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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Lizzie took her books with her,
Jane took good linen,
Kitty took a paisley shawl, to muffle her chagrin in;
Lydia took her silken gown, her lightest petticoats
Her lockets and her hatboxes,
- And Mary took notes.

Jane took the Netherfield road,
Kitty the Meryton track -
Lydia took the primrose path, and never once looked back;
Lizzie took to Pemberley,
Hosting the rich and fair,
- And Mary went to Grub Street, and talked with people there.

Jane took a mother’s blessing,
Lizzie a father’s thought,
Kitty took not much at all – just not the lucky sort;
Lydia took what she could get, a pin, a brooch, a guinea
- And Mary took to publishing, and made a pretty penny.

This is brilliant.

:D Thanks! I had fun writing it.

I love it, nonnie!

Oh, great! (I'm guessing it was your prompt?)

That is a beautiful thing :)

Thank you! :)

I love this!!! You manage to squeeze so much into such a short space and it's a poem, so doubly impressive!!

:D Thank you!

This is wonderful.

!!! ♥

Oh this is just wonderful! I love it. It's so clever and so wry and really just captures something terrific. and I do love stories where (and this is a story) where Mary thrives.

Thank you! And yes, she gets such a rough deal generally - I hate the way she's set up for ridicule in the 1940 film.

Good on Miss Mary Bennet! This is such fun.

P.S. I do apologise if you were the one who recced this to me in the first place, but: https://archiveofourown.org/works/10739007

Literary ladies in all directions! :D And thanks for the rec - I especially like the deftness with happy endings are organised for everybody, including, probably, Herr Braun (I mean, what a triumph!) - the Wickhams taking in poor widowed Harriet was especially fun.