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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
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 [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. 


ar: "It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually." - Elliott Smith (Default)

[personal profile] ar 2013-03-19 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
She's on her third gin and tonic at Edie Carter's Christmas party when she sees him: a handsome Greek lounging alone on a sofa, a half-empty martini glass in his hand.

On her way over, she finishes the gin and tonic and picks up a martini to match, but she misjudges a step and nearly tosses the whole thing on his slacks; he leans forward and catches Nora and martini both, so not a drop of either spills.

Nora gives him a cheeky grin as she straightens up and takes a seat next to him on the couch, saying, "Well, that's one way to get acquainted."
ar: "It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually." - Elliott Smith (Default)

[personal profile] ar 2013-03-19 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
The Mummy, Rick/Evy, misadventures in parenting
ar: "It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually." - Elliott Smith (Default)

[personal profile] ar 2013-03-19 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
The Mummy, Rick/Evy, telling secrets
ar: "It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually." - Elliott Smith (Default)

[personal profile] ar 2013-03-19 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Ptolemy, irritation
hathor_girl: Hathor (Default)

[personal profile] hathor_girl 2013-03-19 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Jolinar? I thought we were dead."

"I think we were, but your healers are clearly more competent than I would have given them credit for, and they have brought us back to life."

"Together..." Sam observed, sensing a connection with Jolinar she had not felt before.

"Yes. The electric shock they used to revive us must have triggered a full blending. I apologize."


(A bit too long - and AU. Sorry.)
ar: Kay and Julius Eaton reading a manuscript. (ds9 - farverse reading)

[personal profile] ar 2013-03-19 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Kay Eaton/Julius Eaton, should we stay or go?
ar: "It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually." - Elliott Smith (Default)

[personal profile] ar 2013-03-19 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Lawless, Forrest/Maggie, nephews
betony: (Default)

[personal profile] betony 2013-03-19 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)

Her hair is matted, her face is dirty, her eyes are wet with tears, and still something about her calls to him.

The worshippers at his temple chatter about Ariadne, traitor to Crete, utterly undone by shame and grief; he had sought her out only to satisfy his own curiosity, to see for himself how such a woman might be, but now--now things are very different.

He takes a steadying gulp from his winecup and holds out the rest to her, to take if she so chooses: "Drink deep, my girl."
(dorky not-quite reference to Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism", taken wildly out of context: A little learning is a dang'rous thing;/Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:/There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,/And drinking largely sobers us again)

ar: a picture of Sansa Stark from ASOIAF with the words "but behind that fair facade I'm afraid she's rather odd" (asoiaf - rather odd)

[personal profile] ar 2013-03-19 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it so. ♥
ar: "It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually." - Elliott Smith (Default)

[personal profile] ar 2013-03-19 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! It's been a while since I've written about them, so I'm glad they worked. ♥
betony: (Default)

[personal profile] betony 2013-03-19 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
*delighted squeak* Nick and Nora! So in-character and unfazed by anything and OMG, I think this might become headcanon as to how they first met for me :D
ar: "It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually." - Elliott Smith (Default)

[personal profile] ar 2013-03-19 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooooh, adorable. I love it. &hearts

[personal profile] buttonloops 2013-03-19 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
This was never what he wanted to be, and maybe what he wanted to be wasn't all it was cracked up to be either.

Thank you.
vialethe: (GoT - Dany)

Re: Foreshadowing ahoy!!!

[personal profile] vialethe 2013-03-19 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Syrio is awesome. I still cling to the faint hope that since we didn't see it happen directly, maybe he's not dead? Sigh...
vialethe: (Lucas North)

Re: Breaking In

[personal profile] vialethe 2013-03-19 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee, I'm glad you liked it!
ar: "It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually." - Elliott Smith (Default)

[personal profile] ar 2013-03-19 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
The Ramsay Scallop, Thomas/Elenor, wedding (night)
vialethe: (Narnia)

Re: Winter Winds

[personal profile] vialethe 2013-03-19 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, this is beautiful and perfect and so Edmund. I love that he enjoys the winter in England because it helps him remember, and takes his more mundane life a world away from the rest of Europe. Maybe the beavers do talk and the trees do move!
vialethe: (Narnia)

[personal profile] vialethe 2013-03-19 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
So sweet! All of his happy memories of winter in Narnia are so lovely. Thanks!
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[identity profile] saoirse7.livejournal.com 2013-03-19 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you liked it! :D
vialethe: (Lamia - Waterhouse)

Re: IDEK what this is

[personal profile] vialethe 2013-03-19 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yes, Cecily and Eleanor would eye each other warily and then become the best of friends, and sit around talking about what on earth was wrong with their sons, and why did husbands always have to go marching off to war and thinking they could just leave you behind?
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[identity profile] saoirse7.livejournal.com 2013-03-19 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, this is intense! Thank you for the fill! :-)
ar: "It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually." - Elliott Smith (Default)

[personal profile] ar 2013-03-19 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Boardwalk Empire, Eddie Cantor, Ida and the girls
vialethe: (Jon Snow)

Re: All Clothed in a Snowy Shroud

[personal profile] vialethe 2013-03-19 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, just...he's a little bit greedy and a whole lot oblivious, but he isn't really a bad guy for all that, and she tries so hard to please him even at the high cost to herself, and it's just UGH. Glad you liked it!
vialethe: (Jon Snow)

[personal profile] vialethe 2013-03-19 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
You win ALL the things, this is delightful and hilarious! And it fits the tone of Discworld perfectly. The spider god of unwelcome invertebrates is going to make me randomly giggle all day...