Three Sentence Ficathon

[rthstewart]

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  !


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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

Comments

[avanti_90]

LotR, Galadriel takes up the Ring.

As the Storm and the Lightning

[edenfalling]

She ends the wars. She ends all the wars: the cities of Men burn with the molten blood of the earth; the halls of the Dwarves collapse and grind their bones to dust; the sylvan exile of the Elves ends, as it began, in kinslaying; and so, too, she comes for the Orcs, the Ents, the halflings and wizards and even the Eldest himself; no people and no hidden fastness escape her gift of peace.

And when she is done, when she casts herself into Mount Doom and takes the Third Age with her, no voice is heard in all the empty, blood-drenched lands from Mordor to the sea: no sound save rain on heaps of sun-bleached bone, and the wind running fingers through new-grown fields of flowers.

Re: As the Storm and the Lightning

[avanti_90]

Oh, this is so well written and scary. Thank you!

Re: As the Storm and the Lightning

[edenfalling]

Thank you; it was a wonderful prompt! It's oddly cathartic to write a good apocalypse every now and then...

Re: As the Storm and the Lightning

[heliopausa]

Oh, yes! - Galadriel, utterly pitiless in purging the world of evil, which is to say, all peoples and powers, including her own. I love that she has gone even beyond her vision in Lothlorien here - devastating.

Re: As the Storm and the Lightning

[edenfalling]

I feel that if Galadriel decides to do something, she will do it thoroughly. And I try to remember that she's one of the Noldor and thus quite capable of rash actions, though she didn't (IIRC) participate in any kinslaying or ship-burning directly.

Re: As the Storm and the Lightning

[rthstewart]

I am so glad you did this. And in stead of a dark lord you would raise up a queen -- t here's a lot Jadis and Charn in here, with the Ring being like the Deplorable Word, isn't there? That the way to bring utter peace is to destroy everything.

In fact....

Re: As the Storm and the Lightning

[edenfalling]

Thanks! There is some similarity, yeah, though Galadriel started with much better intentions: peace, rather than domination.

Re: As the Storm and the Lightning

[sidonie]

This is just stunning, and I love that beginning - She ends the wars. She ends all the wars. *Brrr*

Re: As the Storm and the Lightning

[edenfalling]

Thank you! (The first sentence is a typo, actually; it's meant to be 'She ends the war,' singular, rather than plural. *wince*)

Re: As the Storm and the Lightning

[espresso_addict]

This is brilliant.

Re: As the Storm and the Lightning

[edenfalling]

Thank you! :-)

Re: As the Storm and the Lightning

[transposable_element]

There's nothing more peaceful than death.

Re: As the Storm and the Lightning

[edenfalling]

Very true. Dying, on the other hand...

Re: As the Storm and the Lightning

[tigriswolf]

That is gorgeous.

Re: As the Storm and the Lightning

[edenfalling]

Thank you!

Re: As the Storm and the Lightning

[ardyforshort]

yes.

Re: As the Storm and the Lightning

[edenfalling]

Thanks!

Re: As the Storm and the Lightning

[slowmercury]

...of course she's terrifyingly excellent at peace-mongering. Galadriel is very efficient.

Re: As the Storm and the Lightning

[edenfalling]

Galadriel is a very competent person... regardless of what she sets her hand to.

It seems to be Maglor's doom to be a kinslayer, however much he tries to avoid it

[(Anonymous)]

Galadriel stares at the ring gleaming golden in her hand. To slip it on her finger and claim that power for her own is but the work of an instant, but in that instant a pair of hands close around her throat.

'I'm sorry, cousin,' Maglor murmurs as he lays her out with the light of Earendil's star reflected in her hair and her blood staining the sweet waters 'but there was no other way to save you'.

Re: It seems to be Maglor's doom to be a kinslayer, however much he tries to avoid it

[avanti_90]

Oh, wow. Not a scenario I'd ever imagined, but it makes a surprising amount of sense. Maglor protecting the world!

Re: It seems to be Maglor's doom to be a kinslayer, however much he tries to avoid it

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you, I'm glad it makes sense to someone other than me! It was one of those passing thoughts that then wouldn't go away and the more I thought about it the more I liked the idea, so I hoped you wouldn't mind a passing stranger jumping in to play.

Re: It seems to be Maglor's doom to be a kinslayer, however much he tries to avoid it

[edenfalling]

Oooh, fascinating! (And heartbreaking, but, you know, what else is new with the Noldor...)

Re: It seems to be Maglor's doom to be a kinslayer, however much he tries to avoid it

[with_rainfall]

..oh, this hits all my preteen Maglor-love. Nicely done!