threesentenceficathon Fills Masterpost

[juushika]

In January/February I fell down the rabbit hole of the threesentenceficathon & wrote fic for maybe the first time in ... fifteen years? I've written non-fic intermittently since then and of course have spent the last year writing hella original fiction (in the sense, that is, of hella-amounts, not hella-original), so those muscles were primed; turning that energy into fanfic was still strange! The three sentence format is a fun playspace: obviously a constrained format, which means limited time investment/barrier of entry; but three sentences almost means jam-packing those sentences, torturing punctuation, experimenting with format, and expanding/contracting the work to a) maintain the limitations but b) still go somewhere/do something/say something.

In total, I wrote about 13k words.

I crossposted my favorite pieces to Archive of Our Own, which is the first work I've ever posted there because I never did get around to crossposting my old FF.N works; maybe one day. Winnowing down my favorites gave me a chance to look at what worked best for me in my writing:

1) As I already knew, my interest in transformative works is almost exclusively limited to OT3s. This is stuff I read; turns out it's also something I want to write. Writing Willow/Tara/Oz and Steve/Jonathan/Nancy was effortless and rewarding; I would have written for other poly dynamics, but a) once I got in a groove my brain was primed to continue that groove, especially Buffy, I have infinite things to say about Buffy OT3, and b) others are more challenging? ex. I know Hemlock Grove novel/s1 back to front, but don't have the same encyclopedic memory of s2(/3), and a lot of OT3 writing is for me effectively fix-it fic, looking at paths canon could have taken/could take to Do Better by the relationship; I'm not interested in writing Roman/Peter/Miranda missing scenes but more "how to undo how they did Miranda dirty," which is a research project, not a three-sentence fic.

1b) But "OT3 is really all I read" is also why I bothered to crosspost things, because - I will read all the Willow/Tara/Oz, I really will; some other niche fanatic is probably in my same position, grasping at straws.

2) A lot of the media that means most to me in the world strains or rebuffs attempts at fanfiction. Corpse Party, Fate/Zero, and Goth all saw this: I love these titles, but I don't read fic for them, I just reread/play/etc them. Ditto, I wrote about two unfinished fic for each I posted. Sometimes the things I love best already answer their own questions, ex. Corpse Party has Book of Shadows which is effectively already canonical missing scenes/alternate scenes/fanfic; Fate/Zero, especially in the light novels, already makes interconnections between characters, fills in motivations, etc., in exhausting, brilliant detail. I care about these stories, I will not shut up about these stories, but sort of everything in them has already been said, which sounds limiting but is actually a marker of a type of story I really like. So then:

3) What is a fandom, exactly? I feel like I haven't had the answer to this since I stopped writing fanfic. Is it a title one returns to often? that one has things to say about? that one has transformative things to say about? A lot of the fandom traffic I see in my social group is for ongoing media, and I get the why of that (ongoing conversation with source and a community built around shared enthusiasm for more source), but I literally will never consume anything not 100% complete, and probably five+ years old, sorry, so that alienates rather than attracts me. But plenty of people were posting for random ass things that came out twenty years ago (positive), so fandom is often [certain traits] but is hardly ever only [one specific thing], which is fair.

4) Many of my favorite things to write were "inconsequential detail that stuck in my head a million years ago and still lives there rent free": What ever happened to Miss Kitty Fantastico, non-dead answers only? Why is Mass Effect sex so whatever about literal actual alien biology? That one scene from DAII that made me write a whole guilty essay about Fenris. &c. That, and OT3s, are the actual unanswered questions that media poses me.

5) Relatedly, if I wrote an essay at some point about why $media made me lose my mind, even if it was ages ago, I can get right back into that headspace. This is obvious; still, it's a note to self that writing more than book reviews might be good, actually.

6) I should probably sign up for Yuletide? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

7) Some of these prompts made me listen to Taylor Swift and, y'all, I just do not get it.


Anyway, a complete list of fills follows, with links for those crossposted to AO3, with limited annotations. (Is there a certain hiding-ness that happens in posting links rather than full texts? Sure; but also putting work on The Internet feels weird enough without crossposting every bit to every possible place.)


Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Willow/Tara/Oz
Best works collected here, which can coexist in a shared universe where "New Moon Rising" plays out a little differently, Oz stays, Tara and Oz bond, and then everyone gets involved in a sweet BDSM dynamic I guess? Below the cut, the order these fills were written, which is almost inverse of "chronological" order and indicative of why the pieces came together the way they did: "yeah," I said, "that could be Willow/Tara/Oz, sure" and then I accidentally gave myself a headcanon. I could almost see turning these into a longform narrative? Except I don't want to butt up against "Seeing Red" - some level of fix-it is beyond my ability to give a shit.

Original fills:

Any, any, collar kink as a gesture of acceptance of someone into another's home and life.

any, werewolf/human, pet play

any, any, compersion

Any, any, I've tested the lavender snow in a dozen ways, and it appears to have no ill effects - it really is just... lavender snow

any, any, that's a male calico (or male tortoiseshell) cat

Any, Any, soulmates AU (not on AO3)

Any, Any, "if I'm found, I'll end up lost."

Any, any female character, In a dream I was a werewolf (two fills)


Wishverse Willow/Tara
of flesh and blood give it up go
The complete work. This is easily my favorite thing I produced during the ficathon, less maybe for the individual prompts/fills but because the premise - vamp!Willow using Tara as a bloodbank for a few days and then deciding to keep her - is catnip to my id. I'd love to expand on this. Below, fills in the order they were written: ending, beginning, and then filling in interstitial content as the premise bounced around my head.

Original fills:
any, any, bloody fluff

any, any, caged

any, any, choosing the inevitable

Any, Any, villain character tenderly caring for a hero's wounds--wounds that they caused

Any, Any, Someone's worst enemy brushing their hair back as they promise to take care better care of them

any, any, "I'm falling, down into my shadow / concealing every breath"


Misc (the Kitty Fantastico corner)

any, any, library cat
on AO3 as
Reunion
Willow makes the drive out to visit Miss Kitty Fantastico in her new home.

any, any, saying ridiculous things to a cat
on AO3 as
I Keep Thinking That's the Cutest Thing Ever
Baby-talking a cat comes easy - especially when the cat is Tara.

any, any, head trauma


Stranger Things

Steve/Jonathan/Nancy collection; largely unconnected pieces, mostly written because this is one of my only OT3s where other people still care so there were prompts. I played in this sandbox mostly to explore what-ifs, especially with S5 content, as the characters get older but still carry their baggage. My favorite of these was the sad one, obvs.

Original fills:
Stranger Things, Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler, cheating on Jonathan (two fills)

Stranger Things, Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler, But with three of us, honey, it's a sideshow / And a circus ain't a love story, and now we're both sorry (we're both sorry).

Stranger Things, Stoncy, You wanting me tonight, feels impossible

Stranger Things, Stoncy, Any of the three of them brought into a poly relationship but feels like a third wheel and not an equal partner

Stranger Things, Stoncy, a dream within a dream


Cyberpunk 2077
A handful of back and forths with vialethe produced fic I never thought I'd write (I watched my partner play 2077 rather than playing it myself, which I think gave me some degree of distance even though the central dynamic is 200% my trash) but really enjoyed.


Cyberpunk 2077, Johnny Silverhand/Female V, believer/took me over like a fever/caught you hiding in the smoke, smoke, smoke
on AO3 as
Smoke
V taps the pack in her palm one, two, three, then looks down at the gesture, the muscle memory which isn't hers but his.

Cyberpunk 2077, Johnny Silverhand/Female V, i just want it all/in my head, in my veins/in the way you give and take/in the way that you weigh/on my body, on my brain
on AO3 as
on my body, on my brain
In the zone, she can ride the doubling.

Cyberpunk 2077, Johnny Silverhand/Female V, there’s something in the static/i think i’ve been having revelations
on AO3 as
Havin' Revelations
Figuring out how to fuck is a learning curve.

Cyberpunk 2077, Johnny Silverhand/Female V, i don’t love you, i just love the bomb/buildings falling is the only thing that turns me on
on AO3 as
Blown Apart
A thought like, maybe there's truth to the old rockerboy charm: if you're angry enough....


Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast, Belle/Beast, fur rug
on AO3 as
Fur
Belle pulls the fur pelt from the floor, the vast weight of it, and drags it to bed with her.

(Really love this one.)


Pokémon

Pokemon, any, catching pokemon causes imbalances in the ecosystem

Any, any, creepy fluff
on AO3 as
Cutie-'Kyu
Just pal around with Mimikyu, it's fine! Just don't worry about it!

Pokemon Black and White 2, Cheren/Bianca, they're T4T

Pokemon, N/Any, I hope you know how proud I am you were created / With the courage to unlearn all of their hatred (two fills)


Original

Original, male vampire/male mortal, dark vision (two fills)

original, vampire/mortal, is it a gift or a curse?

Any, any, anything inspired by the pain descriptions of insect stings in this post

any, any, like a butterfly, a wild butterfly / I will collect you and capture you (Obsession - Animotion)


Fate/Zero

any, any, disembowelment

Fate/Zero, Irisviel/Saber & Irisviel/Kiritsugu, happy ending


Corpse Party

any visual novel/otome game, any, bad ending

any, any, that thing they'd only dare to do in a time loop/on the holodeck/in a simulation/during a dream sequence/etc


Hemlock Grove

any, any/any, "A kiss with a fist is better than none" (Kiss with a Fist by Florence + the Machine)

any, any, hold me like a grudge


Quarters Series

Quarters Series, Vree/Bannon/Gyhard, becoming one


Hannibal

NBC Hannibal, Will/Hannibal, "I wonder what I taste like"

any, any, vivisection


Signalis

any, any, uncanny meat
on AO3 as
This place is not a place of honor
This place is not a place of honor; no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here; you are commemorated here.

This may be my favorite thing I wrote in the whole ficathon. Writing about grief, cancer, and death is maybe, actually, cathartic for me.


Control

Control, Jesse, navigating the Oldest House

Any, any, mind control


Outer Wilds

Outer Wilds, Hatchling, floating in a pool that is emptiness
on AO3 as
The Empty Dark
They found a kind of nothing.


Dragon Age II

Any, Any, submissive like an attack dog is submissive
on AO3 as
Stay
"What would you do, Fenris?"


Mass Effect
any, any, interspecies/alien sex
on AO3 as
Cross-Species Intercourse: What You Need to Know: Turian (visit the extranet link for detailed information)


Final Fantasy XII

Any fantasy, any, unusual applications of magic


Gundam: The Witch from Mercury

any; any f/m, but genderswap one half to make it gay; pain


Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans

any, any femslash, daisies on your nightstand

Any, Any, scratching a metaphorical itch at the same time as scratching a literal one


Goth (Otsuichi)
Any, any, You taught me a secret language / I can't speak with anyone else

any, any, bloodletting


Labyrinth
Labyrinth, any, the Labyrinth yet unseen


Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Star Trek: SNW, Uhura/Hemmer, I realize your laugh is the best sound / I have ever heard


L.A. Confidential

any noir movie, any character(s), It's late - I'm winding down / Am I the only one / To want a strong and silent sound / To pick me up and undress me / Lay me down and caress me

Comments

[starshipfox]

I'm glad you found a way into writing! It's great to be inspired -- I always find a prompt within a limited space very helpful. I also agree that OT3s are the best! I mainly READ OT3s, though when I look at my own fic there's a surprising amount of boring old two-person relationships, haha.