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Description: Kink Hub is an 18+ comm for anything kink fic, where you can self-promote, share and rec fanfics of all fandoms and original works. RPF is welcome.

It's kinkhub's second anniversary! For the month of October, the theme for all shared fics is "Kinktober". All works written for Kinktober (any year, any prompt list) count for this theme. If you've written or read any Kinktober fics, you're very welcome to share the links to them in the comm.

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For those with a need to review AO3 processes:
HLH Shortcuts AO3 Signup Guide by @teratornis
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Your mods strongly encourage the use of betareaders, whether affiliated with the exchange or outside the exchange:
Betareaders Wanted/Betareaders Available

In case you need to review the 2025 dates:

• Sign Ups: October 1 to October 11, 2025 11:59PM CDT on AO3
• Assignments handed out: no later than October 14, 2025
• Default deadline: November 20, 2025
• Submission deadline: December 15, 2025
• First story posted: December 20, 2025

Please share far and wide.

Sign up here.

If you need an AO3 invite, please contact the mods.



For those with a need to review AO3 processes:
HLH Shortcuts AO3 Signup Guide by @teratornis
HLH Shortcuts AO3 Submission Guide by @teratornis
How to Default

Your mods strongly encourage the use of betareaders, whether affiliated with the exchange or outside the exchange:
Betareaders Wanted/Betareaders Available

In case you need to review the 2025 dates:

• Sign Ups: October 1 to October 11, 2025 11:59PM CDT on AO3
• Assignments handed out: no later than October 14, 2025
• Default deadline: November 20, 2025
• Submission deadline: December 15, 2025
• First story posted: December 20, 2025

Please share far and wide.

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cornerofmadness and china_shop will be hosting us in October! cornerofmadness will host the first half of the month, so head on over to her journal tomorrow.

I belated realized I hadn't reponded to check-ins on Day 27 (though I did add you all to the tally). Sorry! Kudos to everyone who wrote on the 27th! 8-D

I'll post the final tally tomorrow. Thanks everyone!


Quote of the Day:

"In conclusion, I am now convinced that I am a reader who decides to write until the opportunity to read again becomes available."

— Rolando Hinojosa, "A Voice of My Own," (1982/2011).


Today's Writing:

About 325 words of notes on the book I was reading. 8-)


Tally

( Days 1-28 )

Day 29: badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme

Day 30: china_shop, sanguinity,

Let me know if I missed you, or if you wrote but didn't check in yet.

cornerofmadness and china_shop will be hosting us in October! cornerofmadness will host the first half of the month, and china_shop will take over hosting for the second half. Thanks much!


Quote of the Day:

This is funny to me because I've been reading far too much literary criticism…

NOTICE.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR
PER G. G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE.

Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn (1885)


Today's Writing:

A little over 200 words worth of half-hearted notes. I read a lot, though. ;-)

Tally

( Days 1-27 )

Day 28: badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme

Day 29: china_shop, sanguinity, ysilme

Let me know if I missed you, or if you wrote but didn't check in yet. And remember, you can join in at any time!

We still need a host for October! Only 2 more days left!


Quote of the Day:

A reader asks Saunders if he should edit an old WIP…

"You asked: 'If I start editing this, will I ruin it?'

I think you have to say to yourself: No, I certainly will not ruin it. (And if, perchance, you do, at some point in the process, feel you’re making it worse, take comfort in the fact that you can always revert to that earlier draft – which might be part of the subconscious’s long game.)"

— George Saunders, "Egads, What I Did Years Ago and Abandoned is Good! (A Dilemma)," from his Substack newsletter.


Today's Writing:

Alibi sentence! I had a day. I'm having another day! Grrrr…

Tally

( Days 1-26 )

Day 27: badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, goddess47, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora

Day 28: sanguinity

Let me know if I missed you, or if you wrote but didn't check in yet. And remember, you can join in at any time!

We still need a host for October! Which is only 3 days away!


Quote of the Day:

"This particular book (Return to Sender, his latest Longmire book) has Walt alone for much of the time. Early on, I had to decide: Do I give him someone to talk to? Maybe a dog? Or do I have him talk to himself? And I don’t know about you, but armed people who talk to themselves make me nervous. So I went with the dog — and he plays a bigger role in this story."

—Craig Johnson, interview in Cowboys and Indians magazine (May 2025)


Today's Writing:

Just over 300 words on none of things I'm supposed to be working on. Lalalala.


Tally

( Days 1-25 )

Day 26: badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, goddess47, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora

Day 27: sanguinity

Let me know if I missed you, or if you wrote but didn't check in yet. And remember, you can join in at any time!

Please join us for the weekly TS chat on Saturday, September 27th, at 7 pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)/19:00 UTC. That could be as early as 12 pm if you’re on the west coast of North America, or 3 pm if you’re on the east coast, or 8 pm in the UK, or early Sunday morning in Australia or New Zealand.

 

We’re in the usual place: http://us25.chatzy.com/81935648447483. There’s nothing to download or install, just choose a name and a color and click on “join chat.”

 

Sign-ups for the Exchange portion of TS Secret Santa are open now! It’s the 20^th year, so let’s make it a fantastic one! Instructions on how to sign up are here: https://ts-secret-santa.livejournal.com/236446.html

 

Our topic this week: we know that Jim’s spirit animal is the panther, and Blair’s is the wolf, but what if we didn’t know that? What other spirit animals would fit them? And what do you think of spirit animals? Should they stay non-material, or should they be able to affect the world around them?

 

See you there!

 

We still need a host for October!


Quote of the Day:

"Atticus Pund: The detective will always solve the crime, as sure as day will follow the night. In the world in which I exist, this is an immutable fact.

"Susan Ryeland: Ah yes, the certainty, that’s why people love you."

The Magpie Murders, Masterpiece Mystery (from the novel by Anthony Horowitz, 2016)


Today's Writing:

350 words, mostly notes on a book I'm reading.


Tally

( Days 1-24 )

Day 25: badly_knitted, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora

Day 26: sanguinity

Let me know if I missed you, or if you wrote but didn't check in yet. And remember, you can join in at any time!

Link: Round 17 Sign Ups | Round 17 Themes

Description: celebrity20in20 is a 20in20 community dedicated to making icons of actors and actresses. You have 20 days to make 20 icons about a celebrity of your choice, based on a set of themes for the round.

Schedule: Round 17 sign ups are open NOW. Icons are due October 13, 2025.

We still need a host for October!

Quote of the Day:

"Oh, you got to make your own worlds, you got to write yourself in, whether you were a part of the greater society or not, you got to write yourself in."

— Octavia E. Butler, Charlie Rose Interview (6/1/2000)


Today's Writing:

407 words on an essay WIP. I have about six of these things I'm trying to write and THEY'RE ALL DEFYING ME.


Tally

( Days 1-23 )

Day 24: badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, goddess47, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme

Day 25: china_shop, sanguinity

Let me know if I missed you, or if you wrote but didn't check in yet. And remember, you can join in at any time!

Get your requests and offers ready, spread the word, and let's do this!



2025 Guidelines and helpful links here.

We need a host for October!


Quote of the Day:

“I wrote a book. I have the page numbers done, and now I just have to fill in the rest."

— Stephen Wright, from "67 of the Best Steven Wright Jokes on His 67th Birthday" at Cracked.com.


Today's Writing:

Free-writing to the tune of 326 words. Mostly junk, but a few sentences go with that thing I thought of that I didn't want to forget. 8-)


Tally

( Days 1-22 )

Day 23: badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme

Day 24 (over the international date line!): sanguinity


Let me know if I missed you, or if you wrote but didn't check in yet. And remember, you can join in at any time!

Quote of the Day:

"Writing involves both the expression of an idea and the exploration of an idea — that is, when writing, you set out with an intention to say something, but as part of the attempt to capture an idea, the idea itself is altered through the thinking that happens as you consider your subject. Anyone who has written has experienced one of these mini-ephiphanies that is unique to the way humans write."

— John Warner, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI (2025)

(He's talking about nonfiction, but this happens to me while writing fiction allll the time.)


Today's Writing:

Alibi sentence! Mondays, man.


Tally

( Days 1-21 )

Day 22: badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme


Let me know if I missed you, or if you wrote but didn't check in yet. And remember, you can join in at any time!

Sorry this is so late again. Mondays are hopeless...

Also, it's getting near the end of the month. Who will volunteer to host October? Raise your hand!


Quote of the Day:

"The ways creative work gets done are always unpredictable, demanding room to roam, refusing schedules and systems. They cannot be reduced to replicable formulas."

— Rebecca Solnit, "Woolf's Darkness," in Men Explain Things to Me (2014)


Today's Writing:

More words on that thing I thought of that I didn't want to forget. \o/


Tally

( Days 1-20 )

Day 21: badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, china_shop, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora

Day 22: china_shop


Let me know if I missed you, or if you wrote but didn't check in yet. And remember, you can join in at any time!

Quote of the Day:

"Maybe this book will be banned in Florida right out of the gate. But I guess if you’re not banned in Florida, then what are you really doing with your life."

— Sean Sherman, in "Reflections on Creating Turtle Island: A Cookbook Against Erasure," in his newsletter The Sioux Chef (9/7/2025)


Today's Writing:

About 250 words, about something I thought of that I didn't want to forget. 8-)


Tally

( Days 1-19 )

Day 20: badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora

Let me know if I missed you, or if you wrote but didn't check in yet. And remember, you can join in at any time!

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