rthstewart | Three Sentence Ficathon

The 2015 Three Sentence Ficathon is now CLOSED, with over 4,100 prompts, fills, and comments. It's been a great exchange and thank you so much for the whacky crackfic, the moving short fic, and the amazing cross-overs. You all are great. I won't freeze this -- go ahead and continue to fill any prompts that interest you and comment on fills made. I just ask that there not be any more NEW prompts.

We'll be back next year. Check out the friending meme and friend away and if you post your works on AO3, be sure to use the 3 sentence ficathon tags.

Thank you again, so much!

It's been 2 years, so why not?!!

Caramelsilver ran one in December on Live Journal but I was too busy to play. There are lots of outstanding prompts over there, so do go and check it out!! Here's the link! I did one in early spring 2 years ago here on Dreamwidth, and with Yuletide, Fandomstocking, and Festivids over, I thought I'd run a new one!! Thanks so much to

snacky and Saoirse7 for the nudge and to

st_aurafina for making the swell banner and icon!

What is the 3 Sentence Ficathon?
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, as many times as you want.

What do I do first?
You post prompts! When posting a prompt please format it this way:

fandom, character(s), prompt word/sentence.

Only one prompt per comment please.

What else?
You answer other posters' prompts in three sentences (or more if you can't stop yourself) and fill as many prompts as you want, as many times as you wish. If you see that a prompt you loved has already been filled, go ahead and fill it again! Multiple fills of the same prompt allowed and even encouraged!

But I'm not a member of Dreamwidth
No problem. You can comment anonymously or through open ID

Can anyone play?
Yes! Please signal boost this to your flist, followers, and any other places you frequent. Come one, come all!
I'm cross-posting to LJ but we will keep all prompts and fills here, so they are in one awesome place (and with less spam). Please, post this anywhere and everywhere. The more people who come and play, the better!

~~[And I'll try to put an embed code in so you can spread the word. I've tried multiple times and failed so far~~

snacky !

How long will it go?
I'm closing it on Sunday, March 8, 2015. (Last time, we reached 5,000 comments and I had to start a new one before the ficathon concluded. If that happens, I'll start a new post).

Are there any rules about cross-posting?
Nope, you can post wherever you want, whenever you want. A lot of folks collected their responses together and posted them on AO3 under the 3 sentence fiction tag. 3SFs are a terrific prompt for remixes.

Gosh, there are some cool people over here. How do I introduce myself?
Through the friending meme right here.

And here, have some icons!

Edited, updated 4 Feb 2015 11 PM ET
Edited, updated 21 Feb 2015 10:30 ET to add link to friending meme
Edited, updated 9 March 2015 9:06 EDT to close the 3SF for 2015

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Narnia, Lucy & Susan, adventures of their own

This got a little out of hand. Oops?

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"I am never getting on a ship with you again," Susan proclaimed with great and injured dignity as their Galman merchant ship and its piratical attacker sank, smoldering, into the seas off the western shore of Terebinthia. "In fact," she continued, "given this latest proof that I'm right about our curse, I think we should make it an official royal policy not to be within five miles of each other for more than a week at a time, with the exception of Cair Paravel itself."

"We are not cursed to cause chaos whenever we're together, and in any case, it's far better for us to face pirates and other perils than to let them threaten people less equipped to deal with unexpected adventures," Lucy said. She braced her feet against Susan's seat and dipped the oars of their stolen dinghy into the ruffled waters. It was wretchedly difficult to make any progress eastward against the wind, not to mention she kept knocking into bits of floating debris.

As she raised the oars, a pirate breached the surface and made a desperate grasp for the edge of the boat.

Susan hauled him in, knocked him out, and began tying him up with their other two captives.

"This sort of thing never happens to Peter and Edmund," she said. "And yet here we are. Might I remind you of the phoenix that stole you away when we went riding along the shore near the Shribble. Or the Sarovencian raiding party we surprised when visiting Cauldron Pool. Or the time we fell down a well and spent a fortnight wandering an abandoned mine infested with Cruels and Boggles and the People of the Toadstools."

"That could have happened to anyone!"

"Once is coincidence. Twice is happenstance. Three times is a pattern, and we're well past that by now," said Susan. She looked over her shoulder toward the foundering ships. "This is absurd. We're much too far west to reach land without a sail, and it's obvious that nobody is escaping that mess in anything with an intact hull. We might as well row back and see if there are any other survivors."

"But our cover story--"

"Will be in shreds by the time Windswift persuades someone to sail out and rescue us," Susan pointed out. "Any wind-weaver may tame a dumb hawk, to gather its feathers and watch it trace thermals in its flight, just as two sisters traveling together is naught to mark or remember. But two sisters, with black and golden hair, accompanied by a Talking Gyrfalcon..."

Lucy sighed. She had so enjoyed pretending to be an itinerant healer; it seemed a shame to return to the constraints of proper royal dignity ahead of plan. "Bother pirates. People are much less intimidated when one isn't wearing a crown -- though it was annoying to be so summarily whisked away from the boarding party and bundled overboard." She turned the boat around as best she could and began laboriously rowing back toward the wreckage.

"Speak for yourself," said Susan. "I found it quite thoughtful of the captain. Whatever insanity makes you and our brothers eager to hurl yourselves into battles seems to have skipped me, thank the Lion."

"It's not madness. And I know you secretly enjoy adventures!" Lucy said.

"All adventures are disasters," Susan said firmly. "That some of them fail to reach their worst potential depth doesn't make them desirable."

In the belly of the dinghy, one of the tied-up pirates groaned and stirred. Lucy rolled her eyes when Susan refused to silence him again, and instead turned her attention to tearing strips from her skirt and tying them into a makeshift wind-net. The breeze stilled, then shifted, spiraling upward to draw away the smoke as they approached the burning carcass of their ship.

"You couldn't have done that sooner?" Lucy asked.

"Not at any greater distance," Susan said through a frown of concentration. "I can't hold the weave for long, either, so whatever you're planning, I suggest you be quick."

Lucy eyed the tilted, sinking ship, nudged the dinghy along its keel until she was within reach of a trailing rope, and nodded. "Right. I'm going to search for survivors. If I'm not back in, oh, five minutes, row away to the east and wait for me to swim free."

She gathered her breath and leapt across the water.

This had me laughing out loud as Susan is listing all the "adventures" (in Lucy's mind, not hers) they've been through. Loved it, thanks! :)

I'm glad you like it! I had far too much fun thinking of Noodle Incident adventures for Susan to list. :-)

You are amazing and this obviously needs further expansion and posting. Love the idea of there being a curse, Susan's disdain for adventures and the line about "that some of them fail to reach their worst potential depth" is especially brilliant. As always, your characterization and world building are superlative.

I am definitely going to repost it, probably with a bit of tweaking to make the context slightly more clear.

(I'm not entirely certain there is a curse, but Susan certainly feels it exists; she is endlessly put upon by all these adventures she and Lucy keep falling into. And I feel that once I've invented a good piece of world-building, I might as well reuse it whenever it seems even vaguely applicable. *grin*)

"Bother pirates." Really, what more is there to say? :-)

I feel it sums things up rather nicely. :-)

I love this. Laughing. And do I see a reference to Lucy adventure in Vinyedveri? (Or whatever the spelling is?)

Thanks! And yep, that is absolutely a reference to Vinyedvyeri. (Once I invent a piece of headcanon I enjoy, I tend to keep reusing it forever. *grin*)

I can relate to that; I tend to interconnect *everything* my mind comes up with.

I loved this! :) and laughed, and admired Susan and Lucy being themselves (so different!) so much, and working together so efficiently - they are a great team! Lovely!

Thank you! Susan and Lucy make a good team precisely because they're so different, I think; they each catch angles the other would miss.

:DDD

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