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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.
edenfalling: stylized black-and-white line art of a sunset over water (Default)

Re: The Hunger Games, Plutarch, Katniss

[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-20 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Poor Katniss. She did make a hell of an effective symbol, didn't she?
setsuntamew: a cap of Judal from the anime, grasping rukh in his fist, with a light subtle light texture over his fist (Judal → eat the rukh)

[personal profile] setsuntamew 2018-12-20 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
Magi, Judal/Hakuryuu, reincarnation
setsuntamew: fanart of Yami Bakura holding a cute bunny plushie while looking annoyed (Bakura → hug plushie)

[personal profile] setsuntamew 2018-12-20 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
YuGiOh, Yami Bakura/Malik, lost in your schemes
setsuntamew: (Demyx & Zexion → oceans between us)

[personal profile] setsuntamew 2018-12-20 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Any fandom, hero/villain, a second try
dragonofeternal: a one eyed monster floating on a watercolor background (dragon knights→ one eyed monster)

[personal profile] dragonofeternal 2018-12-20 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Dragon Knights, Kharl the Alchemist, creations
dragonofeternal: an ouroborus fading from red to orange (00 ouroborus)

[personal profile] dragonofeternal 2018-12-20 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Yugioh DM, Yugi & Ryou, metagame
acequeenking: (Hades)

[personal profile] acequeenking 2018-12-20 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Persephone tries, but her seed takes no root: the soil too hot, the seas too poisoned.

Her mother weeps, weeps the whole way down underground as she follows Persephone down for the first and final time; she is the first Olympian to go to the final kingdom, but not the last.

Hades' arms fold around his wife the second she crosses the Styx for the last time; he, like she, sheds no tears, for they are long-used to the pain of being barren.
Edited 2018-12-20 02:39 (UTC)
sholio: sun on winter trees (Default)

Iron Fist, Ward & Danny

[personal profile] sholio 2018-12-20 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
"I tried to kill you," Ward murmurs. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Danny."

"I know," Danny says. It's the delirium talking; they've never really talked about this particular aspect of their once-fraught relationship, and he doesn't think Ward would have brought it up if he weren't completely off his head with fever. As far as Danny's concerned, it's over, it's done; he knows Ward would never do anything like that now. He just didn't know it still bothered Ward that much. "I know, but you took a bullet for me, and that makes us even, don't you think?"
edenfalling: stylized black-and-white line art of a sunset over water (Default)

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

[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-20 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
Oh god that's creepy if you know what must have happened there...

Guild Wars 2

[personal profile] reccyls 2018-12-20 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
Caithe tries, as she has tried for years, to make this work--Destiny's Edge is so close to reconciliation and reunion that her hope sits painfully in her chest--and still she fails: they argue, they squabble, each pretending that only they themselves are haunted by the ghosts that linger over them all.

Faolain's embrace is just as she remembers, belladonna sweet and nightshade bitter, but it is the only thing that has never been lost to her. Faolain receives her with open arms and a promise of a quiet death, but at least she won't be alone anymore.
Edited 2018-12-20 08:24 (UTC)
sholio: sun on winter trees (Default)

[personal profile] sholio 2018-12-20 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
There's broken glass all over both of them, all over everything, glittering like frost. Jonathan stares dazedly as Steve climbs over him; as he struggles with the twisted buckle of Jonathan's seat belt, slicing his hands on the crystal shards of glass and leaving streaks of blood on Jonathan's sweater.

"Come on, come on, we gotta go, it's coming," he keeps saying, and finally it penetrates enough to get Jonathan up and moving.
edenfalling: stylized black-and-white line art of a sunset over water (Default)

Re: in which odysseus has not a little in common with gen from the queen's thief series

[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-20 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
Ahaha, beautiful! :D
last_haven: (writer)

[personal profile] last_haven 2018-12-20 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
I'm starting to think 'bittersweet' might just be one of the biggest themes in any of my writing. I'd never thought of how often that word fits my works, but eh, it's something.

Thank you for the comment.
last_haven: (writer)

[personal profile] last_haven 2018-12-20 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
That makes me think of that quote--"we deserve a soft ending". More like they're going to sleep than vanishing into the hereafter. Sounds peaceful.

Thanks for commenting!
last_haven: (writer)

[personal profile] last_haven 2018-12-20 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
It's the end of an age for them, but Persephone already knows all about endings--she's not afraid.

Thanks for commenting.
last_haven: (writer)

[personal profile] last_haven 2018-12-20 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
Some of the other stuff I'd been writing for the ficathon had been a little farther on the grim side, so I'm glad this came out on the cute end.
Thanks for commenting.
last_haven: (writer)

[personal profile] last_haven 2018-12-20 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
Hades and Persephone are going to kill it when they show up to Mount Olympus with matching jewelry. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
last_haven: (writer)

[personal profile] last_haven 2018-12-20 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you!
sholio: sun on winter trees (Default)

[personal profile] sholio 2018-12-20 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Any fandom, any characters, dry heat
edenfalling: stylized black-and-white line art of a sunset over water (Default)

Protocol

[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-20 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
"I know you only claimed to be an incarnation of that customer's god to save me from a beating, but Threepio, you should never impersonate an aspect of the divine," Mistress Shmi says as she re-solders the snapped wires in Threepio's shoulder. He makes a noise of confusion, and her face softens; "It's disrespectful," she explains, "both to the divinity whose place you usurp, and to the people whose right to make their own choices you steal by assuming a false position of power; you make yourself their master and them your slaves, which no person should ever do to another."

"I see," Threepio says, because even if he doesn't quite understand Mistress Shmi's reasoning (just as he doesn't understand her aversion to proper forms of address), he can tell this is important to her, and so that night instead of shutting down for recharge, he takes an hour to carefully add a line to his central programming and restart until it's locked in almost as deep as the core around which the Maker built him.
glorious_spoon: (Default)

[personal profile] glorious_spoon 2018-12-20 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
<333

this is great! although now i really wanna know WHAT is coming!