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NEW POST FOR PROMPTS AND RESPONSES - Three Sentence Ficathon Part 2
THE THREE SENTENCE FICATHON FOR 2020 IS OFFICIALLY OVER!
PLEASE DON'T POST ANY NEW PROMPTS!
SAVE NEW PROMPTS FOR NEXT YEAR! DON'T POST NEW PROMPTS AS THEY ARE UNLIKELY TO GET ANY LOVE.
DO CHECK OUT EXISTING PROMPTS AND KEEP FILLING THEM AND COMMENTING ON THEM! (Seriously, I still get notifications of 3SF fills from the exchange last year! I'll get them all year and that's great. But posting a new prompt isn't likely to get any attention and, at some point, we all move on in our lives (until next year!).
A huge thanks to
conuly for posting and updating all unfilled prompts in a separate post. Link below.Thank you everyone and we'll see you next year!
THIS IS THE NEW POST FOR PART 2 OF THE 3 SENTENCE FICATHON -- ALL NEW PROMPTS SHOULD BE POSTED HERE
Welcome to the Three Sentence Ficathon!
At over 4600 comments and responses to Entry 1, it's time to move to Entry 2. Please post all new prompts and responses here. You can still respond to and comment on old prompts here.
To that end, the incomparable [Unknown site tag]conuly has collected all unfilled prompts, organized them by fandom, and linked them back so you can search that list for anything that you missed and fill it!!! a huge thanks for doing this [Unknown site tag]conuly!!
Please post all your new and unfilled prompts here.
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:
Only one prompt per comment please. So, for example,
Open ended and anthropomorphic fills are popular too, such as:
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.
Here, have some icons and banners and let me know if you've created your own!
text box you can try to cut and paste
the incomparablealexseanchai made these gorgeous banners
To that end, the incomparable [Unknown site tag]conuly has collected all unfilled prompts, organized them by fandom, and linked them back so you can search that list for anything that you missed and fill it!!! a huge thanks for doing this [Unknown site tag]conuly!!
Please post all your new and unfilled prompts here.
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."
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.
Here, have some icons and banners and let me know if you've created your own!
text box you can try to cut and paste
the incomparable
alexseanchai made these gorgeous banners
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Beauty and the Beast, Beauty/Beast
“They smell,” rumbles her host—she has long since stopped thinking of him as her captor—“of whatever pleases you best;” he sounds half-apologetic, half-ashamed as though this newest oddity is yet another offense, until Beauty laughs in delight. Of course she does; it is pleasant, after all, to walk in the gardens surrounded by the scent of the chocolate her sisters served at their fetes, the coffee the servants brew for her in the morning, the crispness of an unread book.
Until the day she leans too close to a barely-unfurled bloom, only to recognize the tang of cinnamon and close-cropped fur; her cheeks flush, her stomach turns, and her heart—that fool!—is no longer to be trusted.
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Third Time's A Charm (Addams Family Values, Joel/Wednesday)
The roses he brought to the second date withered when Wednesday touched them.
The pitcher plant he brought the third time was just the thing.
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Fill: "the colour of unexamined ideas", Chuubo's Marvellous Wish-Granting Engine
For their own part, they can't really rank plants above people or animals, things that they can hear the wishes of, so they've little interest in learning how to keep a garden. At least, one in their mother's style, all art and artifice. The kitchen-gardens some of their friends in Fortitude keep, now-those are good, those you can use to feed someone. And the garden of Chuubo's house is best of all to them, though their mother would barely accord it the name; it's a wildlife garden, untended and untamed, a home for foxes and hedgehogs and butterflies. The birdbath's always kept full and clean, and the grass has never been cut since before either of them was born.
They do love their mother's garden too, though. Partly because it's familiar. Partly because it is beautiful, even if the beauty is in some ways a selfish thing. There are lilies, pure white and heavy-scented; tall spikes of hollyhocks in deep purple and pink and red; hozuki with its long stems of flaming paper-lantern fruit; and there are roses. There are so many roses, of what seems like every possible colour and type, each with its own odd name-Cocktail, Ispahan, Schneewittchen, Rosa Mundi.
Except, no. That's not quite accurate.
There is one rose that doesn't have a name. At least, they've asked their mother, and she said it didn't have one, which...she likes it when people show interest in her hobby, so they're pretty sure she wouldn't lie. It's an odd-looking thing, vague and undefined in colour, but with a soft firefly glow inside each bloom. Not that it blooms very often, because the other strange thing about the nameless rose is that most of the time it's half dead, surviving only through Melancholy Schwan's somewhat obsessive care and devotion...until for some mad vegetable reason it decides to thrive for a while after all, and promptly goes completely overboard and tries to take over the entire garden. The last time it did that it strangled three other rosebushes and was starting on the garden shed before their mother pruned it back ruthlessly (and possibly, Seizhi suspects, used some kind of dark sorcery on it).
Every so often they wonder why she doesn't just give up on it and plant something else. It's clearly more trouble than it's worth. But, then again, they aren't a gardener. It's probably one of those things you can't actually get without the proper context and the right sort of mind.
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When Ninuan falls to the Outside, Melancholy Eitsfulg is one of the luckier annuja. She does not degrade to wraithhood; she does not lose her memories; she does not get captured by Creation's Powers, who are flailing and confused even more than her own side of the Magnum Bellum are, and who are ready to pin blame for the Ash's death on anything and anyone that stays still long enough. She escapes, alone, with a handful of seeds in her pocket.
In time, she reforms her Sanctuary. In time, she meets a mortal man who offers kindness without needing incentive. In time, she sets aside the War. In time, she begins to seek coexistence instead of sheer destruction.
In time, she plants the seeds in empty yoghurt pots and with miracles and stubbornness and a shelf full of books on gardening she coaxes them to sprout. Despite her efforts, most fail to thrive. She is new to this, and the seeds are of a finicky species.
And yet, even so, one seedling survives.
Blue Roses for Blue Rose - Tiger & Bunny - Karina|Blue Rose, Pao-lin|Dragon Kid
Pao-lin ducked her head and rubbed the back of her neck. "Well, they're not real blue roses—those don't exist—so technically they're white roses dyed blue, but I saw them at the flower stall and I hoped you might like them? Since, you know..." She waved her hand over Karina.
Karina gently touched the soft petals, and then impulsively kissed Pao-lin on the cheek. "They're perfect."
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