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.

Comments

Re: Harry Potter, Hermione/Draco

[(Anonymous)]

yessss. Good Blaise, who knew kissing would probably commence.

Re: Harry Potter, Hermione/Draco

[arveldis]

Blaise knew what he was doing! :D

Re: Karkat & Sollux & John - 'Let's see Paul Allen's terrible program.'

[dragonofeternal]

Terrible work boys, great job! Your picks for each of their programs are deliciously in character, and the title also gave me a giggle. (I Thought I Had Replied To This But Apparently I Didn't Oops)

Re: Harry Potter, Hermione/Draco

[arveldis]

Thank you! :D

Re: Fill: The Signless’s Family

[dragonofeternal]

Hauntingly beautiful. The Signless's family never fails to get me right in the heart and leave me aching for the world they could have had.

Harry Potter, Hermione/Draco

[arveldis]

Hermione downed the Polyjuice Potion in one motion, watching as she became taller and paler, with a sleek fall of long blonde hair, elegant black robes, and jewels at her throat and on her manicured fingers; she turned to Draco, already transformed into the image of his father, with an imperious swish of her robes and an aristocratic tilt of her chin as she said in Narcissa’s cold, clear voice, “Well, what do you say, Mr. Malfoy?”

Draco examined her, his eyebrows lifted in surprise as he walked around her, noting how she carried and conducted herself, and he said, “You hold yourself just like her—your posture, the tilt of your head, your expression; I don’t know how you’ve done it, but it’s impeccable.”

Hermione smiled, allowing her real personality to show through, and said, “Your mother leaves quite the impression, you know, as does your father, and as you did once—in fact,“ she paused and studied him for a moment, "lift your chin and look down your nose, like that—there, now you are the spitting image of your father and not the wayward Draco Malfoy, defector to the Order and secret lover of the most wanted witch in Britain,” she said, slipping her arm through his with a soft smile.

Leverage, Eliot/Hardison/Parker, Three In One In Three

[silveradept]

They argue about it for some time, trying to determine which of the roles is best suited for each of them as Elliot's hands dance through the tumblers and firewalls, Hardison anticipates and blocks each cut and thrust of his opponent, and Parker keeps them all on track, sometimes not saying more than a fragment or two of a sentence to remind them of the plan and where they are in it.

Ultimately, they conclude there's no way they can separate the roles, the same way they've concluded there's no way to separate themselves. Hardison boasts he knew all along, which sets Elliot off into a new argument, such that neither of them notice Parker smiling at having found the people she wants to spend a lot more time with.

Azumanga Daioh, Chiyo and Osaka, Exposure Therapy

[silveradept]

"It's not working!" Osaka wailed, years streaming from her eyes as she continued to dice the onions.

"Uh, Miss Ayamu," Chiyo ventured, "why are you chopping all the onions in the kitchen?"

"I thought I could build up an immunity if I just kept cutting the onions," Osaka said, "but every new onion only makes it worse!"

Final Fantasy VII, Barrett and Cloud, SOLDIER Boy

[silveradept]

"Hey, SOLDIER!" Barrett shouted as the Shinra troops drew closer, "You want to sit there and die, or do you want to help?"

"Not a SOLDIER, never was," Cloud muttered, the bitterness of his true memories still fresh in his mind.

"I don't give a %$#& what the Lifestream showed you back there," Barrett said, "I need you here and now, helping to save the Planet and do your stupid stylish sword-swinging so we can get closer to the crater."

Re: Leverage, Eliot/Hardison/Parker, Three In One In Three

[theseatheseatheopensea]

I love this!!

Re: The Ninjas Always Win

[raisedbymoogles]

yesssss omg XD

Re: Miraculous Ladybug, The Collègians (as Lycéeans), Re-Orientation

[raisedbymoogles]

hee! well done Juleka making an impression

Re: Peach (and Captain Toad and Rosalina and Lumas), Calling the Cavalry

[raisedbymoogles]

WHOOOO EPIC BATTLE :DDDDD

Re: Final Fantasy VII, Barrett and Cloud, SOLDIER Boy

[raisedbymoogles]

XD you tell him Barret

Re: Exact Words

[slowmercury]

I really like how Toby is the one to stick with the magic, and how he's careful with it but not careful enough not to say it.

Re: The Steel of My Axe to Grind

[slowmercury]

I love the name! And El is wonderful, and so is the cameo from Orion (already chasing trouble and annoying El).

[slowmercury]

El's frustration is palpable! You can already tell how awful the rest of her schooling is going to be.

Re: Earned Hatred (Castlevania; Sypha)

[slowmercury]

Oo, I love this! Sypha is so strong and determined.

[lyssie]

Her fingers aren't shaking, but Margaret is frustrated as she stares at herself in the mirror; she needs to look perfect for this, and she simply can't get it right! She closes her eyes, reminding herself that one interview is not the worst thing she's been faced with; almost unbidden, she remembers Klinger's advice to her on her wedding day, his hands steady as he and Kellye dressed her hair and did her makeup.

When her eyes open again, she smiles a little, and then follows the advice, knowing it will work; she's Margaret Hoolihan, and there's very little she can't accomplish.

Transformers G1, Ratchet & Trailbreaker, Rated G

[eerian_sadow]

(So, this is set in my TFG1 AU where Trailbreaker is some kind of angelic being from Cybertron's VERY distant past. You can read installment 1 here: Protector


Ratchet tutted at him as he applied nanite paste to Trailbreaker’s burned wings. “So, just how did you manage to hide this from me, anyway?”

Trailbreaker started to shrug and then aborted the motion when it made his burns hurt more than they already did. “Honestly, I have no idea. I’m as surprised as you, that you didn’t figure it out.”

“Hm.” Ratchet capped the paste and walked around the bench. “All right, you weren’t trying to hide from me. What else do I need to know about you?”

The tension bled from Trailbreaker’s frame as he realized Ratchet wasn’t going to give him the dressing down he’d been expecting.

Transformers G1, Jazz & Mirage, Rated T

[eerian_sadow]

CW: smoking of robot weed

Mirage wrinkled his nose–just how did he manage that anyway, being constructed from a single faceplate like that?–when he stepped into the room and gave Jazz a dirty look. “Ratchet will kill you himself, when he finds out you’ve been smoking again.”

Jazz gave his friend a humorless smile and took another drag from the cy-gar he’d gotten from Kup. “Trust me, it’s better than the alternatives.”

Transformers G1, Chip Chase, Rated G

[eerian_sadow]

Set post-season 2, sometime before the events of the 1986 movie but probably not very long before.


“I ran into Jeff Foxworthy in the airport and he let me take a picture,” the woman said with a laugh. She reached for her drink and took a sip before continuing, “I told you it was lame. What about you? What’s your claim to fame?”

Chip smiled and finished his own drink before replying. “I’m Doctor Chip Chase.”

“Sorry,” she said, sounding truly apologetic, “I’ve never heard of you.”

“Fair enough.” He tossed a twenty onto the table to cover their drinks and then rolled back from the table. Then he pointed out the window where Optimus was pulling up. “That’s my ride home, though.”

Her eyes went wide and she looked from the Autobot to him and back. “Oh. You’re that Doctor Chase. Guess I do know who you are.”

“Just think, though,” He grinned before turning away. “When you go on your next date, you’ll have a way better claim to fame story for that guy.”

“Yeah. Ditched by Chip Chase because I’m an idiot.”

Rapunzel: Demonology AU

[slowmercury]

Rapunzel knows summoning demons is a terrible idea -- she's not stupid. She's read books, which invariably end with morals about goodness triumphing over evil and demons dragging the defeated warlocks away to burn in hell for an eternity of torture; she's even heard some firsthand accounts about that from the witch during her infrequent visits.

It's just that Rapunzel's bored. So bored. There's nothing to do in her godforsaken tower that she hasn't done already a dozen times over. She's memorized every book she owns cover to cover; she's embroidered hundreds of handkerchiefs and then unpicked the threads to stitch them again. The view out of her single window shows the forest's leaves have begun to turn the colors of autumn -- Rapunzel can't allow herself to look too often for fear she'll go mad with wanting everything she can't reach.

Rapunzel has a recurring nightmare that she died and, instead of going to heaven, the witch binds Rapunzel's soul to the tower stones and nothing changes except that Rapunzel's ghost can't touch anything so she can't even embroider anymore.

Maybe being dragged off to hell wouldn't be so bad. At least she would be going somewhere new, and hell would certainly be different from her current prison. She might even meet new people.

Demon summoning doesn't require anything except the skill to draw a perfect circle and the willingness to bleed enough to close it. (Well, it also requires risking your immortal soul but that's maybe more of a pro than a con, here.)

When that first demon asks her what her bidding is, Rapunzel blinks away the black spots in her vision from the blood loss and demands, "Get me out of this tower."

The demon nods. Moments later, a voice she's never heard before calls from outside, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair!"

Re: Transformers G1, Chip Chase, Rated G

[(Anonymous)]

well that sounds like a fun end to a date.

Re: Anthropomorphic, Twitter and Tesla, The Lies Catch Up

[(Anonymous)]

omg i love this