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I had meant to get this up the last week of September, but was just not able. Better late than never I guess?

October is the beginning of what I call prompt list season. The main factors for this seem to be the flood of alternative lists to Inktober, the fact that virtually any theme of challenge goes well with -tober, and it's the warm up for the holidays & gifting season.

While these are mostly intended for art, they translate well into other things and sometimes you just need a good prompt list. And some of us just hoard them like a dragon.

Because I'm doing this on a phone and linking is difficult, this list will be light on links, but hopefully, I will have given you enough to find anything you find interesting.

On DW, [personal profile] vexed_wench and I are hosting our 10th Fall Fest at [community profile] allbingo. [personal profile] kiramaru7 has already agreed to make personalized banners for those who make bingo by the end of the month.

At [community profile] krazykattstableemporium, we have added several new prompt tables: tables 2-7 of the Halloween Baking Challenge inspired prompts, a Batman 85th Anniversary table, a fall flavor inspired table, and fall/Halloween candle inspired table. (We are aware of the typos, but a certain hurricane interrupted the editing process.)

Prompt lists that have caught my attention elsewhere in the wild:

On YouTube, ZoeHartist posted a video titled Alternative Prompt Lists for Inktober in 2024. I found her recommendations quite good and she stays on the prompt list long enough to screencap it and links to where they're from in the video description. In the video, she recommendeds:

- ArtyFartober 2024 - it's a very fall themed list, a bit random, and includes a secondary lite version of the prompt list. She links to the Artyfartists discord & Arty Farty Annie aka Annie Claxton's YouTube channel

- Mab's Drawlloween Club 2024 - this is a popular annual list that doesn't change drastically from year to year. It's mostly creatures and very spooky. It also includes a lite list. She links to MabGraves Instagram.

- Dark Artober 2024 - "1 prompt, 2 days, 0 pressure", the prompts are animal or creature combinations, like ghost + goat or toad + cow. She links to Dark Arts by Racine's YouTube channel.

- #kattober - 31 days of cats, the idea is to use the prompts like upside down, jars, thick, etc. to draw cats, but the creator has stressed it does not have to be cats. She links to Kattvalk's YouTube channel.

- Peachtober 24 - This list is if you are looking for something a little different. Some sample prompts are daisy, sparkle, apricot, pixel, pearl, and grass. She linked to Furrylittlepeach's Instagram.

- in the comments, people also recommended shiptober/otp, which there are usually several versions of every year, and birdtober, which seems to be very popular this year.


The rest of these are from Instagram:

- #inktoberbyash, hosted by ashsgreen. It's their 3rd year and this year's theme is combining cozy, fall + woodland themed prompts. It's a short list with an optional color palette.

- ACFUNTOBER 24 by ayangcempaka. It's a very random, unthemed list of 31 prompts.

- Citrus.mouse's 2024 Inktober prompt list aka #citrusmousetober by citrus.mouse. It's a very classic Halloween list. Citrus.mouse plans on using it to strengthen their flash tattoo portfolio.

- 2024 Witchtober Challenge. The theme this year is bewitched boutiques. There are 5 business themed prompts with mood boards. It has 5 hosts, but I found it via sorubiart's account

- Sharktober 2024. "A fun art challenge about creating shark related art to help spread better representation for those incredible creatures that take care of our oceans." I found it at astralrequin.

- 2024 Doodle-a-Day October by ellolovey. They have been putting up monthly lists of daily prompts all year with optional color palettes. October's is very traditional Halloween.

- Inktober Elves. This is the 7th annual list. The goal is to draw an elf a day. They have included all 7 lists to mix and match as you choose: cottagecore, flora + fauna, magical, autumnal, witchy, professional, & fashionable. There is also an optional element list to combine with your other prompt. Hosted by ranefea.

- Morning Crocodoodles October 2024 by morningcrodiles. The theme is classic horror this month. (They do lists every month.) There are 2 alternative variants of the list and an optional color palette.

- Cat-tober 2024 by black_cattober. Not to be confused with the other cat themed list, this one has prompts that are types of cats.

- Tattoober 2024 by anonymous.ink the prompts are all tattoo themed

- leartober 2024: spooky 2024 prompt list lite by learistically. A short list of spooky prompts.

- Fear'o'ween by boyfear. It has 2 prompts per day, but instead of combining them, you chose between them. Some are creepy, very seasonal.

- Witchtober with Joyouart 2024. It's a bit random, but also has witch's spell ingredients vibes

- calmtober by kriksisart 2024, a shorter list of cozy prompts

- cozy cauldron by marcies_art. It only has 5 prompts

- Goretober 2024 by strawb3rrymeat. Title is self-explanatory

- Mushtober by aly_ber. Loosely mushroom themed list

- Drawtober 2024 by drawtober. 6 prompts. The theme is monster mash.

- pinuptober 2024 by deuza_art. Pinup themed prompts

- Endicott's Tea Party 2024 by lanylevendula. Mostly cozy tea party vibes

- Dolltober 2024 by salem_sisterhood. This list is geared towards doll collectors and doll & toy photography

- Cabinet of Curiosities Inktober 2024, #sadinktober24, by stephanie.artdesign. things you'd find in a cabinet of curiosities.

- minitober magic by minimagia_3 just a very cute & different list

- emojitober by isa.b.e.e the prompts are strings of emojis

- rattober 2024 by thebeanbaguette. You guessed it, rat themed prompts.

- The Haunted Tea House Japan Edition by yumi.tiger This one if fairly self-explanatory

- SuperBatober has no official list, it's just an artist (mikemaihack) drawing Batgirl & Supergirl comics. They are fun. Check them out.

I have 9ish more lists saved and they are great lists, but they are all more typical Halloween lists, cute Halloween lists, or cozy fall lists, and once you start looking for lists, you are bound to find oodles of them. These are just the ones that caught my eye the last week of September.
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It’s been a bit so I just wanted to check in.

One of the reasons I have been so absent is that I am just flat-out struggling this year and I felt guilty about that. Partially, because I didn’t feel like I had the right to be, since other people have it worse and not everything is going wrong. In fact, some good things have happened this year, it’s just overall, I have not been okay. I also hate how I feel like I am starting every post with apologies and explanations of how I am not okay.

This has led to not reaching out in general, which has been very isolating, which has made everything worse.

On top of this, my cat passed away Saturday morning. She was very old and we saw it coming, but it did not make it any easier.

It is now the first time in 17ish years I have been completely pet-less and there are a lot of big feelings happening with that.

At the beginning of this month, I was hopeful that I could, at least partially, turn things around by the end of the year. Now, I am not so sure.

I am hoping with this post, and getting this off my chest, that the part of my brain that isn’t letting me post the giant stack of things I want to post and chat about (silly and good things, overall), will let up and let me get at least part of them up by the end of the year.

I hope you all are doing as well as you can be.
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Extreme Pet Gadget Slideshow
http://www.newsweek.com/id/149280>1=43001

Although there are some interesting ideas, it just proves that there are people crazier then I am.

Poor fishies.

I'm a mommy again

Sat, Jul. 7th, 2007 11:31 pm
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Today I have a new little furball in my life. His name is Romeo. We adopted him today. He is a little over a year old and was abandoned at the shelter in late March. At the shelter they named him Chile but it doesn't really fit. He is a larger brown striped tabby. He's got white socks and a very thin white blaze. The socks on his front paws are just on his toes and my mother said it looks like he is wearing fingerless gloves. His eyes are rimmed with black so it looks like he is wearing eyeliner. He is super affectionate and kind of emo (all cats tend to be a bit emo). And my mother wanted to name him Lover Boy. We compromised on Romeo. He is still getting used to the house and his favorite room is which ever one I am in. He also climbs in my lap every time I sit down and he is making it very hard to type at the moment. He blends into my bed almost perfectly. Lets hope I don't accidentally sit on him.
We were going to get a kitten as well but I promised my mother one of the cats would be all black. And there weren't any black kittens. There is a litter that may be silver and black but they are too young to adopt. When we asked if there where any black kittens they looked at us like we were crazy. Apparently we are the first to ask. We are going to wait to get a kitten.

Website of the Day: http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~mongoose/french/phrases.html
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Today was very exciting. Ok maybe it was only exciting to me. First this morning My mom and I ran by my aunt and uncle's to get a photo cd to print later. This is the first time I have gotten to see my uncle in months. Then I had internet time at the library. I used it to work on my myspace page. It's still not how I want it. Then my mother remembered that my uncle (a different one) was in the paper (not local). Which is very bizarre because he tends to be a bit under the radar. It was also bizarre because it wasn't the court report. Apparently he has written a play and it is being performed. I want to talk more about how excited I am about it and everything but I really shouldn't. I'm very surprised he agreed to the interview and that he allowed to have his picture in the paper. He is very paranoid and very good at staying hidden from people (and the government) and he knows people are looking for him. But then again maybe he has taken care of all of that. Then I went off to go print more pictures. They were more graduation pictures and pictures of my baby cousin. He is just starting to try to walk. I keep wanting to call him my nephew. He might as well be. Mom and I had lunch at the beach. It is tourist season so we go down and sit in the car watching them, and laugh. The cool part was that there was a bunny! He was just hanging out with the squirrels. I think I got a picture. I couldn't get very close and I haven't downloaded the pictures yet. After our little adventure at the beach, my mother drove us to the animal shelter. We looked at kitties. We adopted none. It is very difficult to find the right cat, and we are going to have to find out more about them first. They were all very friendly. And there were several that were very playful. Only two attached themselves to me. One of them I like very much but I am afraid she might be too needy and the other was bit of a bully. They only let us look at the adult cats today. Mom is talking about getting an adult and a kitten. That makes it a bit harder. There is also a timing issue. The rest of the day was pretty boring. We cleaned and my dad called. He wanted to remind me that my grandmother's birthday was yesterday and that mine is Thursday. I guess I should charge my cell phone and give her a call.

website of the day: http://www.monkeyc.org/dome/index.html

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