2023 Three Sentence Ficathon - Post #1

[3sfmod]

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

So I Justified It

[vialethe]

“It was always going to be you,” she says, the Valyrian syllables rasping through her throat, his only answer an inquisitive humming noise against her open mouth.

“I don’t want anyone else,” she manages, the words broken up and slurred between kisses, too frantic, too hard, too much and still not enough, “don’t trust anyone else.”

For a moment, he hesitates, his face in the shadows; “You shouldn’t trust me,” she thinks she hears, but the brothel is loud, the music and her blood pounding in her ears, and whatever he’s said, Daemon’s hands are still the ones holding her, at least for tonight.

Bat Family (Batman), Stephanie Brown, posting on Reddit /r/AmItheAsshole

[rustedeaglewings]

Am I the asshole for faking my death and causing my boyfriend to not trust me or his family enough to tell us about his life altering injury?



So a couple years ago, I was injured in a gang fight - I live in a place where this happens a lot, it’s normal and I’m fine now - and to make a point to my mentor and father figure, I faked my death and went to Africa to heal with the help of my mentor’s, like, adoptive mother and a medical professional who could hopefully talk some sense into him?

But things were crazy and I guess I didn’t tell my boyfriend - best friend, also sort of coworker, and my mentor’s adoptive son - that I wasn’t actually dead and then he lost a lot of important people in his life to, uh, actual deaths and he kind of went low contact with his entire adoptive family / coworkers and he went on this long journey and lost an important but non life threatening organ and he didn’t even tell anyone when he finally came back??

And so the family - not all of us are actually related but we’re a family none the less - got together and it came out that he lost his spleen and he got all defensive and tried to push blame on us and one thing he said was me faking my death - or maybe it was the fact I didn’t tell him - was part of why he didn’t trust anyone in the family enough to tell us about losing an organ and so now I’m wondering if I’m the asshole in the situation?



(I play fast and loose with canon so forgive any inaccuracies)

[wingedflight]

Yessss I love this! Narnia is a wild place!

Re: Miss Marple

[wingedflight]

Eeheehee I love that she's so sensible about it.

[whynot]

DAMN STRAIGHT

<333

Re: Doctor Who, Rose/TenToo (Major character death)

[wingedflight]

Ohhh this is so sad.

Lost, Desmond/Sayid (and screw you, Smokey McSmokeFace)

[tellshannon815]

Everyone had tried to tell him that there was no hope; Sayid had not been the same since the Man in Black brought him back, he may be physically there in body but was emotionally dead.

Yet Desmond saw that spark of Sayid’s old feelings for him as their eyes met once again, as Sayid knew he was unable to pull the trigger as the Man in Black had requested. In that moment, Desmond knew there was hope after all, that he would be able to get through to Sayid.

[galadryels]

Final Fantasy X, Yuna/Tidus, Sunshine of your love

[whynot]

Beautiful. I loved Yue <3

Re: Fill

[vialethe]

LOL yes, good. Having written so, so many of these across the years I can indeed confirm 400 words would be torturing punctuation to the utmost point!

Re: Childhood Living (Narnia, Digory)

[whynot]

YES DIGORY LET US SEEEEE

i love that old coot

Re: Star Wars, Obi-Wan/Padme/Anakin

[whynot]

Yup, this checks out. xD

[whynot]

You did it! The perfect crossover!
xD I love this.

Re: Diego Hargreeves x the Addams Family

[whynot]

SO MANY KNIVES

TRULY AN ADDAMS

Gomez's exuberance is always a delight. What an awesome fill! xDDD

“I got a rock,” says Charlie Brown

[syrena_of_the_lake]

“Maybe She can’t turn you into stone when you’re holding that stone?” suggested Mrs. Beaver doubtfully (but loudly, to cover up Mr. Beaver’s wistful comment that it would be great for cracking clam shells).

“Maybe it’s biblical,” mused Susan half-heartedly, to fill the silence that should have been filled by Edmund’s sarcastic remarks about the rocks rattling around in Peter’s skull.

“Maybe it’s manganese,” muttered Peter, wishing his school gave lessons in chemistry instead of theology — anything that might give him a fighting chance in this war he didn’t want.

“Maybe you should throw it at the Witch,” said Lucy. “Just pretend her magic wand is a cricket bat.”

In the end, it was none of those things. Strictly speaking, it was not even a rock. But in an attempt to light the manganese on fire and start a chemical reaction, Peter accidentally hatched the dragon’s egg. And as it happened, dragonfire was highly effective at melting both ice and witches.

[galadryels]

Lucifer, Lucifer/Chloe, Undisclosed Desires

[primeideal]

[If you read Silrano-Fimli-Gorras' speculation on the Ellimists' Time Matrix, this is not so unusual.] Kiluvie waved her stalk eyes slowly, taking in the horizon. [And their Guide Trees are a more mobile, less plantlike version of ours.]

[But they don't have any technology that could approach the level of the Escafil device,] Fuzhoral pointed out. [And this would definitely have been a violation of Seerow's Kindness.]

[You're still fixated on the wrong timeline model,] Kiluvie said. Even she had to admit that the rodents looked quite content with their situation.

[galadryels]

Lucifer, Lucifer, Thoughts of a dying atheist

Narnia, Susan & Edmund

[lyssie]

Just as Susan was about to put the king into check (she rather thought she had this game; Edmund had been a somewhat patient teacher), the panther pounced on the board, scattering the pieces all over the grass.

"Edmund," she said, her tone dry, "stop being a sore loser."

The panther huffed and then slunk off into the shadows to find Lucy; she was always up for a romp.

Resolved to Die Alone

[vialethe]

In the darkness of their bed, she asks him though it can’t make any difference; power over time is one skill they don’t have, but lying? Ah, that they can do in spades, over and over, to each other’s faces without a single flicker, without flinching, building this thing between them they call a relationship on lie upon lie.

So it is that she laughs when he tells the truth, so raw and unexpected; when he looks at her with one eyebrow raised and says, “No - I’d have killed you that first day, sweetheart,” only smiling in turn when she returns the favor with, “We should have killed each other, then, and been done with it,” before he kisses her with a murmured promise: Next time, Alina.

Fill

[wintersday]

That evening on the Highroad, that was when she knew; they watched the sun go down together, first painted red and gold, then twilight, then Lulu calling them inside. Sometimes she wonders if she should have taken it a sign – all that brilliance, there and gone. Mostly, she’s just glad he got to see that sky.

(Doctor Who, Eleventh Doctor)

[lurking_latinist]

“I gave my name away,” he tells them, “to someone who had none; I lost it playing cards with Queen Titania; I ate it to survive when I was stranded on a lifeboat; I never had one, I was born ‘the Doctor’.”

They’re all lies, or if any of them is true, he wouldn’t know, not since the War.

Isn’t he the man who forgets?

[tellshannon815]

In those first moments before she opened her eyes every morning, Jackie tried to tell herself that this was all just a nightmare. They’d made it to the finals and won, she got to be with her family again, Jeff was still her loving boyfriend and she was going to make damn sure they got elected homecoming king and queen; hell, even Shauna Shipman was still her best friend, her ride or die.

She tried to hold on to these images for as long as she could in her mind, before facing the reality of being stuck out there in the back of beyond, of knowing of Jeff and Shauna’s betrayal, of not knowing if she would ever see her family again.

[whynot]

It would never happen to me, I control my mind, I am myself I am myself I am, Edmund thinks, ignoring Lucy's cries to come back from the water. The siren reaches for him, her song rising to a crescendo, and he reaches back. She cups Edmund's face with cold hands, and he barely even hears Peter yelling, "Shoot her, Susan, shoot!"

Skin (Naruto; (pre-)Sakumo/Orochimaru)

[kalira]

Sakumo had not quite been able to take his eyes of his - beautiful, incredible, graceful - mission partner as he slipped out of the many layers of formal kimono and ornaments that made up his disguise for this mission, but now-

The last layer of silk hit the tatami and Sakumo only barely remembered to breathe, eyes sweeping over Orochimaru's back and the tiny, delicate scales revealed there; white sheened with silver, patterned in diamonds with pale lavender shading through to violet so deep it was almost black.

"Hatake?" Orochimaru asked, slanting a look over his shoulder as he unpinned his hair, falling like a spill of ink down his back and only half concealing the lovely raiment that was his own skin.