Rainbow Fiction

Name: A Chapel in the Hospital
Story: Peccadillo Parlour
Colors: The Gold (Shipped) Standard (saturation), Electric Sky #15 (Mercury & Solace), Newsprint #15 (More than once I've wakened with tears down my cheeks. I have had to think whether I was crying or whether it was involuntary like drooling.)
Supplies and Styles: calendar page (National Healthcare Decisions Day), brush (16.4.24 inalienable); miniature collection, plein-air, saturation (the gold (shipped) standard), silhouette, triptych
Word Count: 668
Rating: mature
Warnings: Depression, alcohol abuse, sex talk, drug abuse, smoking, overdose, rehab, rich assholes, unresolved relationship, a parent with trouble remembering her kid's pronouns (but she means well).
Summary: A series of texts and searches on the phones of Henry Sharpe and Phyllida Francis.
Note: Fall Out Boy is sort of on the outskirts of my mind palace but that lyric truly slaps.

Mods, could I have a tag for the color "the gold (shipped) standard"?

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Name: The Tower's Shadow
Story: Uncategorized
Colors: Electric Sky #7 (Gathering Darkness), Newsprint #21 (Some days you wake up and immediately start to worry. Nothing in particular is wrong, it's just the suspicion that forces are aligning quietly and there will be trouble.)
Supplies and Styles: oils (Prompt #1084 on creativepromptsforwriting - There was a flaw in that logic, but they had collectively decided to ignore it.); miniature, panorama
Word Count: 100
Rating: general
Warnings: n/a
Summary: In the heart of the capital stands the great tower.

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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: Live while you're alive!
Story: Peccadillo Parlour
Colors: Newsprint #25 (Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway.) 
Supplies and Styles: modeling clay (This place is obscenely lavish.), seed beads; miniature, postcard, vaudeville
Word Count: 100
Rating: general
Warnings: n/a
Summary: Phyllida's Maltese dog Calliope escapes!

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Name: Tickles!
Story: Lin Moniao Series
Colors: Chocolate-Dipped Strawberry #4 (laugh), Newsprint #20 (With all the holes in you already there's no reason to define the outside environment as alien.) 
Supplies and Styles: pastels (ladiesbingo  prompt "hurt/comfort"), resin; life drawing, mosaic, silhouette, sketch
Word Count: n/a
Rating: general
Warnings: It could be NSFW if your workplace doesn't like pictures of people kissing.
Summary: Black and white drawing of Yi Zifan kissing Heng Wangxue's facial scar.
Note: Drawn for the OC Kiss Week event on Tumblr. Yi Zifan was created by minutia_r , Heng Wangxue was sort of co-created between us.

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Name: Phyl's not so sure about this
Story: Peccadillo Parlour
Colors: Graphite #2 (charcoal), Shocking Pink #2 (frowning), Newsprint #14 (Disgust is the appropriate response to most situations.)
Supplies and Styles: canvas; sketch
Word Count: n/a
Rating: general
Warnings: n/a
Summary: Phyllida Winiger in her early 20s in a soft charcoal pencil sketch.
Note: Back in my comfort zone with this medium. I also switched from FireAlpaca to Corel Painter for this, probably a good idea for the rest of this series.

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Name: I eat a man who thought he loved me
Story: Tanhua the Vampire
Colors: Newsprint #22 (Protect me from what I want.), Psychedelic Purple #20 (a heart that's oh so true) 
Supplies and Styles: calendar page (National Escape Day), glue (Aquarius 29.1.24), pastels (ladiesbingo "Mentors"); chiaroscuro, life drawing, sculpture
Word Count: 1,208
Rating: teen
Warnings: Violence, murder, slavery, reference to forced prostitution and abuse.
Summary: Journal entry: The first meal.

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Name: An hour and thirty five minutes past seven p.m.
Story: Peccadillo Parlour
Colors: Iridium #6 (cutting-edge), Newsprint #8 (The future is stupid.), Psychedelic Purple #24 (now my life has changed in oh so many ways)
Supplies and Styles: feathers (Britannica's On This Day: 1997 - The Age of Aquarius dawned); fingerpainting, postcard
Word Count: 136
Rating: general
Warnings: A poem about being a teenager.
Note: This is a poem by Reuben Tam Sherman, my character. I have never been to a cricket field, which is clearly the most important part of this poem.

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Name: A Tea Shop and a Stage
Story: Lin Moniao Series (AO3 link)
Colors: Iridium #9 (save your pennies), Newsprint #11 (In a dream you saw a way to survive and were full of joy.), Psychedelic Purple #21 (get back to where you once belonged)
Supplies and Styles: gesso, novelty beads (gender), nubs; life drawing
Word Count: 2,750
Rating: teen
Warnings: This one is just a bit of a bummer in general. Gender feels, repression, almost-cheating, mild sexual harassment, old regrets, reference to past parental abuse.
Summary: Shen Shanwei runs into an old crush and rethinks some hard choices made in the past.

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