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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"Did you hear about Hera's latest?" Artemis says, carefully sipping from a cup of potent wine that Athena has refilled without her asking.

"What sort of poor creature has she transformed father's paramour into this time?" Athena asks, laying out a card; Artemis slams her hand down on it, but with surprising gentleness, to the point that anyone come along would almost-but-not-quite swear they were playing at holding hands, not cards.

"A cow," Artemis replies, shaking her head, but she does not move her hand.

* * *

"Our mad uncle has made off with our spring-time sister; dragged her down with him to the underworld, it seems," Athena says by way of greeting her at home, tossing a delicious salad with surprising grace.

"Is it wrong I am perhaps, relieved, that he chose Persephone? I am glad it was not me...nor you; he's always been so boring, you know?" She asks; father has been trying to match his eldest brother up with one of his many daughters for centuries, and certainly, she imagines Athena had as many reservations at being kept perpetually in uncle's never-ending gloom and doom as she does.

"I feel bad for Persephone as well -- but better her than us...and he'd have quite a reckoning if he dared to think he could choose you," Athena says, sliding one taunt arm over hers as she hands her a fresh salad on one of their twin plates, and Artemis smiles at the familiar feel of home in another woman's hands.

***

"Your Apollo is singing to a tree," Athena says, raising an eyebrow as her twin very noisily murders a lyre, giving worship to a dead-and-disinterested dryad, and even Artemis has to agree, it's pretty embarrassing. "Is he always so loud in protesting his love who do not want it?"

"Always, I'm afraid; I certainly prefer a ...quieter paramour," she says, eyes sparkling with moonlight wickedness; Athena captures her mouth as swiftly as she sacks a city, and Apollo babbles on, completely missing the point.

Edited 2018-12-22 00:33 (UTC)

Prompter: Heee! Very nice. :) Thank you.

Oh, that's wonderful!

♥!

I love this! <3

Lila is leaning up into Catherine's personal space, cooing Catherine's legal name in a sultry voice; Catherine is edging backwards with a slight smile that Lila won't notice is nervous, but Lila is pressing forward and in a moment will have her up against the wall (Chatonne Noire hates feeling boxed in) and Marinette cannot watch this. She fixes her gaze on the library door some meters past them and walks straight forward as though she has somewhere to be and notices no obstacles; she legitimately doesn't notice people in her path often enough that she can get away with mowing over Lila like this basically as often as she damn well pleases as long as she babbles enough apologies after.

While Lila's snarling at Marinette, Catherine slips away.

(next below)

Edited 2018-12-26 05:46 (UTC)

(previous above)

Catherine slides back into Mme. Bustier's classroom after lunch: Marinette's already in her seat behind Catherine's, nose firmly inserted in a slim poetry volume, but Marinette knows she's here and Catherine knows she knows.

There's a folded note waiting on Catherine's desk, the upwards side without salutation and signed only by a lip print in the same vivid scarlet as Ladybug's armor—it could be (often has been, but the hue is never right) from any of the people who look at her and see only the reserved, respectful, responsible (and oh so distantly, sweetly, unattainably romantic) young man her father raised. Inside is a sketch of a black kitten, who this time is wearing a green bow for a collar and unraveling a ball of soft blue yarn; it means chérie and chatonne and minette (which is not a double entendre ~~yet~~) and all the things they dare not say.

These are lovely ♥

eeeee!

Three Sentence Ficathon

any fandom, any m/m or f/f, "The straights are at it again"

greek mythology, Athena/Artemis

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[Miraculous Ladybug] can I make it any more obvious (trans!Adrien, CN: misgendering)

[Miraculous Ladybug] what more can I say (trans!Adrien, CN: misgendering)

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