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

[autumnia]

I'm glad you liked it! It's been years since I've written pure Buffy fic so this was a nice way to get back into it.

Re: The Wretched Hollow Feeling

[psyche29]

Not too sad! And even if it was, it is still beautifully done. :D

[katharhino]

"You read the female parts and I'll read the male," he suggested one evening when they picked out a new play to read together.

"I can't read expressively as you do, Henry," Fanny protested.

"I know Fanny - I know: you are always yourself," he said, and didn't add, that's why I love you.

[psyche29]

This is so great!!

[psyche29]

And this is wonderful, too, especially the giggling Jill and the water slipping off the hat and onto Eustace!

MORE Mass Effect, Western AU

[djsoliloquy]

(Can’t draw but dang I’d like it to be a Thing so here’s a couple more for fun and milking it for what it’s worth)

-2-

There may be some treasure or relic of vital importance under all that rubble, but half the satisfaction locating it rests in the fact that there's only one shovel and, upon deciding the matter in a mature fashion, Garrus isn't the one holding it.

He stands watch, gazing with satisfaction over the desert while Shepard mumbles about wind and takes up the spade. “Two kinds of people in the world, Shepard,” Garrus calls down, tone equal measures teasing and morale-boosting, “those who manage to actually shoot the bottles and those who dig—you dig.”


-3-

The morning after they get around to buying those dances for Grunt’s coming-of-age, Garrus wakes in a gloomy cramped space with a vicious hangover—and something warm and feathery nesting on his head.

“What is that,” he hisses and Shepard laughs beside him in the dark, explaining about chickens and chicken coops along with a more hypothetical-sounding tale that ends with the heroes evicted by the fine ladies of the House of Blue Delight and asked never to return under threat of reopening charges of mild property damage.

Which all sounds vaguely familiar, though before Garrus musters a groggy sympathy for the birthday boy Shepard adds, “At least Grunt behaved himself—I don’t think this coop would have been big enough for three of us.”

[katharhino]

Pretty much what they said. SO LOVELY.

Bitter Memories

[saoirse7.livejournal.com]

She shoves the old photograph album behind two make-up bags and at least five pairs of shoes under her bed, wiping hastily at the suspicious moisture in her eyes. That had been...ten years ago, and there was no going back to the way things were; her siblings were gone forever. All she had left were dusty black and whites and the gradually fading memories of all she could have said, could have done, and never took the time or effort for.

Re: Not Much Left

[saoirse7.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! :-)

[katharhino]

The Blue Castle, Barney/Valancy, cool water

[pageleaf.livejournal.com]

<3

[rthstewart]

Poor Puddleglum. I too loved the part where the water slides down off his hat onto Scrubb. You are on a roll! This is going to become a whole story!

[pageleaf.livejournal.com]

"We really have got to stop meeting like this," Sterling drawls, and Nate tenses, turns around.

"I thought I told you--I'm done with the jobs, Sterling, leave me alone," Nate snaps.

Sterling rolls his eyes: "Did you really think that would make me give up the chase? No, you're much, much too fun for that."

(kind of three sentences?)

[pageleaf.livejournal.com]

agh sorry, italics!fail. I thought I fixed that.

[katharhino]

Fire and Hemlock, Polly, storytelling is dangerous business

[degrees]

Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Charlotte/Gigi, never told anyone

[katharhino]

Mansfield Park, Edmund/Mary, pedestals are lonely anyway

[katharhino]

Rose in Bloom, Rose/Mac, in a quiet library

[degrees]

Assassin's Creed, Ezio/Desmond, through the years and far away

[pageleaf.livejournal.com]

Elementary, Sherlock/Det. Bell, wooing

[pageleaf.livejournal.com]

Gunnerkrigg Court, Kat/Annie, domestic

[pageleaf.livejournal.com]

Anthropomorphic, piano/pianist

(just because we did a lot of these last year and it was fun)

[pageleaf.livejournal.com]

Anthropomorphic, pen/correction fluid

[be_themoon]

ohhh man that's good. agh just those two things that aren't even there idk why it's so emotionally compelling but it iiis

[be_themoon]

weeping over pilots forever really! you think you're safe from them and then 3sf comes along and you're like "oh i'll just give them a quick spin" HAHAHA haha no.

no there is no such thing with them.