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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There's no bread at home, but Dawn wants a sandwich, and a sandwich she will make; to an open mind, what's a donut if not Scooby bread?

She hesitates between using one of Tara's avocados and a dusty can of deviled ham from the back of a cupboard, then decides to go for both. Tara will be glad to know she ate a salad.

Okay... the greenish mixture does taste a little odd... but there's no going back now, not after what she did to Willow's Brazil nuts. Dawn firmly believes that sauce can fix anything; she'll take the unpronounceable British kind that Spike puts in his blood.

See, she could cook for herself all the time if everyone wasn't being funny about it.

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[note: goblin sandwiches are real, and you can google them]

This was a great ficlet, and I can totally forgive you the extra sentences

Thank you! :))

AMAZING. Also, I did google this, and a.) omg, of course Worcestershire sauce is what Spike would put in his blood (yuck! and yet...), and b.) this blog post had me giggling from start to memorable close,

Choosing to serve this mixture on a sweet, glazed donut dials this up from “culinarily questionable” to “downright masochistic,” and the combination is not something I will ever prepare or serve again.

Damn, those Wal-Mart donuts, though.

Which is to say, your ficlet is perfect and an utterly delightful spin on 'onward [food] engineers', and also Dawn should definitely not be allowed unrestricted access to the kitchen again - she doesn't seem to know quite when to stop, which is how she ends up several questionable ingredients Over the Line. (Your last line just kills me - this is really like a fill and a sequel fill in one, and I love how the horrific momentum builds through the second half ('not after what she did to Willow's Brazil nuts' indeed, heh).

Thank you. <3

Yay!! \o/ Glad it had horrific momentum! Sounds like I achieved exactly what I was trying to do -- thank you for the detailed comment. :)

And yup, that blog post was great. I considered linking directly to it, but there was a second source that explained the origin of the recipe better:
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2014/10/31/rubenstein-library-test-kitchen-goblin-sandwiches-1946/

Oh my Dawn and her culinary misadventures

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