing one of the squad's members to worry.

[rainbowfic]

When I was remaking the Rainbowfic prompt list headers, I used the Gilbert Baker flag for the one queer list we currently have (called "rainbow")

I have three more queer lists to get up and I stayed with the theme, color-picking from the original flag. They'll be "queer magic" (turquoise), "living proud red", and "spirit purple"

(we have A LOT of lists, so finding names for them is getting tricky - we already have glitter, lavender and several variations, and carnation green for Oscar Wilde)

... I should make a Sappho list now that I think of it. I have one Sappho quote on one of the upcoming queer lists

sex and magic trans flag! ♡

ID: an edited version of the trans flag using shades of pink (sex) and turquoise (magic) colourpicked from the gilbert baker pride flag. END ID

[brightclothesforwinter]

I wrote a thing: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50215657

It's a victory. It's a victory. It is. The gates of fallen midnight are broken open. All that beautiful craftsmanship, carved oak and grey hornbeam bound in forged steel and crowned in bright gold, as rent and shattered as their maker's mutilated corpse, rotting over the arch. There's a voice in the back of Hanno's mind muttering that the first lord of midnight would have been more offended by the damage to his gates than by the desecration of his own body. It sounds a little like Guae, who, after all, would know. (It isn't.)

This is what happens when the question 'is the fix-it an inherently fannish genre, requiring a canon to be in dialogue with, or could one write an original fix-it?' collides with me mainlining Silmarillion fic for, uh, reasons. (The reasons are long but mostly boil down to LRP emotions and the fact that the red reality was first-age levels of fucked up.)

Because it's me, this somehow didn't manifest as LRP-fic or Silm-fic but a secret third thing which also acquired complicated diasporic language feelings (on purpose), vaguely heretical catholic vibes (probably inevitable), and gen-x nuclear winter anxiety (entirely unexpected).

So we have Waking the Dawn, a time-travel/time-loop fix-it which I feel gives me license to throw chronological order out of the window, in which Hannothferan, hope-named first scion of dawn, watched from the timelessness of death as his beloved absolutely lost his shit in grief and eventually died, and went 'fuck this noise, I'm going back to change things' and yelled at the powers-that-be until any will to stop him they might have had gave out. (It's probable they didn't even want to stop him anyway. He didn't actually stop to check.)

That was loop 1, and it went badly enough that he had to come back and admit to Guaeth that he couldn't fix it on his own. And this piece specifically (written to the RainbowFic prompt: Chrome 01: "When will the banners and the victory parades celebrate the day a better world was won?") belongs to loop 3, which is Hanno's 4th time around; Guaeth, Veron and Anaie's 3rd, and I think Laina's second, not that Veron, Anaie or Laina are in this piece.)

[shadowsong26fic]

Coming Attractions!

First Monday of the month, so here we are!

As usual, we’ll do an Open Question Night--while my askbox is always open, tonight I’ll be keeping an eye on it if anyone has questions. Anything about any fandom/original project I’ve written about here or posted to AO3 is fair game. I do take prompts, but no guarantees on how quickly I’ll fill them.

All right, here we go!

Star Wars Fic:

I’ve basically only been writing my Year of the OTP fills at the moment. I’m also doing some betaing/podficcing for SWBB, as well as pitching in on the mod side, but not a lot of writing. Hopefully once the event is over I’ll get back to Precipice!verse (which I refuse to let die) and other projects in that fandom, but we’ll see how it goes.

Castlevania Fic:

I swear I haven’t forgotten Incinctus (or the one other plot idea I had, but I want to put more of Incinctus up before I start working on it). I just...yeah, nothing’s really happened this month, lol. Maybe in May...although I do have a lot of family/personal stuff coming up so IDK how much time I’ll have. Work at least should be somewhat calmer now?

BSG Fic:

I really am working on The Other Battlestar in the background of everything else, I swear, lol. Still no official posting/start date, but maybe?? soon?? I hope anyway.

Also been doing Year of the OTP for this one. I’m really proud of the one I came out with this month--it’s an AU that’s been kicking around in my head for a while, and I like some of what I managed to pull off with mirroring bits of language/etc. (May or may not continue this AU; there’s some Interesting things that could go on. This...is probably going to make me sound like a terrible person, but they obviously won’t succeed Completely because that makes for a much less interesting story, lol. But those 4-ish months between this bit and the eventual attack, plus the ways the aftermath would be different, could be a Lot of fun. I did have a few ideas here and there, but nothing like a coherent Story yet.)

Also! Galactica Big Bang is coming along! The amazing fracktastic designed some icons, and I’m putting a banner together/finalizing the FAQ/rules/etc. I’ll probably do a kickoff post sometime this month. Like...what’s normal for this type of event, lol. Six weeks before the signups open? A month? Two? (Technically I missed the window on two, since I’m opening signups on July 1...)

...I also need to actually design the signup forms, whoops...::adds to to-do list::

Original Fic:

Still doing OTP fills; I’m having a lot of fun with it. I did write one thing that was not a fill for a challenge on rainbowfic; might or might not do that again this month, I haven’t looked at the May prompts for Year of the OTP, but they could line up with this month’s RF challenge...

(I also might be going back to the Bridgerton/Regency AU for Lux that I put together a couple years back for a challenge. This is because I saw Les Mis on Saturday and I swear that actually does make sense in context XD

Other Projects:

Nothing concrete in the pipeline at the moment...one of my roommates has gotten back into AtLA again (not sure if that had happened by April’s Coming Attractions post and I’m too lazy to check lol) so a few of the things I poke at in that fandom are floating around. No concrete work on anything at this point, but we’ll see how it goes.

...I think that’s everything! Like I said at the beginning, Open Question Night, etc. What’s on your mind?

[rainbowfic]

Today's prompt list is: Blush

Theme: Romance 1. soft kisses 2. first date 3. proposal 4. a dozen roses 5. hand in hand 6. dinner and a movie 7. sweet nothings 8. you and I 9. hearing your heartbeat 10. side by side 11. sleeping together 12. walking in step 13. on your arm 14. flowers and chocolates 15. put your arms around me

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[wingedtyger]

If I can self-promo, I think my community JustCreate is pretty great! It's a low-key comm for encouraging creative stuff like writing, coding, art, crafts, etc; and non-creative stuff like laundry and vacuuming. We have weekly check-ins for encouragement.

If you like to write or draw, I also recommend AllBingo as a great source of prompts. If you do original fiction RainbowFic is picking up (I'm also running it's tumblr @rainbowfic )

FollowFriday is great to get recommendations

Disjointed Dreamwidth Tips (written by someone who wasn’t on LJ)

So as always when Tumblr decides to break its own gear, people are contemplating Dreamwidth. One thing I don’t really see much are recs on what to do after you’ve figured out how to use the site for yourself and are in that time where your feed is empty and you are discouraged from screaming into the void. I was also never on LJ, and for a long time after getting a Journal I didn’t use it because my feed was dead, and I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to do.

Some general tips past the obvious to get started

When making your journal, you should fill out your profile and interests, but what I find way more useful is to have a pinned post. You can either actually pin it on your journal or just set the date to some ridiculous date in the future, and it’ll stay on the top. On that pinned post go your interests and maybe your posting habits (are you doing regular updates or rapid-fire shitposting whenever you feel like it? Are you often gone for a while and answer slowly?). It’s also the place to put stuff about how you handle privacy, like ‘If you want to be added to my nsfw filter, shoot me a message here’.

A lot of people like and use the tumblr anon-ask function, and dw doesn’t really have that. So here’s an idea on how to set up something similar: Make a dedicated pinned/predated post, put in the post that it is your ask post, how to use it, what kind of anons you aren’t comfy with maybe. Set the comment function to ‘screen all comments’ or ‘screen anon only’. This gives people a way to leave you anon messages only you can see and copy over into a post. You can turn it off at any time by editing the post’s comment (not comment screening!) setting to say Disabled. I haven’t actually tried setting this up myself, but it should work. People who don’t have a dreamwidth account can message you this way, too.

People who like anon prompts might also be advised to go look for kinkmemes for their fandoms. A kinkmeme is a community or journal that lets people post and fill prompts anonymously. Contrary to what the name suggests, in a lot of them neither prompts nor fills must be sexual nor even romantic (thought they often are, so go browsing on your own risk). Requests are all anonymous, fills can be posted anonymously directly on the com, or on anon on ao3, or deanon’d on ao3, or any combination thereof.

So, you’re lonely on Dreamwidth

Dreamwidth has no reblogs and no algorithm, so there’s nothing to push stuff at you and help you find new friends. You’ve got to go looking for them, and invite them over to your place, too. Basically, think of tumblr as one giant, never-ending, really loud cocktail party – it’s easy to drift around and find a group to stand with, and you don’t even have to talk to have fun. Dreamwidth is more like bouncing from friend’s place to friend’s place for tea and gossip, or having a nice wine and dinner with The Squad or spending all night smoking and chatting on the balcony or something like that. Fewer people, slower conversations, more effort, more payoff. That doesn’t mean you can’t rapid-fire shitpost over there, people absolutely still do that. But keep that comparison in mind.

Type in an interest in the search and look for active people who also have that interest tagged. Look for communities with that interest. Look for people you vibe with in the communities you share. You can see everyone subscribed to a specific com in the com’s profile, and you can see people’s mutuals in their profiles, too.

A lot of stuff doesn’t show up in the interests tho. A great way to find people on Dreamwidth are friending memes. A friending meme is a post in a community or on a personal journal where people post little bios with personality, interests, posting habits etc. in the comments, and then go browsing for other people to chat with and follow. I don’t know if there’s any active right now, but participating in those does a lot ot liven up your dash and find people, especially people who want to be found and are actively looking for new people, too! There’s one at the end of Snowflake every year.

Etiquette – Likes

One thing that throws people off about switching from Web 2.0 to DW is that there’s no likes. I’ve found that posting a <3 comment is totally fine with many people tho.

Etiquette – Linkspamming

No reblogs means Linkspam is the name of the day. Linkspam is absolutely okay on Dreamwidth! I know it feels weird! Just do it! Websites like tumblr constantly discourage us from linking off-site or even to other stuff on themselves – Dreamwidth is not like that! ‘One/three/six interesting articles I read this week’, with a link and a sentence or two are a valid post, and people will chat with you about them in the comments. Posting a rec-post on your own journal and then just dropping a Post that’s like ‘I rec’ed seven Character X/Character Y fics over here’ in a relevant community is valid. To embed a link, copy over this

<a href=“Link”>Text</a>                                                

and replace the Link part with your link, and the Text part with what you want it to say. Go ahead, spam away!

Posting images

Honestly the best way is to embed them imo. Host somewhere else (Imgur, or your Insta, for example), and then use this code

<img src=“IMAGE URL” alt=“ALT TEXT”>

To make dreamwidth display them. If you want them centred, use

<center><img src=“IMAGE URL” alt=“ALT TEXT”></center>

When you want to show off other people’s images, consider just posting a link, thought. Embedding is not like reposting (if the source is deleted, the embed won’t load anymore), but it looks like reposting, and a lot of people don’t like that.

Other HTML

Ironically, I cannot link you to any, or tumblr will nuke this post, because tumblr sucks. Copy “html basics for dreamwidth” into your search engine of choice and you should find several journal entries that are just that, though! HTML is not as scary as it looks, and the Rich Text Editor also works fine.

Some communities to fill your feed, let you find stuff and get to know people:

These are obviously centred around stuff i like, but they are also pretty central and active in my experience.

fandomcalender and fandom_on_dw – People advertise new/restarted/repeating communities, fests, exchanges and such here! Great place to find stuff you want to participate in or just keep an eye on.

snowflake_challenge is running this year – it’s a one-month challenge were you get a blogging prompt every other day for all of January, so it starts in only a few days! Prompts are something like ‘write or update your bio’ or ‘what was your first fandom? Tell us!’ or ‘create something for the prompt X’. You fulfill the prompt and post about it on your dw and in the comments of the prompt post. You can always catch up later if you get busy and you’re always free to just drop a day. Chatting on the prompt-posts and going to others’ journals to comment is considered good form. Gives you ideas to use your journal, lets you connect with others and generally get a start at Dreamwidth. sunshine_challenge does the same in the summer.

fictional_friends – A community specifically to let you be a Dreamwidth Noob among other people! Great place to ask embarrassing questions about where to find what button.

fancake and recthething are pretty active multifandom recing communities. Fancake has a theme each month, and recs are one fic per post, only finished fics, no self-recs. Recthething is less structured, for making posts directly in the com or linking to rec posts on your journal, and they also have a weekly catch-all post every Thursday for making recs in the comments. Asking for recs is specifically allowed here.

fandom_icons is a community for people to post links to their icon uploads, with a good tagging system. Just go look for some nice stuff for your fandom and remember to credit the artist!

You can find any of these communities (and also other people’s journals) by setting the drop-down menu by the search to ‘Site and Account’ and typing them out like that, or by dumping them into the search engine of your choice with ‘dreamwidth’ at the end. Unironic tip, that one, dreamwidth search is Not Great for finding specific people or coms sometimes.

[rainbowfic]

You can:

use either or both prompts as given

use either or both lists for prompts

use the name of either or both lists as a prompts

complete as many or few days as you want

write, draw, craft, or anything else!

There's no deadline and this is just for fun. I'll reblog this with links to the lists if you want to explore.

What's RainbowFic? We're a community of original fic writers on Dreamwidth using prompt lists named after colors (for a very VERY loose definition of color). Our lists range include song lyrics, quotes from books and tv, themed words, contrasts, and a whole lot more (we have over 400!)

Text version of the list under a readmore

Text version:

Day 1: Royal Purple #11 Further beyond / Iceberg #12 Snowman

Day 2: Lilac #25 Freesia / Opera Mauve #20 Curtain call

Day 3: Lavender's Blue #2 Mermaid / Periwinkle #14 Enamel heart pendant from a garage sale

Day 4: Caramel #8 Gummies / Vert #16 As the lord/lady asks

Day 5: Midnight #6 Furtive / Psychedelic Purple #15 I know I'll never be the same

Day 6: Lotus #19 Truthfulness / Ignition Yellow #10 There are some nights I wait for someone to save us

Day 7: Green Go #21 Rideshare / Gold #12 The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it

Day 8: City Street #4 Highway / Greenstick Fracture #9 I got the velocity and now all I need is the mass

Day 9: Paprika #8 We've got something kinda funny going on / Harvard Crimson #14 Library

Day 10: Danish Red #2 The Snow Queen / Amaranth #5 Stars

Day 11: Pull Me Over Red #1 Parking ticket / Daffodil #5 Flowers

Day 12: Fluorescent Pink #19 It doesn't matter who they are, I won't forgive anyone who tries to stand out more than me / Parrot Green #13 Call

Day 13: Crane White #18 Tell your daughters do not walk the streets alone tonight / Spirits of Saturn #15 Overgrowth

Day 14: Cherry #12 Grapes / Skylight #4 Smoking on the fire escape

Day 15: Calcite #4 Soft/Hard / Burgundy #2 Varietal

Day 16: Yellow Submarine #17 The long and winding road that leads to your door will never disappear / White Opal #2 Dream

Day 17: Tigers Eye #8 Eerie empty spaces / Moonlight #1 Liminal

Day 18: Baby Blue #4 Sling / Red Dress #5 You need to find a new solution, adaptation or retribution

Day 19: Gunmetal #14 Crossbow / English Violet #3 Since I cannot prove a lover, to entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain

Day 20: Heirloom Silver #2 Heirloom / Brown #5 Brown bagging

Day 21: Coomassie Blue #1 Repressor / Folly #14 Relax, I saw it on TV

Day 22: Fuzzy Wuzzy #3 Hugs /Alien Green #6 This is where you pucker up and kiss my ass

Day 23: Fawn #4 Cat / Grand Ink #20 With a mug of hot tea and some Vicodin in my bloodstream, I look up from my book to watch the bugs outside the windows

Day 24: Royal Blue #2 Queen / Spirit Purple #19 Screw the binary gender system

[rainbowfic]

Today's prompt list is: Honey

Theme: Romantic pet names (compiled from multiple languages)

treasure

beloved

lovebug

honey

darling

my soul

little strawberry

teddy bear

sweetie

baby

kitten

dear

star

pearl

my life

mon saucisson (french, my little sausage)

my heart

cuddle bear

babe

media naranja (spanish, orange half, that is, my other half)

pumpkin

sweetheart

beau

love

chouchou (french, cabbage)

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[rainbowfic]

Today's prompt list is: Under-the-Bed Black

Theme: Spooky 1. Ghost 2. Creak 3. Night terror 4. Dark corner 5. Under the bed 6. Staring at the wall 7. Creeping shadows 8. Monster 9. Worry 10. Leaky faucet 11. Nightmare 12. Nyctophobia 13. Snatched 14. Robber 15. Rattle 16. Incubus/Succubus 17. Ward 18. Insomnia 19. Hiding under the covers 20. Nightlight

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[rainbowfic]

This was originally posted on RainbowFic and I just got around to putting it on my blog.

Rainbowfic stuff:

Colors: Beige #11 (plasma), Fade to Grey #16 (billow), Tyrian Purple #3 (born of sea foam) Supplies and Styles: Graffiti (TV Tropes challenge - "Villains Love Entertainment", "Clueless Deputy", "Trust Me I'm an X"), canvas, brush ('foible')

Bonfire Hearts and Fool Waters (Shard-verse)

Word count: 2151. Rating: all-ages Summary: before Daisy Hart became Wild Heart, she was just a strawberry blonde in high school. And the Ginger Royals recruit from all red-heads… Content notes: mild-ish verbal abuse from a parent, fatphobia, alcohol, implied underage drinking, realistic depiction of drowning (everybody’s okay), possible implied violence Note: the gang’s name alternates freely…

[rainbowfic]

Today's prompt list is: Tiger's Eye

Theme: Seasonal

Colorful leaves

A long cold sunset

Brisk night wind

Apple, pumpkin, cinnamon, yams

First frost

Chills down your spine

A light jacket

Eerie empty spaces

Shadows on the wall

Orange and black

Red and yellow

Turn the heat up

School bells and shouting children

Colorful scarves

Time to go home

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