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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. 


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[personal profile] zats_clear 2013-03-12 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Stargate SG-1, any, inclement
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[personal profile] redsixwing 2013-03-12 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Wreck-it Ralph/Xenoblade Chronicles, any characters, some things wreck themselves
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[personal profile] redsixwing 2013-03-12 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Narnia, any, on the wings of the wind
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[personal profile] redsixwing 2013-03-12 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
FFVII, any, "I think it likes you"
slippy: Photo of a wheat field and a stormy sky, surrounded by a border ((Los Campesinos!) sounds about right)

[personal profile] slippy 2013-03-12 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, nice. They've got sass and skills to spare.
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[personal profile] zats_clear 2013-03-12 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Stargate Atlantis, Elizabeth, it was over as quickly as it had begun
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[personal profile] freudiancascade 2013-03-12 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
The fall of Earth was relayed out past the Sol system through tweets, the only information bursts small enough to escape the communications blackout yet large enough to still tell a coherent story. Investigative journalist Emily Wong had 140 characters per message and a hastily-compiled hashtag, and she made the most of it - somebody had to write the epitaph of a city, of a planet, of a civilization, and so it may as well be her.

"The biggest exposé I've ever written," she thought as her blood-slicked hands curved around the steering wheel of the skyvan for the last time, slipped, struggled once more to get a grip, "I hope nobody skips right to the end of this one."
Edited 2013-03-12 17:47 (UTC)
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[personal profile] yappichick 2013-03-12 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Vanellope nudged the gold triangle that had fallen from the sky and nearly caused her to crash her kart when it had landed in the middle of the race track.

A voice, full of determination, spoke from behind her, "That belongs to my...friend and it is vitally important that it gets returned to him."

Vallellope reached out, snatched the mysterious item from the ground and muttered, "What is it with shiny things falling into my game?"
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[personal profile] pretty_panther 2013-03-12 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
the hobbit, durins, they don't need to hear it to know
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[personal profile] pretty_panther 2013-03-12 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
the hobbit, kili, they think him weak but it takes strength to keep his bow
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[personal profile] pretty_panther 2013-03-12 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
lotr, legolas and gimli, they don't talk about what one father did to the other, ever.
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[personal profile] freudiancascade 2013-03-12 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Supernatural, anybody, the Old Gods still breathe
Edited 2013-03-12 18:00 (UTC)
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[personal profile] pretty_panther 2013-03-12 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Being around Inara changed him and not even Mal denies it. He’s like a new person and slowly starts to put the war behind him. But there is still a shadow there, lurking.
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[personal profile] freudiancascade 2013-03-12 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Mass Effect, everybody, "I swear, if I find one more gun in the fridge-!"
Edited 2013-03-12 18:15 (UTC)
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Flying high

[personal profile] kephiso 2013-03-12 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
His muscles are shivering because of the position he is crouched in, exhaustion slowly making them stiff, but Sherlock ... has been insistent that he doesn't move, doesn't draw attention to himself.

He can hear Sherlock's voice, his tone cocky, but it is impossible to make out individual words over the distance.

Suddenly, Sherlock's body whips backwards, and John throws any caution into the wind, uncoiling in a split-second and running towards Sherlock before his mind even has time to register what has happened.

...
Exactly three sentences? sorry, this is my first fill ... :)
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[identity profile] wingedflight21.livejournal.com 2013-03-12 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Primeval, Connor/Abby, no place like home
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[identity profile] wingedflight21.livejournal.com 2013-03-12 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Primeval, Lester, babysitting duty
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[identity profile] wingedflight21.livejournal.com 2013-03-12 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Primeval, Taylor, when I grow up
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[personal profile] kephiso 2013-03-12 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow!
I really like this! :D
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[identity profile] wingedflight21.livejournal.com 2013-03-12 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
It's like every version of the worst nightmare he's ever had to fall from such an unfathomable height, with the roar of the wind in his ears and the creeping hollowness in his gut. Sky and cliff and cloud and earth blur together and he screams - but the sound is lost before it reaches his ears.

And then a settling sensation - and this, he's never dreamed - as the world's spinning slows and the Lion's breath holds him aloft.
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Over the Mountains

[personal profile] starbrow 2013-03-12 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
(because I couldn't avoid the temptation of crossover!)

"I am glad to leave Rhûn and its Easterlings behind, sister," says Sylphlimb, as the valley before them turns dappled in the sunlight.

"A strange name they gave themselves – Telmarines," and Snowbirch's grey eyes grow clouded at the memory of the men of that land and their darkness.

Then Fairleaf cries, "Behold, a Tree approaches!" and the Ent-wives link twigged fingers and leafy branches as a tall not-quite-Woman with long green hair greets them in the Lion's name.
Edited 2013-03-12 18:43 (UTC)
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[personal profile] erinm_4600 2013-03-12 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I couldn't stop myself at the prompt. Now.. I need to see more of this meeting LOL