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🌈Rainbow Rush 2025🌈

Welcome to Rainbow Rush 2025!!!🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

This is a little fan event that I’ve put together to help bring a little joy, community, and creativity into the world for Pride Month. I hope you join in on the fun and enjoy yourselves!

(June 1st - June 30th)

What is Rainbow Rush?

I’m glad you asked! It’s a fan event done by me to just bring a lot of good feelings, and hopefully good times to people this Pride Month, through the act of small (or big, if you’d like) creative creations! Think “no pressure creative exercises centered around Pride Month!”

Essentially my goal is to allow people to create – with small projects being the minimum (drabble, small doodles/sketches, etc.) – something quick and fun for the month of June: Pride month!

What kind of creative works are allowed?

Anything and everything! Writing, art, digital art (think gif making as an example), crafts, music, etc! It just has to fit within the boundaries of the prompt(s), SFW and NSFW are both welcomed (so think fluff vs smut), and no AI is allowed under any circumstances.

What are the rules?

The rules are very simple:

For writing, a 500 word (drabble) minimum requirement.

For art, basically think what can take you probably up to no more than an hour (so think something done during a lunch break or before bed.) Doodles, stick figure drawings, small little things that don’t have to be fully fleshed out and perfect.

One big reason I wanted to put this together was to give people something to do as a somewhat fun creative activity, that can also be exercises that don’t need to be completed or perfect. You can and absolutely may go for larger projects or do more than what’s listed, but you also absolutely don’t have to.

Do I have to do every prompt provided?

Absolutely not! Feel free to skip around or do whichever you’d like! One, all, or some! I tried to keep it pretty simple, but I know some prompts aren’t for everyone, and that’s ok! Again, I want this to be fun and creative! Don’t worry about not doing them all.

Wait, there’s multiple prompts listed on one day, do I have to do every single one?

Nope! I put many together because they either fit under the same umbrella, or I wanted to include them and didn’t have the extra space. I wanted to include as many as I could to give everyone a seat at the table, so to speak, as well as offering as much choice as possible. You don’t have to do every single one (but you can if you’d like!)

Is Rainbow Rush open to any fandom, character, and/or ship?

You betcha! Feel free to create for any fandom, character, ship, etc., that you’d like! Crossovers are also welcomed!

Can I skip around prompts? What if I miss a day and still want to do that prompt?

Excellent question! You are absolutely allowed to do things out of order, and if you miss a day, feel free to go back and do it anyways!

What if I’d like to do several for one prompt? And what is “free day” all about?

You may absolutely do as many for each prompt as you’d like! Create to your heart’s content! And “free day” is for whatever prompt you’d like that still connects back to Pride. I know I didn’t fit every single thing in, and I don’t want people to feel excluded, so that’s your day to create something for whatever you’d like and that I missed! Again, just please have it connect back to Pride in some form or another.

What if I’d like to post my work somewhere else besides here?

I currently only have this up on tumblr, but feel free to post your creations wherever you’d like! Go and be free! It’d be wonderful if you could still share this event in some form or fashion, but you’re also not obligated to.

What are the prompts?

So very glad you asked! The prompts for the 30 days are

Rainbow

Lesbian/Sapphic/WLW

Gay/Queer Awakening

Ace spec/Aro Spec

First Crush

“You wanna get outta here?”

First Love

Trans/Transgender

Questioning

First Time

“I need to tell you something.”

Bisexual/Pansexual

Parade/Club

“It’s not too late.”

Joy/Happiness

Polyamorous

“It just feels right.”

Labels/Identity

“I think I’m/I might be-“

Community/Friends/Family

Nonbinary/Genderfluid/Genderqueer

Pronouns

“I was scared to tell you.”

Love (of any and all kind)

MLM/Gay Men/Queer Men

“I’m happy with who I am.”

Free Day!

Butch/Bear/Femme/Etc.

“I/We saw you from across the bar and-“

Red/Pink/Orange/Yellow/Etc. (colors of the rainbow)

I tried to keep the prompts vague on purpose to allow for more creative freedom and interpretations. Feel free to create with them as you’d like!

If you’d like to join and do create anything, please use the tag Rainbow Rush 2025, so everyone can see it, as well so it can be easily shared!

I truly do hope everyone will have a fun and creative time with this event! Feel free to ask me any questions, if you have them or I missed something, and enjoy the Rainbow Rush!!!🌈

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Tl;dr how you can personally make Neil Gaiman lose money (and not be a jerk to others.)

I see a lot of folks upset that NG will financially benefit from residuals and other compensation surrounding his involvement in the adaptation of Sandman and Good Omens (and he will.) But the answer isn’t “rage at the fans who are so emotionally attached to their blorbos because they grieve differently, and then somehow NG will be financially punished.” That’s lower-class/middle-class thinking. NG is too rich and financially diversified to really be hurt by little boycott or a couple of show cancellations (though said cancellations can cause life-changing poverty to the little guys who signed contracts and turned down other opportunities before all of this came out. Boy does NG love women in poverty 🤮)

So if you want to substantially reduce the wealth of someone at NG’s financial level—you need to do it with professional services fees.

Details below the cut:

The firm that NG has apparently engaged for online reputation management (ORM), called edendale, was once paid for their professional testimony in an unrelated slander lawsuit, which was delivered in the form of a report (2) outlining the strategy ORM firms use and (2) just how ludicrously expensive those professional services cost. (Credit to horrornobody77 for digging up the report.) We’re talking hundred of thousands of dollars for a small potatoes case, where NG’s could easily get into the millions for ORM and associated legal fees.

It’s not that long of a read, but to summarize the key action items you can take:

📆 -ORMs wait for the discourse to die down, because active discourse is much more expensive to counter. Wanna cost NG money? Talk about the accusations over time. Set a quarterly calendar event in your phone to remind yourself to post (and otherwise engage on other people’s posts) about the Vulture article. This needs to happens for years, so that NG has to pay for more comprehensive ORM and for longer.

✅-Make discourse that is Google-friendly. Use the words edendale will find concerning (they’re already running fluff pieces with the terms Neil Gaiman Uncovered to try and bury the similarly named subreddit.) If you just post a link without much comment, it’s not gonna be prioritized by search engines. Similarly, if you make a low effort post and then no one else engages with it—it’s not going to make it to the top ten search results. Engage with each other, for heaven’s sake!

🦾-Don’t let the fluff sit unaddressed. If you see random bot posts sharing NG quotes captioning random fantasy art (possibly AI or misattributed /stolen) with the comments turned on? Respond! Make it hard for the bots to understand your comment but easy for humans. “Nice quote! Mega bummer about what NG did, I used to really like him,” is hard for a bot to auto-delete. “Fuck NG,” is practically doing the bot’s autodelete command for it.

✍️ -If/when you post fan works for properties strongly related to Neil Gaiman, leave a lil callout in the author’s notes. Nothing that will get you sued, just a few words like: “I would definitely personally choose to not ever meet Neil Gaiman at a comic con.” Maybe throw in a link to your fav tumblr summary.

Anyway, to the person being paid hundreds or thousands of dollars per hour by Neil Gaiman for professional services—you’re welcome for the extra billable hours 😘

Also Edendale sounds like a law firm in a Good Omens legal AU fic, and I can’t believe it’s real.

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What no one warned me about when I got into Discworld is that Terry Pratchett would completely ruin all my future footnote experiences. Now, whenever I read a book (even if it is an academic text!!) and see a superscripted number, my monkey brain makes my eyes drop to the bottom of the page asap, expecting a funny, poignant, memorable, and potentially life-altering little treat, and instead I get hit every time with the soul-crushing disappointment of McFarthy, G. et al. (1997)

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my best tip for anyone trying to get back into reading is to remember that you can read books to avoid other responsibilities in ur life and it can become a vice if you play your cards right

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So the airbase has a commander whose name is Sergeant. His rank is Lieutenant Colonel and his office is, of course, private.

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I feel like we need a refresher on Watsonian vs Doylist perspectives in media analysis. When you have a question about a piece of media - about a potential plot hole or error, about a dubious costuming decision, about a character suddenly acting out of character -

A Watsonian answer is one that positions itself within the fictional world.

A Doylist answer is one that positions itself within the real world.

Meaning: if Watson says something that isn't true, one explanation is that Watson made a mistake. Another explanation is that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle made a mistake.

Watsonian explanations are implicitly charitable. You are implicitly buying into the notion that there is a good in-world reason for what you're seeing on screen or on the page. ("The bunny girls in Final Fantasy wear lingerie all the time because they're from a desert culture!")

Doylist explanations are pragmatic. You are acknowledging that the fiction is shaped by real-world forces, like the creators' personal taste, their biases, the pressures they might be under from managers or editors, or the limits of their expertise. ("The bunny girls in Final Fantasy wear lingerie because somebody thought they'd sell more units that way.")

Watsonian explanations tend to be imaginative but naive. Seeking a Watsonian explanation for a problem within a narrative is inherently pleasure-seeking: you don't want your suspension of disbelief to be broken, and you're willing to put in the leg work to prevent it. Looking for a Watsonian answer can make for a fun game! But it can quickly stray into making excuses for lazy or biased storytelling, or cynical and greedy executives.

Doylist explanations are very often accurate, but they're not much fun. They should supersede efforts to provide a Watsonian explanation where actual harm is being done: "This character is being depicted in a racist way because the creators have a racist bias.'" Or: "The lore changed because management fired all of the writers from last season because they didn't want to pay then residuals."

Doylism also runs the risk of becoming trite, when applied to lower stakes discrepancies. Yes, it's possible that this character acted strangely in this episode because this episode had a different writer, but that isn't interesting, and it terminates conversation.

I think a lot of conversations about media would go a lot more smoothly, and everyone would have a lot more fun, if people were just clearer about whether they are looking to engage in Watsonian or Doylist analysis. How many arguments could be prevented by just saying, "No, Doylist you're probably right, but it's more fun to imagine there's a Watsonian reason for this, so that's what I'm doing." Or, "From a Watsonian POV that explanation makes sense, but I'm going with the Doylist view here because the creator's intentions leave a bad taste in my mouth that I can't ignore."

Idk, just keep those terms in your pocket? And if you start to get mad at somebody for their analysis, take a second to see if what they're saying makes more sense from the other side of the Watsonian/Doylist divide.

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there’s a post on tumblr about like. if you could do something to bring people a little relief, why wouldn’t you do it? which has unironically informed my practice as a nursing student and patient care tech

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this one liberal dude on twitter made the (correct) take that parents have overwhelming power over their kids and very often abuse it and restrict children's rights and he was ratio'd by conservatives, communists and liberals alike who made comments like "my kids will have rights when they pay the bills" to "aw are you upset mom and dad didn't you get you a lega set for christmas". way to prove his point lol! any criticism of the power dynamics adults and particularly parents have over kids and how it is often used to abuse kids or refuse to let them exist as themselves is drowned in mockery and the idea that parents have absolute authority over children and that any less than that is actually spoiling them.

i said it before: people only care about Children as an ideal. as property. as something that is Innocent and deserving protection From Evil Traffickers but also something Dumb that barely deserves the status of human with autonomy. and its fucking wild how even the staunchest communists think of this as normal, and how people refuse to understand that this dynamic is how kids are emotionally, physically and sexually abused, as well as robbed of their voices and too scared/ashamed to talk about it.

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Die temu ad die

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"While I was trying to photograph the Northern Lights in the wee hours of the morning, my cat decided to photobomb the picture. Since I had the camera’s shutter speed maxed out, it ended up leaving a sort of ghostly image of my cat in the photo."

Photographer: Kristie Kohn

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This is a friendly reminder that none disabled people often do benefit from the same accommodations disabled people benefit from.

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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Posting this largely bc I know I have a bunch of followers big into fandoms, y'all know you should be boycotting neil gaiman (including any works he's connected to), right?