Kinktober
| Challenge | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Kinktober |
| Date(s): | 2016 - present |
| Moderator(s): | |
| Founder: | sparksreactor |
| Type: | fanfiction, fan art |
| Fandom: | Multifandom |
| URL: | Kinktober tumblr |
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Kinktober is a multifandom prompt based challenge that encourages the creation of erotic fanworks, mostly fanfiction and fan art, that focus on specific kinks. Taking place during the month of October. The original tumblr post was created in September 2016 by sparksreactor, and has since grown into an annual challenge.
Compared to other prompt challenges, there seems to be more diversity around where the prompt lists come from for kinktober, with many fans of different fandoms or pairings creating their own challenge lists. This is very much encouraged by other participants in kinktober challenges.
There is a main account which has consistently provided prompt lists which has had to migrate across different social media platforms as NSFW purges cause issues with their accounts' content. As of October 2023, it is currently on Twitter and Tumblr under the account name @kinktober2023.
Event History
Tumblr user sparksreactor created the 2016 Kinktober prompt list to compliment the month long challenges already in existence: goretober and inktober.
By 2018, there were 3 word prompts per day, totally 120 prompts throughout the month, giving people more choice on what prompts they wanted to fulfill. In 2020, the account temporarily moved to just Twitter in light of the NSFW purges happening on Tumblr which meant the account was at risk of being deleted. The Kinktober tumblr blog returned in 2022. For this year, the mods of the Kinktober blog also formatted the prompts in a list that could be used with an online bingo-card generator[1] to give people a different way to try their hand at Kinktober.
When the Kinktober prompt list for 2023 came out, there was some backlash about the fact that lolicon and shotacon were options for prompts. The mods of Kinktober pointed out that dark and taboo prompts had been a part of kinktober since the beginning and pushed back on the claim that fictional representations of acts were the same as it happening in real life.
Original post
[anonymous]
Hi! I'm not sure if the admins are aware of this, but lolicon and shotacon might not be a great prompt to have. It legally counts as cp as it portrays sexualized characters who look like children, and could get users who engage and produce content with that prompt in a lot of trouble. I know fandom can water down meanings, especially anime and manga fandom, so I wanted to bring it up. Hope your day is going well![2]
[kinktober2023]
no, we know what it means, we just also know how to differentiate fiction and reality here at kinktober[2]
[captinbenny]
Aaaaaand I'm not following this anymore. ✌️CP is CP regardless of it being fiction/reality or not.[2]
[kinktober2023]
Csem stands for child sexual exploitation material. The term porn implies it's something titillating, and is just a gross term to use when talking about exploitative material. Porn shouldn't be used as a term for anything made against the consent of the other parties involved[2]
[captinbenny]
So you agree.... Lolicon/shotacon is child sexual exploitative material.Anything sexual is porn. Whether it's softcore, hardcore, kink, titillating, etc. It is porn. Porn is not a dirty or negative word. For a blog/art challenge that celebrates kink, it's pretty hypocritical of you to paint porn as this disgusting shameful thing.
Also
✨CHILDREN CAN NOT CONSENT✨[2]
[kinktober2023]
Word for word I just said to stop using the word porn in the context of someone who can't consent. I also agree children can't consent.I also don't think drawings are people but 🥱 I'm not getting into trying to explain to people why, idk, Timmy Turner doesn't need protection from real people. Please put this energy into actual victims, and not an event meant to celebrate fictional kink. If you genuinely think this content shouldn't exist, maybe try lobbying to your government or something idk but talking to someone who is not going to and never will change their mind is just a waste of energy
This event has had gore. Incest. And noncon. For years!!! This has always been a space where things that are illegal and immoral irl can be explored via fiction. [2]
Based on their posts, the mods of Kinktober seemed to receive repeated asks or complaints about their stance, to the point that they had to reiterate that they were going to ignore any future asks or complaints on the topic.
No for real guys the lolisho discourse is over. I'm not responding to anything else. To all the handful of unanswered messages in support, you've been seen and are very appreciated! But I'm tired of this topic.Kinktober welcomes all that nasty shit with open fucking arms, the end, good night, fuck the haters, etc
(And I'm being SO MUCH NICER about all of this than I want to, the amount of things I've backspaced...)
In the 2023 prompt list, in addition to the 120 prompts that had become commonplace in previous years, the moderators added 30 SFW prompts, where kinks could be written in a non-sexual way or as a prelude to more smutty works.
2016's Original Prompts
- 1. Spanking
- 2. Dirty talk
- 3. Public
- 4. Bukakke
- 5. Humiliation
- 6. Size Difference
- 7. Creampie
- 8. Latex/Leather
- 9. Asphyxiation
- 10. Edgeplay
- 11. Sadism/Masochism
- 12. Master/Slave
- 13. Medical play
- 14. Sensory Deprivation
- 15. Sounding
- 16. Waxplay
- 17. Blood/Gore
- 18. Daddy
- 19. Somnophilia
- 20. Pet Play
- 21. Double (Or more) Penetration
- 22. Glory hole
- 23. Shibari
- 24. Exhibitionism/Voyeurism
- 25. Boot worship
- 26. Shotgunning
- 27. Branding
- 28. Xenophilia (Objects/Aliens ect)
- 29. Watersports/Omorashi
- 30. Toys
- 31. Any combo of the above
Originally there was one prompt per day, but it has since grown to multiple prompts per day, to give creators more choice.
Resources
- Original post, Archived version
- Kinktober, Kintober 2016, Kinktober 2017, Kinktober 2018, Kinktober 2019, Kinktober 2020, Kinktober 2021, Kinktober 2022, Kinktober 2023 tags at Archive of Our Own
- Kinktober 2017 collection, 2018 Collection, 2019 Collection, 2020 Collection, 2021 Collection, 2022 Collection, 2023 Collection at Archive of Our Own
- Tumblr Tags: kinktober 2016, kinktober 2017, kinktober 2018, kinktober 2019, kinktober 2020, kinktober 2021, kinktober 2022, kinktober 2023
- Deviantart Tags: kinktober, kinktober 2017, kinktober 2018
- ^ Bingo card generator
- ^ a b c d e f g h
Kinktober 2023 (2023-06-25). Tumblr https://web.archive.org/web/20231002190557/https://www.tumblr.com/kinktober2023/721127738359136256/hi-im-not-sure-if-the-admins-are-aware-of-this. Archived from the original on 2023-10-02.
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