Welcome to the Three Sentence Fic-A-Thon:

[caramelsilver]

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. Only one prompt per comment please.

When posting a prompt please format it this way:

fandom, character/pairing, prompt word/sentence.

Lastly, please pimp this to your flist, I'd like as many as possible to come and participate!

Have fun!

If you have any questions ask them to the first comment.

Edit December 10th: Thanks to the brilliant grim_lupine we now have a delicious account. So head on over there to find some unfilled prompts: three_sentence_ficathon's delicious bookmarks.

A small note from grim_lupine who's organizing the delicious archive: "So I'm not familiar with all the fandoms here; sometimes when people post a ficlet they abbreviate a fandom and sometimes they don't (like BSG versus Battlestar Galactica, but I know that one) so I might have it listed twice in the delicious tags. If someone notices something messed up they can comment below." -- So do that, and when requesting something new, please use the fandom's whole name.

Comments

[figaro23.livejournal.com]

Shelter, Zach/Shaun, new to me

[grim-lupine.livejournal.com]

"This is, I don't--" Zach breaks off, takes a breath and starts over, "I'm not used to getting what I want; I'm not used to being happy." He smiles, a little tremulous, hands coming up to clasp around Shaun's neck. Shaun nudges their noses together and brushes his mouth softly over Zach's own, whispering, "That's all I ever want for you, Zach; If I have my way you and Cody won't ever have anything but happiness ever again."

He looks utterly certain and resolute, like everything Zach's ever wanted and someone he can trust, someone he can let himself believe in.

[figaro23.livejournal.com]

Absolutely beautiful, very similar in tone to the film.

[grim-lupine.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's such a compliment; thank you! :D

[samueljames]

Once more may I gush over how brilliant Shaun is. I love how safe he makes Zach feel giving him and Cody the stability they've never had before.

[grim-lupine.livejournal.com]

They definitely need someone in their lives who will fight to make them happy, and Shaun is so well-equipped to do that. Their love story is beautiful. I'm so glad you liked this, thank you! :D

[samueljames]

He thought it'd be so easy once he came out but soon he discovered it was so much more than just him and Shaun. There's the politics of it all whether to be activist or not and then there are the clubs. There's all these sub-categories of gay; muscle-guys, twinks and drag queens, this whole new scary world has opened up to him but at least Shaun is there to guide him.

[grim-lupine.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love that you explore this area that the movie doesn't--what being gay means for Zach beyond just Shaun. Because Shaun's at the center of it, but there's more Zach has to figure out; I love that he's not so scared because Shaun is there with him. :D

[samueljames]

Thanks, I don't know how scene/non-scene they'd be but I remember a friend of mine saying it's never over once you come out because there'll always be more people you have to tell. He wasn't into the gay scene at all. I buy Attitude (magazine aimed at gay men) regualrly and even amongst the gay community there seems to judgement of other types.

[grim-lupine.livejournal.com]

That definitely makes sense. It's like any other community, there's judgment within--I'm American but my parents were born in India, and there were these Indian-American kids in my high school who did all the traditional cultural stuff, and the ones who were more Americanized looked at them like they were losers, and the traditional ones looked at the other kids like they were better than them. XD It was very weird.

[samueljames]

I imagine it would be hard to try and honour both cultures but people do have a tendency to judge others. You'd think a shared difference would make people closer but human behaviour isn't always logical.

[grim-lupine.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's exactly it. Me, I was never really involved in all the cultural stuff but I totally admired the kids who were. Personally I think everyone should just appreciate differences in each other and the world would be a better place.

[samueljames]

Personally I think everyone should just appreciate differences in each other and the world would be a better place.

That would be far too logical. I've never understood hating whole groups of people but unfortunately it's still all too common.

[grim-lupine.livejournal.com]

Human nature never fails to baffle me. You know, this conversation is extremely relevant to the English paper I'm writing right now. It's about society's tendency to retreat into intolerance and denial as a way of confronting fear of things they don't understand. So technically I'm doing my homework right now. XD

[samueljames]

Thank God my next assignment isn't due till January. Sounds like an interesting paper but also potentially hard to write. Good luck with it.

[grim-lupine.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's bound to be...interesting. XD

[samueljames]

When is it due?

[grim-lupine.livejournal.com]

XD Midnight tomorrow. Ten pages double-spaced, and I have, oh, three. No one procrastinates quite like I do. XD

[samueljames]

Oops, don't think they'd take all your Shelter fics instead :)

My last one was started at 10pm and sent at 11:53pm the day it was due (distance learning) and the tutor's comments were "obviously rose to the challenge." I tell you it was all down to the panic. I always get writing ideas when I have an assignment due, procrastination is definitely one of my weaknesses.

[grim-lupine.livejournal.com]

XD Exactly. My thinking is, I work best under pressure. And I keep getting distracted by all the other stuff I want to do. I should just disable my internet when I'm writing a paper. XD

[samueljames]

Good idea to disconnect, just realised how late it is here (05:40) so better head off to bed. Hope you get some writing done, not the fanfic kind :)

[elliemurasaki.livejournal.com]

I think the rationalization is that the world's a zero-sum game; if 'we' are to win, and obviously 'we' are to win, then 'they' must lose, and if 'they' don't have the sense to be losing when the game's fair, 'we' are required to tilt things in 'our' favor, which can manifest as anything from letting doors close in people's faces to the Holocaust.

[samueljames]

Some people definitely have a them and us attitude but to my mind eevryone is different. Thankfully attitudes are changing somewhat.

[figaro23.livejournal.com]

Very nice. Zach's relationship with Shaun does open him up to a whole, new, complex world of identities and ways of being. I often imagine how Zach will evolve as he gets exposed to more of LGBT culture and community--I love imagining him and Shaun with a group of gay surfer friends, or a group of gay parents.

[samueljames]

Shaun doesn't seem very into the gay scene but I remember a friend of mine saying how it can be very judgmental at times. I like them having a circle of surfer friends.