🍂 🍃 Hello and welcome to our fourth annual Flufftober 🍂 🍃
We’re so excited to be back and have you here once again!
As always, let’s fill the month of October with as much fluff as possible 🥰 for that to happen, you can either use our 31 regular prompts or enjoy a little challenge 😏
Below the cut, you'll find all our rules, posting info, and all the prompts in writing. If you have any more questions, please feel free to send us an ask.
And now, for the challenge...
Prompt Extras
We love to see how many of you get inspired by our prompts every year - be it by the original list or the Prompt Extras. Once again we're offering you that option and you're more than welcome to replace prompts from the original list if they don't work for you for whatever reason - no explanation needed.
As has become tradition, we offer you last year's top five fan favorites (as voted in the end survey). In addition to that, we also offer a little challenge: five angsty prompts for you to turn fluffy!
If you don't want to replace any prompt from the original list but still love the additional ones - or you simply want to challenge yourself even further - you can also mix them all together!
So in whichever way you use these Prompt Extras, have fun with them and go wild 💚
We hope you like these prompts, and now
Happy Creating 🥳
Standard Blog Rules & FAQ
(Due to previous asks, we made sure to add more points to this section - while they're not new rules, they're newer to this list, so you'll find them colored green)
No inc*st or p*dophilia - we can’t keep you from writing it or creating art for it but it won’t be reblogged.
No inc*st: This rule does not apply to distant cousins and such, as you might find in the LotR fandom (or basically in all of European Monarchy). The line we draw is at direct blood relations (siblings, parents, kids) and/or legal guardianship.
No p*dophilia: This rule does not rule out fandoms that feature teenagers such as Harry Potter, Heartstoppers, Hunger Games, etc. It also doesn't mean you can't write about their time together as teenagers! It's aimed at ships in which one is a minor and the other is not - but since even that has grey areas, the rule is this: if you keep it SFW, all is good and allowed, we don't care; if it turns NSFW, be mindful of the legalities of the world/society/times your characters live in.
No hate or ship bashing - we’re all different and we all love different things. As long as it doesn’t go against rule #1, it’s allowed.
Tag correctly! Trigger warnings (including cheating!), ships, ratings, (pure) smut, etc - it’s all fine as long as you tag it.
There’s absolutely no word count restriction, write as little or as much as you like.
In regards to art, anything goes: drawings, paintings, collages, mood boards, gif sets, videos, playlists… the sky’s the limit (though not really…). If you would like to create a podfic, the fic you're using does not have to be new - your creation will be new!
You can mix and mash different mediums however you like, be it within one prompt or on different days.
While we can’t force you to write fluff or create fluffy art, please try to keep in mind that this is a fluff event 😉 that, of course, doesn't mean you can't combine it with angsty/whumpy prompts - hurt/comfort is absolutely welcome!
You can start creating as soon as you see this - but please refrain from posting before the respective day.
If you post early, we will schedule your post for the correct day; if you use multiple prompts in one creation, we will post on the earliest day you used.
You can participate on as many days as you like, even if it’s just one; you can also create multiple entries for the same day.
You can replace as many original prompts as you like with our prompt extras; you can also combine them with the original prompts or create for them in addition, that's completely up to you.
It’s okay to write one story/a series for all the prompts.
You do not have to stick to one character, ship, or even one fandom - switch as often as you like to or even write for multiple ships for one day.
The ship does not have to be a romantic one! Friendship and family feels are more than welcome (but this is not a way to get around rule #1!)
Original works as well as OCs in fandoms are welcome! But please make sure to mark these clearly, either in the tags or the post itself. We're not familiar with all fandoms (though we're definitely learning a lot!), so we're not always sure what might be an OC and what might be such an unknown side character not even Google can find them...
Reader insert fics (for example "character x reader") as well as RPFs are absolutely allowed.
Other languages are also welcome - just make sure to clearly mark the day and fandom so that we can still easily reblog.
This event can be combined with other events as long as the other event allows it.
Late entries are always welcome, even if it is months or years later.
All fandoms and ships are welcome - fanon and canon - as long as they’re of age (in case you want to add smut) and not related.
Posting
Posting to tumblr
Please use the tag #flufftober2024
Please make sure there is NO SPACE between flufftober and 2024! We will NOT be checking the other tag this year!
Since tags are sometimes wonky, make sure to also mention us with @flufftober in your post
We will try to catch them all, but please don't be mad if we miss a post or if it gets reblogged a bit late
If you're absolutely certain a post has slipped past us, feel free to send an ask with the link to your post
To make reblogging easier for us, make sure to add the following tags: #flufftober2024 #day [xy] #[fandom] #[ship and/or main character(s)]
If you're using a prompt extra tag it as #alt [number]
Posting to ao3
You can add your creation to the collection Flufftober 2024 (either as flufftober2024 or as flufftober_2024)
Late entries are always welcome, on tumblr as well as the ao3 collection! Neither will close - but like always, reblogs will become less regular the more months have passed...
Marriage fluff, Anxious Hermione, and Quidditch Player Draco!
Read HERE on AO3, with art by the endlessly talented @ivmaruva!
Draco glanced over the gardens again and saw how groups had formed, clusters of people mingling and laughing, sitting around tables chatting. There did seem to be a large group of witches that had assembled. He had been the only new teammate to join the team this year, so everyone in attendance most likely already knew each other.
Hermione should be down there, showing them all how brilliant she was. She was a damned war hero and Draco knew they would gladly welcome her into their fold.
But instead, she was …
Draco looked back up at his wife, face and voice serious now. “Are you hiding up here?”
I had another part to this I was going to draw but I ended up not keeping it because I thought this more mysterious! Secret relationship or perhaps courage on the last day. who knows 🧐
"well i like this post but i'm worried my followers might not" fuck your followers. The entire point of tumblr is to cause irreparable psychic damage to your followers. We are locked in mortal combat on the astral plane. You must win. You Must Win. You Must Destroy Them.
Three ships: Dramione obviously, Panville (Pansy and Neville), NottPot (Theo and Harry)
First ship: Dramione. I read every enemies to lovers and rivals to lovers trad pub. book that I could get my hands on so soon enough my TikTok algorithm was like "Have you tried Dramione?"
Last Song: "Cruel Summer" Taylor Swift
Last Movie: I basically don't watch movies ever, I am a tv girl at heart. However, I went to the theater recently because I had to see the Barbie movie. It was Glorious.
Currently Reading: "You Do It for Me" by @zeebee3
Currently Watching: Series 15 of Taskmaster (Full episodes are on youtube for my fellow Americans) and Heartstopper
Last thing I wrote: I wrote something for the upcoming Pumpkin Spice Fest, but it's not revealed until Oct. 22 so that's all I can say for now.
Currently writing: "From the Depths" it is a coworkers Enemies to Lovers mystery. I have really just begun writing it, so it probably won't come out for a while. But I have an amazing pair of betas for it:
Fawkes_in_sox and Astateofinelegance so check out their work in the meantime!
Ok. I am going to tag @zeebee3 @cr0ftisprocrastinating @onebedtorulethemall
You guys this just makes me so nostalgic for 2014 Tumblr. Thank you @biirdiee
Three Ships: Dramione, Hinny, Jilly
First Ship: Harry/Ginny one hundred billion percent. It's the best part of canon
Last Song: Heaven Is Here - Florence and the Machine
Last Movie: A Haunting in Venice (oh my god, so good)
Currently reading: How much time do you have? Current favorite WIPs are "You Do It For Me" (shoutout to @zeebee3), but also always recommending Lionheart. I'm about to start my seventh re-read of Remain Nameless because it's my comfort fic.
Currently watching: My fiancé play video games - the TV hasn't been on for shows in a very long time
Last thing I wrote: The update for the only thing I've ever written my SocMed They Don't Know That We Know They Know
Currently writing: please see above. I am merely a hype woman!
A gentle note, that fan fiction is written as a hobby, as stress relief, as a coping mechanism, as a creative outlet, as writing practice, and for fun. Fan fic writers do not have a team of professional editors behind them, they do not earn money. And therefore, "reviews" do not have a place in our discussions around fan fiction.
"Rating" fan fiction is akin to being given a handmade gift from a friend and then sending a "thank you" note filled with your critiques. It's a gift, something shared out of mutual passion for a fandom and its characters.
"But what about if it was a glowing 5⭐ review?!!"
Recommending fan fic is appreciated and encouraged! My personal platform is almost entirely fan fic recommendations and I've made some of my best fandom friends through this space.
But "reviewing" them as we would traditionally published books, that are a commodity, is in conflict with the gift economy and community-ethos of Fandom. If you're giving star ratings (even glowing ones) it perpetuates the message that this is the way to approach fan fiction, and sets the stage for the 4 stars ...3 stars....and DNF "reviews."
Fandom is community, not commodity.
Writers are readers. Readers are writers. Your favorite writer is alongside you in these fandom spaces, looking for the same escape you are. Please always consider the frustration and hurt caused by seeing someone "review" their hobby.
Of course, as readers we want to critically engage with what we read. I encourage new fan fiction readers to connect with others and keep the negative or critical discussions to private spaces. Fan fiction serves many purposes, of which reader entertainment is only one. There's a reason the fan fic motto, across fandoms, is Don't Like; Don't Read.
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[[Disclaimer: This conversation can go through 20 levels of nuance, but for brevity let it be known this post is not saying we turn a blind eye and stay silent about hate speech or uncritically examined depictions of harmful behaviors. Nor should we ever refrain from warning people about possible triggering content]]
honestly i don't know how i managed to rotate between the tumble, the book of face and the bird app all those years ago while being an active participant in each one
