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Kinky Scribbles Congrats for 2025!A sketch of a hand holding a pencil drawing abstract shapes. Text reads September #KinkyScribble, A Kinky Scribble is a flash-fiction writing/drawing exercise to help kinky creatives produce content in a short amount of time.

Kinky Scribbles Congrats for 2025!

Published by mightytinygiant on October 1, 2025

“Elle, look how big the contest is growing! It’s bursting through the proverbial ceiling!” – Njord

 

Congratulations to the many participants of my third annual September Kinky Scribble Challenge! While we can write kinky scribbles at any time of the year, it’s fun to try and make a collective effort like this. The goal of the event was to help people write and release stories quickly to help build confidence and have fun seeing what we could create.

I am absolutely AMAZED at the turnout this year! Last year we had seven participants and nine stories. This year, 31 writers worked for far more than 60.5 hours to write 33 different stories with a whopping 46 scribbles for a record-breaking total of 70,942 words!

I’d like to give some special recognition for one writer, Butcher @bitchcassidys, who had the absolutely brilliant idea to use the challenge structure to write a 17K-word story in 14 separate scribbles over 14 days. I did a genuine double-take when I realized what you had tried! It never occurred to me anyone would write a long-form story in short scribble-bursts, but I think you had a fantastic idea. I am so delighted!

Again and again, I kept hearing from people that this community challenge helped them find motivation and even break through writer’s block by lowering the stakes and focusing on fun. The deadline doesn’t hurt, either! Well. You know what I mean. Regardless, it made me so happy and so proud to witness more than two dozen people having fun with writing and sharing what they created.

Since the start of the community challenge in 2023, together we have written 112,176 words across 57 different stories.

Wonderful work, everyone!

 

Participants

Please join me in celebrating and supporting these writers by reading their work and sharing it to your friends!

If you’re able, please consider following them on social media and sending a tip, a Kofi, or subscribing to their Patreons. Now more than ever, we must support the creative people in our community!

In alphabetical order by author:

 

Don’t see your story listed here? Check that you followed my parameters, like including content tags and posting it someplace public where I could find the hashtag.

Something I discovered this year: Blusky may be hiding some posts from me in search results due to muted words. (I incorrectly assumed it would show me the posts with the grey opt in message, but apparently in searches it omits those results altogether if you have the word muted.) In light of this, I’d love extra help tracking down any I missed!

You can comment below, message me on Blusky or email me if you know of any stories that belong here. (Or if you spot any errors above.)

Next year I plan to figure out a good anonymous survey for people to submit titles, links, wordcounts, and hours worked. (I ruled out Google Forms this year because I didn’t want people to have to submit their emails.) In the future I will do my best to make a better system so no story gets left behind!

Reminder: this is not a contest and I have some hard limits due to past trauma, so I will not be reading all the stories. I have no way to vet all the authors or confirm the tags are correct. I will only include links to public stories, and stories that offer content tags. For accessibility and consent, if your stories include themes from the Top 16 Content Tags and you do not tag them, I will not share those until you add tags at the start of the story. I reserve the right to not feature a story for any reason.

 

Success? Failure? Progress! A flowchart

Here’s a handy flow-chart for anyone who has complicated feelings about the outcome of this year’s September Kinky Scribble challenge. Spoiler: I’m proud of you no matter the outcome!

A flowchart discussing outcomes of trying a Kinky Scribble, with three main branches of possibility. All of them end with different encouraging perspectives. Try a #KinkyScribble! Option 1: You wrote a scene, gave it minimal edits, & shared it within 24 hrs. Hooray! You created a Kinky Scribble! Good work! Enjoy your dopamine. Option 2: You started writing & didn’t like the outcome enough to share it. Oh no! Did I fail at Kinky Scribbles? Are you interested in the words you wrote? If Yes: Hooray! You have a good start on a story that interests you and could become a longer/more polished project. Good work! Enjoy your inspiration & head start. If No: That's okay. Want to try again? If Yes: go back to the start. If No: That’s okay, too. Did you write words that you wouldn’t have written otherwise? If No: Literally don’t know how you could get to that answer in this flowchart, but go off I guess. If you wrote words, I’m proud of you. If Yes: Hooray! You wrote words! No matter how you feel about those words, nobody can take away from you the fact that you made progress today. Good work! Enjoy your boosted confidence. Option 3: You started writing & realized this story wants more words, more time, &/or more edits than you can manage in 24 hours. How are you feeling about that? Option 3.1: Oh no! Did I fail at Kinky Scribbles? (Go back to progression of Option 2) Option 3.2: Oh cool! I’m curious, what else can I do with this? Hooray! You have a good start on a story that interests you and could become a longer/more polished project. Good work! Enjoy your inspiration & head start.

 

Elle, where’s your scribble? A lesson learned

You may have noticed that for the first time, my own name is missing from the list of participants! Well, I wrote a story, but then I realized something that I will be incorporating into my suggestions for future years. Let me explain.

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Stay StrongMacro photo of wooden matches in a cardboard box. Photo shared with a Creative Commons license by Ian Talmacs on Unsplash.

Stay Strong

Published by mightytinygiant on March 1, 2025

I’m writing to offer an update, a pep talk, and a reminder about some resources that might be helpful right now. This is longer than I intended, which is very in-character for me, and it’s also shorter and less polished than I want it to be, because I am honoring my limits today.

If you’re here to contribute to the mutual aid effort I made this weekend for SizeCon event supplies, scroll to the section below Protect is a verb.

Content tags: this article discusses mental health, COVID, wildfires, censorship and banning books erotic content, and activism efforts against fascism. As always, I welcome help in tagging—please let me know when I have missed anything important.

 

Personal update

I’ve been on hiatus for many months now due to a bad writing-related injury. Creatives—please take steps to care for your hands and arms as you work. Especially if you live in the US and have to rely on our “healthcare” system to see you through it. Don’t risk it!

My hiatus is also due to the fact that I feel caught in limbo between the platforms of Twitter and BlueSky because I don’t have the capacity to transfer over hundreds of muted words. My mental health has been so rough that I can’t really join the transition to #SizeSky until I figure that out. (I did offer some tips here.) I’m glad that muting became a feature last year, but until I can manage to face a wall that was built, brick by brick, of my hard-limit content, I’m feeling back to square one.

I’ve been making slow, small progress in backing up my stories to Archive of Our Own, AO3, the platform that actually won a Hugo back in 2019. It’s largely for fanfiction, but many original creative works live there too, and a surprising number of my most beloved authors seem to have made their start there. If you want to support me creatively right now, then offering kudos, comments, and bookmarks to my stories on AO3 will help me connect with my audience.

I’m not planning to share anything there that won’t be living here on my website as well, but in this uncertain world where romance authors can be locked out of their own Google Drive accounts, and where Project 2025 is taking aim at all explicit sexual content, it seems wise to at least try to have my content in multiple places. I’m backing up my work and website on external hard drives and the cloud, but honestly after the loss of Tumblr in 2018 I don’t trust any platform completely. Have you backed up your work?

 

Update on porn & book bans

Please watch this 9-minute video on Project 2025 as it is urgently relevant to romance writers, erotica writers, librarians, sex workers, and anyone who reads or consumes romance novels or porn. Quoting from Project 2025:

Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.

Project 2025, page 5

Source for the direct quote here, with longer quotes, definitions, and additional analysis. The book ban has already begun in Oklahoma and Florida:

Infographic titled Who would be affected by Project 2025’s Porn Ban? Labeled bubbles answer the question. Drag Performers (with a picture of RuPaul). Creators of LGBTQ+ Books (picture of LGBTQ+ book stack). Adult Entertainers and Sex Workers (picture of a computer open to OnlyFans). LGBTQ+ Musicians (picture of Chappell Roan), Romance Authors (collage of romance books). Teachers and Librarians (picture of a young woman librarian putting a book on a shelf). Sex Educators (Cartoon of three children reading a health book). Fic Writers and Fan Artists (picture of someone holding a smart phone open to AO3 Homepage). Sex Positive Artists (picture of Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion on WAP cover). Makers of LGBTQ+ movies (screenshot from Love Simon). Caption “...and you!!! A person who enjoys the works of these creators.” Project 2025 Truth dot com slash porn dash ban. Link to image Infographic. The Republicans want to ban all porn. You may be surprised how they define that. Underneath, cover art for three teen friendly sex-ed books teens: It’s Perfectly Normal, Sex Education for Teens, and Welcome to Sex! At the bottom, text reads, "The book ban has already begun in Florida. Stop it with your vote in November." Project 2025 Truth dot com slash book hyphen ban.

 

What to do

If, like me, you are confused, exhausted, and overwhelmed, I’m going to offer some resources for what to do.

My top tip? You don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Look for the helpers. Look for people already doing the work and ask what they need. Then the leadership can come from those closest to the issues and most familiar with the nuances and actions that are most helpful.

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Sexual Brakes, Trauma, & Kink in the Burning 20’sTwo hands in red and blue light forming a fist together.

Sexual Brakes, Trauma, & Kink in the Burning 20’s

Published by mightytinygiant on July 12, 2020

 

Tl;Dr: It’s okay if your brain and body want sex when you are stressed. It’s okay if they want it less. Both are normal—even during a pandemic and an uprising. There’s science to prove it. Research also shows that big feelings (like fear of getting sick, or anger at injustice) can be processed and released before they do lasting harm to you or your life. I share excerpts from Emily Nagoski’s book Come As You Are and two others to show how we might be able to use kink to do the same thing. 

This article is around 11200 words. If you’re not interested in the neuroscience of sexual brakes and accelerators or why we don’t have sex drives, you can skip to “How to stop stopping: taking your foot (and everything else) off the brake” to learn about using emotions to release stress. If you’re very low on energy and just want help, jump to “Completing the cycle while (ahem) laying in bed” for my recipe on how to use size kink to achieve that catharsis.

(Content tags: This article contains mentions of the pandemic, police brutality, racism, violence, murder, assault, AIDS, PTSD, depression, anxiety, and trauma responses. It also covers topics ranging from BDSM and impact play, to polyamory, to microphilia/macrophilia, and covers size dysmorphia and kink-related fantasies. I welcome help in tagging—please let me know when I have missed anything important.)

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Introduction

I didn’t expect that it would take a pandemic and a racial justice uprising for me to finally sit down and write a review about a phenomenal book on sex research for my kink blog. Here’s the reason I hope you’ll read this. People are having huge emotional responses that they don’t have the space or tools to fully process; they are also judging others/feeling ashamed for not wanting sex right now, while others are having the same response to those who do want sex right now. Research shows sex desire can decrease for some and increase for others during times of great stress, and that both are normal and healthy. Sex-positive spaces like #SizeTwitter should make space for both responses, and might already be able to provide tools to help process big emotions.

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