Rainbowfic

Promoting the Rainbowfic dreamwidth community and otherwise offering writing (or otherwise) prompts. Sideblog of WingedTyger (aka silvercat17, a mod on Rainbowfic)

[rainbowfic]

What's all this then?

RainbowFic is a community on Dreamwidth meant to encourage original fiction (and related art, crafts, etc) using prompt lists and other challenges. Our theme is colors as the names of our prompt lists, and we have over 400 lists at Rainbowlists, along with 'supplies' and 'styles' for further inspiration.

We also have the RainbowLounge as a place to chat, post games and other challenges, and to ask questions. And we have an A03 collection and a discord, which are linked there.

We'll be posting random lists, supplies, and styles here for you to use, as well as reblogging prompts and inspiration. (We'd prefer if you joined RainbowFic and posted there, but Tumblr is a free website - if you want to use them for fanfic, for original fic only posted here, or for something not at all related to fiction, that's your right)

If you have a post you want to share, whether a prompt fill or something to use as a prompt, tag us

Original prompts are randomly numbered (sometimes in hexadecimal) because I shuffle the queue to keep a nice mix.

I try to keep the posts tagged with the supply or style they'll fill (although I don't manage to do it for all reblogs):

modeling clay for image prompts or prompts of 1-5 words

oil for prompts of 5 words to a sentence

palette knife for long prompts

resin for challenges and events with a deadline or end date

pastels for prompt lists and bingo cards made for things other than RainbowFic

gift wrap for prompts about a holiday, birthday, anniversary, or other celebration (also for things that were made as gifts)

tempera for inspiration from tarot, oracle cards, runes, I Ching, or other divination methods

[promptsforthestrugglingauthor]

Writing Prompt #4030

He stumbled into the room, cheeks smudged with smoke, hair singed. "Sorry I'm late!"

[luna-azzurra]

Random Character Traits!!! Part 4

⟡ Has never had a normal trip to the grocery store in their entire life

⟡ Sits down in a public place and something unusual happens within five minutes

⟡ Gets approached by strangers with problems in every city they have ever visited

⟡ Is present for more bizarre coincidences than statistics can comfortably explain

⟡ Attracts animals that are supposedly afraid of people

⟡ Has a story about every object in their possession because every object has a story

⟡ Goes somewhere simple and comes back with an anecdote that takes fifteen minutes to tell

⟡ Gets involved in other people's situations without trying simply by being in the vicinity

⟡ Has been in the right place at the wrong time and the wrong place at the right time an equal number of times

⟡ Encounters the one person they were thinking about in any given city at any given moment

⟡ Has had things happen to them that other people experience only as urban legends

⟡ Gets the one broken seat, the one late order, and the one unusual neighbor every time

⟡ Is the reason a group of people have a story they still tell ten years later

[thoughtkick]

“The moral of the story is never have feelings for anybody ever.”

— Unknown

[dailytextprompt]

20.5.26

Blooming garden

[apoemaday]

Bashō in Ireland

by Billy Collins

I am like the Japanese poet who longed to be in Kyoto even though he was already in Kyoto.

I am not exactly like him because I am not Japanese and I have no idea what Kyoto is like.

But once, while walking around the Irish town of Ballyvaughan I caught myself longing to be in Ballyvaughan.

The sensation of being homesick for a place that is not my home while being right in the middle of it

was particularly strong when I passed the hotel bar then the fluorescent depth of a launderette,

also when I stood at the crossroads with the road signs pointing in 3 directions and the enormous buses making the turn.

It might have had something to do with the nearby limestone hills and the rain collecting on my collar,

but then again I have longed to be with a number of people while the two of us were sitting in a room

on an ordinary evening without a limestone hill in sight, thousands of miles from Kyoto

and the simple wonders of Ballyvaughan, which reminds me of another Japanese poet

who wrote how much he enjoyed not being able to see his favorite mountain because of all the fog.

[maria-slice]

🌼🌸Outfit of the May🌸🌼

Hey!! Want to do an art challenge this May but getting tired of Mermay? Never fear, I gotcha!

Introducing: Outfit of the May

Rules are simple: Create an outfit everyday for your OC’s or favorite characters. You can do a different character each day or the same throughout the entire month. Or create a character based off the prompts! You’re allowed to fuse prompts together. Have fun!

[catsofyore]

The back of this one says “Shy’s and Donna’s familys [sic]. Summer 1951”

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[engulfes]

F. Douglas Brown

[scribeherself]

I want hands stained with garden soil and ink from fountain pens that leak and a desk by the window where the light falls just right for writing and someone who knows my silences aren’t rejections but invitations—

[figdays]

Red pomegranate clock // RetroStyleCeramics

[publicdomainreview]

“Leaving the Opera in the Year 2000”, a circa 1902 illustration by French illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, novelist, and all around futurologist, Albert Robida.

More on the print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/leaving-the-opera-in-the-year-2000 Print from our shop here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/leaving-the-opera-in-the-year-2000

[thoughtkick]

“Beware of destination addiction: The idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job, or even with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are.”

— Unknown

[sculpturegallery]

Tim Noble & Sue Webster