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

[sawthefaeriequeen]

I really like the idea that even the show's telepaths bow to nature!

[rokhal]

"You belong to him." Lucy purred when she spoke now; if she were alive, perhaps her voice would crack with panic, perhaps she would be shrill. But Lucy was dead. Pale as stone, lips livid with pooling blood. "You belong to him, but he hasn't got you yet, Mina. Sister. By the memory of my love I tell you:
"Run."

[sawthefaeriequeen]

Wolves of Mercy Falls, anyone, the pack survives

[sawthefaeriequeen]

The Hero and the Crown, Tor/Aerin/Luthe, court gossip

[Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters] stack the deck

[alexseanchai]

"Focusing on the Winged Dragon of Ra as your higher power for the twelve-step program is totally cheating, you know that, right, Mai?"

"Don't be ridiculous, Jounouchi—and it's not like there are any others who'd want me, excepting maybe the other Egyptian God Cards."

"I don't know, babe," said Katsuya, putting thoughts of his father from his mind, "I hear there's some goddesses of beauty out there."

[sawthefaeriequeen]

OH.

GOOD.

[autumnia]

Ahh.. I totally miss watching or reading about Miss Fisher. This makes me want to go rewatch the series. :-)

[candlesinthewell]

This is darkly beautiful, and I really love the direction you took it in, which is not the one the first sentence had me expecting.

[rokhal]

Dot slammed her whole weight through her arms, picturing the heels of her palms driving right through Overkill's body armor and into the concrete. The Bee-Gees buzzed in her brain, "Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh, Stayin' alive! Stayin' alive!" the most infuriating and metrically helpful earworm she could imagine.
It could be anywhere from five to thirty minutes until the ambulance got there, and Dot was taught to switch out after two. There was no one to switch with. Just her and her dead cyborg--who had, apparently, already been dead for eight minutes before he'd actually passed out.
Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh, keep him alive, keep him alive. "Come on, come on," she panted. Now would be a great time for Spontaneous Return Of Circulation. She paused every thirty seconds to give him a breath, palpating under his jaw for his carotid as she tilted his jaw up. He tasted like her parents' mouthwash, with a hint of protein powder.
Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh, gettin' kinda tired, gettin kinda tired. Five minutes. Ten minutes. Now he was almost certainly dead, surely her compressions weren't doing enough, she didn't have oxygen, she wasn't heavy enough--he was dead and all she was doing was waiting for the real paramedics to confirm it--
She bent and gave him a breath, much sharper than she'd meant to because it was really a sob, a sob into his mouth where no one could see, and then she felt--under her fingers, she felt it--a jump--she gave another breath and it kept jumping, a pulse, it was, and she gave breath after breath like she was pumping a meaty, Listerine-scented air mattress, and then a hard gloved hand gripped her forehead and pushed her away.
She blinked back tears as Overkill opened his blue-and-black gridmark eyes.
"How long was I out?" he rasped. "Ow. Why didn't you use the defib from my backup hip pocket? Where's The Terror?"

[sawthefaeriequeen]

Stranger Things, Will and Jonathan, unlearning Lonnie's bullshit

[sawthefaeriequeen]

Narnia, Prince Corin, his more serious side

[hawkeyesquared]

OH MY THIS IS LOVELY. I love it so much, and how the kiss is her trying to bring him back, and keeping rhythm with the song omg, thank you!!

Re: Fairy tales and myths // Vassilisa The Beautiful

[candlesinthewell]

This is beautiful.

[hawkeyesquared]

Thank you! I'm glad you were able to glean so much--I'm not the best at brevity, so something like this ficathon is really good practice, but I'm never quite sure if I manage to get my meaning across lol

[hawkeyesquared]

Thank you very much! ^^

[hawkeyesquared]

Ahhh thank you for the comment! And thank you for starting this ficathon in the first place!

[hawkeyesquared]

Thank you! It was a great prompt, so I'm happy to have done it justice ^^

Re: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Giles&Buffy

[hawkeyesquared]

UH WOW THIS IS SO RUDE HOW COULD YOU (but also my heart, i loved it, exquisite pain)

West Coast Avengers

[rokhal]

"Oh... this looks FUN!"
Kate!Hawkeye crept across the gantry to join Gwenpool, perching on a railing overlooking an indoor moat. "What about this looks fun?" Kate asked as she approached.
Gwen seized her around the shoulders and pulled her close, pointed down. "Those are LITERALLY sharks with lasers attached to their friggin heads. How can this NOT be fun?!"

[ghostwings]

Homura has begged Madoka's forgiveness time and time again in these countless cycles--I'm sorry I couldn't save you--please, forgive me!

In those timelines in which Madoka is still able--when she lies broken on the ground, just barely clinging to life, but not yet gone; when she cradles a void-black Soul Gem in her trembling hands, moments away from shattering and turning witch--she always replies It's all right or You did your best or Thank you for being here--for being my friend or some other words of kindness; even lying at death's door and caught in the jaws of despair, she still forgives.

Madoka might find it harder to forgive, Homura thinks, if she remembered the misery and death of all the timelines in which Homura has failed; even if, somehow, Homura finds the path that leaves Madoka alive and whole, Homura doesn't know if she'll ever truly forgive herself.

[hawkeyesquared]

"So, wanna take a bet on how many times this happens again?"

Natasha raised an eyebrow, ignoring Clint's smirk as she snatched back the bra he was holding in the air like a trophy. "Aren't you tired of losing money, Barton?"

"I didn't say we should bet money." His smirk widened. Natasha just shook her head.

"What happens in Budapest stays in Budapest."

"Well. We are still here--exfil isn't for another three hours."

Natasha considered. There was a lot they could do in three hours.

"What the hell." She tossed her bra back on the floor--it would only wind up there again anyway.

[rokhal]

Any, "Don't turn into a snake. It never helps."

[hawkeyesquared]

Stranger Things, Will, will byers just has a Peaceful Fucking Week for once

[ghostwings]

Final Fantasy X, any, Who's a heretic now?

[rokhal]

The Punisher, The final girl is a trope in horror films (particularly slasher films). It refers to the last girl or woman alive to confront the killer, ostensibly the one left to tell the story.