lex
25 September 2025 @ 10:40 pm
Silly Blanks 286  


Last week's story: "If you divide a ADJECTIVE number by zero, you get a NOUN."

Your gracious host, Trucy, runs a weekly magic show. To get the audience pumped up before the show, Trucy begins with a simple trick - a short mad libs story, a bit of magic, a couple of cards, and voila: free stuff! You might also be entertained, but no guarantees.

Trucy needs help deciding what her story will be about; however, it's funnier if the audience doesn't know until afterward, so you'll just have to submit your cards and see what happens at the end of the round. Help her fill out the major details by submitting deck names to fill in the blanks of her story idea. To thank you for your help, if you put the right cards into Trucy's magic panties, they'll magically turn into new cards!

THIS WEEK'S REQUIREMENTS!

Card 1
• Basic: Deck name is a VERB
• Bonus: green card
Card 2
• Basic: Deck name is a NOUN
• Bonus: plural noun


You'll lose the cards you turn in, but for each basic requirement you fulfill you will receive 4 random cards. Fulfilling the bonus as well will net you 1 random card each, for a possible total reward of 10 random cards!

Good luck! This round will close on Thursday, October 2nd!
 
 
lex
25 September 2025 @ 10:27 pm
Go Fish! 483  

Gon's an excellent fisherman, catching so much fish that sometimes even he doesn't know what he's caught! Show him a another of the same kind of "fish," and you'll be rewarded!

Read more... )

Submit your matches for your prizes! This round ends on Thursday, October 2nd!
 
 
full_metal_ox
25 September 2025 @ 05:20 pm
À Rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans; Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser: Black Feasts, by Idlewild Designs.  
Fandom: À Rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans; Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Duc Jean des Essientes, Gray Mouser
Rating: General Audiences (although most of the beverages might be deemed Mature, depending on your country.)
Length: 542
Creator Links: Idlewild Designs (archived); I’ve not succeeded in recovering a name for the site owner.
Theme: Food & Cooking, Book Fandoms, Meta, Pre-AO3 Works, Research, Old Fandoms, Small Fandoms

Summary: The two literary passages cited serve that purpose:

Dining off black-bordered plates, the company had enjoyed turtle soup, Russian rye bread, ripe olives from Turkey, caviare, mullet botargo, black puddings from Frankfurt, game served in sauces the color of liquorice and boot-polish, truffle jellies, chocolate creams, plum-puddings, nectarines, pears in grape-juice syrup, mulberries and black heart cherries. From dark-tinted glasses they had drunk the wines of Limagne and Roussillon, of Tenedos, Valdepeñas and Oporto. And after coffee and walnut cordial, they had rounded off the evening with kvass, porter and stout.

— a black feast held to mourn the loss of the Duc des Esseintes's virility in A Rebours, by Huysman

The collation on the little ebony table beyond the coffin consisted entirely of black foods. By sight and then by nibbling and sipping the Mouser discovered their nature: thin slices of a very dark rye bread crusted with poppy seeds and dripped with black butter; slivers of charcoal-seared steak; similarly broiled tiny thin slices of calf's liver sprinkled with dark spices and liberally pricked with capers; the darkest grape jellies; truffles cut paper thin and mushrooms fried black; pickled chestnuts; and of course, ripe olives and black fish eggs—caviar. The black drink, which foamed when he poured it, turned out to be stout laced with the bubbly wine of Ilthmar.

— Fritz Leiber, "Bazaar of the Bizarre"


Reccer's Notes: With Halloween impending, this seemed an apropos topic.

Idlewild Designs was a 2000’s Geocities purveyor of Gothic, fantasy, literary, occult, rustic, Art Nouveau, and otherwise Bohemian aesthetic living tips; here they expand and elaborate upon the two literary feasts described, with potential ingredients listed by category and outlinks to recipes. (The site was still very much under construction by the time Geocities shut down; I’m assuming the business, at least in that stage, is by now as dead as Bela Lugosi and that this post doesn’t violate the OTW’s advertising ban.)

Literary_context. )

So what items might you add to the list? Some suggestions of my own:

Continue. )

Fanwork Links: Black Feasts, by Idlewild Designs (archived.)
 
 
 
shoujocupid
24 September 2025 @ 06:51 pm
looking for highschool and taka!  
hiii! i hate to post twice in a row but im desperate to master these decks before the end of the month

if you have taka or highschool cards and would like to trade please lmk!!
 
 
lex
23 September 2025 @ 10:23 pm
Pick a Color 298  


Nemurin is a sleepy girl who uses her powers to enter the dreams of others. As a part of her work as a magical girl, she wants to make as many people happy by visiting their dreams... But she's having a hard time deciding where to start. Can you pick one for her? She'll give you any cards she finds while she's there. She wants to remind you that what she finds is all luck of the draw, but no one will walk away empty handed!

Read more... )

This round ends on Tuesday, October 7th.
 
 
lex
23 September 2025 @ 10:22 pm
Memory Lane 008  


Tomoyo has diligently been filming all of Sakura's adventures as a Cardcaptor--and it turns out she's been recording our adventures here at Colors too! Why don't we take a little trip down memory lane with her?

Every round we'll get to relive a game that's currently inactive on Colors. Perhaps it will be an old favorite, or one you never got to play before? Let's see what game Tomoyo has in store for us today!

This round's game is...Clues!

Read more... )

This round ends on Tuesday, October 7th.
 
 
Punk
23 September 2025 @ 08:04 am
Star Trek: Amok Time Cake, by jb612 and violetnebula19  
Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series
Characters/Pairings: James T. Kirk's nipples
Rating: Not rated, but G+ for fondant nipples
Creator Link: [tumblr.com profile] jb612 & [tumblr.com profile] violetnebula19
Theme: Food & Cooking, (Not Really) Character Death

Summary: A birthday cake.

Reccer's Notes: Our founder [personal profile] jerakeen once lamented that we hadn't ever had a fancake recced on the comm. Now that we've had The Untamed cupcakes, it reminded me I've had this rec sitting in my drafts for literal years, so: Please enjoy this beautifully rendered cake of James T. Kirk's nipple window as seen on TV in the episode Amok Time, 1967.

Fanwork Link: Star Trek Amok Time Cake
 
 
Arianne
23 September 2025 @ 04:01 am
Lady Luck Slots 229  


Come on down to the Lady Luck Slots, where every spin's a winner! The better the match, the better your prize!

Roll up, roll up! )

This round ends Monday, September 29, 2025.
 
 
Arianne
23 September 2025 @ 03:28 am
Switch It Up 276  

Out with the old, in with the new! )

The new week will start on Monday, September 29, 2025, and this round will close on Monday, October 6, 2025.

 
 
Arianne
23 September 2025 @ 03:24 am
Coloring Book 364  

Art by Aki!

What are we coloring this time? )

The new week will start on Monday, September 29, 2025, and this round will close on Monday, October 6, 2025.
 
 
Arianne
23 September 2025 @ 02:52 am
Seiyuu Guess 724  
Last week's answer was Mugi Asai from Hitohira, voiced by Orie Kimoto!



Hello everyone, and welcome back to Seiyuu Guess! Our host for this game is Shizuka, a rookie seiyuu who's still learning the tricks of the trade! She's been provided with a description, image, and clip of a certain character, and it's up to you to help her figure out who voices them.

Who do we have this week? )


Tell Shizuka the character's name, their seiyuu, and what series they're from for fifteen random cards!

This round ends Monday, September 29, 2025.
 
 
full_metal_ox
22 September 2025 @ 09:19 pm
Mo Dao Zu Shi, Chen Qing Ling: The Untamed cupcakes, by abyss_valkyrie.  
Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi, Chen Qing Ling
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji, Jiang Cheng, Lan Xichen, Jiang Yanli, Jin Zixuan
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 26 photos
Creator Tags: char: jiang cheng, char: jiang yanli, char: jin zixuan, char: lan wangji, char: lan xichen, char: wei wuxian, fanwork: other
Creator Links: (AO3) [archiveofourown.org profile] Technomancer28; (DeviantArt) [deviantart.com profile] Abyss-Valkyrie; (Dreamwidth) [personal profile] abyss_valkyrie; (Tumblr) [tumblr.com profile] abyss-valkyrie

Theme: Food and Cooking, Non-Fic Recs: Crafts

Summary: So I spent all of yesterday and the night before making cupcakes and I wanted to try making some MDZS/Untamed character themed ones so these were very self indulgent and made me happy,lol.

Reccer's Notes: Exactly what it says on the tin: various characters from The Untamed, as symbolized by a photospread of fluffily ornate cupcakes; my own favorite is the Jiang Cheng one in fluorite swirls of violet and teal.

Fanwork Links: The Untamed cupcakes
 
 
lex
22 September 2025 @ 09:03 pm
Most Wanted 189  


Hi amigos! You ready for some bounty info? Colors' Most Wanted is coming your way!

Punch and Judy are dedicated to bringing updates on the latest bounties to all the bounty hunters in the star system. And they'd like you to help by reporting new bounties to them so they can get out the news! As a reward you'll get some special updates on those bounties.

How to Play:
Every round, each player can name ONE deck, character or special, that they would like to see added to the bounty pool. Repeat decks are allowed. At the end of the round, your rewards will be randomized from only the list of decks players have named for that round. Every player that participates will receive 5 random cards from that round's deck list.

Please write the deck names as they appear in the file names, e.g. Dragon Claw as dragonclaw.

This round ends Monday, September 29th. Happy hunting, all you cowboys!
 
 
lex
22 September 2025 @ 09:02 pm
Pokeradar 444  


Thank you for your help! Last week we were looking at Cocopo from Utawarerumono!

Pokémon trainer Hop has run into some trouble. It would seem a strange phenomenon has caused new and strange creatures to appear in their world - especially in the Wild Area! He needs your help to identify these new creatures so he can make notes about them and return them to Sonia!

Read more... )

This round closes on Monday, September 29th!
 
 
mific
23 September 2025 @ 01:44 am
due South: Sunday Dinner by ArtConundrum (SpaceTimeConundrum)  
Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser, Ray Vecchio, Diefenbaker, Francesca Vecchio, Ma Vecchio, Vecchio family
Rating: Gen
Length: three-panel comic
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: ArtConundrum (SpaceTimeConundrum) on AO3
Themes: Food and cooking, Family, Domestic

Summary: Dinner at the Vecchio house is always an adventure.

Reccer's Notes: An excellent set of panels with Dief and Ma Vecchio cooking, Fraser feeding the smallest Vecchio, and all of them at the dinner table. It's cheerfully domestic and perfectly captures the warm chaos of a Vecchio family dinner.

Fanwork Links: Sunday Dinner
 
 
mific
23 September 2025 @ 12:43 am
SGA: A Place On The Corner by Cesare, anatsuno  
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan, Radek Zelenka, Elizabeth, Carson, and other Stargate characters
Rating: General (later works in the series are explicit)
Length: 8467
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: Cesare on AO3, anatsuno on AO3, rhea314 on AO3, rhea314 on Audiofic Archive
Themes: Food and cooking, Friendship, Friends to Lovers, Series, Comfortfic, Complete AU

Summary: Grounded by an injury, John Sheppard leaves the Air Force and, at loose ends, takes up running the bakery he inherited from his mother's family in Colorado Springs.

Reccer's Notes:
This is the first story in a long series called Foster's Bakery. It's a "coffee shop" AU in which John's a baker, and Rodney is of course drawn in by the coffee he serves and becomes a friend, and then a lot more. The relationship is established in this initial fic, and is deepened in later stories in the series. It's a charming story, with the usual Stargate characters as regulars at the bakery - Radek even does a bit of matchmaking. The whole series is very much recommended.

Fanwork Links: A Place On The Corner, and the podfic read by [personal profile] rhea314 is here

 
 
 
Arianne
21 September 2025 @ 02:26 am
Release Roulette 067  
Last round the roulette ball landed on Release 167! How close was your bet?



Can you guess which release the roulette ball will land on?

Place your bets! )

This round ends Saturday, October 4, 2025.
 
 
Arianne
21 September 2025 @ 02:13 am
Hi-5 Radio 322  
Last round's winner was Dawn of Mana!



Hello, dear listeners! 5pb-chan is in charge of the music toplist corner once again, and it's entirely up to you and your votes which song will make it this week!

Douze points! )

This round ends Saturday, September 27, 2025.