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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.
syrena_of_the_lake: (Default)

[personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake 2018-12-19 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
Forever/Star Trek (any series), Henry Morgan, what he wouldn’t give for his old smartphone instead of this clumsy tricorder

Re: Fill: Garak & Quark, Dangerous Bargains

[personal profile] pegasuswrites 2018-12-19 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
This is so good omg!
kalira: cartoon representation of Kalira (pale skin, long brown hair, fangy smile, with thumb and two fingers raised), wearing a black tank top and cardigan, on a galaxy in ace flag stripes/colours (Default)

Astray (Silmarillion; Melkor|Morgoth/Mairon|Sauron)

[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-19 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
"You-" Melkor stared at the slender Maia kneeling before him, "you have followed me, even here? They will not take you back in Almaren after this, you know, perhaps not even now." he warned.

Mairon bowed his head lower, though he cast his bright, burning gaze upwards. "I do not care," he said, and moved almost hesitantly closer, fingers brushing Melkor's thigh and sliding up towards his waist, "I could not remain without you, please, allow me to come with you, to serve you - to love you."

Perhaps a little free with the prompt as Mairon did canonically go dark as well, but this scene spoke to me.
moon_blitz: (Phantom Thieves)

Persona 4, Naoto and Chie, Curry

[personal profile] moon_blitz 2018-12-19 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
Naoto stares down at the plate of curry, taking in the burnt rice, odd smell and purple colour - how Chie had managed to turn chicken curry purple is something that even her inquisitive mind is shying away from - and slowly looks up at Chie, hating what she was about to ask.

"Did...Did you follow the recipe on the box?"

Chie's look of confusion tells Naoto everything she needs to know even before the other girl says, "The box had a recipe on it?"
Edited 2018-12-19 00:50 (UTC)
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Nerdery (Voltron)

[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-19 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
"Would you pay attention? Come out of there, we have a final in," Shiro checked his watch, "twenty-two minutes! What are you so focused on, anyway?" he asked, sticking his head around the lab door.

Matt didn't even look up, giving a half-hearted wave of one hand as he leaned over an impressively big microscope. "The tardigrade colony that just came back in on the Eurydice! Come here and look, Shiro, they're so cool, and some of them are just coming out of their tuns and getting back to normal still!"
tellshannon815: (rumpelstiltskin precious)

The Originals, Elijah Mikaelson and Marcel Girard

[personal profile] tellshannon815 2018-12-19 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
He thought he would be safe, that they all would be, if he no longer remembered his name was Elijah Mikaelson, that he was an Original vampire, that he had siblings named Niklaus, Rebekah and Kol.

Yet removing his memories did not remove his need for blood, did not remove who Elijah was.

As Marcel sees that Elijah finds him familiar, sees how the roses wilt and the water turns to blood when he unknowingly encounters his siblings, he realises that in compelling Elijah he had not removed the danger at all.
moon_blitz: (Default)

Persona 4, Yuu, Inaba

[personal profile] moon_blitz 2018-12-19 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
He had come to Inaba worried about spending a year with strangers - not that his parents weren't practically strangers, but at least he had grown used to them not being around - but as the train left the now-peaceful town behind, Yuu could feel his heart break.

It was home in the bright smile and the cheerful "Welcome home, big bro!" Nanako gave him after a long day at school (oh, December had been so hard, the house so empty); it was home in the friendships forged fighting Shadows with Yousuke and the rest of the team; it was home in the bonds he built with those around him - his uncle, his schoolmates, the other citizens of the town (even his bond with Adachi counted, not that he liked to dwell on it); it was home in the way he felt perfectly comfortable sitting around petting cats or fishing by the river for hours on end.

After a year in Inaba, he had found a home he didn't realize had had been missing, and now he was being forced to leave it (but not forever, he'd be back, he would always come back).

We Could Do Something (Mass Effect Trilogy AU; Female Shepard/Saren)

[personal profile] lady_katana4544 2018-12-19 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
On AO3

Saren stares the silent Commander watching him.

"Where am I? Why have I been brought here?"

Shepard tilted her head slightly at the question before she leaned over to kiss him hard on the mouth.

"You are here because I wished it, Saren. The semantics don't matter."

"Shepard. What have you done now?" Saren growled, his mouth left tingling in her wake.

"Nothing that concerns your knowing, Saren," Shepard grins toothily. "I've realized now that it was foolish to kill you before. I think that you and I can do something good for this damned galaxy with the Reapers. "
glistening_cocoon: (knight)

Re: Fill: Garak & Quark, Dangerous Bargains

[personal profile] glistening_cocoon 2018-12-19 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
Ahh! This is so wonderful and in-character, omg!
tellshannon815: (Default)

Supernatural, Gabriel/Rowena

[personal profile] tellshannon815 2018-12-19 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
He knows Heaven won’t take him back, no matter how short they are of angels, not with his history of faking his death, his cowardice, of being a Trickster. And especially not once they heard the story of him and the porn stars.

But here in this moment, in the bunker with Rowena, Gabriel’s good with that, thinking he’s happy where he is, with her.
Edited 2018-12-19 01:09 (UTC)
vialethe: (Narnia)

[personal profile] vialethe 2018-12-19 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yes!! I'm so excited someone indulged my Susan/Edmund love. And how wonderful it is, with them moving out - because a queen does what she wants - and this being their replacement for Narnia. Thank you!!
psyche29: A brown eye with rainbow eyeliner all around it (Default)

[personal profile] psyche29 2018-12-19 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
Any, any, in small things forgotten
vialethe: (Narnia)

[personal profile] vialethe 2018-12-19 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
(She's our betrayed, lipstick and nylons-loving queen!)

I love the symbolism here of her bow being broken along with her crown being taken - the removal of both her power and her ability to fight back. And of course she comes back!
psyche29: A brown eye with rainbow eyeliner all around it (Default)

[personal profile] psyche29 2018-12-19 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
Yessss. So tight, closed in, no air...and then no light.

Great fill, thank you!
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[personal profile] archersangel 2018-12-19 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
you're welcome. :-)
colls: (SW Ahsoka TCW)

[personal profile] colls 2018-12-19 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
This is great!
moon_blitz: (Cupcake)

Persona 4, Naoto, Double or Nothing

[personal profile] moon_blitz 2018-12-19 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
Naoto wakes up with a gasp, the taste of fog still heavy in her mouth and the ever-present echo of a heart monitor flat-lining ringing in her ears. A glance around her told her that the plan at at least succeeded in sending her back - she was in her bedroom in Tokyo, and a check of her phone tells her it is April 10, 2011.

The phone vibrates a second later, and a string of messages appear as she flips up the screen - Yuu had been appointed as the one who would contact them all to see if they had made it safely, but of course everyone else would check in too - and Naoto smiles for the first time in a month.

The smile morphs into a determined line as she texts back, knowing they would have to act fast to save Yamano Mayumi and Konoshi Saki, and she vows that this time, Yuu's December would be happy and full of life.

Fill

[personal profile] lady_katana4544 2018-12-19 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
On AO3

Gamora sucks in a breath of air and opens her eyes.

She remembers falling over the edge and Thanos' face changing ever so slightly as he watched her fall before cold and darkness took her away.

There's another face floating above hers, saying words that she doesn't hear as the darkness welcomes her once more. She wakes up later to Nebula standing by the wall and staring at her with large silent, dark eyes with dry tear tracks on her face and tightly pursed lips as Gamora starts coughing.

"Quill."

"Sister, what -" Gamora gasps around a cough, then Nebula suddenly is there beside her, helping Gamora sit up so that she can cough.

"Quill has upset the balance. Thanos will come back for the bargain that he struck with your life for the stone," Nebula says quietly. She glances towards the slightly open door then back to Gamora. "He has upset the balance of everything. All for you, sister."

"I'll speak, Nebula. Perhaps I can make him see the error he made."

"I doubt that you will be able to reach him. Quill has gone beyond such things now."

Nebula's words rattle around her head as she walks through the silent ship, noting how no one speaks or looks at her when she looks at them; eventually, she finds Peter standing on the bridge alone, watching the stars.

"Peter?"

"Gamora!"

He turns around slowly and grins before approaching her as Gamora understands what Nebula meant. She saw that he was beyond any of them as the power of the Stones glowed in his eyes.

"You should be resting. It wasn't easy to bring you back, did you know that?"

"I didn't, but I wanted to see you, Peter."

She rests her head on his shoulder, closing her eyes as the galaxy burned.
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Informal Audience (ATLA; Zuko/Mai)

[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-19 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
"We demand to speak to the Fire Lady herself about this unacc-"

"Then I suggest you look inside." Zuko's voice came a little louder than the man he was interrupting, as the door into the previously-quiet library opened before them.

Mai lifted her head, crossing her legs and resting one splayed hand on the open book in her lap as she fixed a flat, curious look on the counselor behind Zuko - a very frustrated-looking Zuko.
tomakeanoffer: (Default)

Re: Fill: Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine

[personal profile] tomakeanoffer 2018-12-19 01:47 am (UTC)(link)

Aww, this was so sweet!

tomakeanoffer: (Default)

Re: Welcome to PHU, Pawel & Mac

[personal profile] tomakeanoffer 2018-12-19 01:48 am (UTC)(link)

I kind of love this? Like, it's great and yay, I'm glad you got inspired by my prompt!

tiggerann: a red doodle of a poinsettia (blood)

Re: The Originals, Elijah Mikaelson and Marcel Girard

[personal profile] tiggerann 2018-12-19 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
I love how his true nature come though.
tomakeanoffer: (Default)

Re: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Future John and Cameron)

[personal profile] tomakeanoffer 2018-12-19 01:50 am (UTC)(link)

Oooooh, I really liked this! Very neat!

tiggerann: A smiling woman holding swords (swords)

Re: Skyrim: Dunmer Dragonborn, Alduin, M'Aiq the Liar:

[personal profile] tiggerann 2018-12-19 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
Skyrim is such a pretty game.
tiggerann: a women excited to buy books (books!)

Re: A Discovery of Witches (TV) spoilers throughout season one

[personal profile] tiggerann 2018-12-19 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
the uncertainty is good.