Rainbow Fiction

Name: Clarification
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Techelet #5: Tikkun Olam (repairing the world), Light Black #17: Lose
Styles and Supplies: Brushes (June 27 2025: Oblige), Oils (“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened… or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move on.” - Tupac Shakur)
Word Count: 2040
Rating: PG
Warnings: Discussion of slavery
Characters: Setsiana, Sapfita
In-Universe Date: Night of 1912.1.1.2
Summary: Setsiana gets clarifications from Sapfita.

( Clarification )

Name: 20 Years Later
Story: Tales From the Neighborhood
Plot Thread: Bishop-Curtis Family
Colors: Light Black #9: Knock
Styles and Supplies: Silhouette, Chiaroscuro, Gesso, Acrylics (June 21 2025: "If I didn't love you, this would be easy"), Stain ("Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness." - Desmond Tutu), Novelty Bead ("Deep breath. Fresh horrors. Let's go." - Elanor Janega, given here)
Word Count: 2555
Rating: T
Warnings: Past character death and undeath, and associated trauma; Implied vampire attack; Implied minor mind control and vampire-related domestic abuse
Characters: Bonnie Bishop/Alex Upsnott Curtis, Edith Curtis, Joanna Curtis
Summary: Bonnie returns to her home after a long absence.
Notes: Tales From the Neighborhood is going to be a completely different Sims story from Crimes Against Romance, about my current Sims 2 neighborhood, that I've been playing on and off since 2013. This is not so much a single long-form story as a collection of loosely-related short stories about a community of approximately 200 people who are all related in probably confusing ways. They are assembled into (currently) six different plot threads that follow the same sets of characters. The purpose of these mainly is to use up prompts that didn't fit into my long-form fics, and will be sprinkled in between major parts of the long-form fics. Most of the prompts I need to use up in this way are from the Warm Heart list, so there won't be more of these until after I pick up that list later on.

These are going to actually be somewhat more closely related to things that actually happened in my game, and should be more silly and less serious business than Crimes Against Romance. As I type this, I realize that this one kind of is serious business, actually, so I guess this is more of a promise that most of the rest of them won't be.

( 20 Years Later )

( Gesso Notes (819 words) )

( Sim Pictures and Notes (1243 words) )

Name: Passunder
Story: Crimes Against Romance (Alternative title: Be Gay, Do Crime)
Colors: Light Black #13: Rotate
Styles and Supplies: Life Drawing, Gesso, Gift Wrap, Thread, Portrait, Graffiti (May-June Parents Challenge), Oils (your character is gay and loves their life), Acrylic (June 16 2025: "Your character finds a journal or a letter that explains or reveals something important that they would never have known otherwise.")
Word Count: 6030
Rating: Technically G, but there are hints of non-G-rated stuff happening off-screen
Warnings: Introduction of 15 different on-screen characters, and a couple off-screen characters who are haunting the narrative
Characters and Established Relationships: (deep breath) Aubrey Bren/Irfan Pai, River Bren/Tabitha Bren, Gail Bren, Jeanine Bren, Anne Bren/Gavin Newson Bren, Benjamin Bren, Daniel Bren, Noah Bren, Andrew Bren Goss/Vamsi Goss, Sadie Gregory, Bess Gregory
Dates: March and April of 1996 (but see the Gesso Notes about the passage of time)
Summary: Aubrey discovers secrets in his grandmother's house during a Passover seder.
Notes: This is my tawdry gay Sims telenovela a story I came up with for some sims in an ancient Sims 2 neighborhood about organized crime and crooked lawyers that I never got to realize because the neighborhood got deleted in 2013, but this story has never been deleted from my brain. Silvercat said on the Discord that this kind of Sims story about original characters counts as original and counts as Gesso for Rainbowfic purposes, so I figured I would actually write it up and post it. There should be 33 more installments, but most of the rest of this won't come until after I've finished the Fulcrum, because I want to use a completely different set of lists for it. I technically could have waited to post this, too, since I'll be using Light Black for a long time still to come, but this particular scene was burning a hole in my brain and I had to write it now. I've added notes about the Gesso borrowings, since I don't expect people to actually be familiar with 20-year-old video games, and also included the in-game portraits of all of the sims, since I do actually still have them.

As was hopefully communicated by the telenovela title, this story runs on high octane interpersonal drama and really tropey romance, which is kind of par for the course for stories I come up with for my sims, really, although this specific piece of it is uncharacteristically normal. This is also very much a grey-versus-black morality story - the protagonists are not really good guys, and don't have a lot of illusions about that, but they should at least be significantly more sympathetic than the antagonists.

( Passunder )

( Gesso Notes (1499 words) )

( Sim Pictures and Notes (2698 words) )

Name: Repairing Bridges
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Techelet #10: Mechilah (forgiveness)
Styles and Supplies: Chiaroscuro, Graffiti (May/June Parents Challenge), Brushes (June 7 2025: abstruse), Novelty Bead ("In times of crisis, the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers." - T'Challa, Black Panther, given here)
Word Count: 1637
Rating: T
Warnings: Minority-Report-type stuff
Characters: Setsiana, Bríghlot (Setsiana's mom), Qhoroali, Cyaru
In-Universe Date: 1647.6.2.2
Summary: Setsiana seeks help from her parents.
Notes: Setsiana's mom will appear again much later in the story, but I'm not sure if her (Vrelian) name will actually make an appearance in the text. But I would like it to be known that I did give her a name.

( Repairing Bridges )