Whumptober 2026 (Patreon)

Hello friends! Happy almost spooky time! My favorite time of year 👻🎃🐈‍⬛

I'm excited to share that this year I'm participating in Whumptober for the entire month of October! Whumptober is a month-long, prompt-based writing challenge focused on whump, whump being the hurt in hurt/comfort you're very familiar with in my stories. Each day of the month has four prompts to choose from as inspiration to write fics fitting that specific theme or idea.

I have one-shots planned for all 31 days of October that I will be sharing with you following these prompts. I'll be posting them on Ao3 as well, but you guys here on Patreon get them early.

They're all Legend of Zelda, across Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Twilight Princess, Breath of the Wild, and Tears of the Kingdom, all centering Link. The first one will be posted here tomorrow and on Ao3 on October 1st. Since I'll be posting daily/near daily, I'll have Patreon notifications off for now so I don't spam your inboxes. Be sure to check back often to see what's been posted!

Link is going to absolutely go through it this month. I hope you're excited to join me 😏

Below I've included all the prompts for this year so you can get an idea of what's coming, as well as the official Tumblr page for the Whumptober host and my Ao3 profile. See you very soon for painful, agonizing, glorious whump! 🥰

Whumptober on Tumblr

SelphieKinneas on Ao3