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

Re: Any fandom/character + Columbo

[blackmare]

Oh, this is delightful! :-D

[sheenianni]

LOL this is perfect :D

[rovio]

His dad used to pat his head and laugh it off, telling him that he was imagining things, that there's nothing but coyotes and snakes and mice in the pitch black desert night, howling and moving in the shadows and between them.

But his dad had also said, "You haven't told anyone else, have you, son," and that, like everything else, makes perfect sense in retrospect.

Five, ten, fifteen years later Keith drives into the desert, alone for once, and walks even further into the darkness before he stops and tells to it, "I'm back," and the shadows whisper into his ear again, fast and excited and familiar, their cool touch on his skin like a caress and the infinite stars stretching above them, and this time, after all this time, he knows why.

[sheenianni]

This is great.
Also Zuko needs a hug.

Re: Any fandom/character + Columbo

[litlover12]

Perfect!

Re: Any fandom/character + Columbo

[yeomanrand]

I'm glad you liked it!

Re: Any fandom/character + Columbo

[yeomanrand]

Thanks!

Re: Any fandom, any character, a hot shower and a change of clothes

[yeomanrand]

Dean Winchester slouches into his bedroom at the bunker, tossing his pack in the general direction of the bed (his room! with a bed that remembers him!) and staggers toward the bathroom. Almost before he gets his hand on the tap, the hot water starts to flow into the bath; he pats the concrete wall that's holding him up affectionately and peels his eyeballs back open.

He's exhausted and he's one long knot of pain but a hot shower and change of clothes are the only rest he's going to get, and he's so glad the bunker has his back.

[nocowardsoul]

Cute!

[moetushie]

He barely remembered Petunia Evans except as a thin shadow that would cross his path when he and Lily would go and play -- a jealous, ugly girl who hadn't had a spot of magic in her. When he'd heard that Potter's child would go to her, he hadn't cared. Lily was dead -- what she left behind, the child or himself, didn't matter.

[nocowardsoul]

Awwww. Mimi was the best.

[straightforwardly]

Fair warning— it’s been over four years since I last played this game, so I was very much working off of my vague memories for this one. Also, I ended up going with three sentences per (featured) quadrant rather than three sentences overall.

Also, everyone is a troll now!

*

Red

She has never known anyone as pitiful as him: it’s like a scene straight out a movie, the way this terrifying-looking highblood looks at her, shy and sweet, and confides to her about the loneliness and prejudice he faces, and their romance only grows from there. It seems as though each time they meet, he shows her new facets of his wretchedness; his heart is as pathetic as his appearance is frightening, and she loves, loves, loves him for it. The more her roommates speak against him, the greater her fervor grows.

Black

Hearts nearly turn to spades, that night when he tries to take her soul from her. He tricked her — he tricked her! He played on her feelings of pity like a stringed music-making device; he made a mockery of all that a red romance is, and yet she is still drawn to him — for one brief instance upon awakening, she thinks that this must be what it is to hate with desire.

Pale

Except she also can’t stop thinking about that moment when she reached out to him as he stood before her — his eyes aglow, passionate in his violence, draining more of her soul from her body with each passing moment — and how, seconds before Potsdam intervened, she could have sworn that he stopped on his own, pacified by her outstretched hand.

Their next meeting confirms it: when she speaks to him, she no longer feels hate nor desire, but pity alone: pity, for this pathetic highblood who must use trickery rather than his power to gain what he needs; glorious, affectionate pity for this creature who will both show her his cruelty and refrain from it with a single touch of her hand.

She goes with him when he asks; of course she does, for who will — who could — know him or steady him as she does, if she does not?

Banshee, Lucas Hood [CN: canonical prison/violence]

[apgeeksout]

Banshee, Lucas Hood [CN: canonical prison/violence]

Sugar wasn't lying when he said the apartment behind The Forge isn't much, but it does have a shower. One where he doesn't have to worry about anyone else's eyes or hands or dick or plastic shiv; one where the water runs hot for long enough to scrub away sweat and blood and the dirt of a shallow grave.

After, he tugs on broken-in clothes from the suitcase in the cab of the old blue truck and tries to feel like a new man.

Responsibility Deluge (Naruto)

[kalira]

"One thing after a-fucking-nother, can't I get a fucking break?" Ino demanded of nothing, pulling roughly at her own hair with one hand and then throwing a sheaf of paperwork aside hard enough it left a crack in the wall upon impact.

Shikamaru eyed it, then slid his arm back up over his face, thinking with a shudder of the past weeks in the Hokage's office, trying to keep from drowning in drifts of urgent paperwork. "Incorrect," he grumbled on a sigh, "not 'one thing after another', many things, all exploding concurrently."

Fill: Spider-Man & Captain America, bodyswap

[hawkeyesquared]

"Oh- oh my god, ohmygod OHMYGOD!"

Peter couldn't stop staring at himself--or Captain America's self, at the moment--in the mirror. It was REAL. Whatever they'd gotten zapped with, well... he had a beard now! He had- "Cap, can- can you believe this?!"

A heavy sigh came from the corner of the room, a sound with far too much weight, too tired, with far too many years behind it, considering the sixteen-year-old body it had come from. "Son... would you please stop flexing and focus?"

Hero Complex

[kalira]

"One last time," Steve promised with a smile, sliding his shield onto his back, "joining the good fight."

Bucky snorted, but kept it to himself as he checked his holsters. "Sure," he agreed, hooking a hand behind Steve's neck and drawing him in, resting their brows together and looking into those bright, determined blue eyes, knowing it would never be the last time, not so long as Steve had breath in his body, "one last time."

Re: Hero Complex

[yeomanrand]

<3 Just exactly so. These dorks.

[straightforwardly]

Any visual novel, any character/pairing, the bad ending

[crookedspoon]

(Also on AO3.)

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Robin knew no fear; the worst that could have happened had already happened, and there was nothing else for him to lose.

The wounds his parents left behind never mended, yet instead of dwelling on the sadness of their passing, Dick honors his parents through the love they taught him.

It's a tricky business, though, this love: the more he comes to cherish the people in his life, the less he can bear losing them, and so he runs himself ragged attempting the impossible feat of protecting everyone – otherwise it's on him when he does lose them in the end.

Re: Hero Complex

[kalira]

"So, uh . . . Buck?"

Bucky looked up and knew, instantly - another emergency, another 'good fight', another time the world needed them - but didn't let it show yet. If Steve thought he needed to talk Bucky into it every time maybe he would at least spare two seconds to think it over before jumping into another disaster headfirst.

Re: Hero Complex

[yeomanrand]

THESE DORKS.

<3

[kalira]

This is so perfect and so terrible. . . (Which is also perfect. It's just so painfully realistic. . . Being so reasonable.) It sounds so like Peter, too. *sighs*

[runespoor]

askjsdlknz; zklnaojnls zemd,zsslknesi!!!!!!

this is amazing, i almost gave "quadrant-flipping" as the prompt, you nail their dynamic so well (a version of it, this being MD). I love everyone being a troll and the "stringed music-making device".

I love how you have her flipping quadrants as the game goes on, and how real her monologue reads. Love the story and the progression. It's inspired and so very, very true to the game. Each part also totally stands on its own, which is even better - each ending line reads like an ending, and each facet is complete.

Awesome, thank you so much!

[beer_good_foamy]

"Look, English, I know this diner isn't... uh... I dunno, Lord Ffyfington-Smythe's Tea Room, but just being a little greasy doesn't make it a 'dive'!"

"Very well, Angie Martinelli, I apologise to you, your illustrious employer, and the State of New York for my horrific faux pas, and... you know, I have to ask, exactly what does make a place a dive?"

"Oh, you know," Angie grinned and cast a quick look at the other patrons before leaning forward and whispering in Peggy's ear, "stick around after closing and see what goes down..."

Re: Any fandom, any character, a hot shower and a change of clothes

[archea2.livejournal.com]

Very in character!