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

[vialethe]

That last line!! I love that she isn't too scared or upset, because she knew what she was getting into. Thanks!

[betony]

This reads like a lost exchange from the play itself, with your pitch-perfect Beatrice and her flawless retort to the Friar. This is so, so wonderful! ♥

[vialethe]

Yes, she will be. I love that her fire is just banked, not extinguished - never that. Perfect as always!

Re: (This is Greek myth cycle more than the actual play, if that's okay?)

[betony]

*nods* Like, I can understand how the Trojan women would be angry at Helen with good reason, but they've all been family for ten years--and I know I have a thing for examining Helen through her relationships with women, but that's because in so much popular culture, she's just remembered for what she means to men: most beautiful in Greece and a living MacGuffin for the Trojan War. Seeing her with sisters and in-laws and friends allows for the freedom to see her as more than that!

[renquise]

These are the things Connor learns from Achilles: how to lose a fight to a man with a limp and take it graciously; how to kill a man when he has a musket and you have your hands; how to bury a blade in a man’s throat quickly, painlessly; how to cook tender venison stews for the winter and delicate okra for the summer.

How to be so angry at someone because they are old and bitter and just don't understand that you leave for the sea and do not return for weeks on end; how to apologize.

How to support legs that have grown weak but have not yet shed their pride; how to lose someone slowly and gradually; how to remember, all over again.

A++

[djsoliloquy]

Re: For a Crown

[betony]

RICHARD! And oh, what a tired, caring Richard, so conscious of all he wants to but can't do, in contrast to the view of him as cackling villain. And your cameo from Elizabeth, and the hints of Richard/Anne--oh, this is sad and sweet and wonderful.

[betony]

YES. Yes yes yes yes yes--I love her complicated relationship with Helen, her uncertainty in this new unknown city, her own voice and her feelings and--AETHRA ♥ ♥ ♥

Re: I Was Looking for a Breath of Life

[betony]

This is beautiful--your Galatea is fierce and independent and I love how she rejects Pygmalion's overwhelming claim on her; and oh, I can see her becoming free some day just as she wants. ♥ ♥ ♥

[betony]

HEKKKKTTTOOOORRRR! He's so kind and fundamentally decent and--*sob* And your Andromache--so determined to help, despite her loneliness and her alienation in this strange city, and I love her so!
They are both wonderful here, all the more because they are happy and sweet and beginning to fall in love here rather than the tragedy of their later story!

[betony]

Aren't they just! And you know you have to love a series in which the most effective weapon against the villains is the word "Argelfraster." :D

[betony]

OMG SORCERY&CECELIA FIC, and it's Kate/Thomas, and it's perfect! Thomas, smug as always; and Kate, determined as always to show him up. This is so amazing, and I'm so glad it exists! ♥ ♥ ♥

[djsoliloquy]

HAHAH THIS COMMENT MADE MY WEEK

but yeah this is the part where you start seeing the returns on all those headcanoning investments

[betony]

I love this! The depth of the betrayal comes across so, so well, and the despair inherent in that last sentence--so good.

Re: Star Struck

[betony]

OMG someone filled this, and it's so beautiful and hopeful, and--no words, except that this is great. ♥

[tanyart]

IM GONNA.

CRY OR SOMETHING.

[renquise]

Yesssss, Archandroid lyrics!
--

Julie has replaced her skin so many times that she honestly cannot remember its factory-new appearance. She likes it that way, likes the way that she can put on a new person like most people put on a new coat.

But there is something essential at her core, something stubborn down in her circuitry that does not change, and it rings clear and true when Maddie takes her hand and pulls her into her lightflyer.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, he's not off as bad as others but still, I wouldn't want to be anyone in Greek mythology. Glad you liked it!

Re: For a Crown

[vialethe]

I am SUCH a Ricardian it's ridiculous, really. I adore the poor man. And yes, Richard/Anne! My tragic history OTP!! Sigh.

I'm glad you enjoyed it! Yay, history.

Re: Assassin's Creed, Achilles Davenport & Ratonhnhaké:ton

[hostilecrayon]

I love this. <3

[tanyart]

Achilles slips up once, just once during a hot summer afternoon when he rouses from a nap to the sound of boyish laughter outside.

“Son?” he says, groggy, before his mind catches up with him and he lapses into embarrassed silence at his mistake.

Connor pokes his head from the opened window, an echo of laughter still in his voice when he replies, “Yes?” as if it was the most natural thing in the world – and Achilles starts to think that maybe it had not been a mistake after all.

[renquise]

DANGGGGGGGGGGGG. JUST. DANG. YES. Oh my god, Thomas being sincerely polite after everything is so good.

[hostilecrayon]

Heartbreakingly wonderful!

Re: Star Struck

[arioch]

How could Inot with that lovely prompt? Also, the idea of messages is genius - meeting once a year is horrible but when you even don't get to meet at all when the sky is overcast? Yikes!
*was to lazy to log in*

[hostilecrayon]

Hahaha, Altair, so adorable.