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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: The Adventure Zone Balance Arc - Taako, pre-canon

[personal profile] dragonofeternal 2018-12-19 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
ha ha ha HA HA HA HAHAHAHAHA HEY NOW WHO GAVE YOU THE RIGHT????

This perfectly captures the fridge horror of TAZ Balance in a whimsical bow. I'm so glad someone wrote something for Balance with this prompt cuz it feels tailor made for it.
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[personal profile] ultra_fic 2018-12-19 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
(Welcome to a piece of my head canon for the MCU...)

It had taken all the magic he possessed, all the power he could summon, but it was worth it, not least to see his brother's tears.

Fooling the titan who wished to end them all, it had been far from easy, but the task was done and escape was possible, for now.

Still, Loki was uncertain what kind of world he had the freedom to run into, and trickery would only get him so far, if the worst was indeed yet to come.
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Re: Welcome to PHU, Pawel & Janusz

[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-19 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know these guys at all, but I feel for Pawel. I hope things get/got better for him in canon. :)
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[personal profile] runespoor 2018-12-19 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
This is super fun, and I love the familiarity - and the hint of lingering tension - at the end. Roxas bitching at Axel will never not be An Aesthetic.
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[personal profile] dragonofeternal 2018-12-19 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you enjoyed it so much!!! All the worlds are vaguely inspired by specific canons (Waterworld, Kingdom Hearts, and Magi: the Labyrinth of Magic) but Kingdom Hearts, especially Twilight Town, felt like a fitting match for this prompt. It's just got that perfect mix of bittersweet feels and the excitement of discovering new worlds.
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Re: Instructions Not Included (Teen Wolf)

[personal profile] sawthefaeriequeen 2018-12-19 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
These two! This is how I love them best.
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Re: Fill: Kingdom Hearts, Demyx/Zexion

[personal profile] dragonofeternal 2018-12-19 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
This is fine. Definitely.... definitely fine....

I'd never really thought about Demyx's reaction to Zexion's absent silhouette, and now I'm all sad XD
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Re: Fill: Kingdom Hearts, Demyx/Zexion

[personal profile] setsuntamew 2018-12-19 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
OH DON'T WORRY I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT IT LIKE A MILLION TIMES EVERY TIME IT MAKES ME CRY!!!!!! this has been a continual point of sadness for me since like, 2007....when I cried my way through final mix+ and died!!!!
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Re: Love

[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-19 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
They really are. On both of them really. . .
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Talk no Jutsu (Naruto)

[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-19 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
". . .how does he do this?" Shikamaru asked, rubbing his face as he crouched beside Sakura.

She shrugged, looking across the would-be battlefield to where plans for peacetalks were currently being bandied about. "Naruto?" she suggested, the best answer she - or anyone, likely - could offer.
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There's a lake I know

[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-19 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"The most ridiculous part is that it doesn't even matter, dynastically speaking, who the children's father is," Tor said as he tossed a pebble into the Lake of Dreams and watched the ripples spread across its deceptively inviting surface; "Aerin has always had a better claim on the throne than I do."

"Yes, but people do prefer a world where they can fold concepts into neatly organized mental cabinets, rather like folding freshly laundered linens," Luthe said without raising his head from Aerin's lap, "and 'The king rules by right of inheritance,' is tidier than 'The king rules because the queen was unofficially disinherited and then vanished to fight a sorcerer,' to say nothing of 'The king and queen have rejoined the royal bloodlines,' being tidier than 'The king and queen have made the vaguely ominous wizard of the mountains into their mutual lover and potentially diluted the bloodline.'"

Aerin snorted inelegantly; "If being ominous were a race, you wouldn't even be at the starting line, and in any case I don't see why I should worry about fitting neatly into people's preconceptions now," she said, and held out her hand to draw Tor back down to her side.
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Re: The Ivan Vorpatril Maneuver

[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-19 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
YES GOOD EXACTLY!

[personal profile] lady_katana4544 2018-12-19 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
On AO3

"I think," Beau says decisively, looking between Jester and Yasha, instead staring at the fire as it crackles merrily in the silence around the three of them. "I think that I like you; both of you more than I probably should."

Jester looks over at over Yasha, who eyes her stoically for a long silent moment before nodding once. They both turn attention back to Beauregard and Jester leans forward to kiss her as she squeezes her wrist gently.

"I think I can speak for the three of us when I say that we like you back, Beau," Jester says with a grin as Yasha nods her agreement.

"Oh good. I'm glad to hear that," Beau responds and kisses her back.

Later, the others congratulate them with giant smiles and well wishes for their continued good health.
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Homestuck, Dave Strider

[personal profile] dragonofeternal 2018-12-19 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
TG: so what im saying is
TG: i got plates spinning in every hand
TG: fucking playing the market in LOHAC, getting jades forge to pop off like a its a giant pimple of magma and frog spunk, mixing up sweet new sbahj content so i dont disappoint the ghosts of my fans, warding off ladies with a big stick, all while flash stepping away from dead-dave futures
TG: like some sort of russian circus here with all these plates

TT: Fascinating.
TT: And so you cannot come do your own dishes that you left in my house because?

TG: love to
TG: but cant
TG: if i do the dishes than jack wins
TG: dishes mean dead daves rose
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Re: Homestuck, Dave Strider

[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-19 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahahahaha, beautiful! :DDD
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Kingdom Hearts, Roxas

[personal profile] dragonofeternal 2018-12-19 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Roxas watched as the sun sank low over the hills of Twilight Town, the distant rustle of trains and people lulling his mind into a soft static that was almost like relaxation until his ice cream started to drip onto his hand and brought the world back into a focus so sharp he could have sworn he'd heard his name.

He'd bought an extra ice cream today, and he couldn't for the life of him remember why.
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Death of Spring

[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-19 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Hades passes like a shadow through his own palace, back from walking the mortal realm and hearing their wailing laments echoing off the ice that coats the world.

He pauses in the doorway, looking into the dark of the bedchamber; there is a crumpled and still heap in the night-blue sheets, and he sighs as he settles beside his wife. "They mourn for you," he tells her softly, not to hurt her - she has been crying for weeks, and every crystalline tear is a spike in his heart - but in hopes that she will return to her duties, for much as he longs to keep her, she belongs to the mortal world as much as his own, "will you not go to them once more?"
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Overtures (Naruto)

[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-20 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Ah . . . Tobi? Is everything all right?" Hashirama asked, wincing as his brother's head snapped up and he met bloodshot, heavily shadowed eyes.

"-s no sense!" Tobirama protested, rubbing his hands through his already wild hair and then banging them flat on the desk; Hashirama was a little afraid to ask what, but made an encouraging sort of noise, hoping it was also soothing, because Tobi got so high-strung when he was like this.

"That blasted," Tobirama sputtered a few times before spitting out, "Uchiha! Anyone can tell you we don't get along, he can't even stand the sight of me - honestly that he'd rather gut me than look at me! And now he is seeking me out? Asking me to- No! No sense in it! Uchiha are all mad, Anija!"

Oh. Oh dear, Hashirama thought, because there was only one Uchiha Tobi would be likely to describe in quite those terms any more, and if he hadn't put together what Hashirama had already seen. . .
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Re: Overtures (Naruto)

[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-20 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
Hee! :D
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Re: Warmth in the Winter (Naruto)

[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-20 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
Aww, cuties. :)
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[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-20 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
Aw, this is very cute and sweet!
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[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-20 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
Ohh, this is lovely, and a great angle for it I didn't expect. Showing the distance between Hades and the rest of the Olympians as well, well done.
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Re: Informal Audience (ATLA; Zuko/Mai)

[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-20 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Hey if the counselor insists on being personally eviscerated by the Fire Lady. . . >.> I think Mai's clear at least that he tried to leave her out of it, and the counselor has probably earned whatever he gets at this point. XP
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Re: Instructions Not Included (Teen Wolf)

[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-20 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! ^.^
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Re: Instructions Not Included (Teen Wolf)

[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-20 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
I love Stiles and Lydia as snarky-awesome friends. :D