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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(TUE with with BTE backstory!)

The night it happened Kyle had dreamed about Adam for the first time in he didn’t know how long, dreamed about tagging together back early in their Future Shock days, Adam such a kid he hadn’t been able to grow his beard in yet and Kyle playing at being the veteran despite still being such a punk himself – and for days after when he closed his eyes Kyle would get a replay of desperate, panicked Adam making that last ditch reach for the tag before getting dragged out of the ring and into the dark by two multicolored blurs (of course it wasn’t until the episode finally uploaded that Kyle realized who those blurs were, or what it all meant, or why poor Adam had looked so fucking scared.)

The thing towering over him in the crossroad laughed at him, its single eye staring him down and an Irish lilt making its voice both seductive and obscene: “That one? How many chances would you give him to overshadow and betray you?”

And okay, maybe it had a point there, Kyle had actually stopped counting over the years but they’d always gotten past it and even if they hadn’t, he knew it didn’t matter – his partner was reaching out to make a tag. “Looks like at least one more."

Oh, my heart. <3

And okay, maybe it had a point there, Kyle had actually stopped counting over the years but they’d always gotten past it and even if they hadn’t, he knew it didn’t matter – his partner was reaching out to make a tag.

Aww, this is the most wrestling outlook; we’ve been here (well, maybe not literally here: even for a wrassler, it’s not every day you’re literally murdered!) together before and we’ll probably be back again. The important part is doing it together. <3

OH. Kyle and Adam and Future Shock, once and future tag partners.

Three Sentence Ficathon

FILL: Kyle O'Reilly & Adam Cole

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