RainbowFic Questions & Suggestions January 16th

[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

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 on Rainbowlist

On the to-do list:
finish rewarding novelty beads for the 400th List Party
Add Crimson Glory - https://rainbowlounge.dreamwidth.org/165301.html
Add my own bounty of list ideas
Queue some Writer's Salon posts
Fill the Tumblr Queue

Ilthit asked on the Discord about some lists that are aimed more toward art. I have a handful started/brainstormed, but I'd welcome some things you'd like to see in them. The lists I have started include: basic poses, art media (all things that can be fake digitally), bags, costumes, men's accessories, hats, and shoes.

Comments

[silvercat17]

Also, I'm aware that images on Rainbowlist aren't showing or are showing sporadically. We host them an images.squidge.org and Squidge.org is currently down because of weather issues. You can check their status at squidgestatus

[silvercat17]

This is also delaying me posting completion banners for folks and more generic palette completion banners. I'm up-to-date on completion banners! I just can't post them at the moment! (...also they're on the other computer and I'm afk every Tuesday and Wednesday because of work, because there are other places I could post them)

[silvercat17]

Besides the art related lists, my wip lists are:
- the rest of the queer themed for the 8 stripe Pride flag
- a Sappho list (probably Crocus Yellow)
- some more current internet lists (mostly right now I'm trying to pick memes and internet slang)
- some of my favorite media: Thundercats, Silverhawks, and The Shadow
- Time to Orbit: Unknown, especially since the story is starting to wrap up
- comics terms
- materials themed
- theater terms?

[ilthit]

You have so many ideas!

[silvercat17]

It's easier than writing? I was also trying to make lists for some of the themes that only have one

[ilthit]

Oh, do we have a list of iconic D&D spells?

Off the top of my head:

prestidigitation
featherfall
eldritch blast
counterspell
wildshape
detect good and evil
bardic inspiration
healing word
spare the dying
grasping vine

[silvercat17]

oooooo....

[silvercat17]

I think we're required to include magic missile, and I'd include dancing lights and maybe mage hand

[ilthit]

Definitely mage hand!

Other fun ones, if not so iconic:

Tasha's hideous laughter
sanctuary
minor illusion

[bookblather]

Mending, anyone? And Vicious Mockery.

[ilthit]

If you haven't got a color for this one yet, maybe Dragonscale? Which is not a color as such but could be. 👉👈

[silvercat17]

Here's the list I've come up with:

1. bigby's hand
2. charm person
3. speak with dead
4. magic missile
5. disguise self
6. polymorph
7. cure wounds
8. eldritch blast
9. cone of cold
10. mage hand
11. chain lightning
12. time stop
13. feather fall
14. wild shape
15. witch bolt
16. dispel magic
17. detect magic
18. meteor swarm
19. misty step
20. comprehend languages
21. fireball
22. tasha's hideous laughter
23. vicious mockery
24. power word kill
25. raise dead
26. tenser's floating disk
27. dancing lights
28. bardic inspiration
29. prestidigitation
30. prismatic spray

any you want to switch out?
Name ideas: Dragonscale, Dragon's breath, Color Spray, acid splash, darkvision, frostbite, green-flame blade, light, stoneskin, barkskin, sunburst

We could also split the list into two or three

[silvercat17]

Here's a plain list of all Dnd spells https://www.dnd-spells.com/spells

[ilthit]

Color Spray would be an inspired name! Maybe not obvious if you don't know the spell or play D&D why that's the name, but considering this is a color/art themed prompt community...

[silvercat17]

I think we have plenty of names that aren't obvious, so it's fine

[ilthit]

I noticed in the Excel, Chocolate-Dipped Strawberry is listed as pink, brown and multi-color, but on rainbowlists it is also listed as a red.

[silvercat17]

Good catch! Added 'red' to the spreadsheet

My lists that are ready to go up

[silvercat17]

Thundercats (1985) Episode Titles
Color: Eye of Thundera
1. The Unholy Alliance
2. Tower of Traps
3. Garden of Delights
4. The Evil Chaser
5. The Doomgaze
6. Lord of the Snows
7. The Time Capsule
8. The Crystal Queen
9. Sixth Sense
10. The Thunder-Cutter
11. Dimension Doom
12. Mechanical Plague
13. Good and Ugly
14. Dream Master
15. Eye of the Beholder
16. The Shifter
17. Fond Memories
18. Catfight
19. Together We Stand
20. Ravage Island
21. Time Switch
22. Day of the Eclipse
23. Side Swipe
24. Runaways
25. Hair of the Dog
26. The Formula
27. The Wild Workout
28. The Last Day
29. Helpless Laughter
30. Well of Doubt

Silverhawks Episode Titles
Color: Steelheart / Steelwill
1. Save the Sun
2. Operation Big Freeze
3. Fantascreen
4. The Renegade Hero
5. Countdown to Zero
6. The Amber Amplifier
7. The Saviour Stone
8. Smiley
9. Eye of Infinity
10. The Blue Door
11. Junkyard Dog
12. Window in Time
13. The Diamond Stick-Pin
14. The Invisible Destroyer
15. The Harder They Fall

Sappho Quotes
Color: Crocus Yellow

1. You with pattern-woven flowers, immortal Aphrodite, / child of Zeus, weaver of wiles, I implore you, / do not devastate with aches and sorrows, / Mistress, my heart! (Sappho 1, "Prayer to Aphrodite" translated by Gregory Nagy)
2. How can someone not be hurt over and over again, O Queen Kypris [Aphrodite], whenever one loves whatever person and wishes very much not to let go of the passion? [What kind of purpose] do you have [in mind], uncaringly rending me apart in my [desire] as my knees buckle? (Sappho Kypris Song 1–6, translated by Gregory Nagy)
3. "Who is doing you, / Sappho, wrong? / For if she is fleeing now, soon she will give chase. / If she is not / taking gifts, soon she will be giving them. / If she does not love, soon she will love / even against her will.” (Sappho 1, "Prayer to Aphrodite" translated by Gregory Nagy)
4. And I—aware of my own self— I know this. (Sappho Song 26.11-12, translated by Gregory Nagy)
5. Whatever thing he wants in his heart to happen, let that thing be fulfilled. And however many mistakes he made in the past, undo them all. (Sappho Song 5.1–11, translated by Gregory Nagy)
6. Don’t you have the resources for me to be able, Mother, to celebrate at the right season the festival , which is a delight for [us] mortals, creatures of the day that we are? (Sappho Song 9, translated by Gregory Nagy)
7. I tell you / someone will remember us / in the future. (translated by Julia Dubnoff)
8. Now, I shall sing these songs / Beautifully / for my companions. (translated by Julia Dubnoff)
9. The moon is set. And the Pleiades. / It’s the middle of the night. / Time passes. / But I sleep alone. (translated by Julia Dubnoff)
10. But come, dear companions, / For day is near. (translated by Julia Dubnoff)
11. I desire / And I crave. (translated by Julia Dubnoff)
12. Listening to your sweet voice and exquisite laughter / That makes my heart so wildly beat in my breast. / If I but see you for a moment, then all my words / Leave me, my tongue is broken and a sudden fire / Creeps through my blood. No longer can I see. (Sappho 31, translated by Edward Storer)
13. When she left, she wept / a great deal; she said to me, “This parting must be / endured, Sappho. I go unwillingly.” (translated by Mary Barnard)
14. On soft beds you satisfied your passion. / And there was no dance, / no holy place / from which we were absent. (translated by Julia Dubnoff)
15. As a wind in the mountains / assaults an oak, / Love shook my breast. (translated by Julia Dubnoff)

Art Media
Color: Graphite
1. watercolor
2. charcoal
3. collage
4. silhouette
5. pastels
6. colored pencil
7. crayon
8. pen & ink
9. scratchboard
10. sumi-e
11. pencil
12. ink wash
13. markers
14. abstract
15. scrapbook

Some more

[silvercat17]

Queer Places
Color: Nature & Prosperity or Queer Nature (I'm open to ideas)

1. book store
2. farmers market
3. nightclub
4. bar
5. hardware store
6. park
7. game night
8. coffee shop
9. gym
10. everywhere
11. online
12. cafe
13. bathhouse
14. autoshop
15. theater
16. co-op
17. salon
18. drag show
19. kink club
20. munch

Theme: rite of passage
Color Name: ???
1. vote
2. marry
3. drivers license
4. alcohol
5. sweet sixteen
6. quinceañera
7. b'nai mitzvah
8. coming of age day (Japan)
9. puberty
10. baptism
11. moving out
12. débutante ball
13. ride a bike
14. toilet trained
15. first tooth
16. run an errand on one's own
17. first date
18. rumspringa
19. retired
20. graduation
21. learn to drive
22. shichi-go-san (Japan)
23. first job
24. walkabout (Australia)
25. hajj

Re: Some more

[bookblather]

These look awesome! For the coming of age color name, what about champagne (hex code #F7E7CE) or new car (#214FC6)?

Re: Some more

[silvercat17]

Ooo, both of those are good ideas. I had picked Quercitron just more or less at random (it reminded me of quinceañera), but I may switch it

Re: Some more

[bookblather]

I tell ya I had to check the list twice because I couldn't believe we didn't have champagne already. But we don't, so it's there.

[silvercat17]

All the generic palette banners are up!

[ilthit]

Suggestions for new supplies:
Parchment - Create something new for a storyverse or character you haven't touched in (1-5?) years.
Dice - Write a story using scenes that are all 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, or 100 words long, in any combination of wordcounts, or a poem where every line has one of those exact wordcounts.

Suggestion for a new style:
Cartography - Create a work that contains scenes in at least five different locations:

And that would pave way for this accomplishment suggestion:

Dungeonmaster

1 (Classic DnD spells color, previously discussed here)

1 Any Mythology and Folklore themed color

1 Cartography

3 Interactive Arts

1 Parchments

1 Mural

20 Dice

[silvercat17]

I like it! I might increase the requirement to 2 or 3 cartography.

[ilthit]

For the accomplishment? Makes sense! Unless it's an actual dungeon crawl, there probably is more than one location (I also thought of it this way: 3 interactive arts, because you ideally want 3 PCs...)