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Welcome to Kinktober 2025!

As there wasn’t an official Kinktober prompt list last year, we’ve put together an unofficial one for 2025, along with an AO3 collection. The graphics were all made by @latte-cucumber, and she's also made a banner that you’re welcome to use for your Tumblr Kinktober posts:

More information

Kinktober is an October prompt challenge that’s been running in one form or another since 2016. There are three prompts for each day in October, and the challenge is to use one (or more!) of the prompts to create something for that day. If you don’t want to use any of the three daily prompts, you can swap them out for the bonus prompts at the bottom of the prompt list.

Our askbox is open for questions about how the challenge works or what the prompts mean.

Prompts

Masturbation – Orgasm Control – Incest

Coming Untouched – Ageplay – Kidnapping

Threesome – Nipple Clamps – Alien Abduction

Voyeurism – Sounding – Hypnosis

Finger Sucking – Wax Play – Dacryphilia

Outdoor Sex – Humiliation – Intoxication

Blindfolds – Chastity – Bloodplay

Webcam – Figging – Cages

Exhibitionism – Shibari – Tentacles

Oral Sex – Punishment – Consensual Non-Consent

Come Licking – Handcuffs – Somnophilia

Sex Work – Kneeling – Sissification

Dildos – Dom Bottom/Sub Top – Medical Play

Omegaverse – Possessive Sex – Choking/Gagging

Semi-Public – Object Insertion – Sex Pollen

Remote Control – High Protocol – Fire Play

Messy Sex – Service Kink – Anal Hooks

Size Queen – Dom/Sub – Genital Torture

Creampie – Sensory Deprivation – Electricity

Mirror Sex – Golden Shower – Dubcon

Rimming – Forced Orgasm – Monsterfucking

Quiet Sex – Crawling – Gunplay

Biting – Praise Kink – Enemas

Anal Sex – Gags – Noncon

Double Penetration – Impact Play – Pillory/Stocks

Lingerie – Cuckolding – Sex Robot

Hair Pulling – Animal Play – Gangbang

Multiple Orgasms – S&M – Needle Play

Body Worship – Omorashi – Full-Body Bondage

Breeding – Fucking Machine – Degradation

Hot Tub Sex – Foot Fetish – Writer’s Choice

Bonus prompts:

Aftercare

Fisting

Wall Sex

Sugar Baby

Uniform Kink

Free Use

Temporary/Permanent Marks

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some of you need to realize that your faves would be having unsafe bdsm sex because they don’t actually know what bdsm sex is, they just want to fuck and also kill each other. you must understand this.

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characters apologizing for things they have no control over. mumbling sorry while losing consciousness. feeling ashamed of a bleeding wound. embarrassed when an infection sets in. deep seated feverish guilt when they need to be carried, when their legs won't keep them upright anymore and they lean heavy on a friend, slurring apologies..........

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“What's the big deal? We're just signing a document. And nothing will change between us, will it?” “No, of course not.”

“Then why make a whole day around it?”

“Because that's The Thing To Do when you get married. Officially.”

“...”

“Chris, I'm not saying we have to throw a big party. But invite the children for dinner? A few friends maybe?”

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When Niccolo Santi offered the "Nic"

Chris: Instantly (see Stormcrow)

Keria: Never (he'd prefer if she didn't use his first name at all)

Eskander: Maybe after a few years, if he's nice to Chris

Zara: With her promotion to Lieutenant? Maybe earlier? Idk

Jess: He was close in Castle Rabi, but after the betrayal delayed it for a while; a few months after the final battle?

Thomas: Thomas just started calling him Nic and he never bothered to correct him; the kid's been through enough, he earned it

Morgan: In the quiet moments before they had to save the Archives; he's very glad he did

Glain: After Oxford; she's honoured, but prefers calling him by his title, or Niccolo if she really has to (she only calls him Nic when she's drunk)

Khalila: At the Spanish embassy

Dario: The last of the children to gain the right; he withheld it just to spite him, then made it a wedding gift

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has anyone told Joy @thebibliosphere that NerdForge on YouTube made a giant rotating book out of the Discworld series yet

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Great Library Series - Rachel Caine Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Niccolo Santi/Christopher Wolfe Characters: Niccolo Santi, Christopher Wolfe (The Great Library) Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Post-Rome, Implied/Referenced Torture, Diary/Journal, Angst Summary:

The time after prison is tough on both of them. Even more so when they can’t talk about it.

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and now for the returning classic that no one asked for but me: tech week quotes as tgl characters

Dario: Prakesh can’t fire me directly. she’s sort of like, you know how there’s the greek gods and then there’s the demigods? that’s what she is.

Khalila: what does that make you?

Dario: a satyr. goat legs, music, dancing around with my shirt off, you know.

Jess: …I don’t like this analogy anymore.

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Morgan: so what actually counts as church clothes?

Wolfe: I don’t think we’re the best people to ask.

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Khalila, watching Dario practice spotlight cues: good, good, that’s fine- oh, that one was kind of bad.

Dario, after putting the light on the complete opposite side of the stage: I don’t know what you’re talking about.

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Zara: this cue looks like shit.

Wolfe: you programmed it.

Zara: fuck you.

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Thomas: don’t bleed on the set! no blood allowed! we don’t have any more paint.

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Morgan: this is a perfect representation of my state of mind.

Glain: …the wall of balls?

Morgan: no, I forgot my hot glue gun- STOP LAUGHING

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Santi: no, it’s fine. I can fix the light.

Wolfe: did you just cross yourself?

Santi, already climbing up the scaffolding: don’t worry about it.

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Santi: NO MEOWING ON THE COMMS

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Santi: Look, I know you think my judgement's clouded because I like Wolfe a little bit. Zara, holding Santi's notepad: You doodled your wedding invitation. Santi: No, that's our joint tombstone. Zara: My mistake.

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lol this is so true. and also really cool in a way i could never explain to anyone who isn't Like This

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it’s so awesome when there’s a character who isn’t canonically bisexual but is undeniably haunted by the specter of bisexuality

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Khalila! She's having a good time and does not yet know that her idiot husband is in the drunk tank.

Idiot in question.

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ruminating about tgl universe worldbuilding instead of sleeping. I know I wrote a fic where I mentioned that I imagined Alexandria to be sort of a vatican city situation (ie it is culturally egyptian but technically independent and instead governed directly by the library).

now I’m wondering if it’s more like the actual city of Alexandria is semi-autonomous within Egypt, and within Alexandria, the actual physical territory of the library is its own city-within-a-city, and entirely independent in terms of government. like a university campus within a town, if that university were also an independent micro-nation that held a huge amount of power around the world. so I think I’ve circled back around to the vatican idea again but with more of a distinction between the city of Alexandria and the library itself.

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Guy who is touch starved but emotionally repressed goading you into punching him for completely normal reasons

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Library at Marienburg Castle, Germany, 19th Century

The library and castle were built between 1858 and 1867 as a birthday present by George V of Hanover to his wife, Marie of Saxe-Altenburg.

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