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rthstewart ([personal profile] rthstewart) wrote2018-12-09 03:03 pm
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Three Sentence Ficathon

UPDATE! EDIT!
 We're running into the Dreamwidth comment limits so all new prompts should be posted here Keep responding to and filling already posted prompts here, but all new ones should go to the new thread!





Someone did this banner for me a couple of years ago.  It's great, isn't it?  If it was you, please step up and take a bow!
It was
[personal profile] st_aurafina!   Thank you again!


caramelsilver ran one last year on Livejournal and I did two over here a few years ago. We'll keep it open until January 31, 2019 which should give everyone time to play a little. This is a delightful part of the online fandom community.


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.  So, for example,

Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi, I don't like sand."


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 are allowed and even encouraged!  (We get really fun stories going this way).

Can I still post if I need more than 3 sentences?  Or should I just abuse grammar in ways the English language never contemplated?
Yes.  Yes.


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!
The more people who come and play, the better!

Can I spread the word? 
Yes, please.  I'd love to create a nifty banner with an embed code but I fail at it.  So if you create one, I'll post it and everyone can use it.

How long will it go?
Tentatively, we'll close it on January 31, 2019. 

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 and could be helpful for Yuletide bears, too.

What about spoilers, content warnings, triggers, pairings, ratings, tags, and squick?
I thought about this.  It wasn't an issue the last 2 times I ran this but times change.  In my experience, this typically gets too big, moves too fast, and the stories are too short for content warnings and ratings. You should assume spoilers are fair game and that the initial poster and responder have opted to use no content warnings or tags. I've found personally that I can skim by stuff that, from the prompt, I can tell isn't my favorite flavor of delicious cake. Use your best judgment and be prepared to skip over things that aren't your thing.


And here, have some icons!










I'll start things off...

Edit to add on 12/18/2018 Please check out this update here. And this friending meme if you're so inclined here.
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[personal profile] archersangel 2018-12-17 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
Garak is desperately trying to get Tain's subspace transmitter to connect with the runabout's transporter to rescue himself & his fellow prisoners.
But the space in the bulkhead is too small. Barely enough room to move, barely enough room to breath.
He starts talking to himself as a distraction; bad jokes, half-forgotten prayers, dirty limericks, anything he can think of.
It seems to be working. Then the lights go out.

[personal profile] runespoor 2018-12-17 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
<3333333333 i love her so much
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Re: Kitten

[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-17 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
*curtsies happily*
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[personal profile] rosage 2018-12-17 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
This is such a lovely concept for their wedding, thank you!
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Re: Harry Potter, the Weasley brothers

[personal profile] betony 2018-12-17 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Such a missed opprotunity! I kept on wondering for years if they had deleted scenes locked away somewhere but....seems not?
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Re: Let Life Stretch Out Before Me and Break Me [Hektor, Paris, Cassandra & Aeneas]

[personal profile] betony 2018-12-17 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
OH. (My heart, she is broken.) As much as my loyalties lean towards the Trojans, there's no denying they're just as guilty of the events that lead to their doom, BUT STILL :(
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Home Sweet . . . What?! (Girl Genius)

[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-17 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
Agatha paused, startled, with her toes just over the edge of a precipice, and simply stared straight ahead - or down?

A firm hand wrapped into the back of her dress and yanked her precipitately back, and she landed on Maxim as he collapsed from the force of the pull, but scrambled almost immediately back to her feet, stomping one foot and gesturing through the open doorway.

"An apparently bottomless abyss? Really? In the basement?" Agatha demanded, scowling.
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Re: Who Am I to Judge You

[personal profile] betony 2018-12-17 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
I always loved the eldest princess in this story, cool and cunning and so desperate to keep her sisters safe, and this is a first step towards the HEA I always wanted to see for her!

Fill

[personal profile] lady_katana4544 2018-12-17 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
On AO3

She'd been surprised when Jester came to visit, bringing sweet tasting candies of every kind with her. Before she'd met Jester and her companions, she'd never been allowed to have anything sweet like candy.

But now as she kisses Jester, Calianna decides that she likes the taste of candy on Jester's soft lips.
Edited 2018-12-17 02:04 (UTC)
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Re: Leave This World With Me

[personal profile] betony 2018-12-17 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
COR.
(I'm laughing, and it's horrible of me but: he WOULD end up on a rowboat all over again, wouldn't he?) XD
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Re: That Still Only Counts as One [LotR: TT, Gimli, Legolas & Haldir]

[personal profile] betony 2018-12-17 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
These are all valid complaints, and let's just hope no one shows Legolas the Hobbit movies so he really can die of horror....♥
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Re: What We Are and What We Need

[personal profile] betony 2018-12-17 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
♥ ♥ ♥ I always love your Henry/Eleanor so much, especially her really falling in love when she discovers he acknowledges her own intelligence !
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Fire Emblem 9/10

[personal profile] rosage 2018-12-17 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Sanaki tilts her head up at Sephiran with consideration. Nearby, a member of her court protests that the finest musicians in the land have been assembled for her evening's amusement, and surely one of them can please her more than Sephiran's games.

Sanaki demands their silence before ordering Sephiran to retrieve his spell book, which he does with a twinkle in his eye.
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Queen's Thief, Eugenides

[personal profile] betony 2018-12-17 02:09 am (UTC)(link)

"This is not," Gen says with dignity, "what I had in mind." And the stormclouds over the skies of Attolia do not budge, not until he leaves the south wall and creeps back to bed.

(Somewhere, he knows, Eugenides laughs.)

Edited (adding the fandom!) 2018-12-17 02:10 (UTC)
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Re: Fill

[personal profile] rosage 2018-12-17 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
This is so sweet (no pun intended), thank you!
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[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-17 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
Ooo~ Horrifying and rousing and amazing!
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[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-17 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
Ooo. . . Yes~
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[personal profile] betony 2018-12-17 02:15 am (UTC)(link)

She'll allow him this much: he never did lie to her.

Instead he said, lovely one, my life rests in your fine hands and swore men would curse my name if I did not take you with me, pretty princess and never anything more binding: his words made her blush and brightened her eyes and now, on Naxos, they catch in her teeth like curses.

Dionysus never pays her so much as a compliment, never makes promises she might never believe, but when her spirit is dragged into Hades, away from him, she does not doubt him.

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Re: Loves Like This

[personal profile] celeste9 2018-12-17 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
LOL, same, an unfortunately large number of my most beloved ships range from hardly anyone else to basically no one but me cares about this, ha. (see: Bruce/Natasha, for example...). (Yes! Which Rey had down immediately, of course. In my head the third is complimenting his ship, lol.)
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[personal profile] betony 2018-12-17 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Those two are one of the most evocative stories of justice denied that I know, and so of course I had to work them in!
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[personal profile] betony 2018-12-17 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you! :D
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[personal profile] betony 2018-12-17 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
I think they both do, sorta, and that's part of why Cassandra is careful to stay away (Aeneas, on the other hand, is too much of an oblivious idiot to even make the connections *facepalm*)
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Re: You Have All Your Life

[personal profile] betony 2018-12-17 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Aww, I love this! Take as much joy as you can, sweet darlings, before the angst catches up with you (really, by 3SF standards, this is almost cheerful ♥)