Summer Carnival

[rainbowmods]

First of all, I'd like to take a moment to welcome finch as our newest mod. He'll be helping us keep things neat and tidy around here, starting with his fabulous suggestion of the ! Needs Tags tag. So, when you're posting to rainbowfic, feel free to use that if your author, color or story tag is not available. This should result in faster service.

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Currently, there's one week left for Light the Flamethrower and the Les XX art movement. There will be amnesty time from the 22nd to the 1st of July, followed by a new art movement personal challenge. In the meantime, we know what you've all been waiting for...




Duck Pond / Bonus Colors, Materials & Such

Colors: Rainbow, Aurora, Prism, Chromophilia, Pepsi Cola, Folly, Fake Blood Red, Neon, Skyblue Pink with Striped Polka Dots, White Opal, Fire Opal, Blue Opal: 5 tickets per color completed during the festivities; you do not have to have started the color after the challenge starts.

Roy G. Biv or Happy Hour palette: 7 tickets per palette completed during the festivities; you do not have to have started the palette after the challenge starts.

Fingerpainting or Retouch: 1 ticket per 1,000 words of either/or.

Novelty Beads or Glitter: 1 ticket per use.

-Posting a story of at least 2,500 words with a carnival in it: 3 tickets for the first 2,500 words shared, 1 ticket for each 1,000 after.

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Water Gun Gallery / Limited Time Color:

Dragon Scale Green, due by July 11 ~ 10 tickets in addition to your novelty beads. What a deal!

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Milk Bottle / Limited Time Color:

1- Fireworks
2- Ferris wheel
3- Magic lantern
4- Cotton candy
5- Goldfish pond
6- Tilt-A-Whirl
7- Side show
8- Fire eater
9- Fortune teller
10- Dark ride
11- Hall of mirrors
12- Stand the Bottle
13- Drop tower
14- Ring toss
15- Peep show
16- Tractor pull
17- Funhouse
18- Daredevil
19- Face Paint
20- Calliope

Due by the end of festivities: ~ 20 tickets.

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Main Stage / Lilith Fair: TBA. See here for the general workings.

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After Hours Drive In / Summer Blockbuster:

BY POPULAR DEMAND! Do a mosaic of at least 2,500 words using your favorite action-oriented media source as the second cannon.

Complete by the deadline for 3 tickets. Bonus ticket if your media source is not /Pacific Rim/ or if it features dinosaurs (SWL apologizes for the sudden dinosaur feature, but she is disappointed in certain theatrical blockbusters of the season).

PLUS, you get another ticket for any subsequent installments using the same second cannon posted during the event period.

IT IS SUMMER WHO CARES IF YOU ADVANCE YOUR PLOT? GO BLOW SOME STUFF UP.

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Duck Gallery / Dead Time Prompts: July 30 – August 3

-Dead-Time meaning no more than one hour can be spent on any stories produced (it's like flash fiction).

-And you must use a prompt before pulling a new one, although you can mulligan if nothing comes to you in a day.

-Stories to run in the comm at 1 ticket per. But, you can pull as many as you want through the event. Hurray!

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Dunk Tank / New Game:

Works like this...
1) Get together with another author
2) Yell "I WONDER WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IN STORY Y IF Z HAS HAPPENED INSTEAD OF X" at each other.
3) SWAP UNIVERSES. MAKE IT HAPPEN.
4) You must each post in order to acquire tickets. All erasers, reimaginings, mosaics and otherwise are still applicable.
5) You each get 3 tickets.

Humor and socializing very much encouraged for this game. Don't be shy. It's only water :D.

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Kissing Booth / Special Challenge:

Get a card from seasonofkink and achieve bingo it by 23 September for 20 tickets.

> Clarification: this is probably the only time you'll get credit for fanfiction here. Come ticket counting time, you'll have a chance to link to your seasonofkink bingo announcement post.

We cannot award you bingo for original fic posted here, even if you do happen to use prompts from a card that you got from seasonofkink (being as kink bingo is down), but if you were to post such a story here, I bet there's a ticket or two in that for you (IE two tickets per story and you don't actually get to yell bingo at anyone. It's much more time-effective to work at a bingo PLUS YELLING).

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Ring The Bell / Other Special Challenge:

Hey, did you know that the 20 July issue of Shousetsu Bang*Bang is general queer AND circus-themed?

From their website...
JULY 20: CIRCUS MAXIMUS (YES, AND SPECIAL)
text deadline: Tuesday, July 14
art deadline: Saturday, July 18
It's the greatest show on Earth! And there's a sucker born every minute.

Since it falls within the fair games at large, you may also submit to the Out of this World issue out 24 August.

30 tickets for a story in SB2 this season. The mods would appreciate you submitting under a name similar to that which you use here, but this is not required.

* Questions on this particular special challenge may be forwarded to non-mod individuals (with your permission, of course).

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Whack-a-Mole / RP: tentatively the weekend of August 22, set at a carnival the purposes of shenanigans.

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Ticket Counter:

Most tickets: Squishable of your choice & goofy title
Second place: mini Squishable of your choice
Third place: micro Squishable of your choice



14 June - 23 September

> We also have four new colors live at rainbowlists with more on the way, including a Steven Universe color!

Comments

[justice_turtle]

*requests seasonofkink card* *fidgets like hell waiting for it to appear* :P

Also, didn't Pip have roller skates in one of the previous RPs? I need to know because of reasons. :-)

[shipwreck_light]

YES GO YOU!

She did indeed. And it's funny you should mention that because possibly her Dragon Scale story involves roller skates...