Three Sentence Ficathon

[rthstewart]

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.

Comments

[alice_pike]

YES it's just so good for him, even with his lions--like he gets FIRE and SKY and I know and love the parallels between fire and his dad, and reclaiming an element that's taken things from him, but if fire and sky don't pretty much encompass the desert, I don't know what does. He lived there on his own for (an undetermined number of) years, and found peace there, so it's definitely a hardwired piece of his personality for me for sure.

Gosh, thank you for this comment. if Shiro is lost to space, then he can be lost to the desert YOU KNOW WHAT, this is basically what I'm getting at in the beginning, but I don't think I ever even thought to frame it that succinctly, but that's it, exactly. Shiro is lost to the greater universe, but Keith goes inward, for all that he is also in open space, and the desert is definitely a thing alive here, and there's a sure sense of Keith Going To The Desert in the same way that Shiro had gone into space, and obviously we see that it's all connected anyway, but even in the beginning those events are feeding off of each other, shaping each other.

Wrt his Galraness--it's for sure part of why I kept the second person POV (which, gOD, thank you--it's really really nice to hear that it works) bc I was gonna change it! I first started jotting it down in second, and was like 'oh I'll fix it later' but it just flowed in second; and then I got to drop hints about his mother and the Blade and it's a war you don't know you've always been a part of; and I realized I could do that in third as well, but idk, there's a pointedness to it that just didn't come across otherwise.

Anyway, enough rambling at you haha. I think I'm still at denial, but once I make peace with canon this is definitely the first thing I wanna pick back up, so hopefully it gets finished *fingers crossed*