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

[metonomia]

Narnia/The Ruin, Eustace and Jill, city of the giants

[lady_songsmith]

Narnia/Merlin, Morgana, Andrew's godmother Mrs. LeFay

[passionfruit_kisses]

Oh how sad :(

[passionfruit_kisses]

Love this.

[passionfruit_kisses]

This is everything that I love about Oz/Willow.

[passionfruit_kisses]

So cute.

the waning of the year

[betony]

When Miri wonders why Daine smiles less frequently as the days shorten, she shrugs and grumbles that the cold makes her bones ache more now that she's no longer a girl.

When Sarralyn and Rikash demand why Ma is always so grouchy this time of year, she tickles them until they beg for mercy and reminds them that she ought to be hibernating with the other beasts.

Numair alone never asks a thing; he already knows that the bandits of Snowsdale always attacked just before the year's first snow.

[hostilecrayon]

Ahhh, I love this! <3

[cloudbusting]

Greek Mythology, Achilles/Iphigenia, the price to pay for glory

[cloudbusting]

Spring Awakening, Wendla, there once was a maiden

[cloudbusting]

Greek Mythology, Helen, my graceless heart

[betony]

Oh, this is darling! And the callback to Edward being a terrible reader (per Marianne's standards) and Elinor not caring in the slightest--aw!

Re: the waning of the year

[passionfruit_kisses]

So sad and perfect.

Fill: The Deputy White House Communications Director Club

[tiny_white_hats]

I don't write The West Wing enough, so thank you for this prompt. :)

The Deputy White House Communications Director Club (West Wing, Sam/Will)

"This used to be my office, you know," Sam remarked casually, sitting on the edge of Will's desk to watch him type and listing all of the other things like this (an office, a career, a bed) he and Will had shared.

"Yes," Will nodded, not looking away from the speech he was tweaking for the sixth time that day, "and, very briefly, it belonged to a goat CJ put in here."

"I like that you have my office," Sam smiled, running his hand across Will's shoulders, and was quiet, because, if he knew Will (and he did, as well as he knew English punctuation or his own name) then he would want to keep editing his (probably perfect) speech, until it sang.

Re: ONE OF THE BEST FILLS EVER OMG

[betony]

Yes, exactly--like, I so want there to be reams and reams of fic about growing up in the house of Tyndareus, (including the obscure cousins--Timandra and Philonoe and Iphthime) Living with Helen the most beautiful in all the world, or Penelope cleverest in all the world, what must that have been like?

[plalligator.livejournal.com]

"And then she says--"

"Yankee idiot, I am a Scotsman!" finishes Jamie gleefully, in an exaggerated version of his own Scottish brogue, and they're laughing, they're laughing together, reminiscing about Julie as if nothing's wrong, but suddenly and abruptly Maddie can't take it anymore and she's just sobbing instead.

"Oh, Kittyhawk," says Jamie sadly, and puts his arm around her shoulders, and they sit there in silence, Julie's laughter ringing in the air around them.

Only three sentences if you broaden the definition of sentence unreasonably, but oh well

[(Anonymous)]

Cuuutttee!!

[(Anonymous)]

I got chills from this. There's something very powerful about the last line...

Re: the waning of the year

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

This is sad, but aww, Daine's reminder/excuse to
her kids is adorable also.

Re: ONE OF THE BEST FILLS EVER OMG

[metonomia]

Yessssss, I want this too! How much infighting, or do they band together against an outside world that never understands them, insists on judging them and winning them and pre-mythologizing them.

[metonomia]

They meet in Hades, and he shines brighter every day with the way his name is already carrying forward into the future. She is a little wisp of a shade, flickering a little every now and then into clearer notice.
But she looks at him, and will not look away, and he feels his glory diminished.

Love and Light aka this got longer than I thought it would (greek mythology, Helen/Paris)

[cloudbusting]

"So you never really wanted to be a prince or even someday rule over Troy?" Helen asks one morning, as the dawn is poking her fingers through the shimmering curtains of their room.

"No, but I am glad for it now," Paris replies, grinning his ever-brilliant smile at her.

"--Because you have me," she finishes, and smiles back, knowing she's right.

[hildigard_brown]

Sometimes Sam can't bear it--the memories of what they'd had and all that they'd hoped for overwhelm him, and his soul is as barren and desolate as the plains of Gorgoroth. Then like the trickle of water on parched earth, he hears once again that soft voice, and holds tight to the promise given.

"Wait for me, Frodo... your Sam will come."

[(Anonymous)]

After the ceremony, Neville takes the trophy – it wasn’t that fancy, just a simply plaque – to St. Mungo’s; Gran offers to go with him, but all his life, he’d (with varying degree of reluctance) always gone to St. Mungo’s with Gran, never alone. Today, he wants to go alone; he needs to go alone, to show them – her, especially – how much he’d grown.

“You know, Mum, all my life they’ve compared me to Dad, and when I succeed they tell me I’m my father’s son and how Dad would be proud of me, but I hope that maybe, just maybe, from now on they’ll start to see you more in me than just in my face.”

-Ruan Chun Xian

[cloudbusting]

Oh my goodness this is so different from what I was expecting--in a very good way! I love it, and I love the idea of Iphigenia having a steady sort of gaze, too. Thank you!