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

[pretty_panther]

They itch and hurt and Bilbo has never felt anything like it but then again he has never put his poor feet through so much. Hobbits are built to walk maybe but this is more of a saga the likes of which are in books proper hobbits such as him would never be allowed to read. He tells no one, determined not to give them yet another reason to think him weak and he thinks his determination alone makes it hurt just a little less.

[betony]

Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice/Benedick, in our last conflict four of his five wits went halting off

[passionfruit_kisses]

Ooh, gorgeous. No one really ever stops being a hunter, I think.

[passionfruit_kisses]

Lovely.

[betony]

Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice, O! that I were a man

[betony]

Much Ado About Nothing, Claudio (/) & Hero, anything that makes me no longer wish to punch Claudio in the face (alternatively, someone punches Claudio in the face!)

[betony]

Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio & the Prince, sound advice, ignored as always

[betony]

Code Name Verity, Maddie Brodatt & Jamie Beaufort-Stuart, those left behind

[betony]

Code Name Verity, Julie Beaufort-Stuart, between Julie and Queenie and Verity, she's never quite sure who she really is

[betony]

Downton Abbey/Code Name Verity, Sybbie & CNV characters of your choice, Miss Sybil Branson goes to war

[betony]

Mara, Daughter of the Nile, Mara/Sheftu, a most unusual countess

[betony]

Crown Duel, Meliara Astiar & Tamara Chamadis, prickly but loyal

[betony]

Crown Duel, Russav Savona & Tamara Chamdis, too wise to woo peaceably

[betony]

Narnia, Cor/Aravis, marriage negotiations

[betony]

Harry Potter, Sirius Black and Harry Potter, "You are--truly your father's son...."

[passionfruit_kisses]

Aw, so cute and beautiful. A new adventure :)

[pretty_panther]

Sam is the only one who can really connect with Frodo after they go home to the shire. No one else was there when Frodo fell apart and it wasn’t them that pulled him back from the brink of becoming nothing more than a husk of himself. There are simply things no one else can understand, looks no one else can see, and feelings no one else can feel bubbling up in their chests and making them remember things they don’t even know if they want to forget or not.

[passionfruit_kisses]

Love that Bilbo's determination not to be seen as weak actually gives him strength.

[betony]

Harry Potter, Rose Weasley, "Granddad Weasley would never forgive you if you married a pureblood"

[betony]

Harry Potter, Any, "And the Alice Longbottom Memorial Prize for most remarkable first-year Auror goes to--"

[betony]

Darkwing Duck, Drake Mallard & Gosalyn (&Launchpad McQuack), Father's Day

[betony]

Darkwing Duck, any AU version of Drake and Gosalyn, an universal constant

[betony]

Greek Mythology, Andromache & Cassandra, how the Trojans win the war
(...and apologies for the prompt!spam)

[pretty_panther]

They think her weak because she is a woman at first, though it doesn’t make her sword any blunter than the ones she forces from their surprised hands. Her reputation grows and people stop connecting her name to her gender, overtaken with fear when they hear ‘The dread pirate’. She makes them forget, a trail of blood leaking out along the sea behind her to make sure the only thing they remember is what she is capable of.

[redsixwing]

They called her, the little light-fae, their tiny bell-chime voices almost inaudible. It wasn't wise to follow the will-o'-the-wisp, never wise, but she did it anyway, because it was worth it.

Over the ruined threshold and into the verdant forest, she let the dead lead her on into their domain.