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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. 


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[personal profile] tanyart 2013-03-18 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
grinning so hard my face is starting to hurt. 8)))))
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[personal profile] mmmdraco 2013-03-18 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
He wears the mask of the bumbling detective to put them at ease, to reel them in. Tear the mask away and he is smiling through the blood and pulpy flesh because there's nothing real about any face he tries to wear. There was something under the mask at one point, he's sure, but it's long forgotten in favor of the taste of blood.
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[personal profile] moon_blitz 2013-03-18 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
*flails* This is so totally Alec! Thanks so much!
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[personal profile] moon_blitz 2013-03-18 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Back when he was young, before Kiera was able to return home, Alec sometimes wondered about how much time they had left together. Then, once she left, he began counting down the years until she would be born, then the years until she married, all the while wondering if they would meet again.

They did, finally, but then was was gone, sent back in time and he was left counting his days, hoping he would be there to welcome her home.
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EEEE

[personal profile] starbrow 2013-03-18 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
{More flailing} You guys...you...I JUST LOVE YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS because it hits feels I didn't even know I had, and this is so much better than I could have imagined when I wrote that prompt, even though I knew you all were awesome, I still am blown away. I love that you chose Aphrodite to contrast with Belle - that she wouldn't let Beast read about that story, because that wouldn't be their ending. I literally gasped when she knocked it out of his hand. Wonderful.
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!!!

[personal profile] starbrow 2013-03-18 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
NORWEGIAN TALE I'm good with Beauty/Beast tales from other mythologies too!! :D That was an excellent parallel to make. I liked the image of her almost catching on to the truth, but losing the thought as she drifts off to sleep and forgetting.
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[personal profile] moon_blitz 2013-03-18 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Doctor Who, Nine/Rose/Jack, until the stars burn out
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[personal profile] cest_what 2013-03-18 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, this is great. The poor boy.
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[personal profile] cest_what 2013-03-18 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I literally teared up just looking at your prompt and trying to think of a fill, this fucking book. ♥!
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[personal profile] cest_what 2013-03-18 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Glad you liked it :)
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[personal profile] wingedflight 2013-03-18 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Ee thanks for the prompt! Alec is my fav. <3
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Re: not as shippy as I meant it to be, sorry

[personal profile] cest_what 2013-03-18 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Glad you liked it :)
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[personal profile] wingedflight 2013-03-18 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Aah, Alec! Awesome job capturing the circular nature of the time travel.

Re: The library was not so quiet, but it was their own, after all

[personal profile] buttonloops 2013-03-18 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
MAC. ROSE. MAC READING NORSE POETRY TO ROSE ASDKFHASKJDHFALDJLKJKASJD SQUEE <3333333333333. If I had more times I'd reply with all the Mac-and-Old-English feels but for now just flail this is great.
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[personal profile] moon_blitz 2013-03-18 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks! I'm a Doctor Who fan too, so I'm used to time travel being a bunch of knots rather than a simple circle, but this was still very fun to write~
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[personal profile] wingedflight 2013-03-18 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Oo fun, yes. I love playing with complicated, tangled time travel. So much fun!
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[personal profile] wingedflight 2013-03-18 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Continuum, Sonya, taking charge
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[personal profile] tiny_white_hats 2013-03-18 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
For her 24th birthday, Richard, her painfully ordinary boyfriend, gives her a golden watch, with her name etched into the surface. It's a lovely watch, slim and delicate on her wrist (a wrist he likes to call ladylike and elegant, a wrist that once wore a guard instead of a watch, a wrist that drew a golden bow and could shoot arrows true enough to knock leaves from trees) and it shines dully when she walks with him under the pale Earth sun. Susan wishes she treasured it, wishes that she could look at the lovely, delicate watch and see it shine gold, but every time she glimpses it, the dull, yellowish watch recalls the bright gleam of her bow (polished so brightly that it seemed to glimmer in the sunlight), the sparkling glow of the golden sands at Cair Paravel, and the proud shine of her crown, and, trying to forget the feeling of the golden Narnian sun on her akin, Susan thinks that nothing in this world could ever be so lovely as the kingdom she could never return to.
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Re: Game of Thrones in spaaaaaaaaace!

[personal profile] vialethe 2013-03-18 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I've had this Firefly/GOT crossover in my head forever, I'm so glad I finally got the opportunity to lay a bit of it out!

***
"Get out there and fight, Dog!" the boy Admiral shrieks, his voice coming out shrill and breaking, rather than the booming commands of his dead father.

Sandor looks out the bay windows, into the firestorms and explosions taking place on the flight deck, and backs away from his fighter.

"Fuck you," he rasps out, reaching for his belt, groping for his pistol or his flask, he couldn't even say which, "and fuck your fleet, too."

[identity profile] lauraandrews.livejournal.com 2013-03-18 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I see in his eyes the love which he has for my daughter, and she for him, and I am troubled; for though to her he is but a child in years, yet he comes into wisdom far more swiftly than any of the Eldar, and perhaps more swiftly than his own kin. For my part, I would that they had never met, for already he thinks of himself as Beren, and I cannot say nay to him whom I foresee will figure much in the defeat of the Enemy. Yet my heart is grieved beyond measure and I, who have seen so much that is evil in this world, shrink from the loss that all my life I have prayed to Eru would never be brought upon me.
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Re: Game of Thrones in spaaaaaaaaace!

[personal profile] wingedflight 2013-03-18 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Oo thanks for adding more! A Firefly/GoT crossover sounds so intriguing.
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[personal profile] moon_blitz 2013-03-18 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
With hatred and grief burning in her stomach, Sonya faces the rest of the group.

She never asked for this responsibility, although she realizes now that Kagame had been grooming her for the role the entire time. As their eyes settle on her, she speaks the words that will either unite them or tear them apart: "Kagame's dead, so that means I'm in charge now."

[personal profile] netweight 2013-03-18 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's what I was going for. I am glad you enjoyed it - thank you for letting me know. :)
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Legend of the Seeker, Zedd/Shota: Circle Magic

[personal profile] hrhrionastar 2013-03-18 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Shota stares up, and up, and up, but she's not seeing the night sky with its sprinkling of stars like the glints in Zeddicus's eyes. All she can see are the lines and loops of power that she and Zeddicus call up together, all she can feel are his hands on her wrists and his wrists under her hands, turning them both into a circle from whence more than ordinary magic can come to engulf the world.

Shota knows other women want promises, jewels, castles in the air - she has never needed more than this.
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[personal profile] tanyart 2013-03-18 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Noooooooooo........... oh my gosh i love this ahhhh stephen. ;o;