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

[buttonloops]

I was trying to get at the Beast not wanting to read it because it might make it too easy to give his game away - that she had to love him for the spell to be broken - but I don't think that came through. Glad you liked it, though!

[ailavyn_siniyash]

Thank you! I had fun writing it!

I found it randomly in the school library, and, having already fallen head-over-heels in love with Robin McKinley's worldbuilding and description, read it that very day. I personally found it delicious, but I can think of literally no one else I know who would enjoy it, especially the way I did. And it was GLORIOUS, in a beautiful, meandering way. I ought to reread it, come to think of it.

(PS: How do you make italics on here?)

Re: well, if i must :D

[metonomia]

Oooh, poor baby with the wisdom teeth! And yes yes yes I vote you do that! (I also vote Mummy before NT which is a fun enough movie but gosh I can't stand Nic Cage)

Re: Willow Rosenberg and the Sorting Ceremony (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Hogwarts AU)

[tiny_white_hats]

I almost want to say Anya would make a good Slytherin because of her days as a Vengeance demon and her seeming lack of empathy and/or compassion, but I think she could definitely make a good Hufflepuff. She's tricky. My head canon on HP fusion AUs is vast and somewhat alarming. The amount of time I spent wondering about the Scoobies' patronuses alone is frightening, all by itself.

[ailavyn_siniyash]

Silmarillion, Elwing, flight

[buttonloops]

It IS a twisty and undefined source, but it's been haunting me for a couple of years, and I keep trying to retell it, so thanks.

I confused everyone at writing camp by making them think I was writing about werewolves. :-p

Re: or, alternatively, and longer

[betony]

Eurydice, ugh, yes--especially since half the myths can't agree on how she wound up in the Underworld in the first place, and I have a longstanding hatred for women getting stuffed in the fridge just so their husbands/sons/whatever can angst.
And that picture--Hades and Persephone just sitting around looking Totally, Definitely, 100% Nonchalant, and Orpheus just doggedly moving alone, and that look on Eurydice's face, what even--

[ailavyn_siniyash]

I'm glad you liked it! Eilonwy reminds me of Hermione, in some ways, but then they're utterly unlike in others. Of course, I could just be imagining the similarities, seeing as I'm rather fond of them both.

We've read many of the same books, haven't we?

fakjepajwepoiaj YOU ARE THE COOLEST

[metonomia]

Her French is immaculate, high or low, her Latin quite passable, and she can even carry a conversation in English, thanks to her multitude of books. He speaks a guttural sort of re-learned aristocratic French, yes, but it is forced out of a voicebox not made for human sounds, and she works hard to hide how difficult he can be to understand.

Sometimes she hears him speaking in an altogether wilder and more lovely language, to himself or to the servants, and she wishes she could make those sounds.

[tiny_white_hats]

Thank you so much! I like to think that Richard is a lovely and charming fictional man, but sadly naming him Richard was not an intentional allusion to the Lionhearted on my part. I just wanted to give Susan's London boyfriend an ordinary, run of the mill sort of name, to further illustrate how uninteresting England is compared to Narnia and it's interestingly named people. But we should pretend that Richard's fictional parents had Richard the Lionhearted as a namesake.

[buttonloops]

ZOMG ASFKLHASLKJDFJALKLJAF METOOOOOOO.

I love this. I love this so, so much. I ... SUDDENLY ALL THE SUSAN FEELS ANNND THE EOWYN FEELS and yet this is the happy ending, because Freawaru's family isn't lying dead around her as Beowulf foretold, and agh my twisting heart.

[metonomia]

The voice is hers, but the grief she lends it to is of the entire earth. The sea he swam, the rocks he climbed, the lowliest grasses he ran across - all these and more mourn the passing of a hero. There is a comfort in this universal sharing, even as her own insignificant heart breaks over and over again.

[betony]

This. Is. Brilliant. OMG, Sherlock's delight over the fact that they have mice (who am I kidding, this is the man who waxed lyrical over Clyde and his bees, of course he is going to love them!) and Joan's resignation to what her life has become (and apparant belief that all problems can be fixed with coffee, given that it is early enough in the day!), and Basil and Dawson and--♥

[ruanchunxian0.livejournal.com]

NOW I DEMAND A FULL FIC!!!!!!!!!

[tiny_white_hats]

This is hilarious! As an iPhone owner who's very wary of Siri, I fully understand Cap's alarm. I love Steve's fumbling attempts at phone use and I love the fact that he uses Siri to find schwarma even more. Thank you for the fill!

[betony]

Oh, that scene in the movie that broke my heart--like I said, fic about the Fa family is quite rare, and always makes me super-excited when I stumble across, and this is absolutely lovely. Thank you.

Re: or, alternatively, and longer

[metonomia]

YES ALKJEPOAJWPdJ one of my biggest academic Things is the medieval version, Sir Orfeo, in which there are wow so many things about how Eurydice dies/is zombified/may only be valued for her womb/is silenced, BUT BUT BUT she gets told ahead of time that the fairy king is stealing her away to Dis, and she gets to give vent to her breakdown over that, she gets to actually talk to Orfeo about it, and then he actually succeeds in getting her back - she is essential to the ending of it. Still a fridging, but the loss and return of the queen is also the big deal about the story, which is cool.

[metonomia]

THOSE ARE EXACTLY THE LADIES I WAS THINKING OF! Going to prompt them now in the hopes that someone *ahem cough* might fillllll

Re: Narnia, Peter & Eustace, "would you say this was a usual day for you?"

[ruanchunxian0.livejournal.com]

BABY HEDGEHOG OMG!!
Oh Eustace, you have no idea. After the hedghog, maybe the High King will move to marriage counseling for song birds again? :P

[metonomia]

Beowulf/Narnia/LoTR; Freawaru, Susan, Eowyn; all fair in love and war

(not a typo in the phrasing, hint hint)

sdflkwef NO *YOU* ARE THE COOLEST

[starbrow]

LOVE LOVE LOVE. Belle's languages...and Beast's guttural French (ARISTOCRATIC OBVS OH BELLE...) and his magical language asdlfkjsdf. Also....PLEASE PLEASE I WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER:

http://rthstewart.dreamwidth.org/87903.html?thread=2372447#cmt2372447

I have been dying for you to write a fill for this prompt, almost tweeted at you to do it... ;)

[buttonloops]

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. This really brought tears to my eyes, and it's got the haiku-ish quality of moving between wide and narrow scopes and making each more poignant. Sniffle.

[metonomia]

OH MY HEART wow this is gorgeous, the retelling of the myth and her ANGER oh Belllllle!

[metonomia]

YOU YOU YOU YOU YOU <33333333

Re: sdflkwef NO *YOU* ARE THE COOLEST

[metonomia]

OMG THERE WERE ALREADY SO MANY GREAT FILLS I DIDN'T BUT FOR YOUUUUU LET ME SEE WHAT I CAN DO!