Three Sentence Ficathon 2022

[rthstewart]

This post is NOW CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS!  PLEASE POST YOUR NEW PROMPTS HERE, IN POST 2!  Do continue to fill prompts here but please put all new prompts in Post 2.

 

Welcome to the Three Sentence Ficathon!

Here's a Friending meme!

What is the 3 Sentence Ficathon?
This is an open exchange where you answer a prompt with a fic consisting of only three sentences. It's open to all fandoms and you can post and fill 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 happens after that?
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

I'm really overwhelmed by all the prompts and how much there is and how fast it goes. I can't read 1,000 prompts and fills. It's too much. 
I hear this a lot and it keeps a lot of people from participating.  The 3SF is big and it moves fast, especially at first.  I get overwhelmed, too, and I'm hosting the thing. With 2020 and 2021 sucking so badly you don't want something that's supposed to be fun cause you anxiety.  I have a couple of suggestions for managing the 3SF volume. 

• First, really, you don't have to read every prompt and fill on every page.  You can start at the last page of this and just go forward, or back a page or two.  It's fine.
  
• You can come and go as time and energy allow, you don't have to participate the whole time, and it drops off quite at bit after about 2 weeks and especially once we open a new post because this one is approaching 4,500 comments.
• Even after the 3SF and new prompting end, people fill prompts all year long.
• You can fill an already filled prompt and you can can leave a prompt that's already been prompted before.  People do it all the time. 

Always make sure you're looking at top-level comments only, not threaded. That helps a lot. Your screen should look like this.




But shouldn't I read everything to see if someone already prompted the same prompt I want to leave if someone already filled it? 
No.  Prompt as many times as you want, as much as you want.  It doesn't matter if someone prompted the exact same prompt.  Go ahead and prompt again!

I left a prompt and no one filled it.  Can I prompt it again?
Absolutely!

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 be able to post and share it.  Feel free to cross-post this entry. If you create your own banners or icons, let me know and I'll share!
Please share the 3SF with your followers, friends, and any channels and comms you are active on.  I'll post on fandom calendar, Tumblr, and Twitter, but I don't have many connections in other spaces such as Discord.

Here's my attempt at a text box that might go horribly awry.

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How long will it go?
The 3SF closes to new prompts on February 13, 2022. The entry stays open permanently and people post fills all year long.  (There were a bunch of new posts to the 2021 3SF this week!)

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 boils down to reader beware.  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 (and much more). 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, protect yourself, 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.
Some posters do include warnings and spoiler tags or include spoiler space, but they don't have to do so.


Why is 3SF split among several posts?  That seems confusing.
It is confusing and we always lose momentum once we have to move to a second post. The reason is because at 5,000 comments to a single post, DW installs a human test CAPTCHA, which is a pain for users.  So, once this entry gets to the upper 4,000 comments, I open a new post.  If you've been waiting until things slow down to participate, when we open a second post is often a good place to join.

If I have questions, what do I do?
I'm rthstewart everywhere, here, Twitter, Tumblr, gmail and AO3.

A special thank you to conuly  .
Last year, Conuly started logging all unfilled prompts.
This year's (2021) unfilled prompts are here.
Last year's (2020) unfilled prompts are here.

Conuly asks that you not reply, as they want to be able to edit and add more prompts to the list.

 

Here, have some icons and banners and let me know if you've created your own!



      

Comments

[aroberuka]

The Untamed, Nie Huaisang, dead ends

[wearing_tearing]

Nie Huaisang has to make an effort not to curl his hand into a fist and snap the fan he's holding. There's a rage that lives inside of him, red hot and overwhelming at times, that demands justice for what was done to his brother; yet he's at a dead end with it comes to making Jin Guangyao pay since, so far, every one of his furtive attempts to get to him have failed.

Maybe it is time for him to turn to more drastic measures and rely on a truth that he learned as a teenager while in the Cloud Recesses: there is not one problem in the world that Wei Wuxian can't solve.

[trinityday]

MCU, any, Captain America on the moon

[caramelsilver]

Narnia, girl!Edmund, to be of use

[last_haven]

It wasn't fair--Peter was oldest AND the son. Susan was the eldest girl, the pretty and sensible one. Lucy was the baby, the darling who did no wrong.

Edith did wrong--she never seemed to stop doing wrong. She fouled up her grades, fouled up her relationships with her siblings, and she even fouled up being a hero. The prophecy had promised a place for her at last, hadn't it? But no, she'd been greedy and bitter, and now all she could do is watch as Peter is strapped into his armor. He'd gripped her shoulders and ordered her to find Susan and Lucy, wherever they'd wandered off. "Just--just listen to me, just this once, E? Keep our sisters safe."

Edith might have nodded, but as she cinches her crimson gambeson and reaches for the chain mail--her form would be sexless under the layers and the helmet would hide her shorn hair--she apologizes to Peter under her breath.

This time, she won't get this wrong--otherwise, what is the point of her being there at all?

[caramelsilver]

Shadow and Bone, Darkling/Alina, AU where they live their long lives seperate or together while all others die around them

So Bitter and So Beautiful (S&B, The Darkling/Alina)

[vialethe]

“I’ll always leave you,” she says, fever-hot and desperate against his skin, like a threat; like a promise.

And she does, time and time again, for years, for decades, for long enough that he forgets to wait for her; long enough that he’s surprised somehow, just a bit, every time she comes back sharper-edged, leaner, a little less left of her to be honed.

“You’ll always come back to me,” he tells her, her face held between his hands, shadows blurring her lines, and smiles at the flare in her eyes; a promise, a threat.

[wearing_tearing]

any, any, soulmate mark in unusual place

MCU, Clint Barton/Bucky Barnes

[undeadrobins]

It stands to reason, Clint thinks, as he twists himself around to get a better look at his ass, that he'd get a soulmate mark in such a stupid place. At least he can be sure that no one will see it accidentally, unless he starts sleepwalking naked (he resolves to start wearing boxers at least when he's asleep) or if he's injured too badly to stop them looking (that one he can't prevent).

It's not until Bucky slaps him on the ass one morning as he walks past that his skin feels like it's on fire, and he realises that soulmate marks can be activated without skin-on-skin touch; apparently the tatty old sweatpants are thin enough that it still counts...

[wearing_tearing]

any, any, haunted house

Mad Max Fury Road, Cheedo

[last_haven]

There is always sound in the Citadel, not that Cheedo had known that when they were still trapped in the Vault. There are sounds of hammering, hissing water in the hydroponic gardens, and the singing, screaming, laughing voices of humans.

Cheedo will take the cacophony outside the Vault any day of the week; better that than the violent whispers and echoes of broken women still ringing inside. How lucky she was, she knew now, to have avoided that fate.

[wearing_tearing]

any, any, hands

Appreciation (Naruto; Kakashi/Shisui)

[kalira]

"You have very sexy hands, love." Shisui said, toying with Kakashi's fingers - long and graceful, steady and sure - and grinning as Kakashi's eye widened and his cheeks went rosy pink.

"The blush is pretty cute, too." Shisui added, leaning up and kissing his cheek.

[kalira]

any, any, airship pirates

[wellinghall]

You can be assured that every precaution will be taken against both airship pirates and the renegade Jarl of Akureyri. We have an experienced team of gunners*, who will employ the latest beam projectors in the defence of passengers.

*Second class passengers may be defended by trainee gunners.

[syrena_of_the_lake]

Narnia, any, inappropriate appearance of a moose

What happens when an unstoppable moose meets an immovable pelican?

[adaeze]

Maybe: it is impossible for an unstoppable moose to exist in the same world as an immovable pelican.

Or maybe: it is inconceivable that an unstoppable moose exists in the same world as an immovable pelican.

Or maybe I should never have asked the question, thinks the muskrat.

[(Anonymous)]

any, any, midwinter and midsummer

Narnia, Digory & Polly

[arveldis]

When the world at last came into focus, Digory and Polly discovered that the pool they had jumped into led to a world altogether strange: They found themselves standing on what seemed to be opposite sides of a dividing line, separating a land of snow and ice and driving winds, as cold as the depths of winter—which Polly stood in, shivering and wrapping her sweater tighter around her body—from a land of knee-high grass and birdsong and sunlight, as warm as the fullest flush of summer—which Digory stood in, peeling his coat from his shoulders.

“What is this place?” Polly asked, teeth chattering, and she at once leapt over to Digory’s side, where in an instant the warmth of the sun melted the snowflakes that had been gathering on her hair and shoulders, and she let out a great sigh of relief and tilted her face up to the sunlight.

“I don’t know,” said Digory, bending over to look at the divide between the two lands more closely—it was merely a furrow of empty soil, and the two lands abutted against it—before shivering in a sudden chill despite the warmth and adding, “but let’s not stay here any longer.”

[wearing_tearing]

any, any, witchcraft

Cartomancy (Marginal Prince; Red/Henri)

[kalira]

"Hey, ah . . . Henri?" Red began, watching his boyfriend curiously, mind full of Haruya's ghost stories and Sylvaine's little . . . comments. "Are you. . ." he hesitated.

"No, darling, only a seer," Henri said absently, smoothing his fingers over the cards and beginning to lay out a complicated pattern, "no witchcraft, only patterns and premonitions."

[syrena_of_the_lake]

Any, any, the worst pun you can think of

[Miraculous Ladybug] will you mari me

[alexseanchai]

"One more thing," says Chat Noir to the reporters assembled for the official story of Hawkmoth's defeat, and turns to Ladybug, fishing out a box large enough it might take the world a few heartbeats more to realize it means the same as a small square box does when someone on one knee holds it out to another: "Be mine, ma belle?"

No wonder Adrien made off with Marinette's two-centimeter pink satin ribbon—there's enough length here to go twice around her wrist, enough width to be plainly visible on camera, and the knot securing the copycat Chat Noir collar bell is loose enough she'll have no difficulty repurposing the ribbon for something more everyday—but also, no fair.

"No fair," Ladybug says, sitting on Chat Noir's conveniently offered knee so she can balance her open yo-yo on her knee and get out her own surprise even while he's tying on her engagement bracelet, "I wanted to ask you to marry me, ma fleur!"

Chat Noir blinks down at the silk corsage: a vivid red rose blossom ringed with little marigolds and buttercups, with myrtle, olive, and rosemary to wrap around his wrist. (There may be a half dozen 'officially licensed imitations' in stock on the website of 'the artist Ladybug commissioned', as of an hour or so from now when Marinette makes the listing go live.) "You're the best part of my life too," he says, sincere enough it takes vast willpower not to just kiss him breathless on camera, "and that is the best pun I've ever heard."

"I knew I should have gone with chou à la crème de la crème," Ladybug says dryly, producing a cream puff from Tom & Sabine's, threaded onto kitchen twine.

There: now the photos announcing the superheroes' engagement will show them kissing less passionately and more full of laughter.

(Adrien's engagement ring is slim rose gold with a small princess-cut diamond, and his wedding ring will be a plain rose-gold band; Marinette, unwilling to wear rings that might catch on her sewing or need removed to wash her hands before baking, instead got her ears pierced for what she isn't admitting is the first time, the silvery starter studs serving as her engagement earrings, and at their for-family wedding ceremony Adrien will exchange those for mother-of-pearl; they've already been asked why these don't match, and plan never to explain why they do.)

[wearing_tearing]

any, any, heat wave

ATLA

[dawen]

"I'm melting," Sokka whined, pulling his shirt away from his sweaty chest and flapping it half-heartedly, "even the water is warm!"

"I don't see the problem," Zuko said, twisting his hair up off his neck and jabbing a metal hair stick in to hold it up, "it's usually hotter next month."

Sokka flopped facedown on the dry grass and whined.

[wearing_tearing]

any, any, cursed to communicate only through singing/song lyrics

Fill: Galavant

[syrena_of_the_lake]

"I know it's getting old
but please don't yell and scold,
it doesn't help for you to rave and rant.

If ever I'm to speak
I must put tongue in cheek
and sing with rhythmic meter elegant.

I'm doomed to speak in rhyme,
my curse lasts a long time,
I'm tied by my ill fate to Galavant!"

[wellinghall]

Minder / Only Fools and Horses crossover, any, any

[raisedbymoogles]

Breath of the Wild/Spirited Away, Haku|Kohaku, meeting the dragons of Hyrule

[wellinghall]

The Fairy-Feller's Master Stroke, any, any

[ranalore]

The Untamed, Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian, "I am a constant satellite of your blazing sun" - Vienna Teng

[wellinghall]

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Connie Willis Oxford time travel crossover, any, any

[ranalore]

The Untamed, Jiang Cheng & Wei Wuxian, "You know I didn't want to have to haunt you" - Taylor Swift

[scytale]

(...I misread the prompt a bit, but um! We'll call it creative interpretation?)

Sometimes, he wishes Wei Wuxian's spirit would haunt him. A ghost may be dead, an abomination to be banished, but at least it can be talked to, fought with, seen. In the quiet of the night, Jiang Cheng has only memories.

[wellinghall]

Discworld / Invisible Library crossover, any, any

[elementalraven]

Narnia, any, time travel

Lucy/Tirian was my childhood otp, so now I want them to go on an adventure

[last_haven]

"Did you use my sister's horn to call me?" Lucy asks, still sawing away at the ropes that tie the man to the tree. She'd only just come back from having tea with Mister Tumnus, so she only had her dagger on her--sharp, yes, but hacking the rope was dulling the blade. She could only hope she wouldn't need it to be at its usual precise sharpness. "Who tied you up like this? Why did you call me?"

"No, no, I didn't use any horn," the man murmured, looking half delirious. He gazed at her with such wide eyes. "But you came--oh, Aslan sent you, didn't he? Oh, praise to him, you're Queen Lucy!"

It was odd--as Queen, their subjects often treated her with deference, but no one had spoken of her with awe since the days of the prophecy, back before they defeated the Witch. Even Narnia's greatest allies didn't look at them with such wonder, the four children who'd saved a country with the help of a god.

But this man had the look of a Narnian, despite the few numbers of humans in Narnia even years after their coronation, and as Queen she knew she needed to help him. As he fell, released from his bonds, she scooped him up, giving his hand a squeeze as well as smiling as warmly as she could. "Let's get you away from here and on the mend. Then, you must tell me everything."

[elementalraven]

Narnia, any, Bism

Narnia, any, Bism

[snacky]

Puddleglum always swore, after his great adventure, that he'd never leave home again. Who would want leave such a lovely place as the Northern Marsh with his cozy wigwam, all his wiggle friends close (but not too close), especially the fine ladywiggle, Drizzlerue who knew how to keep a visit short and the eel stew warm?

But when King Rilian pays a visit, talking excitedly about finding a passage to Bism, Puddleglum knew he must leave again — after all, the King would need his steady, upbeat presence on this new adventure.

[elementalraven]

Narnia, any, the Garden of Youth

Narnia, Lucy

[animus_wyrmis]

The lands to the west of Narnia, where the sun set, rolled on over the hills as Lucy rode, always up the Great River, always with the afternoon sun in her eyes and her near-empty cordial at her hip. There were fewer and fewer inhabitants, until the day she made her way carefully up the cliffs of a waterfall and found herself alone -- and yet not alone, for in front of her was a great, walled garden with high, golden gates. "I am Queen Lucy of Narnia, come questing to the western end of the world. Will you see me?" she asked.

Soundlessly, the great gates opened, and from inside came a most delicious warm and golden smell, like high summer, and a voice said, "Welcome, dear heart."

[wellinghall]

Yes Minister (or Yes Prime Minister) / The Leaky Establishment crossover, any, any