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

[be_themoon]

any, any, it's a cold war / you better know what you're fighting for

The Hobbit, Thorin

[bedlamsbard]

Thorin lives every day like a battle, even though their enemy is many thousands of leagues away. He fights his life like it's a war, like there's an enemy here that he can take sword or axe to and cleave away his disappointment. He raises his nephews to be soldiers because he knows no other way to live after the end of everything.

Re: The Hobbit, Thorin

[buttonloops]

he fights his life like it's a war Wow, yes. Thorinnnn.

Re: The Hobbit, Thorin

[ilthit]

Oh Thorin!

[be_themoon]

oh maaan, Thorin. :( he cannot see it any other way, and it's such a tragedy.

Re: The Hobbit, Thorin

[shallowness]

So true and so sad.

Lucy, Edmund, Narnia AU

[rthstewart]

The Wall came down and the requests to, literally, dig up the past, flooded in, this one from the International Human Rights Law Group in Bucharest. Edmund's Romanian is rusty so he uses the translator to learn from the procuror in charge how the efforts to return a a field to its potato farming tenant were thwarted by the discovery of 112 bodies. Flanked by a group of grieving, earnest people (and, Edmund thinks, two Securitati agents), Lucy walks down the rows of mismatched skeletons, looking for the missing teeth, smashed patellas, broken joints, and bullet-pierced skulls.

Re: Lucy, Edmund, Narnia AU

[buttonloops]

Mmm. Lucy and Edmund, investigating mass graves in the wake of the Berlin Wall. <333

Re: Lucy, Edmund, Narnia AU

[animus_wyrmis]

<333 Lucy and Edmund, what a great partnership.

[be_themoon]

ahhhh I love how you have them so engaged in the world upon their return, it's beautiful, and that they put it to work for such good causes.

Re: Lucy, Edmund, Narnia AU

[psyche29]

I learn more about history through you than I ever did in school. This is great.

[Miraculous Ladybug] and it hurts my heart

[alexseanchai]

Hawkmoth preys on hurtful emotions: the petty angry moments, the trifling tears, the paltry jealousies, and the trivial fears—he rarely claims someone whose pain is meaningful, fortunately for everyone else; more than fifty people (if her math is right) die in Paris every day, most of whom are loved and mourned, and some of whom are lost unfairly soon, with no justice ever done—and above all it's the ones hurt because they're cheated whom Hawkmoth takes.

Alya would understand, if Marinette could tell her; so would Nino, and Alix, and it's unutterably disloyal of her to think of sharing this with Rena Rouge and Carapace and the one who isn't even Bunnyx yet before she tells Chat Noir: disloyal, and poor strategy, and dangerous, nor is it Marinette's secret alone—but Wang Fu was thirteen when he took the Miracle Box and fled the Guardians' fallen Temple, thirteen and alone and (she thinks) a poor student beforehand and necessarily obsessed with secrecy and deceit thereafter, exactly as old when Marinette was when she heard Tikki say you can do this and only you can do this—and Tikki doesn't, can't understand from a human perspective, and—

Ladybug cannot grow unjustly angry and must err towards thinking something just, cannot allow her fears or loves to rule her, cannot let even vicious backstabs summon tears: Ladybug must be always steady, sturdy, strong, a savior, so that when Hawkmoth turns human hearts against her city she'll be there to set it right: Ladybug—and this will be what kills her, what leaves her shattered at Chat Noir's feet, her earrings in Hawkmoth's hand—Ladybug cannot falter, cannot fail, cannot feel.