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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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[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-13 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, cool!
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Re: Broken and Remade

[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-13 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
♥ ♥ ♥
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[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-13 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
Ahahahaha, beautiful!
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Re: Please note that knock knock rhymes with mynock

[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-13 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
Agh, the pun, it burns! :D
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Re: King Again (BBC's Merlin)

[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-13 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Awww ♥
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[personal profile] rosaxx50 2018-12-13 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
This is delightful!
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[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-13 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, poor Eustace. :(
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Re: Fill: Agent Carter, Rose, a field assignment

[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-13 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
Brilliant!
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[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-13 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
An all-too-believable insidious rationalization...
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Re: What Irene Stole

[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-13 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
*melts* ♥
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Re: King Again (BBC's Merlin)

[personal profile] alexseanchai 2018-12-13 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
:D
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[personal profile] rosaxx50 2018-12-13 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
Ouch. Beautiful, affecting, sharp, and just perfect.
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[personal profile] litlover12 2018-12-13 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
(Hmm . . . I haven't seen either show in a while, but let's see what I can do.)

Sophie studies his handsome face over the rim of her champagne glass. Too handsome, and knows it; from the roguish spark in that devastatingly blue eye, to the sole of his very expensive shoe, Neal Caffrey is so very obviously a player.

But maybe she's in the mood to play.
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[personal profile] wingedflight 2018-12-13 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
The Penumbra Podcast, Miasma, soup
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[personal profile] wingedflight 2018-12-13 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
oh my GOD yes
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[personal profile] moetushie 2018-12-13 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
Peter seemed like a reasonable and personable man. If Martin's brain didn't start screaming in agony every time Peter came too near him, he might even have begun to like his new boss.

Anyway, the bloodsoaked sacrifice rituals and skulking in the tunnels under the Archives came almost as a relief -- Martin thought submitting to Peter's uncanny friendliness would've been a thousand times more painful than fighting off crazed cultists trying to kill him -- again.

*

It almost made him miss Elias. Almost.

All right, not really.
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Re: At the Window

[personal profile] cornerofmadness 2018-12-13 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
Oh no, poor Roy! Scary stuff. Thanks for the fill! Love it.
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[personal profile] alexseanchai 2018-12-13 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
*snicker*
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[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-13 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
The question of the ages!
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[personal profile] edenfalling 2018-12-13 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, exactly!
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Re: Any fandom/character + Columbo

[personal profile] blackmare 2018-12-13 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
“Sir! Wait just a minute, sir, if you would —“ he called out, rushing across the asphalt to the rather incongruous phone booth, hoping to catch his suspect before he made whatever call he planned to make.

He grabbed the edge of the booth’s wooden door just before it could snap shut, pushed it open again, and stumbled forward, opening his mouth to say, I’m so sorry, Doctor, but I just need to know one more thing.

The door clicked shut behind him, a room opened up around him, and if he asked his question, it was lost in the strange, whooshing roaring sound that echoed in his ears.

Edited 2018-12-13 04:15 (UTC)
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[personal profile] cornerofmadness 2018-12-13 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
The G&T goes down rough but his cigarette mellows it some. His belly burns from the claw marks scored into, but John can't complain. This time everyone got to go home and the demon back to hell, but all he can see in his mind's eye is a little girl's arm dangling in his grip that no amount of gin can wash away.
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Daughter of the Sea

[personal profile] vialethe 2018-12-13 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
The bits of glass glitter across her palm, rolling and shifting like the tides that brought them in, the bright sounds of their contact bringing to mind distant bells, the sounds of laughter swallowed fathoms deep.

Their reflected sunlight is almost enough to blind her, almost enough to make these shores seem like those worlds away; but in the end the sands are duller, the waves less wild, the sun less gold.

In the end, she lets them fall through her fingers, one by one, like echoes; like an offering to a better world.
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Make Our Own Way Through

[personal profile] vialethe 2018-12-13 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Her daughter is different, when she returns, when she rises once more above the ground and stands, whole and blinking, in the sun.

On the surface she is the same, skin unblemished and hair smooth, no trace of his touch staining her like a blight.

But a mother’s eye will see; the pale skin, bone white and dead chill; the eyes, haunted and huge and stark, and so winter becomes - a mourning, a tribute, a memory.