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

[ailavyn_siniyash]

(You did this for me, didn't you? Well, even if you didn't, I shall oblige you. Olórin is Merlin again, because it works so well. And no, I will not call him Gandalf, because where's the fun in that?)

The day after he pulled Excalibur from its stone, Merlin took him aside, "There is another name for that blade, one which no one now remembers; it was once called Andúril, young heir of Isildur."

"Who is Isildur? I thought my father was Uther?"

(I want to write MORE! Three sentences isn't enough!)

[buttonloops]

WHEE THANK YOU THIS IS AWESOME BUT NO THREE SENTENCES IS NOT ENOUGH WRITE MOAR. kthxbai

[ailavyn_siniyash]

Yes, ma'am.

Merlin smiled, seemingly lost in memories, then spoke, "Isildur, Elendil the Faithful's son. I never knew him, but I heard so much about him from Gil-galad when I visited the Halls of Mandos with Nienna."

This only served to confuse Arthur further.

[passionfruit_kisses]

LOL

[buttonloops]

WHEEEEEE.

[passionfruit_kisses]

THIS MAKES SO MUCH SENSE.

[ailavyn_siniyash]

You know what? I'm going to make this a proper oneshot at some point. At the very least it needs to be a drabble. But in the meantime, more continuation...

The wizard seemed to notice his apparent bewilderment, and tried to clarify, "The Heirs of Isildur is a general term for your line, a bloodline of Kings, of the race of Númenor. I knew well one of the greatest, Aragorn Elessar, several -I can't remember exactly how many; I haven't been keeping proper count- Ages of the Sun ago."

The young King looked dumbfounded, "Umm, Merlin, how long have you been alive?"


Oh, I love making Merlin confuse Arthur! I've just discovered a new favorite pastime! I do feel just the tiniest bit sorry for him, though; what with Mithrandir heaping all that new information on him in one go. My Olórin needs to relearn tact.

[passionfruit_kisses]

Gandalf/Merlin/Olórin has always enjoyed discombobulating people. It's not that he doesn't understand tact, he just doesn't find it to be very amusing at all. I approve of your new pastime.

[rthstewart]

And Arthur (whose name nicely aligns with Isildur and Aragorn) goes done as the most befuddled of that line that Olorin/Merlin/Gandalf has advised. awesome job.

[ailavyn_siniyash]

I can't help myself; it's too much fun. Here's more:

"I have been alive since before the Music of the Ainur, before Ëa, before Melkor became Morgoth the origin of all evil, before the Sun and the Moon."

Arthur stared.

Merlin just kept talking, oblivious or not caring about the King's confused and awed emotions, "But now, back to the topic of Andúril and your great heritage."

[rthstewart]

"But I thought Uther was my father!" Arthur insists. "And Excalibur is my sword."
And next time, he's not letting Merlin eat any of the mushrooms.

[ailavyn_siniyash]

Well, that's certainly one way to end it! Here's another (which is also crack!fic, I believe):

Five hours later, Merlin finally finished his long explanation of Arthur's genealogy and the stories surrounding it.

"So, you're saying that I can trace my forbears back to some legendary Elves (I didn't even know Elves existed), some legendary Men, and thus, some legendary half-Elves, one of whom decided to live as a Man on some island that no longer exists, and then whose descendants fought evil too, like him and the rest of them, and that the Line of Lúthien will apparently never fail, and I'm descended from her and my sword is actually called Andúril and it belonged to yet another of these ancestors and then it got broken and was reforged and used yet again?"

"Yes, I believe you have the jist of it, though your summary could have been worded somewhat more elegantly."

Oh, and THANK YOU ALL so much for all the kind words!

[rthstewart]

"Elegantly?" Arthur has half a mind to beat Merlin to death with flat of Excalibur that was Andruil which was the Blade that was Broken forged from the shards of Nostril -- which he thought was a terrible name for a sword.

"And in the correct language," Merlin says, "because of course you can't have a world without a language."

[in the absence of a proper language for Albion, Merlin and Arthur disappear in a puff of smoke]

[ailavyn_siniyash]

Oh YES! Yes! Marvelous! You have me practically in tears, I'm laughing so hard right now. And I agree with Arthur about Nostril (although I think it was actually called Narsil-- still a terrible name, though).

[rthstewart]

Oh yes, I know it's Narsil!! Arthur just heard "Nostril" because he is not the sharpest blade in the drawer.

"Narsil, not nostril." Merlin/Olorin/Gandalf repeats impatiently. Perhaps Elrond was right that the fire had gone out of the line because there's not much burning in Arthur. "N-A-R-S-I-L."

[buttonloops]

NOSTRIL. LANGUAGES. BEFUDDLED ARTHUR. IMPATIENT WIZARD WHATSHISFACE. <333333

[buttonloops]

OH AND MUSHROOOOOOOMMMMS.