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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.
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[personal profile] liquidtears 2018-12-14 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Pretty Little Liars, any character, truths
morningcoffee: (Ally A)

[personal profile] morningcoffee 2018-12-14 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Afterwards, when it's all over and their phone have remained silent for long enough to realize that there's no more A playing games with their lives, when they can get out of town and start afresh without any secrets hanging over their heads like a Sword of Damocles, Spencer tells her lies with so much conviction that she can't tell them apart from the truth anymore.

The lesson they learned when A used everything they ever tried to hide against them should have been 'no more secrets' – but nothing so reasonable, nothing so healthy could possibly come out of something so twisted.

Instead, the lesson Spencer has learned, the one she lives and breathes now, is 'keep the truth so deeply hidden that no one will ever uncover it', and for that to be true, she too has to believe in the lies.
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[personal profile] liquidtears 2018-12-14 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much for filling this!!

Absolutely loved it!
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[personal profile] hawkeyesquared 2018-12-19 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
This is so beautifully and tragically Spencer that it almost made me cry.
tellshannon815: (desmond)

Charlotte

[personal profile] tellshannon815 2018-12-16 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes Charlotte wonders what would happen if she stood up at one of those family dinners and announced that she wasn’t CeCe Drake at all, but Charlotte DiLaurentis, the secret child they had hidden away, swept under the carpet as though she didn’t exist.

Maybe Ali would accept her, be able to love her as her sister, but she’s not sure about Jason (in hindsight, going along with the relationship had been a mistake, but at the time it had seemed the easiest way for her to get close to the family).

As she listens to Jessica passing judgement on all her friends’ relationships, Charlotte imagines the looks on Jessica and Kenneth’s faces as she exposes their carefully constructed façade with the truth.
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Re: Charlotte

[personal profile] liquidtears 2018-12-20 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Loved this honey!!

*BIG HUGS*