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rthstewart ([personal profile] rthstewart) wrote2013-03-11 10:23 pm
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3 Sentence Ficathon


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EDIT!  THIS POST IS NOW CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS,  PLEASE POST NEW PROMPTS
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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 [personal profile] snacky !)




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  [personal profile] lady_songsmith explains, for the 2011 3 Sentence Ficathon, [livejournal.com profile] grim_lupine created a delicious account to archive the 3 Sentence Ficathon.   [personal profile] 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. 


passionfruit_kisses: (Buffy - durn pen)

[personal profile] passionfruit_kisses 2013-03-18 08:07 am (UTC)(link)
Not an exact response to the prompt, but I hope it pleases anyway.

"You don't understand," the motherly woman insists, her face filled with concerned sincerity. "You have no idea of the things you will see in that hellhole, the bad things that happen to good people."

Ben looks back at her, completely inappropriate laughter bubbling within him; it is her who does not understand.
communi_kate: (Default)

[personal profile] communi_kate 2013-03-18 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
Game of Thrones/ASOIF, Syrio Forel, the first sword of Bravos does not run
shallowness: Margaret Hale of North and South adaptation sitting at desk writing (Margaret North and South writing)

[personal profile] shallowness 2013-03-18 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
Colnel Brandon is most certainly excused!! That is so Marianne, and I hadn't consciously thought of the 'comparing my conduct with what it should have been, yours, Elinor' line when I gave the prompt, but Marianne comparing herself with her sisters here reminded me of it. Lovely, thank you for the fill!
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[personal profile] passionfruit_kisses 2013-03-18 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
Gandalf/Merlin/Olórin has always enjoyed discombobulating people. It's not that he doesn't understand tact, he just doesn't find it to be very amusing at all. I approve of your new pastime.
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[personal profile] communi_kate 2013-03-18 08:27 am (UTC)(link)
The world turns; and River turns with it. She circles in a slow dance, her skirts spread in a chrysanthemum swirl, rotating slowly so that everything around her spins like satellites around her perfect sun.

Jayne watches her from a safe distance and mutters "I always knew that girl was gorram crazy,"
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[personal profile] passionfruit_kisses 2013-03-18 08:55 am (UTC)(link)
You've captured both of their essences with so very few words.
layne67: (bilbo)

[personal profile] layne67 2013-03-18 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
WIN!!!!

I love Fringe, and I hope you'll write a proper Fringe fic one of these days, Ellen *hopes* :)
communi_kate: (Default)

[personal profile] communi_kate 2013-03-18 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
Who would have thought so few sentences could be so bloody hard!
cest_what: (fuji in watercolour)

[personal profile] cest_what 2013-03-18 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, nice.
cest_what: (fuji in watercolour)

not as shippy as I meant it to be, sorry

[personal profile] cest_what 2013-03-18 09:22 am (UTC)(link)
Touya waits on the edge of his seat until the precise moment the credits end, managing to make even painful politeness seem insulting, before he turns to Hikaru. "Now will you take out the goban?"

Hikaru would roll his eyes harder if he hadn't spent the entire length of the movie – his favourite! – watching Touya out of the corner of his eye and kind of wishing they were playing go instead.
Edited (welp typo) 2013-03-18 09:23 (UTC)
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[personal profile] cest_what 2013-03-18 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
... perfect *g*
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[personal profile] cest_what 2013-03-18 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, nice.

[identity profile] heliopausa.livejournal.com 2013-03-18 10:14 am (UTC)(link)
Me too -- they are both such wonderfully complex characters, and so astoundingly different from each other. :) (And thanks!)

Re: Paleontological dreams

[identity profile] heliopausa.livejournal.com 2013-03-18 10:16 am (UTC)(link)
:D Yes, he's terrific - and the most fun of all the Spare Oom characters, I think. :)

[identity profile] heliopausa.livejournal.com 2013-03-18 10:18 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I bet she rips Ahoshta to shreds!

[identity profile] heliopausa.livejournal.com 2013-03-18 10:19 am (UTC)(link)
and thanks for the prompt! :)

[identity profile] heliopausa.livejournal.com 2013-03-18 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
I guessed! :D

[identity profile] heliopausa.livejournal.com 2013-03-18 10:22 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks. :)

[identity profile] heliopausa.livejournal.com 2013-03-18 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
I like this very much! :D
cest_what: (antimony & katerina)

[personal profile] cest_what 2013-03-18 10:52 am (UTC)(link)
Within a month their room is littered with robot parts and tools and blueprints, and despite having been friends with Kat since first year, none of it is even a little bit comprehensible to Annie.

When Annie comes through the door each night and lets the room wrap around her, somehow it still manages to be both reassuring and the tiniest bit of a thrill.

It's not surprising: it's how she feels about Kat.

[identity profile] heliopausa.livejournal.com 2013-03-18 10:55 am (UTC)(link)
I like this very much! When the third member of the gang gets there (Rhetoric) they'll be deadly!
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[personal profile] cest_what 2013-03-18 10:55 am (UTC)(link)
Gosh, this is delightful.

[identity profile] ninjaboots.livejournal.com 2013-03-18 10:58 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

[identity profile] heliopausa.livejournal.com 2013-03-18 11:09 am (UTC)(link)
This is so full of unspoken horrors ("she knows all too well...") and enormous consequence. (that's a compliment!) And that final "Don't you want to know his name?" and "without waiting for his response.." says so much!
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Re: not as shippy as I meant it to be, sorry

[personal profile] mmmdraco 2013-03-18 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
Ah! This is plenty shippy to feel my feels. Thank you!!!