Rainbow Fiction

Name: Peony and Magpie
Story: Lin Moniao Series (AO3 link)
Colors: Chocolate-Dipped Strawberry #8 (caress), Electric Sky #1 (Nectar)
Supplies and Styles: gesso, nubs; interactive art
Word Count: 4,594
Rating: explicit
Warnings: Rated for sex (dual cultivation); contains a gruesome play and competitive eating (not a double entendre).
Summary: Lin Moniao and Heng Wanxue celebrate their reunion.
Note: Co-written with minutia_r . This is a scene between the events of Chasing the Bat and Mid-Autumn Festival that ended up not being included in either. Also available on AO3 here (specific chapter link), with art (not mine but really great, recommended; the art is SFW). I decided not to call this a silhouette because the style is for "romance or growing relationship" and these two know where they are already.

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Name: Girl in Spring (sketch)
Story: Uncategorized
Colors: Electric Sky #9 (Sunblind)
Supplies and Styles: sketch
Word Count: n/a
Rating: general
Warnings: n/a
Summary: A sketch in purple of a young woman smiling in the sun.
Note: I hope to finish this, but we will see.

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Name: Homecoming
Story: Lin Moniao Series (AO3 link)
Colors: Electric Sky #5 (Knowledge of Self)
Supplies and Styles: gesso, nubs; chiaroscuro, interactive art, life drawing, portrait, silhouette
Word Count: 5,195
Rating: teen
Warnings: Mind games, messy polyamory, minor self-loathing, ghosts, (long past) murder, dead bodies, mention of prostitution.
Summary: Shen Shanwei is keeping house for Master Wu alone, but not for long, as Lin Moniao and Mu Liqiang return from their separate adventures.
Note: Co-written with minutia_r . This is a scene (a few in sequence, actually) between the events of Chasing the Bat and Mid-Autumn Festival that ended up not being included in either. Also available on AO3 here (specific chapter link as it was collected with other extra stories under one AO3 work), with some more notes and art. I have chosen to also include The Mystery of Liu Manor, which was collected separately on AO3, since it follows directly after.

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Name: Thick as Thieves (ART)
Story: Uncategorized
Colors: Electric Sky #20 (Love In The Time of Thieves)
Supplies and Styles: illustration
Word Count: n/a
Rating: general
Warnings: n/a
Summary: A black and white illustration of two young people in matching black kaftan-style outfits, walking arm and arm and talking together.

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Name: My dearest Skydda
Story: Tanhua the Vampire
Colors: Electric Sky #25 (Lifeline), Newsprint #9 (You are so complex that you don't always respond to danger.)
Supplies and Styles: miniature, plein-air
Word Count: 59
Rating: general
Warnings: n/a
Summary: A letter to recall a servitor.

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Name: Chasing the Bat - Part 2
Story: Lin Moniao Series (AO3 link)
Colors: Newsprint #23 (What a shock when they tell you it won't hurt and you almost turn inside-out when they begin.), Psychedelic Purple #28 (beneath this mask I am wearing a frown)
Supplies and Styles: gesso, novelty beads (“No matter how much you change, please don’t forget there are people who care for you.” - Sailor Moon); interactive art, life drawing, mural, silhouette
Word Count: 28K
Rating: mature
Warnings: Betrayal, graphic violence, reference to rape, reference to child abuse, self-harm ideation, messy polyamory, gender feels, mind games.
Summary: Having discovered the location of the Obsidian Bat, Lin Moniao and his allies make a plan to recover it.
Note: Co-written with minutia_r . Also available on AO3 here, with some more notes and art - and the full text. I had to split this in two because it is over Dreamwidth's single-post character allowance.

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Name: Journey to Poyang Lake
Story: Lin Moniao Series (AO3 link)
Colors: Psychedelic Purple #29 (I thought I knew you)
Supplies and Styles: gesso; interactive art, life drawing, mural, silhouette
Word Count: 32K
Rating: explicit
Warnings: Minor violence, sex without romance, cult practices, manipulation, characters with sex-negative attitudes, jealousy, mild BDSM, power imbalance, casual attitude towards murder, reference to underage sex, reference to prostitution.
Summary: After the events at the White Cloud Bathhouse, Lin Moniao's master has come to take him and his sect siblings home to the Illustrious Qilin Villa, for the funeral of his shibo.
Note: Co-written with minutia_r . Also available on AO3 here, with some more notes and art.

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Name: The White Cloud Technique
Story: Lin Moniao Series (AO3 link)
Colors: Newsprint #10 (Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.), Psychedelic Purple #26 (my heart is filled with things to say) 
Supplies and Styles: gesso; chiaroscuro, interactive art, life drawing, mural, silhouette
Word Count: 42K
Rating: explicit
Warnings: (spoilers covered) Minor violence, sex without romance, romance without sex, implications of sexual slavery involving minors, cult practices, honeytrapping, manipulation, bullying, characters with sex-negative attitudes, unhealthy/abusive relationships, unwanted sexual touching, drugs, murder, pregnancy, discussion of abortion, character death.
Summary: Soon on the heels of his previous mission, Lin Moniao is sent to keep an eye on one of his sect's masters--who has come, unofficially, under suspicion of treachery.
Note: Co-written with minutia_r . Also available on AO3 here, with some more notes and art.

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Name: The Cast-Iron Bat
Story: Lin Moniao Series (AO3 link)
Colors: Newsprint #13 (With bleeding inside the head there is a metallic taste at the back of the throat.)
Supplies and Styles: gesso; interactive art, life drawing, mural
Word Count: 38,500ish words
Rating: explicit
Warnings: bloody violence, lies, betrayal, gastrointestinal distress, daddy issues, rampant historical inaccuracies
Summary: Lin Moniao, returning from a quest in the north and traveling towards the capital to return to his shifu, Master Wu of the Illustrious Qilin Villa sect, takes on a postal escort job along the way that turns out to be more trouble than anticipated.
Note: I have already posted side stories and extras for the Lin Moniao series here before but this was actually the first adventure in it, co-written with minutia_r . It is the TTRPG logs for an adventure loosely based on the "Obsidian Bat" adventure from the Righteous Blood, Ruthless Blades sourcebook. I was GM, Minutia played Lin Moniao, and I created Wang Xiaonan as a GM-controlled NPC to allow us to play the adventure with only one player. As a result, the plot bounces about a bit, and somewhere in the middle we kinda got stuck at an inn for ages. Anyway--here you go! Also available on AO3 here, with some more notes and commissioned art of the "player" characters.

 

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Name: Blinking Phyl
Story: Peccadillo Parlour
Colors: Graphite #11 (pencil), Shocking Pink #11 (blinking)
Supplies and Styles: canvas; sketch
Word Count: n/a
Rating: general
Warnings: n/a
Summary: Younger Phyl in a cartoonish style; pencil sketch, moving gif.

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