Three Sentence Ficathon

[rthstewart]

THIS POST IS NOW CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS. PLEASE POST NEW PROMPTS HERE.

You can go ahead and continue to respond to prompts and comment on them here but please don't post any new prompts .

Welcome to the Three Sentence Ficathon!

UPDATE 1 HERE- 2 Feb

UPDATE 2 HERE 6 Feb



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 can start 3SF by posting 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."

Open ended and anthropomorphic fills are popular too, such as:

Any, Any, "I don't like sand."

or

Earth geography, sand, "I don't like humans very much, either."

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 generally fail at creating banners and embed codes but if you create one and make it really idiot-proof, I might manage it. Or we can just cross-post. If you create one, I'll try to post it and everyone can use it.

How long will it go?
Until February 29, 2020. But the entry stays open permanently.

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 and archive warnings, triggers, pairings, ratings, tags, and squick?

I thought a lot about this. It wasn't an issue the last 3 times I ran this. In my experience, this typically gets too big, moves too fast, and the stories are too short for content warnings and ratings to even apply. It is too big for me to moderate in this way. You should assume spoilers are fair game and that the initial poster and the responder have opted to use no content warnings or tags. This means AO3 content warnings for dubcon, violence, canon character death, underage, etc. COULD be present.  I've found personally that I can skim and scroll 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. In this format, the obligation is on you, the reader, to protect yourself from triggering content.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

any, any, I don't really love you anymore

Hera/Zeus--Hera is so tired of your shit, boy.

[last_haven]

"And to think," she begins, fighting the urge to curl her lip in disgust, "that I once was able to tolerate you so well."

"Oh, Hera," her husband laughs, dragging her by the hip to his side, "always such a kidder."

There will be bruises on her side tomorrow, but she'll at least get a laugh at his face when she tosses the wad of his shorn locks in it.

Re: Hera/Zeus--Hera is so tired of your shit, boy.

[kalira]

Hooboy, sometimes it's a marvel how stupid that he is. >.> Go Hera.

Re: Hera/Zeus--Hera is so tired of your shit, boy.

[last_haven]

Their relationship is almost baffling dysfunctional.

Batman (Bruce Wayne/Selina Kyle): When Love Is Gone

[fleetsparrow]

Too many lies, too many secrets, too many broken promises and vows. Too much everything for the Mission.

Selina left his ring in the Batmobile with a simple note: “I don’t really love you anymore.”

Re: Batman (Bruce Wayne/Selina Kyle): When Love Is Gone

[resnullius_bells]

... ouch.

Long Live the Queen, Elodie/Talarist, After the Divorce (mentions of infertility)

[mireia]

Certainly Elodie had to have some idea of what her ex-husband was up to, with him being the most powerful noble in a neighboring country, but she didn't have to hear about how he doted on his new baby, or how he made the new wife that was able to give him the child he so wanted smile with so many gifts. It made her memories of him, back when he would make her smile, taste as bitter as the many herbs that she took over the years, the both of them hoping against hope they could reverse the damage done to her womb.

Sometimes, though, when she sat alone with her thoughts under the sacred grove, she found that she couldn't remember why he ever made her smile, a thought that was sometimes comforting and sometimes depressing.

Re: Long Live the Queen, Elodie/Talarist, After the Divorce (mentions of infertility)

[runespoor]

Oh. Oh, Elodie. Achingly bittersweet.

Re: Long Live the Queen, Elodie/Talarist, After the Divorce (mentions of infertility)

[mireia]

Thank you so much. This wasn't one of Elodie's easier lives.

Too Little, Too Late (Chronicles of Narnia)

[edenfalling]

The thing is, you can only pour your heart into someone or something for so long (whether in love or in hatred) without getting something in return; eventually passion gutters cold and all that's left is indifference.

Susan looks at the packet of magic rings salvaged from Edmund's pockets, glittering with the promise of vengeance, reconciliation, or perhaps both sequentially, and sighs.

"I'm done with that," she tells them, and moves on with her life.

Re: Too Little, Too Late (Chronicles of Narnia)

[kalira]

Oh, owch and excellent.

Re: Too Little, Too Late (Chronicles of Narnia)

[edenfalling]

Thank you!

Re: Too Little, Too Late (Chronicles of Narnia)

[rthstewart]

I know I keep saying this, but damn, Liz, you are SO good with this. I love what you write.

Re: Too Little, Too Late (Chronicles of Narnia)

[edenfalling]

*blush* Thank you!

Over You (Naruto; SasuSaku)

[kalira]

"Hn. You've always been even more useless than usual when faced with me."

Sakura's blood could boil at that; this obnoxious idiot thinks he's anything to do with her? She snaps her bonds and surges upwards, smashing a fist into his face and watching him crunch into the rock wall at his back, bloodied face pale with shock.

"You're nothing to me any more, Sasuke," Sakura tells him, shifting her stance and tugging her gloves more securely on and pulling away the remnants of chakra-wire wound rope that had held her, eyes on him in case he manages to do anything effective, "I certainly don't love you any more."

Re: Over You (Naruto; SasuSaku)

[(Anonymous)]

I don't even go here but this is cathartic.

Re: Over You (Naruto; SasuSaku)

[kalira]

I am delighted to hear it! I usually throw out that entire swathe of canon without thinking about it, but it felt good to write that, too. >.>

Emilie/Gabriel. Miraculous.

[(Anonymous)]

"Knowing what brought us here, I can't even look at you, much less act like I still love you," she says, her voice sharp, biting, cold. Unforgiving in a way she never was before.

"I did this for you. For us. I did it because I love you," you reply, pathetic, like a cockroach under her heel, small and miserable as she looks at you as if you're a plague.

"I don't think you know what love is at all."

Love's End (Inuyasha; Kagome, Inuyasha, Koga)

[kalira]

"I don't believe you!" Inuyasha shouted. "You've always been-"

"I'm not lying, Inuyasha!" Kagome shouted back, and Koga watched with interest as his mate's other packmates withdrew from either the confrontation or Kagome's temper. "I don't really love you any more . . . you self-centred brat! . . .not like that, anyway. You're my friend, and you'll always be my friend, Inuyasha," Kagome said kindly, "but we were never right to be more."

Inuyasha's ears folded down against his head, his eyes wide and confused, and Kagome held out her arms, the anger that had made her seem to loom gone, leaving her so clearly once more a small, soft, affectionate female.