#monsttober

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The System Thinks It’s Time for Some Halloween Fun

Status: Completed (Chapter(s): 1)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Warnings Apply

Relationships: Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Mobei-jun/Shang Qinghua, Shang Qinghua & Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Liu Qingge & Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu

Characters: Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Shang Qinghua, Luo Binghe, Mobei-jun, Liu Qingge, Mu Qingfang

Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Canon Compliant, Silly, Canon Relationships, Canon-Typical Behavior, Pumpkins, Pumpkin carving, Jack-o'-lanterns, Halloween, Minor Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Minor Mobei-jun/Shang Qinghua, White Lotus Luo Binghe, Possessive Luo Binghe, Shang Qinghua Being an Idiot, Pining Mobei-jun, Shang Qinghua & Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu Friendship, Airplane Bro Shang Qinghua, I use Shang Qinghua as a comedic punchline because I love him, Liu Qingge Being an Idiot, Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu Being an Idiot, Light-Hearted, It's All The System's Fault (Scum Villain), Monsttober, Monsttober 2024, Completed

The System appears once again, this time to give She Qingqiu and Shang Qinghua one of the stupidest tasks yet! Watch as the two transmigrators flounder, trying their best to throw a last minute pumpkin carving party. It wouldn’t be so difficult if literally anybody else in this world knew what the hell pumpkin carving was.

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Monsttober 2024

It's that time of year again! Buckle up, because we've got a lot of fun races and prompts for you this year. Can't wait to see what works are born from them!

Now Monsttober is complete without the prompts, enjoy and best of luck!

any questions? Visit our FAQ post for answers and guidelines. Or, submit an ask and we'll let you know!

[crimson-luna-writes]

My first work for Monsttober 2024! I stayed up til 12am finishing this lol 😭

[the-flower32]

Monsttober week 1- Gorgon

(this was going to be a comic but my brain said no)

The Farm of Spencer Spector; A Petrifying Mishap

Nestled on the edge of Ashwood lays a small farm, a few fields of produce and a two story wooden house sat among a few acres of land, just in front of a Large and dark forest. No one in Ashwood ever went into that forest. Strange stories of inhuman beings wandering in and out of it scared almost everyone away. But Spencer Spector wasn't just anyone, and she had been comfortably living there for many years. 

She was a spry old woman, brown hair streaked with grey, crows feet under her blue eyes, and perpetual grass stains on her jeans. 

No one remembered her ever hiring anyone, or having any family nearby, yet she still had guests walking about her property. And some swore they saw a strange creature milling about the fields, carrying a scythe. 

But she was a friendly and kind woman who ran a successful stall at the farmers market, and frankly made some of the best pies in town. So no one payed much mind to her strange company. 

Recently she posted an add for someone to help her keep up with her work and chores, her age was making it hard for her, the add sat for weeks untouched till one day a new stranger cam into town. 

“-and thats why I think this years stall should be themed around something less scary.” Spencer finished, taking a sip of her coffee. She was sitting on her porch and talking to one of her ‘strange’ friends- Oreta.  “Oh- do you remember that Ad i put out a few weeks ago?”

“The one for a house keeper, or was it a farm hand?” Oreta asked

“It was both. Someone answered it!” 

“Really?” Oreta took a sip out of her own glass. “Have they… met your ‘other visitors’ yet?”

“Only a few, Zack nearly gave them a heart attack, apparently they’re not from Ashwood and managed to miss all the rumors people spread about his palace.”

“And they still wanted to work here?”

“Yep, poor kid’s having a bit of a housing issue and only wanted a place to stay.”

“Oh poor thing.”

“I know, so I let them stay in the guest bedroom.”

“Must be a pretty bad fix if they still wanted the job.”

“Oh no,” Spencer smiled, “they were quite curious about Zack after they calmed down and, so far, have been getting along with the others pretty well.”

“Whats they’re name” Oreta asked

“ its ‘Mike’ but spelled funny-, M-I-C.”

“Oh like microphone?”

“Yes.”

“Interesting,” Oreta held her glass up to the snakes popping out of her head, three of them took a sip, “well im glad you’ve gotten stable help. I know you have Zack but theres only so much he can do. With his wooden limbs and such.”

“Hey Miss Spector!” 

Spencer and Oreta turned towards the source of the noise, there was Zack; a strange being made of burlap sacks, wooden planks for legs, hinged arms that dragged on the floor with crude fingers, stitched clothing that barely fit its body, and stood about six feet tall. Who was expected, then there was Mic; 

Human, about five foot three, pale, short brown hair with a streak of green in the bangs, green overalls, miss-matching pink and green socks, fingerless striped pink gloves, and heavy eyeliner around their russet eyes.

“Zack and I got all the corn-” Mic meet eyes with Oreta and stoped moving, eyes wide.

“Oh shoot!” Spencer clapped a hand over her mouth. 

“You forgot to give them a anti-petrification charm didn't you?” Oreta asked, unclipping the reflective sunglasses from her shirt and putting them over her eyes.

“I did. Could you go inside and get Zyler for me?”

“No problem.”

A few hours later Zyler, a witch, had removed the petrification from Mic. Mic swayed to the side and was able to steady themselves, shaking their head to get a grip on what had happened.

“I am so sorry, I’ll get you an anti-petrification charm as soon as I can, I promise!” Spencer said, offering Mic a glass of water.

“Your fine Miss Spector.” Mic said, balancing against the counter and taking the glass.

“The nassau should were off in an hour or two!” Oreta said from the kitchen door way, “i’ll be sure to keep my glasses on till you get that charm.”

“Thanks.” Mic nodded to the Gorgon.

“Im just gonna leave you with this,” Zyler said as he handed Spencer a ornate bottle of the de-petrification potion, “Im not gonna be in town for a few days.”

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AYYEE 🔥🔪

Aye y'all go listen to @monstta new song it's litttyyyy https://soundcloud.com/monstta/monsttober

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FAQ

What is Monsttober?

Monsttober was started in 2023 as a fanfiction writing challenge for those who have...commitment issues or simply not enough time. It has since grown to include art of any medium. In this challenge, each week of October will have a singular theme: a particular monster race. The only big rule is this race needs to be a prominent part of your work we are, in fact, also monster lovers.

If writing: typically no longer than a one or two-shot, with an important character in your story being that monstrous race.

If drawing: one piece of any medium, any style, any level of detail per week featuring the week's monstrous race.

Everyone participating is encouraged to simply post one fic/drawing per week, but I can't and won't stop you if you wish to do more!

How do I participate?

Simple, just create! If your work mention having this challenge tagged (#monsttober or #monsttober[year]), then that means everyone can look and see the wonderful work from this challenge! It also means we can more easily find and repost your work. While certain goals are heavily encouraged, the nature of Monsttober is to be a fun and relaxing activity so deviation from the guidelines is absolutely allowed.

What is the Bonus Week?

Even though there are technically only 4 weeks in a month, often there are a few days left on the calendar. We've included a fun little prompt for anyone who wants to round out this challenge with something a little fun and relaxing, especially since some topics can get real heavy. Unlike the other weeks, this one is not a monster race centric theme. You can do whatever you want IF you even want to do it, hence the bonus part.

How do I start?

If you don't know what to do, don't worry, we've come up with a few prompts and quotes that may help inspire you while writing your fanfiction. Each year we'll post the calendar and prompts some time during September so you can start coming up with ideas. The idea is to qwork on these pieces during October, but if you start a little early or late, that's no problem!

Guidelines

SFW and NSFW work are both acceptable, please simply tag your first accordingly.

This is not for any particular fandom and doesn't need to be ship specific. If you wish to make it about a group? That's fine! If you wish to make it something of a character study? That's also fine!

One important/major character in your fanfiction should be of the monstrous race of the week. You can make pairings monster x human or monster x monster or even human x human if someone else is the monster, it does not matter!

The suggested length for each prompt is: one fanfic per week, no longer than a oneshot or twoshot.

You should tag your fics/posts with #Monsttober2023 so that anyone following the challenge (it's me, I'm the follower) can easily see what everyone else has done with our themes.

Other than the racial theme each week, no other prompts are required. Supplementary prompts will be provided to help generate ideas.

Have fun!!

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Love's Gospel: A Requiem

Status: Completed (Chapter(s): 1)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Warnings Apply

Relationships: Kinomoto Touya/Tsukishiro Yukito, Kinomoto Touya/Yue, Kinomoto Sakura & Kinomoto Touya

Characters: Kinomoto Touya, Tsukishiro Yukito, Yue (Cardcaptor Sakura), Clow Reed, Kinomoto Sakura, Li Syaoran (Cardcaptor Sakura), Keroberos | Cerberus

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Angels, Canon Gay Relationship, Falling In Love, True Love, impossible love, Background Kinomoto Sakura/Li Syaoran, Angel/Human Relationships, Bittersweet, Bittersweet Ending, Soulmates, Feelings Realization, Denial of Feelings, i love them your honor, Monsttober, Monsttober 2024, Completed

Yue, one of Clow Reed’s most powerful angels, has been facing a dilemma: human emotions. He’d sent a host down to the mortal world to gather more holy power and survey the state of Earth. When this host returned to him with far more than that, he didn’t know what to do with it. How should he face these odd feelings for the greedy, selfish, and heretical Kinomoto Touya? Certainly a small meeting wouldn’t hurt.

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Heaven helps those who help themselves

Status: Completed (Chapter(s): 1)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Warnings Apply

Relationships: Barnaby "Bunny" Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu, Barnaby "Bunny" Brooks Jr. & Kaburagi T. Kotetsu, Kaburagi Kaede & Kaburagi T. Kotetsu, Kaburagi T. Kotetsu & Antonio Lopez, Kaburagi T. Kotetsu & Karina Lyle, Kaburagi T. Kotetsu & Nathan Seymour, Barnaby "Bunny" Brooks Jr. & Nathan Seymour

Characters: Kaburagi T. Kotetsu, Barnaby "Bunny" Brooks Jr., Antonio Lopez, Karina Lyle, Kaburagi Kaede, Nathan Seymour, Albert Maverick

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Vampire, Vampires, Alternate Universe, Past Kaburagi T. Kotetsu/Kaburagi Tomoe, Kaburagi T. Kotetsu Being an Idiot, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, these bitches gay, no straight explanation for these dudes, minor blood and gore depiction, Aristocracy, Historical Fantasy, Victorian, Monsttober, Monsttober2024, Completed

Living as a vampire is hard, especially when stuck between the world of humanity and vampires. To feel the desire for flesh blood dripping from your lips all while once cowning such blood is to be nothing other than the most beastly of beings. So what should one, who was once human but now vampire, do when shunned by their society? They shall adapt, overcome, and attend lavish parties? Vampiric society has changed greatly from when Kotetsu T. Kaburagi first became a vampire's spawn. No longer under one's thrall and living a life riddled with disgusted stares, what will he do when approached with a new opportunity? How will this new mentorship initiative change the life of him and his new companion?

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Hideous in Love

Status: Completed (Chapter(s): 1)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Relationships: He Xuan/Shi Qingxuan, He Xuan & Shi Qingxuan, He Xuan & Shi Qingxuan & Shi Wudu, Shi Qingxuan & Shi Wudu

Characters: He Xuan, Shi Qingxuan, Shi Wudu

Additional Tags: Extremely Dubious Consent, Stockholm Syndrome, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, Implied/Referenced Sex, Gorgons (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Canon-Typical Violence, Canonical Character Death, petrification, Beheading, Blood and Gore, Dubious Morality, gorgon!he xuan, He Xuan/Shi Qingxuan Angst, Unhappy Ending, Bittersweet Ending, beefleaf, i love them so much but they greatly hurt me, Possessive Behavior, don't be fooled this is neither wholesome nor happy nor soft, Monsttober, Monsttober 2024, Completed

Those who have forsaken their own humanity shall pay the price. All who are punished are deserving of so. But what of those who enact the punishing? Are they all that righteous themselves? What if one’s desire to protect ends the life of another? What if the one who benefits from it all knows not the treachery he’s caused? Just how can a centuries long grudge be resolved in a peaceful manner? It can’t.

[monsttober]

And so Monsttober begins...

Happy start of Monsttober everyone! As you all start, here are some things to keep in mind when sharing your work.

If you're drawing:

Feel free to tag us to your post or even submit your work directly to our blog. Don't forget to use the hashtags!

If you're writing:

There's an official Ao3 collection/subcollection here that you can submit your work to! It's also advised to use monsttober & monstober 2024 in your fic tags. If you post it on Tumblr, you can feel free to tag us or submit it directly to our blog! Don't forget to use the hastags!

We can't wait to see all your works this Monsttober!

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Don't Bring a Person to a Bear Fight

Status: Complete (Chapter(s): 1)

Rating: Teen Audiences and Up

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence

Relationships: Higashikata Josuke (JoJo: Diamond is Unbreakable)/Nijimura Okuyasu

Characters: Nijimura Okuyasu, Nijimura Keicho, Higashikata Josuke (JoJo: Diamond is Unbreakable), Hirose Koichi, Kishibe Rohan, Yamagishi Yukako, Yanguu Shigekiyo

Additional Tags: Were-creatures, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - werecreatures, Nijimura Okuyasu-centric, Canonical Character Death, romance became a subplot oops, Murder Mystery, Blood and Gore

My first Monsttober fic for Monsttober 2023! The theme was Were-beast.

A series of murders has uprooted the previously peaceful life of residents in Morioh. Little has been revealed about these mysterious murders, but every citizen can sense, with growing dread, just how awful they've been. Nijimura Okuyasu has kept himself closed off from everyone but his brother for years, and these murders have only encouraged his anxious and reclusive behavior. After fixing a man's car in a pinch, the friend that brought him there-Higashikata Josuke-just won't leave Okuyasu alone. With details of the murders finally coming to light after their increased frequency and Okuyasu's own dark past looming, what will happen to the residents of this no longer peaceful town?

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They Did the Morio Kart Mash

Status: Completed (Chapter(s): 1)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Kurusu Kazuki & Suwa Rei & Unasaka Miri, Kurusu Kazuki & Unasaka Miri, Suwa Rei & Unasaka Miri, Kurusu Kazuki & Suwa Rei, Kurusu Kazuki/Suwa Rei

Characters: Kurusu Kazuki, Suwa Rei, Unasaka Miri

Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Fluff, Comedy, Halloween Costumes, Cute Unasaka Miri, Family Fluff, kazurei is ambiguous, time after canon is ambiguous, Completed

Creating an elaborate plan with disguises and props and cover stories just for one simple assassination is hard. Making Halloween costumes for your family is much harder. When faced with the impossible task of creating costumes for a party he was informed about far too late, Kazuki swears he’ll collapse from exhaustion. All if takes is a little good old fashioned family love to give him the energy he needs to finish and attend this Halloween costume party with a bang.

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The Cursed Sword of Faerghus

Status: Completed (Chapter(s): 1)

Rating: Teen Audiences and Up

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence

Relationships: Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd/Ashe Duran | Ashe Ubert

Characters: Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd, Ashe Duran | Ashe Ubert, Ashe Duran | Ashe Ubert's Younger Brother, Ashe Duran | Ashe Ubert's Younger Sister, Christophe (Fire Emblem), Lonato (Fire Emblem), Dedue Molinaro, Sylvain Jose Gautier, Felix Hugo Fraldarius, Ingrid Brandl Galatea, Rufus Blaiddyd

Additional Tags: Holy Kingdom of Faerghus, Ghosts, Spirits, Alternate Universe, Revenge, Tragic Romance, Fluff and Angst, Bittersweet Ending

My oneshot for week 3 of Monsttober: Ghosts/Spirits. It's also in honor of Dimiashe week which took place this same week.

The Dragon Slaying Bow. A fairy tale from the Leicester Alliance. The Axe of Worthiness. A historical tale from the Adrestian Empire. The Treachery of the Cursed Sword. A children’s cautionary tale from the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus, and the only legend depicting and evil weapon.

Dimitri had long despised the legendary cursed sword for the misfortune it brought the kingdom. Why couldn’t his home have a helpful sword like everyone else? But when it comes down to it, there’s a reason such an evil sword was used: because the wielder had a desire none else could fix.

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Have you always wanted to participate in one of those fun writing prompt challenges but lack the time and ambition and drive and dedication and ability to frequently post? Or are you familiar with such challenges but are searching for something a little…different?

WELL LOOK NO FURTHER

For I too am notorious at not keeping up with fanfictions and trends (although few know because I'm THAT bad at posting all the first my brain creates). As an AU and non-human character lover, I bring to you a challenge meant to help you grow without the pressure of keeping up with daily prompts:

Monsttober

What is it?

Each week of October will have a singular theme, a particular monster race. The goal is to write a fanfiction, typically no longer than a one or two-shot, with an important character in your story being that monstrous race. Everyone participating is encouraged to simply post one fic per week, but I can't and won't stop you if you wish to do more.

How do I participate?

Simple, just write! If your fanfictions mention having this challenge tagged (#Monsttober2023), then that means I can look and see the wonderful work everyone else has done. While certain things are encouraged, the nature of Monsttober is to be a fun and relaxing activity so deviation from the guidelines is absolutely allowed. Guidelines are located at the end of this post.

What does Monsttober 2023 look like?

What is the Bonus Week?

Since there are technically only 4 weeks in a month but there are a few days left, we've included a fun little prompt for anyone who wants to round out this challenge with something a little fun and relaxing. The Bonus Week's theme is: Costume Party. Unlike the other weeks, this one is not a monster race centric theme. You can do whatever you want IF you even want to do it, hence the bonus part. I myself plan to do a short and cute family friendly fic for the bonus since a lot of my ideas for the regular 4 weeks are tending to lean a little darker in theme.

Now,

If you don't know what to do, don't worry, we've come up with a few prompts and quotes that may help inspire you while writing your fanfiction.

Guidelines

SFW and NSFW work are both acceptable, please simply tag your first accordingly.

This is not for any particular fandom and doesn't need to be ship specific. If you wish to make it about a group? That's fine! If you wish to make it something of a character study? That's also fine!

One important/major character in your fanfiction should be of the monstrous race of the week. You can make pairings monster x human or monster x monster or even human x human if someone else is the monster, it does not matter!

The suggested length for each prompt is: one fanfic per week, no longer than a oneshot or twoshot.

You should tag your fics/posts with #Monsttober2023 so that anyone following the challenge (it's me, I'm the follower) can easily see what everyone else has done with our themes.

Other than the racial theme each week, no other prompts are required. Supplementary prompts will be provided to help generate ideas.

Have fun!!

[justabug-creations]

The Man Who Fell to the Sea

Status: Completed (Chapter(s): 1)

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Warnings: Major Character Death

Relationships: Oda Sakunosuke/Sakaguchi Ango (Bungou Stray Dogs)

Characters: Oda Sakunosuke (Bungou Stray Dogs), Sakaguchi Ango (Bungou Stray Dogs)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Sirens, Mermaids, Alternate Universe - Sirens & Mermaids, Alternate Universe - Historical, ambiguous time period, siren sakaguchi ango, human oda sakunosuke, Tragic Romance, allusions to death, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Fluff and Angst

It’s important, to form a bond with the characters of a story you read, to feel and understand them. Its another thing to loathe and love the characters you read about. For in those cases, they are no longer feel like words on a page, but a person by your side—a person like you.

When an author abandons their words—abandons the characters they created to fail in the tragic way of real life, it means they’ve abandoned far more. For two different worlds to collide through the abandonment of story on one end and the treasuring of words on another, that too is a beautiful tragedy.

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Eternity of Undeath

Status: Complete (Chapter(s): 1)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Characters: Sugimoto Saichi

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Alternate Universe - Magic, Lich, Immortality

The fic for week two of Monsttober 2023 is out!! The monster race for this week was Lich.

Body, mind, and soul, the elements to make what society knows as life. If one were to be taken away, what then could be considered life? What can be considered death? If the cost of immortality is one's mortality, are they dead or alive? And what exactly is contained in the phrase mortality? Living as The Immortal, does that make Sugimoto Saichi dead or alive? Are things that simple?