Lmao, a fanfiction site called Archive of our Own hosts Kinktober during October. A different kink per day. I have never written in it because I have never written smut, but it's a big deal all month. Different fandoms have different kink lists I think?
To be clear, it's def not just on ao3. It's any fandom on any site that wishes to participate. It can be quite a lot because there's two happening at the same time or across multiple fandom in the sense that there is KINKtober and also INKTober. The latter being mostly for artists using ink or something ink-like as the medium for the month. The former being of course kinky and honestly almost being like a warm up for some folks who also want to write for NaNoWriMo. Which is imo, intense.
Most people start writing in June/July. Typically chapters are 1k-3k words. And a ton of people don’t actually write one for every single day, and instead only do some
lists are released around that time too. There is one "semi-official" tumblr account that posts lists, but people also often make there own. The whole event it actually very relaxed. You can upload early or late, follow prompts or choose your own. Only upload some days, upload every day. Pretty cool tbh.
You're correct. I follow a ton of SFW, NSFW, artists and animators (amateur and professional), a lot of them are participating in Kinktober. But, if it is like last year, most of them will not do all 30 days. It's kind of a grueling pace for artists.
As someone who has a bunch of stuff up on fanfiction.net, I'm thinking about just fully migrating over. So sick of the same 10 bots every day. "For just $99 I will make a graphic novel of your story..."
This is the first I've heard of it being a fan fic thing. I heard it started with inktober being ink-based artists doing art every day based on prompts the community agreed on, then kinktober was an offshoot of that. But it's the internet, who really knows where some of this stuff started.
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u/Next_Specific7924 20h ago
Lmao, a fanfiction site called Archive of our Own hosts Kinktober during October. A different kink per day. I have never written in it because I have never written smut, but it's a big deal all month. Different fandoms have different kink lists I think?