rthstewart | 3 Sentence Ficathon

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 !)

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.

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.

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

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.

TO WHERE THE GIANT KING SLEEPS GRIPPED IN THE GROUND

this is PERFECT, yes!

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

alkdjapwoiejapoij THE FOOTNOTES I DESPERATELY NEEDED, YOU MEAN

YES THAT IS WHAT I MEANT.

Edited 2013-03-14 03:56 (UTC)

Fantastic!!! (in all senses :) )

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...

Psh, number of sentences doesn't really matter :D

This is wonderful, perfect Puddleglum!

PUDDLEGLUMMMMMMMM. This is perfect, Laura. Perfect.

You captured Puddleglum's dreary, practical the worst will always happen point of view perfectly!

Oh, this is sad! and frustrating! So close...

It was two years later, when he ought to have been studying for his A-levels, that she caught him doodling, and recognised it as a rough plan of the Ruined City, with the underground passages sketched in, provisionally.
"What on earth are you doing?" she demanded.
"Ohhh... just thinking how great it'd be, to be able to go back there, get back down under, and excavate!"

PRECIOUS perfect mysterious man of science Eustace!

:D Yes, he's terrific - and the most fun of all the Spare Oom characters, I think. :)

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