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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] beer_good_foamy 2018-12-15 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh absolutely. Thanks!
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[personal profile] heliopausa 2018-12-15 12:39 pm (UTC)(link)
PG Wodehouse; any; pawnshop problem
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[personal profile] heliopausa 2018-12-15 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Nirvana in Fire; Consort Jing; as leaves grow on the tree

[identity profile] archea2.livejournal.com 2018-12-15 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I love it, nonnie!
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[personal profile] ultra_fic 2018-12-15 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, I like that! Thank you :)
sandrine: (Tommy/Charlie)

Re: Eye Candy, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes

[personal profile] sandrine 2018-12-15 01:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Awwwww, Bubonic doing small favours for Tommy while rubbing it in that he's stalking him will never fail to make me happy! ♥ He's such a smart-ass little shit, I love him! And Tommy is as awkward around him as he is about Lindy. (He clearly has a type!)

Maybe he could grab Bubonic’s wrists instead. Yeah, maybe he could manacle him with ice, since his hands had gone so damn cold.

Dude, you just want to touch him. Just admit it! :p

That last line was both hilarious and a little sad. Tommy needs to up his game and be a more attentive boyfriend stalker cop.

That was so cute and lovely! I've missed those two, and your writing. ♥♥♥

Aaaaaaand, now I want muffins!
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[personal profile] symbolisms 2018-12-15 01:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Any fandom, any character, "I'm not what you think I am"
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[personal profile] symbolisms 2018-12-15 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Marvel, any, Can beauty come out of ashes?
Edited 2018-12-15 13:06 (UTC)
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Re: Eye Candy, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes

[personal profile] glitterburn 2018-12-15 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
With all the cold and ice manacles, maybe they're indulging in some ColdFlash roleplay...? ;)

Fill: SPN, Dean/Castiel

[identity profile] archea2.livejournal.com 2018-12-15 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"Witches," Castiel is instructing his interlocutor when Sam returns with the Book of the Damned, breathless (he and Rowena need to set up an inter-library loan protocol, ASAP), "never kiss their familiars, Dean. "

The gold-green head wriggles a little, a makeshift shrug.

"It's a good thing angels do," Cas goes on placidly - head already bent - oblivious to the vertically frozen snake on his palm, "ever since Our Father made De-Serpenting an extra credit assignment, while reminding us to bless all creatures short and sleek - Winchesters included."

Re: FILL: Poirot, Hastings

(Anonymous) 2018-12-15 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Logic is wasted on Hastings, Hercule! Great fill!
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[personal profile] spyrograph 2018-12-15 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! Good!
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[personal profile] spyrograph 2018-12-15 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooooh. <3
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[personal profile] ultra_fic 2018-12-15 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
That is a beautiful thing :)
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Fire Emblem: Awakening

[personal profile] miss_prince 2018-12-15 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Lucina was not Marth; though she resembled him in nobility, in chivalry, in kindness -- yet still she was tempered by a grave solemnity that Tiki could not imagine on the Hero King's boyish face, and the rare chime of laughter from her throat was all the sweeter for it.

No, Lucina was not Marth, but Tiki loved her has she had loved Marth, and Lucina loved Tiki as Marth never had, with a fierce, quiet passion that Tiki drank from her lips like one dying of thirst and did her best to repay in kind.

But in the end, like Marth, within a single breath of the vast span of Tiki's life, Lucina was gone, and Tiki retreated from the world to grieve for another thousand years.

(Anonymous) 2018-12-15 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Vatican Miracle Examiner, Any, Sacrifice
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[personal profile] spyrograph 2018-12-15 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Star Trek, any, a race of hoarders discovers replicator technology

Fill: Fantastic Beasts, Tina & Theseus

[identity profile] archea2.livejournal.com 2018-12-15 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
The barbeque had been Newt's idea, sprung from his newly-minted brotherly devotion as a means to cheer up/distract/culturally enlighten Theseus with a No-Maj pastime and put his Ashwinder eggs to good use.

It worked for exactly fifteen minutes, after which the eggs went overdrive, charring more than Jacob's sausages and causing the entire party to collapse in Aguamenti.

"Gotta love your brother!" Tina called out to Theseus - then directed her wand at her own cheeks, while he - finally, warmly, heartbreakingly - smiled back at her.
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[personal profile] spyrograph 2018-12-15 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Picard & Q, chained together
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[personal profile] spyrograph 2018-12-15 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Star Trek: Voyager, Harry Kim, secret hobby
elleth: (Gen: Sneak out at Night)

SSSS, Tuuri & Ensi

[personal profile] elleth 2018-12-15 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Tuonela has no trails, only rock islands and water and a foxfire-and-star sky that stretches endlessly overhead, and Tuuri despairs of ever finding the trail home. Not even scouts, like Lalli or Grandma, could do that, and of course Lalli is alive, so he's no help, and Grandma, even being a mage, is probably asleep as she ought to be, and as Tuuri ought to be if she hadn't dreamt so hard of being awake and alive and free again that she woke herself up.

She fears even her sielulintu wings will get tired before she finds the Birds' Path, if the Swan that is approaching out of the dark doesn't get her first to put her back into her bed under the ice - but no, Tuuri realizes, seeing the shining pinions approach - it's not Tuonela's guardian - it's another sielulintu that swoops beneath her, cushions her smaller form in its spirit feathers and takes off toward the endless sky, past the foxfires swirling green around them, where the myriad of stars turn into birds all across the firmament, and grandma's voice says, "There's your way home."
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[personal profile] booksarelife 2018-12-15 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I love this!!! You manage to squeeze so much into such a short space and it's a poem, so doubly impressive!!
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[personal profile] lynnenne 2018-12-15 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"You don't want to stick around and watch my brother try to lasso it?"

The Valkyrie stopped.

"Thor is doing what now."


AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, this is brilliant.
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[personal profile] setsuntamew 2018-12-15 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Kingdom Hearts, Riku, regrets