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]

They are TRAGIC and PERFECT and I love them. And you. <3

Re: Small Revolutions

[lettered]

Awesomesauce.

[lettered]

Awwwwwwww I love them forever. This is great :o)

Re: Chasing Down an Anodyne

[lettered]

This is lovely.

[lettered]

I LOVE THIS.

[lettered]

Oh, awesome! I love your choice of myth!

Re: And wizarding hijinks ensue...

[lettered]

heeeeeeeeee. OMG he totally is such a party animal. I <3 this.

[lettered]

Vanity Fair, Captain Dobbin, Amelia Sedley, long enough

[lettered]

Jane Eyre, Jane, faith

[lettered]

Robin McKinley's Deerskin, Lissar, Ossin, long nights

GG/Firefly

[hot_tramp]

"Yup," Kaylee says, idly tossing a wrench in the air, "I can fix any engine needs fixin'. When I'm working on a ship, it's like she talks to me, pointin' out what's broke, and then I just ... know what to do."

Othar narrows his eyes and thinks I'm going to have to keep an eye on this one.

[lettered]

Avatar: the Last Airbender, Zuko, Katara, peace negotiations

[shallowness]

Oh, I hope her gift doesn't desert her now either. Great stuff.

Downton Abbey, their great war

[shallowness]

(spoilers for the second series)

They believe that this war, intergalactic in scope, will change everything. It does, in that a doctor’s son and a farmer’s son suit up together before landing on a strategically important planet they for a brutal, long campaign and a mixed-species socialite treats wounded soldiers on a mediship in another quadrant entirely alongside the young man who used to serve her food. Most of them do not know their history well enough to realise that when they describe this as the war to end all wars, they are echoing their forbearers on a planet that has long since been destroyed.

Superhero-in-training by day, waiter by night

[shallowness]

Sky High, Warren Peace (with gratuitous Warren/Layla)

Warren would never ever admit it, but he likes working at the Paper Lantern, and it’s not because it’s a certain redheaded vegetarian’s favorite restaurant (he picked up shifts there long before Layla Williams forced her acquaintance upon him, after all). It’s just that after a day at school of preparing himself for saving the world, Maxville or at least a citizen, it’s good to immerse himself in said world, among people who don’t know that he can create fireballs that could scorch through walls. Sure, some customers are whiny jerks, but there is one that he can share a knowing look with when the talk is all about how the superheroes saved the city again.

Hikaru no Magic

[degrees]

An explosion across the room drew Waya's attention, along with the rest of the transfiguration class. The murmuring increased when an amount of smoke started wafting around the likes of which had never been seen outside the potions classroom.

"Whose bright idea was it to give Shindou a wand?" he asked no one in particular.

[communi_kate]

"The Lannisters made you, and we can-I can- unmake you just as easily," snarls Lord Tywin.

"The Lannisters merely gave me the clay," says Tyrion. "I made myself."

[communi_kate]

I'm glad you liked it. There's some funky grammar going on there though.

[communi_kate]

Thank you:D

[communi_kate]

Thanks :(

Re: Foreshadowing ahoy!!!

[communi_kate]

I think Martin has enough characters, but it's a shame as Syrio was awesome. And sort of like Inigo Montoya.

Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permitted (except the Forbidden Forest, that's out of bounds)

[degrees]

Altair had been looking for a challenge not a babysitting job, and yet here he was with his best friend-slash-quiddich-rival's brother trailing him like a baby crup through the Forbidden Forest while he looked for acromantulas.

"I don't suppose you'd go back if I asked you to, before your brother finds out and hexes me?" he asked Kadar, who shook his head with a bright smile.

"Oh don't worry about that," Malik said in a dry voice emerging from the underbrush as Altair smacked his forehead with his palm, "he already knows and is planning which hex would hurt the most."

[cest_what]

One Direction, Harry/Louis, cup of tea.

[cest_what]

One Direction, Zayn/Harry, raining.

[cest_what]

Homestuck, Calliope, tricksters.