RainbowFic Questions & Suggestions July 23-29th

[silvercat17]

This is the place for any questions or suggestions you have for rainbowfic , rainbowlists , and rainbowlounge . This includes 'how does this work?', 'does this supply or style count for this?' and 'what are the limits on this?'

There are a good amount of things that have fuzzy limits or definitions and that's okay. You're allowed to use your judgement of how to use a list, supply, style, etc. But I also want to acknowledge that not everyone is comfortable with ambiguity and that some people need more concrete answers. So this is where to get those (and then it'll be added to the appropriate page). But there are no tag/prompt/writing police here (I don't have energy for that shit)

Anyone can answer (please, if you've been here longer, jump in and help). Please take time to check what the different rainbowlists pages say because they might have the answer, but don't be afraid to ask something that seems obvious: it may be that I need to clarify a description or q&a. Checking the tags on rainbowfic to see how something has been used is also a good way to get answers, or at least precedent.

I'll check these posts at least once a week and I'll be using these as a resource to find things that need to be added or improved in the q&as.

So ask away

I'll probably be slightly less available this week because I've got a ton of stuff to do for another project.

Comments

[finch]

Oh that reminds me to remind you that it'd be nice to have the names of the supplies and styles as text so they're searchable.

[silvercat17]

Done. It's in the same color as the background, and I included homonyms for a few things because spelling is hard

[finch]

Thank you!

[rainbowmods]

note to self: need to find a new source for beading wire (daily image)

[wallwalker]

Looked around a bit. Do any of these help?

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/iotd.html
https://www.natgeotv.com/ca/photo-of-the-day
https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/ten-best-photographs-of-the-day

[silvercat17]

I think we use the NASA and Guardian one already. I'll find something, I just didn't have the energy yet

[bookblather]

We do already use NASA and the Guardian, and here are a few possibilities:

Daily Writing Prompts
Writer's Digest
Instagram Daily Prompts

I'm fine with any of these.

[silvercat17]

It was an image prompt and I'd like to keep it that way.

https://www.reuters.com/news/pictures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day
https://www.natgeotv.com/ca/photo-of-the-day
https://www.vogue.com/photovogue/photos/pic-of-the-day

[silvercat17]

Replaced Beading Wire broken link with PhotoVogue Best - https://www.vogue.com/photovogue/photos/best

[ilthit]

I am sure this has been extensively discussed, but would a story about original characters from a TTRPG setting count as mosaic? An original Forgotten Realms -verse tiefling, for example?

What about featuring OCs alongside canon characters from TTRPG sourcebooks? I am playing a TTRPG set in a wuxia-inspired world which comes with NPCs with statblocks and short descriptions, so that's what I am thinking of. If I wrote a story about Mu Liqiang (original character), disciple of the Illustrious Qilin Villa Sect (described in the sourcebook), interacting with Master Wu (NPC from the sourcebook), is that too much of a fanwork?

[silvercat17]

Yes, a ttrpg setting could be a mosaic, or, in my opinion, could be a collage: mosaic would be a crossover, collage would be using the TTRPG sources.

IMO, that would be fine, but it may be best to wait for bookblather 's opinion as she has more experience.

[silvercat17]

or since she's not on terribly often, you could dm her

[silvercat17]

I'd like to clarify the amount of fan material is okay for a crossover with some examples because 'AU or minor aspect of the main canon' is vague. So people who have been here a long time: what do you consider acceptable or unacceptable?

[silvercat17]

I'd also like to make a slight modification to collage - that using public domain or open-source settings, items, and characters also falls under collage.

This would have to be minor uses of characters - just because Dracula is public domain, doesn't mean you can write a story starring Mina, Van Helsing, and Jonathan Harker. But you could do something like Roger Rabbit or Wreck-it Ralph (I think - I haven't seen it) and have a bunch of characters show up.

The possible exception would be open-source characters, like Jenny Everywhere, which aren't owned by anyone and never were.

Some relevant links:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Website/TheFreeUniverse
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PublicDomainCharacter - especially Other public domain characters in media Web Original
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PublicDomainCanonWelding

What are people's thoughts? Would this be welcome or too confusing?

[himejoshiheart]

It's welcome to me!

what supply does this and posts like it count as?

[himejoshiheart]

link here

Re: what supply does this and posts like it count as?

[silvercat17]

I would count that as palette knife. Qualifications: updates regularly, community designed to prompt fan content

Re: what supply does this and posts like it count as?

[silvercat17]

And I added a comment to that effect in the comment section of supplies, under where I listed other DW communities

Re: what supply does this and posts like it count as?

[himejoshiheart]

BALLIN

<- baby's first palette knife getting posted... eventually