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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.

Re: I Need Noise

[personal profile] neverseenher 2018-12-18 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
I was like, "Haha, typical Beau, can't stay still when she could be punching something instead," until, WOW thanks for blind-siding me with sudden PAIN AND EMOTION at the end there!!! Gah. But really, thanks so much!
vialethe: (Narnia)

[personal profile] vialethe 2018-12-18 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
LotR/Narnia, Lucy/Aragorn, and if a lion roars/would you not listen?
falsewings: Thor from Avengers: Infinity Wars (Default)

Re: Love Well-Matched

[personal profile] falsewings 2018-12-18 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
Lovely! <3
vialethe: (Lamia - Waterhouse)

[personal profile] vialethe 2018-12-18 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
Greek Mythology, Cassandra (/& any), man seems so strong/and man speaks so long/man never been so wrong
alice_pike: (Default)

[personal profile] alice_pike 2018-12-18 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
Vague spoilers for s8

Keith can feel Shiro's eyes on him, hot like a brand, and when he chances a glance in his direction, Keith watches him startle, and look away, gaze locked on nothing in the distance.

Shiro hugs him goodbye before he leaves for Daibazaal, holds him as tightly as Keith is holding onto him, and it goes on for too long, longer than they should let themselves with this many people watching, with Curtis somewhere in the crowd.

It's a few months before Keith comes back, Shiro knows, and tells himself he's not waiting.
alice_pike: (Default)

Re: Call it What You Want

[personal profile] alice_pike 2018-12-18 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
ooooh this is so good
dreamsofspike: (Default)

[personal profile] dreamsofspike 2018-12-18 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
"Peter, I ... I swear, I didn't mean for this to happen..."

Peter slowly closes in, the back of his knuckles brushing against Neal's cheek, as he muses, "Didn't mean for what to happen? For a priceless artifact that never should have left FBI custody to end up destroyed ... or for you to finally have my complete and undivided attention?"

Neal flinches slightly, but the way his breath hitches in his throat at Peter's touch is a tell, and Peter smiles, knowing. "Because you've certainly managed to accomplish both."

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[personal profile] neverseenher 2018-12-18 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
It should happen during a con, but it doesn't. It should happen in front of Hardison (he's wanted them together like this for so long), but it doesn't. When it happens, like everything else with them, it happens on their own time, in the space between thought and action, her hand on the back of his neck, his fingers just barely touching her waist, chaste and rough and easy, and they both, at the same time, think, oh.
vialethe: (Lamia - Waterhouse)

[personal profile] vialethe 2018-12-18 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
Greek Mythology, Hades/Persephone, four hundred bones, crumpled in bed/i'm the only one who knows that you're still breathing
zdenka: The shield of Gil-galad surrounded by flames. (things that are on fire)

Silmarillion - Celebrimbor & Annatar

[personal profile] zdenka 2018-12-18 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
Somehow a late-night conversation among the Gwaith-i-Mírdain turns onto the question of which is deadlier, ice or fire. Celebrimbor declines to support either side, since both are equally deadly: "Ice like the Helcaraxë, fire as dragonfire, or the chasm where my uncle met his end . . ."

"Which would you prefer?" Annatar asks, smiling.
Edited 2018-12-18 06:36 (UTC)
setsuntamew: cap of Axel and Roxas eating ice cream together in on the Twilight Town clock tower (Axel & Roxas → eat ice cream)

[personal profile] setsuntamew 2018-12-18 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
oh no, this hits right in the feels and I love it...even if it's just so fuckin painful to think of how things went for them!! D:
dragonofeternal: a serious looking hakuryuu with a flower (magi→ hakuryuu floral)

[personal profile] dragonofeternal 2018-12-18 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
Any, any, "What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil"
Edited 2018-12-18 06:38 (UTC)
zdenka: The shield of Gil-galad surrounded by flames. (things that are on fire)

Silmarillion - Glaurung

[personal profile] zdenka 2018-12-18 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
Dragons are made to live forever, unless they are slain. With a black sword in his vitals, Glaurung still laughs. The grim, dark-haired boy, the shining-haired girl with defiant eyes: he will drag both of them into the darkness with him.
Edited (added subject line) 2018-12-18 06:59 (UTC)
vialethe: (Girl in a box)

[personal profile] vialethe 2018-12-18 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
Star Wars, Anakin/Ahsoka, there's no answers in the tempest/just a million other questions
zdenka: Mei Changsu playing the flute. (asian dramas)

3 Lives, 3 Worlds, 10 Miles of Peach Blossoms - Ye Hua and Susu

[personal profile] zdenka 2018-12-18 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
The plan was simple and should have been foolproof: shrink his dragon form down to the size of a snake, and rest quietly in a cave for three days until he could once more return to human shape. Instead, the Crown Prince of the Celestial Tribe had been carried off by a woman who thought she was helping an injured snake -- who kissed his nose (the insolence!) and fed him raw meat.

She was absurd, and kind-hearted, and like no one he had met before; by the time he was able to leave, her simple hut in the wilderness had become dearer to him than the Heavenly Emperor's palace.
zdenka: Mei Changsu playing the flute. (asian dramas)

3 Lives, 3 Worlds, 10 Miles of Peach Blossoms - Ye Hua/Bai Qian

[personal profile] zdenka 2018-12-18 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
On the evening of the day that Ye Hua meets High Goddess Bai Qian in the Eastern Sea, he reaches out to touch her portrait with unsteady fingers. "This time," he breathes, "no one will hurt you or offend you." Susu's painted face smiles at him in silence, beneath the bandage that hides her eyes.
zdenka: An old map with the site of Troy. (Classical)

Re: Greek mythology, a life for a life

[personal profile] zdenka 2018-12-18 07:37 am (UTC)(link)
I love this!
zdenka: A woman touching open books, with loose pages blowing around her (books)

[personal profile] zdenka 2018-12-18 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
This is brilliant!
zdenka: A bird made of flowers. (cheerful)

Re: All the World Inside Me

[personal profile] zdenka 2018-12-18 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
Aw, this is delightful!
marshv: (keef)

[personal profile] marshv 2018-12-18 08:07 am (UTC)(link)
Treasure Island (any adaption), Jim Hawkins/Long John Silver, just official business
Edited 2018-12-18 09:11 (UTC)
zdenka: Starry background with text: "I will not say the Day is done, nor bid the Stars farewell." (my story is not done)

[personal profile] zdenka 2018-12-18 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
Yess! I love this.
zdenka: An old map with the site of Troy. (Classical)

Re: Trojan War Cycle

[personal profile] zdenka 2018-12-18 08:15 am (UTC)(link)
This is very good.
dragonofeternal: a serious looking hakuryuu with a flower (magi→ hakuryuu floral)

Magi: the Labyrinth of Magic, Hakuryuu

[personal profile] dragonofeternal 2018-12-18 08:18 am (UTC)(link)
Time is of the essence when Hakuryuu returns from conquering Belial's dungeon with Judal. He should stop to nurse his liar's wounds shut with magic, but there's too much to do. He settles for a hot shower in their new fortress, watching as the water runs rust-brown from his ill-tended wounds. Once this is over he'll put his clothes from Belial back on, return to the work of turning the soldiers' minds to his favor, give further orders to Judal... This is the closest he'll get to rest for days, he thinks, but even now he cannot afford to stop the wheels of his mind from turning.

Judal's waiting when he opens the door, folded clothes in hand. Hakuryuu glances from them to Judal's face, confusion written plain on his own face as Judal grins.

"A change of clothes, my king." Judal presses the clothes into Hakuryuu's hands, and the cloth is almost as soft as Judal's palms. "Can't have you running around looking like a common bloodied thug in front of your new men."

"Of... Of course." Hakuryuu takes proper hold of the clothes, and Judal lets go, turning with a wave. "Wait, Judal-"

"Don't mention it. I'm gonna go get some work done on those spells you needed."
zdenka: The Doors of Khazad-dum. (tolkien)

Re: That Still Only Counts as One [LotR: TT, Gimli, Legolas & Haldir]

[personal profile] zdenka 2018-12-18 08:22 am (UTC)(link)
Haha, excellent.
zdenka: Knife with text "We've all got knives. It's the Time of Isolation and we're BARRAYARANS" (barrayarans)

[personal profile] zdenka 2018-12-18 08:29 am (UTC)(link)
:D I love it.
Edited 2018-12-18 08:30 (UTC)