3 Sentence Ficathon

[rthstewart]

EDIT!  THIS POST IS NOW CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS,  PLEASE POST NEW PROMPTS HERE!

CaramelSilver isn’t running the awesome 3 sentence ficathon this year, but she said I could do it in her place!!  (Banner courtesy of CaramelSilver and thanks so much!)

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?
You post prompts!  When posting a prompt please format it this way:

fandom, character/pairing, 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. 

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

Can anyone play?
Yes!  Please pimp this to your flist, I'd like as many as possible to come and participate!

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). 

Here's a link for spreading the word to all your friends and comms (thanks snacky !)


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How long can it go? 
CaramelSilver kept the 2011 3 Sentence Ficathon up for a month.  I'd suggest closing it on Sunday, April 7, 2013.  How does that sound? (edit:  If we reach 5,000 comments sooner, I'll start a new one).

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

Gosh who are all these people writing such great prompts and fills?
Good question!  Come to the friending meme and introduce yourself if you like.

As  lady_songsmith explains, for the 2011 3 Sentence Ficathon, grim_lupine created a delicious account to archive the 3 Sentence Ficathon.   lady_songsmith has reactivated the archive on delicious for this challenge, so, here is the account (nothing current added yet, though): https://previous.delicious.com/3sentence She asks that if anyone would be willing to help knock down the backlog of the prolific-ness thus far, let her know!!  (She adds:  I know folks are kinda down on delicious with the changes, but, hey, it's an archive already set up with useful tags!)

On the subject of archiving, I really encourage people to collect and post their fills elsewhere.  That way, we can find your work more easily again, redundancy is always good and it's really useful for future remixes and other challenges and gift exchanges you might participate in. I'll start a linking post so that if you do collect all your fills and post them on your own blog or an archive like AO3, you can give give us the link in comments. 


edited March 12, 2013
edited March 13, 2013 to fix box coding problem (thanks to those who helped!) and to add link to friending meme
edited March 15, 2013 to add information on archiving.
edited March 24, 2013 to close post to new prompts. 

Comments

[bedlamsbard]

The Hobbit, any, one day baby we'll be old / and think of all the stories that we could have told

[mmmdraco]

Yeong-ha is starting to learn some of the words they use, though he hasn't tried to study it, and hasn't let Su-yeong get away with using it when they aren't around. He will not bow in this or in anything. If they want to understand him and make themselves understood, they will bow.

[hostilecrayon]

Oooo, Ko, you're so defiant. <333

[vialethe]

Narnia, Susan +/ Edmund or Peter, my memory is cruel/the queen of attention to details/defending intentions if he failed

[vialethe]

Greek mythology, Persephone/Hades, too late, two choices/to stay or to leave

[mmmdraco]

L is caught in a trap of his own making and he knows it. He is trying to wrest control of a situation from Kira who could be Light. And, yet, he cannot bring himself to wrest control from Light when it comes to such things as how wide his thighs are spread and how easily he yields to Light's mouth.

[djsoliloquy]

“You’re bearing it well,” Johnson says as he pulls at the bindings, fitting Thomas’s arms tighter than they have ever attempted before but Thomas simply groans and accepts the new tension, thrilling Johnson anew with how very good the lad can be if approached in the right manner.

Each time is like a gift, but with patience they can always get here eventually—that place where coarse exteriors and sparring of words are scoured away under the ache of pleasure and exhaustion, where they both get exactly what they need and for a time everything is simple, raw and true.

Thomas lifts his head and manages a tired grin, mouth open and lips dry from breathing hard as he says, “Thank you, Mister Johnson.”

[hostilecrayon]

UNF. SO MUCH UNF.

[mardypants]

Oh, this is just as understated and tender and bittersweet as I'd hoped -- thank you!

[mardypants]

Chess, Florence & Svetlana or Florence/Svetlana, like a stranger in Moscow

[pristineungift]

Clarification: By outsider, do you mean anyone who isn't human, or isn't one of the Animorphs, or isn't one of the human Animorphs, or...?

[lizzardgirl]

Aww, thanks. I hope this really happened.

[holly_jolly]

Desmond would try so hard to succeed at the life forced upon him, but oh those chains, those strings attached to his arms and legs, they were made of unbreakable things: Of blood, metal, and wrath.

He used to think he would find a way to cut his binds, to escape and act on his own accord, but as expected, by all the people who brought him down, he had tried and he had failed.

Even as he was brought to the end of the world Desmond found; there was no true escape, no freedom, and if he thought about it, in those last precious seconds, he had always lived on a road of sacrifice--he was at the end and dying, it was as if he was always meant to perish on a pariahs path.

[bedlamsbard]

He looks down at his extended hand as if he cannot quite remember putting it out. "This is a prison only for the dead," he says, "not the living."

He does not ask the question, but she gives him an answer and her hand anyway.

[regndoft]

Thank you; this was such an interesting prompt. c:

Excuses

[beer_good_foamy]

It's not a relationship, absolutely not, nothing to make a big deal of, just a way to burn energy and take their minds off things on those rare occasions when the world is about to end.

"Not that I'm complaining, B, but... global warming?"

"Hey, you used the heat death of the universe yesterday, now kiss me."

[hostilecrayon]

OH DESMOND. T.T POOR BABY. Ahhhh I love it.

[hostilecrayon]

Assassin's Creed, Desmond Miles, the other choice

[hostilecrayon]

Assassin's Creed, Shaun Hastings, helpless

[holly_jolly]

If reliving the lives of his ancestors taught Desmond anything, it was to fight for what is most important to you.

For Desmond his world was small--he did personally learn of strength through wisdom, of finding deceit in a beloved master's teachings, he did not personally know of true liberty, of love, and of time, when Ezio's family was cut down before him and he was raked with vengeance for years on end, and Desmond did not know of freedom fought for in times of uncertainty and through shades of grey when Connor both won the war, but lost everything he had cared for.

For Desmond, he tries to live up to the saying he learned in the beginning, that he heard over and over, Nothing is true, especially when in Desmond's heart it feels wrong, and everything is permitted--especially when one has to live with the consequences, be it simply life, or of death.

[hostilecrayon]

OW YOU'RE KILLING ME OMG. I LOVE IT THOUGH, DON'T STOP. XDD

Narnia, Peter and Edmund

[saoirse7.livejournal.com]

He sees the troubled child that his brother is becoming, the anger and sarcasm building, and it hurts him to watch. But he doesn't know what to do, doesn't know what to say, and every time he attempts to reach out, Edmund bites out a harsh retort and won't listen. So the wedge is driven between them, to the point that it would take a miracle to ever restore the bond that was once there.

Re: Narnia, Peter and Edmund

[hostilecrayon]

Aww, so heartbreaking.

[beer_good_foamy]

The courtiers keep asking him the same question in the same incredulous tone, as if they're astonished that a person of his background can even speak.

The honest answer would be that he's fairly certain his hands have forgotten how to shoe a horse, they are used to pens and handshakes now.

But he likes the look in their eyes when he answers yes, he can; as if only for a moment, they realise that they might one day go barefoot.

[cloudbusting]

Oh my goodness, this is perfect! I love the tone and style here--reminds me of Mantel's a little (which, of course, I adore). Thank you! :D