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

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

Any, any character/dragon, sparks

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

It took days, but in between scouting across the island looking for a good mast-tree,Eustace practised, over quiet pools where he couldn't possibly start a fire and do more damage. It was probably the best day of his dragonhood, when he was able to illustrate Reep's story-telling, just for him, privately, by drawing pictures in blown, swift-flying sparks.

He rather regretted losing that bit, when he was made a boy again.

[vialethe]

This is beautiful. I love the Eustace & Reep friendship.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

Me too -- they are both such wonderfully complex characters, and so astoundingly different from each other. :) (And thanks!)

[rthstewart]

That is terrific! what a wonderful depiction of their friendship!

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

This is adorable :)

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

:) I'm very glad you liked it, since it was your prompt! Phew!

[Miraculous Ladybug] sparks fly

[alexseanchai]

Chat Noir already knew he has a ridiculous crush on Tsurugi Kagami, okay, or anyway that Adrien does (—it's complicated), in addition to being lightning-struck with love for the girl under Ladybug's mask—the only thing he regrets about the fantasies ignited during the Timebreaker battle is that somehow these always begin with the looks on his Ladies' faces when he first commented on the double vision: Kagami fighting by Ladybug's side armored in Tamahime's gold and red, wielding the Dragon Miraculous with Sailor Moon–inspired braids (in hopes, and it's worked so far, that no one will think this is the same girl who was Ryūko), is almost custom-designed to set his heart on fire.

He sees how Ladybug looks at Tamahime, though, and how Tamahime looks back; he's seen how Kagami and Marinette look at each other, when neither thinks anyone's watching (and he thinks guiltily that it would be as fun for Adrien to kiss Marinette as Kagami, if he ever gets it to stick in his head that the girl under Ladybug's mask will never want him; it doesn't matter what Marinette and Chat Noir want, and Kagami, unlike Marinette, seems at least pleased by the possibility of kissing Adrien), and he's certain if he could only get Ladybug and Marinette in the same place for five minutes, they'll love each other as much as he loves them.

Maybe he'll just step back from this fantasy and try to gently encourage one or another such reality, with him or without: he wants his girls happy—that's all that matters.