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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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Re: Original

[personal profile] tomakeanoffer 2018-12-19 01:52 am (UTC)(link)

Thank you! Dorothy is being pulled into the fae realm and Dorian will get pulled in soon after her, except his vice is books, so there will be a pretty story to lure him in. Timothy just follows after everyone because well, everyone else in the family is going so why not?

Timothy is not good at being alone. XD

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Re: Persona 4, Naoto and Chie, Curry

[personal profile] tiggerann 2018-12-19 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Oh goodness, I've felt like that.
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Re: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, William/Drusilla

[personal profile] cornerofmadness 2018-12-19 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
Brilliant

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

[personal profile] ironyoxide 2018-12-19 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
It is. Sometimes I just wait for nightfall, and watch the sky do its thing...
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[personal profile] spyrograph 2018-12-19 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
<3
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[personal profile] colls 2018-12-19 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
This is fantastic!
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[personal profile] spyrograph 2018-12-19 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
Supernatural/Star Trek crossover, any, holodeck shenanigans
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[personal profile] spyrograph 2018-12-19 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Supernatural/Saiyuki crossover, Sanzo & any, a joke about the size of Sanzo’s gun
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[personal profile] mad_madam_m 2018-12-19 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Both, clearly. XD

Thank you so much!
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Re: in which odysseus has not a little in common with gen from the queen's thief series

[personal profile] jjhunter 2018-12-19 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
This is brilliant and even better than I was hoping for; thank you!

I like how you mix tones here - switching easily from 'favored child of Zeus Thunderer' to 'hard pressed not to roll her eyes'. It makes the contrasts between her deflection and the reality of what she was actually up to even funnier.

Also, yes perfect the echo of how Gen relates to various gods (I can totally imagine Athena telling Odysseus 'Stop Whining' and 'Go To Bed' as appropriate...or delegating that to Hermes while she goes to get another drink, hee.)
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Kingdom Hearts, Axel & Saïx

[personal profile] dragonofeternal 2018-12-19 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
The actual fights didn't sting- hell, all friends fight sometimes, and if it was a fight with weapons rather than messy words, well that suited Axel just fine. The cold, efficient way Saïx ordered him about didn't bother much either, because that was just missions, just organization stuff. No, the deepest cut was knowing that ache in his chest whenever he thought about the way things were before was nothing but a petty illusion. Can you regret without a heart? And if not, then why the hell did it still make him feel like shit?
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[personal profile] jjhunter 2018-12-19 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
"with all the appearance of real satisfaction" ow, my heart.

Oh god; that's...that's a very convincing angle. Also, really like both the depth of care revealed here and the 'faithless Anne' epithet ("even further from his reach" ow ow ow.)

And that last line is just elegantly turned, and also really fun in having 'make excuses no longer' and his hopes of 'fairer faces to turn his stubborn heart' - there was more to Anne than just a fair face, which is why he's spent so many years with her still the steady reference star of all his constellations.

I just read Persuasion for the first time last month, and this fill is a gift that's making me want to go reread it for Frederick's POV between the lines.
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[personal profile] jjhunter 2018-12-19 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
Lies Sleeping, Thomas Nightingale, stop stealing my apprentices
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[personal profile] jjhunter 2018-12-19 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
Any, any, absurdism is challenge-sense

Snow White, Snow White and Rose Red

[personal profile] reccyls 2018-12-19 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
In her dreams, she has a sister. In her dreams, her dwarves are but one dwarf, combining the worst of all their qualities: wrathfulness, sloth, disinterested detachment from her worries, a touch of fey madness that they can never truly hide, not for long.

When she wakes from these dreams she always turns to the mirror that stretches almost from the floor to the stooped little ceiling, and her reflection watches her back, a little wry smile and the vaguest quirk to the image's brow; when she wipes the last of the sleep from her eyes the illusion fades, and yet, she still finds herself wondering, mourning the absence of something she doesn't quite know was ever real.
Edited 2018-12-19 02:47 (UTC)
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Re: Homestuck, Wayward Vagabond

[personal profile] capribornio 2018-12-19 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad to hear I managed to get WV's character right! He's one of my HS top five characters, so of course I had to honor him.
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Souvenirs de Français (Antique; Jin Hyuk/Sun Woo)

[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-19 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
Sun Woo bid farewell to his old friend, passing over the neatly-tied box, then turned away from the counter and-

He blinked, then cocked his head, a smile tugging at his lips. "Est-ce que tu me détestes vraiment parler français tant de, mon chér?" he asked playfully.

"Seuls les souvenirs que ce ramène." Jin Hyuk said, his glare softening as he approached, shaking his head.

Excuse the messy French, I am very tired right now and switching languages is higher-gear braining.
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weighty philosophical inquiry

[personal profile] jjhunter 2018-12-19 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Paradise Lost or any, any, do fallen angels still 'corporeal to incorporeal turn' the food they digest, or does loss of grace engender sudden internal acquaintance with their nether tract?
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[personal profile] pilfered_words 2018-12-19 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
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[personal profile] alice_pike 2018-12-19 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
♥ ♥ ♥

right?? god we've been waiting so long
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Re: Narnia (Rthverse)

[personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake 2018-12-19 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
The Royal Narnian Aerial Guard was, admittedly, mostly comprised of birds of prey; even so, the Gryphon Aerial Corps tended to look on their smaller brethren as feathered, flying mascots rather than a true fighting force... until the harpies came.

Old Edwina herself, Narnia’s First Fighting Goose, trumpeted alarm and led the charge, buffeting the foul harpies with her wings, striking with her beak, and yelling obscenities fit to make a Hummingbird blush.

The geese flew in vicious, V-shaped trios and cut the opposing onslaught into ribbons; harried from above, the harpies were easy pickings for the archers below — and by the time the Gryphon corps arrived, the Goose Guard had returned to roost, Edwina in the lead, honking quietly in satisfaction.