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Welcome to Whumptober 2026 — Year Nine!

WHUMPTOBER is a month-long, prompt-based creation CHALLENGE (think: Inktober, but whumpier). There are four prompts for each day of the month, giving 124 for you to play with! There is also a list of 15 alternative prompts that can be subbed in for any day to give participants as much creative freedom as possible.

All prompts are meant to serve as inspiration without being taken literally (e.g. you don’t have to include the exact wording of prompts into your work, so if you need to slightly reword a quote, that's absolutely fine). Feel free to run rampant on interpretation. For example, if the prompt is “flame", you could create something with reference to a candle/campfire/fire, your character could have suffered a burn, or the flame could be a reference to an ‘old flame’ - an old relationship. It’s truly down to you!

You can produce work in any media you choose, including but not limited to: writing, visual artwork, photo/video/audio edits, paper crafts and elaborate recommendation lists (not just a list of links). You can participate as much or as little as you want (i.e. you don’t have to do ALL the prompts if you don’t want to) and prompts can be used in any order. They are also free to use even after the event ends.

Please make sure to read the Event Rules and Info and FAQ carefully, as most of your questions will be answered there already. For everything else, you are welcome to come to our ask box or ask questions in our Discord server here.

Information on how to TAG is here.

This year’s AO3 Collection can be found here.

The ‘Anatomy of a Whumptober Prompt’ post can be found here.

As always in the whump community, it goes without saying that these prompts are not intended to glamorize/romanticize real life topics, therefore research is encouraged where needed. Our 'Resources for Writing Sensitive Topics’ post is here.

We’re very excited to see the community come together for yet another year of Whumptober! Go crazy with the prompts, and support your fellow whump creators - we wish you all the best of luck, but most importantly: HAVE FUN!

Happy whumping,

Mods Vanne, Yenn, Kitty and Surro

Text versions of the prompts, including a google doc format, are posted below the cut!

Ceramic artfight attack for @frogcroaks !

"Before I got my eye put out -" Emily Dickinson

Before I got my eye put out - I liked as well to see As other creatures, that have eyes - And know no other way -

But were it told to me, Today, That I might have the Sky For mine, I tell you that my Heart Would split, for size of me -

The Meadows - mine - The Mountains - mine - All Forests - Stintless stars - As much of noon, as I could take - Between my finite eyes -

The Motions of the Dipping Birds - The Morning’s Amber Road - For mine - to look at when I liked, The news would strike me dead -

the same bitches who see a man trying on candy scented perfume rather than axe body spray and go "omg you go girl!!" "see you during your transition sweetie! 😘" "which could mean nothing!" are the same bitches who decry the gender binary and say shit like "makeup has no gender!" "clothes have no gender!" "your self expression doesn't equal your gender!" it's almost like y'all see queerness as inherently feminine. hmm.

maybe this is a hot take, but goofing around with gender expression isn't restricted to queer people, nor should it be. cishet men can wear skirts and eyeliner. cishet girls can bind and cut their hair short. cishet people can get funky with presentation and still be happy as their agab. stop reinforcing gender binaries by calling every seemingly cishet person who decides to deviate from gender norms an egg

as someone with a speech impediment, all of the people saying that only one type of stuttering is valid are wrong.

stuttering CAN look like this: "t-this is a-an example s-s-sentence"

OR this: "this-this is an example sen-sentence."

OR this: "t-t-t-th-..t-ttttthis is an example sentence."

OR this: "this is, uhm, an example, uh, sentence."

OR this: "this is an example sssssss-sentence."

OR this: "this is an examp-...this an example sentence."

sometimes the sentence won't even come out of your mouth at all.

there are probably many examples i'm forgetting, but that's the point! it usually is a mix of a few of these, but some people do one of them more often than others! some people with speech impediments have certain sounds that they almost consistently have trouble with (for me it's "st").

people with speech impediments also rarely-if ever-stutter whilst they're singing or whispering.

most importantly!!!! people with speech impediments are capable of saying a sentence without stuttering!! it can just be a gamble sometimes.

and if more people could portray the frustration that comes with stuttering and not being able to get words out, i'd be a very happy girl.

(fun fact: sometimes when my mouth won't let me say what i want to say, i get so annoyed that i just yell or grumble out "WORDS.")

A stutter can be accompanied by a sudden change in volume.

It can happen at any speed of speaking.

Mentally, it can feel like a quick stumble, a jolt of electricity, slamming into a brick wall, or reaching for a ladder rung that doesn't exist. Or any other number of metaphors.

The person stuttering may be surprised, or may have seen it coming.

The rate of stuttering varies greatly from person to person. There are extremes in both directions. And even one person will have good days and bad days.

A person who stutters may be shy, or they may be an extrovert. Possibly even a confident public speaker. (me)

Pausing and/or switching words on the fly may be a tactic a stutterer uses to feign fluency.

Other coping mechanisms may non-verbal, like pointing to a menu item when in a restaurant.

A stutter can be accompanied by a physical tic, like wincing or stamping a foot. The tic might be self-inflicted as a way to ease other people's discomfort with the one stammering. Some stutterers used to have a tic and have drilled it out of themselves (me).

Some stutterers appreciate having their sentence finished. Others despise it. It could also depend on who is doing the finishing.

A stutterer may constantly fight the perception they are shy, excitable, unconfident, etc.

A stutterer may use their stutter to their advantage if they want to be underestimated.

People respond to stuttering in a variety of ways - I've experienced everything from being mockingly parroted to people denying I even have a speech impediment.

Stuttering can sometimes be tied to fatigue, exictability, or context switching (happens to me a lot when shifting languages). But not always.

Some stutterers have done so since childhood. Some may have gone through speech therapy. Others acquired the impediment via some kind of brain trauma.

The site sits near Søften in eastern Jutland, about 10 kilometers north of modern Aarhus. Excavations by the Moesgaard Museum show a planned production area instead of a normal farming village. The settlement covered at least 100,000 square meters. Most of the work focused on making textiles, though other forms of handwork also took place there.

Mind you not all the dragons have the leaf tails. A couple of the dragons on the stick/pole things have a different kind of tail

which makes me assume that these leaf tail dragons are all silver dragons??

But also I am going insane over this little detail:

"A relatively recent policy, the "Watchful Eye" requires a third party to be present to eliminate the risk of abuse in an isolated, unsupervised environment."

I kinda assumed from reading the manga and watching the anime, that the Watchful Eye was just. A thing. A rule for small ateliers outside of big cities, because yeah I could see how one adult with one or multiple little kids in an isolated environment may pose a problem for the child's safety.

HOWEVER

1) if it's a "relatively recent" policy, what happened to make that policy happen? Was there a specific incident in an isolated atelier? What happened?

2) if something happened, how BAD WAS IT. Because we have now seen multiple ateliers right in the middle of Witch society, and we saw instances of emotional abuse, physical abuse, and neglectful behaviour that allowed sexual abuse to take place (and consequently victim blaming too!). And no one seems to do much about all of that, despite the Knight Moralis knowing of at least one of these episodes. So what in the world made the Watchful Eyes a necessity in isolated ateliers but not the cities and the Great Hall's ateliers?

3) who even appoints the Watchful Eye again? Because Qifrey was apparently allowed to choose his own childhood friend as a Watchful Eye for his atelier. Which raises infinite questions about how effective this policy could ever be to deter abuse in isolated ateliers, because if a master wanted to mistreat an apprentice, wouldn't they simply choose an ineffective, or worse, a complicit Watchful Eye? Technically that's what Qifrey did, he chose a trusted person who wouldn't denounce him to the Knight Moralis for doing things that aren't exactly pro establishment.