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[angstober]

Welcome to another year of Angstober! We're delighted to unveil the prompts for this year of angsty, spooky fun.

What is Angstober?

Angstober is a yearly October challenge with 31 angst-themed prompts to inspire you to create. The challenge is open to all sorts of creative work - writing, art, edits, whatever you want - in whatever medium you want. Original work or fanworks? Whatever you feel inspired for!

How do I take part?

Tag your works with #angstober2023 and the day of the prompt (e.g., #day 01) to share on tumblr. Feel free to @ us directly in the post as well! To share your work on AO3, add it to the Angstober 2023 collection.

You can post your works whenever - early or late - and use as many or as few prompts as you feel inspired for! We'll do our best to reblog as many works to the @angstober blog as we can.

Is there a banner to post my work with?

Absolutely!

Anything else?

Nope. Happy Angsting!

Angstober 2023 Prompt List:

Honorbound

Anxiety

A Dangerous Gamble

"I want to believe you."

Dried and Cracked

"What's wrong?"

Attacked

Dark Days

The Catch

Can't Go Home

Beyond Recognition

On Your Own

From Childhood

What You Swore To Destroy

Lessons in Failure

Wake Up Call

Weakness

"But I love you."

Look Away

Just Breathe

Can't Save Everyone

Grasp

Crimes of Passion

Taught You Better

Tired of Fighting

The Day I Lost You

System Collapse

Face the Consequences

Almost

Full Circle

Won't Forget

[blackcrowcalling]

Describe your writing process in three words or less.

“Well, fuck.”

[agorgonwitch]

“USE THE SPOONS”

[thegladhatter]

“oops okay nevermind”

[cameoappearance]

“throw things together”

[g-g-freak]

There we… are?

[fatal-blow]

“Just fake it”

[toastyhat-deactivated20180203]

“Someone should cry.”

[oddpocalypse]

“I’m very tired”

[smollizardandrobot-deactivated2]

“Ok gotta scribble…”

[freshprincekarkat-deactivated20]

Okay, which ship?

[demmyguard-blog]

“goodbye, lettuce friend.”

[older-and-more-determined-deact]

“This is shit”

[papyrusthegreatskelenton]

“Writers block why!?”

[frankpanioncube]

Undergrads will SUFFER

[prismportraitsblog]

Long winded, commas

[octoblets]

“Where’s the eraser”

[bedheadbellies-deactivated20200]

How do ending

[turbomun]

DONT STOP ME

[captainlordauditor]

what middle?

[periegesisvoid-deactivated]

fuck fuck fuck

[glitchboygirlidek]

Not enough smut

[thatpersonrightbehindyou]

needs more plot

[ryttu3k]

LOUD FRANTIC SCREAMING

[ninjacookiexd]

So much sin

[imperial-nuisance-rudje]

Stream of consciousness

[writerfan2013]

Peril solves everything

[demonprincex]

who did this

[yeahwrite]

Hmm… okay… well…

[effinfanfiction]

who needs sleep

[escailyyy]

No Procrastination NOOOOO

[strangedreamings]

Too many breaks.

[mizjoely]

need…easier…hobby…

[uss-sherlolly]

okay, what if…

[kimmycup]

“Not currently writing.”

[thinkingheron]

I’m so sorry

[strrne]

what are word

[yenvengerberg]

[in Suli] It’ll be fun. NINA ZENIK & INEJ GHAFA

[guooey]

- A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers // kagonekoshiro

[hedonistbyheart]

Phew! This was an endeavour! But I’ve wanted to draw the twins talking to all the force ghosts we know of for a while now, so here they are.

[radiofreederry]

[marisatomay]

thought about this again. kind of amazing how we’re all just chasing ways to duplicate how this scene makes us feel, either in life or in art.

[misti-step]

thinking about when mark told the story of how when they were shooting, he said to george, "darth vader has a musical theme, han, leia all have themes, do i have a theme song?" and george going "mark, the main theme is your theme song"

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Happy Pi Day! :)

[marisatomay]

he had it coming

[severnlight]

Hello, I come to Tumblr from your article “Heartstrings” on Archiveofourown .I just wanted to say that your post was just wonderful! Thank you for a healing journey！ I really enjoyed reading it before my bedtime! So I wanted to ask you if I would be lucky enough to translate this article into Chinese and publish in on lofter and Mtslash (both Chinese fandom site)? If I can, I'll pair it with your permission screenshot as well as attach the original links to this article. Thank you!

Thank you for reaching out to me, and I am so happy to hear that you enjoyed this story. I think it would be wonderful to have it translated to Chinese, so please feel free! I deeply appreciate the effort it would take to translate it, and I thank you for showing the story such love. If you get around to it, I would like a link to your translation, so I can post it from the English version on AO3 as well, with full credit to you. <3 <3 <3

[silvereddaye]

For @severnlight

A Fae AU I've been thinking about.

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Silverdaye’s [instagram] -  [AO3] - [SW Creative’s Discord]

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Wingless version under the cut.

[severnlight]

I LOVE this so much!! Their expressions are so adorable, I want to protect these two forever <3 <3 <3

[arleniansdoodles]

Here’s a commission I recently finished for @silvereddaye featuring Fae!Luke from their Star Wars fanfic! Thanks again for commissioning me <333

[spell-cleaver]

This is a gorgeous piece of art @severnlight did for me based on Chapter 11 of my fic The Protégé! I love love love this interpretation of Padmé’s dress and I hope you do too!! It really encapsulates the chapter for me :D

[crow085]

Annoying

[aidelon]

The King of Dreams

This drawing has reduced me with the back of an 80 years old lady!!!!But I really wanted to do a Dream illustration tarot style🌞Who knows I could even do the others!!

[spell-cleaver]

For the fic questions, 1 (cuz you have so many and I'm curious what you'd pick), 7 and 14

I didn’t get to answer these last night so I’m answering them now!!

1. What fic of yours would you recommend to someone who had never read any of your work? (In other words, what do you think is the best introduction to your fics?)

I’d have to say Sparks, I think. It has a lot of the tropes i love best and return to time and time again, and while Eclipse is my magnum opus, that stands on its own better, while Sparks is the spirit of a lot of my work. It doesn’t have allllll the tropes I adore though, so perhaps I’d need a full reading list for an intro ;)

7. Any worldbuilding you’re particularly proud of?

Most of the worldbuilding in the series Swords and Starflowers, I adore. It was so much fun to come up with in conjunction with @severnlight. But I do also love the worldbuilding in Luminous; trying to get it to fit into the canon universe was a blast.

14. Are there any tropes you would only read if written by a trusted friend or writer?

Oh there’s quite a few. There’s a lot of tropes in fandom that I’m not a fan of but I’ll read if I know the author/friend will do it well. The main one that comes to mind is time travel. Even then it’s a bit hit or miss, but my issue with time travel is that it’s hard to write satisfyingly, so I wouldn’t read it if I wasn’t sure that the writer could do it well.

Thank you for the ask!!! I really enjoyed these questions.

Questions for fic writers to send in!!!

[angstober]

Welcome to another Angstober, now in its third year!

The challenge is once again open to fandom and original works, in any medium. To take part, tag your works with #angstober2022, and the day of the prompt (#day 01 for ex.). If you want to share your work on AO3, submit it to the Angstober collection! You can post your works in any order, early or late. You can do as few or as many as you like. We will do our best to re-blog your tagged posts during the month of October.

Angstober 2022 Prompt List Day 1: Miscommunication Day 2: Crack in the Mirror Day 3: Flashbacks Day 4: Heat Day 5: Hearts to Cinder Day 6: Injury Day 7: Never Again Day 8: Haunted Pet Day 9: Scream Day 10: Apathy Day 11: The Wrong Tomb Day 12: Eyes Day 13: Worthless Day 14: Ashes to Life Day 15: Drugged Day 16: Love & Hate Day 17: The Abyss Looks Back Day 18: False Death Day 19: Cowardice Day 20: Death’s Companion Day 21: Memories Day 22: Corruption Day 23: Slay it with Flowers Day 24: Shivering Day 25: Wasteland Day 26: Dark Water Day 27: Fragments Day 28: Reunion Day 29: Sand Towers Day 30: Failure Day 31: The Last Goodbye This year’s banner to add to your posts, should you wish to:

Now go, unleash some turmoil! Happy Angsting!