#october creatives

[imaginatorcreates]

Prompt Foundry Day 31: Celebrating Halloween! | Fictober Day 31: "it's always been you" | 31: Costumes (bweird OC-tober) (what are your ocs wearing for halloween?)

24 September 2024 — 24 September 2024

Word Count: 649 words

Author's Notes: Prompts by @thepromptfoundry and @fictober-event and @bweirdart. Full promptfoundry list here. Full fictober-event list here. Full BeWeirdOC-tober list here.

“Remember Zephyr — ”

“I know!”

“Not too much candy. And please try to stay close.”

Zephyr groaned. “Whynn, I’m not gonna run off super far! I’ve gotta take care of the passengers! And you’re one of them.” Really, it should be obvious from their costume. Maybe Whynn didn’t understand what they were dressed up as. So the child posed in the middle of the dark street, one hand pointing forwards and the other on their hip. “All aboard!” they called out.

Their hair fluffed out, untethered by a hat or other head accessory. While a hat would’ve really sold their costume, they hated the feeling of almost everything on their head. The most that they allowed was a hood, and even that felt too weird if they really thought about the sensation.

A few beings looked at the child, some cooing and others rolling their eyes. Zephyr ignored them at first, but as their gaze drifted between Whynn and the passerby, their bravado slowly faded into something sheepish. “You think my costume is nice, right?”

Whynn stayed silent for about 13 seconds of varying length before they patted Zephyr on the shoulders. “Very cute.”

“Very professional!”

“Professionally cute.”

Zephyr lightly hit their guardian on the arm and whined, “I’m a professional! ‘M not cute!”

“Oh, fine. You’re the most professional one there is.” Whynn fixed their short cape and said something under their breath that sounded like, “Maybe I should’ve done a different costume.”

“I like your costume. Wizards are super cool! They’re also super smart, like you,” Zephyr said. “You’re just missing the big hat they wear where you can shout ‘Sun and moon! Stars and sword! I summon to me, places not explored!’ or something!”

Whynn blinked owlishly behind their glasses, then gasped. “That’s a perfect spell!” They waved their hands with the grace of someone who didn’t exactly know what to do with their hands and recited the rhyme Zephyr made up. “Oh, that’s perfect!”

Zephyr hopped around their guardian. “Is it?”

“It is!”

The child let out a loud whoop of joy. “It is! I’m a spellmaker and a conductor and– AT!” Zephyr’s attention jumped from celebrating their new careers to the familiar conductor. The conductor was dressed in a classic black costume…maybe a vampire? Zephyr guessed that someone at the train depot or station gave it to the robot. “AT! Look, look!” They stumbled into a run towards the robot, leaping into a floating and slow-moving projectile. “Guess what I am!”

AT-1225 caught the light child and put them down. “Let me see…” He looked at their costume, and Zephyr caught the moment when she paused. “Oh? Are you a miniature me?”

“Yeah! It’s always been you!”

AT-1225 did something a little odd: it made a static-filled sound before covering its mouth. The static turned into a crackly laugh that continued even when Whynn managed to catch up to the duo. “Apologies, but — ” He tapped at his throat and static still echoed out. “Come on…” She tapped her throat a bit more before things calmed down. “You dressed up as a train conductor?”

“Of course! Whynn’s a wizard, I’m a train conductor, and you’re a vampire!”

AT-1225 shrugged. “My coworkers insisted.”

“No hat?” Whynn asked.

“My coworkers also insisted that the hat would ruin the overall costume.”

Zephyr watched as Whynn took one of AT-1225’s gloved hands and pressed the back of it to their mouth. AT-1225’s voicebox fizzed and he reached up to grab a hat that wasn’t there. She instead shaded her eyes and crackled out, “Whynn! You — !”

“Sorry, sorry. I had to.” Whynn looked happy, a sheepish smile on their face.

Zephyr on the other hand, pretended to gag. “Ew! Ew ew ew! I’m here for candy and pointing at people, not this!” They circled around the two with increasing intensity until they could finally move forwards.

Halloween, here they all go!

[imaginatorofthings]

4: UNDER-APPRECIATED OC (bweird OC-tober)

an oc you feel like you don’t talk about enough, or you haven’t fleshed out as much as you would like

Well goodness that's a lot. I could talk about:

Akemi, Jazz, Carwyn

Im and Ufori

Naz

But I'll stick with some recent ones that I should flesh out. Both are made with DND in mind, and both are warforged.

Dru-Bot! A star druid. A warforged made of wood and having existed for too long for them to remember its original purpose. It stays in forests and other natural areas to care for the flora and fauna there, while also studying the stars. It thinks that since they were made of the earth, they'd also have a connection with the stars as the earth was made from the stars as well. It's a whole circle. More introverted, and a bit blunt about it. "Are you lost in this forest? Would you like to be led out? And stay out?"

My Security Bot! It has no name, and doesn't want a name. I'm thinking a mix of fighter and artificer? It's got flesh growing on its exterior to help it blend in with other humanoids and not arise suspicion. Very introverted and very contemplates its purpose of protecting others often.

Read about them on AO3 or Tumblr!

[thepenultimateword]

Hello everyone! As October approaches, I've been hearing a lot about the very popular Whumptober. However, since I'm not much of a whump writer, I decided to go ahead and make my own Flufftober challenge!

For those who don't already know, this challenge involves following a prompt for each day in October. I am writing blog, so I'll be writing, but feel free to follow these prompts in the medium of your choice! Also, you can participate as much or as little as you like. Technically, the challenge is for the entire month, but if there's a day you're not vibing with the prompt or you just don't have time, don't stress. This is purely for fun.

If you're not one for pure fluff, flangst (fluff/angst) is also perfectly acceptable.

Let me know if you have any questions! I hope you enjoy!

P.S. I'd love to see what you all come up with! So if you so choose to share, tag me in your posts or use the tag #flufftober2024 (however others creators have also made their own flufftobrs, so things will get mixed up a bit)

Flufftober 2024 Prompts

Day 1: Rainstorm

Day 2: Fireplace

Day 3: Sweater Day

4: Apple Cider

Day 5: Hurt/Comfort

Day 6: Cuddles

Day 7: Protective

Day 8: Secret Relationship

Day 9: Sickfic

Day 10: Pumpkin Patch

Day 11: Hugs and Kisses

Day 12: Blankets

Day 13: Harvest Festival

Day 14 Coffee Shop

Day 15: Ghost

Day 16: Sweet Treat

Day 17: Breakfast

Day 18: Nostalgia

Day 19: Scary Movie

Day 20: Reunion

Day 21: Sleepy

Day 22: Whisper

Day 23: Finally Safe

Day 24: Confession

Day 25: Holding Hands

Day 26: Monster

Day 27: Cleaning up

Day 28: Embarrassed

Day 29: Leaf Fight

Day 30: Roadtrip

Day 31: Found Family

[i-like-blue-eyed-robots]

I’m sure this has been done before, but it’s just so cute every time that I couldn’t resist.

[writers-potion]

Promptober! (The Writer's Version)

Hello everybody! October is just round the corner, and isn't this just the busiest time of the year for artists?

Let's squeeze the most out of 2024 by hopping in on the Inktober and NaNoWriMo trends in October and November. Personally, I'm aiming at writing between 1,500 - 2,000 words long short story or flash fiction based on the given prompt for the day!

Here's the list of prompts & inspos I'll be using for my Inktober 2024 journey <3 Comment or tag me on YOUR personal Inktober prompt lists, I'd love to take a look! Feel free to use my list for yourselves, too!

“Every October, artists all over the world take on the Inktober drawing challenge by doing one ink drawing a day the entire month.” - Jake Parker

─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* . ───

💎If you like my blog, buy me a coffee☕ and find me on instagram! Also, join my Tumblr writing community for some more fun.

💎Before you ask, check out my masterpost part 1 and part 2 

[a-word-a-day-for-writers]

𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫

A warm period in late September and early October, when blackberries ripen.

[lyralit]

halloween flash prompts

a failing witch apprentice & abandoned turtle meet in a bar

13 short stories from different perspectives of the same scene

the scene starts in a claw-foot bathtub

frosted glass and red cheeks stained with chocolate

the wind howling through the chimney as you put on your favourite movie

waking up in a pile of candy wrappers

ghosts are people who've died before their soulmate; they follow them around until they are joined in death

the more powerful your familiar is, the more powerful you are as a witch. an enormous black cat has begun following around a witch who cannot do magic.

you're the fate who decides where people go after death

a child shows up at your door, but their costume moves

enchanted candies that make funky things happen

you go door to door giving candy rather than receiving it

trick or treating as Santa Claus

a town is stuck in eternal Halloween; one day a child arrives, gift-wrapped in red and green

you command the clouds that shroud the night during Halloween; one day, your counterpart, the one who commands the stars, betrays you. this Halloween is the night for revenge.

[smittenbypoetry]

Poetry Game!

October 2024 Edition:

The rules are as follows: write an eleven line poem. Each respective line includes, but, unless stated, is not limited to the following in order:

A body of water

A geometric shape

A type of cloud

Something you find in the bathroom

The word: susurrus

Free line, use however you like

Any idyllic place

A metaphor using any fruit

A type of dance

The word: perfect

Title of any song you like

Have fun!

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Tag your poem #smittenbypoetrygame, and I will reblog it here. Be sure to use one of the first five tags to do this, else there’s a chance it won’t show up when I search for it. If I haven’t reblogged your poem within 24 hours, please send me a message and I’ll add it to the queue.

[zyuyea]

Doll - Gaunting Salloween 2024

[pendogcreative]

Hoping you all had a wonderfall Halloween! Our puppets have so many exciting photos to share!

[imaginatorcreates]

Fictober Day 9: "don't listen to me, listen to them"

21 September 2024 — 21 September 2024

Word Count: 558 words

Author's Note: Prompts by @fictober-event. Full list here.

“I need you to go — ”

“And leave you behind? Absolutely not.”

You resist the urge to roll your eyes, or to let out a loud groan of annoyance. You manage that resistance for long enough to throw off suspicion over your emotions, then you slap both hands to your face and let them slide off. You put enough pressure on them to let the flesh on your face peel down a little, like you have seen some humanoids do to expose the bottom of their eyeballs.

“You hired me to protect you on your journey to the capital. Now we’re here, and there are better people to ensure your safety instead of me.” It was the truth. You can see the powerful spellcasters here, the soldiers and knights with their heavy weapons in hand. You can also approximate the number of times that those weapons have been bloodied, and it was enough to count on one hand only.

“Madam.” One of the soldiers extends a hand, metal plate armor clicking as they do so. “We must go now. You are safer with us.”

Your client, a sorcerer from a rather influential family in the capital (you don’t pay much attention to politics, so sue you for not knowing specifics), looks at you. Her eyes look at you up and down, then she clasps her hands in front of her.

Oh gods, she’s begging.

“Mysterious protector of mine with no name,” she cries, “at least allow me to offer you a spell of protection if you are to go out and fight those that have trailed me.” She starts to blink more frequently and sticks her lower lip out a bit.

You contort your face into a grimace. You hate it when others start pulling things like this on you. So maybe charms like this work on most of your client’s previous protectors, it wouldn’t work on you. “Save your spells.”

She stomps her foot on the cobblestone. “I’m offering you a good spell, so it’s best you take me up on my offer.”

“Madam, we have to go — ”

“Not until I give this spell to them!”

You grimace again. “It,” you spit out. “Not ‘them’. ‘It’.” You wave your hand dismissively and add, “Anyways, don't listen to me, listen to them.” You gesture to the spellcasters and knights, ready to sweep the sorcerer off her feet and take her far away to safety.

Your client, soon to be a former client as soon as you can get away from her, sighs. “You are so frustrating.”

You keep your mouth shut.

The sorcerer rapidly takes a step towards you and exhales a word weaved with magic as she taps your nose with a finger. “Let them try to burn you,” she whispers.

You recoil from her touch and consider punching yourself in the nose, but that’s an idiotic move. You instead rub at your nose with the sleeve of your jacket as you glare at her from behind your tinted glasses.

The sorcerer giggles and moves behind her new, more qualified protection squad. “Consider that my tip,” she calls as she’s whisked away.

“Stupid touch spells,” you spit out to no one. You sort of hope that you get punched in the nose by the ones that have been trailing you. Pain would be better than that gentle tap.

[imaginatorofthings]

9: Relationships (bweird OC-tober)

doesn't have to be romantic! can any kind of relationship (frienship, family, rivalry etc)

Okay so. I am a big fan of queer relationships (I wonder why /sarc...maybe because I am, as one might put it, one of those queers). I also like putting those through a familial and platonic lense, or as of recently, a queerplatonic one. Plain romantic and/or sexual relationships don't exactly vibe with my a-spec self.

The most recent example can be my Westward Trio. Lots of familial relationship there, seeing as how Whynn and Zephyr (cousins who also have a parental/child relationship due to the large age gap) were the first of the trio to come into focus. Then AT-1225 came into the picture due to a stray thought. A conductor and a writer, a bit similar in a way. I queerplatonic-fied that and Zephyr has another adult figure to look up to!

Next most recent example would be Akemi, Jazz, and Carwyn. They're in some sort of poly-QPR, though through different AUs, they're rivals (*looks at my vampire and hunter writing I did last year*). But they always somehow end up gravitating towards each other, even if Akemi --- the first and original character of this trio --- keeps struggling against my brain's grasp to be free.

[aerodumb]

We all go back to The Unknown every October. We all know the feeling that drags us towards it.

[trappezoider]

Attention all writers, artists, virtual photographers and other creative individuals who are interested in Sebinis!!

We've compiled a list of spooky prompts for October on our Sebinis-server🙌Everyone who wants to create something Sebinis-related is welcome to join this challenge! There is of course no pressure to do every single one of them, they're all optional x) Additionally, using the hashtag #gauntingsalloween with the posts on social media is highly encouraged so it's easy to find! And if you're interested in joing our Sebinis-server on Discord where there probably will be a lot of discussion about the event, here's the link: https://discord.gg/pQJdkqaRJz Happy brainrotting and I hope you all have a wonderful fall!!🍂

[creation-help]

(Vaguely poetic) Autumnal prompts!

For art or writing or whatever you want!

- It's getting darker each day, and I'm okay with that

- I can smell the coming cold

- I hope it rains tomorrow, too. I don't like the quiet

- Standing in the orange streetlight alone

- The sunlight is cold now

- When admiring the color of the leaves it's weird to realise they're dying

- I've seen more mushrooms than people this week

- Do things look different when it's darker? Do people feel different when it's colder?

- The animals are leaving and I'll have to say goodbye

- I hope the frost doesn't come for a while. I'm gonna miss colors

Tag me if you use any! I'd love to see

[olis-inkwell-symposium]

🕯️ Oli’s Inkwell Symposium Presents 🕯️

Halloween Writing Challenge 1:

Monsters in the Mirror

Prompt:

🎭 We all wear masks, but what happens when that mask slips? For this challenge, write a chilling short story or flash fiction where a character’s hidden, monstrous nature reveals itself at a seemingly innocent Halloween gathering.

Is the monster literal, or does it come from within? As fear takes hold, identities blur and the true horrors emerge.

Focus on psychological horror, exploring themes of self-deception, suppressed desires, and twisted identity.

The monster in your story can be metaphorical or literal, but make sure the story challenges the character’s—and the reader’s—perception of who the real monster is.

The story should contain elements of dark transformation (physical, mental, or emotional), making the reader question the true nature of monstrosity.

⚡ The Twist: The true ‘monster’ should be unexpected. By the end of the story, reveal a hidden truth that changes everything the reader thought they knew.

🕸️ Word Count: 700–2,000 words. Keep it tight and packed with suspense.

🦇 Bonus: Subtly introduce classic horror tropes, with a fresh twist.

🕷️ How to Enter:

Submit your entry by: 10/09/24

Tag your story with 'oli's inkwell symposium' and 'monsters in the mirror challenge'

Be sure to follow and tag me @olis-inkwell-symposium so I can reblog your submission.

The best stories will be featured throughout the entire month, so showcase your most sinister and twisted creations!