Three Sentence Ficathon

[rthstewart]

The 2015 Three Sentence Ficathon is now CLOSED, with over 4,100 prompts, fills, and comments.  It's been a great exchange and thank you so much for the whacky crackfic, the moving short fic, and the amazing cross-overs.  You all are great.  I won't freeze this -- go ahead and continue to fill any prompts that interest you and comment on fills made.  I just ask that there not be any more NEW prompts. 

We'll be back next year.  Check out the friending meme and friend away and if you post your works on AO3, be sure to use the 3 sentence ficathon tags.

Thank you again, so much!

It's been 2 years, so why not?!!

 

 

Caramelsilver ran one in December on Live Journal but I was too busy to play.  There are lots of outstanding prompts over there, so do go and check it out!!  Here's the link!  I did one in early spring 2 years ago here on Dreamwidth, and with Yuletide, Fandomstocking, and Festivids over, I thought I'd run a new one!!  Thanks so much  to snacky and Saoirse7 for the nudge and to st_aurafina for making the swell banner and icon!

What is the 3 Sentence Ficathon?
This is a challenge where you answer a prompt with a fic consisting of only three sentences. It's open to all fandoms and you can post and answer as many prompts as you like, as many times as you want.

What do I do first?
You post prompts!  When posting a prompt please format it this way:

fandom, character(s), prompt word/sentence.

Only one prompt per comment please.

What else?
You answer other posters' prompts in three sentences (or more if you can't stop yourself) and fill as many prompts as you want, as many times as you wish.  If you see that a prompt you loved has already been filled, go ahead and fill it again!  Multiple fills of the same prompt allowed and even encouraged!

But I'm not a member of Dreamwidth
No problem.  You can comment anonymously or through open ID

Can anyone play?
Yes!  Please signal boost this to your flist, followers, and any other places you frequent.  Come one, come all! 
I'm cross-posting to LJ but we will keep all prompts and fills here, so they are in one awesome place (and with less spam).  Please, post this anywhere and everywhere.  The more people who come and play, the better!

[And I'll try to put an embed code in so you can spread the word.  I've tried multiple times and failed so far snacky  !


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How long will it go? 
I'm closing it on Sunday, March 8, 2015.   (Last time, we reached 5,000 comments and I had to start a new one before the ficathon concluded.  If that happens, I'll start a new post).

Are there any rules about cross-posting?
Nope, you can post wherever you want, whenever you want.  A lot of folks collected their responses together and posted them on AO3 under the 3 sentence fiction tag.  3SFs are a terrific prompt for remixes.


Gosh, there are some cool people over here.  How do I introduce myself?
Through the friending meme right here.



And here, have some icons!

 

Edited, updated 4 Feb 2015 11 PM ET
Edited, updated 21 Feb 2015 10:30 ET to add link to friending meme
Edited, updated 9 March 2015 9:06 EDT to close the 3SF for 2015

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Pride & Prejudice, Georgiana Darcy/Kitty Bennet, piano

[parcequelle]

Of the myriad pains and joys Georgiana had already experienced in her first eighteen years of life, none compared to the sheer delight that blossomed within her chest on the occasion of her brother's marriage to her dearest friend. Humble that she was, she would have asked no greater happiness, no greater privilege, than to live out the remainder of her days as a single woman at Pemberley in the presence of these two most beloved people. She soon discovered, however, that the quiet, lively attentions of the ever-more present Kitty Bennet, pressed warm and laughing beside her upon the wood piano stool as Georgiana's hands lay atop hers to guide her fingers in gentle instruction, was a greater joy than even she could have dreamed.

[(Anonymous)]

Stargate SG-1, Sam/Janet, off-time

[parcequelle]

Leverage, Sophie/Tara, first meeting

There can be only one

[juttaj.wordpress.com]

Sophie let the left strap of her spaghetti top fall down over her shoulder with a trained movement of her muscles and turned around to approach the mark. When she saw the beautiful blonde at his side, she stopped dead. The way she smiled at him, her eyes trained on his face, catching even the slightest reaction ... the way her hand touched his forearm reassuringly ... the way she moved her muscles to let her dress strap fall down over her shoulder ... it was clear: somebody had beaten Sophie to it.

[parcequelle]

Rizzoli & Isles, Jane/Maura, it's about time

[parcequelle]

Sanctuary/Doctor Who, Helen/River, haven't we met before?

[parcequelle]

NCIS, Jenny/Ziva, undercover

[saoirse7.livejournal.com]

Sherlock (BBC), Sherlock, a cure for boredom

[butterflyghost]

Ray woke up with a jerk.

The jerk was snoring.

"Get the fuck out of my bed, Kowalski."

[lovepeaceohana]

Oh no, this three-sentence fic looks lost! For which prompt was it meant?

[isabelquinn]

Doctor Who/Gilmore Girls, The Doctor & Emily Gilmore, reminiscing

[isabelquinn]

Malory Towers, any, Hogwarts AU

[samueljames]

Sally is startled by the voice when she puts the hat on, so startled that she is no longer worried by having everyone in the hall watching her.

"Hmm, a tendency towards jealousy but serious and sensible too, perhaps Ravenclaw though I see something else, loyalty to friends - it had better be Hufflepuff."

Sally smiles and makes her way towards the table of clapping people wondering what the hell is a Hufflepuff?

[isabelquinn]

Narnia, any, Bism

Further Down and Further In

[edenfalling]

These are the secrets the dwarfs keep to themselves: the earth is alive. Not just the forests and waters and fertile loam of the surface, which anyone can see, but the deep stone itself breathes and grows; the earth has a heartbeat and veins of molten fire that run like blood. In the first days of the world, while Aslan's song still echoed in the rock, a handful of dwarfs dug too deep, following a chain of rubies that glowed ever brighter the deeper they delved, until their mine cracked and gaped like an open wound and they peered into the fiery depths to see strangers peering upward in return. Those who leapt downward never returned.

These days their many-times-great nieces and nephews harvest the fruits of that deep, living realm the way other Narnians harvest meat and grain, and if now and again a dwarf hears the rushing song of living gold, or sees the shine of jewels that swell and drip with juice, nobody follows when they venture ever-downward into the heart of stone.

[mific]

Stargate ATlantis, John Sheppard, Ronon Dex, things in common

[mific]

Stargate Atlantis, John Sheppard, any, longing.

3 Sentence Ficathon Friending Meme

[rthstewart]

Here it is! come and introduce yourself if you like!

http://rthstewart.dreamwidth.org/120154.html

[edenfalling]

Homestuck, Nanna Egbert, the business side of running a joke shop

[adaese.livejournal.com]

Narnia, marsh-wiggles, the first spring after the 100 year winter

[autumnia]

"It's far too warm, wet and green now, your Majesties," said Muddypath, chief of the Marshwiggles that lived in the northern reaches of Narnia, to the Kings and Queens when the Four made their first visit to the marshlands shortly after their coronation.

Bemused by the Marshwiggle's words, King Edmund said, "But marshes are supposed to be damp and verdant; they always have been until the Witch's magic covered all of it in ice and snow."

There was a pause as Muddypath took a long pull from his pipe, breathing out uneven rings of smoke that caught on the sharp, green reeds that sprung up over recent weeks, before he answered the King in a mournful voice, "I suppose you may be right, Sire, but what's the point when it will all freeze over again in a few months with another winter onslaught that won't be as harsh as the Witch's power but still cold and frosty all the same?"

[isabelquinn]

The Simpsons, Lisa Simpson & Alison Taylor (from Lisa's Rival), friendship.

[isabelquinn]

The West Wing, Ainsley Hayes/Sam Seaborn, all-nighter

[isabelquinn]

Doctor Who, Donna Noble & Ten, knitting

Fill from Marmota-b

[(Anonymous)]

"So march on if you don't want this needle in the back of your neck!" Donna commanded with a slight tremble in her voice that only the Doctor could hear; all the Sontaran heard was the threat and he relucantly obeyed.
"That was absolutely brilliant," the Doctor beamed at her when all was over.
"I *knew* taking up knitting would come in useful sooner or later," Donna replied with triumphant nonchalance.

[heliopausa]

Narnia, Erlian, there were Giants in those days

[syrena_of_the_lake]

No one ever spoke to the young Prince Tirian about how his father died. This was rather silly, because Tirian was a sharp lad (did you ever know a dull boy who befriended a unicorn?), and he heard how carefully people avoided certain words - he was always gangly, never tall, growing but not large, and his art professor always stumbled over the sculpture dubbed Colossus.

Had Tirian been a different kind of boy, he would have gone about exclaiming how huge the sword seemed in his small hands or how enormous the general's hounds were - but instead he kept mostly silent, speaking unreservedly only with Jewel.

[heliopausa]

The Changeover (Margaret Mahy), Winter Carlisle, Miryam Carlisle, any

[supertights]

Miryam returned to Janua Caeli after the child was born and gone, much went unspoken then for bearing a male babe was not such a great betrayal to their gender but to a Carlisle witch it certainly spelled disappointment, and Winter wore her disappointment on her heart for she only had one daughter and loved her dearly, even if that too went unspoken.

When the boy arrived at the door years later, damaged, unable to speak except to apologise, seething with masculine magic and unbalancing everything around him, Winter cast a look at Miryam.

Dark clouds gathered in her eyes, birds fell silent in the great garden as though to listen, it was as if time itself stood still, Miryam held her breath, waiting, waiting-- "Poor broken thing, whatever shall we do with you," said Winter finally, she spoke not softly so that his ears would be spared, but in a harsh voice, prickly and sharp, revealing the old witch, the disappointed mother, and the curious grandmother.

[transposable_element]

Narnia, any, Marsh-wiggle courtship

Num...?

[adaese.livejournal.com]

"I don't suppose...?"

"We may as well. We're neither of us likely to get a better offer, after all".

[(Anonymous)]

Leverage/White Collar, Eliot/Neal, remember the last time?

[juttaj.wordpress.com]

Primeval, Matt/Becker, give it back

Fill: Getting Ready

[samueljames]

Becker is fast losing his patience with Matt who's smugly grinning and proving particularly adept at keeping the hair gel just out of Becker's reach.

"Give it back, Matt, I'm going to be late if I can't get ready," Becker dives across the sofa as he makes his demands but Matt moves far too quickly which isn't doing Becker's ego any favours.

Matt eventually caves when he sees how annoyed his boyfriend is and passes across the gel after a lingering kiss, "you don't need it, Becks, the world won't fall apart if you've got a hair out of place."

[juttaj.wordpress.com]

Torchwood, Jack/Tosh, the only time