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, any, absurdism is challenge-sense

Day One: A peculiar place, the Iron Republic — inhabited by revolutionaries, devils, university students, devils, ambulatory blurs of light and heat, bees, and devils; in that regard, much like a more confusing Benthic, only here one might spend the day debating the nature of reality not with intoxicated undergraduates, but with the equally intoxicated concept of the nature of reality itself; reality, one notes, cannot hold its liquor, which I suspect explains rather a lot.

~~Day Nine:~~ Now that time has ceased running backwards and the alphabet no longer attempts to squirm away from my pen, I may jot down with a certain degree of irritation that my favorite waistcoat has been damaged by today’s rain of fish scales, violet ink, and lemon juice, with available replacements prone to whistling vexing popular melodies, offering unsolicited financial advice (lost two-hundred echoes on waistcoat-encouraged investment in imaginary weather device), and combustion; I begin to grow nostalgic for Law.

Day ~~Fifteen~~ ~~Six~~ ~~Twenty-Nine~~ Uncertain: Soul sold, regained, lost in bet, regained again, stolen by bees, found again unexpectedly in bird’s nest made of glass needles and childhood memories (not mine – date back to Second City; river, sun... crocodiles?), may not be one I started out with — but I am no worse the wear for it, if one discounts the spontaneous flashes of magnetism and the craving for cucumber-and-irrational-number flavored custard, and indeed I feel I may have gotten the better of the exchange; in any case, this place is not without its charms, and — despite absence of custard — I am increasingly tempted to stay.

Oh wow, I don't even know this canon, and I'm in love with this - a little like Welcome to Night Vale gone epistolary and two centuries askew. I love the way the numbering of the days gets increasingly twisted, as the narrator gets increasingly warped from being the 'sober' one from some more rational place (Law?) playing straight man to "the equally intoxicated concept of the nature of reality itself" (AMAZING), to being irritated but adapting, to going native to an alarming degree ("Soul [...] may not be the one I started out with"), complete with cravings for the flat-out weirdest variant of custard I've ever heard of.

Thank you for the gift of this! Here, you inspired an absurd limerick in return:

the Iron Republic, unlawful and drunk
dances time into (k)not-art, your coat into junk
but discount the madness!
there's no place for sadness!
bees turn souls into honey, your devils to spunk

Thank you, and I’m glad it worked for you despite not knowing the canon!

Welcome to Night Vale is not a bad comparison, actually, in terms of people going about their everyday lives in a very strange and dangerous place – though most of the Fallen London universe is not as surreal as WTNV. The Iron Republic is a different animal entirely: a place founded by revolutionaries and devils (and revolutionary devils) who decided that it was a good idea to overthrow all laws, including, like. Gravity. (Law in this ficlet was meant not as a place but as a concept.) In fact, I’d say these three sentences are not quite bizarre and disjointed enough. And your limerick, in addition to being great, is entirely in keeping with the spirit of the place.

Three Sentence Ficathon

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Fill: Fallen London, The Iron Republic (i.e., a place where laws literally do not apply)

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