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Thirty Days Has September 🖊️ A Writing Challenge! @30dayshassept.bsky.social · Oct 1
Many people didn't want the challenge momentum to end so in spirit of 30dhs, I've created a prompt list for October for people to casually do if you so desire! This is not held as an official event, just a little inspiration for those post 30dhs blues!
A badly edited verison of the Thirty Days Has September Graphic where there's a haphazardly placed "one" and September is crossed out to say "October" ROT Is your subject physically rotting or metaphorically? THIRST For a person? For a substance? REST Does your subject find rest or is it foreign to them? WICKED Person? Thought? Place? Idea? TURN Does your subject take a turn for the better? For the worse? Or maybe they turn into a creature? COVET For a person? A thing they cannot have? RUINED Is a place ruined? A person? Or something else? DEPTHS Of hell? Of a person? Of the ocean? FALL Down? For a person? CRYPTIC Message? Or perhaps a creature? RIP In pieces or in peace? HAUNTED Is a place haunted? Or is someone haunted by something else? FEAR Is your subject causing fear or are they scared of something/someone? FORLORN Does your subject miss something or someone? Is it justified? HORROR Is your subject horrified? Or is there a situation that is horrific? PHANTOM An apparition? Or perhaps a ghost of a memory? CURSE Is it a literal curse or a metaphorical one? Or maybe a curse word? SHARP Teeth? Claws? Or mentally smart? DISTURB What has your subject disturbed? Or have they disturbed something? FORGOTTEN What has your subject forgotten? Or are they the ones that have been forgotten? GRAVE Is the situation your subject finds themselves in grave? Or is it literally a grave they’re interacting with? LOST Has your subject lost something precious to them? Or are they actually lost somewhere? GRIM Is the situation grim? Or perhaps it’s the reaper type of grim? DEVIL In the details? Deals with the devil? Jersey Devil? Or maybe literally the Devil? HAUNT Is it a familiar place to hang out? Or is the haunting of a place more sinister? CORRUPTION Of their morals? Of their soul? MONSTER A literal monster or is your subject acting like one? RITUAL Is it something your subject is performing or is something they do repeatedly? HUNTER Of people or of monsters? PLAGUE Is your subject being plagued by something? Or is it a literal illness? TRICK / TREAT Was your subject tricked into something? Or are they playing a trick on someone else? Is your subject a treat? Or are they treating someone else to something? Or both!
30dayshassept.bsky.social
Many people didn't want the challenge momentum to end so in spirit of 30dhs, I've created a prompt list for October for people to casually do if you so desire! This is not held as an official event, just a little inspiration for those post 30dhs blues!
A badly edited verison of the Thirty Days Has September Graphic where there's a haphazardly placed "one" and September is crossed out to say "October" ROT Is your subject physically rotting or metaphorically? THIRST For a person? For a substance? REST Does your subject find rest or is it foreign to them? WICKED Person? Thought? Place? Idea? TURN Does your subject take a turn for the better? For the worse? Or maybe they turn into a creature? COVET For a person? A thing they cannot have? RUINED Is a place ruined? A person? Or something else? DEPTHS Of hell? Of a person? Of the ocean? FALL Down? For a person? CRYPTIC Message? Or perhaps a creature? RIP In pieces or in peace? HAUNTED Is a place haunted? Or is someone haunted by something else? FEAR Is your subject causing fear or are they scared of something/someone? FORLORN Does your subject miss something or someone? Is it justified? HORROR Is your subject horrified? Or is there a situation that is horrific? PHANTOM An apparition? Or perhaps a ghost of a memory? CURSE Is it a literal curse or a metaphorical one? Or maybe a curse word? SHARP Teeth? Claws? Or mentally smart? DISTURB What has your subject disturbed? Or have they disturbed something? FORGOTTEN What has your subject forgotten? Or are they the ones that have been forgotten? GRAVE Is the situation your subject finds themselves in grave? Or is it literally a grave they’re interacting with? LOST Has your subject lost something precious to them? Or are they actually lost somewhere? GRIM Is the situation grim? Or perhaps it’s the reaper type of grim? DEVIL In the details? Deals with the devil? Jersey Devil? Or maybe literally the Devil? HAUNT Is it a familiar place to hang out? Or is the haunting of a place more sinister? CORRUPTION Of their morals? Of their soul? MONSTER A literal monster or is your subject acting like one? RITUAL Is it something your subject is performing or is something they do repeatedly? HUNTER Of people or of monsters? PLAGUE Is your subject being plagued by something? Or is it a literal illness? TRICK / TREAT Was your subject tricked into something? Or are they playing a trick on someone else? Is your subject a treat? Or are they treating someone else to something? Or both!
October 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
30dayshassept.bsky.social
I just want to say congrats to everyone who has participated in the Thirty Days Has September Challenge! I am proud of every last one of you! From those who only posted one day to those who posted everyday and everyone else in between!
September 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
30dayshassept.bsky.social
Today is Day 30, the final day of #30dhs2k25! The last optional prompt of this event is actually two: "Journey" and "End"! Feel free to pick one or use both. Is your subject reflecting upon the journey they were part of? Or focused on the end of something? Excited to read : ' )
September 30, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Welcome to the penultimate Day 29 of #30dhs2k25! Today's optional prompt is "Reflection"! Are you reflecting upon this challenge as a whole or is your subject reflecting upon something themselves? Or literally a reflection (or lack thereof) in a mirror? Excited to read what you write!
September 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Today is Day 28 of #30dhs2k25! Only a few days left in the challenge, good job for making it this far! Today's optional prompt is "Together". Is your subject dating something? Just hanging out with someone? Or are they simply doing something together with someone else? Excited to read!
September 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Today is Day 27 of #30dhs2k25! Your optional prompt for today is "Recovery"! Is your subject recovering from an illness? And addiction? A horrible moment in their life? Or maybe they recovered a physical thing? Excited to read what you come up with!
September 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
30dayshassept.bsky.social
Welcome to day 26 of #30dhs2k25! Today's optional prompt is "Sore"! Is your subject physically sore? Mentally sore? A sore loser? Or Is it a sore subject you're writing about? However you want to write it, I'm excited to read!
September 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
30dayshassept.bsky.social
Welcome to day 25 of #30dhs2k25! Today's optional prompt is "Lousy"! Is your subject having a lousy time? Is lousy at something? Or is something (or someone) around them lousy? Excited to read what you come up with : )
September 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
30dayshassept.bsky.social
Today is day 24 of #30dhs2k25! Today's optional prompt is "Council"! Is your subject before a council? Being counseled? Is a counselor? However you interpret the prompt I'm excited to read!
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
30dayshassept.bsky.social
Today is Day 23 of #30dhs2k25! Your optional prompt for today (suggested to me by a friend) is "Uncouth"! Is your subject lacking in manners? Or is someone they are talking to the unsophisticated one? Or is the situation your subject finds themselves in the uncouth thing? Excited to read!
September 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Welcome to Day 22 of #30dhs2k25! Today's optional prompt is "Crush"! Does your subject have a crush on someone or being crushed on? Did your subject get crushed by an event that happened? Or maybe they're literally crushed by a physical thing! However you want to interpret, I'm excited to read!
September 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Today's Day 21 of #30dhs2k25 and today's optional prompt is "Experience"! Is your subject new and learning some valuable experience? Or are they already experienced and maybe too old for this shit? Or are you writing about a specific experience your subject went through? Excited to read!
September 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
30dayshassept.bsky.social
Today is Day 20 of #30dhs2k25! Thanks to Sifen Yamishi on Gaia for today's optional prompt of "Departure". Is your subject the one who is leaving? Or did someone recently leave your subject's life? Is it temporary or permanent? However you decide to use the prompt, I'm excited to read!
September 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Today is Day 19 of #30dhs! Today's optional prompt is "Weary"! A very suiting prompt for me today as I overslept, rushed to work, and now am hastily typing this from my stockroom! Is your subject weary of a person, a situation, or the world? Or are they just tired?
September 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
30dayshassept.bsky.social
Today is Day 18 of #30dhs2k25! A very important date for my writing muse so today's optional prompt will be "Anniversary"! Is it a celebration of a relationship making it another year? Or the somber remembrance of someone's loss? However you want to take it, I'll be excited to read : )
September 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
30dayshassept.bsky.social
Today is Day 17 of #30dhs2k25! Our optional prompt for today is "Mentor"! Is the subject of your piece a mentor to someone else? Or are they being mentored by someone? Or maybe BOTH! Whatever you decide to write, I'll be excited to read : )
September 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
30dayshassept.bsky.social
Today is day 16 of #30dhs2k25 and the optional prompt is "Trust"! Is your subject trustworthy? Or are they the kind of person you wouldn't trust with anything? Is your subject trying to gain the trust of another or did they to break the trust of someone they hold dear? Excite to read what you write!
September 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Second Entry for the 30 day 100 word writing challenge~ www.deviantart.com/vampyre-neko... #quoteworthy #30dhs2k25
Cafe Encounters [2/30 Day Challenge] by Vampyre-neko on DeviantArt
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September 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Started in the middle of it so just focusing on the 30 day part. I enjoy how it's more about creating a good writing habit and not punching out a masterpiece in a month ❤️ Here's my first entry from yesterday~ www.deviantart.com/vampyre-neko... #30dhs #quoteworthy
Cafe Encounters [WIP/30 Day Challenge] by Vampyre-neko on DeviantArt
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September 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Today is day 15 of #30dhs2k25, the halfway point of the challenge! Today's optional prompt is "Persuasion"! How convincing is the subject of your piece? Can they persuade someone or are they being persuaded themselves? Excited to see what you come up with!
September 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Day Fourteen of #30dhs2k25: You've made it two weeks into the challenge! Today's optional prompt is "Inspiration". Is your subject inspired to do something? Or are they the inspiration? Or will you take a meta approach and talk about inspiration during this challenge in general? Excited to read!
September 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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rheostatic.bsky.social
Day Thirteen of #30dhs2k25: 391/100

Normally don't write about Castle the person outside of Castle's style but this felt more fitting as a storybook piece. Thought I was going to use Emil but scrapped that for this after a two sentences lol. Castle's muse just comes all too easy.
Spring was late this year; it was well into April before the temperature deigned to raise above forty degrees. So when the high of fifty-two wormed its way into the forecast - along with no more rain - Castle decided today would be the day he’d let fresh air into the library. “Library” is what this room had always been called and it met the definition by having wall floor to ceiling book shelves lining the walls, but it wasn’t as big as one would normally associate with a proper library. It was effectively a book themed office with a lovely high ceiling and a gigantic window at the far end to give the perfect amount of daylight. That window only had part of it that opened, but it was enough to get the stuffy room some clean and somewhat warm air into it. Castle sat on one of the two well worn leather chairs that were grouped with the window - as opposed to the desk that was near the door - and gazed out unto the lake that was a little ways in the distance. Picturesque was an understatement. This room almost felt built for that view, and Castle was almost certain whomever designed this house had that in mind. But being in the room didn’t always bring up the best of memories, despite its incredible charm. Castle leaned his head back in the chair and shut his eyes. The crisp air made him shudder a little and small fleeting memories of worse days and nights spent in this place rose unbidden. He could see himself hunched over the desk, a bottle of god knows what two-thirds empty next to him as he penned endless pieces into his journals. Some were poetically written pieces crying out in pain, others were nonsensical wording of a man too far in his cups, but they all had one throughline: him. Castle opened his storm-coloured eyes and gazed back across the lake. Fourteen years later and he still didn’t have the answer. Perhaps the wistful longing that he would come knocking on the door had died the moment he let himself live again, but the haunting lack of answers alwa…
September 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Today is day 13 of #30dhs2k25! For this unlucky (or lucky) day, your optional prompt is "Mystery"! Is your subject involved in a mystery or a mystery themselves? Or is the piece you're writing somehow its own mystery? However you decide to solve (haha) this one, I'm excited to see!
September 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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rheostatic.bsky.social
Day Twelve of #30dhs2k25: 618/100

I know we've been a bit on a Jasper and Ethan motif lately but this conversation only works with Kai... Kai is big whiplash from Jasper and I adore putting them together like this. Bonus points if you can figure out what kind of supernatural creature Kai is!
The quiet of Ethan putting his clothes back on was interrupted by the large dramatic noise his bedmate made while stretching. “Damn, vamp boy, do you ever run out of energy?” Slate eyes flickered down to the other man. He didn’t say a word, but his expression very much said ‘what?’ “I mean… I know you guys don't have to sleep and all… but you're the damn energizer bunny.” Kai made a vague hand gesture to the fact that Ethan was vertical right now. “Is it the virus that does that? Just makes you guys always feel awake?” Ethan stared at him blankly for a moment, mid putting on his shirt. With a sigh, he finished the action and spoke. “No, not really.” “Well whatever it’s like it’s gotta be better than this.” Kai flopped dramatically on the bed as if he was incapable of moving. “I’m about ready to pass the fuck out.” “You can.” Ethan was putting on shoes at this point. Kai continued as if he hadn’t spoken. “You vampires got it fucking made. Never aging or getting sick… never having to sleep?” A deep and wistful sigh. “There would be so much I could get done if I never had to sleep. You’re one lucky sonuvabitch, vamp boy.” Ethan’s mouth set in a firm line as he was apparently keeping himself from reacting. At this point he was shrugging on his jacket. “And you don’t even have to fucking breathe. Look, breathing underwater is a fun trait and all but… not having to breath at all is really fucking handy.” Kai wasn’t even looking at him, just up at the ceiling. “And don’t get me started on how much easier it is to source blood rather than any sort of flesh… Like, honestly…” Ethan’s jaw made an audible click which caused the other man to look over towards him. Ethan had his arms folded where he stood, looking a cross between upset and annoyed. “You done?” he stated gruffly. Kai slowly pushed himself up in bed, wincing a little. “Uh… yeah? You alright?” A slow, deep inhale followed by a rather impatient exhale. “You don’t want this.” “I don’t want to be the most catered after supernatural creature under Spotlight?” Kai laughed as he replied. Ethan’s next exhale had a bit of a growl underneath it. “Immortality is dogshit.” “Oh that’s the part we’re upset over.” Kai fixed him with a look. “Can’t a boy dream about being pretty forever without the debbie downer ruining his fun?” Not the reaction Ethan was expecting, evident by the rare surprise that flickered across his features. “It’s not-” “Not all that it cracked up to be? Oh yeah, for sure.” Kai shrugged. “You get to watch every mortal human get old and die around you; see the passage of time for better and for worse; live through more technological marvels than any one human is supposed to be able to process. Yeah it sounds like it sucks, you’re right.” There was no sarcasm in his tone, he was being genuine. “But you know what? I’d take that over the bullshit I’m putting up with. Bloodlust can’t be as bad as what we go through!” The other man flopped back down into his bed. The seconds stretched on as Ethan stood there, just staring at the - once again - dramatically laid out man on his bed. A complicated emotion, one very difficult for the vampire to place, wormed its way into his chest. He slowly unfolded his arms and went. “...Can you even be turned?” “I took the vaccine, vamp boy.” A grin passed over Kai’s face. “But thanks for the offer.” Ethan’s jaw clicked again. “Wasn’t an offer.”
September 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Day Eleven of #30dhs2k25: 711/100

Well this piece got away from me. Not where I was planning on going and all that dialogue makes for too many line breaks. I did, however, follow my prompt of "Turmoil" three times over. So mission accomplished? Even if the scene is kinda eh once they start talking.
The waiting area for Naio’s office was obstinately nice. The couch and chairs were pristine but still comfortable and there was everything from magazines to one of those calming sand things to waste your time with. But Ethan was sitting there, staring into the middle distance as still as a vampire with no need to breathe could be. There was clattering on the other side of the door and at least one raised voice but Ethan wasn’t giving enough of a shit to pay attention to the words. He just sat there, numb and empty, waiting for the next moment in time to move him along. The door opened and Ethan’s slate grey eyes snapped towards the movement. In the doorway was Morgan, a small petite man with a pale face and stark white hair. His flat expression was partly obscured by his thin round glasses and he spoke calmly to the younger vampire. “Come in, Ethan.” Behind Morgan, at the desk in his own office was a much more animated and much more chaotic Naio. He contrasted his former lover with his expression of contempt clear upon his face as well as the dark black hair that was on his head. The only thing these two had in common was their height and well… that they looked like teenagers - a trait that all three of them shared. Morgan stood next to him as they approached the desk, clearly trying to be a sort of peacekeeper to the conversation that was forthcoming. Naio rubbed his face slightly before speaking. “Mr. Peryal. When I said that nothing was going to be done about it, I did not mean that you could do something about it!” Ethan stared at him, expression nearly as blank as the petite man beside him. He wasn’t going to grace that sentence with a reply. Naio didn’t need it, he just barreled on with his rhetoric as always. “You do realise the mess you’ve caused? What do you think will happen when his people realise that one of my sireline killed their boss, hmm? The amount of damage you have done to Spotlight, to Bedrock? We could be set back decades because of what you’ve done!” Ethan’s jaw audibly set, his fangs grinding into his lower teeth made an awful sound. He shook slightly with the jolt of anger that coursed through his body but he just tightened his fists at his side and glared daggers into Naio. “Do you even have anything to say?” Naio’s tone took a more singsong, taunting tone. As if he was egging on Ethan’s anger. Morgan softly said “Naio…” in warning from Ethan’s side but the older vampire once again spoke. “If he wants to act like a petulant child being caught, then I will treat him like a fucking child.” “I’m the fucking child?” Ethan managed through gritted teeth. Morgan’s hand barely brushed his arm and for a moment Ethan’s entire body locked up - Morgan’s warning to him. “Naio.” Morgan said more resolutely. “You are making assumptions again; none of this has happened.” “As if his actions bare no-” “No.” Morgan’s tone was still flat, but louder than most times Ethan had ever heard this man speak. Slate grey slid down to look at him but the man’s expression was ever so slightly defiant as he looked at his sire. “Excuse me?” Naio’s tone was beyond incredulous. “I said no.” There was a pointed tone to that often flat voice that Ethan found strangely terrifying on a rather expressionless man. “A mess you refused to clean up got messier. Accept it.” Ethan’s eyes darted back between the two vampires, he had never seen Morgan act like this before or Naio look that wickedly upset. Something in their shared history was being relived but that something Ethan wasn’t privy to. Naio looked like he was going to speak again but Morgan broke eye contact and looked over to the youngest vampire. “Go.” “Morgan I am not done-” Morgan raised a hand and Naio suddenly stopped speaking. Ethan looked back at Morgan with open confusion, he didn’t think the other vampire could stop his sire from moving just like he stopped him. “Go.” Morgan repeated. “Now.” Ethan only needed to be told twice.
September 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM