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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It was a quiet night at Frankie's, and for once the alcohol seemed to be putting Phil into a contemplative mood instead of dragging him deeper into his usual pit of angry guilt and self-loathing, but any illusion Julius might have held about this state of affairs being an improvement was dispelled when he passed what had become Phil's habitual seat at the bar on his way to begin another round of bussing tables only for Phil to reach out, garb him by the arm, pull him close (and probably would have pulled himself right off the barstool in the process if Julius had tried to fight him), and ask, "Why did you keep loving your mother?" in a tone of voice which was equal parts bitter and baffled and made it all too clear that what Phil was really asking was, "Why, when vampirism stripped every last shred of human decency out of you, did you go and turn your mother and keep her by your side for all of those years instead of tearing her to pieces at the first opportunity and reveling in the bloodshed the way I did with my children?"

Julius had asked himself that same question more times than he could count in the weeks since being cured, but he had never been able to come up with an explanation that made any sense when held up to the light alongside everything else he knew about vampires, and he was sure that any of his guesses would only make Phil hate himself more anyway, so he left those thoughts unsaid. All he could do was gently pry Phil's fingers off his wrist while saying, "I don't know, Phil; I just somehow did," and go back around the bar to pour the man another drink.

I don't know this canon at all, but I feel for these two.

Three Sentence Ficathon

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