Rainbow Fiction

Name: The Grim Collector
Story: Lin Moniao Series (AO3 link)
Colors: Electric Sky #23 (The Light of Things)
Supplies and Styles: gesso; cartography, chiaroscuro, interactive art, life drawing, mural
Word Count: 21K
Rating: mature
Warnings: Graphic depictions of medical procedures, poison, talk of murder, unequal background relationship, danger.
Summary: Yi Zifan has been drawn against her will into court intrigue, and her choices here may have long-ranging ramifications.
Note: Co-written with minutia_r . Also available with illustrations on AO3 here.

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Name: Card: Springtime Romance
Story: Ilthit Games (Alpha-Beta-Omega the Card Game)
Colors: Electric Sky #13 (The Road to Lostwithiel)
Supplies and Styles: illustration, silhouette
Word Count: n/a
Rating: general
Warnings: n/a
Summary: Card design showing a silhouette of two young men kissing, with decorative hearts and flowers; monochrome in pale blue, with other shades in the card frame.

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Name: Zhu Chen's Gentleman Caller
Story: Lin Moniao Series (AO3 link)
Colors: Electric Sky #27 (Dreaming), Vienna Orange #3 (It's not regret, just an unexpected accounting of debts) 
Supplies and Styles: gesso, nubs, seed beads; interactive art, silhouette
Word Count: 3,564
Rating: general
Warnings: Allusion to past sexual slavery, lies.
Summary: Zhu Chen receives the suggestion of a possibility of an engagement. This scene takes place during The White Cloud Technique, soon after Lin Moniao leaves Kaifeng.
Note: Co-written with minutia_r. Also available in full and with an illustration on AO3 here (specific chapter link). This kind of starts an adventure that has not been published, so apologies for the thread that unravels into nothing there.

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Name: Calliope Forman sketch
Story: Uncategorized
Colors: Electric Sky #3 (Memories In A Sea of Forgetfulness)
Supplies and Styles: gesso; sketch
Word Count: n/a
Rating: general
Warnings: n/a
Summary: A sketch of Calliope Forman.

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Name: Mid-Autumn Festival - Part 3
Story: Lin Moniao Series (AO3 link)
Colors: Electric Sky #8 (Dark Heart Dawning)
Supplies and Styles: gesso; chiaroscuro, interactive art, life drawing, mural
Word Count: 16K
Rating: explicit (this part)
Warnings: Dual cultivation, mental break (willing), blackmail, results of torture, abuse and slavery, allusions to child abuse, graphic deadly violence committed by protagonist. In the next part: Suicide, poison, murder, betrayal.
Summary: The Illustrious Qilin Villa pursues its grudge to a deadly conclusion.
Note: Co-written with minutia_r . Also available in full and with illustrations on AO3 here. This part includes chapters 8 and 9 (differently numbered on AO3). Chonky chapters.

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Name: Mid-Autumn Festival - Part 1
Story: Lin Moniao Series (AO3 link)
Colors: Electric Sky #21 (Moment of Truth)
Supplies and Styles: gesso; interactive art, life drawing, mural, silhouette
Word Count: 21K
Rating: teen (this part)
Warnings: Breakups, teacher-student relationship, messy polyamory, mind control, graphic violence, mention of abuse and slavery. In future parts: Murder, poison, body horror, allusions to child abuse, suicide, blackmail, betrayal.
Summary: The Illustrious Qilin Villa Sect, along with a number of other Jianghu sects, has been invited to the emperor's banquet for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Before then, they have a grudge to pursue with a corrupt bureaucrat.
Note: Co-written with minutia_r. Also available in full and with illustrations on AO3 here.This one is CHONKY, 83K in all, so I've divided it into four parts for Rainbowfic (the whole thing would be way beyond Dreamwidth post wordcount). This part includes chapters 1-4. ...The warnings for this one went so hard that I should also mention it contains romance, friendship, bravery, and just vengeance.

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Name: Frown (sketch)
Story: Peccadillo Parlour
Colors: Graphite #10 (sumi-e), Shocking Pink #10 (furrowed brows)
Supplies and Styles: sketch
Word Count: n/a
Rating: general
Warnings: n/a
Summary: Phyl again.

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Name: Wide Eyes (ART)
Story: Peccadillo Parlour
Colors: Graphite #9 (scratchboard), Shocking Pink #9 (wide eyes)
Supplies and Styles: illustration
Word Count: n/a
Rating: general
Warnings: n/a
Summary: Not sure if I understood the assignment but anyway here's Phyl again.

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Name: All Around, Sound
Story: Lin Moniao Series (AO3 link)
Colors: Electric Sky #24 (Surrounded), Vienna Orange #13 (I haven't come to say I'm sorry, but I swear I'm on your side)
Supplies and Styles: gesso, nubs, seed beads, watercolors (4.17.24. "Write a scene that focuses on your character's minute observations as they attempt to overcome something debilitating.")
Word Count: 504
Rating: teen
Warnings: Fog of background abuse, sensory overload.
Summary: Xiao Erha guards the door; Xiao Mao corrects his posture.
Note: This scene is taking place off-screen from another scene that was also played off-screen sometime during the events of Chasing the Bat, between characters who will be introduced in Mid-Autumn Festival.

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