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

[cofax7]

Indeed.

Loves Like This

[vialethe]

“Tell me about her,” Rey demands, and listens, utterly enraptured, until his voice breaks down in the telling of all his mother’s exploits.

“I want to be just like her,” she sighs, and pushes a drink into his hand, all the better for him to keep talking.

Poe just laughs, and drinks, and reflects that he’s chosen pretty well; of all the women in the galaxy, he’s found one that cares more about who his mother was than about her ring, sparkling up from Rey’s hand.

Re: Fire Emblem 13, Say'ri/Tiki

[candlesinthewell]

Oh, very nice – I love the two perspectives here, how she’s worried about her singing voice and Tiki is struck by a remnant of the past – and that ending is lovely.

Re: Original

[candlesinthewell]

Ooh, this is great – wonderfully hopeful, set against the darkness of the past. I love it!

Re: Firefly: Wash and Mal

[vialethe]

I love this so much I am incoherent, and I also agree - MORE PLEASE.

Re: Loves Like This

[candlesinthewell]

I love this! And of course Rey would want to hear stories of family. <3

Re: Professor Pevensie is very cranky

[cofax7]

HAH!! Brill.

[vialethe]

Ah yes, Rick's excellent methods. I feel like there should be one more lesson - 'if they scream at you, try screaming back!'

[vialethe]

Greek Mythology, Aeneas/Cassandra, be careful of the curse that falls on your lovers

[tehsharkie]

eeeeeeeee I adore this! It's great to see a serious side of Pages; you really captured his unique view of humans while retaining the Masters' alienness. And that happens to be one of my favourite poems. :D

[last_haven]

It's a twisted, fumbling in the dark sort of love. But maybe they'll be happy one day.

I'm glad the bittersweet feeling came through; I didn't want him to be too nice or too monstrous.

[vialethe]

Greek Mythology, Hades/Persephone, i'm in the arch of the church/between her thumb and her forefinger/i will worship her

[vialethe]

Narnia, Pevensies, get together now/find hope/there is life beyond the one you already know

[vialethe]

MCU, Bruce/Natasha, don't dare jump without me/i'm not good on my own

[vialethe]

Greek Mythology, Cassandra & Paris/Helen, but maybe she loves you/and i'm just a preacher

[last_haven]

Greek myth, Apollo/Hycanithus, earn your happy ending

[(Anonymous)]

Twelfth Night/Comedy of Errors crossover, Any, the wrong twin

[(Anonymous)]

Much Ado About Nothing, Dogberry, the right words for the occasion

[(Anonymous)]

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Titania/Bottom, And I will purge thy mortal grossness so/That thou shalt like an airy spirit go.

[(Anonymous)]

A Midsummer Night's Dream/The Merry Wives of Windsor crossover, Falstaff encounters real fairies while dressed as Herne the Hunter

[tehsharkie]

Good Omens, any, 2018 Queen resurgence

[rosaxx50]

Thanks for the prompt! It's not a ship I would have written without one.

And looking back at it now there's a typo despite 3 edits. Whoops. Sorry.

Re: No fandom

[ultra_fic]

Wow.

[ultra_fic]

Aww, I like that :)

Star Wars prequels

[sheenianni]

It tears him apart with every strike of his lightsaber, but he does it, because he's a Jedi and it's his duty and Obi-Wan never shrank from doing what was asked of him. In the following days, he just has to think of the burning Jedi temple and the slaughered youngling and he knows it was necessary.

At night, he has nightmares.

He sees his friends hacked in pieces, he sees the horrors of war, but worst of all, he sees the flames, the mutilated body of his best friend, the pleading eyes that were golden on Mustafar but sometimes turn blue in his dreams. He hears the screams - sometimes they're cries for help, sometimes there's pure hatred, but they're always, always full of agony and pain - and he walks away.

He left his best friend to burn and walked away.

He meditates, releasing his emotions into the Force. He reminds himself that he killed a Sith, a man who betrayed them and murdered everything they both held dear.

Anakin was already dead.