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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.
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: Original

[personal profile] kalira 2018-12-16 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
Oo, this is lovely~
ernest: (Default)

[personal profile] ernest 2018-12-16 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
oh, this is stunning!
cofax7: climbing on an abbey wall  (Default)

[personal profile] cofax7 2018-12-16 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
Brava!
cofax7: Aang at the North Pole (ATLA - Aang pretty)

[personal profile] cofax7 2018-12-16 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
Woooah! That's simply marvelous! Go you with your literary talent!
vialethe: (Lamia - Waterhouse)

[personal profile] vialethe 2018-12-16 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, yes! I love the inclusion of Susanna and Artemisia especially, and all the goddesses throughout the ages who have their backs. And but still she has her voice, and she will scream. is the perfect ending.
vialethe: (Georgia)

Re: Call it What You Want

[personal profile] vialethe 2018-12-16 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
I love Mal, but at the same time - she is SO CREEPY. I'm glad you liked it!
vialethe: (Georgia)

Re: The Curve of You is Curved on Me

[personal profile] vialethe 2018-12-16 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
One of us, one of us!! They're my MCU OTP and I adore them because of this - the similarity in both their 'monsters' inside and the ways they carve themselves out around other people in order to fit.
vialethe: (Georgia)

Re: The Curve of You is Curved on Me

[personal profile] vialethe 2018-12-16 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks, and thank you for prompting them! They're still such a rarepair.
rosage: (Default)

[personal profile] rosage 2018-12-16 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
The Arcana, Asra/MC, I will follow you into the dark
vialethe: (Narnia)

Re: No More Dreaming Like a Girl

[personal profile] vialethe 2018-12-16 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
Lucy does NOT have time for any of that foolishness when there's Caspian-kissing to be done! Rightly so.
vialethe: (Narnia)

Re: No More Dreaming Like a Girl

[personal profile] vialethe 2018-12-16 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
She is right, after all! I'm glad you liked it. <3
vialethe: (Narnia)

Re: No More Dreaming Like a Girl

[personal profile] vialethe 2018-12-16 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
Ha, that's an adorable way to describe it!
rosage: (Default)

[personal profile] rosage 2018-12-16 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
Fire Emblem 15, Faye/Silque, wedding
ernest: (Three Sentence Ficathon)

[personal profile] ernest 2018-12-16 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
any sci-fi fandom, any, but i think it's gonna be alright, yes the worst is over now, the morning sun is shining like a red rubber ball!
vialethe: (Lamia - Waterhouse)

[personal profile] vialethe 2018-12-16 07:32 am (UTC)(link)
SHUT UP GEORGE NO ONE LIKES YOU. But Richard! So pure and noble and good, and I love the description of Anne as the Kingmaker's sun-kissed daughter.
vialethe: (Lamia - Waterhouse)

[personal profile] vialethe 2018-12-16 07:34 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, making people super sad about Troy is kind of what betony and I do at a 3SF, really. Join us!!
cofax7: Susan Pevensie with a bow: Real enough for you (Narnia - Susan)

The Ivan Vorpatril Maneuver

[personal profile] cofax7 2018-12-16 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
Running off to hunt the Black Boar of the Withering Hills or dive for pearls in the Lone Islands isn't something Corin does just for fun; or not only for fun, anyway.

Because he's not stupid: he hears the whispers about the Calormene when the barons and lords think he's not listening; he watches the way their faces darken when Aravis enters the room with her straight back and her coiled hair; he has dodged out of more than one quiet conversation in a hallway, or at a hunt, or in the garden--all of them starting with a casual comment on his father's failing health, or Cor's unfamiliarity with Northern ways.

If he's not there; if the curs think he's a wild and reckless youth, too undisciplined and hedonistic to even be a useful tool; if he takes one too many stupid risk running away from his responsibilities -- well, at least in that he can serve both his family, and his honor.
Edited 2018-12-16 07:37 (UTC)
vialethe: (Georgia)

[personal profile] vialethe 2018-12-16 07:36 am (UTC)(link)
Yes! Girls and wolves both have sharp teeth, after all. This is wonderful, thank you!
vialethe: (Lamia - Waterhouse)

[personal profile] vialethe 2018-12-16 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
This is perfectly bittersweet - I like that he never seems to quite grasp the true issue here.
vialethe: (Lamia - Waterhouse)

[personal profile] vialethe 2018-12-16 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my, yes. I love this.
vialethe: (Narnia)

[personal profile] vialethe 2018-12-16 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yes, I can see how that makes her a woman that would enchant Peter! This is a wonderful fill; I love the rohirric-ness of the language you use, especially how her eyes are as bright as her spear tip - so perfectly Eowyn. Thank you!
vialethe: (Lamia - Waterhouse)

Re: Trojan War Cycle

[personal profile] vialethe 2018-12-16 07:46 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, bitter and dark and just right.
desertscribe: bobcat on a cactus (Default)

Labyrinth

[personal profile] desertscribe 2018-12-16 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
"Be careful, Sarah, because this is my final proposition to you," Jareth said, his mismatched eyes flashing against the background of the howling magical maelstrom which surrounded but did not touch them, "and if you reject me one more time, then you will come to understand too late how merciful I have truly been up until now, because I have given you the option of joining me of your own free will, but should I choose to, I can make you want me, make you need me, make you mine whether you want it or not."

"No, you cannot," Sarah said simply in a voice which once upon a time might have shaken at the enormity of her statement but had long ago had all fear tempered out of it, leaving only cold iron behind, which as everyone knows is the deadliest weapon one can wield against the fey, "because there are rules which even you must follow, and even if there were not, you still would not have that power over me." Then she turned on her heel and walked away back to reality while the world of the Underground shattered around her, and along with it, its king.

[personal profile] candlesinthewell 2018-12-16 07:50 am (UTC)(link)
They are odd creatures, all: flighty, fleeting, though there is occasional magnificence in their scribings; even here, where time and death sit lightly, it does not pay to grow attached. But your claws skim across a story of love in common verse – the dying tale of one who watched the stars, all fond and never fearful – and for one fragmentary second, the arc of eternity lost is so briefly recaptured; you are not like Veils, all mad in your melancholy, but you have yearned, and you have striven in your chains, and in those words you see that they have yearned and striven too.

She, you think, who wrote this – could you take but one of them with you, when you fly again.

.

(I apologize for not even attempting to capture Pages’s... unique... vocabulary, and the poem he’s thinking of, if it isn’t obvious, is this one:

https://www.naic.edu/~gibson/poems/swilliams1.html)

Re: Original

[personal profile] candlesinthewell 2018-12-16 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
Oooh, this is beautiful. <3