Now I do want to preface this mini-rant with two disclaimers.

1: this is not meant to shame or belittle anyone on this, or any similar sub, nor their fetishes. You ask for what you like, God knows I do the same thing, and what may not be for me doesn't mean it's inherently bad/lesser. If this post comes off shame-y, know that's not my intent.

2: This is as much directed at me as it is the rest of the world. God only knows I'm sitting on both a large stack of unwritten PM posts that are just full of juicy prompts that I love, as well as a taller stack of other peoples' prompts I saved. But, that gets us to the main crux of my argument here.

Scrolling this sub can be a trudge sometimes. Seeing lots of prompts, many of which receive little to no response whatsoever. It's a shame, since I know many of the people who post consistently here are probably only really getting a few submissions at any given time for WP posts, and maybe more for a PM.

It got me thinking about how to write and engage with prompts here,and more specifically why I think "Theme Thursday" is the perfect form of this.

Now on my journey through this sub, I've been known to make a few submissions (mostly before the start of my last semester of uni) but I've been sitting on a big pile of prompts that only seems to get bigger (I blame u/Gahidus ). I know this is something of a pot kettle situation, but I think the prompts that draw me are the ones that offer a scenario or even just a vague concept, and let me go from there. This is in part why I like theme Thursday so much as a concept, since it offers a simple setup with a basic concept and let's the author go from there.

Now, I have been told in other subs that I tend to make my prompts a bit too vague, but those are the ones I'm personally drawn to. The ones that give me options. Something like "write a story where they fuck on a train" is infinitely more compelling to me than, "the big-tittied stranger is embarrassed on the train because of her breast-growth fetish" the second prompt just feels really restrictive, in no small part because it's dictating the entire scenario (there will be a lady, she will be embarrassed, etc.) But it also dictates the main allure of the scene.

I think there's nothing wrong with wanting to see a specific kink or fetish explored, but I would advocate putting that in the body text, instead of the main meat of the prompt. There are so many fun prompts that instantly alienate me because they're just asking for a specific fetish that I have no interest in writing (my kingdom for people to stop asking me to write monster-girls, bimbofication and breast-growth).

Like I said, there's no problem with wanting to have a kink be a part of the prompt or the story, but I feel like it makes it easier on the writer when they have some more freedom to write what they want to write. It creates more unique, fun stories, and it leads to cool new ideas coming up more and more.

I don't really know what the overall point or message of this was, it was just a thought voicing around my head the past few weeks as I muster the courage to chip away at my own terrible prompt back-catalog (that's it's own rant post right there)

If you read this far, thanks! I hope it provided some thoughts or insight maybe. That would be cool.