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

[wingedflight21.livejournal.com]

Narnia, anyone, water tastes sweet at the end of the world

[(Anonymous)]

Daughterly duty kept her there, and it was right that she stayed, and it was right that she left when she did, to take up her new wifely, queenly duties. She does not resent it, not really, not bitterly.

Nevertheless, the question nags at her, especially when she sees how lightly her shining husband esteems his great privilege: why, when she lived so close, all her life, did she never venture to find and taste those strong, sweet waters for herself?

(heliopausa)

[wingedflight21.livejournal.com]

Oooh this is beautiful and so sad. Thank you!

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

Thank you -- I'm getting a lot of head-canon together about Caspian, and this marriage.

[starbrow]

Why indeed. This plays very well into our discussion of Caspian the Conqueror and his carelessness. I ache for the star's daughter and yet, it was her own choice. Very beautifully written.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure, in this interpretation, that she was allowed to feel she had choice -- with her father, anyway.

[metonomia]

OH MY GOD YES.

Wwowowowoww the longing in this, it is perfect and sad and wonderful.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

Thank you, meto! :)

[betony]

Oh, this is beautiful.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I really like how the prompts start our minds off in directions we hadn't expected. (Me, anyway.)

[redsixwing]

Water beads on whiskers, that was what he would always remember- drops on his whiskers, and the sweet taste of the water.

He had tasted the green and thriving rivers of Narnia, and tasted once the salten tang of the Sea, before he drank of the sweet water and was borne on its back to the country where a Mouse need not die.

Still he thought of them, and sometimes he yet tasted the salty-sweet of a Mouse's tears.

[starbrow]

REEP! This was lovely. I read it three times trying to make sure it was Reep's POV and not someone else's. So wistful!

[(Anonymous)]

I like how this, with the mix of salty-sweet tears and sweet water, captures Reep's profound sense of wonder as well as fulfillment. Lovely.

heliopausa

[betony]

Reepicheep! :D I love this peek into how he is between VotDT and TLB!

[buttonloops]

Living as she has all her life, bathed in the strong sweet water of the Eastern Sea, she never knows the taste of salt—not when the Oracle's word comes that one of the maidens must throw herself into the swift sea-stream; not when she wraps her arms around her mother and then her father, in a sea-serpent's grip of farewell; not even when she looks back one last time and sees her flock of fish still nibbling unawares on the weed. Eyes wide open, she lets go—swept away by the current, faster and faster, until her unadorned old-ivory body tingles with a piercing joy so strong she thinks it cannot be borne, and she is lifted up, over, hanging a moment on the rim of the world.

Down, down, down in a rushing thundering roaring cataract she falls—then she is rising from a pool, clothed in white, and the dreadful face of the Lion is there, terrifyingly fierce and ineffably beautiful as he invites her further up and further in; she draws a breath of sweet, fresh air and tastes for the first time the salt of tears.

[rthstewart]

Oh how beautiful and sad

[redsixwing]

Ohh, I love this.

[wingedflight]

Wow, this is amazing. There's so much in this!

[betony]

Alternate hero's tales from Narnia are not a thing I realized I needed to read before this, but they are, and I am so glad I did.
:D

[metonomia]

This is GORGEOUS oh I want her story so much!

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

A terrific sense of huge space and amazing journey; love the switch from sweet water to salty tears. (and then later, the meeting?)

[buttonloops]

Yes, yes, the meeting later! They were instant best friends in a mystic-meets-saint sort of way.