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

[transposable_element]

Oz books/Narnia, any, flying monkeys

Nasty, Disturbing, Uncomfortable Things

[edenfalling]

"Mr. Tumnus says there were winged horses in Narnia once, before the White Witch sealed the borders, but nobody knows what became of them during the Winter; do you suppose some of them fled to Oz and gave this Western Witch ideas?" Lucy shouted to Susan, her words torn and blurred by the rushing wind. "Maybe they're her captives -- if we could find them and bring them home, wouldn't that be a wonderful end to this adventure?"

Susan, wincing at the painful tug of hair trapped and tangled around the paws and sword belts of her simian captors, ignored her sister in favor of another fruitless snatch at her stolen horn, and hoped that Dorothy and her strange companions could track them through the dark woods toward the Western Witch's approaching castle before this latest disaster -- which was what all adventures were, once stripped of romantic nonsense -- got any more unpleasant.

Re: Nasty, Disturbing, Uncomfortable Things

[heliopausa]

Ow! I could feel the tug of that tangled hair! I love Lucy's gloriously hopeful approach, while I feel for (ow!) Susan's impatience (ow!) with romantic nonsense. :)

Re: Nasty, Disturbing, Uncomfortable Things

[edenfalling]

Hair down to one's feet is very romantic and impressive, but it's not terribly convenient, particularly not in high winds. *wry*

Re: Nasty, Disturbing, Uncomfortable Things

[rthstewart]

HA! Your Susan and Lucy voices are, as always, perfect. Susan being so realistic about the nature of true adventures and Lucy wildly optimistic. This is very much in the vein of your previous Susan, Lucy and pirates story, which I love. There could be a whole series of adventures-qua-disasters with Lucy and Susan at their middle.

Re: Nasty, Disturbing, Uncomfortable Things

[edenfalling]

Thanks! I do have some other Susan-and-Lucy-have-adventures ideas -- one of which I've been sort of idly poking at for several years now, some others of which are more recent -- and it's definitely a genre I'd like to see more of in fandom. :-)

Re: Nasty, Disturbing, Uncomfortable Things

[transposable_element]

This combines the two worlds so well! (When I wrote the prompt I wasn't sure anybody could do that.) I'd never thought before how witches are defined geographically in both series....

I love Lucy thinking ahead to the happy outcome while they're being CARRIED THROUGH THE AIR BY FLYING MONKEYS and Susan thinks about the nitty gritty of their situation (and somehow they have previously encountered Dorothy and her strange companions). I agree with rth -- these two need more disaster/adventures.

Thank you!

ETA: Oh, and you got The Hobbit in there with the title. Excellent.

Re: Nasty, Disturbing, Uncomfortable Things

[edenfalling]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it! Once I'd written Susan's disparaging assessment of adventures, I had to go find Bilbo's equally disparaging line for the title. :-)

I am not entirely sure how the sisters got to Oz in the first place -- perhaps in this world, the Nonestic Ocean is the source of the "western islands" mentioned briefly in TLB, which would place Aslan's mountain garden in the center of the world rather than at its western edge? Or perhaps there is a relatively large and stable crack or thin place between worlds, and they tumbled through by accident. Regardless, I think they would definitely be supportive of Dorothy through her troubles.

Re: Nasty, Disturbing, Uncomfortable Things

[transposable_element]

Hmm. Oz does seem to be in our world, although I suppose that the ways various characters get there could be variations on the doorway between worlds. But if so, there are a LOT of doorways.

This is a tangent, but I was browsing some of the Oz books recently (Filia has been reading them) and was struck by the way that in his prefaces Baum talks about his relationship with his readers as collaborative -- about getting ideas from them and fulfilling their demands for what should happen next. I'm not sure how seriously to take this, but it's interesting.