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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Any fandom, hero/villain, I don't care if heaven won't take me back

"You-" Melkor stared at the slender Maia kneeling before him, "you have followed me, even here? They will not take you back in Almaren after this, you know, perhaps not even now." he warned.

Mairon bowed his head lower, though he cast his bright, burning gaze upwards. "I do not care," he said, and moved almost hesitantly closer, fingers brushing Melkor's thigh and sliding up towards his waist, "I could not remain without you, please, allow me to come with you, to serve you - to love you."

Perhaps a little free with the prompt as Mairon did canonically go dark as well, but this scene spoke to me.

On AO3

Saren stares the silent Commander watching him.

"Where am I? Why have I been brought here?"

Shepard tilted her head slightly at the question before she leaned over to kiss him hard on the mouth.

"You are here because I wished it, Saren. The semantics don't matter."

"Shepard. What have you done now?" Saren growled, his mouth left tingling in her wake.

"Nothing that concerns your knowing, Saren," Shepard grins toothily. "I've realized now that it was foolish to kill you before. I think that you and I can do something good for this damned galaxy with the Reapers. "

Oooh, Saren fill! :D Very nice!

Heh, the prompt practically spoke Saren & Shepard.

He knows Heaven won’t take him back, no matter how short they are of angels, not with his history of faking his death, his cowardice, of being a Trickster. And especially not once they heard the story of him and the porn stars.

But here in this moment, in the bunker with Rowena, Gabriel’s good with that, thinking he’s happy where he is, with her.

Edited 2018-12-19 01:09 (UTC)

Hades always knew when he was doomed to the underworld, it was as good as being excommunicated from the family. His brothers gave him pitying glances as he headed down to his pile of dirt, thinking, obviously, that there but for the grace of luck went they.

Truth was, Hades was relieved; he could already see they were going to tear one another apart, and the meager allotment meant he wouldn't be expected to take part in the politics.

oh, this is excellent! i always love to read a take where hades is getting exactly what he wanted.

(Also, hi! I'm lizzie_marie_23 on LJ and we shared a ton of hamilton fic back in the 2016 TSF)

AHHHHHHH HOLY COW I MISSED YOU! I think I lost you in the great tumblr migration but I NEED TO FRIEND YOU POST HASTE FOR BURRELIZA (and others) UNITY

I'M SO EXCITED

The Fire Nation was meant to be everything good in the world, and for the longest time Zuko even believed it, but all that’s changed. He was sure recapturing the Avatar would be his key back in and that at last he’d come to rest in a place of peace. But no matter what he did he just kept failing, and now he’s learned enough about himself and about Aang that he’s not so sure he still hopes to succeed.

Edited (added subject line) 2018-12-20 00:34 (UTC)

Ouch. Well-done, and nice twist on the prompt.

thank you so much!

Wei Ying doesn't ask if Lan Zhan is sure, doesn't ask him to consider the price; he was once an exile himself, after all, he knows the cost all too well, and Lan Zhan isn't sure if he's grateful for not having to put words over how little he cares about the price how many times he's blamed himself for not thinking of paying it earlier, or for not having to wade through another conversation with Wei Ying entirely, fantastically, obliviously refusing to engage with the depth of Lan Zhan's feelings for him, much less his own.

But Wei Ying is happy that Lan Zhan followed, and that is better, certainly, than contemplating the fact that Lan Zhan's most beloved is not on the same page for the time being.

(Lan Zhan smiles when Wei Ying hums under his breath, perhaps without realizing, the song Lan Zhan once played for him; he is good at waiting, and Wei Ying is by side.)

I, er, really gave up on the three sentences idea for this one.

Madara's eyes flash as he turns, flinging aside the boy - the last living Uchiha - and then pausing, squaring broad shoulders as he faces Tobirama once more.

Tobirama . . . is tired. He would fight until the ends of his strength for his village, his brother's village - and he has done so, to the ends of his very life - now . . . now he has seen the end to another threat and yet again been faced with Uchiha Madara on a battlefield and Tobirama only wishes. . .

Madara wrenches free the chakra spike pinning Tobirama's head to the dirt, though not the rest, and kneels before him. "What is that look? Not so free to offer judgement as you once were, Senju?" Madara spits, Rinnegan eyes narrowed. "This body will give out and soon you'll be gone, back to the Pure Lands."

Tobirama misses the eerie ruby gleam of his Sharingan. "I don't care." he says, honestly, because he cannot fight any more now, can do nothing but wait to return to death, Madara is right about that, he may as well finally be honest. "I never wished to see you as an enemy again, Madara," he says evenly, "and unlike my brother, I never judged you nor wished you gone when you left us. I," he pauses, "I wished I could follow."

Madara looks stunned for half a breath, then stiffens, glare sharpening. "Well whatever you wished, you can't follow me now," he says darkly, "you'd never return to-"

"I don't care," Tobirama says tiredly, because he never has and he doesn't know how it wasn't obvious save that Madara is something of a disaster and always has been, "I wouldn't," he adds softly, "if I could follow you."

Madara watches him for a long moment, then rises and turns away. Tobirama closes his eyes and-

Madara pulls the first of the chakra spikes from his back.

Three Sentence Ficathon

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Astray (Silmarillion; Melkor|Morgoth/Mairon|Sauron)

We Could Do Something (Mass Effect Trilogy AU; Female Shepard/Saren)

Re: We Could Do Something (Mass Effect Trilogy AU; Female Shepard/Saren)

Re: We Could Do Something (Mass Effect Trilogy AU; Female Shepard/Saren)

Supernatural, Gabriel/Rowena

Greek Mythology, Hades

Re: Greek Mythology, Hades

Re: Greek Mythology, Hades

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Re: Avatar: The Last Airbender

Re: Avatar: The Last Airbender

Fill: Mo Dao Zu Shi, Lan Zhan/Wei Ying

At the End (Naruto; Madara/Tobirama)