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

[walkthegale]

LMAO, oh my god.

[walkthegale]

Aaaaaaa, this is so cute!!

Re: Star Wars

[edenfalling]

Oh, Finn. :(

[walkthegale]

Beau pushes her hair our of her face, her hands a mess of blood and scrapes and rapidly-forming bruises that are going to hurt tomorrow. "What the fuck were you doing," she snaps, grabbing Keg by the shoulders. "How did you know we'd get here to save you?"

"I took a chance," Keg grins up at her, still catching her breath from the fight, and Beau can't help but kiss her.

Discworld

[reccyls]

"Nononono, see, it's not a real cat, just an imaginary one, like, you know-"

IT IS STILL A CAT, says Death severely*. YOU ARE NOT MAKING A VERY GOOD CASE FOR YOURSELF.

Of course, it's not like he has real control of where the man's soul will go. But he takes his amusement where he can.

* Though it's not like Death has ever said anything that couldn't be described by some combination of severe, bleak, or deadpan**.

** Hehe. A very good pune, or a play on words. He will have to remember that one for next time.

Re: Prompt: anthropomorphic GBBO tent

[(Anonymous)]

It started off well but come on. It's the Great British Bake-off not the Great and Glorious European Union Bake-off.

Re: Critical Role

[walkthegale]

Oh wow and also so much ouch! My feelings!!

Re: Fill: Peggy and Jarvis, holiday blues

[meridian_rose]

This is so sweet :)

[meridian_rose]

LOL that's a nice one!

[meridian_rose]

Oh, bittersweet for Cisco!

[walkthegale]

When Jester kisses her, Yasha pulls away and looks at her, because if this is a prank, it's a cruel one.

"Why did you do that?" she asks, holding herself together as tight as she can, but Jester's blue eyes are wide and clear, and there's no hint of her usual mischief in them.

"Because I like you, and because you're really hot," Jester tells her, and Yasha finds herself smiling and kissing her back.

[meridian_rose]

LOL, nice!

[glorious_spoon]

Oh, ow. This is lovely.

[glorious_spoon]

"You know," Steve said, yanking his nail bat out of the monster's skull in a spray of gore, "when I said we should check out the night life around here, this wasn't really what I had in mind."

Jonathan laughed softly from where he was seated under a bar stool, a shower of broken mirrored glass scattered around him, and Steve breathed out a sigh of relief at the sound. There were flecks of abrasion scattered across Jonathan's face and arms, but if he was laughing it couldn't be that bad. "Well, we are in a bar. And nobody got eaten. That's sort of a win, right?"

"Only because they all ran screaming," Nancy interjected, kicking the last of the monsters over with her toe and holstering her gun. After a moment of consideration, she leaned over the bar and came back up with three longnecks hooked between her fingers. "At any rate, I think we've all earned a beer, don't you?"

Re: Discworld

[redrikki]

The footnotes slayed me.

[redrikki]

Charmed (2018), the sisters, a new tradition.

[redrikki]

Charmed (2018), Macy, like a virgin

Re: Daughter of the Sea

[autumnia]

Oh Susan!

[redrikki]

Charmed (2018)/Black Lightning, Mel/Anissa, gay af

[autumnia]

Bilbo and Susan would get along splendidly! No one appreciates all the little things they do for others.

Fire Emblem, Homestuck, Spidermom+Vriska

[runespoor]

The girl’s sneakers shuffle against the stone floor, huffing and puffing as she drags the body. Finally she drops the body in front of Spidermom; it’s a younger child, Spidermom can see through her many eyes, barely enough for one meal, and she opens her mandibles to chide the weak child she’s attempting to raise.

"There’s another one outside, M8m, I’ll get it in a sec," her daughter gasps out, stepping back with her eyes wide; she smells like sweat and the faint tanginess of fear, and the great spider rests, satisfied.



sorry for running this like that

[glorious_spoon]

There are rules for creatures like him, though mortals never seem to grasp that fact; he is no thief, he cannot simply reach out and take what he desires. His only birthright is his gift for barter, for bargaining, for glamour and illusion and the twisting of mortal desire until they cannot tell his wants from their own.

He cannot steal--but when he first sees Sarah, her dark hair and doe eyes and ice-pale skin, he wishes, for the first time in all the long centuries of his life, that he could.

[glorious_spoon]

Leverage, Eliot/Hardison/Parker, sharing a bed

[glorious_spoon]

Leverage, Hardison, free fall

[(Anonymous)]

Love it!