2023 Three Sentence Ficathon - Post #1
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Welcome to the 2023 Three Sentence Ficathon!
As of 16 Jan 2023 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.

This post will remain open for new prompts until we hit 4000 comments, at which point we'll open a new one to avoid captcha as long as possible. New fills and comments on fills will always be welcome.
How to Prompt
Prompts should be one prompt per comment, formatted in this way: fandom, character(s), prompt word/sentence
Example: Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi, I don't like sand
Prompts may also be open ended, unspecific, or anthropomorphic, such as:
any, any, I don't like sand
or
Earth geography, sand, I don't like humans very much, either
Prompts for relationships are welcome; a / is used for romantic/sexual relationships and an & for platonic. A prompt that uses both means the relationship can be written as either romantic or platonic, such as:
Star Wars, Anakin/&Obi-Wan, I don't like sand
Prompts may be repeated if they are unfilled; there is no obligation to read through every prompt to make sure yours isn't a repeat. This year's 3SF will stay open for new prompts through Sunday, February 12th.
How to Fill
Respond to your chosen prompt with a short fic of three sentences containing the fandom & characters requested!
Prompts can be filled more than once, as many times as someone has a new idea for them.
Notes & Rules
No, fills do not need to be exactly three sentences! It's more of a guideline. Please abuse grammar and punctuation as much as desired.
3SF is a Choose Not to Warn space. Spoiler and content warnings are not required, though writers are free to add them if they please. If you see something you don't like, just scroll until you do!
A Dreamwidth account is not needed to participate. Anonymous prompts/fills are welcome, or you can use Open ID.
Cross-posting is encouraged; there is a 3SF Collection on AO3 if you'd like to post fills there as well.
Note that the comm is searchable! Tick the 'include comments' button when searching to easily find prompts for your chosen fandom/characters.
And most importantly, have fun! If you have questions, check the Sticky Info post and if they're not answered there, head to the Contact the Mods post.
As of 16 Jan 2023 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.

This post will remain open for new prompts until we hit 4000 comments, at which point we'll open a new one to avoid captcha as long as possible. New fills and comments on fills will always be welcome.
Prompts should be one prompt per comment, formatted in this way: fandom, character(s), prompt word/sentence
Prompts may also be open ended, unspecific, or anthropomorphic, such as:
or
Earth geography, sand, I don't like humans very much, either
Prompts for relationships are welcome; a / is used for romantic/sexual relationships and an & for platonic. A prompt that uses both means the relationship can be written as either romantic or platonic, such as:
Prompts may be repeated if they are unfilled; there is no obligation to read through every prompt to make sure yours isn't a repeat. This year's 3SF will stay open for new prompts through Sunday, February 12th.
Respond to your chosen prompt with a short fic of three sentences containing the fandom & characters requested!
Prompts can be filled more than once, as many times as someone has a new idea for them.
No, fills do not need to be exactly three sentences! It's more of a guideline. Please abuse grammar and punctuation as much as desired.
3SF is a Choose Not to Warn space. Spoiler and content warnings are not required, though writers are free to add them if they please. If you see something you don't like, just scroll until you do!
A Dreamwidth account is not needed to participate. Anonymous prompts/fills are welcome, or you can use Open ID.
Cross-posting is encouraged; there is a 3SF Collection on AO3 if you'd like to post fills there as well.
Note that the comm is searchable! Tick the 'include comments' button when searching to easily find prompts for your chosen fandom/characters.
And most importantly, have fun! If you have questions, check the Sticky Info post and if they're not answered there, head to the Contact the Mods post.
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Date: 2023-01-14 06:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-14 08:05 pm (UTC)Since they’d gotten together, he was just as gruff and growly as always, never showing his feelings.
They eventually realize that Eliot shows his happiness by protecting them, cooking for them, and by always being there.
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Date: 2023-01-14 07:36 pm (UTC)Those are some dedicated people working in lost and found, and good thing there was a dog kennel!
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Date: 2023-01-14 09:05 pm (UTC)The sabre tooth tiger had to go somewhere!
Cabin Pressure
Date: 2023-01-15 12:48 pm (UTC)The woman at the airport lost and found looked up to find three men standing in front of her counter - the one who spoke was wearing what looked like an airline steward’s uniform and was grinning widely, while on either side of him was a nervous looking man in a captain’s uniform, a hat with a truly impressive amount of gold braid on it tucked between his arm and his torso, and a bored-looking first officer who looked like he should be the one with four stripes on his arm and would definitely inspire much more confidence in his passengers than his apparent captain.
And yet, when the bag in question was found and handed over, it was the first officer’s face that lit up with what was definitely trouble brewing, as he exclaimed, “Well, congratulations, between you and Martin, you have used up all of our layover hours looking for the lemon and I'm impressed you finally found it, Arthur, and so now gentlemen, the lemon is in play again!”
Mission Desk Lost & Found (Naruto; Ino, Sakura, Tenten)
Date: 2023-01-18 06:42 am (UTC)"With floral embroidery project attached, it looks like," Sakura observed, blinking, "and I've got seven hairties, a filthy lip balm, and a child's left mitten. No sign of my poison senbon?"
"No, but there is, for some reason, a woolly hat and three plain umbrellas, one broken. And seventeen pens, none of which have a secret compartment or blade," Tenten flicked another one onto the pile, "eighteen. Also thus far 237 ryo in small change."
A kunoichi's definition of 'unusual' might be . . . unusual~
Girl Genius, Excerpt From Mechanicsburg Procedures List
Date: 2023-01-25 10:02 pm (UTC)1a. Because of this, all lost objects must be carefully checked for traps and weapons, and all traps and weapons found must be reliably disarmed, before the object will be placed in lost and found.
1b. Inspection and disarmament of any lost object is the exclusive province of the Jäegermonsters of Mechanicsburg, by virtue of being tough enough to survive a failed attempt and sufficiently used to Sparks and their designs to be able to spot the traps and weapons in the first place.
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Date: 2023-01-14 06:04 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2023-01-16 05:02 pm (UTC)"Just put it on my bill," Sarge instructed wryly through an otherwise stoic demeanor.
Sarge always cracked jokes after a costly battle; this time was no different.
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Date: 2023-01-14 06:06 pm (UTC)i got tired of tragedy, have some pre-smut
Date: 2023-01-15 06:50 am (UTC)A quick look around shows no one in sight, and so he kisses her there for the first time, short and sharp in the shadows of her balcony, and when he breaks it off (over her swallowed whimper of protest, a sound that makes him harder than it has any right to), he says, “I’ve been longing for a trip to the mountains, myself,” and prays for the patience to wait, just a few days longer.
Re: i got tired of tragedy, have some pre-smut
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Date: 2023-01-14 06:09 pm (UTC)Fill
Date: 2023-01-16 09:12 am (UTC)Ed had hoped Izzy might ask something like where?, or at least look around for it, instead of grumbling "What has that got to do with the storm?"
"Nothing," Ed mumbled, trying to remember whether the star had actually been more yellow the day before, and whether his first mate would ever have gone along with a whiff of bare, niggling curiosity, feeling clouded over on both counts by the distant mirage of what he wanted to remember.
Re: Fill
Date: 2023-01-16 11:53 am (UTC)Kodachrome Fades With Time
Date: 2023-01-25 10:11 pm (UTC)Now that he was gone, Ed had returned to his own monochromatic decisions, assisted by Izzy. Every day, he took out a small square of color he'd acquired from a gentleman victim, looked at it, tried to decide whether it would be compatible with his look, imagined what Stede might say, and then hurriedly put it away before the memories threatened to drag him off the ship and drown him.
Re: Kodachrome Fades With Time
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Date: 2023-01-15 05:34 am (UTC)So Alex goes with him.
He catches up to Yassen at the top of the metal stairs, ducking under the man’s arm just as Yassen is beginning to lose his balance; Alex tightens his grip, steadies Yassen, and helps him to one of Cray’s trucks.
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Date: 2023-01-14 06:28 pm (UTC)Original Fic, fairy patterned on Maleficent and Rumpelstiltskin
Date: 2023-01-26 01:16 am (UTC)The king and queen both look at the fairy, confused. "I don't know what you were told by my parents, but I am Akane, king of this land, and ever since my birth, I have been a girl," she says, the words carrying the metallic tang of truth the fairy can taste.
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Date: 2023-01-14 06:28 pm (UTC)Lustre (King Midas)
Date: 2023-01-21 01:15 pm (UTC)They agreed it was important to pacify whatever remained of the gods’ ire and so kept vigil as the altar’s fire burned low, smoke mixing with sunset, royalty rich with wealth but bereft of their last child. At nightfall she poured a libation on the pyre but Midas clapped hands upon its stonework ere Zeus received this benediction. “Be cursed as we are,” he cried in despair, gold shining like their daughter’s memory, gold less valued than their son’s life, gold that rose above the yawning knit in the earth but left in their hearts.
Re: Lustre (King Midas)
Date: 2023-01-21 04:05 pm (UTC)Re: Lustre (King Midas)
Date: 2023-01-21 10:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-14 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-15 04:26 am (UTC)That weird glow stayed with him after he changed, too, and though it was always hard to remember, it did help her to believe that this was the same man, even though his grin and his eyes and his hair and his style and almost everything else about him had changed.
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Date: 2023-01-14 06:29 pm (UTC)Doctor Who, Amy Pond
Date: 2023-01-16 05:50 pm (UTC)It was her mother, probably, but she can hardly remember her mother now, only a vague sense that surely she must have had one, as all children do.
It certainly wasn’t her aunt. Aunt Sharon’s not around enough to tell Amelia much of anything at all, and even if she had, it wouldn’t have been that. She’s never believed in that sort of thing anyway.
But whichever it was, Amelia hardly remembers. If it even happened at all. It certainly doesn’t feel as real as the strange-looking man who stands in front of her, who pulls the forbidden name from her lips as if by magic, leaving her unsure if she’s been foolish or if she's been enchanted or if she’s simply stopped thinking being stolen away would really be all that bad.
Amelia Pond.
Like a name in a fairy tale.
A fairy tale. Perhaps her mother read her some - but she doesn't know.
But perhaps, she thinks, she can find her own.
Re: Doctor Who, Amy Pond
Date: 2023-01-16 11:44 pm (UTC)Re: Doctor Who, Amy Pond
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Date: 2023-01-22 02:49 am (UTC)She's always wanted to go farther, deeper, knows that her crew deserves better than to bend to her heart grasping vision of the horizon, the way it would be so easy to go just a little bit more, just a little more.
She wraps her hand firmer, calls the halt and the rest, takes her eyes away from the horizon to tend to her wounded.
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Date: 2023-01-14 06:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-14 06:30 pm (UTC)Thirteenth Doctor, Susan, Yaz
Date: 2023-01-21 01:12 am (UTC)Re: Thirteenth Doctor, Susan, Yaz
Date: 2023-01-21 03:03 am (UTC)(augh, my heart, though, Thirteen, out of all of them, needed to meet Susan again, I feel)
Re: Thirteenth Doctor, Susan, Yaz
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Date: 2023-01-14 08:13 pm (UTC)Really, her conduct was quite out of bounds, even if there was something almost familiar about her (which he would dash himself as a fool for later, once Jo had stopped laughing); still, he frowned as he carefully stepped away from her, "My dear young woman--"
"Oh, I do like being your dear, and it's Missy," she replied before pulling a gun from within her umbrella and gesturing with it, "now, if you'd be so kind, I need to borrow a few things from your TARDIS."
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Date: 2023-01-14 09:30 pm (UTC)"You look rather as though you've been through the wars, old chap," the Doctor observed, stroking his chin in a mild bit of confusion; he and Jo had returned to the lab after a rather frustrating adventure caused by the Brigadier and his simply ridiculous calls upon the Doctor's time to find a rather injured-looking man rummaging through his things!
The man paused, and turned, the face partially obscured by the decrepit cowl not doing much to change the first impression of injured badly, and said, "Oh, how tiresome. I was quite hoping to avoid this incarnation."
"Oh--" Jo cut off her statement with a horrified gasp, "Oh, you poor thing--"
"Ah, Miss Grant." The man picked up one of the pieces of the TARDIS that the Doctor had been reconstructing, and tucked it away somewhere (he didn't appear to have pockets), "Such a sympathetic child."
"Now, look here," the Very Firm Tone evident in his voice, the Doctor strode forward, "Do put that piece of my equipment back and let us take you to the infirmary."
Or the brig; the Doctor would quite like the almost-thief to be locked up for such effrontery.
"I'm afraid that won't be possible. You see, Doctor," the sneer was quite evident, even if the burnt lips of his mouth couldn't manage it, "I'm here to save the Earth."
And really, how utterly predictable they all were, the Master mused much later. The Doctor fell in like a proverbial clock-work soldier. Miss Grant plied sympathy and tea, and in the end he almost absconded with her (if only to annoy the Doctor and put her to use succoring his prisoners when he needed them empathized with and not tortured). Though she never did stop looking at him as though she could save him from himself.
As he'd said, quite tiresome.
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Date: 2023-01-17 02:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-18 12:10 am (UTC)Doctor Who, Third Doctor & Dhawan!Master
Date: 2023-01-17 06:24 pm (UTC)Though he was a perhaps a bit confused: the Master he knew had a certain elegance to his plans that this new Master (a rather excitable fellow dressed in tweed) seemed to lack; as the Doctor covertly tested the rope that he was tied up with, he watched the future Master explain his scheme in a rather… unique way.
He leaned closer to his future self, the nice young-looking blonde woman who was tied up next to him, and said softly, “I hope you don’t mind my asking, but is there always this much dancing?”
Re: Doctor Who, Third Doctor & Dhawan!Master
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Date: 2023-01-18 03:28 am (UTC)“I did it for all of us,” Misty says, pushing her glasses back up her stout nose and folding her arms to mirror her accusers, “I did it for the team.”
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Date: 2023-01-14 06:48 pm (UTC)Peach (and Captain Toad and Rosalina and Lumas), Calling the Cavalry
Date: 2023-01-26 01:38 am (UTC)Peach nodded, thanked him for the information, then returned to the warp pipe she had come up through in the middle of the park and whistled.
"This is the correct place, Captain Toad, Queen Rosalina," she said, and then waited patiently as the Mushroom Kingdom's finest explorer and pilot led the Toad Air Force out into the skies from the pipe, followed by a smaller version of the Luma Observatory, surrounded by as many of the living stars as Peach and Rosalina had been able to recruit on short notice.
Re: Peach (and Captain Toad and Rosalina and Lumas), Calling the Cavalry
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Date: 2023-01-14 06:48 pm (UTC)FF7 Crisis Core, Cissnei & Tseng
Date: 2023-01-15 08:42 am (UTC)"You're not even gonna try looking the part?" said Cissnei, casting her eyes over Tseng's ever-present dark suit. "Zack thinks this is a vacation. Bad enough having us here in the first place."
"I'm sure he doesn't mind having you here," said Tseng, not looking at her – she had realised he tended to avoid doing so while she was wearing her bikini. "He's a SOLDIER First Class; we can't just let him wander around the world without backup. Especially unarmed."
Cissnei glanced at the parasol Zack gripped with both hands, and thought, no worries there.
Re: FF7 Crisis Core, Cissnei & Tseng
Date: 2023-01-15 01:42 pm (UTC)Flight to You (a very depressing beach episode)
Date: 2023-01-15 11:39 am (UTC)But for once, the view of the sea did not bother him.
Perhaps even ghosts from the past could not speak louder than the hollow pain of having to witness a passenger die on a flight.
It wasn’t his fault, logically Gu Nanting knew that. It hadn’t been his decision to make, and he had to, for now, believe that Jiang Tao had made the decision he deemed most appropriate, but that didn’t change the fact that Gu Nanting was still a captain of Luzhou Air, and the passenger had died on a Luzhou Air flight.
He looked down at the message from Wang Chao, the flight attendant who had accompanied the passenger and his father to the hospital. Apparently the passenger had died from an aneurysm, which was exacerbated by the change in pressure of the aircraft landing. So even if Gu Nanting had been the pilot and had the power to order a diversion, the passenger might have died regardless. And yet, knowing this, Gu Nanting couldn’t help but illogically wish he had been the captain today instead. Perhaps he would find it easier to live with what had happened, if it had happened as a result of a decision he had control of, rather than knowing he had no choice but to leave the decision to someone else, sit back knowing that a man had been dying behind him all that time.
~*~
The next morning, from the balcony of his hotel room, Gu Nanting could see a small figure exiting the hotel and making her way down to the rocks by the edge of the water. He had watched her do the walk-arounds often enough when they flew together, but he didn’t realise that her figure had become so familiar to him that he could recognise her even now, from this faraway. This walk, too, was different from the confident posture Cheng Xiao always held when doing the last minute checks on their aircraft. Now, as Gu Nanting watched her sit down on the rocks and stare out into the sea, he could see the way her shoulders hunched forward. She looked weary and tormented, even from here.
His earlier wish that he had been flying yesterday’s flight seemed absurdly selfish now. It hadn’t been his flight, and there was little he could have done about yesterday’s situation. But it had been Cheng Xiao’s flight. She had wanted to divert, but that decision had been taken out of her hands too. Now she would have to live with the consequences of her captain’s decision, and it was a situation a thousand times more painful than the what-ifs that Gu Nanting had to face.
She was so young, still. She had such romantic views of this job, of the sky and its endless freedoms. All he had tried to do when he first started teaching her was to make her understand that behind all that freedom for her, were lives that people had entrusted into their pilots’ hands. He had watched Cheng Xiao grow from that cocky cargo pilot who did not understand the full weight of all the lives in the cabin behind her, to where she was today, one of Luzhou’s most promising pilots.
Even when he was being hardest on her - and he admitted he had deliberately made things very hard for her at the beginning - he would never have dreamed that she needed whatever lesson yesterday’s flight was supposed to teach her.
How Gu Nanting wished he could spare her this senseless lesson.
~*~
He watched the lonely figure of Cheng Xiao on the rocks, with the sea lapping at her feet, for a few more minutes. Then, even if the sound of the waves still choked him, Gu Nanting made his way down to the beach too, and sat down next to her.
Re: Flight to You (a very depressing beach episode)
Date: 2023-01-15 01:39 pm (UTC)Comfort and Cries (Sex Pistols; Yonekuni/Shiro, Kunimasa/Noririn)
Date: 2023-01-18 07:04 am (UTC)"What is it?" Yonekuni asked; the wind coming in off the surf was playing through his shaggy fringe - growing out again, to Shiro's pleasure - and Shiro couldn't quite resist shifting closer and ruffling his fingers through it, distracted from-
"It . . . looks like Kunimasa has been having trouble getting Norio-kun into the water," Shiro answered, glancing back at the struggle at the very edge of the water, the wavelets lapping over Kunimasa's feet as Norio clung to his shoulders, yowling out sobs, "though no one else seems inclined to help. Either way."
Re: Comfort and Cries (Sex Pistols; Yonekuni/Shiro, Kunimasa/Noririn)
Date: 2023-01-18 01:16 pm (UTC)Re: Comfort and Cries (Sex Pistols; Yonekuni/Shiro, Kunimasa/Noririn)
Date: 2023-01-18 09:12 pm (UTC)Miraculous Ladybug, The Collègians (as Lycéeans), Re-Orientation
Date: 2023-01-26 02:00 am (UTC)When Alya stepped into the sand, Marinette fought the itch to check and make sure the Fox Miraculous was still in place, as the only logical and practical reason for Alya somehow having gotten curvier in her two-piece was a Mirage at work.
Most of the class's jaws dropped, however, at Juleka emerging in a tankini that somehow simultaneously highlighted her height, her elegance, and the unmistakable signs of toned muscles and strength in her arms, legs, and abs built up from living on a ship all of her life.
Re: Miraculous Ladybug, The Collègians (as Lycéeans), Re-Orientation
Date: 2023-01-26 10:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-14 06:49 pm (UTC)Soaking Snake (Sex Pistols; Yonekuni/Shiro)
Date: 2023-01-18 07:24 am (UTC)Yonekuni slipped an arm around his waist and Shiro let out a startled yip, then laughed as he slid easily into Yonekuni's lap, the water lapping around them; Yonekuni buried his face in Shiro's neck with another soft moan, sinking lower in the almost painfully hot water.
Shiro's lips quirked as he remembered Kunimasa's parting words as he'd left with his own sleepily lax, flushed mate - good luck indeed; the words and the little snort as he'd offered them made rather more sense, now; Shiro wasn't sure how or even if he could get his happily basking, very hot mate out of the onsen.
Re: Soaking Snake (Sex Pistols; Yonekuni/Shiro)
Date: 2023-01-18 01:19 pm (UTC)Re: Soaking Snake (Sex Pistols; Yonekuni/Shiro)
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