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

[minutia_r]

"Alas, poor Yorick," sighed Howl, gazing deeply into the skull's eyes--sockets, whatever-- "I knew him, Horatio."

Howl, the skull's macabre grin seemed to answer, you are a ridiculous, over-dramatic pillock, though I must admit you look dashing in that suit.

"I know," said Howl.

[vialethe]

Greek mythology, Aeneas/Cassandra, take me out to sea/away from you and me

[cest_what]

Thank you! ♥

[lettered]

There used to be an actual, honest to God list of people he didn't like--terrorists, some foreign dictators, couple House Democrats who used to get up in his face, couple Senate Republicans who turned on him once he stopped the military contracts, half a dozen pop stars he really just can't stand and not just because he slept with them, and Wesley Crusher, but Hammer was such a dickly little tool he'd never even merited mention.

Pepper had . . . extensive files, lists, graphs, for fuck's sake, annotated inventories of everyone he'd ever fucked fought bought from sold to glanced at with passing interest; she had a color coded index of his motherfucking ties, and Tony had never realized that this was how she'd done the job until the day she wasn't there to do it any more.

That day, Tony didn't need a list; there was now only one person on it.

[minutia_r]

"I beseech you, O most cunning of warriors," said Abdullah, looking thoroughly harassed as he retrieved a blue-glass bottle from among his scattered belongings, "will you keep that cat of yours away from my possessions?"

"Nope," said the soldier calmly, continuing to clean his fingernails with his knife. "I'd like to see the man who can."

[lettered]

Thanks. I LOVE HER SO MUCH. Sometimes when I think of her I just can't even deal.

[betony]

I--!!!! Do you know how perfect this is?
(Alas, poor Yorick! Howl, you are a ridiculous, over-dramatic pillock!)
I can't even form words of appreciation, this is amazing, OMG ♥ ♥ ♥

[saoirse7.livejournal.com]

This is sweet. :-)

[cofax7]

Robin Hood, Robin, "I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all."

(More than a little taken from Robin McKinley's Outlaws of Sherwood)

In Sherwood Forest, and throughout Nottinghamshire, it had been more of a game, for those few years; oh, yes, he had killed, but in self-defense, for the most part, and so many of the Sheriff's men had been Normans that it had been more than half patriotism, the century-old resistance of the Saxon to the Norman invader--justifiable, if not always entirely honorable, and what should that kind of honor matter to the son of a forester?

But in the brutal sun of the Holy Land, with the screaming of the horses and the men; the links of his mail blistering the skin beneath; and the women of the towns weeping over their dead--well, he wondered sometimes if he had not made the wrong choice after all, that day the King had taken up the lot of them, John and Much and Will and Marian and all (and Robin himself), and made them choose. Death or the cross, the King had said, and of course Robin had taken the cross; but oh, the blood on his hands, the smell of death all around, and the weary, heart-broken look on Marian's face were enough to make him doubt his every decision.

...well, admittedly that last Richard/Anne fill deserves this

[betony]

"Othryoneus of Cabesos has promised us his allegiance," Aeneas pauses, struggling to find the right words to announce this diplomatic triumph, " in exchange for the chance to make his regard known to the Princess Cassandra."

Priam's eyes shine with triumph; his daughter Creusa's smile (...and how had Aeneas never noticed her before, as kind and good as she is?) wavers with sympathy; and Cassandra's expression is as inscrutable as it has ever been.

"I will also," he adds as an afterthought, "return to Dardania with the morning tide."

[betony]

:D Pepper being awesome will never stop being something I love, but Tony realizing how awesome she is and how much he's been taking her for granted is even better, OMG. Thank you so much! ♥

Keep the Earth Below My Feet

[tiny_white_hats]

Persephone is a botanist, he learns over dinner (Jibneh with pomegranate for her and Schwarma for him, at Elysium, the greatest Middle Eastern restaurant he's ever frequented), because she is in love with the sweet, dizzy brightness of spring and she loves to watch the first flowers grow. She smiles brightly, like the world's loveliest sunflower, when she speaks of her job, and he tells her about his work as an archaeologist, as a collector of memories and souls, about how he reaches into the earth to find lost relics and to hear the stories dead men couldn't ever tell again.

He is quickly enraptured by her, by her wheat-gold hair and river blue eyes, by her unconscious, nervous gestures that are quick like startled rabbits and her laugh like early morning birdsong, and so he kisses her, gently, when they part ways at the restraunt's door; her breath tastes like pomegranate and he is certain, irrevocably so, that this will not be their final meeting, that she will return to him once more.

[saoirse7.livejournal.com]

Digory had never seen anything so beautiful as he walked reverently through the tall silver trees with their golden leaves, and desperately he tried to remember what the Lion had said about the tree with the apple he needed. Here and there he caught glimpses of a flash of grey above or to the side of him through the trees, but he worked to stay focused on his task; he felt as though he could stay here forever, but knew that would not help Mother. At last, he came to the centre of the Wood, where stood a tree slightly larger than the others, at least in girth, and it was full of magnificent silver apples that seemed to beckon to him; gathering his courage, he stepped forward and plucked one.

Spoilers for Castle in the Air...?

[betony]

*squeals with glee* I think this fills my Sophie- (and Howl/Sophie-loving heart) with an unimaginable amount of delight. And bonus Abdullah and the soldier being so perfectly themselves--!!!!!! ♥ ♥ ♥

(Also: because I simply have to ask this of everyone I know who's read this book because I can never quite figure it out: when do you think Howl realized who the cat and kitten really were? We know Sophie had no clue, but Howl certainly would guess that she'd land somewhere in the area; however, the genie always resents getting milk and fish for the cats so much, and there's that part where Midnight first shows up, investigates the bottle, and the genie seems to genuinely believe she's going to eat him, so...?

[betony]

Outlaws of Sherwood Robin--*flaily hands of glee*

Oh, but this breaks my heart in the best of ways. The loss of the outlaws' idealism in their horrifying circumstances--and why not, they're on Crusade, for heaven's sake! This is a heartbreaking--but beautiful, and utterly historically accurate look at what comes next, and I love it so. ♥

[betony]

Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Miranda Chant and Millie Chant, Détente

[betony]

Medieval History, Llewelyn ap Gruffydd/Ellen de Montfort , the myth of Ceyx and Alcyone

[betony]

Howl's Moving Castle, Howl & Abdullah, "I feel I got to know you rather well."

[tiny_white_hats]

Once Upon a Time, any fairytale character who has yet to appear in the show, identity

Re: Fill: The Deputy White House Communications Director Club

[tiny_white_hats]

Thank you! I'm actually such a fan of Will, so I'm glad to hear his voice worked for you!

[betony]

Robin Hood legend, Maid Marian, Ooh you're gonna make your mark this time/Ooh you're gonna set your hope on fire

[tiny_white_hats]

Thank you for the fill! I adore CJ, and you did a very nice job writing her, and I think she definitely ended up being an example of women in government, even if that may have not been her intention.

[lettered]

Outlaws of Sherwood is love.

Oh, Richard, you're a bastard; this was awesome.

[betony]

Greek Mythology, Eros/Psyche, And of course I forgive/I've seen how you live/Like a phoenix you rise from the ashes

[lettered]

historical, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, idealism vs reality