Three Sentence Ficathon

[rthstewart]

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 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.

Comments

[Miraculous Ladybug] love and rhetoric

[alexseanchai]

"Holy shit, Chat! Chat, please for the love of kwami tell me that's all his blood?"

"A, do you want me to lie to you, and two, do you really think there's a difference?"

[alexseanchai]

*snicker*

[ernest]

"Fascinating -- are you a mammal or a reptile?" Eustace asks Puddleglum, and either ignoring or failing to notice Jill's pointed glare. "You could be something different entirely; Narnia and our world have been apart for so long that who knows what could have evolved, especially with magic in the mix!"

"I hope you know you're a very rude child -- but it's nice for someone to take an interest."

[Miraculous Ladybug] who am I to diss a brie

[alexseanchai]

Curds and whey are essentially destroyed milk. Molds, including but hardly limited to Penicillium roqueforti, Penicillium glaucum, and of particular note Penicillium camemberti, are isolated from decaying organic matter. It is not actually a surprise, when Adrien thinks about it, that his pain-in-the-ass mentor, co-conspirator, and surprisingly cuddly power source primarily eats cheese.

[Miraculous Ladybug] excerpted from "this is a gift, it comes with a price"

[alexseanchai]

"Ladybug was blushing just as hard as you were."

Alya, always a diehard Ladynoir shipper, raises a protest. Alix presents a vehement counterargument to the protest, ending "In this essay, I will."


it occurred to me that this bit of this fic is the fault of this prompt and you might like to know that

Re: HPverse

[alexseanchai]

♥!

[ernest]

I'm sure he'd be incredibly regal about it, of course, but he still wouldn't be able to resist.
Glad you liked it! All my Narnia feelings come to the forefront every December -- it's so deeply tied to the TSF for me.

[ernest]

Hamlet, Hamlet/Laertes, continual practice

Re: [Miraculous Ladybug] love and rhetoric

[ernest]

Ha, this is terrific! Is that a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead reference I spot?

[Miraculous Ladybug] a half truth is a whole lie

[alexseanchai]

"Oh, Ladybug wishes she were dating me," Lila says airily, "maybe you and she and I could do a threesome sometime."

Adrien is aware that his friends think he is the most oblivious person on the planet (though he hasn't discerned why), but he has figured out that Ladybug continues to reject Chat Noir because Ladybug wants—only wants—Adrien; this is an entirely unhelpful line of thought since he would not dare hand Hawkmoth's favorite accomplice such a weapon ever, never mind while Ladybug remains sadly unaware.

"Ladybug and Adrien I can see," observes Marinette, her pink cheeks at odds with her tart voice, "but if we're envisioning them as two-thirds of a ménage à trois—" (Adrien refuses to die of blush; if Ladybug has to haul his sorry ass out of the grave because he realized his most attractive classmate has thought about this, the mortification will put him right back six feet under) "—do you really think you have more to offer them than Chat Noir does?"

Re: [Miraculous Ladybug] love and rhetoric

[alexseanchai]

:D

I cannot imagine why you might think that

(I played castle staff when the community theater local to my previous residence did R&G:RIP; no lines but it got me on stage)

[alexseanchai]

any, your favorite bit of the blood, love, and rhetoric bit in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

[alexseanchai]

any, your favorite bit of the unicorn bit in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Re: Harry Potter

[primeideal]

Aww, you are so welcome!

Blade Runner 2049

[primeideal]

Sapper considers his options carefully.

He could fight the blade runner to the death, and probably die, but beat up the other guy very well along with it (for obvious reasons, he's never gotten too close to a Nexus-9); he could tell the full story about Rachael, and then either be killed and have the secret out or have the Nexus-9 change his mind and interrogate him further, then demand to be made a full partner in the quest and drag him all over Los Angeles as if he's entitled to an equal share in the secret he and Freysa have kept for three decades; alternatively, he could drop a hint or two, maybe get the blade runner considering his life choices a bit, long enough for Sapper to get in a satisfying blow before his demise.

Well, it's nice to have choices; life's pretty much been on autopilot since Kalantha.

Re: Safe Passage (Amelia Peabody Mysteries)

[kalira]

🖤

[little_lady_d]

i don't share much fic through dw as i'd like, but it'd be a good habit to start in the new year! feel free to subscribe. i have some fic on ao3, as well.

[beer_good_foamy]

:) Thanks!

Think, Boys. Think. [The Music Man, Marian Paroo/Harold Hill]

[ernest]

i. Marian would have to be beyond naïve to say she can’t believe how easily everyone is taken in by “Professor” Harold Hill: when the man spreads his words he does it so each person thinks they came up with it independently, so it all seems reasonable.

ii. He’s never stuck around to see what happens to a town after he’s taken what he can, but the curtains in the librarian’s window are blue, like smoke, and somehow that’s all to get his foot stuck in the door.

iii. The music is objectively terrible, but it’s music, and one by one parents cheer for their boys while Marian grins; she knew all along it was a band.

[little_lady_d]

In the days after his father's death, the consolations of philosophy hurt to the touch, and the books of ancients became a blur of words, words, words which did nothing to soothe the ache of knowing: all fathers die. Hamlet turned to the foil, to fencing, to feeling mortality in the coiling of his limbs and the climb of his pulse, to dueling shadows 'til exhaustion claimed him and he couldn't move.

Laertes, home from France, found him and corrected him; he placed his hand on Hamlet's and guided the foil, showed him how to lunge without overextending himself, and though he didn't say a word of Hamlet's father, it was the finest consolation he could receive.

[Miraculous Ladybug] to burn with little smoke and no flame

[alexseanchai]

Adrien can't truthfully say he would have bet this ante against Alya if he had been any less convinced he could unobtrusively and conclusively rig the bet in his favor, but he legitimately lost and, hey, once he talks Alya into agreeing that the important part of his forfeit is the end result and not the process (and then talks Nino into the process, which is a harder sell), Adrien figures this will be fun.

Nino hangs out at a few of Adrien's professional photo shoots and relentlessly badgers everyone involved for how-tos, and then they go to Nino's bedroom (which is the only realistic place they can pull this off, since Alya has little sisters) and Nino looks around, groans, and says "Nope, sorry, dude, 'mood lighting' is gonna be synonymous with 'natural lighting' today."

Several days later, Alya drops a stack of photo prints on Marinette's desk (Adrien would honestly believe they were illicitly obtained from a professional shoot if he hadn't been helping tidy Nino's bedroom beforehand himself), and Marinette has only got to the second photo (—they're not that racy, are they?) when Adrien finds himself with no choice but to start punning by way of distraction so as to avert her impending heart attack.

[ernest]

oh my goodness, this is exactly perfect! "a blur of words, words, words" contrasted by the physicality of fencing and exhaustion, and then Laertes comes in as this gentle combination of both, acknowledging his pain by not mentioning it. thank you so so much <3

[Miraculous Ladybug] not today, Satan (maybe tomorrow, if you bring some famous dark side cookies)

[alexseanchai]

"We need to talk about this later," says Marinette, handing Tikki one of the cookies she obviously carries for precisely this sort of occasion; Plagg makes a face at the string cheese she proffers but for once he doesn't complain.

Adrien considers the nature of the secret mission he has just realized Ladybug was on the day she told Chat Noir to protect Marinette from Evillustrator—and, more to the point, his own behavior that day. "Let's not and say we did."

Re: Think, Boys. Think. [The Music Man, Marian Paroo/Harold Hill]

[alexseanchai]

:D :D :D

[jjhunter]

Vorkosigan saga, any, if only there was a virtual garden program for pre-testing dinner party guest lists