Rainbow Fiction

Author: Kat
Title: Princess
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Electric purple 7 (Of all things the thing that I want most/To catch you at the point/Where you don't have a clue (Eight Seconds- Kiss You When It's Dangerous)) with SWL's paint-by-numbers (If anyone's the princess in this relationship, it's totally Jake. Yep.)
Supplies and Materials: Glue (As long as you are feeling inspired, anything that motivates you can be turned into constructive action.), fabric (camera).
Word Count: 365
Rating: PG
Summary: Jake is a princess. He's okay with this. Olivia has a lot of cleavage. He's okay with that too.
Warnings: none.
Notes: Happiness.

( Princess )

Author: Kat
Title: so here's the thing
Story: In the Heart -- IN SPAAAACE AU
Colors: Xanadu 9 (Shangri-La), electric purple 9 (Architects of the world/I walk your streets and/live in your towns/Temporarily/Architects of the world/You've served us well until now/But soon we'll be on our own (Spoons- Nova Heart)) with SWL's paint-by-numbers (Ivy and Gina. Date. In Spaaace AU.)
Supplies and Materials: Miniature, fingerpainting (free verse), eraser (IN SPAAAACE), chalk (happiness), yarn (halo on the moon), beading wire (mountains), glitter (Make a list of your dream summer vacation spots.), watercolors (everything is about wanting), pastels (perfect day), novelty beads ("Dawn's promising skies/Petals on a pool drifting/Imagine these in one pair of eyes/And this is my beloved"--Kismet).
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Summary: Ivy and Gina.
Warnings: none.
Notes: Happy lesbians are their own reward.

( so here's the thing )

Author: Kat
Title: Fit
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Xanadu 4 (Xanadu), electric purple 4 (Mama says truth is all that matters/Lying and deceiving is a sin/Drifting through a world that's torn and tattered/Every thought I have don't mean a thing (Bryan Ferry- Don't Stop The Dance)) with SWL's paint-by-numbers (Summer, Felipe and Zack. There's three of them in this house now. There are things they need to learn about how that works.)
Supplies and Materials: Frame, miniature collection, glue (Someone may get on your nerves today... But keeping your true feelings quiet and just acquiescing won't work for you now because it's important that your opinion is heard.), oils (dressing yourself), glitter (familiar), novelty beads (“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.” ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid), fingerpainting (alternating dialogue only and description only).
Word Count: 616
Rating: PG
Summary: They fit.
Warnings: none.
Notes: I got a present and then this finished writing itself. THANK YOU PRESENT-GIVER, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. Also a very late meme-fill for lilmoka.

( Fit )

Author: Kat
Title: apologize
Story: Shine Like It Does
Colors: Electric purple 16 (I have stood here before inside the pouring rain/With the world turning circles running 'round my brain/I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign/But it's my destiny to be the king of pain (The Police- King of Pain)) with shipwreck_light's paint by numbers (Jack knows who he is. Sometimes, he knows it all too well.)
Supplies and Materials: Miniature, modeling clay (uncomfortable conversations), novelty beads ("My rock candy passion is bittersweet/And armed to the teeth." The Yacht Club, Owl City), oils (always falling behind), glitter (Sad, Maroon 5).
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Jack leaves Samantha.
Warnings: internalized ableism.
Notes: none for this.

( apologize )

Author: Kat
Title: Five Things Joy Never Did (And One Thing She Never Stopped)
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Electric purple 18 (Reaching into the heart of the darkness/For the tenderness within/Stumblin' into the lights of the city/And then back in the shadows again/Hanging onto the laughter/That each of us hid our unhappiness in (Jackson Browne- That Girl Could Sing)) with SWL's paint-by-numbers (Joy doesn't want to be just /that/ girl. She doesn't want to be just anything.)
Supplies and Materials: Fingerpainting (first person), stain (If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong. - Mo Udall), glitter (Make a list of lessons you’ve learned so far in your life.), pastels (beliefs), novelty beads (Well, I like to dance/So if you do just get on the floor/Forget the romance/This is what music was created for. - "I Like To Dance", Hot Chelle Rae).
Word Count: 1247
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Joy knows who she is, and stereotypes ain't it.
Warnings: mentions of slut-shaming, body policing, drug use, prostitution, stereotypes about strippers.
Notes: I sort of just let Joy talk. This may or may not be coherent.

( Five Things Joy Never Did (And One Thing She Never Stopped) )

Author: Kat
Title: Smoke
Story: Shine Like It Does
Colors: Transparent 7 (Vaporous), electric purple 5 (We talked and smoked all through the night/You led me where I had no sight/Till birdsong broke the morning light/And I was weak with strange delight (Big Country- The Teacher)) with SWL's paint-by-numbers (Tommy didn't hate /everything/ about school. There was this one time...).
Supplies and Materials: Pointillism, canvas, glue (You are ready for nearly anything that sounds like fun today, but your impulsive reactions could over-complicate your life.), chalk (this picture), stain (You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. - Arlo Guthrie), yarn (the oceanside), glitter (blonde hair dyed blue), feathers ("Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say." --Mitch Albom), novelty beads (A drunk man's truth), seed beads, charcoal (kinda).
Word Count: 260
Rating: PG-13
Summary: A night on the cliffs.
Warnings: minors having sex.
Notes: Well, this was a revelation. May or may not wind up canon.

( Smoke )

Author: Kat
Title: blue grey green lavender
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Transparent 4 (Scent the air), bittersweet 3 (nostalgia), electric purple 19 (I find myself on canvas/I find myself on stage/Can you see me/Are you near me/And I long to know you're real/ And I long for you to be part of me (The Ocean Blue- Between Something And Nothing)) with SWL's paint-by-numbers (Nathan's drawn something that doesn't belong in the corner of one of his drafts.)
Supplies and Materials: Miniature, chalk (jellyfish awe), stain (We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. - Arthur Schopenhauer), novelty beads ("How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see." -Umberto Eco).
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Summary: Nathan and the ocean.
Warnings: none
Notes: Ninja post before I go off to Ohio for the weekend. Description exercise, it's SWL's fault, you understand.

eta: I was so tired I forgot to credit a line, so please forgive my accidental plagarism. "Blue grey green lavender" is from a Mary Oliver poem, Tides, which inspired this piece.

( ocean )

Author: Kat
Title: The Chance
Story: In the Heart - Spartacus AU
Colors: Transparent 11 (Sword), electric purple 14 (Hurt by envy, cut by greed/Face to face with their own disillusion/The scars of old romances still on their cheeks/And when blow by blow the passion dies sweet little death (Propaganda- Duel)) with shipwreck_light's paint-by-numbers (This is the kind of moment Danny knows can make or break a person.)
Supplies and Materials: Miniature collection, canvas (most of the middle miniatures), eraser (Spartacus AU), stickers (In Roman times one could be designated a 'public enemy' which meant that every citizen was duty bound to kill or capture you. If you were caught, you would be tied up naked and beaten to death with heavy rods.), brush (muliebrity), stain (The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection. - Bertrand Russell), modeling clay (free), glitter (- "Where there is anger there is always pain underneath." – Eckhart Tolle), novelty beads (Draw the Line, Aerosmith).
Word Count: 600
Rating: R
Summary: Danny makes a choice.
Warnings: slavery, brief graphic violence, bullying, background violence, brief references to sexual assault, sexual threats, and sexual activity with an underage person. A lot of very bad shit goes down in this AU, guys: be aware.
Notes: Spartacus AU, yaaaaay. I'd like to take this moment to thank my enablers. You know who you are. Also, "puer" is Latin for "boy." The -a ending is feminine and not properly applied to it. Y'all can take it from there.

( The Chance )

Author: Kat
Title: Do You See It?
Story: In the Heart - Fairy Tale AU
Colors: Bubblegum pink 14 (Time for a Treat), electric purple 8 (Your optimistic eyes/Seem like paradise/To someone like me/I want to take you/In my arms/Forgetting all I couldn't do today (Depeche Mode- Black Celebration)) with shipwreck_light's paint-by-numbers (You can't rely on other people to save you. Sometimes, you're all you have.),
Supplies and Materials: Miniature, canvas (Lars is about five for most of this), yarn (the Big Dipper), brush (transpire), glitter (Moon and the Sky, Jay-Z), eraser (Fairy Tale AU), novelty beads (Well, he's not a panda, but...).
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Summary: It never occured to him to question home.
Warnings: none
Notes: Saw the yarn and Lars spoke up.

( Do You See It? )

Author: Kat
Title: Beautiful
Story: Shine Like It Does
Colors: Dogwood rose 2 (burgundy: unconscious beauty), electric purple 11 (And here in you/My engines die/I'm in a mood for you/Or running away/Stars come down in you/And love - you can't give it away (The Psychedelic Furs- The Ghost in You)) with shipwreck_light's paint by numbers (She wants to dance with [noun of your choice] in the rain and to the sappiest song she knows.)
Supplies and Materials: Miniature.
Word Count: 100
Rating: G.
Summary: Sebastian thinks Charlotte is beautiful.
Warnings: none.
Notes: nope.

( Beautiful )