rthstewart | 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

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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Chronicles of Narnia, Susan, sea glass

The bits of glass glitter across her palm, rolling and shifting like the tides that brought them in, the bright sounds of their contact bringing to mind distant bells, the sounds of laughter swallowed fathoms deep.

Their reflected sunlight is almost enough to blind her, almost enough to make these shores seem like those worlds away; but in the end the sands are duller, the waves less wild, the sun less gold.

In the end, she lets them fall through her fingers, one by one, like echoes; like an offering to a better world.

Augh, my heart. :(

Oh this painful, but lovely. Poor Susan.

God, I so admire the way you use imagery here, and that last line is just such a great echo of Susan's arc in canon. I particularly like that it can be taken in so many ways; the offering as a mourning gift for Narnia, or a promise to let those go so that a better world (hers) can be shaped.

Honestly I had meant it the first way, but I also quite like the second! Thanks.

Oh Susan!

So sad, so beautiful. What you evoke in three sentences is miraculous.

<3. Thanks, as always.

This is simply gorgeous, every word of it — and even makes me wonder if sea glass in Narnia is brighter, clearer, altogether more vivid and lustrous than it is here, with its muted colors and worn surfaces...

;_;

oh Susan

Still the only proper response, really. (Also omg hi!!!! So happy to see you here.)

So happy to see you both here!!

Susan does not particularly care for boats; that does not mean she doesn't love the sea. She remembers how the surface of the water would glimmer like stained glass through the windows of Cair Paravel, how the sand felt under toes, that first day back, in those few hours without war; she remembers long afternoons spent staring up the coast of Calormen as the waves crashed at her feet, the sound soothing after the bustle of the markets and the droning diplomacy of the court.

She and Lucy would collect sea glass on the beaches of the Eastern Ocean, each piece a marvel in the smithies of the dwarves.

The ring she wears back through the Wardrobe does not gleam in the English sun, and the once-vibrant red of the glass fades until it looks like nothing more than rock.

Ouch. :(

:((

Thank you!

oh, that's beautiful and painful, I love it!

Thanks! I like to think some things slipped back through with them, if only to make it angstier lmao

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