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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] yeomanrand 2018-12-17 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
<3 lovely.
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Re: Goodbye at Avalon (Merlin (BBC)-ish)

[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-17 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I enjoyed the BBC version but I also have yet to go back and watch past . . . early season two (of five). (Also it required suspending disbelief hardcore for anachronisms.) I think my mind jumped to King Arthur because a folk band I like has done a song that combined The Water Is Wide with Avalon's Shore. ^.^ I'm happy it fits well.
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Re: Vagabonds (Inu-Yasha)

[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-17 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
SO MUCH. Poor Kagome. XD Glad it made you laugh!
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Re: Any fandom/character + Columbo

[personal profile] oracle_at_gotham 2018-12-17 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/8074405

FAR more than 3 sentences and also not mine but I thought you'd get a kick out of it
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Re: Fire and Ice (Sky High)

[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-17 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
So put upon. So much. Poor fiery thing. *giggles* Everyone thinks they're being so clever and he is just Done. XP
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[personal profile] oracle_at_gotham 2018-12-17 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"But the magus would love to see this one," Costis protested, "and if I left it in the shed the petals would fall off in the cold."

Kamet crossed his arms, unimpressed.

"Bring one more filthy plant into the kitchen and you won't live to send him another."
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Re: OP

[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-17 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Very true; and adding to that I think Zuko also desperately wants to believe that his family loves him as much as he loves them, which. . . *sighs* It's definitely human nature to first assume, without thinking, that other people are fundamentally pretty similar to ourselves, and it . . . yeah, it doesn't always go well.

He wasn't suspicious enough, no, but then I just think about back the first time she tried to bring him home and Zuko's face when he thought his father wanted him back home. . . Oof. Zuko may or may not have been more suspicious if he didn't want so very much. And heck, sometimes (when their father isn't fucking with them and they aren't otherwise pitted against each other) Zuko and Azula actually do get along not too badly. (Not all the time, but . . . sometimes.)
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Re: Passed On (Tiger & Bunny)

[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-17 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Aww 🖤 I had to with this prompt~ (Also I need all the Tomoe-POV or Tomoe-featuring stories for them for some reason.)
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[personal profile] meridian_rose 2018-12-17 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"In that while there are limitations and that as our understanding grows and we evolve, our rules and ethics evolve?" Picard asked.
Ed gaped a moment before saying, "Yes, that's what I meant."
It hadn't been, but then he wasn't entirely sure what he'd meant besides trying to sound intelligent and debonair in order to impress "The" Jean-Luc Picard, a hard task when he was utterly star struck and somewhat drunk.
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Re: Bleeding Heart (Kamisama Kiss)

[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-17 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. . . Akura is a very all fucking mine sort of partner. >.> (It's honestly a little amazing Nanami didn't get hurt any worse when Akura was around in canon.)
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Re: 'There was only one bed'

[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-17 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you, glad it read like them! :)
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[personal profile] oracle_at_gotham 2018-12-17 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"Parkerparkerparkerparkerparker," Hardison chanted as he fell. It wasn't a prayer, nothing like what his Nana had recited over their beds every night, but it was an invocation just the same. Alec's faith wasn't large enough to encompass a God, or a god, or even himself, but it was just the right size for a thief to steal in and make her home.
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Homestuck, Wayward Vagabond

[personal profile] capribornio 2018-12-17 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
He thought he knew what Vagabond meant, wandering through the desert, no one alongside him, no stop in sight. Not a place to return to. Not goal in mind.
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Re: Homestuck, Wayward Vagabond

[personal profile] capribornio 2018-12-17 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
But he still felt like a Vagabond now, even with so many people with him, with a past shared, with a future certain. He wasn't wandering anymore, the meteor going in a specific direction, the model of a city in construction in a specific place. Then why did this all feel so temporary, so likely to disappear in an instant?
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[personal profile] kiraly 2018-12-17 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Yesssss I love it! I 100% believe this conversation happened at some point, haha. Kamet has put up with too much in his life to let his kitchen be overrun by weeds. :D
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Re: Homestuck, Wayward Vagabond

[personal profile] capribornio 2018-12-17 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
He is not who he used to be anymore, the title of Mayor firmly placed and widely recognized. The city built, friends found, friends waved goodbye to. And he knows now, however, that for as long as he remembers all the places he's been to and all the people he loved and hated, he will always be a Wayward Vagabond.
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[personal profile] wrecksahlia 2018-12-17 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
buffyverse, buffy/cordelia, roommates
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Re: Too Far (MCU; Thor & Loki)

[personal profile] nocowardsoul 2018-12-17 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I like it!
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[personal profile] nocowardsoul 2018-12-17 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
That is so cool.
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Re: Decorating (Mary Stayed Out All Night)

[personal profile] mad_madam_m 2018-12-17 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
THEY WOULD AND IT WOULD BE GREAT.

(Anonymous) 2018-12-17 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Lord of the Rings, any, cheer up emo kid!
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Re: Passed On (Tiger & Bunny)

[personal profile] mad_madam_m 2018-12-17 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Right? I'm the same way. I think it's because the show unsubtly implies some similarities between Barnaby and Tomoe, and it makes me want to see her reaction to him/him and Kotetsu.
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Re: Bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky (Narnia)

[personal profile] nocowardsoul 2018-12-17 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I love that last line.
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Re: Bleeding Heart (Kamisama Kiss)

[personal profile] mad_madam_m 2018-12-17 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Gosh, tell me about it. I legit thought he was going to go after her violently for awhile.
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[personal profile] autumnia 2018-12-17 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
♥ This so beautiful and I love that Aravis still worships the goddess even in her new home.
Edited 2018-12-17 18:03 (UTC)