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rthstewart ([personal profile] rthstewart) wrote2013-03-11 10:23 pm
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3 Sentence Ficathon


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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 [personal profile] snacky !)




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  [personal profile] lady_songsmith explains, for the 2011 3 Sentence Ficathon, [livejournal.com profile] grim_lupine created a delicious account to archive the 3 Sentence Ficathon.   [personal profile] 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. 


(Anonymous) 2013-03-14 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, yes, very nice! I especially like 'a Mouse taught him to be brave, and he learned compassion from a Lion's claws'. Thanks!
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Re: don't apologize your prompts are the best

[personal profile] metonomia 2013-03-14 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
<3333333 Andromache as the center of the family she married into is actually one of my favoritest Greek myth things EVER.

And I would not object at alllllll to more prompts! I love yours so much!
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Re: it's been forever since I watched this but here goes

[personal profile] betony 2013-03-14 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
Aww, thanks! :D All the fix-it fic in the world might not be enough to make up for that finale...

[personal profile] buttonloops 2013-03-14 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
YES I AM.

(Anonymous) 2013-03-14 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
This was awesome. :-D

Saoirse7

[personal profile] buttonloops 2013-03-14 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Sniffle. Full of Narnian paradoxes, and even Eustace has learned a knightly courtesy. Lovely.
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[personal profile] snacky 2013-03-14 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
She has many long hours to think about it, in those days and weeks of captivity. She's played with her identities for so long, that she has lost track of which is her parents' daughter, which is brothers' sister, which is the schoolgirl, which is the spy, which is the coward, which is the hero, which is the traitor. But she thinks of Maddie as she writes, and she knows, when they are reunited, that Maddie will recognize her, whoever she is, that Maddie will know her, and that Maddie always did.
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[personal profile] passionfruit_kisses 2013-03-14 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
This is incredible, the separate but connected adventures they shared coing together back in the real world.
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Re: it's been forever since I watched this but here goes

[personal profile] wingedflight 2013-03-14 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
Absolutely heart-wrenching, right?
snacky: (listen do you want to know a secret?)

[personal profile] snacky 2013-03-14 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
She's crouched low, examining the body, when she hears footsteps approaching, and then a shadow blocks the sun, and when she glances up, Logan Echolls is looking down at her, with a smirk on his face.

"Well, Veronica Mars, why am I not surprised to find you here?"

She tells herself her heart isn't actually skipping a beat, that all that was between them was a long time ago, and she smiles when she asks, "Did you arrange this as a homecoming for me?"
hostilecrayon: I made it~ (Lish)

[personal profile] hostilecrayon 2013-03-14 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
With each and every e-mail, Arata's heart breaks a little more. It would be easier to forget, but he can't bring himself to, so instead he never answers so that maybe she can.

After he drives her out of Fukui, he can't help but realize just how foolish he's been.
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[personal profile] passionfruit_kisses 2013-03-14 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
*Grins* I can totally see this happening.
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[personal profile] betony 2013-03-14 03:34 am (UTC)(link)

By the fifth time he sees her before him, he's guessed the truth; the vision of Cassandra, loveliest of the princesses of Troy, is as beautiful as he remembers, but its eyes are sad and far more lucid than they ever were in life.

He means to say, first my Creusa, and now you?, but instead: "I wish I could have saved you."

The phantom laughs (and that, oh that, is exactly as he remembers) as it--as she whispers in the shell of his ear: "Then survive, my Aeneas; tell my story to the rest of the world, and let me live through you."

[personal profile] buttonloops 2013-03-14 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
From the high window they see the hilltop spread out before them. It is plainly the ruins of an enormous city—the cunning work of giants, now in shambles—and the "cliff" is a half-fallen time-slumped wall still five hundred feet high. Across it all, the intersecting sunken lanes shape letters that prod their brains, a third clue in dark and fiery runes, pointing them down, down, to where the giant king sleeps gripped in the ground.

[personal profile] buttonloops 2013-03-14 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, Eustace. How I love it when he trips over himself about the High Peter and King Arthur and not being a dragon anymore. He's getting over his case of Ass and Brute sickness splendidly.
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[personal profile] mmmdraco 2013-03-14 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
Ah! Beautifully done. Thank you~
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[personal profile] metonomia 2013-03-14 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
TO WHERE THE GIANT KING SLEEPS GRIPPED IN THE GROUND

this is PERFECT, yes!
passionfruit_kisses: (Now even dailier)

[personal profile] passionfruit_kisses 2013-03-14 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
How easily one war can spring up fro the ashes of the one before it. It's not at that point yet, but it could certainly get there...

Yeah, it's four sentences. Sorry about that...

[identity profile] lauraandrews.livejournal.com 2013-03-14 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
Puddleglum can't remember when he has ever been so cold before, and that faraway wigwam seems like a haven of warmth and rest to him; no matter how many times he had predicted it would fall or catch fire or let in the draft, it had always been a faithful wigwam. Wait, what was that? He strains his eyes as he passes yet another oddly shaped projection, but of course it couldn't be the ruined city; how could they find something so easily that no one else has ever been able to find before? And anyways, the Harfang Giants close their gates so early; likely enough they're late as it is...
hostilecrayon: AltMal Everything that you need (Everything You Need)

Assassin's Creed, Desmond Miles/Shaun Hastings

[personal profile] hostilecrayon 2013-03-14 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Desmond is always watching Shaun. He's well aware of his feelings for him, overwhelming and powerful as they are, but he knows it is not a risk he can take.

When there is a chance that he will die, it's better not to have anyone to leave behind.
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Re: Yeah, it's four sentences. Sorry about that...

[personal profile] metonomia 2013-03-14 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
Psh, number of sentences doesn't really matter :D

This is wonderful, perfect Puddleglum!

the footnotes you didn't want

[personal profile] buttonloops 2013-03-14 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
because SHARE THE OLD ENGLISH POETRY LOVE.

Look at the elaborate crests chiseled into this stone wall
shattered by fate, the crumbled city squares,
and the hue and cry of giants rotted away.
There are caved-in roofs, towers in shambles,
rime on the limy mortar,
a storm-wall tilted and scarred,
half-fallen, slumped by time.
An earthly embrace holds the royal architects
rotting in their graves and lost to the cruel grip
of the ground, while a hundred generations
passed away. This wall, mapped and veined by lichen,
stained with red, outlasted one kingdom
after another, long stood upright after storms:
lofty and broad, it has fallen. The rampart
hewn and wedged together, sharpened roughly
and polished, an ancient structure well-worked by men . . .
ringed with encrustations of soil
still prods the brain and draws up a fiery clue.


From "The Ruin," translated by Yusef Komunyakaa, as found in The Word Exchange

Re: Yeah, it's four sentences. Sorry about that...

[personal profile] buttonloops 2013-03-14 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
PUDDLEGLUMMMMMMMM. This is perfect, Laura. Perfect.