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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.
slippy: pan with a frying flapjack getting lifted by a spatula (flapjacks: how to)

[personal profile] slippy 2018-12-15 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Homestuck, PM/WQ, sands

Re: Original work

[personal profile] candlesinthewell 2018-12-15 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Awww, Mary. I like her unique view of the workd, and I bet there are people out there who would appreciate a nice anaconda hug.
slippy: Photo of a wheat field and a stormy sky, surrounded by a border (khr] So money made you mean.)

[personal profile] slippy 2018-12-15 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Homestuck, Aradia/Vriska, the only gods
slippy: The Disciple, wearing a pelt headdress and snarling to the side. (homestuck] but too late)

[personal profile] slippy 2018-12-15 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Homestuck, any, werewolf AU

Re: Animorphs

[personal profile] candlesinthewell 2018-12-15 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, very nice. Elfangor <3

Re: Hadestown/Greek Mythology, Hermes

[personal profile] candlesinthewell 2018-12-15 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, wow. Brilliant.
kalira: cartoon representation of Kalira (pale skin, long brown hair, fangy smile, with thumb and two fingers raised), wearing a black tank top and cardigan, on a galaxy in ace flag stripes/colours (Default)

Re: Lost Birthdays

[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-15 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, not immediately, it took me like . . . almost 18 hours? XP (*coughs* to actually write something for it after having it open in a tab~) (I wondered if it was you! XD)
slippy: Photo of a wheat field and a stormy sky, surrounded by a border (Gunnerkrigg] out in the bright with you)

[personal profile] slippy 2018-12-15 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Eight Days of Luke/Howl's Moving Castle, Luke &/ David & Sophie, David opens a new magical lock

Re: Dragalia Lost

[personal profile] candlesinthewell 2018-12-15 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
This is so sweet. <3
slippy: Photo of a wheat field and a stormy sky, surrounded by a border (Balls the size of your head!)

[personal profile] slippy 2018-12-15 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
Diana Wynne Jones - Castle in the Air, Flower-in-the-Night/Abdullah, diplomatic missions
slippy: Photo of a wheat field and a stormy sky, surrounded by a border (khr] Ready.)

[personal profile] slippy 2018-12-15 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
Homestuck & Gunnerkrigg Court, Robot & Gamzee, fun with cultists

Re: The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

[personal profile] candlesinthewell 2018-12-15 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
I don’t know the fandom but this is great – I love the idea of a dragon becoming a horse to stay with someone longer.
lisatelramor: a pink water lily (Default)

[personal profile] lisatelramor 2018-12-15 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
"It feels kind of wrong, like we cheated," Gil said looking down at his hands that are, against all probability, his and alive and strong. "We were demons and yet here we are part of the dragon clan and in important positions. We didn't earn it."

Bierrez was perhaps one of the only people who could understand since he'd been in Rath as well; he didn't seem as troubled by the change though. "Didn't we? What was all that suffering for if not to lead us to a point where we can fix what caused it?"
d_generate_girl: Wrestling - Kevin Owens holding back a displeased Sami Zayn (deep sea divers on another man's planet)

Wrestling, Seth Rollins/Kevin Owens/Sami Zayn

[personal profile] d_generate_girl 2018-12-15 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
(I'm sorry for all of the probably-terrible translations, I threw myself on the mercy of Google Translate.)

***

He wakes up pressed between them - okay, wow, he took two flights and crossed an international border last night, Jesus, he's an idiot - and he can tell it's at least past noon because there's English mixed into the French and Arabic.

It's Kevin curled against his back, lower pitch of his voice vibrating against Seth's bare skin; his French whispers and curls fluidly into a long single run that's peppered with a scattering of offhanded likely-rude Arabic that makes Sami giggle against Seth's shoulder.

Sami's French has always been something he himself mocks - yeah, they're gonna kick me out, je n'ai jamais appris l'accent aigu - but his Arabic is beautiful, all dips and rolls, and he laughs as Seth mumbles out a very shaky marhabaan while yawning and whacking Kevin in the chest.
Edited 2018-12-15 02:50 (UTC)

Re: Hannibal

[personal profile] candlesinthewell 2018-12-15 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, this is nicely dark, and very good – I love the contrast between the dreams and the dogs as a source of warmth and innocence.

Re: Mob Psycho 100, ReiMob sort of

(Anonymous) 2018-12-15 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Oh no. ))):

[personal profile] candlesinthewell 2018-12-15 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, jeez, what a kick in the heart. Lovely and tragic.
slippy: Photo of a wheat field and a stormy sky, surrounded by a border ((Los Campesinos!) sounds about right)

[personal profile] slippy 2018-12-15 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Any fandom or original, any characters, strange and distant music

Re: Hard Work (Castlevania (Netflix))

[personal profile] candlesinthewell 2018-12-15 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Aww. Awwwww. This is so cute.

[personal profile] candlesinthewell 2018-12-15 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Fallen London, any, cards and tea leaves

[personal profile] candlesinthewell 2018-12-15 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Fallen London, any, tales of cities past

[personal profile] candlesinthewell 2018-12-15 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
Fallen London, any, cryptic clues

[personal profile] candlesinthewell 2018-12-15 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
Any fandom, any, ... oops?

[personal profile] candlesinthewell 2018-12-15 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
Any fandom, any, a second chance to get it right
desertscribe: bobcat on a cactus (Default)

Bounty Hunters in Space, aka the Killjoys/The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. crossover nobody aske

[personal profile] desertscribe 2018-12-15 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
As far as anyone could tell, the trio of rookie Killjoys had literally come out of nowhere about a year ago and were rising through the ranks fast enough that soon they would be giving even Team Awesome Force a run for their joy in terms of successful warrant apprehensions, despite their strange mix of modern and old fashioned projectile weapons.

All of that was interesting, of course, but what really made Johnny burn with curiosity was the question of why all attempts to communicate with their ship were met with odd patterns of seemingly unintelligible horse noises which all three of them (especially their leader) spent a lot of time having conversations and arguments with even though hacking their systems showed there was no AI installed at all, so while Dutch and Dav kept Dixie, Brisco, and Bowler distracted with shop talk and a few bottles of the good stuff brought along for the occasion, Johnny snuck away to have a peek around their bargain bin junker docked in the bay next to Lucy.

Most of the ship was the same strange mishmash of old (some of it really, really, hella old) and new tech that Johnny had come to expect from its owners, but the cockpit interior was a big surprise as he toggled open the door to find a room where all the seats had been removed and replaced with a horse lounging in a custom grav-harness and watching skiff racing vids on the main screen while monitoring comm traffic on a few of the smaller ones, which Johnny only had a moment to stare at before the horse gave an irritated grunt and stomped on a floor-mounted switch, slamming the door closed once more and locking it, leaving Johnny muttering, "Okay, this just raises more questions," to himself in the hallway.