We're nearing the final stretch! To try and end on a high note, I'm doing things a little bit differently.

There's not much that needs explaining upfront this time, so let's get right into the prompts for the last 7 days of Kinktober.

Posing (Main), Suppression & Denial, and Consumption (Supplementary)

The modifier cards were quite interesting in conjunction with this pool of terms.

Breasts, Subversion, and Missing Appendages

Fumes, Casual, and Domination & Control

I didn’t really find any use for the modifiers in this set, so I just stuck with the terms as presented.

Pussy, Additional Appendages, and Cock & Balls

You’ll notice that the three terms aren’t all adjacent for this prompt; without going too much into detail, it’s to do with the modifier cards, which I ruled to allow me to swap one card in the set for another.

Hair, Realism, and Taboo

Romance & Affection, Role Reversal (0.3), and Temptation & Infidelity (~ Dubcon & Noncon)

The modifier cards here adjusted the intensity of one card (0.3) and tweaked the meaning of another (Temptation + Dubcon) by combining it with a fourth.

Pussy, Exaggeration, and Humiliation

Similarly to the other prompt from this set, one of the modifier cards allowed me to swap one card in the prompt for another on the board, which is why they’re not all adjacent.

Multiple Body Parts, Apparatuses & Accessories, and Arms

Computers & Machinery, Character Traits & Stats, and Pain

So what you've likely noticed by now is that none of the prompts have days listed on them, and that there are more than needed for the final week of Kinktober. That's because I'm putting these up to a joint volunteer and vote pool.

Two of these prompts will not be drawn, depending on how many people volunteer for them! I won't be announcing any winners nor releasing the list as I go (although you can view the ongoing results if the poll is visible to you); I'll simply be picking the next most popular prompt in the list when I need to choose.

So, get to it!

I will remind you again that if you haven't already done so, please visit your profile page and add your contact details and offsite profile info - I'll need this information to get your express consent for any art rewards (including the Kinktober slots you've volunteered for) or relevant site projects in future.

If you'd like to vote and volunteer for the final upcoming slots, please consider pledging at Tier 2 or higher!

Third verse, same as the Second. I'll be providing the prompts with a quick overview of the pools that they came from, without delving too much into the precise process. I'm still saving my game design observations for a single comprehensive post after Kinktober is done and dusted. Again, if you'd like to know how these were generated, I suggest taking a look at my Week 1 post.

Like last time, if you're a Tier 2 or higher patron, make sure you scroll down to volunteer for any available prompts that you like the look of! Days 15 and 16 have already been accounted for, so those unfortunately can't be volunteered for.

That said, there were still some highlights worth mentioning during this play session.

You'll notice first of all that there are 10 prompts this time! Each session added a fair bit of overhead to the process, and the batches of 7 would've needed a 5th session at the end of the month that I could do well without. I had considered doing some kind of wildcard variation in those three remaining days, but I couldn't come up with anything interesting and have been rather swamped with keeping up the pace through the first half of the month. If and when I revisit this challenge, I'll distribute them more evenly across the four batches.

Next, some prompts are actually made up of all 5 terms of the pool - I've marked the "extra" ones so that if anybody would like to try them out for themselves, you'll know what to exclude if combining them all at once proves too tricky. However, those pools seemed like a good fit for the ideas I came up with, and I figured I'd take on the extra challenge for the fun of it.

Last but by no means least, I actually got some help for this session from my friend Plushie! She was looking for any excuse to try out her new VR kit, and I thought it'd be fun to have someone around to influence the pool creation process a bit. It worked out even better than I'd anticipated, and the results were really fun, too.

Here's a few action shots of the process.

And finally, here are the upcoming prompts and the pools they came from.

Day 15: Hands, Ageplay, and Oral

This one’s obviously already been uploaded by now but I still wanted to have a complete catalogue of Kinktober’s prompts listed in these posts.

Day 16: Crotch & Pelvis, Consciousness, and Filth

I used this for four whole prompts, which was a bit of a stretch but I did it!

Day 17: Stuckage, Tail, and Teasing & Tickling (+ Money + Humiliation)

The first full-set prompt for the month. The terms just made sense together to me, but interestingly, the order of the terms do change the suggested meaning, at least to my mind!

Day 18: Size Changing, Sexuality, and Maws

Second of four prompts made from this set. So far it was easy enough.

Day 19: Penetration, Pregnancy, and Body Marking

Day 20: Roleplay, Masturbation & Grinding (Supplementary), and Fluids (Supplementary)

This is the only game I used the modifier mechanic for, and both cards turned up the “Make Supplementary” modifier. This means that the terms marked as supplementary are just used as a background detail to the other terms; in this case Roleplay takes the center stage with both other terms in the back seat.

Day 21: Slice of Life, Identity, and Sizeplay (+ Additional Appendages + Breasts)

Second full-set prompt. This one was a bit weird once I picked the first term picked for the prompt, the rest of it just kinda fell into place.

Day 22: Intangible Influence, Toys, Objectification & Objectophilia (+ Loss of Control + Suppression & Denial)

Third full-set prompt. Can’t wait to showcase this one.

Day 23: Exhibitionism, Science, and Groups

The third prompt of four, and we’re already squeezing out every last drop out of this kinky lemon; especially given that I was avoiding reusing any of the cards in the set.

Day 24: Foreplay, Figure, and Aptophilia

Fourth prompt of four from the set, and I actually had to shift around the chosen terms so that they’d make as much sense as possible without overlapping.

Remember that you're still free to volunteer even if you've already been featured in a previous prompt, and that they'll be sold to others as YCH slots after October.

If you haven't already done so, please visit your profile page and add your contact details and offsite profile info - I'll need this information to get your express consent for any art rewards (including the Kinktober slots you've volunteered for) or relevant site projects in future.

If you'd like to volunteer for some of the upcoming slots, please consider pledging at Tier 2 or higher!

Roll on week 2!

In this blog post, I'll be keeping things a little bit shorter than the first instalment and only showing the resultant card pools and final prompts I went with for the coming week. I'll save my reflections and development notes on the Inspiration in a Box cards until after Kinktober, so that the posts don't get too unnecessarily wordy for those of you following along for the sake of the art and creative process. That said, if you're curious about how I generate these cardsets you can find a more detailed explanation on my Week 1 post.

Without further delay, here are this week's prompts and card pools - don't miss the end of this post below for a surprise!

NB: Don't mind too much the cards partly visible at the bottom of some of the card pool screenshots; these are part of an experiment I'm trying with some extra mechanics related to card modifiers, so far with mixed results, I think?

While their effects aren't particularly of concern to the prompts for the most part, one of them came into play most notably in this week's final prompt, where it's explained.

Day 8: Flexibility, Clothing, and Bondage & Restraint

Day 9: Stomach Bulging, Cum, and Magic

Day 10: Aftercare, Speech, and Species Play

I used the board made from this game to generate 2 prompts, since I have 6 games to use for 7 days.

Day 11: Androgyny, Psyche Play & Adjustment, and Sexual Transmission

Day 12: Mind Control & Hypnosis, Gender, and Worship

Day 13: Birthing, Exercise & Effort, and Competition

Day 14: Expulsion & Purging (Inverse), Merging & Swapping, and Character Differences

For this week’s final prompt, one of the modifier cards (partly visible at the bottom of the screen) acted as an “inverter,” which I could use to flip the meaning of one of the prompts; namely, Expulsion & Purging. So, to be exact, that card will be used for something closer to “Absorption and Assimilation.”

I hinted at a little surprise earlier, and now that I've proven that I can do this for more than a couple of days in a row, here it is: Volunteer Slots! If you're a Tier 2 or higher patron, you can volunteer for any* of this week's prompts that interest you. I'll pick based on who I feel would be best suited for the illustration, or who hasn't yet gotten one yet.

Even if you've already gotten one cause I handpicked you in the first week, feel free to volunteer again, just in case!

Can't volunteer, or didn't get picked for your favourite? Don't worry about it - all of the Kinktober illustrations will be made into YCH slots after the month is done, too! Just keep that in mind for the art you'll be receiving if you get picked as a volunteer: others are likely to get one like it later on too.

If you'd like to volunteer for some of the upcoming slots, please consider pledging at Tier 2 or higher!

Last night I was scouring the Internet, trying to figure out some way to do Kinktober while avoiding insinuating any sort of affiliation or approval of any one prompts list. Plus, most of them had one or two prompts included that were pretty much dealbreakers for me, so I was right on the verge of compiling a bunch of them and picking whichever one I fancied the most for that day. But then it hit me:

I have my own system for generating Kink Prompts!

So I dusted off the tabletop simulator implementation of my Idea Cards play system, "Inspiration in a Box" and got to work.

With the 6 modes of play that I've designed so far, I decided to randomize which game I'd use to generate each day's prompt. The only rules I kept generally common, wherever applicable, were as follows:

1. Every day's final chosen prompt would be exactly three terms.
   • Each of the three final terms would have to feature to some extent, but do not have to be the main focus of the piece.
2. I would always shortlist more terms than necessary for me to then pick the main three from.
   • The only exception is explained below.
3. The three terms in the final prompt are removed from the pool for the rest of Kinktober.
4. I would share the full shortlist of each game, for others to mix and match from if they so wished.

Other than that, I could experiment with the variables of each game to keep it interesting, and possibly find new ways to play them in future sessions. At the start of generating each prompt, I'd reveal a card, and pick the game that corresponded to the colour of the card. You can expand the section below for an explanation of the 6 games used to generate these prompts.

In case you want the prompts I ended up going with and aren't interested in knowing how I generated them, here's the list in a more convenient format.

Day 1: Smothering + Face + Sensory Play

The first game was Cardcassonne, with which I decided to build a square 3 by 3 grid using the mixer variant. Filling a fixed space meant that I knew how many cards I would be drawing, but for this first game I also set the hand size to 5 to give me some freedom of choice.

You can see the set of three in the top left of the grid, which really stuck with me early on in the game despite some other really fun groupings to be found in the completed set.

Day 2: Underwear + Parasitism + Overwhelming

I got Basic Play for the second prompt, which was fairly straightforward but also gave me pause for thought. I didn't want to limit myself entirely to a single prompt of three cards, and at least afford myself a little bit of flexibility when picking what to go with.

This is when I decided on the second global rule, so I drew 5 and picked 3. Admittedly, the full set of 5 doesn't synergize quite as much as I'd hoped, but there are a few other interesting prompts you could squeeze out of there.

Day 3: Meta + Submission + Accidents

Day 3's prompt was made with a game of Gridlock, which admittedly isn't quite as interesting when played solo. I find that I tend to pick out a small set of cards on the board early on and try to bring them together at the expense of all the others. My eyes were laser-focused on the "Meta" card, and I saw that I could cluster it with a bunch of other fun cards. As you can probably tell from the left side of the final grid, that's just what I did.

I think it would work far better if the resultant board was used to generate multiple prompts, while forcing you not to reuse cards in multiple prompts. Might do that next time it comes up, but in the meantime, please feel free to use this tapestry of debauchery any way you see fit!

Day 4: Corruption + Arousal + Transformation

Cardcassonne came up a second time for day 4, so I tried to limit my options a little by only giving myself 4 cards in hand to pick from each turn. I also built a 3 by 3 grid, though I might expand it to 4 by 4 next time I play this game. That, or limit the number of cards, as per the game's base rules, but not the shape of the grid.

In any case, here's is the grid that resulted from this second session.

Day 5: Food + Petplay + Body Modification

Poker Prompts came up for the fifth session and I'll be completely honest here, with the Texas Hold'Em variant (which works best when playing solo) turning up Food and Muscles as the starting set, I wasn't feeling too confident in my options. This is where I really solidified the second global rule and decided I would be allowed to add three more cards to the set with which I could form the final prompt, so I did.

It was a bit of a copout, sure, but I wasn't feeling the idea of combining Food and Muscles together in something that I'd enjoy making for myself, and that my audience would like to see. I might tweak the Texas Hold 'Em rule to say that at least one of the cards drawn at the start should be incorporated into the prompt; but ultimately it's up to whoever is using the cards to decide whether what's been generated is worth using or not. The cards aren't actually your mom, after all.

Day 6: Animalistic + Substance Use + Lactation

Freestyle play finally came up for day 6's prompt (though admittedly I did keep drawing cards until I got either of the two remaining games but shhh; I might tweak how selecting games works in the next batch session) and it was... Interesting to figure out how to do this on TableTop Sim.

I started by making the game fan out the remaining set of cards, and I started flicking sets of them back and forth on top of one another until I saw something that caught my eye, and set it aside. I continued until I found 3 that seemed to work, and stopped there.

This is the one game where I think I'll be making an exception to the second global rule, especially given that the entire deck is included as part of the pool anyway. If you'd like to make your own variations on this prompt, you can use some of the cards peeking through from the background.

Day 7: Sensuality & Pleasure + Function Control + Permanence

For the last day of the week, I used the last remaining game to come up: Drafting with the Golden Ticket variant. Nothing too special to report with this one; just ran it through 5 rounds, and picked my prompt from there.

That said, I found myself drawing somewhat more "wholesome" cards into my hand and figured I'd keep leaning into the theme. There were a lot of interesting ideas floating around the full set, but this one seemed most interesting to me.

So there's the week one's kink prompts prepped and ready to go! I should have the first drawing ready and uploaded by the end of the day, but if not, there's always the possibility of playing catch up. I'll be aiming to post something every day this month, so now's a great time to subscribe and get to see every one of them as soon as they go up!

As for what the drawings are gonna be exactly? Well you'll just have to wait and see.