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Scareuary 2025 is taking place in February!

Make sure you clear a little bit of time in February or simply make an intention to write a little spooky stuff that month, because it's going to be a lot of fun!

Check out the blog post above to learn about the different events/writing prompts that are taking place this Scareuary. The TL;DR is:

M-m-monster! - where we create monsters.

Twisted Hearts - where love meets horror.

The Maze - where one must escape a labyrinth.

The Coppe's Webbe - a Scareuary staple, where one word prompt dictates your month's writing.

I've also been toying with the idea of doing write-with-me livestreams where you join me for one hour per week while I write for Scareuary, sharing my screen and writing process - and we can have a little check-in and see how everyone is doing with their Scareuary experience so far. If that sounds good, let me know!

Scareuary is a chill writing challenge, so it's completely adaptable to however much you want to write. Two snippets for the entire month? Great! A whole short story? Neat! More than one short story? You're on a roll! A couple of poems? Amazing!

No limits on format, type of writing, length, etc.

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[Image description in ALT. Prompts in plain text under the cut.]

Polyamships is hosting #MultiamoryMarch2025

Multiamory March is a month-long event held each year, starting on March 1st and ending on March 31st, with a prompt for each day.

🎉🎉2025 marks the 5th year since #MultiamoryMarch came to our blog 🎉🎉

Once again we gather to celebrate polyamory in all its forms: OT3s, OT4s, OT8s, V-relationships, QPRs, sedoretus, and any configuration you can think of. In the spirit of this month, we invite you to create works in any medium using the prompts above if you need a little inspiration.

This year we have an additional 10 alt visual prompts for you to choose! Check out the links under the cut.

Remember our prompts are there to inspire you, not restrict you. You can also create freely or even use one of our prompts from past years we’d still love to see fanworks for if they inspire you better. If you use a prompt, please make sure to let us know which prompt you’re creating for somewhere on your post.

At us @polyamships and use the tags #MultiamoryMarch and #MultiamoryMarch2025 in the first five tags so we can hopefully see it. If you don’t see us reblog your post within a few days feel free to send us an ask to let us know, or submit it via the submit link here in case we’ve missed your post or the tags/notifications are being weird.

All ratings are welcome but anything nsfw/triggery should be warned for and behind a read more, as should very long tumblr fic.

We also have an AO3 collection for the event that can be found here and the collection name is ‘multiamory_march_works’.

We can’t wait to see what you create for the month, and please do spread the word about the event. ❤️♾️

Over the next month or two, we will also be doing a number of posts with expanded ideas for each prompt for anyone who needs a little more inspiration than just the one or two word style.

Under the cut you can find the prompts in written form:

Official Multiamory March 2025 prompts

First kiss(es)

Hurt/Comfort

First date as a polycule

N+1 things

Cuddles

Team as polycule

Secret relationship

Friends to lovers

Queerplatonic relationships

Meet the family

Pining

Explaining/mapping the polycule

The polycule taking care of a child or pet

Confessions

and they were roommates

Outsider POV

Soulmates AU

"Don't look at me. This was not my idea."

Chatfic/the polycule groupchat

Time travel

Dreams

Space

Complicated relationships

Trans characters

Touch

Scars

Kink negotiation

Magic

Vampire AU

Role reversal

Morning routine

Alt visual prompts

Always room for one more [LINK]

Home [LINK]

HALSEY - NOW OR NEVER MV [LINK]

Dancing [LINK]

Matching [LINK]

Mythology [LINK]

BTS - BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS MV [LINK]

Family feud [LINK]

Royalty [LINK]

KARD - HOLA HOLA MV [LINK]

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so i love doing divination and also haven't offered free readings in a while. And I just got the idea to maybe offer some free readings for OCs... i think that would be very fun

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making up a whole discography for my boy Asher Kain and im so excited abt it

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don't think I've ever posted my art here but im working on my end of year project and im rlly happy w/ it so far so. Progress shot!

it's on a 24 x 36 canvas and im gonna be painting on the titles of all (or as many as can fit) the songs from my listening journal playlist (which has all the songs i listened to a bunch at whatever point of the year). i haven't finished a painting since September and im stoked as hell that this is coming along so well already

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Since it's my birthday I figured I'd try- would anyone mind sparing some money so I can maybe order a decent dinner or some extra groceries tonight?

Ko-fi

Cash app

You can also buy my novelette (link in my pinned post) for whatever price you want. Or if you've read it, could you leave a review on there? That would be awesome too

(any extra money will go to buying indie books, so I can review them in the new year. Tag me if you've got one out!)

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One of my biggest nitpicks in fiction concerns the feeding of babies. Mothers dying during/shortly after childbirth or the baby being separated form the mother shortly after birth is pretty common in fiction. It is/was also common enough in real life, which is why I think a lot of writers/readers don't think too hard about this. however. Historically, the only reason the vast majority of babies survived being separated from their mother was because there was at least one other woman around to breastfeed them. Before modern formula, yes, people did use other substitutes, but they were rarely, if ever, nutritionally sufficient.

Newborns can't eat adult food. They can't really survive on animal milk. If your story takes place in a world before/without formula, a baby separated from its mother is going to either be nursed by someone else, or starve.

It doesn't have to be a huge plot point, but idk at least don't explicitly describe the situation as excluding the possibility of a wetnurse. "The father or the great grandmother or the neighbor man or the older sibling took and raised the baby completely alone in a cave for a year." Nope. That baby is dead I'm sorry. "The baby was kidnapped shortly after birth by a wizard and hidden away in a secret tower" um quick question was the wizard lactating? "The mother refused to see or touch her child after birth so the baby was left to the care of the ailing grandfather" the grandfather who made the necessary arrangements with women in the neighborhood, right? right? OR THAT GREAT OFFENDER "A newborn baby was left on the doorstep and they brought it in and took care of it no issues" What Are You Going to Feed That Baby. Hello?

Like. It's not impossible, but arrangements are going to have to be made. There are some logistics.

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me when the writers block is insane so im just thinking rlly hard abt Asher Kain and maybe hopefully getting down like at least a sentence or two for some of his stuff. We'll see

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wip someday tag

tagged by @fifis-corner, thank you! working on a new Obsession fic to end the year (thank you @lawful-evil-novelist, v excited to round out 2025 with some horrible boys), so here’s a little bit from the rough draft of that

[ID - a red decorative divider]

Vizaeth hurries to the apothecary closet, scanning the shelves quickly. Nothing stands out as unusual, just ordinary components. Some a little pricey, but none he—or Pharaun—couldn’t find in Sorcere’s regular stores. The powder, he thinks, must be something unique and special for Pharaun to want it without asking. He trails his fingers over Nalfein’s workbench. No, that’s not true. It could be perfectly ordinary and Pharaun would want it without asking. Asking gives the person you ask far too much power over you. They know what you want, and have the ability to deny you it; you make yourself a willing victim when you ask.

[ID - a red decorative divider]

Obsession taglist: @foxboyclit (ask to be +/-)

no-pressure tagging @viscerawrites @monstrify @ahordeofwasps and @willtheweaver to share some wip snips!

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HEY i see a lot of artists doing this but as a writer how about you send me a number 1-100 and i will try to write a short drabble based off whatever song that corresponds to in my spotify wrapped

fine print is fine print. fine print is i reserve the right to not answer if i dont want to. however i will try. we will see!

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me, the motherfucker with over 50 abandoned works in progress: i have an idea

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yknow what would be RLLY cool. oc fic gift exchange

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NEVER STOP BEING OBSESSED WITH YOUR OCS 🫵

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Bittersweet and Burgundy | Colors and Creation Collection

I come alive next to you The air smells like sage and sea salt Wild roses trail down your back and take root in the moss Antlers in your hair, you are the king here I have forgotten all the darker days The sage burns solemn in the sea Wild berries ripen at your fingers and feed the forest Bark on your shoulders, you are the guardian here I whisper all my stories into your ears of stone If we talk long enough I always turn you into a poem But I’d rather you weren’t breathing leaves Bleeding onto brambles at a fork in the road Fountains of sweet water cold enough to choke I burn the sage on the stage of the sea’s solemn oath Trees bow and bend and break and I- I drag you out from under the unforgiving waves But you will never be the same I come alive next to you And silence reigns

originally in 2020 by M.J. Valentine

poetry taglist: @enchanted-lightning-aes @diphthongsfordays @mel-writes-with-her-dragons @winterandwords @pandawriterstuff and also @ren-c-leyn

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i know it's hard to work past insecurity and lack of self confidence but it's wild to me that some ppl think their ideas are too ambitious/too good to write and thusly never write them?

idk it's just like. I wouldn't be so good at writing if I hadn't tried to write things above my skill level or outside of my comfort zone, and that's smthng I still do + i still have so much room to improve. i also think it's important to write the story you way you want to tell it instead of the way you think it "should" be written.

again, i know it's hard and I don't mean to sound harsh, but .. yall rlly need to have more faith in yourself and love for your ideas.

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the worst part abt wanting to write thiom is the fact that i cannot keep stories to myself or i lose all interest in them so. Trying to consider what to do abt this

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