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]

At first she loves how he adopts what is hers - her traditions, her decorations, her holy places - and makes them his own, thinking it proof of his love, his devotion to her and her people.

By the time she realizes she has become an afterthought, lost in the depths of his shadow, it is too late, for he rules the world, his and hers combined.

In the shadows, she retreats, and surrenders herself to nature, and waits for him to stumble, for her time in the light to come again.

[passionfruit_kisses]

Captures the tragedy of her story in so few words.

[passionfruit_kisses]

Perfect.

it's been forever since I watched this but here goes

[betony]

warning: dodgy grammar. *shifty eyes*

He tries everything, at first: the tango at a black-tie charity auction ("Chuck," she asks, blinking a little, "why are you dancing the woman's part?"), riding shotgun on one of Casey and Verbanski's missions (...and given that Casey and his girlfriend are apparently now at the stage in their relationship where they're unfamiliar with the concept of TMI, Chuck and Sarah are never doing that again), using a zip line to escape the Buy More (okay, okay, in retrospect, that was a completely stupid idea, just like Sarah had said from the start).

After all that work, they're just standing on a sink washing dishes on a Saturday night when Sarah bites her lips and tells him her middle name once again.

(Chuck doesn't care.)

[metonomia]

YES THIS IS PERFECT

[passionfruit_kisses]

*squeals excitedly* This is brilliant and amazing and perfect in every way.

[passionfruit_kisses]

Lovely.

[passionfruit_kisses]

So beautiful and sad. Nice to see her letting her empathy shine through for once.

[buttonloops]

ZOMG WOW I CAN'T EVEN.

[armanya]

Wow, lovely and perfect!

[degrees]

Chihayafuru, Chihaya/Arata, absence makes the heart grow fonder

[hanet]

All he knows, in his whole body, is that she was Meant for him; two halves of a whole. It goes beyond morals or codes or right or wrong, the Force or life or nature, because he Knows, and he loves her anyway.

Fuck.

annux (Queen's Thief series, SPOILERS through ACoK)

[betony]

(Spoilers through CoK, and fair warning: this really is one of those series whose surprises you'd probably want to discover on your own).

Sounis sends him a map of the known world, as a joke from an old friend--or is it a rebuke? Difficult to be sure, between Kings.

Gen stares at it and then, for some time, at the crown that binds him as firmly as a leash does a dog; he cannot smile until he hears the rustle of skirts that marks Irene's approach, until he feels the brush of her warm lips against his skin.

[hanet]

I have approximately a million feelings about this. Estranged sisters! Horrible babies! Wanting to do right by Harry but fucking everything up! I wrote a story that goes something like that, and also features Petunia and Snape banging awkwardly as grieving. She's just so great, the best character that JK created by accident. A horrible bitch who is necessary and sometimes-good. ~<3

[buttonloops]

I always wanted to be a spear or a cudgel—a flaming steel battle-brand was too high an aspiration for a piece of lowly wood—to slaughter the wicked and laugh as their blood drained away. But here I am, with an innocent man stretched and nailed to me like an oxhide for tanning, and I dare not quiver for He commanded me to hold. He screams, a long terrible cry that rends the heavens in two and shudders through the underworld, but I cannot move—cannot do anything but hold, feeling the blood and water trickle down my side from his limp and cooling body.

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I don't even know how/why I wrote that...

[vialethe]

You bring all my religious/historical feels to life with your prompts!! SO EXCELLENT.

[metonomia]

YESSSSSSSS MAUAHAHHHAA YOU WIN

[metonomia]

:D INSTIGATING FEELS is my favorite pasttime

[metonomia]

This is GORGEOUS oh I want her story so much!

[betony]

Petunia's rationalization here breaks my heart but is very true to canon--and Lily's considerate card, oh goodness!

[betony]

And oh, this is just as heartrending. Petunia here, grieving and raging that Lily went and got herself killed! and taking it out on Harry, because it's easier, but not quite managing....*sniff*

[katharhino]

"Why don't you read, my dear."

"If it won't bore you -" with a grimace.

"Despite what Marianne thinks, I always loved your voice," she said quietly.

[passionfruit_kisses]

LOL awesome.

[buttonloops]

as;jdhfaljalsjhfkjaljljhlljah SUSANNNN.

[passionfruit_kisses]

Aaww!!