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Welcome to Kinktober 2025!

As there wasn’t an official Kinktober prompt list last year, we’ve put together an unofficial one for 2025, along with an AO3 collection. The graphics were all made by @latte-cucumber, and she's also made a banner that you’re welcome to use for your Tumblr Kinktober posts:

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Kinktober is an October prompt challenge that’s been running in one form or another since 2016. There are three prompts for each day in October, and the challenge is to use one (or more!) of the prompts to create something for that day. If you don’t want to use any of the three daily prompts, you can swap them out for the bonus prompts at the bottom of the prompt list.

Our askbox is open for questions about how the challenge works or what the prompts mean.

Prompts

Masturbation – Orgasm Control – Incest

Coming Untouched – Ageplay – Kidnapping

Threesome – Nipple Clamps – Alien Abduction

Voyeurism – Sounding – Hypnosis

Finger Sucking – Wax Play – Dacryphilia

Outdoor Sex – Humiliation – Intoxication

Blindfolds – Chastity – Bloodplay

Webcam – Figging – Cages

Exhibitionism – Shibari – Tentacles

Oral Sex – Punishment – Consensual Non-Consent

Come Licking – Handcuffs – Somnophilia

Sex Work – Kneeling – Sissification

Dildos – Dom Bottom/Sub Top – Medical Play

Omegaverse – Possessive Sex – Choking/Gagging

Semi-Public – Object Insertion – Sex Pollen

Remote Control – High Protocol – Fire Play

Messy Sex – Service Kink – Anal Hooks

Size Queen – Dom/Sub – Genital Torture

Creampie – Sensory Deprivation – Electricity

Mirror Sex – Golden Shower – Dubcon

Rimming – Forced Orgasm – Monsterfucking

Quiet Sex – Crawling – Gunplay

Biting – Praise Kink – Enemas

Anal Sex – Gags – Noncon

Double Penetration – Impact Play – Pillory/Stocks

Lingerie – Cuckolding – Sex Robot

Hair Pulling – Animal Play – Gangbang

Multiple Orgasms – S&M – Needle Play

Body Worship – Omorashi – Full-Body Bondage

Breeding – Fucking Machine – Degradation

Hot Tub Sex – Foot Fetish – Writer’s Choice

Bonus prompts:

Aftercare

Fisting

Wall Sex

Sugar Baby

Uniform Kink

Free Use

Temporary/Permanent Marks

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So there's gossip about some version of kinktober over on twitter adding a bunch of nonsensical rules this year, and I am fascinated. Studying this like a bug.

Like, what the hell.

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Did you have time to see the new season of The Sandman yet? 👀 Just finished it and because I've started watching it cause you blogged about it, I wanted to know what you thought of it ^^

I did not; I was vaguely waffling about whether to watch it or not, in light of all the Neil Gaiman shit, and since then, what's trickled back to me from tumblr has said that S2 is intensely unsatisfying. So I've basically fallen on the side of "not."

idk; I'm not going to police anyone else's fandom enjoyment, and to be sure, there are hundreds of artists whose livelihood hinges on the success of the show, who are not Neil Gaiman. But I'm probably not going to watch it myself.

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"a good man, patient. he never yelled, but you always knew when he was disappointed" always gets me because it seems upfront like such a normal, even nice thing to say about your father until you think about it for a second and you’re like hang on a minute, so you’re not actually saying he was kind or anything like that. there’s nothing here about him being nice or caring or supportive or whatever else you might associate with a fondly remembered "blue" personality. and instead what you are saying is that the primary memory you jump to about your father is how it "always" felt when he was disappointed with you, and also you operate under the belief that it’s a great marker of his goodness and patience that he never yelled at you? well let’s talk about that for a minute.

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So Nugget, a STRONG AND INDEPENDENT WOMAN WHO DON'T NEED NO MAN, has taken to letting itself out of chicken jail, like, five times a day. Five times a day, I come out to find it scratching up my garden beds, and have to catch it and throw it back over trellis, and that is simply untenable. (The daily Nugget schedule: 10 AM: lay an egg. 11-8: FUCK SHIT UP!!!)

One of the reasons I'd resisted the chicken was because I am a gardener, and my garden >>>>> chickens. Meanwhile, whenever Nugget gets over the trellis, it's been tearing up the lilies, tearing up the hellebores, tearing up the potatoes, and so today I finally decided Fuckit, you're losing your flying privileges.

I watched some youtube videos on clipping chickens' wings, confirmed that it's on par with clipping cats' claws, doesn't hurt them at all, and then discussed it with my lawyer. We agreed that we'd both prefer that Nugget continued to have the option to leave again if it wants to (especially since this really would put the lie to "it's not our chicken" 😂), but since it's NOT LEAVING, it's just FUCKING UP MY GODDAMN HELLEBORES, we don't have much other choice.

So the next time I caught it outside of chicken jail, I took a look at its wings to see where I needed to clip, and...

...lolol, turns out I'm not the first person to try to shackle Nugget's adventurous, free-wheeling spirit to the cruel tedium of the earth.

There was one primary on each side that had clearly been clipped before, the sole remainders after the rest of them had molted and regrown. Which suggests that Nugget had been grounded in the past, and then the moment its primaries grew back this year it was like SEE YA, SUCKERS, and took off for greener pastures a redwood grove where some idiots gave it watermelon.

In any case, Nugget is grounded once more; hopefully my clipping job hits the sweet spot between "can still get up to the roosting bar in the coop" and "can no longer fly over the fence and into gremble's garden." Worst case, I might have to build it a ladder so it can hop up to its roost -- we'll see.

In mcNugget news, there are now ten eggs!!! in the nesting box -- according to the internet, a full clutch is ~12, so that's when hens will stop laying and start sitting on it full-time, if they're inclined to get broody. I don't know if these eggs are fertile (at this point I'm inclined to think probably not) and I don't know if Nugget is going to get broody (Easter Eggers as a breed don't seem to be very disposed to it).

BUT!! if Nugget does get broody, then we can probably slip some unrelated chicks under it and it'll raise them as its own. Which is by all accounts the smoothest way to increase your flock size, far easier than introducing adult hens as strangers, with the risk that they'll decide they just fucking hate each other.

lol, and yes, I know, I hadn't wanted the chicken in the first place, so why am I now strategizing on how to get more. If I had zero chickens, I would not be pursuing more -- but I don't have zero, I have one, and it is manifestly very bored, and it's the same amount of work to keep three chickens as it is to keep one, and they're social animals, so -- moar chimkins, it is.

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Nugget is using the nesting box! :) As of this morning there were nine eggs - according to the internet, when the clutch is around 12 is when the hen will start brooding full time, if it's going to brood.

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Murderbot is probably the most embarrassing hyperfixation to have because oh really? You're hyperfixated on the 'hyperfixates on media to avoid the real world stress and anxiety' media? Is it. Is it to avoid your real world stress and anxiety, perhaps??

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Poor Tarik. :')

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Murderbot meeting ART for the first time like

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Eight eggs!! Yesterday's egg I found directly on the bottom of the coop, with a timing/location that makes me think Nugget pooped it out right before bedtime (and the shredded cardboard cushioned the fall). But this one was in the nesting box, before bedtime, which means that Nugget knows where to put eggs, and is doing it. 🎉

Lol it's funny, because I sure as fuck wouldn't know how to induce Nugget to do any of this. Luckily though, humans have been keeping chickens for approximately five thousand years, so we've bred them to know what they need to do, and just do it. Nugget goes to the coop at bedtime. Nugget lays the eggs. Nugget lays the eggs in the box that humans have provided. 👍

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“Anderson indulges in minor explosions as Louis, but he excels in implosion. Louis is a slightly more active part, mainly because of the interactions with mortals, which makes his inward retreats that much more pronounced. All of a sudden, it seems, there’s nobody home. When Anderson checks out, he leaves a completely abandoned space behind.” - Tony Sokol, Den of Geeks

JACOB ANDERSON as Louis de Pointe du Lac in Interview With The Vampire Part II (2024)

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Nugget in the inappropriate Nugget-nest.

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ART & Tarik

So the blorbo that my brain has decided to latch onto, lo these past seven months, is Tarik from the Murderbot Diaries, because he's got such a fascinating backstory hinted at, despite how thin his presence on the actual page is. He's a near-identical foil to Murderbot, in that he was also coercively used to commit violence, the only difference is that he's human -- which matters for less in the Corporation Rim than you'd think.

Which makes it a fascinating bit of hypocrisy that ART hadn't wanted Tarik on the crew, because it was concerned that he'd been conditioned toward aggression -- i.e., everything it's willing to instantly disregard for Murderbot. Even in System Crash, long after they've become besties and ART's gotten its crash course on violent trauma, it still has a pattern of pointedly needling Tarik, verging on bullying. (And before that, Tarik's salient contribution to Network Effect was when Murderbot says "I call it Asshole Research Transport" and Tarik is the one who goes, "YEP, THAT'S PERIHELION ALRIGHT.")

The new short story makes ART's hostility even more explicit:

ART: I’ve altered the material’s profile [of a deflective vest] so it will not be detected by corporate weapon scanners. Iris was convinced. “Can you make one for Tarik, too?” No, I dislike Tarik and would prefer to use this opportunity to be rid of him. “Oh, thanks,” Tarik said, appearing in the hatchway.

rofl, ART, ffs, what did he ever do to you?? 😂😂

Except.

The more I think about it, the more I think that it doesn't matter what ART's reasons were -- it still should have had veto power over who's allowed inside its own body.

This isn't just a matter of ~oh you need to learn to get along with other people~ -- the ship is ART's body. And the PSMNT higher-ups overriding both Captain Seth's and Perihelion's wishes and putting Tarik on the crew anyway........... doesn't really speak well of their respect for ART's autonomy. 😬 tbh, they're lucky ART yielded to their authority at all, and didn't just melt Tarik's brain the moment he set foot on it.

(Don't get me wrong, I love PSMNT being sketchy as fuck. 🤣 Like, yes, they claim to be on the side of Right, and they do seem to be doing good works, but they're also out there building god-tier machine intelligences with a dubious moral compass and a leash on them that's tenuous at best.

...and then giving them railguns.)

So on one hand I'm like, "ART, why are you being so mean to my boo 😠," but I can also see where its resentment is coming from. ...And also Tarik getting bullied by ART at its bitchiest is really funny. 😂

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So yeah, we'd assumed Nugget wasn't laying, due to some combination of stress, heat, and illness. I'd built nesting boxes into the coop, but as far as I could tell, Nugget has never touched them.

(Nugget got pretty sick for a couple days, shortly after my last post on it, and I'd fully thought it was doomed, but then it bounced back. Incidentally, you have my word that if anything happens to Nugget, no it didn't, I will lie to you, this chicken will be immortal.)

It had also taken to leaving during the day once it got over being sick and had more energy again -- I figured it was bored and/or lonely, might have been going back home to socialize, but it always came back here in the evenings. (And it figured out how to roost in the coop instead of on the fence, eyyy!) So I've been low-key hoping that it'll go home and tell another chicken about the place that serves watermelon and steal itself a friend too.

And then today I went outside and didn't see the Nugget, and was like, "Ah, it must have gone on walkabout again" and then I realized it was sitting, perfectly still, in a dark corner of the redwood grove. (Usually it gets up and takes an interest in me when I'm nearby, but this time it was completely unmoving. I had to crouch there and stare at it for a minute before it even blinked and confirmed it was still alive.)

And then when I came out a bit later I found SIX EGGS.

And considering that it came from a house with a rooster, and hens can apparently store sperm for up to a year two weeks (? Reports vary), there is every reason to believe that the eggs are fertilized.

McNUGGETS INCOMING???

WHAT THE FOCK. NUGGET, THAT IS NOT THE LAYING BIN.

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WHAT THE FOCK. NUGGET, THAT IS NOT THE LAYING BIN.

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Cannibalism!!