Rainbow Fiction

Name: Zhu Chen's Gentleman Caller
Story: Lin Moniao Series (AO3 link)
Colors: Electric Sky #27 (Dreaming), Vienna Orange #3 (It's not regret, just an unexpected accounting of debts) 
Supplies and Styles: gesso, nubs, seed beads; interactive art, silhouette
Word Count: 3,564
Rating: general
Warnings: Allusion to past sexual slavery, lies.
Summary: Zhu Chen receives the suggestion of a possibility of an engagement. This scene takes place during The White Cloud Technique, soon after Lin Moniao leaves Kaifeng.
Note: Co-written with minutia_r. Also available in full and with an illustration on AO3 here (specific chapter link). This kind of starts an adventure that has not been published, so apologies for the thread that unravels into nothing there.

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Name: Mid-Autumn Festival - Part 3
Story: Lin Moniao Series (AO3 link)
Colors: Electric Sky #8 (Dark Heart Dawning)
Supplies and Styles: gesso; chiaroscuro, interactive art, life drawing, mural
Word Count: 16K
Rating: explicit (this part)
Warnings: Dual cultivation, mental break (willing), blackmail, results of torture, abuse and slavery, allusions to child abuse, graphic deadly violence committed by protagonist. In the next part: Suicide, poison, murder, betrayal.
Summary: The Illustrious Qilin Villa pursues its grudge to a deadly conclusion.
Note: Co-written with minutia_r . Also available in full and with illustrations on AO3 here. This part includes chapters 8 and 9 (differently numbered on AO3). Chonky chapters.

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Name: Mid-Autumn Festival - Part 1
Story: Lin Moniao Series (AO3 link)
Colors: Electric Sky #21 (Moment of Truth)
Supplies and Styles: gesso; interactive art, life drawing, mural, silhouette
Word Count: 21K
Rating: teen (this part)
Warnings: Breakups, teacher-student relationship, messy polyamory, mind control, graphic violence, mention of abuse and slavery. In future parts: Murder, poison, body horror, allusions to child abuse, suicide, blackmail, betrayal.
Summary: The Illustrious Qilin Villa Sect, along with a number of other Jianghu sects, has been invited to the emperor's banquet for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Before then, they have a grudge to pursue with a corrupt bureaucrat.
Note: Co-written with minutia_r. Also available in full and with illustrations on AO3 here.This one is CHONKY, 83K in all, so I've divided it into four parts for Rainbowfic (the whole thing would be way beyond Dreamwidth post wordcount). This part includes chapters 1-4. ...The warnings for this one went so hard that I should also mention it contains romance, friendship, bravery, and just vengeance.

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Name: All Around, Sound
Story: Lin Moniao Series (AO3 link)
Colors: Electric Sky #24 (Surrounded), Vienna Orange #13 (I haven't come to say I'm sorry, but I swear I'm on your side)
Supplies and Styles: gesso, nubs, seed beads, watercolors (4.17.24. "Write a scene that focuses on your character's minute observations as they attempt to overcome something debilitating.")
Word Count: 504
Rating: teen
Warnings: Fog of background abuse, sensory overload.
Summary: Xiao Erha guards the door; Xiao Mao corrects his posture.
Note: This scene is taking place off-screen from another scene that was also played off-screen sometime during the events of Chasing the Bat, between characters who will be introduced in Mid-Autumn Festival.

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Name: Leave-taking
Story: Lin Moniao Series (AO3 link)
Colors: Electric Sky #18 (Embracing the Future)
Supplies and Styles: gesso, nubs; interactive art, life drawing, silhouette
Word Count: 2,358
Rating: teen
Warnings: Reference to murder, messy polyamory, reference to sex.
Summary: Shen Shanwei must sneak out of the capital unseen; luckily, he has sneaky allies.
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). Back to being a silhouette due to Shen Shanwei's back-and-forthing. Last one today, promise.

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Name: The Goat House Murders
Story: Lin Moniao Series (AO3 link)
Colors: Electric Sky #11 (Stem The Tides)
Supplies and Styles: gesso, nubs; chiaroscuro, interactive art
Word Count: 700
Rating: mature
Warnings: Rated for violence; serial murder, assassination.
Summary: Shi Jia recounts what happened at the Goat House.
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).

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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 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: Do it properly, you--!
Story: Lin Moniao Series
Colors: Psychedelic Purple #4 (can I take my friend to bed?)
Supplies and Styles: 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 Shen Shanwei kissing Lin Moniao, in a scene from "The White Cloud Technique".
Note: Drawn for the OC Kiss Week event on Tumblr and posted here late because I was on vacation that week (it was queued on Tumblr). Went with "sketch" instead of "illustration" because there is a universe where I might put shading on this and consider it finished (might even be this one). And it is "mosaic" because Lin Moniao himself is minutia_r 's creation (it is a co-written series).

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