Rainbow Fiction

Name: A Final Return
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Ecru #8: Judge, Techelet #6: Olam Haba'a (the world to come)
Styles and Supplies: Panorama, Glue (June 12 2025: "It's a good day to express your thoughts and feelings, Gemini. Whether it's a loved one who'd appreciate affectionate words or a colleague who requires instruction, communication will come more easily than usual. You have a practical nature. Often you say what you think is required and not much else. Yet others may need you to say a lot more. Consider this as you go about your day."), Brushes (June 12 2025: Impute)
Word Count: 2625
Rating: PG
Warnings: Discussion of Slavery
Characters: Setsiana, Qhoroali
In-Universe Date: 1912.1.1.2
Summary: Setsiana talks to Qhoroali while they return to Nwórza.
Notes: This is the last post of Part 1 of the Fulcrum (and the last Ecru prompt, as well). In terms of Rainbowfic posts, this is almost exactly 1/3 of the way through the full story. Thank you guys for reading! There will be a short break where I post two non-Fulcrum-related things, and then I will be back with the beginning of Part 2.

( A Final Return )

Name: A New Year
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Ecru #4: Talk, Techelet #4: Tashlich (casting off sins)
Styles and Supplies: Life Drawing, Gift Wrap, Panorama, Stain ("The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity."), Novelty Bead ("petting", given here)
Word Count: 1634
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Setsiana, Sapfita, Qhoroali
In-Universe Date: Night of 1911.9.5.6; 1912.1.1.1
Summary: A new year arrives, and with it, a change of heart.

( A New Year )

Name: Before Rice
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Fresh Thyme #1: Wake-up call, Ecru #14: Claim, Nacarat #7: Duende (Spanish): The mysterious power that a work of art has to deeply move a person.
Styles and Supplies: Panorama, Life Drawing, Portrait, Cartography, Graffiti (Three weeks for Dreamwidth), Glue ("You have a sharp, inquisitive mind, Taurus. Today you're likely to put it to good use exploring some arcane fields. It's likely your chief area of interest is scientific. You will find that if you get online, your research will be particularly fruitful. See if you can link to university sites for some real high-level information.")
Word Count: 8429
Rating: T
Warnings: Fantasy Drug (Ab)use
Characters: Setsiana, Qhoroali, Cusäfä, Liselye
In-Universe Date: Summer of 2050; (approximately) -10,000
Summary: Setsiana, Qhoroali, and Liselye arrive at their destination.
Notes: Sorry, this wound up being 8000 words of worldbuilding, haha. I promise that all of this is going to be actually relevant to the story. Eventually. Let me know if there are any tenses in here that sound wrong, I went back and forth a bit on what tenses some parts of this dialog should be in.

( Before Rice )

Name: The Rules of War
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Ecru #1: Inform
Styles and Supplies: Chiaroscuro, Panorama, Stickers ("Allodoxaphobia is the fear of other people’s opinions.")
Word Count: 1906
Rating: T
Warnings: Implied threats
Characters: Setsiana, Cyaru
In-Universe Date: Summer of 1904
Summary: Cyaru takes Setsiana to look at some art.

( The Rules of War )

Name: Ox For Potatoes
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Ecru #10: Equate
Styles and Supplies: Panorama
Word Count: 922
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Setsiana, Qhoroali, Liselye, Cyaru
In-Universe Date: 1911.7?8?.?.?
Summary: Setsiana has an idea over dinner.

( Ox For Potatoes )

Name: Technical Support
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Ecru #19: Replace
Styles and Supplies: Vaudeville
Word Count: 2239
Rating: G
Warnings: Time-travel-induced schizo tech
Characters: Setsiana, Qhoroali, Liselye, Peatäro
In-Universe Date: 1911.7?8?.?.?
Summary: Qhoroali experiences technical issues.

( Technical Support )

Name: Directly Connected
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Ecru #2: Ask
Styles and Supplies: None
Word Count: 1894
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Setsiana, Sapfita
In-Universe Date: Night of 1911.7?8?.?.?
Summary: Setsiana gets some answers from Sapfita.

( Directly Connected )

Name: Yesora's Grammar
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Ecru #13: Begin, Techelet #2: Tzedakah (Obligation to charity), Color of the Day (Jan. 27 2025): Shilly-shally
Styles and Supplies: Canvas, Panorama, Novelty Beads (January Canvas/Frame challenge), Cartography, Portrait
Word Count: 6348
Rating: T
Warnings: Implied violence, non-detailed description of serious injuries
Characters: Yesora, her family and contemporaries, Tyäqe, and Faiyule
In-Universe Date: Year -36 (before the Gift)
Summary: Priestesses from the future arrive with the Grammar of a new language, disrupting Yesora's religious practice and way of life.
Notes: Not the document on Github, this is a side-story about Yesora's Grammar, and the changes it made to religious practice, why the priesthood is all female, and where a number of the conventions that are present in Setsiana's day came from (as well as the origin of the word that's being translated as "priestess"). I wanted to wait to post this until after introducing the Egalitarian heresy, for I hope obvious reasons.

( Yesora's Grammar )

Name: An Unknown Future
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Ecru #16: Omit
Styles and Supplies: Panorama
Word Count: 2745
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Setsiana, Sapfita
In-Universe Date: ????.7/8?.?.?
Summary: Setsiana awakens in an unfamiliar time and place.

( An Unknown Future )

Name: Priestess Fyäccheira's Review
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Ecru #6: Submit
Styles and Supplies: None
Word Count: 652
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Setsiana, Fyäccheira
In-Universe Date: 1647.6.2.2
Summary: Priestess Fyäccheira reviews Setsiana's paper.

(Pretend the diacritic is there in the cut text, Dreamwidth didn't like it and replaced it with a question mark.)

( Priestess Fyaccheira's Review )