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Sep. 12th, 2025 03:58 pm
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NaNoWriMo is as good as, if not officially, closed. I'll just remember the good things, like how it's helped launch my writing career. (I guess I can call it that?) One of the alternatives that have sprung up is Weeknight Writers. Their First Draft Fall event, whose goal is to create a first draft, will begin on October 1st and run through December 13th.

The premise of Queen Mantis: To solve a copycat serial killer case, a cop must ask for help from the original serial killer: his incarcerated mother. I've watched the first episode and so far the only character I like is the mother (no surprise there).

[personal profile] paradoxcase posting in [community profile] rainbowfic
Name: Modeling
Story: Tales from the Neighborhood
Plot Thread: Michael, Robert, and Stephen
Colors: Warm Heart #23: Insolent
Styles and Supplies: Vaudeville, Silhouette, Life Drawing, Glue ("It's possible that someone will question your motives or wonder whether or not you're genuine, Virgo. Don't take it the wrong way. You don't take everything at face value either. Show your sincerity by following through and sticking by your word. If you can't avoid going back on your word, explain the situation to the person involved. This will show that you're sincere.")
Word Count: 880
Rating: T
Warnings: Mention of casual sex, Light swearing
Characters: Michael Wolf, Philip Marsh
Summary: Michael meets someone new during a class.
Notes: This did not happen in my sims game, and also has very little actual relevance to the Sims, so I'm not tagging it Gesso here. This is entirely inspired by an irate tumblr post that I saw like ten or twelve years ago complaining about fanfics that used nude modeling art class as like, a sexy meet cute scenario, which went into great detail about how nude modeling art class is the least sexy scenario ever. Anyway, I have never actually read a fanfic like that (I think I just don't read enough college AUs) so this scenario had never really occurred to me before, and my brain immediately went, ok, but what if it was an unsexy meet cute, like the model went into it with a completely wrong set of expectations and it didn't work out like they'd planned? And then I immediately started imagining this happening to my neighborhood's resident slutty art student. I'm not an artist and have never been in one of these classes, so all of the details here are sourced directly from my decade-old memories of a funny tumblr post, so I apologize for any inaccuracies. Hopefully this is actually as funny as it was in my head.

Modeling )

Sim Pictures and Notes (425 words) )
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[personal profile] silvercat17 posting in [community profile] rainbowlounge
(I keep forgetting to do these, so feel free to poke me via DM or on the discord. You can also keep posting to the most recent one.

This is the place for any questions or suggestions you have for [community profile] rainbowfic , [community profile] rainbowlists , and [community profile] rainbowlounge . This includes 'how does this work?', 'does this supply or style count for this?' and 'what are the limits on this?'

There are a good amount of things that have fuzzy limits or definitions and that's okay. You're allowed to use your judgement of how to use a list, supply, style, etc. But I also want to acknowledge that not everyone is comfortable with ambiguity and that some people need more concrete answers. So this is where to get those (and then it'll be added to the appropriate page). But there are no tag/prompt/writing police here

Anyone can answer (please, if you've been here longer, jump in and help). Please take time to check what the different [community profile] rainbowlists pages say because they might have the answer, but don't be afraid to ask something that seems obvious: it may be that I need to clarify a description or q&a. Checking the tags on [community profile] rainbowfic to see how something has been used is also a good way to get answers, or at least precedent.

I'll be using these as a resource to find things that need to be added or improved in the q&as on Rainbowlist

Warm Heart #17 [Starfall]

Sep. 6th, 2025 08:22 pm
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[personal profile] thisbluespirit posting in [community profile] rainbowfic
Name: On the Interpretation of Dreams
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #17 (Honesty)
Supplies and Styles: Nubs
Word Count: 1891
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Viyony Eseray, Osmer Nivyrn.
Summary: Proof that Viyony also takes Leion's advice from time to time.

On the Interpretation of Dreams )

Light Black #21 [The Fulcrum]

Sep. 4th, 2025 04:31 pm
[personal profile] paradoxcase posting in [community profile] rainbowfic
Name: A Strange Dreamreading
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Light Black #21: Use
Styles and Supplies: Panorama, Modeling Clay (this prompt: Rufous)
Word Count: 1047
Rating: T
Warnings: Fantasy Drug (Ab)use
Characters: Setsiana, Qhoroali
In-Universe Date: 1912.3.2.1
Summary: Setsiana and Qhoroali view the dreamreading Setsiana created.

A Strange Dreamreading )

Code deploy happening shortly

Aug. 31st, 2025 07:37 pm
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[staff profile] mark posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance

Per the [site community profile] dw_news post regarding the MS/TN blocks, we are doing a small code push shortly in order to get the code live. As per usual, please let us know if you see anything wonky.

There is some code cleanup we've been doing that is going out with this push but I don't think there is any new/reworked functionality, so it should be pretty invisible if all goes well.

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[personal profile] shadowsong26 posting in [community profile] rainbowfic
Name: shadowsong26
Story: Considered
'Verse: Untitled Intrigues Story
Colors: Opal Jasper #16. crown and country, Neapolitan #14. could’ve, would’ve, should’ve, Arclight #1. Though I know where this could take me/ No tears no sympathy
Supplies and Materials: graffiti (Lilith Faire Day Eight: Village Stage), photography, postcard, novelty beads, beading wire, glue ("Don't feel like you need to make excuses for the way you feel. It's probably better if you slow down a bit, especially when it comes to love."), canvas
Word Count: 131
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Neremyi
Warnings: Arranged marriage (not the fun kind).
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always. Could I have an Arclight color tag, please?


Read more... )

Metallic Gold #9, Neapolitan #7

Aug. 31st, 2025 08:20 pm
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[personal profile] shadowsong26 posting in [community profile] rainbowfic
Name: shadowsong26
Story: Advice
'Verse: Lux
Colors: Metallic Gold #9. method, Neapolitan #7. mother, maiden, crone
Supplies and Materials: graffiti (Lilith Faire Day Eight: Second Stage), miniature collection, photography, brush (simpatico), novelty beads (Wisdom must be gathered, not given. (blakes 7))
Word Count: 395
Rating: PG
Characters: Shane, Dimana, Rubika, Imi
Warnings: Nope.
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always. Last Metallic Gold! Could I please get a color tag for Neapolitan?


Read more... )
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[personal profile] shadowsong26 posting in [community profile] rainbowfic
Name: shadowsong26
Story: when my landscape changes
'Verse: Feredar
Colors: Spring Green #5. this world can't be saved, only discovered (with paint-by-numbers from bookblather: Riluke travels.), Warm Light #6. I'm at your back door with the earth of a hundred nations in my skin, Vert #1. Hope
Supplies and Materials: graffiti (Lilith Faire Day Eight: Main Stage), paint-by-numbers, miniature collection, photography, life drawing, cartography, canvas
Word Count: 346
Rating: PG
Characters: Riluke
Warnings: Don't think so!
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always. Last Vert!


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[staff profile] denise posting in [site community profile] dw_news

A reminder to everyone that starting tomorrow, we are being forced to block access to any IP address that geolocates to the state of Mississippi for legal reasons while we and Netchoice continue fighting the law in court. People whose IP addresses geolocate to Mississippi will only be able to access a page that explains the issue and lets them know that we'll be back to offer them service as soon as the legal risk to us is less existential.

The block page will include the apology but I'll repeat it here: we don't do geolocation ourselves, so we're limited to the geolocation ability of our network provider. Our anti-spam geolocation blocks have shown us that their geolocation database has a number of mistakes in it. If one of your friends who doesn't live in Mississippi gets the block message, there is nothing we can do on our end to adjust the block, because we don't control it. The only way to fix a mistaken block is to change your IP address to one that doesn't register as being in Mississippi, either by disconnecting your internet connection and reconnecting it (if you don't have a static IP address) or using a VPN.

In related news, the judge in our challenge to Tennessee's social media age verification, parental consent, and parental surveillance law (which we are also part of the fight against!) ruled last month that we had not met the threshold for a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing the law while the court case proceeds.

The Tennesee law is less onerous than the Mississippi law and the fines for violating it are slightly less ruinous (slightly), but it's still a risk to us. While the fight goes on, we've decided to prevent any new account signups from anyone under 18 in Tennessee to protect ourselves against risk. We do not need to block access from the whole state: this only applies to new account creation.

Because we don't do any geolocation on our users and our network provider's geolocation services only apply to blocking access to the site entirely, the way we're implementing this is a new mandatory question on the account creation form asking if you live in Tennessee. If you do, you'll be unable to register an account if you're under 18, not just the under 13 restriction mandated by COPPA. Like the restrictions on the state of Mississippi, we absolutely hate having to do this, we're sorry, and we hope we'll be able to undo it as soon as possible.

Finally, I'd like to thank every one of you who's commented with a message of support for this fight or who's bought paid time to help keep us running. The fact we're entirely user-supported and you all genuinely understand why this fight is so important for everyone is a huge part of why we can continue to do this work. I've also sent a lot of your comments to the lawyers who are fighting the actual battles in court, and they find your wholehearted support just as encouraging and motivating as I do. Thank you all once again for being the best users any social media site could ever hope for. You make me proud and even more determined to yell at state attorneys general on your behalf.

Spring Green #4, Metallic Gold #6

Aug. 31st, 2025 12:02 am
shadowsong26: (rema)
[personal profile] shadowsong26 posting in [community profile] rainbowfic
Name: shadowsong26
Story: Zeal; Blood; Trust
'Verse: Feredar
Colors: Spring Green #4. what's the future, who will choose it? (with paint-by-numbers from bookblather: Rema and the revolution.), Metallic Gold #6. tool
Supplies and Materials: graffiti (Lilith Faire Day Seven: Village Stage), paint-by-numbers, photography, chiaroscuro, brush (protocol), charcoal, seed beads, thread
Word Count: 358
Rating: R
Characters: Rema
Warnings: War/violence.
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always. Just under the wire, whee!


Read more... )

Opal Jasper #6

Aug. 30th, 2025 11:28 pm
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[personal profile] shadowsong26 posting in [community profile] rainbowfic
Name: shadowsong26
Story: You Didn't Have to Do That
'Verse: Feredar
Colors: Opal Jasper #6. thunder and lightning
Supplies and Materials: graffiti (Lilith Faire Day Seven: Second Stage), diptych, life drawing, eraser (Unthreaded AU), chalk (magnetic constant)
Word Count: 380
Rating: PG
Characters: Taz, Kes.
Warnings: Schoolyard fistfighting/bullying; discussion of/reference to Islander internal prejudices.
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always. I've previously written in this AU here.


Read more... )

Metallic Gold #1, Opal Jasper #20

Aug. 30th, 2025 11:06 pm
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[personal profile] shadowsong26 posting in [community profile] rainbowfic
Name: shadowsong26
Story: Ghosted
'Verse: Lux
Colors: Metallic Gold #1. ally, Opal Jasper #20. once and for all
Supplies and Materials: graffiti (Lilith Faire Day Seven: Main Stage), life drawing, embroidery, seed beads, glue ("Matters involving friendship and love also are changing rapidly, mostly for the better, though you might leave some longtime companions behind."), canvas
Word Count: 280
Rating: PG
Characters: Tsuna, Kiyomi
Warnings: Relationship drama/ghosting.
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always. Tsuna is Mariko's mother, and Kiyomi is Tsuna's sister.


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