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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As far as anyone could tell, the trio of rookie Killjoys had literally come out of nowhere about a year ago and were rising through the ranks fast enough that soon they would be giving even Team Awesome Force a run for their joy in terms of successful warrant apprehensions, despite their strange mix of modern and old fashioned projectile weapons.

All of that was interesting, of course, but what really made Johnny burn with curiosity was the question of why all attempts to communicate with their ship were met with odd patterns of seemingly unintelligible horse noises which all three of them (especially their leader) spent a lot of time having conversations and arguments with even though hacking their systems showed there was no AI installed at all, so while Dutch and Dav kept Dixie, Brisco, and Bowler distracted with shop talk and a few bottles of the good stuff brought along for the occasion, Johnny snuck away to have a peek around their bargain bin junker docked in the bay next to Lucy.

Most of the ship was the same strange mishmash of old (some of it really, really, hella old) and new tech that Johnny had come to expect from its owners, but the cockpit interior was a big surprise as he toggled open the door to find a room where all the seats had been removed and replaced with a horse lounging in a custom grav-harness and watching skiff racing vids on the main screen while monitoring comm traffic on a few of the smaller ones, which Johnny only had a moment to stare at before the horse gave an irritated grunt and stomped on a floor-mounted switch, slamming the door closed once more and locking it, leaving Johnny muttering, "Okay, this just raises more questions," to himself in the hallway.

I'm not familiar with either canon, but this is hilarious. :D THE HORSE!!

So, first love the way you used the idiom, run for their joy. Just perfect. And A HORSE. I don't know Brisco but love Killjoys and this is great. The horse is just so irritated and Johnny's closing reaction is wonderful.

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