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, Do you hear what I hear?

CQL/MDZS-verses, Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji

[marginalia]

He does not know when or where he is, but what will be most strange later is how far from strange it was and how little he questioned it at the time, floating senseless and yet free and safe in the dark, feeling nothing and not minding it.

The low voice of the guqin sings to him a shimmer of sorrow, a ghost far distant, a breath of a lost memory, long fingers on the strings.

Long before he thinks to ask the cradling nothingness do you hear what I hear, the longing, a wisp of a cloud, has drifted away.

Re: CQL/MDZS-verses, Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji

[ruanchunxian0.livejournal.com]

Oh my god it's so nice to see a cdrama fill!!

Re: CQL/MDZS-verses, Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji

[marginalia]

Ha, I've been refreshing for a week looking for cdrama *prompts*!

Re: CQL/MDZS-verses, Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji

[ruanchunxian0.livejournal.com]

Hmmm I wish I could throw out a few CQL prompts for you but unfortunately this drama is really not quite my thing. But there are a few open prompts that you could adapt to cdramas :D

Re: CQL/MDZS-verses, Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji

[zdenka]

I like it, lovely descriptions!

I'm going through the prompts way late, but I'm happy to see cdrama fills here too!

Persona 5, Yusuke/Akira

[yudil]

Akira leans forward in the small boat and presses a finger to Yusuke's lips, shushing him. Yusuke can hear the soft ripples of water lapping at the sides of the boat, the distant call of birds soaring in the wind. And then Akira is kissing him, hand on his cheek, and Yusuke can't hear anything anymore except the racing of his own heart.

Comforting Chirps (Naruto; Sakura & Kakashi)

[kalira]

"Do you hear what I'm hearing?" one of the Iwa-nin asked the other, shifting anxiously, nearly dropping his kunai, and Sakura smiled sharply from her position trapped on her knees. The rocky arches holding her down were bruising her calves, and the gravel was digging into her shins until they bled, but she ignored both difficulties and braced herself carefully as she ducked lower.

"I hear it. . ." she said softly, ears perking to the sound of a thousand birds wrapped up into a single breeze.