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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.
runespoor: close-ups of naruto and sakura's face as sakura looks up and breathes sasuke-kun's name; the word bubble is empty. (sasuke-kun || narusaku is all about)

Fire Emblem, FE4

[personal profile] runespoor 2018-12-12 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
okay i could probably do another entire series about FE4. i probably won’t but picking just one thing was hard.

also, for this one i’m going with the headcanon that Lachesis was her father’s legitimate daughter, and Eldigan a bastard adopted late in life because Holy Blood.

brought to you by the fact that all three of Nanna’s pre-destined are kings, and none of Lachesis’ predestined are acceptable princess fare, and what’s up with that ?



History drips into Nanna’s ear all throughout her mother’s bedtime stories like a beloved poison, mixing the familiarity of the figures Lachesis recalls easily with the aura of the mythical; huddled under thin covers, her eyes wide, Nanna drinks in the tales of the princess of Nordion, growing up, her golden childhood, the brother she found almost as an adult; and the rest seeps through, like humidity in winter, Lachesis’ disregard for society’s rules, her forbidden love, up to falling for a mercenary she never married.

It trickles, a cold constant, all the way to Nanna’s core, the truth that Lachesis lost all that, out of impulse and a refusal to plan her dreams; it trickles and freezes, into ice, into diamond: Nanna will never go for the poor outlaw; she will never reject society’s rules.

Family history’s shaped her the way erosion, sometimes, carves cliffs into statues; she fantasizes over Eldigan’s son and stands by the prince who called her sister (she never called him brother), and doesn’t melt upon meeting her brother; she gets golden promises and pearls, instead of thief swords and louche flirtations, and always – always, she marries for a crown.