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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: Protocol

[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-31 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! It just seemed like the logical answer once I read your prompt. :)
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Into the Spider-Verse

[personal profile] ernest 2018-12-31 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Miles sings along to the music in his head until there is nothing else. One by one his fingers detach from the ceiling, and though this solves the immediate problem, he’s failed to account for the logical outcome and lands on the table with a crash. But the song remains to ground him, and he pops out of Peter’s vision – cool, he thinks.
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Re: Holding a Hoard

[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-31 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! Smaug (naturally) came so easily this way and it was fun to write him.
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[personal profile] scarletcorvid 2018-12-31 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Poor Clint! XD

[personal profile] lady_katana4544 2018-12-31 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
On AO3

"You should run now my love and don't look back."

Slowly Mina turns away from the window and meets Lucy's sad gaze with a gentle smile.

"Don't talk like that, love; I will not leave you now."

Lucy coughs weakly as Mina gently takes her clammy hand, before gently tugging her down into a kiss before pulling away from her and lightly squeezing her hand.

"Please do as I ask, love. I won't let him claim you if I can help it before he takes me. Don't make me beg of you to do this, Mina."

"Don't ask this of me, Lucy. Don't make me leave your side." Mina responds as she gently touches the top of Lucy's hand with her lips.
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Re: Most Provident in Peril [Twelfth Night, Viola]

[personal profile] alchimie 2018-12-31 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
You're welcome! I've, um, never done that before, but I just couldn't resist your wonderful opening. It is kind of addictive, I think I might do more of it. (Writing in public, I mean.)
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[personal profile] reeby10 2018-12-31 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
It was hard to feel safe after everything that’s happened to him because of Grindelwald — not that he’d ever had much safety in his life to begin with since Ma had never felt that physical or emotional safety was very important when compared to the safety of the immortal soul (his, of course, was going to hell according to her, so his safety mattered even less than any of the other children’s).

Somehow, though, he’d managed to find a little bit of safety in the arms of a man who looked so much like Grindelwald it was painful sometimes (and it made since, since Grindelwald had stolen his face for months with no one the wiser, not even the ones Credence knew now to be friends), but who treated him so differently, treated him like he was precious and loved and wanted like he’d never been before.

It took time, but he no longer felt guilty (sinful) to think about how much Percival meant to him, how being with the wizard (a man, Ma’s voice whispered viciously, angrily in his mind sometimes still) made him feel safe and sound in a world that he had only ever known to be anything but for people like him.
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[personal profile] kayim 2018-12-31 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sorry, this ended up as just Amos, not Amos and Chrisjen.]

He borrowed the heels from one of the girls he'd grown up with, who had half-heartedly bitched because they suited him far better than they'd ever suited her. They were relatively plain in design, but they color was the same dark red of blood, and for that reason alone he liked wearing them.

He didn't understand all the complaints about how hard heels were to walk in; he'd struggled more with anti-grav boots the first time he'd tried those - and those didn't make his ass look half as good as the blood-red heels did.
Edited 2018-12-31 21:39 (UTC)
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Re: Teen Wolf, Stiles/Derek

[personal profile] mad_madam_m 2018-12-31 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
XD Thank you so much! <3
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Cold and Light

[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-31 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
They say the Pevensies weren't four when they came to Narnia -- or if they were, the second sister died in Winter's last gasp. They say the younger queen is a construct of snow sculpted by the Witch and slipped in as a spy, that the prophecy of four thrones has yet to be fulfilled, that the false queen is merely biding her time until she can summon her maker once more.

Edith Pevensie sits in her chambers in Cair Paravel, a mirror of ice in her hands, and laughs as the rumors spread, and split, and recombine; what does it matter that this body was spun from snow by her murderer's hands, when the Lion rescued her soul and gave her a second chance at life, and her family welcomed her home?
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[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-31 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahahahahaha!!!
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Re: Cold and Light

[personal profile] ernest 2018-12-31 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Ohhh, this is very cool, and just the perfect degree of creepy. "when the Lion rescued her soul and gave her a second chance at life, and her family welcomed her home" is just SO GOOD!
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White Lies

[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-31 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, pish on you and your gloom," said Mrs. Beaver, waving her butter knife by way of emphasis. "We always knew Juniper Gubbins was a double-agent, just as the rest of us are when needs must; where's the difference if she's finally admitted how she gets her saffron and sugar?"

"She still didn't ought to have said it in public," Mr. Beaver maintained, but he spooned a bit of black-market jam onto his scone without further belaboring the point.
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[personal profile] reeby10 2018-12-31 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
This, out of all the wonders to be found on earth, was the thing that Michael (and, he was pretty sure, Janet as well, though she’d probably never admit to actually wantinganything) had most been looking forward to trying: froyo.

They bought their overflowing cups of froyo (vanilla custard, New York cheesecake, and blueberry cobbler with a little bit of all the toppings for him, pineapple and mango with almond slivers and strawberry poppers for her) and took them out to the patio to try them in the warm beachfront breeze coming off the nearby waterfront.

Carefully, almost reverently, he took a spoonful of everything and put it in his mouth, and yes, there it was — the blissful taste of real earth froyo that he’d so been looking forward to.
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Re: Cold and Light

[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-31 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! :)
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Re: White Lies

[personal profile] ernest 2019-01-01 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
BLACK-MARKET JAM!!! I love this a lot
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Re: Cold and Light

[personal profile] alexseanchai 2019-01-01 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
here in the wood where stories twine, meet and part and recombine

gloriously creepy
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Re: Cold and Light

[personal profile] edenfalling 2019-01-01 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you! (Is that a quote from somewhere? I don't recognize it offhand...)
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Re: Cold and Light

[personal profile] edenfalling 2019-01-01 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you! :)
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Re: White Lies

[personal profile] edenfalling 2019-01-01 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
:DDD

[personal profile] candlesinthewell 2019-01-01 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
Aaah, this is so bittersweet, and I love their determination to save each other, regardless of the cost to themselves.
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Fill: Tales of Symphonia, Sheena (Sheena/Zelos) [SPOILERS]

[personal profile] runespoor 2019-01-01 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
This is what goes through Sheena’s mind when she’s falling to her death in the Tower of Salvation: last time she tried to exchange her life for her friends escaping safe and sound, Lloyd shouted at her to stop, and Zelos grabbed her and forced her into the portal - he grabbed her, but she could have fought him off, and she didn’t; she let him pull her through the Otherworldly Gate and save her life; for all that he gets on her nerves, she’s always trusted him (i always thought you were a good person when it came down to it!).

Turns out they were both better at lying than she’d thought: she promised Lloyd she’d make it out okay and he believed her, and Zelos tricked all of them into thinking he was on their side. She fooled herself into falling for it (him, the thought rushes past her like the air around her ears, too fast for her to catch and rip) and now, there’s nothing to it - she’s falling too hard to save herself and there’s no-one to break her fall the way he broke her trust.