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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. 


metonomia: (palpitant to passion)

Re: the crackship of crackships...

[personal profile] metonomia 2013-03-20 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
She can feel him, watching her from above - or is it beside? Her sense of space has been off ever since that painter and his assistants dashed her up here; she can feel the curvature where walls meet ceiling, can feel the foundations of the building itself; sometimes she thinks she can feel everything except her own hermited passions. She takes a deep breath, inhaling the plaster and dust of centuries, and looks up.
grey_wonderer: (Default)

[personal profile] grey_wonderer 2013-03-20 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Fandom: Fringe
Characters: Walter and Olivia
Sentence or word: a good time for root beer
grey_wonderer: (Default)

[personal profile] grey_wonderer 2013-03-20 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Fandom: Get Smart
characters: Max and 99
Sentence or word: missed me by that much!
metonomia: (palpitant to passion)

[personal profile] metonomia 2013-03-20 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
They say that the god of death sleeps when his wife is gone, that autumn and the turning of the leaves is not just Demeter's grief but his wakening joy. They say he takes the form of a bear, and hibernates, and when Persephone returns there is a new cub for her to mother, a new life down in the shadows of Dis. They say he dreams, through two whole seasons, of her smile when she took the pomegranate seeds from his hand.
grey_wonderer: (Default)

[personal profile] grey_wonderer 2013-03-20 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Fandom: Goonies
Characters: Mikey and Data
Sentence: rich stuff
vialethe: (Lamia - Waterhouse)

[personal profile] vialethe 2013-03-20 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Greek mythology, Aeneas/Cassandra, 'there's nothing we cannot ever fix,' I said/can't stop what's coming, can't stop what is on its way
grey_wonderer: (Default)

[personal profile] grey_wonderer 2013-03-20 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Fandom: Gavin and Stacey
characters: Uncle Bren and Gavin
sentence or word: the GPS
metonomia: (palpitant to passion)

[personal profile] metonomia 2013-03-20 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Classics, Catullus/Lesbia, I wanna leave/and I wanna stay
grey_wonderer: (Default)

[personal profile] grey_wonderer 2013-03-20 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Fandom: Lord. of the Rings
characters: Hamfast Gamgee's and Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
sentence or word: spoons.
metonomia: (palpitant to passion)

[personal profile] metonomia 2013-03-20 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Classics, Sappho/Anaktoria, love put on as armor
psyche29: A brown eye with rainbow eyeliner all around it (rainbow eyes)

[personal profile] psyche29 2013-03-20 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Narnia, any (+/any), we've got mistletoe and firelight/on this cold December night
vialethe: (Lamia - Waterhouse)

Re: the crackship of crackships...

[personal profile] vialethe 2013-03-20 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
*flails madly* siunwiundfijiusd I hoped you would fill this!! And of course it's gorgeous and perfect and I love that she feels constrained (but by herself, not the space she's in) and so thrown off by her odd physical perspective. But she still feels him watching, even if she isn't quite sure where he is, and SHE LOOKS UP YES. Thank you and I love you FOREVER.


This is the best part about this ficathon, the things you never think to expect until they're suddenly happening.
vialethe: (Lamia - Waterhouse)

[personal profile] vialethe 2013-03-20 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Eeeee how much do I love this?? The idea of autumn being Hades' joy coming to life again, the little bear cubs (I love the idea that it's 'winter' for the Underworld when it's summer above), and he dreams of her smiling!!! This is so beautiful, and contains so many hints in such a small story.
starbrow: (Default)

Re: And wizarding hijinks ensue...

[personal profile] starbrow 2013-03-20 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
ME TOOOOO!!! I had to restrain myself from making this a whole full-length fic, with the Hatter ladies gossiping about their respective careers and latest Ingary news, and Howl crashing the scene with some grand party tricks to Sophie's supreme embarrassment and Michael's consternation, and Martha would have Words for him, and Sophie would be hiding her face in her hands...and absolutely Howl's clinginess/insecurity/need to be the center of attention is coming out here ;)


This was an AWESOME prompt and so much fun to write. {Points at HMC prompt on one of the newer pages)
betony: (Default)

Re: or, alternatively, and longer

[personal profile] betony 2013-03-20 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG I am not super-familiar with Sir Orfeo, but it looks like Orpheus/Eurydice meets Tam Lin/fae stories? (With bonus non-fridging and Eurydice actually getting a voice/reaction!!!!) In which case, AWESOME. I will have to check this out ASAP.
metonomia: (Default)

Re: the crackship of crackships...

[personal profile] metonomia 2013-03-20 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
How could I not fill? Fave new not-quite-crackship, yesssss.

And YES, I love how we all know anything can happen in this ficathon, and then we can STILL be surprised. It is so delightful - my favorite way to fic by miles.
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[personal profile] metonomia 2013-03-20 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
:DDD THANK YOU I have so many feels about the fact that, although it is a myth ostensibly about a girl getting kidnapped and then trapped into a marriage, what you wind up with is so much possibility to subvert those tropes because HADES is the one who sits around waiting for her to come back, he feeds her, she starts out a kidnapped girl but winds up double-goddess and queen and woowwwww I love how the seasons turn on both hers and Demeter's AND Hades' emotions ldkajpewoijapoij /incoherent
metonomia: (Default)

Re: or, alternatively, and longer

[personal profile] metonomia 2013-03-20 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS. Underworld = Faerie, etc etc it is FABULOUS.
vialethe: (Narnia)

On this Winter's Night With You

[personal profile] vialethe 2013-03-20 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Yule is a completely new experience for Aravis; so is snow, and roasted chestnuts, and Father Christmas, and so much more, until she feels her head will burst or her fingers fall off from the chill that's worked its way into her very bones, so much worse than even the desert at midnight.

So when Cor comes along, speaking of another new tradition to show her (he deals so much better than she with the climate and culture, but then, he was born, if not raised, to it) she protests, even when he pulls her along in her heavy wool robes to a room with a roaring fire burning, hot as the Calormene sands.

"It's a lovely treat," she says, "but honestly Cor, even a fire this large can't really be called anything new," and that's when he gives her that cheeky grin, points to a bit of greenery tacked to the doorframe above them, and gives her the gift of his first kiss.
betony: (Default)

Re: I CAN'T EVEN THINK OF ANY WAY TO EXPRESS MY DELIGHT....

[personal profile] betony 2013-03-20 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
ultimately, they are pretty equal, they are mutually destructive despite and because of their love.--YES. It's never quite simple with these two, and you can run in so many different directions from the bare bones of their story.
And H.D., OMG--I love her Greek myth-inspired poems so, especially that one and "Helen"!
betony: (Default)

Re: And wizarding hijinks ensue...

[personal profile] betony 2013-03-20 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I had to restrain myself from making this a whole full-length fic--OMG, WRITE IT. (Um, if you'd like. But this was delightful, and the more excellent HMC fic in the world=the better, as far as I'm concerned) :D
--how did you know I was just finishing up something for that? :)
autumnia: The apple orchard in Cair Paravel (Pevensies (at the Cair))

Re: On this Winter's Night With You

[personal profile] autumnia 2013-03-20 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
This was just lovely, with Cor trying to warm her up both literally and metaphorically. :-)
lbilover: (pouring tea)

[personal profile] lbilover 2013-03-20 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahhhhhhhhh, I LOVE this!! Absolutely perfect, GW. It's so true to both their characters. And I love how you juxtapose Peter feeling that revealing it takes something away from him at the same time as Olivia finds it becoming a part of her.

Thank you!!!!
betony: (Default)

....and the dreaded fourth sentence catches up with me. Oh well.

[personal profile] betony 2013-03-20 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)

Sophie likes her new brother-in-law very much, if not quite as much as Michael, but she has to admit it is sometimes rather awkward trying to start conversation with someone you first knew as a man-turned-dog you'd adopted--or rather, half a man-turned-dog. Sophie, though, is far too strong-minded these days to balk at awkwardness, and besides, Ben is a wizard who comes from the same world Howl does and might be able to shed some light on their strange customs.

"Do you spend two hours every morning getting ready in the bathroom too?" she asks frankly.

Ben raises his eyebrows with an air of polite befuddlement, and Sophie can't help but groan; only her wizard, it seems.