🍁🍃 Hello and welcome to our sixth annual Flufftober 🍃🍁
Every year, we're so excited to share our prompts with you and look forward to all your beautiful creations that will fill the month of October with all the fluff 🥰 also, we're trying something new this year, so make sure to scroll all the way down and don't stop at the main list of 31 prompts or the usual list of alt prompts...😏
But first things first 😊
🍁 As with all our events, our standard blog rules apply, and you'll find answers to most questions on our FAQ post.
🍁 Below the cut, you'll find the necessary posting info, all the prompts in writing, and explanations for some prompts.
🍁 Please make sure to read the entire post! If you have any questions after that, feel free to send us an ask.
So many Prompt Extras 😍
🍁Yes, we heard your plea for more alternative prompts 😉
🍁 We also heard the tears of our friends in the Southern Hemisphere...
🍁 As always, you're welcome to replace prompts from the original list for whatever reason - no explanation needed.
Remember, you can use the Prompt Extras however you like:
💜 to replace a prompt from the original list
💜 to create even more content aside from the original prompts
💜 mixed together to enhance one or more of the other prompts
Whichever way you use them, have fun and go wild 🍃
You promised us something new 👀
Yes, we did - so welcome to the 2026 Flufftober Challenge Tasks 😁
We hope you like these prompts, and now
Happy Creating 🥳
What's the tag to get reblogged? ✍️
🍁 The tag is #flufftober2026
Make sure there is NO SPACE between flufftober and 2026! We will NOT be checking other variations of this tag!
🍁 It's also good to mention us: @flufftober
🍁 We try to reblog regularly, but tumblr likes to be difficult and wonky. If you're absolutely certain a post has slipped past us, please send us an ask with the link to your post.
🍁 Please make sure that all info is easy to find, either in the post or the tags. It takes a lot of time and energy to research every other post. So, please make sure to at least include the following very clearly:
💜 the day/alt/challenge prompt
💜 the fandom(s) (add "original work" or similar if applicable)
💜 the characters and/or ship(s) (add "oc" or similar if applicable)
What about the ao3 collection? 📝
🍁 The collection's name is Flufftober 2026 (either as flufftober2026 or as flufftober_2026)
🍁 Our collections will never close, so you can always add any late entries.
Deadlines are my nemesis 🥹
Don't worry, late entries are always welcome!
🍁 Reblogs will become less regular after the event has ended.
🍁 We will stop checking the event tag after a few months, so please make sure to tag us: @flufftober
Prompts
1. “This is so romantic.” - “You’re so weird.”
2. New Opportunities
3. Signature Move (a dance move, a gesture, etc.)
4. Season Tickets (for a sports team, a theme park, etc.)
5. Reading Nook
6. Pet Shop
7. Pass
8. Cure
9. String (of Fate)
10. “Are you sure?”
11. Baking Together
12. Building a Winter Home for the Wildlife
13. Creating a new Playlist
14. Under the Sea or Up in the Sky
15. Watching a Game/Show/Concert
16. Practicing Together
17. “Absolutely not!” - “Absolutely yes!”
18. Herbs & Leaves
19. Group Activity
20. Flying a Kite
21. Bucket List
22. Old Love
23. Crush
24. Trust
25. Ring
26. Road Trip
27. “I hate to ask, but-”
28. Harmless Addiction (to coffee, to a TV-show, etc.)
29. Doing something daring
30. Beach Day or Hiking Trip
31. So long, Goodbye, Farewell
Prompt Extras
Last Year's Favorites
Alt 1. Pillows, Plushies, Piles of Blankets
Alt 2. “Is that my hoodie?” - “... No?”
Alt 3. Fake Relationship
Alt 4. Set up by Friends
Alt 5. Late Night Talks
Alt 6. In Vino Veritas
Alt 7. “Stay?”
Well, hello there, Southern Hemisphere!
Alt 8. Hay Fever
Alt 9. Baby Animals
Alt 10. Making Daisy Chains
Alt 11. Sun Showers & Rainbows
Alt 12. Barbecues & Baked Potatoes
Alt 13. The Scent of Freshly Cut Grass
Alt 14. Flowering Bulbs & Fruit Blossoms
Alt 15. Burning Off, Bushfire Prep, Bonfires
- Burning Off: burning the underbrush, clearing dead leaves, etc.; burning in a small, controlled way so that if/when a real fire comes in the hotter, drier summer, it won't have as much to burn.
- Bushfire Prep: is all of the above, but also things like checking your smoke detectors, making sure your telephone tree of your neighbours has all up-to-date numbers, etc.
Challenge
Use one or more prompts from this year’s list to:
C 1. Create a FIX-IT
C 2. Create something for a RARE PAIR and/or CROSSOVER SHIP
C 3. FINISH an older WIP (published or not)
C 4. Create something for a CHARACTER who deserves more love
C 5. COMBINE with a prompt from a previous year
C 6. Create something for a SHIP you’ve never used before but always wanted to
“I felt like my character was supposed to have chemistry with [Eddie]…and I was like, "that would never happen…” then Joanne Kelly walked onto set and I was just like, “hell yes.”“ — Jaime Murray
Bless you, Emily Lake. You seem like a real cool lady. I mean, you’re no H.G. Wells, but you’re alright in my book. Seeing these signs in schools makes me very, very happy - and Cheyenne, Wyoming isn’t exactly a bastion of pro-gay sentiment. So you go, Ms. Lake. I bet you’re a kick-ass English teacher.
“I mean, she’s a beautiful woman, right? … Jaime’s such a good actress and I have so much fun with her, and I think it was one of the things that we talked about, how to make the dynamic interesting and different. And so…we fell in love a little bit.”
Woman : You’re not seeing a little love in the air for Myka?
Joanne : Only with HG…
Joanne : ...the character (Myka) does take another journey this year. Jaime Murray has a lot to do with it, as we see HG Wells. And we do see another very specific journey for Myka, like nothing that I think we’ve seen before.
From this TVGuide interview:
Joanne : You’ll see her (HG) throughout season 3. [Long pause] I don’t know if I’m supposed to say that. Oh, well! [Laughs] The relationship with Myka and HG will be even more interesting this season. […] If anything, I think the closest Myka comes to a romance is with HG Wells. […] I really welcome that dynamic. It’s interesting to see two strong and smart female characters developing such a cool relationship.
I LOVE THAT JOANNE SHIPS MYKA AND HG !!!!
Another classic. And adding in the newest declarations from our Captain and Supreme Shippah…
Question: “…Is HG Wells alive?”
Joanne Kelly: “Can’t tell you, uh….Myka will always love HG. Put it that way.”
Interviewer: “You and HG Wells…your characters, seem to have a lot of, uh…”
Joanne Kelly: “We’re in love!”
Interviewer: “You were in love?”
Joanne: “Yeah. I think so. Who wouldn’t be in love with Jaime Murray?”
Interviewer: “Agreed.”
Joanne: “Yeah, I mean I think, um-“
Eddie McClintock: “In a non-scissoring way.
Joanne: (laughs) “No, definitely scissoring.”
Eddie: “Oh, scissors? Scissors?”
Joanne: “Well I just think that…We don’t really have a lot of those relationships. And we didn’t really do anything literal. We just had our characters really like each other. Maybe even fall in love a little bit. I mean… Why does everyone always think, ‘When are Pete and Myka gonna get together?’ What an interesting twist, to have Myka fall for a woman.”
Joanne: Jaime and I got to do some really special scenes….
Jaime: Yeah.
Joanne: [Laughs] Yeaaah.
Jaime: [Laughs] I love those scenes. We were having a conversation with [executive producer] Jack Kenny about our characters and he was like, “Oh, you know, they’re just really good friends. And I’m going home for the day.” And were like, “Mmm hmm. OK, then. Bye, Jack.”
Jaime: I mean, H.G. is an eccentric woman. I don’t think she’s ever really cared what anyone else thought of her. She’s just doing her own thing. So when she finds herself in the future and meets Myka, she meets, for the first time probably, a woman who is as strong as her and as dedicated as her…And then she meets Myka, and she’s like, “Oh, thank God. I’m not completely alone in the universe.”
Jaime: It’s written in the script that a lot of the female characters have a flirtation with Pete, because he’s charming and full of jokes, but at the end of my first episode in season two, I end up with a gun to his head. And I thought, you know, H.G. would probably see through all that charm and bravado. She’d probably enjoy it, but she’d see through it. So I remember saying to Jo, “I think Myka’s probably more her type.”
Joanne: Remember that one line? “Many of my lovers have been men?” When you said that I was like, “Uh oh! Here we go!”
Jaime: There were all these little things we thought no one would ever particularly notice, but then they started writing for it and suddenly we were bound together in ropes.
Joanne: And then I started to dress like you! [x]
“Oh god, yeah. I would love that [seeing HG and Myka together]. With Jaime? That would be awesome. It’s the only romantic relationship that we get to see Myka [have] … We see this deep, deep bond with these two people, and the only other relationship that I’ve really explored like that was with Sam, my partner who died. And we just kind of touched on it. But H.G. is a much bigger storyline.” - io9 Interview with Joanne Kelly
"I love that relationship. I love that it was ambiguous. I wish we could have gotten into it a little more. Our show is really hard to be a relationship show, because there’s so much going on, and if you do a relationship, then it takes over the whole show, and that’s not really what are deal is. So, um, I liked that there was an ambiguity in that relationship. And I, you know, yeah, women like women! Newsflash! It happens all the time. It’s not that big of a deal. But, uh, I like that it was represented on our show.”
“I was not a girl who did girl things. I was a girl who worked on puzzles. These were puzzles that took weeks to solve. And when I solved a puzzle, and I always solved them, I felt brilliant.”
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