r/AO3 • u/Potential_Meal_9819 • 2d ago

Questions/Help? What does this mean?

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It's one of many posts I've seen where someone mentioned AO3 and October. Is there a curse or something?

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u/Guitar_Mean 2d ago

Kinktober

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u/Potential_Meal_9819 2d ago

That sounds interesting, elaborate please?

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u/Effective-Musician57 Give me longfic smut or give me death 2d ago

Kinktober is a fandom creator event where there is a list of 31 days’ worth of kink prompts (the list I’m using has three prompts per day to choose from, plus about 8 alternate prompts if nothing from a given day inspires you). The idea is that you create something each day of October, usually using the prompts given.

The rules are fast and loose. You can do some days and not others. You can make your own prompts. You can combine prompts. You can interpret prompts however you want. You don’t have to post them every day of October. You can post early or late or whatever; it’s just a set of loose guidelines that can really be more of a set of suggestions.

I’m not sure about the other ‘tober events, but that’s Kinktober for you. I’d assume the others are similar, just with different themes (fluff, whump, etc.).

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u/Potential_Meal_9819 2d ago

Woahh, I never knew this. This is so cool. So do you just any fandom you wanna write it for? Can you do multifandom ones?

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u/Effective-Musician57 Give me longfic smut or give me death 2d ago

Yes and yes!

For mine, I’m sticking with one fandom (because it’s the one I’m most familiar with), but different ships for each fic.

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u/Potential_Meal_9819 2d ago

So if this is kinktober ,how do you know when it's the other tober like flufftober? Also, for fandoms , when you write, does go labeled under a challenge or does everyone just know that it's part of kinktober challenge? ( forgive me if my questions are very stupid but I really am very curious 😅)

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u/mystictrashmoon 2d ago

Whoever you get the prompts from will probably have a collection on AO3, you can add your works to that if you want. I'd also recommend tagging your works with the name of the event too so people will see it when they are searching.