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silvercat17 ([personal profile] silvercat17) wrote in [community profile] rainbowlounge2025-01-19 06:57 pm
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Questions & Suggestions January & February

This is the place for any questions or suggestions you have for [community profile] rainbowfic , [community profile] rainbowlists , and [community profile] 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 [community profile] 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 [community profile] rainbowfic to see how something has been used is also a good way to get answers, or at least precedent.

I'll be using these as a resource to find things that need to be added or improved in the q&as on Rainbowlist
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[personal profile] dray 2025-01-21 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
I've been thinking of moving my pile of ficlets over to AO3, and adding them to the rainbowfic collection. However, I'm not super versed in AO3. Any recommendations for making the port easy? (Like, best practices for keeping same universe stories in a readable order... tagging things correctly over there, etc?)

It's also been a dog's age since I've written for RF so I'm catching up on the stories I have started, and what prompts are left to fulfill for certain colours. I'm curious where you stash your awards once you've finished a colour or a larger challenge? (This is a general question for folks who are still active!) I'm thinking of how I want to show off my progress, and I could use inspiration ;)
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[personal profile] thisbluespirit 2025-01-21 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I've not actually imported from Dreamwidth to AO3 as such - I usually want to go over the original stuff, so I've repotsed individually when I have, so can't comment on technical details.

But for keeping each universe in order, you could make a series for each universe and add the pieces to that as individual works. (Or you could make each/parts of one giant work with the chapters as the individual pieces if that seemed more natural.)

Tagging is always up to each individual. Useful things to think about if you want to have some additional tags are genre, tropes featured, anything people might often warn for.

I've put my banners on my colours masterpost I have: https://starfall-stories.dreamwidth.org/24055.html

But your Dreamwidth profile (or the profile of a personal fic comm you might post the pieces to) is pretty traditional, too!

ETA: I posted my (mostly Runaway Tales) pieces to AO3 using both the series and multi-chaptered format here, if it helps: https://archiveofourown.org/series/1297574

(I put the whole 'verse as one series, but then did the two separate arcs of it as individual stories with the pieces as chapters, plus a third for more miscellaneous but connected pieces. But I did it that way because I do use AO3 a lot for fanfic, so I didn't want to swamp the account with origfic.)
Edited 2025-01-21 20:41 (UTC)
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[personal profile] dray 2025-06-02 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
That is handy! Are they a pinned post on the discord maybe?
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[personal profile] himejoshiheart 2025-01-30 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
challenge for feb? (so that i can get graffiti for my Masterpiece Fic)
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[personal profile] himejoshiheart 2025-01-31 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
yayyyyyy!!!!!

also wavey (beloaf) has agreed to (maybe) draw stuff for it lol
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[personal profile] himejoshiheart 2025-02-01 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
the femslash bar has returned! i assume you've seen the fandomcalender post lol
i assume it counts as resin + pastels?
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[personal profile] himejoshiheart 2025-02-02 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
yayyyy! luckily i have Just One Color Slot left for the salad bar
when i post fills for the event ill link to the rf post. free promo!
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[personal profile] himejoshiheart 2025-02-07 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
does it count for supply credit if you write to a prompt but your piece doesnt fit the requirements set by that prompt? i assume for resin n pastels no but what about knife, oils, and clay?

i want to use the current [community profile] femslashfete prompt 'eternal' in one of my rainbowfic salad fills, but that comm doesn't allow orgfic...

(unrelated but i lowkey want to do a bichrome via salad... why must i do these things to myself...)
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[personal profile] himejoshiheart 2025-02-08 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
yay!
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[personal profile] himejoshiheart 2025-02-17 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
since i Gave Up on using the soppy monthly for resin, and since there isnt even a proper soppy monthly anyways...

does the allbingo Valentine's fest count for resin or do i not have to finish this thing before march
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[personal profile] himejoshiheart 2025-02-17 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
huh, i get it both ways- that's pretty neat!