rthstewart | 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:

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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any, any, "don't worry, you're with us now"

It happened every once in a while that something struck her, a word, a thought, a memory, and the real world just faded away, plunging her back into the darkness and pain of what came before.

The River raged and fought, usually to no avail, helplessly drowning in her own waves, until finally, thankfully, it passed.

When she woke to reality at last, a warmth enveloped her, welcoming her home, as she looked into the smiling faces of her captain and the crew of family, knowing with certainty that things would get better.

I don't know the canon, but this is really beautiful 🖤 I just love the found family trope!

Thanks, glad you like it :)

Tenzou looked up with wide eyes as a gentle hand only a little bigger than his own wound around it.

"Don't worry, otouto," Kakashi said, leaning in and rubbing his nose over Tenzou's cheek, making a little snuffling sound, "you're pack now and you belong and no one's ever going to take you away. Right?"

Kakashi turned his head to look up and Tenzou followed his gaze and clung to his hand a little tighter as his intimidating parents closed in on them, kneeling and then- Tenzou flinched, then gasped as he and Kakashi were cradled together in a warm embrace between them, gentle and reassuring and so comforting he wanted to cry.

Adorable 🖤 Look at them babies, being cute together! And baby!Kakashi being so protective of his new little brother! Yes, I'm so up for this ajsdadjksd

(And is that SakuOro I see in the end? *wiggles eyebrows*)

Thank you! 🖤 They are such precious little ones together~ bb!Kakashi will be the best (viper)wolf-aniki!

(But of course! ;) 🖤)

“Don’t worry, you’re with us now,” Amber had said the day Zac had asked her to take away all feelings he still held for Kayleigh, allowing him to accept her relationship with Brendan, to still be best friends with him and not care about it.

Now Mia and Alex have woken them all, and Zac remembers the year of memories Amber erased from them all, remembers his relationship, the way he had felt when Amber had influenced Kayleigh to believe she loved Brendan and not him, he knows that allowing Amber to brainwash him, to be part of her inner circle, was the wrong decision.

Kayleigh’s having a hard time with the fact that he chose to be influenced to forget her rather than to fight for her, the things he and Brendan had said to each other are still fresh in his mind, and Zac wishes he had turned his back on Amber, and chosen to stay with Harry, Alex and Mia, the “us” who would have actually helped him.

Ouch, ouch, ouch. I don't know the canon at all but this is painful, poor Zac!

AWESOME fill honey, LOVE IT!

Junghyun lasted four days by staying resolutely indoors, eating crackers and protein bars, and drinking bottled water -- take that, everyone who always looked down on her unhealthy eating habits! -- before she had to venture into the screaming wrongness that had replaced the world (and yes, there was a difference; human fuckery wasn't remotely the same as sentient fungus creeping up from her drains, or computer screens that watched and watched and never turned off, or giant flesh-blobs slurping through the streets in a running battle with toothy monsters that might be werewolves, or worst of all, the clear blue sky swooping down to eat people) both to find supplies and to avoid the leaden fog and cobwebs that were starting to gather in the lower and upper corners of her flat.

So of course it wasn't any of those horrors that got her. No, it was the earth itself, pavement crumbling away under her suddenly too-heavy feet and yanking her down into its jagged maw, roaring a tuneless song of weight and heat and pressure until her blood and bones and the compressed air in her lungs couldn't help but hum along.

Junghyun closed her eyes and mouth and waited for the earth to eat her whole.

And waited.

And waited.

And waited, until the waiting itself was more horrible than death could ever be, but when she tried to open her eyes the stones prevented her, and when she tried to speak the mud choked her, and when she tried to move the earth moved with her like a too-tight blanket trapping her in a nightmare bed.

Eventually she went limp in mind and heart as well as body.

That was when the earth let go, and she fell through lightless chasms, down and down and down, striking and scraping from rock to rock like a rag doll flung down a garbage chute, farther than should be possible until the pain and impossibility of it all numbed her once again.

The earth caught her and squeezed, hot and thick and heavy, and Junghyun's tears leaked out to join the mud as she realized there was no escape, never; she was swallowed, she was eaten, and the digestion would last forever.

"Yes," a voice said without breath, vibrations passed from its throat through the stone to her ears without ever touching air. "Now you understand. The earth makes us, the earth unmakes us, the earth is all there is. The surface is an illusion, a twisted, mocking dream from which we wake to the embrace of truth."

"But the sky--" Junghyun tried to say. She coughed, choked. Spoke again, this time exhaling dust instead of breath. "Did I only dream the sky?"

"The sky is a nightmare trying to be born," the stone voice said.

"I saw it eat people," Junghyun said. Her voice was slowing, rasping, as her lungs filled with solid earth instead of fleeting air. "I didn't want to be eaten."

"Don't worry," the stone voice said. "You're with us now. The sky can never touch you again."

The last gasp of air left Junghyun's chest, and she sighed in relief at the perfect, even pressure of earth within and earth without, stable and certain as she had always been meant to be. She turned to face the stone voice, seeing without eyes and hearing without ears, down where all the world was darkness and vibration and the endless roar of molten stone.

"Yes," she said. "I'm with you and you're with me and we're with the earth. The Vast can't reach us. The Eye can't see us. And we will dig until every direction is down."

I just really want to say

D:

My work here is done. :)

Hard Times no more, capital letters mind you, lowercase remains a state of being: in town, they all remembered the rumors floating up the river like bubbles from inscrutable depths, just as they remembered making idle bets on whether it had been the law or Consolidated who’d caught up with the distillery at last and eventually getting an answer in some paper that proved both and neither, but still they were not ready to see Conway drag himself up the silos, tired, changed, unaccustomed to the morning light.
He died that night in the barn, Shannon and Ezra by his side, ghosts of horses filling up the grass.

“Has seen better days”, says a tombstone in the town’s graveyard, and there are fresh flowers in the good season, and a small waterproof, solar-powered radio reciting the traffic of the distant highways.

NEW POST FOR PROMPTS AND RESPONSES - Three Sentence Ficathon Part 2

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A Home for Her (Firefly, River Tam)

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Safe and Home (Naruto; Tenzou & Kakashi)

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The A List, Zac

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When the Earth Shall Claim Your Limbs (The Magnus Archives)

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