RainbowFic Questions & Suggestions August 5th - 13th

[silvercat17]

(dates are approximate)

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.

Edit relevant to discussion at hand:

- Mosaic current definition: A piece that is a crossover between canons; you may write a crossover with a media source, but this may not be your canon - it must either be AU or a very minor aspect of the main canon, since we're not a fanfic comm

- Collage current definition: Borrow another person's canon; be sure to ask first!

Neither have any q&as or comments related to them that I'm finding. Somebody could go through the tags to see what people have done, but that'd be a serious time commitment

Comments

Re: Collage modification?

[ilthit]

Yes I know this is about collage but the conversation overlaps with the one about mosaic above. Because a story about my original character with the Dracula cast on the background would be a crossover with Dracula and fall under mosaic - if mosaic allows characters from the media source, and not just the setting. It wouldn't need to be added to collage as an option. I mean, it could, but then the same fic would be both mosaic and collage for the same reason.

Re: Collage modification?

[thisbluespirit]

True! That was why I was confused, because I agree - it seems much more appropriate to Mosaic. (And... hasn't someone already written one with Darth Vader in it or something anyway?? XD)