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

[redsixwing]

Arranging flowers, Aeris insisted, was a craft, the careful balance of a stem here, the flow of a leaf there. She had always loved it when Tifa watched her work; she said it helped her think of new ways to balance space and negative space, whatever that meant.

Tifa's arts flowed along a different line entirely, being more destructive than creative, but she still loved to feel Aeris' eyes on her when she practiced, and she could understand something of pressure bringing out her best performance.

[slippy]

;_;

I like that they both see reflections of what they lost, and that Lupin's so sure they'll make up with Peter. And now I will happily imagine the afterlife turning into a merry rampage, courtesy of these four.

[(Anonymous)]

A party with these two would be rather epic...in a very weird way :D
-rcx

[grim_lupine]

This is lovely, thank you! :D

[grim_lupine]

Ohhh, Teddy. <3

Re: New Skin - Finny/Gene

[grim_lupine]

Oh, this is so vivid. Thank you!

[grim_lupine]

:DDD EDMUND. This is great.

[alexseanchai]

Oh that is BEAUTIFUL.

[grim_lupine]

I love them. Thank you for this!

Re: Fill: Electricity (Between Both of Us)

[grim_lupine]

Oof, this is perfect. My first otp, so I still have so many feelings about them. :D

[grim_lupine]

The boy cries through the night; he's only an infant, after all. Vernon twitches and grunts in his sleep, but Petunia is entirely awake, the pitiful wails drilling fiercely into her heart where grief is still a new wound, delicately scabbed over; if it were Lily--if it were Dudley--

She rises, goes to Harry, holds him close; settles him to sleep, and cries for her sister.

[minutia_r]

There would be some mutual bafflement, but I think a good time would be had by all. :)

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

He met Pittencream again, years later, when he travelled to Calormen, sifting the whole world for any clue at all as to his vanished son. They brought him to the old, mad sailor, whose ravings they took, in Calormene style, to be the oracles of a god-touched, and the madman peered at him, sidelong, mumbling "cold, horrible... alone... alone in the dark with them silent men".
But Caspian remembered the table at the World's End, where Pittencream had been left solitary, and turned away, desolate.

[starbrow]

Narnia, girl!Edmund and boy!Lucy, hijinks

[tanyart]

WOW, ANGEL. SMOOTHEST OF OPERATORS.

no help i want more dancing boyfriends now....

[buttonloops]

Wow.

[grim_lupine]

This isn't magic run wild, tingling with the scent of a land and a lion; this is magic governed by rules, and a stick in your hands, and words hard and crisp in your mouth. The same classes year after year, turning mice into snuffboxes and birds into goblets, dreaming their innocent and foolish child-dreams.

After the shock of having everything she held dear yanked away from her in an instant, a shock that reverberates through her nightmares still, the logic of it all appeals to her.

[tanyart]

oh, geez. right in the gut. Thank you for writing! D:

Re: the Whole World Over (Ancient Rome RPS, Octavian/Agrippa)

[vialethe]

History is full of great ships! It's basically the best fandom ever. Glad you liked it.

Re: No More Ever I Spoke (Arwen/Aragorn)

[vialethe]

Thanks!

[betony]

Outlaws of Sherwood, Marian/Robin, small vagrant breezes

[vialethe]

Hee, 'doesn't get these kids today' Death is one of my favorites. So cute!

[betony]

Outlaws of Sherwood, Cecil(y), freedom

Re: We're not in Narnia anymore...

[autumnia]

Draco Narnia!!! How fabulous he got to name it that!

[grim_lupine]

Those who see them are so hasty to mark their differences - Sarai with her bright, tumbling laugher, and Dove with her serious, calculating mind; Dove on a throne and Sarai a country away.

Sisters, though.

Sisters go beyond any of that.