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 Scrubb who had forgotten first as the scientist and adventurer in him delighted to be studying live jewels that tasted sweet and fire-bright and quenched all manners of thirst. For the longest time (or so she thought), Jill had been resentful that one misstep upon a pebble at the edge of the chasm had caused the two of them to fall down to Bism, away from Rilian and Puddleglum, Narnia and Aslan, and of going home.

As she bit into the sparkling sapphire Golg put into her hand, Jill looked past the stream of smoke from a salamander's breath to the orchard of living jewels and wondered why she was just thinking about those mythical places in the Overland she had recently dreamt of.

Oh this is DELIGHTFUL and DELICIOUS.

Oooh! I wonder if the forgetting is related to the way the Pevensies' memories of England seemed to blur during the Golden Age? Or is it more a general property of Bism and other Underland realms that the surface world begins to seem like an improbable dream?

I like to think that the living jewels have magical properties and one side effect of Overlanders eating them is that they forget where they came from.

Ironically, it's exactly what the Lady of the Green Kirtle wanted but she doesn't get to see it happen. :-)

There is so much in this fill. you could really spin a whole story out of it. It's so good.

YES

god this satisfies the part of me that ALWAYS wants them to go to Bism, and my NEED to see it, with the added bonus of making it borderline dark but also eerily fitting and probably necessary. The idea that yeah, it's what The Lady was going for and didn't manage, that this is the organic way of doing it, just adds such a great depth to it. There really is so much here.

It's much more interesting to have it go darker here -- you never know what may happen when you venture to Unknown Lands. :-)

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